#nizar/severus

[cerulane]

Severus se lie d’amitié avec un portrait accroché dans un coin sombre de la salle commune.

Série de plusieurs fanfics qui sont toutes assez longues.

La première nous présente donc le portrait, Nizar Slytherin. Le début de la fic est assez monotone car elle reprend la vie de Severus de son arrivée à Serpentard à 11 ans jusqu’au début du cinquième livre. Le portrait de Nizar n’a pas vraiment d’impact sur sa destinée et donc, on s’écarte peu de l’œuvre originale.

La suite est plus intéressante car si on sent qu’il y a un lien entre Nizar et Harry, on a du mal à savoir de quoi il s’agit. A la fois, c’est une évidence mais en même temps, l’auteur arrive à distiller des éléments qui font douter.

Les fics alternent entre un récit contemporain : l’impact de Nizar sur le temps d’Harry Potter et le guerre contre Voldemort et des récits sur le passé. J’étais plus investie sur l’histoire contemporaine et ai moins accrochée aux histoires dans le passé. Malgré tout, il était intéressant de découvrir l’arrivée de Nizar à Poudlard, la jeunesse de Rowena ou de Godric. Je ne suis pas férue d’histoire anglaise donc je ne suis pas capable de me prononcer sur l’exactitude du contexte historique de ces fics dans le passé. Mais l’auteur arrive à rendre crédible ces royaumes éclatés, ces dialectes différents et les évolutions des noms entre « l’origine » et la version restée dans l’histoire.

La fic sur Gryffondor est indiquée comme inachevée. On sait au final comment l’histoire va finir. Le dernier chapitre ferait une conclusion acceptable. Même si j’aimerais assister au dénouement de la guerre entre Godric et son oncle.

L’histoire contemporaine est également intéressante. Elle digresse parfois sur des mystères du passé : comment la suprématie des Sang-Pur s’est imposée, comment l’héritage de Serpentard a été dévoyé en un millénaire, comment les elfes, qui étaient libres, sont-ils devenus les elfes de maison. Le tout est bien amené et, même si la lutte contre Voldemort reste une priorité, c’est agréable de voir des explications sur ce monde.

J'ai eu un peu de mal sur la dernière fic, qui se passe dans un passé récent (la première guerre contre Voldemort) Elle suit un personnage clé de la fic et permet d'expliquer en détail certains éléments qui ne sont que survolés dans la dernière fic contemporaine. J'ai parfois trouvé qu'elle partait dans tous les sens : la guerre, la musique, la conquête spatiale... Je pense que j'avais aussi un grand sentiment de lassitude. Mis bout à bout, cette histoire représente quand même un sacré pavé.

L'auteur a annoncé qu'elle allait continuer sa fic mais en même temps, sa lassitude du fandom Harry Potter. J'ai envie d'avoir une suite. La fin telle qu'elle est est satisfaisante mais il reste cependant de nombreux points en suspens et qui mériteraient une conclusion plus approfondie.

[dovand]

Of A Linear Circle, Part VIII: The Second Wizarding War; Chapter 44: Wealth Beyond Measure

hello everyone have a messy comic

ID: A digitally drawn comic of the following scene:

“Humiliation,” Nizar agrees. “The one thing Tom Riddle hated as a student. Humiliation was the only thing that would crack that benevolent mask of his. Even a hint of it could send Riddle into a rage.” His expression turns wrathful, something Severus rarely sees. “I didn’t want to kill him anymore for threatening you. I want him to break. I want him to fucking suffer.” Severus allows the amusement he feels to be audible in his voice. “Your declaration is a Slytherin’s dream come true, but it would never pass muster as an ode to love.” Nizar’s ire doesn’t dissipate. “I’m not the sort for poetry unless I’m quoting someone else. Severus, if Heliotrope had succeeded, she would have replaced Drugo in that fucking barrow.” Severus leans back in surprise. “I’m not worth that.” “Don’t,” Nizar hisses. He slides his fingers into Severus’s hair, tangling his fingers and gripping almost to the point of pain. “Don’t you ever say that about yourself! Not to a mirror, not to me, not to anyone! You’re worth everything. I can’t lose—I truly think it would break me to lose you. I’m not capable of that sort of recovery anymore. I can’t lose you. I can’t—” “Dammit.” Too late, Severus realizes Nizar is having a much-delayed panic attack. He wraps his arms around Nizar and holds him close, though Nizar is shaking so hard his teeth are chattering. “I’m here. I promise. I’m not going anywhere. I’m not leaving you, I swear.”

