#|| ariana dumbledore :: headcanons ||

[augureysfeather]

To complete the trifecta (...square???) of birthdays...what are headcanons about Aberforth and Ariana's birthdays?

I have Aberforth's as the 21st June 1884 (based on the Goat Dairy Awareness week, which takes place in June XD).

Ariana's is the 23rd May 1885 (which is national goats day XD).

I headcanon all Dumbledore kids as summer children. Just fits imo. (And I get the bonus of Aberforth celebrating his birthday during the time Gellert is with them, which...opens up for a few neat little plots...)

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

What if Ariana Dumbledore had never been attacked by the Muggle boys?

Interesting question.

The thing is, I really don't know.

Let's Take a Look at This

It's unclear if Ariana's was an underlying condition that was brought to the surface by this trauma. In other words, we don't know if it would have surfaced later or if it was purely because of the attack and the attack alone.

However, were it not for this incident, Dumbledore's father isn't imprisoned for attacking Muggles meaning that Kendra's not a single mother. More, Ariana's not having incidents/issues right at that moment, meaning that she may make it to Hogwarts or certainly won't be locked in the house by Kendra immediately.

In the spirit of the ask, we'll say that Ariana's health complications never flare up and she gets to go to Hogwarts. The Dumbledores remain a relatively stable household that now has a working father/isn't in as dire straits financially.

However, Gellert still moves in.

Dumbledore and Gellert

While the Muggle attack undoubtedly motivated Albus's sympathies when it came to Gellert's ideals I... don't know if they're the sole thing to blame. Albus Dumbledore is a wizard who grows up in the wizarding world, he doesn't have that much exposures to Muggles at that age, and from what it sounds like while his family wasn't Dark (with a capital D per Rowling) they weren't exactly Muggle lovers either (even before the incident).

Albus could still very well be convinced by the hot boy next door that what the Muggles need is to be made into a serf class that their enlightened wizarding facist bretheren will rule over. That is, if he doesn't believe as much himself already at that point.

So, I still see Albus being very into his intellectual hot foreign neighbor and that Abeforth still finds Gellert creepy and weird. However, without Ariana, there's not as much stress between the two and it may not come to a confrontation or a confrontation in the house.

If it doesn't... Albus probably bails on Doge and goes on a graduation trip with Gellert instead. And I imagine without the death of his sister, given his feelings for Gellert, a lack of exposure to Muggles or even really Muggle-borns as he hangs around with Gellert, Albus would do more and more doublethink to convince himself this serf plan is amazing.

Something might happen to make Albus wary or change his mind, but it very easily might not. This means that something else will have to defeat Grindelwald at some point (I imagine he and Albus are poisoned by a rival, as such is the way with the elder wand in possession, there's then a fight for succession). Whether this is before or after they've abolished the statute of secrecy and made Muggles serfs is anyone's guess.

[dragoneyes618]

If Ariana had lived to see Credence born she would have loved him.

[snowyblondie215]

Fun facts about my Harry potter AU:

× sirius loves hello kitty, his fav characters are keroppi, mimmy, and kuromi.

× Nymphadora can carry Lupin without problems, she can even spin him around in the air without having backaches.

× severus is arromantic and bisexual, but he doesn't like to admit it.

× lucius have a lot of roses shrubberies in their mansion's garden.

× lupin doesn't like brownies and apple pies.

× ariana dumbledore has entomophobia. (fear of bugs)

× mcgonagall and hooch are dating, hooch is sapphic and mcgonagall is lesbian.

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[evelynn-lynn]

my riddledore AU where at 16 Tom goes back in time to 1897 with the goal of killing his nemesis Albus Dumbledore; things don't go as planned though, and in younger Albus he finds not an enemy but an equal—a partner

i have a ton of ideas on this AU in addition to a bunch of drawings laying around, so i decided to post all of that here, just so maybe they'll find an audience who likes this ship :D

this au is very headcanon-y I'll admit (esp with albus' design :3c) but i do find the potential of this duo very interesting and promising!! in how albus would ground tom, sort of protecting the rest from his darker sides taking the blows himself, but ultimately genuinely liking him and being willing to see the human behind the monster. (and also protecting tom from his fears and not letting him get more than one houcrux that he already made)

and with tom learning to be vulnerable and even loving (in his own way ofc), with the person who he used to hate the most, but who he now sees as someone so much like himself.

