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slitheringghost · 2 years ago

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🔥🔥 voldyyyy

I'll go with two unpopular opinions for this: 1. he isn’t disdainful of love, and 2. he doesn’t think Merope chose to die/abandon him.

1.0 He isn't disdainful of love

I've talked about how he's capable of love, so elaborating on that he doesn't think himself above love or attachment either/isn't contemptuous of the idea of Love. Like he maybe puts it all under a veneer of "I hate people and am godlike and above everyone", but he acknowledges to himself that he's attached to the few people he's genuinely attached to, esp. given he openly confides his rage about his parents etc to Harry/others and calls his followers his true family. Idk if he explicitly uses the word Love, but tbf plenty of emotionally constipated people who aren't Lord Voldemort also have a hard time using That Word specifically.

Though, possible he very occasionally does, since he casually uses sentimental phrasing for his mother's feelings for his father, that she "fell in love with him" and his father abandoned her, without any disdain at her, and likely having only seen a few memories with minimal info on the relationship (in his uncle and father's head). And he calls Nagini "my dear Nagini" and refers to Hogwarts as his "beloved castle", so likely that acknowledgement extends to people at some point.

Iirc, there's a handful of other times LV explicitly refers to "Love" as a concept. Briefly while mocking Ginny ("But I was patient. I wrote back. I was sympathetic, I was kind. Ginny simply loved me."), then:

“Certainly,” said Voldemort, and his eyes seemed to burn red. “I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed —” “Of some kinds of magic,” Dumbledore corrected him quietly. “Of some. Of others, you remain... forgive me... woefully ignorant.” For the first time, Voldemort smiled. It was a taut leer, an evil thing, more threatening than a look of rage. “The old argument,” he said softly. “But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.” (HBP)

Now, LV being annoyed at Dumbledore giving him obnoxious philosophical speeches about Love (apparently dating back to his teen years) in response to Tom practicing Dark Arts doesn't suggest contempt of the concept of Love in general. Undoubtedly, a decent chunk of that magic is horrific and involves life sacrifices and unethical human experimentation, especially by the time of that interview, but The Power Of Love Can Defeat It is not a helpful response to that, and it's clearly a society wide problem and not limited to Tom (and Dumbledore obviously projects shit and has issues with Dark Arts that isn't harmful too, see: his reaction to a harmless "blood ward" in the locket cave, mistrust of Sirius, etc).

The other time is during the final duel in DH, but notable that LV contradicts himself repeatedly (as he does in most scenes) i.e. first praises Dumbledore and Lily to make Harry seem weak (he'd be speaking the same way regardless of his real opinion on Harry, as Harry's the main threat). In fact, Snape appears to have learned this method of insulting Harry from LV:

"But I want there to be no mistake in anybody’s mind. Harry Potter escaped me by a lucky chance. And I am now going to prove my power by killing him, here and now, in front of you all, when there is no Dumbledore to help him, and no mother to die for him." (The Death Eaters, GoF) "Of course, it became apparent to me very quickly that he had no extraordinary talent at all. He has fought his way out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends." (Spinner’s End, HBP) "You think it will be you, do you, the boy who has survived by accident, and because Dumbledore was pulling the strings?" "Accident, was it, when my mother died to save me? [...] Accident, when I decided to fight in that graveyard? Accident, that I didn’t defend myself tonight, and still survived, and returned to fight again?" "Accidents!" screamed Voldemort [...] "Accident and chance and the fact that you crouched and sniveled behind the skirts of greater men and women, and permitted me to kill them for you!" (The Flaw in the Plan, DH)

Then LV just as quickly zeroes in on their weaknesses to insult them - Dumbledore's age and proclamations about love, Lily's blood status:

"I know things you don’t know, Tom Riddle. I know lots of important things that you don’t. Want to hear some, before you make another big mistake?" [...] "Is it love again?" said Voldemort, his snake’s face jeering. "Dumbledore’s favorite solution, love, which he claimed conquered death, though love did not stop him falling from the tower and breaking like an old waxwork? Love, which did not prevent me stamping out your Mudblood mother like a cockroach, Potter — and nobody seems to love you enough to run forward this time and take my curse. So what will stop you dying now when I strike?" [...] "If it is not love that will save you this time," said Voldemort, "you must believe that you have magic that I do not [...] (The Flaw in the Plan, DH)

(Likewise in Spinner's End, Snape uses Dumbledore's age as a perceived weakness to get DEs to underestimate him. LV uses a similar tactic with himself - "That Potter lives is due more to my errors than to his triumphs." etc. etc.)

