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Chapter 57 – In a fit of anger…
Obviously that one moment isn't exactly the absolute turning point for Peter to betray his friends but it was the beginning of a solid foundation. Peter was…well he was weak in a way that made him make a lot of foolish mistakes against us really and maybe if we had leant more of our strength to him then he might've been able to stand against Voldemort. But then again when faced with such a choice as death maybe his decision would've been exactly the same. No one likes to die when they are that young.
Yes Harry I know you've faced him…yes I know, several times…what I…Shush! What I meant was that you have an extraordinary amount of courage in you. Some people are afraid to die much more than you are.
No I'm not saying you want to die…look…will you be quiet for one moment so I can explain myself?
…Thank you.
Cara it's not nice to laugh at other people…Oh all right, only because it's Harry though.
Stop pouting.
Now, where was I? Oh yes. Harry, you have come so close to death so many times that I believe sub consciously you have resigned yourself to the idea that there may be a chance that you may die prematurely and instead of running from it you seem to have developed a 'If I'm going you're coming with me' out look towards it.
Even Cara, who when I first met him was incredibly shy has come to accept facing death. But Peter came from a home where his mother doted on him constantly, treating him like her little Prince, which although not a bad thing it meant he wasn't used to being put into a dangerous situation. Sirius had to stand against his cruel family, I'm forced to change into a bloodthirsty beast once a month and James despite coming from a loving family had always been taught to stand up against his enemies. You Harry have learnt how to maneuver around your abusive family and then later how to defend yourself against Dark Wizards. Cara, your case is near enough the same as mine. None of us were really mollycoddled meaning we had inner strength.
Peter had none.
But like I said, it was a slow build up and looking back now I can see each individual stage. The Marauders were growing up and we all started doing our own things.
And of course we also started to make foolish mistakes, which could've driven us apart.
Sirius made the worst mistake of us all when we were in Hogwarts and it has only been beaten by Peter's betrayal.
I take it no one has told you Harry in great detail the events leading up to the Whomping Willow? Sirius never spoke of it, James never spoke of it and quite frankly neither have I. But I think you are understanding enough to hear it.
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(1977)
Remus helped Dorcas flick her wand correctly before smiling and moving onto the next Order member. Dumbledore nodded at him and smiled as he helped around the groups. Sirius and Edgar Bones were sparring comically in great bouts of laughter as James looked on trying not to laugh due to Lily standing next to him tutting.
Peter let out a sort of whined sigh when he failed to disarm Caradoc who looked sympathetic and pretended to drop his wand. The main hall was alive with various activities and a few of the second and first years had come along (on Dumbledore's invitation) to observe the training and were watching with their jaws hanging.
Gideon and Fabian Prewett were entertaining the more nervous looking youngsters with a variety of well-selected hexes involving Jelly-legs and hair colouring jinxes.
The Order of the Phoenix was doing fantastically.
Dumbledore turned from Emmeline who smiled thankfully at him and clapped his hands once causing the sound to echo off the walls. All movement stopped and all attention turned to him.
"Well it is nearing curfew my dear students so I'm afraid I must call for an end to today's activities. Now, off to bed you trot."
With a few groans and grumbles of wanting to stay longer everyone began to gather themselves and made their way back to their respectable houses. Remus waited by the door as Lily and James strolled up to him standing either side of Dumbledore and Sirius with Peter bringing up the back.
"This has been most entertaining tonight! I never knew you boys knew so much but then I guess I should've known that considering the amount of situations you get yourselves into." Dumbledore peered over the tops of his half-moon spectacles with a twinkle in his eyes that caused Remus to laugh. James and Sirius instantly feigned innocence as Lily hummed in agreement as she nodded. Peter looked a little startled and a little sheepish.
"Well I must depart here but to you I say Goodnight." Dumbledore bowed his head, which they all returned and turned away humming a tune rather happily. Lily linked her arm in James's and Sirius moved to stand beside Remus, faintly grasping his hand as Peter moved to sort of stand between the two couples.
"Not bad tonight." Sirius said smugly and Lily snorted.
"You spent most of the time pissing around with Edgar!" She said and Sirius flashed a disarming smile at her.
"Hey, we were training!"
"That was training? I thought you were just showing off, but then you'd never do a thing like that would you?"
Sirius stuck his tongue out at the girl who laughed and opted for flipping him off. James gasped and slapped her hand down.
"You're a lady! You can't do that!"
"Why not, you do!"
Remus laughed but Sirius was practically roaring with hysterics. James pretended to pout and Lily looked happily smug about herself. Peter sniggered.
The talk back to the Gryffindor Tower followed in a similar vein after that, James sulking when everyone seemed to come to the decision that he would be the comical target tonight but perked up when Lily whispered something into his ear. Sirius pretended to retch causing the couple to offer a similar salute to the one Lily did before.
