#anti peter pettigrew

[missdblack22]

Slughorn:

- Tells Voldemort about Horrocruxes

- Hides Dumbledore he told Voldemort about the Horrocruxes

- Haves a club about the students who can connect in the high of the society and being useful for him in a future

- Ignores the students who aren't in this club

- Harry (his favorite student's son) has to give him alcohol for talking about the horrocrux

(and not talking about him ignores how his students become a death eater and the Severus' bullying by the Marauders)

I don't get this idea that Snape is the worst teacher at Hogwarts

Yes, he is a bullying snarky ass but the worst teacher? Compared to others?

Hagrid -uses magic to attack a child because their parent insulted Dumbledore -had students smuggle an illegal baby dragon out of school to save his ass and berated them for breaking the rules to do it -sends students alone to search for injured unicorn while there is a unicorn-killing monster around -sends students to chat with his buddy giant spider whose kids try to eat them -started his first lesson with an animal that will murder you if you offend it -wasted a year on flobberworms -spent a year forcing students to take care of his illegal-experimental-creature-breeding-projects resulting in multiple students getting injured and wasting a whole year on nothing -threatened to turn a student into a ferret after he had already been turned into one and smashed against the ground multiple times (because the student refused to spend extra time outside the class taking care of his illegal-experimental-creature-breeding-projects) -made students promise to hang out with his giant brother who has been beating him for months

McGonagall -uses live animals as transfiguration practice for students and lets them keep the results -pulls a student by the ear -sends students into the dark forest as a punishment to look for a monster that's killing the unicorns -bends the school rules for Gryffindors to allow Harry on the team and buys him the best broom despite first years not being allowed one and there being poor students who need help more -forbade Neville to have passwords to enter the common room during the time a mass murderer was on the loose who had already tried to break into the Gryffindor common room twice, succeeded the second time and tried to murder a Gryffindor student.

Even Lupin -hid the fact a mass murderer is animagus (just to save his reputation) -hid the fact that the same wanted mass murderer knows hidden ways into the school and has helped create a map that can track everyone and show those hidden entrances (despite knowing he is trying to kill Harry - the son of a man who did everything he could to make Lupin feel accepted) -continued to keep those things secret after the mass murderer broke into the school twice and tried to murder a student (again to save his reputation with Dumbledore) -forgot to take a potion that keeps him from turning into a murderous beast -continues not telling Dumbledore that there is a map that can track everyone at school and shows hidden places

Umbridge, fake Moody, Quirrell and Lockhart all tried to murder at least one student among other things like having them engrave stuff on their body as punishment, impersonating a person and using forbidden curses in front of and on students, trying to erase their memories, etc…

And don't get me started on Dumbledore - putting a three-headed dog behind the door easily unlocked by an 11-year-old, keeping the school open with a deadly beast roaming about, keeping it a secret from parents that he hired a werewolf, letting a student continue trying to kill him and getting others nearly killed instead,...

What did Snape do? -insult students -favour Slytherins -threaten to poison a toad -Throw a jar at a student once

The worst he ever did was throw a jar at Harry after he found him snooping in his memories where he is tortured by James and Sirus and it's the only time he tries to physically hurt a student.

He is far from pleasant but at least with Snape you don't have to worry about getting seriously injured or eaten alive or suffering a slow and painful death!

[fluffyneondinosaur]

"the marauders had the best kind of friendship"

I don't believe it.

Sirius wished it was the full moon without regard for Remus' pain.

James used Peter as his personal cheerleader to boost his ego, and Sirius made fun of Peter for it.

James, Sirius, and Peter went and attacked Severus in front of a crowd because they knew that even though Remus was a prefect, he wouldn't stop them.

Remus could probably never quite see them the same after that, and began acting differently around them, especially after James started dating Lily, and went behind her back to continue to torment Sev.

After they graduate, James and Sirius believe that Remus is a traitor, because he seemed less comfortable with them after SWM.

So instead of making Remus secret keeper, they have it be Peter, because "no one will suspect him". Wtf? What's that supposed to mean? That no one will suspect him because no one thinks that he's their friend, or because everyone thinks he's too cowardly?

And look where it ended, James dead, Peter a traitor, Sirius in Azkaban, and Remus grieving because he lost all his (questionable) friends in one night.

[thatlittlefangirl]

Meet the Young Marauders!

