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strawberryblackcrown · 2 years

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some of y'all need to keep your hate for young peter pettigrew in check.

young peter was undoubtedly a good friend. he never snitched, he snuck his mates out of detention, he raided the kitchen for moony when remus was too sore to get out of bed for food, he braided sirius's hair whenever asked, he gave all 3 of his brothers love advice because they were all too stupid to act normal around their crushes, and he was always there for them when everything went tits up.

20 year old peter was afraid for his life and did things he hated just to live another day. he picked the long term poison over the short term one and there was never a day when he didn't regret it in the aftermath.

he chose to live with that regret than attempt to atone for his actions. he crossed the line of no return, he knew it, and he was too afraid to even ask for forgiveness. he knew it wouldn't come, and even if it did, he wouldn't have deserved it.

peter pettigrew was a character with multitudes and he deserved to have been explored as such.

#peter pettigrew #young peter pettigrew #the marauders #marauders era #marauders #first wizarding war #he could have been a well written character if jkr wasn't a coward #the potential #harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban #good peter pettigrew #i do not condone indirectly causing the deaths of many of your loved ones #but can we explore the affects of being a kid in a war where some of your friends are being hatecrimed #the kill or be killed mentality that had to have carried them in fights #where you probably killed the kid who used to sit beside you in class except you'd never know cause of the masks #the fear #the uncertainty #the tossing your closest friends under the proverbial bus and ruining everything around you #and watching the world burn around you and hating every second of it #how he wanted to turn back time too late #how he hated that he was born in that time. him and all his friends that he'd kill for. the friends he HAD killed for #this wasn't supposed to get this deep #oops

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