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mybrain-fanficedition · 3 months ago

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I just found this in my email, of all places, and I had absolutely no recollection of this lol but enjoy

This is very much something that i wrote hastily, in the drafts of my email so things could be improved

James (red), Sirius (blue), Peter (yellow) and Remus (green) hide 10,000 small rubber ducks around the castle (2500 ducks per person).

As they leave Hogwarts, they give McGonagall a duck shaped note saying, We left a few ducks around the castle and the grounds, try to find them all!!

Minnie decides to enlist the school to help when school starts up again, and there's a contest organized.

Rules:

- A duck is a house point

- A duck of your house colour (red- gryffindor, green- slytherin, yellow- hufflepuff, blue- ravenclaw) is two points

- Magic is not allowed to acquire the ducks (i.e. you can't just accio all the ducks)

- The house that collects the most ducks by the end of year feast gets an extra 50 points.

- Students and staff alike have to give the ducks to Professor Vector (as the only one in the damn school who does any sort of math) for counting and they may keep 1 (one) each and all others must be given back to Professor McGonagall.

Filch only narrowly avoids going mad.

At first, the easiest ones are spotted by everyone, and the older students leave them for the younger ones to find, but by mid January, the stream of ducks has slowed, and now there's only about 1 duck every week being found.

Students start to wonder how many there are, and McGonagall checks the note they gave her.

Like the map, it has personalized messages, and now the note says, "Good job everyone! You have found 5005 ducks, only 4995 to go!"

By the end of the school year, the school has found 9045 ducks, 955 ducks are still missing.

Over the following years, ducks keep popping up in odd places, but the students stop looking for them, so McGonagall ends the contest.

There are still 335 missing ducks.

By the time Harry's in school, the number is down to 28. Without realizing it, Harry manages to find 4 ducks in his first year, or more accurately he helps McGonagall find them: 1 in the tree he flies over when he chases down Neville's rememberall (and after all, who else could have seen the yellow duck in the tree other than Minnie? The older students who know how to fly properly practice on the Quidditch pitch, and the younger ones, who are learning to fly either never go up high enough or they're simply trying to hold on to their brooms. Harry flew after Draco, and as McG looked out the window towards him, it was only natural that she spotted the vivid yellow of one of Peter's ducks.), 1 from Firenze (who recognizes James in Harry. Remus had given him a duck and asked him to keep it until one of the marauders or their children comes back to get it. Harry doesn't say anything about the ducks-- as he knows literally nothing about them-- and Firenze sends his green duck to McGonagall with a note: "with love from Remus Lupin, kept by Firenze until a marauder or their descendant showed up to get it back'), 1 swallowed by Fluffy way back when (that Minnie finds when she's setting up her chess game, and which is only recognizable from its vivid blue sheen that identifies it as Sirius's) and 1 red one that is found with the stone in Harry's pocket after the whole Oh-no-Dark-Lord-on-the-back-of-my-teacher's-head thing.

[over the following years, Harry gets into so much trouble that he ends up finding almost all of them] [feel free to suggest where more or less 4 ducks per year were found!!]

In year 7, when they skip school to go camping, there is only one left.

McGonagall is wondering where on earth it could be, until Harry dies and relives.

Harry is carried over in Hagrid's arms, and Minnie is shocked (obviously) and starts scanning Harry to see if he's ok or really dead, and she sees for the first time that on his glasses, where a screw should be, is a miniature red duck.

__________

Filch develops a fear of ducks.

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mybrain-fanficedition · 2 months ago

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@drawprongsfootbadly !

The trans and ace (check his wrist) flags are mostly just as a fuck you to jkr honestly

#draw prongsfoot badly 2025 #d.flowery posts stuff!

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mybrain-fanficedition · 3 months ago

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I'm typing out some notes I had for various scenarios, so enjoy!

As usual with me, click on the "see more" at your own risk.

11 year old currently platonic Drarry, good parents Lucius and Narcissa; Lucius is pissed at Dumbledore

Harry spends the day at Draco's house. Lucius and Narcissa have gone out. Draco has been impressing Harry with his lavish stuff all day. They decided to play that game where a ball is on a string on around a pole. Lucius and Narcissa walk back.

