[HPforGrownups] What to do with Pettigrew, once captured?

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 37128

In a message dated 29/03/02 07:09:00 GMT Standard Time, oppen at cnsinternet.com 
writes:


> However, this still leaves us with the question of what to _do_ with little
> Peter.  Azkaban?  It obviously can't hold an Animagus, although a _known_
> Animagus may be a different story---we don't know how many wizards and
> witches go there, or how long it's been there, and they may have not set it
> up to handle Animagi.  Dementor smooch?  Maybe.  I have no qualms about
> executing a criminal who has proven that he's dangerous enough, and little
> Peter's about as harmless as a coral snake---the more dangerous for not
> _looking_ dangerous.
> 
> 

Well, you know, there *is* a way of keeping him in Azkaban, if we take a leaf 
out of Hermione's book. If he is forced to transform, he can be held in a 
suitable rat cage, or tank, with an unbreakable charm on it to prevent his 
breaking it by becoming human again.

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Jenny from Ravenclaw agrees with Amanda that Dumbledore cannot be related to 
Harry:

>I have to agree with Amanda here.  Not only is there clearly some 
>important magical reason for Harry being raised by the Dursleys, but 
>it said that the Dursleys are Harry's only remaining relatives.  I do 
>not recall even a hint of another relative being mentioned anywhere 
>in any of the four books so far.  Wouldn't it be just a little too 
>cute if Dumbledore turned out to be Harry's great-grandfather 
>anyway?  JKR seems pretty intent on avoiding scenarios like that, 
>which is partly, I think, why she is so popular.  

There is one place where Harry's other relatives appear, in the Mirror of 
Erised, where he sees at least ten other people standing behind him. The 
interpretation of this depends on how we understand the mirror to work.  One 
might expect that Harry sees an imaginary family, simply one that he desires, 
but we are obviously supposed to believe from the descriptions of his parents 
(he hasn't yet seen a picture of them and IIRC, he hasn't had them described 
to him yet), that this is his real family. Which begs the question of what 
happened to the rest of them?
Oh, and of course, if Dumbledore was a relative, I think Harry might have 
recognised him amongst the ten, which was the point I meant to make.

Eloise


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