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god, GOD Freddie Mercury was such a fucking badass

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when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

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Update IOYBIMSWI +

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH MOFOS WHOOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉

First of all, FUCK JKR — I write this fic because I like the HP World (despite my many grievances with it) but I still loathe the author.

I’m queer and trans and hate her for making working on this fic almost impossible because I fucking love HP but not her. So I write this fic so I can metaphorically shove it down her throat as I shove as many queer characters as I can because freewill 😎

Anyway, just if anyone ever questioned my stance this is for the record lol. Moving on

I’m dying 🫡 not really but just — I work in agriculture and we started cherry season Sunday of this posting, and today was our first day doing exports and —

I’m so tIRED AND ITS THE FIRST DAY OF EXPORTS 😭😭 fucking CHAOTIC AND SO MUCH BS I ALREADY HAD TO DEAL WITH and in general remembering how tf I do everything again for exports because it’s so different to our normal routine and this year who fucking knows is up with exports as well. The season is just crazy because certain MAGA fucking Cheeto dumbass fucking babies in the government don’t understand how deeply their actions will and have affected the economy and work environment.

Surprise, who does almost all the agricultural jobs 90% of white Americans don’t want to do? And who are you deporting? Oh? And now we have a shortage of workers out in the orchards? That’s so bizarre… it definitely has no correlation… (sarcasm)

ANYWAY my usual grievance over stupid government (the current public break up is as hilarious as it is mortifying that this is our president and a fucking nazi who isn’t even acknowledged by the rest of the government besides the republicans) QUICK-ish update:

I know I didn’t post last month 😔 been busy and getting into some new hyper fixations (Love and Deepspace has me by the throat, might write a fic on it fr). Trying a medication, hopefully it helps, we shall see, I only just started it lol. But I’ll probs be pretty busy for the rest of the summer. I almost am done with chapter 10, but idk if it’ll be ready by the end of the month (Draco’s birthday post perhaps?) but I will try to get a head start when I can on chapter 11 so it can be out by July 31st.

Hopefully. Hopefully. This season kinda crazy so I have zero clue how this will be. Everything is up in the air. Music and LADs has been keeping me semi sane.

Anyway that’s it. BE GAY BE PROUD LET YOUR FREAK FLAGS FLY! Punch a Nazi, terfs and MAGA supporters 🫶 hopefully I have an update by the end of the month 🫠 Take care of yourselves!!!

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UGH I WAS JUST GOING TO DO THE CONTINENT AND DECIDED IM GOING TO DO THE WHOLE MAP BECAUSE IM OBSESSED AND FIXATED RN ON THIS

I’m just gonna explain my reasonings: DO YOU KNOW THE POPULATION COUNT?? TO ONLY HAVE ORIGINALLY 8 MAJOR SCHOOLS IS RIDICULOUS?? (Skip to the Long Story Short if you want)

Like. Let me break it down in math terms as well, because no??? There should be way more major schools??? We’re going based off 1990 population btw

Math: roughly the total population of the world in 1990 is 5.3 Billion okay? The total population of the UK in 1990 is 57.25 Million.

According to JKR apparently she thinks 3000 for the whole magical UK population makes sense compared to the 57.25 million people in the UK. No, no it doesn’t. So we ignore her dumbness and move on to this: let’s pretend the Voldy War didn’t happen yet, and that roughly per house you’d have 15-30 students, which would equal up to 60-120 students per year, and times that by 7 years, you’d have upwards of 420-840 students total. For every 7 years, you have at least a children population of 420, (and not including and squibs or not-magical-enough children, or any half-humans or goblins and such.) let’s just go with a medium of 630 per 7 years

Let’s divide this by roughly 2.5, assuming that each student has 2 parents and had at most 2-3 kids, and we can pretend the Weasley families make up for the purebloods who struggled to have kids or only had 1. That number is 252 parents for all 7 years.

630+252=882 students and adults for every 7 years. MINIMUM. This doesn’t include any children below 11, or any adults with no children/are grandparents. Which could easily double this number. Let’s do that though let’s times that number by 3 for 21 years total. that’s 2,646 people. For only 21 years. At LEAST. Let’s times 882 by 15 for 105 years — which gets us a rough estimate of the population starting at 0 from Albus Dumbledores birth: 13,230 people.

BASED OFF THIS ALONE. You’re looking at roughly 13,000 people at minimum of the magical population by 1990, AND THATS ONLY THE HUMAN POPULATION. Even if you assume that the magical population — whether you include or don’t include magical beings — was only 1% of the UK or even less than 0.5%, you should be getting 286,250 minimum. Even 0.25% is 143,125. Let’s say 215,000 total for roughly 0.375% of the population.