"Where's Draco? I hope he hasn't been wasting money on trying to impress that Potter boy again."

Draco and Harry turn in shock, and the ball that Harry had just hit swung around to Draco's head. Draco crumpled to the ground on impact and Narcissa rushed forwards, followed by Lucius. Harry beat them to Draco, having been closer, and cradled the boy in his arms.

Narcissa picked her son up and Lucius called Dobby over yo take his wife and son to St Mungo's.

In the sudden stillness after Dobby's departure, Lucius and Harry look at each other. The ball still swung around the pole, much more gently now, emitting faint squeaks.

Harry eventually spoke up.

"Will he be alright?" he asked in a small voice.

"He should be," Lucius replied. He found, to his surprise, that his voice had become gentle like it did when he was comforting Draco, even if Harry was the farthest thing from his son.

"Dobby took them to St Mungo's."

Harry didn't show any signs of recognition. Lucius knew he was 11, same as his son, but the boy standing infront of him seemed so small, so fragile. He was practically swimming in his clothes and his arms were so skinny, Lucius wondered if he'd ever gotten a proper meal.

"What's St Mungo's, sir?" Harry asked hesitantly.

"It's Britain's finest hospital. Have you really never been? All wizards go there, for whatever reason."

Was the boy muggleborn? This surely couldn't be Harry Potter, the boy who lived, the boy who had defeated the dark lord, asking him what St Mungo's was.

"I've never been, no. My parents-" he faltered. Lucius flinched internally. The boy didn't know that he had had a small hand in their demise. "My parents were wizards, but they died because of Voldemort. I live with my aunt and uncle, and my cousin. They're muggles."

Harry did not seem to have noticed Lucius' shudder at Voldemort's name.

"Even so, you're the savior of the wizarding world! I'm sure your family could have told you about your past and your parents' world. Dumbledore may be... someone with whom I do not get along with, but I'm sure he would have told them who they were raising."

"He did. They think I'm a burden, and they thought that by raising me as a muggle, they would make me... 'normal'," Harry explained matter-of-factly, as if this weren't a huge revelation into Dumbledore's choices.

"Did Dumbledore know what they decided to do instead of educating you?" Lucius asked. Maybe he was biased, and Dumbledore had just expected the boy to be able to grow up out of the spotlight.

"I don't know, but my Hogwarts was correctly addressed, so he probably knew yes."

Lucius tilted his head.

"Correctly addressed?" he echoed.

"The letter was addressed to Mr H. Potter, the Cupboard under the Stairs-... What's wrong Mr. Malfoy?"

Draco's father had turned red. Harry wondered if he had said something wrong.

"Dumbledore knew you were kept in a cupboard and he still left you there??!"

Harry shrugged and nodded wordlessly. Lucius stared at him, then decided to take action.

"Come in," he ordered, as if he weren't expecting anything but immediate obediance.

Harry complied, confused.

They walked through the manor quickly, but no so quickly that Harry didn't have time to look around. From the court he and Draco had been playing in, they went through some large French doors into what appeared to be a music room. There was a large piano in the middle of the room, and a harp and a cello on either side of it. There were plenty of closed cases- the smallest resembling a wand box, the largest almost the size of his cupboard- which he figured held more instruments.

Lucius strode through that room with Harry scampering to keep up, and they passed through a hallway lined with pictured. As they went down the hallway, Harry could see that most of the pictures featured Draco. Some were just him, some were him and Narcissa, him and Lucius, all three... Some pictures had other family members; and all of them watched Harry follow Lucius down the hall.

Harry allowed himself to imagine what his life would have been like if his parents hadn't died.

He was so deep in thought that he almost ran into Lucius, who had stopped abruptly in front of a fireplace.

"I assume given what you've told me that you've never travelled via Floo Network, correct?

"Via what?"

"I'll explain later. This is probably going to be less unsettling than apparition, especially if you've never tried it before. Take my hand."

Harry tentatively slid his small hand into Lucius's big one. With his free hand, Lucius grabbed some powder from a small bowl on the mantle.