James "Don't make me hex you, Evans" Potter

Sirius "I wish it was a full moon" Black

Peter *cheerleader for absolutely no reason* Pettigrew

Remus *ignores/avoids his prefect responsibilities* Lupin

And they're queer feminists who fight Dark Arts!!

[sevsbestfriend]

I usually write fics here but I just wanna rant rn.

Sometimes I got to old posts and stuff, either to get new ideas or just see what the fuck is going on with the other side of the fandom.

The people coming to James defense or crazy, like on one hand they are like 'oh he was only human, he grew as a person otherwise how would lily love him?'

We literally have cannon confirmation that the fucking prat didn't stop hexing people, he just learned to hide it better. Sirius and Remus confirmed this when they called Severus a 'special case'. I don't give a shit about them saying he attacked first, you better believe I am attacking first if I come across a guy who has stripped me naked in public when I didn't do shit to him. (Or the other guy who tried to get me killed by bloody werewolf) Like wtf are you even talking about at that point???

Also, Harry comes across a detention report of them hexing another student in their 7th year. So uhm...yeah.

Then they are like 'oh Severus hates him so his memories are biased'

Did you morons even read the books?? Pensive memories are unbiased, any manipulation is extremely apparent as we saw in Slughorns case. So NO they aren't biased that extremely uncomfortable read of SWM? it's fucking canon in its truest sense.

Also, how in the ever living hippogryph does a guy who strips people naked for fun change so much that he becomes head boy??

It's pretty simple, he doesn't. He learns to hide it better and given the fact that this person has always been given the benefit of the doubt, it is very easy for them to their nature.

Dude had a map that showed him everyone's real time location and an invisibility cloak, he could damn well harass anyone in isolated corners of the castle if he wished. Which is exactly what he did.

Also, these people love to claim how 'lily only approved of him cause he changed.'

To that I say, Who the fuck is Lily?? Mother Teresa??

How is she the ultimate decider of what is good and bad and at the same time, completely right in dating someone who stripped another student makes after a year (or 2) of the event??

Don't get me wrong, she doesn't owe Severus anything, really, but seriously this is just ridiculous. Like if I was a woman, I would be genuinely terrified of someone like that, especially when they got away with no real consequences what so ever.

James was a prick with a very good PR team for friends and teachers. That's really it, it is often said that good looking people can get away with a lot of things and James is just a prime example of that.

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Also...BRAVE?? Dude had 2 cheat items and the advantage of a Pureblood upbringing and was still too PUSSY to face Severus alone. Yeah..what a real Gryphindor that one. Scrams bravery to you doesn't it? He did this all the way till 17, so yeah he definitely was super important in the order right??

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Dumbledore invested quite a bit in the Marauders with his blatant favoritism and letting a werewolf in the school risking his own position as a headmaster.

And...they all turned to be bloody useless. With only James being useful because of his participation in the birth of Harry Potter.

Sirius in his madness derailed a murder investigation for a fucking decade.

Remus, I genuinely can't remember anything substantial Remus did, except for letting someone he believed was a murderer into Hogwarts and never telling Dumbledore that they were Animagus to begin with.

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Seriously, the most useful person in the war had to literally beg on his knees for the man to use him. Even fate was like, for fucks sake, just give this guy a chance already.

[maxdibert]

I think the reason I sympathise with Sirius, rather than hate him as viscerally as I hate James, is because Sirius spent 12 years in Azkaban, which means that (even though he had nothing to do with that crime) he ended up paying for his actions. He was a bully and a school tormentor, and he almost killed a fellow student with total impunity, but then the universe paid him back by killing his friends and putting him in prison for 12 years unjustly. He paid his debt. I believe in rehabilitation and paying your debts to society, and Sirius did that, so after that, I can empathise with him even though he was an idiot.

Remus had a lesser debt as he wasn’t the instigator but was complicit, yet he ended up being a pathetic man who had to be lectured by an 18-year-old about how terribly he was behaving, so in a way, he also served his sentence. Peter ended up being the servant to his victim, which is a fantastic irony, so he paid as well.

James Potter didn’t pay. James Potter lived peacefully, died fast without suffering, and didn’t pay. He was a bully and an abuser, and he didn’t pay, and that’s why I cannot feel even the slightest bit of empathy for him. Even Peter seems more likeable because he also served his sentence. But not James. James was the ringleader and the main instigator, and then it was as if nothing happened. So, I’m actually quite glad that at least he didn’t get to see his son grow up—that’s the least he deserved. He could also have watched his wife die—it’s a shame Voldemort killed him first.