Not sure who told LV that Dumbledore was giving Harry similar speeches about (Mother's) Love having saved him and the "power he knows not" being Love - given Harry's claim about understanding things LV doesn't etc, Harry's likely thinking about Dumbledore's afterlife speech, and probably LV's using Legilimency on Harry in that moment since they're staring into each other's eyes, and/or got that info in previous confrontations (or via Snape). But imo both Voldemort and Dumbledore know that it wasn't Love that vanquished him and know it was Lily’s intentional work (and by then LV's confused and terrified, as this resurrection was either due to Dumbledore leaving Harry the Hallows or Lily's lingering spellwork, but either way LV doesn't entirely get how it happened). In any case, the priority is mocking his enemies here.

(Given LV refers to "famous pronouncements", it's possible Dumbledore gives similar philosophical speeches as part of his image and actions as a public figure too, esp. if his political power meant he was involved in legislation around Dark Arts etc, so discrediting him via his words about Love may be referring to that too).

Lastly, there's LV's claim that he understands Snape's attachment to Lily as solely sexual:

"He desired her, that was all," sneered Voldemort, "but when she had gone, he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, worthier of him —" (DH)

But given that he's being informed that his favored DE who he made Headmaster of Hogwarts betrayed him for the woman who vanquished him - a betrayal he was warned about by other DEs - in a confrontation with the prophesized Chosen One who just came back to life yet again, it is just like, an all around embarrassing situation for him, and he's reacting accordingly (likely referring to something Snape said to prove loyalty to LV).

LV again weaponizes Lily's blood status as her "weakness", contradicting his claims at other points - he evidently understands Harry's attachment to his Muggleborn friend in CoS (per "From everything Ginny had told me about you, I knew you would go to any lengths to solve the mystery — particularly if one of your best friends was attacked" wrt Hermione's petrification) and Harry's attachment to Lily herself as his mother, and doesn't pretend otherwise in those cases, so there's little reason he wouldn't get Snape's (placing Peter in Spinner's End, to get them to spy on each other, and likely to punish Snape with the DE who betrayed Lily, and in their childhood town, also implies LV sees Snape's attachment as lasting).

LV's clearly at least somewhat affected by Snape's betrayal - when Harry first informs him LV has no response but stunned silence ("Voldemort did not answer. They continued to circle each other [...]"), when Harry goes on LV's "nostrils flare" at the words, and he's described as having "followed every word with rapt attention".

Yet in the next breath, LV proceeds to lump Snape in with Dumbledore and Lily and gloat about murdering all three of them anyway - the former the one he has emotional attachment to, and we saw him attempt to justify murdering Snape to both himself and to Snape earlier:

"It matters not whether Snape was mine or Dumbledore’s, or what petty obstacles they tried to put in my path! I crushed them as I crushed your mother, Snape’s supposed great love!" (DH)

Contradicting what he said like a line earlier. Tl;dr I wouldn't really trust his words here, given that he changes them every other sentence based on whatever's convenient to assert his own power and manipulate or mock whoever's the immediate threat.

True he calls it a weakness and a flaw - but he’s also fascinated by Harry’s loyalty and immense, desperate craving for family, as we know he sees himself in that. He mocks Lily and James for putting their "trust in friends" instead of weapons - and yet he did the same thing, entrusting two horcruxes to his followers, when he could've built elaborate protections for them instead, and berates himself for trusting them afterward. Etc. Etc.

2.0 He doesn't think his mother chose to die/abandon him

(I've already given the main evidence for this here, but to elaborate) That's a common interpretation, but imo everything in canon indicates the opposite - he sees his mother as someone who loved him and would've raised him had she lived.

