#dorcas dislikes snape the most

[oasis-of-stars-4]

Snape: Tommorrow's garbage day. Barty: I can't believe they made a whole day dedicated to you.

[loserboyfriendrjl]

since people are asking for them, here are my unpopular marauders opinions

(note, and i mean this in the most serious way: please, for the love of god, if you don't agree, just scroll. there is no reason to cause drama over some unpopular opinions of some random tumblr user just because you don't agree with me.)

remus is my least favorite character. don't get me wrong, i love him to bits, he's just the least intriguing to me. he's the character we've been given most of; not only that, i find sirius and james' character, as well as peter's (and his betrayal), as far more interesting

i don't really like jegulus for the same reason as remus; the dynamic is interesting, there is a lot to work with there, including the death eater and order member dynamic, but i just find some ships as more interesting

most of the characters are written as super one-dimensional and therefore i do not like most fandom characterizations which is a crucial point, to me, in whether i read the fic. i like fics in which the characters are written as real people, with human emotions and flaws, and not some qualities thrown together

some wolfstar shippers are pretty much the most annoying people in fandom (coming from a wolfstar shipper). shipping the only consistent ship in this fandom does not make you inherently better than everyone else, and just because someone else splits wolfstar for other ships dynamics does not mean anything

the black sisters and the evans sisters, if written well, can be more interesting than the black brothers and i don't think we talk enough about them (i also find the black brothers are really interesting, and i need more fics in which the intensity of these dynamics are explored)

i dislike the main characterization of regulus in fandom, being a huge fan of morally grey regulus. however, each with their own characterization, and i'm no one to judge next. i find him to be a very interesting character, however, and i like fics that dive deeper into his character

people who ship jegulus and hate lily for no reason need to chill; furthermore, people who hate mary and lily for "getting in the way" of their mlm ships are... i'm not going to comment on this, but you probably know what i mean

"stan bambi" comments on snape videos are really annoying because the very same way we don't like (and sometimes get aggressive) over snape lovers attacking the characters we like, why are we doing that to other people?

i need more peter-centered fics, and i do not like him only being a sidekick or ignored. also, mary is also a very interesting character, and i don't think we credit her enough for it

dorlene > wolfstar

the girls are far more interesting than people make them out to be and i NEED an atyd-like fic (long canon compliant etc) from their povs. it's not a want, it's a need, and i might just write it myself, because i think that a fic like that has a lot of potential

dorcas is morally grey and i need more fics in which that is a thing

this might be my most unpopular opinion but i prefer lily to regulus; i find them both to be very interesting characters, but i find myself more drawn to lily

pretty privilege is REAL in this fandom. bet that if peter and snape were conventionally attractive, they would be as loved as evan, barty, and regulus

i do not see sirius as transfem but why do people have to be so pressed about this hc. lif you don't see it, shut up, move on with your day, and let people who see it do their thing; this fandom is TOO pressed about other people's hcs

i kind of dislike fanon james because they strip him of all humanity and emotions, and make him a ray of walking sunshine with no issues (hence my essay on it, which you can read here)

james would choose sirius over regulus any day

[neverenoughmarauders]

HP canon debater & canon fanfics writer

I am in my 30s, genderfluid - she/they - Scandinavian, but live in the UK, and a long COVIDer/ME/POTSer!

On this blog, I am (mostly) a canon-compliant Marauder fanfic writer - who likes to discuss the canon - and I am currently working on a long fic from 1971-1981 called: When we were up to no good.

More about my ambition below, but long story short - I just want a LONG fic that's not Wolfstar, that's a faithful interpretation of the canon, and which tbh isn't overly about sex or the usual fanon stuff. It's just four great friends; an 'enemies-to-lovers' love story; a war and a betrayal.

I mostly ship canon (especially Hinny, Romione, Jily) because I am boring, but I adore Prongsfoot and Sebinis, and I’m not anti most non-canon ships if they are true to their canon characterisation.

I will argue and discuss the canon with anyone who's interested. If you don't care about the canon, fine, but you and I probably won't enjoy each other's posts very much.

I don’t support JKR’s views (Read: I AM EXTREMELY ANTI HER VIEWS). I regularly question whether I should just abandon the fandom because of her (I have stayed away in the past), but then again, I discovered a lot about my own gender fluidity through the fandom, so it’s all very complicated.

I started writing When we were up to no good because I wanted to write a story where:

Sirius and James are best friends, inseparable and extremely talented

Remus and James have a solid friendship; not just Remus and Sirius

While Sirius and Peter take a bit of time to become close, Sirius ends up closer to Peter than Remus (at the latest) by the later stages of the war.

Peter is very much part of the Marauders, and there’s nothing obvious (to Sirius and James) to suggest he does a 180. Nevertheless, as readers who know what happens, we can see the small stuff that lays the foundation for the betrayal

James and Sirius are bullies! This isn’t a story trying to ignore their bad sides

Remus’ personality is affected by his lycanthropy - he has three great friends and that’s it: James, Sirius and Peter. He does not stand up to his friends (much) as he cannot afford to lose them

Lily struggles to adjust to the wizarding world given her blood status and she struggles with her friendship with Snape. She loves him so much but she’s not blind to his friends and the path he’s being led down

James and Lily have arcs that both make us understand why she disliked James so much, but also understand how the two are rather similar in their own way. The relationship, when it happens, should feel solid and lasting.

James does not go around declaring his love for Lily at every opportunity. It doesn’t fit with the canon

Not every OOTP member are in the same year as the Marauders. In my story, Marlene is 10 years older (and Molly’s best friend), Frank and Gideon are 6 years older; Alice and Fabian are 5 years older; and Dorcas is long gone from school etc.

Frank and Alice starts dating after Hogwarts (not everyone has to start dating at school)

There's lots of (hopefully canon-compliant) plot and character development. And it’s a long story! I want to make justice to their story and not rush it (but I don't want it to feel dragged out)

There is as much fun and fluff and comfort and hurt as I can get away with while feeling I can call it canon-compliant

There are plenty of Easter eggs and things we know happened in the canon, such as: Bertha Jorkins as a source of Hogwarts gossip; the Whomping Willow becoming off-limit, the newly built abandoned Hogsmeade house slowly becoming known as the Shrieking Shack, Mundungus Fletcher finding himself banned from the Hogs Head ca 1975; the 1974 World Cup and more.

That’s the ambition. I’m not by any means an experienced writer and I’m learning as I go. If this is something that interests you, then cool! Absolutely engage as much or little as you’d like with the story! I love geeking out over canon and writing!

I post extracts on here quite often! You might call it self-promotion - I call it oversharing - something I do in all aspects of my life! 😂

[kakesuki]

Some Regulus thoughts because that boy lives rent free in my head.

I honestly dislike when he is characterized as a poor abandoned puppy that was just lost in life and crying at the smallest inconvenience because that's just not my Regulus.

For me, that boy was actually an amazing brain. I view him as a morally grey person to the core; my head canon is that actually, unlike the opinions that he genuinely felt bad for the muggles, he just didn't care. For me Regulus would just view himself superior to most and couldn't care less about who's dying. He wouldn't actually want to go out of his way to kill them, but he wouldn't feel bad for it either. I feel like he would be the kind of person that wouldn't give a shit until things actually touch him.

He canonically cared for his house elf and since they are technically at the very bottom, like even muggle born witches and wizards disrespects them, in my mind the whole blood purity thing wouldn't matter to him. Considering the headcanon that he's friend with Dorcas, Pandora, Barty and Evan for me Regulus would actually judge based on the power abilities. And that's what I think he was seeking by following Voldemort.

For me, he wanted power. I don't think of him as a Voldemort fanboy because once again I just view Regulus as someone who is too proud for that. Boy was a black; the idea of him following someone, even the dark lord himself, with heart shaped eyes gives me the irk. He admired him; admired his power, followers and the fact that people were scared of him, for sure, but not to the point where he was loyal or anything of the kind.

Regulus wasn't forced to follow Voldemort, he choosed to because yes that man is a monster but he's still a great wizard. And honestly? Fair.

And because of all of those reasons when Voldenort touched something that was his, one of his properties, someone he actually cared about, Regulus betrayed him. Because in the end the boy is a black, not some small little doll you can play with and toss around afterwards. That was a direct insult to him and to his name, and I don't see him letting that slide.

He was obviously intelligent, and I prefer thinking that he figured the whole horcruxes thing himself. And his letter just...go with that idea I have of Regulus so much.