[potions-of-dark-devotion]

Everyone Dreams of Going to Hogwarts

Every fan of Harry Potter has indulged in the fantasy of waiting for an Owl to deliver the fateful letter that will declare your future as a witch or wizard at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. Every one of us old or young had dreamed of riding the train at Kings Cross Station, taking the boats across the black lake and seeing the castle for the first time, of having dinner in the great hall, of finally figuring out where you belong in the world and it just feeling right. They fantasize about seeing their common room for the first time finally feeling that warm sense of belonging and meeting the friends that you will keep for the rest of your life. Every single one of us had fantasized about meeting our professors, exploring the grounds and discovering our latent potential. It’s a comfort for many of us and happy place to go in our minds to escape reality.

For the witches and wizards of the Wizarding World that childhood fantasy is their reality. They too wait with bated breath for their letters. They too fantasize about finally feeling that “at home” feeling, the feeling that you finally belong to something bigger and more wonderful than their wildest dreams. The chance to prove themselves. The chance to start over for many, the chance to leave their sometimes abusive homes for a place that finally actually feels like home to them. Harry was one of those people. Dumbledore was one of those people. Hermione, Ron and even Neville all find this sense of belonging sooner or later. They all find their forever home at Hogwarts the way we all dream.

Now imagine being Seveurs Snape.

You live in a house with a father that doesn’t understand you and screams and yells at you and your mother on a daily basis and you feel so alone in the world. You have one peer who appreciates in you the magic that allows you to rise above the squaller and cruelty in which you live. You have one friend who sees you for who you are and appreciates that about you truly, while being forced to inhabit a world that not only doesn’t understand you but is actually often openly hostile to you. Hogwarts, you beleive, will be your escape from this hell, and best of all you get to take this wonderful friend with you. You are being whisked away to a fairy tale castle where dreams come true and you will finally feel safe and finally feel a real sense of home. You stay up all night all week waiting by the door in the early morning for the letter that is finally going to change your life. You pour over it with your best friend, going over every aspect of this incredible opportunity in your mind over and over. You’re planning how you’ll make the most of it. You finally let yourself look forward to something, to open your heart to something, to dream of something. Your greatest hearts desire to this moment is finally coming true.

Then you get on the train.

And the hell begins before the first day has ever even started. Your friend is angry at you for something entirely out of your control, and even though you make up destiny has deigned that on this day you will meet the person that will destroy any hope you ever entertained of Hogwarts being a home at all. His name is James Potter. His partners in the crimes which will forever change your life are Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black. From the moment you meet you are ridiculed by them, physically abused by them, and the worst part is from this day forward it is never going to end.

Your best friend is put not just in a different house but in the house that hates your house the most, and from this day forward you will forever have a strain on the only true friendship you’ve ever had. From this day forward you will have to meet them either in secret or at least in private to avoid angering both your houses at best and facing ridicule at worst. The moments you stole with this friend in the muggle hell will ironically be the only moments of peace you’ll truly have with them. Not only that, but they are sorted into the same house that 4 of your worst tormentors reside in.

But it’s even worse. Because although at home you can escape form your father and potential school bullies by hiding yourself away in some nook or cranny, making yourself scarce, staying out late at night in the woods or just being as quiet as possible; you will never be able to escape the torment that now awaits every day. You have classes with them, you run into them, you see them trying to take away the only friend you have every day. And it doesn’t even end there, now they have a tracking device that you don’t know about, but somehow they manage to find you no matter where you hide. No matter where you go they are somehow always there. No matter who you talk to, they all act like you’re crazy. Because none of the other professors or students know about the marauders map they find you strange for jumping at every blow of the wind. Because they don’t know about the map they don’t believe you at all when you try to explain that somehow James Potter and his gang seem to pop up conveniently every single place you go to hide and they even blame you for trying to figure out how to protect yourself. They tell you you’re bringing it on yourself for being too weird or too jumpy or too nosy. Even your best friend in the world is starting to doubt you. You feel like you’re going insane.

So you try to have your tormentors expelled. You try so hard to figure out something, anything that will end the days on end of suffering and abuse. But you’re the weird kid. You’re the ugly kid. You’re the emo goth kid. Nobody gives a shit about you and you know it. You know you’re on your own. You’re a half blood, so the the people in your house who were supposed to have your back ignore you at best and tease you about it at worst for letting Gryffindor students get the best of you. Any hope you had of Hogwarts being your home has been destroyed.

