AN: So....This is going to be a series of one shots about Peter Pettigrew. Because, let's face it folks, he had friends until he decided to switch over to the dark side.
Disclaimer: Nope. We wish. But alas, no.
Common Misconceptions
It was Peter that held them together. He was the vital element, the yeast, without which the dough would not rise. It was Peter.
He was the one who was positive. He always saw the bright side of things. He always said that another day, they would succeed in locking Filch out of his office for good. Or next time, their plot to transfigure the Slytherin quidditch captain into a dinosaur would surely work. Or if you looked at it like this, well, you could maybe see it as a success, when Lily gave James the evil eye after he tried to impress her.
He was the go between. When James and Sirius fought (which was rare, but not out of the question), the consequences were titanic. Both were furious, both were too stubborn to apologize. It was Peter who wheedled them both to the halfway mark, so that they might grudgingly agree, and then happily forget. When Sirius told Snape about where Remus went at the full moon, it was Peter, more than anyone, who talked Remus out of his rage (although his punching Sirius in the jaw helped quite a lot as well).
It was Peter. Sirius scorned him, because his marks were not the best, and he was a little slow at times, not to mention that he had the capacity to be an outrageous toady. James teased him because he didn't understand quidditch and screamed like a girl sometimes. Remus got frustrated with him more easily than the other two, because he found Peter a bit of a sop, a bit clingy (although he would never have said that. He would rather just retaliate for a moment, so that he would feel clean, and ready to deal with Peter some more); however he knew that he himself was not that much higher than Peter in the social rung that was their group of friends, and so he would not ever openly speak ill of the boy.
Peter held them together.
Peter broke them apart.