#and have kingsley turn regulus and then they meet james

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hi my love can we talk about jegingsley for a second

but specifically vampire ringsley who start dating james, who has no idea his boyfriends are vampires until one day he comes home early to find them both scrambling to hide blood bags in a secret compartment in the fridge and james is so upset but ringsley think he’s upset bc they’re vampires and james is like “no i’m upset because you’re drinking from blood bags” — said with disgust — “when you could be drinking from me, a perfectly willing human sippy cup.”

and ringsley are like “oh… we didn’t think you’d want…”

but james is already exposing his neck and wrists like “go ahead you lovable idiots” and anyway that’s how james starts regularly getting the highest princess treatment possible from his two boyfriends who nibble on him all day long, like little sips here and there on his neck when he’s making breakfast or in the shower or watching tv

thank u for coming to my ted talk

HELLO NIC MY LOVE YES YES WE CAN 🙂‍↕️

first off-mmm jegingsley vampires yes this brain rot has wormed its way into my mind bc I already wrote vampire kingsley once and he was everything and oh my god what if I did a part 2 of that fic and he's turned regulus and now they meet James and ope....I have ideas now.

*ahem* anyways this is so them😭James would be appalled that no one has asked him to drink from him. like hello? he is right here with perfectly good blood !!!

and I can imagine kingsley was the hold up. I think he has such a strong moral compass about it that he would feel bad asking that of james. whereas regulus was probably like "king...I bet he would want to...I bet he would like it..." so when james does this and offers himself, regulus shoots kingsley a knowing scowl, muttering I told you so into his mind bc they have mind powers ive just decided.

and so once james has consented on his own without ringsley having to ask kingsley is okay with it and then boom human sippy cup, they take little bites and sips and james is constantly asking if they're hungry, baring his neck for them, shoving a finger in their mouth begging them to take just a little bite, just a snack. and who are they to say no when james is looking at them so earnestly with his big warm hazel eyes and they all love each other so so soooo much.

mmm yes yes.

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Here are my Marauder fics. Mostly Wolfstar but I will say if they aren't. Hopefully someone likes at least one of them <3

First Wizarding War: Siriusly, what the fuck Pads! (Part of the Operation Rescue Regulus Series, Wolfstar, Past Jegulus) Summary: After finding out about James and Regulus, Sirius is going to stand back and watch him be killed by a Death Eater, whoops. Really Regulus? (Part of the Operation Rescue Regulus Series, Wolfstar, Past Jegulus) Summary: James, Sirius and Remus put their plan into place. Time to rescue the youngest Black, wether he's happy about it or not. They took my heart, I'm going to take their lives. Summary: Sirius walks in the Order meeting happy and joking with James.

He walks out with his whole life changed and a plan of death and destruction on his mind. A Lone Wolf Once Again Summary: Remus came back from the werewolves and found his whole life destroyed.

His friends dead, his nephew lost and his partner apparently being the cause of it all.

Remus looks at those around him and can't understand why they arnt as angry as him, why aren't they raging about the unfairness of it all? Death on the Other Line (Dorcas/Marlene, Background Wolfstar) Summary: It was only a fight, a fight with her girlfriend. These things happen during normal times, let alone during a war, but unbeknownst to Doras it was the last fight she and Marlene wold ever have. Months of love and work for Moony's sweet treat Summary: Remus had a rough moon, so now Sirius decides its time to share the secret project he's been working on for the last few months. Anything to treat his Moony when he isnt feeling his best. You're Floo Was My Emergency Contact Summary: Sirius is in Moody and Kingsley's custody after Halloween 1981. Dumbeldore is his emergency contct but he isn't answering his floo.... I'm bitter: You were mine first (Past Jegulus) Summary: James catches Regulus in an alley after a Death Eater attack. One thing leads to another and Regulus revels in the fact James isnt as good as he pretends to be, he never has been.

Child Aquesition:

You did what now? Summary: Sirius knew he was the reckless one in this relationship. Until he wasn't. When Remus did something crazy, he went big. Like stealing werewolf kids big. Bring Back Black: In not dead (Past Sirius/Remus, Remus/Tonks) Summary: Remus and Tonks are getting married, they are standing there, ready to say their vows when an unexpected guest turns up. Please Stay Summary: Sirius has been fighting his whole life and sometimes he doesnt always win against the intrusive thoughts that swirl in his mind. Remus hates sitting by his husbands hospital bed, but at least he's alive for him to sit there. At least, this time ... No MCD!! You're still a traitor (Past Sirius/remus, Remus/Tonks) Summary: Sirius came from the veil to find to his family. He found them, he found them ensconded in The Burrow. Harry was there and alive and still carrying on. And so was Remus. But this time the love of Sirius' life was married, to his cousin no less.

Sirius has to be the brave one, now, the mature one but he really doesnt want to be.

Harry gets a loving family: I see your monsters (Part of the The Mismatched Family of Harry Potter series, all the queer Marauder ships) Summary: Most of Harry's large, mismatched family is away at the same time. He is not happy, so his dad teaches him a new song. I'm waiting for Mummy ( (Part of the The Mismatched Family of Harry Potter series, all the queer Marauder ships) Summary: Lily is due back from her and Mary's honeymoon any time now. Harry is waiting. Everyone being apart for so long has taken a toll on them all. Not on my watch (Minerva/Poppy, eventual Sirius/Remus, part of the Who Harry should have grown up with series) Summary: Minerva stand with Albus, looking down at Baby Harry Potter, she listens to Albus and decides not a chance, not on her watch. You wont be alone Madadh-allaidh ((Minerva/Poppy, eventual Sirius/Remus, part of the Who Harry should have grown up with series) Summary: Minerva and Poppy have Harry and they are keeping him, come hell or high water. But they have another lost boy out there, a young man who feels alone and won't make the best of choices alone.

Poppy and MInerva will give him what he needs, hope and the family he craves to soothe him because of the one he has lost.

What Does The Wolf Say? (Wolfstar, Jily, Part of the Uncle Swearwolf series) Summary: It's bedtime in the Potter household, which means time to read a book for Harry.

It's Not Always Me You Know? (Wolfstar, Jily, Part of the Uncle Swearwolf series) Summary: Turns out 4 year old Harry can swear in more then one language.

Whoops, Remus thinks to himself, but its not all his fault, no matter what Lily says. I Give Up (Wolfstar, Jily, Part of the Uncle Swearwolf series) Summary: Remus is exhausted, its almost a full moon and the last thing he needs is a howler from Molly. Why did everyone always blame him. He's Marrying Me (Regulus/James, Background Remus/Sirius) Summary: Regulus is nervous, more nervous then he has ever been before. But why wouldnt he be? This is the start of his happily ever after, after all. Mummy Loves You Harry (Gen, Lily-centric) Summary: Lily knew, she knew there was something wrong with that knock on their door. She had known this would be her end, but she swore to anyone who was listening that this would not be Harry's end.

Reincarnation: 957 years and Remus loves Sirius in every one Summary: Remus has loved Sirius ever since he met him, and in every life since. But loving Sirius is never easy, especially when he manages to get some unknown deity involved in their lives. Marauders at Hogwarts: Smile Summary: Our pair of resident idiots being being oblivious and Remus being jealous. I'm coming Petite Étoile Summary: Sirius Black has heard his brother is going to get the mark. Due to The Incident with Snape, he has no one to turn to. He has been protecting his brother from their family ever since he could remember.

He would do the same today, even if it cost him his life. Heather Summary: Listening to "Heather" by Conan Grey, my brain screamed Sirius and Remus. So here is my Wolfstar interpretation with the kind of light angst that comes with our pair of resident oblivious idiots. Mama Hope's Sex ed lesson (Gen, Hope and Remus)

Summary: Hope found a dirty magazine in Remus trunk, she decides its time for her 13 year old to learn all about the birds and the bees, it turns into something else. A conversation about Remus and who he is and his mother being the supportive parent she always will be. Buzzcut Season (Why me mother?) (Gen, supportive Marauders) Summary: Sirius comes back from his first summer holidays after starting Hogwarts scared and worried, what did Walburga do to him?

It's a good job there are so many people who love him in his true home.

Older Marauders:

Happy Birthday, you old wolf Summary: Remus made it to 65, somehow, with his husband by his side. Its time to celebrate with his loved ones. Who's is the tie Harry? (Wolfstar, Drarry, part of the I finally have a family and they are all here series) Summary: Harry was late to lesson, it was ok though. Well, until someone else realised that he didnt have a red tie, but a green one .... He Is Part Of Our Family Too (Wolfstar, Drarry, part of the I finally have a family and they are all here series) Summary: Next instalment Sleep Paraylasis Summary: Sirius cant move, he cant do anyhthing, he can barely breath. Every bad thing that ha sever happened to and because of him races through his paralysied body and he cant do anything about.

But his light, his light that shines so brightly in the darkness of Sirius' life is there to hold him. The World Is Ending and Yet I Smile Summary: The Moon is broken and the moonlight fractured, and yet Sirius looks a this husband and smiles I'm real, I'm here. Open your eyes and see. Summary: Remus often dreams about Sirius and it makes him reluctant ot open his eye to the nothing he knows he will find when he does. But will he? Has he really lost everything?

Muggle Au: The Arcade (Mostly Dorlene, background Wolfstar) Summary: Its Marlene's turn to pick the groups monthly activity. This month Remus has invited along a new friend. I Want To Die Too Summary: Remus sees his worst nightmare happening before his eyes. He isnt brave like Sirius, he isnt strong like James or ruthless like Regulus. Whereas they would all rather go out in a blaze of glory hes expecting to go in a quieter way.

Remus Lupin wont leave this world with a bang, but with a whimper,

Sirius name a whisper on his lips and a shout in his heart. Judge Judy: Wolfstar edition Summary: Remus Lupin has had to take one Siirus BLack to court to pay for the damges he caused. Another fun filled day in the courtroom of one Judge Judy Scheindlin. I Will Be A Secret But Not A Dirty On Summary: Remus and Sirius have been together for 14 years, but no one knows. And now, now Sirius is getting married to appease his mother.

Remus refuses to be a cheat or to be cheated on, so where does that leave them? Red, White and Blue: I Love You Summary: Remus came back from deployment different. He has no faith in himself with the changes to his body. How could he inflict himslef upon his wonderful husband?

Unfortunatly, said wonderful husband is madly in love with Remus and just waiting for him to stop being a prat and come home to him.

Second Wizarding War:

Casual Summary: Sirius has been in an on and off again relationship with Remus for 20 years, kind of hard to always be on when you are in jail.

Still, what happens when Sirius learns he was all in but Remus was still adamnt it was all still just "casual"? I'm Sorry but your not Him (Past Sirius/Remus, Remus/Tonks) Summary:Remus was supposed to be happily married, but he wasn't. His mind swirled to Sirius every moment of every day, but Remus had a wife and an unborn child.

What was he going to do?

Afterlife fics: It Was Always You (Pst Remus/Sirius, Past Remus/Tonks) Summary: Remus has died at the Battle of Hogwarts, and yes, he is sad, and angry, after all he has left his little boy behind, but here, here is where Sirius is. A long overdue conversation needs to happen betwee the two.

After all, Remus needs Sirius to understand that no matter what, It was always him in Remus' heart. A/b/o Breeding my B.... Summary: Sirius is in heat, ready and waiting for his Alpha, so why isnt he here? Remus Lupin better hurry up. Are you a werewolf? (Jegulus, Wolfstar, part of the Are you a werewolf? series) Summary: Regulus is in love with his new boyfriend. He hasnt told James yet. The full moon is the perfect time to go tell him, especially when Regulus wants to confirm that yes, James is obviously a werewolf. Somehting that will make James very happy. Wait, you're the wolf? (Jegulus, Wolfstar, part of the Are you a werewolf? series) Summary: Sirius has just watched his brother walk away to change their lives again. Either hi brother's possibly a werewolf boyfriend would claim and protect him, or he wouldnt and Sirius will have to grab his brother and run again.

