DD and the rat (was:Re: Minerva McGonagall-/Dumbledore)

[frugalarugala]

No: HPFGUIDX 115566


> Carolyn:
> But why did Peter go back to Voldemort after he escaped from Sirius 
> and Lupin? If he was capable of making it to Albania, why didn't he 
> go bury himself someplace else, far away on another continent 
rather 
> than bring trouble on himself? He's supposed to be a coward? Why go 
> and help resurrect a noxious cloud of malignant vapour? Sure, he 
> might have anticipated someone might eventually come and hunt him 
> down, but not for a while? For the same reasons, why on earth did 
he 
> hang around with the Weasleys all those years? Or stay around at 
> Hogwarts after he realised that Sirius had escaped Azkaban? At no 
> point do we see him excited about following Voldemort in the way 
that 
> it thrills sick Bella, or envy the powergames it offers Lucius. 
 
Frugalarugala:

Not to even get into Peter's motivation--I just want more insight 
into his ratty little head--but... Anyone think he might owe Ron a 
life-debt, as well as Harry? Didn't Ron safe him from Cruckshanks? I 
mean, we've been hit over his life-debt to Harry and that Rowling 
chick is nothing is not sneaky, does anybody else smell a plot-twist?