So you try to follow James and The Gang around. Yes everyone sees you as creepy for this, becusse you don’t have a map that magically tells you where they will be at all times. You have to go about it the old fashioned way. You hide behind bushes, you peak around corners. Yes everyone finds you creepy now on top of everything else, but it’ll be worth it if you can finally enjoy what was promised to you at age 11, a home. You’ll finally be able to breathe.

But no. Instead what happens is your tormentors figure out that you know that they are putting the lives of students in danger by wandering the grounds with a werewolf against the wishes of the headmaster. You know that if you can just prove it that the torment will be over, but what you don’t know is that they are one step ahead of you, and for the unimaginable crime of trying to thwart them; they are going to plan to inflict a dangerous illness of lycanthropy on you at best, maul you to death at worst. You are close to both your proof and your death when one of them gets cold feet at the last minute and decides he doesn’t in fact want to go to prison.

You think “maybe it’s finally over now”, “maybe everyone will see now that they are cruel, that this is what they’re really like”, “maybe I’ll finally get a moment of peace, maybe Dumbledore and Lily will finally beleive me”. But no. Of course not. Because remember, you’re the weird emo Slytherin kid and your life is secondary. It always has been. Dumbledore swears you to secrecy to protect one of your tormentors, so you get no justice for the attempt on your life. Because Dumbledore had forbidden you to speak about your traumatic experience of almost being murdered, your best friend doesn’t beleive you at all and instead blames you for sneaking around. They don’t even give you the chance to defend or explain yourself. Instead you’re made out to be the creepy bad guy who wants to destroy the Potter Gang out of jealously.

Worst of all you secretly suspect that your best friend has a thing for the person who makes your life a living hell every single day. You see the stolen glances and the way they look at each other, the way she is never totally on your side. You tell yourself that this is all in your head, that Lily would never betray you that way. That all the hours you spent dreaming of Hogwarts together will mean more than a crush. But oh, sadly you are very wrong there too.

Not even a few months after attempting to take your life your abusers are back at again. Remorseless as ever they hunt you down like dogs and follow your every footstep. You haven’t a moment of peace even to do your normal school work. The only place you are safe is your common room, and even then you can’t let your guard down.

Then one day it happens.

The little pieces of happiness that you’ve managed to tuck away from yourself are cruelly ripped away. They manage to find you again. The torment us as usual. They all gang up on you, each taking a go for their own amusement. They fling you on your back, force you to vomit, force you to listen to their emotional abuse while they make a go at hitting on your best friend, and the torment does not end there. Now they are picking you up off the ground and taking off your clothes. Now on top of every other humiliation they have amused themselves by sexually humiliating you in front of everyone in your class including your closest ally. Every part of you is on fire inside and out and the depth of horror and hurt inside you is so big you don’t know what to do with the feeling. Then your friend finally steps in. But now you’re so hurt and angry that it’s bursting out of you in the worst possible ways.

Now the worst thing finally happens.

You call your best friend a slur; something you know will hurt them more than any other thing, because you’re destroyed, because you’re angry at them for letting it get this far, because you’re humiliated and because you’re tired of not being held in a higher regard than the person who has ruined your life; because you’re sick of their moralizing and their pitty.

Now you’ve lost the only person you’ve ever really felt close to. Now you’ve lost any human sympathy forever.

And it’s not over yet. Now you’re upside down again. And this time they aren’t content with exposing the rest of your body for the world to see. Now they are out for blood, and the revenge they have settled on is Sexual Assault. They remove your underwear to expose your most private parts to the world and there is nothing you can do about it. Nowhere you can go. No one who cares. No one who will come to your rescue.

Snape must have felt so hopeless it’s a wonder he didn’t try to end his life. People have done so over much less.

Hogwarts was never truly a home for Severus Snape. Even in adulthood he works in the place that was the site of innumerable traumas and heartaches. Everyday he faces trigger after trigger of the worst day of his life, while protecting the progeny of the only person he ever felt close to and the person who cruelly ripped away any chance he had at normal life. This is why I feel for Severus Snape so much in every scene. He is confronted every day with the worst memories a person can endure yet he chooses to be brave anyway. He chooses to do the right thing anyway. He puts other people’s well-being first anyway. He chooses the side of the light beyond all that had conspired to make a sociopath out of him. He holds a place in his heart for love and he protects that love with his entire being. Platonic love is just as powerful as romantic love and Severus Snape is the perfect example of this. A person even in the worst circumstances can still make the most difference in the world, can still choose to be their own person and make their own choices. Even when the world is wholly against him, Severus Snape is the pinnacle of integrity.

