[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: Anthem of the SWAK DEAD

[fuzzlebub85 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 132752

fuzzlebub85 at a... wrote:
> 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... 
> He managed to brew Voldemort's rebirthing potion...  
> 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... 

> 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.   



Yes, but Voldemort himself calls him something like a "miserable  
wizard" or something else derisive during his speech to the DEs in  
GoF.  I think this is a bit of a goof - either AK isn't that hard to  
do, or Peter shouldn't be able to do it, or maybe he can only do it  
using LV's wand because LV has somehow given him a little extra 
boost to  do things like that.

- davenclaw
 
First Mate Kaylee here defending the ship once again...
 
Well, for one thing, since Tom Riddle is a liar (JKR said he was lying  about 
the "werewolf cubs" under Hagrid's bed, then obviously he framed Hagrid in  
the diary memory and so on) I believe Voldemort, his future self, to be quite a 
 good liar too. I wouldn't take much of ANYTHING Voldemort said at face 
value. It  seems to me that was just to keep Wormtail in his place, as well as 
being part  of Wormtail's cover among the DE's, so that no one realized how 
important or  powerful Wormtail really was (is). 
 
Back to the ship for me!
 
First Mate Kaylee Tonks-Lupin


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