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

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48227

In a message dated 12/12/2002 17:25:36 GMT Standard Time, 
clicketykeys at yahoo.com writes:


> > 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?
> 

Do you mind if I answer this one Marina? That way I can say that I agree with 
you without doing a 'me too'!

GoF, UK HB, p568 (The Death Eaters)

" But Wormtail - displaying a presence of mind I would never have expected of 
him - convinced Bertha Jorkins to accompany him on a night-time stroll. He 
overpowered her...he brought her to me."

I think we have to assume that it was an isolated place if he was not to be 
noticed overpowering her. Plus presumably it was near to where Voldemort was 
hiding.

I think we are being set up to underestimate Pettigrew. The teachers 
underestimated him (he *did* after all master the Animagus spell, extremely 
advanced magic, even if he did need help - and remember that Lupin, in saying 
that he needed a lot of help was comparing him to the two brightest students 
of the year); James, Lupin and Sirius underestimated him thirteen years ago; 
Sirius underestimated him in the Shrieking Shack (or at least on leaving the 
Shack) and I think the above quote suggests that probably Voldemort 
underestimates him. If Voldemort carries on treating him like this, I 
wouldn't be at all surprised if the Worm(tail) turned.

I shall be very interested to see how Pettigrew turns out. I suspect that in 
some way he will come good in the end (at least partially, possibly 
unintentionally, probably tragically, or at least pathetically) and that will 
involve his upsetting some of the preconceived notions we have of him. I 
don't really expect a true redemption for him, but I think that he may well 
be instrumental in Voldemort's downfall .

~Eloise

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and 
unhangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multi-colored taffeta and every 
time we look at it we see a different hue.

(Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere)


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