#Barty Crouch jr/Percy Weasley

[elisedonut]

I find Barty jr./Percy very interesting but really mostly in a really really fucked up kind of way?

like i want Barty to become obsessed with Percy

like I want Percy helping Barty Sr. at home and it leading to Barty Jr having his eyes on him at all time because he wants to break him or you know just wants him in general that's fine too

[iamnmbr3]

you know what character parallel we don't talk about enough? Barty Crouch Jr. and Percy Weasley. They're on opposite sites but they way they idolize and are obsessed with and lowkey a bit in love with their highly problematic bosses who probably don't care about them that much and the the way they are both clever and ambitious and gave their loyalty to institutions that led to them breaking with their families (obviously a bit more dramatically in Barty's case) are so similar. Also you know how in book 4 Percy was just constantly popping off with '1001 unsolicited facts about Barty Crouch Sr."? Nothing can convince me that Barty wasn't exactly like that when he became a Death Eater. 'Did you know the Dark Lord can speak Parseltongue? Did you know the Dark Lord killed his father? Did you know-'

(Somehow Voldemort ends up as the better of the 2 bosses because I'm pretty sure he at least knows Barty's name...although maybe that's the real reason he refers to him as a faithful servant who has already returned to his service. He forgot and now it's too awkward to ask lol.)

[saintsenara]

What are your thoughts on Percy Weasley/Barty crouch junior if he were alive? I like to think Barty was eyeing Percy at all hours from under the invisibility cloak when Percy was assisting his father.

I want to ask for your thoughts on Percy/roddy but also don’t want to read them prematurely. I think I’d rather have them come up organically in your fic.

Do you have any other Percy/death eater ships? Or just Percy ships?

thank you very much for the asks, anons!

the answer - both to what i think of the concept of barty crouch jr./percy weasley and to whether i ship percy with any other death eaters - lies in the same question:

why is voldemort so sure that percy won't report barty crouch sr. missing?

i'm sure that percy gets his job as crouch sr.'s personal assistant without any behind-the-scenes machinations. but his appointment is - nonetheless - a real boon for the dark lord, since he's so prepared to believe that the excuse given for crouch's absence from work [illness] is legitimate, that the instructions "crouch" is sending in by letter are real, and that anyone who dares to question his authority in carrying out his boss' wishes is a busybody who can't stand to see him succeed.

while voldemort is clearly hedging his bets a little [crouch sr. is kept alive for a fairly long time - although, of course, keeping him imprisoned in his own home under the imperius curse is something voldemort would undoubtedly consider a fitting punishment for his treatment of his son], he's broadly able to sit back and watch as his plan to neutralise crouch sr. goes off without a hitch, entirely because of percy.

and so [as will come up in subluxation!] it's always made sense to me to assume that voldemort was told that percy's personality [that fateful combination of ambitious, conformist, deferential, and willing to see what he wants to see] made him the perfect person to involve in the scheme. voldemort must receive intelligence from someone in crouch sr.'s orbit that percy would believe the story that crouch was ill and that he could therefore be expected to follow instructions given to him by letter without informing a superior.

barty crouch jr. is an ideal candidate - not least because percy is canonically so devoted to crouch sr. that we can easily imagine him visiting him at home [to show him the report on cauldron thickness he finishes early?] and being clocked by his son from beneath his invisibility cloak.

and - since barty jr. is nothing if not obsessive - we can also easily imagine him becoming fixated on the ginger hottie he saw hovering nervously on the sofa.

and, perhaps, asking voldemort for percy to be his prize when the broader plan - the dark lord's resurrection - goes off without a hitch, harry dies, and the ministry falls?

[the other best candidate to be voldemort's source of information about percy is - of course - wormtail. as i've said here... i regrettably back it.]

[ashesandhackles]

Goblet of Fire Reread (Part 2)

Chapter 17,18,19, 20,21,22,23

"It struck him how very tall all of them were" Harry thinking this about the champions one moment and then being angry at being called "a little boy". Accurate teenage boy behavior.

Snape stepping in to stop Karkaroff and Maxime insulting Dumbledore by insulting Harry instead, "Don't go blaming Dumbledore for Potter's determination to break rules" XD

Fleur really cares about the honour of representing her school.

Hints of Barty Snr under Imperius: both in his behaviour + imagery (skull like appearance in the darkness)

Violet, the witch painting went up to Fat Lady to gossip. We shall hear of this friendship again in HBP.

I really really love Hermione's insight into Ron's feelings here, because the implication here is that she noticed that he doesn't talk about it. "He's always shunted to the side when people see you, and he puts up with it, never mentions it" and how she contextualises it with how he feels around his brothers. She has an understanding and kindness about this that is very sweet.

Fleur flirting with Cedric while some creepy paunchy man watching her. Damn, what it must be like to be sexualised every moment of your life and what harmful ideas have you internalised?

Harry noting that Fleur was part Veela to tell Ron only to remember The Great Tragedy that Ron isn't speaking to him.

weighing of wands chapter to set up the priori Incantentem at end of book, to remind us of Harry's connection with Voldemort's wand.

Hermione trying to force Harry and Ron to talk to each other, poor thing. I can really feel her anxiety building over this and she is so impatient, "you miss him, he misses you". Hermione on Ronarry agenda. She even tries to sneakily make him meet Ron in Three Broomsticks and then Harry cottons on. And then her getting irritated, Harry having to resist the urge to poke Ron is peak trio content.

Harry getting cheered up by the fact that Cho wasn't wearing a support Cedric badge. Also, it's a nice shade to her character - she is nice. She recognises the badges for what it is and doesn't take part in it.

his face breaks into the first smile in days cos of Sirius and Sirius redirecting attention away from himself and focusing on Harry - "never mind me, how are you?" Harry is so vulnerable with him that he talks about Ron with him.

Sirius' respect for Moody is very interesting, he displays more of this in Padfoot Returns chapter where he talks about how Moody captured DEs and not killed them. I believe @leogichidaa and @artemisia-black have had a tumblr discussion on this.

Ron doesn't come up to bed after Harry lashes out at him for interrupting his conversation with Sirius. Poor bean - wondering how things got this bad between him and Harry.

BCJ is so chilling on reread- essentially admits that he is keeping track of real Moody via the Foe Glass. "I'm not really in trouble until I see the whites of their eyes. That's when I open my trunk."

BCJ talking about Maxime and Karkaroff but also himself - 'They want to win. They want to beat Dumbledore. They'd like to prove he's only human'. And he laughs.

Ron catches Harry's eyes, but Harry is too resentful to care. Ron trying, in his own awkward way, to let Harry know that he is on Harry's side again.

Harry not needing to hear Ron apologise to forgive him. Clearly Hermione feels the same as I do, because she burst into tears, hugs them both and goes off to cry alone LOL

I saw this tumblr post about how Fleur dealt with the dragon was the most compassionate one - trying to put it to sleep - that she and Charlie would get along cos of it. Cute hc.

Pigwidgeon falling 12 feet down before flying with the letter is so funny. Also how cute that Harry's letter to Sirius had a "blow by blow" account of how exactly he swerved, circled and dodged the Horntail. Sirius would have found that very endearing.

LOL at Dean drawing Cedric with his head on fire for party banners. (apart from drawings of Harry dodging Horntail)

Harry calling out Hermione for bending of rules is so cute. When she says, "he is supposed to work out the egg on his own" when Lee picks up the egg, and Harry reminds her in undertone that he was supposed to work out the dragon alone too, and she "grins guiltily"

I am very disappointed in Dobby, whose political consciousness that shone and drove the plot of CoS is done to "acceptable" levels of radicalism. He tried to save Harry, explicitly against harry's wishes, because of his idea that Harry is a symbol of hope to the "enslaved dregs of the magical society, who are treated as vermin" and that defeat of Voldemort ensured that his kind are treated better. (he is still endearing, but speaks to the message of the books - he can be radical but cannot question the existing institution too much)

Winky's loyalty to Crouch is treated as pitiable, while Hermione's overzealousness with some gentle ribbing because JKR seems to find it endearing. We will probably get into white saviorism later, because I have THOUGHTS.

Ron and Harry sword fighting with fake wands, which are tin parrot and rubber haddock respectively, is hilarious. (Ron's parrot got the haddock's head)

Cedric telling Hufflepuffs to leave Harry alone. Looks like he was so grateful for Harry's tip, he steps in on the bullying.

