What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

[finwitch]

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> > Eggplant:
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> > The one thing Harry REALLY should regret is stopping Lupin and  
> > Sirius from killing Wormtail in book 3, the biggest mistake of his 
> > life.  
 
Mimbeltonia:

> Or was it? Wasn't Voldemort bound to show up some time anyway? The 
> prophecy has no "provided that" in it. And how about Wormtail being 
> in Harry's debt (as Dumbledore points out at the end of the book).
> Maybe this will be exactly what saves him in the end...

And, to add why it WAS good for Harry: After Harry interfered, Sirius
let go of his obsession for revenge; instead, as he realised, being
free - he offers Harry a home.

Result: Harry manages a thought Happy enough to keep the Dementors
away long enough for his other self to cast a Patronus. I very much
doubt Harry could have cast even the little mist with 'letter from
Hogwarts' he did against the boggart if he'd just watched Peter
Pettigrew die.

Too bad the rat escaped, but much worse if Harry had been KISSED,
wouldn't you say? And we don't know why Dumbledore figures that
Voldemort wouldn't want a servant in Harry Potter's debt... there IS
something yet to be played out, but for me, the way Harry managed to
drive out those Dementors was quite enough already.

Finwitch