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

[mayeaux45]

No: HPFGUIDX 105457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mayeaux45" <mayeaux45 at y...> 
wrote:
 
> 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"