Cho's words about who she is going to the ball with echoing with each step Harry took. Peak teenage experience. End of the world your crush has been asked out by someone else.

so funny that Ron keeps trying to ask Hermione who she is going to the ball with at unexpected times to surprise her into answering

love that Hermione was simultaneously appalled by fake-Moody making Malfoy a ferret while also not above referencing that incident to get Malfoy off her back. ("twitchy little ferret, aren't you Malfoy")

Ron notices Hermione's teeth is no longer the same. And Hermione is all sly and mischievous about the fact that she let Madam Pomphrey carry on a bit.

ok this is such a cute description: Hermione sitting to watch Ron and Harry's chess match which had recklessly brave pawns and a violent bishop

Dobby gets socks as presents from both Ron and Harry (reminder Ron also puts socks over his dead body) and Ron's Christmas jumper.

Dumbledore referencing Room of requirement. (he makes a joke that makes Harry snort and Percy frown- I guess he thinks the joke isn't appropriate for international magical cooperation?)

Parvati goes off with a Beauxbaton boy because Harry wasn't paying attention to her. She also lead him while dancing -so much so he felt like a show dog. Love how alpha she is xD

Percy glances at Harry about "hitch with Goblet of Fire" : indication of his coming arc where he doesn't believe Harry. (Also, while Percy is socialising with Bagman, he chooses to sit with Harry and Ron, which is indicative of how awkward he feels i think)

Snape and Karkaroff's conversation will get referenced in Prince's Tale, where Dumbledore grants him -"i think we sort too soon".

the image of Maxime storming away with fairies parting bushes is a very striking.

Chapter 24, 25, 26,27,28

Hermione drops key family history for Harry without either of them realising it: she used Fleamont Potter's Sleakazy's. Also at the implication that Harry asked about her hair LMAO.

Ron and Hermione reaching an unspoken agreement about sidestepping the big fight which involved FEELINGS.

the unicorn preferring a girl's touch is tied around the myth of pure creatures comfortable with "pure souls". I am really not sure how to read the gender politics of this book using this aspect of mythology.

lol, at Parvati being very "cool" towards Harry since the ball. Her retort actually makes him reflect - "perhaps I should have paid her more attention" and then, "ah well, she had a good time anyway". Honestly, stan Parvati.

Harry's so suspicious of Bagman offering him help, and rightly so. I love him putting Bagman on backfoot with his questions.

really curious about goblins and their hierarchy in the wizarding world. they are the marginalised who "fight back".

Rosmerta looking at James Potter, "who used to make her laugh"'s son yelling at a reporter in the middle of her pub XD

Love that Gryffindors get food related passwords like "banana fritters" and poor Ravenclaws have to solve a riddle every time they need to get in.

Where is the fanart of Snape with long grey nightshirt? Where?

Snape shutting Filch up when (in his mind) Moody came in, BCJ using Moody's distrust to check his office. Excellent stuff. My favourite part of the scene is Snape angrily declares Dumbledore's trust in him, and BCJ reminds him of "spots that don't come off". And Snape clutches his Dark Mark (and immediately hates himself for doing it xD)

Okay, Snape conceding power to Moody in this scene is so interesting. When Snape tries to look for Harry, BCJ makes him back off by saying "meaning Dumbledore is very interested to know who's got it in for the boy!" and Snape answers in a forced calm.

the tension between Snape and fake Moody can be cut through with a knife. Love how menacing the scene makes Moody, with Rowling using visual pictures of Moody's scars in the darkness

Lmao, Neville sending Professor Flitwick flying across room in class. And the description of "Professor Flitwick went whizzing resignedly past them" when the trio are talking. The implication that Flitwick just let Neville do his thing… XD

Hermione answering Harry's grim dark joke seriously. Nerd XD so much so the next time she takes Harry's joke seriously, he had to tell her that he is joking lol.

Harry goes off food when he is stressed or upset: a hangover from Dursley days when punishment is "no food".

"Your Wheezy, sir, your wheezy - the thing Harry Potter sir will miss the most!" LOL. The way this book is designed for Ronarry feels.

Merpeople have pet Grindylows. (also the chief is a woman)

Harry actually tries to yank the spear away from merman when they refused to help him, and hits Krum when Krum failed to realise that his shark teeth would hurt Hermione. My little feral boy.

Percy, "who looked very white", splashing out to meet Ron <3

Poor Krum - he is trying to engage Hermione and she is too busy either asking Harry about his task or cheering him for his marks to listen.

I love how much Harry gets so cheered by Sirius' letters. And even as he is tense that Sirius would get caught, he enters Potions classroom happy XD

'Scarlet woman'. It speaks to the generation Molly comes from that she has these ideas, and that Ron has noticed and picked it up.

Hermione, being also aware that Ron's regard for her is less than platonic, "determinedly avoiding Ron's eyes" when she mentions Viktor did invite her. (Also funny that Hermione is trying to puzzle out how Rita heard her, and Ron is like, "nvm, what did you say about Viktor's invitation?" lol)

@urupotterwrote a nice meta about how Snape was deliberately provoking Harry (after harry moves tables) to read his mind. Right when Harry angrily looks up, Snape's eyes bore into him to check if he had broken into his office.

Sirius made them climb a mountain for half an hour lol. He believes in outdoorsy kids.

Sirius having a fuller face, and looking like he is taking care of himself when Harry met him at the fire - but now he is back in his prison robes, his hair is longer and he is thin again. When Sirius broke into the fire, he was clearly at a place where he could hide better and take care of himself. He is living off rats.

And he notices the anxiety on Harry;s face and explains why he is here (he is very good at reading harry's face and just answering his thoughts. He does it again later in the scene). He is worried about how fishy things look, and it is clear one of the reasons of his lack of care for himself is hyperfixating on Harry's safety and circumstances surrounding the tournament. (he also moves a lot when he is thinking - it's part of why he makes for such a strong scene presence. There is either note of how he takes space, or his eyes)

Sirius backs Hermione here about Barty Crouch Snr's treatment of Winky ("if you want to know what a man's like.."). This is important for Hermione's complicated feelings about him in the next book. He was the only adult on her side - even Hagrid, who she counted on, didn't agree with her.

Sirius projecting all his family issues over Barty Crouch Jnr.

Sirius' description of Azkaban is just extremely solitary and drenched in death, and suffering. He can see and hear things that are near his cell or out of the window (he could see Dementors burying who he thought was BCJ outside the fortress). Speaks to the immense violation Barty Crouch Snr has committed by sending him there without a trial. (There is also the fact that Azkaban is horrible, and no one deserves it)

Snuffles, enuff said. He also allows them each to pat them on his head before they leave. how cute.

"If he thought we are standing in way of his career"..ah, seeds of Percy arc of OOTP. Hermione believes in him while Ron doesnt lol.

I haven't mentioned in my notes because it would get too long - but Sirius' exposition about the First War, I think, is important for the atmosphere that leads to friends turning on each other.

also, I really love the note of Sirius, as always, admiring the morals of Mad Eye Moody for trying to bring Death Eaters alive, versus his condemnation of Barty Crouch Snr's methods. This shade of him - combined with the fact that he would have absolutely killed Peter after Jily death if he had the chance, or even the previous book. @artemisia-black wrote about her interpretation of it in this meta.

House elves should be "seen, not heard" philosophy, where they have internalised that anything showing discontent from where they are is undesirable.

Hermione pulling a Blinky episode here XD if the worldbuilding wasn't so shitty, I would actually enjoy a critique of Hermione's impatience here because it is very in line with steam of young activists finding roadblocks within the very people they want to help.

Chekhov's gun: the eagle owl Harry observes flying over Hagrid's hut - the same owl we see in Harry's dream with Voldemort later.

Maxime is apparently trying to make up to Hagrid - she watches Hagrid's class and even tries to engage him in a conversation prior to this. Maybe she feels sorry about how the story about Hagrid's mother come out in the Prophet and wants to bond? What did Maxime face because of her parentage?

Ron being upset that the gold he paid Harry back with vanished, and how he hates being poor and how both Harry and Hermione don't know what to say: Hermione tries to cheer him up by saying she will get him a Niffler for Christmas, how cute.

harry regularly sending Sirius food and little notes with them. I CANT. they have my heart, they are everything.

love that Fleur and Cedric are apparently friendly enough that she keeps going on about underground tunnels to him, and how Fleur beams at Harry when he comes.

