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

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 115585


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

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> But this Agent!Peter thingy - I  wouldn't go  so far as to 
> postulate that the Rat is more than an Agent of Influence, not 
> unless I find more canon. There's somebody close to Voldy who DD 
> hopes has a divergence of motivations - no more than that. And that 
> could be very useful indeed.

You know, *that* I can understand.  DD had nothing with Peter 
escaping, etc., but he hopes/whatever that Peter will, umm, see the 
light--and he knows that Peter owes Harry a Big One.  I'd put it at 
the level of 'DD hoping that Peter will end up doing something 
significant for Harry, but not pinning anything on it'.

I do see a redemption plot in Peter's future, because he's fallen so 
far.

> Maybe it's already showing - Peter does seem to be the only DE that 
> offers even tentative opposition to Voldy's ideas.

That was really pre-resurrection though, right?  Now that Voldie is 
reincarnated and suffering from some sort of near-permanent PMS, I 
don't see Wormtail getting nearly as uppity.  It was telling that he 
was trying to argue at least a little during book 4, though.

> GH and it's aftermath will continue to be a frustrating, murky 
> episode I think. And the  fact that JKR has kept it that way for 5 
> books leads this paranoid conspiracy theorist to hope, nay, expect 
> that JKR will pull a fairly substantial rabbit out of the hat  when 
> all is finally revealed.

One can hope.  I'd hate for you to be disappointed...TOO much, dear 
Kneasy. :)  But she has to have had exactly what happened there 
planned out, as too much depends on it.  There are cases where I 
don't think she worked out all the details of timing/etc., and cases 
where she did, and I sure hope GH is one of the latter.

-Nora sits in the spotlight (no, literally!)