Chapter Discussion: Goblet of Fire Ch 1: The Riddle House

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 191339



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at ...> wrote:
 
> Geoff:
> You've got to be joking. You saw the way in which Remus and Sirius used his 
> name in POA and it was a demeaning name - as has been remarked on in the 
> past, very reminiscent of Wormtongue in LOTR.
>

I don't think it's that demeaning. He used it during schooltime and he even called himself Wormtail on the Marauder's Map. The similarity to "Wormtongue" is only visible to the readers, not to the characters. And I at least didn't have this association, when I read the nickname "Wormtail" for the first time, before we met Peter.