So let’s say that for every 57.25 million people, you only have 215,000 magical people (from babies to adults) in the UK in 1990. 57.25 million goes into 5.3 billion 92.6 times, so 215,000x92.6= 19,909,000.

So there’s a total magical human population of 19.9 million. Globally. Not including goblins, centaurs, elves and other magical beings and MAYBE partial-magical beings. (Ughhhhhh basic math but ugh).

Roughly there’s also 1 major school for every 215,000 people, so TECHNICALLY speaking, there should also be like 90+ schools globally across the world, BUT I also have 45 major schools (plus 2), so halfway, AND that’s not including any public school systems or any small country schools which could make up for my other 43 schools.

LONG STORY SHORT: The break down of the UK and world magical population- ignoring magical beings/mixed humans.

1 hogwarts year= 60 to 120 students

Total students for all 7 years at Hogwarts per year (excluding staff) = 420 to 840 students (630 students average)

Total parents (assuming two parents per student) for every 2.5 students = 168 to 336 total parents (252 parents on average)

An average guarantee of roughly 882 magical humans (minimum of 588, max of 1176)

UK 1990s population = 57.53 million

Assuming magical population of UK in 1990 is 0.375% = rounded up to 215,000

For every 57.53 million humans there is roughly 215,000 magical humans

Total world population in 1990 = 5.3 billion

57.53 million fits into 5.3 billion 92.6 times.

92.6x215,000 magical humans =19,909,000 total magical humans. Roughly.

For every 215,000 magical humans, there should be at least 1 major magical school. There should be a total of 90-93 schools globally.

Considering minor magical schools and public magical schools, I have cut the need of 90 major global schools nearly in half, and have 47. Many are sister schools. Borrow and name the schools as you please while I die of math induced headache.

Beauxbaton, Hogwarts, Durmstrang…

So here I am doing some research on these schools since we know little about them, only to come to an unsurprising conclusion.

These schools make no sense at all.

First of all, Beauxbaton took in basically all the countries around it, except, apparently, Switzerland and Italy, and some other countries around those countries. Fine, okay, makes sense considering maybe that happened because of WW1 and WW2, ya know. Cool, got it, they don’t want Nazi’s, and sure maybe a bit sore about the other neutral/““neutral”“ countries like Denmark kinda was and wasn’t, and Sweden, too...

Durmstrang apparently said FUCK NAH to non-magical born mages and only magical born ones… The opitimy of Death Eater mentality fr fr. And maybe that had smthn to do with Soviet Russia? Idk I’m still confused and researching history to make that shit make some sense. But apparently they take in all the other countries down to Bulgaria…

But what about all the nonmagical born kids? Like. Just fuck them and dip right?

Nah. My Headcanon now:

Two minor schools that took in different parts of this area in Europe. One in Poland and the other in Italy/Greece (I chose near Athens but up to anyone else fr).

The one in Poland started because they wanted to protect jewish mages and anyone who opposed the Nazi's, didn't agree with Durmstrang, and also happened to be nonmagical born. They didn't care too much as long as you weren't a fascist Nazi, really.

The one in Italy/Greece was started as they took in Nazi mages and fascists all around this part of the world that couldn't go to Durmstrang or Beauxbaton, especially nonmagical born ones, AND I think was influenced by Grindelwald during his rise to power and the Great Global War he started. They weren't so deep into the pureblood mentallity, but it was definitely a superiority complex against nonmagical folk and probs speciest against goblins, merfolk, and centaurs.... I also think that they never really stopped being fascists, when Voldemort was around the first time.

It just does not have a good reputation anymore. AND it just made some sense with people prefering Blaise Zabini to be italian, or from Italy. Like, Beauxbaton wasn't going to accept Italians or Switzs, so they had to go somewhere, and if Blaise' mother wanted him to go to a good school, then maybe it was smarter to go to Hogwarts instead politically, while keeping her child safe? The school in Poland was too anti-magical Nazi, and the Italian/Greece one was just not safe, so Hogwarts was the perfect middle.

IDK, this is just some thoughts I wanted to spit ball. Let me know your thoughts if you want, but remember I'm thinking roughly about the 1940s-1990s times. and filling gaps in OC's backstories for my own story (that may not ever see the light of day but whatevs lol)

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hey, i found your fic scrolling tje worldbuilding tag on ao3 and saw that you've made several supporting documents for your fic (with their length equalling the fic? i think thats what you suggested) and was wondering how much of your research you'd be willing to share. im caught between wanting to write my own original fic, use an existing prompt, or just do worldbuilding without an actual accompanying fic. atm im constructing something inbetween a worldbuilding doc for the Arithmancer series..

