Unfortunate!Peter

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118364


Kneasy wrote:
> > <snipped by Magda> Add to this the fact that at the Shrieking
Shack it took two wizards wielding  two wands simultaneously to switch
him back to human form and I begin to suspect that Peter has been
spelled. He might not even be in animagus form at all, he could have
been transfigured.
> > 
> 
Magda responded: 
> Entertaining post, Kneasy.  I just take issue with this one point. 
> Remus and Sirius don't de-animagus Peter together because it takes
> two wizards to overcome the spell but rather as a sign of their
> renewed friendship.  "Together?"  "I think so..."
> 
> Sirius certainly didn't assume that he needed another person to help
> him because he hadn't made any arrangements for another wizard to be
> there.  And the decision for both to do it happened very late in the
> proceedings.  


Carol notes:
FWIW, he didn't even have a wand to begin with, so he couldn't have
turned Peter back into a man before him, nor would he have had any
reason to, since he didn't expect to have witnesses. He was prepared
to dispatch Scabbers with a twelve-inch knife--and presumably take the
consequences. (Wonder if dead!Scabbers would have been magically
transformed into a bloody human corpse. Ugh.)

I'm not sure how this relates to the idea that it takes both Lupin and
Black to transform Scabbers into Pettigrew. I rather thank that Magda
is right that Lupin was merely showing his loyalty to Sirius by
performing the spell along with him, just as he did when they were
going to kill Pettigrew together. (I still can't reconcile that idea
of loyalty and friendship being more important than the consequences
of their actions with what we think we know of Lupin's character, but
that's an old thread that I don't have time to go back to now.)

Carol, who has no doubt that Pettigrew is a real animagus and the
traitor who revealed the names of the old Order members to the DEs,
who "picked them off one by one"