Importance of Pettigrew?

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 171615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, charlie cairns <ccairns2005 at ...>
wrote:
>
> As an inactive member of this group I've probably missed this, but 
> has there been discussion on the importance of Pettigrew's silver 
> hand? And his debt to Harry?
> 

Oh, I am sure there have been many if you search on them. Both items
are so striking that most of us expect them to be significant. As
usual I doubt that any two of us agree on what they mean.

Someone on this list (she knows who she is) prodded me into buying
Christopher Tolkien's history of the LotR. As I started my final
re-read of Harry Potter way, way too early I've had time to dig into
the history and indeed it looks like I will have time to finish that
and the Jean Shepherd book my wife wants me to read before DH comes
out. The relevance here is that I've recently come to the last but one
appearances of Saruman and that naturally reminds me of the last one.

Wormtongue kills his master, the dark wizard Saruman.

Wormtail kills his master, the dark wizard Voldemort?

Maybe it isn't as straightforward as art imitating art but like many I
expect Peter to play a significant role in Voldemort's demise. If
Harry manages to defeat Voldemort without tarnishing his soul by
killing him, as so many here hope, then either Snape or Pettigrew seem
the most likely to do the deed in his stead.

Ken