Harry & Pettigrew...A Wizard's Debt?

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No: HPFGUIDX 105212

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mayeaux45" <mayeaux45 at y...> 
wrote:
> Let me just say 'forgive me if someone has already posted this 
> before now'...Moving on then!  
> 
> With all this talk of who could the HBP be, it got me to thinking 
> about other 'soon to be important characters' in the end of the 
> series.  Have some of you forgotten about little Peter Pettigrew?  
> In ch.22 of PoA Dumbledore states that Harry did a very "noble" 
> (much like the noble Black family mentioned in OotP) thing saving 
> Pettigrew's life.  Dumbledore then went on to say: "Pettigrew owes 
> his life to you. You have sent Voldemort a deputy who is in your 
> debt....When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it "creates a 
> certain bond" between them.... "This is magic at its "deepest", 
> its "most impenetrable"..."  "Trust me...the time may come when 
you 
> will be very glad you saved Pettigrew's life."
> 
> My question is...how important will Pettigrew be in books 6 & 7?  
> How 'deep' and 'impenetrable' can this magic bond be?  Will Peter 
> Pettigrew come to his senses in time? Or will he be forced to act 
on 
> the behalf of Harry because of their 'bond'?  Something tells me 
we 
> haven't heard the last of little Peter Pettigrew.  He may have 
been 
> a whiney, scared, frumpy, idol-worshiping follower...but he wasn't 
> put in GRYFFINDOR for nothing!!!!
> 
> "mayeaux"
Sue:

I agree that Wormtail will do something before the end - perhaps not 
something noble, though. Perhaps the "worm" will turn on his master 
like Wormtongue on Saruman? Or perhaps he'll be another Gollum, 
doing something Harry can't do in the last minute, though not for 
noble reasons? After all, he didn't seem bothered about feeding 
Harry to LV in GoF. Well, who knows?

As for the Gryffindor membership, there are some pretty silly people 
in Gryffindor! ;-)