What possessed Peter to restore Voldemort? (Was: Trusting Snape)

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No: HPFGUIDX 149378

Carol wrote:
> Why Peter actually went through with the assignment--kidnapping and
> injuring Harry, murdering Cedric (not part of the original deal, but
> promptly performed), violating a grave, and above all mutilating
> himself, all to restore Voldemort and make him stronger, is unclear 
> to me. Did he really think he had no alternative and that he'd be 
> better off with a stronger Voldemort? Couldn't he have left him 
> stewing in the cauldron without adding the ingredients (bone, 
> blood, and his own flesh) and at the same time released Harry, 
> fulfilling his life debt?


SSSusan:
Questions I, also, have asked before.  I just don't GET Peter here.  
It does seem to me that it would've made more sense to have RUN from 
a weak & needy Voldy, leaving him to die.  Maybe it really *was* just 
the fear that Voldy was so strong... that if some other DE came by 
and saved him... that he knew he'd be killed.  But that possibility 
seems so remote that I just can't figure out why he didn't walk away 
from a Voldy who *couldn't* at that time have killed him!


> Carol, wondering why Harry thinks that Voldemort (one "r") murdered
> Cedric when it was Wormtail who killed him

SSSusan:
Ah, we've had this discussion before, Carol. :-)  I maintain that 
Harry is correct in that thought.  It's the Charles Manson-type 
parallel:  You ORDER the murder, you ARE the murderer in the legal 
sense of things.  Harry *knows* Wormtail cast the spell, but he heard 
Voldy order the killing and so knows that it was Voldy's INTENTION 
and COMMAND which made the murder happen.  Hence, he's the murderer 
(the cause of the murder) even if he's not the murderer (the one 
taking the action).

Eeek, will this stance be torn apart by the *real* lawyers on the 
list? :-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan