What HP Character Scares You Most?

[belinda at sawyertech.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23698

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., MMMfanfic at h... wrote:

> Yes, Peter Pettigrew is the scariest character in the book.  The 
> frightening thing about Peter is that he would still be James, 
Sirius 
> and Remus's friend if there's no Voldemort.  His lack 
> of 'intimidation' factor makes him even more scary -- how do you 
spot 
> a villain when he's your childhood friend?

I find the Pettigrew character something of an anomaly. How is it he 
had the smarts to figure out how to frame Sirius and the intent to do 
it in such a huge and destructive way, but then couldn't do any 
better than to live as a rat for 12 years and return as a snivelling 
git? Maybe the details of the frame-up had already been worked out 
with Lord V before he went to the Potters'? Or maybe panic made him 
bold for a brief moment, since Sirius would have ripped him apart. 
I've just never been able to marry the mind that cleverly left the 
severed digit amid all the muggle bodies and the fellow on the floor 
of the shrieking shack grovelling to Ron, "I was a good rat." 

Belinda