Marauders era girls (valkyries??) headcanons: Gryffindor Edition
Lily Helena Evans —
Amazing at potions, she finds the process of it all very therapeutic
avid dress code follower
grew up just outside of London
pansexual, has a little pride flag on the wall behind her bed
she/her pronouns, cis but had an extremely short and intense questioning era in third year
didn’t get her drivers license until she was 22 because she just didn’t want to pay for classes (James taught her in a Boots parking lot with Sirius in the backseat)
comes from a pretty conservative family and is easily scandalized
genuinely likes hiking
Marlene Cecilia McKinnon —
Beater on the quidditch team (plays number six)
Dirty blonde but makes sirius help her bleach it lighter
Masc lesbian — came out in a very teary speech in the common room one night in second year and she was terrified that people wouldn’t want to be her friend anymore (literally not a single person was surprised)
Five siblings — one older sister, three younger sisters, and one baby brother
she/her but she’s pretty masc presenting/androgynous and it intensely confuses some of the older teachers
short, dull, and clean nails
Family is technically catholic but they don’t really follow any of the rules except going to church on the important days
family friends with the Potters
Mary Magdalena MacDonald—
accuses her white friends of being racists all the time just to make them uncomfortable
has the longest most strenuous curl routine literally ever
she/her, trans mtf
figured everything out with her gender really early and has super supportive parents so she was able to transition really young and now she educates people at Hogwarts about how transitioning can work with magic (spoiler alert: everything is much easier than the muggle way)
braids hair for all the girls on the quidditch team before games
got really into nail art in fifth year and started a small business out of her dorm room
says “i don’t discriminate” when asked about her sexuality (lily suspects she means bisexual)
only uses rlly bad nicknames to refer to her friends (ex: siri, marly, lilylulu, jamie baby)
bilingual english/romanian
sirius orion black —
DOWNTOWN GIRL
eyeliner pro
buys oversized leather jackets and pretends they belong to their boyfriend
prefers she/they but doesn’t mind he/him, genderfluid but usually fem
likes men generally??
obsessed over remus’ hands and talks about them at every girls night
finds it lowkey gender affirming when her brother calls her a bitch
beater on the quidditch team
puts highlighter on their collarbones
Alice Fortescue-
refers to herself as “Mama”
got with Frank in second year and they’ve broken up about fifty times since then but they always get back together
adopted a first year to be her and frank’s child in sixth year
ADHD, hyoerfixates like crazy
is really into dragons
she/they but identifies as a girl
token straight of the gryffindor girls
always volunteers to go on hikes with lily and always regrets it
loves herbology, hates arithmancy
spent all of her free time in seventh year learning how to do smoke tricks with sirius
Hello one and all and welcome to the The Duchess Affair name post. This is a list of period-accurate given names you can give your MC if you need some inspiration or want to know what kinds of names ladies had back then. I've combed through the 1809 edition of Debrett's Peerage for names of noblewomen in the 1600s and 1700s in Britain, which is where I'm taking the liberty of assuming TDA is set.
As always, you can drop any questions in my inbox, I love love love playing reference librarian :-)
Most names in this period either came from the Bible or from literature. The Bible was the most common book owned and read, so Biblical names were frequently seen. Some nobles liked to show off how cultured and educated they were by naming their children after mythological figures or characters from poetry and history, but most people of all classes named children after ancestors or loved ones (which explains why it seems like it was the same dozen names getting passed around again and again.)
Very common names -- the majority of women back then had one of these names:
Anne
Caroline
Catharine (not a typo – this was the standard spelling in the 1700s!)
