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Penny’s Special Day
A/N: Artemis in formalwear never goes smoothly. A delayed WBW instalment, based on this ask from @drinkyoursoupbitch:
The dress in the story was entirely inspired by the one in the photo above. As for choosing it, though…
Warnings: None.
A long time had passed since Artemis had last been to the Haywoods’ family home. The house was larger and brighter than the one she herself had grown up in, with a garden that stretched all the way around its walls, and a driveway on which a Muggle car was parked. The street outside the front gate was wide and tree-lined, and three children were riding bicycles up and down the length of it. There were rolling hills in the near-distance, so green and calm that it was hard to believe that London was only a stone’s throw away.
Everything about the house’s exterior was neat and polished in appearance, from the short grass to the paint on the front door. Artemis smoothed down her hair and clothes before knocking. A moment later, a figure appeared in the frosted glass of the door, which opened to reveal a young witch with butterscotch-blonde hair and legs that went up higher than Artemis’ waist.
“Long time, no see,” said the witch. She cocked an eyebrow and grinned mischeivously. “Are you emotionally ready for this?”
“As ready as I’ll ever be, Bea.”
“Then, by all means, come on in.”
Artemis followed Beatrice Haywood inside the house, moving quickly to keep up with her long strides.
“Everyone’s in the living room, we’ve all finished getting ready. Except for Penny, obviously, she’s still in her room making herself pretty,” Bea explained as she led Artemis through the hallway and up the stairs, the pale pink material of her dress swishing around her legs as she moved. “You can get ready in the spare bedroom, if you like, as long as you don’t mind sharing with all of Tonks and Chiara’s stuff.”
“Not at all.” Artemis was used to that, having shared a room with both Tonks and Chiara at school.
“It’s a bit of a sardines situation. I’ve had Aurélie in my room with me, and Skye and Lizzie are sharing the study.”
Artemis frowned. “There are a lot of us, aren’t there?”
“What were you expecting? This is Penny we’re talking about.”
“Let me guess, she couldn’t pick so asked everyone she knew?”
“A bit of that, but also she just wanted all of it, and it is Penny’s special day, after all.” Bea stopped in her tracks and widened her eyes. “Oh, but you must know that it is actually very lucky to have seven bridesmaids,” she said in a high-pitched and breathless voice, before snorting. “Honestly, I am just looking forward to tomorrow when this is all over. Anyway, you’re in here. Chuck your dress on and I’ll steal Andre off Penny to do your hair and make up for you.”
Bea nodded her head at a coat hanger floating in mid-air in the corner of the room, from which a padded material bag was hanging. Artemis took the bag from the coat hanger, lay it out on the bed, and opened it. Immediately, she pulled a face.
“Everything alright?”
Artemis wrinkled her nose at the dress. “It’s a bit pink, isn’t it?”
“Tell me about it.” Bea sighed. “But it’s what Penny wanted us all to wear.”
Managing to pull her eyes away from the sea of whitish-pink fabric on the bed, Artemis took another look at Beatrice. She was wearing the exact same colour, the exact same dress, as the one in front of her. Despite the colour, it looked quite nice on her. Maybe the dress wouldn’t look so bad once Artemis put it on.
Unfortunately, her first impression was proved to be correct once she stood in the mirror. Not only was the dress pink, but there was both an awful lot of it, and yet not enough. The skirt, which came down to her mid-shin, had layers of a mesh material beneath the main fabric that caused it to stick out slightly from Artemis’ waist like a ballerina. Though the bodice was tight, it did not have any sleeves to hold it up, and Artemis barely dared to move in case the entire dress slid down her body to the floor.
“I know Penny chose them, but—”
“Yes, you do have to wear it. We all do,” said Bea. “I wouldn’t have chosen it, either, but I’ve come around now.”
“That’s easy for you to say. You actually look alright in it, I just look like a meringue.” Artemis took a deep breath. “Hopefully Andre can do something to make it look better.”
But Andre’s response to the sight of Artemis in the dress did nothing to fill her with confidence.
“Oh, dear.” He grimaced as he looked her up and down. “Oh, no.”
