Why Peter was at Hagrid's (was Dishwashers , Puppy hunts , etc.)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 39902

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

>> A problem with this solution is that Peter knows how to get 
past the Whomping Willow.  He could easily evade the 
Dementors entirely, escape to Hogsmeade through the 
Shrieking Shack, <<

There's no way out of the Shack except through the Willow. Of 
course not, it's a prison for a werewolf. To quote Princess Leia, 
"They don't build them with multiple exits, you know." <g> Those 
windows are blocked by more than boards. Otherwise Fred and 
George would have gotten in. The Marauders must have let 
Lupin out through the Tunnel. 

During the whole time Pettigrew is trapped in the Shack, he's 
looking vainly for some means of escape. But he knows he can't 
outrun Padfoot  in the tunnel. If  he knew of another way out, he 
would have transformed back and made a break for it.  

Possibly Scabbers could have tried to escape to Hogsmeade 
through the One-eyed witch, if he had had a wand. But it doesn't 
seem that he did. In any case he would have had to revert to 
human form to use it.  And there are Dementors in the village 
too. 

Peter may have been hiding in the Castle for some time after he 
faked his death, but the attack on the Fat Lady, which meant 
Sirius hadn't been fooled in by the fake death, and the 
confiscation of the Map by Lupin which happened shortly 
afterward probably persuaded him to seek refuge elsewhere.

Amy:
> >I also don't think there is any reason to imagine that Peter has 
been at  Hagrid's for months.  More likely, he has been skulking 
around the Forest,  but invading Hagrid's for the same reason a 
regular rat would:  human  habitation is where the food is.<< 

Peter has a very good reason for preferring Hagrid's hut to the 
forest:

Lupin: "I watched you enter cross the grounds and enter Hagrid's 
hut. Twenty minutes later you left Hagrid and set off back toward 
the castel. But now you were accompanied by somebody else."

The interior of Hagrid's hut is a dead spot. It doesn't show on the 
Map. The Forest does, because Crouch Jr. is able to find Crouch 
Sr. with it. It's odd that Fang didn't pay any attention to the rat in 
the pantry, but perhaps he recognized Peter from the Marauder 
Days and thought of him as a friend. 

Hagrid's hut is one place that's safe from predators, has a food 
supply, doesn't show on the Map, and isn't guarded by the 
Dementors.

Pippin