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Thanks for your Luna x Ginny rapunzel fanfic. Do you know of fanfics where Ginny is the rapunzel?

You are the sweetest! I unfortunately have no other Linny Rapunzel recs at this time ❤️

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Came for tantalizing tidbit. Got a shiny published fic instead 😂

Tell me about your Hedric Drafty!!!! (Even if it doesn’t see the light of day, I’m still so intrigued!!)

Okay when I opened the doc it wasn't what I thought it was 😂 It was actually the draft for my fic "Rekindle" (Cedric/Harry) which IS posted! Then I went on a wild goose chase for the old half-finished draft I THOUGHT "Hedric drafty" was and I can't find it?? Hopefully it turns up on a cloud account somewhere...! In that one, for some reason, Harry comes to Snape for boyfriend advice since Snape and Remus are dating. That's all I remember about it 😂  Thanks for asking schmem14💛 

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Still in comic festival and con crunch but I had time to draw an emotional support Gideon.

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new favorite AO3 comment dropped. short, simple, to the point. made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt.

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Neville and Pansy in the Greenhouse

I was able to draw two romantic pieces of Neville and Pansy. I like it when people commission things I have never drawn or wouldn't soon draw for myself. It makes it interesting. I have to do my research, and step into the world of these characters. It's lovely, I love it. I love my job and I love all of you. These are for Dr Pansy Parkinson on Ao3 and Parks and Fiction on A03. Thank you so much guys <3 And to the rest of you: go check out their stories :)

Have a lovely weekend everyone! <3

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how much sorrow can i take / blackbird on my shoulder?

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He misses his bf :(

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hey divas <3 lets enable boypregnancy together

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A List of All the Clothing Items Harry Potter Likes

(a list of all the clothing he doesn't like would be much, MUCH longer)

1. The Weird Sisters' Concert Outfits

"black robes that had been artfully ripped and torn"

2. Bill Weasley's Whole Look

Bill was — there was no other word for it — cool. He was tall, with long hair that he had tied back in a ponytail. He was wearing an earring with what looked like a fang dangling from it. Bill’s clothes would not have looked out of place at a rock concert, except that Harry recognized his boots to be made, not of leather, but of dragon hide.

A very unusual level of detail from Harry (normally only present when describing outfits he hates.) He's paying attention to the specific material of Bill's shoes, and seems to be drawn to a rock-and-roll sort of look.

3. The Cursed Opal Necklace

a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Cursed

4. Madame Maxime's Opal Necklace/Ring Set

many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers.

I guess Harry likes opals.

5. The Bulgarian Minister's World Cup Look

splendid robes of black velvet trimmed with gold

Harry has been known to be a bit of a magpie when it comes to gold things. Like snitches, and that solid gold cauldron Hagrid wouldn't let him buy, and that solid gold set of gobstones Hagrid also wouldn't let him buy.

6. Yaxley's Ministry of Magic Robes

magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much gold thread.

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a long-haired wizard wearing magnificent robes of black and gold

Yaxley's robes are apparently identical to the Bulgarian Minister's robes.

7. Mrs. Weasley's Gold Necklace

spectacular golden necklace

he likes gold things okay

8. Dumbledore's Start-of-Term-Feast Look

magnificent deep green robes embroidered with many stars and moons.

9. Dumbledore's Purple Velvet Dressing Gown

He was wearing a magnificently embroidered purple-and-gold dressing gown over a snowy-white nightshirt

10. Dumbledore's Purple Velvet Suit (Honorable Mention)

“Nice suit, sir,” said Harry, before he could stop himself, but Dumbledore merely chuckled

Honorable mention because of Harry not meaning to say that, and Dumbledore thinking the exchange is funny. Young!Dumbledore is wearing "flamboyant" head-to-toe plum velvet, and Harry is either being sarcastic, or trying very very hard not to say, "That's gay."

11. Slughorn's Funeral Look

magnificent, long, emerald green robes embroidered with silver. 

