[HPforGrownups] Peter's strength (and betrayal)

[Dinah]

No: HPFGUIDX 7883

>   Now, it was Judas who *betrayed* Christ, i.e., who provided otherwise
unavailable information to the >enemy that they were able to use to destroy
Him; Peter, OTOH, merely *denied* Christ, i.e., failed to >affirm his belief
in Him - although under the circumstances (immediately following Christ's
arrest), it has >always seemed to me that Peter acted wisely, under the
Solomonic principle of "better a living dog than a >dead lion" (Ecclesiastes
9:4)

Just to bring in an new tidbit of interpretation: I read a very good novel
that described the bible story from the Viewpoint of Deborah, and in this
Jesus asked, or even told Judas to betray him because this was the only
possible way from him to get crucified and save mankind.

Somehow this theory, or whatever one might call it, left quite an impression
and I keep on wondering about the motives people have for doing things.

Funny enough I thought of Peter's denial of Christ only yesterday while
thinking how to portray Peter (Pettigrew that is) and didn't come up with a
solution yet (Next thing I'll start will be Greek and Roman mythologie, I
know much more about those). But the "solution" would be top a problem that
I created myself - I just can't take it for granted that PP, after being
friends with Sirius and James, being respected by them, would just turn his
back on them and work for the enemy.

I always have to think of two things. First off, Minerva said she'd been
harsh to Peter (Why? Because he was no good at Transfiguration? Couldn't be,
right?) and after that Sirius told him that he was always following them
around, following around people that were more powerful and more capable. I
didn't think he said that only because he had been betrayed, but that this
feeling had been there for quite some time, that Peter never was an equal.

Dinah