#Wormtail

[loonyloopylupin96]

A thought on Peter...

We know James and Lily died in October 1981. We also know Peter was passing information over for more than a year before that.

What happened in 1980 that made Peter feel disenfranchised from his friends enough to turn his back?

Well... I've had a thought about that.

Harry was born in 1980.

What if the reason Peter felt more disconnected from the friends who were already far superior to him academically (and even in animagus size tbh) was because they had something new and all-consuming to focus on?

James had Lily, he now had Harry, Sirius was Godfather...

Remus could cope with not being the centre of attention because he had friends, and because as a werewolf he was grateful for anything (except in HBP when he finally pushes against relationships but anyway), but Peter... didn't have that. He wasn't down on himself enough to think 'this is all I'm going to get, so it's fine' (or 'I love these people and seeing them happy makes me happy').

He didn't know why he wasn't quite there with them, but...

Take a look at reddit child free threads, or similar spaces online, and see how long it takes you to find a post about someone saying they've lost their friend to the friend's new child (or something to that effect). It happens. Combine that with what Peter does say - their side was losing people, they were losing generally - perhaps he felt he had already lost James by that point. Sirius, too. He couldn't 'lose' Remus because Remus wasn't that kind of person (until y'know 1993 but my boy is not a doormat - he has limits!) but then... he only hurt Remus by hurting the others, he didn't physically hurt Remus.

So, what if that was the turning point?

(I just checked PoA to see... and pointing out that Harry looked like James was almost the last thing he did in that room. Everyone else starts a conversation by pointing it out, but Peter didn't bother. Is that indicative of disregard, or just a by-product of watching the boy grow up for three years?)

[starkayezer]

Xeno calls Peter "my rat boy"

[siriuscollar]

peter pettigrew would randomly become a meme on the internet and then gain a social media following.

this leads to an invite from the met gala or whatever other bougee party there is.

does he tell james, sirius or remus? ofc not!

it’s his little side quest and he’s just on a little adventure (god forbid a white boy catches a vibe(he simply forgets)).

the other marauders only find out peter attended the met when they see tiktoks of this dude dressed in a rat costume…

[twovialsofamortentia]

a little bit about what happens when one of the marauders loses that lovin’ feelin’ 🎙️

“Go away, Pads.” James huffed, rolling over onto his side, clearly moody about something, although he just wasn’t letting on as to what was making him so miserable.

Sirius cocked an eyebrow, tilting his head to one side just as a wicked smirk spread across his face. The kind of smirk that had people questioning if Sirius and James really were brothers by blood because it was so similar- boisterously boyish, on top of being bloody beautiful.

“Don’t tell me you’ve lost it..” Sirius began. Before James could groan out in protest, Remus had stuck his head out of his own bed curtains.

“Surely not, James.”

“Don’t you start, Moons.”

“Oh.” Remus remarked gravely. “He really has lost it, hasn’t he, Padfoot?”

Sirius just hummed in sarcastic agreement, sticking his head out of the dorm room door and whistling to call Peter up the stairs.

Once he had trudged reluctantly up the stairs and into the room, Peter folded his arms, confused as to why he’d been summoned. The look on Remus and Sirius’ faces told him this was very serious mischief.

“James has lost that loving feeling, Pete.” Sirius announced solemnly, as if he were breaking terrible news, and Peter gasped as if he had received it.

“We can’t possibly have that.”

“Boys, I’m really in no mood for this one at the moment-” James went to protest, but he was quickly cut off when the needle dropped on the record player in the corner of the room and Remus cranked the volume all the way up.

“You never close your eyes,

Any more when I kiss

Your lips..”

Sirius sang, having caught his hairbrush in one hand after Peter launched it at him to use as a microphone. Remus cackled, watching as Sirius advanced towards James’ bed, swaying dramatically as he crooned the old song, quiet but still perfectly audible over the blaring of the original vocals.

“There’s noooo tenderness

Like beeefore in your finger tiiiips!”

Remus had taken over, running up behind Sirius and trying to snatch the hairbrush-microphone, to no avail, and ended up just holding Sirius’ hands as he clutched the handle.

James had rolled over onto his back, now, wrapped up in the duvet, and it was evident that he was trying really, really hard not to crack a smile. He pulled on his best attempt at a death glare, his tongue resting on his top row of teeth, a terrible attempt at hiding the grin.

“You’re trying hard not to show it..” Peter wailed, clambering up onto the bed, the opposite side to where the other two boys were swaying, and then they all threw their heads back in essentially the same way, and the three boys were doing more shouting than singing.

“But babyyyy

Baby, I knowww iiiit!”

James cracked at last when Sirius and Remus went toppling onto the foot of the bed, all the marauders in a heap, still writhing around and belting out the chorus of the song. James laughed softly, shaking his head. They had successfully cheered him up, but he knew full well they wouldn’t relent until he sang along.

“You’ve lost that loving feelinggg

Whoa, that loving feeling

You’ve lost that looooving feeling, Now it’s gone, gone, gone, whoa oh oh!”

The other three boys cheered when James broke and sang along to the chorus with them, attacking him as soon as they knew he wasn’t as venomous anymore. Remus ruffled his hair, Sirius stole his glasses, and Peter took his face in both hands in a valiant effort to serenade him with the beginning of the next verse.

James shoved the rest of the marauders off of him, snatching his glasses back and running a hand through his dark hair to try and tame it slightly.

“Alright, wrap it up, you bunch of twats.” he told them, lying back on his bed as his friends settled in around him.

“Feel better now?” Remus asked patronisingly.

“Loving feeling come back?” came Peter’s voice as he pinched James’ cheek in exactly the way Effie did to them all, knowing how much he hated it.

Sirius chuckled childishly when James groaned, slugging Peter in the arm and mumbling a moody little piss off. “Miserable sod.”

“Don’t make us do it again!”

“Oh, for fuck’s sake, no, please.”

[letraspal]

They won’t let Remus side after a ugly full moon 🌕

[losver07]

peter pettigrew would say the most unhinged, brute, casually cruel things and instantly go "oh whoops! sorry, didn't mean that!"

[pastawithoutketchup]

[outromoony]

Peter Pettigrew is socially awkward and makes questionable life choices, but I promise you his Spotify Wrapped is fire.

[cryingoverdeadgaywizzards]

Peter Pettigrew would’ve loved snl

[ohyou-pretty-things]

artist : sybillgray 🐾

[beautifullikeblood]

"One day am I'm gonna grow wings" but it's Peter Pettigrew

Be able to look at myself in the mirror

Be the first choice

Be able to feel loved

[adisplanet]

it was moony, WORMTAIL, padfoot and prongs, and i'm sick of people pretending it wasn't.

They wouldn't have put peter's name second in the list if he wasn't as much a part of the group as the other three. peter wasn't an afterthought, the marauders weren't a trio. yes, he betrayed them, but not until years later. years after the map had been made and years after they'd shared a dorm. they were just four best friends against the world - moony, WORMTAIL, padfoot and prongs.

[penseesduncookie]

I’ve been reading The cadence of part time poets from @motswolo lately and i think it’s my favorite fic so far!!

here some fanarts of those lovely boys 🌼

[70swizards]

funniest thing to me is how remus is a cat person and how james is a dog person, and yet, their boyfriends are the opposite as animagi 😭

[sennenrings]

after the full moon, circa 1976

do not repost my art.

[twojwujo-stanislaw]

Peter: If a person using sign language is missing one of their fingers, they have an accent or a speech impediment?

Sirius: ...

Remus: Wormtail.. it's 11 pm

James: *pours apple juice into four glasses* Nah, I want to hear more about it.