Two Wormtails was Re: Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 118343


Neri:
> Pippin actually suggests that JKR has arranged for Lupin to be 
also  called Wormtail, only in order to cover the off chance that a 
fan  will ask her in a chat "did Wormtail kill Cedric?" and she will 
be  able to answer him "correct!" 
> 
> And what would have happened if this fan had asked her "did 
Peter  kill Cedric" or "did Pettigrew kill Cedric"? Did she also 
prepare> some backstory to cover these possibilities?
> 
> Or perhaps the fan who asked this question was JKR's 
agent?! 
> 
> Looks like the conspiracy theories start leaking from the plot 
into  RW.<

Pippin:

Yikes! Of course she picks which chat questions she'll answer. 
Otherwise anybody could have sent a message to ten thousand 
screens asking her how it feels to be leading thousands of 
innocent children into the arms of Satan, or some such 
nonsense.

The theory is that Voldemort used the code name Wormtail  for 
his spy Lupin in Voldemort War One, in order to taunt  James 
and mislead Dumbledore. It is doubtful that any of Voldemort's 
agents, including Snape, knew who this "Wormtail" really was. 
If Snape was  quite sure that it couldn't have been the 
real Wormtail (Peter), it would explain why he refused to listen in 
PoA.

That Sirius made  Peter the secret-keeper and Voldemort found 
out about it would be of course an incredible stroke of luck for 
Voldie, but planned as part of the plot by JKR from the beginning.  
I can hardly  believe  that JKR, a human rights activist, would like 
us to think in the end that a confession extracted under threat of 
force is wholly credible.  Peter betrayed the secret, but is there, 
aside from that confession,  a shred of evidence that he was the 
spy?  

At the rebirthing party, Voldemort has Peter appear unmasked 
and calls him Wormtail before all the assembled (Snape is 
conveniently absent) just to make sure everybody knows that 
Peter Pettigrew is the one and only Wormtail. And he proceeds to 
tell them how Wormtail, with a presence of mind that Voldemort 
could hardly have expected of him,  brought him Bertha Jorkins. I 
fancy it was the other Wormtail that did that. Probably Lupin saw 
Bertha, realized she would be useful, and made Peter lure her 
out into the woods "on a night-time stroll."  Hmmm, I wonder if it 
was full moon?

Pippin