Where is Pettigrew?

[Alison]

No: HPFGUIDX 91773


In re-reading PoA (for which my excuse - this time - is that I am fixing the
real story firmly in my mind in order to avoid any possible movie
contamination) a particular passage made me stop and think.

"You haven't been hiding from *me* for twelve years," said Black. "You've
been hiding from Voldemort's old supporters.  I heard things in Azkaban,
Peter ... they all think you're dead, or you'd have to answer to them ...
I've heard them screaming all sorts of things in their sleep.  Sounds like
they think the double-crosser double-crossed them.  Voldemort went to the
Potters' on your information ... and Voldemort met his downfall there." 

[Chapter 19 - The Servant of Lord Voldemort.   p.270 of the UK adult
edition.]

So DID the double-crosser double-cross his Master?  Did he send him to the
Potters' *knowing* that when he got there he'd be facing something that
might just be powerful enough to finish him off?  What did he know?

"A flash of blue-white light erupted from both wands; for a moment, Scabbers
was frozen in mid-air, his small black form twisting madly..."

In books 6 and 7 Peter might well twist and turn as madly as a man as he
ever did as a rat.  Now that he owes his life to Harry he has an extra
motivation for turning on Voldemort.  If he knowingly betrayed him once
before it would make it even more credible that he could do it again if it
seemed to him that he might be able to squirm out of his Master's grip.  

Alison