TBAY: Anthem of the SWAK DEAD

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No: HPFGUIDX 132730

 
All quotes American editions.
 
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"I know you haven't."  said Professor McGonagall, half exasperated,  half 
admiring. "But you're different.  Everyone knows you're the only one  You-Know- 
oh, all right, Voldemort, was frightened of."
 
"You flatter me."  said Dumbledore calmly.  "Voldemort had powers  I will 
never have."
 
"Only because you're too ----- well, noble to use them."
 
PS/SS, p.11
 
" Avada Kedavra's a curse that needs a powerful bit of magic behind it  ---- 
you could all get your wands out now and point them at me and say the  words, 
and I doubt I'd get as much as a nosebleed."
 
Crouch!Moody, GOF Chapter 14, p.217
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The clouds were gathering ominously in Theory Bay as everyone battened down  
for the upcoming hurricane.  George was busy nailing boards over the  windows 
as everyone else ran in and out of his pub which had become a sort of  flea 
market, stocking up on the essentials: rope, nails, pop tarts, and drink  mixes, 
occasionally throwing gold and silver into a basket marked Please Be  Honest.
 
Kaylee and Juli walked down the beach towards their new ship.  They'd  just 
signed on with the SWAK DEAD, and there was still a lot of work to be done.  
This was certainly foolhardy with a hurricane days away, but Captain Amber was  
confident that the theory would be ironed out in time to weather the  storm.
 
The SWAK DEAD was formerly Lockhart's pleasure yacht, newly decorated in  
black draperies and miniature dementors.  (This might have been ominous if  it 
weren't for the lilac paint still everywhere and the basket of puffskeins,  
wiggling and purring happily in the lounge.)
 
When the crew was settled in black draped squashy armchairs, Captain Amber  
began.  "The theory.  All right.  I'd like to start with the  battle at the 
ministry in OOP.  Specifically, why five out of Harry's seven  accomplices are 
not dead.  Not injured. Not tortured.  Dead.  We  have a curse that supposedly 
kills in seconds.  I can understand why Harry  and Neville weren't killed, when 
the prophecy was at stake (we've seen what an  AK can do...the desk at the 
ministry, Godric's Hollow).  It might be just  the DE's playing with them ( I'm 
quite sure what took Hermione down was the  Entrail-Expelling Curse) but they 
don't seem to use it even in the battle with  the Order. Can they even cast 
it? Even Bellatrix?  Sirius is alive  when he falls through the veil.  Alive 
enough to be afraid and  shocked.
 
"There are only three people in canon so far whom we've seen use an AK:  
Crouch!Moody, who kills (gasp!) a spider, Voldemort, who is number two to  
Dumbledore as magical power goes, and Wormtail or Peter Pettigrew. (though I  know 
Pippin has her own ideas.) And the Aurors, who are among the most  powerful and 
highly trained wizards in Britain, are mentioned as being  authorized to use 
it. Which goes back to what Crouch!Moody says...it needs  powerful magic behind 
it.  Which means...we've been seriously  underestimating one Peter Pettigrew, 
I think."
 
"Pettigrew mastered the Animagus transformation at sixteen with the help of  
three other sixteen year olds.  He managed to brew Voldemort's rebirthing  
potion (who else would cut off their right hand without painkillers?  Would  
you?) He talks back to Voldemort. He bites the finger of a boy the size of  a 
Volkswagen. He manages to spy on the order and master Legimens Dumbledore  for at 
least a year. (which means he must be an Occlumens at least.)   Pettigrew 
might be morally bankrupt and lacking in self-determination, but he  has courage 
and magical power that we have not seen the other Death Eaters  demonstrate.  
And what leads us to dismiss him?  The "yes man"  attitude.  Mmmhmm.  What an 
act."
 
"So may I present the cult of Peter the bad a**.  The SWAK DEAD (So  Wormtail 
AK's, Demonstrating Energy And Dangerousness)
 
With thanks to Redhen's piece on Pettigrew:
_http://www.redhen-publications.com/Pettigrew.html_ 
(http://www.redhen-publications.com/Pettigrew.html) 
 
Amber
 
(Note from the First Mate: Here's to hoping this and all the other ships  
survive Hurricane Jo! ~Kaylee, off to stash supplies aboard the DRIBBLE SHADOWS  
as well...*salutes Cap'n SSSusan*)



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