#and NOTHING for scabbers/peter

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ah well, people can be a bit stupid about their pets.

- hagrid

[pangaeaseas]

Petertha: My Semi-Serious Ship Manifesto

This is a darkly comedic headcanon but also like: think of the shade it throws on canon. And I LOOOVE villainous Peter. Make that man more evil!

But like also. Going through the mentions of her in canon and like...babes...I think we were sleeping on this one....I think it is genuinely a reasonable interpretation...

So our first mentions of Bertha are in the very first chapter of GoF, setting up her death as crucial to the mystery of that book. And what's the first thing we learn about her as a person? Well, we learn that she RECOGNIZED Peter, even though he presumably looks very different after years living as a freaking rat and without a finger:

“Wormtail, Wormtail,” said the cold voice silkily, “why would I kill you? I killed Bertha because I had to. She was fit for nothing after my questioning, quite useless. In any case, awkward questions would have been asked if she had gone back to the Ministry with the news that she had met you on her holidays. Wizards who are supposed to be dead would do well not to run into Ministry of Magic witches at wayside inns. . . .” (GoF Chapter 1)

Peter is also pretty cagey and doubtful throughout this conversation--he expresses his doubts at the reliability of Voldemort's plans, and he also mentions that potentially they could have wiped Bertha's memory. As though he feels guilty for her death...and we know Peter is capable of guilt bc of the whole strangled by own hand thing...

We next learn that Bertha is 'more trouble than she's worth' from Percy Weasley (interestingly enough, Percy is also of course the original owner of Scabbers). You know what might make someone bad at their job and get them shunted from department to department? Well, being the victim of a Memory Charm--but also GRIEF at your Hogwarts boyfriend being murdered! And Percy being an employee of Crouch-->Bertha being an employee of Crouch-->Percy is the original owner of Scabbers...idk if that's anything but maybe it is.

Sirius also knows a lot about Bertha Jorkins, including that she ended up working for the Ministry (the kind of thing you find out about someone you knew well), and confirms that he knew her in school--which means the other Marauders knew her as well. He has a strong opinion on her character, the way you do with someone you know well, like, for example, them dating one of your friends...:

“Listen, I knew Bertha Jorkins,” said Sirius grimly. “She was at Hogwarts when I was, a few years above your dad and me. And she was an idiot. Very nosy, but no brains, none at all. It’s not a good combination, Harry. I’d say she’d be very easy to lure into a trap.” (GoF)

This is a REALLY strong and confident character judgement and he's confident enough in it to make a whole argument about Voldemort's plans from it. And Sirius is not actually someone who generally leaps to conclusions, especially about something as important as what Voldemort is planning. He has to be very confident in his assessment of Bertha. Like he knew her more extensively than her simply being a few years ahead of them.

And no wonder he wouldn't mention her dating Peter, considering he'd likely not want to remind himself of his positive memories of Peter. Bertha isn't the only character Sirius potentially had more knowledge of he's cagey about in GoF: he does the same with Bellatrix, another painful topic (never mentioning he's her cousin).

And Sirius later makes another confident character judgement of Bertha, claiming that he wouldn't have expected her to be a liability because of poor memory specifically because she was a gossip (how do YOU know that Sirius?) Again, he knows her really well and feels safe leveraging this knowledge in a (completely accurate) read that it seems like something happened to her. The way you know your friend's ex-girlfriend.

(Now, this is all for the crack theory: I actually think the Bertha stuff is more Sirius being a lot more perceptive and interested in other people than he's given credit for. )

Also, Peter goes for older women apparently!

“He put a hex on me, Professor Dumbledore, and I was only teasing him, sir, I only said I’d seen him kissing Florence behind the greenhouses last Thursday. . . .” “But why, Bertha,” said Dumbledore sadly, looking up at the now silently revolving girl, “why did you have to follow him in the first place?” (GoF, The Pensieve)

Now this bit is really interesting. Who do we eventually learn 'go around hexing people for the fun of it?' The Marauders. So maybe this is Bertha being jealous of Peter, him hexing her, and her playing off the jealousy as 'teasing' even though her feelings are really hurt Because Peter is an asshole.

(I actually think this *might* be a reference to James...)

And now for the real juice:

"But Wormtail — displaying a presence of mind I would never have expected from him — convinced Bertha Jorkins to accompany him on a nighttime stroll. He overpowered her . . . he brought her to me. And Bertha Jorkins, who might have ruined all, proved instead to be a gift beyond my wildest dreams . . . for — with a little persuasion — she became a veritable mine of information." (GoF)

So this is Voldemort's Bond villain rant at the graveyard. And Voldemort is a big gossip too he enjoys talking about stuff like 'oh hey Lucius and Narcissa and Bellatrix your niece is fucking a werewolf nanny-nanny-po-po this is totally relevant information'. He likes to humiliate people by talking about, like them and their families' love lives...so he's bringing up Bertha/Peter...especially now that Peter's purpose has been served by resurrecting him. He is even going like 'what a GIF. For ME." Like basically being...Peter I fucked (murdered) your girlfriend. (More on the murder bit in a second.)

And damn. Like, imagine you are Bertha Jorkins. You go on a fun vacation to Albania. You meet a guy in a bar. Oh whoops he's actually your ex. You ex who is dead?? And you...go with him on a midnight stroll??? Instead of like...calling the police? Questioning further at the very least? Maybe you are still into him...

And midnight excursions are consistently associated with romance. See people going to the Astronomy Tower to hook up, or Snape hexing amorous students apart once it's late at the Yule Ball (because now that it's late it's the season of romance...). So it's an interesting choice of words by both Voldemort and the author.

It's also never explained how exactly Wormtail 'overpowered' her. Could totally be a seduction.

Then Bertha comes out of Voldemort's wand. Ok. So Voldemort definitely killed her, right? Except...Voldemort was a spirit at this point! How was he corporeal enough to kill someone with his wand? He wasn't even possessing Wormtail...and Wormtail is the one who made the rudimentary magic-capable body he uses to kill Frank Bryce.

We also have an example of a victim of Voldemort's wand who wasn't killed by Voldemort appearing from the same Priori Incantatem: Cedric. 'Kill the spare' Cedric. In fact when Dumbledore discusses the Priori Incantatem, he explicitly refers to victims of Voldemort's wand rather than of Voldemort. So Bertha coming out of Voldemort's wand doesn't necessarily mean Voldemort personally killed her. In fact I think it's very likely WORMTAIL killed her.

And if Wormtail killed her on Voldemort's orders...after she was so interested in reconnecting! The angst! The drama! The guilt! HE"S THE LAST LIVING THING SHE SEES! Is that not achingly romantic! She was so eager to see him alive again too! And she'd worked in Crouch's office: she probably knew the potential implications of that re: Sirius.

Imagine an alternate universe where Peter decided 'screw Voldemort! I want Bertha!' Romantic outlaws on the run! They kill Crouch for what he did! And then run into the sunset!

We have ourselves a ship! Petertha nation rise...

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Hi OP, sorry for the ensuing rant but there’s stuff I want to add to your point. Snape doesn’t even get particularly nasty with Hermione beyond calling her a know-it-all which… she is… and seems to consider her more of an enabler of Harry’s antics (along with Ron) until the events of PoA. During which Harry, Ron, AND Hermione all knock him out with Stupify, three-on-one (oh how familiar) to the point where he is unconscious for hours, bleeding from the head. In the Shack where he almost died, with the werewolf who almost killed him, on a night he knew the werewolf hadn’t taken his Wolfsbane yet. In front of someone Snape probably believed to be a mass-murderer. He never sees Pettigrew transform from Scabbers, and as a spy probably thought that if Peter had ever changed sides he would’ve heard of it from ol’ Voldy himself. In Snape’s mind, Sirius lying and setting up some nonsense to pin the blame on Pettigrew, a dead man, would make the most sense given the context of their childhood together. So after waking up with a concussion, Snape gathers everyone up, gets them on stretchers (even Black… honestly Snape could’ve drowned him in the lake at that point if he’d wanted, but he didn’t) and brought them back for treatment. Then, when he thinks he might get rewarded for putting himself in harm’s way (wow recognition for once) and had even shrugged off the Trio’s attack as “probably an Imperio” (something he might’ve considered generous, providing them a way out of trouble for assaulting him), any sense of closure or accomplishment is taken because the same idiot kids use Hermione’s Time Turner to help Black escape. Again. Then jump ahead to the following year when he catches Ron and Malfoy fighting in the corridor where Hermione got caught in the middle and he mostly just went “Lol Whatever. Lmao even.” and people treat it as though Snape personally told Hermione to drink drain cleaner. He doesn't even find out Black is on their side until Dumbledore puts them in the Get-Along Shirt makes them shake hands at the end of GoF. I’m so tired bro. I’m not pro/anti Snape really but JKR (rest in piss) gave him every possible justification in text to hate these kids and not trust them with shit.

I don’t care that he was an adult—those kids were a fucking pain in the ass and, whenever they could, they got in the way of his damn job or gave him more work and headaches. They literally did things that directly screwed him over because of their paranoia and lack of respect. So I couldn’t care less if 15-year-old Hermione felt bad because her teacher was a bit of an asshole—honestly, he had every right to be a bit of an asshole to an insolent little brat who had done nothing but get on his nerves for four years. Spoiler: adult people have rights too.

