Peter Pettigrew

Nasty little worm! I really dispise Peter as I am sure most people do. He is a wimp and in my opinon is even worse than Voldemort himself

I hate him. I don't understand how anyone could betray their friends, and friends that were as good as James, Sirius and Peter seemed to be.

We know they must have been close because they did trust him enough to make him the secret keeper.

One thing I really hate is in Marauder-era fics when author's ignore him, pretend he doesn't exist, or make him a bed-wetting wimp. He was there, and he was friends with them. There must have been something to like about him during the school years.

True, there must have been something though I cant personally see what. I dont think the films have helped with this because they make him seem even more of a wimp than the books do

He was a little rat literally. He used James, Sirius, and Remus in the books ot learn how to be an animagus and to pass school,. I think he betrayed his friends becasue he was scared of Voldemort, which was a rotten thing to do. Why would he do that when he knew that the maurderes would protect him, and Dumbledore.

I think that maybe he was forced into becoming a deatheater in a way of not being intellegent enough to know what he was doing. It is true to say that he used the other marauders to help him through school and to become an animagus but there is still the fact that they trusted him so there must have been some sort of friendship through school oposed to only an aquantence

Well yes, he was friends with them, I wonder how they all became friends in the first plcae, besides that fact that they proably shared a dorm. I think he must of done somehting usefulk for them too. I wonder what it was...

thats a good thought. I think he might have been a bit like goyle at school - at least thats the image I have of him lol

I think one of the best portrayal's of Peter is in Ajax's "From Across a Wizard's Heart" (I can't get the link at the moment, SQ is down).

The author portrayed him as a normal, teenage boy, no sinister thoughts, just having fun with his friends.

Which I think is realistic.

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thats a good thought. I think he might have been a bit like goyle at school - at least thats the image I have of him lol

obviously not size wise so do you mean intelligence wise?

lol yes intellegence wise (although the actor in the films wasnt thin lol)

Normal teenager, yes, and I dont think he is evil, just dumb and led easily

scared.. I think that he's smarter than goyle and he thinks for himself or else he wouldnt of been a traitor

You have a lot of goo dpoints there... but did Peter use Avada Kevadra..? I thought he just blew it up..I do agree there is more depth, but I think he got away with being a spy becasue no one suspected him

I don't really agree. I think he is weak and talentless.

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Firstly, let’s examine the fact that Wormtail is an animagus. It has been discussed many a time in the books on how difficult becoming an animagus is, and yes, he did have his friends to aid him, though the magic has to come from within, so this shows that Peter has a significant amount of magic within him and can use it for complicated things.

I think he became an animagus only with the help of his friends. It's made clear that Sirius and James were the clever ones, and as it has been stressed so many times that Peter was not clever, James and Sirius probably pulled him through the animagus transformations in the early days.

I agree with the point that he must have been good as a spy, but I think that he must have done a LOT of his spying as a rat, and therefore would have been undetectable through occlumency and legilimency.

He didn't use Avada Kedavra on the street, he simply blew it up and in the process killed all the Muggles. The Muggle authorities passed it off as a gas explosion, so we have to assume that the effect was something akin to that.

So yeah...I don't think he's powerful. I think he's a snivelling pathetic excuse for a Wizard :D

I totally agree, but I mean he's obviously a rat at heart to be such a good spy, do you think he know Occulency?

As moronic and evil as they come. A true betrayer and a rat suits his character so well. How James and the others saw him while they were back in school is something that I would like to read about because he had to be good at one time for the marauders to trust him, but I just can't see this character ever being good.

WelL, i don't know, I thihk he might... he might die for Harry becasue of whole life debt thing..

Hes a little rat! LOL I think hes weird. His toe missing, or finger was
it. I think he should like quit being Voldy's little rascle!

I hate that little rat i hope he dies

Although many people hate him I do too do not get me wrong I think he is utterly pathetic. I think that he will play an important part in the next book. I think he will help Harry some way and most likely repay he life debt even if it is not jumping in front of a curse more of telling Harry information that later gets him killed. Or telling him information that could kill voldemort.

Some people say that they didn't like the way he died but I think it was fitting. He didn't deserve a heros death like Sirius or Dumbledore. It was his own mistakes that killed him and I didn't really feel any emotion when I read it besides shock.

I would first like to say that agree completley with Katie's last post. He doesn't NOT deserve a heroic death.

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Pettigrew is a slimeball of the living who deserved to die as soon as he betrayed the Potters. Don't mean to sound harsh but he is a SLIMEBALL!