I'm willing to share as much as I can (glances akwardly at my loose paper notes that haven't made it on to my documents), and as much as I can remember!

First of all, whether you create your own orginal fic, prompt based, or maybe some sort of "slice of life" magical HP world fic, you can always look into all sorts of different areas to world build. How you go about it depends on what you're interested in. Like some people really focus on politcs, history, or a specific magical branch -- potions and arithmancy for example -- and then build off that, how it intertwines with canon, and what is used as creative liberty.

I'm not sure what specifically you're looking for, but I can give you a general idea of some of my worldbuilding I have done for both a few broad and niche subjects! I will say, I tend to focus on broader subjects, while looking at social-politcal influences of history to modern times, as I include non magical events in my fics worldbuilding (since we are still in earth and it implies these events still happen).

Magical America: This one I had already done a post about, focusing more on pre-colonization, and then during colonization of America, BUT in my fic, I brushed over more 'modern' America, and have written my own personal random scenes that haven't made it into the fic about it as well.

Which, I consider at least, to be pretty different to JKR's Magical America. I didn't like how she had her own president for the world, as that seemed... weird? But that they follow The President of America, there jsut happens to be a whole magical branch of the government to handle everything magical and 'attempt' to keep magic from being tooo public. The Bible Belt is probably the most hush hush about magic, and depends on the county and state, but that's just my personal thoughts. It depends, really.

Each state will have different influences -- geographical, indiginous inhabitants, and who was colonizing the area, etc. The Ilvermorny schools -- makes no sense to only have one school for all of America, so theres 4 sisters schools, each a little different in which magics they teach/focus on. The south has a lot more mexican-indigenous, african, spaniard and french influences then say the west coast, which has more PNW-Westeren indigenous, spaniard, and asian influences (and some russian, and french too), while the east coast would be more french-UK (British) influences. This means architecture and location of the schools can be heavilly influenced. Ilvermorny on the East Coast/South might look like a Greek Revival, with pillars and domed roofs, or South -- especially near New Orleans, might have more French Quarter, Greek Revival, Eqypitan Revival, and even Moorish/Neo-Moorish architecture. The West has a more Gothic vibe to it, but near California you'd have Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival, Victorian, Arts & Crafts, and Mid-Century Modern. Which I see all of this even up in WA state, too.

Let's briefly touch the fact that America's westward expansion was definitely a crazy time, as more people moved west, and you had gunslingers and cowboys -- more small farm towns with a few major cities, and the railroads as well. This also means I included magical 'public' schools -- smaller schools dedicated to teaching magical children cropping up. Many of these western moving families either would have homeschooled, and/or been unable to afford to attend ilvermorny, so it makes sense to have closer schools for certain areas. (I also think the Floo system was just... not a liked/well-thoughtout system in America, so other modes of travel might have been preferred?)

This makes me think that America was a lot more relaxed about the statute of secrecy. They don't openly say "hey we're mages" (my preferred inclusive term), as many indigenous groups would have, in my worldbuilding, been almost entirely magical, or have a shaman, or magical warriors, or even led by a magical chief, and potentially allied with magical beings such as centaurs (or equivalent), elves, goblins, trolls, giants, and fuck they could have had epic dragons. This also goes for many other countries where they might be more relaxed, or even more strict, on how open magic is in public.

I use some mythical stories of some indigenous cultures to also influence some of my world-building mentioned/ to be mentioned beings or creatures. The fun thing about magic, is you could bullshit it and still be potentially right.

Blood Magic: Another lengthy subject I focused on because I always thought how the UK Mages always were so weird about its uses, and it bothered me as Blood Magic has potential to BE a healing art. And one of my OC's Eli (el-lee) is gifted and has studied in that magical art as a primary subject in a magical university.

So I first learned what the fuck is the cardiovascular system, and different parts of the blood and the main bits of it. What could make this a healing art, rather than a blood-bending and controling art. Blood has it's own healing process, as many fantasy media's could attest to with superhuman-healing, so blood magic for healing focuses on boosting those natural responses in the body. Blood needs energy though, and magic is really a form of energy, so the mage uses their energy, their magic, to boost the response and feed the system energy -- weaving it into the being they're healing. This is where it can also easily become a controlling magic as it's 'weaving' the users magic into another beings system.

What about outside using another person? Well, you can bullshit most of it from here ngl. I've recently been using it as testing ones identity, family, and state of health -- a mixture of goblin recording magics and the natural magic of a person that I BS'd lol. A bit like non magical blood tests can do, but apply it to a more magical form.