He really needs a hug, so he goes to find his possibly a boyfriend lover Moony, the idea that maybe Moony is a werewolf too has rattled around his brain, but unlike Regulus, he knows better.

Animal Au's: Im The Prettiest Thing In The Reef, Love Me Summary: Remus is a grouchy octopus, and Sirius, the most beautiful fish in the reef, is madly in love with him. Now he just has to get Remus to love him back. We Will Find Our Own Herd, Our Own Famil Summary: The Marauders are animals. Sirius and Regulus are leaving their herd, the Blackmanes, they want a new start. They will find their new family on the way as long as they stick together. Thank you for giving me the stars - Lucigoo89 - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own] Summary: Remus and Teddy are outcasts, on the edge of Axolotl society, but Teddy makes a new friend and it looks like Remus may make a something more who is willing to show him the stars.

Soulmate Au: Magic and Mayhem Summary: Soulmates are draw to one another, and their other half's family. It never mattered to Sirius, he had James, Lily and Harry after all But now its just him and Harry, and he feels so alone, so scared and terrified he wont ever meet his soulmate, after all, he knows they are near, so why aren't they looking for him like he is them? Genderswap au: Our house of stone where the ivy grows Summary: Sirius is in an arranged marrigae, one to a cruel man. If she wants to save her brother and her werewolf lover, the love of her life, she has to go through with it.

Maybe one day she will be reunited with Remus, maybe she will be wrapped up in Remus' arms and she in hers. Maybe, but until then Sirius will hope. She will hope that their dreams become reality. Creature Au: High Tide Came and Brought You to Me (Mer Remus/Siren Sirius) Summary: Remus was cursed as a child and became a wermerman. 20 years later and he still hates himself and what he becomes once a moth. Maybe some new addotions to his cove will help him feel a bit more at peace with himself? No War au: This is real, but it isnt ME! (Regulus/James, background Remus.Sirius, Even/Barty) Summary: Regulus loves his brother, something he has to remind himself, because right now he wants to murder him. This is all Sirius fault!

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Omg I need to know more about the married at first sight fic! It sounds amazing! Can’t wait to read it!!

Hello, Mouse! Yay, I'm so glad that you're excited, so am I! I don't know when I'll start posting but I want a decent chunk written before I do.

To be honest, there's not a lot to say except that the fic will be based on the reality TV show Married at first sigh where, for those who don't know, two strangers get paired by a panel of experts, then they are married and basically they have a few weeks to get to know each other before deciding to renew their vows or leave the relationship.

I am obsessed with this show. I've mostly been watching the Swedish version which is so... slow paced and focused on feelings and emotions rather than the shallow rubbish that most reality shows are.

Anyway, this fic will be a Wolfstar story where Sirius and Remus both join the show and get married to each other in the first chapter. The rest of the fic is going to be the two of them getting to know each other throughout the course of the show.

I'm really happy that people are excited about this, I can't wait to share it. While waiting, please have another little snippet.

“He’s a bit odd looking, isn’t he?” Sirius turned to look at his brother, but Regulus had his attention on Remus, his gaze a little narrowed. “If you don’t have anything nice to say it’s perfectly fine to shut up, Reg,” Sirius snapped but his brother seemed unfazed by his tone as he merely shrugged. “Just saying, I think you can do better. His friend though, the tall guy, he looks more like your type.” Sirius looked over to where Remus and Kingsley were chatting, and he had to admit that his brother had a point. Kingsley did look like Sirius’ type, tall and strong and muscular. He was all big gestures and a booming laugh, and Sirius couldn’t deny that Remus almost disappeared next to him. “It’s not all about looks,” James intervened, flinging an arm over Sirius’ shoulders. “Have you met his parents yet?” “Not yet,” Sirius mumbled, his stomach tying itself into knots at the prospect of meeting his new in-laws. “I should introduce myself, shouldn’t I?” “Probably yeah,” James agreed. “They’re really sweet,” Lily said as she gave him a gentle little nudge. “They’ll like you. Parents always like you.” “It’s not other people’s parents that’s the problem,” quipped Regulus, ducking away as James aimed a swat at him. “C’mon,” Lily said, closing her hand around Sirius’ wrist and tugging him along before he had a chance to retort. “Let’s go meet your in-laws.”

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Marauders Dietary/Food Headcanons:

CW/TW: food/relationships with food

(Because I had a random idea and now I’m running with it)

Lily Evans:

- Has been vegetarian basically her whole life

- She did go Vegan for a few years but didn’t keep it up (partially because she missed honey so much)

- Lily loves to cook and create her own recipes

Dorcas Meadowes:

- Suffers from Celiac so they eat gluten free

- They love to bake, they never buy bread from a store

- Dorcas also always brings a plate of food or a treat to share when they visit someone else’s home, always keeping people’s dietary requirements in mind

Sirius Black:

- Surprisingly to some, Sirius is actually not to shabby in the kitchen, he prefers to just help but can make a few dishes quite easily

- Prefers sweets to chocolate, and is a sweet tooth

- Loves seafood, particularly mussel (oysters)

Remus Lupin:

- He was anaemic when he was younger so now he eats red meat at least once a week

- Can follow a recipe… most of the time, but would much rather get takeout than cook for himself

- Remus is also a big comfort eater

Marlene McKinnon:

- Vegan and a big lover of oat milk

- Cannot cook for the life of her, except pancakes, they are her one specialty

- They’re allergic to nuts

Mary Macdonald:

- Is intolerant to a fair amount of foods as she suffers from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)

- Gets moody when she’s hungry and even more moody when she gets bloated (as a result of IBS)

- Her random talent is making the best sandwiches, all of her friends often beg her to make them sandwiches

Peter Pettigrew:

- Is lactose intolerant (I know, ironic) not severely so he sometimes has dairy products anyways

- Has always hated vegetables, loves fruit but can barely stand most vegetables

- Has an amazing sense of smell when it comes to food and is a pretty good cook (totally not ratatouille vibes shh)

James Potter:

- Okay hear me out, he hates red meat. Cannot stand it but he does like chicken and other white meats

- Enjoys cooking and can make some pretty good stuff, every now and then he may go overboard with experimentations, especially different herbs and spices

- Has always wanted to try seafood like crab and shrimp but unfortunately he has a shellfish allergy

Alice Fortescue:

- Is obsessed with breakfast foods, it’s her favourite mealtime ever

- Is good at cake decorating, often teams up with Dorcas

- Alice is also one of those people who often fills their days so much that she forgets to eat sometimes which is part of the reason she never leaves without having had a good breakfast

Andromeda Black:

- AMAZING cook, can bake as well. Honestly just a wiz in the kitchen but never accepts help from anyone because she likes to be in control without distraction when she’s cooking

- She’s not a fan of pastries, she’ll have cake and brownies on occasion but she’s never loved pastries

- She definitely gave cooking lessons at one point in her life

Regulus Black:

- His secret food pleasure is olives, they don’t even need to be with anything he’ll eat them straight out of the jar sometimes

- Has a few different allergies including egg, soy and peanuts

- Never really tried cooking before until he turned 17

Frank Longbottom:

- Great at cooking and loves to do it, flipping pancakes and spinning pizza dough are his favourite thing to do

- His favourite food is Fish and Chips, it’s so plain but he adores it

- Frank loves diversity and when he and Alice would travel he would always explore new cuisines, he loves almost everything he tries

Ted Tonks:

- Always carries toffee with him, Andy always teases him that he’s like an old grandpa, he doesn’t mind

- Is probably one of the least picky eaters you’ll ever meet. Seriously he’ll eat anything

- His all time favourite food is Dino nuggets because it brings out his inner child, that and they’re easy enough for him to make when Andromeda is too tired to cook

Narcissa Black:

- Another vegetarian, stopped eating meat around the age of 9 by herself (meaning her family were not vegetarian)

- Had an unhealthy relationship with food for most of her teenage years but she slowly learned to love it and herself again

- She’s always had a soft spot for eclairs

Kingsley Shacklebolt:

- Very tolerant to spicy food, he would always have competitions with people, James was the only person who ever came close to beating him

- Not technically food but he was an avid tea drinker, he and Remus would always drink tea together

- Kingsley was also that person who would rarely have snacks or packaged food, he would always have proper meals that he cooked

Side note: these are just some of my personal opinions and headcanons! Everyone has their own, please be respectful <3

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Hey I'm the anon who sent that snape and Lilly friendship and how it's a sad one.

Listen,,,, that makes me sad thinking about it but Honestly this my ideal everyone's alive au is (it's kinda long but anyways) :

Snape leaves Hogwarts after that 5th year. He simply goes : if I quit then will I die because of seasonal depression /Londons air quality /alcoholism / a knife attack at tescos in 3 am? Maybe but I'm not dying here in Hogwarts again (1st time is the werewolf incident) . And straight up learns the powers of being a transfer student and transfers to ilvermony,,, it's American but it's not bad bad. And he's Vibing ya know doesn't get hexes for his existence every 12 seconds so that's a bonus.

Hogwarts becomes the au that mauruader fans wished they could get because hey snapes gone now so yay jily and local furries are accepted (wolfstar) :)

Flashforward

Regulus black telling his brother and his gang :ayo got a soul..... mate (I had to do that joke pls let me live). Peter : idk why he joined if it's for the saftey then I think chances of them surviving has increased but if it's for revenge reasons then uhh caught deatheater time.( It's horcrux hunting but make it mauruaders era but they like take turns ya know. And let's just say after 3 horcruxes voldys a bit weak and they get rid of him- it's temporary but enough to dismantle the group.)

Narcissa and luscious straight up go :that man is insane so is Bellatrix , we just had a baby after so long if they touch our kid or even look at it the wrong way I will rip their throat of. So they literally just hand shit in a silver platter.

Eileen and Tobias still are v much alive they just don't care enough about their son and they sort of have this on and off thing. Eillen in some fashion meets the mauruaders and becomes their potioner ( they all pissed their pants because she can be v apathetic and that's scary. They also feel pinches of guilt because they realize what snape went through).

Little bit more time skip ya know intermission : a lot of ministry work and rebuilding laws, getting both side of the aisle to work together. Werewolf laws and whatever ya know the basics. James and Lilly get couples therapy!!! they want each other but ya know how it started and the war.

And it's narcissa who's busy making another charity to promote wellness who has not had a single day of peace that decides - listen it's been 8 ish years I am going to write to snape, because fuck this I can't pretend he's a taboo topic when I really did nothing wrong to deserve his silence . And she gets a reply (he's alive, he's working in a hospital in the department of counter potions for dark arts, he's got a wife (they are in love) and 2 kids, his fav thing to do is fight with a local raccoon because it fights with the possum that he sort of keeps. (he says it's not a pet but he also made it a shelter and yes he tried to put a sweater on it) and his least fav thing is his therapist because she's brutally honest but hey therapy is working). And narcissa knows her husband is dramatic so she straight up goes: we both can meet with our families in Paris.

They do meet. Narcissa literally cannot believe it's the same kid who left Hogwarts, she adores his kids and his wife, there a photograph of all of them together she carries with her. She becomes an aunt sort of figure and they do this shit for like 3 fucking years (her husband is curious but he also knows everything is taking a toll on her so he is just happy that his wife is happy). It takes some time but she becomes snapes friend truly She knows at times it's awakard with her sisters Bellatrix is insane and Andy doesn't fully trust that is well deserved but it hurts, but snape and his family,,,, it's the family she gained.

