#buddie is going in the way of harry potter

[olderthannetfic]

Idk if it's just me but it seems like fandoms in general are just a lot slower than they used to be, as in people don't post as much fanart or fanfic as they used to and people in general interact with fan content (so, less likes, reblogs, replies, comments, etc.) no matter what site you're using. Even discord feels oddly dead, to the point where I've had to leave some servers because there was absolutely no activity anymore. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this recently or whether it's just my own specific experience.

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It's your own specific experience.

It's also a sign that we're in a transition phase rather than one where people are easy to find and centralized.

People used to make a billion unneeded mailing lists for every hot new show or blorbo. Now, they make discords. The vast majority die in a week.

But if you were to get into whatever the latest hotness is and post some excellent art or a fic with the right tropes at the right time, you'd see tons of activity.

I've seen your type of complaint as long as I've been in fandom, and it's a very natural part of one's own experience as one stops being into the hip thing or loses track of old acquaintances as one's social groups scatter to different platforms. In terms of lived reality, it's a huge pattern...

But, just to choose an easy example, if I go to AO3 and pick a big tag, then filter it for May 2025, I see tons of updates. Here's the sidebar for the m/m tag filtered that way:

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (4291)

僕��ヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) (2325)

Original Work (2090)

9-1-1 (TV) (1739)

Stray Kids (Band) (1513)

原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) (1443)

방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS (1434)

Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) (1339)

Formula 1 RPF (1310)

崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) (1264)

87,659 total works have been updated May 1st-17th 2025. Sorting by comments, I see plenty with thousands.

Now, I do see people who were once into your classic due South, Stargate, etc. who didn't jump on the Untamed train and still haven't been dragged over to Asian fandoms, don't like video games, don't read RPF, etc.

There can for sure be changes in what type of thing is seeing the most action, especially within one's own platforms or friend groups. The f/f shippers complain "I don't like cartoons". The m/m shippers wonder "Where's the next big sff or buddy cop live action English language show?"

It's possible to be starving in the midst of plenty. But no, fandom overall is not slowing down.

[wisteria-lodge]

What do you think a genderswapped Harry Potter (Harriet Potter?) would've been like?

So to start... I actually don't think life at the Dursleys would be all that different for Fem!Harry. Maybe there would be less *violent* bullying from Vernon and Dudley... but they honestly don't manage all that much as it is, and Harry's "normal" abuse mostly consists of being shouted at, locked up, treated as a scullery maid, and just generally made into a scapegoat + inferior/problem child that the rest of the family can unite around. If anything, Fem!Harry would have just reminded Petunia even MORE of Lily, and stirred up even MORE complicated emotions. And we'd get even more of live-in chef/maid Cinderella!Harry. It would all feel very Matilda.

The first big change I see happening... is I don't think Ron would have bonded with Harry on the train nearly as easily, if she were a girl. Young Ron is honestly pretty uncomfortable/awkward around girls... unless he's able to put them into a category like "little sister" (which doesn't count.) Or "know-it-all" (which doesn't count.) It's kind of a plot point in Book 4 that it takes him a while to realize Hermione and Ginny are girls he and Harry could potentially ask to the dance. Ron grew up around a bunch of guys, and you can tell. I think he'd try to *impress* Fem!Harry on the train, and probably put his foot in his mouth.

Harry would be at kind of loose ends on the Hogwarts Express, and get sucked into the search for Trevor the toad as something to do. So in this version, she actually ends up bonding with Neville. Hermione would be there too but well - Hermione rubbed Harry the wrong way at first in canon, and it would be even more the case here. They're both (functionally) muggleborn girls - but Hermione is SO much better prepared, and has SUCH loving parents, and won't shut up about any of this. In a way that Canon!Harry kind of fixates on Draco for ending up with his Ideal Life, it's possible that Fem!Harry might fixate more on Hermione.

11-year-old Draco would have treated Fem!Harry exactly the same, meeting her at Madame Malkin's and later on the train. He'd still have his obsession with her, and yeah, it probably does read as more of a crush to his Slytherin buddies... but I really do not see that stopping him. If his father can't get him to be normal to Harry, then that's just how it's going to be.

Harry will still get Sorted into Gryffindor, but I don't see her being close with any of the the other Gryffindor girls. Lavender and Parvati just have very different personalities, and Harry and Hermione... are very intense people who work best when they're able to take breaks from each other. In Book 4 when Harry is exclusively hanging out with Hermione, he comments that she's not as *fun* as Ron. And we see that dynamic again in Book 7 when it's just the two of them in the tent. Like they're incredibly effective, but seem to be wearing each other down a little. I think that forcing young (less emotionally mature) Harry and Hermione to be roommates would just end up with them getting on each other's nerves.

Hermione might get pulled into the friend group when Harry and Neville need help researching Nicholas Flamel, but she could easily stay more of a supporting character or even a frenemy in this version. Fem!Harry would still be the youngest seeker in a century. (Draco would be even more motivated to steal Neville's Remembrall if Neville is Harry's best friend... so that face-off would have gone down exactly the same.) Once she's actually on the team, I could see her falling in more with the upperclassmen, and hanging out with Fred, George, Lee, and Angelina (especially if they put together that she's a bit lonely.) It could be Harry, Neville, maybe Hermione, maybe the twins solving the puzzles at the end of Book 1. They'd still suspect Snape, who... would honestly be just a slightly different flavor of antagonistic and weird towards Harry, if she were a girl.

But in second year, Ginny would be Sorted into Gryffindor and I do think that Fem!Harry and Ginny would get along great, absolutely be bros. They could bond over quidditch, and Harry would get more of a sense of Ginny's actual personality (funny, cool). I have to think 11-year-old Ginny would be much less awkward around Harry if she were a girl.

Which would be really intense actually, because Ginny would have shown up to school with the the Diary, and it's... sort of important to the plot that she's isolated and has no friends. If she shares it with Harry as a cool thing - then Harry is ABSOLUTELY going to get obsessed with it. And since Harry's a much better *get* for Tom (Tom talks about being *so* pleased when powerful, important, future nemesis Harry starts writing to him instead of Ginny...) I think you just get Possessed!Harry opening up the Chamber of Secrets.

Also, would Harry have a crush on Tom? We know that Tom Riddle tries to impress Canon!Harry, which doesn't work... but Fem!Harry he might try to charm. Tom can be very charming if he wants to be. Harry also thinks he's very handsome. Either way, Tom is going to work VERY hard to to get Harry to distrust her friends. Really, you'd just get Harry's plot about being isolated and possessed by Voldemort in Book 5 moved to Book 2. Tom would get Harry to write "her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever" on the wall, and lure her down to the Chamber of Secrets.

However. I do think that Lily's magic, which makes it impossible for Voldemort to physically touch Harry, would also make it impossible for him to properly drain her life and take over her body. I'm thinking of the moment at the end of Book 5 where Voldemort tries to possess Harry, but Harry fights him off. So... I think Harry just wakes up in the Chamber of Secrets with an intact Diary and a basilisk she can control, since of course she's still a parselmouth.

The question is... what happens to the Diary, now that Harry knows it's dangerous? I'm thinking that when Harry disappears, Ginny freaks out and tells one of her older brothers what's going on, who tells Arthur, who tells Dumbledore. Which leaves Dumbledore with a Horcrux that still works... and it seems like if you've got school-age Tom Riddle right there, that would be a much easier way to get an answer to the question 'how many horcuxes do you plan on making?' So Dumbledore gets a head start on that project.

Harry now effectively just is the Heir of Slytherin. She can go to the Chamber whenever she wants, and the basilisk is her familiar I guess (Hagrid would LOVE helping her take care of it.) I could also see a Harry who gets more *interested* in Salazar Slytherin after this. She definitely wouldn't talk to Draco - he spent Book 2 being an asshat and calling people slurs. But Harry might try to pick Theo's brain or something.

Now Hermione. At first I was thinking - does Hermione just die, in Book 2? Would she have known to look around corners with a mirror, and so survive her basilisk attack?

I do think she'd still figure it out... and it's because of Lockhart. Hermione is a Gilderoy Lockhart *fangirl,* and without Ron and Harry poo-pooing her crush (and without first hand experience of Lockhart causing issues for Harry...) I think she's able to geek about about this with her roomies. I mean, Lavender and Parvati read Witch Weekly. They know he's won the Most Charming Smile award. Hermione likes a project, and without Harry and Ron providing one, I think her new thing is impress Lockhart. And what would impress Lockhart? Well, he's a monster hunter who is trying to find the Chamber of Secrets and identify what's inside. How cool would it be, if they were the ones who helped him? He'd write about them in his next book.

So I think the Polyjuice Potion plan (Hermione's idea) is still a go. She might even talk Lavender and/or Parvati into helping out. (I mean, they joined the DA. They're up for some rulebreaking.) Hermione would still turn herself into a cat, which would actually massively humanize her in the eyes of her roommates, and I think they all end up much better friends in this AU. Eventually, one of them does manage to Polyjuice into Pansy, which is a much more effective way of interrogating Draco. And by this point, Hermione has met Myrtle, and has enough info to solve the mystery, and even bring her findings to Lockhart. Who ah. Finds an excuse to just run. There's a very fun portion of the year where Dumbledore teaches DADA.

