The absolute worst kind of subfan to be in the hp fandom is a first war era fan because we know so little and yet somehow it can manage to contradict itself. Why are Lily and James in the photo with Marlene when Marlene dies two weeks after, yet Lily’s letter that mentions the woman’s death acts as if her and James have been cooped up for a whole? What the fuck was Remus doing during this whole thing and why could he infiltrate the werewolf packs in the second war? Did Sirius ever recognize his fam or old friends on the battlefield and what was that like? What battles were fought? Why did so many people end up dying around the time Marlene died? Why the fuck was Barty with the Lestranges during the Longbottom attack given the others were all family yet BCJ tagged along? I have questions but no answers
u are so right 😭😭😭 ‘i have questions but no answers’ is literally it. i fully recognise that this was just. not relevant to the lightning era plot so we didn’t get it, but then we got these weirdly sprinkled bits and pieces that form this incomplete picture (and in some cases, multiple incomplete pictures???) and it’s just like this itch that will not go away.
(also that barty question is such a good one bc. wtf was up w that??? was it like. a baby’s first mission kind of a deal? he’s trying to prove himself? he accidentally touched their portkey and got transported along w them? he was already at the longbottoms for evening tea and got chucked into azkaban for being in the wrong place at wrong time??? what was going on)
Why fic no climb out of my head and lie down in paper? Why must I write fic? ☹
Drarry from that sectumsempra scene
love the classic damsel in distress trope, but the damsel in question is a pathetic fictional man bleeding out in the dark somewhere on the floor before his ridiculously gorgeous knight comes for his rescue just when he’s about to pass out, and the ridiculously gorgeous knight in question is actually a deranged villain who is his archenemy. but they both have these frustratingly unresolved sexual tension going on where they both hate each other but are also super possessive and protective of each other in the sense that no one else can hurt this little guy but me!!!! and so the knight carries his pathetic damsel in his arms bridal style back to his goth castle where they have hot, kinky gay sex ever after (after he nurses his pathetic enemy’s ass back to health, of course, can’t risk bruising our fragile damsel when he’s already half dead).
didn’t realise it was sirius & harry saturday already but uh. lucky i had this eh?
Sirius goes deathly still. Surely he didn’t—?
One look at his godson, who was pouring himself a glass of milk without having quite realised what he’d just said, and it was clear he did.
He did hear that correct. His godson did just refer to himself as a freak, without batting an eyelid.
It was a simple question. Sirius was slumped over the kitchen table, eyes half-shut. Caught up in thoughts of what was, what could’ve been—as he was wont to do these. It was a bloody miserable morning, but he was used to that by now.
Well, used to is a bit optimistic. He’s resigned to it.
He kept thinking about that—how the mighty fall. Used to be that he’d never bowed down to anyone, ever (except james. but james was different. james was his, he was home, and it was never like that with him) and look at him now. Can’t step out of the room without logging it in.
Bloody. Miserable.
Until he heard the clang of a glass and the thud of a jug being set down on the table and jerks himself out of his thoughts and his chair.
He stared, wide eyed, at Harry who was calmly standing on the other end of the table from him.
“When did you get in here?” Sirius croaked, throat exceptionally dry.
“It’s been a couple minutes,” Harry shrugged. But how is that—Surely, Sirius would’ve heard him? He wasn’t that out of it, and his senses had always been sharp regardless of where his thoughts were wandering. They’d had to be.
“How did I not hear that?” Sirius said, half to himself. “Teenage boys are notoriously loud.”
That’s when he’d said it. That- that freaks shouldn’t be heard or seen.
And now Sirius is here, frozen in his half slumped position, eyes stuck on the lithe form of his godson. Harry was now humming to himself, an old Muggle number he’d heard on the radio before.
It was incongruent—his words from a second ago were still ringing in Sirius’ ears, but it was slowly being drowned out by the sound of Harry’s humming, the feel of blood rushing in his ears, his magic swirling around him in the beginnings of outrage.
“Harry,” Sirius says, voice carefully controlled. James had called it the ‘Black Siren’ because he thought himself funny. That, and it was a distinctive tone, spread out across generations of Blacks. For all that Sirius professed to be different, at the end of the day, he was cut from the same cloth, was he not?
“Hm?” is the absent response. His godson has moved on to mixing in a scoop of chocolate malt into his glass of milk.
“What was that?”
“What was what?” The clink of spoon against glass. Harry’s face looks unusually well rested, and his hair is in some form of order for once. He looks good—healthy. There’s a small smile on his face as he looks down at his drink. Sirius almost doesn’t want to bring this up. He knows it will ruin the mood, possibly even distance Harry from him (Sirius was the one adult in this place who hadn’t gotten the grumpy teen attitude until now. He quite wanted to keep it that way), but he couldn’t let that stop him either.
Not when his hands were clenched tight enough to draw blood. Not when a dull throb had started behind his eyes, one that hadn’t been there until now.
