WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME CRY LIKE THIS

marauders4evr:

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punkmarauder:

what fucks me over most about James Potter is how he felt about Peters betrayal like we don’t know what James thought, he could have 100% just instantly assumed that they tortured or killed Peter for information because we know James would never even think about one of his friends betraying him, James might have felt guilty for putting Peter through that, James might have been begging Peter for forgiveness in his final moments

‘If the Secret Keeper wishes to do so, they may divulge the information at any time (although the secret cannot be forced, bewitched or tortured out of a Secret Keeper who does not wish to give up their secret; it must be given voluntarily’ -JK Rowling on Pottermore

Lowkey one of the most heart wrenching things posted on Pottermore imo, because James and Lily knew. I’m sure James’s mind scrambled for an excuse or reason or alternate explanation as to why one of his best friends would voluntarily gave up their whereabouts, because thats just in his nature, but I honestly think that deep down he had to have known the truth. That there was no other explanation other than Peter, his best friend and fellow marauder, who he had grown up with and joked with and pulled pranks with sat through hundred of detentions with and teased and comforted and trusted with his life had, for whatever reason, wanted to divulge their location. And I think it makes James Potter’s final moments 1000x sadder.

I was having a pretty good day until I read this. Now I’m sad. So thanks.

BUT A THOUGHT OCCURS

Deep down, James probably did know because let’s face it, even though he was a tiny bit reckless and a tiny bit restless in that household, James was still an extremely intelligent man who would, unfortunately, come to that conclusion and one of his last thoughts would be that his best friend betrayed him. He’d get it in about thirty seconds flat. Not even.

Do you know who wouldn’t get it?

Not right away, at least?

Do you know who would be so filled with grief and horror and anger and pure shock mixed in with an already unstable mind and reckless personality that he wouldn’t get it right away?

Sirius.

My mates, what if we’ve been looking at that night the wrong way? This whole time, we’ve made a horrible mistake?

See, everyone in the fandom just assumed that Sirius…very randomly gave Harry to Hagrid so that he could go hunt down Peter and kill him.

But what if that’s not true?

What if he thought that something horrible had happened, that Peter must have been tortured, that his best friend, his brother, was lying in a gutter somewhere, throat slashed? And Sirius is just horrified because he was the one who suggested the change. He was the one who made Peter the Secret Keeper. He’s the reason Peter was probably tortured for hours, his poor brother, he was probably in so much pain, if not dead, and it was all Sirius’ fault. Not since Regulus and like five seconds prior when he saw James did Sirius ever feel so guilty for leading to a brother’s demise.

So he gives Harry to Hagrid for safekeeping because he’s responsible and knows that he’s not going to carry a child into a torture scene. He spends all night, desperately searching for Peter, tears rolling down his face, pushing through one long panic attack. And he finally finds him.

Only Peter’s not dead.

Peter’s not even hurt.

And by the time Sirius realizes what happened, Peter’s already raising his wand and screaming to everyone who can hear that Sirius betrayed them.

And that’s when Sirius has his breakdown. Because it’s the sudden juxtaposition of it all. He didn’t have hours, even a day (the timeline’s still so screwed up) to come to terms with Peter’s betrayal. It all happened in a matter of 30 seconds. And it just completely breaks him.