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⤷ Questions I have for my Hogwarts DR/Hogwarts shifters (part 2)

I didn’t think there would be this much questions in this part but I literally couldn’t stop thinking about different things I’m curious about. Reuploaded this because I had all my visibility settings on and couldn’t figure out why none of my posts were showing up anywhere LMFAO

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What are the classes that weren’t mentioned much/at all in the books and movies like? Classes like muggle studies, arithmancy, alchemy, ancient runes etc

What different after school clubs are there? (Is there a duelling club or an art club etc.)

What are the canon hp characters like in your dr? Is there anything about them that you didn’t expect?

Follow up question, are there any canon characters that you don’t get along with?

If you’re shifting to the marauders era, how was the marauders map made?

What’s your favourite memory from your dr?

Are house elf’s really as scary looking as some shifters say they are?

Are there such things as wizard movies/tv shows or other things along those lines?

Are there any famous people in history that were actually wizards/witches?

What are you learning about currently in your classes at Hogwarts?

How are spells invented? Can they be invented or are they just discovered? (If that makes sense)

How are magical portraits made?

Is there any magical equivalent to things like phones, computers, google etc.

Are there any other ways of getting to Hogwarts or is there just the Hogwarts express?

What does a day in your life look like at Hogwarts?

What season at Hogwarts is the comfiest/your favourite?

Is there anything about Hogwarts that you’ve changed?

If you’ve played Hogwarts Legacy, is there anything about it that is similar to your dr?

What’s the funniest thing that’s happened in your dr?

Is there anything about the plot that’s changed because of you? For example, did you expose scabbers as Peter Pettigrew or did you script that you know nothing about the plot?

How does it feel to experience magic firsthand?

How do students from different houses interact? Is there still a house rivalry in your dr?

What are Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade like?

What was it like when you first shifted? Where were you when you first shifted?

What advice would you give to Hogwarts shifters?

What’s your favourite location in the Wizarding World outside of Hogwarts?

Have you made any changes to your script after shifting?

What’s the hardest part about staying in the Wizarding world for an extended period?

What’s the most magical or surreal moment you’ve experienced at Hogwarts?

What are some out of context quotes from your dr?

Does the Wizarding world have magical creature zoos? Are wizards also aware of muggle animals? (This sounds like such a dumb question but I’m really curious)

How do time turners work?

How do Hogwarts students handle their periods at school?

What year did you shift to? And did you age everyone up or make it a university dr?

Are there any house parties in your dr? And if there are how often are they held? Which houses host the best party and, if you want, share a memory from a party you’ve been too

Have you scripted in the Yule ball or any masquerade balls into your dr? What were they like?

If you’re an animagus, what is it like? Was the process hard?

What’s Hagrid up to in your dr? (Bit of a random question but I love Hagrid 🙁)

What’s your favourite shop in Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley and why?

What’s the worst thing about Hogwarts?

What’s the funniest assumption you’ve heard about muggles in your dr?

If you’re shifting to the marauders era, what’s your favourite prank the marauders have done?

If you’ve ever done any of the classes on Hogwartsishere.com, are any of them similar to your dr?

What are some things you do to motivate yourself when shifting to your Hogwarts dr?

Do you have any favourite Wizarding bands in your dr?

Do you have any pets in your dr?

How does it feel to look at pensieve memories?

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harry potter and the stupid fucking triwizard tournament

by: notatakenusername (aka me!)

summary: The moment Harry James Potter hears his name come out of the stupid, obese, wine-glass doppelganger, (also known as the Goblet of Fire), he's done holding himself back. Queue the chaos that happens when he gives into his impulsive thoughts.

snippet from chapter 9, where Sirius gets his trail:

Umbridge stiffened, eye twitching in anger. “Very well then! Please detail the supposed incident.” 

“It was during my third year in Hogwarts. Ron’s rat, Scabbers, who was also Peter Pettigrew, escaped from Ron’s hold and ran to the Whomping Willow, which has a passage to the Shrieking Shack. It was there where Sirius Black was. We initially thought he was a threat, but he explained the truth not too soon after Professor Lupin showed up. I saw the animagus transformation with my own eyes, as well as Peter Pettigrew’s admission of guilt.” 

Fudge stared down at Hermione with an odd look on his face. Umbridge huffed. 

“Well, what an…interesting story! It would, of course, be possible, if not for the fact that all animagus are registered. Are you aware of this fact, girl?” 

Harry heard Remus scoff in disgust from next to him, which was honestly understandable. Umbridge was treating Hermione as if she had the intelligence of a five-year-old, which was just ridiculous! The reason was rather obvious, too– Umbridge thought because Hermione was Muggleborn, she was less intelligent. Based on the way Hermione’s eye just twitched in pure anger, she’s about to desperately prove Umbridge wrong. 

“Oh? Is that so? Well, girl, are you aware that not every fucking animagus registers in the catalog? Do you know how easy that is to do? No? Do you know that registering is something you do willingly, which means there are probably dozens of unregistered animagus running around out there? Do you know how absolutely stupid the animagus system, which you no doubt set up, is? Do you know how easy it would be to manage this by making the animagus transformation process a class mandated by the Ministry to track all of them instead of having them register on their own? No? You don’t, do you, girl?”

Sirius let out a loud bark of laughter. Umbridge and Fudge could do nothing but gape in pure shock. Hermione smirked in satisfaction. Rita Skeeter’s camera went off. 

Ah. It was simply perfect. 

[rhapsody-tomoe]

I finished the Prisoner of Azkaban😃😃 FINALLY—

So there’s this inner dialogue which broke my heart; I feel like no one’s talking much about it so here goes nothing—

The only way for Harry to listen to his parents (that he knew of) was through this the Dementors😢

Therefore, Harry was conflicted.

He wanted to revisit his trauma just to hear his parents’ voice that he had no memory of. But he also knew he needed to cast a decent Patronus to shoo the Dementors away, but was winning the Quidditch Cup worth not hearing his parents’ voices ever again😭?

Everyone knows how horrible Dementors are; a sane person will run away/cast a Patronus when they encounter Dementors. The abnormal…conflict Harry had was proof that his childhood trauma had come close to surpassing his rational thoughts.

So that’s why I’m so happy when Harry overcame his complicated feelings to cast a Patronus to save himself. Save himself physically to save himself mentally.

This book is a whirlwind of feelings, not just for Harry but for Sirius, Remus and Ron too.

Although Sirius had only appeared in this book, he was a complex character. As shown in ripping the Fat Lady’s canvases and wanting to kill Peter, he was not afraid and not guilty of using violence when it came to justice. (Not counting his attempt to murder Severus) This quote captured his sense of justice perfectly—

I’m not saying whether it’s right or wrong, but…yeah.

Despite Peter betraying the Potters instead of him, Sirius was still guilty of indirectly killing Lily and James. Therefore, he felt his purpose was to protect Harry. His dedication to James and Harry is just so evident😢

However, this is also one of the reasons why I feel Sirius was better off as Harry’s older brother and not father. That’s because he might place too much expectations on Harry (and even his friends) to be a replica of James (and the Marauders). If you can’t see your bff ever again, then you start seeing him in others… (and it doesn’t help if another person looks so alike to your bff👀)

But either way, living with Sirius was infinitely better than living with the Dursleys💀 At least your birthdays wouldn’t be ignored.

As for Remus, he was certainly a good mentor to Harry. Not only did he teach well, but he also confiscated the Marauders Map in fear that Harry might get himself killed. Moreover, he forced Sirius to explain before killing ‘Scabbers’. That way, the three teens wouldn’t feel like they were manipulated.

Despite all this, I still believe he ain’t a good candidate for being Harry’s father. That’s because he had too much self-shame and self-distrust bottled up inside. Being a werewolf means harming humans involuntarily; what if he accidentally harmed his students-? And what if Albus Dumbledore found out Sirius used his Animagus powers to sneak into the school? Was it all his fault?

That’s just a fragment of his thoughts.

Lastly, Ron. Realising Scabbers was actually a murderer was def an enormous blow to him. Instead of the eat-and-sleep rat on his bed, no, it was actually a wizard capable of killing many people with one curse. Not to mention that the issue of Scabbers had almost broken his friendship with Hermione.

Unrelated thought: You know, people always say Peter was dumb but no, it’s the opposite. He was actually quite smart to fake his death twice, and he was quite powerful to kill 12 people at once. Either way, Peter was still scum.

I don’t remember the books writing his feelings on this matter, but it def qualified as trauma💀

Yep this book is very emotional, but I do have a question:

If Remus and Sirius were bffs, then why would they suspect each other of being the spy? They were both in the Order, and their loyalty to each other was so strong that Sirius was willing to risk an Animagi transformation for him. Confusing💀

Anywayyy, I’d be taking an infinite rest from HP because of the arrival of new books🤩 Would keep posting content when not busy :)

Cheers~

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of violent delights chapter 14

messrs moony, wormtail, padfoot, and prongs

9 june 1996

Euphemia’s POV

“You’re mad,” I can’t help but scoff at the accusation that Ron’s rat, a rat that has been in his family for years, is actually a wizard who is supposed to be dead. 

“You’re mental,” Ron cries, cradling Scabbers closer. 

“Ludicrous!” Hermione says softly. 

