Cedric and Pettigrew (was Re: Faking Sirius' Death?)

[Tracy Hunt]

No: HPFGUIDX 91742

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" 
> <dk59us at y...> wrote:
> > Pippin theorized:
> > 
> > Nope, I'm suggesting that Peter didn't kill Cedric. In any case
> > Cedric couldn't have recognized him. Peter was hooded and
> > Harry himself didn't recognize him until later. I'm suggesting 
> that
> > someone else was in the graveyard.
> > 
> > <snips>
> > So do we imagine that fumble-fingered Wormtail managed
> > to swish a wand out of his pocket before putting Voldebabe
> > down, or that he put him down and took out the wand, all while
> > Cedric was politely standing there waiting to be murdered?
> > 
> > Lounging on the grassy knoll, Eustace_Scrubb offered:
> > 
> > Actually, I'd have to say that Wormtail performs pretty well under
>  pressure.  He managed to kill all those muggles, frame Sirius 
> for the killings and excise his own finger when he was cornered 
> and then transform himself into a rat.<
> 
> Pippin stretches out on the knoll:
> Ahhh, now we're on firmer ground. The conspiracy to frame 
> Sirius is canon. There was information that Sirius was 
> Voldemort's most devoted servant, prepared to out himself as 
> Voldemort's second-in-command. Peter, in hiding or on the lam, 
> could not have spread this rumor on his own. The DE's in 
> Azkaban knew that Peter, not Sirius, betrayed the Potters.   And 
> they were very, very sure that Peter was dead. Which is odd, but 
> we'll get to that in a moment. 
> 
> First let's think about what would have happened if Voldemort 
> hadn't met his downfall in Godric's Hollow.  How was the 
> conspiracy to play out?  Any plan to discredit Black must also 
> encompass a plan to silence Peter. He's the only one who can 
> prove that Black is innocent. That's a huge liability for 
Voldemort. 
> Peter must not remain alive to face questioning by Dumbledore 
> and the aurors. If Peter was to fake  his death and  go into 
hiding, 
> he wouldn't be much use as a double agent anymore, in which 
> case why bother  framing Sirius at all? Answer: there's another 
> double agent and Peter is expendable.

<major snip>


Tcy steps out from lurking behind a bush near the knoll:
It's no secret that I don't buy ESE!Lupin.  I make room for the fact 
that JKR may prove me wrong - but until then, he's a good guy.  The 
part of this thread that brought me out from the shadows is not 
Pippin's idea that Lupin is the baddie here...but rather that Lord 
Thingy is being given too much credit.

Voldemort has shown himself to be very short-sighted (and with tunnel 
vision, to boot).  He (thought) he knew that all he had to do was 
kill the Potter child and then no one else would be able to defeat 
him - so he'd be free to rise to whatever level of power he wished 
unchecked.  I think it likely that the plan was hatched to get to 
Harry and that said plan went no further.  If he succeeded in killing 
Harry, there would have been no need to worry about Wormtail and his 
cover.  If Wormtail were discovered as the traitor - so what?  He'd 
served his purpose to Voldemort.

Tcy