Unfortunate!Peter

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No: HPFGUIDX 118242


Kneasy snipped:

I'm often accused of thinking the worst of everybody in the books.
Well, at least that way I never feel let down when somebody
'trustworthy' does the dirty. But just for a change I'm changing my
viewpoint. It's to fulfill a sort of promise I made a few days ago. 
I'm
arguing that somebody almost universally accepted as being ESE is on
the side of the angels.

Snow:
 
This post if nothing else is extremely thought provoking! At least to 
me. I am as intrigued by Peter as I was in post #102786 but more so 
from your latest subject points. In support of your theory I would 
like to add my own latest thoughts that were inspired as a result:

Does Snape know of Peter, Wormtail, the traitor, or the secret keeper

all of whom are outwardly suspected as the Rat-Scabbers?
 
Very power packed question isn't it, if you think about it? The 
incompetent, mostly ignored, dumbfounded Peter is supposedly four 
different portrayals of himself. He is Peter Pettigrew who was slain 
by Sirius, his so-called-friend in the most unique and unbelievable 
encounter and escaped, He was implied to be the traitor among the 
Order (which is a laugh and a post all in itself), He was supposedly 
made the secret keeper for the Potters, He lived twelve years as 
basically a sleeping (no worries) rat named Scabbers. Come on! For 
such an insignificant character that has extremely little page time 
other than these accusations or supposed portrayals, how can anyone 
not question his true involvement? I wouldn't even believe Sirius to 
have played all of these significant parts who has a background to 
support his capabilities of achieving such a goal. But Peter of all 
people to obtain even one of these roles is highly speculative, other 
than possibly the no worries, sleeping rat; Scabbers. 

I know all the `what about(s)', like the street scene with Sirius

ahem
DD! Wasn't Dumbledore already well aware of the horrific 
incident at Godric's Hollow?  Do you really think that he would not 
have had someone, himself, working out who actually was involved. Ok

then there is the fact of Cedric's death. Here lies the true test, 
did Wormtail kill Cedric. What if Cedric is not dead? Stay with me 
here. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous but when we learned of the 
tri-wizard tournament and why it was discontinued; we also learned 
that Dumbledore had put in place a protection against anyone becoming 
seriously injured (I believe this evidence can be found somewhere 
around the second task, no time to look it up right now but I will). 
Could this be why Harry was asked, and succeeded, in returning 
Cedric's body to Hogwarts? Sounds like a strange request when no one 
else in the wizarding world appears to acknowledge dead bodies. 

Lets get back to the `did Snape know' aspect and all that it 
inferred. JKR covered herself extremely well to this notion when 
Karkaroff noted that not all death-eaters knew one another
huge clue

you cannot connect the dots when this type of wrench is thrown in. 
Why did JKR purposely through in this wrench? The answer is still a 
question
might Snape have known who, who knows? This is reason to be 
speculative! 

JKR lays clues but they are clues that are so evasive, like the fact 
that not all the death-eaters knew each other, that only a mind that 
could create such a story could actually supersede her to the 
eventual ending.

Snow