Unfortunate!Peter

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 118243


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

> all of whom are outwardly suspected as the Rat-Scabbers?

Azriona:
No.  I don't think Snape knew, before the entire Shrieking Shack 
scene, that Sirius was innocent or that Peter was a DE, or the SK.  
If Snape *had* known, I think he would have told DD immediately, and 
DD would have long known that Peter wasn't dead.

Or (now that I think on it) maybe Snape did know that Peter was a DE -
 and going with my theory that Peter was actually a spy for DD as 
well - and Snape did tell DD, and DD did...nothing.  Because why 
would he?  He already knew that Peter was not only a DE, but he was 
also one of his Pet Spies.

("Here you go, good little spies who don't know about each other.  
Have a cookie, go bring down the Big Bad Guy.")

So even if Snape did know that Peter was a DE (which in all honesty, 
I still doubt), I don't think he would have known that he was a spy 
for Dumbledore, or vice versa. 

Snow:
> 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). 

Azriona:

No, you're right.  But I think that by removing the two boys from the 
actual playing field, it removed the protections that DD set up.  The 
events in the graveyard were not part of the Tournament; therefore, 
they were outside of whatever barriers DD had arranged to prevent 
death or dismemberment.

*

And while I'm here:

Aura:
> Maybe if he'd been sorted into Hufflepuff, he'd have found other 
> average friends and been a bigger fish in a smaller pond.

Azriona:
Maybe.  When the Marauders are split up between the Houses, Peter 
(with very few exceptions) goes to Hufflepuff - it's certainly the 
house other than Gryffindor that seems to fit him best.  But for all 
that, there was a *reason* that the Hat put him in Gryffindor with 
Remus and Sirius (because James had not been sorted by the time Peter 
took the stool).  Maybe because his loyalty to those two boys could 
not be questioned, or because his bravery was largely dependant upon 
them?  

Juli:
> So, DD knew Peter was alive and still he let Sirius
> spend 12 years in Azkaban? I don't think DD could be
> that cruel. If he knew Peter was alive wouldn't he ask
> some questions? He may have thought Sirius was the SK
> but still I would have some questions, like why would
> an inocent man spend 12 years as a rat? He may not
> have mentioned it but he must have thought he was
> dead.

Azriona:
Falling back on the Spy!Peter theory - DD knew that Peter was alive, 
and by outing him as the true culprit of the events at GH, he would 
have outed his second spy.  Snape had already been outed.  DD 
couldn't afford to lose another spy.  Why he chose to sacrifice 
Sirius on Peter's altar, I don't have a clue.  But obviously, Peter 
is much more important to DD than Sirius Black.


Juli:
> Then WHY would DD want LV to return?

Azriona:
Because if DD waits for Harry to grow up and become a man, the series 
will be longer than 7 books and JKR will go the way of Robert 
Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and no one really wants that.

--az