[HPforGrownups] re:Killing/Persecution/Pettigrew/Marriage-Professors,Contract/HogwartsSexSnog/17

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 155111

--- "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:

> Magda wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/154816>:
> 
> << This was Sirius' and James' real blind spot where Pettigrew was
> concerned. Unlike their own comfortable situations where they
> didn't need fulltime jobs but could throw themselves into Order 
> work, Pettigrew (like most of humanity, wizard or muggle) had to 
> get a job. >>
> 
> You're probably right, but do you have canon for Pettigrew not
> being rich, too? 

Is there canon that he is?  In any society, personal wealth is unique
enough for there to be only a small percentage of the population that
enjoys it, and therefore unless its deliberately mentioned I think we
can be safe in assuming that Pettigrew came from a
middle/lower-middle-class family.  Not pureblood either, IMO; more
like half-blood or even muggleborn.  Pettigrew's sucking up to first
James and then Harry strikes me as part of his initial coping
strategy in an unfamiliar new world.

> I can't decide at all whether Bagman is as big an idiot as he seems
> and really was tricked by Augustus Rookwood, or if he is a
> deliberate Death Eater. I think it would be difficult to pretend 
> to be an idiot 24/7 for years.

Bagman is the kind of person for whom the phrase "stupid like a fox"
was invented.  Consider: he's a star athlete with no other skill than
an ability to play quidditch and then he's suddenly too old or beaten
up to play well.  What's he supposed to do for the next 120 years of
his life?  Just like there were wizards on the wizengamot who
couldn't get past his sports celebrity, just so he'd be on the
lookout for wizards who'd give him jobs or provide money to him for
the same reasons.  

I can see him doing favours for Rookwood - without asking any
questions because he doesn't want to know - because then Rookwood
would owe him one and you never know when you're going to need a
favour down the road.  Bagman is smart enough to make sure he's got
an out and that he never knew too much information at any time that
would become inconvenient later on.  

Recruiting Pettigrew would have been a favour he did for someone, an
introduction, a door-opening, made easier because of his sports
celebrity.  Like Aunt Petunia, Bagman is opposed to asking questions.

Magda

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