A thought about Wormtail I just had...

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 41980

Could one of the side-effects of "flesh of the servant, willingly(?) given"
in the ritual to re-body-ize Voldemort be to give _Wormtail_ some sort of
power over Voldemort?

Think about it...part of Wormtail is now a big component in Voldemort's new
body.  We've already seen that the magical "law of similarity" applies in
the Wizard World, what with HP's and V's wands being unable to fight each
other because they each contain a feather from the tail of the same phoenix.
Might this not apply even more strongly between V-mort and W-tail?  (Come to
it---how would, forex,

Also, although it could well be that V'mort _planned_ to let Wormtail bleed
to death in the cemetery as punishment for his (alleged by Voldemort)
inadequacy as a wizard, he found himself more-or-less compelled, even though
he thought of it as an afterthought, to repair the damage and create a new
silver hand for Wormtail.

So, could this become a problem for Voldemort in the future---he tries to
(forex) Cruciatus Wormtail ("You let my _tea_ get _COLD,_ Wormtail?
_Crucio!_")  only to find himself being adversely affected by his own spell.
Or he might find Wormtail's thoughts and personality leaking into his own
mind...a horrible thought, don't you agree?

Or he and Wormtail might both be casting spells, only to find that they
interfere with each other's spellcasting somehow.

Just thought I'd mention this...after all, we've discussed endlessly the
implications of Wormtail's "life-debt" to Harry Potter, so I thought about
Wormtail, and remembered that his very flesh is now part of the big V-man.