A/N: I'm updating this yet again. Nightwishsama bribed me by saying she'll send me a song by a band she's gotten me obsessed with!
Disclaimer: The lawyers say I'm not allowed to own Harry Potter, as he already belongs to the author, but I can't see why.
Chapter 15
"Signore, siete un idiot completo ed assoluto con le tagliatelle per i cervelli."
"Huh?" asked Sirius, as eloquently as ever. A kid had been annoying him for hours in Italian, all because he seemed to have learnt he could say anything and the person he was talking to wouldn't understand a word.
"Vendete del formaggio? Realmente dovreste, voi assomigliate ad un venditore del formaggio."
"Go away kid," he said, getting slightly annoyed.
"What's fanno torto al signore? Avete slacciato il vostro pollo senza testa?"
"I hate kids," Sirius said sourly, as the child continued to bug him.
"Dove avete messo il vostro foro del coniglio?"
"Go away."
"Hey, dove sono i vostri pantaloni?"
"Why do you hate me?"
"Che cosa è quel suono? L'OH, it's soltanto le vostre due cellule di cervelli che sconcertano insieme."
"Leave me alone!"
"Che cosa è errato? Perchè alambiccosiete preoccupandosi iete preoccupandosi di ascoltare comunque me? La maggior parte della gente che don't capiscono italiano dà abbastanza rapidamente in su su me!"
Groaning, Sirius had finally had enough and walked off, but he managed to catch one more thing from the kid.
"Ho gradito quell'uomo. Realmente ha rimasto ed ascoltato me più lungamente di c'è ne degli altri!"
Wormtail rubbed his hands together in his nervousness as he awaited his inevitable punishment.
He had been standing outside of the room for hours, awaiting untold amounts of torture at the hands of the person he had betrayed the first people that had ever been kind to him for in order to live.
He had no idea what this punishment was about. The last thing he had failed to do that he could remember was to find out any information that Snape may have been withholding from his Lord and Master, and that had been months ago, so he had paid for it already, but, knowing the Dark Lord, it was probably something else altogether.
Finally, the door opened, and out walked Lucius Malfoy, who looked down on him in disdain as he limped passed - limped?! Shit! If one of the Dark Lord's most favoured followers had been tortured so badly (after all, the Dark Lord rarely left his Death Eaters, and almost certainly not his favourites, be tortured until they had something such as a limp or broken arm) unless they had done something incredibly terrible, or he was just incredibly pissed off. Usually the second one followed the first. And now he stood very little chance of getting out of there uninjured.
Wormtail decided there and then it was better to enter and get his punishment over and done with before the Dark lord got any more pissed at whoever was supposed to be going in next - him.
"Cruccio!"
Wormtail collapsed on the ground, screaming and writhing in pain, until Voldemort got tired of his screaming and cast a silencing charm on him, so then he was screaming silently instead.
"Did you really think you could get away with betraying me?!" Voldemort hissed, before turning to Nagini and spoke to her. Nagini hissed in response before leaving the room and Voldemort released the cruciatus.
"Tell me, did you?!"
Wormtail tried to speak, or at least he looked like he did, before Voldemort remembered the silencing charm and removed it.
"Now tell me!"
"M-m-m-m-m-my L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-lord! I-I-I-I s-s-swear I-I w-w-w-w-w-w-would n-n-n-never b-b-b-b-b-bet-t-trayed y-y-y-y-y-y-ou! I-I-I n-n-nev-v-ver w-w-would! M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-master! P-p-please!"
"Cruccio! Do not lie to me Wormtail! I know you have betrayed me. I have known for a long time that someone had been, but I never expected it to be you. After all, where would you go?"
Voldemort lifted the curse just long enough for Wormtail to try to explain.
"M-m-m-m-m-my L-l-l-l-l-l-lord! I-"
"Cruccio! I do not want to hear your excuses Wormtail! I know it was you! Do not even try to deny it!"
Wormtail barely heard Voldemort over the sound of his own screaming and the intense pain.
"I'm tired of your games Pettigrew," Voldemort said, lifting the curse, and referring to Wormtail, for once, by something other than his old school nickname.
"M-m-m-my L-l-l-l-lord! P-p-ple-" Wormtail begged, trying to plea his case and innocence of that one thing once again.
"Avada Kedavra!"
Wormtail was dead before his back even hit the floor, a contorted expression of extreme fear and horror on his face. Here ended the like of Peter Judas Pettigrew.
"Hmmm... Maybe I should have used occlumency on him. Oh well, no big loss," Voldemort said, shrugging.
A/N: Do not ask me why I decided to kill off Wormtail. I never liked him after what he did to Siri, and since I don't want any more than 2 marauders (even if Wormtail can't truly be counted as one) in this fic, I had to kill one off. And Wormtail was the perfect target.
The translations from Italian are as follows:
Signore, siete un idiot completo ed assoluto con le tagliatelle per i cervelli- Sir, you are a complete and utter idiot with noodles for brains
Vendete del formaggio? Realmente dovreste, voi assomigliate ad un venditore del formaggio. - Do you sell any cheese? You really should, you look like a cheese seller.
What's fanno torto al signore? Avete slacciato il vostro pollo senza testa? - What's wrong sir? Did you loose your headless chicken?
Dove avete messo il vostro foro del coniglio? - Where did you put your rabbit hole?
Hey, dove sono i vostri pantaloni? - Hey, where are your pants?
Che cosa è quel suono? L'OH, it's soltanto le vostre due cellule di cervelli che sconcertano insieme. - What is that sound? Oh, it's only your two brains cells rattling together.
Che cosa è errato? Perchè alambiccosiete preoccupandosi iete preoccupandosi di ascoltare comunque me? La maggior parte della gente che don't capiscono italiano dà abbastanza rapidamente in su su me! - What is wrong? Why are you still bothering to listen to me anyway? Most people who don't understand Italian give up on me pretty quickly!
Ho gradito quell'uomo. Realmente ha rimasto ed ascoltato me più lungamente di c'è ne degli altri! - I liked that man. He actually stayed and listened to me longer than any of the others!
For those of you who are interested and don't already know, I have started to post the AU version of this where Harry goes dark. It's been pretty popular so far. That's pretty much it from me at the minute, except the review responses, so here they are.
Serena24: Thanks, and yeah, I know about that one. It's pretty good too. I will.
The Vampire Story Hunter: Okay and thanks!
gaul1: That could come up in the future. And it probably will once I work out what the purpose of that dream was.
Paladin3030: Thanks for the description, and for the ideas. I don't know what I'd do without some of them.
Hi Im Crazy: Yeah, it can seem unrealistic that they could have gotten so close in the short amount of time they were together, so I had to explain it. I take it you like Siri then. And, by default, you probably don't like Wormtail (or Wormy as I like to call him).
Launigsiae: Yeah, from what I can tell that one updates pretty quickly.
Nightwish-sama: No fair! You shouldn't be bribing me with Nightwish! Even if you are my only way to get more of their songs at the minute.
jeangab057: I know. It's not fair... but an easy way to add some humour!
TopQuark: The good interesting or the bad interesting?
