Importance of Pettigrew?

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 171655

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:
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> 
> Given the association of silver with werewolves, it seems logical (to
> me) to anticipate Wormtail's repaying his lifedebt by saving Harry
> from a werewolf, which Wormtail kills with his silver hand (dying in
> the process--we can't have a living Wormtail once he's redeemed
> himself, now can we?). JKR has said that Wormtail won't kill Lupin,
> but there's always the odious Fenrir Greyback, 

I guess the thing is that Wormtail's new hand is silvery in appearance
but we don't know that it is actually silver. In our world our
imaginary werewolves can be killed with silver and vampires with
wooden stakes but is that true of the "real" ones in the Potterverse?
It is a good observation but as with so many hints in the books there
is little to go on. Or am I embarrassed that for once my powers of
spinning out wacky theories have failed me?

Dumbledore said much the same thing about Pettigrew as Gandalf said
about Gollum so it seems certain he will be important in the
conclusion. And in that sense Dumbledore has *already* "pulled a
Gandalf"! That silver or silvery hand is just screaming out to figure
in Voldemort's demise somehow. I think it will be more directly than
to kill Fenrir but you could be right. I kind of like the thought
expressed long ago, maybe it was yours, that he will crush Voldemort's
wand to dust as he did that twig.

Ken