[HPforGrownups] Tidbits of Snapeness, and Peter's strength

[Nathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 7861


>  Pettigrew has seemingly more in common with Judas - who died
>(either via suicide or divine retribution, according to
>conflicting accounts), we should remember, on Potter's Field -
>than with his Biblical namesake. Yet JKR does seem to be setting
>up a storyline in which Pettigrew will eventually redeem himself.

Pettigrew owes Harry. I'm not sure though if Voldemort knows about this
little, as we call it here, "utang na loob", literally "internal debt", more
properly, "debt of gratitude".

>  And on a meta-narrative level, what's with Peter losing his
>original name entirely in GoF,  and being labeled, by not only
>Voldemort but by the all-knowing narrator, by his alternate
>Animagus identity of Wormtail?  Perhaps his degradation to
>permanently animalistic state?

Or a loss of humanity. ^_^ Makes it all the sweeter if it is regained.

Nathan