“Freak should neither be seen nor heard,” he repeats slowly. His gaze is intent on his godson and he can pinpoint the exact second the penny drops. Harry’s fingers spasm around the glass in his hand, and his eyes widen in—fear? panic? horror? A combination of all three?
Sirius wouldn’t be surprised. But he also can’t dwell on it—doesn’t want to think about his godson looking at him with such abject terror. He needs answers now, and he knows if he let himself get swept away by wide, green eyes then he would never get them.
Harry’s mouth opened and closed in rapid succession—Sirius can see the whirlwind of thoughts in his eyes and before Harry can try and doge this, make an excuse to leave or find the words to rage at him, all very plausible options, Sirius cuts in.
“Please Harry, you can’t—how could I let something like go?” His voice is desperate, close to breaking, and in any other instance he’d be mortified.
Harry’s head was bowed, fingers pressed white against his mug. Sirius fought the urge to keep babbling, say something—anything to fill the horrible silence.
“If I said I don’t want to talk about it?” Harry said, voice shaky, like he was trying his best to hold on.
Sirius inhaled. This was—he had to tread carefully here. Trampling all over Harry’s agency, especially after a question like that—where he sounded resigned, like he wasn’t expecting a proper answer—wasn’t something he wanted to do, not even in his quest to find out what had happened to his godson and who had the audacity to say something like that to him. Not just say, no, but make him believe it because that kind of instinctive reply—not even realising what came out of his mouth, that wasn’t an accident. That spoke to something deeper than words thrown around. It was continued conditioning.
“I would…try my best to respect that,” is what Sirius said, though it’s forcefully pulled out of him. “But Harry, you’re…you’re my kid, I don’t know how I can just let it go like that. That came from somewhere.”
“Well, of course it did,” Harry said, mouth twisting in a farce of a smile. “Just because I didn’t realise I slipped doesn’t mean it was a mistake.”
“What—“
“That’s what happens when you’re taught one thing for most of your life, Sirius.”
Sirius deliberately unclenched his hands and stretched his fingers out on the table, ignoring the sting from the reddened, torn skin in the center of his palm.
“The Dursleys?” he asked in a tone that could pass for casual, like he was asking after the weather. It was everything else about him that gave him away. The taut back, the rigid shoulders, the crackling of ozone.
“You’re still a fugitive, you know, Sirius,” Harry said, leaning forward to look at his face. Interestingly, he didn’t sound reproving, merely stating a fact.
“Maybe it’s time I earned that title?”
*Harry, Hermione & Ron on their podcast* Harry: Welcome back to the Golden Trio Podcast, today we're gonna talk about what the fuck we were doing in our 7th year instead of going to Hogwarts. Ron: You guys will wanna hear that! It includes robbing Gringotts! Hermione: But please don't try it at home, kids! Harry: Says the one that suggested to use a dragon to escape. Ron: He's got a point, 'Mione. Hermione: Anyways...
I think I might wanna try making this but no guarantees
I was hoping to do a better job of presenting this AU, but life is against me. So, messy sketch of Dragon!Ron, Kneazle!Hermione and Basilisk!Harry (my dear).
Magic works in numbers, but sometimes numbers can be used against Magic. When T. M. Riddle did so (Seven against all that is pure), Magic retaliated. She found Three to defy him. Three to restore balance. And they were almost ready.
They just needed to be different.
Being bitten by a Norwegian Ridgeback, morphed by a Kneazle's DNA and infected with Basilisk venom and Phoenix tears can be just what they needed. Side effects, sadly, weren't anticipated.
Hermione, for example, could have never believed she would be the heat-pillow of two cold-blooded bastards. Literally. Thankfully Ron—much to his chagrin—could use the flames of the fireplace instead of her fur.
Which was good for her, because she would rather hug Harry.
Not that she would ever tell him, of course.
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Neville: Which one of you was going to tell me that tea tastes different if you put it in hot water? Ron: Y-You were putting it in cold water? Ginny: Neville. Answer the question Neville. Neville: Yeah? I thought for like 5 years that people just put it in hot water to speed up the tea-ification process, didn’t realize there was an actual reason. You think I have the patience to boil water? Ginny: You don't have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes? Ron: Why are you, putting it in the microwave to boil it?! Ginny: Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove? Ron: It 👏🏻 TAKES👏🏻 LESS THAN A 👏🏻 MINUTE Ginny: Bestie is your stovetop powered by the fucking sun?? Ron: How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove? Ginny: Like seven minutes Ron: Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat and it boils in like two minutes… less than that is you use a saucepan… Ginny: [crying] You’re putting the whole mug on the stove?? On medium heat?? Your stove is enchanted Hermione: Every single person here is a fucking lunatic. Harry: Do none of you own a fucking kettle?
Hugo appreciation day!
Just some random sketches of our pretty boy♡