I don't see all that much about Book 3 changing until the climax - because the crew Harry takes down to Hagrid's after dark *would* be different. Neville, Ginny (not the Twins - I think they give Harry the Map and peace out, they've got their own stuff going on and don't want to hang out with their much younger sister.) Maybe Theo? I could see him taking on a very Hermione-ish support role by this point.

But this also causes a problem, because if Ron isn't there, Scabbers isn't with him. And if Scabbers isn't with Ron - I don't think Remus notices Peter on the map, and so just stays inside and drinks his Wolfsbane, which means Snape doesn't go down. And since Sirius' target was never *actually* Harry... I think this is just a universe where Sirius first-degree-murders Peter, and doesn't have a confrontation with Harry at all.

I do think Voldemort still comes back though. Trelawney would still have made her prophecy ("His servant has been chained these twelve years. Tonight, before midnight... the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master.") In this universe, that prophecy would refer to Barty jr, finally throwing off the Imperius curse for the first time.

Bertha Jorkins still goes on her trip to Albania, and... Voldemort probably just possesses her the same way he did Quirrell. I bet that's easier to do after someone's been sort of fried by a memory wipe. Also, being in her head, I have to assume he's eventually gets some inkling of the fact that Barty is still alive, and so goes looking for him. Harry still goes to the Quidditch World Cup since she's friends with Ginny, her scar is still hurting (she probably writes to Lupin about this, instead of Sirius, but Lupin gives her pretty similar advice. He will have still left Hogwarts, because Snape would still have outed him as a werewolf at the end of the year.)

Harry still ends up as Champion. I think Big Sister Fleur would be a little more protective of Fem!Harry than Canon!Harry. And also... Harry just straight-up has a crush on handsome, nice, good at Quidditch Cedric. Rita could write about the Harry/Cedric/Cho love triangle, instead of Harry/Hermione/Krum.

The Yule Ball would actually be kind of a big deal for Fem!Harry. Up until now, she's been kind of a tomboy who wears Dudley's hand-me-downs... and is occasionally forced into some terrible 'party dress' when Aunt Marge visits. Harry's best friends are a boy and a tomboy, her quidditch teammates are feminine role-models but very much athletes: 'girly' hyper-femininity is something she associates with Aunt Petunia.

But, fourth year roles around. Mrs. Weasley buys her a set of emerald-green dress robes that actually look really nice, and she needs to find a date for the ball. I think she thinks about asking Cedric... but chickens out at the last minute, and asks Neville to go with her as a friend. Between her much more girly roommates, and Fleur taking pity on her and giving her some tips... I think Hermione's big Yule Ball glow-up is also Harry's first experience with wanting to look pretty, and succeeding.

I think it would be fun, and make sense, if this lead into a little secret admirer subplot. Someone is leaving her little gifts and messages, and she's thinking - is it Neville? Theo? Cedric?

(it was Draco. Instead of the blast-ended skrewts, Hagrid has them all taking care of Harry's basilisk, and like... she has a basilisk... she's the Heir of Slytherin... she asked Longbottom to the ball when she could do so much better... she was wearing green and looking perfect. Draco's Harry obsession has sorted itself out into a very serious crush.)

Back to the main plot. With Peter dead, I'm not sure Barty would be able to take care of Voldemort AND prep the ritual to bring him back to life AND impersonate Moody. He's going to need a man on the inside. I think at first he tries to use his father - but as we know that is going to get very risky very fast, because Barty Sr is remarkably good at fighting the Imperius curse, and also just knows way too much. He's a huge risk, because if he goes rouge, he'll tell Dumbledore everything (which is very nearly what happens.)

So I think Barty Jr. targets Barty Sr.'s assistant Percy Weasley, after he can no longer control his father. Uses him as a way to affect things in Hogwarts. He might imperius him, but he also might just like... Polyjuice himself into his father for short periods, and manipulate Percy in a non-magical way to make sure he helps Harry, and gets her through the maze to the cup first. Once Percy realizes what he's done... I think he re-commits to his family in penance, and stops being a such a Ministry man.

Voldemort rising works as kind of a reset button, so things would start looking a lot more canon again, only with Ron and Hermione swapped out for Ginny and Neville. Main difference being, Voldemort has Barty now. I absolutely think he would have survived Book 4.

So I'm going to leave this what-if here for now. Thanks for the ask, this was a lot of fun to think about.

[lcdrarry]

LCDrarry 2025 Master List Part 2: Fic

Dear lovely Participants, Creators, Alpha and Beta Readers, Cheerleaders, Readers and Fans of this fest,

The 7th installment of LCDrarry has come to an end. 7! That's a whole school life at Hogwarts!

We'd like to thank you all for taking part in this fest, for creating so many amazing new Drarry works for us all to enjoy, for commenting on your favourite creations, for sharing and recommending the LCDrarry gems with your friends and blog followers, and for making this fest another amazing experience for everybody.

Fests would not exist without their participants or readers. You're all amazing! And we're so happy that you chose this fest in the vast and wonderful offerings of HP and Drarry events.

And now, you can find out under the cut who created what ;D

~Your LCDrarry Mods Tami (@celilasart) and Suzi (@erin-riwen)

PS: Please have a look at the creator notes and tags on AO3 for additional information and more detailed content warnings. Thank you! PPS: You can find a link to the "Master List - Part 1: Podfic & Art" under the cut.

Enjoy!

Part 1 of this Master List with all the lovely podfics and art can be found here.

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Things I Almost Remember

Prompt: "Anastasia", 1997, Don Bluth Prompted by: cailynwrites Author: slyth_princess Word Count: 2,056 words Rating: General Warnings: No archive warnings apply.

Summary: Harry grew up in the dark with no memory of who he was, only to stumble across a mystery, a rumour spread throughout all that remains of Wizarding London. Could this mysterious Lost Prince really be him? He honestly doesn't know. Nor does he know what to make of the man who discovered him. Draco just wants freedom. A way out of the hell his world has become. So when a stranger stumbles upon the hideaway he'd made in the ruins of the Ministry for Magic, that looks shockingly like Harry Potter, who is he to turn down his best shot at getting what he wants? If only the man wasn't so hard to keep his distance from.

Read it now on AO3.

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what could this thing possibly do?

Prompt: "Zombieland", 2009, Ruben Fleischer Prompted by: Gnarf Authors: winchesterss & arcasra Word Count: 2,519 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: Draco works with muggle artifacts, Harry is bored, and they end up inside of a zombie film.

Read it now on AO3.

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The Little Merman

Prompt: "The Little Mermaid", 1989, Ron Clements, John Musker Prompted by: Anonymous Author: Meowfoy Word Count: 5,286 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: Draco Malfoy as Ariel in this Little Mermaid inspired HP AU! Harry as a Prince, Voldemort as Ursula and some interesting twists to the Little Mermaid story as well. Also Draco just doesn't want to be a merman, he doesn't feel like it is who he is. So he doesn't just change for love. Though a hot prince definitely helps.

Read it now on AO3.

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A Boy, A Mouse, a Library Card, and a Stupid, Stupid Diary

Prompt: "The Owl House", 2020 Prompted by: Thel1ght6 Author: Thel1ght6 Word Count: 6,006 words Rating: General Warnings: No archive warnings apply.

Summary: Harry Potter is a human boy, whose parents unfortunately died in a crash. He was left to his horrid aunt and uncle, and lived in the remnants of what his parents left behind. One day, A strange bird makes off with Harry’s stuff. It runs into a house, and Harry is teleported to a strange world called the Magic Isles. He is taken in by a wizard named Dumbledore and his demon buddy, Hagrid. He has gotten in a lot of situations; one of which got him trapped on the isles. He’s met a lot of other people on the Isle. Hermione, Neville, Luna- his favorite being Draco. Today, and for the millionth time this week, he’s going to visit Draco at his job. However, he has a favor to ask. He needs to find something, and only Draco could know where it is.

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Knockturn Hill

Prompt: "Notting Hill", 1999, Roger Michell Prompted by: Elizah321 Author: SpireaSalix Word Count: 9,148 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: Fifteen years after the war, Knockturn Alley — where Draco and his friends sought refuge from their tarnished reputations — has transformed into a surprisingly charming neighborhood and rebranded itself as Knockturn Hill. Draco has settled for a boring, pathetic and lonely life between his shop and an apartment with an emerald green door. Meanwhile, Harry Potter, the wizarding world’s most famous and adored figure, has grown accustomed to a life of luxury, constant attention, and admirers eager to please him in every way they can. When a group of reporters ambushes Harry in Knockturn Hill he is left desperate for a place to hide.

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Something Fucking Sinister

Prompt: "Jennifer's Body", 2009, Karyn Kusama Prompted by: Trishjames Author: Trishjames Word Count: 9,581 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Minor Horror Elements, Creepy vibes

Summary: Something is seriously off at The Three Broomsticks. Harry knows it. The walls know it. The washed-up band playing definitely knows it. But his roommate-kinda-frenemy Malfoy? Well. Malfoy is too busy flirting with danger and looking like trouble in human form to care. This was not the stress-free eighth year Harry’d been looking forward to.