Harry and Cedric being jocks, and how they are less than happy with the state of the Quidditch pitch lol.

Dumbledore uses the Patronus to summon Hagrid. A known method of communication between the Order. ("a ghostly bird")

love the dynamic of Fred and George arguing: George seems to be the more cautious one of the two, saying putting something like that in writing is blackmail, while Fred is like, "You're not going to complain once we get the pay off, would you?" But the moment Ron asks what's up with them, George backs Fred and sends the letter himself.

I also really loved the moment of the trio confronting the twins. It was hilarious. it shows all their priorities - both Fred and Ron with confrontational and surprised, "what are you doing here?" and Harry and George on defensive, "sending letter?" and both Fred and Hermione with a suspicious, "What, at this time?"

Hermione still uncomfortable with the idea of breaking laws: "This isnt some silly school rule, it's the law". Given where they all end up in DH (honestly even OOTP), this is interesting. She even advises Ron to reach out to Percy to stop whatever the twins are doing, and Ron's like, "Are you mad? He would probably do a Crouch and turn them in!" XD

Harry being annoyed at Sirius being an Overbearing Dad XD "Who is he, to lecture me after all the stuff he did at school?"

Chekhov's gun: insect buzzing somewhere behind the curtain. Rita Skeeter.

Also seeing Crouch Snr struggle against the Imperius put on him by Voldemort tells us how incredible it is that Harry throws it off in the graveyard

Harry connecting the magic of Pensieve with the diary through means of his experience. Could be a cool worldbuilding detail if we want to think about how Tom preserved his "memory" in the diary, along with it being a container for his soul.

important to understand how Voldemort operates: he alone knows who works for him, and others get exposed to each other via shared jobs or connections. This adds to what Sirius says in Padfoot returns chapter.

Mulciber specialised in the Imperius, as per Karkaroff's testimony. Could he have done something in similar vein to Mary MacDonald? It could also be talked of as a "laugh" since students do find Moody's control of the spider in Unforgivables class darkly funny.

"He is no more a Death Eater than I am": Dumbledore's vouching of Snape is strong. I would love a fic that explores Snape and Dumbledore's equation in First War, and how Dumbledore sees bits of himself in a young man who also thinks he is brilliant, and wants power, but ends up hurting the person he loves in his blindness.

The trial essentially feels like a gladiator ring, with the accused chained to the chair. (Of course, Bagman doesnt get chained to the chair due to the relative popularity with the jury)

Ah, BCJ. His reaction here depends on how you read his involvement with Longbottoms - whether he actually did it, or whether he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course, the book, with Cruciatus scene with spider, heavily suggest that he was indeed guilty. So, it is interesting to see his terror here - he is genuinely terrified of going to Azkaban, but he is also using his genuine terror to appeal to his parents, to get out and be free. (He does similar things throughout the book - use his real dislike of Malfoys, Snape but misdirect you about his motivations). It's a nice manipulative streak.

"You're no son of mine!" "Take them away, and may they rot there." I need a Crouch family deep dive, because it is essentially a version of Walburga burning her son's name off after he ran away. which is: "I want to pretend you don't even exist."

a very astute reader pointed out on reddit how Moody is not present for the Longbottoms trial (and his eyes were intact on both trials before). So the hc is that Bellatrix took out Moody's eye and he was recovering in the hospital at the time.

[anxiousthoughts365]

If anybody would like some short-form Perciver, Wolfstar, Starchaser or Rosekiller, my asks are open to requests :)

[evadne01]

Harry Potter Masterlist

A shattered life

Sirius Black thinks about his life

Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Sirius Black & James Potter

The cold winter

Harry Potter the first november

Harry Potter & Lily Evans Potter, Harry Potter & James Potter, Sirius Black & Harry Potter

Cruel fate

Harry and Bill talk after Dumbledore's funeral

Harry Potter/Bill Weasley

Do-not-forget-me

James and Lily talk about their future

James Potter/Lily Evans Potter

I'll be your Sirius if you'll be my Moony

After the Second War against Voldemort, Sirius and Remus finally could take their happy ending.

Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Harry Potter

One word at the time

Harry said his first word.

Lily and James weren't happy.

Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Harry Potter & James Potter & Lily Evans Potter

Tired to be like this 

Harry Potter is just tired

We are one thing

Harry is thankful for his friends

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

You look tasty ~ and also the pancakes does 

Charlie wakes up in the morning to see his boyfriend make pancakes.

Harry Potter/Charlie Weasley

Paper rings 

George thinks about his life.

Harry Potter/George Weasley

Like an angel ~ You're the devil in disguise 

Tom Marvolo Riddle

You are a firework 

Fred and George left Hogwarts, but not before being awesome

Harry Potter & Fred Weasley & George Weasley

Run faster than the rain

Marauders before the war

Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Peter Pettigrew & James Potter

Perfectly good heart

Fred, George and Harry relationship on A Perfectly Good Heart, Tylor Swift

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

Sea morning

Harry and Ginny planned some holiday for their son, James.

Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter & James Sirius Potter & Ginny Weasley

Looking at them and remembering us 

Sirius can't help himself.

Harry looks very like James

Sirius Black & Harry Potter, Sirius Black & James Potter, Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

Girl on fire 

James is in love with Lily.

Sirius Black is done with that

James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Sirius Black & James Potter

The fell of the genius 

Tom Marvolo Riddle was an angel.

Lucifer was an angel too.

Wait for you ~ you always come

Harry is alone.

He isn't alone for so long.

Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

Don't thank me

Alice went back from a date only to see her best friends acting strange.

Alice Longbottom/Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom & Lily Evans Potter & Mary Macdonald

I'm going under 

Regulus fought his relatives' beliefs.

Regulus Black & Sirius Black

I'm still here

Fred Weasley wakes up.

His most favourite people are there for him.

Fred Weasley & George Weasley, Harry Potter/Fred Weasley

This is our legacy

Godric and Salazar talk

Godric Gryffindor & Salazar Slytherin

It is always the same

Fawkes saw king arose.

She also saw them fall

Things will change 

Regulus never hated his older brother.

But, he still ran away.

Regulus Black & Barty Crouch Jr.

I feel like I'm going under 

Harry fifth year isn't like he thought it would be

I can see you 

Harry gives George one last goodbye

Harry Potter & George Weasley

Stop playing with the dress, you'll ruin it 

Harry didn't want to go to the Yule Ball.

At least, he has a good date.

Harry Potter/George Weasley, Angelina Johnson/Fred Weasley, Harry Potter & Fred Weasley, Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter

The cherry on top of the cake

Harry has to bake a cherry pie.

Fred loves cherries

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter

One quiet night

Harry, Fred and George celebrate their anniversary.

Fred and George can't seem to get through an evening without surprises.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

You saw nothing 

Dean tries to sneak out of Seamus' bed.

It does not work.

Seamus Finnigan/Dean Thomas, Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter

The wolf in me is in love with you ~ And so I am

Bill Weasley has always had a soft spot for Harry Potter.

The wolf in him even more

Fleur Delacour/Bill Weasley, Harry Potter/Bill Weasley

The booty and the peach

Harry just wanted to study charms and eat her peach

Harry Potter & Fred Weasley

Something sweet, something deadly

Tom Riddle had managed to retrieve the body from the diary.

Now, he wanted Harry on his side

Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

The reason we fought for 

There is only a reason they fight.

To be free of laugh, cry, play, run, and be alive.

Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Alice Longbottom & Marlene McKinnon & Lily Evans Potter, Alice Longbottom/Frank Longbottom, Hannah Abbott/Neville Longbottom

I am a wolf when I am with you

Bill came home to find Harry distracted by some old friend.

He is very jealous.

Harry Potter/Bill Weasley

The sun on your skin 

George and Harry in a quiet morning

Harry Potter/George Weasley

This is real

Charlie struggles.

Harry laughs.

Harry Potter/Charlie Weasley

Broken gay radar

Harry has a crush on George.

But George is straight.

Is he?

Harry Potter/George Weasley, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter

The things that are only yours 

Harry and Fred try something new.

Harry finds out something really interesting

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley

Get your feet off the ground

Fred and George do a little prank on Harry.

He isn't amused at all.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

All the times I have forgive you, now it is over 

Harry suffered for a long time.

Now, this is over.

They are over.

