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Tweak says, "Aaaaa-mazing!!"

James "Prongs" Potter (_cervus_) wrote in hogwarts_dawn,
@ 2021-06-06 19:41:00

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character: james potter, character: peter pettigrew

RP: Peter & James
Who: Peter & James
What: Friends that fight monsters together..?
Where: Seventh floor corridors
When: 6th June, afternoon

it had been another bright day. Cooler than some of the days before, but still easily warm enough to spend the day outside. James had spent most of his Sunday under the old tree by the lake. The same spot where he and his friends, and later on Lily, had often spent sunny free periods and evenings. Only without the homework, thankfully. Old habits and all that.

Still, he'd fancied a fly before dinner and so had popped inside to grab his broom from Gryffindor tower. James was just on his way there, stepping out from behind a tapestry depicting a particularly disgusting case of splattergroit, when he all but walked straight into Peter.

"Bloody hell. Sorry Wormtail."

Obviously it would be him. He doubted many other people here knew that passageway existed. Still, it wasn't exactly ideal. James hesitated, rocking on his heels for a moment as he searched for something to say.... 'Nice weather we're having' was apparently all his idiot brain could come up with, and he would sooner snog Snape than stoop that low.

James sighed, "Pete, I don't really have-" And then he stopped. There was a noise coming from the far end of the corridor, heavy and low, but repetitive. Like rumbling footsteps. Definitely not a normal corridor type noise, even for Hogwarts.

"Do you hear that?" He asked, some forgotten, Order-ish part of him kicking in so that his wand was suddenly in his hand. Instinctively, James took a few steps closer to Peter so they were shoulder to shoulder, peering down the hallway.

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_cervus_
2021-06-07 10:32 pm UTC (link)

James stared at Peter for a moment, the wheels in his head turning in a way that was almost visible. He was right. This castle had always been a beacon for all things completely mental. As much as he wanted to hope that the troll had simply wandered in from Hogsmeade for a delicious snack, it didn't seem particularly plausible. He frowned, his wand twirling at his side. "Godric, I hope not," he finally said. "What about all the stuff that came after us? Harry basically had a fresh dark creature every year."

With a snort of laughter, James wandered a little way down the hall to set some wards, trusting Peter to do the same at his end. It was strange, how quickly they'd suddenly fallen back into old ways. James was vaguely aware that if he thought about it too much, he'd probably ruin it. So he didn't, because if he was honest with himself, he was quite enjoying having Wormtail next to him again. Even if it was just for half an hour of troll-based mayhem.

"I'm listening," James insisted, shaking his thoughts away and heading back with a skewed smile. Beyond the still-complaining troll, his wards hung in the air for a second before fading. "I listen to every word. Diligently. But you know how it gets. Sometimes things escalate."

"That whole bloody thing is weird," James muttered, finally stowing his wand back in his pocket. Peter, like many people, knew James' opinions on Regulus Black. As much as he tried to maintain the 'indifferent' promise he'd made to Moony, there was still a rather large part of James who would quite enjoy a chance to hex the younger Black all kinds of interesting colours.

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p__pettigrew
2021-06-08 02:03 am UTC (link)

The amusement was gone in a heartbeat. "I'm not even worried about that. Creatures we can deal with. Dementors, vampires, dragons, those are things we can take. People scare me more. Death Eaters." He put his wand in his pocket. "There was something that I wanted to talk to you and Sirius about, something that Marlene brought up: legilimency." He had avoid thinking about, too busy with other research, but he had looked into it a bit.

"I didn't know it was something wizards could do, not until she said it a couple of weeks ago. I think that's what Bella did. I kept thinking to myself that maybe it wasn't my fault. She never really asked me anything she didn't really know. There had to be someone else," he said, frowning. "I was so sure that I never gave them anything, not until- I must have told them that, because of how the Fidelius works, but I always figured that I hadn't really done any damage, but if she took it from my head?" He sighed. "I'm not even sure what I'm saying. That bitch could have gotten the information without threatening my family, without me even knowing, but she wanted me to know. She enjoyed it." God, if she ever came back, he'd kill her in the most painful way.

He smiled at little. "It's ... I like him, Harry I mean. Despite Petunia and her awful husband, despite everything that happened to him, he's a good man. He's good because of you and Lily. You must be really proud of him. Even if we don't pay attention at times," he added, with a chuckle.

Peter cast spells on both sides of the corridor to ensure that no one would accidentally walk by. "Come on, let's go find Remus," he said, putting his wand away. "He's happy, though. The way he talks about Regulus- He's happy, and I want him to be happy."

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_cervus_
2021-06-08 10:15 am UTC (link)

James chewed on that piece of information for a moment, suddenly unsettled. It wasn't the first time that the possibility of some more troubling people arriving had occured to him, but with the troll currently trying to deafen them both, it all seemed a little closer to home. James' stomach turned uncomfortably as he thought of Lily. Lily and the new baby. They couldn't do it like that again, he wasn't sure he had the strength in him. But maybe he was getting ahead of himself...

"Hm?" he looked up at Peter, trying to catch the tail end of the conversation. Legilimency? "What about it?"

He listened silently, his own worries shoved safely to the back of his head for now. A part of James wished they didn't have to talk about this. He'd been enjoying spending time with Wormtail and not thinking about any of that stuff, but here they were again. He sighed, shoving an annoying few strands of dark hair away from his forehead. "I wouldn't be surprised. I heard You-Know-Who was pretty good at it, so makes sense that Bellatrix would have picked it up somewhere. I don't know how good at it she was, though - maybe she needed you close by to do it, so the stuff with your family was more to keep you in line. Or maybe she's a psychotic hag. Perhaps both." He scuffed his shoe absently against the flagstones, sliding his hands into his pockets. "Either way, you couldn't have known what she was pulling out of your head."

James couldn't help but straighten up slightly at the mention of Harry, like the idea of his weirdly adult son inflated him a little. Could you blame him? It was hard not to turn into a smug prat every time his boy was mentioned, really. He grinned, finding the smile came readily with the change of subject. "Well... Not to sound too up myself, but he's probably the best thing I've ever done," James admitted, then shrugged easily and shot the other man an easy smile. "Well, top three, at any rate."

James watched Peter finish off the spells, a deep line etching itself between his eyebrows as he frowned. "Obviously," he sighed, falling into step beside Peter as they started off down the corridor. "But why couldn't he be happy with someone who isn't a complete tosser?"

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