#it's obscurial!Harry idk what this person was expecting...

[sk1fanfiction]

when the eleven-year-old boy who just escaped from an abusive household doesn't immediately act like a shonen protagonist 💀

[light-and-darkness-equally-well]

I Saw The Crimes of Grindelwald

And like any movie, there were things I loved.

Baby. Nifflers.

The freaking artistic departments and the COSTUMING were all very beautiful.

I liked Theseus Scamander more than I thought I would - maybe I was getting more realistic older sibling vibes, maybe his human moments just hit me. Idk.

OMG the cast performed so well??? I’d literally just list all their names if I wanted to point out anything specific. If you’ve seen the movie yell about the spoilery things in the comments with me?

SPOILERS BELOW

Okay, Leta was awesome and I had honestly expected her to follow Grindelwald? But they definitely broke expectations with this one. Really pulled a Last Jedi on us in that regard - the person we expect to be tempted to the dark gave her life for the right reasons, and one of our brightest, most hopeful and wholesome characters in the first movie goes dark.

BTW she made me want to cry when she screamed “Walk with me,” ugh. I really hope she doesn’t die still on Grindelwald’s side. The man must be a powerful occlumens to not reveal his actual endgame to a legilimens that just hears people without even trying. I’m glad it wasn’t just “for love”, though that is a driving factor for her - it’s for freedom to express that love, and being caught in a moment of vulnerability in the crowd, and Jacob finally calling her crazy out loud for that decision.

Also, like, can we talk about how her descent into darkness was definitely not unexpected? She enchanted Jacob to keep him compliant! I mean, I get it - but Jacob was the one who loved more in that scenario, because he cared more about her than about them being together. She could have campaigned for the right to marry him at the Ministry - but she went with mind control. There’s a clear difference in what she believed was right and wrong versus others.

IDK I just hope that if she does come to a breaking point it won’t take someone killing Jacob to bring her to the Light again.

Nagini was pretty cool even though she was just kind of along for the ride? I liked her companionship with Credence. Unfortunately we already know how her story ends.

Okay, gonna touch on Johnny Depp - I’m not extremely well read on the irl controversy and really based off of what I know I can’t personally condemn or acquit him just because I don’t have all the info.

But I’m able to separate a person’s actions from their work either way and - he was a goddamn good Grindelwald. Very charismatic and softspoken when he needed to be, cruel in turn to see where loyalties lie, and he knew how to push all the right buttons. The only part that just made me giggle at the absolute wrong moment for a movie to make me want to giggle (with death and destruction on the line, ugh) was the “I hate Paris”. It was too cheeky for me at that moment, idk.

ON TO HOGWARTS

Freaking Jude Law, ugh. He definitely was an amazing Dumbledore. I was all for his performance, and there were definitely images with the Mirror of Erised scene where I just was like wow, you two had such a profound bond. And Grindelwald used “The Greater Good” line, which was a thing between the two of them regarding their positions on this whole new world order thing. He’s enigmatic and friendly, especially in his interactions with Newt and Leta.

(OMG McGonagall was there for a hot second and it was perfection)

Theseus Scamander, my friends. He is SUCH an older brother around Newt. I am an older sister, and can confirm. My heart broke for him when Leta died, omg.

and Flamel was unexpectedly hilarious and simultaneously badass?

Tina was kind of following a trope that I expected of the spurned girlfriend, so meh on the storyline but A+++ with the “salamander” dialogue between her and Newt and the moment when she pulls out the little bell toy.

I don’t have much to say about Newt because he was very typical Newt. It worked well and I was glad he wasn’t the only main player in the movie, but I adored every bit of him.

AND OKAY THE NIFFLER BEING THE ONE TO STEAL THE THING FROM GRINDELWALD OMG

Okay, you’ve guessed that I’ve been holding back on the Credence bit because -

What the actual fuck?

Okay, the very first option is that Grindelwald is a lying liar that set it all up, and that would not be a surprise honestly.

(Gonna still call him Credence for a bit on account of that notion)

But these things tend to be important, these “phoenixes come to Dumbledores” type of things. So I’ll take it as truth for now.

And we have heard nothing about an Aurelius Dumbledore even existing until this point - and we know very little about Ariana and Aberforth. So I suppose it’s plausible that we never heard his name before. Still!

He has been pulled from every side for every reason to use him or destroy him, and that breaks my heart. Look at how freaking powerful he is at the end at Nurmengard (which we know later, of course, will be Grindelwald’s prison) - all he could do. And that of course worries me, because under Grindelwald he could do a ton of damage.

The one good thing Grindelwald does, imo: give Credence a freaking wand. Ezra Miller has been waiting too goddamn long for this moment, probably vibrating in his seat with excitement, let him be a proper wizard.

And how in Merlin’s name did he get where he is? I have a pretty interesting timeline.

Ariana Dumbledore, the youngest Dumbledore until now, was an Obscurial child because of muggle bullies. She died during a fight between Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald (who may have already witnessed her power and had ideas of how to use her? Albus hadn’t enjoyed the burden of caring for, essentially, a disabled sister. Maybe he had been wondering how to take her off his hands, and Aberforth had seen it coming and that’s how that mess occurred.)

Anyway, she died in the fight - no one knows who killed her out of the three. This was 1899.

Credence was born two years later.

Now, he doesn’t necessarily have to be a brother - he could be a cousin - but I’m super inclined to think that if he is indeed Aurelius Dumbledore, that he’s the youngest brother, or at least is symbolized as such if he is a cousin. (Wizards live a lot longer than average humans, so it’s totally plausible to have siblings that far apart I think) It would be a different mother, because Kendra Dumbledore (Albus’s mother) died some time the same year before Ariana did.

