Voldemort addressing Pettigrew as "Wormtail"

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 54255

Stickbook wrote:

> Does anyone know why Voldemort addresses Peter Pettigrew 
> as "Wormtail"?    

Now me:

I just had a brainwave on this - Voldemort might not want the DEs to 
know that Pettigrew is Wormtail, since, as Sirius said in the 
Shrieking Shack in PoA, many of the DEs in Azkaban believe that 
Pettigrew double-crossed Voldemort by betraying the Potters, since it 
was by going to the Potters' house that Voldemort met his downfall.  
So Voldemort may be afraid that the DEs will turn on Pettigrew if 
they knew it was Pettigrew, so he's decided to call 
Pettigrew  "Wormtail" and let the DEs believe that Pettigrew is still 
dead.

~Phyllis
who's still wondering why Wormtail is the only unmasked DE in the 
graveyard