their world view at that age is not so different from one another, its just the ways they're willing to achieve their goals differ; but with some persuasion from both sides they will make it work :3c

it is very much not a healthy relationship lmao but that is sort of why it works in my head — they both are freaks and deserve each other lol

(this ship and my retelling do have a wattpad-ish fleur to it xD but i swear they are both into what is happening!!! albus is not some damsel in distress—i like to think that he is actually the one in the control of the relationship, it's just way less noticeable, unlike tom's bold proclaims and pda)

also in this au Ariana lives!!! despite her having almost close to nothing personality and content in the original books she is one of my favorite characters xD and so is Aberforth!! so both of them play a major role in the AU

if u would like to know more lmk :D i like this AU a lot and have made a whole doc with some of the major event year by year

[bloodpxct]

Hi 😊👋 I saw your post about grindeldore asks, and actually there's something i'm curious about and i would love to know your take. What did abelforth and ariana think about the relationship between albus and gellert ? (I don't think we have any information about this in canon but i love how there's many headcanons going around in fanfics)

Hello anon <3

AHHH okay okay, so I actually loveee talking about this.

I don’t think that either of them fully knew the true extent of their relationship. They both only know they are friends, and Aberforth does not like it as it is HEAVILY implied he neglects Ariana the whole summer because of his relationship with Gellert.

I actually never really liked the ‘Aberforth is homophobic' argument ( unless used as a joke lol ) because there is no canon evidence to even suggest Aberforth even knew they were in any other relationship than friendship. We do however know that Albus probably very likely neglected Ariana that summer which to be honest… Aberforth had every right to be angry about in my opinion. We can also assume that Aberforth had some idea of what a bigoted person Gellert was and that he knew of his and Albus’s plans as he confronted them about it, and also considering they planned to take Ariana with them that probably also made him angry.

I think that Ariana would be conflicted: she would be overjoyed that Albus seems somewhat happier than he had been during that summer before Gellert arrived, but I also believe she would be terribly sad and angered by the fact she was neglected by Albus. Even if she did have Aberforth's full attention and care it doesn’t mean she would not be upset by Albus’s neglect of her and didn’t deserve Albus's attention just because she already had it from Aberforth.

Considering the fact Albus and Gellert would have entered this relationship a very short time after Oscar Wilde's imprisonment for homosexuality, I very highly doubt they let anyone, at least during that summer, even Ariana and Aberforth know the full extent of their relationship.

Honestly my favourite thing about the summer 1899 is that they are all so incredibly complex, especially the Dumbledore siblings. Because on one hand you understand why Albus was bitter and angry and sought out companionship in Gellert, but on the other we can also realize why Aberforth had been angry at Albus and confronted him.

I think that we as a fandom also need to point out Albus’s neglect of Ariana more often; even if I love Albus with my whole heart and understand why he became that way during that summer it does not change the fact he still neglected her :(

[trippingontheescalator]

Snape Headcanons

He's bad at geography. Sure, he knows this super rare, obscure potion ingredient can only be found in this one area in Laos, but ask him to find Laos on a map he won't have a clue. There was a time he dreamed about seeing world, but he quickly realized he would never get the opportunity and so doesn't see any purpose in learning geography.

A lot of the Marauders' claims about him, like knowing curses as a first year, are exaggerated, but the one thing they're right about is Snape was very nosy. Part of it was because it was useful; knowledge is power, after all. He could trade gossip with his fellow Slytherins, or use it to keep one step ahead of the Marauders (or taunt them with it). But most of it is just his natural curiosity. He's a people watcher. He doesn't often understand people, is bad at human interaction, so he watches from a distance.

Severus knows half the first years think he's some sort of vampire and he revels in it. He knows exactly the kind of image he creates, dressing up in those long black, swishing robes, the spooky dungeons with the jars full of animal body parts. His taste is 33% Mad-Scientist-Run-Amuck, 33% Sad-Victorian-Boy-Dying-of-Tuberculosis, 33% Tacky-Post-Halloween-Discounted-Decor, and 1% Lucius's-Increasing-Despair-to-Make-Severus-Into-a-Functional-Human-Being.

In addition to potions and reading, Severus also does a lot of writing. He's been working on-and-off on a novel since he was fifteen. At this point, it's almost 500,000 words long. One of the few ways he's able to express his thoughts and feelings is through fiction. The main character was heavily based on Lily, especially in the early stages when they were still friends, but as he grew older he put more of himself into the character and now she's become the version of himself he wishes he could be. The night before he kills Dumbledore he burns the entire thing.

