[HPforGrownups] Re: Ginny and Sirius/ Evil Characters

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 44325

--angstconsumed  writes:

> Another hole in your  theory would be "Why didn't Pettigrew try to save
Harry
> during the GoF confrontation" Pettigrew was the one that tied him up even,
> wasn't he?

Yes, he did tie Harry up.  However, there is the one little tidbit in there
that I never quite understood.  If Pettigrew is now a faithful servant of
Voldemort's, this doesn't quite make sense to me.  From GoF ch 34, page 659
"Wormtail approached Harry, who scrambled to find his feet, to support his
own weight before the ropes were untied.  <snip Wormtail untying Harry>
Wormtail walked out of the circle to the place where Cedric's body lay and
returned with Harry's wand, which he thrust roughly into Harry's hand
without looking at him.  Then Wormtail resumed his place in the circle of
watching Death Eaters."

The phrase stuck in there so matter of factly, "without looking at him"
implies (I'm not saying it means this, just implies) that he was ashamed to
be readying Harry for a duel with Voldemort.  Knowing, of course, he didn't
stand a chance.  During the time Harry was tied to the stone, he wasn't in
mortal danger.  You can't take blood by force of a dead person.  Although
tying someone up to take their blood doesn't sound like "by force," but it's
more by force than someone who's dead.  Yet at the time when he returns
Harry's wand, Wormtail won't look at him.  I'm not sure what it means, if
anything, but it's always stood out to me.

-Acire writes:

> Also, if anyone wanted to argue that Dumbledore is evil, I have some
> evidence that supports that, as well as Snape's still supoorting V-
> Mort: At Karkaroff's trial, when Dumbledore says, "He is now no more
> Death-Eater than I am." I think that's the quote, I don't have my
> books with me. Anyway, Dumbledore could be meaning something
> different, and the irony of that sentance could be that Snape is as
> much of a DE as DD is, because DD IS a DE, or some other sort of
> supporter of V-Mort. Now, take that and run with it.

I've never been much on the "Evil Dumbledore" theory.  Until I realized that
he offered to be the Potter's secret keeper and they turned him down.  Yes,
one could argue that he'd be too obvious.  Still, everyone (including
Dumbledore) thought Sirius was the secret keeper.  But he wasn't, of course.
If Dumbledore had been the secret keeper, everyone would've still thought it
was Sirius Black.  And if it were me, and I had no reason to doubt
Dumbledore's loyalty, I'd have felt safer with the one person who Voldemort
always feared as my secret keeper than someone like Peter Pettigrew.  Who
obviously was the wrong choice.  Also, something Sirius Black said . . . I
read it in someone's post earlier this week . . . only I can't remember what
it was. (oops)   And the Snape thing.  Dumbledore is so completely convinced
that he's all right, but I still have a few lingering doubts.

Only time will tell . . .

Richelle


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