Charlotte
Diana
Elizabeth
Frances
Georgiana
Henrietta
Isabella
Jane
Louisa
Margaret
Maria (pronounced like “Mariah”)
Martha
Mary
Sarah
Sophia
Less common but not unheard-of names:
Agnes
Alathea
Albinia/Albina
Alicia/Alice
Amelia/ Emilia/Emily
Arabella
Augusta
Barbara
Bridget
Cassandra
Cecilia/Cecily
Clarissa
Constance/Constantia
Dorothea/Dorothy
Eleanor
Emma
Gertrude
Grace
Harriet/Harriott
Hester
Honora/Honoria
Jemima
Judith
Julia
Juliana
Lavinia
Laetitia/Letitia
Laura
Lucy
Marianna/Marianne
Matilda
Penelope
Priscilla
Rachael
Rebecca
Susan/Susanna/Susannah
Theodosia
Theresa
Thomasina/Thomasine
Rarities and oddities -- I only came across these names once or twice each, use them to add a bit of flavor and eccentricity!!!:
Abigail
Amabel/Amabella
Amantha
Anastasia
Angelica
Annabella
Antonia
Araminta
Beatrix
Camilla
Christiana/Christina
Clara
Clementia/Clementina
Dulcibella
Esme
Ethelred
Eugenia
Felicia
Flavia
Flora
Florentia
Frederica
Gabriella
Helen/Helena
Horatia
Josepha
Leonora
Madelina
Margaretta
Narcissa
Octavia
Olivia
Philadelphia
Rose
Selina
Sibella/Sibilla/Sibylla
Tryphena
Urania
Winifred
And just for fun, some extremely British sounding surnames I found that made me chuckle aristocratically:
I've decided to do a monthly roundup of the fics I've been enjoying as a thank you to the amazing writers who bring me so much joy.
This list is in no order.
The ghost of you, it keeps me awake by @gracelesslady23
James Potter died protecting his family on 31 October 1981. At least that’s the story everybody had been told. Fourteen years after that fateful night, a Ministry raid of uncovers an almost forgotten prisoner detained in the dungeons deep beneath Lestrange Manor. The discovery will send ripples throughout the wizarding world.
Or, a reimagining of the Order of Phoenix if James Potter hadn’t died on Halloween night.
2. Circinius by @mariekavanagh
March 1984. Walburga Black sits alone in Grimmauld Place, accompanied only by her ghosts, a broken woman with little left to live for. The House of Black lays in ruins, it's members scattered, awaiting its inevitable demise. Until, one day, a Ministry owl comes tapping at her window, bearing news that offers a last chance to change the course of her life - and the fate of the Black family.
Seizing the opportunity to free her son from Azkaban and secure him the trial he was denied, Walburga quickly finds out that three years in prison has done little to quell Sirius Black's rebellious spirit, and it is soon clear that he is not going to simply follow the plans she has so carefully laid out for him.
As the impending trial approaches, both Sirius and Walburga must grapple with their broken relationship and stormy past - and Sirius himself must decide whether he will seize the chance of the freedom offered to him, or whether he will send himself back to Azkaban for the punishment he is so convinced he deserves.
3. But tonight your hand is steady by @broomsticks
Five times Lily walked away and one time she stayed. Canon compliant.
4. Sore subject by @incalculablepower
The High Priestess, reversed. Trust your intuition. Your true self is waiting; she refuses to be contained for much longer.
5. Mint chocolate by @siriusly-sapphic
While waiting for her sisters in Diagon Alley, Narcissa Black goes to sit at the ice cream parlour where Alice Fortescue happens to be working.
6. Ithildin and Silmë by @blitheringmcgonagall
Seated on a low chair at his father’s left hand, Sirius watched as Orion’s dark mood deepened. His father was angry, he could see the agitation, displeasure, disdain written across his once handsome face. There was naught new in this, his father had long preferred his younger brother, Regulus. Regulus, the dutiful son, who had always bent to his father’s will. Regulus, whose seat at Orion’s right hand now lay empty.
7. Every other freckle by @leogichidaa
After a decade of being everything to each other, Regulus and Evan have their loyalty tested as tensions rise in their final year of Hogwarts.
i just saw an edit on my fyp with the tag #nobleflower and I found out that it is the shipname for narcissa black and alice fortescue...... I need more 😭
As someone who mostly only has passing encounters with the marauders fandom, what is going on over there??? Why am I seeing edits for Alice Fortescue (only mentioned by name in the books) and Narcissa Malfoy (wife to a prominent death eater) together??? Why are people shipping Barty Crouch Jr with Marauders??? Where are you getting this content because there’s crackshipping and then there’s this