He was a member of the Butler Inquiry team, chaired by Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, that determined that the intelligence used to declare Iraq's possession of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" was flawed.
The Marauders - James, Sirius, and Remus, all end in 'S,' are loyal members of the Marauders and would never betray the group.
Peter, whose name ends in an 'R,' betrayed the Marauders by giving away James' secret and allowing Sirius to be wrongfully sent to Azkaban.
Piers is described as "a scrawny boy with a face like a rat" and Peter, an Animagus with the ability to turn into a rat, also had "something of the rat linger[ing] around his pointed nose and his very small, watery eyes."
Japanese Scientific Terms; Electrical Engineering; Revised and Enlarged Edition compiled by Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan, Published by the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, 1979.
Russian font version text lost in HTML translation], [English, German, French, Russian], Pergamon Press, London, and VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1966.* Footnote for dictionaries: "Ing." is an abbreviation for the title "Ingenieur" or "Ingeniero" [Engineer], used in several European languages.
Peter Laurie, Electronics Explained: A Handbook for the Layman, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1980.