Flesh of the not-so-faithful servant

[leb2323]

No: HPFGUIDX 72075

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "acoteucla" <acoteucla at h...> 
wrote:
> > First of all, I believe that Voldemort made some horrendous 
mistake 
> > when he used Harry's blood to revive himself, thus the gleam in 
> Dumbledore's eyes.
> > I looked at a few of the old "Dumbledore's gleam" topics, but 
> didn't 
> > see any of them tie it in with Peter Pettigrew.  That's the route 
> I'm 
> > going to go - I hope it hasn't been done to death before.
**snip**
 The only thing I can think of is that Peter 
> > will have a hand in permanently destroying Voldemort.
> > "Flesh of the servant willingly given, blood of the enemy
forcibly 
> > taken."  I find it very interesting that the "faithful servant" 
> that 
> > donates the flesh owes a life-debt to the "enemy" that donates
the 
> > blood.  Perhaps this fact will prove central to how Voldemort is 
> > ultimately vanquished?  For instance, if Pettigrew shows loyalty 
in 
> > some fashion to Harry over Voldemort, would this weaken Voldemort 
> in 
> > some way?


I posted the following in the "Voldemort divided" thread and have
been thinking of reposting it to get some more feedback.  Since it 
ties in with what you are saying, I will repost it here.

I think that the "in essence divided" quote refers to the manner in 
which Voldemort was resurrected. You can look at it in two ways: 

1) he used "bone of the father", a muggle who is a wizard-hater, and 
then Pettigrew's hand and Harry's blood, with all the wizarding 
properties they possess. The dichotomy here is between muggle/wizard. 
He himself is a half-blood and he now has within his make up part of 
him that hates wizards and part that hates muggles.

Or, what I believe to be more probable, 2) to resurrect he took
"flesh of the servant" - a servant who just happens to have that
pesky life debt to Harry, and "blood of the enemy" - the same blood 
which is what saved Harry in the beginning and is what protects Harry 
still at the Dursleys. He is now divided in that he has the very
thing he is fighting against flowing through his own veins. Kind of 
like the 2 wands with same cores being unable to fight against each 
other.

This is also why I think that Pettigrew is the "other" referred to in 
the prophecy. He will be the one to make the choice between whether
it is Voldemort, his master, or Harry, to whom he owes the life debt
that is to be destroyed with his magical new hand; thus, "either must 
die at the hand of the other".

leb