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The Legend of Tower 7

Prompt: "Tower 4", 2020 Prompted by: DrWhoIsGinnyHolmes Author: DrWhoIsGinnyHolmes Word Count: 9,927 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: Minor Character Death, Creepy, Mystery

Summary: Losing his adoptive parents was the last straw. Harry needed to get away, so he packed up his things and left for America. He travelled out to Glencour Park and Camp Grounds, a magical forest that housed all sorts of creatures, including a Horned Serpent Sanctuary. He heard this place had a problem with missing campers and occasional fiendfyre, not to mention the Muggle forest fires that threatened the land.

He hadn't even been there one day when odd things started happening: classical music coming from the radio that no one else could hear, creepy sounds near his tower that he couldn't explain, random cold spots in the woods, and the feeling of being watched all the time. This was going to be a long Fire Season.

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Close Encounters

Prompt: “The X-Files”, 1993-2018 Prompted by: pocket_lin (ao3) Author: LadyShipwreck Word Count: 12,107 words Rating: Mature Warnings: aliens, alien abductions, missing time, Draco's racing anxiety thoughts

Summary: When Draco is transferred to the Ministry's X-Files, it seems like Potter is there to ruin his life yet again. But soon he finds himself immersed in the biggest mystery the universe can hand him: how to survive falling in love with the Savior of the Wizarding World. Featuring a UFO convention, some dramatic and unhelpful friends, and a possible alien abduction. Can Draco keep a cool and rational head when everything around him is getting...spooky?

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The Grim Barbarity of the Department of Mysteries

Prompt: "Severance", 2022 Prompted by: phoenixortheflame Author: holygnocchi Word Count: 12,828 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Themes of spousal loss and grief

Summary: Harry sits and listens to the minutes tick by, and tries not to think about all the sounds that are missing: the clatter of cabinet doors and whistle of the kettle; the whoosh of an accio’d briefcase and the rustle of papers haphazardly stuffed inside it; an intermittent off-key hum along with the wireless. He’s not sure how long he sits there trying-and-failing, but without Draco there to cast a warming charm, the coffee goes cold before Harry thinks to drink it.

OR: Harry doesn't want to grieve. So instead, he forgets.

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The Drarry Trap

Prompt: "The Parent Trap", 1998, Nancy Meyers Prompted by: meandminniemcg Author: meandminniemcg Word Count: 15,075 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: No archive warnings apply; past unplanned pregnancy of a trans man, referenced PTSD

Summary: You send your son to an international Little League Quidditch camp, and he comes back being like a different person. Maybe he is. At least that happened to Harry and Draco.

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Undiscovered Country

Prompt: “Station Eleven”, 2021 Prompted by: pocket_lin (AO3) Author: DodgerKedavra Word Count: 15,715 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Post-Apocalypse, Pandemics, Blood and Injury, Parent Death, Panic Attacks

Summary: “Everyone’s dead,” Harry sobs, his voice mostly gone. “Hey.” Uncle Pads strokes Harry’s hair. “Not everyone.”

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here, in my arms

Prompt: "Rebecca", 1940, Alfred Hitchcock; 2020, Ben Wheatley Prompted by: MoonSmurf Author: newskyillusion Word Count: 18,337 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Morally Grey Harry Potter, Morally Grey Draco Malfoy, First Person POV, Fire, Murder, Gothic vibes

Summary: Last night I dreamed I went to the Malfoy Manor again. or, Drarry meets Rebecca

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Only Three Rules

Prompt: "The Holiday", 2006, Nancy Meyers Prompted by: alexandra6727 Author: JessicaLuci Word Count: 20,064 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: The son of the Duke of Wiltshire returned to dreaded England for a much needed holiday. Planning on spending the Christmas period alone in a serene cottage with nothing but books, thoughts, and an odd dog called Crookshanks. Draco did not expect those plans to be utterly destroyed by a singular (but extremely handsome) man. Harry Potter: veteran, divorcee, and single father, returned to his sister's house for the night after getting thoroughly pissed. However, as he pounded on the door to be let in, he wasn't greeted by his sister's exasperated expression, he was greeted by a man who instantly took his breath away. Three rules were all they had. Three rules they quickly broke.

Read it now on AO3.

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Seven First Dates

Prompt: "50 First Dates", 2004, Peter Segalo Prompted by: Anonymous Author: qqquack Word Count: 20,898 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, References to Depression

Summary: When Harry ran into Draco Malfoy in a Muggle bookshop, he certainly found it odd. When he spotted him there for a second time, Harry convinced himself that Malfoy was plotting something awful. By the third encounter, he’d realized what was actually up: Malfoy had short term memory loss. He was stuck reliving the same day over and over again. Well wasn’t it just his luck that Harry was starting to fall in love.

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each fallen robin

Prompt: "The Hunger Games" (2012) Prompted by: veradubhghoill Author: veradubhghoill Word Count: 21,050 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Canon-typical deaths, canon-typical child abuse, psychological manipulation, psychological torture, cruelty, implied sex work

Summary: In the distance a cannon boomed; Harry looked down at himself, then at his opponent, who was entirely still, waves lapping at his face. Quirinus, Harry remembered. That was his name. A Career tribute. They had nodded at each other during training, maintaining some semblance of decorum—but here in the arena all Harry could think about was the way Quirinus had lunged for him, spittle flying from his mouth, spear in hand, knowing that all that stood between him and victory was a malnourished fourteen year-old.

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Twenty’s Plenty

Prompt: "What's Your Number?", 2011, Mark Mylod Prompted by: veradubhghoill (ao3) Author: orolin Word Count: 21,811 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply; Infidelity but not between Harry and Draco

Summary: After a string of failed relationships and a Witch Weekly article that proclaims anyone who has dated over twenty people is more likely to end up alone, Draco decides enough is enough. There must’ve been someone in his past who he missed a connection with, so there’s only one thing for it. Hunt down all of his exes and find The One. What he didn't account for was Harry Potter coming along for the ride.

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Love is All Around

Prompt: "Four Weddings and a Funeral", 1994, Mike Newell Prompted by: Anonymous Author: ToBoldlyGeek Word Count: 24,266 words Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: Everyone is getting married, except for Harry. Over the course of five social occasions he figures out how to change that.

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Nothing can keep me away

Prompt: "Sister Act", 1992, Emile Ardolino Prompted by: apricitydays (AO3) Author: skotini Word Count: 24,330 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Kissing under the influence of alcohol (sacramental wine), Breaking of religious vows, Negative portrayals of religious figures

Summary: After being witness to a terrible crime, Harry Potter must go into hiding at Netley Abbey, a magical monastery. But that’s where Draco Malfoy has already taken vows, and he’s definitely off limits…

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Life As We Know It

Prompt: "Life as We Know It", 2010, Greg Berlanti Prompted by: Anonymous Author: use_it_well Word Count: 25,803 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Minor character death, death from terminal illness

Summary: When Andromeda suddenly passed away, leaving Teddy in the care of both Harry and Draco, neither of them knew how they’d manage to live together without killing each other, let along survive as parenthood was thrust upon them. Raising a ten-year-old boy would be hard at the best of times, but raising one who had just lost the only parental figure he’d ever known was another thing entirely. Would it be possible for Harry and Draco to put aside their (very many) differences in order to provide a stable family for Teddy? And what would they learn about each other – and themselves – along the way?

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Treat me like a dog, Take me out back, Tell me that my hunting days are done

Prompt: "Crazy Rich Asians", 2018, Jon M Chu Prompted by: Anonymous Author: morningliliesmourningglories Word Count: 29,271 words Rating: General Audience Warnings: Canon compliant racism, One (1) dead fish

Summary: What is lineage, if not a gold thread of pride and guilt. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon.

A.K.A The Drarry Crazy Rich Asians retelling in which everyone learns that to get what you need does not mean that you get what you want.

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Will Do So Gently

Prompt: "The Last Of Us", 2023 Prompted by: shewhxmustnxtbenamed Author: shewhxmustnxtbenamed Word Count: 138,444 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Depictions of war, bombing, heavy angst

Summary: Following a coup organised by Voldemort, England's society collapses. Initial attempts by the government to regain power are thwarted by Death Eaters, and a rebellion group called ‘The Order’ forms to fight against them. The country divides, people flee, and those left are trying their best to survive. Draco Malfoy, raised since birth to believe in Voldemort, grows wiser with age and abandons his home after he realises the terror Voldemort intends to inflict on the world. Afraid of what The Order might do to a marked Death Eater, he goes into hiding where he remains for years until Harry Potter finds him and sparks his long-lost will to fight. Their paths separate, and Draco goes out to join The Order or die trying, not realising that his Death Eater status will be the least of his concerns when he arrives.

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[thedrarrylibrarian]

Hello, I hope you are having fun in the library today, I was wondering (and I'd be surprised and also unsurprised if it exists) if you have recommendations for detective buddies/solving a murder mystery together drarry, I'm thinking of comedy/fluff but could be open to something a little more melodramatic and sarcastic if it exists, I was watching a bbc show with my grandma called Shakespeare and Hathaway and it is living in my brain rent free currently

Hello! Your holds have arrived! This was a fun list to make! I'm so glad you asked, and I hope this hits your fancy!

