Peter/Creevey parallels (was DD and the rat)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 118715

--- carolynwhite2 <carolynwhite2 at aol.com> wrote:

> The way the Creevey [read 'creepy'] brothers behave towards Harry
> is very similar to Peter's abject sycophancy with James. Harry so 
> far has not been quite so nasty to them as the rest of MWPP were
> towards Peter, but he seems fairly tempted, and who can blame him? 
> They are extremely irritating.


The relationship (if we can call it that; it seems more like a
sporadic distant acquaintance) between pre-OOTP Colin Creevey and
Harry might be a good starting point to understand the relationship
between Peter and James.

When Harry first meets Colin he finds him an irritating little
shutterbug who has no idea how annoying he is with his constant "All
right, Harry?" and his popping up everywhere Harry goes.  Harry would
be well within his rights to tell Colin where to stick his camera but
he never does, preferring to duck and run when he can and to suck it
up stoically when he can't.  Harry is just basically too nice a guy
to tell Colin to get lost.

I can see Peter treating James the same way when they were first
years, and having even more scope for his adulation by being
dormmates with him.  I think James had pretty much the same reaction
Harry did: he found it annoying but also amusing, and he might have
thought that befriending Peter would help him get over this
hero-worship faster.  I can also see an 11-year-old Sirius being far
less reticent in his own treatment of Peter, and it's probable that
James found himself shielding Peter to some extent.

By the time the Pensieve incident took place, James had got to the
point of simply not really seeing Peter's adulation anymore.  It had
just become part of the background noise for him.  Of course, to
other people not close to the foursome, Peter's attitude would seem
quite over the top - which is how Harry saw it when he looked into
the Pensieve.

I think James pretty much had his head screwed on straight - he
didn't take Peter's hero-worship seriously, and his friends knew it. 
As for what other people thought - who cared?  Until Lily Evans, that
is.

Magda

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