Nel Question # 6. Peter Pettigrew

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 128056


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
 Alla:
> 
> I am afraid I agree with Potioncat. 

phoenixgod2000: Thats all right, we're still friends :)

>Peter does not say - he( Voldemort) made me do it, etc,etc, etc....
> 
> He says instead:
> 
> "He - he was taking over everywhere!" gasped Pettigrew. "Wh- what 
> was there to be gained by refusing him?" - PoA, p.374, paperback.

he also says "what could I have done? The dark lord...you have no 
idea...he has weapons you can't imagine...<snip>I never meant it to 
happen..."

I see what your saying but to me, this part reads true and it sounds 
like he was at the wrong end of the dark lords wand for a while.
  
> Alla:
> 
> Oh, I agree that Peter owed his loyalty to Potters and others as 
> fellow members of the resistance, no question in my mind. What I 
was 
> getting at, I guess, was more personal level of loyalty? In 
> particular, the dismissive attitude of James and Sirius in the 
> pensieve scene.

That just sounded like friends guy mocking to me. My friends and I 
still do it to each other all the time. You should hear some of the 
things we call each other. anyone who didn't know us would think that 
we hated each other, but I've known each one of them for about 
fifteen years. I saw that scene much more innocently than a lot of 
other people, I guess.
 
> Phoenixgod: 
> see, I actually have more sympathy for Peter than I do for, say, 
> Snape or Draco, because of my (somewhat supported) fanwank that 
> Peter was broken by Voldemort and twisted into becoming a death 
> eater.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Oh, please don't get me wrong. IF we will learn that Peter was 
> tortured and /or he joined under threat of violence to his family, 
> he will definitely become more sympathetic character for me. Since 
> we don't know for sure, it is VERY hard for me to sympathize with 
> the character who directly contributed to making Harry and orphan. 
> 
> I was very surprised by you mentioning Draco here. Had I ever even 
> hinted at sympathising  with him? :-)

I wasn't talking about you specifically Alla, I know that whatever 
else we disagree on, we'll always have DD, Snape, and Draco :) I was 
just speaking that in general, PP inspires more sympathy in me than 
other dark characters that many of the people in the fandom find 
likeable--like Snape and Young Master Malfoy.

phoenixgod2000