"Weak" Pettigrew (Re: What Pettigrew did at Godric's Hollow)

[theotokos]

No: HPFGUIDX 111725

Jekatiska:
> Has anyone else noticed how Pettigrew is always described as "talentless" 
> and "weak", yet he has managed some quite impressive magic? [snip] He also 
> killed twelve people with a single curse, which must be very advanced dark 
> magic, judging by the way it is mentioned in PoA. "Black killed thirteen 
> people with a single curse" is always emphasizing how extremely dangerous 
> Sirius is supposed to be. And we haven't heard of any other incident where 
> so many people would have been killed by one curse. Is there more to Peter 
> than meets the eye? 
>
> Or is it just that he was using Voldemort's wand? Somehow I don't think it 
> was the wand. 


Maybe it wasn't a curse to kill 12 people but a spell to blow up the street giving Wormtail access to the sewers?  The concrete and blown gas lines killed the pedestrians as a result.  As the MOM originally thought the fault lay with Sirius, it wouldn't have occurred to them the street was the focus of the spell, especially since Sirius was just standing there laughing instead of trying to escape.
 
theotokos