the Graveyard, life-debt unpaid (Lord of the Rings Spoiler)

[M. Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 142203



justcarol wrote:  "Not redemption. He (Wormtail)'s just too unrepentant and too self-preserving to deserve redemption, not to mention the staggering number of deaths and other crimes that can be directly attributed to him (in contrast to Snape). But the life debt will be important and the silver hand is emphasized in the (extremely unflattering) description of him in "Spinner's End." He literally "gave his right hand" for the Dark Lord (a cruel play on words that Voldemort actually makes before PP can possibly understand it) and he seems to treasure it (rather like Gollum's "Precious"). He has also sworn eternal gratitude and loyalty in return for it (graveyard scene, GoF), which clashes rather dramatically with that life debt."   <SNIP> 

 

 

CH3ed: I think Wormtail will repay Harry in a big way (voluntarily or NOT) in Book 7, but I think it will have more to do with the demise of LV rather than Grayback. I think the gleam of triumph in DD's eyes came right after he heard that Wormtail pierced Harry's arm to draw blood to resurrect LV. So there must be something significant in that the person who owes Harry his life gave life back to LV. 

 

Carol pointed to a lot of things that sound so similar to Lord of the Rings story which I do find intriguing (tho a part of my brain insists that JKR doesn't model her story after other tales)... Wormtail is quite similar to Wormtongue (whose life Gandalf spared when he convinced the Kind of Rohan to allow to go back to Saruman (who was by then known as the White Hand). Frodo also spared Wormtongue's life at Bags' End, and it was Saruman's own words that caused Wormtongue to snapped and killed him. 

 

CH3ed...who is wondering how PP got sorted into Gryffindor and not Slytherin?