Severus knows the DADA position is cursed. Everyone knows it's cursed. He still asks to teach it every year because he also knows that it's the only way he can escape Hogwarts, and he's willing to risk death to do it.

His feelings for Lily have gone through the entire spectrum. At times, she was a sister to him, especially the years before Hogwarts. He used to be incredibly jealous of Petunia, wished he could be Lily's sibling and live in their house and have their parents. It became romantic as a young teenager, especially since she was the only person he felt safe enough with for his pubescent mind to fixate on and explore his budding sexuality. Later, as he became friends with the other Slytherins in his year, it was strictly platonic but nonetheless a very deep friendship. They were both trying to control the other, and Severus was especially worried that Lily would end up like Eileen if she gave into Potter's charms. After his failed apology, he grew angry and resentful and he tried very much to hate her (but he couldn't, not even after she married Potter). And then, after her death, it circled back around to brotherly. He liked to remember those early years best of all, and his devotion to a better cause after her death parallels that of Dumbledore's after Ariana died.

Look I know there's a lot of confusion about godparents, and HP didn't help by being coy about religion, but a godparent isn't a legally appointed guardian. Like, they definitely can be if the parents want that (as it appears to be the case with Sirius Black), but that's not the default. A godparent sponsors a child's baptism and is in charge of their spiritual upbringing, making sure they know their catechism, etc (hence the god part of godparent, its a Catholic/Anglican thing). And the most widespread religion in HP does seem to be Christianity with Christmas being celebrated and whatnot (though I do headcanon the purebloods have their own Druidic/Christian hybrid religion going on). With that being said-- Severus Snape is Draco's godfather. He's also Merula Snyde's godfather. And Pansy Parkinson's godfather. And, like, the godfather of 10 other kids of former Death Eaters. Severus Snape climbed the Death Eater ladder; he was one of Voldemort's favourites during the First War and these other Death Eaters were like, "Damn. I got to get on his good side. Please sponsor my child's baptism."

[hollowed-theory-hall]

Hi! Really enjoyed the Harry is gay post, very well researched! Are there any other characters in the series you would also think are gay? Don't wanna say anyone just yet, just want your unfiltered opinion

Hi!

Thank you so much!

Can't say I have other characters I feel as strongly about their sexual preferences. A large part of it is what Harry chooses to pay attention to. So, I don't have much evidence for anyone else, but I can say who I think is likelier to be gay (or at least not straight) from textual evidence. Some of them go into headcanon territory, but here they are, off the top of my head and in no particular order:

1. Dumbledore and Grindelwald

I'm pretty sure these two are canon, so I don't need to say much. But:

“Yes, even after they’d spent all day in discussion—both such brilliant young boys, they got on like a cauldron on fire—I’d sometimes hear an owl tapping at Gellert’s bedroom window, delivering a letter from Albus! An idea would have struck him, and then he had to let Gellert know immediately!”

(DH, pages 308-309)

Gellert— .... (This was your mistake at Durmstrang! But I do not complain, because if you had not been expelled, we would never have met.) Albus

(DH, pages 309)

“Grindelwald. And at last, my brother had an equal to talk to someone just as bright and talented he was. And looking after Ariana took a backseat then, while they were hatching all their plans for a new Wizarding order and looking for Hallows, and whatever else it was they were so interested in.

(DH, pages 480)

2. Sirius Black

I think Sirius might've been gay, or at least bi. It goes into headcanon territory, but I think Sirius used to be in love with James. He just always gave me that vibe. (I don't think they were ever a thing, I think Sirius took his feelings for James with him to his grave).

Here are some quotes that gave me the feeling Sirius is not interested in anyone but James:

Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He was very good-looking; his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James’s nor Harry’s could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn’t seem to have noticed.

(OOTP, page 642)

“He kept messing up his hair,” said Harry in a pained voice. Sirius and Lupin laughed. “I’d forgotten he used to do that,” said Sirius affectionately.

(OOTP, page 670)

Plus, Sirius' general fixation on James and his constant reminiscence about him. And the two-way mirror they made just for them cause they couldn't handle an hour apart in detention:

This is a two-way mirror. I’ve got the other. If you need to speak to me, just say my name into it; you’ll appear in my mirror and I’ll be able to talk in yours. James and I used to use them when we were in separate detentions.

