The intended murder of Pettigrew and moral corruption (Was; Vengeance on Sna

[hogsheadbarmaid]

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> Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> >if they had killed Peter, Sirius would
> >never have any proof that he was  innocent. 

Eggplant replied:
> <snip> without Peter's help Voldemort would never have been able
> to rise again and he would have remained an insubstantial specter,
> a danger only to rats and snakes in the forests of Albania. This 
> is why stopping Sirius and Lupin from killing Wormtail was the
> biggest mistake in Harry's entire life.


Now barmaid:

While it is my first inclination to agree that a dead Peter at this 
point in the story could have *prevented* a Voldy-back-in-a-body from 
happening -- this really is a flawed way of thinking.  All a dead 
Peter in the Shrieking Shack would do is change something about how 
Voldy gets a body.  Always dangerous to think that if you (or anyone) 
had just done one thing different the world would be good and safe 
and happy today.  

Of course, I still do this kind of thinking myself all the time.  But 
*really*, predicting alternate futures is a very inexact science at 
best.

     --barmaid