Flashforward the mauruaders and the malfoys and everyone have his big fucking gala party its them all drunk. And narcissa is an honest drunk. It starts of with Kingsley asking her what's your fav memory with your family not your son and husband and child but just family. She ofc with out a beat goes :it's snape carrying it like a baby in a onsie made by his wife and giving sir banana (the possum) a tour around his house and while his family dancing in slow motion to Abba for 'ambience purposes' and because apparently it calmes the possum down.

She smiles and eye rolls on thought of the memory and takes her drink. The rest of the table have so,, so many questions.

Part 1????

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Do let me know if you want me to continue because this is my comfort au.

Have you thought of actually writing a fanfic? because this is a good concept.

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2020 HP Cross Gen Fest Masterlist & Reveals

And now the moment we've all been waiting for…​ reveals!

Thank you so very much to everyone who has made this fest such an amazing success! Everyone who submitted stories and art, and those who read, reviewed and recced: You guys are the best! And an extra big thank you to those of you who made that extra effort to comment on all the wonderful creations. <3 <3 <3

It's been so much fun getting to post everybody's works and seeing so much wonderful support for HP cross gen; I hope you all enjoyed the fest as much as we did! 

Without further ado, here's a list of all the wonderful participants who worked so hard to create such glorious things for this year's fest!

ART

MyWitch drew absolution [Aberforth/Severus | Mature] Snape is released after a couple of years in Azkaban; the terms of his parole include apologizing in person to Albus Dumbledore’s brother. His stoicism falls apart in the face of Aberforth’s forgiveness.

@paulamcg​ drew A Portrait with Someone New [Luna/Remus | Teen] Luna and Remus happily expecting (in 2004).

@gee-nx​ drew Extra Credit [Hermione/Teddy | Explicit] Teddy has trouble concentrating in Prof. Granger-Weasley's class. However will he manage to make up the extra credit?

@defenestrationisthekey​ drew A day in the sun [Harry/Severus | General] Severus has been turned into a merman without his consent. Harry still accepts them and helps them reconcile the change, see its benefits, and get some of their own back.

@paulamcg​ drew One Bright Day [Amelia/Tonks | General] Amelia and Tonks meeting under an umbrella and a rainbow.

@motherofmercury​ drew What Lily Knew [Draco/Lily Luna | General] Draco and Lily attend the same adult art class, but it isn't until he sees her finished piece that he understands what Lily knew all along.

FIC

@ac1d6urn​ wrote Talk to Me [Harry/Severus | Explicit] Sentenced to serve his time in Azkaban after the Battle of Hogwarts, Snape is startled out of his depression by the inevitable fights during Potter's frequent visits. What will he say to the man when he is free to walk out into the Wizarding World and speak his mind?

@malenkayacherepakha​ wrote Everything he's ever wanted [Harry/Teddy | Explicit] Teddy had hoped that a few years in Australia would be enough to cure him of his feelings for Harry, but when he returns home and gets some unexpected news, he can't stop the feelings rushing back. The only difference is, this time he might actually have a chance.

ThePeanutButterKid wrote The Apprenticeship [Draco/Lily Luna | Explicit] Prompt: Draco always gets what he wants. Even if he has to take it by force.

@gracerene09​ wrote Battleline [Draco/James Sirius | Explicit] The wizarding world believes James Sirius Potter works for his uncle as a Curse-Breaker, but the truth is that he's one of the Auror Department's most effective undercover agents. After months of waiting he's finally got a new case, but this assignment involves him going in as himself, without the disguises he's come to rely on. More importantly, he's meant to be taking down the one person long-suspected of being the most influential wizard in Britain's criminal underworld: Draco Malfoy.

@theslytherinheart​ wrote Truth from Dare [Harry/Scorpius | Teen] During a late night game of Truth or Dare after a fun Saturday out with Albus, Rose, and their friends, Scorpius finds himself being kissed by Harry Potter as a dare. But it's just a game, right?

Evandar wrote we who walk in shadows black [Harry/Lord Voldemort | Mature] In which Harry Potter is a vicious little gremlin who knows too much, and Lord Voldemort adores him for it.

Lilian wrote Advanced Lunacy [Harry/Severus | Mature] Luna accidentally discovers something, and now the whole Wizarding World is abuzz about it. Meanwhile, Snape keeps appearing in Harry's dreams frequently.

@siriuslythatbitch wrote There's No Such Thing as Getting Out of Hand [Narcissa/Pansy | Explicit] When Narcissa Malfoy finds herself confronted with a tempting treat all grown up, will she quash her appetite or sink her teeth in?

@lordofthegoods wrote The Most Expensive Date [Harry/Scorpius | Explicit] Harry just wanted a quiet evening at home, instead he is being auctioned off at a charity event like a piece of meat. Prepared to have a terrible night, Harry is incredibly relieved when the highest bidder turns out to be none other than Scorpius Malfoy—a nice boy who couldn’t possibly have an ulterior motive... right?

@likelightinglass wrote the gentleness that comes [Harry/Severus | Explicit] There's something bothering Severus, and Harry wants to help. It's easier for Severus to let go when he's exploring his submissive side, so Harry plans a weekend to show him just how loved he is, and how much Harry wants to care for him.

@ivyentwined wrote A Technicality [Hermione/Rabastan/Regulus | General] A ritual to cleanse Hermione's new house has unexpected consequences.

@sistersblack wrote a little bit of grit [Draco/Severus | Mature] Draco is a contract potioneer who specialises in medical research. Severus is... not dead, for one.

@freddie-fox-baxter wrote Vacanze Romane [Harry/Scorpius | Explicit] When he let Scorpius help plan his vacation, Harry had no idea just how involved he would be.

torino10154 wrote Her Pleasure [Draco/Lily Luna & Harry/Narcissa | Explicit] He likes to please his woman.

ivermectin wrote no wrong answers [Harry/Remus/Sirius | Explicit] It's almost five years since the war ended, and after an intense bout of aimless wandering and travel, Harry's come back home and is living at Grimmauld Place with Remus and Sirius. Their relationship fills him up with warmth - they deserve to be happy, and it's obvious that he wants what they have. But maybe, just maybe, Harry wants more than a relationship like the one Remus and Sirius have. Maybe he wants that relationship. Maybe he wants them.

@sportivetricks​ wrote Gouge Away [Millicent/Victoire | Teen] The Weasley girl has developed a keen fascination with Millicent's woodworking shop. Millicent can't seem to get rid of her, no matter how hard she tries.

@articcat621 wrote Late One Night [Hermione/Kingsley | Explicit] Late one night, Hermione finally makes her move. 

slowroad wrote Hyperion [Harry/Scorpius | General] Scorpius is a Veela and Harry is his mate.

Evandar wrote Summer Rain [Harry/Regulus | Explicit] A rainy day gives Harry the perfect opportunity to seduce Regulus.

pauraque wrote Summer Heat [Lily Luna/Luna | Explicit] A unexpected visit from Lily's godmother makes a boring summer weekend suddenly a lot less boring.

@liladiurne wrote On the Deficiencies of Translation Spells [Harry/Severus | Explicit] Divorced, single, and free, Harry lives a completely unapologetic life in Paris. Between casual hook-ups and an easy, comfortable job, he likes to think he is as close to happiness as he'll ever be. And when he gets offered a teaching job at the prestigious Académie Beauxbâtons, he thinks he may have found exactly what was missing. But Harry is thoroughly unprepared for what he finds there - a familiar face that's been haunting his dreams for six years.

@goldenzingy46 wrote Save Me From Her Stone-Cold Gaze [Harry/Tom Riddle | General] Tom Riddle has spent years looking for the Chamber of Secrets, and he's glad he can finally purge the school of Mudbloods. At least, that was the plan. It turns out the basilisk wasn't happy to be controlled, and Tom is forced to make a deal with the Master of Death (and maybe fall in love with him).

@epsilonargus wrote break on me like light [Charlie/Sirius | Mature] When the Order brings Sirius Black to Charlie, the man is still covered in the grime of Azkaban. A story wherein Sirius is still a little broken, calls Charlie kid, and Charlie is far too sweet.

@lordofthegoods wrote Fire for You [Harry/Scorpius | Explicit] Nothing can make them keep their hands off each other.

@evenmyzefronposter wrote Waving Through A Window, Suddenly [Harry/Severus | Explicit] Severus Snape was alive and free and perfectly satisfied with his life. He stayed away from other people and he did what he wanted. And if he felt like he was looking through a window at everyone else, that was alright, because he didn't need them anyway. Until Harry Potter moved in across the street, that is. Suddenly, just looking through the window wasn't enough for Severus anymore.

azyxy wrote Trying not to think [Hermione/Teddy | Explicit] She couldn't even remember the last time her and Ron had left the lights on during sex, let alone the last time he’d complimented her, so watching Teddy struggle to keep his hands to his side while she stepped out of her dress was quite the ego boost.

mindabbles wrote Puddlemere’s New Man [Oliver/Teddy | Explicit] Teddy is willing to put in the work. He’s willing to practice twice as hard as anyone else, except that no one can out-work Oliver — a fact that Teddy finds he doesn’t mind in the least.

@clemandben wrote Maybe I'm Amazed [Albus Severus/Draco | Explicit] Albus Potter never set out to fall in love with Draco Malfoy. A small story telling how Albus and Draco came to be married. On their wedding night they dance, talk and make love.

@dwell-on-dreams wrote Learning to Fly [Harry/Severus | Mature] Post-war, Severus is found not guilty, but due to the stigma in the Wizarding world, he decides to live life as a Muggle, leaving everything (but his wand) behind. Harry is overwhelmed, barely having any time to grieve, he keeps being recognised in the street and strangers ask too much of him. He finds solace in the Muggle world, finally exploring who he is without the threat of death, he finds himself in a Muggle kink club watching Severus Snape tying up a young man, and he wants.

@theslytherinheart wrote Best Man [Harry/Scorpius | Mature] In the years since his divorce from Ginny, Harry Potter hasn't cared much for dating, let alone had feelings for anyone strong enough to pursue. Now that his son's wedding is on the horizon, the Best Man, Scorpius Malfoy, has been spending extra time getting input from the Father of the Groom. And Harry finds he doesn't mind Scorpius' constant company one bit.

hannelore wrote The Ache For Love Was Palpable [Lily/Minerva | Mature] Lily once had a crush no one ever knew about. She thought it was just a schoolgirl pash on a favorite professor, but working for the Order throws her and McGonagall constantly together. Even though she's a married woman now, Lily's feelings for Minerva come back in a rush, even stronger than before. "I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable." - Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

@emansil wrote Fields of Strawberries [Harry/Remus | Explicit] As much as Remus has done for Harry over the years, this is the least he could do. Little did Harry know what he would discover about himself when he volunteered to marry Remus so he could keep custody of his infant son Teddy.

@avioleta wrote Writing Harry [Harry/Severus | Explicit] After the war, Harry Potter begins writing letters to Severus.

[ashes-and-ashes]

He’s never had a Christmas without the Others.

Sirius stares at the tree, the leaves and the branches, twigs sticking up like broken bones. The room smells of pine, like the forest on a cold night, the air washed out in shades of moonlight and the sky lit with a thousand stars.

“No,” he says. “I can’t.”

