#and then getting the 1-2 punch of recognizing the protagonist from his time on legacies and then 'LIZA FUCKING KOSHY?!?!?'
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angstlizard · 20 days ago
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the worst part about accidentally getting brainrot about a show that was cancelled years ago is that the fandom is completely dead. i am chewing on a stick in this sandbox all by myself long after the playground shut down
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theraredreamer · 7 years ago
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The Raven Cycle Headcanon: Adam Parrish and The Slytherin Escapade (First year out of Seven)
Hello, peeps! So here is a long Hogwarts AU that no one asked for, but I created anyway for two reasons. First, I needed some source of Slytherin!Adam/Hufflepuff!Ronan in my life.Also, I discovered Adam and Harry Potter share many similarities from their abusive home lives to the all-consuming desire to prove themselves worthy to those around them. This project will eventually turn into a seven part headcanon, covering all seven years of Hogwarts. It probably will get longer as the years past.Thanks for reading, and come chat with me anytime. Feel free to message me and share ideas for this headcanon! 
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1. Malnourished and mistreated, Adam Parrish lived in a cramped mobile home with his horrid muggle parents where he spent most of his time waiting for the day he would pack his belongings (however small they were), leave, and never come back. However, the protagonist of our story was only eleven. Until then, he was at the mercy of Robert Parrish. After a brutal encounter of his father’s wrath, Adam sat on the back steps when a large tawny owl swooped down, dropping a large yellow envelope with green ink at his feet. To his surprise, the envelope was addressed to him.
2. Dear Mr. Parrish, We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31st. Yours Sincerely, Minerva McGonagall. Head Mistress
3.The content of the letter was absolutely ridiculous. Adam Parrish didn’t believe in magic. The only things that he believed in were science and hard work. Adam couldn’t be a wizard… could he? Like the time his father hit Adam so hard that a tooth flew out, but it had grow back the next day. Or the time at school when a chalkboard eraser flew out of no where and pelted Joseph Kavinsky in the face when he wouldn’t stop kicking Adam under the desk. Adam shook his head, forcing the thought away. No, magic didn’t exist. However, instead of tossing the letter like any sensible person, an urge compelled Adam to keep it in a shoe box under his bed. He thought no more of the letter until Robert riffled through Adam’s room. Adam didn’t know what his father’s reactions would be, but laughter was not a consideration. However, the laughter grew insidious as his father took delight in mocking him.When he finished making an utter fool out of Adam, Robert poured his beer on the letter. In all of his eleven years, Adam never felt more shame and humiliation than staring down at the beer splattered envelope. And rage. The rage overwhelmed him until he couldn’t see rationally anymore. The bottle in Robert held exploded, slicing his hands open. As Adam’s mother cleaned Robert’s hand, he complained about they don’t make glass bottles right anymore. He was barely holding onto it when the bottle burst in his hand.
4.The days crawled by, and Adam prayed for the end of summer. One blistering afternoon, Adam spotted a tabby sitting on the stairs, staring with piercing eyes. The tabby vanished, and a woman stood in its place. Terrified and amazed, Adam tripped over himself and landed in the dirt. “Mr. Adam Parrish.” When the woman spoke, she commanded authority. Adam nodded numbly. The woman requested that Adam follow her, and he did as he was told. Upon seeing this strange woman enter with his son, Robert assumed that Adam caused some troubled. He prepared himself to tear into Adam, but this woman explained that she is Headmistress at Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall. The one who address the letter that Mr. Parrish so barbarically destroyed the other night. Adam remembered the name in the letter, and he convinced himself that he was still dreaming. He never woke up this morning, but this was so very real at the moment. Mrs. Parrish threatened to call the police, and Mr. Parrish claimed that Adam wasn’t going anywhere with this woman. However, my friends, this was Minerva McGonagall, and she didn’t take shit from uncultured muggles. She slammed them with the cold facts about child neglect. Observing the waning bruise under Adam’s eye, she promised to transfigure them into tea cups if she saw another bruise on this little boy. Parrish family had no other choice but to let Adam go.
5. McGonagall took Adam to Diagonally for his school supplies, and Adam was so curious about this new world that he discovered. It was hard to focus when there is so much to take it. The Quality Quidditch Supply Shop. The Apothecary. The Owl Emporium. Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. They purchase school robes for Adam, and then they were off to Flourish and Blotts for books. He foregoes a pet as Adam as he didn’t want McGonagall to spent more money on him than it was necessary. Adam ignored the way his heart sunk when they passed the beautiful tabby in the window.The last stop they made was Ollivander’s wand shop. Adam tested three wands before the right wand chose him, a hawthorne wood with a phoenix core, 9 and ¾.
