Remus is the worst (Peter's motivation)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 99507

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at a...> 
wrote:

xani:
> > I too am fascinated by Peter and the choices he made.  Is he 
really 
> > Evil, or just weak?  I would like to think that he had to make a 
> > terrible choice to try to save someone, but there is evidence 
> > against it. In the Shack, Peter defends his actions by saying 
that 
> Voldemort was going to kill him only.  It would have made for a 
much 
> more tragic and complex scene if Peter had told Sirius that he had 
to 
> do what he did because the DE's had his mother, sibling, child.  

Geoff:
But he couldn't because he hasn't got family.

'"And Black standing there laughing with what was left of Pettigrew 
in front of him..... a heap of blood-stained robes and a few - a few 
fragments -"
Fudge's voice stopped abruptly. There was the sound of five noses 
being blown.
"Well, there you have it, Rosmerta," said Fudge thickly. "Black was 
taken away by twenty members of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol 
and Pettigrew received the Order of Merlin, First Class, which I 
think was some comfort to his poor mother."'

(POA "The Marauders' Map p.155 UK edition)

>From which we deduce that PP was a bachelor - or possibly a widower.