#peter is a traitor

[ultravioletbrit]

“dare” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 372 words

 

Regulus and Peter are reading on the lounge chairs by the pool. Lily and Pandora are braiding each other’s hair and chatting with the other girls who are sitting with their feet in the water. Barty and Evan are… being Barty and Evan, making fools of themselves, splashing and dunking each other at the other end of the pool. Sirius and Remus had disappeared about 20 minutes ago to go… yeah, Regulus isn’t going to think about that. And James is helping Effie bring food outside for lunch. It was a lovely afternoon at Potter Manor.

“Hey, can I see the book you’re reading?” Peter asks him randomly.

“Uh… sure?” Regulus reluctantly passes the book over, confused why Peter was suddenly interested. That is, until he sees Peter look over his shoulder and Regulus turns to see James approaching him with a mischievous look in his eyes.

“James…?” Regulus says cautiously as James’ smile grows.

Before he knows it, James has Regulus in his arms, one arm under his knees the other securely wrapped around his back.

“James, don’t you dare! You know I can’t---” Regulus starts to warn him.

“Do you trust me?” James interrupts with a sincere look in his eyes as he moves towards the pool.

“Not even a little.” He tells him. But he’s smiling as he wraps his arms tightly around James’ neck, resigned to his fate.

James smiles back, tightening his grip on Regulus as he jumps in the pool.

James doesn’t let go of him for a second and Regulus shifts so his legs wrap around James’ waist and his arms around his neck. James brings them to the surface and swims them to the shallow end of the pool so he can stand as he’s holding Regulus.

Regulus glares at James, but there’s no heat behind it as he says, “You’re lucky I love you.”

“Yeah, I know.” James smiles at him.

“And you are a traitor.” He shifts his glare to Peter.

“Yeah, I know.” Peter says, “But I kept your book safe.” He shrugs and goes back to his own book.

Regulus looks back at James, shaking his head and rolling his eyes as he leans in to kiss him. 

Maybe next summer Regulus should learn to swim.

[jamespotterlovesreggie]

Imagine if Harry could hear James inside his head in The Philosopher’s Stone it could’ve changed the whole dynamic for the next seven years.

“Hey so this is crazy but there’s a voice in my head telling me that your rat is actually an animagus and I need throw it out the window ”

[rejectingrepublicans]

[siriuscollar]

peter pettigrew is the funniest marauder. change my mind.

[fiasco95]

Regulus comes out wearing a black crossover skort, grey sleeveless crop top with black knee high laced up combat boots. To top it off he has make-up on; baby pink eyeshadow adorned with small yet sharp winged eyeliner. Tinted light red lipstick.

Regulus, twirling in place for James: So? Looks good?

James backing Regulus up to bathroom door he just came out of. Places his hand on the door next to his head. James quietly and hungrily eyes Regulus up and down.

Regulus, knowing what’s about to happen, turns around to open the door: No. Stop. This is my outfit for the concert you’re not-!

James pushes the door close.

James, without turning his head and continues to drink Regulus in: Love you, Pete. But get out.

Regulus, begging Peter with his eyes: No. Peter I swear to g-

Peter without having to be told twice already opening the front door: Will wait for you in the car! Mwah!

Regulus ended up being driven to the concert by James instead. James also has to buy Regulus 10 albums to compensate for ruining his outfit and makeup that day.

James is okay with that. (He will do it again.)

[falloutboyfan18]

Pete Wentz performing in a hardcore show

[3bagshotrow]

the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien // my tears ricochet, taylor swift // the handmaid's tale, margaret atwood // the return of the king, peter jackson // the traitor baru cormorant, seth dickinson // gollum’s song, emilíana torrini // the return of the king, peter jackson // giovanni's room, james baldwin // tumblr user ryebreadgf // the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien // "thomas wolfe was right: you can't go home again," jonathan look (forbes) // the return of the king, peter jackson

[erinwantstowrite]

What will the bats opinion be on Pepper? And how will they react to the dynamic between her and Tony and Peter?

admittedly, Peter doesn't talk about Pepper as much as he talks about Tony, but it's for good reason! at this point in time, he hasn't spent as much time with her as he has Tony, but he still really cares about her and thinks that she's cool too. since Peter has really only been in their care (legally) for about 7-8 months ish, they're still working on becoming proper family, and they both make the effort. it's actually a lot of Peter believing that he's underfoot and in her way, and Pepper making it a point to show that is not the case at all and she likes having him around

when the Bats meet Pepper (which i don't believe will happen in this fic, and if it does, it'll be in the end), they don't know as much about her because of this, and they're able to form a better opinion than of Tony (they're so biased). they like her!! she and Tim specifically get along great, but what's really funny?

