Pettigrew's Presence (WAS Seventeen points against the movie...)

[Cindy C.]

> I'm unclear about why people think Voldemort didn't go to Godric's 
> Hollow alone.  If Pettigrew had been there, he probably would have 
> tried to to kill Harry himself after Voldemort failed, especially 
> since Harry was responsible for his master being reduced to less 
than 
> spirit.  Thus either Harry would have been killed after all, or if 
> the protection his mother's love gave him extended to ANYONE who 
> tried to kill him, Pettigrew would have been hit by a rebounding 
> curse.  >  


I'm not completely sold on the Pettigrew-as-accomplice theory 
entirely.  But the idea is that if Pettigrew had been present when 
Voldemort's curse re-bounded, he would *not* have tried to kill 
Harry.  Pettigrew has every reason to think his own Avada Kedavra 
curse would also rebound, and he doesn't seem the type to risk his 
own neck to finish the job Voldemort started.  

Also, Sirius tells us in PoA that Pettigrew didn't try to kill Harry 
while Pettigrew was living as a rat in the Gryffindor dorm.  This 
suggests that, as Sirius indicates, Pettigrew isn't about to kill 
Harry unless he is sure there is something in it for himself.  As 
Voldemort had just been reduced to spirit at Godric's Hollow, it 
would have been out of character for Pettigrew to attempt to finish 
the job that night.

I think that's the theory, anyway.

Cindy