HBP: DEFT PIG

songbird3411 SongBird3411 at songbird3411.yahoo.invalid
Wed Jul 20 23:16:21 UTC 2005


H
O
W
M
U
C
H
L
O
N
G
E
R
D
O
W
E
N
E
E
D
T
H
I
S
?


--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}"  wrote: 

>> Two very odd things have struck me. Remember Peter Pettigrew? He 
of the once-central role in this drama? Silver hand? Nursed Vapor!
Mort back to health? Blew up umpteen Muggles and apparently framed 
dear old Sirius? Former Marauder? Wormtail? Him?<<

Now Mindy:

I am sorry, I don't have any new theories to present just yet.  I am 
still in the middle of my first, detailed reread of HBP.  However, 
there are two things I wanted to respond to.  First is the above 
comment about Pettigrew.

I agree.  Wasn't this strange?  Pettigrew got quite a build up in POA 
and GOF.  Then, nothing?  The Spinner's End chapter would have worked 
just as well without Pettigrew there.  There was really no earthly 
purpose for him to be there.  Of course, this is JKR, so I assume 
there must be some Important Reason Pettigrew was there.  She showed 
us Pettigrew for a reason.

The more I think about this, the more interesting it gets.  Pettigrew 
has been assisting Snape?  That is one whopper of a coincidence, eh?  
Voldemort has one DE with a life debt to Harry and another who I read 
as being one of his deadliest enemies in the world (and also probably 
helping out Harry).  These two just happen to be working together?  
Who set this up?  Voldemort, or Snape?  The two DE's with suspect 
loyalties and they are working together.  Once I finish my reread, I 
am going to do some theorizing on possible outcomes of this 
scenario.  None of them look good for Voldemort.

Secondly, I want to thank Pippin for something.  Pippin wrote:  

>>I think Dumbledore withheld the proof of Snape's
repentance because it *was* proof. It would leave
absolutely no doubt in Harry's mind -- or
Voldemort's-- that Snape was faithful.
As Harry is no Occlumens and never will be, that
would be very bad news for Snape.

There is only one guaranteed proof of loyalty. Snape
must have summoned Fawkes. As Dumbledore
says in CoS, only someone who showed him
real loyalty could do that. And notice how Fawkes
sang out in HPB when Harry pledged his loyalty
to Dumbledore again.<<

I find this to be utterly brilliant.  Brilliant.  I have been sitting 
here pondering how Sevvy can clear his name if there is no one alive 
who knows he is loyal.  This is so simple, it must be right.  I hope 
you don't mind, but I am going to share this with another list.  I 
will certainly credit you.  Brilliant.

Off to finish that reread.

Mindy








More information about the the_old_crowd archive