(OOTP, page 858)

But we don't really know about any romantic interests Sirius may have had. So, it's more of a headcanon than anything.

3. Dean Thomas

I think Dean Thomas is bi (not gay, I think he did like Ginny). And I have only one qoute evidence for it, but it's a really funny one and I don't think I've seen anyone mention it so I'll put it here:

He certainly wasn’t the only one who was sorry to see Professor Lupin go. The whole of Harry’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class was miserable about his resignation. “Wonder what they’ll give us next year?” said Seamus Finnigan gloomily. “Maybe a vampire,” suggested Dean Thomas hopefully.

(POA, page 429)

Dean Thomas clearly read whatever 1990s version of Twilight that exists in the HP universe and wants a love triangle paranormal romance with a werewolf and a vampire.

4. Draco Malfoy

I think he was a little too obsessed with Harry. Like, I don't actually ship Drarry, but I can definitely confess Draco was way too interested in Harry for it to not appear a little gay.

He rummaged in his trunk up in the luggage rack and pulled out the miniature figure of Viktor Krum. “Oh wow,” said Neville enviously as Ron tipped Krum onto his pudgy hand. “We saw him right up close, as well,” said Ron. “We were in the Top Box —” “For the first and last time in your life, Weasley.” Draco Malfoy had appeared in the doorway. Behind him stood Crabbe and Goyle, his enormous, thuggish cronies, both of whom appeared to have grown at least a foot during the summer. Evidently they had overheard the conversation through the compartment door, which Dean and Seamus had left ajar. “Don’t remember asking you to join us, Malfoy,” said Harry coolly.

(GOF, page 168)

Draco literally comes to find Harry on the train, uninvited, every year (except 6th). Throughout their time at school, he also makes an active effort to seek out Harry to a level that is kind of ridiculous. It always looked to me like Draco was desperate for any sort of attention from Harry.

Harry looked down at the hawthorn wand that had once belonged to Draco Malfoy. He had been surprised, but pleased to discover that it worked for him at least as well as Hermione’s had done.

(DH, page 444)

Considering how loyal unicorn hair wands like Draco's are, it seems Dravo feels more friendly about Harry than he likes to pretend.

5. Aunt Muriel

It sounds weird, I know, but I have a reason here. So, Muriel is from the same generation as Dumbledore, more or less, from her words in DH. And we know, back then she had expectations to marry and have children as a (seemingly) pure-blood witch. Those expectations would've been prevalent when she was a young woman in the early 20th century, even among the less blood-purist families.

The fact that she didn't seem to have settled down with a husband and children implies she wasn't interested in doing so. This allows a reading of her as either interested in women or not interested in sex or marriage in general.

6. Alphard Black & Cassiopeia Black

For the same reasons as Muriel. Neither Cassiopeia (born 1915) nor Alphard, Sirius' godfather (born circa 1927-ish) married or had children. This is something that would be expected of them, so the reading of them as not straight is very plausible.

So, that's it. These are all the characters that off the top of my head I could give textual evidence for a not straight reading of. I don't have as much evidence, and that's why I consider this more headcanon than theory. Obviously, people can headcanon wherever, these are just the ones that I could recall evidence for.

[neurodivergentseries]

The mother, Kendra, had jet black hair pulled into a high bun. Her face had a carved quality about it. Despite the high-necked silk gown she wore, Harry thought of Native Americans as he studied her dark eyes, high cheekbones and straight nose.

He learned them at our mother's knee. Secret and lies that's how we grew up."

This is what we know of Kendra Dumbledore... My headcanon is that she was quite a harsh mother, loved her children and raised them well, but strict and cold all the same. Remember a lot of children that grow up to be the kindest beings also grew up in the coldest darkest households.

We also know that his father killed three muggle boys in an act of vengeance. Cold blooded murder. And Kendra being a muggle born witch makes you wonder a bit. She probably hates her heritage a bit after muggles destroyed her family, her love and her children. She clearly struggled even more so now being a single parent. And then we know that she was killed by Ariana. We see in Fantastic beasts, Obscurials lash out when threatened or dare say triggered. Makes you wonder why she lashed out on Kendra that day. Who knows. Maybe Kendra had enough, and seeing Ariana's worsening condition and suffering, wanted to end it before it got beyond her control. She couldn't help her back then... but maybe she can help her now.

