OOP: Life Debt?

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 66860

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Carolin Mönkemeyer 
<shokoono at g...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Very much in keeping with Sirius, really. Even with 10,000 
galleons
> > on his head, he jumps right into the fray at the MoM. Your post
> > raised a question that has me thinking (at work, too) of when the
> > Pettigrew indebtedness is going to come into play. You would have
> > thought if Wormtail was going to cut Harry any slack it would have
> > been in the final pages of GoF. But not a bit of it. Maybe becuase
> > Voldy was looking over his shoulder? Pettigrew's indebtedness to
> > Harry has got to figure into the final 2 books, and the longer 
it's
> > held back, the more prominent it's likely to be. Something like
> > Gollum's role in Lord of the Rings.
> >
> > SMS
> >
>  Me:
> 
> But I think he did, though I don't know if he did it concious:
> As far as I can remeber he gave away his four fingered hand to 
revive
> Voldemort..... As a hand is supposed to have five fingers it could 
mean that
> there could be a little lack within this reviving potion which 
could be one
> of the reasons why Harry will be able to stop LV.... this could be 
seen as
> the accordance to a life dept in some ways for Peter was 
responsible for
> this potion.
> 
> Yours Finchen

I don't really think that having a finger missing will affect the 
potion.  The formula only stipulated that it be "flesh of a servant, 
willingly given."  It doesn't say how much.  Afterall, the revival 
potion required only a pinch of the father's bone and just a small 
vial of an enemy's (Harry's) blood.

We know that Wormtail isn't stupid.  He got through Hogwarts, became 
an Animagus, ingraciated himself with Lord Voldemort, and responded 
adeptly to Bertha Jorkins.  I think he probably just reasoned that if 
he was going to lose a hand, it may as well be the deformed, four-
fingered one rather than the intact one.

jsmithqwert