I love when he's written like a martyr, don't get me wrong, but dark Regulus just hit different. Regulus who IS the prince and Slytherin and embraces that position. The 'baby black' surname is really really cute of course, but I can't imagine him letting that slide from anyone who isn't one of his direct friends. And, for some reason, I also feel like he wouldn't like Snape. Not for the same reasons as Sirius (Even if I do think that the fact Sirius hates him would also affect his opinion, because even with all that in my mind he'd still genuinely live his brother. At least in secret), but just...still not like him. Probably recognizing his talent, and who knows even sharing the same circles when Snape was with Lucius, but just keeping his distance from him because there is no world where they would be friends.

In conclusion, for me Reg is a badass that actually only does what HE wants when HE wants.

[fandoomrants]

Some personal Marauders era hcs and thoughts.

I don't aim to offend anyone and that's just a bunch of canon-related stuff I think.:

The Marauders:

-Peter WAS their friend. That's what made it even more hurtful in the end. But like, he was actively their friend, who they loved and trusted. However, I believe he was also underestimated, especially by Sirius. And not because he didn't consider him a friend, but because he didn't consider he could turn their backs on them because he admired them too much and wasn't a capable and therefore dangerous person.

-On the contrary, the reason Sirius thought Remus was the spy wasn't because he was a werewolf. It was because he knew he's capable and could take care of himself, and could keep a secret. But he was more likely to actually do something out of his own will.

-Remus saw Harry for the first time on the train when he was 13. He never saw him as a baby because he was already estranged from his friends.

-Remus stepped aside because he realised he couldn't have the lives most of his friends had, and didn't want to be a burden, or threat.

-The Prank was nasty but it wasn't that big of a deal. Of course Remus was angry at Sirius but I believe they all were. Yet it was just a stupid thing he did as a child (sorry,l but 15-16yos are the dumbest years of someone's life decison-wise, imo and that's talking both from experience and observation) and he was very much aware it wasn't in order to hurt and expose him as a werewolf.

The girls:

-Marlene was probably around the Marauders' age and attended Hogwarts with them because Lily mentions her in her letter to Sirius. However, there's a chance that they just got close because of the Order.

-Dorcas was, as I've seen many people hc, perhaps much older than them, however. I personally don't think it was a common thing for someone to leave Hogwarts and immediately join the Order. Or even if they did that because all the help was appreciated, they weren't such a big threat, no matter how good wizards and witches they were. However, the little we know about her is that Voldemort dealt with her personally. He dealt with James and Lily personally (*sob*) in order to get to Harry but that's because of the prophecy. She must have been a real pain in the .... for him to want to do it personally, and I think this means she was someone with a lot of experience.

-Lily didn't hate James and they weren't enemies to lovers but more of strangers to lovers. Yeah, she got irritated by him and the rest mistreating Snape who was her friend but this doesn't mean she hated him, she disliked him. (Also, for enemies to lovers, it's supposed to be from both sides and he didn't dislike her, quite the contrary.)

-Lily wasn't popular. I'm pretty sure at Hogwarts everyone knows each other because you get to live with these people, more or less, even if you're not the same year or house, but I don't think she was popular.

The Slytherin skittles:

-Regulus was probably a Capricorn. That's more about the fanon interpretation but also the little we know about him?? That note in the locket?? I know lots of Capricorns. If someone's gonna do it, it's a Capricorn.

-Same as Dorcas, Evan was probably also much older than the rest. Moody was an experienced auror. Only someone who is also experienced and powerful can match him in a duel.

-Barty wasn't insane before Azkaban.

-Barty wasn't a good person and what he did was bad but he wasn't some psychopath without emotions, he loved his mother. His father is the one who was mostly responsible for him becoming who he is. Yet he's not considered "bad" because he wasn't a Death Eater.

-Regulus became a Death Eater completely willingly. He believed in Voldemort's ideas. Something changed later but he believed them at first and he wasn't forced by his parents, they weren't ones and their whole deal came for the love of purity, not power, he didn't do it in order to get closer to Voldemort and discover the Horcrux thing, or anything like that.

-These characters are interesting and cool, I love reading about them but I'm not apologising their actions and disregarding the fact they were villains in the end, redempted or not.

General thoughts about other characters and things:

-Alice and Frank were older than the Potters. At one point I believed they were the same age but the more I grow up, the more I get to realise that James and Lily were really young when they had Harry and that was most likely not the case with most.

-Also, I think this is pretty much confirmed, Alice and Frank got tortured and lost their sanity after Voldemort disappeared. On that topic, there's a chance Bellatrix and some of Voldemort's most loyal supporters might have had at least a slight idea that Neville could have been the Chosen one. Or at least they knew something about Alice and Frank.

-Snape was genuinely not a nice guy. We see a moment in which the Marauders are jerks to him but this doesn't mean he was a victim of their abuse all the time, and hadn't done anything wrong. The spell James uses is one Snape invents, and it was something Remus says was popular and done all the time so Snape might have been the one who used it first on someone. He also called Lily "mudblood" because he was angry but she was his friend that tried to protect him. Just because he loved her doesn't excuse him. In fact, it makes it worse. Back to the Sirius didn't tell him about Remus to hurt Remus thing. Well, here Snape did it with the purpose of hurting Lily.

-James wouldn't have liked Regulus, no matter of either of them's sexuality, and vise versa. And it all comes to Sirius. We have no canon mentions on Sirius and Regulus's relationship during Hogwarts but I think they were estranged. And James was a very good and loyal friend, he wouldn't have went to his best friend's brother knowing what Sirius thought of his family and his relationship with them. Same way, Regulus wouldn't have had anything to do with his outcast's brother best friend.

-I genuinely don't think they were all queer. Like, that was the 70ies and it wasn't spread and accepted. Even if they were, they would have been in the closet.

That's it for now. Some of these are based on literal facts from the books and some are personal opinions. Again, this is in no way aimed to offend anyone's opinion, or ships. I do enjoy reading about these characters, I ship most ships, I don't mind the rest. That's just my opinion canon-wise. Also, I might not remember some things well so excuse me if there's evidence against something I said in canon.

[sev-snape-potions]

Severus Snape

Age: 17

Pronouns: He/They

Sexuality: Gay

Likes: Potions, Gardening, Studying, and Drawing

Dislikes: History Class, Itchy Materials, Sweets, and Contact Lenses

Other Info: Not really good at talking, will doodle on books, forgets why he needs things but can tell you any potion recipe and enjoys playing with animals.

@cissy-n0ble-blck - Narcissa : The Queen herself

@black-never-lestrange - Bellatrix : The one who scares me most

@lilyevansoffical - Lily : The best friend I have

@theh0tteststar - Sirius : The black star

@dorcas-m3adows Dorcas : My bestie, who i love

OOC

This is a Roleplay account! Don't like don't interact with it!

My Main is @the-halfblood

DM the lovely @lovemelikecrazyiloveyoucrazy to join!

We do not like JKR in this christian Minecraft server.

[quillinhand]

I’ve seen you post about both the marauders and snape, so I’m assuming you’re a fan of both? Me too!

I sometimes get bummed out at the extent fellow marauders fans go to to exclude our prickly Slytherin. But at the same time I’d much rather those fans who really hate him to just ignore him than stir up hate so…Idk.

My question was: What are your thoughts on the Slytherin skittles? On one hand, it’s kinda laughable to me that these are the Slytherins we’re gonna incorporate into our fandom, while we steadfastly ignore the 5th or 6th most mentioned character in the series. But on the other hand, maybe it opens up the door to the gradual acceptance of Severus… ? if not for his canon character, at least for his fans to feel less unwelcome? Maybe I’m being optimistic, but I’d love to one day post about Snape without worrying that everyone is going to unfollow or block me

Hi!

I'm Snape fan forever and yes, I am currently having a marauder's era obsession phase-honestly I used to look down upon the marauders fandom because of how much their headcanons disregarded the main canon and how much they change the characterizations to the point of incomprehensibility(remus, im looking at you). But I do feel- and have always felt- that the marauders era was ripe with potential, and Tumblr has reawakened that particular obsession.

I get you so much- it's really very upsetting to have people who share some of your interests and shit on your others. do hope that you have friends in the marauders fandom who don't accept snape slander(and if not- i'm always here!!!!). and i understand the wish to have them ignore him altogether- though it does feel a little isolating at times. though not lately for me- thanks to my lovely marauder fan moots :) :).

the slytherin skittles- hmmmm. Let me make a very humble confession. before this ask, i wasn't entirely sure on who they were. im educated now, and honestly i prefer to have the usual marauders era cast be different ages- it just seems very unlikely that this huge cast all went to school together. like i know wizarding britain is small, but excuse me. what the fuck.

that being said, i have come to be fond of the fandom versions of these characters- the rosier twins, barty my bloody beloved, dorcas, regulus black(is that all????) and i do like the idea of them being a group and shit. it's just, them being a group and shit in school just. doesn't match up with my version of the characters, ya know? still, there is wonderful fanfic and fanart out there for them, so. i aint complaining.

but I do feel like them being glorified to such a degree while Snape is right there kind of weird. I mean, absolutely, I don't expect Snape love from the marauders fandom and I don't need it, but sometimes it's kinda confusing how much Snape is passed over in all these fics. Just- I can imagine Snape being an amazing addition to all these fics and imagines, and it does sometimes feel like all the Slytherin characters are just palatable pieces of Snape, which is a bit off putting. still, i am fond of these characters to a degree, so this is less of a complaint and more of something that just confuses me.

maybe. maybe this could be the path to less Snape hate but HONESTLY I'm not holding my breath. Like I said before, I'm not looking for Snape love and content in this fandom, and though I do feel he would be an amazing addition to it, I'm not terribly sad that he isn't a part of it. I'd rather he be ignored than hated, and when he is hated, I'd rather ignore it than focus on it- for my mental health at the very least.

