wormtail's supposed bravery and Crouch jr and the Imperius Curse was:Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: The Houses Mystery)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 44682

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "evenflow200214" <daniel.brent at c...> wrote:
 
> Did we get a clear picture of who's idea it was that Wormtail turn 
in 
> Sirius? We know that Voldemort never even considered his own 
> downfall. I can't see other DE's or the good side helping him after 
> as he would have been hated by both had he "stayed alive" And 
> McGonagall, who is less in the inner crowd, said that Peter tracked 
> Sirius down which meant that Peter had to get Sirius there and risk 
> being killed on the spot.

Oh, I'm sure Peter knew he'd have an angry and distraught Padfoot on 
his tail.  One thing I've always wondered about this is how did 
Sirius know where to find Peter?  Blind luck?  Or did Peter, with or 
without someone else's help, leave clues of some sort?

McGonagall is speaking from false assumptions. When she talks about  
she is still assuming he was the brave, but foolish person taking on 
evil, dangerous Dark Wizard Sirius.  I think it's quite possible that 
Sirius could have taken down Peter, but that there were too many 
people in between them, and he was unwilling to do harm to innocent 
bystanders.  Which Peter couldn't care less about.  In "The Servant 
of Lord Voldemort" in PoA, Sirius says "When I cornered him, he 
yelled for the whole street to hear that I betrayed Lily and James.  
Then, before I could curse him, he blew apart the street...killed 
everyone with twenty feet of himself..."  Which to me indicates that 
at least some of the 12 dead Muggles were between the two wizards.

This, to me, is more evidence that Peter is not brave.  Rather, he 
will use whatever means he has to for his own protection. 

Marianne