#jessamyn mcphee

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I finished the Hogwarts Happy Anniversary side quest in Hogwarts Mystery and - hear me out - I inwardly questioned the identity of the Mallowsweet Wizard.

Not that he has to be for anyone else, but I want him to be Sebastian Sallow in my universe.

I mean, as much mallowsweet as my Hogwarts Legacy OC Abigail Grandshaw had to grow to work on the Merlin Trials, it's not like she'd stop once they're done. And if mallowsweet is that expensive to buy, she'd find the means to give back to people as needed.

Even better is asking Sebastian to do the selling for her - he owes her a lifetime of help after all, after everything she did for him in school.

Though, much like Dumbledore, his taste in clothing as he aged definitely got more wild, haha.

One thing's for sure, he got a goatee because having a beard would only remind him of his uncle, and he wouldn't want that.

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Not that anyone truly knows my wizarding world character x oc pairings on here as of yet, but let's see 🤣

affectionate things that makes me fall in love:

(tag me when yall writeee, feel free to use <3 @urfriendlywriter )

hugs. warm hugs.

when they accidentally fall asleep in your arms

just looking at each other fondly :(

holding hands !!

giving head or shoulder massages

when they're so patient, and understanding with you

cuddling and eventually falling asleep

when they're always giggling at your behavior

when it's hard for them to contain a smile, so they grin so wide it lights up your world >>>

the kindest "i hate you" followed by a contagious laugh

shifting glances all around the room when they get caught staring at you

the hand behind their nape, when they're embarrassed

they have never raised their voice around you, always talks softly

"I'm eternally yours, sweetheart" ^~^

when they lie on your lap

feeding you their cooking and hoping you'll like it

cheek kisses (can i pls evaporate)

adorable big eyes that widens a little when they listen to your rant keenly

the corners of their lips turning up before showing the most beautiful smile

the way their hair looks in the morning :')

when they play with your hair

gets shy or easily amused around you

says random "i love you"s throughout the day

the way their eyes crinkle when they smile

back hugsssssss

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Honourable McGonagall

The theme for March on @hp-12monthsofmagic being “Life’s a Witch,” I first wanted to do something that honors our favorite Professor McGonagall. It’s taking snippets of dialogue from the Hogwarts Mystery TLSQ “A Special Celebration of Hogwarts Teachers,” while also using a different character from my Jacob’s sibling MC, Jessamyn McPhee.

Quick backstory — Ash is American, but he and his mother moved to the UK as a support system for Jessamyn’s family. They’ve been living with them for almost two years at this point in their lives, so they’re practically like brother and sister. They both started Hogwarts together and got sorted into Slytherin.

Anyway, Ash and another character were added in partially because they can take over some side quests (so Jessamyn is an MC that isn’t magically able to do everything). But also because the creator of Ash doesn’t do any writing himself, so he’s been implemented into Jessamyn’s universe (thanks brother-in-law!).

Plus... there's an additional character shown briefly that I think everyone will recognize the name of.... :P

With that, let’s dive into this short story.

03/08/1986 — 03/10/1986

Sitting directly in front of Professor McGonagall, playing an elongated round of chess, was not something Ash would have ever expected out of having her as his presentation subject.

Second year students were required to interview their subjects and do a presentation about them in the Great Hall just one week after being given the assignment. Ash just so happened to pull the name of this year’s guest of honour, who was also his all-time favorite professor.

It was because of this that it was perhaps the only project he’d ever taken seriously.

The young Slytherin had actually compiled a list of all the questions he wanted to ask her that he felt would be important for presenting everything that she means to the school and its students. His hard efforts had not gone unnoticed by his best friend, Billingsley, who continued to take everything in his own strides. With jokes.