And on the topic of it making the opinion of Snapedom and Snape content less severe- i can see it happening and not happening. I think there will always be people who will dislike Snape and wonder why anybody will like him in the marauders fandom, and as long as they are outspoken, it's going to be a while since we see change. But I can definitely see it going there and am optimistic myself.

and finally, one last not-so-humble word of advice- if you have mutuals or followers who you think will block or unfollow you because of Snape(a FICTIONAL CHARACTER) maybe they are people you don't need. Your blog is your space, and as much as it needs to be a safe space for others, it needs to be a safe space for you too. Post about Snape all you want anon; post about any of your interests- and the people worth thinking about and respecting will stay regardless.

[i-hate-fandom-feminism]

I've created an entire fucking blog just to complain about this, let's go --

First off, I'd like to just state that I am a woman myself, and a feminist. I just think that the way fandom uses feminism is not only toxic but also kinda mysoginistic in itself and can get homophobic, and I haven't seen anyone call it out on a major scale, so here we go.

Disliking a female character -- specifically disliking how she acts in canon -- is not fucking sexist.

This so annoying. I first realized this when I saw someone post about how disliking Lily is sexist and specifically preferring Regulus is sexist. The things they sited from that is that Regulus is depicted as being depressed and not being very nice to his love interest. They said that if they were to write Lily the same way, there would be major backlash.

What they failed to realize is that the majority of Regulus fans write Dorcas Meadowes almost exactly as they described.

I've seen this happen a lot, particlarly within the Marauders fandom. People take a look at people not liking a female character while liking male characters, mainly Lily and go 'oh, that person is sexist! without checking to see if they're a fan of any other female characters. It's honestly tiring.

On that note, disliking a character because you ship their canon boyfriend with a guy is not sexist.

On the surface, I can understand this one -- they're exchanging male characters out for female characters and disliking the female characters involved.

This kind of crumbles when you consider this happens all the time with het ships. The first thing that comes to my mind is Twilight (you could not find a Bedward stan that likes Jacob or vice versa, don't lie) but there's most certainly more. I just think it seems very normal for a het ship and not a gay ship.

There's also a bit of a homophobic undertone to it because the people who do this are very selective about what is and isn't sexist. Percabeth fans who demonized Rachel for getting in the way of their OTP were also the same people who passionately declared that Luke was redeemed, despite the fact that her feelings for Luke were a big point of contension between Annabeth and Percy for a lot of the series.

Similarly, attacking people who ship other ships that happen to be het ships is not sexist.

I'm not saying that's okay -- in fact, I think it's very wrong and toxic but one thing it's not is sexist.

Again, it happens all the time with popular het ships, just its considered part of shipping het. You couldn't say one thing about a Twilight or Hunger Games ship without getting death threats. There are an embarrassing amount of cases of not only irl bullying but fucking violence for Percy Jackson. This wasn't brought in by gay ships, it's been there for the beginning and is still very much there for gay and het. It's kind of annoying that people are acting like only gay ships do this.

Also, if they're doing it on the premise of it being het and don't do it to other gay ships, it's probably just because they're very defensive about their headcanons of this character as gay. Like, headcanons are just heated in general, the amount of death threats exchanged between whether or not Sirius Black was abused or whether Snape vs James is a rivalry is tiring, why are you thinking that being like this about sexuality is somehow different?

This is without saying that the majority of people who read gay fanfiction are queer, and use it as a source of representation given that media will not give them that. People forget that young queer children are not surrounded by people who are like them like other minorities often are and are often instead surrounded by hatred, and so a lot of them will latch onto anything that tells them 'hey -- you're valid'. They are therefore going to be very protective of their queer characters, even if those characters are not queer in canon.

There's often this understanding that young people who read these things are teenagers. With straight teenage girls, this affects how people judge them. When Fem!Reader x [Insert Male Character] is written, it's dismissed as just a part of fandom because teenage girls are horny instead of girls being creepy, as it should be. However, people don't do the same with queer kids. People never acknowledge how desperate young children are for representation in comparison to their adult counterparts, as they're not old enough to go to gay bars so don't know any queer people They're often in bad situations where they're being told they're wrong for existing and need some way to be told being them is okay.

This kind of thing also gets more buzz because it more often affects the creators, however that's mainly due to the fact that most popular gay ships aren't canon while most het ships are, as they can afford to.

Liking majority gay male ships is not sexist.

The main reason for this is that while their may be a female character in quality shows, virtually all shows that are both good and considered to be male enough to like by society (and generally also by people who say stuff like this) centre around M/M friendships.

About sixty percent of films pass the bechedel test, and most of them just barely. For a relationship to be good enough to be a popular ship it needs a. be featured a lot in the piece of media and b. have a reasonable amount of development...take a guess how many films have FF friendships that pass that requirement. Not many.

When there are proper female characters with fleshed out relationships, the main ships of a fandom are often het or FF, such as the Percy Jackson fandom with Percabeth, or the Wednesday fandom with Wenclair.

Bonus: Fetishization Doesn't Happen (This way around) Let's define fetishization (as a form of objectification), shall we?

Thinking that everyone with that identity in real fucking life exists for the purpose of your pleasure.

So yeah, doesn't happen, women just aren't raised to think about men this way, gay or not.

So, how is this misogynistic?

The people who do what you're accusing them of being mysogynisitic for are women, and you most likely know this, and y'all are acting like a woman being misogynistic is the same as a man being misogynistic.

You wouldn't say that a gay person being homophobic is the same as a straight person being homophobic, would you? No, because a. they're probably hurting themselves just as much if not more than they're hurting you, and b. they don't have the power to really do anything.

You wouldn't say that a black person being racist is the same as a white person being racist, would you? No, because a. they're probably hurting themselves just as much if not more than they're hurting you, and b. they don't have the power to really do anything.

Why's it the same for women? Well, because women don't actually have much political power. They can go viral, sure, so they have some level of media power, however how many members of the Supreme Court are women? How many presidents? None. A misogynisitic man is dangerous because he can do stuff like get Roe vs Wade overturned or take away the rights to free divorce. A misogynistic man is dangerous because people respect him more than they do any woman.

How many mysnoginistic women have you seen that a have gone viral because of their takes of feminism? And how many have you seen be actually taken seriously by their side?

Now how many men have you seen do this?

Female misogyny just isn't as dangerous as male misogyny, and should be treated as such. This is an issue in wider feminism too, but specifically in fandom.

[atlasdoe]

Unpopular Marauders era opinions

Nobody wants my opinion but I’m giving it anyway. (I’m happy to talk or elaborate on any of these but please just be respectful)

The only truly underrated characters are Emmeline, Frank and Alice and that’s only if you compare them to how the fandom treats the other characters 

If you can forgive Barty for torturing Frank and Alice then you can forgive Peter for betraying James and Lily (I forgive neither)

I don’t care if it logically makes no sense I headcanon the majority of the Order to be around the same age as the Marauders 

Marlene is much better suited as a Ravenclaw

As much as I hate Snape he is underused in Marauders fics

Maryrose Jenkins deserves the same appriciation as Grant Chapman. And I think she would get it if more people gave Pengiwens Marauders series a chance 

It kinda annoys me when people talk/act as if Mary was apart of the Order because I think the fact that she never joined made her character so much more interesting 

Emmeline and Edgar & Mary and Lily are better ships then Emmeline and Mary

Our first priority as a fandom should be giving all of the ships cool aesthetic ship names like wolfstar and sunflower

The “Regulus can’t swim” jokes were never funny

Marlene McKinnon SCREAMS older sister vibes. I don’t understand how people can headcanon her the youngest of her siblings when she radiates so much Nina RIva and Fiona Gallagher energy

I’m not one to have a strong opinion on harmless headcanons but I really dislike the James and Marlene being childhood friends headcanon. (I do however hc James and Alice & Peter and Marlene as childhood friends. I just really can’t see it with James and Marlene) (Also I hc that Marlene was born and raised in Ireland so it doesn’t work in my hcs anyway)

I don’t understand people who will refuse to read a fic where Sirius is taller than Remus. It’s not that deep just imagine that he’s shorter if it annoys you that much

If you’re not willing to give credit to the artist then don’t use someone else's fan art. (this also includes if you don’t know who the artist is, there is no excuse)

All Marauders ships have potential and I don’t really dislike any of them. (this however does not include any illegal ships or Sirius with any women or Marlene with any man)

The fact that the most popular atyd covers contain fanart without the permission from the artists and there is not an ounce of credit on the covers or in any post that includes the covers is possibly one of the worst and most disrespectful things this fandom has ever done. 

