In 'the Deathly Hallows', Harry, on the point of suffocation managed to gasp at Wormtail: "You're going to kill me? After I saved your life?
You owe me Wormtail. Voldemort could perform Legilimency, and very well, but he didn't need it to know what kind of cowardly and disloyal Death Eater Wormtail was. Voldemort was not foolish enough to believe that Peter Pettigrew returned to him out of loyalty to his master; he knew that he returned out of fear of the then at large Death Eaters who blamed Pettigrew for Voldemort's fall from power.
Without James, Sirius, and Remus protecting him, Peter found no courage to go against Snape, who would in turn bully him in return throughout their time as Death Eater colleagues. During his time as Scabbers the rat, under the Weasley family 's care, Pettigrew was lazy and unmotivated, as all he did was sleep and eat, and only on one occasion did, he bit Goyle's knuckle on his owner's behalf.
This could be because Pettigrew enjoyed being pampered and waited hand and foot, believing that as a pet rat he did not have to do much and can relax instead, at least until Sirius' escape from Azkaban prompted him into action. Even after returning to his Death Eater services, he continued to show certain levels of laziness and carelessness that leads to mistakes, such as foolishly stopping at an inn for food while on his way to Albania that led him to meeting with a Ministry employee and former schoolmate , or neglecting his duties of guarding Barty Crouch Snr that allowed him to escape.
Pettigrew also developed a bit of nosiness, having been eavesdropping behind doors during his stay at the Snape family house, resulting in Severus slamming the door in his face. Pettigrew was so meek that he did not dare request for reassignment when Voldemort sent him to assist Snape, in which Snape treated him as a mere slave for household chores. Pettigrew was one of only two known Death Eaters who dared referred to Voldemort by name, [5] [24] the second being Barty Crouch Jnr.
Despite Professor McGonagall claiming that Peter was less talented than his friends, and Voldemort later denoting him as a poor wizard, he showed a surprising amount of magical capability when pushed. It is likely that Pettigrew was always a skilled wizard, but his potential or power was overshadowed by that of his friends and peers, as well as by his shy personality, and this would become apparent as he grew into adulthood and gained further experience. From what was known, Peter was remarkably skilled in magic and seemed to be as magically-skilled as the other three Marauders , and was quite adept in the Dark Arts perhaps the most capable of the four in that aspect.
Peter Pettigrew's relationship with his parents is unknown, but after Pettigrew faked his own death, the Ministry gave an Order of Merlin to Mrs Pettigrew along with her son's finger — the biggest part of Peter that was found.
It is also unknown if his parents knew about his faked death. The Marauders , former friends whom he betrayed. During his seven years at Hogwarts , Peter came to greatly admire James Potter and Sirius Black for their popularity and magical ability, as well as James' renowned skills as Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Though they accepted him as a friend and included him in their various mischief-making endeavours, it was clear he was considered more of a hanger-on than an equal.
Nevertheless, they were close throughout their time at school. When they discovered that a member of their group, Remus Lupin , was a werewolf , they illegally became Animagi so as to be able to accompany Remus while he was in his transformed state, rather than shun him as many would have. The four of them eventually came to be known as the "Marauders". While James, Sirius, and Remus considered Peter a true friend and would have willingly died for him, Peter proved that he lacked any similar conviction or sense of loyalty.
When Lord Voldemort first started gaining power, Peter immediately defected from the Order of the Phoenix and joined the Death Eaters out of fear for his own life. Peter later framed Sirius for the crime by pretending to confront him, then cutting off his own finger before taking his rat Animagus form; he killed twelve Muggles in the process, and landed Sirius in Azkaban for twelve years.
Sirius had convinced James to use Pettigrew as Secret-Keeper in what he believed to be a brilliant gambit. This was proven to be a fatal mistake that Sirius would regret for the rest of his life. When Sirius learned the truth, he became obsessed with avenging the deaths of his friends.
Remus, unaware of the truth until twelve years later, thought Peter died in a heroic confrontation with Sirius. When Peter's treachery was revealed to James' son, Harry Potter , both Sirius and Remus showed no mercy nor sympathy for Peter's lack of courage if anything, both were disgusted by him , and were absolutely intent on killing Peter, and were only stopped by Harry's insistence that Pettigrew was not worth their becoming murderers.
As Remus had forgotten to take his Wolfsbane Potion in the wake of discovering Pettigrew's continued existence, he transformed under the full moon and was completely uncontrollable. Peter was able to escape, but for his freedom he owed Harry a life debt that would later cost him his own life. Peter's escape led Sirius to remain a wanted fugitive for another two years, and only Harry, Ron , Hermione , Dumbledore, Remus and, later, members of the second Order of the Phoenix knew of his innocence for those two final years.
