#character: peter pettigrew

[hprecfest]

CATCH-UP RECS FROM DREAMWIDTH & ELSEWHERE

Day 8

Snake Charmer (1,924words) by perverse_idyll

Harry Potter/Severus Snape || rec

Harry has feelings about Severus' damaged voice. Severus decides to return the favour.

Day 9

To The Letter (1,738 words) by pauraque

Argus Filch/Peter Pettigrew || rec

Summary: Snow shoveled, detention served, but Filch doesn't send him away.

Day 10

A Hogwarts Christmas Anthology (16,051 words) by dueltastic

Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape || rec

The 1998 annual Hogwarts Christmas Anthology, a traditional compendium of seasonal tales, is available at Flourish & Blotts of London for the sum of four Galleons and six Sickles.

Day 14

Harry Potter and Seven Years of Chaos (9 works - 1,259,579 words) by Severitus812 (JessalynMichele)

gen / assorted || rec

First year summary Harry’s survived impossible odds all his life: his hateful relatives, their abrupt decision to kick him out, and then years spent staying alive on the streets of London. He’s excellent at surviving impossible situations. His magic powers don’t hurt his odds at all either. And now? Getting to go to a school filled with other magical students? Getting a gang of his own? Fighting headmasters who don’t seem to like him and learning occlumency from his professor? Life is brill now. Life is not so ‘brill’ for Severus Snape who sees a small boy covered in scars and filled with trauma and worries about how to best fulfill his vow to keep the boy safe when the boy has a knack for brewing constant chaos.

Day 14

Houses (3 works - 82,661 words) by orphan_account

Scorpius Malfoy/James Sirius Potter || rec

Scorpius Malfoy goes away to school. And James Potter's legs keep invading his personal space.

[emaswanned]

why is this so accurate, jesus

Sirius has a brilliant sense of direction. Like phenomenal. He walks through a city one time and he can basically find his way around. He always knows where north is. He also has amazing spacial awareness. He walks into a room and knows where everything and everyone is. He's very clumsy but it's mostly an act. He just loves flinging his body dramatically around, draping himself over surfaces, letting his limbs fly, but the second he needs to be stealthy. He is STEALTHY. and surprisingly graceful.

James has great spacial awareness when hes on the quidditch pitch but at no other times bc hes so used to things revolving around him. Like he wont move out of the way if he's about to crash into u in the corridor but it's not because he's rude, it's just that everyone moves for him, and they really do. His sense of direction is okay but he gets distracted and wanders off easily.

Remus has a good sense of direction bc he is razor focused on it, and he has good spatial awareness bc of his heightened senses but never pays much attention to it so he does bump into people, especially when he's tired or it's after a moon.

Pete is clumsy, but very observant. He has an excellent nose for finding his way. He can somehow go to a brand new town and find the pub in 30 seconds flat. He will always find the BEST hidden gems with no signage or indication. The others ask him how he does it and he just shrugs and says he follows his nose.

Reg has an absolutely terrible sense of direction. And he hates it. Always has about 5 maps on hand because he doesn't like not knowing where he is, but he walks off in the complete wrong direction half the time. His first instinct in any situation is to follow Sirius and he finds himself doing it subconsciously sometimes and HATES it. He has good spacial awareness though, even better than Sirius because he's flat out paranoid.

[books-all-i-need]

"Let's join the Marauders fandom"

I said with joy

I was then shot 57 times

[snarky-magpie]

Let's get one thing straight. Or gay. There's only one people pleaser in the Marauders group, and it's Remus Freaking Lupin. Not James, definitely not Sirius (sheesh), and Peter only when it suits his agenda. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[muggleborn-slytherpuff]

James: Why isn’t the statue smirking at me?

Lily: It isn’t smirking at anyone, they’re all just imagining it.

James: Three of us saw it, Lily. How do you explain that?

Lily: *points at Remus* Sleep deprivation. *points at Peter* Paranoia. *points at Sirius* Delusional personality disorder.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

Hello!! So, I saw an argument about Harry's uhm looks? I guess. A lot of people basically headcanon him as someone buff. I digress, I'm part of the uhm more realistic? group. Harry's been starved and abused his entire life. I doubt he'll gain the weight and the height everyone else wants him to have. Years later. maybe. But in 6th year? While on the run? 3 years after the war? Doubt. do you think he would be able to get super tall and buff? Also, do you think its possible he used the same methods the dursleys used to punish himself?

