Lupin, (him only, really)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117919


 > Pippin:
> > If Remus is also called Wormtail, then JKR has not lied, 
she's   hidden behind a double meaning. She is, after all, the 
person  who had Dobby explain that  telling Harry the diary  plot 
didn't  have anything to do with "He Who Must Not Be Named" 
was  supposed to be a clue. <<

Nora:
> I'm still getting hung up on one thing.  So far, I don't think
you've 
 given a deeply compelling reason for why Remus Lupin, Moony, 
 werewolf, would be called Wormtail, and dealt with the 
canonical  existence of the actual Wormtail.  It doesn't make 
sense unless it's  highly artifical and deliberate obfuscation on 
the part of  Voldemort.  <

Pippin:

Well, of course it is! 

Remember that Star Trek movie where Captain Kirk had Uhura 
send a message to Headquarters in a code he knew the enemy 
had broken? Like Kirk, Voldemort uses a code  word that the 
enemy will recognize, for the enemy is listening:

"And I answer myself, perhaps they believed that a still-greater 
power could exist, one that could vanquish even Lord 
Voldemort...perhaps they now pay allegiance to another ... 
perhaps that champion of commoners, of Mudbloods and 
Muggles, Albus Dumbledore?" --GoF ch 33

Pettigrew appears unmasked before the assembled Death 
Eaters -- why, if not to convince everyone beyond a shadow of 
doubt that Wormtail the spy, the person Sirius overheard the 
DE's in Azkaban denounce as their betrayer, was indeed 
Pettigrew? 

Trouble is, I don't think he was.

"In the old days he had huge numbers at his command; witches 
and wizards he'd bullied or bewitched into serving him, his 
faithful Death Eaters, a great variety of Dark creatures." --Sirius, 
OOP ch 5

Everything we see of Pettigrew puts him in the first category, but 
everything that we're told about the spy puts him in the second 
(or the third).  The spy was supposedly Voldemort's second in 
command and  he was active for an entire year.  Yet Peter's 
health collapsed  before Sirius or Crookshanks ever got near 
him.  How could he possibly have served two masters, one of 
them in  a position of great authority,  for such a long time, 
without ever showing the strain? His animagus form would be a 
chameleon! 

Moreover, if what Fudge tells us is true, and Black's exposure as 
a double agent seemed to have been timed for the moment of 
the Potters' deaths, then the frame was planned in advance.  The 
purpose of that would be so that the real spy could continue 
spying. The war would not have come to an end with Harry's 
death. There was still another prophecy child and Albus 
Dumbledore to deal with. It makes sense that Voldemort would 
try to preserve his spy by framing someone else.


 But Voldemort could hardly be sure that Sirius would not 
maintain his innocence and denounce Pettigrew as the secret 
keeper.  That would make Pettigrew's position impossible, 
especially if his success depended on his being completely 
unsuspected.  And if Pettigrew was supposed to fake his death 
to avoid this, he still  wouldn't have been able to continue spying, 
so what was the point of framing Sirius? None -- unless 
Pettigrew was not the spy!

Pippin