“C’mon, Z, you can’t change your work ethic now. We can just do a tag team presentation about what we know McGonagall doesn’t like, such as her reactions to our ‘shenanigans’ as she calls them.” The Gryffindor chortled, having also drawn her name as his subject. Of course, Billingsley was often sent to Professor McGonagall’s office for his antics, which was the only reason he figured he already knew her better than anyone.

“Are you kidding me?” Ash had asked, his ebony-toned face lightly perspiring at the thought of the daunting task ahead. “She’s supposed to be the guest of honour. The last thing I want to muck up is her reputation.”

Billingsley raised a challenging brow, “I’m sure that’s the last thing you’d be able to do with a simple presentation.”

Ash wasn’t so sure about that, but it reassured him enough to get himself to his first meeting with Professor McGonagall with minimal foot-dragging. He questioned himself even further at the sight of the chess board on her desk.

“Have I come at a bad time?” he asked, shuffling the papers in his hands nervously.

“Not at all, Mr. Z,” she replied, gesturing for him to take the seat across from her. “It’s important to me that you learn something yourself as we conduct the interviews. And that is why I have set this up.”

“A chess board?” he asked, his tone doubtful as he sat down. Setting the papers next to the chess board, his hands retreated to his lap.

With a small incline of her head, she smiled slyly, “Yes, my own personal chess set. And I must warn you, I’m quite good.”

“But what am I learning from it?”

“Chess is a game of strategy that everyone approaches differently. As you learn about me, you’ll develop your game… and I’ll learn something about you as well. You can tell a lot about a person by how they approach their chess game. Have you played?”

“I’ve been playing McNully once a week. He says it’s good strategy practice for Quidditch.”

“I’m glad to hear it,” McGonagall said frankly, folding her hands together in front of her. “But you haven’t played with me. I can assure you we all have our own tricks, styles, and strategies.”

From there, he met with her each day for a short time before dinner to play the same round of chess and ask questions. However, other than the simply obvious facts about her, he couldn’t get anything personal that no one else would ever know.

“Questions of a personal nature aren’t appropriate between a teacher and a student.”

While Ash couldn’t disagree more, he was given no room to do so. After the second round of questions and chess moves, the interviews had become something rather perplexing that he felt he couldn’t surpass, let alone the fact that he was pretty sure he was losing the game. Not that he believed he even had a shadow of a chance at beating her.

Since he couldn’t turn to his own best friend for advice — and heaven knew where Tulip and Tonks had gone off to — he went looking for Jessamyn at the Slytherin table at dinnertime. When he couldn’t find her, he stood on a free seat to scan the Great Hall only to spot two particularly blonde heads at the Hufflepuff table.

He walked over to Jessamyn and Penny, the latter of whom grinned brightly at him.

“Hi, Ash!”

He rubbed bashfully at the back of his neck, “H-hey, Penny.”

Jessamyn eyed him a moment, tilting her head as she asked, “Your presentation worrying you?”

At that point, he was too anxious to even bother asking her — like he usually did — how she always seemed to know just what he was feeling. “Yes,” he replied exasperatedly. “I feel like I have to make sure I properly honour Professor McGonagall in my presentation, but she won’t go into explicit details about herself. She says playing chess in our time together will help me learn something about life… rather than just random facts about her.”

Her eyes widened, “Of course. You would want to do her justice. What do you need from me?”

“I s’pose some forms of advice would be helpful. Who are you two interviewing?”

Penny was quick to respond, “I’m happy to be doing my presentation on Professor Snape. He’s a brilliant Potions Master! He’s been accommodating, but I haven’t been asking any extremely personal questions.” The shocked, yet disturbed, look Jessamyn and Ash sent her way either went ignored or unnoticed as she asked, “Who were you assigned, Jessamyn?”

“Professor Flitwick. Ben and I are interviewing him together to make it simpler. Though our presentations are all expected to be done solo, it helps to ask questions together and give each other pointers for our presentations later.”

“Is he able to give you any pointers, or is he as silent and nervous as always?” Ash asked with a pointed look.