I mean, anyone can headcanon whatever they want, but, I'll try to explain via quotes, what Harry's height and muscle situation is likely to be. I believe the reasons some headcanon him as buff and tall are:

Harry had pinned Mundungus against the wall of the pub by the throat. Holding him fast with one hand, he pulled out his wand.

(HBP)

He lifts Mundungus by his throat with one hand easily, and he practices Quidditch like 3 times a week at least. This implies that Harry has some muscle on him.

And he's mentioned to be James' height when he's 17:

James was exactly the same height as Harry.

(DH)

Which was supposedly tall, according to both, Harry:

tall and untidy-haired like Harry, the smoky, shadowy form of James Potter

(GoF)

And Voldemort:

the tall black-haired man in his glasses

(DH)

Now, let's put Harry's height in the context of other character heights. Particularly of interest are characters taller than him, to get an image of how tall is "tall." And some shorter characters to help figure out his exact height.

Sirius, Ron, Voldemort, and Dumbledore are all taller than Harry and exceptionally tall in general. They are each likely to be over 6 feet tall, making Harry likely less than 6' (183 cm). Supporting this is this quote:

Once the painful transformation was complete he was more than six feet tall, and from what he could tell from his well-muscled arms, powerfully built.

(DH)

This means Harry is less than 6' and isn't super buff. But, I want to get to his specific height, because I have a lot to say about character heights.

Like, Dumbledore is probably the tallest character who isn't a half-giant because he's towering over everyone except Hagrid and Maxime. In book 6, he's literally taller than all the inferi in the cave:

Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too,

(HBP)

And Abeforth (who's as tall as Dumbledore) is taller than Ron, who's one of the other tallest characters in the books:

Ron looked slightly sick. Aberforth stood up, tall as Albus, and suddenly terrible in his anger and the intensity of his pain.

(DH)

Making the Dumbledores really tall. My estimate is around a whooping 6'5 (195 cm).

Sirius is mentioned to be taller than Snape, and the tallest Marauder:

said Sirius, standing up. He was rather taller than Snape

(OotP)

To Sirius’s right stood Pettigrew, more than a head shorter

(DH)

A head, in height, should be around one foot (30.48 cm). As the average height of a man in England in 1998 was around 5'8 (174.4 cm), this would make Sirius around 6'2 (188 cm), therefore taller than average, and Pettigrew around 5'2 (157 cm), shorter than the average, but still both at a reasonable height.

Ron is almost as tall as the twins at 11:

“Shut up,” said Ron again. He was almost as tall as the twins already and his nose was still pink where his mother had rubbed it.

(PS)

And, just, really tall in general:

He stepped forward. Not as tall as Ron, he had to crane his neck to read the yellowish label affixed to the shelf right beneath the dusty glass ball.

(OotP)

So I estimate Ron at around 6'3 (190 cm).

Voldemort who grew up on war rations is still described very consistently as tall, regardless of childhood malnourishment:

He was his handsome father in miniature, tall for eleven years old, dark-haired, and pale

(HBP)

tall, pale, dark-haired, and handsome — the teenage Voldemort.

(HBP)

Taller than Bellatrix (who's taller than Harry). Voldemort is also considerably taller than Pettigrew, as he has to bend to reach Pettigrew's arm when both are standing:

Voldemort bent down and pulled out Wormtail’s left arm; he forced the sleeve of Wormtail’s robes up past his elbow

(GoF)

I usually place Voldemort at around the same height as Ron, so 6'3 (190 cm).

Fred and George, though, are mentioned to be shorter and stockier, more similar to Molly's build:

Charlie was built like the twins, shorter and stockier than Percy and Ron, who were both long and lanky.

(GoF)

but are mentioned to shrink to become Harry in book 7:

Hermione and Mundungus were shooting upward; Ron, Fred, and George were shrinking

(DH)

I actually place the twins around 6' (183 cm) so they could be taller than Harry, but shorter than Ron. The twins are likely taller than Charlie.

Bellatrix, as a woman, should also be shorter on average, but considering how tall Sirius is mentioned to be, it appears the Blacks are just considerably taller than the average, even the women:

a tall dark woman with heavy-lidded eyes, who had stood at her trial and proclaimed her continuing allegiance to Lord Voldemort

(OotP)

She was taller than he was, her long black hair rippling down her back, her heavily lidded eyes disdainful as they rested upon him;

(DH)

So I place her at around 6' (183 cm) as well, as an exceptionally tall lady.

