Martin Pettigrew

**Martin Pettigrew**, born **Martin Kleinwuchs**, was the youngest son of Gustav Kleinwuchs and a Pure-Blood witch, the wife of Edwina Gamp and the father of Peter Pettigrew.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

Martin Kleinwuchs was descended from Emeric Belasco, a Bavarian wizard better known as Emeric the Evil, who was responsible for the creation of Lycanthropy. Emeric's daughter Lucretia Belasco married into the Kleinwuchs family. By the time of Martin's birth the Kleinwuchs had risen to become one of the darkest and most prominent Houses of Europe.

The forged papers created for his false identity of Martin Pettigrew stated that his mother had been a Muggle and his father a Half-blood, when in truth both had been Pure-blood.

### Early Life

Martin was the youngest child of Pureblood Wizard Gustav Kleinwuchs, the Left Hand of Grindelwald. Martin was presumably born and raised in Germany, the ancestral homeland of the Kleinwuchs family, as he lived in Dresden when it was bombed in 1945. All of Martin's siblings were killed, but he and his father survived and were hidden in Magical Britain under the false identities of George and Martin Pettigrew by The Department of Mysteries in exchange for his father’s lycanthropy research. They assigned Augustus Rookwood as the Pettigrew's handler to help them integrate into British society and to keep an eye on them, but Rookwood soon switched loyalties from the Unspeakables to George within 2 months.

Rookwood and Martin were supposedly never close enough to be considered friends, but Rookwood still had great admiration for Martin’s power and intelligence.

Around 1959 Martin married Edwina Gamp, who at 29 was several years older than him, moving into a house in Upper Appleby. Martin and his father hoped to secure House Gamp's Wizengamot seat and fortune for Martin and Edwina's future son, but they were thwarted by the Gamp charter, whose lords were not required to carry the Gamp name, but were required to have four wizarding grandparents. Martin’s false documents listed his mother as a Muggle. Edwina gave birth to a son named Peter Pettigrew, but did not die in childbirth as George and Martin had hoped.

At some point around this time Martin began working towards a Potions Mastery, planning to eventually become a Healer.

In 1963 George was on his death bed, partly due to old injuries from the war, where he spoke with Martin of their plans for Martin's son Peter, whose children could inherit the Gamp Lordship if their mother was Pureblood. Edwina overheard them speaking and also heard that they were planning to kill her soon if she didn't die of illness soon. Edwina fatally poisoned George and not long afterwards sabotaged one of Martin's potions to make it explode, killing him immediately.

### Legacy

As Martin's son Peter was only two at the time of his death, he had no memory of his father and knew only what his supposedly sickly mother told him. Peter eventually learned the truth about his father and his heritage from Augustus Rookwood, who was his DADA instructor during his second year at Hogwarts. Rookwood became a mentor to Peter, leading to Peter eventually joining Voldemort's Death Eaters, and finishing his father and grandfather's research on morphic resonance, gaining the ability to control rats similair to the way a parselmouth controls snakes.

## Personality & Traits

Martin was as ruthless as his father, marrying Edwina Gamp for the sole purpose of gaining access to her ancestral wealth and political power, and when Edwina did not die in childbirth or of illness like he and his father had hoped they began to plot her murder. It is unclear how he felt towards Peter.

## Magical Abilities & Skills

Augustus Rookwood described Martin as "a man of extraordinary intelligence and limitless potential". Peter believes Martin would have eventually solved the problem of morphic resonance if he had not been murdered.

## Behind the Scenes

TSM has said that it's possible that no one would have heard of Lord Voldemort if Martin Pettigrew hadn't been murdered in 1963, but's also possible that Voldemort would have *won* if Martin Pettigrew had joined the Death Eaters' Inner Circle.

## Canon Divergence

Martin Pettigrew is an original character of the Prince of Slytherin universe, as Peter's only mentioned relative is his mother.

## References

Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 123 - The Hunting of Sirius Black (Pt 2),

Peter reveals his treachery and family lineage in the Shrieking Shack.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 120 - What's Past is Prologue (Pt 2),

Peter visits the Pettigrew Vault, discovers his grandfather's true identity, and kills his mother.

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Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 95 - Back to School (Pt 2),

Peter's homunculus shows Harry a memory of his meeting with Rookwood.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 120 - What's Past is Prologue (Pt 2),

Peter Pettigrew meets Remus Lupin on the Hogwarts Express, and they discuss their respective families.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 134 - The Kings of Rats,

Peter reveals his power over rats to Rookwood.