Question: Why does Mad Eye point to his left while Harry is looking at him, right before the hedges close in the maze?
Twotall
6th Jun 2016
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
24th Feb 2006
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Question: Why does Voldemort call Peter Pettigrew Wormtail?
Answer: Voldemort was a legilliman, someone who could read other peoples' minds. That is how he learned of Peter Pettigrew's nickname for his animagus form of a rat. Voldemort likely calls Pettigrew that because the name is rather demeaning, and he considers Peter one of his most lowly and cowardly servants.
Answer: They call him that because it reminds them of how traitorous and cowardly he is.
Answer: That was the nickname he had been given at Hogwarts. He and his three friends, who could transform into animals (James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin), all gave each other nicknames relating to their animal forms. Peter becomes a rat, and since rats have hairless tails, they chose to call him "Wormtail."
But that does not answer why Voldemort of all people calls him by the name given him - in secret, mind you - by his closest friends.
Pettigrew could easily have told Voldemort about the nickname himself, and Voldemort chose to use it to imply that he was as close a friend to Peter as the others had been.
Except that Voldemort doesn't see anybody as his friend. Only as his followers to follow out his commands.
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Answer: It's a hint. Mad-Eye (rather Barty Crouch Jr., masquerading as Mad-Eye) would want Harry to win the challenge and get sent to the graveyard, so he gives him a little help.
Twotall
It actually looked like he was pointing at Dumbledore, hinting Harry to look at him.
That wouldn't make any sense; it's just a coincidence.