So where does this place Harry?

During the first 4 books, Harry is short and small for his age. When he's 13, he and Hermione are bit shorter than Pettigrew:

He was a very short man, hardly taller than Harry and Hermione.

(PoA)

(Ron, noticeably, is taller than Pettigrew at 13)

So, so Harry at 13 was around 5'1 (155 cm). And so was Hermione.

Then in between books 4 and 5 puberty kicks in and probably causes a slight growth spurt that makes him more attractive to girls around him:

Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, the last two of whom gave Harry airy, overly friendly greetings that made him quite sure they had stopped talking about him a split second before. He had more important things to worry about, however:

(OotP)

And then he has another, larger growth spurt between books 5 and 6:

“You’re like Ron,” she [Molly] sighed, looking him up and down. “Both of you look as though you’ve had Stretching Jinxes put on you. I swear Ron’s grown four inches since I last bought him school robes.

(HBP)

“And it doesn’t hurt that you’ve grown about a foot over the summer either,” Hermione finished, ignoring Ron. “I’m tall,” said Ron inconsequentially. [Ron is objectively correct]

(HBP)

Post book 6 growth spurt, we know Harry is below 6' (183 cm) but close enough to 6' to be above the average of 5'8 (174.4 cm) and be considered "tall", and grow "about a foot" after said growth spurt.

I personally place his height at 5'11 (180 cm), to make all of the above make sense.

And while he is physically fit, he is likely very thin from years of malnourishment. So, he likely has some muscle on him, but he's very lean with little to no fat during his Hogwarts years (he'd likely gain more weight as an adult living peacefully with regular meals). So, Harry in the books isn't what I'd call buff, but he has some muscle and can definitely throw a punch. As he grows older post-canon, I think he could get buff if he set his mind to it.

(I actually have notes about the height of a bunch of other characters. Hermione is shorter than Harry and Ron, but noticeably taller than Ginny (5'1 or 155 cm - edited Ginny's height since I think she's shorter than the former estimate of 5'2. Bellatrix says “Very well — take the smallest one,” with Hermione and Luna (who's also short) present, so Ginny is really short) and probably around 5'4 (162 cm) by book 7. Draco is said to be slightly taller than Harry "Harry did not dare look directly at Draco, but saw him obliquely; a figure slightly taller than he was" - DH, placing Draco at around 6' (183 cm))

For your other question, no, I don't think Harry self-harms, definitely not in any way related to the Dursleys, but that's a different post because I went off about heights.

[vomits0cutely]

Remus Lupin wanted to die, yet he lived the longest.

James Potter wanted to live, yet he was the first to die.

Sirius Black wanted to break free from his family, yet he died one of them.

Peter Pettigrew wanted to be known, yet he never was.

[maxdibert]

Severus Snape is literally the most important character of the entire Marauders' generation because the fate of all of them depends on him, and because, basically, they only exist, aside from giving Harry some parents and friends, to complete Snape's backstory. Without Snape, we wouldn’t even know what those people’s school years were like because it wouldn’t matter. It's to explain why Snape has issues, why he has that personality, why he switches sides, or why he helps Harry while simultaneously hating him that we get flashbacks and learn things about them. So, guys, you should show him a bit more respect because if you have a fandom, it's basically thanks to that character you constantly leave out of your fics filled with people with colored hair and 70s wizards behaving as if they went to school during the golden era of Gen Z.

[stonnedparrott]

Every time I read a Non-Magic AU where there's no substitute for Remus's lycanthropy, an angel loses it's wings

[moonyfr]

Remus "Starman" Lupin

Sirius "Lady Stardust" Black

James "Soul Love" Potter

Peter "Five Years" Pettigrew

Lily "Hang On To Yourself" Evans

Marlene "Suffragatte City" McKinnon

Mary "Rock'n'roll Suicide" Macdonald

[maryfromwork]

Whenever someone says “bring back canon marauders” all I hear is “bring back boring soulless annoying little dickheads”

[hprecfest]

DAY 9 RECS FROM DREAMWIDTH & ELSEWHERE

❄️To The Letter (1,738 words) by pauraque❄️

Argus Filch/Peter Pettigrew || rec

Snow shoveled, detention served, but Filch doesn't send him away.