Silly Case Fics

Plausible Deniability by Bearixt (10,500 words, rated T)

“Harry, being released to you is simply an opportunity that arose from this—one that I will grab while I can. You call the shots; I just give my expert advice. You want to catch this copycat, don’t you?”

“One Draco Malfoy in this world is already enough,” Harry mutters. Staring straight at him, he crosses his arms. “That’s it? No tricks, no hidden agendas?”

Draco raises his hands. “You’re right. Christmas and New Year were boring, and I can’t imagine celebrating my birthday here when I can be out partying.”

“I won’t let you out just so you can have fun, Malfoy. You’re a criminal.”

Operation Dragon's Shenanigans by @nv-md (14,030 words, rated E)

Harry's in love with Draco, but it's complicated. Even more complicated than 'I'm in love with my ex-archnemesis and I get dizzy every time I see him smile'.

No matter that Harry's an Auror, and always loved a good mystery, he's still having trouble figuring Draco out. And he's the only one who can see that Draco isn't a regular human.

So, as he's done every year since he was eleven, Harry sets out to solve the mystery of 'Why is This Shit Happening to Me?'

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Yogurt by @manixzen (24,505 words, rated E)

Newly-hired Flying Professor Harry Potter is happy to return to Hogwarts for a fresh start after several failed careers, but nothing is going as planned. His classes are a mess, he has to find a way to work with Draco Malfoy (annoying git extraordinaire) and now, in an act of villainy and depravity, someone keeps stealing his yoghurt.

Clouds That Veil the Midnight Moon by @drarrytrash (36,733 words, rated E)

According to Harry’s personal narrative regarding the incident, he’d hooked up with Draco Malfoy for purely self-destructive reasons, or out of convenience, or by some unlucky accident. Looking at him, sprawled in the moonlight, Harry is devastated to recall that he’d hooked up with Draco Malfoy because he’s hot.

Draco is a secret werewolf and Harry is doing his best and they've got criminals to catch, darn it.

The Liars Department by @dorthyanndrarry (103,395 words, rated T)

This is a story about Harry meeting up with Draco Malfoy four years after the war. And a story about Harry, well, not hating his job per say, but it's not like he has much to compare it to and it seemed fine. His whole life seemed fine. Then Malfoy came along with and his flashy suits and fast car making everything seem dull in comparison, and Harry... Harry couldn't just leave well enough alone.

What We Pretend We Can't See by @gyzym (131,086 words, rated M)

Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought.

[letstrythisout4]

James Sirius Potter

Big brother, sooooooo big brother. 

Incredibly powerful, his accidental magic was insane growing up. Unintentionally was made into the golden child, he just had a lot of expectations put on him early on because of how intense his magical range was demonstrated to be at such an early age.

Looks more like Fleamont than James or Harry (but like they are all clones of each other). You had to know each of them to really see the differences ( in other words when he showed up at Hogwarts the staff was like “omg he looks just like harry” and flitwick was like “no that’s monty”) (the thought just occurred but I like the idea that monty and flitwick were buddies cause they both were into dueling)

Menace but good at hiding it. You cannot catch him doing anything wrong. And I mean from harmless pranks to criminal behavior, you cannot catch him. No reliable evidence. Sure, maybe you saw him, but can you prove it? No.

McGonagall and Flitwick are on it though, some days something will happen and no they can’t prove it was James but look at the way he’s smiling, he’s so smug. “Potter, do you mind helping me reorganize my classroom?” “...Your classroom?” “Yes my classroom” *4 hours later, he finally leaves, knowing that was his unofficial detention*

(He always agrees to help because 1) he was raised to be helpful when available. 2) Its best to take the punishment now, then let them simmer in their suspicion)

Fighter. 

James feels like the kind of guy to punch first and ask questions later. I think all of the Next Gen are fighters but I think James is the easiest to rile up. Like you don't really need to do much, one comment about his family, done (really, just look at any of them weird). The kind of guy where you can damn him to hell but if you look at his mom the wrong way, he’ll jump you. Fighting is the only thing he ever gets caught for and he never denies it.

Guilty pleasure is smoking. He doesn’t do it super frequently but he only smokes magical cigarettes that don’t fuck up your lungs so is it really that bad? (Yes, it's still bad. I like to think that for every magical solution, there is a new problem yk. No wizard cigarettes don’t fuck up your lungs, but it can’t be incredible healthy to inhale magic like that frequently. Maybe it messes with your magical control so like it may make you put too much or too little power into your everyday magic) If it wasn’t bad he wouldn’t hide it from his parents. 

(Doesn’t feel like the kind of person to do anything other than smoke and drink. He doesn’t think less of anyone who wants to do more but I think his magic is really reactive and what he does already is more than enough.)

Speaking of parents, dude loves his parents a lot. (More of a dad harry headcanon but I like to think that the Potter kids can tell Harry anything, do they always? No, they are kids, but when push comes to shove they know they can trust their dad with anything.)

Like to think that he has really good intuition. He just knows. 

He’s also good at Divination. I love the idea that Divination to a certain degree is just a "gift", some people are more adept than others and James is one of those people. It’s well known to the point where when people want advice on the Divination homework, want a tarot reading, tea reading, etc etc, they go to James and he’s always right. 

Is a true student athlete. Like yeah he loves Quidditch but he has a potions exam coming up and the potion exam takes priority (Oliver Wood just shed a tear somewhere). 

That said he is freakishly good at managing his time and keeping up with all of his classes, tutoring and quidditch. I feel like after the Golden Trio era, Hermione would push against time turners being given and in turn James wouldn’t be allowed to take as many classes, SO to get around what he harassed like half of the staff to tutor him in the advanced material of their subject. 

Loves his name but also feels a lot of pressure. Named after two wizards that are greatly admired, at least by his father, he wants to do right by them.

Doesn’t get into arguments frequently but when he does he’s brutal. James loves his family, but when he’s hurt, he’s hurt, and he is going to bring whoever put him in that mood down with him, family or not. 

The kind of person to never date and when they finally do it’s miraculously the love of their life who he will marry and spend eternity with.

Best class is transfiguration.

Letterman jackets.

Baseball fan.

Kind of person to see a first year looking lost and walk them to the otherside of the castle where their class is. 

Definitely prefect and head boy.

Was the one to break the silence and start clapping for Albus when he got sorted to Slytherin.

Loves his siblings, but like he’s definitely closer with the twins and Teddy. He’s close with his siblings too, don’t get me wrong, but he wants to be a good role model for his siblings and he doesn’t really have to when around the older cousins. 

Listens to Mitski and Childish Gambino.

Not incredibly talkative or extroverted, he has a solid three friends plus the army that is his family and he’s good with that.

The kind of kid to walk into the living room where Harry and Ginny are sitting, do a backflip, and walk out.

(as a neurodivergent person myself i like the different neurodivergent James headcanons, in particular the idea that he is bipolar, i think writing hp characters as having these types of disorders can be so important on a representation level but also in a large worldbuilding scale as the question of how does the wizarding world perceive mental disorders etc. lemme know if anyone would care to hear my thoughts on these ideas cause i have many)

[wee-chlo]

I'm rereading Harry Potter and it's baffling how people just... pretend Snape was a completely different person than who he actually was?

Granted, Alan Rickman's Snape and Book Snape are two genuinely different people, to the point that I think Movie Snape would be mildly disgusted by Book Snape. Movie Snape came off more as someone who was angry and spiteful to a select few for reasons that ranged from Understandable to Irrationally Petty, but generally very grim and stern, with a good heart beneath it all. Book Snape is a piece of shit.

Movie Snape doesn't have the same cruelty as Book Snape: his targeting of anyone other than Harry is framed in a more slapstick way and his teaching isn't neary as abusive. Neville being terrified of him doesn't have the same implicit showcasing of Snape being abusive but rather Snape being stern and unforgiving while Neville is meek and needs positive reinforcement to flourish.

Movie Snape is stoic, deadpan. I saw a clip of Rickman on YouTube and either he, a commenter, or both noted that a touchstone of Rickman's performance for Snape was that he didn't raise his voice. Not so in the books, where Snape's described several times loosing his temper and screaming, even shrieking. Snape is terrifyingly volatile in the books, in contrast to the movies where even at his most furious, most emotional, he remains in control of himself.

Book Snape is, unambiguously, just a bad person. Not just a bad teacher, a bad PERSON. He is a small, bitter, petty bully who shouldn't be anywhere near children, and honestly Dumbledore letting him near children is probably more of an indictment of Dumbledore's character than the fact that he used to be a wizard supremacist.

And to be clear, while teenage Snape isn't AS bad as adult Snape by virtue of being a teenager... he was also just Not Good. He ran around with Wizard Nazis. Lily called him out on that, on the fact that he was clearly ready and rearing to join Voldemort, that he used Dark Magic on other students alongside his death eater buddies, etc.

