Scabbers looking to get near Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 46586

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "heidi tandy" <heidit at n...> wrote:
> Regina wrote: 
<snip>

> It's also possible that he selected the family for those reasons,
> and then spent time, over the years, training Ron to be evil AND a
> friend to Harry. 
> 
> Oh, stop laughing. There's canon support for this.
> 
> In PoA, Sirius' voice is described as sounding unused - as if it was
> roughened from long periods of not speaking.
> 
> Peter, on the other hand, doesn't sound that way at all. His voice
> is squeaky, but otherwise not far from normal - it certainly isn't
> farfetched to think that he's been transforming back into a wizard
> at various times - perhaps at the Burrow, perhaps even at Hogwarts, 
> and either talking to Ron as he sleeps (in a hypnotic suggestion
> sort of way), or even face to face (although that would require
> believing that Ron was pretending when he was horified in the 
> Shack). 
> 
> And he could've told him all sorts of things, about the wonder of
> Voldemort and how good things would be for Ron if he helped the
> Death Eaters when the time was right, etc. Ron complains much more 
> about poverty and having so much that's rubbish in Book 4, after 
> Wormtail no longer has the access to influence him.
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> We take Sirius' and Remus' word for it that Pettigrew wouldn't do
> anything to hurt Harry if he didn't know for sure that he'd be 
> supported by the bully in his corner. But that doesn't mean that he 
> wouldn't do a little seeding of the ground himself. 
> 

One minor flaw in this theory - Wormtail wasn't Ron's rat until Percy
became a prefect and got Hermes. As far as we know, until then
Wormtail was Percy's rat. So if Wormtail was turning someone
ever-so-evil, it would be more likely that he was feeding Percy's
ambition, and guiding him towards getting a high up job in the
ministry, to be well positioned to help Voldemort. Under this theory,
he could even have been working with Percy in GoF, when Percy was
supposedly getting orders from Crouch.

OTOH, Ron seemed awfully succeptable to Imperio in GoF. Perhaps he had
been put under it by Wormtail in the past?

--Arcum