Will Wormtail pull a Gollum?

usergoogol usergoogol at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 26 02:33:05 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 40367

If any of you have read Lord of the Rings (and since most of you are 
intellegent adults, you'd better have) (and if you haven't, I will 
be spoiling a bit of it for you right now, so run away if you're 
afraid of spoilers) than you may have noticed a slight similarity 
between Gollum and Wormtail. Noticable differences of course, but 
lets get down to business.

At some point near the end of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo is at the 
cracks of doom, the only place where the Ring can be destroyed, but 
has become too corrupted by the ring to be able to destroy it. And 
then Gollum comes in, bites the ring off of Frodo's hand, and then 
falls into the Volcano to his doom.

I loved this ending when I read it, because there's something... 
interesting about it. A thoroughly dispicable character saves the 
day by being very dispicable. This is where Peter "Wormtail" 
Perrigrew comes in.

Perrigrew's life was saved by Harry, (much like Gollum was by Bilbo, 
come to think of it) and Dumbledore, at some point, pointed out that 
the life bond between Wormtail and Harry is very strong. Any idiot 
will be able to tell that SOMETHING willl come of this, unless 
Rowling has decided to leave alot of bits in her story which never 
gets resolved.

Except Perrigrew will probably not do a truly selfless act. Its not 
in his nature. But he will do something, which I predict to be a 
very selfish act. Imagine if Wormtail, when Voldemort was in his 
most powerful state, and noone else can save the day, does something 
stupid to save the world? I just love everything about the idea for 
some odd reason.

(While we're at it, I think that the Wizard World should recontinue 
contact with the Muggles. I'm not saying it'll happen in a book, but 
it should.)

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