12. Draco's Dark Green Robes

a handsome set of dark green robes that glittered with pins around the hem and the edges of the sleeves

SO WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

~ Harry's style profile is either "rock star" or "elf prince"

~ He likes shiny things, and appreciates jewelry

~ I think his favorite color might be green?

~ Dumbledore can put together an outfit.

~ Harry should get some black-and-gold robes.

~ Harry prefers more of an "elf prince" look on Draco

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So excited to finally share my Severance-inspired @lcdrarry fest fic! 💧

The Grim Barbarity of the Department of Mysteries

13k | Tags: Semi Non-Linear Timeline, Grief/Mourning, Angst, Humor, & a Hopeful Ending

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This is so silly. And yes I did make a banana pattern brush just for this single drawing.

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🌊HP Saffics Summer Exchange 2025

The femslash double drabble exchange is back for our fourth year! Write a double drabble (200 words exactly) and get a gift in return. As always, the focus of the exchange is any and all HP WLW!

🐚 Schedule 2025 🐚 Sign-ups: May 28-Jun 10 Drabbles due: Jul 20 Gift posting & Creator reveals: Jul 25 Treat posting: Jul 30

Join the HP SAFFICS server to participate!

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The Battle of Hogwarts was not the end… Snape survives AU for May 2nd event.

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The Harry Potter Pretty People's Club

I’ve always been kind of fascinated by how and why *attractiveness* is used in the HP books. So, I’ve decided to play a little game, and score up characters based on how often their prettiness is brought up. Here’s my scoring system:

(1 point) - We are straight-up told that this character (or some aspect of this character) is attractive. The word beautiful, handsome, attractive, elegant, pretty, lovely, good-looking, good looks, nice-looking, curvy, or gorgeous is used.

(.5 points) - We are specifically told the character has nice hair, or nice teeth. (JKR describes teeth a lot, it’s a thing.) 

(.5 points) - The character is described as moving in an attractive way. The word lounging, lolling, graceful, posing, or haughty (so lounging/posing, but more evil coded) is applied to them

In terms of the ranking, twins and and parent+child duos get to compete together, because how common “they looked exactly like their parent” type descriptions are in these books.

No points for “they used to be beautiful” or “they would be beautiful if...” Also no points if someone is described as attractive specifically by Rita Skeeter. We are clearly not supposed to take her as a reliable source. Also not counting the times Petunia calls Dudley “handsome,” or the time when Slughorn calls Ron handsome while trying to cheer him up after the love potion, for the same reason.

(if you’re curious, Rita does describe Hermione as “stunningly pretty,” Pansy as “pretty and vivacious,” herself as “attractive blonde, forty-three” and Harry as “the most beautiful thing she had ever seen” when he’s giving the interview about Voldemort’s return.) So let's get to the top 26 most attractive (?) characters in Harry Potter.

#26 - WILKIE TWYCROSS (.5) 

“Graceful” apparition instructor. Unfortunately the rest of his description stresses that he’s practically see-through.

#25 - MADAM PUDDIFOOT  (.5) 

Has shiny hair. Unfortunately also “very stout” (and unfortunately we we know how JKR feels about fat people  : / )

#24 - ROMILDA VANE (.5)

Has hair that is “black and shiny and silky.” Of course Ron does say that while zoinked out his mind on love potion, so not sure how reliable his report is. 

#23 - HORACE SLUGHORN (.5)

Young Horace has “thick, shiny, straw-colored hair.” He’s also rocking embroidered waistcoats with golden buttons. Idk, I bet Horace was kind of dishy back in the day. Heck, I bet he still is. He’s well dressed, charismatic, charming. Someone has a crush on him. JKR is just mean and wrong about fat people

#22 - NEARLY HEADLESS NICK (1) 

Has “elegant” hands. So, if you’re into that…

 #21 - ANDROMEDA TONKS (1) 

Andromeda’s sisters are not actually going to make the list, because they fall in the “beauty potential” category. Narcissa “would have been nice-looking if she hadn’t been wearing a look that suggested there was a nasty smell under her nose,” and the “long blonde hair streaming down her back gave her the look of a drowned person.” I love Narcissa, but that framing isn’t especially flattering. Bellatrix was once beautiful, but “something — perhaps Azkaban — had taken most of her beauty.” Now if Andromeda looks enough like Bellatrix to give Harry a double-take, and she looks like a Bellatrix with “wider, kinder eyes” who hasn’t been to Azkaban… she more than earns her place on the pretty list. Also is described as “haughty.”