I'm trying to think if there was anything specific? Most of my notes and things center more around character information and America, though I did a recent post about Magical schools and how WW1 & WW2 would have influenced the continent, rather than the Isles. I added two more minor schools, one for the more nazi-fascist mages of the time that didn't meet Durmstrangs weird requirements, and another for those who weren't nazi-fascists, but weren't able to attend Beauxbaton .

There's also random things you can emphasize on. Goblin culture, for example; I've just recently added that Gringotts, outside of the main area and the vaults, still have a stone cave-like resemblance to its inner architecture. Pillars and arches a-plenty to resemble stalagmite and curved cavern entrances, and the color of it more resembling the natural earth stone, with colored mineral veins. A bit like how Erebor would maybe be described, but instead of dwarves in a large kingdom of a mountain, it's a HP goblin one.

Another Example: Beauxbaton can have spaniard influences too, as they take spanish students too, it seems. This can be seen in like, architecture, or what classes they have, what magics they teach, etc.

And a lot of this is mostly down to how You percieve magic as well. Like, as I mentioned, 'gifted' in the art of a specific subject or even a niche category of magic can really elevate a character. Maybe Neville is rather gifted in herbology naturally, so naturally his influence and understanding of plants is elevated than his peers, which unfortunately means accidents in potions, because he's subconsciously overpowering his potions when they use plant-based potions. Hagrid's would be in animals-creature based ones. He can put a PIG tail on dudley (wordlessly), with a flick of his umbrella, and he can just about tame/handle any creature when he puts his mind to it (even if it's ill advised... a Wood Hut is no place for a dragon, my guy).

I've also used Merlin (BBC) as an exmaple of how I see magic as well, before Merlin was learning directly out of a book of spells. He was able to nudge and lift and fling objects with just a look -- magic IS him, he knows it just like he knows how to breathe. Transfiguration... must be a bit more tricky for him to have grasped, changing everything down to it's atomic parts into a living creature... that was a fun moment...

Bit of a word vomit, but I hope some of this helps with ideas at least! It's not a full 200 page doc of my research (which is still mostly on sticky notes and loose paper...) but if you had any other questions, I'd be happy to answer them as much as I'm able!

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One of the many perils of engaging with Internet Discourse is that sometimes you realize after the fact that the person you were responding to is a literal child who has mistaken their first big feeling about a wildly complex adult topic for an informed opinion, at which point you have to just stare wearily into the middle distance like: ah, yes, this is my cosmic punishment for having once also been fourteen and convinced I knew everything.

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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Beauxbaton, Hogwarts, Durmstrang…

So here I am doing some research on these schools since we know little about them, only to come to an unsurprising conclusion.

These schools make no sense at all.

First of all, Beauxbaton took in basically all the countries around it, except, apparently, Switzerland and Italy, and some other countries around those countries. Fine, okay, makes sense considering maybe that happened because of WW1 and WW2, ya know. Cool, got it, they don’t want Nazi’s, and sure maybe a bit sore about the other neutral/““neutral”“ countries like Denmark kinda was and wasn’t, and Sweden, too...

Durmstrang apparently said FUCK NAH to non-magical born mages and only magical born ones… The opitimy of Death Eater mentality fr fr. And maybe that had smthn to do with Soviet Russia? Idk I’m still confused and researching history to make that shit make some sense. But apparently they take in all the other countries down to Bulgaria…

But what about all the nonmagical born kids? Like. Just fuck them and dip right?

Nah. My Headcanon now:

Two minor schools that took in different parts of this area in Europe. One in Poland and the other in Italy/Greece (I chose near Athens but up to anyone else fr).

The one in Poland started because they wanted to protect jewish mages and anyone who opposed the Nazi's, didn't agree with Durmstrang, and also happened to be nonmagical born. They didn't care too much as long as you weren't a fascist Nazi, really.

The one in Italy/Greece was started as they took in Nazi mages and fascists all around this part of the world that couldn't go to Durmstrang or Beauxbaton, especially nonmagical born ones, AND I think was influenced by Grindelwald during his rise to power and the Great Global War he started. They weren't so deep into the pureblood mentallity, but it was definitely a superiority complex against nonmagical folk and probs speciest against goblins, merfolk, and centaurs.... I also think that they never really stopped being fascists, when Voldemort was around the first time.

It just does not have a good reputation anymore. AND it just made some sense with people prefering Blaise Zabini to be italian, or from Italy. Like, Beauxbaton wasn't going to accept Italians or Switzs, so they had to go somewhere, and if Blaise' mother wanted him to go to a good school, then maybe it was smarter to go to Hogwarts instead politically, while keeping her child safe? The school in Poland was too anti-magical Nazi, and the Italian/Greece one was just not safe, so Hogwarts was the perfect middle.

