For Waterbird -- Part 1gehayiApril 23 2007, 16:58:59 UTC
Recipient: waterbird Prompt: Peter, Remus and the end of the second war. Word count: 1,446 Warnings: Violence and angst. Rating: PG-13. Probably not what you were expecting with this prompt. It's more a coda to my Peter stories than anything else
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For Waterbird -- Part 2gehayiApril 23 2007, 17:00:56 UTC
Wormtail didn't even deign to notice. He nodded at Voldemort's words, took a deep breath, turned slightly...
...and grabbed the wrist of Voldemort's wand hand with his silver one. And he began squeezing.
Remus stared in disbelief. He'd heard second-hand about Peter's hand; not only was it silver, but it could crush wood and stone to dust.
Voldemort sneered--though his face was twisting in ways that made Remus think that he was suffering considerable pain. "Fool. Fool and traitor. Did you really think that you could destroy me? Ava--"
"Silencio," said Wormtail--and Voldemort's words cut off.
Voldemort struggled to lift his wand--probably to cast a nonverbal spell, Remus realised.
"Expelliarmus!" And the Dark Lord's wand went flying, landing beneath the tree, merely inches from Remus's head. Wormtail smiled a cold, ugly smile and squeezed all the harder
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For Waterbird -- Part 3gehayiApril 23 2007, 17:04:56 UTC
Harry did. It was very quick--almost anticlimactic, Remus thought.
Unless, of course, Wormtail was planning to kill Harry now that Voldemort was dead. He was armed with a wand now.
As if divining Remus's thoughts, Wormtail gave him a weary, sardonic look, gripped the wand in both hands and broke it over his knee. He dropped the pieces on the ground, then waved his silver hand in an intricate gesture--as if he were using an invisible wand. "Incendio!"
The pieces burst into flame.
Of course, thought Remus, wondering why it hadn't occurred to him. He spent years without a wand of his own--twelve years or more without a wand at all. If anyone should know about wandless magic, he should. Harry will never be safe until he's dead."It's better that it's gone," Wormtail said...and the tone made Remus pause, for the sniveling and groveling that he'd heard in the Shrieking Shack was gone. Loath as Remus was to admit it, he sounded like Peter again...strained and exhausted, as if he'd just completed a ghastly test in an incredibly difficult
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Re: For Waterbird -- Part 3gehayiApril 23 2007, 18:32:35 UTC
Thank you. I've heard so many people argue that Peter deserves the Kiss for his crimes, and honestly, I don't think anyone deserves that. And in a world where wizards know that the afterlife definitely exists--they can all see ghosts, after all--the Dementor's Kiss seems, to me, to be an obscenity. Death takes away life; the Kiss takes away the mind, the personality, the soul, the afterlife and any hope, post-mortem, of repentence and redemption.
(Sorry. Twelve years of Catholic school. It leaves an impact.)
Re: For Waterbird -- Part 3eeyore9990April 24 2007, 12:33:41 UTC
Excellent ficlet. And somehow I'm happy Peter was able to make some small form of reparation for himself, for the person Voldemort killed inside of him. Very thought-provoking.
Re: For Waterbird -- Part 3gehayiApril 24 2007, 14:45:50 UTC
Thank you so much! That's what I was going for--Peter making reparations for the person he used to be. Voldemort doesn't have to kill people to destroy them. Alas.
Prompt: Peter, Remus and the end of the second war.
Word count: 1,446
Warnings: Violence and angst.
Rating: PG-13. Probably not what you were expecting with this prompt. It's more a coda to my Peter stories than anything else ( ... )
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...and grabbed the wrist of Voldemort's wand hand with his silver one. And he began squeezing.
Remus stared in disbelief. He'd heard second-hand about Peter's hand; not only was it silver, but it could crush wood and stone to dust.
Voldemort sneered--though his face was twisting in ways that made Remus think that he was suffering considerable pain. "Fool. Fool and traitor. Did you really think that you could destroy me? Ava--"
"Silencio," said Wormtail--and Voldemort's words cut off.
Voldemort struggled to lift his wand--probably to cast a nonverbal spell, Remus realised.
"Expelliarmus!" And the Dark Lord's wand went flying, landing beneath the tree, merely inches from Remus's head. Wormtail smiled a cold, ugly smile and squeezed all the harder ( ... )
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Unless, of course, Wormtail was planning to kill Harry now that Voldemort was dead. He was armed with a wand now.
As if divining Remus's thoughts, Wormtail gave him a weary, sardonic look, gripped the wand in both hands and broke it over his knee. He dropped the pieces on the ground, then waved his silver hand in an intricate gesture--as if he were using an invisible wand. "Incendio!"
The pieces burst into flame.
Of course, thought Remus, wondering why it hadn't occurred to him. He spent years without a wand of his own--twelve years or more without a wand at all. If anyone should know about wandless magic, he should. Harry will never be safe until he's dead."It's better that it's gone," Wormtail said...and the tone made Remus pause, for the sniveling and groveling that he'd heard in the Shrieking Shack was gone. Loath as Remus was to admit it, he sounded like Peter again...strained and exhausted, as if he'd just completed a ghastly test in an incredibly difficult ( ... )
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(Sorry. Twelve years of Catholic school. It leaves an impact.)
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What a story. /bows to your Peter-writing prowess.
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