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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998" 
<eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
But what the idiot Ministry thinks or does not think is 
> not the important point; 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.<

Pippin:

What about the second prophecy? "It will happen tonight [...] the 
servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master."  One of 
the marks of a real prophecy is that you  can't prevent it from 
coming true by killing one of the actors in it -- ask Oedipus.

 If JKR wants us to believe that the prophecy is real, she is 
eventually going to have to show us that killing Pettigrew that 
night would have unchained another of Voldemort's servants and  
would not have delayed his return one bit.

Pippin