[HPforGrownups] Peter Pettigrew, questions and commentary and another question

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 101599

Phil wrote:
>Maybe Sirius knew where Peter lived, and that was where he found him.

He certainly did know where Peter lived, because it was his finding Peter
absent from home that alerted him to the fact that something was seriously
wrong in the first place.

>No books here at work, so does anyone know if the location of the
>PP-blowup was ever actually stated?

>From memory, I think it was just in a Muggle street. It was certainly a
public place, not at Peter's house.

>More sinister in my opinion was the excessively quick arrival of
>Fudge, who IIRC was the first on the scene.

Interesting one, this. We are led to believe that the Sirius/Peter
confrontation took place fairly soon after Godric's Hollow, maybe even the
following day. I would theorise that that day was one which the various
anti-Voldemort forces spent rounding up as many of his followers as they
could. We don't know how many wizards were available to the Ministry and the
Order (and anyone else we haven't been told about) so it could well be that
Fudge and his team had been really busy all day. _Someone_, after all, would
have had to arrive at Godric's Hollow and mindwipe all those Muggles who
were attracted by the explosion at a house they'd never really noticed
before. No small task, depending on the numbers. Likewise, the Pettigrew
event was in front of a streetful, who the Ministry team interrogated as
well as mindwiping them. Once again, that's a considerable amount of time,
even using magical means.

Though (and this thought suddenly jumps into my mind) I wonder if it was
_Sirius_ who called them in - he located Peter and called Fudge to come in
and help arrest him, and that's why he was laughing when the Ministry took
him away instead?

No, hang on, it's Sirius we're talking about, the man who never told anyone
anything...

Cheers

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