Pettigrew, Snape, and the Unbreakable Vow: A thought experiment

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 134941

Okay, here is a scenario that has come to me.  I'm in no way arguing 
it will happen, it is only playing with themes.

What is the main theme around Peter Pettigrew?  What one quote sums 
up the big questions that lurk with regard to Wormtail.  I submit 
it's when he says that if he hadn't betrayed the Potters Voldemort 
would have killed him, and he is answered "Then you should have died, 
as we would have died for you."  In other words, the theme is trust.

What is the main theme with Snape?  Trust, once again.  And once 
again we are provided a situation in which, on the face of it, a man 
has to keep faith with his friends and die or break faith with his 
friends and live.  And Harry calling Snape a coward at the end of 
OOTP surely hit a nerve.  As someone has recently commented, the 
insults that hit home are the ones that, deep in our own hearts, we 
think are true.

We know Peter owes Harry.  We know Peter is working for Snape.  Will 
the theme of trust arise yet again?

A scene provided for your approval or contempt:  Snape, Harry, and 
Wormtail in confrontation.

HARRY:  How could you have done it?  HOW?

SNAPE:  If I had not killed Dumbledore, I would have died.

WORMTAIL:  Then you should have died, as he would have died for you.

And thus the fall of Snape is the redemption of Peter.

What think you?


Lupinlore