“The dress is horrible, isn’t it?” said Artemis. To her surprise, Andre shook his head.
“The dress is lovely, Artemis. It just looks horrible on you.”
“Brilliant. Can you make it look good on me?”
Andre laughed. “Darling, I can do make up. I can do magic. I cannot work miracles.”
He conjured a chair out of mid-air and pushed the now-scowling Artemis down to sit in it in front of the mirror. Confronted with her own face, it was painfully obvious how tired she looked, with her skin the grey-ish yellow of someone quite unwell.
“That’s the colour of the fabric,” Andre informed her, when she pointed this out to him. “It does absolutely nothing for your skin tone. You look even more washed out than poor old Tonks, but I don’t think that had anything to do with her dress.”
Artemis did not reply. Tonks’ skin had been pale and her hair mousey all month, ever since her new not-quite-a-boyfriend had unceremoniously ended things with her, but Artemis didn’t want to be the one to pass on that piece of gossip - especially not if Penny hadn’t already done so. Andre was apparently non-plussed by Artemis’ reticence.
“Still, that’s what a good foundation and blush is for,” he carried on. “And it could be worse. At least you don’t have that tragic fringe anymore.” He sighed. “Honestly, darling, I’m surprised no one guessed it was all going tits up with Davies, what with that cry for help attached to your forehead...”
By the time Andre had finished with Artemis’ hair and make-up, she may have still resembled a meringue, but at least she no longer looked so sickly.
“And are you sure there’s nothing you can do to make the dress look better?” she asked Andre. “Maybe put some sleeves on it, or something?”
“Like I said, darling, the problem isn’t with the dress. And besides, this is what Penny wants, and it is Penny’s special day. Talking of which, the bride asked me to send you to her room once I was done. She has her own idea for a finishing touch for you.”
Artemis wasn’t sure she wanted any more input from Penny on her outfit, but she could hardly say no. She made her way across to Penny’s old bedroom, still decorated the way she remembered it from their teenage years, with gingham curtains and white broderie bedsheets and a small collection of toy horses on one of the bookshelves.
In the middle of it all was Penny herself, dressed in a white dress that skimmed over her body and pooled on the carpet. A silver tiara perched on top of her hair, which was intricately braided back from her face and fell down her back in waves of golden honey. Her eyes were bluer and her cheeks rosier than Artemis had ever seen them before.
“Wow,” said Artemis. “You look…”
She had been about to say ‘pretty’, but that wasn’t right. Penny had always been pretty, but today she looked more than just pretty. Today she looked…
“Beautiful. You look beautiful, Pen.”
Penny smiled, both genuinely and nervously. “You really think so?”
“I know so.”
“And you definitely can’t tell at all?”
Penny looked down at her abdomen, the gentle bulge of which was hidden by the flowing material of the dress. She exhaled as Artemis shook her head, clearly relieved. Artemis stepped towards her.
“Andre said we needed to get our last something from you before we leave.”
“Oh, yes. I’ve had something made for each of you to wear today, and to keep after, if you wanted to. You don’t have to keep it, of course, but I wanted to give you each something. Here.”
Penny sat down on her old bed, and tapped the bedcover next to her. Artemis sat beside her, and Penny summoned a small satin pouch from her dressing table. She handed it to Artemis, who opened it and tipped its contents into the palm of her hand.
The item inside the pouch was a dainty silver bracelet, designed to look like a branch or vine with slim leaves made out of green jewels.
“I know it’s silver, but you can turn it gold after today is finished,” said Penny, as she looped the bracelet around Artemis’ wrist and fastened it. “And the gems are emeralds. I thought that they’d match the green in your eyes, and they’re your birthstone, you know? And the leaves, well… I asked the lady to make them look like rowan leaves. I hope you don’t mind.”
Artemis blinked and shook her head, almost rendered speechless.
“Of course I don’t mind,’ she managed to say. “I… I love it. Thank you, Penny.”
But Penny shook her head. “No, it’s to thank you, silly!”
“For what?”
“For being my bridesmaid, of course.”
“All I had to do was turn up and put on a dress.”
