Scabbers at Grimmauld Place? (wasThe other 'interesting' answer)

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 114976


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "garybec" <garybec101 at c...> 
wrote:
> 
>    Entropy :
>  
> (OOP, Ch4):  "...and age-blackened portraits hung crooked on the
> walls.  Harry heard something scuttling behind the baseboard.  Both
> the chandelier and the candelabra on a rickety table nearby were
> shaped like serpents."
> 
> Perhaps Peter's been scuttling behind the baseboards at Grimmauld
> Place! Now that would be interesting!
> 
> 
> 
> Heather:
> 
> I agree with this theory and here is why...
> The boxed version of the book has the alternate cover.  Those of 
you 
> who have it know it shows #12.  In the to the left of the flaming 
> note is 'scabbers' in the grass.  Knowing the control JK has I 
can't 
> see how this could be an accident or MGP's own idea.
> 
> Becki here;
> 
> But Grimmauld Place is protected by the Fidelius Charm.  You need 
> the Secret Keepers directions to find it's location.  How would 
> scabbers know where it was and furthermore, that it actually 
exists?
> 
> I myself do not find it odd that Scabbers is MIA.  He is suppose 
to 
> be dead, right?  If Voldy is keeping a low profile, so should 
> Scabbers.  If he is discovered, then Sirius is proven innocent of 
> his crime.  Even Voldy says in his graveyard speech that he could 
> not use Wormtails body because he is suppose to be dead.  If he is 
> kept underground, better ammunition for Voldy.  I am curious what 
> will happen, or what part Wormtail will play now that Voldy is 
> outed.  There is still no proof that he is still alive other than 
> Harry's account of the Graveyard, and the kids in the Shrieking 
> Shack.  Perhaps the WW will believe him about Wormtail since he 
was 
> proven to be telling the truth about Voldy.
> 
> Becki ( who thinks that the Wormtail question was the boring 
answer 
> one.)

Hannah: I don't believe Wormtail is dead, since remember DD's 
whole 'one day you may be very grateful you saved Peter' bit at the 
end of PoA.  He's in Harry's debt for his life.  Surely something is 
going to be made of this in book 6/7?  JKR says in her world book 
day chat that we'll find out more about him, including where he's 
been in book 6.  Or maybe it's just a red herring, and DD is trying 
to make Harry feel better. 

I don't see how he could be at Grimmauld Place because of the secret 
keeper thing.  I got the impression it wasn't used as HQ for the 
Order in the first war.  But what would happen if Peter had visited 
Sirius there while they were school friends, before Sirius ran 
away?  Does the fidelius charm work on people who knew the hidden 
location before it was hidden?  DD wouldn't have overlooked 
something so major - would he?  Another thing; if LV knew the 
whereabouts of HQ even if he couldn't get into the house, couldn't 
he just send DE's to lurk in the vicinity ready to grab people 
coming out? That's always bothered me about the fidelius charm thing.

Hannah