Harry Potter/Tom Riddle, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter

The chains on me 

Harry has always known what his destiny was

What we can be 

Some thoughts on the future relationship between Fred, George and Harry.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

Don't touch my chocolate 

Remus has only one rule: don't touch his chocolate.

Sirius breaks the rule.

Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Harry Potter

(Don't) Take my picture 

Harry is trying to work.

Fred takes pictures of him.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley

Demystify the myth, love the man 

Harry, Fred and George's relationship told for small moments.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Arthur Weasley/Molly Weasley, Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Harry Potter, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Cedric Diggory & Harry Potter, Hannah Abbot & Susan Bones & Harry Potter

Ask me again when I am old enough

The war against Voldemort was over.

Despite the dead, the deaths, the attacks, the pains, Fred couldn't think of a better day.

And it was all due to Harry Potter, standing before him, as alive as when they had last seen each other.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley

I'm your biggest fan

Harry had never met his best friend's older brother.

When he does, he can't believe who he is

Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Harry Potter/George Weasley

Promise me this is forever 

At the Yule Ball, Harry and Fred meet and find.

Maybe it wasn't so bad after all

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley, Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

The Boss 

Tom Riddle has always loved beautiful things.

Harry Potter was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

You need to go to bed

Harry has to work.

George is a cuddler.

Harry is weak for George.

Harry Potter/George Weasley

Close your eyes, I'll keep you safe 

Harry was always scared of thunderstom.

Ron was there for him.

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

I forgive you ~ Please, forgive yourself 

Life after the war was not easy.

Harry even struggled to comprehend that it was truly over, that Voldemort was no more.

Maybe he couldn't understand it because it wasn't really over.

Maybe he couldn't accept it because so many of his friends were dead.

Maybe he couldn't accept it because Remus and Tonks were dead too, and Teddy would be like him, he would be an orphan and everyone would celebrate the day his parents died.

As they had done on Halloween to rejoice at Voldemort's first disappearance.

Harry Potter/Percy Weasley

You were there for me 

Barty was always there for Regulus.

Regulus Black & Barty Crouch Jr.

In this cold mornings

Harry is relaxing, but George has to give him something important

Harry Potter/George Weasley

Do you trust me? 

Dumbledore knew that Harry had to die and also knew where the Chamber of Secrets was.

But, he didn't realize that Tom Riddle is far more dangerous than Voldemort.

And also, he didn't realize how tired Harry actually was.

Harry Potter & Tom Riddle

How to get a boyfriend by Harry Potter

"I mean," Fred explained, a huge smile on his face, "you need something to distract them all from some homicidal lunatic wanting you dead."

Harry snorted. "Good luck finding a way."

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley

Tell me why 

Harry thinks Charlie is a lot of troubles. Why he had to be that distracting?

Harry Potter/Charlie Weasley

I feel at home when I'm with you 

Harry after the war has a great realisation: George Weasley is hot.

That wasn't a good time for this intuitions of himself

Harry Potter/George Weasley

The dragon tamer 

Harry wants information about dragons.

Who is better than Charlie in providing them?

Harry Potter/Charlie Weasley/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

You are not alone

After the war, after Voldemort and all the deaths, Harry Potter has to do one more thing before he could recover.

But, he wasn't the only one who fought.

Harry Potter & Weasley Family, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Harry Potter & Oliver Wood, Luna Lovegood & Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter

I'll choose my path

Theodore Nott has a particular talent. Thanks to it, he is able to make his own choices.

Theodore Nott & Nott Sr.

Ours - Taylor Swift's edition

I’ll never leave you alone

And every time I look at you, it’s like the first time

Hold on, never turn back

Hold on, you are the best thing that’s ever been mine

Do you believe it?

We’re gonna make it now

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

Brotherly help 

"Growing up with Fred and George," Ginny said thoughtfully, “taught me that if you have the tenacity to want to do something, nothing is impossible.”

Harry needed to talk with Sirius. Ginny asked Fred and George for their help.

Fred Weasley & George Weasley & Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter & Fred Weasley & George Weasley, Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley

Deal with the devil

He had only had time to see the last fight, the last stand, leaving his aunt, before the eyes, red like fire, focused on him.

Harry had run. Faster than when Dudley and his gang chased him around the neighborhood, faster than when he had to reach for the Stone to save it from Snape's hands, faster than when he reached Lockhart to talk about the Chamber of Secrets, and, finally, faster than when he raced against time to save his innocent godfather from the worst of ends.

Harry Potter & Voldemort

Best friend's brother 

In his third year, Harry thought he only had to worry about a dangerous criminal who wanted to kill him. What he hadn't even imagined was falling in love with his best friend's brother. Now he just had to tell Ron. He preferred to face Sirius Black.

OR

Saving Ginny from a basilisk and rescuing him from abusive relatives makes the Weasley twins extremely protective of Harry and makes the story ten times better.

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter, Harry Potter & Fred Weasley & George Weasley, Harry Potter/George Weasley, Lee Jordan & Fred Weasley & George Weasley, Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley, Seamus Finnigan & Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter & Dean Thomas & Ron Weasley, Harry Potter & Weasley Family, Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Harry Potter, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Gryffindor Quidditch Team Members & Harry Potter, Cedric Diggory/Harry Potter

It was all a facade

Sirius smiled. Since the betrayal had occurred, he had to be honest, he had been afraid of disappointing James and Lily, of not being able to protect and take care of Harry in his life. Not being good enough as a godfather, not good enough to take care of the wonderful boy in front of him.

Sirius sighed, his gaze falling on a photo on the mantelpiece. How could they have been so wrong?

Sirius Black & Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore & Tom Riddle, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Regulus Black & Sirius Black, Sirius Black & James Potter & Lily Evans Potter, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter

Are we doing it again?

Percy smiled hesitantly at Oliver, feeling relieved when Oliver smiled back.

It had been a sudden choice to invite him to have a drink together. Though being friends since they started Hogwarts, Percy hadn't wanted to assume that Oliver would enjoy spending his first weekend in Hogsmeade with him.

Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood

Quidditch Romance

Cedric swallowed. "After doing all this, do you still think you're weak?"

Harry looked away, but Cedric didn't let him, placing a hand on his cheek. "Do not do it." he murmured. "Harry, don't you realize how much courage it takes to do something like that? I…I'm lost for words. You are just…amazing."

Cedric Diggory/Harry Potter

Three, two, one 

True friendship makes you inseparable, and nothing, not even death, can separate true friends.

Barty Crouch Jr looks at Harry, Ron and Hermione and remembers his past.

Regulus Black & Barty Crouch Jr. & Evan Rosier, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

I lost everything the day you were gone 

Harry looked at him, sitting up and staring George intently into his eyes.

"Losing someone close." George clarified. "Does it ever hurt less?"

Harry sighed. "It's like… a scar." His hand rested for a moment on his lightning bolt scar on his forehead, as if to apologize to anyone for the comparison. "After a while, it stops bleeding, but in bad weather it always stretches a little bit."

Harry Potter & George Weasley, Fred Weasley & George Weasley

Regulus Black's great crisis 

Regulus wasn't attracted to Barty. At all. Was he?

Regulus Black/Barty Crouch Jr., Regulus Black & Sirius Black

Tip the sexy waiter 

After Hogwarts, Harry doesn't become an Auror and becomes a bartender.

James calls in reinforcements to protect his beloved son from harm.

Sirius Black/Harry Potter, Sirius Black & James Potter

Unfaithful

"Remus, please talk to me. I know I messed up, just… Please, I just need to talk to you. To explain what happened…." Sirius drifted off, as soon as Remus’ attention was on him again. 

Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Thank you 

Lily had always been a brilliant witch. She was the best of their generation, according to some professors. Definitely gifted, according to all of them.

She had always been curious, even as a child. When a vast new world opened up before her, Lily plunged into it. Her best friend was by her side, ready and determined to know everything she could about it, eager to learn everything there was to know, and impatient to find out what she didn't know yet but would discover.

Now, she wished she had been less curious, less ready, less determined, less eager, less impatient.

Less Lily.

Sirius Black & Lily Evans Potter

Love me, love me 

"NO!" Tom ran up to him, laying his head on his legs, "Don't leave me! You promised!"

Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

You are here

Percy was on his evening patrol when he heard someone crying.

Ginny Weasley & Percy Weasley

We could be a family 

"I have your gift." She handed him a package, which Harry slowly opened.