Severus Snape , whom he used to bully, and who bullied him in return. Pettigrew, who probably would not have fared well duelling with a wizard as skilled and powerful as Snape, only got away with doing so because he had more talented friends backing him up. Or perhaps his intense dislike of Pettigrew was due to the former betraying Lily , the woman he loved, to Voldemort.
It is possible that Snape regarded Pettigrew as being too negligible of a person to be worthy of hating, as he showed very little care for Pettigrew during their time in Spinner's End , aside from maintaining a sense of superiority over Pettigrew in every chance possible and making him even remotely useful around the house.
When the Dark Lord later assigned Pettigrew to work as his assistant, Snape took to treating him like a slave, forcing him to clean his house and serve food to his guests, while refusing to let him in on their meetings. Pettigrew, though very dissatisfied with Snape's abuse, found little courage to argue or request the Dark Lord for reassignment, and seemingly had to obey out of fear of Snape, as he flinched as though Snape threw something at him when ordered to serve Bellatrix and Narcissa wine, all the while could not look at Snape eye-to-eye when protesting.
Severus did not condone Peter's habit of eavesdropping, and even slamming the door in his face to get him to stay away from listening any further.
With the feeble protests Pettigrew made proved his ineptitude and cowardice, Snape openly and contemptuously mocked him for it, showed his "assistant" no respect whatsoever, and regarded the treacherous coward as a negligible vermin. As with the rest of the Death Eaters and Order of the Phoenix alike, Snape would address Pettigrew as "Wormtail" instead of his real name during their later years of life.
Lily Evans , former friend whom he betrayed. Peter first met Lily Evans during the Sorting ceremony at Hogwarts, during which they were both Sorted into Gryffindor. Peter regularly took part in bullying her then-best friend Severus Snape , and as such, he did not make any better an impression on her than James or Sirius did.
After Lily ended her friendship with Snape, she eventually married James Potter. She seemed to be much closer to James' circle of friends by that time, especially when they all joined the Order of the Phoenix. She even affectionately referred to Peter as " Wormy ," from his nickname "Wormtail," and noted that he "seemed down" on the week before Harry Potter's first birthday , as she tells in a letter to Sirius Black.
She would not have known that it was because he was enlisted in the Death Eaters and playing spy. Peter, out of fear of his own life, and what Sirius described as " finest moment of [his] miserable life ", betrayed Lily's location to Voldemort without a moment of hesitation.
Harry Potter , to whom he owed a life debt. Harry Potter initially believed Peter Pettigrew had been courageous for challenging the alleged traitor, Sirius Black , despite appearing so comparatively timid and weak; Harry even compared him to his own friend Neville Longbottom. As Scabbers, Harry felt that Hermione should at least feel responsible when Crookshanks allegedly ate him, when in truth Peter faked his death a second time.
Though he was disgusted by Pettigrew's disloyalty and cowardice when he learned the truth, he could not stand to see his father's two best friends become murderers, and requested that they leave Pettigrew to face the Dementors instead.
Pettigrew managed to escape, leaving Harry unable to prove his godfather, Sirius Black 's innocence. However, because of Harry's intervention to save Pettigrew, the latter owed Harry a life debt. Harry, on the other hand, felt regretful for sparing Pettigrew's life and did not want such a bond. Originally Peter spared no thought on betraying Harry and his family to Voldemort, and even prepared to turn Harry in the moment he catches wind of the Death Eaters regaining momentum as a welcome-back present.
However, perhaps due to this debt, Pettigrew consciously felt gratitude towards the boy, as he suggested that Voldemort should use another wizard's blood for the rebirth ceremony , and hastily implying that Harry meant nothing to him when Voldemort raised the issue, an act that seems to be denial rather than honesty.
Of course, Voldemort also saw this as an attempt for Wormtail to desert him once more, out of sheer regret of ever returning. A year later, Pettigrew met Harry again in the Little Hangleton graveyard , where Pettigrew bound Harry to Tom Riddle Snr 's grave and then cut Harry's arm to use his blood in a potion that would restore Voldemort to his former glory.
Throughout this meeting, Wormtail struck Harry for struggling, but did not make eye contact when returning Harry his wand , per Voldemort's orders. Pettigrew's life debt was finally repaid during the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor , when his momentary hesitation to strangle Harry was interpreted as a sign of weakness by the silver hand he received from Voldemort, and it turned on him.
Though both Harry and Ron Weasley attempted to stop it, Peter Pettigrew was strangled to death by his own hand. Ronald Weasley , his former owner and enemy. After framing Sirius Black for the crimes of betraying James and Lily Potter and murdering twelve Muggles, Pettigrew went into hiding in his Animagus form, and disguised himself as a rat named Scabbers.
He came into the possession of Percy Weasley , who eventually handed him down to his younger brother Ron. Thus, Petrigrew had been in the Weasley family for twelve years, which was in Sirius' perspective a " curiously long life for a common garden rat.
