Pettigrew vs. Fudge

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 21789

pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it wrote:
 
> 10. Did you feel any kind of sympathy for Pettigrew?
> 
> Do we feel any sympathy for people who went and denounced hidden jews
> to the SS even if they hadn't to? I think what peter has done is not
> only beyond sympathy, but also beyond comprehension. Has he been
> tortured, menaced, I'd say OK, not everybody is a hero. But going to
> V. without any reason ??

After reading Susan Hall's very insightful post about Fudge
(speculating that the reason Fudge can have Dementors around him
all the time is his utter lack of imagination -- which is also
what makes him dangerous otherwise), it occurs to me that Peter
Pettigrew's curse may be the opposite: an entirely too vivid
imagination coupled with the aforementioned lack of courage. 
People like this don't need to be tortured or menaced.  They do
it to themselves.  "Cowards die many times before their death..."

(Apart from that, we don't =know= that Peter went to Voldemort
completely off his own bat.  We don't know what other associates
P. may have had, or what pressures might have been brought to
bear on him.)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>