This is why he’s my favorite character. He’s the bravest character in the narrative, but he’s also the character with the most integrity.

[expectopatronum18]

I don't know why people criticize fics where Peter is in absolute awe of james and sirius. Lyk sure, tht wasn't the only personality trait he had. But in the one scene we get of the marauders together he's literally cheering and clapping in awe at James. It's a very, if not the most, important part of his personality...idk if he does that just to feed their egos or if he genuinely finds his big protective friends tht impressive, but that's an important part of the decisions he makes later on. He seal clapped for james, sirius and remus until he found someone much stronger to protect him. I can see why ppl would want more than the pathetic coward we get in canon but that is one of his most important personality traits.

[not-rab]

part five of Music and Memories, a Marauders band AU

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part four | part six

[roseburning]

Watching "Prisoner of Azkaban" and it's amazing how they set everything for the mystery so everything is so satisfactory (is that the word) when it all pays off and we find out that Remus and Sirius were actually friends along.

And then Severus Snape comes in and the smile on my face wears off. Although it is satisfactory see the results of his investigations throughout the movie and all coming together in that scene.

I just remember that there's two marauders there and he's inevitably is going to get mocked and humiliated.

[snape-fans]

Okay, but can we talk about how Marauders fans have questionable things? Example: They hate Snape but love Regulus, Evan, Barty. The cules are much worse than severus

Or that they say that Snape's friends are bad, when the marauders were too. Another example: Lily and Remus said that James liked to practice spells on children

The Marauders were not self-centered: Yes, they were. No matter how much they doubt it, they were.

"Regulus has a better story than Snape" No, he doesn't. He's just a Death Eater and he died, he has no history.

"James changed" James I don't even think he would have changed, he did everything for Lily not by his will. And I'm sure he would have continued to bother Snape if he were alive. Example: Sirius was still bothering Snape as an adult, Sirius and James are the same shit. What makes you think James changed?

"Severus deserved everything the Marauders and his father did to him" yes, I've also seen those comments on TikTok. That's disgusting, really disgusting.

"Lily didn't even laugh at Snape's joke." I know, but I was going to do it. In the books you can see how Lily almost laughs or smiles. He is your friend and maybe in such a situation you don't laugh or you just say stop. You intervene!

I was wrong about Mary and Dorcas. Excuse me

[m00neroni]

I don't know how controversial this take will be but. It genuinely confuses me the conversation of why it is "wrong" to dislike Peter Pettigrew as a character, especially when talking in canon context.

While we should agree that he is a key component of the Marauders group and he shouldn't be excluded if we are writing a inside canon universe due to this (I have myself decided not to include him in some fics, though, because luckily I can choose what to do with my writing and what not. this doesn't mean it should be the norm, just my preference), there's no information about him that can make me actually like him.

Peter committed the greatest betrayal, got his best friends killed and sold a toddler to Voldemort (and allegedly, he passed crucial information to the Death Eaters, resulting on the death of many members of the Order). Then, he proceeded to frame an innocent man, kill twelve people and hid as a rat living a comfortable life with the Weasleys. Not content with that, thirteen years later, Peter tried to convince said toddler he sold to Voldemort that he was innocent, no hesitation. And he killed Cedric Diggory as well, let's not forget this.

Peter shows remorse at the very end of his life, and only then. We can argue if he is or not a good character, but a likeable one? A redeemable one? He is the worst of the saga, the reason Harry was orphaned and raised in an abusive home. Acting as people has to like him is... well, no?

This doesn't mean you can't/shouldn't like him, but ignoring his actions will never sit right with me.

[pookiebearissilly]

why am i getting pro-marauders shit on my timeline PLEASE NO GO AWAY

[soraya-snape]

'Cause karma is Seveurs Snape outliving all of his bullies

Karma is a god

Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend

Karma's a relaxing thought

Aren't you envious that for you it's not?

Love thinking about this fact and added it to Karma by TaylorSwift. Even better considering that the worst of them didn't even got the chance to celebrate his 22nd birthday. James Potter doesn't deserve 22 by Taylor Swift.

