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

[Shauna]

No: HPFGUIDX 47152

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Audra1976 at a... wrote:
> erisedstraeh2002 at y... writes:
> << 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"). >>
> 
> Good one, Phyllis!  And what about: his PETTY jealosy of his 
more powerful 
> friends GREW so great that he betrayed them to get more 
power for himself.
> 
> Audra

I always looked back on the "pet" in Pettigrew as a sly sort of 
foreshadowing about his being Scabbers, the Weasleys' pet.  
But that doesn't really have anything to do with Animagus forms.

~ Shauna