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Originally Posted by Nerwen
Okay, that's a point. "Wormtail" is an obvious... er... reference, let us say. And as you say, it doesn't quite work.
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So at least it's not just me.
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Not sure about the missing finger. It may be simply that Rowling wanted to include the old tradition that a shapeshifter's injuries persist from one form to another, and just happened to pick "missing digit" as the telltale mutilation, when it could as easily have been a torn ear, or something.
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Two fingers could have worked even better to fool the MoM of Pettigrew's death, but no, we need to leave nine...
Bet it was his Ring finger.
