The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack - and Crouch Jr.

[snazzzybird]

No: HPFGUIDX 40228

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:

> <snip > I can't help thinking that the master 
> manipulator is not Dumbledore (aided by Snape) but JKR doing her 
best 
> to make the 'face-value' story plausible - thus, e.g. Snape cuts 
off 
> rat references because it ensures *JKR's* goals of having Pettigrew 
> free, Sirius uncleared, Snape mysterious, and Harry being the actor 
> whose decisions shape the story <snip>

The same thing occurred to me – for a different reason.  In GoF when 
Barty Crouch Jr. is confessing under Veritaserum, he says that 
Voldemort came to his house to free him from his father's Imperius 
Curse – in the arms of his servant, Wormtail.  I may not have the 
wording exactly right; don't have the book in front of me – but 
Crouch definitely refers to Pettigrew as "Wormtail".  That wasn't 
his "Death-Eater Name", it was his "Marauder Name".  Why wouldn't 
Crouch call him "Peter" or "Pettigrew"?  Wouldn't he know his real 
name?  Well, possibly Voldemort always called him "Wormtail".  But 
even if so – *why*?

I think the reason is exactly as stated by Davewitley.  JKR doesn't 
want Crouch to provide backup for Harry's story that Pettigrew is 
alive – therefore Sirius is innocent.  By the end of GoF Harry has 
told that he's seen Pettigrew, he's seen the Death Eaters -- and once 
again it's his word against, well, everyone who doesn't believe him.  
By now even the Minister of Magic seems to have a vested interest in 
not believing what he reports that he saw.

Why?  Well, possibly it's because Sirius being cleared at this time 
would put the kibosh on some part of the future story arc.  Am I 
being too simplistic here?  I'm a first-time poster, so please 
forgive me if this has already been brought up elsewhere.

snazzzybird, who loves it when a plan comes together.