❄️Charade (758 words) by Taxonomic❄️

Tom Riddle/Hepzibah Smith ||

She likes the lie she tells herself: that Tom can’t resist her.

❄️Blood Ties (400 words) by Coconutice22❄️

Harry Potter/Tobias Snape ||

Harry was desperate, but so was Snape.

❄️The Doctor will see you now (1,767 words) by showyourself❄️

Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy/Severus Snape ||

Lady Malfoy has fallen into a deep melancholy, refusing her morning constitutionals and taking to her bed for days. Her husband, deeply concerned, takes her to see Professor Snape, a fertility specialist, after they still have not conceived a year after their marriage. Will Snape's unorthodox methods resolve her case of hysteria? Will he be able to help the couple overcome their inexperience and sustain the Malfoy line?

❄️M is for Malfoy (9,609 words) by Coconutice22❄️

Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy/Harry Potter/Severus Snape ||

Harry and Severus run into Narcissa and Lucius at a fundraising event. Soon, something other than money is getting raised.

❄️Trio'd (6,057 words) by saf_is_bored❄️

Hermione Granger/Harry Potter/Ron Weasley ||

The thing about being in love with your best friend, Ron thought miserably, was how long it took to realize you were being a little bit gay about it.

[stargirlslovethesmiths]

james and sirius are a and b, remus is c, peter is d, the valkryies are h, i, j, k and the slytherin skittles are v, w, x, y and z if that makes sense

[wolvesandshine]

Probably an unpopular opinion but James Potter was a grade a asshole (you know the type: rich popular guy who thinks he can get away with anything) before he had his whole character development arc around year 5 (probably the same time as the prank) so can we have more fics of asshole james before he learns that the world doesn’t revolve around him

[greycloudsinwinter]

Hello if you don't mind me asking can you make a yandere marauders x Slytherin reader

YANDERE MARAUDERS X SLYTHERIN READER

🦁they met you in hogwarts when they were bullying your friend Severus snape.

🦁when you stuck up for them they were shocked and entranced by you.

🦁you were too amazing to be hanging around the low life snape.

🦁they start to send you anonymous gifts and when you chuck them away they are disappointed in them selves.

🦁one of them now lurks around you following you were eve you go. Ask them why they are following you and they will make up a dumb excuse like ‘I have detention this way’ or ‘wanted to make sure your ok?’ You scoff at there lame excuses and run off.

🦁they despise the fact so much they all wrote to dumbledore demanding you change houses to which he ignored of course.

🦁they will work together since they are such a tight knit friend group.

🦁rivals they beat up they won’t Jill them necessarily. Just break them till you can’t recognise them.

🦁James likes to public scream his love for you in the halls.

🦁Sirius likes to flirt with yo in class often making fun of others to try and make you laugh.

🦁Remus writes you long letters expressing his love and devotion to you.

🦁Peter prefers to hover around you and show his love for you by acts of service.

🦁anyone that speaks badly about you is done for.

🦁they all love how ambitious you are it really turns them on.

🦁terrifying yanderes to have because they won’t fight over you they will help each other.

🦁try and escape them and they may force you too take a love potion.

🦁there obsessive,observant and devoted yanderes so be careful about what you say about others too them.

Thank you for the request ❤️❤️



[mikalilys]

How I feel trying to explain the marauders fandom to people:

“So you know the marauders map right?? Have you read Harry Potter?? Yes? Good. So in the prisoner of Azkaban yk remus and Sirius? Yes Harry’s godfather and professor, well they dated, no not in canon, but you’re going to have to learn to throw away canon if you want to understand this. Oh the marauders map? Right uhhh so!! Moony, wormatail, padfoot and prongs, they’re the marauders and the main guys of this fandom. Did you know that they’re names go on the map in reverse order to when they died? Well anyway!! Those are their nicknames, their real names are Remus lupin, yes Harry’s 3rd year professor, didn’t they go over this in the book?? You were to busy paying attention to the plot? Oh. Well!! The others are Peter pettigrew (the one who betrayed james and lily) Sirius black (Harry’s godfather) and James potter (Harry’s dad) There’s a whole fandom dedicated to Harry’s dad and his friends? Yes.

Anyway I haven’t even gotten onto the Valkyries yet!! Who are the Valkyries?? Well-”