More on Snape, Pettigrew and Spying (post-Voldy)

[bboy_mn]

No: HPFGUIDX 42327

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "elvishooked" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
> Its not that I wish to stand out as the fool here - but I STILL don't 
> understand why Pettigrew would have reason to fear the DE's.
> 
> Jodel explained:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., jodel at a... wrote:


> 
> <<<Pettigrew was on the run from both sides once it turned out that 
> he had led 
> Voldemort into a trap. (The DE's do not tolerate mistakes which 
> "inconvenience" them.)>>>
>

Inge Replied:
 
> What trap? Pettigrew had no way of knowing that Voldemort would fail 
> that night. The DE's must have known that it wasn't Pettigrew's fault 
> that things went wrong. Why would they be after him instead of help 
> hide and protect him after Sirius was sent to Azkaban?
> 
> Well - maybe it's just me - but I just don't get it.
> 
> Inge

bboy_mn replies:

"The DE's must have known that it wasn't Pettigrew's fault ..."

Why must they have known that? All they knew is that Pettigrew send
Voldemort to his doom when he sent him to the Potter's. 

Voldemort operates on a need to know basis. When you are a psychotic
megalomaniacal dictator, you control information very closely. The
DE's knew very little of the details, and the only ones who knew
anything were the ones who had a need to know.

It seems clear from the story that Sirius assesment of Pettigrew was
right, he wasn't hiding from Sirius/Remus, he was hiding from the
DE's. They DE's don't forgive mistakes, even when they are just that
'mistakes'. Pettigrew's information lead driectly to Voldemort's
distruction, and they would certainly not forgive or forget that.

bboy_mn