Unfortunate!Peter

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 118206


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

<snip>

> "Ah," you'll say, "but he killed Cedric. He must be ESE"
> Did he? Read the passage again. The cloaked figure (Peter) is 
> carrying something in his arms (plural). It's only after Cedric 
> has  been killed that he puts down the bundle (Voldy) and lights 
> his wand. And he's scared, trembling so much he can hardly tie 
> knots in a rope. It's been proposed in the past that there was 
> someone else in that graveyard - the most common suspects being 
> Sirius, Lupin or Bagman. What is sure is that the passage does not 
> say that the AK came from Peter.

Goodness, I think I'm on endless repeat here (see note 116568), but I 
really think that this should come out every time this argument gets 
raised:

You're probably not going to take this as authoritative, Kneasy, but 
it's stated as fact in a JKR interview:

Rorujin: Did Wormtail used Voldemort's wand to kill Cedric? Is it why 
Cedric comes out of Voldemort's wand even though was Wormtail who 
killed him?

J.K. Rowling: Correct!

A straightforward question, a straightforward answer, a clarification 
for something that she thought wasn't particularly tricky, but 
realizes came off as such to some readers.

A link to the interview, for you skeptics:
http://www.acciofirebolt.com/books/jkr/interview_04march.php

There are many things that one can argue about, but I really don't 
think, in this case, it's worth arguing with the author about 
something that she's willing to answer directly as fact.  It would be 
somewhat like trying to maintain that MWPP were all in different 
houses, after having that authorially nuked.  Unless you're going to 
go Pippin's route and state that Lupin is actually Wormtail--that's 
the only route out of this one, the postulation of multiple 
Wormtails, or the dissociation of the Wormtail identity from Peter.  
First chapter of GoF pretty much nukes the latter, though.

Just something to take into consideration in the working out of this 
theory.  It's no fun postulating something that you've been told 
isn't going to work out, I generally find.

-Nora runs off to do some hard-core photocopying