#Course Ministry

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Acts 20:24 (ESV) - But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

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[moonogre]

Francisation Quebec is f🤬cking bullshit

[rockingrobin69]

DMLE United

“Malfoy!” from across the hall, and the click-clack of his boots. Draco, mortified and a little pleased, slowed his step enough, then halted. Potter appeared before him not two seconds later, handsomely flushed and too-bloody-handsome altogether. “You’re back!”

“Indeed,” Draco allowed graciously. “This is after all my place of work.”

“You’ve not been all week.”

“What, did you miss me?”

Potter’s frown was half-arsed and mostly amused. “No, you prick. It’s only that the inter-departmental meetings drag even longer without you there to supervise, and it’s all so utterly boring, and Smith absolutely crushed me at table Quidditch and, I just notice you.” To the way Draco gulped: “What?”

Heart beating so fast. “Notice me?”

“Yeah? Well. Not like… you notice me too.”

“Obviously I notice you.”

Potter huffed, seemingly and oddly offended. “Why’s that so obvious?”

“Because I’m—” bit his tongue so hard he yelped instead of admitting, madly and stupidly into you and have been for years. “Because you’re—” so infuriatingly, impossibly gorgeous. “I just do, all right?”

Potter took the time of Draco’s self-admonishment to come a step closer. Then another. The air in large sort of vanished, or thickened, or heated, or… Draco closed his eyes.

“Well,” voice low and throaty, “maybe I do too.”

Draco was ridiculous and this was enough to undo him. Knees threateningly weak and chest so tight and, ah, sort of, melted around the edges, his mind smouldering. Potter smelled like the leather of his holster and his lips were dark and, so, close.  

“What,” Draco managed finally. Startled and dizzy with want. Confused and outrageously longing for… “What?”

To the smile, predatory and stunning. “Nothing,” Potter said. “Just happy to see you back, is all.”

“Oh,” with a nod, a step back, fixing the invisible crease in his robes, “yes, well. I suppose, if the meetings do drag on without me.”

For some reason it made Potter’s flush deepen. “Not… just that.”

“Right, the table-Quidditch.”

“Malfoy—” rolling his eyes like Draco was being ridiculous, one hundred percent correct. “Just come to the pub this Friday? Everyone from your team is going. And I’ll be there too.”

The urge to ask a stupid question bubbled in his belly something fierce. “Friday? Ah. I might be available.”

“You will be,” Potter grinned, turning whatever was posing as Draco’s knees to pure jelly.

Last effort at saving himself: “You’ll notice if I’m not, hmm? Is that it?”

“Yep.” And he winked, the absolute gob-smacking arsehole.

There was a whole Ministry around them, important people idling importantly about and many-many pairs of eyes to watch Draco flail. Nothing that could stop him, unfortunately.   

He gave a curt nod with every intention of disappearing into the shadows, only his knees, still half-liquid, wouldn’t budge. Helplessly stuck in the middle of the Atrium. Potter’s smile did something odd, somehow softened.

“Friday.”

A threat and a promise. And a mercy. Potter left, click-clacking his boots, flushed and gorgeous and smiling.

Good to be back.

[destinationtoast]

tfw you finally consume a canon, years late, that you know has a bunch of delicious fic waiting and run off to ao3 to have a look

[itspileofgoodthings]

I have confirmation that at least 5 of my teenage boys are actually reading Pride and Prejudice. Which I means I can set down the battle I’m always having in my own mind :)))) Austen wins again :)))))

[cursedwithwords]

The Ministry to Lyall: Hey you're a pretty talented wizard, probably the best at what you do, we want you to join us, work for us here and help us out, what do you say? :)

Lyall: Sure, I can do that. Are you gonna listen to my advice and rely on my expertise when a situation arises that I have more experience with than you?

The Ministry: No 🩷

[eclipsecrowned]

trying not to be sad about hamwarmer and my brain hits me w ‘modern au ser has beef w g1rl d3f1n3d’

[turtle-ly]

oughhhh writing the yellowtusk chapter is soooooo hard partly because i changed the direction from my original notes and also because i have to dig into ancient chinese gov bureaus 😭 like yes he was an official but in what ministry! the ministry of personnel or the ministry of works...