There is no reason why you shouldn’t be using a plus size actor for Peter and a dark skinned actress for Dorcas. It has been stated many times that Peter is fat and Dorcas is dark skinned and there are multiple fancasts and scenepacks out there

I wish this fandom was a bit more consistent with their headcanons. For example, many people hc Marlene's birthday to be August 1st 1960 but these same people say that she died at the age of 21 when she wouldn't be if she was born in August 1960 but died in July 1981 she would’ve been 20

Sirius being a “manwhore” is the worst characterization of him

Pandora doesn’t have to be from a famous family. I prefer the headcanon where she just has a normal last name (or that Lovegood is her maiden name)

[lgbtqiamarauders]

the interesting thing about the marauders fandom is that, for the most part, we have a solid understanding of the main four marauders' personalities - but not as much information on the "marauder girls" (esp. dorcas, marlene, mary and alice)

all we know about alice is that she married frank, had a kid, was a part of the Order, and was tortured to insanity

all we know about mary is that she was friends with lily, disliked severus snape and was harassed by mulciber sometime during her time at hogwarts

all we know about marlene and dorcas is that they were a part of the first Order, and when they died

which means every fic has a different interpretation of their characters/personalities, which I think is pretty cool

[maraudersera-slytherins-1970s]

𝕽𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖙 𝖂𝖎𝖑𝖐𝖊𝖘

CREDIT TO KÆM (Template credit)

Face Claim: Evan Peters 

Theme Song:  Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown 

Introduction

Name: Rupert Jasper Wilkes 

𝙍𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩- Fame Bright  𝙅𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧- Treasurer   𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙠𝙚𝙨- Protection Desire 

  Also Known As:

Rue- Their preferred nickname to go by.

Roo- Used mainly by Dorcas, Lucinda, Emma and Pandora

  Titles:

-Heir to the Wilkes Estate (illegitimate) 

  Birthday: February 1st, 1960 

  Astrological Signs:

*Sun: Aquarius 

*Moon: Aries 

*Rising: Leo 

  Nationality: German-Irish-British 

  Species/Blood-Status: Pureblood 

Despite being a pureblood, Rupert didn’t strongly believe in the supremacy of their people in the way others seemed to preach it, considering how they rarely saw anything good in pureblood families.

But they also respected those strong beliefs enough to avoid going against them publicly. At school though despite them keeping their distance from both purebloods and muggleborns alike, they still interacted with others out of necessity and judged them based on the way they were treated by them instead of the person’s blood status. 

  Blood Type: AB+

  Gender: Genderqueer 

Rupert identified as genderqueer, with them finding it the most suitable label to use for himself.

Everyone knows about this except their father whom they chose not to tell knowing he won’t be pleased due to the fact that the only reason lord Wilkes acknowledges them was the lack of male heirs with his wife while Rue was assigned male at birth and he would prefer it to stay that way as the Wilkes family was one of the few traditional one that still insisted on solely having male heirs.

  Pronouns:  They/Them ; He/Him ;  She/Her  ;  It/Its

  Sexual Orientation: Pansexual 

Despite it being something wildly accepted among pureblood wizards, Rue was hesitant about coming out to others.

The first person he came out to was their mother who was very supportive as she has known about that from the very beginning. 

At school though, they chose to keep this to themselves unless it was brought up with someone they are close to. The only ones they came out to at first are:

Dorcas Meadowes, Louis Avery, Severus Snape, Dirk Cresswell, Rubeus Hagrid 

  About Them

  Personality: ISFP 

Going to Hogwarts, Rupert just wanted to pass his years and graduate in peace, which of course never happened. They have a few people they would refer to as friends (Dorcas Meadowes, Severus Snape, Dirk Cresswell and Rubeus Hagrid) and would hang out with when others aren’t around. 

Despite them trying to avoid attracting attention as much as possible, Rupert was a brilliant student getting very high grades in multiple subjects which put them in the spotlight. 

Despite their meek personality, there were occasions where they snapped and it didn’t end well for those at the receiving end. Which started the rumor that just like the people they were seen with (Snape and Yaxley), Wilkes was a blood supremacist who used dark magic often. 

    Occupation: Rupert didn’t have big plans before graduating Hogwarts, and was going to pick the career they want once they graduate. 

  Likes:

Magical beasts / art / Learning new things. / Food, they didn’t have a favorite as they enjoyed trying different things. / Flowers and insects, ever since they were little they loved studying anything nature related. / Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them book which is one of their most prized possessions. /Hanging out with a certain friends circle (Dorcas, Lucinda and some others)

  Dislikes:

The general rules in pureblood families, they were happy they didn’t have to follow them. / Taking risks, as they preferred being careful and safe. / Social gatherings / Slughorn’s attempts to get him to join the Slug Club. 

  Hobbies:

-Reading 

-Collecting information about insects, flowers and taking his own notes on magical beasts 

-Sketching/Drawing   

  Fears:

-Creepy crawly stuff, including some insects (he likes but fears them) 

-Dolls 

-Loud sounds, as he is very sensitive to noise 

-Public speaking 

  Strength:

- Dueling. Despite him rarely getting into fights, Rupert was a good duelist compared to some other students. And he improved a lot after joining the Death Eaters. 

-Vast knowledge on magical creatures and geography in general. 

-Reading people. It was more of a skill they picked up and learned from Barty who was quite the natural at it. And it allowed them to mimic others with time though it did take them a lot of practice to study one person at a time.

-Shapeshifting

-Dark Arts. Rupert was hesitant about learning the dark arts, but upon spending time with Avery he grew to share his beliefs on how both dark and light arts can be used for good and bad so there was no reason to not learn both. 

  Weakness:

-Despite him being stubborn, Rupert could be easily persuaded when it’s someone from his side doing the persuasion.

-He gets nervous easily and doesn’t know how to handle situations that require socializing.

  Talents: 

- Caring after magical creatures 

- Drawing/Sketching 

  Relationships

  Father: Jasper Wilkes 

Due to Rupert being a child conceived out of wedlock (when Jasper was already married and Shayla betrothed to another), his existence wasn’t going to be acknowledged by his father until it was confirmed that Jasper’s wife couldn’t have any more children and by that time she had four daughters only. Making Rupert the only born male child in Wilkes household and their heir.

Rupert’s relationship with his father is limited to the fact that he is the heir. They only meet in formal events where his presence is necessary. 

Mother: Shayla Macmillan 

 Being raised by a single mother, Rupert was very close to her. He never cared about the fact that a mistake of hers was what got them basically banished from the pureblood circles, as he didn’t even like those pretentious snobs, and that mistake led to his existence. Though he knew this wasn’t always mutual as his mother confessed to him once that she used to resent him as an infant, as it was easier to blame him for how she fell from grace, before growing to accept the fact that if she wanted to blame anyone, it should be the purebloods for their rules and Jasper for making a fool out of her, and not the innocent toddler who has done nothing.

Shayla supported Rue in everything from who they were to what they liked and wanted. She was opposed to Jasper making her child the legal heir once he learned about them, but it also ensured a good future for them where they will be at least more financially and socially comfortable so she gave in eventually. 

Siblings: 

Rupert has three older sisters and one sister whom he only saw a couple of times and they didn’t speak more than exchanging greetings and introductions. So they were basically strangers to him. 

  Relatives:

 Unlike other purebloods his age, Rupert didn’t socialize much and only knew that he was related to almost every pureblood wizard and witch one way or another. From his mother’s side though he was familiar with the Prewett siblings and James Potter.

  Education

  School: Hogwarts 

  House: Slytherin 

Getting sorted into Slytherin was a shock to both Shayla and Jasper. 

Wilkes family were known to be sorted into Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, while Macmillan were usually in Hufflepuff or Gryffindor. With Rupert’s shy quiet personality, they were expected to be sorted into Hufflepuff. 

Rue hated the fact that he was put into Slytherin at first because that was another reason for his father’s side of the family to not like him, while his mother was quite proud with him being the first Slytherin in her bloodline seeing it as a good rather than bad thing. Slytherins were born to lead, and this was a proof her baby wasn’t as weak as everyone loved to make him to be. 