Dick and Pepper get along perfectly fine. like in a "we have wine nights on Friday's" and they text each other almost every day, pretty much instant best friends (this is all platonic btw). It drives Tony up the wall and Dick knows this

[my-castles-crumbling]

"So they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say, do you believe me now?"

~ Taylor Swift (Cassandra) Pairing: jegulily angst - Rating: T

TW: (MDC)

"What about Pettigrew?" Regulus asked, hesitantly voicing the thought he'd been keeping to himself for weeks.

Four pairs of eyes turned towards him.

"Reg, love, I-" Lily murmured softly, holding a nursing Harry in her arms.

"He would never," Sirius said, looking disgusted.

"Well, it has to be someone!" Regulus bust out, frustrated. They'd been at this for weeks, now. Trying to determine who was passing information to Voldemort. Who was close enough to them to know such crucial things, but sneaky enough to get away with it.

Of course, Regulus knew that a fair few people suspected him. The thought of it made him want to scream. The idea of betraying his husband and wife, not to mention his brother ad best friend, made him feel nauseous.

But Peter? He'd always been a bit sly. His Animagus was a rat, for Merlin's sake. And he'd been strangely absent lately...

"Have you seen him at meetings?" Remus asked thoughtfully, always the voice of reason.

"No," Regulus admitted. It was true. When he went to Death Eater meetings to spy, Peter was nowhere to be seen.

"I don't think he would do that," James murmured, eyes heavy with sadness. "I can't imagine..." a tear dropped to his cheek.

"He wouldn't," Sirius insisted, jaw set.

But as Regulus fell to the floor on October 31st, 1981, clutching the hands of Lily and James to his chest, screaming in agony at the sight of their lifeless bodies, he knew.

He was right.

And, allowing the anger to overflow within him, the loss and denial and feeling of utter despair and loneliness ripping through his very soul, he screamed as Sirius, who stumbled through the door with wide eyes.

"Do you believe me now?"

[maxdibert]

“If Snape hadn’t told Voldemort about the prophecy, then the Potters would still be alive.”

Yeah, sure, and then there wouldn’t be a story.

[4rrenstep]

A chunk from my essay on LotF that I wrote for english

- P.S. I really think the religious allegories in lotf are super interesting, so I decided to base my argumentative on them.

In Hebrew, the direct translation of the term ‘lord of the flies’ is Baal Zebub. In Greek, Beelzebub. Regarding Christian Mythology and the New Testament, Beezlebub is referred to as the prince of demons and a figure of Gluttony, chaos, and destruction; moreover, Beezlebub is even considered another name for Satan himself. William Golding’s choice of title for his novel Lord of the Flies–considering the derivation and linking of it to the themes Golding presents–steers and allows readers to observe the book through a religious lense that reveals more parables than they would get analyzing it at face value. The plot may appear very straightforward, but the descent to entropy and its catalysts aren’t simply just developing conflicts. Rather, it’s a combination–that of the circumstances interweaved with religious ideologies and the “ancient, inescapable” nature of mankind. The veridical reason the boys’ island falls apart is because of the human sin inherent in man (Golding 138).

Lord of the Flies explores the defects of humanity within society and the ethics of morality by forcing mankind (the boys) to start completely from scratch–strip it of everything it knows and allow a renew. When given this chance, marooned on a deserted island, man reverts back to his instincts, what he essentially was born with. He commits violence, incentifies fear, and justifies his evilness. During an assembly when the boys are trying to determine the actuality of the ‘Beast’, Simon proposes the idea that there is one, but it is only them. Golding primarily foreshadows the theme of his book with Simon’s hypothesis, in addition to confirming it later on when Simon encounters the pig head that Jack and his hunters speared on a stick as an offering for the 'Beast’. The head speaks to Simon during his hallucination, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! … You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s a no go? Why things are what they are?” (Golding 143). The ‘Beast’ isn’t the pig head, the Lord of the Flies, or even the Devil–it’s the manifestation of humankind’s wickedness, which is ineliminable . The ‘Beast’ is simply just an entity on the island, a rationale for the sins the boys enact on, much like the same way the adults and soldiers–the very reason the boys end up on the island in the first place–justify their violence by stamping ‘war’ on it.

