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

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 91749

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

(big, big snips)
> Now I agree, Peter is not quite the fool everyone takes him for. 
> He knows that as soon as he's played out his part, he's toast.  
> He's been told to let Black catch up with him in a crowded place, 
> shout "Lily and James, how could you?" and kill Black. Little 
> Peter, the hero, Order of Merlin, first class.  But he guesses the 
> real plan will be for someone to make it look like Black killed 
> *him*. Peter foils the plan by cutting off his finger (he could have 
> done that *before* he let Black catch up with him) and 
> transforming into a rat. The curse which was intended to destroy 
> him misses and disposes of twelve unfortunate Muggles 
> instead.

I have a big timing problem with this. I may be misunderstanding you, but y=
ou do mean 
that Peter narrowly escaped some explosion curse by transforming into a rat=
, right? Well, 
wouldn't that be very difficult for him to do at the exactly right time? Un=
less the person 
who cast the curse shouted at him before he cast it, which doesn't seem ver=
y probable, 
Peter could just as well have turned into a rat too soon or too late, and t=
hat would have 
spoiled everything. Please explain. :)

Eva, who is kind of amused by the thought of Peter triumphantly transformin=
g into a rat 
("ha ha!") to escape an explosion that never comes ("
huh?")