#20 - ANGELINA JOHNSON (1) 

“Rather attractive” according to Lee Jordan. Seems to wear micro box-braids, which Pansy says look like “worms.” Boo Pansy (who is not on this list.) 

#19 - PERCIVAL, KENDRA & ALBUS DUMBLDORE (2) 

Percival is “good-looking,” Albus has shiny hair, and Kendra is “haughty.” I’ll buy that the Dumbledores were a pretty striking family, that makes sense . But they rank a little low because they all only have one attractive descriptor apiece. 

#18 - OLYMPE MAXIME (2) 

She’s an elegant frenchwoman. The only lady on this list described as “handsome.” Also graceful, has shiny hair, and Hagrid is very into her. 

#17 - PARVATI & PADMA PATIL (2)

Both of them look “very pretty” in their Yule Ball dress robes, and are quickly snapped up by Beauxbatons boys when Harry and Ron ignore them.  

#16 -  FIRENZE (2) 

The “handsome centaur.” Also the only character described as “gorgeous” (by Parvati.) At which point Hermione scoffs and says that he’s got four legs. By which we can deduce that Hermione is a bit vanilla for this conversation.

#15 - BILL WEASLEY (2) 

Described as “good-looking” and “handsome” by Mrs. Weasley, and of course FLEUR is very into him very quickly. I considered adding “cool” to my list of words connoting attractiveness, which would have bumped Bill higher… but JKR seems to associate “cool” more with personality. Like Mad-Eye and Hagrid are “cool” without being especially pretty.

#14 - GELLERT GRINDELWALD (2) 

Briefly seen in a memory and a photograph, described as “handsome” both times.

#13 - LILY POTTER (2) 

A “very pretty woman” and a woman with a “kind, pretty face.” Like with Andromeda, JKR throws in “kind” to make sure we know this is good-pretty, one step up from the Patil twins who are girly-pretty (sorry Patil twins.) 

#12 - LUCIUS & DRACO MALFOY (2.5) 

They have super sleek hair. It’s brought up a lot. Pansy likes to pet it. 

#11 - BLAISE’S MOM & BLAISE ZABINI (2.5) 

Blaise’s mom is a “famously beautiful witch,” who “had been married seven times, each of her husbands dying mysteriously and leaving her mounds of gold.” Fanon needs to decide on a name for her, and I think Clytemnestra is the right amount of on-the-nose. Blaise himself is described as haughty, and picky, and tends to “pose” and “loll against pillars.” 

#10 - MADAM ROSMERTA (3) 

Attractive, pretty, and the only character who is “curvy.” (I think she might have the boobs of Harry Potter universe.) Also wears sparkly turquoise heels, which is cute. Ron is into her, and so (I think) is Cornelius Fudge. I mean -  “Rosmerta, m’dear… lovely to see you again, I must say. Have one [drink] yourself, won’t you? Come and join us.” Like, that’s flirty, right? 

#9 - ROWENA & HELENA RAVENCLAW (4) 

Surprising that they crack the top ten, but every time we see an image of them they are described as beautiful. Usually with a qualifier like “austere” or “intimidating.” Beautiful is a word with a little bit of an edge to it in this universe. Beautiful people are just… a little suspect. 

#8 - GILDEROY LOCKHART (5.5) 

Very handsome, good hair, good teeth. The teeth are honestly brought up enough to feel a little off-putting and predatory, which I think is exactly the point. Lockhart is a very 90s-Disney-movie queer-coded villain. But, he is extremely good looking (or at least very well put-together.) Mrs. Weasley and Hermione both have crushes on him, and he continues to get fan mail into his St. Mungo’s days. 

