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Not weird at all! If anything it makes me happy, if everyone liked the same characters, it'd get boring after a while. I like debating things, though I don't always do it well. And if everyone had the same tastes there'd be no pairing wars, and what would we do without those? XD

Hey, too little too late. I kind of liked the fact that most of the characters got unspectacular deaths, it made it more realistic. Not everyone is going to die on the back of a dragon while blasting Requiem for a Dream and taking down Death Eaters with lethal fireworks. Though that would be awesome and I would watch that. But dang it, you're kind of making me like him because you pointed out that whole scene, and now Peter's story has all these morals like don't wait too long to do the right thing, another opportunity might not come along or even if it does come along you're still dead, etc.

Now you're making me wonder how he became so utterly broken, too. I thought the stress of the war was too much for him, and then Voldemort found him. I wonder if he felt betrayed by his friends for not realizing that he'd gotten into trouble and not helping him. That would almost make sense: they're not helping me, why should I help them? After all, his friends were willing to die for him, but you can't exactly put yourself in a situation to die for someone unless you actually realize there's a situation in the first place. I wonder if he ever felt overshadowed by his friends or if he really was "content with riding their coattails" as Lupin put it.

...Oh frick. Why are all my least favorite characters waiting until this week to climb the ranks of my mental character hierarchy? Is there something going on I should know about? XD

Thank you. I am now imagining Sirius digging into his stash of doggie treats and trying to train Peter. "C'mon boy, roll over! Now play dead! Man, Peter, you're really good at that." >.<

Anyways, getting back to the main point, I guess it's easy to see why resentment would build up. Oh, if you're interested, there's this really good fic I found a while back. Peter stars in one of the chapters, here's the link to it: Click Me! It's a crossover of Discworld and HP, but you don't need to know Discworld to like it. Everyone goes to King's Cross when they die, not just Harry, and it's all a matter of whether they will wait or go forward, and who they board the trains with. I really liked Peter's characterization in this.

Er... I haven't actually read it yet. I think Death is the station conductor, and he has a cat and there's a rat around. And then in one of the later chapters (they're all oneshots focusing on different characters after death) there's a teacher. I don't know any of the characters and I didn't even need to, it's just that good of a story.

I think it's pretty safe to say that Peter felt a bit overshadowed by his friends. That and James had Sirius living with him for years, and was financially supporting Remus, and was married to Lily and what about Peter? He seemed to be treated just...kind of like a pet. How much would it take for that to get to him? Among the death threats and the fear and the stress, on top of all those feelings of being the odd man out, the "pity friend".