This seemed a bad point in time to mention how much she hated her dress, so Artemis did not mention it. Penny sighed.
“It’s more than that, though,” she said. “You’ve been one of my best friends for years. For half my life, would you believe it? And you still are, even now, even though we… Well, we are rather different, aren’t we?”
This was undeniably true. Artemis nodded. “Yeah, I guess we are.”
“I know that you don’t always understand me, and I know I definitely don’t always understand you, and that we both exasperate one another at times. It would have been easy for us to have grown apart once we left school, and I’m so glad that we haven’t.” Penny’s smile was still strong, but there were tears in her eyes. “I really do love you, you know.”
“I love you too, Pen,” said Artemis. As Penny hugged her, she heard her sniff, and could feel tears stinging her own eyes. “But don’t cry about it. You’ll ruin your make up and then Andre will kill us both.”
“Oh, goodness, you’re right.” Penny broke apart from Artemis and blinked rapidly. “There’s no time for it to be redone, either. We have to go. Would you mind helping with my train on the stairs?”
Artemis frowned as she looked around the room. “Train? What train?”
It turned out Penny was talking about the long material of her dress, which Artemis held up behind her as they made their way down the staircase of the Haywood’s house. In the hallway downstairs, Penny’s parents, sister, Andre, and the other five bridesmaids applauded at the sight of the bride descending the stairs to join them. Penny’s mother had tears in her eyes, there wasn’t even a hint of mockery in Beatrice’s smile, Chiara had a little colour in her usually pale cheeks, and Tonks had managed to inject a strawberry blonde hue into her mousey locks.
At the very bottom of the stairs, there was a narrow mirror, and Artemis caught a glimpse of her own reflection in her periphery as she passed it on her way to join the other bridesmaids, each wearing a slightly different variation of the bracelet Penny had just given her. She couldn’t say that she was any more enamoured with her dress, or that she looked any less like a meringue, but she could at least say that she looked like part of a team, a team that Penny had chosen herself based on years of friendship and fidelity, of shared experiences and shared laughter and shared love. It was a shame that Penny had chosen this dress for them all to wear, of course, but it was Penny’s choice, at the end of the day.
“It’s Penny’s special day,” Artemis muttered to herself, so quietly that no one else would hear her little reminder, before joining the rest of the bridal party to celebrate the happiness of her friend.
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Me trying to explain how Victor and Shiratori should’ve been siblings because of the dynamics and parallels of Beatrice and Penny, as well as Ismelda and Annalena, because then all three of them would (presumably) be the youngest sibling in a family where the oldest was/is herald as a success and a golden child while the youngest was in their shadows and rebelled, thus all of them having a reason to become a small friend group that could last for years beyond hogwarts. In this essay, I will-
#This came to me in a dream like a prophet i’m so sorry#but i’m making you all see my masterpiece#and this has been my ted talk#also this trio is like#my fav#they’re scrimblos#my blorbos#hogwarts mystery#hphm#hphm victor#victor ketsueki#beatrice haywood#bea haywood#hphm bea#hphm beatrice#ismelda murk#hphm ismelda#Annalena Murk#Kazuhiro Shiratori#The wizard in white#penny haywood#hphm penny
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This was entertained in the game but not much outside of flavor dialogue in classes. Badeea uses her knowledge of painting to help Penny understand her sister's predicament, such as how magical portraits of living people and animals work and the ability of them to travel between different art pieces. Penny and Badeea could've bonded immensely over it, and I feel that she would be deeply grateful to the Ravenclaw painter once Bea is free. I also like the idea of Cato and Penny living in the same building as Badeea when they're adults because there is wholesome potential there for them, with the painter being a trusted family friend for him and both of the Haywoods. 🥺😭💙💙💛💛
HPHM Ship Week is 3 weeks away !!
Who are two characters that either have never interacted, or rarely interact, that you think would be good friends?
#hp hogwarts mystery#hphm#harry potter hogwarts mystery#hphmshipweek24#hogwarts mystery#penny haywood#beatrice haywood#bea haywood#badeea ali#cato reese#hphm mc#hogwarts mystery mc#hogwarts mystery oc#cato x penny#mc x penny#reesewood
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Little Time Left
A/N: This is my fic for today's prompt for @usernoneexistent Back 2 School Chaos Challenge. Enjoy!
