Snape/Wormtail (Was: Vance + Peter)

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>>aussie
>>1/ Snape doesn't refer to any of the other Maraunders by their 
>>animagi name, but he calls Peter "Wormtail". 

Christina:
Everyone else does too, though.  That's one thing I've always thought 
odd--while the rest of the Marauders are referred to by their actual names, Peter is 
referred to as Wormtail.  This doesn't even just apply to the characters 
themselves, either; even in text he is called Wormtail.

How much Snape knows about "Wormtail" prior to LV's return is hard to figure 
out.  We know that LV likes to carefully divide his information among the DE's 
so that no one person knows the same as any other person.  Did Snape know the 
identity of Wormtail from LV's first reign?  Did he meet him in person, and 
know it was Peter?  Did LV just tell Snape that a man called Wormtail was 
responsible for getting him the information on the Potters location, and Snape 
deduced that Wormtail was actually Sirius?  When the map insults Snape, he doesn't 
unhinge--he is very calm and pointedly calls for Lupin.  He even says, "You 
think a joke shop could supply him with such a thing?  You don't think it more 
likely that he got it *directly from the manufacturers*?" (emphasis 
Snape's--PoA, Ch14)

>From "Snape's Worst Memory" in OotP, we can gather that the Marauders called 
each other by their nicknames pretty freely.  Maybe Snape recognized the names 
on the map from hearing the nicknames used during his schoolyears.

>>aussie
>>If Snape knew Peter was Wormtail all along, then he would have kept an eye 
on the >>Weasley's rat every since Percy brought Scabbers to Hogwarts

Even if he did know the real identity of Wormtail, I don't see how he'd know 
that he was masquerading as the Weasley family rat.

>>aussie
>>2/ When he found the Map on Harry, and saw the names including 
>>Wormtail, he immediately called Lupin to his office to explain the 
>>parchment.

Would the map have said Wormtail?  I don't think so; at the end of Chapter 17 
(PoA), Lupin says, "And then I saw another dot, moving fast toward you, 
labeled *Sirius Black*..."  This was even when Sirius was in his Animagus form.  So 
the map would have said "Peter Pettigrew," not "Wormtail."

Christina


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