Remus led the way up the Boy's Dormitory stairs, gasping every now and again with laughter as Sirius clambered up behind him making loud raunchy comments towards James who was standing at the bottom of the Girls' stairs saying goodnight to Lily. Peter trailed after him.
"HAVE YOU GOT YOUR CONDOM?" Sirius shouted when he got to the top of the stairs resulting in a variety of different reactions. Remus gave up and collapsed onto the landing Hallway laughing loudly, Peter gasped but had a grin on his face and although they couldn't really see James they could most definitely hear the inappropriate names he was shouting towards his best friend accompanied by Lily's cheeky "NO, BUT I'VE GOT SOME!"
Still laughing Remus managed to dress himself and fell into bed smothering his chuckles into the pillows, yelping in more laughter when he felt Sirius straddle the small of his back.
"You alright there Moony? Not killing you am I?" He asked with a smirk.
"Your jokes aren't but your fat weight is slowly crushing my back."
"Fuck you, I'm not heavy!"
"I beg to differ and so does the vertebrae that has just crumbled into a fine dust."
He yelped again when a harsh slap landed on his rear and in retaliation he jerked his back into an arch throwing Sirius off with an 'Oomph!'
"Foul!"
"So is your breath!"
"You're on form tonight Moony."
"Thank you Wormtail."
"Don't encourage the bastard!"
"Leave my mother out of this."
"What on earth are you three doing?"
"Excellent Question Prongs, You see…"
"Moony's trying to kill me!"
"I prefer the claim of Self-defense than Homicide."
"That's it, I'm going to bed."
"Night Wormtail."
"Self-Defense my arse! You were…"
"Shut up Sirius and go to bed."
"…'K."
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After leaving the Main Hall in the morning following breakfast each of the Marauders broke into their separate groups for each subject. Remus and Lily separated into a pair for Arithmancy and James, Peter and Sirius separated into a trio for Divination.
"So we'll see you guys at break then?" Lily said placing a gentle kiss on James's cheek, the boy grinning from ear to ear as he returned the gesture.
"Meet you in the courtyard." Remus said as he squeezed the hand he had of Sirius's but before he could release it Sirius tugged him closer with a quick tug of his arm and planted a kiss right on the werewolf's lips. Remus chuckled against the mouth covering his and slapped feebly at the nearest shoulder.
When Sirius released him he rolled his eyes at him but his mood was given away from the large smile on his face.
"Up for Marauding tonight?" Sirius whispered into his ear and Remus tried to suppress a shudder as he recalled the day…Full Moon tonight.
"You'll have to ask Moony."
"Alright, I will."
They shared another kiss then Remus pulled back to join Lily as they made their way down the hallway with each boyfriend watching them.
The good mood was ruined by a familiar voice.
"By Merlin Black could you make more of a show of yourself?"
James, Peter and Sirius twirled round to find Severus Snape looking at them with a less than amused look on his face. His eyes darted to the disappearing figures of Remus and Lily before looking back at the Marauders again. James had already drawn his wand.
"What's it to you Snivellous? Jealous?"
Snape breathes out a laugh as he shook his head.
"How arrogant of you. And to whom am I supposed to be jealous of? You? Remus is the better of your little group I'd admit that but there is far too much mystery behind the boy that you'd wonder whether he was being as loyal as he acts. Or maybe I'm supposed to be jealous of him…I wouldn't come near you even if it meant dishonoring my family…Guess we'd have something in common then though wouldn't we."
Sirius growled and made to leap forwards but James and Peter caught him.
"Go away Snivelly, You're not even worth our time anymore. You're nothing!" James hissed and Snape curled his lip at him.
Snape seemed to study the trio before him silently. His coal eyes were strict and forbidden before he seemed to sigh and raised an eyebrow at them.
"A noble performance to ensnare Miss Evans in your grasp Potter. Personally I can't believe someone with her academic history fell for your little act. It's plainly obvious you're still the arrogant poor excuse of a pure-blood you've ever been."
Sirius snarled once more and this time managed to break free from his friends and lunged at the startled Slytherin. He pinned Snape by his neck to the wall and oddly Snape seemed almost relaxed, exasperated as though he was used to such treatment from the other boy, which he more than likely was.
"James is a better wizard than you could ever dream to be. As for Remus's loyalty he has every right to be as mysterious as he is. You don't know anything!"
"Then enlighten me Black, if you're capable of explaining away your imbecilic little infatuation." Snape challenged.
"Why don't you go down to the Willow tonight and see for yourself you stuck up little berk! Then you'll see how wrong you are about him!"
After a quick squeeze of the boy's neck Sirius shoved him back angrily, his mind nothing but a red raw anger as he twirled around and stormed down the hallway.
Severus rubbed his neck from his place sat on the floor before standing up quickly and leaving with a hissed "So be it."
Peter's face was twisted in disbelief as he quickly looked towards James for guidance. All he saw though was an incredibly pale face.
