Pettigrew and the DEs

[ravenclaw001]

No: HPFGUIDX 128024


Although what we've seen of Peter Pettigrew isn't very likeable, I do 
have to wonder just how he came to join the DEs.  He doesn't look to 
me like the sort of person who'd have the stones to go look them up 
and say "Hi!  I want to join up!"  If for no other reason, he'd 
probably know perfectly well that most DEs would probably blast him 
into his component atoms on sight---and AFAIK there aren't and never 
were such things as DE recruiting booths.  

I rather lean toward the theory that Pettigrew was captured and 
broken, possibly by the Big V his own bad self.  We, on here, tend to 
sneer at this, but I wonder just how ballsy any of us would be, away 
from our nice safe Muggle-world computer rooms, in some windowless 
basement with Lord Thingy showing us how many ways there are to hurt 
someone.  

*Suppressing a scene in my mind, of Lord V meeting his match in Sam 
Kinison:  "Your _Cruciatus_ doesn't scare ME---I was married for FIVE 
FREAKIN' YEARS!"*

As for how he was captured---wouldn't it be a hoot if his _mother_ 
was a DE, and set him up?  I mean, that level of betrayal alone would 
break a lot of people, and it would make the deal where his mum 
received his posthumous Order of Merlin and his finger more ironic.  
It would also be a change from the cliche where the Evil Mastermind 
sics a beautiful _femme fatale_ on the poor schmo who he's ID'd as 
the Weak Link In The Chain.  

"Mommm!  I knew you were mad about the wire hangers, but _this is a 
little bit too much!_"

I wonder how Harry would feel if he found out that Pettigrew had been 
betrayed to torture and mind-rape by his own mum?