James and Co were little shits who teased and picked on students. But Remus and Sirius made a point that Snape and James had a uniquely, mutually hostile relationship. Remus and Sirius state directly that ultimately, one of the primary reasons James targeted Snape was because Snape was "up to his eyeballs in the Dark Arts and James hated the Dark Arts".

I've seen people use the fact that James never apologized to Snape as an indictment of James' character but like... when and why would he have apologized?

Genuinely, I think if Snape had made a good faith effort to be a better person BEFORE the death of the Potters, James may have apologized. But Snape at the time of James' death was a literal wizard nazi and honestly? I can't see him feeling terribly bad about bullying him, or at least not feeling obliged to apologize. And even if he had, how would he have done so? Send an owl to wizard nazi HQ?

But I think the thing that made me bristle the most about the books was the gaslighting that happened in book 6.

Remus is... going through it in that book, fair enough, but when Harry is talking to him about his suspicious, he gently accuses Harry of "inheriting James' and Sirius' prejudice" and being "determined to hate [Snape]". Like.... I'm sorry, but did Remus get hit in the head? Are we supposed to just casually forget EVERYTHING SNAPE HAS SAID AND DONE TO HARRY IN THE LAST FIVE BOOKS?!

If anyone came into it with an inherited prejudice and a determination to hate, it was Snape.

Justice for Book 6 Harry, everyone's treating him like he's bonkers but he's right.

[whorediaries-09]

Hey!! Could you do one where Sirius and reader were dating during hogwarts but they broke up after harry was born but they were already his godparents. After James and Lily die, Sirius doesn’t go to Azkaban so they have to reunite to take care and raise Harry.

hi love, thank you for sending in the request. it's a great idea, and could have been longer than what i have written to be honest, but i was running short on time. i still hope you like it <3

maroon;

pairing- sirius black x reader warning(s)- hurt/comfort, drinking, alludes to sexual assault. (let me know if i should add more) a/n- i wanted to write a fic using this song for so long. anon i love you cause i have the perfect opportunity to do that now 👯‍♂️

the slut club

and I wake with your memory over me that's a real fucking legacy to leave,

you're sure you can still hear his ringing distinctive laughter through the photograph. the photograph you hold has faded away its brightest hue, along with the smile of james potter and his heartbeat. you cradle his almost doppelgänger on your knee if it wasn't for his bright emerald eyes. he sucks on his thumb, while brandishing a twig in thin air. (after you had successfully convinced him it was a wand)

'honey, look, it's your papa,' you say, flashing his father's picture on his eyeline. you wonder if he recalls his features as his grubby fingers grab at the photograph. you wonder if you'd had to introduce his father to him if he weren't dead.

the doorknob clicks. the footsteps knocking on the floor are similar but it still sends a wave of coldness through your veins. your jaw tightens.

'i'm so sorry i'm late,' he says running his fingers through his hair. he picks up harry, and places a chaste kiss on his chubby cheek. you get up from the sofa.

'it's okay sirius, he's my godson too,' you say, loosening your tightened jaw. you crack your knuckles.

'buddy where'd you get this...twig?' you hear sirius ask harry. he flashes him a half toothed grin, shoving the twig in his ear.

'hey, hey no,' sirius scrunches his face in pain. you suppress a smile, throwing your coat over your shoulders.

'i convinced him it's a wand. he saw me using it to turn down the blinds and yeah, you know he's just like his father, stubborn,'

'you seen moony?' you ask. remus was the only person you could confide in at that moment. somethings seemed to be overwhelming. swallowing it up would seem like a great idea, but it wasn't. not in the long run. the run hadn't even started and you felt like your joints were rusted, lungs exhausted and heart beating too slowly. perhaps it was the after effects of a lorn tragedy. your breathing palpitated with the way sirius' gray eyes ran over your body.

'he's sulking as usual,' he replied, his mood suddenly in the halt of a shift.

'home?' you ask, your feet jittery.

'hm,'

you're not sure whether it's a tone of disapproval or jealousy. the latter seems dimensionally impossible, so you disapparate, to lupin's house.

*******

your eyes are torn of sleep, the half moon shining stark against the dark sky. the stillness of the night enveloped you, an uncomfortable warmth surrounding you. the night seemed stuffy, a prison of your thoughts. it was as if a weight of restlessness settled upon your bones, your mind and body battling to fall into a slumber. the darkness thundered a dance of troubled thoughts, which instead of providing solace was a battle against the dreams that awaited you on the other spectrum of sleep.

it's thud against your door. is it the wind? you search for your wand, and slowly whisper,

'lumos,'

the tip of your light enlightens into a beautiful solemn blue. you curl your toes, walking down the hallway. your voice is sore, dry and cracked when you speak, pressing your ear against the wood of the door.

'wh-who is it?'

'it's me, sirius.'

your hand wraps itself around the doorknob as your turn it, around, unlocking the door. it's not the first time he showed up at your house in the middle of the night. last time, when he came in he was drunk and red-eyed, searching for a bestowed comfort. while it wouldn't have mattered if it was someone else, it felt so wrong back then. he'd hugged you tight, your ribs almost breaking from the pressure. it made you reminisce of the days when he'd hug you, whispering i love you's in your ear. it made you reminisce of the days when he'd tickle you and you'd laugh till your ribs hurt. you remembered how he'd reeked of alcohol and tobacco, so unlike yet like him.

he stands there before you, his nose dripping blood, tears staining his cheeks. you stare at him hollow-eyed, your heart bleeding with an urge to hold him. but it seems like you're stuck, as if your blood is frozen, your senses too numb. he stammers, walking towards you. he smells like a flowery scent infused with the stench of beer. his words are broken when he speaks into your hair, his arms dropping on your body.

your lips are dry as your arms close around his shaking body.

'who did this to you?' you whisper. you feel his heartbeat beating against yours. his slows it's pace and yours picks up the pace as he lets the cruel words out of his mouth, offering you a broken story.

'this-this girl, she groped me when i was dancing with her. i thought it was by mistake a-at first, but-'

he breaks down, his sobs shattering every shard of your broken heart.

'it's fine, we'll get you a warm bath,' you whisper, slowly running your fingers down his spine. it's as if by instinct, or maybe old habit, you kiss his shoulder.

'i-i miss you.' he says.

'i'm right here,'

'no, i miss us.'

'sirius?'

he looks at you with an utmost expression of genuine love and it scares you. his gray eyes almost absorb your soul. it's as if your heart beats maniacally against your ribcage, while he captivates you. he feels like the perfect muse for your poems. he feels like the last bite of your cornetto. he feels like home.

he feels like he's yours.

you're scared. maybe the incarnations were roses after all.

[sitp-recs]

Erised 2024 - Sitp recs

Life will get busy after Dec 20th so I made sure to spare a couple days to check on Erised because I really didn’t want to miss out this year. And boy, did we have some bangers to kick it off! I’m slowly making my way through the first week of works and these are my favorites so far. There’s a trope, length and rating for every taste. Don’t forget to follow @hd-erised and check their AO3 page to see the full collection!

The Melting Point of Wax by @oknowkiss (M, 10k)

🏷️ Quidditch players, broom racing, mutual pining, humour

“From what I’ve heard, your penchant for frivolity dissolved faster than a croissant up my arse.”

“Zut alors,” Harry said. “There goes that breakfast idea.”

Bare Moon Rising by @thecouchsofa (E, 15k)

🏷️ Quidditch, charity calendar, bets & wagers, mutual pining

Potter paused, then said, “Nice cock,” and Draco replied, “Thanks. I grew it myself,” and the seal was broken.

Equally Cursed and Blessed by @moonflower-rose (E, 18k)

🏷️ 8th year, coming out, oblivious Harry, jealousy

“Go to bed, mate. It’s way too late for a breakdown. That’s a Sunday afternoon job.”

Old love don't rust by @traylalascrisis (E, 20k)

🏷️ fuck buddies to lovers, jealousy, non-linear narrative

“Why do you keep coming?” Malfoy asked at last. “Because I can’t stop,” Harry said.

The Pain From an Old Wound by @citrusses (T, 30k)

🏷️ Exes, Curse Breaker Drarry, casefic, magical theory

“My house will love and honour you. It will protect you.”

Sub rosa by @tessacrowley (E, 37k)

🏷️ Professors, intersex Veela Draco, Mpreg. tw: gender dysphoria, parental transphobia

I can’t believe you’re so nice to elves,” Potter said, and just like that, Draco’s foul mood returned.

“How fortunate, then, that you’re not required to insert yourself into my business at all,” Draco snapped. He followed it up with a terse, “Good day,” and a sharp heel-turn up the steps.

The Most Splendid Thing by @lqtraintracks (E, 61k)

🏷️ Quidditch rivals, accidental bonding, Desi Harry & tattooed Draco, ARMPIT LICKING (this is important to me okay!!!!)

“It’s the bond,” he says, with a grin and a shrug of one shoulder.

“It’s the bond,” Harry agrees.

[oneknightstand-if]

Since people are asking about characters with the NSFW alphabet, why not balance it out with the fluff alphabet? Judging from what you're implying for future events, we'll be needing all those feel good vibes before the apocalypse happens

...I need some happy content for our bespectacled buddy and resident lore dork before things go south in-game

*looks down at the scenarios suggested by the letters* Oh boy, if you wanted fluff, you probably should've picked someone different from Adrian.