Remus gives him a wan smile. He drops the tree; it lands with a crash, clouds of needles yanked free from the bark. “I - “

Sirius shakes his head - he knows he sounds pissed off but he can’t muster enough energy to care. “No. You know what this means. We can’t - “

He’s never set up a tree without the others, without James’ cackling and Peter’s laughter, Lily helping with lights and Marls and Dorcas all over each other on the floor. Every year, since they were 11, hanging ornaments on top of increasingly larger trees, drinking hot chocolate until it changed to firewhisky and he couldn’t do it.

“Not without them,” he whispers.

Remus nods. “I just...thought you might have wanted something. Something normal.”

Sirisu closes his eyes; anything to block out the hurt on Remus’ face. His fingers clench, digging into the soft fabric of the couch.

“In Azkaban,” he starts, and Remus’ eyes widen. They still hadn’t talked about it, not yet. Sirius coughs to clear his throat.

“In Azkaban, on Christmas. They’d allow us to send letters. A Letter. Just one.”

Remus’ eyes widen. “I never got anything.”

“I never sent it.”

Hurt flashes over Remus’ face. He sits stifly on the sofa next to Sirius, their fingers inches away but not touching. “I’m sorry - “

“I couldn’t,” Sirius says, cutting him off. “I couldn’t send them. I’d pour my heart out, using up all the ink then using blood, pages and pages worth of things I needed to tell you but I couldn’t send it.”

“Why?” Remus breathes.

“I deserved it.” Sirius laughs; he stares at a crack in the ceiling until he thinks his eyes might bleed. “Because I thought I deserved it, being in there.”

“You didn’t.”

Sirius swallows. He can hear fabric shifting, knows Remus must have moved closer. He doesn’t look away though, doesn’t let that familiar burning pain in his heart spread. “I thought I was going to die in there. Hell, I was prepared to die in there. I didn’t deserve life. I didn’t deserve you. I as good as killed them.”

“Shut up,” Remus says, fiercely. “Shut your fucking mouth. You didn’t do anything. You tried to fucking save them. There was nothing more you could do.”

Sirius falls silent. There’s a tightness in his chest, born outside of pain and longing and lost. He looks over; Remus is watching him, eyes awfully bright in the darkness of the room.

“Do you remember?” he asked. “The last Christmas we all had together?”

Remus blinks; his eyes glaze over and Sirius knew he was falling back through time, tumbling through the constellations of long burried memories.

“Yeah,” he says. “At James’. He had everyone over - us, the Twins, Marls and Dorcas, Benj and Caddy and Kingsley.”

“It was Harry’s first Christmas,” Sirius muses. “God he was small.”

He still remembers it - the tree, covered in lights and dusted with snow. (“Magical,” James had told him. “Harry’s never seen snow, cause we can’t go outside and all. Thought he’d might like it.”) He remembers the laughter, Lily’s bright smile and James’ euphoric grin, the fire burning in the hearth. The presents - mountains of them; none of them expected to live past 25 and money was only useful to the living anyways.

He knows Remus is reliving that memory as well, knows it by the harsh set of his jaw, the fog in his eyes. Sirius looks down at his hands, hands that had held Harry, touched Remus, hands that were covered in blood from all the people he had killed.

“Do you think he turned yet?” Remus asks, his voice low. Sirius looks up sharply at him.

“What?”

“Do you think he was a traitor yet?”

He didn’t have to ask who he was. Sirius clenches his jaw.

“I don’t know.”

“He was one of us,” Remus whispers. With a groan he dropped his head into his hands. “Fuck. He was one of us.”

Sirius watches him grimly. “I should have killed him when I had the chance.”

“He lied,” Remus breathes. “The last time I saw him. Just after New Years. I was about to go back to the Camps. ‘Everything’s going to be okay, Moons. We’ll protect them.’”

“You couldn’t have known.”

“I should had suspected.”

“He was our friend,” Sirius says, his voice cracking. “He was like my brother. I would have protected him - I would have died for him. And you know what? I hate him. I hate him with every fiber of my being but all I can think about was that he was the boy who cried himself to sleep every night because he knew Mother was hurting me. He was the one who always brought us breakfast when we were studying, who shared his candy with us when we needed it. He was one of us and he fucking killed James and Lily.”

“I don’t think I could have,” Remus breathes. “I couldn’t have killed him.”

He meets Sirius’ eyes. “I miss them,” he whispers. “I miss them so much. It hurt, being the only one left, knowing you were in Azkaban. God, it hurt.”

“The only way I survived was because I knew you were free,” Sirius says, voice raw. “I would have died otherwise.”

Remus sniffs. He wipes his hand roughly over his eyes then stands. A flick of his wand pulls the tree up in the corner, another twist summoning a candle. “James,” he says, and the flames cast shadows on his face. Sirius watches as it floats over, resting gently on one of the branches.

He closes his eyes. “Lily,” Sirius says, and the candle burns hot and brightly in his hands.

There are tears in Remus’ eyes as he whispers, “Marlene,” watched the candles start to fill the tree.

“Dorcas.”

“Fabian.”

“Benjy.”

“Gideon.”

“Caradoc.”

“Edgar.”

“Frank.”

“Alice.”

Sirius blinks, the lump in his trait making it so hard to breath. “Regulus,” he says, and the candle floats out of his hands.

The room is alight with a golden glow, each light a faint reminder of the people they loved. Remus is rigid besides him, his face a mask of grief.

“I never got to mourn them,” he says. “Never let myself. I knew I’d fall apart.”

Without thinking Sirius reaches over, intertwined their hand. Remus flinches, and Sirius hastily pulls away.

“Fuck, I’m sorry,” he says. “I’m so, so sorry - “

Remus just shakes his head. “Me too,” he says, then leans down and kisses him.

And God he wants it so bad it hurts. 12 years in Azkaban, 12 years of torture and pain and agony and it’s impossible that things were the same, impossible that he could still love despite being so fucked up.

He doesn’t want to close his eyes. Sirius pulls away, slightly, forehead resting against Remus’.

“Please,” he says quietly. “Please don’t let this be a dream.”

Remus gives him a bitter smile. “That first year,” he says. “The first year you were gone. I used to pray that I would wake up, that the nightmare would end. 12 years later and I’m still waiting.”

“What do you need me to do?”

Remus shakes his head. “Wake me up,” he whispers, and presses his lips against Sirius’ again.

[fuckkerydicckery]

What if the Potters had Really Lived | Part three

Sirius Black tucked his long hair behind his ears, he was waiting for Arthur Weasley to show up to the Order meeting. So far most of the members were at the meeting place for the Order. He saw Dumbledore talking to young auror. Sirius Black recognized him as Kingsley Shacklebolt. Sitting across from Sirius was Minerva McGonagall, one of Sirius’s former professors. She was reading her newspaper and by the looks of her face, she was absorbing all the information. Sirius noticed some people were talking in hushed reverent tones and others were reading their papers. It was a period of dark times and Sirius Black was in the middle of the chaos.

All Sirius wanted was his best friend, James Potter, beside him. Ever since James and his son and wife went into hiding in the Weasley home, Sirius’s contact with the Potters was nonexistent. The only time he had some sort of conversation with the Potters was when Arthur would give Sirius a letter from Lily and James. James wasn’t Sirius only friend, he technically had two other friends. One was by name the name of Remus Lupin and the other was Peter Pettigrew. Remus was mostly at the Order meetings but because he was a werewolf once a month he missed a meeting because it was the full moon. Today was one of those days, normally he and Remus would be talking about some serious issue or laughing remembering the days when life was simple. Peter Pettigrew became a sore topic to both Remus and Sirius as he was in Azkaban. Just six months earlier they realized Peter betrayed the Potters and everyone in the Order as he became a Death Eater. Immediately he was sent to Azkaban. After he was sent to Azkaban Sirius immediately told Dumbledore that he was an illegal amiganus and he could easily escape. Dumbledore fixed that problem quickly, but Sirius felt guilty spilling a secret they promised they would never tell anyone. But that was before all of this happened, before James went into hiding, before the order, before Peter became a death eater.

Sirius spotted Arthur from across the room, he waved the ginger man over so he could sit beside Sirius. Really, Arthur was now Sirius’s only friend aside from Remus Lupin. Sirius really didn’t remember Arthur Weasley when he went to Hogwarts, he knew that Arthur Weasley was head boy and that he was an excellent Quidditch player but that's about it. They were seven years apart and Sirius knew Arthur would never bat an eye about the first year when he was in seventh. But now, age didn’t matter. What mattered was the protection of the Potters and stopping the Dark Lord. Arthur shuffled through the crowd trying to grab a seat beside Sirius. Arthur managed to get a seat beside Sirius and the minute he sat down Dumbledore called the meeting to order. Sirius was disappointed as he wanted to talk to Arthur about the Potters and other things going on, but he knew that people had places to be and Dumbledore needed to assign missions to people.

“Thank you, everyone, for coming, we have a lot of information to share today so we must quickly get started.” Dumbledore boomed, grabbing everyone's attention, “so far we have managed to find three Horcruxes, but we have no idea on how to destroy them.” Everyone in the room started to whisper as Dumbledore announced they have found the items that would eventually lead to the death of the Dark Lord. Sirius didn’t know how to destroy the Horcruxes, neither did anyone else in the room. Before Dumbledore told the Order about Horcruxes he didn't know they even existed.

“If I may,” Horace Slughorn peeped in through all the whispers, “ the act of Horcruxes is extremely dark magic, a simple spell would not destroy the soul as well as the dark magic within it. We need something that would kill a human within seconds, or more like destroying the human within seconds.” When Slughorn was talking it reminded him of Lily Potter. She always loved potions class with Slughorn when they attended Hogwarts. Every lick of information he told the class she absorbed, she even knew things that sometimes Slughorn didn’t know or for any teacher of that matter. Sirius knew Lily would have some sort of an idea about how to destroy the Horcruxes. He would have to tell Arthur to ask Lily of what she thought about the issue.

“Sir,” Sirius started, “what are the Horcruxes you have at the moment?”

“We have a diary, a ring, and Helga Hufflepuff's cup. We tried to get Salazar Slytherin's locket but it turns out someone got it before us, they left a note within the false locket. Their initials were R.A.B.” Dumbledore explained to the group. But once Sirius heard the last few words of his sentence he stopped paying attention. Everyone started to talk again,moving on from the subject but all Sirius could think about was the initials and the locket.

“It’s my brother,” Sirius whispered under his breath, no one heard him or if they did they ignored Sirius.

“It’s my brother,” Sirius said once more, louder for the crown to hear. Everyone stopped talking and faced Sirius, “he is R.A.B, the locket must be within Grimmauld place.” Ever since his brother died he never really thought about him, he tried to ignore the fact his brother died because of the Dark Lord. But now he knew Regulus was trying to stop the Dark Lord, which gave Sirius some sort of comfort.

The meeting went on for another hour but the main conversation was talking about assignments to missions. So far Sirius was not sent on a mission ever since James went into hiding, most likely for safety issues. But today, he was assigned a mission.T o retrieve the locket from his parents old home. Sirius hadn’t been in his childhood home in years, he never planned on going back. But because his whole family was dead he was the heir of the home. Sirius knew he had to do this for the Potters and anyone else within the order. Sirius started to make a game plan within his head when Arthur tapped his shoulder.

“Lily wrote this letter for you, it's easier than me telling you everything,” Arthur explained to Sirius, immediately Sirius snatched the letter excited to finally have another way of contact with the Potters.

“Thank you, Arthur, tell Lily thank you. Also, could you tell her if she has any idea of how to destroy the Horcruxes?” Sirius told Arthur, “ and once again thank you.  Thank you for protecting my best friends, we owe you everything.”

‘It’s the least I can do, Sirius. Molly and I don’t mind. I will make sure I ask Lily, she may have an idea. But I should leave you to your letter.” Arthur replied, leaving Sirius with his letter. Sirius quickly opened the letter waiting to absorb all the words.