6. For the most part, Mr. and Mrs. Parrish avoided Adam as if he contracted something deadly and contagious. On the morning Adam left for Hogwarts, he begged his next door neighbor for a ride to King Cross Station. McGonagall​ explained how to enter the platform. However, Adam hesitated, convinced that this was an elaborate stunt Robert orchestrated to humiliate him further. Adam lingered close to the platform, observing the patrons of King Cross Station. No one went through the brick wall. Adam had almost given up hope until a seemingly normal family approached Platform 9. However, this family couldn’t be all that normal because they carried an owl with them. Instead of asking for help, Adam studied them as they vanished through the wall between platform 9 and 10. It was real! Glancing around, oblivious muggles walk by, impervious to the most extraordinary event that had ever happened. Adam broke into a sprint, expecting for his trolley to crash, for his belongings to fly everywhere, for people to stare and whisper, for his face to burn with shame. None of that happened, Adam sailed through the platform wall.
7. As Adam stood in the side corridor amongst a thick pack of first years, his stomach churned anxiously. The boy next to him prattled on and on his family Gryffindor legacy, and Adam realized that he would be far behind compared to these other kids. They probably did magic at home all the time. Sure, he made a head start in the reading, but he knew nothing about performing magic. What if he couldn’t keep up; they would toss him out. Adam pulled his robe down, hoping the hem would cover the tattered sneakers he wore underneath. Some of the nerve quelled as McGonagall usher them in the Great Hall with it magnificent floating candles and it’s ceiling that resembled the bespectacled night sky. Adam hardly remembered sorting as he was so wrapped up in anxiety, but he would never forget Richard Campbell Gansey the lll. The way the crowd crescendoed into soft whispers and murmurs. This boy was the most beautiful creature that Adam Parrish had ever laid eyes on. He went to Ravenclaw, and Adam prayed to be sent to Ravenclaw just to be near him. Sitting on the stool with the sorting hat perched on top of his head, the hat declared SLYTHERIN! Applause erupted from the Slytherin table. Glancing at the beautiful boy at the Ravenclaw table, Adam was disappointed. It was hard to stay disappointed when the large platters before him were filled with every food imaginable. Adam grabbed everything within his reach. Not platter went unsampled. It was the best meal that he had eaten in his life. Adam ate until his stomach cramped in protest. That night, Adam slept well-rested for the first time ever.
8. Adam discovered that he wasn’t behind the other first years. In fact, he knows most of the answers to the professors’ questions. In their first potions lesson, Professors Slughorn complimented Adam and gave him an impressed smile when he and his partner correctly brewed a simple potion to cure boils. That first week, Slytherin had their first flying lesson with Hufflepuff. Adam didn’t look forward to flying at all, and flying didn’t take a liking to him either. He was one of the last students to get their broomsticks up. When he flew, Adam stayed close to the ground. He never truly managed to gain control over the broom. One student attracted the class’s attention. He raced on the broomstick, performing reckless loops, dives, and spins. Adam recognized him as the first to get his broomstick up, a Hufflepuff. His eyes held a gleeful mischief and his month was set in a perpetual sharp grin under the dark mop of hair. His blonde friend hooped and hollered from his own broomstick, and so do a few other Hufflepuffs. A few Slytherins attempted to match the Hufflepuff, but this kid communed with the sky in a way that Adam thought no one else will ever. He was a natural. Madame Hooch requested that the Hufflepuff, “Lynch”, stayed behind. Adam forgot all about him and flying lessons soon after.
9. If Hogwarts had one down side, it would be Tad Carruthers, who unfortunately was Adam’s only friend. Friend was a loose term. Very loose term. While Slytherin had a thirst for ambition, they also possessed a detector for poor, muggleborns such as himself. Most Slytherins were kids from wealthy, pure blooded families. Tad Carruthers was no exception, but he acknowledged Adam’s presence even if he had to endure uncomfortable punches on the arms and condescending ruffling of the hair.
10. Adam’s first year flew. He attended a few Quidditch​ matches, but flying didn’t interest him much. He found pleasure in the potions lab and the greenhouses. He spent many late nights in the library earning him the title of the most clever wizard of their year. When the time came, it was hard to believe that Adam would be returning to that scathing mobile home when Hogwarts felt like home. Before even leaving, Adam already longed to return to Hogwarts once more.
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