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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 149520

SSSusan earlier:
> > Questions I, also, have asked before.  I just don't GET Peter 
> > here. 
<snip> 
> > ...I just can't figure out why he didn't walk away from a Voldy 
> > who *couldn't* at that time have killed him!
 

Magda: 
> Because Peter WANTS Voldemort to regain his strength.  He WANTS to
> have a powerful leader to follow around again, someone whose
> successes he can vicariously enjoy while telling himself....
> Peter WANTS to be a part of the biggest, baddest gang around ....
> 
> Peter is a jackal, scavenging the prey brought down by other, more
> fierce animals.  He's too lazy to do his own hunting, but is keen
> enough to know where the biggest kill has taken place....
<snip>
> When he was a teenager he wanted to hang with the Quidditch star's
> cool club; when he became an adult his taste for what constituted
> real power changed accordingly.
>
> Magda (who thinks Peter is in a category of evil all on his own 
> that is in some ways more terrible than Voldemort's)


SSSusan:
This is a very fascinating take on Peter, imo.  It would be kind of 
satisfying, I think, to discover a Peter who is this STRONG (in a 
way), a person who actually has THOUGHT about what he wants and how 
to get it, rather than just the cowardly, weak, wimpering follower 
he seems to be so much of the time.  

Yes, interesting indeed.

The one question which comes to mind, though, is how would you 
explain Wormtail's attempt (I think that's an okay work to use to 
classify it) to get Voldy to use someone else's blood in the 
rebirthing -- that it didn't *have* to be Harry's?  I've always 
taken that as an attempt on Wormtail's part to, perhaps, get 
himself "unindebted" to Harry.  But maybe it was something else?  

Can you think of a way this action on Wormtail's part could fit with 
the man you've described?

Siriusly Snapey Susan