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

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 115926


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
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> Carol:
> >This is a man who, after living as a rat for twelve years, can AK 
> an innocent boy without a second thought.<
> 
> Pippin:
> I don't object to Faith-based theories on principle, but they, too, 
> should simplify rather than complicate the canon. Peter killed 
> Cedric? You'll have to explain to me how it was simple for Peter 
> to put aside the bundle in his arms and get his wand out before 
> Cedric could stop him.
> 
> Cedric had his wand out already.  He'd just seen Harry collapse 
> at his side. We are reminded in OOP that Cedric was a 
> world-class champion adult wizard who knew quite as much 
> about duelling as Harry, so this is not one of those minor 
> inconsistencies that JKR lets by. This is something we are to 
> take note of, a clue slipped into an innocent chapter.   Somehow 
> Cedric let Wormtail get the drop on him without so much as an 
> "Expelliarmus".  Wormtail, who was always hopeless at duelling. 
> Something's not right.

It may come off as screwy to us, but I don't think it's meant to be 
deeply screwy by JKR, as she has no qualms about answering that 
question straight out, at the World Book Day chat:

Rorujin: Did Wormtail used Voldemort's wand to kill Cedric? Is it why 
Cedric comes out of Voldemort's wand even though was Wormtail who 
killed him?
JK Rowling replies -> Correct!

Of course, if you want to argue for multiple Wormtails, go right 
ahead... :)  But it's far simpler (and Faith-based) to assume one 
Wormtail, the one we know of, and he kills Cedric, end stop.

-Nora notes that Faith sure is becoming popular again these days