Wormtail's Name In the Confession (WAS: Spying Game...)

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 40386

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ssk7882" <skelkins at a...> wrote:
> At the end of PoA, I believe that we are meant to understand that 
> Pettigrew has in some sense voluntarily forfefited his own humanity.  
> Of the three characters (Sirius, Remus and Peter) who revert to their 
> animal forms on the way back from the Shrieking Shack at the end of 
> PoA, Peter is the only one who does so *voluntarily.*  Remus is a 
> victim of lycanthropy.  Sirius is trying to protect himself from the 
> dementors; it is not even clear to what extent he has any conscious 
> control over his reversion to dog form.  

Dicentra timidly raises her hand:

Er, ma'am?  Elkins ma'am?  Not to undermine your theory or anything,
but Sirius becomes Padfoot so he can latch his jaws onto the wolf's
jugular, thereby protecting Harry et al. from the wolf.  He doesn't
seem to have conscious control over reverting back into a human as the
dementors close in.  So maybe you could amend this theory to read that
Peter is the only one who transforms for *selfish* reasons.  Remus
can't help it, Sirius is protecting the Trio, and Peter is saving his
own worthless little hide.

--Dicentra, chief Sirius apologist