Was Harry Draco and bathroom/Now Harry and Peter Pettigrew

[rklarreich]

No: HPFGUIDX 162806

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Kelly Whiteman (Bonnidune) wrote:
> >
> > 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. 
> [snip quote from PoA]
> 
> 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.

Roberta:

You seem to be saying that Harry and Pettigrew assumed Pettigrew 
would be sent to Azkaban, but in reality Pettigrew would have been 
kissed.  However, being handed over to the Dementors is not 
synonymous with being kissed.  Everyone who goes to Azkaban is handed 
over to the Dementors.  And as Kelly points out elsewhere in the post 
to which you were replying, the only people in canon so far who have 
either been kissed or been specifically condemned to be kissed are 
Sirius and Barty Crouch, Jr., both of whom are Azkaban escapees.  The 
kiss was probably decreed because both men have proved through their 
escape that sending them to Azkaban was not sufficient to protect the 
wizarding world from them.

We can't assume that Pettigrew, who has never been convicted of 
anything, would be sentenced to be kissed right off the bat.  Sirius 
was sentenced to life in Azkaban for killing thirteen people and for 
betraying the Potters (although this second crime was not 
publicized).  It's reasonable to expect that Pettigrew would have 
gotten the same sentence for the same crime if they had made it up to 
the castle.  (And Pettigrew only killed twelve people!  Maybe they'll 
let him out on parole in eighty years.)

Roberta