“Peter Petirgrew is dead! You killed him!” Harry says, pointing his wand at Black. 

“I meant to,” Black growls, glaring at the rat furiously. “Little Peter fooled me once but not this time!” Black lunges forward towards Ron and Scabbers but Lupin holds him back. 

“Wait! Sirius, we have to explain why!”

“I’ll explain afterwards! I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for!” 

“They have a right to know, Sirius! You owe it to Harry and Mia to explain it. Ron’s kept him as a pet, some of it even I don’t understand yet. Wait,” Lupin says, gripping Sirius’ face and making him look at him. The two men share and glance and even a blind person could tell their history runs deep, deeper than friendship or roommate. Black stops fighting Lupin and nods, turning to pace closer to the bed while stile glaring at the rat in Ron’s hands. 

“There were witnesses to Petigrew’s death. A whole street of Muggles,” I say, remembering the conversation we overheard at the Three Broomsticks. 

“They didn’t see what they thought they did,” Black says. 

“Everyone believed, even I, that Sirius killed Peter but when I saw it on the map I knew,” Lupin explains. 

“Then the map was lying-“ Harry starts

“The map never lies. Peter’s alive and he’s right there!” Sirius growls, pointing a bony finger at Ron. 

“Listen, it’s quite a long story…” Lupin starts but all our heads turn towards the door as there’s a loud creak. Lupin looks out to the landing but seeing nothing, turns back to us. “No one there.” 

“This place is haunted,” Ron says, sounding more scared at the thought of ghosts than confronting Black. 

“It’s not. This whole story starts when I became a werewolf. I was very young when I was bitten. Now, the Wolfsbane potion, which Professor Snape brews for me every month, is rather a new discovery and it lets me keep my mind when I transform. It used to be every month, I became a full fledged monster. I never thought I could come to Hogwarts but Dumbledore became Headmaster and was sympathetic. He said he would set up precautions for me. The Whomping Willow was planted to hide the tunnel that they dug to this house. All of it was built for my use during the full moon.” Lupin sits on an ottoman near the door, looking weary. “Once a month, teachers brought me here to transform and keep me from anyone else.’’

We all listen carefully although I can’t see how any of this matters concerning our parents' deaths. 

“It was horrible, the transformation, in those days. The screams the villagers heard were me. I was separated from humans to bite so I hurt myself instead. Dumbledore encouraged the rumors of violent sprites to keep suspicion off but other than the full moons, I was happier than ever at Hogwarts. For the first time in my life, I had friends; Sirius Black, Peter Petegrew and James Potter. I tried telling them all kinds of excuses to explain my disappearances but they were smarter than that. James and Sirius worked it out easily enough, just like you, Hermione. I thought they’d abandon me but they didn’t, not at all. Instead they became Animagi.” 

“What?” I exclaim, bewildered. The Animagus process is said to be incredibly difficult and I find it hard to believe they managed it on their own without anyone finding out. 

“Our dad too?” Harry asks. 

“Took us the better part of three years but yes,” Sirius mumbles, watching Remus for a moment before turning his gaze back to Sacabbers and Ron. 

“Sirius and James were the cleverest in our year, possibly the whole school, besides Lily. Peter needed Sirius and James’ help of course but during our fifth year they managed it.” 

“But how would that help you?” Hermione asks, confused. 

“A werewolf is only dangerous to humans. So they snuck out of the castle with James’ Invisibility Cloak. Peter, the smallest as a rat, could reach the knot on the tree to immobilize it and they slipped down the tunnel to join me. I became less dangerous in their company. My mind seemed to stay with me more under their influence.” 

“Hurry up, Remus,” Sirius snarls. 

“I’m getting there,” Lupin says impatiently. “Eventually, we started leaving the shack and roaming the grounds at night. Sirius and James transformed into such large animals that they were able to keep me in check. That’s how we discovered as much as we did about Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. The tunnels and such. That’s how we came to write the Marauder’s Map and signed it with our nicknames. Sirius is Padfoot, Peter is Wormtail, and James was Prongs.” 

I open my mouth to ask what kind of animal warrants a nickname like Prongs but Hermione beats me to it. “What’s really dangerous! What if you’d given the others the slip and ended up hurting someone?” she cries indignantly. 

“You’re right of course,” Lupin says heavily. “And there were plenty of near misses that we laughed about afterwards. We were young, foolhardy, carried away with our cleverness… But I forgot all the guilt as soon as we began planning the next adventure. And I haven’t changed…” Lupin's face hardens with self disgust, “All year, I’ve battled with myself at admitting it all to Dumbledore. Knowing Sirius being an Animagus meant he could slip in and out of the castle better than anyone…. But I couldn’t face it. You were right to call me a coward, Mia. I am one,” he says looking at me. Guilt weighs heavily in my chest as I recall the nasty insults I slung his way on my birthday but before I can apologize Lupin forges on. “Dumbledore’s trust means everything to me, everything I have I owe to him admitting me to Hogwarts when no one else would. So I convinced myself that Sirius was using dark magic he learned from Voldemort instead. Really, Snape had been right about me all along. He’s been telling Dumbledore I’ve been helping Sirius all year. He has a sound reason…” Lupin and Black share a heavy glance and Black nods subtly, shame creeping into his eyes for a moment. “Sirius played a trick on him while we were at school. Severus was very interested as to why I disappear every month- we were in the same year you see- and we didn’t get along well. He especially hated James, jealous I think.” Harry and I share a look, well aware of Snape’s dislike of our father. “Anyway, Sirius thought it would be… amusing to tell Snape how to bypass the Willow. James found out what Sirius had done and went after him, pulling Snape back at the last moment. He caught a glimpse of me though. Dumbledore swore him to secrecy but he still knew…” 

“That’s right,” a cold voice sneers from the doorway and Snape appears, pulling off the Invisibility Cloak, his wand pointed right at Lupin. Hermione yelps and Lupin jumps up from his seated position to face Snape. “Found this at the base of the Whomping Willow. Very helpful, Potter. Thank you. Well Lupin, I’ve just been to your office to bring you your potion and luckily there was a handy map lying open on your desk. One look told me everything I needed to know,” Snape sneers, looking more hateful than ever. 

“Severus,” Black says darkly, glaring at the man. 

“Oh vengeance is sweet, how I’d hoped to be the one to catch you,” Snape says, turning to Black. Lupin takes a step towards him but Snape points his wand back at him and he backs up to stand next to Sirius. “I told Dumbledore you were helping your old friend into the castle and now I have proof. Never thought you’d have the nerve to use this place as your hideout,” Snape sneers at the two men. 

“Brilliant, Snivilous,” Black speaks up, “Again you’ve put your keen and penetrating mind to the problem and as usual come to the wrong conclusion. Now if you’ll excuse us, Remus and I have some unfinished busin-“ Black starts in, his voice mocking the Potions professor but Snape steps forward, holding his wand to Black throat causing Lupin to jump forward. Harry, Ron, Hermione and I press further back against the wall, wands still in our hands, and we share a look, knowing Snape will get in the way of us getting some real answers. 

“I could do it, you know, but I’d rather watch the dementors. They’re so longing to see you, Sirius. And they’ll be so pleased to bring you along too, Remus,” Snape threatens. 

“Severus don’t be a fool, we can explain everything,” Lupin says placatingly. 

“He can’t help it. Habit by now,” Black says mockingly at Snape. 

“Sirius,  be quiet.” 

“Be quiet yourself, Remus!” 

“Look at you too, still quarreling like an old married couple,” Snape mocks. 

“Just run along and play with your chemistry set!” Black snaps. 

“Severus really, is a school boy grudge worth putting an innocent man back in Azkaban?” Lupin attempts to reason. It’s hard to tell whose face shows more hatred, Snape’s or Black’s, as they glare at each other, each daring the other to test them. 

“Give me a reason,” Snape sneers, pressing his wand further into Black’s throat, ignoring Lupin. 

“Severus, please,” Lupin pleads. Harry and I share a look, knowing we have to hear our father’s best friends out now. We’ve gone most of our lives with no real answers and now that they are in reach, we have to have them. Harry and I raise our wands at Snape simultaneously.

 “Expelliarmus!” Harry casts. 

“Stupify!” I cast myself and the combined force of our spells sends Snape flying backwards into the dusty four poster bed. Before anyone can react we turn our wands back to Black and Lupin. 

“You attacked a teacher,” Hermione says quietly, her voice squeaky. 

“You shouldn’t have done that, you should’ve left him to us,” Black says, looking at Harry. 

“Yeah, you were doing a great job, weren’t you?” I snark. 

“Thank you,” Lupin says, shooting a pointed look at Sirius. 

“We’re not saying we believe you yet,” Harry says, his wand still raised towards Black. 

“Tell us about Peter Petegrew. How do you reckon Scabbers is him?” I ask, the rat in question writhing wildly in Ron’s grip. 

Black reaches into his robes and pulls out a very crumpled up piece of paper which he hands to Remus. “Fudge came to do an inspection last year. Gave me this and I knew… I’d recognize him anywhere,” Black explains and I step forward to see the paper. It’s the Daily Prophet picture and article of the Weasley’s in Egypt and on Ron’s shoulder sits Scabbers. 

“He’s missing a toe… Godric,” Lupin says examining the picture and the rat in Ron’s hands. 

“What about it?” Ron asks. 

