Pettigrew, Snape, and the Unbreakable Vow

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 135131

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> Azriona wrote:
> ><snip> 
> > 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). <snip>
> > 
> >
> 
> Carol said:
> I'm not a Peter person, so forgive me if I have trouble saying
> anything good about him. 


Azriona responds:
I forgive you.



> <snip> There are probably other things he knows, but I can't think 
of any
> more clear-cut examples and these surely suffice to show what kind 
of
> man Wormtail is. 


Actually, I disagree.  If you looked at the facts surrounding Tom 
Riddle or Draco - or even Snape - you'd realize the same thing about 
them: they did some pretty awful things.  However, the difference 
between their actions and Peter's is that we have motivation for 
them, the things that caused them to do what they did.  We have no 
such motivation for Peter, and thus I believe that most of the fandom 
believes that he did these things without any sort of reasoning 
behind them; in short, because he was just evil and rotten to the 
core.

No one is born evil, not even in JKR's world.  They can be 
predisposed to it (such as Tom Riddle), but they don't pop out of the 
womb like that. 

Did Peter do some horrible things?  Yes, of course.  But so did 
Dumbledore.  So did Sirius.  So did Snape, and Draco, and Riddle.  I 
don't believe you can condemn any of them until you know why they did 
it.  Then condemn, or punish, as necessary.  But blind punishments or 
condemnation just because of things you have largely received from 
hearsay is not just.

But I'm not talking about what Snape knows about Peter.  I intended 
this discussion to be about what Peter knows about Snape - which I 
think is far more applicable to whether or not Peter would actually 
condemn Snape for turning his back on Dumbledore, and thus bring 
about his own redemption based upon Snape's downfall.  I don't want 
to argue about whether or not Peter is sympathetic or not - been 
there, done that, and neither of us are going to change the mind of 
the other.

Peter, truth be told, may in fact know a lot more about Snape than we 
do, particularly as the two have been living together for an 
undisclosed amount of time.  But what I'm not certain of is whether 
or not Peter knows Snape's true alliance (not that we know that, 
either, for that matter).  If Peter believes Snape to be loyal to 
Voldy - why would he condemn him for killing Voldy's enemy?  And if 
Peter believes Snape to be loyal to DD - what would he think of that 
man's murder?

--azriona