Sirius,

I believe it's much easier to write a letter then to tell Arthur everything so he can deliver it to you. Things get lost in translation and as well people forget.

You know that both James and I are bored out of our minds, we cannot leave past the backyard and as well we can’t have anyone from the outside world come and visit us. If we could, you and Remus would be at the top of our list. We miss you both so much, mostly James. Arthur is a very nice and James does like his company and hopefully, you do as well,  but I know it isn’t the same as both of you being with James. You two know everything about my husband, maybe more than I. You are more than best friends, you are more so like brothers. Hopefully, soon we can get back to life as normal as it was before.

Harry is as well growing, he is starting to put sentences together. Him and Ron talk constantly, it's mostly all babble but to them it's real. I can already tell they will be lifelong friends. Sometimes Harry asks about Uncle Moony and Padfoot, it breaks my heart to tell Harry that we can’t see them for a little bit. Harry doesn’t understand what we mean, but he misses you terribly.

Please tell Slughorn to make sure he adds a pinch of Sandroot within his potion to take away Peters ability to turn into a rat, I’ve been researching and I believe this will help. As well tell Dumbledore that all the Horcruxes will be objects and items with importance to the Dark Lord.

All the love,

Lily

Sirius’s eyes welled up as he read the letter, once he finished he started back at the top again. His heart ached to see the Potter's once more. It felt nice to have something Lily had touched and put her heart into, he could imagine her writing this letter sipping on some tea watching the children run wild. Sirius looked around the room to find either Dumbledore or Slughorn and he found them together talking. Sirius got up from his seat and slithered through the groups of people talking until he reached his past professors.

“Sorry to interrupt sirs, but I have important information that will benefit both of you.” Sirius told both the gentlemen, “Lily wrote me a letter, by the end she mentioned both of you.”

“What did she say?” Slughorn asked, with hope within his eyes.

“She said to tell you that adding a pinch of Sandwood to your potion will help.” Sirius informed Slughorn, then he turned to Dumbledore, “she also said that the Horcruxes will be something with sentiment to the Dark Lord.”

Sirius excused himself from the two men, then went to leave. He stuffed the letter within his bag then took a deep breath. Soon he would be entering his childhood home, but he needed to do this for the Potters. He needed to do it for humanity's sake.

[requiescatinpacerp-archived]

EVENT 012 - STRATEGIC MEETINGS

The Death Eaters have every reason to celebrate their recent victory of a battle and while they’re all under the safety of the Riddle Home with their masks on firmly they’re already devising their next battle plan. Meanwhile in the safety of the McKinnon Manor the Order is devising a plan of their own, one that will involve a timely revenge.

This event will take place from posting time on Sunday, July the 22nd until the end of day on Sunday, August the 5th, please tag all starters & interactions with requiescatevent012. They should also be dated with date: July 22nd, 1979. Wednesday the 25th of July we will have an exciting turn of events posted via the main. Please keep your eyes peeled for that! Under the readmore is who we’d like you to thread with during the meetings.

DEATH EATERS:

Severus Snape & Rabastan Lestrange @undxraviolxtmoon @rblcstrange

Evan Rosier & Lucius Malfoy @oceaneyesrosier @lxciusmlfy

Regulus Black & Alecto Carrow @regulcs-black @fraternallycarrow

Amycus Carrow & Antonin Dolohov @kxngcarrxw @fromthedeskofdolohov

Nathanial Mulciber & Ezra Travers @xmulclber @unspeakableshadow

Lucinda Talkalot & Bellatrix Lestrange @lxcxndatlkalct @lxstrxnge

ORDERS:

Marlene Mckinnon & Marcel McKinnon @littlemissmckinnon @marcelxmckinnon

Alice Longbottom & Benjy Flitwick @a-force-of-alice @bitsofbenjy

Emmeline Vance & Sirius Black @brilliantvance @xblackisms

Mary MacDonald & Molly Weasley @marygreermacdonald @mothermollyweasley

Frank Longbottom & Remus Lupin @franklongbottxm @maleficmoony

Caradoc Dearborn & Kingsley Shacklebolt @cardixdearborn @k-shackleboltx

Lily Potter & Alastor Moody @lilyinvestigates @angelixmoody

Andromeda Tons & James Potter @theblackxbird @jamesthestxg

Arthur Weasley & Dirk Cresswell @arthurweasleyx @dirkcresswellhxlps

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Everyone Lives AU

Table of Contents beta'd by @ageofzero @magic713m @ccboomer @aubsenroute @somebodyswatson

Chapter Nine A Place To Hide

In the moment between Kingsley’s announcement that the Ministry had fallen and the time it took the silver lynx to vanish, Harry envisioned a dozen balcony kisses and quiet nights that he could have shared with Ginny, snatched away in a moment. It was hard to feel anything but anger.

Someone screamed and there was a crash overhead, like the sound of a Shield Charm breaking. He fumbled in his robes for his wand. Guests ran for the edge of the tent, only to be greeted by hooded and masked figures. Some Disapparated; some were Stunned.

“Protego!” several voices shouted. Harry turned to see Remus, Tonks, and Sirius cast Shield Charms as guests behind them Disapparated with sudden pops.

“They already broke the protective charms —” Ginny ducked, and pulled Harry down with her as a purple spark passed over their heads.

Harry cast a Shield Charm over the two of them and Ginny grabbed her wand. She hit a hooded figure with a Stunning spell. Harry wanted to stay and fight alongside her, but if the Death Eaters discovered him —

“Harry!” Ron appeared suddenly with Hermione and grabbed they both arm. “We have to leave — now.”

And as Ron pulled him away from Ginny, Harry realised that this was the moment. There would be no tearful goodbyes with his parents. There would be no words of encouragement from Picksie. There would be no final offers from Tonks or Remus. There would not be another fight with Sirius. This was it.

“Are we bringing Cedric?” Hermione asked.

Harry ducked under another curse and scanned the chaos of the battle. He found Cedric not far from where he and Ginny had left him, still with Viktor and Christian.

Cedric hastily cast a Shield Charm as Viktor fired a curse as loud as a cannon’s boom off into a cluster of cloaked combatants. Christian was only a few paces further, slowly being forced back by a pair of Death Eaters as he Shielded himself and Gabrielle.

Harry hesitated, but only for a moment. Ginny had made a point — Cedric, while he may take time to work up his courage, did not back down from a fight.

“Cedric!” he shouted. He stepped as far away from Hermione as he dared.

Cedric turned, brow creased. He seemed both surprised and confused to see that Harry was still here. While Harry couldn’t hear what Cedric shouted back, the meaning was clear.

Go.

For whatever reason, Cedric wasn’t coming.

Someone else shouted for Harry. He turned, just in time to see his parents. James fired curses from the cover of Luna and Neville’s Shield Charms, and Lily, wandless, searched the crowd and called desperately for Harry.

Harry met Lily’s eyes from across the tent, then Hermione’s hand closed on his wrist, and the wedding vanished.

There was a moment of silence as the pressure around Harry’s ears decreased, and a bit of pain and discomfort as he compressed in on himself, and then with a pop, Hermione had Apparated them to safety.

Harry opened his eyes, blinking as he took in the new crowds of people rushing around him. People dressed in casual Muggle attire streamed past him, Ron, and Hermione. A few stared as they passed. Automobiles hurried down the street, and shop window displays glared brightly in the night.

“Where are we?” Ron asked, as Hermione pulled them down the street.

“Tottenham Court Road,” Hermione said in a rush. “Hurry, hurry — we need to find somewhere to change.”

“We haven’t anything to change into,” Ron protested as he followed Hermione.

Harry cursed himself for not carrying the Cloak on him at the wedding. He had carried it and the map on his person for an entire year, but he had let a wedding and the illusion of safety catch him off guard. Mad-Eye would be furious.

“It’s okay,” Hermione said, though she did not sound okay. “I’ve got clothes. Just try and act naturally — oh, this will do.” She pulled the boys into a side street, a tight narrow alley between two shops, not unlike the entrance to Knockturn Alley.

In the shadowy space, Hermione opened up her beaded handbag and reached inside. Harry stared as her entire arm disappeared into the small bag.

“Undetectable Extension Charm?” he asked.

She nodded. “It’s tricky, but I think I’ve done it okay. I’ve managed to fit everything we need in here.” She pulled out a change of clothes and tossed them to Ron. “Harry, you’d better get under the Cloak.” She stuck her arm back into the bag and her mouth pursed in the way it did when she was focusing hard on a difficult Transfiguration problem as she searched her deceptively large bag for the Invisibility Cloak.

“When did you do all this?” Ron asked as he pulled his robes over his head.

“I told you at the Burrow, I’ve been packing. I thought we might need to make a quick getaway and I… I just had a feeling…”

“You’re amazing, you are.” Ron handed his robes to Harry and pulled on the T-shirt and jeans Hermione had handed him.

“Ah — here.” She pulled the shimmering fabric out from the bag.

Harry traded her Ron’s robes for the cloak and hastily pulled it over his shoulders and head. “What about everyone else at the wedding?” he asked.

“We can’t worry about that.” Hermione fastened her bag. “You’re the one they’re after. We would put everyone in more danger by going back.”

Harry looked down at his wand and wondered if his parents were glad that he had gotten away or if they were upset that he had left without them. His gut twisted both with guilt and fear.

“Come on,” Hermione said, and took Ron’s hand. “We ought to keep moving.”

“Your dress, Hermione,” Ron pointed out.

“You can change under the Cloak,” Harry offered.

“We can’t risk someone spotting you,” she said. “I’ll be alright.” She dug through her bag one more time and retrieved a coat. It did not minimise the dramatics of her shimmering dress as much as Harry would have liked.

“Why Tottenham Court Road?” Ron asked as Hermione pulled him up the street.

Harry hurred after them, careful to stay on Ron’s heels so that the crowd would not bump into him.

“It just popped into my head,” Hermione said, snapping perhaps a bit more harshly than Harry thought was warranted. “I’m sure we’re safer out in the Muggle world. It’s not where they’ll expect us to be.”

“Yeah,” Ron said. “It just feels a bit exposed —”

Across the street, a pair of men whistled loudly. One called out to Hermione, “Ditch ginger and come with us!”

Ron turned to glare, but Hermione ignored the attention and hurried down the street.

“Maybe we should get inside somewhere,” she conceded, and pulled Ron into a small cafe. A neon sign on the window advertised all-night service, though the shop itself was empty.

Harry was hit with the scent of burnt coffee and stale pastries as Hermione pushed the door open. A bell overhead jingled, and a voice called out from a back room that someone would be out in a moment.

Hermione slid into a booth in the corner, choosing the side that gave her a view of the door. Ron sat beside her, leaving Harry to take the seat with his back to the entrance. He did not care for it, but under the Cloak, he could not complain.

“Where do we go, then?” Harry whispered. He was anxious to keep moving. Ron may have felt exposed on the street, but Harry felt like a sitting target inside this cheap wooden booth.

“We can’t go anywhere they might look for us,” Hermione said. “There’s a chance my parents house might be safe, but I don’t know.”

“We aren’t far from the Leaky Cauldron,” Ron suggested. “I don’t mean to stay,” he added hastily when Hermione glared at him. “Just that we could try to find out what’s happened —”

“We know what’s happened!” Hermione said. “Voldemort’s taken over the Ministry. What else do we need to know?”

Ron did not say anything, and neither did Harry, but Harry privately agreed with Ron. There was a lot they needed to know.