And then it hits me. “All they could find of Pettigrew was his fi-“

“His finger! The filthy coward cut it off so everyone would think he was dead and then he transformed into a rat!” Black spits. “Just as I caught up to him he yelled to the whole street that I’d betrayed Lily and James and before I could do anything he blew up the whole street with his wand behind his back. Next thing I knee, a rat was scurrying off down to the sewer.” 

“He probably just got into a fight with another rat he’s been in my family for ages,” Ron counters, still not believing it. 

“Fifteen years, yes? Curiously long life for a common garden rat,” Black points out. 

“We take good care of him!” Ron argues. 

“Well he doesn’t look too good now. I suspect he’s been looking sickly since he heard Sirius had escaped,” Lupin observes. 

“No, he’s afraid of that crazy cat!” Ron exclaims pointing at Crookshanks. 

“Ron, they’re right. He’d been looking ill before ‘Mione got the cat,” Harry reminds Ron. 

“I told you, Ron!” Hermione says, seemingly relieved that her cat is innocent. 

“This cat isn’t mad. It’s quite intelligent actually,” Sirius says, patting Crookshanks. “He recognized Peter for what he was immediately, same with me when we met. He knew I wasn’t really a dog and once I got him to trust me, we learned how to communicate. He’s been helping me, you see. Tried to bring Peter to me, but couldn’t so he took the passwords to the Tower. But Peter figured it out and ran for it. This cat- Crookshanks you called him?- told me there was blood on the sheets. Peter must have figured faking his death worked once well enough,” Black growls the last part. 

“Yes but why did he fake his death?” Harry speaks up, looking furious again. “Because he knew you were about to murder him like you did our parents! And now you’ve come to finish him off!” 

“No, Harry-“ Lupin starts but Black cuts him off. 

“Yes, I have.” 

“Then we should’ve let Snape take you!” I say angrily. 

“No, don’t you see? All these years, we thought Sirius betrayed your parents and Peter tracked him down but it was the other way around-” Lupin says placatingly. 

“No, he was their Secret Keeper. He admitted it before you turned up. He killed them!” Harry yells, angrily, his hand shaking as he points his wand at Black. 

“I as good as killed them…” Black says quietly, grief making his voice heavy. “I convinced Lily and James to switch to Peter at the last moment, make him the Secret Keeper instead. I’m to blame, I know it… That… The night they died, I’d had plans to check in on Peter but when I arrived at his hideout he was gone. It didn’t feel right, there were no signs of a struggle. I was scared…. I went to check on your parents and I saw the house… their bodies… I realized what Peter had done. What I did…” Black looks up at Harry and I, grief overtaking his features as a tear rolls down his cheek. “You two were crying in Harry’s crib… screaming for your mum who-- who was dead on the floor in front of you, the roof blown off, both of you bleeding. I tried to take you, keep you safe but Hagrid wouldn’t let me. I figured I’d take care of Peter and then Remus and I would come back and take you home…” Black looks between Harry and I, his eyes pleading for us to believe him. I blink as tears flood my eyes, filled with grief not only over our parents but the life my brother and I might have lived. Two lives really; one with our parents alive and happy and one being raised by the two men in front of us. Both options far happier than the lot we ended up with. 

“Enough of this,” Lupin says, a steely tone in his voice, one I haven’t heard from the man before. “There’s one way to prove all of this. Ron, give me the rat.” 

“What are you going to do to him?” Ron asks, holding a squirming Scabbers close to his chest. 

“Force him to show his true self, if he really is a rat then it won’t hurt him,” Lupin responds. Ron considers Lupin for a moment but eventually, he holds Scabbers out to Lupin. Scabbers starts squeaking and writhing more widely. “Ready, Sirius?” Lupin asks. Black has already picked up Snape’s wand from the bed and approaches Lupin and the squirming rat, hsi eyes burning. 

“Together?” Black asks to which Lupin nods. They count to three, Lupin holding Scabbers aloft, and a flash of bright blue lights erupts from both wands and Scabbers falls to the floor- Ron crying out for his pet. But there was another flash of light and from the small rat on the floor, slowly grows a man. A very short, mousy looking man, with thin colorless hair. He stood sort of hunched over, his skin grungy looking and unwell. Peter Petigrew looks around at the rest of us in the room, his eyes darting between Harry, me and the door. 

“Hello, Peter,” Lupin says with a faux pleasantness. “Long time no see.” 

“S-S-Sirius, R-Remus, my old friends!” Cries Peter, his voice squeaky, as his eyes dart to the door and he tries to dart between the two men towards the door but is stopped by Lupin and Black. Peter turns to Harry and I, stepping closer to us and I push Harry behind me and Peter approaches, keeping my wand between me and the rat like man. 

“Harry? Look at you, you look so much like your father, like James. And you Euphemia, just like Lily. We were the best of friends, we-” 

“How dare you speak to them? How dare you talk about James and Lily in front of them!” Black shouts, pulling Peter away from us. 

“You were the spy! You sold James and Lily to Voldemort, didn’t you?” Lupin chimes in, the two men pinning Peter against the piano. 

“I-I didn’t mean to!” Peter squeaks. “The Dark Lord! You have no idea the power he possesses. What would you have done, Sirius?” 

“I would’ve died! I would’ve died rather than betray my friends!” Black bellows. “You haven’t been hiding from me all these years, Peter. You’ve been hiding from Voldemort’s old supporters. I heard things in Azkaban, Peter. They think the double crosser double crossed them. They think you gave Voldemort bad information knowing it would lead to his defeat!” 

“I don’t know what you’re talking about! You tried to kill me!” Peter yelps and tries again for the door but I beat him there first, preventing him from leaving. 

“Mia, your parents wouldn’t have wanted me killed. Your dad, he would’ve shown me mercy!” He pleads, trying to grab at me but my raised wand keeps him at bay until Remus and Sirius manage to pull him back towards the piano. 

“You should’ve realized that if Voldemort wouldn’t kill you then we would. Together!” Black says angrily, Lupin by his side as they both raise their wands at the rat like man who cowers from them. 

“NO!” Harry and I yell simultaneously, stopping them. 

Lupin turns to us, “This man-” 

“We know what he is,” Harry snaps. “We’ll take him to the castle.”

“Bless you, boy,” he sighs, falling to the floor to claw at Harry’s feet. 

“Get off him!” I snap, sending sparks to Peter’s hands causing him to back away. “He said we’d take you to the castle. Then the dementors can have you,” I sneer at the man cowering on the ground at the idea of the dementors. 

“Thank you,” Peter squeaks from the floor. 

“We’re not doing this for you,” I spit. 

“You two are the only ones who have the right to decide… but why?” Lupin asks, eyeing Harry and I carefully. Harry and I share a glance, only needing that much to know we are on the same page. 

“I don’t think our parents would want their two best friends to become killers,” Harry states simply. 

“You believe us then? Believe me?” Black says, looking between us, hope in his eyes for the first time all night. 

Harry and I nod and it's as if the weight of the world falls from Black’s shoulders, joy and hope making him look younger. Harry looks to Ron and Hermione who have watched the whole thing in shock and awe. And as I stand there, staring at my brother and our godfathers, I can’t help as hope starts to creep into my chest as well. 

a/n; ahh again, most of this is taken from the book/movie. In the book there are like 3 chapters of them in just in the Shack so I hope I got the important parts at least. And Mattheo will be back soon, I promise. I meant for the Shack scene to be just one chapter but it got stupid long so I split it up. Also, I’m kind of using All the Young Dudes by MsKingBean89 as my source for the Marauders’  time at Hogwarts if you’re interested. 

taglist; @purplegardenwhispers @somethingswiftandstyles @weasleyreidstyles @mayamonroem @girlbooklover555 @stxrszurzolo

[justtluffythings]

HOME: Book 10 - CHAPTER TEN

MASTERLIST

As they slowly made their way through the tunnel back towards the Whomping Willow, Veronica’s head spun. So much had happened and so many revelations had been made that night that her mind was having a hard time computing everything. 

Lupin had been telling them all about their early years at Hogwarts, which was apparently where their story began, when Snape had barged into the room halfway through and had completely refused to listen to the rest. His stubbornness and need for revenge blinded him, and he was getting on Veronica’s last nerve. She had been very close to disarming him herself if Harry, Ron and Hermione hadn’t done it first, but that didn’t stop her from cringing when he went crashing into the wall. He was still her friend, and she still cared about him despite how insane he acted that night, so she didn’t like to see him hurt.

 However, nothing could compare to the moment they had discovered that Scabbers had been Peter Pettigrew all along. Veronica had cringed at the revelation; her mind raced as she remembered all the times she had been changing or coming out of the shower at the Burrow to find Scabbers watching her. She hadn’t given it a second thought then, but now… it made her sick to her stomach. When Pettigrew had tried to beg her to show mercy and stop Lupin and Black from killing him, Veronica panicked and scrambled away from his touch, and seeing her reaction, Ron became instantly protective and threatened to jinx him if he didn’t get away from her. This made Pettigrew turn his attention to Ron instead, and Veronica couldn’t have been more grateful. She didn’t want him anywhere near her. And even then, as she brought up the rear of the procession that was slowly maneuvering their way through the cramped tunnel and Pettigrew remained at the front with Lupin and Ron, there were plenty of people between them, but she still felt he was too close. He made her incredibly uneasy.

