Does Snape despise Wormtail?

corinthum kkearney at students.miami.edu
Fri Mar 14 20:55:37 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 53777

Greicy wrote:

> Now about Snape.  I remember that Snape doesn't like Sirius, James 
> and Lupin since Hogwarts, but I don't recall him ever saying he 
> didn't like Pettigrew.  Are there any references to him saying that 
> he didn't get along with Pettigrew?  Or didn't like him?  If he 
> didn't, I'm started to suspect that maybe Pettigrew was part of the 
> Death Eaters a little bit more than a year.  James, Sirius, and 
> Lupin knew someone was passing secrets for a year (did Lily know as 
> well?), but was he passing secrets even longer than that.


I've always assumed that Snape never considered Pettigrew important
enough to hate.  Dislike, perhaps, but Pettigrew was the follower in
the group.  In this position, he was probably never the instigator of
pranks/comments against Snape.  Anything he may have done to Snape
could be traced to either James, Sirius, or Lupin.  Snape's hatred of
those three stems directly from childhood, not from their role during
Voldemort's reign. 

Regarding Pettigrew's tenure as spy, I have no idea.  :)  We really
don't know who knew what when, or how they knew what they did know. 
But I don't feel Snape's seeming indifference to Pettigrew is related
to either one's role in the Voldemort saga.    

-Corinth





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