Peter kiling Cedric (Was: JKR's "small thing" in CoS)

[laylalast]

No: HPFGUIDX 94922

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

<snip>

>Carol:
> Where was I? Oh, yes. Has anyone besides me noticed that both
> Dumbledore and Harry alwasys say that Voldemort murdered Cedric?
> Technically, this statement is not quite true. Voldemort, a
> baby-shaped monster wrapped in a cloak, gave the order, but 
Wormtail pointed the wand and spoke the words that actually killed 
him. In
> other words, he committed murder, orders or no orders. Yet it's as 
if,
> in DD's and Harry's view, Wormtail is only an instrument like the 
wand
> and bears no share of the blame. 

<snips some more>

>Carol:
> Is anyone besides me bothered by this? or can you "sort it out" 
for me so I find it less
> disturbing? Anybody?

Me (Lilian):

I have not thought about it before, but now you bring up the 
point... Wormtail (or Peter Pettigrew rather) is believed to be 
dead. He was blown up by Sirius, together with a lot of Muggles. He 
received the Order of Merlin posthumously and all his mother got was 
his one finger. Only DD, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lupin and Sirius know 
that this is not the truth, but the rest of the WW do not.
 
LV on the other hand, is believed by some in the WW to be gone 
forever, but not by all. If DD would have said, although more 
accurately, that it was Peter Pettigrew who actually killed Cedric, 
no one in the WW would have believed DD. Claiming that it is LV (and 
who is indirectly responsible)will put some in the WW at their guard 
and possibly convince some doubters.

Lilian