#7 - GINNY WEASLEY (5.5) 

Ginny’s an odd one. She’s described as “graceful,” popular, and “a lot of boys like her,” (according to Pansy.) Honestly, that’s mostly how we experience her beauty. Krum thinks she’s attractive, Blaise thinks she’s attractive, Amycus addresses her as “Pretty” in a creepy way, and so does some random Diagon alley amulet salesman. Both Harry and the narrative voice stay pretty quiet when it comes to thirsting over Ginny. We get the honestly very conflicted description “Ginny gave Harry a radiant smile: He had forgotten, or had never fully appreciated, how beautiful she was, but he had never been less pleased to see her” and then “Ginny and Gabrielle, both wearing golden dresses, looked even prettier than usual [at Fleur’s wedding].” Which isn’t even completely about Ginny! Maybe you could count the romantic descriptions of her hair being flamelike or on one occasion “dancing,” but that’s really it. I am doing my very best, and scraping the bottom here. 

#6 - HERMIONE GRANGER (7.5) 

Hermione seems to fall firmly into the “cleans up nice” category. She is the “pretty girl in blue robes” at the Yule Ball, looking good enough that Pansy gapes and Malfoy “didn’t seem to be able to find an insult to throw at her.” She’s also looking good at Fleur’s wedding, when Viktor and Ron are definitely interested. Her hair can look elegant and shiny if she puts in effort - otherwise it’s bushy, and Pansy compares her to a chipmunk. We also know she has large front teeth, before she gets them fixed. She occasionally gets a “graceful” or “haughty" description, and Greyback does creep on her (again with the creeping!) calling Hermione Harry’s “pretty little friend.” I also gave her half a point for the description of Horcrux!Hermione, who is “more beautiful and yet more terrible than the real Hermione.” That’s another good example of how JKR uses the word “beautiful,” and I guess “more beautiful” definitely implies some existing beauty.

#5 - CHO CHANG (8)  

Cho is very pretty. She’s often described that way, and she has long shiny black hair. She naturally pairs up with Cedric, who also scored an 8. I wish I had more to say about her, I really do. 

#4 - CEDRIC DIGGORY (8)

Our first “pretty boy" - he’s described that way by both Harry and Seamus. Seamus actually seems to kind of have a thing about Cedric. He doesn’t believe Cedric put his name in the Goblet of Fire because “I wouldn’t have thought he’d have wanted to risk his good looks.” And true, Cedric is “exceptionally handsome, with his straight nose, dark hair, and gray eyes” and probably our first extraordinarily pretty person. Angelina and Katie think he’s hot, Myrtle creeps on him - although, honestly - Myrtle creeps on everyone, and the text doesn’t take it very seriously. Interestingly in the film we get a moment of Voldemort turning over Cedric’s head with his bare foot, saying “Oh, such a handsome boy” - to which Harry replies “Don’t touch him!”  That’s a subtle difference - in the books it’s only threatening when girls get creeped on, the movies are a little more equal opportunity. 

#3 - SIRIUS & REGULUS BLACK (11) 

Sirius is hot. He’s “carelessly handsome,” his “dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James’ nor Harry’s could ever have achieved.” He rolled out of bed looking this good. Sirius is graceful and lounging and bored as hell, but you know “handsomely so.” Even when he falls through the Veil, it’s a “graceful,” beautiful death. Regulus gets a shout-out too, because he “had the same dark hair and slightly haughty look of his brother, though he was smaller, slighter, and rather less handsome than Sirius had been.” But, as is mentioned nearly every time he appears on the page, Sirius is extremely handsome. Less handsome than Sirius is still handsome. 

I think it’s actually important to Sirius’ character that he is THAT beautiful. Sirius is a kid from a very bad environment who’s one bad day away from just snapping… but you’d never know it. He’s so attractive, he’s so effortlessly talented, he hides everything so well. Of course none of the adults in his life would be worried about him. 

#2 - FLEUR, GABRIELLE & APPOLINE DELACOUR (12.5) 

Fleur almost seems like a cheat, because she is supernaturally beautiful. She is “a woman of such breathtaking beauty that the room seemed to have become strangely airless. She was tall and willowy with long blonde hair and appeared to emanate a faint, silvery glow.” Even Aunt Muriel thinks she’s beautiful. (We also do get told that Fleur has nice teeth.)