[lyeofhell]

I have this disease where when I think about copia as a child I want to fucking die

[mcl-mia]

//ah, yes. another day, another route completed. slowly getting closer and closer to that goal of completing every route!!

so. rex. oh boy. i think i have a lot to say about rex. spoilers spoilers spoilers!!!

okay. so. hoooooo boy. where do i begin. this is going to be long.

so, as many people know already, rex's route actually begins in the middle of nox's route - the main difference between them at the beginning, of course, is when nox reveals his identity as nightmare to liz. in this version, liz stays with rex.

rex is unrepentantly horny. years of no pussy will do this to a man, i guess. but christ, dude. chill.

he is CONSTANTLY (or, at the very least, it feels like he is) asking liz if he likes him yet, especially before he and liz actually get together. the fact that rex is canonically a rebound guy is fucking hilarious and i will never let him live that down.

i also find it really funny that he has a gun. like, that's insanely funny. i need to know more about the gun lore. they say they are "magical revolvers", but liiiiiiike. i mean, they are. but come on.

so. rex himself. i'll be honest with you, i'm not a fan. it's the self-righteous douchewads that really don't do it for me, and because they really tried making him a diet akechi without the homosexual tension, i personally didn't vibe with him.

for example:

this is a small part of the larger, dramatic conversation rex has with liz after nox escapes for, like, the 6th time. he then goes on to say that all liz knows is that "he has been manipulating her the whole time. that maybe he just used her to get closer to Nightmare, that maybe it was all an act, and he needed liz to be vulnerable to get the proof he needed." he then proceeds to say that liz is also awful, because she "practically did the exact same thing". preceeding this conversation in the previous chapter is that rex asks liz if she thinks nightmare is evil. this is, of course, a trick question for anyone who played nox's route immediately beforehand. you can say yes or no, and obviously, the "correct" answer is yes. i didn't bother looking at the "yes" option, because i could tell immediately where the convo was going. rex, of course, will disagree if you say no.

he also says a very interesting line, iirc, after the choice dialogue: "people who stray from the path of humanity are evil."

this is, i think, a very telling line about how rex REALLY feels. like, christ dude, do you REALLY need to dehumanize nox like that? does it help you sleep at night, buddy? does it make you feel better? like you're above the rest of us?

like, the way he talks about nox is like he murdered someone. and yes, i am specifically saying "nox" and not "nightmare" here because rex has already figured out that nox is nightmare - he just didn't have proof at the time. but seriously, he just steals things? like yeah, stealing bad, we know, but you don't need to make it sound like he killed your entire family.

seriously, dude. what does he think about the orphan that steals a loaf of bread because they can't afford to eat? the person who kills her abusive partner in self-defense, because they were going to be killed otherwise? the family who has to ""illegally"" immigrate to a new country because they have been displaced or fear for their lives in their home country? what do you think of YOURSELF, rex? you have an illegal magical tool, but because the ministry says it's okay, you're allowed to pull it on unarmed citizens*? fucking hell, man. i want to put him in his place. they really could have done something interesting with his character there, but they didn't.

*side note, i am not talking about nox here. nox is very much armed with his rod. he DOES, however, pull his revolver on an unarmed criminal (who is not stated to have any magical abilities, mind you) in a flashback and it's heavily implied that the item he showed to the noble in queensblade to "prove" he's from the ministry is his revolver as well.

i don't think i really like his backstory, either? the reason why he's like this is because he had a mentor die while on the job. in the flashback, the person he is pursuing for a murder case, rex pulls his gun on. the person starts crying and says they are a victim of abuse and killed their abuser on accident, so rex lowers his gun. the person then pushed rex down, and his partner eventually gets shot with his own gun as a result (can i say that this is weird?? if this dude was so ready to kill them, they probably would have killed rex, too. rex's kindness is the reason he is alive, yet he doesn't realize that). so, rex, who clearly didn't go to therapy, decided that it was all his fault and that he needs to stop being kind. he also says that he "realized" that the person was lying to him, and that THEY were the one doing the abusing. i think that if they really wanted me to believe that, they should have been more careful with their word choice. their choice of saying rex "realized it" begs the question: did rex actually discover that during the investigation, or was this a "deduction" he made because this person also killed his partner? this person was never caught, after all.

