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

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 134989


> Lupinlore said:

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?
> 

I think it's a really excellent idea, particularly in that it brings 
Peter's store around full circle.  However, I think it also assumes a 
lot of Peter, particularly in that he must first understand that 
Snape was indebted to Dumbledore enough that he should have died for 
him (and that DD would, in turn, have died for Snape); and second, 
that he understands that sort of bond.

Granted, I'm a big Peter person.  I do believe he's going to be 
redeemed, and I think this would be an awesome way of doing it.  But 
I also think that Peter is not aware of the finer points of Snape's 
connection to Dumbledore, despite their living together (and we don't 
know how long that arrangement has been lasting).  

I suppose my question is how Peter would be worked up to the point 
that he *could* make such a statement to Snape, and have it make 
perfect sense that he would have figured out his own mistake years 
previously?

--azriona