As the summer days drifted away, the upcoming school year loomed closer for Penny Haywood. She attempted to learn all the potions in her first-year textbook before heading to Hogwarts. She had tried to convince her mother to purchase some extra potion books during their shopping in Diagon Alley, but her mother had held her ground and only bought the books on the list. She stated that most of the books Penny wanted were likely available in Hogwarts' library.
Undeterred, Penny made the most of what she had and studied her one and only potion book cover to cover. She even took it a step further and practiced with pieces of paper instead of actual ingredients in her brand-new cauldron. Her younger sister, Beatrice, watched her with great interest, eager to follow in her sister's footsteps and attend Hogwarts.
“Are you excited to go to Hogwarts?” asked Beatrice, sitting on the floor of her sister's room.
“Of course I am!” exclaimed Penny, sitting on her bed with her cauldron in front of her. “I can't wait to learn all the magic and potions and to meet new friends - you know, kids like us.”
“I'm sure you're going to make lots of new friends! You're absolutely the best person I know!”
“Thanks, Bea! It’s going to be great not to have to hide our magic.”
Beatrice nodded. Ever since she started attending primary school, she knew how difficult it was to explain the magical phenomena that occurred around her. As a child, she had no control over her magical abilities. Fortunately, it was usually only children who witnessed any magical manifestation. Adults would often dismiss them as a product of their wild imagination. She knew her sister had probably experienced similar issues when she attended that same Muggle school. Beatrice felt fortunate to have her sister around when she started school, as Penny would always help her when anything magical occurred. But now, she would have to fend for herself.
“I’m going to miss you,” said Beatrice with tears in her eyes.
Penny slid off her bed and hugged her sister tightly. “I’m going to miss you too, Bea,” she said, her voice cracking. “It’s going to be strange not having you around and not seeing you every day.”
“Promise me you’ll write.”
"At least once a week, if not more," promised Penny, gazing into her sister's eyes. "And you can write me whenever you want."
Beatrice nodded, still sniffling.
“Let’s enjoy the time I have left before school starts. Do you want to help me make my fake potions?” suggested Penny.
Beatrice looked out the window at the blue sky. “I’d rather go to the park since the weather is so nice.”
Penny glanced at her cauldron, then back at her sister. "Alright," she said simply.
For Penny, spending the remaining time with her sister was more important than any potion in the world.
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hphm au; medieval fantasy part 2
on their way to assassinate the famous knight, ser verna, merula and ismelda run into a young girl going by the name “bea”. she seems suspicious, but ismelda insists on helping her, much to merula’s annoyance.
ismelda murk and merula snyde as the assassins
beatrice haywood as “bea”
#hphm#hogwarts mystery#merula snyde#ismelda murk#beatrice haywood#hphm fantasy au#what is beatrice's deal you ask?#we just don't know#i'm committed to this nonsense now#*mine
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Aww Penny said Bea visited her everyday at the hospital wing (if you decided to take her to the experiment thing). That’s so sweet, honestly Bea’s been kind of annoying me lately but it’s good to see that she still has a good heart
I’m so out of the loop that I have no idea what you’re talking about but I love it. The Haywood sisters’ reconnecting is one of my favorite relationship developments ever, it’s just so damn wholesome. And can we talk for a second about the perfect full circle here? Penny, visiting Beatrice in the portrait every day, and now she returns the loyalty and comes to see Penny each day!