And I believe that Albus agreed with her to some extent, deep down. He tried everything to save her nothing can reverse the damage done by those muggles.

Whereas Aberforth isn't as realistic or pessimistic, doesn't see his sister as anything but his sister, thus being her favourite.

But what would their family dynamic be like if none of this happened? I see that in most fics they are depicted as happy... the parents in love, the siblings are very close and healthy relationships with there parents. But I don't think that would be the case at all.

Firstly, Albus would most definitely have been outcasted/disowned due to his preferences for men.

Everything we know about his parents would strong suggest this, and the evidence lies in Aberforth Dumbledore. His behaviour and response towards Albus and Gellert's 'closeness' that summer speaks volumes. This is learnt behaviour from parent to child. Albus learnt to keep secrets from a very young age, from his mother's knee.

Conclusion is if Albus dumbledore's family had lived without tragedy, tragedy would find him anyway, and the villainous potential this character has will forever be in my mind. Maybe I should write a grindeldore fic about this.

[obsidianpen]

Hi Pen!

I am so excited about what you are cooking in Incediary! So many questions about the world-building and about the characters' backstory!

I do wonder if the Dumbledores were always French in this version or if they immigrated to France after Arianna was attacked by the muggle boys/ Percival disgraced himself and was sentenced to Azkaban. Is he in prison in this version? Or did the family flee to France before the authorities got him? Or maybe Arianna is okay and nothing of all of that happened in this happier version of the story?

I'm probably overthinking it, but it's fun!

Anyway, it also got me thinking about my headcanon that James' mother's (Euphemia Potter's) maiden name was Bagshot and was some kind of relation to Bathilda Bagshot, which would help to explain why "old Bathilda" was invited to the Potters for a birthday tea, while they were supposedly hiding under the Fidelius Charm. I mean, it could be explained away by James trusting her due to knowing her from boyhood, but it still work better if she's a relation imho. Coincidentally, this would also create a distant and mostly meaningless link between Harry and Gellert, since in theory they could both Bathilda's great-nephews or something of that kind.

Seriously though, it gets me that we don't have more info about Harry's extended family. I fully understand why JKR didn't want to overcomplicate the story by giving him magical extended family that ignored his existence while he was living with the Dursleys, but the Potters were supposedly pureblood and the wizarding world is very small, so there has got to be _someone_ that was James' next of kin after his parents died. I guess that for this purpose Bathilda works well, since might have already been getting senile for real when Harry was very small, which would have stopped her from vising Harry at the Dursleys'. Though the idea that gives me life is that she invited herself to the Dursley household and tried to throw a two year old Harry out of window to wake his accidental magic (much to Petunia's horror) and conseqently was barred from visiting them ever again after Petunia complained to Dumbledore that she's going to quit taking care of Harry if this batty old witch bothers them again.

it will come up but yes, basically the Dumbledores moved after Ariana had ‘an unfortunate altercation with some muggles’ to southern France when they were young so Albus goes to beauxbatons and speaks French hit also speaks English with a British accent.

and yeah, it was a little overly convenient that Harry didn’t have a single other family member left. :/ but I get it too, for the sake of easier storytelling. I like that headcanon though!

[augureysfeather]

Moja rants more about FB3 and Grindeldore...

Looking at the timeline of Dumbledore and Grindelwald, you CAN NOT tell me these two did not have any…let’s say private contact between 1899/Ariana’s death and the beginning of FB3/1932. I know some people do not take the FB beasts movies as canon – you do you, whatever, but I take them as canon and seriously…

Maybe I’m overanalyzing the beginning. I tend to do that, so all I’m writing here is headcanon, personal opinions etc.

But seriously. The way it seems that Albus is almost mentally calling out to him (after all, we do not know where it takes place, my take is that it is a mindplace/mindscape of sorts and thus, fully under their control). Gellert immediately appearing. (There’s a subtle change in light on Albus’ face, so this might be Apparating – Gellert would be bold enough to Apparate into a muggle place, but not a single person around them reacts, so another point for this not being a real place, or at least a place with real people around).

The way they both smile when they see each other. I repeat. They smile. Both. And it’s not a spiteful smile of two men despising each other, it’s not a mournful smile of two people separated from each other, it’s a honest, kind smile. From both of them.

You can not tell me this Gellert did and does not have feelings for Albus. Positive, romantic feelings, m’lords.

That little wink of Dumbledore, before Gellert approaches him. Lord, these two are nonverbally flirting. (And it’s great.)

