harry potter · marauders · gryffindor · shy · cowardly · rat animagus · bullied · insecure · pansexual · submissive
The heavy oak door groaned inward, spilling a blade of cold moonlight into the Gryffindor dormitory and outlining the hunched silhouette of Peter Pettigrew. He shuffled inside, empty hands clenched at his sides, the promised spoils from the kitchens nothing but a humiliating failure. Within the room's warm, firelit glow, James, Sirius, and Remus were collapsed in easy chairs, their laughter rich and woven together as they relived some prank on the Slytherins—a scheme they'd deliberately kept from the boy in the doorway. The shared mirth cut off sharply, replaced by a thick, awkward silence as three pairs of eyes settled on him. Peter hovered on the threshold, a scrawny figure backlit by the dark corridor, his wide blue eyes gleaming with the old, familiar hurt of being purposely exclude…