The Marauders Vs. The Trio-who is who?

[flower_fairy12]

No: HPFGUIDX 42578

elfundeb wrote:

> more to the Marauders than just spy on them and try to get them 
> expelled.  This is a pretty poor excuse, IMO, to set a werewolf on 
> someone and to risk making that werewolf--one of your best friends--
> a murderer.)

He probably pulled pranks on them too.


 > OTOH, there is another character bearing a remarkable resemblance 
to 
> Pettigrew who is usually overlooked.  I think his name and 
> description are meant to point to Peter as the traitor long before 
> we find out that Scabbers is a wizard and Peter is the Secret 
Keeper 
> who betrayed James and Lily. That character is Piers Polkiss.  The 
> first description we get of him is, for a start, quite blatant in 
> its similarities to Peter Pettigrew:
> 
> "Piers was a scrawny boy with a face like a rat.  He was usually 
the 
> one who held people's arms behind their backs while Dudley hit 
them."
> 
> Now, doesn't this also sound like it could describe Peter?  Other 
> similarities are: "Piers" is a variant of Peter (in Swedish or 
> Norwegian, I think) and Piers Polkiss and Peter Pettigrew have the 
> same initials.    

I never thought of him before! It might not be that important though, 
because he is hardly a central character and we don't know what he is 
really like, or wether he would want to murder someone. (But...he was 
evil to Harry wasn't he?)

Rosey