"We're going to go through the fireplace, Harry. The fire won't hurt you; but don't let go of my hand, ok?"

Harry nodded as Lucius dropped the powder into the fire. To his surprise, the fire turned green.

"The Three Broomsticks, Hogsmeade," Lucius stated and stepped into the fire, pulling Harry after him.

They tumbled through the fireplaces, and Harry could see many grated going by.

They tumbled out into a cozy bar. Lucius pulled Harry and cleaned the soot off both of their clothes. A large woman approached them warily.

"May I help you, Mr Malfoy?" she asked suspiciously.

"Madam Rosemerta! Hello; no I was just passing by with Harry here. I need to see Professor Dumbledore."

Madam Rosemerta narrowed her eyes at them, lingering for a moment on Harry's scar, and motioned for them to leave.

Lucius led Harry through the village they had ended up in until they could see Hogwarts rising above them.

Lucius seemed to have forgotten how long his legs were, compared to Harry's, and Harry was forced to run to keep up with the tall man.

Lucius eventually noticed, and slowed down a little with a curt word of apology. He seemed lost in thought.

They made their way up to the imposing front doors without another word.

Professor McGonagall opened the doors to Lucius's knock.

"Hello Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Potter," she said, visibly surprised.

"I need to speak with Professor Dumbledore."

[What happens yet? Clearly I don't know yet lol]

Notes:

Harry knows about the wizarding world but clearly hasn't spent much time there yet; but he's probably already at Hogwarts since he already knows Draco and he was allowed to go see him. Potentially it's a school break in a Draco-and-Harry-are-friends AU and he was allowed to go see his friend for like a day, but in that case Lucius and Narcissa would probably watch over the kids.

Idk the beginning could be messed with a bit but oh well lol

#d.flowery posts stuff!#i'll probably work on this and the others i'm going to post soon over the coming year(s) and post the finished version on ao3 :)#harry potter #platonic drarry #draco malfoy #lucius malfoy #narcissa malfoy

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mybrain-fanficedition · 1 year ago

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Remus Lupin, aka

Wolfson Wolfy, son of Wolf Wolfy, bitten by the Wolfe of a grey back, is the boy who was tragically turned into a werewolf to everyone's shock and surprise

Wolfson: Remus- From the myth of Remus and Romulus, twins raised by a wolf after a mess with prophecies that led to them getting abandoned. (spoiler: the prophecy came true bc that always happens no matter what in greek and roman myths). Remus and Romulus wanted to found a city so they decided to climb up two close hills and watch for birds. Remus saw 6 (?) first but Romulus saw 11 (?) [don't trust me on the numbers] and so Remus thought that this meant he'd be king and founder of this new city but Romulus argued that since he'd seen more birds he should get a city named after him. They dueled and (oops tw: death/murder) killed Remus in the duel. The city is now called Rome

Wolfy: Lupin- lupus in Latin literally means wolf and lupine (pronounced loo-pin apparently) means wolf like

son of Wolf: Lyall- from Old Scandinavian "Liulfr", "ulfr" literally means "wolf".

Wolfy: Lupin- See above

bitten by the Wolfe: Fenrir- son of Loki, a monstrous wolf who will help fuck up the world at Ragnarök (Norse myths's apocalypse) "resulting in the collapse of humanity and society, and kill the god Odin." (from Wikipedia) ... so like the Fenrir that bit Remus

of a grey back: Greyback- ...this is self explanatory I think

(sources:

Remus and Romulus: I did Latin for 4 years

Lupin: aforementioned latin + i speak french + google to check the latin spelling

Lyall's name is kinda stretching it bc the main source seems to be the Harry Potter wiki guessing at the etymology, a vague wikipedia page and a baby name website but i wanted to include it bc well, it's fun lol

Fenrir: the linked wikipedia article + memory)

#remus lupin #etymology #i may have gone too far in my etymologies lol #lyall lupin #remus and romulus #remus etymology #lupin etymology #fenrir #fenrir greyback #jk rowling etymology #marauders #i hate tagging #d.flowery posts stuff!

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