“That’s not the point,” Jessamyn stomped her foot indignantly. “I’m trying to tell you that  you could work with whoever else pulled her name.”

“I tried that already! Winger won’t work with anyone else, Billingsley isn’t going to do anything, and none of the other Hufflepuffs will even tell me if their subject is McGonagall.”

Jessamyn stared blankly back at him, “Well.. that is quite the predicament.”

“Some help you are,” he sneered irritably, his tone causing her to brazenly stick her tongue out. Leave it to Jessamyn to be able to immediately solve everyone else’s problems but his.

Penny straightened up, “I could find out which of my housemates is doing their project on McGonagall if you like.”

Ash smiled gratefully, “Thanks Penny, but I doubt even if you did that they’d be willing to work with me…. No, I think I’m alone.”

As Penny nodded in understanding, Jessamyn hummed thoughtfully and pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose. “What’s it like playing with McGonagall?”

“Well… when we’re playing, it’s like she can read my every move,” he sighed. “I’m pretty sure I’m going to lose. I wonder if I should just —“

A presence standing behind him, shadowing his entire body, made Ash pause and look over his shoulder. Snape, even as his and Jessamyn’s Head of House, was… decidedly not their favorite professor at Hogwarts.

He imperiously looked down on him with his ever present sneer, “What Minerva McGonagall respects more than anything, Z, is people who don’t quit. She and I have that in common. I suggest you stop whining and wallowing… and rise to the occasion. Lest you embarrass our entire House by failing to make a proper presentation for our honoured professor.”

And, with that, he swept away. His cloak already floating slightly above the ground behind him as though he hadn’t even stopped to give such an offhand comment.

Ash scowled, “Well, that sounded like a threat.”

When he looked at Penny’s and Jessamyn’s faces, however, they were both open-mouthed with awe.

“What?” he asked.

“To me,” Jessamyn stated slowly, “that sounded like an attempt to motivate you… like he actually.. believes in you.”

His eyebrows furrowed in thought, “You think so?” Her nod only prompted him to turn to Penny, “What do you think?”

But Penny was no longer focused on them. She grabbed her bag from beside her and rummaged through it, pulling out ink and parchment paper. “Respect people who don’t quit,” she muttered under her breath on repeat until she found her quill and began writing it out.

Jessamyn smirked, pointing her thumb at Penny as she told him, “I think you’ve already lost the topic Snape gave you.”

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Ash sat across from Professor McGonagall again the following day, still at a loss for how to continue forward. And the sour look that had just crossed her features wasn’t making his nerves any less strung.

“So, how am I doing?” he asked.

Expression still contorted, she replied, “I must say I’m surprised by your most recent move.”

“Why?”

“That was to be my question. You moved your rook, then clearly just sacrificed your pawn… did you not?”

“Well, yeah…” he admitted. “But I’ve learnt sometimes it takes sacrifice to get what you want.”

“And what exactly do you want in this moment?”

“I…” Ash paused to think further about how he wanted to respond. The last thing he wanted was for anything to offend her, however it seemed like he’d already done so with his sacrificial move. “I just want to understand you better. And seeing your strategies through this game has been… exciting, to say the least.”

His response, thankfully, gave her cause to smile warmly. “A kind goal. And a worthy one. I applaud you for coming right out and saying it. Though I’m still perplexed. Is your strategy to lose to learn more about me? Because that would be quite disappointing.”

“I just —” he tried to find a reason to retort, but she couldn’t have been more right. “It’s true. I’ve been trying to find out more about you, but I haven’t been able to think of a topic to suit you. I sacrificed the pawn to see how you might expo — expleet —  ex —“

“Exploit?” she offered.

“That’s it, thanks,” he nodded appreciatively. “And, in a sense, I suppose it does give me something to work with. You saw the sacrifice clear as day, but you didn’t go after it. That means Hogwarts’ guest of honour is, as you should be, honourable…. Because I stopped playing at my best, you didn’t want to make your best moves anymore. Honestly, I envy how easily you did that.”

