Secrets and Boggarts

[Steve Bates]

No: HPFGUIDX 1138

<<> And one unrelated note: Thinking about LOTR.  Does it
> seem to anyone else that there could be a similarity
> between Wormtail, our old pal, and Wormtongue,
> Theoden's corrupt advisor, who joined Sauruman?  If
> so, might this indicate that perhaps Harry won't kill
> Voldie... but Peter just might stab his master in the
> back.  Or am I reaching *way* too far?>>

I could waste several posts talking about just LOTR, but I will try 
to keep it to just this one.  I wonder if the Wormtail/Wormtongue 
name similarity might be deliberate.  There are some very interesting 
similarities between the two characters, now that I think of it: both 
were spies for a much bigger baddie, and when finally confronted 
about this, both try to talk their way out of it at first but then 
run back to their master.
Then again, the way Wormtail was spared and the foreshadowing that 
some good would come of taking pity on him sounds more like what 
happened with Gollum, and in his case the foreshadowing was 
fulfilled.  I haven't noticed much else in the way of similarities 
between JKR and LOTR (significant to me because these are the only 
two fantasy books I've read and enjoyed, unless you count the 
wonderful Narnia books), except for those spiders in CoS; I was 
amused to no end at how JKR seems to have lifted them straight from 
The Hobbit.