Ron's knowledge of the Pettigrew-Sirius encounter in 1981

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 93505

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hi_t22000" <hiteshl at v...> 
wrote:
> Referring to PoA (pages 159-160, Bloomsbury Paperback), Ron tells
> Harry that his father told him that Pettigrew's mother received only
> Peter's finger along with the Order of Merlin after his fatal
> encounter with Sirius. 
> 
> How did Ron know this? According to Ch 11 in PoA, Ron said this to
> Harry on the morning after the Trio overheard Mcgonagall & co in
> Hogsmeade. The matter of Pettigrew's finger didn't come up then. And
> Ron did not possibly talk to his father that night. And if he had
> known this from before, was Ron hiding from Harry the story of who
> caused the murder of the Potters?

Fudge said in The Three Broomsticks that the worst of Black's deeds 
wasn't publicly known or something to that effect. There are two 
crimes attributed to him, first, the betrayal of the Potters to 
Voldemort, second, killing thirteen people. Only the latter is public 
knowledge -- Stan knows about it, for example, but there is still 
nothing about it that connects it to the Potters.

So what Ron knows, there and then, is that the man who went up 
against Sirius Black was blasted to smithereens, with the cut-off 
finger the biggest part of him they ever found. But it doesn't follow 
that he knows anything about the betrayal of Harry's parents.

Alshain