  Best Core Class: History Of Magic 

  Worst Core Class: Potions 

  Elective: Care Of Magical Creatures, Apparition 

  Quidditch: Rupert was a Chaser in the Slytherin Quidditch team. 

  Extra-Curricular: Art, Muggle Studies, Magical Theory 

  Magic

  Wand:

  -Length:  10¼" long

 -Flexibility: Quite Flexible 

 -Wood: Chestnut 

-Core: Veela hair 

 -First Reaction:

  Pets: Long Eared Owl 

Boggart: Big snake that’s long enough to tower over an adult man. 

  Animagus: No

Metamorphmagus: Yes (unregistered)

Patronus: Granian Winged Horse , though he lost the ability to conjure it after graduation when he officially started doing his Death Eater duties. 

  Amortentia: TBA

  Affiliations/Alliances

  Hometown: Limerick, Ireland 

  Residence: Villa in London 

  Loyalty: 

-His mother 

-Slytherin House 

- Voldemort and the Death Eaters

  Trivia

- On his first year at Hogwarts, during the Malfoy Christmas party, Rupert met a strange man that had a conversation with him for a few hours, complimenting his drawings then helping the boy see the good side of being sorted into Slytherin since he was feeling down over that, and discussed the existence of multiple magical creatures that the kid wasn’t aware of. Before the wizard sent what Rupert considered fascinating but terrifying images a snake that was over thirty feet long in a strange looking room and was asked to draw something based on them.  They never got over what they witnessed there, the sketch they made was one that got engraved into their memory.

On fourth year, Rupert saw the same drawing of his on his friends’ forearms. 

-It was Corban Yaxley who convinced Rupert to meet the Dark Lord before deciding whether to join them or not, Rupert knew that as soon as he meets the man he will join anyway.

-Rupert and Severus became friends when Slughorn assigned them to a project together with Severus being his top student and Rue being his worst.

-Rupert joined the Quidditch team because his mother convinced him to, and he seemed to enjoy it so he didn’t quit. 

[nought-shall-go-ill]

⭐️ Would love to hear some director's commentary for The Other Half of the Sky!

And I would love to give some director’s commentary for The Other Half of the Sky, @kay-elle-cee! I am so sorry it has taken so long. I typed out a whole answer to this the other day, only for the app to delete it 😰.

This is also my first time doing a director’s commentary, so if there is some kind of etiquette I’m getting wrong, further apologies! With that all said and one, here are 6 facts about TOHOTs in honour of Chapter 6, which will come out… eventually.

Fact 1: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad TOHOTS - This story originally started out very differently. I came up with the original plot about a year ago. Lily was still estranged from friends and close to Snape, but she became connected with the Order in a very different way. She was made Potions teacher at Hogwarts and very gradually got close to Transfiguration teacher James who was a single father to Harry after his Muggle wife was murdered. The plot was far more centred around their love story but the other main plot points were there, so I shan’t mention more about that because spoilers! However, I didn’t even start to write that original TOHOTS down. Something just wasn’t right about it. So I tucked it away until I found the missing piece…

Fact 2: I got love for you if you were around in the 80s, the 80s - The 80s culture drives a lot of my love for this fic. And I am wholeheartedly not ashamed of that. It was entirely what it needed to spark some fire into it again. Now, I absolutely do not think a fic needs to be culturally accurate to be interesting. As far as I’m concerned, as long as I’m having a good time, I don’t care how accurate it is with the language or culture. However, I am also a history and linguistics nerd, and I love reading and hearing about this era! And it has been a dream of mine for awhile to write something that really delves into it. With my own bizarre background and educational history, I’m strangely well suited to writing about the variety of people groups introduced in TOHOTS too. I love getting lost in the world of this era and feeling like I’m really there. I can only hope the readers do too. So, sorry Potions teacher Lily, I abandoned you for a Depeche Mode-listening, Mackem Mum-having, Silk Cut-smoking Lily instead and haven’t looked back. (This has also been a great chance for me to connect again with British culture too. Though a born-and-bred Brit, I don’t spend a lot of time interacting with my home country anymore and though I have… mixed feelings about it, it is still nice to connect with it from time to time.)

Fact 3: Lily & Dorcas’ Infinite Playlist - There just might be a scene coming up in Heaven— I mean Elyseum, Caradoc’s club, sometime soon. Maybe. Maybe. And just maybe I’ve made a playlist of songs that will be playing in the club at the time. Maybe. And that playlist just might include maybe such songs as (randomly selected): Olivia Newton-John & The Electric Light Orchestra’s Xanadu; Bucks Fizz’ Making Your Mind Up; The Go-Gos’ We Got the Beat; and Kate Bush’s Babooshka. *Slight spoilers for next chapter* but there is also going to be an adjacent bar attached to the club that plays more alt music, so expect lots of post-punk and new wave, as well as pop!

Fact 4: Honey I Blew Up The Fic - As some people might know this fic originally started off as a The Light Come Shining length one shot. It then became a 12 chapter multi chapter fic. Now, it is currently set to be around 42 chapters long. That’s quite the growth! But honestly, I prefer it this way. This has allowed me to explore far more of Lily’s story away from James, and I personally think it is a stronger story for that. Sure, it would probably need a professional edit if it were a published piece, but we’re here to learn and have fun ne.

Fact 5: Blech - In the name of being honest, I have one thing I dislike about this fic. Most of it I love, but that first paragraph… I just don’t know what I was thinking! I think I was trying to be like the sort of writer I’m not. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit to that, but it felt like something suitable for a director’s commentary. Not everything has to be perfect for you to love it. (Might go back and edit it one day though…)

Fact 6: The Good, the Bad and the Muggle-y - Though it won’t be a huge part of the plot, I also plan to explore Muggleborn reactions to 1980s current affairs in this fic. This might not be popular with everyone, I’m aware. Fanfic is escapism. But a lot of hardships occurred in the 1980s and though TOHOTS Lily is certainly flawed, I just can’t see her ignoring them entirely, at least not forever. In many ways, I want this to contrast canon in that way. Though Harry becomes more and more concerned with the Wizarding World (as he has every right to be), Lily is older and has a different fight to live through. I cannot see a movement that is so concerned with saving Muggle lives not becoming entangled with it… at least slightly. So, do expect more of that Muggle culture to come in and make a bit of a mess as it does.

And that’s it! I hope that is along the right sort of lines for a director’s commentary! I also plan to put out a little snippet later on too, so watch out for it.

[artbyflor]

Tons of mauraders headcanons you say? Care to share? Whether it’s something you plan to draw or not I’d love to hear some of your favorites.

well.... this ended up being a bit long, so i’m gonna put it under the cut! 

 i didn’t really know how to write all them as headcanons, since i mostly think of random scene/scenarios between them haha. also, this ended up being more about the Marauders Era and not just the four marauders

1)  James was the mom of the group. I know a lot of people think that Remus was the mom of the group (and I do agree that he was the one with the most braincells lol) but i also think that Remus was someone with a lot of issues, the first one being his werewolf condition, but also a lot of issues realted to his meantal health (self esteem, insecurities, anxiety, etc) so he wouldn't take care of himself and he would be a bit self destructive.

Sirius was also someone with a lot of issues, the first one being his abusive household, but also his lack of self control and (i imagine) disregard for his own safety.

So i imagine Remus and Sirius were an explosive self destructive combo (and Peter was always too bland to take action), so it'd be up to James. after all, James was the only one with a healthy family and healthy up bringing, so he would be the one trying to get the boys to take care of themselves, not smoke so much, maybe drink less, sleep more, etc.

2)  Remus and Lily were very close friends. I think they were the more down to earth of the group when it came to social interactions, they deffinitely were the ones sitting down at a party while James and Sirius were embarrassingly dancing in the middle of it. I also think that Remus was the first marauder that Lily befriended. 

3) Sirius was Jily’s biggest fan. I believe Sirius adored Lily and thought she was the coolest, and was so happy that she and James were together. he was the #1 Jily shipper

4) Lily and Peter were really close too. I have the feeling that Lily would be the one who would sit down and talk with Peter about feelings, and Peter wouldn't even realize how much he'd needed to open up until he talked to her (i realle dislike thinking of their friendship though, it makes his betrayal a lot more heartbreaking)

5) Dorcas, Marlene and Lily's friendship. I have a lot of ideas about them being an iconic trio, and I imagined they hanged out a lot with the marauders

6) Dorcas and Marlene's relationship. They were lesbians, and I have many ideas about their dinamics. I always picture Dorcas as being the more outgoing and more like Sirius, while Marlene being a bit more shy and sweet.

6) Lily and Snape's friendship was very complicated and toxic. i believe Lily was holding onto the idea of who Snape was when they were kids, and that she found it very hard to accept who he really was/who he was becoming. 