(TBC)
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AN: Soooo sorry this took forever. You guys already know the excuse so I'll save it this time. And can we have a DUM DUM DUM please lol! NOONE SUSPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! WE HAVE ONE WEAPON AND THAT IS SURPRISE, SURPRISE AND FEAR! TWO! TWO WEAPONS, SURPRISE, FEAR AND RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY, THREE! THREE WEAPONS…I'll come back in…
Thanks to:
Dragonsdesire: Why thank you (Takes a bow). Glad you liked this and I hope you like this one too!
Goldfishie900 aka Malfoyscutie: (Grins) Always good to hear that one is enjoying ones self!
Twilight-la-fae: Aye, I strongly suggest not re-sitting math's, hurts the brain lol! I do believe So Graham Norton is actually British so yeah, I used to love watching his show! Oh he cracked me up and then he buggered off to America lol! LMAO and your friends sound manic. I just thought, what does BBC stand for in America because I swear its British Broad-Casting!
Dark Dragon Fire Demon: Aw you make me blush but thank you lol!
Sexy Pancake: It was indeed what I was going for so I'm glad it worked lol! Does Peter not freak anybody else out because he gives me the wiggings! As for what is usual to write when one is drunk, well I always seem to get into deep meaningful conversations when I'm drunk so it's not really that surprising the chapter is slightly depressing lol!
Lissom-Howler: Aye, I think Peter is the hardest to write because obviously the Marauders liked him for SOME reason so I have to put that element in but then he does turn bad so I have to do THAT as well (Ala sigh). How long do I plan? Well I've said it'll be to the end of seventh year but how many chapters that is I have no idea as to phrase it like you did, I'm winging it lol! Aye I really am English (so many of you seemed shocked by this lol! Just keep in mind my favourite swear word is Bugger and that I keep yelling at the computer when it tries to change 'Colour' to 'Color' like how you guys spell it). I'm going to Florida in June so that should be interesting seeing as I have this accent that's a bit of everything really. If you every get the chance to visit England, Do! It's a beautiful country (Especially Bath and Glastonbury) but do wrap up warm because those rumours about it being cold and wet are actually very much so true! I didn't get snow this Christmas, I got bleedin' Rain!
Elrohir Lover: I love Linkin Park, even better when live lol! Anyway, poor Ascorbin (hope she's better now though)! I'm afraid Ethan has to die (sob) but you may not actually see him die because I haven't quite decided whether he should see Remus graduate or not.
Saturndragon: Thank you and a Merry Christmas/Winter's Solstice to you too lol! The grades I got an 'A' in were Art, English and Religious Studies (I'm very opinioned lol) so I was happy. Glad you liked the chapter, always nice to know lol!
Happo: Lol a very disjointed but enjoyable review there. Glad you liked it and thank you very much lol!
Avain: I personally don't know how Peter could allow himself to give up his friends like that but that's some people for you. It's a very lonely feeling when you're left behind so it seemed a good foundation for Peter's fall from grace. Sirius is crazy and yet the scene you described as odd has happened to me and my friend's lol!
Electra Black: Lol I rather liked that line too. Hey I won't hold it against you if you like Peter, my favourite fan-artist Tina Ling likes him so I've learnt to deal with the boy lol!
Mirale Nic Draco: Lmao glad you did, glad you did! (Dances too!).
Jenna: Aw well at least New Year is coming up lol, you can enjoy that! Again, nice to hear you liked the chapter!
Dans247blankk: Ah I forgot you guys don't call them GCSE's. Well it stands for 'General Certificate of Secondary Education' (You're High School is our Secondary school, just like your Junior High is our Primary school). I think you guys call them .S.A.T.S (You take them around the age of 16 right?). We have our S.A.T.S in Year Nine (when we're 13/14 years old). Anyway, glad you like it and I know how you feel, I work on my laptop on my bed so my sister (to whom I share a room with) is forever grumbling at me when I'm up late lol!
Kynny: Lmao go to sleep you nutter! Thanks for your comments though mate!
Kit Kat: LMAO I won't hold it against you, I'm lazy sometimes too! Sorry it's so long (I never intended it to be lol!) but hoped you liked it all the same!
IsisFireDancer: Merry Meet! Hippies' rock! I think we'd all like to ravish Sirius though (leers at him suggestively), I totally understand your situation, I have two ongoing projects, one I've just finished today but I have another one to do and I just can't get the energy to do it. Better do it though (grumbles unhappily). Thought I'd do this first, more fun lol! Blessed be!
Haunted-Shadows: LMAO ah so you're the friend to which Miss Black spoke of! Well I'm glad you did, makes me well chuffed lol!
Mars Explorer: Lol thank you, I don't really have that much further to go but we shall see (another decade or so lol)! Thank you for your comments, I do believe my head has inflated several inches.
Hisui Kuragari: (Grins) and yet is it wrong that I really enjoyed that review LOL!