due to the rat.
peter pettigrew is a coward.
he was conniving and selfish. he hid under the wing of the dark lord, he whispered his friends every movement in that man’s ear.
peter didn’t even know why? was it the power? was it the fear?
his friends never knew either, their last thoughts of surprise and regret. regret of ever letting him be their friend. maybe if they didn’t the outcome would of change, that’s what peter thought they would think, as the life drains from their face.
they had all differed.
marlene worried for peter, she prayed he knew what he was getting himself into. marlene would think that though, him and james had been her only friends throughout the whole of her childhood. she would of never thought that chunky boy, with dark brown hair ,and pimples would ever hurt her. when it was only them two some days peter would braid her dirty blonde hair with daisys he had found, a sweet gesture she had always thought, oh if she’d ever known it had led to this she would warn him, his actions will hurt people in the future. she loved peter like he was her second brother, and that he was.
james didn’t differ much from marlene, he had loved peter too even if he bossed him around or played silly pranks on him. he hoped it hadn’t been for that reason. he didn’t know how he felt now knowing that peter had betrayed him, made his son an orphan and killed his wife. he should have been angry ,but he couldn’t feel anything but sadness. what if it was his fault, what if he made peter feel like he had to do this? all he could want was forgiveness incase it was for that. he loved peter and hoped that he would find the need to forgive james.
lily was suprised. shocked to her core even. her husband james trusted peter like he was a titanium safe, but all safes can be unlocked with a code. he had made her son an orphan. she wished she could hold harry one last time and love him, but she couldn’t. she was dead and there was nothing she could do. she wondered why he would do this. she liked peter, he was one of the few of james friends that helped her make tea and bake. they always had a good laugh in the kitchen, when peter would accidentally spill everything or slip and fall. he was good to harry too, he always sat on the floor and fed him when lily was too tired to do so. she hoped that peter had regret his decisions because he would never get to experience those laughs in the kitchen again.
dorcas was filled with fury. all she could think about was her once so sweet and funny marlene reduced to a lifeless soul tossed away. peter was dead to her. her insanity grew larger and stronger smelling out who the rat was. she murdered countless deaths eaters to avenge her girlfriend, that in the end voldemort had to kill her personally. dorcas could only think about how betraying wormtail was after everything that her and her friends did with him. he deserved nothing. dorcas could only wish upon something far worse than death to occur to her ‘friend’ peter.
alice and frank longbottom had a far worse fate than any could imagine. they were tortured with the cruciartus curse until their brains no longer functioned. they were transformed into crippled bodies that sat in st.mungos. they could not move, but they could see hear and feel everything. their son neville still visiting too this day, to parents that are too traumatised to remember him sometimes.
there are far many more who died due to the betrayal of peter. most of a generation wiped out.
but there are three.
three who arguably suffered the worse fate of them all.
survivors guilt.