Prompt 28 - Langlock
@wolfstarmicrofic April 28, word count 227
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CW - Dead body (Mentioned not described)
It took them over a week to find Peter. He was in a sorry state. They didn’t know exactly when he’d been killed, but the Dark Mark above a house a hundred miles away from where Peter had been taken from was the only clue they had to his whereabouts. Sirius had ranted and raved at Moody and Dumbledore.
“Why did it take so long to find him? We could have saved him!” He got so bad that Moody eventually had enough and cast Langlock on him, sticking Sirius’s tongue to the roof of his mouth to shut him up. Sirius had turned red, the smell of ozone around him as he lost control of his magic. Remus had to physically drag him away from what was left of Peter.
“It’s all my fault, Remus,” Sirius sobbed into his shoulder. “If I hadn’t been trying to be clever, he’d never have been in danger. I should never have made him secret keeper,” Remus soothed him the best he could, but something about Sirius’s words unsettled him. He wouldn’t quite put him finger on it, but his subconscious was screaming at him.
It came to him in the middle of the night as the moonlight shone through their curtains. No one knew Peter had been the secret keeper, not even Dumbledore, so why had Voldemort gone after Peter?
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