When he finished opening it, he gasped.

Petunia Evans Dursley & Harry Potter

An offer he couldn't refuse 

“When you told me you lived out of the way,” George noted, as he watched him eat a piece of candy, “I didn't think you meant in the muggle world out of the way.”

Harry chuckled. “I don't live in the muggle world.”

“Your home is Grimmauld Place. Correct me if I'm wrong, Harry, but isn't that on the muggle side of London?” George asked, reaching over to steal a piece of candy from the pile that Harry had created.

“My house is magical.” Harry waved his hands, making George snort, "And anyway, I only live far enough away from the madness you call the wizarding world."

Harry Potter & George Weasley

Stories that end and begin

Tom had been right.

Now that he was in his fifth year at Hogwarts, he could state that Soulmates were a nuisance.

With the exception of a few souls who could consider themselves lucky, most of them were forced to put up with people they despised and who would do no good for their future.

Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

All we need is hope

A noise made him look away from the window, and he saw George hovering in Ron's doorway, smiling slightly at him. “Hey.”

“George.” Harry smiled, holding out his hand to invite the older boy to join him.

George didn't have to be told twice, and when he was close enough, Harry leaned up to kiss his cheek.

Harry Potter/George Weasley

Welcome back 

Being on the Hogwarts Express without being a student was an interesting experience, Harry decided.

He could have undertaken the journey in another way, he knew it. He could have used the Floo, or Apparated, or used his broom.

But, despite his years in the Wizarding World, Harry was still a mess with the Floo; the mere concept of walking into a chimney sent him into a spiral of panic. He had never actually gotten his license to Apparate and, also, it wasn’t possible to apparate in the Castle’s boundary, and Harry didn't really want to suffer the journey from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts. And, although he loved his broomstick and the feeling of flying in general, he loved the idea of flying for long periods of time in the cold Scottish morning much less.

So, the Hogwarts Express had been his one and only alternative.

Luna Lovegood & Harry Potter, Minerva McGonagall & Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood & Minerva McGonagall

My duty 

Harry had known what his duty would be. Now, he hates it.

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter

Take me back where I was home

James and Lily before the war.

James Potter/Lily Evans Potter

Harry, there are zombies

Harry thought they didn't exist, but here they were.

The magic never ceased to amaze him.

The tents that seemed microscopic were huge like houses, the ceiling could represent the starry sky, the stairs changed, house elves existed, centaurs predicted the future by looking at the stars.

The pipes could grow so large that a basilisk could fit through them. Giant spiders were a thing, and they ate human flesh. You could resurrect the dead and make them zombies.

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

I thought I knew love, and then I met you 

Lily was staring at the inn table with a frown.

Being the second daughter of a noble family meant receiving some proposals from various suitors, but running the risk of being continually disappointed.

As had happened that day, when Lily had reached the agreed place for the date with the noble of that time and had realized that she had been dumped for another noble, first-born and therefore of greater value.

James Potter/Lily Evans Potter

The rising of the moon

Harry and Bill were out on a date. The full moon appears in the sky.

Harry Potter/Bill Weasley

Two cute foxes, one embarrassing rant 

Fred and George needed a role of their own, even considering how they were Fred & George and not Fred and George.

And, if no one had made the effort to recognize them, to distinguish them, they would have managed to be seen and noticed. At least that was his due to them.

This didn't mean they wouldn't want to be appreciated for who they were.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

Under the rain

Sometimes, love is also pushing someone into the rain and laughing with them.

Love is in simple gestures.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley

You have been invited to the wedding of James Potter & Lily Evans! 

It's Lily and James' wedding. We certainly couldn't expect everything to go smoothly, right?

James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Sirius Black & James Potter & Lily Evans Potter

Brotherly love

Sirius and Regulus in a moment without strangers.

Only two brothers.

Regulus Black & Sirius Black

Some things are better left untold 

Harry, Ron and Hermione were a trio.

But how did Harry, Ron and Hermione become the famous trio?

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

This is all your fault

Harry and Fred had gone for a walk in the woods when Fred realized they were lost.

Harry Potter/Fred Weasley

Hey, look at me 

George really can't stand Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang.

Just because they play Quidditch against them, of course.

Not because of the way Harry acts around them.

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Harry Potter/George Weasley, Fred Weasley & George Weasley

Seeing through your lie 

Hermione knows that there is something special between Harry and Ron.

A little moment of comfort between Harry and Hermione during the Goblet of Fire.

Hermione Granger & Harry Potter

I would it all over again 

Harry James Potter and Tom Marvolo Riddle were many things.

But, most of all, they were both alone.

Harry Potter & Tom Marvolo Riddle

Take me home

When silence descends and the mind wakes up, it is really difficult to relax.

Yet, happiness can be found even in the darkest moments. If only one has the right company.

Sirius Black & Harry Potter

Go to the second part through this link!

[sarkylittlemonster]

⭑⚝ ੈ✩‧₊˚ -My Fics Master List- ˚₊‧✩ੈ*๋࣭ ⭑⚝

Update: As of today, 20/8/2024, I will be locking my works on AO3 to prevent AI scraping. Not something I want to do, as I love my guest readers :(

Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood:

Sweet tooth for you - Chapter 1 - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

You called me pretty and I told you you were wrong - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Those things I miss, but know are never comin' back - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

So that I never feel alone again - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Anywhere that I'm with you is home - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

And I don't mind if you can't hold me like you used to, 'cause I've never hated myself more - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Blood forms branches in the water - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Live right now - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

I Love You - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

And I'm hurting, but I show no sign 'cause I'm afraid to give in, break down, and waste your time - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Percy Weasley/Cedric Diggory:

Oh, everything is solid gold - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Percy Weasley and others:

Since I had a friend - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

If you're gone, then how is any of this real? - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Poisonous vibrations - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

There's no wrong, there's no right and I ain't gonna be here too long, too long - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Ginny Weasley:

In a heartbeat - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Regulus Black:

But I'm cold in your heart and you're branded into mine - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Dear Sirius - Chapter 1 - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Severus Snape:

Haven't I given enough, given enough? - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Barty Crouch Jr/James Potter:

Wish I had Somethin' to Live for Tomorrow - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Albus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy:

Isn't It Lovely - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

But when he loves me, I feel like I'm floating, when he calls me pretty, I feel like somebody - Chapter 1 - SarkyLittleMonster - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

For posts about my works, the tag is sarkylittlemonster fics.

For my terrible moodboads the tag is sarkylittlemonster moodboards.

[consistentsquash]

HP Rec Fest - Day 9

Fest - @hprecfest

Theme - Rare Pair Fic

Extraordinary Lengths by MaxWrite

Percy/Barty Crouch Jr. 47000 words. Rated E.

Rec because - Straight up psychological horror darkfic. Definitely read the AO3 tags. The fic has a lot going for it. The characterizations are really sharp. The writing is on point. The premise is unique. MaxWrite my sinisterfic beloved <3 Nobody sinisterfics like MaxWrite! They really made fall in love with their characterizations and plot. Percy's characterization here is the best take on him I have read in fanfics. Crouch's assistant went to his boss's home for errands. Barty Jr. has started to throw off the Imperius. Barty Jr. is completely unhinged. Barty Sr. is a horrible character. He's trying to keep his son happy by using blackmail on Percy. Percy's situation is completely heartbreaking. But he's ambitious and he keeps thinking the horrifying tragedy is going to have some upside for him. Horror as a genre is really hard to get right in a fic. This fic does it brilliantly. Stephen King fic vibes. It's suspenseful, creepy and brutal. The pacing is gripping. Percy gets out. But at what cost?

Recs I made for the fest

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

Okay so I just realised. I like the abandoned, morally grey, complex characters with layers and I stick up for them cause no one stuck up for me.

I’m isolated from my family because of my interests. Percy Weasley anybody?

I’m the fat friend. Oh look, Peter Pettigrew?

I have Daddy issues and BPD. Barty Crouch Jr?

I think that’s why I’m so protective of certain characters, and now I’m kinda sad.

[elisedonut]

well time to play with a ship name generator for

Percy/Barty jr.

Bartcy?

PerBar?

Percemius? (from Barty's full name?)

Crouching Weasel??

Crouching Weatherby?? if you want to be more specific to what Weasley?

[sammialex]

Next up: the end.

