things worth dying

by springleopard

Ever since third year, we've planned to get a flat together. I don't think any of us ever really thought about life after Hogwarts before that. Well - we'd thought about it, of course. But not as something that would happen to us. That June, we finally realized.

8. 8: Padfoot

Padfoot

I smell something…

Oh, oh, is that a squirrel?

SQUIRREL!

I bound after it but, drat! No fair going up that tree!

Oh, but I think I smell another one! Over there?

I try to chase all the squirrels, but there's just so many of them! I have a lot of energy, but eventually even I get tired.

I flop onto the ground, rolling around on my back. Time for a belly rub! Belly rubs are the best thing. Except maybe chasing squirrels, that's pretty good too. Oh, and food, I do like food.

But right now, belly rubs are the best thing.

Wait a minute… where's my belly rub?

Oh! My humans! My best friends in the whole wide world! If I find my humans I bet they'll give me a belly rub.

I trot off out of the forest, heading for the lake.

If I make a few detours along the way… well, really, who can blame me? There were squirrels.

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Author's note: Today I realized that the Potters "go into hiding" in late 1979 or so (source JKR interviews), which seems reasonable, but they don't perform the Fidelius until a week before they die (source PoA chapter 10), which... what?! How does that make any sense? Anyway, that's fine, I can plan things out so that that's not super crazy... but goodness JKR, what a mess.

Thanks for reading! It makes me so happy to see that people are reading this, and the review made my day. :)

Ta for now,

-spring