Pettigrew, Deatheaters and mugs

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No: HPFGUIDX 3310

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Simon J. Branford" <
simon.branford at h...> wrote:
> Steve wrote: "It follows then that the deatheaters knew that Sirius Black
> was not one of them and that Peter Pettigrew was not. The deatheaters would
> not view the confrontation between Black and Pettigrew as being innocent
> Pettigrew chasing evil Black."
> 
> There is the possibility that Pettigrew is not a DE. He may be working for
> Voldemort, and be a spy for him, but this in no way makes him a DE.

Pettigrew is a DE. He has the dark mark. Voldemort uses it to summon 
the other DEs to him at the end of GOF.
	Voldemort's action in naming some of the Deatheaters aloud is 
consistent with secrecy.  He appears to name only those who have 
already been publicly identified, whether imprisoned in Azkaban, or 
found guilty but excused as having acted under the Imperius curse like 
Malfoy and Avery. 
	If Fudge were a DE there would have been a gap in the circle for 
him, since he was at Hogwarts and therefore unable to respond to the 
summons. 
	If Voldemort organized his followers on a cell system and 
Karkaroff and Snape were part of the same cell, then most of the DEs 
known to Karkaroff could have been identified by Snape when he 
defected, which would explain why Karkaroff had so few new names for 
the tribunal.
Pippin