[HPforGrownups] Pettigrew vs. Fudge

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 21793

 --- Margaret Dean <margdean at erols.com> ha scritto: 
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<it occurs to me that Peter<BR>
<Pettigrew's curse may be the opposite: an entirely
<too vivid<BR>
<imagination coupled with the aforementioned lack of
<<courage. <BR>
<People like this don't need to be tortured or
<menaced. They do<BR>
<it to themselves. "Cowards die many times
<before their death..."<BR>

I can't possibly think of *any* form of vivid
imagination that might push you to sell your friends
to the enemy. IMHO, Sirius' explanation for Peter's
behaviour is psychologically much more consistent and
satisfying: Peter always needs to be under the
protection of "the biggest bully in the playground".
It's not even ambition that drives him to tell V.
where the Potters are hiding, he's an opportunist and
a coward who just wants to be the pet of the most
powerful person around. Had he thought that Dumbledore
would win, he would doubtlessly have kept the secret.

sorry to be so insistant about this, but somehow
Pettigrew turns out to be the person I disklike most.



(<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.)<BR>

But don't you think he would have told Sirius&Remus
everything that might have been useful to defend
himself? If V. had, e.g., threatened to kill Peter's
mother (who is the only relative we know about), or
put the Cruciatus curse on him, things would be
different. 
I'm referring to the following bit of chapter 19:

"Sirius, Sirius, what could I have done? The Dark
Lord...you have no idea...he has weapons you can't
imagine...I was scared, Sirius, I was never brave as
you and Remus and James. I never meant it to
happen...He Who Must Not Be Named forced me..."
"Don't lie!" bellowed Black. "You'd been passing
information to him for a year before Lily and James
died! You were his spy!"
"He- he was taking over everywhere!" gasped Pettigrew.
"Wh-what was the to be gained by resisting him?"

I think that's rather clear, don't you?

Susanna/pigwidgeon37

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