And as I wrote before, until Dumbledore brings up their undeniable differences, the big ideological gap between them, their conversation is amicable, kind…yes, it’s playful flirting.

This is not the talk of two men who have not seen each other in over thirty years, for Merlin’s sake! This is NOT the talk of two men who have already burned all bridges between them, not the talk of two men who know they will never see eye to eye again. Albus tries to sway him to his side, even, and so does Gellert! (funnily, this is very much a character trait of Albus, look at how he talked to Voldy.) If neither of them saw any, even the smallest chance that their feelings would overcome their ideologies anymore…why this meeting?

Yes, I personally – and again, this is a totally personal headcanon- think they met several times – not frequently, but frequently enough to always know what the other was up to (checking if there was a rival in the house – ohai Newt) and frequently enough to still attempt to pull one or another to their side.

Yes, this scene has enchanted me and I wish we had been given more of these two…make it a separate movie line, give Grindeldore fans their series and Newt fans theirs and we’d all be happy. *eye roll"

[pitter-patter-pottah]

A few headcanons! (Wouldn't mind art of any of them! That's optional tho <3)

Will also post these to Fandom maybe!

Cyrene Dumbledore, my Gryffindor girl, was an Obscural for a few years before she came to Hogwarts and it started getting worse after the crucio quest with Sebastian, but eventually she found a way to feel safe and loved, and was no longer an Obscural by the end of the year. <3

Also, I feel like she would see herself, traveling around the world with her pet phoenix and her family (both her parents and her children, grandchildren etc) in the Mirror of Erised, with Ariana Dumbledore not being an Obscural (idk how she would see that tho cus she doesn't have kids until after graduating, maybe she can see the future or something and knows what happens to Ariana with how she becomes an Obscural and wishes it didn't have to happen, that would be cool and perhaps also fitting for a Dumbledore).

Also, when she dies, she stays at Hogwarts as a ghost until Albus Dumbledore dies so she can go to the afterlife with him. <3

Also, her patronus would be a phoenix for sure!

My Slytherin mc's patronus would be a mermaid, my Ravenclaw's might be a graphorn idk, and my Hufflepuffs would definitely be a unicorn. <333333

🤗

[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

i love your theories/headcanons about fiore and her relationship with her parents so let me share this one with you : What you said about snape hating fiore for the opposite reasons that he hates harry are quite close to how i imagine snape/rakepick relationship. They give me some grindeldore vibes. Like Dumbledore said or at least implied, Lily was the best part of Snape so it's faire to assume that Patricia would be the WORST of him and that's why he hates himself so much for having an affair and even a child with her. He doesn't accept anything let alone his daughter. Snape has this really unhealthy and complicated relationship with darks arts and bad people. He can't help but being drawn to them. Something indescribable keeps making him coming back to her. As for Patricia i see her as a narcissistic woman who secretly would enjoy to take lily's place because for her it would mean "i am BETTER than her who is supposed to be a paragon of virtue ". She seems to be overconfident but i suspect that she has self-esteem issues so it would fit her to seek for snape's (or someone else) devotion and i don't think she would love healthily either. A touch starved and cruel man who finds comfort in a self-absorbed woman who doesn't judge him for his creepy interest in dark arts and challenges him. That's how is see them : a whole mess doomed to end very badly.

Lily is a metaphore for the light and Patricia is a metaphore for the darkness. (Just like Ariana was Dumbledore's light and remorse and Grindelwald his poison, the difference is that the fling between snape and patricia was too short to develop into something as deep as grindeldore, otherwise Snape would have moved on from Lily and the "always" line wouldn't make any sense).

Lily brings out the best in him (loyalty) and Patricia brings out the worst in him (cruelty, cowardice, bad parenting representation).

(Bad romance from Lady Gaga is playing in the background while i'm writing this lmaooo i'm joking)

Anyway thanks for reading me i was really inspired :D ( i love parallels and metaphores)

First of all, thank you so much for the compliment, and thank you for your interest in Fiore! She’s a sweet little rascal alright, and I love her, for all of the drama she originates from, she’s managed to turn it around!

Oh man, I think you may really be onto something. It is so like Snape to do this. Or at least, given the toxicity that infected his relationship with Lily, I am not surprised. He defines himself based on the women in his life and his relationships (percieved or otherwise) to them. He always wanted to be his best self for Lily. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say he believed he would have been his best self with her, even if that’s not true. With Rakepick, all of his flaws are sharply shoved back in his own face. She wouldn’t hesitate to call him out on them and be real with him, and he’d hate her for that yet he’d also keep coming back.

