Significance of Peter Pettigrew's Name (WAS: Big pointer to Snape as Vampire)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 47142

Barb (psychic_serpent) wrote:

> (It is notable that neither James Potter's name nor Peter 
> Pettigrew's name really point to their Animagus forms, and Minerva 
> McGonagall's doesn't either.)

Now me:

This is a thought that just occurred to me over the weekend - perhaps 
Pettigrew's first name is "Peter" because he betrayed the Potters as 
Simon Peter betrayed Jesus ("three times before the cock crows").

~Phyllis