#stone roof

[zenmantra]

Traditional Exterior in Chicago Large, conventional, two-story stone gable roof design in beige

[reverseisekai-richie]

Aww... Pokey is getting into the weeb spirit of this blog.

[arc-hus]

Wolf Clearing Apartments, Karpacz, Poland - Studio de.materia

[vox-anglosphere]

A Welsh lady invites you inside her lovely thatched cottage in 1905

[thesilicontribesman]

Dalton Crags Nature Reserve: Ancient Propped Rocks, Cairns and Limestone Pavements, nr. Kirby Lonsdale, Cumbria

[mothmiso]

Greece (2) (3) (4) (5) by Oleg Timashov

Via Flickr:

(1) Old monastery ruins, Komianata. (2) Benitses. (3) View of Kerkyra. (4) Kouramades. (5) Kalami, Ionian sea.     

[solradguy]

Johnny Guilty Gear Strive is not a single day under 37 years old. "Age: Unknown" my ass. Face of a man whose frequent all-nighters in his 20s finally caught up with him. I understand, Johnny, I empathize...

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London Travel Guide:

The Roof

The ceiling grows ever closer. The false-stars shine ever brighter. You are among stalactites which glisten with iridescent shine, and the unknown wonders of the upside down world!

[irishmansdaughter]

The Outer Hebrides, Isle of Lewis & Harris

[shower-racoon]

"I'm mining for iron, collecting more iron is my goal!" I lie, knowing that the truth is clear: I chose stone bricks for this really tall build without considering just how much cobblestone that requires by default

[rumeko]

anisotropic

[arc-hus]

House in Flinders, Australia - Kennedy Nolan Architects

[vox-anglosphere]

The stone cottages of Appletreewick, a charming village in Yorkshire

[mothmiso]

Sichuan (2) (3) (4) by Sean Brawley

[bellshazes]

you might think my using podzol as roof overhang shadow or water patterns under windows or straight up building the crastle in my minecraft worlds are my bdoubleo tributes. this is untrue: my endstone slab floating road across multiple nether biomes that butts up against lava falls is my real tribute. because he's so sucks <3

[sailforvalinor]

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Since last year, I’ve had an idea for a Harry Potter fic rattling around in my head prompted by the realization that Lily’s death is necessary for the love-magic-protection that enables Harry to survive both killing curses, but James’s isn’t—what does the world look like if James Potter somehow survives? I came to the conclusion that because the protection spell that Dumbledore originally uses to protect Harry until he comes of age applies to those of Lily’s blood, he would still want him to live with the Dursley’s, and thus Dumbledore decides that the best course of action is for 21 year old, traumatized, newly-widowed James to fake his death. It’s safest for Harry, the Death Eaters already think he’s dead, and it’s really useful for Dumbledore to have a piece on the chessboard that both the Death Eaters and the Ministry don’t know about. James isn’t thrilled about this, but he’s too distraught (and too used to Dumbledore being right about everything) to argue. He’s really only a few years out of school, after all.

I know I had worked out all the logical kinks on this one at some point but I don’t really remember now—but the fic would involve James working as a sort of secret agent for Dumbledore, a wild card, if you will, while keeping an eye on Harry from afar. This James would be a little different than the one we’re familiar with—a bit more mature and serious, and of course absolutely wracked with guilt. He hardly resembles who he used to be after losing Lily, and he’s pretty dang desperate not to make any more mistakes, lose anyone else.

Snape of course is one of the only other people who would know James was alive, and the bad blood between them is as terrible as ever, as Snape would blame him for “letting” Lily get killed. (As if James doesn’t blame himself enough.)

Sirius would also know, as he was the first one to Godric’s Hollow after the attack and would have found James, but that doesn’t do much good after he’s arrested. The only way I can think to workaround the fact that Dumbledore would know Sirius was innocent if he had talked to James is if James was so seriously incapacitated after the attack on Godric’s Hollow (don’t ask how I don’t know. WAIT MAYBE IN THIS VERSION VOLDEMORT ENCOUNTERS LILY FIRST AND HER LOVE MAGIC EXTENDS TO BOTH HARRY AND JAMES??? OH MY GOSH???) that the “trial” occurs before James is lucid enough to talk and Dumbledore gives evidence against Sirius because he assumes he’s the Secret Keeper.

Other than fulfilling Dumbledore’s wishes and keeping an eye on Harry, James spends a lot of his time trying to figure out how to break Sirius out of Azkaban. Maybe he succeeds earlier than in the original series? He also is trying to hunt down Peter, of course—probably spots him in the newspaper like Sirius does. Or maybe he sees him with Ron while watching Harry?

Does Remus know that James is alive? I’m gonna say yes, but Dumbledore doesn’t know that. It makes no sense for him not to, he’s the only friend he has left.

I figure by Prisoner of Azkaban, James has had enough of Dumbledore’s nonsense and reveals himself to Harry—it would be pretty dang poetic if it’s during the first patronus scene, and it IS actually him casting it from across the lake. How would Harry react to finding out he’s been alive this whole time? Idk, it would be complicated, but man I’m getting emotional just thinking about it.

Also, while it does make sense that Dumbledore wouldn’t want James to use his original wand, I know it makes the most sense for James to have acquired a spare one somewhere—but the concept of James Potter with a Glock hit me over the head with a broom, and I’d love to somehow finagle it into making sense because can you imagine? Someone in the HP universe with a gun?? The comedic potential???

A dementor: *appears*

Harry and Sirius: “EXPECTO—“

James: *shoots it in the face*