[HPforGrownups] Re: Scabbers looking to get near Harry

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 46597



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> From: arcum42 [mailto:Arcum_Dagsson at celticwind.zzn.com] 

> 
> 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.

It's entirely possible - I actually do agree with this theory, probably
because it doesn't preclude the Wormtail Taught Ron About Evil Or
Possibly Hypnotized Him (and hey, can I get an acronym for this?) - it
actually supports it. This gave Wormtail access to Percy's wand when Ron
was about 6 years old, which might've made it easier to bespell him. How
hard could it have been to, when everyone was asleep, to sneak from one
room to the other? He had tremendous access to all the Weasleys - and I
think that Ron's not telling his parents who Scabbers really was, at the
end of PoA, is going to come back to him as a boondoggle in future
books. I mean, the Weasleys, who are part of Dumbledore's Old Crowd, had
a Death Eater in their house for about five years, full time (until
Percy went to school) and then on holidays for another four years
(counting up until the beginning of PoA, as Ron didn't go home that
whole year). Who really knows how much Wormtail observed about the
Weasleys, about their home security measures (if any) and about their
day to day lives? 

In contrast, how likely is it that Wormtail bragged to Voldemort about
his connection to Mr Crouch's assistant in and before GoF? Wouldn't that
have been a boon to their success?
> 
> OTOH, Ron seemed awfully succeptable to Imperio in GoF. Perhaps he had
> been put under it by Wormtail in the past?

Hm. I'm not really sure that Ron was more succeptible than anyone else
in the class but it's an interesting point as well. 


Heidi