[HPforGrownups] Why Pettigrew's hand?

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 28729


 I'm too lazy now to stand up and get the book, but IIRC (and I think I do) the formula is "Flesh of the servant, willingly given", so it had to be a servant  and Wormtail was the only one present. Most certainly Voldemort could not summon any other servant in the state he was in, and would not have liked to show himself to any other DE looking like a cross between a new-born and a snake.
As to Wormtails magical skills: I think that Voldemort's skills are far beyond Wormtail's wildest dreams and he certainly doesn't need Pettigrew's blood to become an animagus. 
It would be interesting, though, to know more about the bond that, according to Dumbledore, has been established between Pettigrew and Harry in PoA, when Harry saved his life: Is it an emotional bond or something concrete? If it is the latter, some of it might have been passed on to Voldemort by way of his servant's flesh. And the consequences might be quite disastrous for old Voldie...
Susanna/pigwidgeon37
 
 
  Vanessa <vheggie at yahoo.com> wrote: There's been some specualtion on the list about the possible reasons 
why Voldie wished to use Harry's blood in his re-incarnation ritual.

As a secondary question, why did he choose Pettigrew as the hand 
donator?  Was it merely an act of convenience (and, of course, to 
allow the Arch Villan to make the usual bad puns; "others would give 
their right hand to perform this duty", etc )?  Or is there some 
special significance?  If abilities travel from Harry's blood to 
Voldie (and possibly vice versa), could Wormtail's angimagi skills 
(and any others he may have...) have been passed to Voldie in this 
transaction?

Is Voldemort already an animagi - he appears to have taken snake 
form, if not actually be able to transform into one...could he now 
have added 'rat' to his repertoire?

Any thoughts?


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