Wormtail (was The Sneak Mark)

[garybec]

No: HPFGUIDX 112847



 HunterGreen:
 Well, Wormtail was certainly ashamed of himself, and admitted he 
did  it out of fear, and not much else (other, than say, doing it 
because he believed that Voldemort had the right idea, and he WANTED 
the Potters killed). 

Becki responds;
POA, Chapter 19, begining with pg366, AM ED, Wormtail denies that he 
was the one responcible for James and Lily's deaths for almost 9 
pages of text before he finally fesses up at the very end of 374, 
and says "WH__what was there to be gained by refusing him?" (LV).

I could never believe that Wormtail was ashamed or had any remorse 
about turning DE.  IMO, he was saying those things to save his own 
(insert bodypart here), in a tense situation.  I would think he 
would say anything to convince Moony and Padfoot not to kill him.

Another thing, if he was so ashamed of himself, why in the world 
would he go out and purposely hunt down LV and bring him back?  He 
was fairly safe at that time.  All he had to do was to find another 
wizzarding family to adopt him.  He had to be use to that kind of 
life, living like that for the past 12 years.  It goes back to DD's 
talk about making *choices*.

Becki