What about the Door(that wasn't at the end of the tunnel)?

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 99645

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:
> (snip my original post) 
> > Carolyn: 
> > Yes, what was Wormtail up to whilst all this was going on. > 
> > Is little Wormtail strong/brave enough as a rat to lead a raving 
> > werewolf out through the tunnel alone?
> > If James knew the nature of the protection, and saw it had been 
> > removed, why did he not quickly reinstate it?
> > Why was the protection, if it existed, so easy to break? > 

> Ginger:  I doubt either of them would have thought about keeping 
> others from releasing him.  I think the protection was meant just 
to keep him from releasing himself.  
> 
Carolyn:
Ah, I have just realised the protection was not at the Shrieking 
Shack end of the tunnel - as Jo Ann points out up thread, it took the 
form of the Whomping Willow, I forgot that.

But Peter would still have been necessary to press the knot on the 
tree to allow James & Snape to back out safely. James must have taken 
him with him on the rescue mission. Odd that his presence has not 
been mentioned by anyone. Snape could be excused from seeing him 
because he's terrified, and a rat is small, and he doesn't know about 
the animagi.

If he did want to kill James & Snape, he seems to have bottled out on 
this occasion - or perhaps Sirius was there, keeping an eye on him.