i also found it really funny because in the same flashback, he says that he joing the intelligence department because it was his way to "rebel". his mom is a pianist and his father is a police officer in maiya, and they both wanted him to follow in their footsteps. like, your idea of rebelling is to get a job that your parents would be proud of, regardless? lol. lmao even. like i get it, but lol.

speaking of his "super secret detective" job, raise ur hand if you were surprised. because i sure wasn't. it was really obvious that he wasn't just a "reference department worker". like wtf even is that. just call him an archivist.

ok, enough side tracking. you know what comes out this big dramatic conversation? res just explains himself and his backstory. he doesn't even APOLOGIZE to liz for being so cold to her and implying that he might have been manipulating her. like, dude?! sure, yes, you could make the argument that liz was "manipulating" rex because she knew nox was nightmare, but tbh considering how nox was kind of forcing her to keep quiet about it all really makes a difference here.

you know what was an EXCELLENT surprise though? PAPA RANDOLPH!!!!!!!!!!

i was smiling the entire time he was here. i'm very glad that we finally got to see what he was up to after THREE!!!!!! seasons. thank god they didn't forget about him. i have my doubts that we'll see him again after this, but it was nice to see him all the same. I MISSED YOU SO MUCH, DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

schuyler being sad, too.... .. ..... man. that got to me a bit.

if you haven't noticed, i haven't actually talked about the plot much. this is because almost the entire plot revolves around rex's character and him trying to catch nox. that's about it. there are some cool story beats, and it barely touched on gray's pranks. it didn't really do much else.

some things i liked were the running gag of some of the other prefects barging into the office and yelling "EMERGENCY!!!" and interrupting liz and rex. i also liked that in the happy end, they did a call back to rex and nox swordfighting (👀) like they did in the night class/towards the beginning of the route. legit, the sword fight had me mentally fist pumping the air. i love it when wizards just settle things with nonmagical objects. fucking incredible.

i think what maybe just bugs me the most is the lack of my other boys. like, sure, they were THERE, but not nearly as much as i would have liked. 90% of them being there was for comedic relief, and that is a very sad use of them.

nox is obviously quite present, and i actually liked him a little more in rex's route. he got just the right amount of mean sometimes, and it was great. liz has some really interesting conversations with him, and the fact that nox actively tells liz that she doesn't have to "choose" him? yeah, that's golden. it's a really refreshing thing to have someone in a love triangle to essentially say "i won't force you to choose me". you're a winner in my book, nox.

something that i do find interesting is how they keep mentioning that nox and rex "know each other best because they are rivals". which! is a cool concept! i just fucking wish they would have actually shown that instead of just saying it's true! :))))))

i'll never get tired of the boys being kind to liz. really and truly.

shit like this just gets to me, man.

also:

MISCHA, I'M SO SORRY THAT THIS UGLY BITCH WOULD EVEN BREATHE THE SAME AIR AS YOU. GET HER OUT OF THERE!!!!!!!!!!

i really, really wish i had better things to say about rex's route, but it's rembrandt all over again. for me, rex was the worst part of his own route. he's just not for me. if you like these kinds of guys, i'm sure you'll love him.

gray's route seems to pick up immediately after rex's happy ending. let's see how that plays out.

[hiddenmoonbeam]

Magical law sure makes sense. You get expelled from school so they snap your wand and thereafter you’re not allowed to perform magic...... except a little bit maybe.

This is all Dumbledore of course, and he can for some reason do and decide whatever he wants, but like... there’s a reason kids need to learn magic properly before being allowed to use it outside of school. It’s dangerous when not done right. And Hagrid can obviously not do magic right since he intended to transfigure Dudley into a pig but only managed the tail.

(Hagrid does however perform other spells that seem to work as they should, and he never says any words when doing them. So does that mean he’s actually really powerful?)

Not to mention... he’s not only breaking one law but two when doing magic in the Muggle world, against a Muggle child. But it seems pretty easy to get away with breaking both of these laws - as long as no one at Hogwarts finds out, no harm done. Doesn’t matter that the Dursleys have to remove Dudley’s tail at a hospital.

[korrolrezni]

Oh, Ellie....<3

Yeah, we've got to do this, Sam.

[tom4jc]

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