Pettigrew the murderer?

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 76034

Rox: Something has been bothering me since POA and that is if Peter 
was 
> > supposed was supposed to be such a weak wizard, then how did he 
> blast 
> > half the street away and kill all those people? I don't see how 
> this 
> > could have happened. I don't have the books with me because I am 
at 
> > work. Also, he just cuts his finger off, blasts the street apart 
> and 
> > then tranforms into a rat and runs away. He was so squimish about 
> > cutting his hand off that I think Sirius would have realized what 
> he 
> > was going to do and have been able to stop him. 


I think that there's a deeper meaning to Pettigrew's waffling when he 
ahd to cut off his hand in GoF.  Harry saved his life in the 
Shrieking Shack.  Dumbledore says at the end of PoA 
(don't have the book with me, don't want to go up 2 flights of stairs 
for it) that saving another wizard's life creates a bond, that it is 
magic at it's most inpenatrable.  Pettigrew knows that cutting off 
his hand will complete the potion and return Voldemort to his 
former..... form.  Then Voldemort will kill Harry.  I think that's 
what gave him pause in the graveyard.

(Plus the whole owy factor.  A finger is not a whole hand. OWCH!)

~Margaret, still new and hoping people are kind.