[priniya]

requests guidelines ⭐️

hello everyone! after a year (and a half?) i’ve finally got to myself to show all the things i could write for. it’s gonna be updated regularly as soon as i obsess over something new.

so . . .

i’m not sure if i’m a good person to write smut so… request if u want, but might take a long time before i post it! (i haven’t really written anything smut related so that might be bad)

please, if you request something, write a small blurb of what you’ll like to read!

i mainly write for a female reader with she/her pronouns and all that, but i’m up for gender neutral as well if you feel like it :)

i might add sth here if i think of it, but the most important part is who do i write for. bold stands for my favs, italics is like… second fav, i guess!

✩ harry potter — slytherin boys (theodore nott, mattheo riddle, lorenzo berkshire, draco malfoy + pansy parkinson and daphne greengrass), marauders (james potter, sirius black, remus lupin, regulus black, evan rosier, barty crouch jr.), golden era (harry potter, ron weasley, cedric diggory, weasley twins, ginny weasley).

✩ percy jackson — greek demigods (percy jackson, leo valdez, annabeth chase, luke castellan, grover underwood, hood brothers, clarisse la rue, piper mclean), roman demigods (frank zhang, jason grace, hazel lavasque).

✩ books — the inheritance games (jameson hawthorne, grayson hawthorne, xander hawthorne, avery kylie grambs, thea laughlin), a good girl’s guide to murder (pippa fitz-amobi, ravi singh), hockey boyfriends (nate hawkins, garret graham, john logan, dean di laurenti, john tucker, hunter davenport, henry turner, russ callaghan)

✩ miscellaneous series — jenny han universes (conrad fisher, peter kavinsky, kitty song covey, cam cameron, steven conklin, minho), criminal minds (spencer reid, aaron hotchner, jennifer jareau, derek morgan), outer banks (jj maybank, pope heyward, rafe cameron), my life with the walter boys (alex walter, cole walter, isaac garcia, kailey)

✩ anime — haikyuu (kageyama, tsukishima, osamu, atsumu, suna, oikawa, bokuto, akaashi, kuroo, kenma, semi + the rest😭).

✩ people i don’t know how to classify — zuko + sokka, steve harrington, matthew gray gubler, drew starkey, louis partridge, timothee chalamet, peter parker, nct members.

if you don’t see someone, just ask! there’s a high chance i just forgot about them xx

[slobstation]

marauder (greek) demi-Gods

marauders godly parents assigning, (in my fic)

THIS IS CONSTANTLY GETTING UPDATED !!

these are the cabins in my Marauders x Percy Jackson AU i am in the process of writing!! some of them do not have assigned godly parents because i am keeping it private until the fic is started.

James Potter [ Apollo , Cabin Seven ]

Regulus Black [ Hades , Cabin Thirteen ]

Sirius Black [ a surprise. ]

Remus Lupin [ Athena , Cabin Six ]

Lily Evan’s [ Artemis ; Hunter / Maiden , Cabin Eight ]

Mary McDonald [ Aphrodite , Cabin Ten ]

Peter Pettigrew [ Unclaimed , Cabin Eleven ] [ Parent , Undecided ]

Marlene McKinnon [ Ares , Cabin Five ]

Dorcas Meadows [ a surprise. ]

Pandora (unknown) [ Iris , Cabin Fourteen ]

Evan Rosier [ Nike , Cabin Seventeen ]

Barty Crouch Jr [ Dionysus , Cabin Twelve ]

Gideon Prewett [ Hermes , Cabin Eleven ]

Fabian Prewett [ Hermes , Cabin Eleven ]

Molly Prewett [ Seer ]

Author Weasley [ Satyr ]

Frank Longbottom [ Demeter , Cabin Four ]

Alice Fortescue [ Hephaestus , Cabin Nine ]

Emmeline Vance [ A Surprise ]

etc etc…

opinions? recommendations? other more fade into the background characters?

[whinlatter]

The Ginny and Peter parallel though?? How have I never thought about that?? It‘s so horrifying and insanely compelling to me at the same time. I would love to hear (read?) you elaborate on that.

"Sirius, Sirius, what could I have done? The Dark Lord… you have no idea… he has weapons you can't imagine…. I was scared, Sirius, I was never brave like you and Remus and James. I never meant it to happen…. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named forced me - " "Harry – oh, Harry – I tried to tell you at b-breakfast, but I c-couldn’t say it in front of Percy. It was me, Harry – but I – I s-swear I d-didn’t mean to  - R-Riddle made me, he took me over..."

thank you so much for this question anon.  i have been thinking about this for a long time - about how ginny weasley might have made a really, really good traitor - and would love to talk more about my thinking behind it. a little meta on traitor talk - who flips, and why, and why ginny weasley might be the peter pettigrew to the trio's marauders after all - can be found below the cut (with spoilers for beasts chapter 14). 

hp, as a series, puts great moral emphasis on the concept of choice. after all, it’s about a world at war, where the question of whose side you're on is often a matter of life or death. double agents, deception, treachery, people serving the interests of others (either consensually or under duress): these are recurrent tropes, on both sides of the wizarding war. the plot begins the ultimate act of betrayal - that of lily and james potter by peter pettigrew - and the series concludes with the revelation of another (snape). throughout the books, there are all sorts of characters who spy, or flip, for all sorts of reasons. you have those who knowingly pretend to be serving the interests of one side when actually serving another, for principled reasons, either ideological motivation or out of selfless loyalty to another person: snape, peter, likely rookwood, quirrell, fake moody/barty crouch jr, both sirius and regulus black, kreacher, and narcissa in the forest. and then you have the group who betray either out of fear, or who are manipulated into acts of betrayal and deceit, sometimes through possession but otherwise through blackmail and intimidation, to varying degrees: xenophilius lovegood, mundungus fletcher, pius thicknesse, marietta edgecombe, bertha jorkins, bathilda bagshot, those types. (in a sign of jkr’s consistently dicked-up biases re gender in the series, women are never allowed to be interesting enough to actively betray anyone unless they’re doing it out of maternal love eg. narcissa - they can only ever actively be led astray or hoodwinked, whereas male characters can have a vast array of complex motivations and all sorts of shades of moral grey. we'll come back to that in a minute).

in chapter 14 of my postwar fic beasts, during the course of the hogwarts inquiry, augustus rookwood takes the stand and testifies of an attempt by him and his fellow death eaters to find someone who could play double agent to pass secrets about the resistance, the order and harry to the other side during the second wizarding war. rookwood - himself a former double agent - talks about how to make a traitor. he discusses the different motivations of traitors, how to find a target and how to exploit their existing vulnerabilities and weak-points to get them to come around to your side. he also reveals that, during the death eater seizure of the ministry and hogwarts school, he and his peers identified a would-be target in ginny weasley. in the fic, i have him describe the process of traitor-identification as ‘the pettigrew playbook’: finding someone who is connected, who knows the order’s secrets, who has the information you want, and who will flip less out of an ardent ideological commitment, but more because they are weak and scared but also disrespected and resentful and more inclined to save their own neck than act out of loyalty

i’ve always been very struck by peter pettigrew’s attempts to justify his betrayal of lily and james in PoA (see above). peter pettigrew is always a slippery and elusive character, rendered mostly through other people’s memories or descriptions of him. this is one of the very few times he explains something of his own worldview - though, as we know he is a liar, and in this instance errrr trying to save his own life as sirius threatens to kill him (slay), we have to take even these lines with a pinch of salt. we know pettigrew is a character that acts, at all times, out of a desire for self-preservation, trying to secure his own survival. he was tolerated but never respected by his schoolfriends, made the potters’ secret keeper as a ‘perfect bluff’ because he was a  ‘weak, talentless thing’ voldemort would never bother going after, a trait which ultimately made him the perfect and most vulnerable target. when outed as the real spy by sirius and remus here, he acknowledges he is aware of his deficiencies and weaknesses, and talks about his fear for his own life, his sense of how he did not live up to the principled bravery of his friends, and claims  that voldemort ‘forced him’ to surrender lily and james - presumably through the threat of terrible violence, suffering and death. 

