The intended murder of Pettigrew

[Kelsey Dangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 116532


> catkind:  
> How about: Lupin in this scene slipped through the lines of print to 
> join Sirius in an entirely different and more primitive genre of 
> fiction.  
>
> Think LotR.  Think Alexandre Dumas. This rat has betrayed our friend, 
> causing his death. He has to die! In either of those settings it would 
> seem perfectly normal.  
>
> Harry then heroically drags his father's friends back up into Boarding-
> School-Story land.

> Renee: 
> No, don't think LotR, please.
<quote> 
> Frodo: "What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature 
> [Gollum], when he had a chance."
> Gandalf: "Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: 
> not a strike without need. (...) Many that live deserve death. And 
> some that die deserve life. Can you give it to him?"</unquote>
> It seems to me LotR and Harry Potter very much belong in the same 
> camp.


KELSEY: Oh, are we going to start drawing parallels between HP and LOTR 
while concerning “wormy” traitors?

Goody!

Because ever since I finished reading LOTR, I’ve gotten a stinking suspicion that Wormtail is going to pull a Wormtongue at the end of HP.

Wormtongue was spared a grisly, vengeful death by merciful Aragon/Strider/Gondor-King, just as Wormtail was spared a vengeful death by merciful Harry/boy-hero. Well, let’s just say, it paid off in spades at the 
end of ROTK (think Vader tossing Emperor into a pit, those bad guys really shouldn’t turn their backs on their right-hand men). Which, of course, is 
the REWARD for being a good hero, a merciful hero.

Opps, sorry, was that a Star Wars parallel.

Kelsey, who loves parallels.