A - Activities - He'll be doing whatever is his & MC's joint interest in that particular timeline. Polo? Fencing? Literature? Running around like Harry Potter in a pruned timeline? Also, yes, this is explicitly with the MC. All of the scenarios are about MC, there's no other significant other.

D - Dreams - He has none. He fully expects this relationship to spectacularly shatter like a mirror with TNT attached to it right in his face, but he'll be there (enjoying himself... maybe) until that happens.

R - Romantic - "I want my beloved to be happy." *falls on sword* That's romantic, right?

I - Inspiration - Oh boy, you better hope that this gets filled in the positive [SPOILER] if you want to end up with him.

A

N - Nicknames - He'll use whatever MC's normal nickname is unless they're in trouble, in which case he'll switch to MC's formal name. Otherwise, he doesn't really have a petname for MC like "Snugglebums" or whatever. That's someone else's schtick.

B - Beauty - This is really, really, really going to be dependant upon the MC in question and all the related quirks of their past. Like he's not going to admire the MC's sassy boldness if it's Serious Timid MC or the calm composure of Wrath MC.

E - Equal - Once more this is going to depend upon the MC. More dominant if they're timid or fearful MC, more passive if it's a bolder MC.

N

O - On Cloud Nine - He expresses his love by burying it so deep that people close to him (including the MC) think he's not really interested that way and so it's only friendship. Maybe an apocalypse will drag it out of him.

N

I

[maxdibert]

Hi! I've seen you write some pretty interesting analyses and I feel like I keep screaming this particular theory into an empty void, and I'm looking for someone to confirm or deny or something. Anyway, I keep seeing these whole lists about why "Snape is a bad person actually" and they keep bringing up how he exposed Lupin as a werewolf at the end of PoA and it makes me want to knock my head in with a piece of wood. Because it just seems so obvious to me that it was DUMBLEDORE who gave Snape the expressed permission to let that secret slip. Like, am I crazy? Am I just some conspiracy theorist and I'm the only one who thinks this? Tell me if this doesn't make sense, I need to get another opinion on it:

Lupin states in PoA that after the prank Dumbledore had forbidden Snape from telling anyone that Lupin is a werewolf. It's never explained how Dumbledore got him to comply, but Snape never tells a soul even when he's a full-fledged Death Eater and actively fighting a war against Dumbledore. Clearly, something hinky is going on. During PoA, Snape again doesn't tell anybody that Lupin is a werewolf even though it's obvious that he really, really wants to when he assigns the students an essay on werewolves. And, honestly, what could Dumbledore possibly do to him if Snape does tell? Fire him? His only spy? From a job he hates? Oh no, Snape won't have to teach kids anymore, what a terrible turn of events. And then there's the obvious reason why Dumbledore hired Lupin that year specifically in the first place. Lupin is clearly the most competent DADA teacher they've had in a while, so why wouldn't Dumbledore have hired him earlier? Because he knows for a fact (not just a rumor) that the DADA position is cursed and that whoever he hires will have to leave at the end of year, and sometimes they leave in a bodybag; Dumbledore wants to keep Lupin in his back pocket in case he needs him, he's not going to risk him unless it's important. And when Sirius escapes - whom Dumbledore still believes to be a traitor who killed the Potters - the time is now. Who better to help him catch Sirius than one of his old school buddies? (I mean, apparently anyone was better, since Lupin knew Sirius was a secret animagus and how he was able to sneak into the school but didn't tell anybody) Well, now the school year is over, Lupin WILL leave the school one way or another, and for some unfathomable reason Dumbledore won't actually confirm that the rumors are true and the position is cursed to Lupin or anyone else, and Lupin seems very much willing to stay on. Well, if Lupin doesn't resign then the curse will find another way to get him gone, in pieces if need be, so why not force Lupin's hand and give Snape a little pat on the head for enduring such a terrible "disappointment" (as Dumbledore termed it to Fudge) by letting him finally get a chance to tell his secret? After all, when Snape leaves the infirmary after Sirius escapes, he still doesn't know that Sirius is innocent. He was unconscious during the whole Pettigrew reveal. He fully believes that the man who murdered Lily escaped justice and that Lupin helped him escape the Dementors, and Dumbledore basically just told him, "too bad, so sad." If Snape was fully capable of telling people that Lupin was a werewolf under his own power, I have no doubt he would have kicked open every dorm room in Slytherin shouting, "Wakey, wakey, listen up!" But he doesn't. He waits one full day and night to drop this bomb. Why if he didn't need Dumbledore's permission to do so?

I don’t think Dumbledore gave him permission, or that it was something Dumbledore told Severus to do. I genuinely believe Snape had just had enough that year emotionally, mentally, everything.

I mean, first of all, one of his biggest bullies escapes from prison, someone who, until then, was believed to be the traitor who got the Potters killed and a direct threat to Harry (triple trigger, triple stress). Then, on top of that, he’s forced to work alongside another one of his bullies —or at the very least, a complicit bystander— someone who nearly got him killed as a teenager. And somehow, through all of it, Severus is expected to keep his cool and pretend he’s fine, even though he was probably having five emotional breakdowns a day behind the scenes.

I think the final straw was Sirius and Remus getting away with it again. Like always. Just like when they were kids Severus ends up carrying the emotional weight of everything, while the ones who tormented him walk away, untouched, unpunished.

I think in that moment, Severus said: “Enough. I’m not some powerless 15-year-old kid anymore. I can do something now.” And he did. He made sure this time, someone faced consequences and the way he did that was by exposing Lupin.

And honestly? I think by doing that, he got a massive weight off his chest.

And I’m glad he did.

[j4desblurbs]

RESIDENT EVIL CHARACTERS AT THE MOVIES

hello from your fav cinephile (ugh)

inspo from @yurozo, their restaurant au and vape shop au made me giggle

apologies in advance if i disgustingly mischaracterize your fav. i tend to only focus on one version of them in my mind cuz i’m not 100% familiar with RE yet so pls bear with me.

enjoy :)

ashley graham (re4r)

ashley is the type of person to dress up for movies. not all the time, but when it’s right to do so. when barbie came out she dragged leon to the theater on opening day in an all pink outfit.

ashley also cries during movies and has no shame. she was blubbering her way through wicked.

as for the kinds of movies she likes, she’s mostly into romances, comedies, classic fantasies, and the odd animated film.

examples: 10 things i hate about you, enchanted, harry potter, moana.

carlos oliveira (re3r)

carlos definitely laughs out loud in a movie theater, even if the joke isn’t very funny. he mostly catches super late shows so it’s not a rare occurrence for him to be the only one in the theater.

want to see a movie you’re not sure other people will want to see? call carlos! this guy will watch almost anything and have a good time with it. when ashley wanted to watch wicked, she went with carlos because no one else was free/interested. they ended up having a great time and he even wore whatever outfit ashley had created for him. (he also blubbered his way through the movie).

because carlos seems like he’d be into so many different genres, it’s hard narrow down specific ones. but i’ll have to go with action comedies, occasional superhero/comic book flicks, and sci-fi.

examples: the nice guys, rush hour, deadpool, star wars.

chris redfield (death island)

chris is the guy who doesn’t go to the theater on his own. it’s almost always in a group outing or if claire manages to drag him.

even so, he will be out like a light without fail. the longest he managed to stay awake was an hour. one time he even fell asleep during the previews. he vastly prefers to watch a movie at home.

chris is into the classic action movies. he also enjoys buddy cops.

examples: die hard, rambo, rocky, lethal weapon.

claire redfield (re2r)

i think if anyone in this list is close to being a movie buff it’s claire. she’s at the theater the most out of everyone and always manages to drag at least one person with her too.

she enjoys the previews, loves a good post movie debrief at a restaurant, and will smack chris awake when he starts to nod off but then give up after a few times.

with that, claire is very much a “if it’s good, it’s good” type of gal so it’s hard to say exactly what kinds of movies she’d like, but i think she’d be into both sci-fi, action, and drama, as well as more lighthearted comedies.

examples: star wars, little women, the hunger games, whiplash.

jill valentine (re3r)

the movies aren’t jill’s first choice of a pastime but when she’s with a group of people, she enjoys it. usually doesn’t start out too invested in whatever it is she’s watching but ends up getting more into it as time goes on.

i’d say jill would be into a good thriller and would also appreciate some sci-fi or horror movies as well.

examples: prisoners, interstellar, the silence of the lambs, se7en.

leon kennedy (re4r/death island + infinite darkness)

leon is also like chris in that he’d prefer seeing a movie at home rather than in the theater, but he’s also less susceptible to falling asleep in the theater. leon also lets himself get dragged to movies a lot (as mentioned previously, ashley took him to barbie and he even wore a pink shirt. how sweet).

leon is a basic bitch and likes basic action movies but hey! they’re popular for a reason. he also enjoys a good comedy.

examples: the equalizer, deadpool & wolverine, the matrix, ferris bueller’s day off.

[wisteria-lodge]

What do you think about the take that Lucius is a little neglectful towards Draco?