Harry needed to know if his parents had made it out safely, if Ginny was alright. He needed to know if Remus and Sirius and Tonks were safe, and where Picksie and Regulus had gone, or if they were still trapped at the Burrow. He needed to know why Cedric had not come with them.

“Grimmauld Place,” he said suddenly.

The shop bell jingled and Harry jumped. He turned and watched two men in overalls slip into a nearby booth. Just as Harry was settling back into his seat, a waitress came out from a back room and approached their table.

Hermione hastily ordered two cappuccinos and the woman went to take down the order of the two men. They waved her off, and Harry frowned.

“We can’t go to Grimmauld Place,” Hermione whispered. “Snape knows its location.”

Harry kept his gaze on the men in the booth. “Cedric thinks it’s safe. I think he’s planning to meet us there. He said he wanted to look at the Black library again —”

Harry stood before he had quite realised what he was doing. The two men in overalls had also stood — and they had drawn wands.

“Stupefy!” Harry shouted as one of the men launched a curse at Ron.

Ron ducked and pulled Hermione under the table with him. The Death Eater’s curse struck the wall where Ron had just been. Harry’s struck true, knocking one of the men back into the table he had been sitting at. The one still on his feet could not see Harry, and for lack of a better target, fired another curse at Ron. Thick, dark coils of rope shot from his wand, snaking their way under the table and binding Ron’s feet.

The waitress, who had appeared with her cappuccinos just in time to see one man thrown into a wall by an unseen force and the other tying up one of her customers, screamed and ran for the door.

Harry tried to Stun the second Death Eater as he had the first one, but the waitress, in her hasty exit, ran right into him. She stumbled to the floor and Harry’s spell went wild. It struck the window, and the glass shattered.

As the waitress fell, the Death Eater seemed to realise what was going on.

“Expulso!” he shouted in Harry’s direction.

The small explosion blew both Harry and the waitress into the wall. He had barely gotten his arm up to protect his face when the table slammed against him. His head struck the wall and his vision darkened for a moment.

“Petrificus Totalus!” Hermione shouted, and with a thud the Death Eater fell flat on his back, body rigid.

Harry struggled to bring the world back into focus. He pushed the table off of him with a huff and checked on the Muggle waitress. She had collapsed beside him and blood pooled where her head had struck the floor.

Harry’s own head throbbed, and the back of his neck felt warm, but he prioritised the waitress’s wounds.

“D-diffindo,” Hermione stuttered as she attempted to free Ron. Her spell, aimed for the ropes around his legs, missed, cutting across his legs. Blood soaked his jeans and Ron bit down on his wrist to stifle a yell of pain.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” Hermione said hastily. “My hand’s shaking — Diffindo.”

When Harry was sure that he had done enough to at least keep the waitress alive, he took a look at Ron’s leg.

Though the initial gush of blood made it look bad, Harry had an easy time knitting Ron’s wound closed. He helped Ron stand and they climbed over the rubble of the small explosion to where the Death Eaters were laid out on the linoleum flooring.

“What do we do?” Hermione whispered. “How did they find us? What are we supposed to —”

“This one’s seen you with us, Harry,” Ron gestured to the one Hermione had Petrified. Though his body was motionless, his eyes flicked over the three of them. “Dolohov, I think. The other’s Rowle. I recognise them from their posters.”

“Who cares who they are!” Hermione said. “We can’t let them tell the others that they’ve seen Harry!”

“Do we… kill them?” Ron asked.

Harry glanced out the shattered window. People across the street were beginning to take notice.

“We don’t need to kill them,” Harry said. “Ron, can you get the lights? Hermione — do you think you could erase his memory?”

“I-I can try,” she said, as Ron used the Deluminator to click off the lights in the shop. Her voice still trembled, and Harry remembered how she had missed a simple Severing Charm when freeing Ron.

“You can do it, Hermione,” he said. “Just erase any memory of us being here. Ought to do the waitress, too. Ron, help me set the place right. Can’t have them waking up wondering who they dueled.”

“Right,” Ron said, and struggled to pull his wand out of his tight jeans.

It helped to have a task, even something as unimportant as repairing a Muggle shop. He and Ron worked in relative silence, whispering incantations to remove evidence of their physical presence, while Hermione very carefully removed the memories of their presence.

When Hermione had finished, Ron helped her get the Death Eaters back into their booth. Harry, with some effort, dragged the waitress behind the counter.

“But how did they find us?” Hermione asked again, voice thick with anxiety. “How did they know we were here?”

“Let’s discuss it somewhere safer,” Harry said. He reached for Hermione’s hand.

“Are you sure Grimmauld Place is really safe —”

“It has to be,” he said, if only because he needed it to be true. “It’ll also be the best place to get news from the Order.”

Hermione chewed on her lower lip for a moment. “Okay.”

Ron clicked the Deluminator, illuminating the cafe once more, then took Hermione’s hand. The three of them Disapparated on the spot, and reappeared in the small park that marked the heart of Grimmauld Place.

Harry hastily pulled the cloak over himself, feeling stupid for having forgotten before they had Disapparated. Then he crossed the street to number twelve, unique from the others on the street in both its dark paint and because none of the Muggles — nor any wizards outside the Order — could see it.

The black door had no knob, but Harry tapped it with his wand. Through the thick wood, he heard a series of chains coming undone, and locks clicking open. Bolts slid back into the wall and the door swung inward.

The hallway was dark as Harry stepped inside.

“Careful, mate,” Ron said. “Dad said they set traps in case Snape ever came back.”

“You didn’t mention this sooner?” Hermione snapped at him.

But Harry understood why. Ron wanted to be somewhere connected to the Order as badly as he did.

Harry lit his wand, but he did not see any sign of a trap. Portraits lined the corridor, and the large portrait of Walburga Black at the end was still shrouded. The staircase wound up into the bedrooms upstairs and the cluttered attic above. The carpet, though worn and thin, was clean and the bannister even looked recently polished.

“Kreacher seems to be keeping the place up,” Harry whispered.

“I always thought he might bugger off if Regulus had abandoned the place,” Ron said.

“I don’t think he can just ‘bugger off,’” Hermione hissed.

Harry took another step into the hall, and Mad-Eye Moody’s voice, eerie and distorted, echoed in the hall.

”Severus Snape?”

“We’re not Snape!” Harry said, but the words had hardly left his mouth when a burst of cold air passed over them, and his tongue folded in on itself. He could not speak, and the panic made it hard to breathe.

But it was brief. The wind subsided, and with it, the curse in his mouth. Ron retched and Hermione gasped for breath.

“That —” she coughed, “I think it was — m-must have have been — a T-Tongue-Tying Curse.”

Harry swallowed. Surely Mad-Eye had done more than that to keep Snape out of the Order’s former Headquarters. He stepped forward again, wand brandished, but unsure what to be prepared for or what he could do to counter it.

At the end of the hall, something moved. Harry froze, but it did not. From the floor, a gray, ghostly figure rose. He had the familiar flowing beard and tall frame, but the body was bent at odd angles, and the eyes sunken. It looked all too much like the broken form that had laid on the ground beneath the Astronomy Tower.

Hermione screamed, and the portrait of Walburga Black joined her, curtains flying apart and her mournful shriek filling the entire house.

The thin, wasted arm lifted and gestured silently at Harry, pointing with an accusing finger. It began to glide toward them, picking up speed as it approached.

“We didn’t kill you!” Harry shouted, and as he did, the figure burst apart. The house seemed to settle, and the only sound was Walburga Black, still shrieking about the atrocities of Mudbloods and half-breeds and blood-traitors in her home.

Hermione had nearly collapsed from fright, and Ron awkwardly held her.

“I-it’s alright,” he said. “It’s gone… whatever it was…”

Harry, though afraid of what else might appear, approached Walburga’s portrait. No other horrors or curses rose to greet him, and he struggled to pull the black curtains of her portrait closed. It was like trying to push past a Shield Charm. The curtains simply would not rejoin. She seemed intent on holding onto her brief moment of wakefulness for as long as she could.

Just as Harry was about to give up and try Stunning the portrait, a pair of pale hands gripped the curtains and pushed. Together, they re-sealed the portrait, and silenced the Black family matriarch, at least for the moment.

Panting, Harry looked up at his helper, and was surprised to see Regulus Black.

Without thinking about it, Harry embraced him.

Regulus went stiff beneath Harry’s arms, and was unsure what to do with his own arms. He held them out from himself uncomfortably for a moment, then finally said, “Er — I am not Sirius.”

“I know,” and Harry could not help but laugh. He was so overcome with relief to know that at least one person was safe. “How did you get here? When —”

“I have not been here long,” Regulus said. “As soon as I saw the Death Eaters arrive at the Burrow, I Disapparated. I’m afraid some of them are familiar with my feline form. Hiding wasn’t an option, and neither was helping.”

The guilt Harry felt for running was lessened a bit. Staying would have put people in danger, and though he had known that, hearing Regulus echo the sentiment helped him accept it.

“Is anyone else here?” Harry asked.

“Only Kreacher.”

Hermione and Ron reached the end of the corridor. Ron was still pale, and Hermione was wiping tears from her cheeks.

“Did you see… that apparition when you arrived?” Hermione asked.

Regulus’ face was grim. “It was equally unpleasant for me.” He glanced at the concealed portrait of his mother. “Come. Let’s not linger.”

They followed Regulus upstairs and into the drawing room. On the landing, however, something caught Harry’s eye. He started for the study instead.

“What is it?” Ron asked.

The door had not been entirely closed, and while that would not have seemed odd to Harry, the doorframe looked wrong. He approached and ran his hand down the wood casing. It had been bent out of shape as if it had been struck by a stray Bludger. A crack splintered the wood and the frame sagged at a dangerous angle. Nervously, Harry pushed the door open. Behind him, Hermione gasped in horror.

The floor was black with ash, and the bookshelves charred. Everything in the study had burned.

“What happened?” Hermione asked.

Harry thought the answer was obvious. Someone had burned the books in the Black library.

“So much for researching Horcruxes,” Ron said.

“It was like this when I arrived,” Regulus said, voice pained.

It had not been long ago that Regulus had attacked Mundungus in Knockturn Alley in an attempt to take back some Black family silver, though doing so had nearly gotten him caught by the Ministry. Harry did not think for a moment that Regulus had anything to do with this.

“Could it have been Sirius?” Harry asked.

“He’s always been the volatile one,” Regulus said, “but I have no proof one way or another. Perhaps, in a hasty exit, someone did a poor job of disposing of Order secrets.”

“This is awful,” Hermione whispered.

“Come,” Regulus said, and closed the door as best as he could. “Tell me what you know. Perhaps we can get a clearer picture of the evening’s events.”

They followed Regulus back into the drawing room. Harry sank into a chair and tried to ignore his headache. Ron peered out the window as Hermione shared with Regulus how they had run and been followed.

Once Harry realised that Regulus had left the wedding even before they had, he didn’t care much about what was said. He tuned Hermione out, uninterested in hearing her version of the evening he had already endured. It didn’t help, either, that his scar had begun to prickle.

“You handled that well,” Regulus said, when she told him how she had removed the Death Eaters’ memories.

“It was Harry’s idea,” she said.

He half-heartedly waved away her thanks, and rubbed at his scar. He didn’t understand why it was bothering him now…

“We still don’t know how they found us,” Hermione said.

“I thought it might be the Trace,” Ron said, and Harry briefly wondered why Ron had not brought it up earlier, “but that would mean leaving Harry. And anyway, they haven’t followed us here.”

“No, I don’t think it was the Trace,” Regulus said, and ran his hand over his mouth. He leaned back in his chair and gazed at the window, though curtains covered it. “No matter what it was, at least you’re safe here, for the time being. With any luck, the Order —”

Harry yelped suddenly, and doubled over in his seat. He ran his hands over his forehead as the prickling turned into a white-hot searing pain.