For one, it makes no sense. His fear stems from his mother's death in childbirth and knowing the process was slow and painful/being in proximity to other women dying similarly in the orphanage (who I doubt gave the impression they chose it either), he thinks there's nothing worse than death, but he... thinks his mother chose to die? What? (You can say it's not meant to be rational, but tbh it's not like his fear is really irrational in general)

His fear of death is just that - an intense fear. He doesn't really see it as a "shameful weakness", he views his mother as a victim of it.

Even Dumbledore and Harry's conclusions come from knowing Merope was a witch and assumptions re: her home life/affair with Riddle Sr., info Tom didn't have as a kid. When he was first told the story about her death, he may not even have started controlling his powers or controlled only a bit, and didn't know magic is inherited anyway. He says "my mother can't have been magic or she wouldn't have died" having only just learned of the magical world (not knowing about variations in power, etc.) and has abilities that could've helped a homeless woman not starve/etc, if he's assuming that had a role (and he searches for his father first because that's the parent who may be alive, and he only has his maternal grandfather's first name vs. his father's full name).

I wonder about the details of Merope's death, since Tom likely got more info from Mrs. Cole and viewed the memory via Legilimency. Dumbledore asks about the father, so Mrs. Cole's words to him were catered to that and she's likely omitting stuff. I assume Merope said other things since Mrs. Cole says Merope "had the baby within the hour. And she was dead in another hour", but idk how literal that is. I also wonder if Merope held Tom before she died (if he saw that, it may explain things about Nagini lol).

His reaction to Peter vs. Nagini (symbolic father and mother) is revealing - telling Peter "You are regretting that you ever returned to me. I revolt you. I see you flinch when you look at me, feel you shudder when you touch me" vs. wrapping Nagini around his shoulders and constantly touching her (vs. his not giving a shit while that poor basilisk is having his eyes gouged out by Fawkes).

He refuses to blame Merope for quite literally anything, so I'd be surprised if he blamed her for dying i.e. hates his name and yet blames his father "I revenged myself upon him, that fool who gave me his name... Tom Riddle", despite acknowledging they were Merope's last words:

“Half-blood, sir,” said Riddle. “Muggle father, witch mother.” “And are both your parents — ?” “My mother died just after I was born, sir. They told me at the orphanage she lived just long enough to name me — Tom after my father, Marvolo after my grandfather.” (CoS)

Tom sharply responding "What Muggle?" to Morfin saying "You look mighty like that Muggle" also hints at his dwelling on his mother's last words ("I hope he looks like his papa") since he only just got the info that his dad's a Muggle, so the gut reaction might've been to the former and/or having seen his mother's face in Mrs. Cole's head and knowing he doesn't look like her. Later he finds out Merope sold the locket a week before dying, and that in combo with Merope's dying words would be somewhat like how Harry feels about Lily's letter (her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son).

Like, maybe there's bits that can be read that way if you really stretch i.e. in the GoF graveyard scene, while pressing Peter's Mark whispering "How many will be brave enough to return when they feel it?" with his "eyes fixed upon the stars", and then "she died giving birth to me, leaving me to be raised in a Muggle orphanage" vs. "my true family returns" but in the context of everything else, imo it's clear he's not blaming her and is blaming his father.

And in the graveyard monologue, the fact that LV first speaks of his father and Lily, phrasing it as "your mother died to defend you as a child... and I killed my father" despite comparing them and him killing Lily too, and below that of his father and Merope as "she died giving birth to me", also may indicate he sees Merope and Lily's affection for their sons as similar, in contrast to the narrative.

Voldemort's enraged at his father for abandoning him, and his pureblood family for disowning him, and just murders them all in one go. If he thought his mother abandoned him too, then like... he wouldn't be talking about her like that lol, and his extreme attachment to her in comparison doesn't make sense.

Tl;dr he's a Mama's Boy, but not because he's just like, intrinsically predisposed to being one, but because he thinks of Merope as the only family who didn't abandon him, and thinks of her as abandoned and unclaimed by both his father and their pureblood family, just like he was.

I hate the "Harry can love because he knows his parents loved him" take JKR intended - and if anything Tom got more concrete info that a parent/his mother loved him even a bit younger than Harry. But of course, knowing your dead mother loved you doesn't exactly do much to help you in a miserable childhood.

