[HPforGrownups] Re: The Liar, The Witch and The Werewolf

[Kamil]

No: HPFGUIDX 169795

<Pippin>
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. <snip>

<Carol>
<snip>
maybe Wormtail assumed that an English wizard who had been
murdered" thirteen years before wouldn't be recognized by rural
Albanians. (I certainly wouldn't recognize a murder victim I'd seen on
the news thirteen years ago if that person showed up in, say, a
Starbucks where I was having coffee.) And wizards seem to have a habit
of wearing their heads low over their faces if they don't want to be
recognized.

<Kamil>
I certainly wouldn't recognize a murder victim I'd seen images of
thirteen years ago either; if nothing else, the aging process,
complete with hair color changes, changes in weight, and the normal
wrinkles and so forth developing, and then add to that the fact that
your mind is sure that the person you're remembering is *dead* and
therefore can't be enjoying a double mocha latte across the way, and
I'll agree with you that just once, that far away, I'm sure Wormtail
was completely sure he'd be safe. I'd bet a lot of people might take
that dare in similar circumstances.

<Carol>
Carol, whose only problem with her own hypothesis is the question of
where Wormtail found the wizard money to buy his meal at the inn

<Kamil>
Pippin covered that one; and just as Wormtail can steal all the food
he needs as a rat, so too could he gnaw into a Wizard's pouch or a
Witch's purse and then carry off a nice fat Galleon or two.

Kamil