In an attempt to fully illustrate the fall of a unified civilization and its cause, Golding writes Lord of the Flies as a catalog of human sin, checking off each of the Seven Deadly Sins by exhibiting them through the boys. The children demonstrate Sloth when they refuse to be responsible (e.g. build huts, keep the fire lit, use the restroom properly). Jack experiences Envy for Ralph because he’s chief and he isn’t. The use of terms relative to sexual intercourse during the graphic scene of the mother pig enduring death brought upon by Jack and his hunters depicts Lust. Jack’s Tribe, in a downward tumble of unprincipled ideals, portrays Gluttony–willing to sacrifice anyone and everything. Greed is characterized when Jack, despite already being chief, sends his group out on a manhunt to kill Ralph. Wrath is identified when the forest is set wholly ablaze to flush Ralph out and trap him like a pig. Pride when, without thinking about the consequences of achieving their pursuit, what would happen if they murdered Ralph and never got rescued by the naval officers. All chances of survival would’ve been obsolete and, besides water, the trees that were abundant in fruit and the pigs that were a source of protein would’ve been ash.

Contrasting to the showcase of the Seven Deadly Sins and man’s sin as a whole, Golding additionally displays his ‘hero’–notably more amiable–cast as the Four Cardinal Virtues, including an indisputably Christ-like character.

Simon, while also representing Prudence among the Four Cardinal Virtues, is primarily the only character in the novel–not accounting for the littluns–that doesn’t conduct any immoral acts in any of his appearings. He is benevolent, kind, and wise–giving his own food to Piggy when everyone is okay with letting him not eat, reassuring Ralph that he would get back home, and trying to tell everyone that the ‘Beast’ on the mountain is just a dead parachuter whilst they are too afraid to get a closer look. Tom Gaman, the actor for Simon in the 1963 film adaptation, had even said in the documentary Living Lord of the Flies that later in his life he realized he’d had “the best role,” having been “the good guy,” and therefore he “never carried any baggage into the world that directly related to Simon.” The way Simon dies is also very symbolic of Christ’s crucifixion, as he was speared to death as retribution for trying to do good. Simon can even be viewed as a sacrificial lamb, the doing away with bad–Jack stating that the ‘Beast’ had taken the form of Simon after he was killed–similar to how worshippers of God sacrificed animals as repentance in the Old Testament.

After Piggy is killed, Samneric join Jack’s tribe by force, and later on in the book, they as well rat out Ralph’s hiding space-although if they hadn’t, it would’ve been at the expense of their own lives. Samneric’s “betrayals” can be seen as deeds that contradict their entitlement to representing one of the Cardinal Virtues, but when Ralph is essentially exiled and they are on guard duty at Castle Rock, they feed Ralph and warn him of the manhunt to come the following morning. Samneric demonstrate Fortitude–show that despite all, they stand firm in the face of adversity.

Throughout the novel, many of the boys view Piggy as the whiner–and granted he is a bit of a complainer, most of his gripes are justified and rather intelligent. While he may not be physically nifty, Piggy assists in practical, logical problems, takes care of the littluns, and serves as an advisor for Ralph. Even though Piggy’s not afraid to speak his mind, he still displays great patience–representing Temperance–all the way up to his death.

Ralph, the evident protagonist of the book, is a very strong character with a strong sense of righteousness. He is picked as chief in the first assembly, empowers the idea of civilization and order, and never truly loses sight of the idea of rescue. After Simon is murdered and Ralph speaks to Piggy, he says “that was murder,” and when Piggy tries to rationalize Simon’s death with the mass terror, Ralph argues that he “wasn’t scared” (Golding 156). At the very end of the novel Ralph mourns for “the end of innocence, the darkness of a man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 202). Because Ralph experiences these feelings–because he acts the way he acts, he embodies Justice.

[orchideous-nox]

Peter who began mourning James and Lily the moment he was named secret keeper. Peter who spent the last time he saw the Potters refusing to hold Harry. Peter who claimed he was ill after vomiting because of how disgusted at himself he was. Peter who could not look James in the eye and only Lily noticed. Peter who could not even look at the bodies otherwise he could cry, knowing Voldemort would not let that slide.

[anae-naea-zacheria]

Things my family and I have said as Marauders quotes:

Peter: You don't mind having no clue what you're doing with your life while your family members are politicians, doctors, lawyers...?

Sirius: I mean, somebody's gotta be the disappointment of the family.

Remus: *sighs deeply*

Sirius: *smugly* Exactly.

[cunning-and-cool]

genuinely. genuinely cannot think about peter pettigrew without losing it

[falloutboyfan18]

Pete Wentz