pettigrew’s remarks are particularly interesting when put alongside the justifications and excuses of another character who has betrayed harry to voldemort, albeit under very different circumstances. like peter, ginny’s confession is given through floods of tears as a desperate plea to be believed and excused. in it, ginny begs harry to understand her own lack of culpability. just as wormtail does, she insists to harry she was forced by riddle to cause harm to others and to hand information about harry over to riddle, and to play an integral role in returning lord voldemort to life.  of course, the series always frames ginny’s actions in CoS as the behaviour of an entirely innocent person. but even these lines show a streak of self-preservation and a certain amount of weakness and cowardice that runs throughout ginny’s encounter with the diary. ‘I couldn’t say it in front of Percy’, she says, suggesting she feared getting in deep trouble with no proof of riddle’s hand in her actions. in fact throughout the diary episode, ginny shows real moments of acting to save herself rather than do the right thing and come forward with the truth. she tries to dispose of the diary, but doesn’t go to a teacher about what it has been making her do. she stole the diary back not to protect harry but to protect her own secrets and prevent him from discovering her complicity (at least by TMR’s telling). she even watches hagrid get falsely accused and sent to azkaban, and stays silent in the process, a distinctly pettigrew echo if ever i heard one. 

of course, we know ginny and peter pettigrew’s relationships with voldemort are not alike in dignity. it’s clear that, in so many ways, ginny’s encounter with the diary is much more clearly an experience of victimhood than of malicious intent. we know that ginny was possessed; we know she is not a character who would commit murder without that level of involuntary mental surrender. but there are more uncomfortable echoes of pettigrew in her experiences in CoS. we see them in the decisions of a character acting of fear and a desire to save their own skin in ginny’s experience of the diary than we might like to think. ginny ofc was targeted by lucius malfoy because of who her family was, as stalwarts of the anti-voldemort pro-muggle resistance during the first wizarding war, with powerful enemies determined to discredit and undermine them at every turn. but, as TMR makes clear, what makes ginny such a good target in the end, so vulnerable and so useful, was that she was weak. she was insecure, and lonely, teased and misunderstood and feeling inadequate. in all of that, there was a very rich opening for TMR to access her innermost fears and secrets and to use them to manipulate, pressure and threaten her into compliance, in addition to the active possession of her body to conduct deliberate acts of attempted murder. it’s not a perfect pettigrew parallel by any means. but there’s more than a little bit of pettigrew in that, too. 

maybe more parallels with ginny and peter pettigrew than meets the eye - particularly in ginny’s relationship to the trio. there are a few posts that periodically do the rounds on tumblr and reddit that talk about neville’s relationship to the trio as the parallel to peter pettigrew’s with the marauders - as this post compellingly puts it, ‘all who peter could have been’. neville, these posts usually point out, was a character who was weak and much less talented than his friends, an outsider who needed the protection and patience of cooler classmates, who was always on the outside looking in on a friend group that largely excluded him. what distinguished neville from peter was his approach to his own weakness, and how that approach drove him to heroism rather than betrayal and villainy. it’s an interesting idea, and there’s something to it. but the more i thought about it, the more i thought - is neville + the trio the only parallel with peter + the marauders? what about ginny? 

it’s remarkably under-appreciated in fandom that ginny is remarkably poorly treated by the trio for much of the series. ‘go away, ginny’ - that’s how ron banishes his sister at the start of PoA, because harry mutters to his two mates that he wants to talk to them in private and to ditch ginny. neither harry nor hermione object to it - hermione, though kind to ginny when the dementors arrive, makes no defence of her right to stay. ginny duly leaves, hurt, to go sit by herself on the train back to school, returning to hogwarts for the first time after her deeply traumatic experience in the chamber, dismissed and dispatched. not meaning to drag ron here - this is, ofc, how big brothers have behaved for time immemorial, as is their wont. but it’s kind of the statement for how the trio treat ginny for much of her school career really until HBP, harry and hermione included. ofc there are many textual/plot reasons ginny needs to be held at arms length from the trio. but it is striking that the effect of this plot habit for the reader is a usually unkind and sometimes even callous exclusion of ginny by the trio throughout many of the books.

in CoS itself, ginny is never invited to join the trio or spend any time with them: when she isn’t, you know, trying her hand at possessed attempted murder, she’s doing a light bit of potter hero worship that does recall a certain lakeside snitch-catching display of yore. it’s ginny who’s left feeling left out when the trio are swapping suspicious eyes and sirius secrets in GoF, ginny who is hermione’s back-up friend when the ron and harry showdown kicks off over the triwizard tournament, ginny who shoulders the role as harry’s consolation prize friend when ron and hermione go off to the prefects on the train in ootp (and takes him to neville and luna), ginny who goes defenceless when the trio are demanding to be included in order secrets and is physically removed from the room with no protest from the others, ginny who has to fight her case to be taken seriously and included in the department of mysteries plot to rescue a man she too is friends with (‘I care about Sirius as much as you do!’), being patronised by three friends who pick her up and put her down when they feel like it (always enjoy hermione being like ‘we need three thestrals!’ and ginny being like ffs we need four why won’t you show me an ounce of respect). in fact, when ginny is revealed to be becoming popular in a different social circle throughout ootp and hbp, it is something of a shock to harry and ron, who have spent a good six years making no effort to include her and now are finding she has built a much more successful social life beyond them (you reap what you sow, lads). i don’t say this to overstate the trio’s malice nor to overstate the pettigrew comparisons (ginny is clearly both conventionally attractive and much more socially adept).. but i do think it’s striking that  if there is a character with pettigrew echoes in the trio’s surround, always orbiting the trio, trying to feel included (and hero worshipping the potter at the heart of it), it’s more often young ginny than it is neville. so many of the things that made ginny vulnerable to TMR - her loneliness, her isolation, her insecurities and sense of inadequacy - are not helped by the trio in the years afterwards, and in some cases, actively reinforced.

(to briefly say something on gender - sometimes wonder if ginny were a male character if people would have made more of this. percy stans, for instance, go to great lengths to point out all the ways percy was bullied or teased by his family as an excuse for his errrrr war crimes. would people care more about many ginny's exclusions if she were a maligned misunderstood young man? probably? it's noticeable too that all traitors in hp are men lol, a classic example of jkr’s weird and fucked feminism striking again. women are led astray or hoodwinked - men get the complex motivations and agency arcs. but i digress).

why does any of this matter? we know ginny doesn't take the path of pettigrew, however much she might have good reason to. harry's endearingly naive line in DH ('I trust all of you, I don’t think anyone in this room would ever sell me to Voldemort’) ends up being borne out: there are no betrayals during the second wizarding war, and certainly not by ginny (though the sword heist almost ended up doing it on accident). but i found myself thinking a lot about this as i was sketching out the plotline for beasts and thinking about ginny’s war, and what is asked of ginny in it. i was particularly thinking about it relation to how the second wizarding war plays out, the unique position of danger ginny would have been in as a hogwarts student in the 1997-1998 academic year, and what a good target she would make for death eaters on the hunt for a spy within the order of the phoenix.

when i was reading DH for the first time, i remember thinking that it is absolutely bonkers that ginny weasley goes back to hogwarts in september ’97. by that summer, the weasleys are the order of the phoenix. no longer just the blood traitors’ blood traitor, they’re now the face of the wizarding resistance, both parents and (nearly) all sons in active combat, something the ministry certainly knows about even when trying to normalise death eater rule and allowing the facade of arthur et al going to go to work in the ministry/gringotts etc. ginny’s family home is order hq: she lives there all summer, and trots off to the hogwarts express straight from the kitchen table where order meetings take place. when death eaters descend on the wedding, she’s there alongside the rest of the rest of dumbledore stans. she is also famously in the DA, and fought death eaters alongside the trio in the department of mysteries, and again in the battle of the astronomy tower. and then there’s the obvious point that hinny shippers everywhere have pointed out is baffling since the dawn of time, which is that the world and his wife knows that ginny weasley is harry potter’s ex, something that might put a big fat target on her head for a death eater or two to have a pop at trying to get some secrets and intel out of her. 

of course, there’s a compelling case for why ginny has to go back. ron’s already used the splattergroit excuse, and arthur’s going to work, and so is bill, and the twins (at least for a bit), and the weasleys are going for normalisation and at least a fig leaf of compliance. so off ginny goes, into the belly of the beast, back to school, despite all the access she has to order secrets and intel, as well as information on harry and the trio. she is in a uniquely dangerous position of risk: it’s a fortress run by death eaters and her card is marked. she finds herself in an unenviable and unrivalled position as a very good person to go after if you’re a death eater fancying some intel about what the guerilla resistance - and harry potter - are up to. we know there are death eaters about who would like to claw themselves back into some level of relevance by working towards the big man and trying to curry favour (yaxley). we know there is a family intimately aware of ginny weasley's weakness and failings who are desperate to get back in voldemort's good books (the malfoys). we also know there are witnesses to ginny's exclusions both from the order and from the trio over the years - in particular, one witness that already sold secrets on the order to death eaters, namely kreacher.

