Some FF: Dumbledore and Scabbers, was Re: Worried about Hermione/others

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 55933

Heidi wrote: 
> So it's possible to engage in only a tiny bit of
> "connecting the dots" to conclude that Peter was able
> to learn a lot about the Weasley family... and more
> frightening than that, Peter did have opportunities
> aplenty to put spells on members of the family that he
> could take advantage of if he needed to do so later. 
> 
> Have you ever seen The Manchurian Candidate? Would it
> be so farfetched to conclude that Peter did something
> similar to Ron or to Percy? 
> 
> I once wrote a smidge of fanfic about this
> (http://www.livejournal.com/users/heidi8/47382.html),
> and am pasting a bit of it here: 
> 
> 
> The inquisitor goggled at the words spilling from the
> Gryffindor's 
> mouth. Harry Potter's best friend, this child was, and
> he'd been 
> seeking out Death Eaters? And not just to spy on them
> either? He 
> gulped and tried a new question - one he'd asked many
> times at Death 
> Eater Induction Ceremonies, but had never before asked
> a prisoner.
> 
> "So, when did you first realise that you were evil?"
> 
> "Well, my brother Percy got this rat when he was about
> six years 
> old - maybe a little younger. I was almost two then,
> so I don't 
> really remember, but Percy told me recently that the
> Rat, Scabbers, 
> used to follow me around all the time. And as long as
> I could 
> remember, this man would come to me in my dreams - at
> least, then, I 
> thought I was dreaming - and talk to me about power
> and money and 
> all the wonderful things I deserved to have. He used a
> wand to 
> conjure up wonderful images for me - it was only later
> that I 
> learned that he'd been taking my parents' wands in the
> evenings and 
> putting them back before they woke." The prisoner's
> eyes got a 
> little misty at this point, and the Death Eater
> himself felt a 
> twinge of nostalgia at the boy's story. 
> 
> The boy went on, talking about how he'd reaslied after
> his third 
> year at Hogwarts that the man and the rat were one and
> the same, and 
> that the things the man had said to him in his dreams
> were all 
> things the man - Pettigrew, who the Death Eater knew
> as the Dark 
> Lord's left hand - wanted him to do for his own
> reasons. He didn't 
> really remember the dreams themselves during his
> waking hours, but 
> the things the man had said to him stayed with him
> constantly.
> 
> He didn't see the man while his brother was at school,
> although he 
> didn't make the connection then, but during the
> summers, especially 
> the year before he started Hogwarts, Ron had learned
> through the 
> dreams that he should befriend Harry Potter when he
> got to Hogwarts, 
> as they would be in the same year - that he should not
> fight with 
> him, but rather support him in everything, and they'd
> be good 
> friends. During his first year, the man was at
> Hogwarts with him and 
> said that it was very important that he help Harry get
> to the 
> Philosopher's Stone. 
> 
> "After I learned that Scabbers was an animagus, I
> didn't want to 
> remember anything he'd said to me, even though I knew
> rationally 
> that it made sense - that the Dark Lord was powerful
> and would be victorious, things like that. But like I
> said, nobody belived me - 
> not even Scabbers - I mean Wormtail. I sent him a
> letter and he 
> owled me back and accused me of being a spy. He never
> realised how 
> successful his teaching of me was! And it was great -
> he was 
> absolutely right, too. I want power and success and I
> hate being 
> poor, and I think you guys are the right people to
> help me get it! 
> Can you untie me now?"


I didn't snip properly or enough, but I just have to say that this is 
something that I've *always* thought about.  How can Peter Pettigrew 
not have tried to do something to brainwash Percy or Ron, or any of 
the Weasleys at that!  Wormtail has proven that he isn't stupid when 
it comes to be a conniving, greedy person.  If he did what he did to 
Bertha Jorkins then the possibility that he talked to Percy or Ron in 
their sleep isn't out of the question, at least not for me.  I think 
that JKR had Scabbers choose the Weasleys for more than one reason 
and I'll be waiting.

Greicy