Remus is the worst (Peter's motivation)

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 99520

> 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.

Mandy here:
His Mother isn't family?  

I know what you're driving at, and Peter most likely doesn't have a 
wife and kids, but his mum could have been threatened for all we know.

Cheers Mandy.