#i will make a masterpost on his interactions w individual death eaters…. TRUST

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YAYYYYYY ITS PETER TIME im always thinkin abt that horrible little Freaque im glad to see him being represented w all his evil ingenue swag (+ not as either the fat funny friend or 'no one rlly cared about him to begin with :/')

id love to know more of your thoughts on the betrayal / how he interacts w the other death eaters !!

to me the key part of the betrayal is: you have to have a GIANT ego to act as pathetic as peter does.

it’s that orson welles quote: “He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably ­arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation.”

i think he genuinely sees himself as above the other marauders, as cleverer, despite all evidence to the contrary. it’s because his private internal world (where he keeps his ugliness, his roiling jealousy, his manipulative tendencies) is so well-hidden and untainted that it feels sacred to him.

yes they look down on him, and he lets them, but they’ve never glimpsed the REAL peter. they don’t know what he’s capable of <- this mentality is how he copes with his existence.

normally i would say that this is a delusion of grandeur developed to cope with the material reality of being inadequate… except peter actually DID get the last fucking laugh! i think this arrogance is central to his character & is the reason he would authentically get along with the death eaters better.