Though her smile widened as he explained, her lips took a downturn at his final sentence, “Nothing in life worth earning comes easily…”

“It does seem that way sometimes though. You’re so skilled with Transfiguration. When you’re teaching us a new spell, you always cast it so naturally flawless. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be that skilled, too. Or if I have what it takes…”

“To wonder is to waste time. Only through action can one find the answer within.”

“But to sacrifice is not the right action?” he asked curiously.

She shook her head, “Mr. Z… our choices can affect who we are. Every move you make during our chess game has ramifications… And the choices you make very soon… will determine exactly what you’ll say at your presentation, and how I’ll be represented.

“Sacrifice in a game of chess, or in life, while it may help you get the outcome you desire, should only be a last resort. And even then, I would never recommend such a decision. You have much to learn about the journey of life, but I hope that from here on you understand this lesson I am imparting to you.”

“I do, I think,” Ash replied slowly. “Don’t sacrifice unless it’s necessary.”

“No more needless sacrifice,” she reiterated.

“I understand,” he nodded. And he rather appreciated her point of view on it, as it added even more to what he needed for a proper presentation. She was more than honourable — she wanted to win against an opponent only when they could perform at their best. There was no doubt in his mind that he was still going to lose, but he could at least lose gracefully.

McGonagall nodded back in mild satisfaction. “Promise me you’ll do your best. Now, consider your next move wisely.”

“Of course, Professor.”

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Poor Jessamyn 😂 why did they have to make her brother so ugly in blonde?

Not only that, but to see Merula's giddy a$$ in the background at the two of them duelling -

which was the saddest duel ever. Jessamyn finished him off with two spells, and he's all "Wow you've come a long way," and Jessamyn’s just thinking, "And you haven't." Hahahaha.

The Hungarian Horntail from that TLSQ with Bill was ten times harder than this man.

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I actually love the concept of the Hogwarts Mystery tlsq, where Jessamyn and Barnaby were supposed to be looking for romantic stories to share on their date. It had a beautiful lesson from McGonagall that I could even associate with my current situation.

In my opinion, though, it kind of took a weird turn for Barnaby to instead look for the philosopher's stone. But, I did enjoy that he learned something out of it despite attempting to find something he.. just wasn't going to get to.

To get the Elixir of Life, he'd need to find Nicolas Flamel. Not even Harry Potter got to do that.

And then McGonagall came out with this beautiful piece of advice to Jessamyn:

And this is McGonagall speaking from experience in recently losing her husband. That even with the pain of his death on her heart, she can still think of and remember the good memories they spent together... something I've been struggling on my own with.

What's beautiful is showing this side of love to two young teenagers trying to navigate their budding relationship. Showing them that yes, the possibility of losing that love in the future is scary, but the point is to enjoy the present time you spend with them and hold on to those memories.

It was such a big thing for me to see a lesson worth noting in this game that I had to take pictures.

And then the gift was just too cute. 😍

These two are frankly just so adorable together.

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Ooh, I like this idea!

Let me see… seeing as this is a good way to start gunning out details for my OCs….

HL — Abigail Grandshaw:

This girl… grew up too reserved to know how to possibly even explain the Wizarding World to a Muggle-born witch or wizard. Or rather, simply put, she's too introverted for the task.

M.B.: *Asks a million questions at once*

Abigail: “Well.. I, erm…. Natty? Think you can take over from here? Thank you.”

HM — Jessamyn McPhee:

She would be ecstatic to help out this Muggle-born kid! Starting with showing them as much as possible about the way the Wizarding World works. Even though she takes Muggle Studies — giving her a basic idea of the differences between Muggle and Wizard living — she’ll still bring them around her friends for additional input for the new witch or wizard’s benefit.