It’s interesting that you say that about Snape being unhealthily drawn to the darkness in people because that’s one of Luca’s flaws too. Now in rethinking this, if Luca should meet Fiore and learn about her parentage, they might just feel a degree of sympathy for Snape like they understand him better. In general, I love what you said about Rakepick taking satisfaction from replacing Lily. Especially since I headcanon Rakepick as being a muggleborn herself, and she’s a Gryffindor too. I think she would take some kind of sick pleasure from turning Snape’s head and making him fall for her even though his heart is supposed to only be with Lily, and Rakepick is certainly no Lily.

Snape knows Rakepick is bad for him and Lily would have been good for him. By fathering Fiore, he’d feel like he was betraying Lily. Not for the first time either. He’s still torn up about relaying the prophecy to Voldemort. I bet he thinks that eventually, had Lily lived, she would have “come to her senses” and left James. To the end, he never accepted that Lily was with him. Literally tore a photograph of her family in half, and took the last page of a letter with her loving signature. My dude had so many issues and if he’d had a fling with Rakepick they actually make even more sense?

[the-greater-good-1899]

Headcanon:

I’ve always felt an affinity with the great magical birds. There’s a story in my family that a phoenix will come to any Dumbledore who is in desperate need. They say my great-great-grandfather had one, but that it took flight when he died, never to return.

Unknowingly, that same phoenix came to Albus Dumbledore at a very young age, after the Dumbledore family was once again stricken by tragedy, when Kendra Dumbledore was killed in a tragic accident after Albus graduated from Hogwarts at the young age of eighteen due to an outburst of Ariana's dangerous, explosive magic in the year 1899. Offering companionship and protection after being struck by unrelenting grief. He became Dumbledore's longtime companion and familiar, until he disappeared to be at Credence side until the moment he died. Only after that did he return to his side, aiding Albus many decades until his death in 1997.

[augureysfeather]

((lol, I think we’re *hinting* at the same thing in principle 😉 )

I cannot remember if it was even stated in canon who came up with the idea, so my headcanon is that it was Gellert, who “oh so totally empathically” wanted to compromise on his boyfriend’s wish to take care of his sister AND travel the world and thus, hey, let’s stuff her underneath the cloak (just writing this makes me roll my eyes, really, Albus you fell for that??)

Another headcanon, if you wanna hear, regarding Ariana and Albus&Gellert is that if Gellert HAD really been concerned with Ariana and had REALLY wanted to listen to Albus’ pleas, he’d have been honest with Albus and said “hey, listen, your sister IS probably going to die within a few years, your brother only has two more years until he has finished his education, then he can take care of her…I’ll stay with you three and help you take care of her and we’ll be brilliant from home, got it?” THAT would be a compassionate, kind, warm-hearted Gellert. THAT would have been how a good boyfriend would have reacted. Damn it you two, you were young, you still had all the time in the world to come up with a better idea than “lol, let’s take your fragile sister on a full world tour and keep secrets from your irritated, antagonistic brother who’s already angry with us and who has a violent temper, too”. But alas, these are What-ifs. :/

Doylist explanation: Plothole. XD

Watsonian explanation: He didn’t know that Credence was a Dumbledore until he’d done some research (I mean, the SHEER coincidence of him existing, still being alive, being an Obscurial AND a Dumbledore…) and once he knew, his fascination reached incredible heights. Also, back when Ariana was alive, Gellert had technically no reason to be interested in an Obscurial (no prophecy for Albus’ death yet, probably?). Once he had that vision, tho….

(I also have a bit of a horrific headcanon as to why Gellert could also have been so fascinated with Credence…he was a younger Dumbledore, after all, and thus, might have shared some physical traits with Albus which Gellert might have found attractive…💀)

I know that people very often say that Albus should have stayed with Gellert and been happy, however in all serious-ness, that would not be the case most likely. Albus would unfortunately, very likely be miserable if he stayed with Gellert after that summer.

[gellertssoul]

Albus: F*ck you Gellert!

Gellert: F*ck me yourself , you coward, I dare you!

Albus: Challenge accepted!

Aberforth: *covers Ariana's ears* GET A ROOM!!!!!