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

[kiricat2001 <Zarleycat@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48302

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Angela Evans   
> 
> ME: Your argument is sound.  We can only speculate on HOW PP gets 
away with all his deception.  But if you keep putting it down to 
him "getting lucky", then I think you will underestimate him just as 
much as the Marauders did.

Maybe Peter used his Animagus form to help him. Picture this: He's at 
a meeting with several of the "old crowd" which includes Sirius and 
Remus.  He leaves at some point, because whatever is next on the 
agenda has nothing to do with him. Everyone knows he's left the 
building, but he transforms into Rat Guy, and sneaks back in.  The 
information shared at this meeting, and perhaps others where Peter is 
known to have left, somehow gets into Voldemort's hands.  This may 
not necessarily be information concerning the Potters.  It could be 
other information that V would find useful.

Peter tells V what he overheard after he supposedly left the meeting
(s), with the result that some sort of nasty consequence occurs to 
the good guys.  These consequences don't have to be something major, 
like a troop of Aurors walking into a death trap.  It could have been 
much less eventful.  But, it could be something that would be 
noticable enough to cause Sirius and Lupin to start thinking that the 
other is the spy. Neither suspects Peter because 1) they know from 
experience he's not the guy who typically comes up with The Plan, 2) 
they know from experience that he's not the most talented wizard on 
the planet, and 3) they know he had already left the meetings before 
this information was discussed.

Marianne, speculating wildly without a shred of canon to support her.