“Harry?” Hermione cried, and Harry felt a hand on his shoulder — too sturdy to be Hermione’s, and too calloused to be Regulus’.

“What is it, Harry?” Ron asked.

The pain faded, leaving Harry with nothing but a dull throb.

“What did you see?” Ron pressed.

“Nothing,” Harry muttered. “He’s just angry. Really angry.”

“But is he at the Burrow? Is he cursing someone? What did you see —”

“I didn’t see anything! You think I don’t want to know where he is as badly as you do?” Harry let his glasses fall to the floor and pressed the heels of his hands against his eyes.

“Your scar?” Hermione asked. “I thought that connection had closed —”

“Well it reopened,” Harry snapped.

“But you’ve got to close it again! Dumbledore didn’t want you to use that connection. It’s dangerous — Voldemort can use it against you —”

“Yeah, I remember.” Harry remembered quite bitterly how he had tried to save Snape, how he had had faith in Snape’s love for Lily, only for it to have all been a trap, a trap that had been Snape’s idea in the first place.

“Harry,” Regulus’ voice was much softer and far less desperate than Ron and Hermione, “is that blood?”

Harry, though the pressure in his head was still overwhelming, nodded. “Hit my head in the cafe. It’s fine, though.” He fought the urge to be sick and wished desperately for a glass of water.

Hermione gasped suddenly, forcing Harry to open his eyes. A silver streak of light had entered through the window, and it took the shape of a weasel on the drawing room floor.

Mr. Weasley’s voice emanated from the weasel. “Family safe. Do not reply. We are being watched.”

And then the apparition was gone.

Beside him, Ron collapsed onto the floor with relief and a half-laugh. Harry envied him.

Another surge of pain lanced through Harry’s scar and his stomach twisted. He felt hot and cold at once and stood, meaning to get to a bathroom, to get out of this room and away from the worry of his friends, but he was too slow. He only made it two steps before he collapsed to the floor and the drawing room of Grimmauld Place vanished.

The long dining hall was illuminated only by the fireplace at the end. The chandelier above the table glittered as it reflected the flames, but otherwise sat dark. At his feet, a Death Eater writhed in pain. The man’s scream echoed in the large hall. But he, standing still and wandless, was not the one torturing this failure. He had delegated this task to another. Draco Malfoy stood at his side, face ashen, wand outstretched and trembling.

“More, Dolohov?” he asked, as the screaming paused, replaced with breathy sobs. A mockery of curiosity curled around his words as he continued taunting, “Or shall we end it and feed you to Nagini? Lord Voldemort is not sure that he will forgive you this time. You called me back, merely for this? Merely to tell me that Potter had escaped again? Draco, give Dolohov another taste of our displeasure.”

Draco’s lips trembled, but the Unforgivable did not issue forth right away.

“Do it, or feel my wrath yourself!”

Harry resurfaced in his own body and gasped as if he had come up for air. Everything inside felt too warm, like he was overheating, but his skin prickled with cold. His head throbbed and though his vision was blurry, he could tell that Ron, Hermione, and Regulus were all kneeling over him. He swallowed down the bit of bile that tried to climb up his throat.

“What did you see?” Regulus asked. The question was so calm, so steady, that Harry, too, felt steadier even as he blinked, struggling to bring the world back into focus.

“He knows,” Harry said. “He knows where we were tonight.”

Hermione choked on a sob. “I’m sorry — I did my best —”

“It’s alright,” Regulus said, voice as even as ever. “Harry, who did you see?”

“Dolohov — and Malfoy.”

“No one else?”

Harry shook his head, though the act made him dizzy. He heard relief in Regulus’ sigh and, despite how awful his entire body felt, also felt a bit of Regulus’ relief. Voldemort was torturing Dolohov, which meant that Voldemort did not have James, Lily, Remus, or Sirius. Most likely, he had not captured anyone in the Order.

For now, at least, everyone was safe.

[nibimatatabi]

*shrieks*

Okay but like

HERE LET ME JUST

so I’ve always had Cassie be an only child BUT LISTEN UP FRIENDS

what if she has an older sibling? let’s say a brother because why not

and his butt goes to Hogwarts and he’s only a year older

and because I hate myself/my Cassie

He gets put into Gryffindor [hi yes my name is Nibi and this the story of why Cassandra should ALWAYS BE AN ONLY CHILD because this is going to BE AWFUL]

So now imagine for a moment my Cassandra who has met Maggie a year early and is kind of jaded because she’s afraid she won’t be a witch (even though she displays more magic early on than her brother does). And he’s always been a good brother, chivalrous and kind and daring. So y’know, A+ perfect Gryffindor compared to his sneaky, sly little sister who was called a snake-in-the-grass at age five (by him, none the less!).

So they move to London sometime the summer when her brother turns 11; so yeah, duh, Hogwarts. And little 10 year old Cassandra is grumpy because ‘I want to go HOME’ and her brother gets an owl, but she names her Sunshine anyway. And when he comes home for Christmas he basically cannot shut up about the school, and it pisses Cassie off, because she’s still convinced she won’t get a letter. So her brother tells her how amazing Gryffindor is, and how kind and accepting and how much he’s learned about the wizarding world and he’s making friends with all kinds of people (”Peter is muggle-born like me! And Kingsley wants to work for the Ministry like his Dad!”) and he’s just ‘aaaaah’ so excited. And he says something about Slytherins being jerks like all the time, and they use this awful horrible word to talk about muggle-born students and he hates them. But that’s okay - everyone hates Slytherins. They’re stuck up and full of themselves and think the world revolves around them and they all aspire to greatness.

“Well what’s wrong with that?” Because Cassandra is God’s Gift to the World Amen (no joke; she knows she’s special, she knows she’s good, she knows she’s going to be something - whatever it takes to get her where she wants to be, she has no problem doing). And her brother gets all annoyed and tells her that she doesn’t get it, since she doesn’t go there. And their parents have to break up the fight because CHILDREN WE ARE ON A PLANE.

So when summer rolls around, he’s smitten by his friends and is practically begging to get to see them over the break. Mother says ‘hell no’ because she doesn’t do magic at all, and Father is like ‘we’ll see; let’s include your sister though’ because she dogged them all around Diagon Alley while her mother just looked dazed and confused. When the owl arrives bearing two letters, Cassandra is overjoyed. She’ll be just as good, if not BETTER than her brother, so help her God.

So of course Big Brother introduces Baby Sister to Gryffindor Friends Kingsley, Peter, Remus, Sirius, and James. And that is how Cassandra meets Regulus because Sirius is just like ‘WAIT you have a little one too?!?’ And then the kids get unceremoniously kicked because ‘not enough space go sit with someone else’ and Cassandra glares at her brother and then just looks at Regulus with distaste like ‘how dare you.’ So he starts to walk away and she follows him because ‘no no I don’t do people well and my brother just dumped me on you so you’re stuck with me til we’re sorted.’

So this is how she gets introduced rather lackluster-ly to the rest of her house. Barty Crouch, Evan Rosier, Mulciber, and Avery in particular (guess who looks at her and goes ‘a good target’ - rhymes with Kevin, sounds like Hosier). So the train ride is kind of (very) AWFUL and by the time they get there she can’t decide if she wants to strangle these five boys or make friends with them (spoiler: it’s actually strangle them).

So her brother hugs her and tells her she’s going to make such a good Hufflepuff and she just kind of ‘what now?’ because she’s LITERALLY just sat with five Certifiably Slytherin boys so again: pisses her off. Cassandra still endures the whole ‘you don’t belong here’ bit but she’s a little too pissed off to care at that point because HOW DARE YOU since all her brother said about Hufflepuff is...loyal and kind. And she’s just like ‘I AM NOT KIND YOU FOOL!’ aka Disney Villain child over here.

So of course, she saunters on up to the sorting hat like she owns the place. And after three minutes the hat says Slytherin. And her brother is floored, so as she’s going over to the table he makes a ginormous arse of himself “BUT SHE’S MUGGLE-BORN! PROFESSOR SHE CAN’T!” and Cassandra’s mouth opens and she’s all kinds of pissed off and angry while her twelve year old brother is being jerked back down, but she tosses her head and stalks over to the Slytherin table which has gone silent. Dead. Silent. And she plants herself next to Regulus with all the fury a tiny 11 year old ballerina has. He moves away as much as he can because even at 11 she can be scary when she’s mad.

Cassandra is not welcome in the house. She is ridiculed. Right out the gate. Because her brother has ruined any chance of her making friends. Rosier and his lapdogs pick on her pretty much immediately, but she is fearless - at first. She snaps back at them and when the girls start to pick on her she still doesn’t cave. She just gets mad at her brother, who looks at her with pity and keeps pulling her along with him to make friends with people in his year.

This is how she meets Evanna and Lucile. Evanna, who becomes Cassandra’s best friend, and Lucile, who becomes like a sister. The three girls quickly become friends, even though Cassandra is still adamant that she doesn’t do people (’I have a cat; his name is Sebastian. There’s a reason for it’). By Christmas break, her brother pities her and she tells him right where he can shove his pity because he’s the reason she’s sitting with the two Ravenclaws and not the girls in her house like Kaylyn and Lucinda.

“I may have made a mistake with Cat...” because for whatever reason that has always been when he calls Cassie and it’s scary fitting with how cat-quiet she is and how sneaky she can be. And she also talks to her orange cat, who cannot stand him. Probably because Cassandra is furious with him for ruining any chance of making friends. “Shouldn’t she at least be friends with your brother, Sirius?” There’s a LOT of nervous laughter and Sirius kind of looks away just ‘eheh.’ “Did the hat throw my baby sister to the wolves?!”

“To the snakes,” Peter is helpful. Cassandra’s brother is not amused. When they get to the station, Cassandra’s brother is all helpful and cheerful and grabs his baby sister, hauling her away from Lucile and Evanna and literally dragging her to their parents, already trying to lie through his teeth about how good of a big brother he’s being.

“You literally ruined-”

“Ruined her appetite! I bought her too many sweets, so sorry,” and he won’t let Cassandra talk about school.

“Why are you being so mean? You’re not letting me tell Mama and Papa about my house,” she’s puffed up.

“Do you have anything nice to say?”

“Yes!” He doesn’t buy it, and tells them she’s a Ravenclaw - the smart house. Cassandra hisses at him, cat like, furious. But they’re still siblings and she’ll still bite someone’s head off for saying anything bad about him. Cassandra spends the break sulking and is glad to return to Hogwarts, where she can pretend her kind and charming and chivalrous brother doesn’t exist. It mostly works, until someone makes a snide comment about Delacroix and she hexes someone in her own house. Oops. That’s a week of detention. The only thing she learns from it is to be stealthier.

Big Brother keeps an eye on his Baby Sister and Cassandra learns that she can’t sneeze without a Gryffindor telling him.

By her third year she’s mostly immune to the comments. Her brother literally kicks Rosier’s arse in the hall for pulling his wand on her, and while she’s thankful and relieved that she didn’t have to get into trouble, she still chews him out. “I can handle myself!”

“Oh really? Four on one? Does that sound fair?”

“Mulciber and Avery are all bark and no bite. And if Black puts a hand on me you AND Sirius will crawl all over him - he’s not STUPID,” she realizes as she says that that oh God she’s just like every other girl in her house and crushing on Regulus. God. Dammit.

“And what if they weren’t?”

“Then you’re an idiotic boy for risking yourself fighting one of them!”