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#Hufflepuff#HPHM#Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery#HP Hogwarts Mystery#Penny Haywood#Bea Haywood#Beatrice Haywood#Diego Caplan#Chiara Lobosca#nymphadora tonks#Tonks
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Penny to Bea:
Jackie (MC) to Jacob:
#jacob's sibling#jacob s sibling#siblings#hphm#hphm jacob#hphm mc#penny haywood#bea Haywood#penny and bea#jacob x mc
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bea i don’t need this rn
#hphm#hogwarts mystery#bea haywood#hphm mc#beatrice haywood#reblogs appreciated😔🤲🏼#hphm year 6 spoilers#slytherart
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Omg, she made me a toy puffskein?? IT'S SO CUTE!! 💕💕💗💗❤❤💕💕💗💗💗💗
#I'm shook#this toy is too adorable#thank you beatrice!#beatrice haywood#bea haywood#penny haywood#harry potter#wizarding world#hogwarts mystery#hphm oc#oc#hogwarts mystery oc#pira hassen#puffskein
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i understand why people are getting annoyed with bea but are people forgetting she literally a 12 year old CHILD that went through a traumatic experience in where she was trapped in a painting for an entire year
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Any Happy Little Thought
A/N: Truthfully, Ben Copper was never my favourite of the HPHM cast. But, I can’t help but feel sorry for him — I think he has it worse than most of those kids. So, when I received @eternalchaoschocolaterain’s request below, I had to go for the most uplifting of the choices. Poor boy deserves a little happiness.
Warnings: angst, references to violence and death of a young person, memory loss, understandably poor mental health.
The day was drizzly and overcast, but the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom was bright, illuminated with a silvery-white glow, so radiant that it had to be magical.
Nearly two weeks had passed since the first meeting of the Circle of Khanna, and so far, the society had been more successful than anyone would have guessed, in spite of their differences and almost constant bickering. Bill Weasley had proved to be as effective a DADA teacher as any of the six others they’d had in as many years - in fact, he was a better teacher than most - and with his help, they had managed to fill many of the gaps they had in their patchy, disjointed curriculum.
Today, however, Bill had decided to teach them something different, something that they might not even have covered for their NEWTs: the Patronus Charm.
Ben Copper had always been good at Charms. At one point, before he had started to make friends, his Charms lessons had been the only thing he had liked about school. Even after five and a half years of education, it was still the only subject that really came easily to him.
So why, then, could he not cast this charm at all?
He knew that the Patronus Charm was exceptionally complex, famously so. It was the most difficult defensive charm known to wizardkind, with many adults unable to fully master it. Ben wasn’t expecting to be good at it immediately, but he had not expected to be quite so bad at it in comparison to his peers.
Of course, Bill had already been able to cast the spell — he wouldn’t have been teaching it to them if he couldn’t — and it had transpired that Tonks was already capable of conjuring a corporeal Patronus, one in the shape of a large rabbit or hare. At first, the others had struggled, but now many of them were also managing to produce Patronuses that were not just discs or clouds of light, but had the forms of silver-white animals: a dolphin for Penny, a peacock for Andre, a dove for Chiara. Even Barnaby, who had never gotten good grades in most of his subjects, and little Bea Haywood, who was only in her second year, were improving with every attempt they made.
Ben, however, had been trying just as hard, and yet he had barely produced even the tiniest wisp of silver from his wand. As the others continued to practise, he was growing increasingly frustrated with himself. What was he doing wrong?
“I think you might be using the wrong memory,” said Bill, who had clearly noticed that Ben was having difficulty. “It can’t just be any old thing, it has to be something really powerful, the happiest memory you have.”
The happiest memory Ben had. What was the happiest memory he had?
His mind drew a blank. It often did when he tried to remember, had done ever since his second year at Hogwarts, when he had been found trapped in the cursed ice with no recollection of how he had become so. All his memories of that day had been lost, and the more that time went on, the more he had noticed other gaps in his memory from his life before then. Perhaps his happiest memory had vanished with the rest. As for the memories he had from after that…
The cupboard in the dungeons, dank and dark, and filled with the Devil’s Snare that had wound its way around his legs. The piercing screams of his classmates each time they had encountered a Boggart, and the anxiety that tightened like a coil in his chest each time he had opened a cupboard, or turned a corner, convinced that he would be the next person to face their greatest fear. The strange feeling of déjà-vu he had gotten the first time he ever saw Patricia Rakepick, that he couldn’t explain then and still couldn’t explain now. The looks of betrayal on Artemis and Rowan’s faces when he woke up to find out that he had been threatening them without his knowledge and against his will. The great rumble of the ceiling in the Buried Vault and the scent of burnt flesh that pierced his nose once the dragon entered the room from one of the portraits. Rakepick’s wand pointed at him, the green light emanating from that wand towards his chest, Rowan appearing from the shadows and jumping in front of him, her body hitting the ground, limp and lifeless.
