Harry Potter and the Secrets of Vipers (смешанная)

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A/N: Wormtail. A few people pointed this out in comments regarding the graveyard scene so I’d like to clear some things up about him as a character: reducing him to a squeaky spineless rat man was, imo, a mistake on JKR’s part. It says something really unpleasant about the Marauders in Hogwarts if they kept him around despite or because of his toadying and that’s a degree of unpleasant I don’t quite think they actually achieved. Also, honestly, the canon portrayal of young Remus, Sirius, and James is clever, charismatic, arrogant boys, and I think they’d have eventually gotten sick of Peter if all he did was lick their boots and tell them how awesome they were. He definitely wouldn’t have been considered a Marauder if that was the only role he played in their group and Peter was a Marauder as much as the others.
Everyone can probably tell by now I’m changing Voldemort. Making his ideology less radical, insane, and patently ridiculous, making him sane, overall making the Death Eaters better antagonists, which means Peter himself can be something other than the spineless traitor. In my interpretation, young Peter wasn’t magically very powerful, but he was clever. Rats are smart, vicious when cornered, sneaky, nimble. Peter befriended the Marauders for… reasons we’ll explore later, he’s going to get more page time than he did in canon and some actual development (ha, what a concept) but he was their friend and he contributed more to the group than snacks, moral support, and freezing the Whomping Willow on full moons. Academically and magically he didn’t stand out compared to the others, but he was great at sneaking, great at planning pranks, great at problem solving. But he did always feel insecure and overshadowed by them (bc let’s face it, James and Sirius in particular were arrogant as hell as teenagers and most likely treated Peter pretty callously simply because they couldn’t fathom his insecurity) and so in the war Peter finally gave in to his cowardice and betrayed James. There’s more to this story that’s going to come up later but all this is to say Peter defeated Harry in the graveyard because he’s a clever, sneaky duelist who makes up for lack of magical power by being quick and going for unexpected attacks. He’s also a lot older and has a lot more experience than 14yo Harry who hadn’t been dueling with the Vipers for a year, and who grew up without magic.
A/N 2: To answer some FAQs regarding romance in this story: Harry is straight, there will be m/m and f/f relationships as well as m/f, I’m not telling any of them yet because that would be boring, everyone will have multiple experiences with dating because they’re teenagers and not likely to start dating their spouse at age 16. looking at you, jkr. that said, some characters might come back to someone they dated first or early. I’m still not going to focus too much on this aspect of the fic but it’ll be there.