#lord voldemort #voldemort #tom marvolo riddle #tom riddle #a win for voldemort and women! doesn't think women choose to die in childbirth #a lose for voldemort and women: likely most other things #also. voldemort projecting his mother onto nagini is frankly so much more normal than harry projecting sirius onto a textbook #at least nagini talks back!#*the obvious implication w/ sparing lily and 'he desired her' etc is 'sexual war captive'#which i find way more plausible than the idea that LV planned to spare a parent of the prophecy child like. permanently.#however since the verbal agreement was necessary i think there was some magical reason for him sparing her #sorry answering for this meme is taking forever #asks

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molloyism · 3 months ago

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now im thinking about aroace lily potter

#leas ace more aro #maybe she has a lil thing with like mary or pandora #she was the first person james came out to when they qere kids #OH OH OH OH #and thats why he puts on this facade (idk how to spell that LOL) of liek .#stupid teenage boy who likes girl but wont take no for an answer #its their cover up<3333 #maybe snape is like how she realized she wasnt straight #she wanys to like him so bad but she just DOESNT #okay this is just a fic now LOL #lily evans #james potter #mauraders #mauraders era

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olivesribbons · 3 months ago

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! (No pressure) ♡

Ohhh yessss!!

~ My friends

~ Getting ready

~ Music

~ My freshly dyed hair

~ It getting warmer outside <3

#im just a girl #just girly things #ask #answered asks #just girly thoughts #lana is god #angel #girl blogger #hell is a teenage girl #lily rose depp #lana del ray aka lizzy grant

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jewishregulus · 1 year ago

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which characters do u hc as jewish? and also would u like to elaborate. id love to hear more about ur hcs. <3

i just got jumpscared by more catholic trauma hcs so let’s get into this!!!

i have three main jewish hcs that i care about very deeply and make content for primarily : those being remus , lily , and the black family ! (wolfstar invented jewish love…..) however i do have other hcs i simply enjoy more passively : dorcas , hermione , lucius , occasionally marlene , and mary! i used to hc pandora as jewish but that was before she was a rosier to me and the rosiers are not jewish in my head but i might sway back towards it 🤞

i have elaborated on jewish lily and the jewish black family in the past so perhaps it is remus lupin’s turn ….. remus is plagued by survivors guilt which i think is really added to by his jewish experience. we are a people who are raised to celebrate our survival and perseverance. i think this would make for an interesting storyline regarding remus and his complex relationship to religion after becoming the Sole Survivor in a way of his friend group …. (obviously sirius is still alive but he’s in azkaban so LOL) … i think in many ways remus would struggle with religion and find comfort in g-d at certain points and then pull back and be more questioning at others. “if there is a g-d he will have to beg for my forgiveness “ (if you use that specific quote for catholic trauma or whatever you should die and go to hell btw) …. he is constantly alienated from the muggle world and viewed as a monster in the wizarding world. his story is very reminiscent to me of certain jewish stereotypes (secret shapeshifters who drink the blood of christian babies blah blah blah) and i think it could be very interesting to see remus battle w these preconceived notions of himself in two different worlds, begging to be understood and viewed as a person in each of them. i like to imagine lyall as a rabbi in many modern aus ! despite remus’ battle w religion i think in the end he feels rlly connected to it and does pray actively and such : because i dislike the trope of religion always being traumatic and harmful especially with jewish characters in which our religion is consistently demonized by the public for evil practices …. this is also why to me remus would only date / marry jewish people bc it’s simply a custom! jewish wolfstar FTW!!!!!!!

my remus is mizrahi, my lily sephardic, and the black family is ashke as hellllllll yall seen them ….. both of remus’ parents r jewish and the black family whole is the most ancient and noble house of judaism, while my lily is patrilineal. i think her n petunia r half sisters and while lily is jewish petunia is not, which creates a divide in their relationship!!

in terms of who i think is actively religious : i think lily remus regulus andromeda and narcissa are , whilst sirius and bellatrix are not particularly , atleast not to the degree it matters to lily remus and regulus!

one of my favorite things abt my jewish hcs is the fact that james potter is just oddly surrounded by jewish people despite not being jewish ….. he loves us fr ……. like all of his closest friends are jewish save for peter 😭 its bc he’s hindu fr like that’s cousin

but my most important jewish marauders thought is that there is another world out there in which hogwarts is a jewish boarding school and i think it’s the timeline we all deserved ….❤️

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aeligsido · 8 months ago

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Hellooo! Because I cannot resist it. How is Daisy-raised-by-the-dursleys? I feel like having a sibling at least, does it make it better? Oh. And it just occured to me. Daisy would be left alone for two years, wouldn't she, when Harry goes to hogwarts?

