Order Only
Jan. 31st, 2015 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_harryWe have some news that may be a bit surprising to most of you: we've found Peter Pettigrew. He was hiding as Sally-Anne's pet rat.
We've currently got him confined in a cage that Justin nicked from Professor Grubbly-Plank, which is designed for dangerous magical creatures. I don't think he'll be able to get out of it. He's in the Gryffindor boys' dorm now, not the Slytherin girls' dorm. He had to promise to protect the Order's secrets, to never attempt to return to Voldemort or his followers, and to pledge his loyalty and service to me from this day forward.
Here's what he said about why he betrayed my parents.
It was Antonin Dolohov who recruited him into the Death Eaters. Peter said that Dolohov told him that the Marauders would find their true home there -- that their intelligence and ability to create mischief would be appreciated rather than condemned and squashed and punished. That three Purebloods and a werewolf surely belonged with Dolohov's side, not Albus Dumbledore's. That of course Gryffindors belonged as much as Slytherins, because the Dark Lord appreciated bravery as much as cunning. He promised they'd be together -- Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus.
Peter said he regretted taking the Mark as soon as he'd gone through with it -- well, of course he said that to us. He was the one who listened in to the Prophecy that night, and took it to Voldemort, but he had no idea it meant me. Was going to mean me. He couldn't imagine James and Lily settling down so soon and having a baby when they were still so young.
So -- then my mother got pregnant, but he said he couldn't possibly tell anyone the truth about what he'd done but he did manage to pass to the Order the danger that James and Lily were in. And of course they decided to use the Fidelius Charm, and he thought surely they'd use Sirius as the Secret Keeper and they'd never catch him and everything would be fine. But then Sirius had the idea of using Peter, and making Sirius the bait.
And then all Peter could do was hide and hope no one realised. That worked for a while, he said. Over a year after I was born, they were chasing around after Sirius. But then -- it was Dolohov again. Who worked out that just maybe, it was Peter, and sent him an owl. Peter said that Dolohov said this could be hard, or this could be easy. Either was fine with him. Dolohov also said they knew where Sirius was going to be, but that he didn't think Sirius was actually going to be able to tell them anything and what a terrible, terrible waste that would be, and how hard it would be on Regulus to see that happen if it were all for nothing.
So
He made a deal.
He'd give them my parents. And in exchange, the Death Eaters had to spare Sirius, and Remus, and not just spare them, but protect them. And they kept their side, Peter said, because even though Sirius came out of hiding no one raised their wand against him until he went to the Wizengamot to get Harry, and he should have known that wouldn't work anyway, and Remus was called out of the enclave and given a job at Hogwarts for no reason but to keep that end of Peter's deal.
We asked him -- well, Sally-Anne and Pansy and Ron asked him, I was under my cloak so he didn't know I was there. Why was he hiding as a rat. I mean, wasn't the deal to protect his own life, too? And he said, Voldemort -- the Dark Lord, was how he put it -- didn't keep that one. And he doesn't know why. But Voldemort gave the order to have Peter killed and so he ran and never went back.
We've currently got him confined in a cage that Justin nicked from Professor Grubbly-Plank, which is designed for dangerous magical creatures. I don't think he'll be able to get out of it. He's in the Gryffindor boys' dorm now, not the Slytherin girls' dorm. He had to promise to protect the Order's secrets, to never attempt to return to Voldemort or his followers, and to pledge his loyalty and service to me from this day forward.
Here's what he said about why he betrayed my parents.
It was Antonin Dolohov who recruited him into the Death Eaters. Peter said that Dolohov told him that the Marauders would find their true home there -- that their intelligence and ability to create mischief would be appreciated rather than condemned and squashed and punished. That three Purebloods and a werewolf surely belonged with Dolohov's side, not Albus Dumbledore's. That of course Gryffindors belonged as much as Slytherins, because the Dark Lord appreciated bravery as much as cunning. He promised they'd be together -- Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus.
Peter said he regretted taking the Mark as soon as he'd gone through with it -- well, of course he said that to us. He was the one who listened in to the Prophecy that night, and took it to Voldemort, but he had no idea it meant me. Was going to mean me. He couldn't imagine James and Lily settling down so soon and having a baby when they were still so young.
So -- then my mother got pregnant, but he said he couldn't possibly tell anyone the truth about what he'd done but he did manage to pass to the Order the danger that James and Lily were in. And of course they decided to use the Fidelius Charm, and he thought surely they'd use Sirius as the Secret Keeper and they'd never catch him and everything would be fine. But then Sirius had the idea of using Peter, and making Sirius the bait.
And then all Peter could do was hide and hope no one realised. That worked for a while, he said. Over a year after I was born, they were chasing around after Sirius. But then -- it was Dolohov again. Who worked out that just maybe, it was Peter, and sent him an owl. Peter said that Dolohov said this could be hard, or this could be easy. Either was fine with him. Dolohov also said they knew where Sirius was going to be, but that he didn't think Sirius was actually going to be able to tell them anything and what a terrible, terrible waste that would be, and how hard it would be on Regulus to see that happen if it were all for nothing.
So
He made a deal.
He'd give them my parents. And in exchange, the Death Eaters had to spare Sirius, and Remus, and not just spare them, but protect them. And they kept their side, Peter said, because even though Sirius came out of hiding no one raised their wand against him until he went to the Wizengamot to get Harry, and he should have known that wouldn't work anyway, and Remus was called out of the enclave and given a job at Hogwarts for no reason but to keep that end of Peter's deal.
We asked him -- well, Sally-Anne and Pansy and Ron asked him, I was under my cloak so he didn't know I was there. Why was he hiding as a rat. I mean, wasn't the deal to protect his own life, too? And he said, Voldemort -- the Dark Lord, was how he put it -- didn't keep that one. And he doesn't know why. But Voldemort gave the order to have Peter killed and so he ran and never went back.