IDK, this is just some thoughts I wanted to spit ball. Let me know your thoughts if you want, but remember I'm thinking roughly about the 1940s-1990s times. and filling gaps in OC's backstories for my own story (that may not ever see the light of day but whatevs lol)

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If Only You Believe in Miracles So Would I

Chapter 9: It Takes Strength To Be Gentle And Kind

Chapter 9 is out baby! Whoop whoop! Good thing I posted after Easter, would have thought the ao3 curse hit the pope 😭😭😭

Anywayyys.... yes, another chapter out! After a month of quiet... lol.

And if you didn't catch it, chapter 8 has also been out as well. Links to chapter 1, 8, and 9:

Chapter 1: Because I've Only Got Two Hands

Chapter 8: Things You Said, Things You Did

Chapter 9: It Takes Strength To Be Gentle And Kind

I hope yall enjoy! Ngl I've rewritten chapter 9 so many times, I nearly threw myself against the wall or smthn ong, cause WTF UGH, THE PASTA (words) AINT STICKIN TO DA WAAAALLLLL AAAHHAHAH

I'm fine. Life's fine. I'm totally sane....

ANYWAY ENJOY HAVE A GREAT DAY <333 Always a great day to punch a nazi 😘 Stay safe, drink water, let your freak flags fly babes 😘😘😘 Enjoy!

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✨If Only You Believe in Miracles Chapter 8 + Update✨

*pokes my blog* uh, so hey. I'm alive?

... I totally forgot to mention but uh, Chapter 8 has been out for a while... well, here you go:

Chapter 8: Things You Said, Things You Did

Warning: Harry Potter is a warning unto himself. Dursleys A+ parenting skills (child abuse & neglect, you have been warned)

Well, anyway, 'quick' life update (and excuses) for anyone who checks on the occasion when I rarely post and noticed a month long absense. I've been lurking around because writers block slammed me, politics are trash (this shit is honestly embarrasing to see as an American...), and my mental health tanked down like the titanic 😬 🫠

BUT a few swallows of monster Mango Loco's and I AM FREE AGAIN BABY! I literally had the biggest epiphany and was able to fucking write down a god damn chapter 😭😭😭 I just about cried because of it -- I still might, as I drink another helping of it. (Potentially chalking this up to a lack of Vitamin B (for Badassatron) but eh, we shall see)

Deadass how it feels LMAO

When you remember you have freewill 😎🎉 miracles happen babes

Additional: I am another year older as of last month, and able to buy alcohol whenever like a cool kid 😎 and indulge just in time for a recession -- with actually awesome music to party to like its the 2000s! The things I missed out on because, well, I was born during that time 🫠 Was too young for da clurb 😔

ANYWAY ✨UPDATE✨:

Yes, another chapter is ON THE WAY WHOOO! I can't tell yall how much I struggled to write this shit 😭😭😭 It's actually embarrasing how many times I rewrote it because the vision… it wasn't visioning. I did other POVs, I tried to do a different scene building up to what I originally wanted, before just scrapping that idea completely and starting a whole new scene and subsequently fixing a plothole I had seen coming but didn't know how to address. Not to mention all the other scenes I ended up scraping because of said scene…

It was not a great time, but I perceviered. The indominatebly human spirit assisted with Mango Loco, and I can see clearly now the rain has gone!...

It should be out either this week, on Easter, or the next on my friends birthday. Haven't decided yet as I deadass just finished the chapter and need to go and edit it.

I'd post it right away, but I want to try and write another chapter or two before then. Or at least start them…

BUT ANYWAY A longwinded update to say... expect me soon! I hope y'all are surviving out there. Life is hard, but I belive in y'all 😎 Have a good day, remember it's always a great day to punch a nazi, and keep slaying! See y'all soon!

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https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/judge-says-park-service-reinstate-fired-employees-20220040.php

Public outcry works. Protest works.

Keep raising hell!

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Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.

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Disabled people have to live somewhere poor people have to live somewhere you cant just exclude us from everywhere

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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If Only You Believe In Miracles So Would I

Chapter 7: Spineless Swines, Cemented Minds

Happy New Years! Another update to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of this fic! I hope you all enjoy!

**Chapter Warnings: Tougher, darker, themes, such as some murderous/sucidal ideation and blood. Some child abuse as well, later on. (Quirrell is really a warning on his own, as well as Harry, so theres that…)**

Chapter 6: Will Nature Make A Man Of Me Yet

Chapter 7: Spineless Swines, Cemented Minds