[HPforGrownups] Re: Rats! (Or: A Treatise on Ron and Evil)

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 48200


 
 srsiriusblack at aol.com wrote: 
Chapter Four pgs 58-59, the witch speaking to Ron about Scabbers discusses 
the lack of powers the rat has. 
My opinion is that Peter Pettigrew is no more than a mediocre wizard who by 
his own desires to out-do James and Sirius and by the influence of the dark 
lord, found himself personally empowered. But, it seems from PoA and GoF that 
Peter merely acts out the plans made by Voldemort.


 

ME:  but that is just it, it is not Pettigrew's magical powers that make him so dangerous (though we must assume that the Dark Lord in some respects enhanced those powers a bit, he did kill a dozen muggles with one curse), but his personal attributes that have nothing to do with magic.  We all want to picture Peter as a helpless hack who can only follow orders, but this man has done ALOT of damage to statisfy himself.  He is no Barty Crouch Jr, Pettigrew is out for himself, and himself ONLY.  He has all those ratlike qualities, sneaky, resourceful, and in the symbolic sense of a rat, he is a natural spy, betrayer, putting self above all else.  Voldemort himself says that PP can be quite deceicing AND convincing when he wants to.  He knows how to manipulate people's feelings to help himself (don't think that his comment about James' "understanding" did not prompy Harry's decision to spare PP)

 

ANGELA



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