Was Harry Draco and bathroom/Now Harry and Peter Pettigrew

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 162778

Kelly Whiteman (Bonnidune) wrote:
>
> In reading this thread I noted several people talking about the POA 
> scene where Harry did not want Lupin and Sirius to be murderers and 
> therefore saved PP's life. In those posts, people talk about Harry
not caring that PP would be turned over to the Dementors, and the
D-Kiss being the punishment for murder.
> 
> I don't have my copy of POA handy, but my recollection is that being 
> sent to Azkaban is the punishment for murder (as happened to
Sirius). The D-Kiss is for those who escape Azkaban (Sirius and Barty
Jr.).  (I'm not going to get into the issue of why they also went
after Harry).
> 
> My point here is that according to canon, Harry logically assumed
that PP would have been imprisoned for life, not D-Kissed. So,
although I think his concern for Sirius and Lupin not becoming
murderers was the motivation, I also think it's significant that he
knew he was also saving PP's life.

Carol responds:
I *do* have my copy of PoA handy, and it *does* show Harry
ready to turn PP over to the Dementors. Here's the quote as typed in
my post #162585:

"'Harry, this piece of vermin is the reason you have no parents,'
Black snarled. 'This cringing bit of filth would have seen you die
too, without turning a hair. You heard him. His own stinking skin
meant more to him than your whole family.'

''I know,' Harry panted. 'We'll take him up to the castle. . . . We'll
hand him over to the dememntors. . . .'" (PoA Am. ed. 375).

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/162585

That should, of course, be "We'll hand him over to the dementors."

However, you're right that he assumed that handing PP over to the
Dementors meant sending him back to Azkaban. He hadn't yet seen what
they would do to Barty Crouch Jr. I should have included the rest of
the quotation.

Carol, who had a hard time finding her own post because of that darned
typo!