AAAAAH I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!!

Daisy, at her core, is brave, smart, curious, and kind, no matter how (or by who) she's raised (she's also pretty stubborn). But it does translate differently in her words & actions depending on which!

For example — she likes to know things. When her parents raise her, it's because they fostered and nurtured her natural curiosity, and made her want to know things. When she's raised by the Dursleys? She needs to know to better protect herself and Harry. It's less about curiosity and more about the safety of knowledge.

So, with that being said—

Daisy raised by the Dursleys is quiet, observing, because she learned it was the best way to deal with them and anticipate their moods. She's pretty skittish, and like Harry, has a hard time trusting people, adults in particular (even more so after he tells her everything that happened in his two first years at Hogwarts!!). She's kind of always on the defense, waiting for the other shoe to drop, especially with settings & people she's unfamiliar with. By the time HBP comes around, for example, she's pretty at ease around the Weasleys and Hermione, at Hogwarts, or with the people in her dormitory.

And like Harry, her bravery tends to go toward self-sacrifice a lot of time. She's very protective of the people she loves, and kind of internalized that she's less important than,,, anyone, hence the self-sacrificing thing.

She also holds grudges like no one else, especially when it's a matter of betraying her or her brother. Always worse when it's her brother, even! OotP was hell for her, she was angry at everyone, probably argued with so many students, ended up in detentions so many times, etc. Harry was angry because he was grieving and traumatized, she was angry because they were all hurting her brother (and she couldn't help). Also she loathes Rita so much.

And aaaaaah Harry & Daisy's relationship in those circumstances is something I love bc. A lot of angst!!! They were always aware they only had each other in life, so they're very protective of each other. Harry assumes that as the older one he has to be the one protecting her (and she always feels safe with him, no matter what — she always finds comfort with him) but she does protect him too, as much as she can. Mostly because she hates seeing him hurt. They're each other's most important person (she's the one in the lake in GoF, not Ron!), and it shows. They usually don't really hide anything from each other, either. They may not say things right away, but they will end up doing it still! Honesty is important for them and between them.

And yeah, as you say, it's a bit easier to have a sibling by their side when raised by the Dursleys! They can support each other and help each other out — they have less chores, or at least they can do it together and create games out of it! But it's also harder, because they have to see each other being hurt, and the Dursleys absolutely use one to hurt/control the other. If Harry tries to escape Dudley and his gang, Dudley tells him they'll go after Daisy. If Daisy burns the food, Harry will have to eat it (even if it's carbonized). And in general, if one is punished, so is the other!

So, it's a bit of both.

Also, yes! She does spend two years alone with the Dursleys while Harry is at Hogwarts, which is. Not great. I do have a lot of ideas about all of this — mainly, Lily's second pregnancy was very secret, with only a handful of people knowing about it (partly because they were in hiding, partly because either the people they would have told were dead, partly because Lily wasn't sure who they could trust anymore). So, of course, Sirius knew, as well as Remus, Peter, and Mary (Macdonald). Add to this Dorcas (who was Lily's healer), and Dumbledore, who last saw Lily when she was very obviously pregnant. Generally, I also add Alice & Frank (Longbottom) bc i HC them as close friends (with James & Alice knowing each other since they were toddlers).

(Peter was going to be her godfather, btw :D)

And out of all of them... Well outside of Sirius, who was here in the aftermath of the attack, and Dumbledore, who dropped them off at the Dursleys (and you can add Hagrid & McGonagall here), no one knows she's alive. There was nothing about her in the newspapers, just about Harry surviving the Killing Curse and James and Lily dying, and since her birth was not announced, they assumed she died with Lily. (So at the beginning of PoA Remus has an instant where he thinks he's hallucinating lmao.)

