Pettigrew's effectiveness I(Re: Rats! (Or: A Treatise on Ron and Evil))

[clicketykeys <clicketykeys@yahoo.com>]

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--- 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:

> > Oh. Somehow I missed the bit about him being a spy. I thought he 
> was 
> > just a lackey. My bad.
> 
> It's easy to miss with everything else that's going on, but during 
> the Shrieking Shack scene Sirius mentions that Peter was passing 
> information to Voldemort for a year.

Hm. Interesting thought... how would Sirius have known what Peter's 
function was? Either this was an empty accusation founded on anger, or 
he has some kind of inside information.
> 
> > Right. Voldemort's 'persuasion' is not necessarily sweet-talk. 
> > Voldemort also said he "overpowered" her. It takes absolutely no 
> > finesse to kosh someone on the head and drag them to your boss - 
> he'll 
> > know what to do!
> 
> He overpowered her *after* he persuaded her to go on a night-time 
> stroll with him.  Which only makes sense -- you can't kosh somebody 
> on the head in a public place, and Peter and Bertha met in an inn.  
> Whatever he did, he had to get her someplace private first.
> 
But Bertha is (IIRC) described as both nosey and dumb. I think this is 
another example of Peter getting lucky, because even if all he could 
come up with was, "Uh... come with me!" it worked. All this 
establishes is that Peter is smarter than Bertha is when her 
curiosity's got the best of her. And Bertha wasn't known for being a 
Hermione.

CK