the reason i came back to thinking about parallels between ginny and peter in beasts is because beasts is a story about ginny’s war, but also in part about morality in the wizarding world, about war and sides and choices. at various points in beasts, i’ve tried to play with ginny’s echoes with characters that waver morally - including regulus - or who find themselves drawn to or in some way embroiled in darkness, and who are at times governed by fear and cowardice and self-preservation in a moral universe that prizes bravery, loyalty, and self-sacrifice. so this plot came from putting all these pieces together - ginny's existing vulnerabilities and insecurities, her position of privilege and access, but also her alienation and mistreatment, and this interest in moral motivations and what experiences or traumas might lead a person, or even justify, a person's treachery, moral inaction, or active moral failing. it was even more interesting for me to play with the idea that other people might have noticed ginny weasley's weird position relative to the trio and the order too, people who want to know what she knows and who would be willing to exploit the cracks in those relationships for strategic wartime gain. and that's for chapters fifteen and sixteen!

[regheart]

i have thought more about this and i have decided that charis is barty sr's mother, mostly for two reasons:

when she dies in 1973, both regulus and barty are present at the funeral and/or regulus and sirius get a letter communicating her death and are told to give their condolences to barty. i hc barty as one or two years younger that reg (bc he's "not older than 19" at his trial in late 81/early 82), and i don't think they were particularly close to each other which is a bit unorthodox for this fandom, but it's what makes sense for how i view them as it makes sense to have them being aware of each other on this distant way

arthur and crouch sr being first cousins, but never close because of the disownment, creates a level of awkward tension that fits very interestingly with their interactions in gof and in how percy fits in the middle. i also like the idea that crouch opposes voldemort violently, but doesn't oppose or doesn't care about the purist ideas that set his aunt apart from her family and never sees arthur as a relative or an equal, and percy even less

Do you have personal headcanons on Callidora, Cedrella, and Charis?

hello! thank you so much for the ask

i don't have many specific headcanons, just more general ideas

i think the black family has lived exclusively in the london area for centuries and the house they lived in is from the tudor era and survived the great fire of 1666 through magic, becoming unplottable and invisible to muggles since then

the three were very close while growing up and got along with dorea the most out of their cousins because of the age proximity

theirs was probably the poorest branch of the family

being so distant from the heir line, the only expectation they had was to marry pure-blood wizards (or not marry at all)

callidora married a longbottom (i personally don't think she's directly related to frank and neville because i headcanon frank to be older than sirius iii and i always thought of augusta as being very old so the two of them would be closer in age), moved to lancanshire and had her three kids in the 40s

she spends many of her days at blackpool pier chatting with enid and augusta

cedrella followed the memo and married pure-blood septimus weasley, but her family was not pleased because the weasleys have gotten a worse fame of blood traitors after objecting to the pure-blood directory

she had four kids, all boys, and the youngest, whom she favors, is named castor (a star in the gemini constellation, twin to pollux). both castor and arthur got her blue eyes

charis married a crouch and i can't decide if she's the mother of barty sr. or not because to me he looks like the type to only have kids in their mid 30s after his carrier is solid and that doesn't align with her age

callidora and charis never stopped talking to their sister, but they can't pretend to like her children. callidora tolerates castor, and that's it

lysandra moved out of the house after arcturus died and cygnus and druella moved in with their daughters (they used to live with pollux in hampstead, in a house that would have been alphard's inheritance the way grimmauld place was passed down to walburga)

bellatrix, andromeda and narcissa got compared to them all the time because of the way they were always together

callidora cut ties with her family after the first war. not in a dramatic way, most of them were either dead or imprisoned, but she never went after arcturus, or pollux, or cassiopeia, anyone, she only spoke to cedrella

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character list

keeper of the lost cities

sophie foster, dex dizznee, fitz vacker, keefe sencen, biana vacker, marella redek, maruca chebota, tam song, linh song, wylie endal, jensi babblos, stina heks, elwin hesledge

chronicles of narnia

peter pevensie, edmund pevensie, susan pevensie, lucy pevensie, caspian

riordanverse

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harry potter

harry potter, ron weasley, hermione granger, neville longbottom, luna lovegood, ginny weasley, fred weasley, george weasley, sirius black, james potter, remus lupin, mary macdonald, marlene mckinnon, lily evans, dorcas meadows, regulus black, barty crouch jr, narcissa black, andromeda black, bellatrix lestrange

ride the cyclone

ocean o’connell rosenberg, noel gruber, mischa bachinski, ricky potts, jane doe/penny lamb, constance blackwood

shadow and bone

alina starkov, malyen oretsev, genya safin, zoya nazyalensky, david kostyk, tamaar & tolya, nikolai lantsov

six of crows

kaz brekker, inej ghafa, jesper fahey, nina zenik, wylan van eck, matthias helvar

the outsiders

ponyboy curtis, johnny cade, sodapop curtis, darry curtis, steve randall, twobit matthews, dallas winston, cherry valance

the hunger games

katniss everdeen, peeta mellark, finnick odair, johanna mason, cinna, effie trinket

it (2017)

bill denbrough, eddie kaspbrak, richie tozier, stan uris, beverly marsh, ben hanscom, mike hanlon

the school for good and evil

agatha, sophie, tedros, hort, hester, anadil, dot, nicola, rhian mistral, rafal mistral, clarissa dovey, leonora lesso

the land of stories

connor bailey, alex bailey, red riding hood, jack, goldilocks

scooby doo

shaggy rogers, fred jones, daphne blake, velma dinkley, thorn, dusk, luna

little women

jo march, amy march, beth march, meg march, laurie

dracula

dracula, lucy westenra, arthur holmwood, john seward, mina harker, abraham van helsing, renfield, quincey morris, jonathan harker, the brides

frankenstein

victor frankenstein, elizabeth lavenza, henry clerval, adam frankenstein, justine mortiz, ernest frankenstein, the bride

dr jekyll and mr hyde

henry jekyll, edward hyde, richard enfield, gabriel utterson, hastie lanyon, lucy harris

phantom of the opera

christine daaé, erik destler, raoul de chagney, meg giry, carlotta giudicelli

a good girls guide to murder

pippa fitz-amobi, ravi singh, naomi ward, cara ward, connor reynolds, jamie reynolds, nat da silva

the mighty ducks

charlie conway, adam banks, lester averman, guy germaine, connie moreau, fulton reed, dean portman, julie gaffney, ken wu, luis mendoza, dwayne robertson

monster high

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the powerpuff girls

blossom utonium, bubbles utonium, buttercup utonium, brick jojo, boomer jojo, butch jojo

david bowie

david bowie, ziggy stardust, jareth, thomas jerome newton, celliers

sweeney todd

sweeney todd, anthony hope, mrs lovett, johanna todd

the rosewood chronicles

lottie pumpkin, ellie wolf, jamie volk, ollie moreno, raphael wilcox, anastacia alcroft leblanc, saskia san martin, lola tomkins, mickey tomkins, binah fae

hairspray

corny collins, link larkin, amber von tussle, tracey turnblad, penny pingleton, seaweed j. stubbs

attack on titan

eren yeager, mikasa ackerman, armin arlert, jean kirstein, sasha braus, connie springer, annie leonhardt, bertholdt hoover, reiner braun, hange zoe, levi ackerman, erwin smith, colt grice, niccolo, yelena, onyakopon, zeke yeager

daisy jones and the six

daisy jones, billy dunne, graham dunne, karen sirko, warren rhodes, pete loving/roundtree, eddie loving/roundtree, camila dunne, simone jackson

doctor who bbc

ninth doctor, tenth doctor, eleventh doctor, rose tyler, jack harkness, mickey smith, donna noble, martha jones, clara oswald, river song, amy pond, rory williams, simm! master

miss peregrines home for peculiar children

jacob portman, emma bloom, millard nulling, enoch o’connor, olive elephanta, alma peregrine

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sarah williams, bernard the elf, rodrick heffley, varian, lisa frankenstein, the creature (lisa frankenstein)

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