[HPforGrownups] Wormtail in LURVE! WAS: What is Lily's big revelation in Book 5??? Help!

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 78014

 
Kelly said:
>5.  The only other thing I can think of is that Lily and James are 
>sitting on either side of Wormtail in the photo that Moody shows 
>Harry.  Somewhat of a strange arrangement for husband and wife not to 
>be next to each other.

It's because Wormtail was MADLY IN LOVE WITH JAMES POTTER!

No, wait. Hear me out.

>From the pensieve scene in OotP, it is pretty obvious that Peter has a creepy fangirl obsession with James. (All that *gasping* and *cheering*.  Honestly.)

James, however, loves Lily.  Even before Lily, he obviously liked Sirius (especially Sirius) and Remus much better than Peter.  Wormtail is left flitting around the edges of the group like a one-boy fan club.

And when they all grow up, Wormtail is frustrated trying to wrest James's precious attention not only from the charming and charismatic Sirius, but also from James's new wife and baby, and THE CAUSE.

So, Peter does what he can.  He wedges himself between Lily and James at Order meetings, not caring a whit about The Cause.  He only wants to be close to James.

Naturally, he hates them all.  Sirius, Lily, Harry, and The Cause, that is.  He *loathes* and *resents* them -- and every day that passes his frustrations grows.

Eventually he goes round the bend like the homicidal head of Selena's fan club.

What is the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back, you ask?  Well, I suspect that while Lily felt sorry for the lovelorn Peter, James eventually got fed up with Wormtail.  And who wouldn't?  By this point, Peter's actions were becoming wildly stalker-esque and frankly creepy.  Annoying, to say the least.  So James blew up at him once (and quite effectively) and promptly forgot all about it.

But Wormtail didn't.  He withdrew from the rest of them, becoming sullen and brooding.  And when that arrogant *idiot* Sirius nominated him to become Secret Keeper, he saw his chance.

His chance to get back at the *condescending* Sirius for taking James's friendship.  His chance to get back at the *patronizing* Lily for taking James's love.  His chance to annihilate the wretched child of that *whore*.  His chance to ruin that blasted Cause that took so much of James's time and attention.

But most of all, his chance to get back at James for not loving him.

And so, wa-la.  I give you, Betrayal.

After all, if Snape could go over to the Light for love of Lily, who's to say that Wormtail didn't go over to the Dark for love of James? *looks pointedly at the LOLLIPOPS crew*

Laura (who acknowledges that this theory is a bit far-fetched, but is quite fond of it anyway.)


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