Once they had emerged into the warm night air, they began making their way up to the castle when a cloud shifted, and they were instantly bathed in moonlight. Sirius froze and flung out an arm to stop them. Veronica peaked around to see that Lupin had gone rigid before his limbs began to shake.

Hermione gasped in realization. “He didn’t take his potion tonight! He’s not safe!”

“Run,” Sirius whispered. “Run! Now!”

But they couldn’t run. Ron was chained to Pettigrew and Lupin. Harry attempted to leap forward and get to Ron, but both Veronica and Black were on the same page as they pushed him back.

“We’ve got him!” Veronica assured him and Hermione. “We’ve got him. Go!”

However, they didn’t have time to move before Lupin transformed, and instantly, Black did the same, bounding forward and grabbing Lupin by the neck, pulling him away from Ron and Pettigrew. They were locked jaw to jaw, claws ripping at each other, and Veronica couldn’t focus on anything else until Hermione screamed. Turning towards where she was looking, Veronica’s eyes widened as she watched Pettigrew dive for Lupin’s wand that had fallen to the ground. Ron, who was still chained to him and could barely stand up straight on his bandaged leg, fell over.

Before Veronica could react, there was a bang and a burst of light, before everything went black.

Veronica awoke in the Hospital Wing a couple hours later with Ron in the bed next to hers. From the looks of it, he was also just coming to and was as confused and disoriented as she was.

“What… what happened?” Ron groaned. “Harry? Why are we in here? Where’s Sirius? Where’s Lupin? What’s going on?”

Harry and Hermione looked at each other knowingly.

“You explain,” Harry said as he reached for the bar of chocolate by his bed.

***

“You don’t have to go, y’know. Dumbledore would stand up for you… and so would I.” Veronica sat on Lupin’s desk and watched as he began to pack up his things.

“Veronica… I’m a danger… to the staff and the students. And now that Severus has let my secret slip, the parents will be flooding the school with letters about how they don’t want a werewolf teaching their kids. And I wouldn’t blame them.”

“Oh, come on! You are in complete control when you take your potion, and you only forgot yesterday because of some… unexpected circumstances. You won’t forget again! And I’ll remind you!”

“The parents won’t care about that, Veronica. Werewolves are still very feared and misunderstood by many in our world. Potion or not, they won’t want me to be anywhere near their children for fear that I’ll bite them. Besides, I don’t think Severus will be willing to make me the potion anymore.”

“Oh, forget about him! If Dumbledore told him to, he would. And if he doesn’t, I can make it for you! I may not be a Potions Master like he is, but I always did great in Potions class and I’ve watched him do it a million times. It’d be easy. And as for the parents, they can shove it right up their–”

“Veronica!” Lupin gave her a stern look before his face softened at her expression. “I’m going to miss you too, but we’ll be in touch, and I know we’ll see each other again soon.” Lupin turned to the Marauder’s map he had open on his desk, and Veronica was relieved to have a moment to wipe away her stray tears without him watching her. This moment was familiar. This was the second person to tell her they’d be in touch before a goodbye, but she hoped this one actually would. “It looks like Harry is coming to see me. He must have heard the news.”

Moments later, the pair heard a knock at the door, and before Veronica had a chance to turn around, Lupin smiled at Harry over her shoulder and said, “I saw you coming,” and pointed to the Map.

Sliding off the desk, Veronica excused herself, wanting to give them a chance to talk alone, and slipped out of the office. She knew Lupin would come to say goodbye to her before he left the school, and she was glad to have a few more moments to prepare herself for another difficult goodbye. 

***

It had been a week since the students left the school for the summer holidays, and Veronica missed them dearly. Despite how busy she was during the school year, the summer holidays were her least favorite time of the year. She much preferred when the school was bustling with life. On their last day, Veronica had walked the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione to the train station, and she had hugged Percy a little longer than the others as she wouldn’t be seeing him again for a while. This had been his last year at Hogwarts, and she couldn’t believe how quickly he had grown up.

Veronica had stayed to watch the train leave the station and stayed until it curved around a mountain and disappeared from view before heading back to the castle. She had a meeting with Dumbledore in ten minutes. He had wanted to speak with her about something, but he hadn’t said what it was about. However, as she sat across from him in his office, the look on his face told her it wasn’t good. 

“Veronica… the reason I asked you to meet with me today… is because…” 

Veronica felt her anxiety intensify. The headmaster was never one to beat around the bush. He liked to be direct, to say what needed to be said. So when he could barely get out a full sentence without stuttering, she knew it was serious. “What is it, Albus? Just tell me.”

“I’m sorry, Veronica, I just don’t know how to tell you this.” Veronica's eyes widened as she quirked an eyebrow at him, but he didn’t give her a chance to question him. “I received a letter from Filius this morning.”

Veronica’s heart sank in an instant. There was only one thing this could mean. “He’s coming back, isn’t he.” It wasn’t a question, but Dumbledore nodded anyway. “When?”

“He wants to take the post back up in September.”

“Sep– September? This coming September?” Dumbledore nodded again. A quiet “oh” was all she could get out.

“I’m sorry, Veronica. I know it’s short notice, but it is his position after all, so I couldn’t say no.”

“No, no, I know, and I’m not upset! With either of you! It’s just… I’m sad, that’s all. The last three years have been a dream come true, so I’m just disappointed that I won’t be doing it anymore.” Veronica gave him a sad smile. “But this is a chance for me to try something new. To find the next great adventure. So it’s okay.”

Dumbledore stood and walked around his desk until he was standing in front of her, and he pulled her to her feet. “It was an absolute pleasure having you as part of the staff these last three years, Veronica. You’ve made an impact on the lives of every single person that you’ve come across, and I personally cannot wait to see what you do next. Wherever you go and whatever you do, they will be lucky to have you.”

[iwriteasfotini]

Okay, I promised myself to stay logged out. And there is a lot to mourn IRL today, but here I am because I channeled all my rage into my passion project, which is currently writing fanfiction and in doing research for my story I found...

Did you know that the reunion in the Shrieking Shack at the end of POA was impossible for two reasons (and I'm PISSED). Also I drop some F-Bombs in this post. Sorry not sorry.

The full moon of June 1994 was on the 23. Here's a lunar calendar.

"It's from Hagrid," said Harry, ripping the note open. "Buckbeak's appeal - it's set for the sixth." - From POA Chapter Sixteen - Professor Trelawny's Prediction

This would be in reference to June 6th, 1994, as Hogwarts always lets out in June. How hard is it to reference a fucking lunar calendar!?!?!?!?! **An Edit on 11/7 - My partner said JKR didn't have access to the internet like we do now, so my 45 second google research into the lunar calendar of the nineties might have taken her an hour at her local library...**

2. Werewolves transform with the rising of the full moon (at least that is the impression mythology has given me and nothing in the Harry Potter world has contradicted this).

Then, out of nowhere, something hit Harry so hard across the face he was knocked off his feet again. He heard Hermione shriek with pain and fall too. Harry groped for his wand, blinking blood out of his eyes - "Lumos!" he whispered. The wandlight showed him the trunk of a thick tree; they had chased Scabbers into the shadow of the Whomping Willow and it's branches were creaking as though in a high wind, whipping backwards and forward to stop them going nearer. -From POA Chapter Seventeen- Cat, Rat, and Dog

AND

A cloud shifted. There were suddenly dim shadows on the ground. Their party was bathed in moonlight. -From POA Chapter Twenty - The Dementor's Kiss [this was the whole group coming out of the Willow BEFORE Remus begins to transform]

AND

"Here comes Lupin!" said Harry as they saw another figure come sprinting down the stone steps and haring toward the Willow. Harry looked up at the sky. Clouds were obscuring the moon completely. -From POA Chapter Twenty-One - Hermione's Secret

So, while we don't have any time stamp evidence, these passages suggest it was already dark enough for Harry to cast a Lumos to see where they were BEFORE they even went under the Willow. Evidence here also suggests the moon was FULLY FUCKING RISEN by the time Remus left the castle to go down the tunnel at the base of the Willow. It was merely obscured by a cloud.

Someone for the love of all things Harry Potter, PLEASE contradict me!

Please tell me I missed a critical tidbit of information that, oh actually werewolves are only in their true form if the rays of the full moon are shining DIRECTLY UPON THE GROUND!?!?!?! Or my analysis of the timing of these events is simply incorrect.

I mean how big of an oversight is this. The lunar calendar is bad enough, she had years to plan this plot line. I'm writing FANFICTION for FREE and I have sworn by the lunar calendars of the 1970's to dictate each of Remus' transformations. But to utilize Remus' lycanthropy to allow Peter to escape and Voldemort to return, and to have it not even have been a full moon that day and for the circumstances of his "delayed" transformation to be so skeptical, has me positively reeling.

I've sworn I would follow canon events through the seven books if I stay motivated to write that far, but now... I don't think so. My story will still lead into canon for event compliance but if I write into those years I'm doing an AU. An AU where plot diverges at this extremely PIVITOL MOMENT in the series.

An AU where Sirius and Remus get to live. Where old wrongs are righted. Where Dumbledore does something USEFUL and hunts down Voldemort and Horcruxes himself. Where we see the fallibility of Prophecies. We already lost Regulus, James, and Lily. Someone deserves to live.