But again, she’s beautiful. She’s that slightly threatening, too-feminine beauty. Until she gets married… and has a kid… which redeems her. “While [Fleur’s] radiance usually dimmed everyone else by comparison, today [at her wedding] it beautified everybody it fell upon.” 

#1 - TOM RIDDLE SR. & TOM RIDDLE JR. (14) 

Our clear winner, and also our second “pretty boy.” (Marvolo calls Tom Sr. “pretty,” and Tom Jr. is “his handsome father in miniature.” so yes, Voldemort does count as a pretty boy.) Poor Tom Sr. - the text frames the aftermath of his sexual assault as him “abandoning” his wife, but unfortunately that falls into the wider trend of only girls being victims of creeps in the HP books. It’s like the weird detail about the stairs to the dormitories - the girls can go to the boys dormitory, but not vice-versa. 

But yeah. Tom Riddle’s attractiveness is brought up almost every time he is. We even get details - we specifically know he lost weight and grew his hair out after he left school, and it looked super good on him. Hepzibah Smith is very into him, Bellatrix is very into him. (Although I do wonder just how snakey he looked when they met.) Adult Voldemort doesn’t treat the loss of his looks as any kind of sacrifice, he seems well rid of them. They’re just another annoying aspect he wants to shed on his quest for transhumanism. He gets rid of his father’s name, it only makes sense he would want to get rid of his looks as well. I do like the detail that his original eyes live inside the Locket, that is cool and creepy. 

(but, logically, I can only assume that means his original nose lives inside the Cup.) 

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Draco used to like Pansy. A lot.

"He's just so—"

Unfortunately, she's now developed some sort of terrible and permanent brain disease.

"—fucking gorgeous, running around the oval in those short shorts before quidditch practice every morning," she goes on. "I mean, you know I couldn't stand him at school; who could? He was hideous. A complete wanker. A scrawny little spectacled rat with an ego to rival yours, which is truly saying something—"

Draco picks at his croissant, and thinks about drowning himself in the nearby fountain.

"—but sweet Circe's cunt, Draco, when I tell you. I nearly climaxed right there and then when I opened the door to the training rooms—"

"Please, let me die."

"—and he's just standing there in nothing but a tiny fucking towel, and he gets so flustered too, just stands there and gapes like this perfect Adonis-like fish, I mean, clearly he hasn't changed that much from school, still as brainless as a worm, but I would very happily ride his gigantic worm if you catch my—"

"YES, Pansy, I'm pretty sure the entire dining district of Diagon fucking Alley has caught your drift." He wishes, not for the first time, that she'd been hired to do PR for literally any other quidditch team in Britain. "Caught it like the plague."

She smirks. "Too bad he bats for the other team."

"What do you mean?" he asks irritably. "He seeks. For the team you work with. That's why you work together, you stupid cow."

"Draco," she says pleasantly. "I will drown you in the Thames."

He smiles tightly back at her. "I am begging you to."

"You're being thick. Thicker than usual. Did you not hear me? He bats." She pokes her fork at him—"For the other"—and flicks some toast at him—"TEAM."

Draco looks at her, disgruntled, brushing egg off his sleeve. "We literally just covered this. He—"

"I don't mean LITERALLY!" she screeches, hurling her napkin at him. Next it will be her plate. "I mean he's fucking gay."

All sound suddenly disappears, replaced by a high-pitched whistling emanating directly, somehow, from his brain.

"What?" The word falls from his lips, even as he mentally falls back on a very obvious, very robust truth: Pansy is unhinged. Obviously. There is no possible way that a man—this man—who has only ever dated girls—two girls—a man who is, in fact, the walking definition of straight, possibly the straightest man this side of the fucking Channel, is—

"Gay, Draco," she says with glacial, disingenuous patience. "Harry Potter is gay."

Oval 🥐 Day 18 of @peachydreamxx and @uncannycerulean’s prompts. Full collection on ao3. Thank you to @its-the-allure, @yellowfork and my sister for reading over this first. xx