"May Your Loyalty Never Waver": Why Wormtail’s Hand Betrayed Him In Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows

Wormtail’s silvery hand was his doom in Deathly Hallows—a moment that had been previously foreshadowed in the Harry Potter series. Peter Pettigrew’s death, which was left out of the Harry Potter movies, was certainly deserved since it had been his betrayal that led to the Potters’ murders. Harry reflected after the man fell at Malfoy Manor that Dumbledore had warned him something like this would happen back in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Harry shared his regret over letting the traitor live. However, it was a subtle moment in Goblet of Fire that truly revealed how Wormtail would die.