I am open to thoughts, if you have them to share!

[hel-ga-huff-le-puff]

you cannot accurately/faithfully predict when the full moon is in the HP universe

i see a lot of people talking about how Remus' actions make more sense if you calculate when the full moon is - but canonically the full moon doesn't respond to the real world logic of the moon cycle

in POA the full moon occurs on only 2 known dates - 6th June and 24th December.

Remus is out for the count on the 25th, which is implied to be because of a full moon the previous night (possibly even earlier in the week as he seems to take several days off after a full moon).

and the 6th June is the date in which Scabbers is revealed as Peter in the shrieking shack. which also proves that Remus is only ill after the full moon, not before.

the problem is, theres only 6-ish months between the two, and the irl moon cycle doesn't line up

the full moon only generally shifts by a day or two each month (eg. June 6th, July 7th, Aug 8th, Sep 9th etc etc etc) so there's not enough time between December 24th (or even if it was earlier and around the 20th?) for the full moon to shift to the 6th even when factoring in the weridly short month of February.

on top of all of this, the days of the week don't line up either

Harry's 11th birthday in PS is on Tuesday 31st July, the irl date is Wednesday 31st July - a small fuck up but a fuck up none the less and one that changes the dates for everything

if you adjust the dates of the HP universe to fit to Harry's 11th birthday it still doesn't match up as in POA Buckbeak's trial is set to Friday 20th April but Harry's birthday dictates that it should be a Tuesday 20th April, and the irl 1994 calendar dictates that it should be Wednesday 20th April.

basically - nothing matches and you cannot have a "revelation" like the whole "Remus is tired on so-and-so dates because of the full moon!" because canonically you cannot predict it unless you abandon the calendars and build your own.

[dhr-ao3]

Draco Malfoy and His Struggles with Time Travel

Draco Malfoy and His Struggles with Time Travel https://ift.tt/XrZGQsk by Mischaw91 Draco thought this was going to be a normal year. He was going to meet Remus. Sirius and Severus will get their redemption. Scabbers was caged for Draco's peace of mind and Vii was back to guide. Nothing was going to go wrong. Or that's what he thought. Now there are new characters coming out of the woodwork and what do you mean Harry always had a loving caring second home? Words: 1086, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Draco Malfoy and The Madness of Wizarding World Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom/Theodore Nott/Blaise Zabini, Luna Lovegood/Pansy Parkinson/Ginny Weasley, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin/Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy/Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy/Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy/Pansy Parkinson Additional Tags: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, POV Draco Malfoy, Good Draco Malfoy, Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter Friendship, Isekai, Childhood Trauma, Panic Attacks, Draco Malfoy Deserves Better, Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, Time Turners (Harry Potter), Queer Character, Harry Potter is Obsessed with Draco Malfoy, The Author Regrets Nothing, Albus Dumbledore Bashing, Slow Burn, Not Beta Read via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/2E4BK9i January 19, 2024 at 08:47AM

[luminescent-wanderings]

Headcannon that Ron’s “Sunshine, Daisies, Buttermellow” spell would have worked if he wasn’t attempting it on an animagus.

[shanastoryteller]

Happy Valentine’s Day/Lunar New Year, Shana! I absolutely adore and treasure all of your writing. Would it be possible for you to write a drarry time travel au? I had in mind something like the premises of the wangxian time travel au but I wouldn’t mind in the slightest if you want to do something different! Thank you so much.

Harry goes to bed, twenty three years old and happy, he thinks. He has the job he wants and his friends that he cares about and his dating life isn't much to talk about it, but there's nothing worth complaining about in his life, really.

So of course he wakes up a skinny kid in his bed in Hogwarts that he hasn't even seen in seven years. He stares at himself in the mirror and pinches himself, disappointed but not surprised when it doesn't snap him out of whatever nightmare he's having. "I think I'm stuck in a curse."

"What kind of curse?" Ron yawns. Merlin, he's so small.

"You're probably not even you," he says miserably. "Just a part of the curse."

He blinks, slightly more awake. "I'm not part of the curse!"

The offense is realistic enough. "Tell me something only the real Ron would know."

"When we met I tried a fake spell to turn Scabbers yellow that the twins gave me," he answers proudly.

"Peter knew that," he says, wondering if he's really had the misfortune to end up here with some former death eater.

Ron scrunches his nose. "Who's Peter?"

Harry stares. "Pettigrew."

"Isn't that the guy that got blown up or something? What does he have to do with us?" he demands.

Huh. "How old are we?"

Ron is actually starting to look worried. "Are you sick? We're twelve!"

"Alright," he says absently. "Thanks. Come on, we're going to be late."

What a strange curse.

Ron keep shooting him concerned glances and loudly tells Hermione that's something wrong with him when they sit down to breakfast, but Harry isn't focusing on that.

A group of Slytherins walk by on their way to their table. "Draco, really," Pansy sighs, "you're being a bit dramatic."

"I'm not being dramatic," he insists. "Someone is messing with me. Possibly you. Have I done something to piss you off recently? You said you didn't mind if I attended the gala with Astoria!"

"Daphne's sister?" Blaise asks.

Harry doesn't even realize he's gotten up until he's fisted his hands in the front of Draco's robes and yanked him to the side. "Potter, what do you think you're-"

He pushes Draco's sleeves up, staring at his bare arm. Draco falls silent.

"Did you do this to me?" Harry asks.

Draco slaps his hand away. "Fuck you, Potter." Several people gasp which Harry doesn't understand at all until he remembers that they're twelve. "Of course something this ridiculous and inconvenient involves you."

[pet-genius]

Arrested Development – Sirius, Snape, Obsessions and Blind Spots

We discover Sirius’s true allegiance and heart in the climactic ending of POA, but underneath his unquestionable courage, integrity and loyalty to his friend James and his remorse for letting James down and putting his fate in a traitor’s hands, and his wish to make it up to Harry, we also see the hints of a disturbing fixation on Severus Snape.

“[…] so, in a way, Snape’s been right about me [Lupin] all along.”

“Snape?” said Black harshly, taking his eyes off Scabbers for the first time in minutes and looking up at Lupin. “What’s Snape got to do with it?”

“He’s here, Sirius,” said Lupin heavily. “He’s teaching here as well.” He looked up at Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

Sirius is looking at Peter, who had betrayed James and framed Sirius, intending to murder him, but a mention of Snape makes him lose his focus. And Lupin doesn’t seem surprised, as he is answering heavily, as if already weary of the subject (and this is the first time Sirius and Luipn were in the same room in a long while). Snape is as interesting to Sirius as Pettigrew, despite Snape being, as far as Sirius knows, no more than his former target.

We immediately learn about the trick Sirius had played on Snape, somehow luring him to the Shrieking Shack to meet Lupin in a transformed state.

“It served him right,” he sneered. “Sneaking around, trying to find out what we were up to . . . hoping he could get us expelled. . . .”

To preempt the (irrelevant, stupid, and morally bankrupt) assertion that it does indeed serve him right because he supposedly knew Lupin was a werewolf, Sirius himself says of Snape that “Snape is clever enough to stay out of trouble”, so whatever Snape knew, Sirius believed he was sending a person who isn’t stupid or suicidal into a predator’s cage. More on that later. Back to the point, the attitude that “he deserves to die or get bitten and at the very least traumatized because he is annoying and in our way” is alarming. But not surprising. People seem shocked that Sirius would betray James in the conversation Harry overhears in Hogsmeade, but no one seems shocked that he would be a criminal in general. Lupin isn’t so surprised, and even after the truth is revealed he has this to say:

“Not if he thought I was the spy, Peter,” said Lupin. “I assume that’s why you didn’t tell me, Sirius?” he said casually over Pettigrew’s head.

“Forgive me, Remus,” said Black.

“Not at all, Padfoot, old friend,” said Lupin, who was now rolling up his sleeves. “And will you, in turn, forgive me for believing you were the spy?”

“Of course,” said Black, and the ghost of a grin flitted across his gaunt face. He, too, began rolling up his sleeves. “Shall we kill him together?”

“Yes, I think so,” said Lupin grimly

[...]

“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?” said Black, with a terribly fury in his face.

“Only innocent lives, Peter!”

“You don’t understand!” whined Pettigrew. “He would have killed me, Sirius!”

“THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!” roared Black. “DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”

Black and Lupin stood shoulder to shoulder, wands raised. “You should have realized,” said Lupin quietly, “if Voldemort didn’t kill you, we would. Good-bye, Peter.

Sirius, who cares so much about innocent lives, moments before said Snape was served right for snooping (a brave card to play for the maker of the map, but never mind that). The way Lupin and Sirius both naturally roll up their sleeves for an execution, Lupin’s exclamation that Peter “should have realized” he would be in mortal danger, speaks volumes. Harry and his friends are already old enough to know better than the three adults.

Moments before, Sirius criticizes Harry for using Expelliarmus on Snape:

“You shouldn’t have done that,” said Black, looking at Harry. “You should have left him to me.”

To do what with? Why would Sirius think Snape needed to be rendered even more helpless than he was? Snape threatened Sirius, but nothing more than that.

With a roar of rage, Black started toward Snape, but Snape pointed his wand straight between Black’s eyes. “Give me a reason,” he whispered. “Give me a reason to do it, and I swear I will.” Black stopped dead. It would have been impossible to say which face showed more hatred.