And Albus, upon finding out about Credence and perhaps guilty about his own treatment of Ariana, thinks I am not fit to care for a child keep away and offers to send Aurelius and his mother to America. Thus we have Credence.

NOW this is assuming we don’t get an entire retcon of the Dumbledore history. If we do that, then my mini-headcanon is a bit more disturbing.

We know very, very little about Ariana Dumbledore. We didn’t know she existed until the seventh book. Same for Aberforth. We learn a lot about Dumbledore all at once from some unreliable sources (Skeeter etc) through Harry, who finds certain information more important than other info.

I looked up the timelines earlier, so the first theory fits better with canon. If we throw timelines and whether Kendra Dumbledore died at a certain point out - if we assume that the little tidbits might be wrong -

What if Ariana wasn’t hidden away in the house? What if she was born later? What if she and her mother moved to America when it became clear that Albus wouldn’t support them?

And this is sort of fanfictiony, and very weird, but what if -

Aurelius was Ariana? I mean, Obscurials. Dumbledores. What if Dumbledore didn’t love his sister enough to keep her close, and supposedly lost her to a storm at sea?

What if, in a bout of childhood accidental magic, Credence changed their own body, uncomfortable as a little girl?

(This leads Mary Lou Barebone to scream about witchcraft for the rest of her days, but she still takes care of the cursed little boy. She feeds him, houses him, hopes his sins will be forgiven, punishes him because he’s a little curse on her too, and Lord if it happened to her-)

So Albus believes Ariana to be dead, but if he can save this Obscurial boy, just maybe -

Yeah. Okay. So. Tangent over, fanfiction to be written, this movie was great and weird and confusing and cool. Ta-da.

[arilisaslytherin]

Update 18/9/18

my stories lately have been... troubling. I’ve started, stopped, restarted and thrown out many ideas over the last few months so here’s an update on where everything's at for all my stories thus far. starting off- my posted stories! A Life With Magic- Chapter 4, Pending Darker Souls- Rewrite in progress. Chapter 13 Pending (not sure where that ones going but i’m not ready to give up on it) Isn’t this ment to be Impossible?- Chapter 3 ready for edits. Chapter 4 in progress. Chat Box Mayhem- Chapter 3...???? its somewhere. and now, Unposted. this is gonna get long guys since im gonna be adding mini discriptions. Divinity- Voldemort wins but the public is still against him. left with no other choice he sets out of gain teh favor of an Angel, the lighest being her could find. unforunately for him the only angel around is a young man abused by people all his life... and he wont be easy to convince. Harry/Diary!Tom A Divine Kind of Dark- Master of Death Harry is sent back to his original realm to entertain death and keep magicals safe from muggle hands. his first stop? making sure Voldemort doesn’t cause a scene. he probably should have considered the repercusions of giving the man a decent body back... but hey, hey has a cute crystal fox so- what could go wrong? (this one is actually going really well) So much for diplomatic talks- honestly i dont know where im going with this. the title is a work in progess and the rough idea is Kitsune-person Harry Potter leaves the wizarding would flat on their backs when he does whatever the hell he wants. even Voldemort is at a loss of what to do. Ice Skating AU. idk yet. i just want to write something with ice skating. blame 'You get what you give' and Yuri on Ice for this one. but right now i just dont know. leaving it in the air for now. Hoard- Alisaie is part dragon, unknown to most of the wizarding world and even herself for a time. Over her years at Hogwarts she collects her Hoard... (basically an excuse to write Dragon!Harry. fight me i actually like this one. its been here through purge after purge but progress is slow) HeartBeats- You would think, in his time, that Voldemort would have learnt that there is very little a guardian won't do for their charge when they truly care. So why, did Voldemort continue to go after Harry Potter when he attended 6th year with two children in tow? Simple. He was a fucking Idiot. (Basically Harry adopts two girls and makes a deal with Voldemort to keep them safe. the result... well, it works out for the both of them) How to Bullshit the System (fake title until i work something out).- Harry Potter was a perfectly normal colledge student. thank you very much. until he was thrown into his 11 year old body and shipped off to magical school. honestly, if he ever got back to his world. he was going to fucking kill Tom Riddle for writing those rediculous books. as is... well, he'd have to settle for fucking over 'Lord Voldemort'. Projec; Atlantis- Harry Potter disappeared from the world 17 years ago... in hindsight. hiding by working for the Dark Lord using a new look and name was definity going to bite him in the arse sooner or later. honestly he's surprised it took this long. Winging it- Harry Potter runs away from the wizarding world using his anamigus form and ends up at Malfoy Manor. what follows is... well, lets just say he's winging the situation. because he has long since lost control of this train.Potterverse/MCU Dark is all i see- Harry Potter didn't know why or how he ended up as he did. but with a little devil on his shoulder, superpower and magic. who would ever expect him to turn out like a normal teenager? honestly Dumbledore is lucky he didn't end up a merenary. and really. Voldemort can fuck off. he has bigger things to fry then Dark Lords trying to take over a school... Glitter and Gold- Diana Potter deveolped an Obscurial at age 5 and Petunia Dursley moved both her and Dudley out of Vernon's house at age 7. getting an in with the avangers at 14 was luck. getting captured by Voldemort a few days before Thanos fucked over the universe was... annoying.Potterverse/CWDC universe How to steal a Dark Lord- Wrong-boy-who-lived! Lily raises Harry in france with Leonard Snart. coming back to Britain for the triwizard tornument no ones sure what to think of the Hadrian Snart... a boy who looks rimarkably like Richard Potter. least of all Tom Riddle. Meta Magic- Harry Potter ends up in the CWDCU. this idea isn't 100% fleshed out. will see where it goes.there's more but... they dont have to do with Harry Potter. and im not sure where they're going to be honest so i think i'll leave this post here. any of the bolded stories are ones that have made good (aka any) progress in the last month.