Thinking about Harry being multilingual and not realizing he's switching between multiple languages when he's a toddler so it's like all the adults trying to work together to put together the puzzle that makes up his all of his sentences of French from Reg and Sirius, English from everyone, Punjabi from Effie and James, Urdu from Monty and James, and a little bit of Welsh from Remus
Eventually they all accidentally become multilingual thanks to Harry
Noooo omg what if Lily is fluent in all of them so they just like send her voice recordings of Harry speaking when she's not there like "please help us our love our light our lily love 😭😭"
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Harry knows a lot of languages, in theory, but he’s only fluent in English like;
He can completely understands Punjabi because that’s the Potters’ native language but he can’t quite grasp speaking it. He picks up French terms of endearments/cuss words from Regulus and Sirius. He knows welsh cuss words as well as philosophical translations because of Remus. He can playfully imitate Italian pick up lines because of Barty. He knows to hide when he hears Swahili because Dorcas only reverts back to it when she’s completely pissed at someone. But everyone around him speaks English the majority of the time, so that’s what he speaks.
Then he gets to Hogwarts and meets Draco Malfoy who can hold a conversation in just about any language someone speaks to him in and fuck, Harry never thought that French was romantic. He’s never seen Punjabi as alluring before. He didn’t consider Italian as attractive.
He spends the summer begging members of his family to teach him more of their languages so he can go back and prove to Draco that he is stupid in more than one language.
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James didn’t have many friends as a child because he didn’t speak English until he was eight and his parents were worried he wouldn’t fit in at Muggle primary school OR in the pure blood social scene. James and Peter met when Peter’s father started working for Fleamont a few years before they started at Hogwarts. Peter taught James all the English swear words and James taught Peter all the Hindi ones. Part of the reason James never suspected Peter is that they were both each other’s first friendship.
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year - @jegulus-microfic - april 17th
"C'mon Regulus!" James yelled after him, as Regulus –once again– stood up to leave.
James rushed to stand up and follow him, nearly stumbling over his feet in his eagerness. "Just one date, I promise." he said, earnestly, like he actually meant it.
He probably did too.
The problem was not that Regulus didn't want to go on a date with James, or that he didn't like James.
He did.
He really did. But he liked being chased and desired more.
He sped up his pace, purposefully leaving James behind him until he found an empty corridor.
Turning across the corner into the corridor, he waited, and sure enough, there came James.
The moment his eyes landed on Regulus, he saw James' eyes light up and soften at the same time, as the same smile that always found its way on his face when Regulus was near, materialised.
"It's the year of love, Reg, everyone's getting together. Please." James begged, nearly pouting.
Regulus repeated exactly what he's been repeating for the past 8 months.
"No, Potter"
Though this time, Regulus felt something shift, as though somethinh changed.
He watched as the small smile vanished and was replaced by something more melancholy. Still a smile, but tinged with sadness around the edges.
"I won't ask again, Regulus. Just– please, just one" James said, practically whispering, staring into Regulus' eyes with big, round, sad, brown eyes.
Regulus immediately felt panic shoot through him. No.
No no no.
Regulus wanted to go one a date with James, he just.
He's been having a hard time vocalizing his feelings since... well, ever since he came out of the womb, basically.
Taking his prolonged silence for a 'no', James issued a small nod in his direction and turned, shoulders slumped.
Before he could leave, Regulus caught James' wrist in his hand, stopping him.
"I won't ever step foot into Madam Puddifut's" he said, with an air of indifference though inside he could feel his heart thundering.
James turned towards him and– ah. There it was.
A smile so bright, it would blind you of your worries and such light radiating from the eyes.
It's the same light he fell in love with.
Oh.
Oh.
Fuck.
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this love series | h.s | masterlist
where their love is alive and back from the dead
summary:
harry and y/n were in a secret relationship for years and unfortunately it had to come to an end, but a year after the split they find themselves face to face once again, maybe they can mend what was once broken.
harry styles x desi!reader
masterlist:
part one: y/n finds herself in the most unlikely place
part two: harry spots a familiar face in the crowd
part three: harry and y/n talk for the first time in months
part four: y/n’s distraction
part five: y/n’s getaway house
part six: y/n gets some advice
part seven: harry gets deja vu
part eight: harry sticks to his word
part nine: harry and y/n find their way home
part ten: y/n, the rockstar’s girlfriend
extras:
character instas
main masterlist
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