The Liar, The Witch and The Werewolf

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 169765

I was re-reading the first chapter of GoF yesterday, and I  wondered
what Peter Pettigrew would have been doing in the wayside inn 
where he supposedly met the Ministry witch Bertha Jorkins. Voldemort 
says he stopped there because he was hungry.

But Peter can steal all the food he needs as a rat! Why risk taking
human form just for that? It would have been most foolish. Even
Peter's not that stupid. (Those who are not interested in an Evil 
Lupin answer to this question can stop reading now ;))

Now that we know what happened to Morfin, I have my doubts that Peter
was ever at that inn, or if he was, it was in a glass case tucked under Lupin's
arm. Perhaps it was Lupin that Bertha recognized, despite her faulty memory,
because she never forgot the  person who hexed her after she followed 
him and saw him kissing Florence. :) 

Voldemort twice says that he would never have expected Wormtail
to think of bringing Bertha to him. Well, maybe it wasn't Peter who did
it. Maybe it was Lupin, bringing his master not one, but two of the
ingredients Voldemort would need for his rebirthing. Flesh of a
servant and blood of an enemy. But Voldemort found another use 
for Bertha. 

And then, to protect his most valuable spy,  Voldemort modified 
Peter's memory just as he'd once modified Morfin's, so that Peter 
thinks he did just as Voldemort claims. No wonder Peter looks 
so hunched these days, bowed under the burden of crimes he 
never committed. 


Pippin