It comes from how 1. When Harry and Draco met, Draco is by himself in a street, feeling bored. 2. Lucius scolds Draco about his grades and complaining about Harry yet seemingly failed to get a tutor or therapist or consider Draco’s feelings. 3. During Hogwarts Mystery, Lucius often leaves Draco in the Hands of others or by himself. (Even During a Christmas event, Draco is found on the streets by himself, upset and annoyed because he felt Lucius was not spending enough time with him.)

Okay, I'll play.

1 ~ Draco and Harry meet in a clothes shop, not the street, and here's the quote:

“My father’s next door buying my books and Mother’s up the street looking at wands,” said the boy. He had a bored, drawling voice. “Then I’m going to drag them off to look at racing brooms. I don’t see why first years can’t have their own. I think I’ll bully Father into getting me one and I’ll smuggle it in somehow.”

I actually don't think Draco's bored at all. I think he's having a good time being independent and showing off in front of the new kid. He's got a bored-sounding voice, which is different. A bored-sounding voice is low energy, too-cool-for-school, which is very Draco. And apparently, Lucius is running Draco's errands, and Draco thinks he can get him to buy him an extra present. That seems the opposite of being neglectful.

2 ~ Therapists aren't a thing in the wizarding world, and mind-healers are fanon, so I don't expect that would be on Lucius' radar. But here's the complaining about Harry bit:

“. . . everyone thinks he’s so smart, wonderful Potter with his scar and his broomstick —” “You have told me this at least a dozen times already,” said Mr. Malfoy, with a quelling look at his son. “And I would remind you that it is not — prudent — to appear less than fond of Harry Potter, not when most of our kind regard him as the hero who made the Dark Lord disappear —"

I wouldn't describe this as scolding. If anything, this is just advice. Yes, Lucius is clearly pretty done with the subject - and if this is indeed the twelfth time Draco has brought it up, I get that. But just the fact that Draco has been able to complain about Harry Potter so much to his father does mean that he had to have been around his father a lot in order to do it. And Lucius wasn't completely zoning out. So, that also does not read as neglectful to me.

“Ah, the Hand of Glory!” said Mr. Borgin, abandoning Mr. Malfoy’s list and scurrying over to Draco. “Insert a candle and it gives light only to the holder! Best friend of thieves and plunderers! Your son has fine taste, sir.” “I hope my son will amount to more than a thief or a plunderer, Borgin,” said Mr. Malfoy coldly, and Mr. Borgin said quickly, “No offense, sir, no offense meant —” “Though if his grades don’t pick up,” said Mr. Malfoy, more coldly still, “that may indeed be all he is fit for —" “It’s not my fault,” retorted Draco. “The teachers all have favorites, that Hermione Granger —” “I would have thought you’d be ashamed that a girl of no wizard family beat you in every exam,” snapped Mr. Malfoy.

This is the angriest Lucius ever gets with Draco, and I think it's an interesting snippet. Yes, Lucius is embarrassing Draco by bringing up his grades - but in a way that seems to be intended to correct or undercut Borgin's attempt to flatter Draco and butter him up. Lucius has also switched out of the more respectful "Mr. Borgin" he was using earlier in the scene to just "Borgin" - communicating to Draco that Borgin isn't actually important (unlike Draco, who is.)

Draco then talks back a little, comes up with an excuse which is - a lie. Hermione is a muggleborn, which Lucius comments on, so she's unlikely to be every teacher's favorite. Especially since one of those teachers is Snape, Lucius' buddy, and he knows for a fact that Draco is Snape's favorite.

This whole scene is really about Lucius telling Draco that he needs to be more tactical, and check his privilege. Lucius is in this shop because he's selling dark artifacts - he's powerful, but he's worried. He's not so powerful that no one can touch him. Draco's the same. Lucius is telling him he can't afford to make an enemy of Harry Potter, and he can't afford to just coast through his classes and blame bad grades on teachers playing favorites. Draco's catchphrase at this point is "Wait Till My Father Hears About This," and I think that's slightly worrying to Lucius. He *can't* swoop in and solve all Draco's problems.

(although he does try - buying the Slytherin team brooms is basically just a way to buy Draco friends, and when Draco says he's been mauled by a hippogriff, Lucius does everything he can to get rid of it. And Hagrid says, "’Spect Lucius Malfoy would’ve come marchin’ up ter school if yeh’d cursed his son [to vomit slugs]. Least yer not in trouble.” If anything, Lucius is slightly overprotective.)

Like, it's a plot point in Book 6 that Lucius cares so much about Draco that Voldemort is able to punish (and control) him through Draco. Also, just a detail I like - in Books 2 and 5, Lucius sends Draco newspaper clippings about the Weasleys getting in trouble because he (correctly) thinks that Draco will find them funny. I think that's kind of cute, in a very Malfoy sort of way.

3 ~ I've never played Hogwarts Mystery, and don't consider it canon. But honestly I just find it adorable that Lucius is taking Draco with him on errands? It's very bring-your-kid-to-work.

And getting your co-workers/employees to look after your kid on a bring-your-child-to-work day is pretty normal. In my experience anyway.

Draco "Wait Till My Father Hears About This" Malfoy is... kind of a daddy's boy, so it doesn't surprise me at all that he's kinda clingy and needy as a kid.

[doradus1899]

There's something that really irritates me about the Marauders fandom, I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion or not, but I don't care.

It really bothers me the way y'all talk about fanfic. Sometimes I think some people here forget that fanfics aren't written by professional authors, it's something that someone is writing for fun and that you can read for free. you shouldn't be criticizing them as if they were published books written by professional authors.

You have every right in the world to be reading something and not like it, but do you know what is the right thing to do? Just close the tab and go look for something that you like more. Don't make videos on tik tok talking bad about the story. I'm really impressed by the number of videos talking bad about fanfics, trashing them. Have some shame… I always think that when I go into the comments of this type of video I will find people criticizing this type of stance in the comments, but I never do. The comments are always full of people criticizing other fanfics not mentioned in the video.

just imagine writing a fanfic and posting it for free for others to read, something you wrote just for entertainment, and then opening tik tok and having thousands of people talking bad about you and your writing. and I'm specifically talking about Tik Tok because that's where I see it happening the most and where these videos have the more reach, but I know it also happens on others social media. I don't know if it happens here, but for example on Twitter I know it does.

and I'm speaking as someone who has never experienced this, I've never published any Harry Potter fanfic. lol and I don't see that happening in other fandoms (and also my stories have very little reach, so I don't think it would happen to me).

and another thing that bothers me, which is still within the subject of how this fandom treats fanfic, is that y'all really seem to have lost track of what that word means. the way I see some people talking disdainfully about fanfics that aren't ''very realistic''. buddy, it's FANFIC. Fanfic doesn't have to be realistic. I see a lot of people saying ''Ah, finally a fanfic that treats the 70s in a realistic way'', it's okay if you PREFER the fanfic to be realistic, that's personal taste. But it's not okay to treat fanfics that aren't realistic with disdain. One is not better than the other, being more realistic does not give more merit. Because it's just the author's choice, how they wants the story to be.

I myself prefer fanfics that aren't realistic, because as a lesbian I'm already fed up with homophobia in real life, and this is dealt with in almost every story with LGBTQIA+ people in books, films, etc… at least in fanfic I can pretend it doesn't exist.

again, personal taste is one thing, but thinking that some fanfics are better written than others just because they suit your tastes better its not okay. and treating what you don't like as inferior, with disdain… that's the problem.

Anyway, this outburst ended up getting bigger than I thought it would. lol I don't know if anyone will read this but I just wanted to get it off my chest. and if some parts were confusing, well, im sorry, but english is not my first language. and sometimes it's difficult to express myself.

ah, I'm part of several fandoms, but I only refer to the marauders because it's something I only see happening here. Maybe because it's the biggest fandom I'm part of, as the others are much more niche. but if it happens in other fandoms, have shame too. lol It's not cool for this to happen in any fandom.