I could go on about how i imagine their friendship ending, but my idea is that Lily and Remus ended up being paired as partners for potions class, and because of this Lily starts becoming friends with Remus and therefore ends up accidentally spending hanging out with the marauders (...and James) 

I believe this is how Lily starts to get to know the marauders a lot better (through Remus' friendship) and this makes Snape extremely jealous and angry (specially because of Snape's story with James) and this would eventually scalate into them getting into more and more fights until Snapes calls her a mudblood, and that becomes the finally drop (for obvious reasons)

of course there’s more to it, and Snape’s involvement with the death eaters was a huge part of it, but i also believe that he ends up getting more invested into it after Lily drops him.

(i could go on and expand much more about all of this points, and i could add other points too, but this is aleady pretty long!)

[chaoswillfallrpg]

SIRIUS BLACK is TWENTY-THREE YEARS OLD and a JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR in THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX at THE ORDER HEADQUARTERS. He looks remarkably like JAMES LASTOVIC and considers himself aligned with THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. He is currently TAKEN.

→ OVERVIEW:

Fearless and wild with a taste for danger, Sirius Black was always destined to become his family’s greatest achievement or their greatest disappointment. A rebellious young boy, Sirius questioned the world around him from the moment he had a grasp on it. Growing up on a Muggle street in central London, Sirius grew up curious about those who moved beyond his window that his mother encouraged him to stay away from. During his younger years Sirius simply wondered why both he and his brother REGULUS were forbidden from playing with the children in their street, though as he got older his questions became more in depth. Something didn’t quite sit right with Sirius, the little glimpses he had of the Muggle world seemed exciting. The music they listened to, the technology they used and the fashion captured his imagination far more than anything his family had ever presented to him. Sirius would sit in the window seat in his bedroom and watch the world go by from 12 Grimmauld Place, wondering what it would be like to be part of that world rather than the stuffy one he was confined to by his parents. ORION and WALBURGA BLACK were traditionalists, who had most likely kept their home in London to spite Muggles rather than want to integrate into society alongside them. 

Sirius’ upbringing was filled with dinner parties and family events attended by his aunt and uncle CYGNUS and DRUELLA BLACK who held similar beliefs and enjoyed drinking heavily and making snide comments about people they believed were inferior to them. With his aunt and uncle also came the joy of spending time with his cousins, BELLATRIX, ANDROMEDA and NARCISSA who he found just as complicated to be around as his own household for different reasons. Bellatrix was a copy of his uncle, ignorant, spiteful and self entitled. Time spent with her seemed to pass slowly to Sirius as she lectured her younger cousins and sisters on their stringent family beliefs, Sirius had already decided he felt unconvinced by his family beliefs long before he had received his letter to study at Hogwarts. Narcissa was more tolerable but equally as annoying. Turning her nose up at Sirius and wrinkling it when he spoke as if he were a wet dog she’d rather have been put back outside where it belonged. Andromeda had always been his favourite. Unlike Bellatrix and Narcissa she was kind and was often the only member of his family he could exchange a knowing glance with, without feeling the fear of rejection he often felt with his brother. Sirius had always wanted to have even that small sense of closeness he had with Andromeda with his younger brother. 

To Sirius Regulus always seemed torn on how to feel about his older brother, always keeping him at arm's length. He couldn’t tell if it was because he knew that Regulus knew that Sirius would leave one day and never return or if it was because he didn’t want to be on the bad side of their mother who had already marked him as the black sheep of the family by the time he was ten. Walburga had tried her best to control Sirius when she noticed him veering onto a path she didn’t agree with, from the first time he picked up a Muggle vinyl on an outing into London to his questions on their close social circle which only included Pure-Bloods. Walburga tried to integrate Sirius into wizarding high society, encouraging a closeness with his cousins and a prospective match with Burke's only daughter LYRA BURKE. The Burke family were certainly lower in the pecking order than the Black family, but as Sirius had a fondness for sharing his opinions with his mother’s friends KRATISTA BURKE was the only prospective member of The Sacred Twenty-Eight that was happy to form a match between the pair, even though she had asked if Regulus were available before his mother had firmly told her he was not. Sirius had liked Lyra well enough, but could never allow himself to fully become close with her, knowing fine well no matter her disposition she represented everything his mother wanted for him and that Sirius despised. 

Hogwarts had signalled a new start for Sirius. Although he would be joining his cousins at school, Sirius was determined to separate himself from them and create his own experience which was not limited by his family name. This objective was aided largely by the first friend he met at school. JAMES POTTER strolled onto the train, dug his hand into his pocket and bought the contents of the refreshment trolley right under JASPER AVERY and LARKIN MULCIBER’s nose and shared it with Sirius. Smirking at one another, Sirius shook James’ hand, tucked into a licorice wand and vowed that if being friends at Hogwarts would be of showing up people like Mulciber and Avery he was in for the long haul. Leaving the train their attention was grabbed by another pupil. PETER PETTIGREW was a raven haired boy in hand-me-down robes, which hadn’t gone lost on Mulciber who sneered insults at Peter before sniggering with his friends. To Sirius astonishment he watched as Peter spun on his heel and issued an expert right hook to him resulting in a telling off from PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL and a prompt fixing charm on Mulciber’s nose. Sirius knew they needed to befriend Peter there and then and was overjoyed when all three boys were sorted in Gryffindor, with Bellatrix and Narcissa watching angrily from the Slytherin table. Sirius' school years were a whirlwind of excitement, a mixture of being the coolest person in the room and the most disliked depending on who was asked. 

A star Beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, they barely lost a match and the parties afterwards were enough to make Sirius Black go down as a legendary name in Hogwarts history. His time at school was amazing, a stark contrast to the life he led back at home during the summer holidays. His final years at home, Sirius plastered his room with posters of Muggle women in bikinis, pictures of motorcycles and him getting drunk on the school field dancing with MARLENE MCKINNON and MARY MACDONALD as they laughed into the night. By his sixth year his mother had reached her limit, blasting Sirius off the family tree in their home and leaving Sirius to move in with James and his family. Although being disowned affected him more than Sirius would ever let on he tried to move past it, avoiding the gaze of his brother and cousins, attempting to pretend the only people who existed in his world were those who truly mattered to him. Whilst other students buckled down in their final years of study, Sirius saw it as an excuse to party- bunking off classes to smoke cigarettes on the Quidditch pitch with Marlene and taking his Muggle-Born girlfriend at the time MAREN LINWOOD on dates to Hogsmede and showing her off at parties. Sirius had always been wild to his friends, but some of his more reckless antics gave them cause for concern. A particular incident involving one of Sirius best friends REMUS LUPIN was the final straw for the Marauders before they staged an intervention. 

Now all Animagi which they had trained in to accompany Remus during transformations, Sirius invited James’ long-term enemy SEVERUS SNAPE to the Shrieking Shack on a full moon as a stupid prank to scare their friend, leaving James to jump in and save him and Remus close to tears when he later found out. Presumably acting out due to his family situation and his recent break-up, the group rallied round Sirius and ensured he left Hogwarts with enough qualifications to get a job, though he wouldn’t have enough to train to be an Auror. Graduating with his friends, Sirius took his inheritance and moved into a small flat in Farringdon with James, Peter and Remus. Trying to find something useful to do with his time he got a part-time job fixing motorcycles at a Muggle mechanic shop until PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE came knocking with a more important job offer. With more people disappearing each day in London, Dumbledore had put together a group of people to track dark witches and wizards he suspected were planning a war. Training under ALASTOR MOODY, Sirius has been sharpening his duelling, tracking and disguising abilities in order to become a vital weapon for The Order. One of the more skilled from his class, due all of his one on one time with Alastor Moody, Sirius currently has the important task of marking and tracking some of the suspect younger members of THE DARK LORD’S army, starting with his own brother. Regulus. 

→ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Blood Status → Pure-Blood

Pronouns → He/Him

Identification → Cis Male 

Sexuality  → Up to Roleplayer 

Relationship Status → Single

Previous Education →  Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Gryffindor) 

Societies → N/A

Family → Orion Black (estranged father), Walburga Black (estranged mother), Regulus Black (estranged brother/adversary), Cygnus Black (estranged uncle), Druella Black (estranged aunt), Bellatrix Black (estranged cousin/adversary), Andromeda Black (cousin), Narcissa Black (estranged cousin)

Connections  → James Potter (best friend/housemate), Peter Pettigrew (best friend/housemate), Remus Lupin (best friend/housemate), Marlene McKinnon (close friend/potential love interest), Mary MacDonald (close friend), Lily Evans (close friend), Dorcas Meadoews (close friend), Alastor Moody (mentor), Maren Linwood (ex-girlfriend/friend/object of flirtation), Emilia Grey (friend), Cassiopeia Kim (friend), Cressida Abercrombie (friend), Gilfred Abbott (friend), Caradoc Dearborn (friend), Poppy Hookum (friend), Aurora Sinistra (friend), Gwenog Jones (friend), Adaira Linwood (object of flirtation), Laurel Linwood (object of flirtation) Severus Snape (adversary), Jasper Avery (adversary), Larkin Mulciber (adversary), Lyra Burke (former betrothed)

Future Information → N/A 

SIRIUS BLACK IS A LEVEL 7 WIZARD. 

