Where is Pettigrew?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91836

> Jen: 
> Pettigrew is mysteriously absent. No character development, no 
> clues to his whereabouts...just gone.  Sirius mentioned him once, 
> commenting that his Padfoot disguise was useless after Pettigrew 
> leaked the information to LV. 
> 
> (As a side note, I find it interesting PP didn't leak this info to 
> LV during the first war when he was spying on the Order. Surely the 
> illegal animagi used their ability to thwart LV and this would be 
> valuable information to pass to LV.)

Carol:
I doubt that Peter revealed the illegal animagi to LV before the
Potters' murder because to do so would have revealed his own disguise
as well. I'm sure he had every intention of using that ability to get
away from LV and the Death Eaters if the situation ever got too hot to
handle--as it did when LV was vaporized. If the DEs had known then
that he could transform himself into a rat, they wouldn't have thought
he was dead. They'd have suspected a trick like the one he really pulled.

Jen: 
> <snip> I tend to think he left LV. He's such a little toady, but at the 
> same time his safety is the most important thing. Pettigrew's not 
> incompetent by any means and after all those years as a rat, he must 
> know places he can hide safely. He'll reappear, though. He has a 
> part in several unresolved story lines, esp. the night at Godric's 
> Hollow, the silver hand and the life-debt to Harry.

Carol:
I agree that both the life debt and the silver hand will play a role
later, probably together. The only scenario that occurs to my
impoverished imagination is Peter saving Harry from werewolf!Lupin by
being eaten himself, and killing Lupin in the process when the
werewolf swallows his silver hand. A bit too morbid for my taste, but
I'm sure that Pettigrew's fate and Lupin's are tied together and that
the silver hand is fated to kill the werewolf. Yes, I know Lupin is
immune to silver in human form (he drinks from a silver goblet in
OoP), but that doesn't mean it can't kill him when he's a werewolf. I
like Lupin, BTW, but I'm pretty sure he's one of the "favorite
characters" who are doomed to die.

Carol