[HPforGrownups] Wormtail's Debt? (was: Re: And then there were none.)

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 93254

 Kneasy

> Go  further - suppose it has tried the same ploy before - with
> the Marauders. James (Gryffindor), Sirius (Slytherin), Remus
> (Ravenclaw), Peter (Hufflepuff).
>
K

Argh - this is one of those things that I can't understand and consequently
*really* irritates me! *Why* oh why do people always put Peter in
Hufflepuff - the main trait of Hufflepuff is supposed to be *loyalty* - this
is not exactly the first personality trait which springs to mind when
thinking about Peter (or even the 500th trait to come to mind for that
matter). For me Peter is much more about ambition, desire for
recognition/power, to *be* someone, to be known for something other than
being that kid who tagged along behind James and Sirius. Now much as I hate
to link Peter and Slytherin since I don't hold with the idea that all
Slytherins are evil ... he does seem to fit there much better. Sirius on the
other hand doesn't really seem to harbour much ambition - arrogance,
certainly, also vanity, but not really ambition. However he seems to me to
personify loyalty (to the extent that he tends to act on the emotion without
engaging his brain ... hmmm that last sounds like a description of most of
the gryffindor males we've met) - he is assumed by everyone to be the Secret
Keeper because everyone knows how close he is (how loyal he is) to his best
friend, he agrees to/originates the plan to swap with Peter so he would take
the risk and yet couldn't endanger James and family (and let's not get into
how good an idea that was since how good at planning he and James are is
irrelevant it's the intention here that's important), he escapes from
Azkaban after however many years it was - now presumably if he'd really
tried he could have done so before but it is the idea of Harry being in
danger that spurs him to do so, his outburst in the shack shows that he
certainly things that death would be a better option than betraying
someone,he even exhibits some degree of loyalty to his brother (at least he
seems somewhat sad at the fact that he died), and then there's his animagus
form, which could easily be said to be an indication of his inner self, a
dog is after all pretty much universally seen as a symbol of loyalty. Even
his utterly bloody minded insistence on hating Snape could be said to be a
sign of an overly zealous and twisted loyalty to his friends and house.


K