However, Hermione's cat immediately recognised the rat for who he was and constantly attempted to catch him; this misunderstanding furthered Ron's protective nature over Scabbers.
When Scabbers faked his own death by leaving bloodstains on the sheets, Ron assumed that he was eaten by the cat. Ron and Hermione got into such a row over the incident that they almost ended their friendship. Ron later discovered him in Rubeus Hagrid's cabin and was overjoyed, though Scabbers continued to attempt to flee, struggling against Ron's efforts to pocket him and even biting him on the finger, much to Ron's confusion and irritation.
When Sirius finally managed to corner the rat, Ron absolutely refused to believe what Sirius and Remus Lupin were telling him until he saw with his own eyes that Scabbers was the traitorous Peter Pettigrew.
Ron took this as a personal insult and was too disgusted to respond to Pettigrew's pleas, and even savagely volunteered to act as an anchor alongside Lupin to prevent Pettigrew from escaping. Four years later, when Pettigrew was being strangled by his own silver hand , Ron tried to save him with a Revulsion Jinx , and failed.
When Pettigrew died, Ron was somewhat shocked, but was more preoccupied by Hermione being tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange.
Hermione Granger , his enemy. Hermione Granger first met Pettigrew in disguise as Ron's pet rat named "Scabbers" in In , she and Ron nearly ended their relationship, as Ron was convinced that Crookshanks , her cat, had eaten Scabbers. Peter was afraid of Sirius and Remus, and knew that they wanted to kill him in order to avenge James and Lily.
Pettigrew appealed in turn to Hermione, who was horrified and shocked by the entire discovery. Hermione was being tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange , while Pettigrew was sent to check on the prisoners downstairs.
Pettigrew attempted to strangle Harry, but momentarily slackened his grip when Harry reminded him of his life debt, and was killed for it by the silver hand made for him by Voldemort. According to Word of God, this was because he had been using magic primarily for hiding and defense, rather than honing his skills as a duelist, and came up against a savage and sadistic Death Eater in Dolohov.
Presumably he used either Avada Kedavra or his signature purple flame spell. Dudley talks to his father about leaving as they get into their car. Was Peter Pettigrew evil? Pettigrew did what he did out of fear and self-preservation. All he felt — before, after, and during — was a consuming terror; Voldemort scared him as much when he was a Death Eater as he had before Pettigrew joined up.
Why is vetinari a woman? How does SCP kill? While fighting alongside his brother, Percy, he was killed in an explosion caused by Augustus Rookwood. Draco married the younger sister of a fellow Slytherin. Astoria Greengrass , who had gone through a similar though less violent and frightening conversion from pure-blood ideals to a more tolerant life view, was felt by Narcissa and Lucius to be something of a disappointment as a daughter-in-law.
Did Voldemort really enchanted it? If so, why didn't the hand just kill Harry when it had the occasion? When Dumbledore said to Harry "Voldemort won't want a close associate who is in your debt", I wasn't implying by that there was any kind of magical bond there.
The silver tool that Voldemort had given his most cowardly servant had turned upon its Disarmed and useless owner; Pettigrew was reaping his reward for his hesitation, his moment of pity; he was being strangled before their eyes. Deathly Hallows - Bloomsbury - Malfoy Manor. The hand wasn't enchanted to kill Harry. It was enchanted to kill Wormtail, should he show even a split second of mercy.
So it wouldn't be going around trying to kill Harry specifically. It was Voldemort's punishment for Wormtail, not Harry, although Harry ultimately was the trigger that caused Wormtail to experience a moment of mercy, which subsequently cost Wormtail his life. When Wormtail was granted the silver hand by Voldemort in Goblet of Fire , the first thing Voldemort said to him was: "May your loyalty never waver again, Wormtail.
This is Rowling slipping in a foreshadowing Easter-egg. That hand was pre-programmed by Voldemort to kill its owner from the moment of its creation. Voldemort deliberately tied Wormtail's life to the strength of his loyalty. The quoted phrase was gotten from the wiki page for Pettigrew's hand. A silver hand was presented to Peter Pettigrew by Lord Voldemort in the summer of , to replace his lost right hand.
It appeared to be composed of metal and exhibited strength superior to that of its owner's former hand, capable of crushing a twig to fine dust. It was impervious to the Revulsion Jinx, and possibly any other spells. At first, it seemed to yield to Pettigrew's command, but Voldemort designed it to strangle its owner if any sign of treason or weakness was demonstrated. It was a sadistic and fail-safe way to ensure Pettigrew's punishment for a second attempt at desertion.
The silver hand turned against Wormtail when he showed a hint of weakness in a form of releasing Harry after the latter said "You owe me your life, Wormtail". If you can still remember in the Prisoner of Azkaban, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black intended to kill Wormtail because of his act of betrayal in revealing the location of Harry's parents to the Dark Lord.
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