PETER PETTIGREW: 9 October, 1974
Sam,
Well, it’s Monday and we’re back in school. It was good to see you at the service, even if you couldn’t stay and even if it was a pretty arse reason to see my cousin. I feel like I should warn you Mum has gone completely tilt.
It all started before the service and Maddie wanted to bring this doll with her. I mean MY her Dad is gone. Poof. And she wanted to hold something, and Mum kept brushing her away so she went upstairs and got this toy to hold onto. And Mum told her to take it back because young ladies didn't carry nappy old dolls in public. TAKE IT BACK, she yelled. Well that set Maddie off again and I went over and hugged her and made her sit down with me and Stephen tried to make Mum see why she needed it and Mum turned around and breathed in real deep and said that everyone needed someone to hold onto and that sometimes that someone wasn’t going to be there and Maddie needed to learn that. I was shocked. I mean you’re a right old bat who’s sposed to be machure! Mum is an ADULT and Maddie is a CHILD. She’s, you know, she’s young and she’s never had to deal with anything like this before. Not that any of us have really.
Well Stephen began yelling at Mum and Mum told him to calm down because he was sposed to be the man of the house now and that he was 16 now and an adult and she wouldn’t ‘suffer such nonsince’ and then Stephen told Mum that SHE was the adult and that we were just kids and she needed to stop being such a harpy and pull it together.
Yeah, she didn’t like that much. That’s why they didn’t even meet eyes at the service and why your Mum couldn’t get us all together to have a talk and some tea.
When we got home I helped Maddie get ready for bed. I know she doesn’t NEED help she’s 13, but you know, she needed help now. She’s been really quiet, hardly talked on the train back. Then I went to bed and Mum and Stephen started a row that lasted three days. It was like living with Howler (Mum) and a Whispering Revenge (Stephen). He told me on the train that she tried to make him stay home for good and run things and take over Dad’s position and the such. That is total and complete bollocks! Stephen’s a child too! She has gone mad. Doesn’t she know he needs to finish school? He wants to be something important, like an Auror, and he doesn’t want to do nasty old boring work like that, no matter how much money it got us. I wouldn’t either.
I’ve spent more time with both of them recently. I’ve been seeing them at lunch and stuff instead of just hanging out with my friends. Before I didn’t care because they were just my rude older brother and my nattery little sister but now they’re not anymore. They’re my family and what if I don’t eat lunch with them and then I never see them again?
The head of my house was really nice about it nice for her anyway and has let me eat lunch with Maddie at her house table and has let me not do some work which means I’ve been doing runs to the kitchen and library for prank stuff for my friends while they do theirs.
Right, Sirius is going to come in here any minute and grumble about no Kepper’s root for stink potion and call me a girl for having a journal or something so I’ll write you more later. Let your Mum know that we love her and even if Mum was being mean and didn’t remember that he was her brother we do. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost my brother.
Lonely,
Well, it’s Monday and we’re back in school. It was good to see you at the service, even if you couldn’t stay and even if it was a pretty arse reason to see my cousin. I feel like I should warn you Mum has gone completely tilt.
It all started before the service and Maddie wanted to bring this doll with her. I mean MY her Dad is gone. Poof. And she wanted to hold something, and Mum kept brushing her away so she went upstairs and got this toy to hold onto. And Mum told her to take it back because young ladies didn't carry nappy old dolls in public. TAKE IT BACK, she yelled. Well that set Maddie off again and I went over and hugged her and made her sit down with me and Stephen tried to make Mum see why she needed it and Mum turned around and breathed in real deep and said that everyone needed someone to hold onto and that sometimes that someone wasn’t going to be there and Maddie needed to learn that. I was shocked. I mean you’re a right old bat who’s sposed to be machure! Mum is an ADULT and Maddie is a CHILD. She’s, you know, she’s young and she’s never had to deal with anything like this before. Not that any of us have really.
Well Stephen began yelling at Mum and Mum told him to calm down because he was sposed to be the man of the house now and that he was 16 now and an adult and she wouldn’t ‘suffer such nonsince’ and then Stephen told Mum that SHE was the adult and that we were just kids and she needed to stop being such a harpy and pull it together.
Yeah, she didn’t like that much. That’s why they didn’t even meet eyes at the service and why your Mum couldn’t get us all together to have a talk and some tea.
When we got home I helped Maddie get ready for bed. I know she doesn’t NEED help she’s 13, but you know, she needed help now. She’s been really quiet, hardly talked on the train back. Then I went to bed and Mum and Stephen started a row that lasted three days. It was like living with Howler (Mum) and a Whispering Revenge (Stephen). He told me on the train that she tried to make him stay home for good and run things and take over Dad’s position and the such. That is total and complete bollocks! Stephen’s a child too! She has gone mad. Doesn’t she know he needs to finish school? He wants to be something important, like an Auror, and he doesn’t want to do nasty old boring work like that, no matter how much money it got us. I wouldn’t either.
I’ve spent more time with both of them recently. I’ve been seeing them at lunch and stuff instead of just hanging out with my friends. Before I didn’t care because they were just my rude older brother and my nattery little sister but now they’re not anymore. They’re my family and what if I don’t eat lunch with them and then I never see them again?
The head of my house was really nice about it nice for her anyway and has let me eat lunch with Maddie at her house table and has let me not do some work which means I’ve been doing runs to the kitchen and library for prank stuff for my friends while they do theirs.
Right, Sirius is going to come in here any minute and grumble about no Kepper’s root for stink potion and call me a girl for having a journal or something so I’ll write you more later. Let your Mum know that we love her and even if Mum was being mean and didn’t remember that he was her brother we do. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost my brother.
Lonely,