Fic: Memory, Awake (Rating: R)

[gehayi]

Almost done with the mini-rant/mini-rave thing (which isn't very rantish, to be honest)--I only have one more to do, on either Crowley/Aziraphale or Snupin.

In other news, my beta finished beta-ing. Thank you, quinby.

The story combines three challenges from hp_literotica--an unsympathetic character (July 2004), cold weather (December 2004) and unrequited love (

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[honorh]

Oh, no, I'm not at all bitter about Lord Voldemort, Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange and assorted Death Eaters, who act out of greed, sadistic cruelty, hunger for power and the wizarding equivalent of genocidal racism, being considered "cool" while Peter, whose default setting is fear, is universally vilified.

Oh, but don't you know the others are TEH SEXX0RZ!!1! and Peter's just a lumpy rat-face?

Seriously, I do think the fact that Peter is unattractive is part of it. Lucius Malfoy had the good fortune to be played by Jason Isaacs and a young Voldemort by Christian Coulson (and grown Voldemort by Ralph Fiennes). Bellatrix is also imagined to be sexy and gorgeous. Unfortunately, in an image-obsessed society like ours, that's enough to be considered sexy.

Another part of it *is* that his default setting is fear. I suppose people have more respect for a seemingly-fearless villain than for his perpetually-fearful hanger-on. I suppose they'd rather *be* Voldemort than Peter--even though the truth is, it'd be more likely to be the other way around. People despise him because they could *be* him. Isn't what we hate most in others the thing we hate most about ourselves?