The intended murder of Pettigrew and moral corruption (Was; Vengeance on Sna

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116990


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" 
<bob.oliver at c...> wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm not Alla but I think I can answer this one.  Remember, 
> Peter was supposed to have been blasted into small pieces 
twelve  years ago.  The appearance of a freshly dead and intact 
body would  have gone a long way to showing that there story 
had merit.<

Pippin:
Would it? Harry showed up with the freshly dead and intact body 
of Cedric Diggory, and the ministry still believed he was lying, 
even though Dumbledore backed him up and Diggory's parents 
believed him. Would Mama Pettigrew, assuming she's still with 
us, be content to have her son denounced as a traitor? 

Dumbledore might have been convinced, but we've already seen 
one dead body mistaken for another (Crouch Jr for Mrs. Barty Sr.) 
There's a good chance the ministry would have thought the 
corpse a phony created by Dark Magic and had Sirius kissed on 
the spot, as had already been ordained. Lupin would have been 
fortunate to escape the same fate.

Pippin