“Oh, you wouldn’t have helped?” Cassandra opened her mouth, closed her mouth, glared at her brother.

“Of course I would have. You’re my brother and I’d...” kill for him, to be honest. “Definitely hex a few people,” she also wouldn’t get caught, being a little Bambi-eyed girl.

So her third year rolls into her fourth, into her fifth, into her sixth. And her brother can’t keep them from beating the Slytherin out of her - they still manage to cow her down, to make her small, but when she’s not around her house she exists, she’s allowed to take up space. And while she vastly prefers Evanna and Lucile to her brother and his friends, she still gets drawn in (especially when Evanna starts dating her brother; lord God save her she stops talking to Evanna for a week). And then this is when Lucile and Remus start to date, and the result of Sirius dating Cassandra is both an irate brother and a jealous brother (Sirius is unaware of the latter, but Cassandra’s brother makes his displeasure known in the halls - loudly. “I don’t need my sister tangling with a BLACK, Sirius!” “Excuse me I’ve been adopted by the Potters!” “Oh good luck getting the to fly. She’s my SISTER!” “So? She’s sixteen! She’ll be seventeen in May!” “I don’t care how old she is! She’s my little sister! You can’t date her!”)

Her brother has wanted to be an Auror since fourth year, so that’s where he goes after Hogwarts - by the skin of his teeth as a muggle-born. And Cassandra keeps her relationship with Regulus totally under the radar. Right up until, you know, he breaks up with her because he killed someone. And then the cat is out of the bag and her brother actually goes to punch Sirius in the face because ‘why didn’t you tell me I could have stopped this’ and the poor Baby Sister is dragging her Very Annoyed Big Brother back into the house. “There will be NO punching of ANY Blacks I can take care of myself,” which has been a recurring theme throughout her life. “I can take care of myself.”

So she does. She can. Right up until Easter when her whole world falls apart. “I can take care of myself” because she can, Cassandra can take care of herself, she has to be able to take care of herself. Two years later her brother is killed by Death Eaters. Talk about a girl carrying a torch.

So when the Quidditch World Cup of 1994 rolls around and they’re being humiliated by Death Eaters, the little healer’s torch lights up and she is out for blood. Because she went to have a good time with Lucile, since Evanna was stuck at the Ministry with work but Lucile wasn’t, and since Richard Puffett was playing and she kind of liked to see her almost-not-quite boyfriend playing.

You bet your arse she joins the Order the following summer.

And the Battle of Hogwarts she is hella excited when she spots Avery. “Oi! Avery! Come at me, bro! Not so hot without your friends, are ya?” But she is, and she feels no remorse when a suit of armor falls on top of him. Which almost scares her, except she was a Slytherin. They have morals all in shades of gray. And she can take care of herself.

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2020 HP Cross Gen Fest Anonymous Masterlist

Here is the complete Anonymous Masterlist for the 2020 @hp-crossgenfest! Reveals will be going up in a few days on Friday, August 28, so you've still got some time to make your way through any entries you might have missed. Don't forget to leave some love for the wonderful authors and artists! <3

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absolution [Aberforth/Severus | Mature] Snape is released after a couple of years in Azkaban; the terms of his parole include apologizing in person to Albus Dumbledore’s brother. His stoicism falls apart in the face of Aberforth’s forgiveness.

A Portrait with Someone New [Luna/Remus | Teen] Luna and Remus happily expecting (in 2004).

Extra Credit [Hermione/Teddy | Explicit] Teddy has trouble concentrating in Prof. Granger-Weasley's class. However will he manage to make up the extra credit?

A day in the sun [Harry/Severus | General] Severus has been turned into a merman without his consent. Harry still accepts them and helps them reconcile the change, see its benefits, and get some of their own back.

One Bright Day [Amelia/Tonks | General] Amelia and Tonks meeting under an umbrella and a rainbow.

What Lily Knew [Draco/Lily Luna | General] Draco and Lily attend the same adult art class, but it isn't until he sees her finished piece that he understands what Lily knew all along.

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Talk to Me [Harry/Severus | Explicit] Sentenced to serve his time in Azkaban after the Battle of Hogwarts, Snape is startled out of his depression by the inevitable fights during Potter's frequent visits. What will he say to the man when he is free to walk out into the Wizarding World and speak his mind?

Everything he's ever wanted [Harry/Teddy | Explicit] Teddy had hoped that a few years in Australia would be enough to cure him of his feelings for Harry, but when he returns home and gets some unexpected news, he can't stop the feelings rushing back. The only difference is, this time he might actually have a chance.

The Apprenticeship [Draco/Lily Luna | Explicit] Prompt: Draco always gets what he wants. Even if he has to take it by force.

Battleline [Draco/James Sirius | Explicit] The wizarding world believes James Sirius Potter works for his uncle as a Curse-Breaker, but the truth is that he's one of the Auror Department's most effective undercover agents. After months of waiting he's finally got a new case, but this assignment involves him going in as himself, without the disguises he's come to rely on. More importantly, he's meant to be taking down the one person long-suspected of being the most influential wizard in Britain's criminal underworld: Draco Malfoy.

Truth from Dare [Harry/Scorpius | Teen] During a late night game of Truth or Dare after a fun Saturday out with Albus, Rose, and their friends, Scorpius finds himself being kissed by Harry Potter as a dare. But it's just a game, right?

we who walk in shadows black [Harry/Lord Voldemort | Mature] In which Harry Potter is a vicious little gremlin who knows too much, and Lord Voldemort adores him for it.

Advanced Lunacy [Harry/Severus | Mature] Luna accidentally discovers something, and now the whole Wizarding World is abuzz about it. Meanwhile, Snape keeps appearing in Harry's dreams frequently.

There's No Such Thing as Getting Out of Hand [Narcissa/Pansy | Explicit] When Narcissa Malfoy finds herself confronted with a tempting treat all grown up, will she quash her appetite or sink her teeth in?

The Most Expensive Date [Harry/Scorpius | Explicit] Harry just wanted a quiet evening at home, instead he is being auctioned off at a charity event like a piece of meat. Prepared to have a terrible night, Harry is incredibly relieved when the highest bidder turns out to be none other than Scorpius Malfoy—a nice boy who couldn’t possibly have an ulterior motive... right?

the gentleness that comes [Harry/Severus | Explicit] There's something bothering Severus, and Harry wants to help. It's easier for Severus to let go when he's exploring his submissive side, so Harry plans a weekend to show him just how loved he is, and how much Harry wants to care for him.

A Technicality [Hermione/Rabastan/Regulus | General] A ritual to cleanse Hermione's new house has unexpected consequences.

a little bit of grit [Draco/Severus | Mature] Draco is a contract potioneer who specialises in medical research. Severus is... not dead, for one.

Vacanze Romane [Harry/Scorpius | Explicit] When he let Scorpius help plan his vacation, Harry had no idea just how involved he would be.

Her Pleasure [Draco/Lily Luna & Harry/Narcissa | Explicit] He likes to please his woman.

no wrong answers [Harry/Remus/Sirius | Explicit] It's almost five years since the war ended, and after an intense bout of aimless wandering and travel, Harry's come back home and is living at Grimmauld Place with Remus and Sirius. Their relationship fills him up with warmth - they deserve to be happy, and it's obvious that he wants what they have. But maybe, just maybe, Harry wants more than a relationship like the one Remus and Sirius have. Maybe he wants that relationship. Maybe he wants them.

Gouge Away [Millicent/Victoire | Teen] The Weasley girl has developed a keen fascination with Millicent's woodworking shop. Millicent can't seem to get rid of her, no matter how hard she tries.

Late One Night [Hermione/Kingsley | Explicit] Late one night, Hermione finally makes her move.

Hyperion [Harry/Scorpius | General] Scorpius is a Veela and Harry is his mate.

Summer Rain [Harry/Regulus | Explicit] A rainy day gives Harry the perfect opportunity to seduce Regulus.

Summer Heat [Lily Luna/Luna | Explicit] A unexpected visit from Lily's godmother makes a boring summer weekend suddenly a lot less boring.

On the Deficiencies of Translation Spells [Harry/Severus | Explicit] Divorced, single, and free, Harry lives a completely unapologetic life in Paris. Between casual hook-ups and an easy, comfortable job, he likes to think he is as close to happiness as he'll ever be. And when he gets offered a teaching job at the prestigious Académie Beauxbâtons, he thinks he may have found exactly what was missing. But Harry is thoroughly unprepared for what he finds there - a familiar face that's been haunting his dreams for six years.

Save Me From Her Stone-Cold Gaze [Harry/Tom Riddle | General] Tom Riddle has spent years looking for the Chamber of Secrets, and he's glad he can finally purge the school of Mudbloods. At least, that was the plan. It turns out the basilisk wasn't happy to be controlled, and Tom is forced to make a deal with the Master of Death (and maybe fall in love with him).

break on me like light [Charlie/Sirius | Mature] When the Order brings Sirius Black to Charlie, the man is still covered in the grime of Azkaban. A story wherein Sirius is still a little broken, calls Charlie kid, and Charlie is far too sweet.

Fire for You [Harry/Scorpius | Explicit] Nothing can make them keep their hands off each other.

Waving Through A Window, Suddenly [Harry/Severus | Explicit] Severus Snape was alive and free and perfectly satisfied with his life. He stayed away from other people and he did what he wanted. And if he felt like he was looking through a window at everyone else, that was alright, because he didn't need them anyway. Until Harry Potter moved in across the street, that is. Suddenly, just looking through the window wasn't enough for Severus anymore.

Trying not to think [Hermione/Teddy | Explicit] She couldn't even remember the last time her and Ron had left the lights on during sex, let alone the last time he’d complimented her, so watching Teddy struggle to keep his hands to his side while she stepped out of her dress was quite the ego boost.

Puddlemere’s New Man [Oliver/Teddy | Explicit] Teddy is willing to put in the work. He’s willing to practice twice as hard as anyone else, except that no one can out-work Oliver — a fact that Teddy finds he doesn’t mind in the least.

Maybe I'm Amazed [Albus Severus/Draco | Explicit] Albus Potter never set out to fall in love with Draco Malfoy. A small story telling how Albus and Draco came to be married. On their wedding night they dance, talk and make love.

Learning to Fly [Harry/Severus | Mature] Post-war, Severus is found not guilty, but due to the stigma in the Wizarding world, he decides to live life as a Muggle, leaving everything (but his wand) behind. Harry is overwhelmed, barely having any time to grieve, he keeps being recognised in the street and strangers ask too much of him. He finds solace in the Muggle world, finally exploring who he is without the threat of death, he finds himself in a Muggle kink club watching Severus Snape tying up a young man, and he wants.

Best Man [Harry/Scorpius | Mature] In the years since his divorce from Ginny, Harry Potter hasn't cared much for dating, let alone had feelings for anyone strong enough to pursue. Now that his son's wedding is on the horizon, the Best Man, Scorpius Malfoy, has been spending extra time getting input from the Father of the Groom. And Harry finds he doesn't mind Scorpius' constant company one bit.

The Ache For Love Was Palpable [Lily/Minerva | Mature] Lily once had a crush no one ever knew about. She thought it was just a schoolgirl pash on a favorite professor, but working for the Order throws her and McGonagall constantly together. Even though she's a married woman now, Lily's feelings for Minerva come back in a rush, even stronger than before. "I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable." - Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

Fields of Strawberries [Harry/Remus | Explicit] As much as Remus has done for Harry over the years, this is the least he could do. Little did Harry know what he would discover about himself when he volunteered to marry Remus so he could keep custody of his infant son Teddy.

Writing Harry [Harry/Severus | Explicit] After the war, Harry Potter begins writing letters to Severus.