People are going to be very surprised when it'll come to her Sorting! (She's a Gryffindor all the way.)

So! Harry's first year, she goes to Diagon Alley with him & Hagrid. Her and Harry had a convoluted plan about getting her to Hogwarts secretly so she would be away from the Dursleys but it just never happened because the Dursleys locked her up before dropping Harry at King's Cross. The year is pretty hard on her but she does her best to make it better! She exchanges letters with Harry (Hedwig knows to only come at night and be very quiet), she manages to sneak into Diagon Alley a few times and sit down in a corner of the bookshop to read about this new world, and when she has moments alone she tentatively tries to make her magic work without a wand. (She's pretty successful too!) Harry still stays at Hogwarts for the holidays (she convinces him to), and he sends her a gift bought with his (!!!!) own money. She doesn't know how to access her vault (she thinks she'll get turned down if she doesn't have the key), so she sends him a homemade gift as usual. Harry mentioned her to Ron and Hermione (not a lot because he's still protective and he feels like he has to hide her to keep her safe), so when Ron tells his mom about Harry, he tells her about Daisy too (he tries to keep it vague as to not betray Harry though). So she gets a Weasley gift too!! She's overjoyed and specifically makes a gift for both Molly and Ron, as a thank you. And that's about it!! She spends the rest of the year trying to stay away from the Dursleys (Vernon is even more awful than usual, Petunia is hot and cold bc she misses her son and wants to coddle someone but also ugh magic u know), and doing what she has been doing. Harry and Daisy hug a lot when he comes back (they've never been apart so long before).

The beginning of CoS is basically the same — Dobby comes by, messes things up, and they get terribly punished for it, Ron and the twins come to save Harry. Harry refuses to leave without Daisy, so they sneak her in. She's amazed by the Burrow but also very very quiet and constantly hiding behind Harry. He's not phased, but Ron is very confused (mostly that it doesn't annoy Harry, because if Ginny did that with him he would hate it).

(Bonus points for imagining Scabbers' reaction to seeing Daisy lmao. He probably didn't catch Harry mentioning her before, and here she's in, in the flesh, the girl who would have been his goddaughter. Feel the regret, Peter.)

The Weasleys have to send her back when the summer is over, though :C Molly did want to keep her with them (she wasn't happy about the empty and hey!!! new daughter!!), but it just couldn't happen. The Dursleys are not happy, and she does get punished for what happened, but otherwise things go the same way as the year before. Harry doesn't tell her everything about the petrifications & all right away (he only does it when he's back for the summer), and they both get a bit confused because Daisy is a Parselmouth, too (which doesn't quite work with Dumbledore's theory about why Harry is one).

For PoA — well, Marge is her delightful self once again, she gets blown up like a balloon but neither Harry nor Daisy is sure which one of them did that, and they run away together. They end up at the Leaky Cauldron, meet Fudge (who has a moment of utter confusion when seeing Daisy because he has no idea who she is), get a room for two, and have a blast for the two (three?) weeks they live here. She also has to do her first year shopping, which she's excited about, and they do it together! Which is great! The whole Sirius Black thing is a bit worrying, even more so when Harry learns he's apparently the target, but oh well. Daisy decides to be optimistic. Then they meet the Dementor on the train — Harry has the same reaction as in canon, of course (what he hears changes slightly). Daisy reacts very badly too! She completely freezes up, and basically dissociates. Remus thought for a moment here (when he comes back and she's still not doing well) that she got Kissed with how vacant she looks. (After the Quidditch match, she ends up in the infirmary for the whole weekend.) So that's not a very great start for her first year.