[callumturncr]

A Different Path [Sirius Black AU] - Part 2

Summary: Post-graduation AU in which the reader, Lily and The Marauders have just joined the Order of the Phoenix. As tensions are at its highest in the First Wizarding War, the reader, who likes Sirius Black more than she would like to admit, is framed for the murder of Marlene McKinnon.

Parts:  1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8

Gif is not mine. Words: 3.1k.

“Bloody hell Y/N are you still working? It’s lunch time for Merlin’s sake.”

Marlene McKinnon put down her fork, a small pout gracing her pretty features. Y/N looked up to see Lily and Dorcas chuckling as they ate their food. She’d been so immersed in reading that the arrival of her two colleagues had escaped her. Blinking, she glanced down at her lunch that sat next to her stack of papers, long forgotten.

“You’ve been looking at those files for days, how can you possibly have anything left to go over?” continued Marlene. Y/N rubbed her eyes tiredly, finally picking up her apple.

“This is the biggest one they’ve asked us to do!” she explained for Lily and Dorcas’ benefit. “The Lestrange brothers are going to meet up with an accomplice tonight, a Death Eater we don’t know. Dumbledore advised going through the documents we have on the Lestranges to prepare ourselves.” Eyeing Marlene warily, she added.

“And if I recall Mar, he asked you specifically to check the files on the families considered part of the Sacred Twenty-Eight so we can at least have some sort of idea who this accomplice might be.”

“And I did. Finished yesterday.”

“Liar,” said a new voice. James slid into the seat next to Lily, Remus following suit. “You got up to ‘Carrow’ and then went off Merlin knows where with Sirius.”

Y/N found herself laughing despite the implication. Scooting over to make space for them both, she noticed the slightly dejected expression on Remus’ face and she had her answer before she could ask him why – Sirius had emerged from the opposite entrance. He took one look at their table, his narrowed eyes lingering on Remus before he strode back out. Marlene shifted uncomfortably in her seat as she watched him go and suddenly it clicked. Y/N had been busier than usual lately to spend much time with the guys but she’d heard from Lily about Sirius’ newfound wariness of Remus, which up until now, she’d believed to be just rumor.

The war was nearing its height and tensions were increasing steadily with each passing day. Lord Voldemort’s Death Eater ranks were growing rapidly, outnumbering the Order of the Phoenix at least 20 to 1. The attacks on Muggle-born wizards occurred in larger numbers too – three Dark Marks had appeared over the attacked houses in only the past week. With everything combined, it was no surprise that members of the Order were getting restless but what Y/N hadn’t expected was this to have an effect on the relationship between two of her closest friends.

“I’ve tried to talk to him,” Marlene said lowly, apparently having seen her expression. “He won’t listen to me but I think you should talk to him. There’s a good chance he’ll listen to you.”

“Doubt it. You know how stubborn he is.”

“Worth a try though. I can’t stand them fighting and Sirius can barely stay in the same room without breaking into an argument.” Marlene sighed.

Rolling her eyes a little, Y/N swung out of her seat. She gathered her papers into her arms and balanced her apple on top.

“I’ll try and find him before we go tonight. I’ll meet you at the Atrium at half past six?”

“Sure. And hey, if he’s too angry to talk about it – there’s always tomorrow. You need a clear head for tonight and a fight won’t help.” Y/N nodded with a grateful smile before waving goodbye to her friends, ruffling Remus’ hair as she went. He scrunched his nose and batted her hands away with a small smile.

As she walked out of the cafeteria, her thoughts were in turmoil. The faces of Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange kept flashing before her eyes and this unknown Death Eater Snape had tipped them off about did nothing to help put her mind at ease. Y/N was slightly wary about trusting him but Dumbledore did and she could hardly argue with that. And now she had to find Sirius and make him see some sense. Dropping off the papers at her office, she set off to find him.

-

It was 5:45PM in the evening when Sirius Black finally made it back to the Ministry. In somewhat of a hurry, he took the stairs two at a time to get to Level 2 where he knew he would find tonight’s group preparing for their assignment. He cursed under his breath as he went, scolding himself for storming off before. Taking a breath before opening the door to the now familiar office, he found Y/N staring out the window at the darkening sky. She’d swapped her usual midnight blue robes for a coat of the same shade, with a white dress shirt and black trousers underneath – Muggle clothing.

“Is it wise to play dress up for one of your most important missions?” he drawled as he moved in to the room, feigning nonchalance. She spun around, clearly startled before narrowing her eyes at him. Sirius stared right back; he would avoid the topic of him leaving for as long as necessary. He lit a cigarette as he waited for her response.

“This is Muggle clothing. We’re going to a Muggle establishment. I’d say that’s fitting,” she huffed, finally relenting. “I was looking for you earlier.” Sirius eyebrow’s rose.

“A Muggle establishment?” he asked, ignoring her last sentence.

“A fancy bar of some sort,” she clarified. She sat down on top of the table. “I was puzzled too.”

“That’s an incredibly long length to go for a Death Eater to make sure no one finds out about this meeting.”

When she didn’t reply, Sirius spoke up again but this time his tone was heavier.

“My cousin might be there.” She looked up at his words as her mind worked to find the face and name. “Bellatrix. She’s married to one of the Lestrange brothers – Rodolphus.”

“I remember now. What’s she like?”

“Exactly the same as the rest of my family. Obsessed with blood purity. She’s up there in the inner circle of Death Eaters I think and fanatically loyal to Voldemort.”

“Sounds like a piece of work. Wonder how she’ll feel being that close to Muggles–”

Sirius had sprung to his feet and was standing mere inches from where she sat, his hands on her shoulders. He was looking at her so intensely that Y/N couldn’t hold his gaze.

“That’s not nearly enough to describe what she’s like. Y/N she… she learned the Dark Arts from Voldemort himself. She’ll be very good at dueling and probably fights dirty. If she’s there today, I don’t know if the five of you going is enough.”

Y/N reached up to grab his hands and gave them a small squeeze, bringing them down to her lap.

“I should’ve asked Dumbledore to go. Leaving you and Marlene with her…” he trailed off, looking down at their hands and gulping. “Leaving Marlene–”

“Marlene can hold her own. I won’t let anything happen to her,” she replied, a heavy feeling settling in her chest at his clarification. She got up off the table. “I’ll bring her back, I promise.”

Sirius gave her a smile even if it didn’t quite reach his eyes and wrapped his arms tightly around her. Y/N hugged him back, resting her chin on his shoulder. They stayed that way for a while before she pulled away, wrinkling her nose.

“You smell like cigarettes.”

He laughed softly and hesitated for the smallest second before kissing her forehead. She mirrored his laugh before nervously clearing her throat.

“Talk to Remus will you?”

The implication behind her question made a muscle in Sirius’ jaw jump. A small part of her groaned at having ruined the moment but Y/N rushed to continue before he could burst.

“He’s like your brother Sirius. He would never betray you and you know it.”

A tiny cough made the pair jump. Lily stood at the doorway, looking somewhat sheepishly between them but it was obvious she was fighting the urge to smirk.

“They’re waiting for you.”

Walking slowly, the three of them made their way down to the Atrium. The elevator ride had never felt so short, thought Y/N, for it moved as slowly as possible on the days she was in an actual rush. Next to the ornate fireplaces stood Moody, accompanied by the group going tonight along with James and Remus. The group members (consisting of Marlene, Dorcas, Dedalus and Peter) were all dressed in Muggle clothing too and for the most part seemed nervous. Peter, she noticed was looking calmer than she’d ever seen him. Before she could think through this particular detail any further, Moody had clapped her on the shoulder, pushing her towards the emerald flames. Sirius made his way to his friends but not before stopping to clasp hands with and briefly whisper something to Marlene. Y/N’s heart lifted slightly when she saw him go and stand next to Remus.

“Remember the plan, don’t try and capture them,” he looked them over as he spoke; sizing them up like he had on the first day. “The Lestranges are extremely accomplished in the Dark Arts and I don’t need any of you coming back with only one eye or leg. The aim today is to find out who this damned associate is and then you come straight back here for debriefing. I’ll be here with Albus and Barty, got it?”

Hugging Lily goodbye, she stepped into the fireplace with her four colleagues in tow. As the flames erupted around them, Y/N tried to run through the finer details of the plan in her head but Sirius’ storm grey gaze kept swimming to the surface of her mind, drowning out every other thought.

