Poor snivelling little Peter WAS Re: Evil!lupin: a rebuttal

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 53465

--- Nobody's Rib wrote:

> I see this as a possible set of events.  Someone tips off Dumbledore 
> that there is a snitch in the inner circle.  Fidelius Charm 
> suggested.  Black and Dumbledore both want to be the Secret Keeper.  
> Black opts out and suggests Pettigrew.  Pettigrew, up to this point, 
> has only had allegiance to his MWPP alliance and was not the one 
> who "turned traitor" (do we have canon, btw, that says Pettigrew had 
> been an informant for a year?), and now has been asked to risk death 
> to save the Potters' lives.  

The way I see it, Sirius didn't see it as asking Peter to risk his life. 
He didn't intend for anyone to know that Peter was the Secret-Keeper, so
why would Peter be in danger?  *Sirius* was the one who everyone would
know as the Secret-Keeper.  The whole POINT of the plan was for him to be
the obvious target while Peter stayed safely anonymous and the Potters
stayed safe.  Now, *James and Lily* might have seen it as asking Peter to
take an enormous risk and think it was very presumptuous, and that's why
they had to be talked into it.  But Sirius, IMO, always saw himself as
taking the risk out of the situation.

As to how Peter saw it...well, that's anyone's guess. ;)  But I'll point
out that when Peter was sniveling about how he had no choice but to betray
the secret, he never once said anything like, "You expected me to die for
them, but no one would've died for me!  The Dark Lord at least offered to
spare my life, while my *friends* told me I was the one chosen to die!" 
The way he was throwing out every possible argument there, I'd expect that
to have shown up if it had been a consideration.


Andrea

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