Disclaimer: All HP characters belong to JK Rowling. I own my shoes.
A/N: Some people go with the "I don't like Peter now, so he must have always been horrible" or "I don't like that rat-faced traitor, so in my story he doesn't exist" but he wasn't always like that. He used to be a marauder, so there must have been something good about him at one point, right? Why did he turn? These are some of the reasons I think he did…
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It's like they don't see me anymore. To them I'll always be chubby, clumsy Peter. I have changed over the years, but they don't notice. Sometimes I wonder if they'll ever grow up. They still act like the teenagers they used to be.
Remus – the patient, shy mysterious guy.
Sirius – the funny womanizer and prankster at heart.
James – the athletic popular Head Boy.
And me, Peter – the awkward, clumsy tagalong.
We used to so close – brothers – all of us. It seemed like one minute the four of us were planning our next prank on those damn Slytherins, and the next Remus is applying to Universities, Sirius is training to become an auror, and James spends more time with his tongue down Lily's throat than he is on the Quiditch Pitch. Why did things have to change? I never saw it coming.
The old days were gone like sand through my fingers. The harder I tried to hold on the faster they slipped by.
All I ever wanted was to fit in, and I did, for a time. It hurt that much worse when it was gone, the feeling that I finally belonged.
But now I belong again, I am accepted, valuable. And I owe it all to my new Master.
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Okay, I know that was short, but it's only a peek into his mind to show his reasoning… Please review and tell me what you think. Flames will be used to fry mushrooms for lunch…. Yum!