[thatlittlefangirl]

Crazy headcanon I remember coming across

During my first contact with HP fandom, I remember somehow coming across a headcanon that I thought canon at the time since I was ignorant at the time and that now I think is very stupid: "The reason the Marauders started bullying Snape is because Remus is dyslexic (or another thing about reading, I forgot) and Snape mocked him everytime he got called to read in class" First of all, What the fuck???? Secong of all, I ALMOST believed it but as I said, I loved Snape from the beginning so I refused to believe it and THANK MERLIN I DID. Marauders fans will go through everything to make Snape look like the bad guy istg. Edit: It apparently comes from ATYD... Why am I not surprised?

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

There's this one thing that confused the hell out of me in Prisoner of Azkaban.

So in the third book, Harry talked Remus and Sirius out of killing Peter. Later he expresses regret about letting him go and Dumbledore just pats him on the head and goes "don't worry you did the right thing, now Peter is indebted to you and that kind of debt is a very powerful magic" or something like that. I might be mistaken. Been almost a whole decade since I read the books but I remember the gist of it.

Except... we never see that """magic""" in action. Peter kidnaps him literally next year and clearly has no issue using him to resurrect Voldemort. Then he spends the rest of the books not lifting a single finger to help Harry and co.

Oh waaaait. He tried to strangle Harry and had to be reminded that he'd spared him for him to only hesitate. Then the hand Voldemort gave him proceeded to turn on him and strangle him to death. Lol nvm my mistake. :P

Like... that's it?? That was the result of the powerful wizard debt magic?

Dumbledore spews so much bs throughout the series. I have no idea why I ever liked him.

Well, the thing is, this is a bit of a departure from the blog as it's not really about JKR and why she does the things she does, or any author for that matter, it's about ignoring them and trying to make sense of the world without them (which means taking everything we see about things like wizard debt magic into account and deciding what it is)

But I suppose we can take a little break.

If anon's referring to the time I said it was my favorite, anon will remember I didn't say it didn't have problems. I was picking against the others.

And yes.

That was it.

I think JKR was trying to have a "It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Golllum" moment (not that she ever blatantly rips off Lord of the Rings, god forbid, no, she's never done that) where Harry is reminded that saving a life is a good thing and perhaps in time we will all have our purpose/redemption.

It's just she kind of forgot about it until the last moment where Peter momentarily chooses not to save his own skin and dies immediately in a hilariously horrible way.

And then brings up wizarding debt so that Severus has one to James, who died/Severus didn't beg to save him, and uh... I guess means he owes Harry somehow?

But yes, that's wizard debt, that's it.

[birdiebirdjay]

my thoughts on the marauders

the numbers aren't rankings btw (also i sound dead in this post because. i am dead inside rn. kjfdjkdfahkj help me)

fuck james, only useful thing he did in life was get laid and help create BWL

fuck sirius but at least he suffered :/ i guess he was an ok father figure but still a shit person + classist (like james). (upon further reflection, he wasn't even that great of a father figure- harry loved and relied on him though so?) edit: okay i have realized my thoughts on sirius are kind of complicated. like, yes, the logical part of my mind hates him. BUT, a part of me does like him, even though i constantly feel guilty about it lol. i accept that he's a bad person who did bad things, but i can't help but feel bad for him, you know?

fuck pettigrew, hate him, fucking creep and weirdo lived as MULTIPLE LITTLE KIDS' PET RAT AND SLEPT IN THE SAME BED WITH THOSE KIDS AND DID GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE, but it was the marauders fault he betrayed them imo. they never treated him as an equal despite what fanon will tell you.

okay controversial but. teen remus was a victim of james & sirius. like. the marauders were such a stupid classist dynamic of a friend group, i ship prongsfoot because they're the only two that are dickheads enough to match each other. anyways, remus' thing was: he got into a bad situation and Could Not Get Out. his problem solving Thing is just run away, run away, run away, and never look back. at hogwarts, he couldn't do that. there were super popular kids who were his 'friends' and knew his deepest darkest secret. if he hadn't befriended them by luck on the train, he'd probably be another severus, because james and sirius are, again, classist dicks. but, as he did befriend them, he had nowhere to go after that which. as a dude with a fucked up childhood + trust issues + commitment/staying in one place issues,,, that sounds like a nightmare. as an adult tho the things he did were. unacceptable. i feel like they are direct effects from his fucked up youth? like he never got to grow up properly mentally/emotionally? he's still in the 'run away run away run away' mentality always. add being constantly discriminated against bc of something you cant control that people hate you for and its just. kskdhskshf. his life sounds like a nightmare i just can't help but feel for him :(