I wonder though if someone as prone to manipulation as Dumbledore wouldn’t have thought Pettigrew to be an acceptable second choice: as you said everyone underestimates Pettigrew and I think Dumbledore would have estimated — wrongly, as it happens — that so does Voldemort. And, in case the Potters’ secret needed revealing, Pettigrew might not be him, but I think Dumbledore would have been confident in his abilities to bend Peter to his will: after all, it’s “only” Peter.
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Date: 2023-03-06 05:04 pm (UTC)I wonder though if someone as prone to manipulation as Dumbledore wouldn’t have thought Pettigrew to be an acceptable second choice: as you said everyone underestimates Pettigrew and I think Dumbledore would have estimated — wrongly, as it happens — that so does Voldemort. And, in case the Potters’ secret needed revealing, Pettigrew might not be him, but I think Dumbledore would have been confident in his abilities to bend Peter to his will: after all, it’s “only” Peter.