[angelic-oaths-pond]

divider by @/saradika-graphics

are you lonely? missing source? missing a friend? welcome to angelic oath's pond! here you can request a friend, and my fragments will latch onto the identity, and bam! new friend for you.

how do you do it, you're asking? well, of course there has to be some sort of requesting info.

brainmades > fictives > octives > songtives > whatever else idk (in order of easiest for us to form and latch onto)

source list (these ones will be easier for my frags to latch onto as we have pre-existing knowledge of them): creepypasta, harry potter, percy jackson, the hunger games, dream smp, yellowjackets, arcane, yandere simulator, outer banks, grishaverse, etc. (look, i know i was a weird kid, okay?)

questionaire time!

well, is there a template or something? not really, but here's some info you should include! name, source, personality, and whatever else you want! i'll make them a side blog for you :3,, please lmk if you want any specific details about them!!!!

what don't you do? glad you asked! i won't do hazbin/helluva, i won't do IRL figures, i won't do romantic or sexual relationships, transIDs, paraphilias. i may also deny requests that aren't on here if i'm uncomfortable with them.

that's cool.. but does blacklisting transIDs/paraphilias mean you don't like them? not true at all! i don't mind harmless transIDs, and i am an advocate for paraphilias, but i am just uncomfortable with those on my collective. they can interact, of course, but you will be denied if you want something like transharmed/transharmful ^^

how often will they be online? well, our timezone is UTC +11, if that matters! usually we'll be online throughout the day unless something has come up. daily conversations are something we can do if needed!

what if i don't like how they turned out? please don't tell them that :[ you can't get a "refund", they formed how they formed, and they can't change that! if you dislike how they turned out,, just leave an ask in my inbox telling me you won't be able to talk to them any longer :( ditching them without notice makes them really upset, especially since they formed essentially for you.

did you get inspiration from anyone? yes! all creds to @liminalbah @craft-a-fragment @build-a-brain-buddy for inspiring me

how many requests can i send in at a time? one please!!!

what's the estimated waiting time? a few days usually works, and it gives them time to latch on and delve into their identity a bit more

okay, that's nice to know. is there any other info i should know? not really! my only request is that you go as in-detail as possible when requesting so they can form the best way possible ^^ if not, usually they might end up different than you planned!

oh wait, one last question. do you only do fictives? nope!! you can request a brainmade (we're best at these), songtive, fictive, octive, etc. just go in-detail :3

how do i contact you if i have more questions? well, you can send an ask into this blog, or do it on my main, @angelic-oath.

do you have any other socials? well, there's discord, but i only really feel comfortable doing this sort of stuff on tumblr, unless we're close friends!

requests are... OPEN!

disclaimers:

it may take time to form them. they might not front often or right away. they may not turn out exactly as wanted. they have feelings too; they are not your play dolls.

tags:

#a tadpole hatches! ; your request has been accepted #a frog hops out of the pond! ; your request has been fulfilled #a frog swims down to the bottom of the pond! ; your request has been denied #a frog eats a fly! ; general talking/questions

anons:

n/a

[revserrayyu]

3.1 Amphoreus thoughts [part 2]

***Spoilers ahead*** for everything up until the rematch with the Flame Reaver, so turn away now if you don’t wanna get upset. At the time of writing this I’ve completed the full story quest so be wary if I mention any details that may happen later.

Starting off nice and calm with the ladies heading to the hot baths for some fun and sweet lord how did Aglaea become even prettier?? I’m in awe.

This whole splitting of the souls chatter reminds me of Harry Potter horcruxes. Becoming a demigod doesn’t seem like the most fantastical job in the world if it comes with such a big drawback, such as this or having your emotions slowly fade (as seen with Aglaea). I can only wonder what Mydei will have to deal with now.

The teasing just never ends between these two and it’s giving me life. Every interaction they have is such a joy to listen to.

Dang, no wonder our boy couldn’t overcome the trail. He was faced with the most tragic day of his life and all the trauma that came with it.

Okay thank heavens someone said it! Every time Mydei would mention how fear/fleeing/romance or any other word that shows weakness isn’t in the Kremnoan language I wanted to ask him like, okay, so what words are there then??

Mydei speaks so fondly of his fallen comrades. Being immortal really is cruel, and it hurts even more that we walk past all of his buddies again in a memory where they’re so excited to see him return.

At some point, Mydei’s teacher infiltrates the vortex by sorta kinda kidnapping Trinnon to do so and after going through this long spiel about the future of Mydei and the Kremnoans that I truthfully wasn’t paying that close attention to, Aglaea decides enough is enough and doesn’t hesitate to most likely execute him.. until Trinnon speaks up. I can’t lie, I genuinely find it a bit comical how quick this woman is to just end anyone who dares break any rules in this city.

So.. this image. First things first, I love that he uses such language at his father. Secondly, can I trade places with him? I’d love to open my eyes and see this marvelous man looking down on me. Step on me, king~

Poor guy has every one of his people wishing to return home to Kremnos someday with him as their king and yet he’s terrified on letting the miserable traditions continue if he decides to take the crown. It really is a difficult decision. Do you keep everyone safe and unhappy, or allow them to thrive in a world of danger?

Oohhh buddy, why must everyone on this planet be gorgeous?? Her mom is looking like a long lost cousin of Argenti and Himeko.

Not gonna lie but this whole scene with the dolls felt so Sparkle coded that it scared me. I honestly jumped the first time everything glitched out.

Well that’s a bright, red death flag if I ever saw one. Some trailers already gave me bad feelings regarding Tribbie, but this worsens it.

Pfftt, Aglaea has no chill and I’m here for it. Protect your people, queen!

I mean, sure, choosing how you pass on individually on your own terms may be better than losing every part of yourself all at once, but Aglaea has a point too, that seeing the many Tribios clones perish over and over again is a lot harder than having it happen just once and being done with. It’s not an easy situation to be in for either side.

It really is incredible how powerful these century gates are and it kinda reminds me of Finral’s spacial magic (Black Clover) the way it’s able to teleport others and redirect incoming attacks or enemies.

If I wasn’t already panicking then I sure am now! Look how upset and scared these cuties are! They know Trianne’s pushing herself too far for their sake and there’s truly nothing that they could do to stop what happens next, especially after seeing how much weaker she’s been getting recently.

Aaahhh, I knew it.. seeing this scene from the Song of Divine Silence trailer gave me such bad vibes from the moment I saw it! And after learning the whole meaning behind “see you tomorrow” just makes everything hurt twice as much!! Trianne was definitely my favorite out of the trio too.. this is such a bummer!

We interrupt the sudden heartbreak to bring you an adorably surprised Trailblazer.

I do love that Mydei trusts Phainon with his one and only weakness. I dunno how thrilled I’d be if such a literal backstabbing does take place in a future patch though.

Anaxa, the renowned scholar, using his gun as a shield against the Flame Reaver.. he’s doing his best. Forgive me but I do not remember much of this cutscene to know if he ever used the weapon the proper way. I was in a mix of tears and hype at this point.

Bro look at how relieved Phainon is when he noticed that Mydei has arrived to help them with the fight! That’s such a wonderful smile.

Sir, your confidence! It’s extraordinary! And I’m also very pleased with your sudden assistance!

Just two bros, ready to go knock some sense into a common enemy. What could possibly be better than that?

Okay, so I dunno about everyone else, but how did we feel about this fight? I personally had no trouble at all, even when we first fought him at the grove. The way they showcased him during the 3.1 livestream, I figured he was gonna be serious trouble, but I think the Nikador boss offered a tougher challenge. I didn’t even get the chance to see this dude’s big, fancy attack animation.

Look at him, protecting his man. What a good lad. We still dunno anything about what Phainon’s path or element would be, but for some reason he gives Preservation vibes? like I know he wields a giant sword and is quite capable of using for offense, but seeing him defend Mydei like this makes me think he can use it as a sort of counter I guess? Maybe give me a taunt too? Who knows. We definitely need more Preservation units though.

All hail the new king successfully securing another win for all.

I feel like a whole lot just happened in such a short amount of time. Next post should cover the rest of this patch.

[shazdemon]

How Harry meets Tom....

It is a tiny person, the first glance reveals. A firstie? Amusement overtakes curiosity. Ofcourse. A curious litte baby snake, from the color on his robes. Well, this will be easy enough. He continues forward.

The dark brown that meets his green knocks the breath out of his chest. He is unprepared, wholly, completely, utterly lost for what's in front of him.

Tom Marvolo Riddle. Lord Voldemort.

His lungs cannot pull in enough air, his magic tightening up into a pulsing core, static crackling for one second between his fingers. He pulls them into a tight fist and calls forth every Occlumency practice he has ever had the displeasure of experiencing, an attempt to quell the rising tides of now unfamiliar emotion crashing like waves through him.

Tom fucking Riddle. The firstie encroaching into his private library table.

Lord Voldemort. His what? Future study buddy? He almost laughs out loud at the absurd thought.

Dark eyes have never let go of his own yet. He forces in a steady yet deep breath, trying to replenish the lack of oxygen since his body apparently forgot how to breathe for the last ten? fifteen? seconds.

And Tom Riddle still looks at him, stares, he has not blinked once.

"Hello, I am Harry Potter. Regular occupant of this table for the last four years, hopeful occupant for the next three. And you?"

Vs how Tom meets Harry

It had been maybe an hour before he was interrupted and for a second he is outraged as his newfound secret hideaway is disturbed.

He looks up and the outrage mellows to curiosity at the look in the others eyes. Eyes that seem to widen as if in recognition.

How is that possible?

Palpable shock and surprise evident in that sharp, handsome face.

As if he knows Tom, this stranger he has never seen before, as if he has suddenly run into a familar face in an unexpected place. As if seeing Tom is so surprising that he can't breathe, he hasn't taken his eyes off of Tom's for even a second, or even blinked really.

And then Tom's eyes follow as the surprise clears from his face, giving way to acceptance, and his words surprise and shock Tom in turn.

He had been expecting to have to introduce himself, expecting the boy to rudely demand an introduction such as they had, as he had, on the train, and then, he had been expecting to be dismissed, —with an insult that Tom is unfortunately growing ever more familiar with now.

It is because of this foolish assumption that Tom is totally off guard by the words that fall out the other boys mouth.

Both were equally entertaining to imagine and translate to words ❤️❤️

(For the whole fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/55248685)