In defence of Peter (was: Thoughts on Wormtail's activities in OOTP )

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 81556

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:
> I think the biggest mistake anyone can make about Peter 'Wormtail' 
> Pettigrew is to underestimate him.  And we're all doing it.  

I think 
> it's easy for us to pigeon hole him into the role of a weak easily 
> influenced follower/coward 
> Peter is not a dummy, an idiot, dimwitted or slow. 

Trust 
> me LV doesn't give out *gifts* like a silver hand if he doesn't 
have 
> an important use for it.


Jen: I definitely don't underestimate Peter! You make excellent 
points, but I don't think you read my post closely if you think I was 
pigeon-holing him as a weak, worthless person. Instead I was offering 
a suggestion that he may have even been bold and clever enough to be 
in hiding from LV.

I believe Peter is actually going to play a pivotal role in the 
series, and I happen to believe he will save Harry in some way before 
the end, at great risk to himself and probably by giving his own life
(see my post 80512, Wormtail the Hanged Man, if you're interested).

The fact that Peter didn't show up in OOTP is interesting and in the 
previous post I was trying to offer possibilities for where he might 
be.  I don't think given the events in the graveyard and with the 
granting of the silver hand that Peter is merely going to continue 
being LV's favorite scape-goat (and that IS the character he plays in 
GOF even though he obviously has the stregths you mentioned in your 
post).

Jen