PettigrEWWW might still be TREWWW

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Several days ago Nora complained to me offlist that my new S/N ship
foiled her recent attempt to resurrect the old TEW EWWWW to be TREWWW
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/132993

For those of you who want the short version, TEW EWWWW to be TREWWW
posits that Snape loved (or something) Lily and therefore asked Voldy
to spare her in Godric's Hollow, something JKR has just confirmed
Voldy indeed tried to do. The problem is that if, as I suggested here
recently, it's actually *Narcissa* that Snape has always loved, then
why would he ask Voldy to spare Lily? Well, maybe just from the
goodness of is heart? 

<pauses a second to consider>

Naaah. 

Of course, Nora really did nothing so impolite as *complaining*, but
still, I thought it wouldn't do to upset her. I mean, she has good
connections with Faith <g>. Besides, I kind of liked her resurrection
of TEW EWWWW to be TREWWW myself, until the obviousness of S/N hit me
on the head like a bludger. So why not resurrect TEW EWWWW with just
one small change? I've opined more than once in the past that if
anybody has been secretly in love with Lily, my first bet would be
Peter. Unlike Snape, Peter is *just* the person to fall in love with
Lily, for very similar reasons to those that made Snape fall for (as I
believe) Narcissa. I mean, Peter idolized James because James was the
biggest bully in the playground. Of course he also worshiped the
boss's girlfriend. And Lily, unlike James, would be kind to Peter. She
would actually notice that he has more in him than the rest of the
Marauders could see. She would nag James to treat him more decently.
In Moody's photograph of the original Order, Lily and James were
sitting on either side of Peter. This arrangement was naturally Lily's
idea. Just think, what this kind of attention would do to poor Peter.
*Of course* he was secretly in love with her. Of course he'd secretly
resented James.

Then a bigger bully than James found Peter and offered him life for
turning in the Potters. Peter must have felt a twinge of satisfaction
to finally get even with James, but what about Lily? Voldy didn't
actually need to kill Lily. Peter named her as his price. Perhaps he
even thought about it as a noble deed: saving the life of the girl he
loved, when her husband and son couldn't be saved. And Voldy
practically considered fullfilling his promise to his servant for
whole three seconds. 

But in the climax of Book 7, at the moment of truth when everything
would dimmed lost, Wormtail for some reason would finally look into
Harry's eyes, and he'll see *her* eyes, and he will finally find the
courage to strike at his Master, the Master who broke his promise to
poor Wormtail and killed *her*. Voldemort should have realized this
would happen, but then of course, he has always underestimated love.

EWWWW...


Neri