Ben’s hand had been raised ready to cast his spell, but now it was shaking so badly that his wand fell to the floor. His head spun as he bent down to pick it up, and it took everything he had in him just to stay standing once he had straightened himself up again.
“Sorry,” he muttered, conscious that Bill was watching him. “I, er… Yeah, I’ll have another think about what memory to use. Thank you.”
It was a lie. There was no memory Ben could use, not anymore. He waited for Bill to turn his attention to Alanza before lowering his wand and sitting down at one of the tables that had been pushed to the side of the room. He wanted to have a moment to himself, to shrink away from the thoughts that threatened to drown him: the memory of Rowan’s death, the guilt that she had sacrificed herself to save him, the idea that she shouldn’t have bothered, that he wasn’t worth saving. He was a coward. He was a Mudblood. He was useless at everything except for Charms, and apparently he wasn’t even good at that anymore.
“You alright, mate?” A voice interrupted Ben’s thoughts, and he was joined by Charlie Weasley. Charlie leant back against the table rather than sitting in one of the chairs, his eyes scanning the room. “This spell’s really hard. I can’t get the hang of it at all.”
Ben couldn’t tell if he was being genuine or just trying to make him feel better. He made a quiet humming noise instead of speaking.
”I think Jae might’ve cracked it, though. Look.”
Charlie nodded his head and raised his eyebrows, and Ben followed the direction of his eyes. Their friend Jae had his wand held aloft, his Patronus swirling in the air in front of him to take a more substantial — if small — form. It had tiny silver legs, a twitching nose, a long tail.
“It’s a rat.” Charlie half-smiled, a glint of amusement in his eyes. “Bill is not going to be happy about that…”
But Jae’s rat-Patronus disappeared almost as quickly as it had appeared, the light it had cast on Jae’s face replaced with a surprised and proud-looking smirk. Seeing them looking, Jae walked towards Ben and Charlie with a swagger in his stride that irritated Ben, but made Charlie laugh.
“Not bad, mate,” said Charlie. “You really had it that time.”
“Dunno what all the fuss is about. Piece of cake, that.”
“Got any tips for us?”
Jae seemed to consider Charlie’s question before nodding. “Yeah. Ignore what your brother says. The thing about memories is a load of crap. I tried it, and it didn’t work. Had to improvise, do my own thing, y’know?”
Ben frowned. Charms were cast with precision, everyone knew that. You couldn’t just improvise a Charm.
“And what was ‘your own thing’?” he asked, more sharply than intended.
“Well, instead of thinking about good stuff that’s already happened, I just thought about even better stuff that could happen. It works, look.” Jae cleared his throat. For a moment, he seemed to glance over his shoulder in the direction of the Hufflepuff girls, but his focus returned so quickly to his wand that it may have only been a twitch. “Expecto Patronum!”
A small burst of white light issued from Jae’s wand, and a moment later, his rat-Patronus had returned.
“Possibility, lads. That’s the secret to happiness. Why look back, when you can keep on moving onwards and upwards?”
“I guess anything’s worth a try,” Charlie said with a shrug. “Expecto Patronum!”
Another raised wand, another Patronus. Though Charlie’s was incorporeal, he had at least managed a half-decent shield, which was more than Ben had achieved. Charlie’s Patronus grew brighter as Bill did a double-take at Jae’s rat and flinched away from it.
Then, both Jae and Charlie’s eyes were on Ben. He sighed before pulling out his own wand.
Something good that might happen. Again, Ben struggled to think of something. When so much that was bad had already happened, who was to say that the future wouldn’t hold something even worse in store? He always had found the idea of the future unnerving. The future was uncertain and out of his control and an endless source of worry. Possibility had never made him happy, only anxious.
Ben shook his head. “I can’t do it,” he whispered. “I can’t think of anything that’s good right now.”
Jae and Charlie shared glances as Ben lowered his wand and his gaze.
