Spies and traitors,

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No: HPFGUIDX 24013

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:

> Peter Pettigrew has the Dark Mark on his forearm>

We don't know that PP has the Dark Mark.  He never had to be summoned 
to the Riddles' graves because he was already with Voldemort.  It 
never is said in canon that he also has the Dark Mark.  

But it seems that Pettigrew was a DE>

Once again, I am not so sure that he was a DE.  It is logical, given 
his work for the big V, to assume he is a DE, but somehow, I am not 
comfortable with putting the two together.  PP does not seem to have 
been worthy enough to V to be a DE; he was simply useful as a spy.  
Voldemort seems to know what a coward and a traitor he really is.  
Voldemort made a comment about PP's connection with rats, and I think 
there are two meanings there: obviously he IS a rat, and he also rats 
out his friends and has other rat-like qualities.  V would toss him 
aside in a second, whereas he seems to value the DEs more.  Now that 
PP has helped restore V to his body, PP may be valued more and may 
become a DE now, but I just don't think he was a DE. 

People have mentioned that PP was V's secret, and I agree with that.  
PP's name was not mentioned at the trials, whereas Snape's name was, 
and it was generally believed, certainly by the DEs in Azkaban, that 
PP had died.  It also would have been quite easy for PP to be a spy as 
a rat and be known only by V, because only his friends from Hogwarts 
knew he was an Animagus.  I doubt the DEs knew that either, because it 
served V well for no one to know.  As long as PP was V's secret 
weapon, so to speak, it wouldn't have been a good decision to make him 
a DE and let a larger group of people know which side PP was on.

--jenny from ravenclaw*****************************