Who hates who more? From Snape’s perspective, he has plenty of reason already: He has a personal vendetta against Sirius, he is convinced that Sirius is the one who betrayed Lily*, and in his mind, he is protecting Harry from his parents’ fate. He probably would have gotten away with it, legally. And yet he needs even more reason.

*To pre-empt another criticism, Snape did not know Sirius was innocent or about Peter, or he would have warned Dumbledore. Karkaroff explains that the Death Eaters did not all know each other.

Later, when he has Sirius unconscious and helpless, he conjures a stretcher to carry him to the castle and send him back to Azkaban. He and Harry are of the same mind here:

“I’m not doing this for you. I’m doing it because — I don’t reckon my dad would’ve wanted them to become killers — just for you.”

[...]

“He [Peter] can go to Azkaban,” Harry repeated. “If anyone deserves that place, he does. . . .”

Harry’s hatred is understandable and rooted in reality. Snape’s is, too. Both of them are choosing the legal and non-lethal course action.

In the original timeline, Sirius levitates Snape out of the shack:

Harry went right after Black, who was still making Snape drift along ahead of them; he kept bumping his lolling head on the low ceiling. Harry had the impression Black was making no effort to prevent this.

Again, why? Why not just leave him there? Doesn’t he have bigger rats to fry just then? It’s clear who hates who more, or at least who is more willing to act on his hatred.

We know how this all ends. The book ends with Snape looking deranged, vindictive, “quite unbalanced.” But judging by their respective behaviors, Snape was mild. Sirius was the one who took more care to show how much he hates Snape than to keep an eye on Peter.

In GOF, in the cave scene, Sirius mentions Snape again.

“I think they’ve both got a point,” said Sirius, looking thoughtfully at Ron and Hermione. “Ever since I found out Snape was teaching here, I’ve wondered why Dumbledore hired him.

[...]

But as far as I know, Snape was never even accused of being a Death Eater — not that that means much. Plenty of them were never caught. And Snape’s certainly clever and cunning enough to keep himself out of trouble.”

[...]

Sirius stared at the cave wall, then made a grimace of frustration. “There’s still the fact that Dumbledore trusts Snape, and I know Dumbledore trusts where a lot of other people wouldn’t, but I just can’t see him letting Snape teach at Hogwarts if he’d ever worked for Voldemort.”

So by Sirius’s own words, he has been thinking about Snape for months now, wondering why Dumbledore would hire him. But why is this so strange, on its face? Dumbledore needed to fill a vacancy and Snape was a Slytherin who was good at Potions, just like Slughorn, his predecessor (who also knew a thing or two about the Dark Arts). It would seem only natural, and not something that would require much explaining, especially if (to Sirius) Snape never worked for Voldemort. Sirius doesn’t know Snape was hired precisely because he had worked for Voldemort. Sirius’s frustration at the thought that Snape is NOT a DE is, I think, Sirius wishing he could attribute every negative quality to someone he hates (#relatable). He seems to wish Severus was a DE. His internal back-and-forth and his frustration show that he really did drive himself up a wall thinking about Snape all this time, never mind that it’s plain weird that he can list Snape’s friends off the cuff, decades later (but not Lily, oddly enough). I’m about Sirius’s age and I don’t know who my high school nemesis’s friends were.

They meet again:

Snape had not yelled or jumped backward, but the look on his face was one of mingled fury and horror.

“Him!” he snarled, staring at Sirius, whose face showed equal dislike. “What is he doing here?”

Snape is still scared of Sirius. Sirius doesn’t fear Snape and never did, and he has no reason to, and yet he is displaying the same immaturity. Yes, they’re both stuck in the past, but only one of them has a salient reason to worry about the other. Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you, and Snape, who is about to return to Voldemort, knows this. Why is Sirius not even attempting civility?

Snape is beneath Sirius in every way, not worthy of his regard, not even for the sake of Dumbledore’s mission. The man who said, “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals” again has a massive Snape-shaped blind spot. In OOTP, Sirius pays for his treatment of his inferiors with his life. We also get further evidence of Sirius’s long-time fixation on Snape and refusal to move on from this:

“I’m bored,” said Sirius. “Wish it was full moon.”

“This’ll liven you up, Padfoot,” said James quietly. “Look who it is. . . .”

Sirius’s head turned. He had become very still, like a dog that has scented a rabbit.

“Excellent,” he said softly. “Snivellus.”

Even I wouldn’t be happy to see Snivellus if I saw him every day at breakfast. I’ve analyzed SWM to death, so I’ll mention only one more line:

How’d the exam go, Snivelly?” said James.

“I was watching him, his nose was touching the parchment,” said Sirius viciously. “There’ll be great grease marks all over it, they won’t be able to read a word.”

Again, doesn’t he have better things to do in the middle of an exam than to watch Snape? Evidently not (#relatable again). James sure seems certain that Sirius would be fascinated.

20 years later:

“I’ve warned you, Snivellus,” said Sirius, his face barely a foot from Snape’s, “I don’t care if Dumbledore thinks you’ve reformed, I know better —”

First, in what context did you have time to warn “Snivellus” already, Sirius? And why do you think you know more than Dumbledore, when you didn’t even know Snape was a DE in the first place? Never mind that this is said in response to Snape criticizing Harry, i.e., it’s completely irrelevant. Sirius has no idea of the Prophecy and that Harry is particularly important, all he knows is that Snape is a spy for the Order. An animosity toward Harry does not have to suggest Snape is not truly reformed.

“Oh, but why don’t you tell him so?” whispered Snape. “Or are you afraid he might not take the advice of a man who has been hiding inside his mother’s house for six months very seriously?”

“Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he’s delighted his lapdog’s working at Hogwarts, isn’t he?”

They are both acting like children, but Snape is also letting Sirius know he’s been spotted, in response to a perfectly gratuitous and unsavory insult. Sirius is the first to draw a wand, and again Harry finds himself stepping in to control Sirius, in this way acting exactly how James would not.

Snape checks on Sirius, warns him and does what he can to keep him safe. I somehow doubt that Sirius would have done the same. This is hypothetical, but we have evidence enough that Snape steps up to protect people he despises, his former bullies included. Sirius never shows the slightest inclination to do the same. In fact, he needs to be persuaded by a child not to actively harm others. Harry is able to appeal to his better nature at least some of the time.

I think this goes to the root of Sirius’s hatred: We see how Sirius and James first met, and instantly bonded over their hatred of Slytherin and their disdain for Severus.

In HBP:

“You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice.”

Now, this is interesting, because Harry has very legitimate reasons to hate Snape and suspect him. Snape has been singling him out for mistreatment since he set foot at the school. Harry is not prejudiced, but Lupin is so certain that James and Sirius were, and that it was a core part of their identity Harry would inherit it from them. The word “prejudice” here, where “baggage” or “enmity” would have done, is telling. My interpretation is that Lupin is referring to Snape’s poverty, as this is the book where we find out Snape is a half-blood from a slum. It certainly was the only thing that would have stood out about Snape as soon as he met the others on the express. It is fair to assume that James and Sirius were not prejudiced against half-bloods, we must give them that, and certainly they were more accepting of werewolves. Perhaps Lupin is referring to Snape’s Slytherin-ness.

The word “determined” here is even more important: Lupin can only be talking about a very young James, and he very well might be commenting on James’s own irrational hatred in the face of evidence to the contrary. For James, I believe (and JKR said as much) he was determined to hate Snape because he wanted Lily; for Sirius, I believe he was determined to hate Snape because he wanted to emulate James in the lack of better role models in his own family. He shows his contrarian nature as soon as he boards the train, and that nature too never leaves him (#relatable, again).

“My whole family have been in Slytherin,” he said.

“Blimey,” said James, “and I thought you seemed all right!” [Why did Sirius seem alright but not Snape?]

Sirius grinned.

“Maybe I’ll break the tradition. Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?”

In other words: “Maybe I’ll be unlike my family, but hold on, I need a new identity in that case. What’re you going to be?”

James and Sirius instantly bonded over teasing Snape (and Lily). Over time, there was school and quidditch and girls and their animagus project and full moon adventures, but Sirius only ever seemed interested in going after Snape and in the full moon adventures, and then in serving the Order. And in the end, those memories were all he had left, with James dead and Peter a traitor. As for the friendship with Lupin, it appears that this relationship was already cracked by SWM, possibly as a result of the trick Sirius had pulled (which already shows he didn’t care about Lupin all that much to begin with). He is cavalier about Lupin’s secret then, says he wishes it was the full moon, etc., and when it comes the time to choose the actual Secret Keeper, Sirius trusts Peter more. And so, when James died and the war was won, Sirius lost everything, except his hatred for Snape. He could never let it go because it was all that was left of the identity he had crafted and of the memories of the short good years of his life.

“Yes, but the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.” Another killer line, and another blind spot. Sirius is unable to see the good in someone he dislikes, he relishes in his hatred, in defiance of Dumbledore.

Snape, conversely:

“Don’t be shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?”

“Lately, only those whom I could not save,” said Snape.

This conversation takes place in March, following Sirius’s death months prior. Snape could be talking about Sirius here, possibly Emmeline Vance. By the time he died, he learned to value all lives. He grew up, if not as much as he should have, and he overcame whatever prejudice he held. The same could not be said for Sirius, though he wasn’t without his virtues. Something to be said there for forming your identity, ultimately, based on love and not on animosity.

