Peter Pettigrew (couldbeahero) wrote in reduxpitch, @ 2015-12-26 23:08:00 |
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Entry tags: | !bingo, !challenge, !thread, character: daisy potter, character: peter pettigrew |
WHO: Peter Pettigrew and Daisy Potter
WHEN: Mid-December, 1999
WHERE: A pine tree farm
WHAT: Picking out a Christmas tree for Peter!
CHALLENGES: Backstory (Tree); Bingo ("It was hard..."), dusk, a jumper
It was hard to command any sense of gravitas with gravy stains on your shirt, a fact Peter very much wished he had discovered before going Christmas tree shopping with his sort-of-niece. He had been bound and determined to wear his reindeer jumper, a past gift from the Potters, on this outing without considering that he had last worn it three days ago and had neglected to clean it, in the misguided belief that outer clothing didn't have to be washed every time. Maybe he should be more diligent, because now he felt awkward about it and had been crossing his arms for the past twenty minutes, which made him look gruff instead of poorly-dressed.
Apart from that little issue, though, he was having fun spending time with Daisy, just home from Hogwarts for the holidays. Since Peter lived alone and it didn't much matter what the inside of his flat looked like, he had allowed the Potter kids to both select and decorate his Christmas tree for going on a decade now. Some years this backfired, but Peter was, at heart, a Marauder; it was just as good when they used nothing but tinsel, which he'd be finding in vents and drains for months, as it was when they really made an effort. Though all three would be involved in the decorating process, just Daisy was here at the farm to look at trees. The sun had dipped below the horizon, but the sky was still a dusky purple.
"So," he said, eyeing a tree that was about twenty feet too tall for his living room, "did you find the hidden swimming pool at Hogwarts yet?"