[HPforGrownups] Re: Peter Pettigrew - Questions and Commentary

[Trevor]

No: HPFGUIDX 101616

Cheryl H wrote:

I don't think that Sirius knew that Pettigrew was alive until he saw him on 
the front page of the paper when the Weasleys went to Egypt. A visitor gave 
Sirius the paper, remember? And right after that he escaped. Surely he could
have 
escaped as a dog before this, but this gave him the motivation to do it. He 
was heard to say in his sleep in Azkaban, "He's at Hogwarts, he's at
Hogwarts." 


Thus the photograph in the paper is the conflict that give POA it's entire 
plot.

Trevor responds:

I think the newspaper simply give Sirius the location of Pettigrew, notice
he is not muttering "he's alive at Hogwarts."  I think Sirius believed
Pettigrew was alive but hopeless as to finding him until he saw the paper
which also revealed that Pettigrew had access to Harry.

 

Trevor




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