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Can you IMAGINE if Sirius and Harry had been truly reunited the night Harry ran away after blowing up Aunt Marge? I feel like the two of them would've been SO chaotic together. 13 year old Harry fresh from inflating his non-blood aunt and seething over the Dursleys' words about his parents, teaming up with 33 year old Sirius fresh from 12 years in Azkaban, basically frothing at the mouth to rip Peter apart and protect his godson. They would be SO fucking fun for the Wizarding World to deal with (NOT). I'm imagining a world where Harry recognizes Sirius' magical signature or some bullshit as Padfoot and isn't immediately terrified when Padfoot suddenly turns into the murderous ex-con he just saw on the news had escaped. They're both just suddenly on the run from the Ministry bc Harry is like ??? WHY DO I RECOGNIZE YOU??? And Sirius is like I'M NOT LEAVING THIS KID AGAIN LIKE I DID THAT NIGHT!!!! So they're running around Britain and Harry's getting the 411 on Peter's betrayal and cute Marauders anecdotes and Sirius is losing his mind bc OMG it's his best friend and best friend-in-law (it's a thing, OKAY!?)'s son and he's so big and sassy and angry. And then Sirius is trying to figure out where they should go, and ends up deciding to go to fuckin Moony's place even though that's the first place people who knew them back then would check bc idk luck is on their side for once idc. So Remus has the absolute pleasure of opening the door to Mr. Harry James Potter in the company of a terrifyingly familiar black dog, and Remus' alarms are firing in his head as Sirius transforms from Padfoo t back into himself and he's shouting at Remus to LET HIM EXPLAIN, while Harry is doing his best to not let Remus fire a spell at his newly discovered godfather. Eventually Remus just lets Sirius explain on his front porch steps like they're a bunch of barbarians bc he refuses to let Sirius inside or let his guard down for a single second, and then Sirius tells him the whole story and Harry pulls out the Daily Prophet, and suddenly Harry has two absolutely FUCKIN FURIOUS Marauders on his hands, and they both want to chop Peter's head off and roast it on a stick, but Harry is oddly enough the most reasonable bc he's suddenly got a godfather that he doesn't want to lose bc hey, dude's kinda really great and also doesn't hate his guts like the Dursleys do, so of course he yells at them that they can't do anything yet bc Sirius would be carted back to Azkaban and probably Remus (who is still currently this random man to him ngl but also apparently the other loyal bestie his dad had at Hogwarts, so Harry doesn't want him chucked in Azkaban either) as well. So they devise a plan that involves kidnapped the fuck outta Scabbers as soon as Ron and Harry board the train together on September 1st, and Remus already has the DADA job, so he can help w that (although he still falls asleep bc I think Moony is absolutely iconic for that). And then the three of them just chill for about a month til it's time to board the Hogwarts Express, in which everyone at the station is suitably horrified when Harry just rolls up to the train with his brand spankin new pet dog Snuffles like nothing happened and he didn't just disappear off the face of the earth for nearly a MONTH, but Harry just ignores all that shit bc boy is on a MISSION and that mission is to destroy the bastard who got his parents killed and also started the catalyst of events that led to him growing up in an abusive household for like 10 years. Which is a thing he discussed at length w Remus and Sirius because Dumbledore is a manipulative piece of shit who TOTALLY KNEW the Dursleys were awful people and still decided to place him there :))))

Basically what ends up happening is Harry asks Ron to hand Scabbers over for a minute under the pretense of idek checking his lil rat toes or some shit bc he saw one was missing ???? And then Harry kicks Remus awake to do the spell, which he does, while Ron and Hermione are becoming deeply confused and disturbed by Harry's one-track mind and clear hatred for this stupid little RAT, but they let it happen bc Hermione sees the Professor part of RJ Lupin on Remus' briefcase (which, SCORE 1 for the Marauders definitely pranking him by getting him that briefcase at some point bc they WOULD and he had never been a professor before then so ???), and Ron and Hermione don't have a problem with authority figures, that's fuckin Harry. And Remus turns Wormtail back into Peter, and we get the whole Peter begging the Trio for mercy before Sirius turns back into himself from Padfoot, at which time Ron and Hermione start yelling about the escaped very dangerous convict in their TRAIN CAR, while Harry tries to convince them that Sirius isn't a danger to anyone in the tiny space but the fucking RAT, at which time Ron is like WELL HE'S NOT ACTUALLY A RAT ANYMORE NOW IS HE HARRY???!!! And Harry has to go with the short version of HE BETRAYED MY PARENTS RONALD!!!! while Peter is cornered by Sirius and Remus. And no, nobody has heard the yelling yet bc obviously Remus cast the Muffliato Charm or something, of course he did, I wouldn't forget that people have EARS. And then all of the sudden, the train car starts getting all cold, so Remus starts yelling at Sirius to change back to Padfoot bc the dementors won't sense a human that could be Kissed if he's not in human form, and Sirius does, but Peter also tries and Ron realizes what's happening and knocks him out (why Ron? Idk, why NOT him honestly, it's what he deserves after letting that creepy motherfucker live with him for the past few years bc YIKES I would be so freaked out) before Peter can turn back into a rat. The dementors come into the train car and Harry has his fainting spell which makes Sirius and Remus suitably LOSE THEIR MINDS bc WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED TO THE KID?!!??!! and Remus uses the Patronus Charm to repel them even though it means Peter won't be Kissed and Remus really wants revenge.

So Harry wakes up and is immediately accosted by his best friends, Sirius back in human form, and Remus trying to force chocolate into him. Ron and Hermione have been suitably informed of the situation, so they've closed the curtains, and nobody even knows what's happened besides those in the train car with them. Sirius doesn't have his wand, but he resolves to sit as Padfoot, staring at an unconscious Peter for the rest of the journey to Hogwarts, and the other four join him because no way in HELL are they letting that MF escape after Harry and Remus have managed to explain everything (and even before bc Ron and Hermione are the best and all they needed to hear was that Harry's parents died bc of Peter to determine that they would fucking the rat UP if he tried anything at all). So of course this weird fuckin quintet shows up to Hogsmeade's station with the real traitor and have to wait for everyone else to exit the train before traipsing up to the castle with the still unconscious Peter (Ron may not have cared all that much about being careful with head injuries from knocking bastards out bc of the whole ya know TRAITOR thing). Remus manages to send off a Patronus message to McGonagall (her bc of the aforementioned Dumbledore is a shithead thing) and they all head to Remus' new office with Peter in tow. Minerva shows up to Sirius as Padfoot, but an unconscious man who is CLEARLY Peter Pettigrew, and she's immediately like WHAT THE HELL??? and calls in some Aurors to deal with the trash. The Aurors are all suitably horrified but clear out soon bc they're not important to this story (sorry, kisses Aurors😘), and Minerva starts raging about Sirius being innocent and how DARE Peter, to which the Trio are extremely horrified bc they've never seen her lose her shit QUITE this much and it is highkey terrifying, but Remus is enjoying the show bc at least SOMEONE AGREES and Padfoot is wagging his tail and panting happily before Sirius realizes that Minerva can KNOW and he transforms back into himself, giving the poor professor half a heart attack. And because I think it would be hilarious for me personally, Snape walks in at the end of this lil story to see where tf Remus is bc he and Minerva are BOTH missing from the Welcome Feast, to Minerva McGonagall hugging the life out of a beaming Sirius Black while Remus looks at the two of them with a huge amount of relief bc THANK GOD she accepted his innocence, that could've been so bad for them lmao, they couldn't even Disapparate away at Hogwarts if she decided he wasn't innocent after all. And then Snape sees the Trio right beside Remus, also watching the hug and grinning like fools, especially Harry bc this meant Sirius was going to be FREE and also Harry would never have to deal with seeing the Dursleys or dealing with the fact that he literally blew up Dudley's aunt ever :)))

[padfootastic]

Peter: *is alive and a traitor*

Sirius: *Wants to commit one of tythe crimes he was imprisoned for* (Sirius: What are they gonna do, convict me for murdering Peter? They already did so I’m here to actually commit that crime now)

Remus, having learned Peter was the traitor approximately 2 minutes ago and only learned he was alive because he saw Peter’s name on the map earlier that day: Murder is the only possible solution here, no others. Peter needs to learn the most fundamental rule we have: betray James and get murdered

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, having the wildest time imaginable and deeply wishing Ron had any other pet than Scabbers: We’d rather not have someone killed in front of us or in the vicinity of where we spend 3/4 of the year for 7 years, actually. Please reconsider

‘betray james and get murdered’ sksksks if that doesn’t sum up the entirety of the hp books, nothing will.

i’m honestly so impressed @ james’ ability to inspire this kind of devotion in the people around him tbh it’s why i refuse to hear any slander against him like the dude just existed and people were falling over themselves ykno?

(also lowkey thinking of a crack au where james accidentally becomes a dark lord bc he’s just so fucking charismatic and people just want to do everything they can for him and he doesn’t even realise he has a cult but his closest people def do and they’re actually running the whole thing for him lol)

(i will once again say that remus is the funniest part of poa like he had no reason to be as bloodthirsty as he was and yet he was just like *rolls sleeves up* let’s do this)