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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 93340

e:
>  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). <<

But the Marauders *failed* . They did not unite the Houses 
against Voldemort, but instead formed a tight little clique of their 
own.  IMO,  each of them failed in the very quality they were 
chosen for. Peter switched his loyalties from James to 
Voldemort,  Sirius misused his Slytherin-like cunning and 
disregard for rules, first in childish pranks and then in the 
misguided secret-keeper switch. Lupin applied  his 
Ravenclaw-ish thirst for knowledge to selfish ends: "I had led 
three fellow students into becoming Animagi illegally ."  James, 
we know, eventually developed the moral courage of a true 
Gryffindor, but it seems to have come too late.

Pippin