Jessamyn: “And of course we have multiple ways for travel. You might like using Floo Powder. It’s a lot faster than those arrowplaws — er — arterprance? Ugh, Ben? What’s the word for those flying contraptions again?”

Ben: “You mean the airplane?”

Jessamyn: “Yes! That. Ooh! Let’s go to Diagon Alley! You won’t know anything until you’ve seen the place you’ll need to go for your school supplies!”

MA — Victoria Durazno

Ah, now she would want the new Muggle-born to be a lot better off than she was when she was first introduced to the Wizarding World. Honestly, she loves Hagrid just as much as anybody, but he forgets to mention a lot of things! Not to mention how absolutely unhelpful Daniel is as her friend and neighbor — to be a part of the Muggle and Wizarding world, and yet he can’t seem to explain anything to her.

M.B.: “How does everyone get to Hogwarts?”

Victoria: “Well, since no one seems to realize that first year students need to know how to get to the blasted platform at King’s Cross Station, I may as well accompany you. In the meantime, I’ll tell you all about my favorite celebrity, Harry Potter!”

Quick Challenge

If your HL/ HM/ MA MC had to tell a Muggle-born they were of magical heritage and introduce them to the Wizarding World, how would it go?

Write a short story, or draw a picture or something.

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Should I or Shouldn't I?

If I can do this, perhaps it would give me the inspiration to finish Melody's whole set faster... would actually love to give more Orele content if it didn't spoil what I have planned for reveal in the current Melody book.... I'll surely get to it :D

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LJ's Blog

Welcome, one and all. I have finally figured out how to compile everything into one area so, if there is any one era you’re into, I have everything listed below. Of course, I haven’t begun writing for all of them, but they will fill up soon enough because this is an awesome community.

I would blog for all the fandoms I enjoy but, considering I have more background compiled for the wizarding world of Harry Potter, I think that’s all I will do for the time being. Of course, the only snag is that I aim to finish the Melody Riddle autobiographies first in order for everything in the next generation era to make sense when I work on that.

Without further ado… let’s get this show on the road!

Books:

Melody Riddle Autobiographies — my first and main baby I’ve been writing since the year 2012, this series chronicles the daughter of Lord Voldemort during her time at Hogwarts as she navigates the fine line between good and evil on the path of building a close relationship with both her father and his greatest enemy.

Jessamyn McPhee Series — set in the realm of Hogwarts Mystery, Jessamyn embarks on a journey to break the curse of the Cursed Vaults at Hogwarts in the process of searching for her missing older brother.

Characters + Short Stories:

Founders Era:

Emmanuel

Hogwarts Legacy Era:

Abigail Grandshaw

Marauders / First Wizarding War / Pre-Hogwarts Mystery Era:

Orele Ollivander

— Bonsai

— Amortentia

— Memorable Mother's Day

— Riddle Me This

Gerald Ollivander

Hanalee Kowalski

Jessamyn Kowalski

Jacob McPhee

Hogwarts Mystery Era:

Jessamyn McPhee

Ash Z

— Honourable McGonagall

Ford Billingsley

Cassandra Santacruz

Seraphina Selwyn

Golden Trio Era:

Melody Riddle

Rebecca Figsund

Addison Gentz

Elisabeth Parker

Beatrix Figsund

Magic Awakened Era:

Victoria Durazno

Christian Gentz-Williams

The Calamity Era:

Mugsy

Next Generation Era:

COMING EVENTUALLY

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Not only is he SO adorable about thistle, but has anyone else noticed he has a bracelet on his left wrist and three rings on his right hand?

How many hundreds of times has Jessamyn done this date with him in Hagrid’s garden, and I have not noticed any of these until now?

One of the rings has a face, and it reminds me of the Death Eater mask. Almost like it is a family heirloom he's expected to wear, so he has these other pieces of jewelry to hopefully take possible focus away from THAT one.

(Courtyard date moment added for adorableness*)