[HPforGrownups] Naming Wormtail (was Scabbers at Hagrid's)

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 29115


 
  Zarleycat at aol.com wrote: 
<The names 
<Prongs, Padfoot and Wormtail reflect something about a physical 
<aspect of the animals in question, but surely something a little <more 
<appealing could have been used for the rat - Whiskers, for <instance.

<So, did the other three boys name Peter Wormtail, which strikes <me as 
<somewhat mean (after all they used Padfoot, not Drooling Jowls, <and 
<Prongs, not Grass-Eater)?  Or did Peter name himself Wormtail?  <And, 
<if so, did he do it as a joke, or did his personality and <character 
<not allow him to come up with a nicer name for himself?

<Marianne, off to work now...


Somehow, my idea of the Marauders never was that they were really nice to Pettigrew, at least not J&S. And I wonder how their group dynamics worked- where there are four, there mostly are two+two, so I'd guess it was James&Sirius (the two wonderboys) and Remus&Peter (the two marginalized ones). My idea is that intitally, they even might have been a group of three (James, Sirius, Remus), where J and S dominated, so that Remus wasn't exclusively with them and thus befriended Peter whom he then brought into the group. As a consequence, the group worked much better because it was a little more balanced.

Susanna/pigwidgeon37


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