“Wow,” said Jae. “Bit rude, don’t you think? I mean, we are literally with you right now.”
“I don’t… You know that isn’t what I meant, Jae.”
Ben looked at Charlie for back up, but Charlie did not back him up.
“Actually, I think Jae might have a point. I mean, we’ve all been through some pretty rough stuff the last couple of years, and Godric knows what else we’ll be up against with the Vaults and the Cabal…”
Jae leaned towards Charlie and muttered, “Mate, I dunno if that’s going to help.”
“All I’m saying is that we’re still here. We’re still trying.” Charlie shrugged. “The fact that we haven’t given up yet is something, right? And I guess… Well, I guess that’s all thanks to you.”
Was it thanks to Ben? Ben wasn’t sure that it was, but Jae nodded his head emphatically.
“That’s right, this was all your idea. The defence lessons, and the name. The Circle of Khanna. That was genius, that was.”
Ben had been surprised that the others had liked his idea for a name as much as they had. He wasn’t going to suggest it at first. After all, would they really want to be constantly reminded of Rowan, of the loss of Rowan? Did they need to be reminded? Ben didn’t think there would ever be a day where he didn’t think about her, about her death, the way she had laid down her life for his. He didn’t think there would ever be a night where he didn’t dream that he was back in the forest, reliving her death. That memory would stay with him forever.
But, then again, Ben knew better than anyone what it was like to forget. He knew that forgetting was far worse than remembering. And so, he had suggested the name. The Circle of Khanna. With a name like that, none of them would ever forget the reason why they had joined together, who they were doing this for.
“It is a good name,” agreed Charlie.
“It’s all good, what we are doing here.” Jae paused, his eyebrows furrowing. “You know, I don’t think I’ve ever really done anything good before.”
It was good, what they were doing — fighting, trying, working together. Rowan was gone, but they were all still here. They hadn’t given up. They hadn’t lost hope. Not yet, anyway. That was how the others were able to cast their Patronuses, Ben realised. It wasn’t because they had the happiest memories, or liked the idea of possibility; it was because they still had hope. If they could stay hopeful, then why couldn’t he? Why shouldn’t he?
He didn’t need much, just one thought. One hopeful, if not happy, thought. It could be anything. Maybe just being here was something. Here, surrounded by bright silvery light that had been created from his friends’ happiness.
“Expecto Patronum!”
This time, when Ben raised his wand and spoke the incantation, something happened. A small wisp of silver furled upwards into the air in front of him. It was only little, and it wasn’t corporeal — it wasn’t even shield-like — but it was at least something.
For now, he would take something. For now, that would do for him.
#hogwarts mystery#hphm fic#the Hexley saga#not Artemis’s version#from the vaults#ben copper#charlie weasley#jae kim#bill weasley#patronus#circle of Khanna
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Rosie Mayfield’s canon close friends
Victor Ketsueki: The Vampire
Ismelda Murk: The Dark Witch
Bea Haywood: The Cursed
Andre Egwu: The Fashionista
Nymphadora Tonks: The Prankster
BONUS:
Victor Kitsueki: The Loner
#my stuff#moodboard#aesthetic board#hphm aesthetic#hogwarts mystery#hphm#hphm victor#hphm ismelda#hphm beatrice#hphm bea#hphm tonks#hphm andre#victor ketsueki#victor kitsueki#ismelda murk#nymphadora tonks#bea haywood#beatrice haywood#andre egwu
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✨ HPHM Inktober 2019 ✨
Day 6-8: Cursed - Fear
"You were wrong to tell me Hogwarts was safe."
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#hphminktober2019#hogwarts mystery#hphm art#beatrice haywood#bea haywood#my art#this looked better in my dream 😂#airekai
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#hogwarts mystery#harry potter#slytherin#hm#gryffindor#hufflepuff#ravenclaw#hogwarts mystery app#hogwarts#magical creatures#hphm#penny haywood#bea haywood#beatrice haywood
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HPHM-INKTOBER DAY 6: CURSED
“It’s all thanks to you that I'm alright. You broke the Portrait Curse”
@hphminktober-2019
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