-

Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange arrived at the Muggle bar near 8’o clock. They looked like nothing out of the ordinary in the Muggle world but there was an aura of dark glamour around them, in the way they held themselves. Watching from her booth, she couldn’t help but marvel at how carefully the two Death Eaters had thought out their plan.

“Hopefully Peter is following his instructions,” muttered Marlene twiddling the end of her ponytail nervously. Y/N mirrored this nervousness; she disliked how much this plan depended on Peter but there was no denying that it made the most sense. Since his Animagus took on the form of a rat, it would be the easiest for him to hide and listen in to the Death Eaters.

“We’ll know in a bit I suppose.”

She glanced through the window at the far end for a glimpse of Dorcas or Dedalus. They were stationed outside, concealed from view in case they needed to Apparate back immediately should anything go wrong. Y/N was considering going to check on them when Marlene tugged her arm sharply.

“Mar–”

“Look!” she hissed in a low voice. The door at the other side of the room had opened and a man walked in. Y/N didn’t understand what was so remarkable until he’d passed by their table to get to the flight of stairs the Lestrange brothers had gone up only half an hour ago.

“Is… is that,” Marlene trailed off, mouth open in horror. Y/N managed to answer through her shock.

“Barty Crouch’s son.”

Both girls waited a few minutes before springing up off their seats and following, careful to tread lightly in case he was still within earshot. A trio of Muggles looked startled as they passed but Y/N didn’t bother stopping. The implications of the Minister’s son being here hadn’t fully sunk in yet and they climbed up several flights of stairs before coming to a stop. The music from downstairs was very soft up here which allowed them to hear parts of conversations drifting through the doors.

Peering around the corner, they saw his head which was just about visible through the railing of the first floor. He knocked on the door to one of the VIP rooms and a second later, it was opened by a voice that sounded a lot like Rabastan Lestrange’s. Crouch Jr. went in without a word.

“This can’t be,” she heard Marlene whisper. “How are we meant to go back and tell Minister Crouch to his face that his son is the person we were looking for?”

“Perhaps it’s a mistake,” replied Y/N faintly. Marlene nudged her towards the last flight of stairs, in the direction of the door.

“We have to know for sure.”

“That’s what Peter is for!” Y/N hissed. “We can’t go and stand outside their door Mar, they’ll know right away!”

“Peter was meant to be back five minutes ago. If he doesn’t come soon then we’re going to report this without him,” she said firmly.

“And leave him here? With them? What if they find him alone?” Y/N’s brow was creased in worry. Marlene was right; Peter should’ve come to meet with them by now. Even if Y/N was wary of him, he was like a brother to Sirius, Remus and James and there was no way she could leave him stranded with a bunch of Death Eaters. She glanced back down towards the lounge and found the table that had seated the trio of Muggles empty. In the second she’d turned, Marlene had taken it upon herself to move up to the final landing. Y/N yanked her arm back in alarm.

“What are you doing?!”

Marlene shook her off and pressed a finger to her lips.

“Go bring Dedalus and Dorcas inside. Tell them Peter isn’t back yet and–” she stopped speaking. “Was it this quiet when we came up?”

Y/N strained to listen but there was nothing. The noise downstairs had stopped completely. An eerie blanket of quiet descended on the bar like fog and for a moment, the two girls stood completely still as if frozen in time.

And then came the crash.

Y/N reached out to grab Marlene and the pair apparated back downstairs, finding themselves standing in the center of the lounge which was now empty. A chair (the source of the crash) lay broken on the floor and the door through which Crouch Jr. had entered stood ajar.

“Dedalus?” Marlene whispered. “Dorcas?”

She had her wand held out in front of her and moved towards the booths on the left. Y/N took the right, coming to the window she’d seen earlier. She fiddled with the latch for a brief second and held out her wand, ready to send the flares when a sharp squeal made her halt.

“Oh I don’t believe it!”

Turning, with her wand now aimed at the owner of the voice, Y/N came face to face with a very pretty woman. She was dressed all in black with dark brown hair that tumbled down to her waist but it was her eyes that caused Y/N to gasp. They were storm grey.

Bellatrix Lestrange had come along after all, it seemed.

Recognition had dawned on her face too, for a manic grin broke out across her features.

“It’s you! Y/N Y/L/N!” Bellatrix stopped, hopping about her spot excitedly and Y/N wondered if she was perhaps a little mad. “The amount of time I spent listening to my wretched cousin pining for you! I do wish we were meeting under better circumstances but I’m afraid we’re on a bit of a tight schedule.”

Sirius, thought Y/N, she was referring to Sirius. Gripping her wand a little tighter and running through every dueling spell she knew, Y/N moved a step back. Noticing this, his cousin moved two forward before asking with childish excitement.

“Tell me, is he here too?” she answered her own question before Y/N could do anything. “No? Perhaps I’ll send him back a little present.” Bellatrix drew back her wand to fire but yelped as a flash of scarlet shot past both their visions. Marlene had sent their way what looked like the Disarming charm and Y/N hurriedly pointed her hand out the window.

“Periculum,” she muttered as the red shot out of the end of her wand. Hopefully Dorcas and Dedalus had not been ambushed too.

In the time it had taken to send out the flares, the pair had been joined by the remaining Death Eaters upstairs and Marlene was dueling both Rodolphus and Rabastan. Bellatrix, though, had eyes for only Y/N. A jet of purple light arced across the distance they were standing and she barely had time to yell ‘Protego!’ before diving out of the way.

Getting up immediately, she heard Bellatrix’s booming laugh behind her as she dipped and dodged every blow, blocking every spell with her wand. She shouted several stunning spells in return, one of them hitting her opponent squarely in the stomach.

As Sirius’ cousin flew across the threshold, Y/N saw in her peripheral vision the two Lestrange brothers rounding on Marlene near the actual bar area. She pictured what would happen if the drinks cabinet broke and no sooner than she had focused on this exact thought, shelves upon shelves of bottles came crashing down on them in an explosion. Marlene scrambled back as the brothers buckled under the weight, shouting in pain and Y/N had no time for pride at her successful use of non-verbal magic because Bellatrix, apparently recovered, had captured her attention again.

“Baby Auror knows how to fight does she?”

With a sneer, Bellatrix motioned with her wand and their dueling resumed once more. Both of them were incredibly talented; each avoided the other’s curses and charms with motions that were almost graceful, like a deadly dance. Every time it seemed as though one had gained the upper hand, they were knocked back with a particularly strong spell and the scores were even again. Y/N fired spell after spell, growing more frustrated by the second.

“STUPEFY!” she bellowed but never saw if the spell had hit Bellatrix because suddenly, everything went dark. Before she could brighten her wand with Lumos, an arm had wrapped around her waist, one hand holding her around the neck. She felt her wand fly out of her hand and the fixtures overhead came back on just in time to see Bellatrix grinning in delight. At the opposite end of the room, Marlene was being held in the same way by Rabastan, her blue eyes tinged with fear. A sixth figure, the one who had tampered with the lights, came into view and it held Y/N’s missing wand.

Rodolphus Lestrange was not squeezing her throat hard enough but she felt her breathing stop all the same. Both her and Marlene had expected the figure to be Crouch’s son, the helper they’d been sent to identify.

But it wasn’t.

Tiny, fragmented pieces of her memory started to stitch together in Y/N’s mind in an effort to fathom how this could’ve happened, all the possible scenarios that could’ve led up to this moment.

As the figure moved into the lounge, both girls saw clearly for the first time that the accomplice wasn’t the Minister’s son at all. No, they’d got it wrong from the very beginning – it wasn’t Barty Crouch Jr.

It was Peter Pettigrew.

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Why I love James Potter

Most people dislike James Potter because he bullied Snape but He also became a good person and a hero to save the people he loved, not just Lily ( Like snape) but also all of his friends from the worst wizard in the world. James, Sirius, and Peter all risked getting caught for being unregistered anamagi just he Remus didn’t feel alone and they tried to become anamagi since they were 12 and they found out that Remus was a werewolf. So people say that is only one point and it was to help a close friend but  around James’s 5th or 6th year James Potter decided to become a better person because after all the asking out Lily out because of the way she looked, he actually started to fall in love with her and slowly after Snape had called her a mudblood she started becoming friends with James and Sirius and Remus (especially Remus, while they were on prefect duty) Lily started falling in love with James too then they got together in their last year when they were head boy and head girl. After Hogwarts, the war was there so James, Sirius, Remus, Lily, Marlene, Dorcas, and Mary all decided to join the order to stop Voldemort. Soon Lily and James got married and then Lily got pregnant. After their baby was born they figured out that Voldemort was after them and James did everything in his ability to keep Lily and the baby safe while having a regular life for them until his death