Wormatail (was: Why Hermione isn't in Ravenclaw

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6262

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Maureen L" <morine10 at a...> wrote:

> I was thinking about Wormtail for instance. Perhaps he will 
> surprise everyone and do something brave - after all he does owe a
> life-debt to Harry.

I'm thinking that Peter must have been pretty brave as a boy, 
contrary to so many fanfics that show him as a cowardly child. 
McGonagall said he was fat and little and not particularly clever 
(smart, in USAn), but none of that rules out jumping off the highest 
tower on a dare, or getting into a physical fight with two guys 
bigger than you (Neville vs Crabbe and Goyle), or asking the most 
feared teacher for extra help with a difficult subject.... He 
*couldn't* have been all that cowardly and become an Animagus, 
since they've all had their brains filled with warnings of how 
dangrously wrong the Animagic spell can go.