The rest is better, but still bittersweet — she's amazed and curious about everything, but scared by all the new things and people and easily overwhelmed. Also, Snape is creepy and looks at her weird (she looks like her mother). Good point is, ofc, Professor Lupin™, and Daisy joins Harry in his Dementors lessons! She doesn't manage to get anything but a small silver cloud, but she's just a first year, so that's still pretty amazing lmao. (She keeps on training the following years, just in case.) She's very fond of Hagrid too, so she follows Buckbeak's case closely (her best friend is a Ravenclaw by the name of Astoria Greengrass, and she helps her out). Which means she's here when the night™ happens. (The Golden Trio caught her sneaking out and took her with them.) Things really much go the same way, with Sirius promising both Harry and Daisy to take them in, the Full Moon, Peter escaping, the Dementors. She's totally knocked out after so she misses the time travel, though :C (she's knocked out for days to the point they're worried they'll have to get her transferred to St Mungo, which also means she misses Remus leaving, and she's not happy about it.)

GoF goes the same — Quidditch World Cup, attack, Triwizard Tournament, etc. She obviously never believes Harry would put his name in, and yells at the other Gryffindors who plans a party that Halloween's night. She's Harry's most important person, as said previously, and she manages to get herself invited because she wants to go to the Yule Ball too!! She's staying at Hogwarts anyway!! I'm hesitating a bit if she rushes to Harry right away after he and Cedric appear again, and follows him and fake-Moody, or not. Probably yes. In any case, they end up cuddling in his infirmary bed bc she needs the reassurance he's still here (Padfoot's here too!) (Harry probably snuck her out of Hogwarts once or twice so she could visit Sirius in his cave lmao.)

OotP... Idk if she would be here when the Dementors attack or not. I'm not sure yet. She goes to Grimmauld Place, of course, and also she asks Remus to be her godfather because Harry has one and she wants one too (Sirius is laughing his ass off). Remus is flaggerbasted but accepts. She absolutely hates Umbridge, joins the DA, and she comes to the Ministry at the end. I think it would be the year where she really starts wondering about the connection between Harry and Voldemort, and tries to look into it. Ginny says it's not possession and she trusts her, so it must be something else, and she's determined to find out what.

Again, the main events of HBP don't change. She knows about the prophecy (re: Harry and Daisy not hiding anything important from each other), meets Slughorn with Harry, and while she's not in the office with Dumbledore and Harry Harry still tells her about what happened there. Not the details, but the basis, at least, so she ends up knowing about the Horcruxes (she doesn't link it up to Harry right away, though). She's not here in the cave, but she participates in the battle.

For DH, she's probably smuggled out of Privet Drive before Harry, maybe at the same time as the Dursleys. She's not going with them, though, lmao. She ends up at the Burrow too, helps out with the wedding, and is very happy about it. Idk if Dumbledore would leave her something. When the DE attacks the wedding, Remus is the one to take her with him out of danger, so she stays with him for a bit. Either they get found out or she tries to go back to Hogwarts, but in any way the DE tries to get her to use her against Harry, fails, and she ends up living at Shell Cottage with Bill and Fleur during the whole year. She sees Ron when he ends up here and they talk a bit, and then months later she gets reunited with her brother!! Harry updates her on the Horcruxes and everything she helps them out with their plans. She can't come though. She does come to Hogwarts with Luna and Dean for the Battle :D Harry is not Happy™ but she doesn't care, it's her fight too, and she's not leaving him alone in it. She kind of does her own things during the first half of the battle (mostly surviving, trying to find her friends, etc), and then waits for Harry when he's watching Snape's memories. She kind of guessed the Horcrux thing by now, but hoped to be wrong. She makes him swear to come back and then let him go alone in the Forest. She's devastated when Voldemort says he's dead, but then well, the rest happens and she knows he's alive :)

And that's. About it. For Daisy raised by the Dursleys. Jsjdndjndjdbfb I realize that I. Wrote a lot. Probably a lot more than what you expected. Sorry!!!! I couldn't stop. But also while I do have fics planned with her none is a fic following her during her school years in a canon-universe-but-she-exists so... Yeah kdjdjf.

Congrats if you read all of that, and thank you so much! ❤️✨🥰

#i answer asks #alwaysyouuuuuu #hp #daisy potter #my writing #my ocs #harry potter #jily's child #i don't have romance planned for her bc at the end here she's sixteen and has other things to think about #so there's that #idk if i said her full name but it's daisy lily potter btw #and she's named after lily's favorite flower!#tw for dursley-typical child abuse

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