Rats! (Or: A Treatise on Ron and Evil)

[clicketykeys <clicketykeys@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48209

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants <rusalka at i...>" <
rusalka at i...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clicketykeys 
> <clicketykeys at y...>" <clicketykeys at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants 
> <rusalka at i...>" <
> > rusalka at i...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Pettigrew, for all his snivelling, is 
> > > cunning, resourceful, and very good at manipulating people when 
> he's 
> > > not having a crisis of nerves. 
> > 
> > I don't agree. What events from the story make you come to this 
> > conclusion?
> > 
> > CK
> 
> As a young man, he fooled everyone about his loyalties for at least 
> a year -- everyone from Dumbledore on down to his closest childhood 
> friends. 

I don't think this would have been as difficult as you are making it 
out to be. First of all, this is after they'd graduated Hogwarts, so 
he wouldn't've been around Dumbledore all that much. Second, one 
generally doesn't suspect friends of being eeeeevil without cause. And 
third, as the 'follower' of the group, described as the weakest 
member, it is quite reasonable to guess that either he didn't offer 
much input, or when he did, the others were used to less-than-stellar 
ideas.

> When the game fell apart, he framed Sirius with remarkable 
> efficiency under very difficult circumstances. 

Yet his plan to do so was fairly simple, and he could have thought it 
out ahead of time... it works as a generic getaway plan.

> When he ran into 
> Bertha Jorkins while on his way to Voldemort, he persuaded her to 
> accompany him alone to an isolated place, even though she had every 
> reason to be suspicious of him.  

Okay. Was looking for my book and I could NOT find where it talks 
about him persuading her, though I seem to remember it. D'you have the 
reference?

CK