[HPforGrownups] re:NotKillingWormtail.

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 162887

>catlady
 
<snip>
>Some listies think that murder gets a long sentence in Azkaban  even
without using an Unforgiveable. Pippin thinks ESE!Lupin takes  that
risk to silence the one witness against him. I think Lupin wass  paying
for his previous wrong belief against Sirius by sacrificing himself  to
Sirius's revenge, and perhaps hoping that both he and Sirius having  to
be in hiding for the rest of their lives will cause them to be  hiding
TOGETHER. <snip>
 
Nikkalmati:
 
I don't think Sirius and Lupin thought there would be any  repercussions.  
Sirius would have to go back into hiding, of course, but  Lupin would go back to 
work.  After all, who was going to report the  murder?  PP was already dead.  
The trio had heard him confess to  betraying Lily and James.  Either the 
expected the trio to keep quiet or  they thought no one would believe them.  It is 
a pretty wild story: that  Ron's rat was really a wizard who was thought 
dead, who was really an Animagus,  who was killed in front of them by an escaped 
convict and their DODA  teacher!  (I guess SS would have believed it of Lupin 
even if he had not  been there eavesdropping, but no one else). Alternatively 
they could have  Confunded them or Obliterated them.  No, I don't think Lupin 
and Sirius had  any worries about being held accountable, and PP knew it or he 
would have tried  to use that argument to save himself.
 
Nikkalmati
 
 


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