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Broken Trust
By: ChoCedric
Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. A thousand thoughts are swarming around in his head as a high-pitched cackle of laughter sounds throughout the beautiful house in Godric's Hollow. He and his family are doomed. Oh God. And the thoughts are coming like a tsunami, drowning him. Why did Peter give them away? Was it to do with how he, Remus, and Sirius treated him at school? Had he harbored hatreds he hadn't told them about? Oh God. Now they're all going to die. He feels a mixture of pity, anger, concern, and love for Peter right then, and all he wants to know is why. As Voldemort casts the Avada Kedavra his way, the last image he sees is one of four boys, their faces alive with laughter, all smirking at the camera, forever bound, forever friends. And as he collapses to the floor, his hazel eyes lifeless and staring, he knows Peter's done the one thing the Marauders had vowed never to do: He had broken their trust.