Killing Pettigrew: Yea or Nay?

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 116216


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> Here's something else that bothers me. At the beginning of GoF, 
> Peter tries to persuade Voldebabe that he should be allowed to 
> go fetch another wizard, and Voldebabe  thinks this is a plan to 
> desert him. But that is very strange.
> 
> Voldebabe is very weak, so weak that he cannot survive in that 
> form more than a few hours without feeding. Surely all Wormtail 
> would have to do is wait, and within a few hours Voldebabe 
> would be too weak to hold a wand. What, or who, compels 
> Wormtail to stay?
> 
> Voldemort says later on in the graveyard that Wormtail returned 
> to him only out of fear of his old friends. Yet it seems Wormtail 
> thinks he could  have left, if only Voldemort gave him permission. 
> Why, if his old friends are hunting him...they wouldn't care if he 
> had Voldie's permission, right?
> 
> Pippin

Carolyn:
It's the persuasive part of Agent!Peter theory. Firstly he didn't 
have to hide with the Weasley's for 12 years; secondly he didn't have 
to go back to Voldie; thirdly he didn't have to help Voldie with his 
plans, especially the resurrection spell. So, why did he? He could 
have buggered off to deepest anywhere, and lived as a rat for a very 
long time before anyone tracked him down. We've no evidence that the 
DEs are an international gang, beyond Karkaroff's job at Durmstrang 
(which he may have got post-Vapor!Mort), and Sirius only came after 
Peter once he saw the photo in the Daily Prophet.

And for that matter, why did Peter allow himself to appear in the 
photo of the Weasley's on holiday? If he was trying to hide from 
everyone, particularly those that knew he was a rat, it was a pretty 
stupid thing to do, don't you think? Sounds as though it was a staged 
shot, with the Weasley family all grouped together, not a paparazzi 
shot using a telephoto lens - plenty of time for him to scarper into 
Ron's pocket, bag or down his trouser leg... 

If he's not smart enough to hide from a photographer, how come he was 
smart enough to spy for a year, beat Sirius at duelling and 
simultaneously blow up a street?

Instead, is Peter, in his weak, rat-like way gradually nerving 
himself to play another role - his part in Voldie's downfall? 


Carolyn