Peter's Flaw

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No: HPFGUIDX 37035

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...>
wrote:

> Dicentra doesn't 
> > have any pity for Peter as he writhes on the floor crying
crocodile
> > tears
> 
> Not thinking" *that* used to be a Marauder! How far he has fallen!"?

It looks to me like Peter had and still has only one flaw: fear of 
death.  It's the reason he gives Lupin and Black for betraying the 
Potters.  It is, IMHO, the reason he goes to find LV. It is the reason 
he does everything.  He cuts off his hand to revive LV. He looks to 
LV to give him immortality,  which is probably true of all the DE's.

This is also LV's defining motive: to attain immortality.  LV is
a coward, driven by this same fear.