[jahaliel]

cliffhanger: through the valley

writing speculative poetry for OaLC

pretending like cliffhangers and author cackling aren’t terrifying XD

under a cut. @deadcatwithaflamethrower

in the swirling greys he is a beacon the emerald-bright threads in his robe glow, lighting his way, as he walks until he comes before the Queen on her throne

to Her he offers a gift - that of tongues thought long dead speaking truest devotion a gift of memories; of her protection and kindness, of the love that drove him here

he speaks and in his words She hears a song She thinks that he will be strong enough to go and not look back, and Her husband who denies Her nothing, and who can see Himself in the man agrees

without looking back, through the darkness he walks trailed by a shadow towards the light of the over world and until he senses that it shines fully on them both he does not turn, trusting that his lover follows him still

reunited under the warm summer sun they kiss in peacetime now they enjoy long years of bliss

[eliward]

“Is that a problem?”

Ooh, I did something... Severus and Nizar in Diagon.

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

https://www.deviantart.com/shinougaya/art/Is-That-a-Problem-840763391?ga_submit_new=10%3A1588783718

[snapextherapy]

(reposted from @arson-yeehaw , my main account)

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snape's songs come first, 1975 to tiny dancer

nizar's songs follow, arrow to take a chance on me

playlist made for @deadcatwithaflamethrower 's fic Of a Linar Circle (bc i havent been able to listen to these songs without thinking of them, And Now You Have To Hear It Too)

edit: these song are my interpretation of them, so

edit edit: dm me for any song requests

[elvencantation]

whoever recommended me ‘of a linear circle’by flamethrower, i would like to propose marriage

[chibi-mari]

STOP SCROLLING RIGHT NOW!!!!

So hey, I missed the week for doing this, but it’s never late to recommend the BEST FANFICTION EVER WRITTEN. Like, really, please do yourself a favor and give this long-ass monster a chance!!!!

You like Harry Potter? Check! Like time-travel AU’s?? Check! Like a long, historically correct story with lots of cultural diversity and lgbtq+ character visibility??? Hella CHECK!!!

It’s an OC/Severus, but not really? And like, it’s beautiful and super long enough to sustain you for at least a month even if you binge read more than twelve chapters a day!! Oh, and has a lot of Founder Era stuff that is incredibly well-founded, and the worldbuilding is absolutely nuts, and it adresses every fucking plot-hole the fandom has always wanted to fix!

Please, please, pleaaaaase, READ IT! Give it a chance, you’ll be hooked by chapter 4 at max, give your love to this awesome author and help her realize just how amazing their work is!!!

Their tumblr is @deadcatwithaflamethrower, go give some love!!!

[x0es]

I couldn’t get the thought of these two dorks walking around out of my head so here you guys go you get a doodle that I made to appease my poor brain...  Severus and Nizar from @deadcatwithaflamethrower​ A linear Circle. I honestly couldn’t remember what scene fed my brain this but when I found a similar one (probably the one), I realized I made raincoats way too short oops D:  I wasn’t going to post this and had to convince myself that I should so I am :>

[obaewankenope]

Of a Linear Circle by @deadcatwithaflamethrower gifset requested by @sanerontheinside ⇾ “Do not forget those who brought you joy”

[arson-yeehaw]

update 10/3/20

OaLC- Severus Snape (and Nizar Slytherin)

playlist made for @deadcatwithaflamethrower 's fic Of a Linar Circle (bc i havent been able to listen to these songs without thinking of them, and now you have to hear it too)

im bored, so here's a masterpost of my incredibly niche daydreaming playlists

my account:

Bakery Series:

Bakery 1: Slow days in my bakery in London in the 90s

Bakery 2: I'm singing to myself while baking and a childhood friend realizes he loves me

Bakery 3: Reconnecting with an old friend, and realizing you have feelings for him

Bakery 4: bridging the gap between friends and lovers

Bakery 5: learning to love again

Bakery 6: I take an friend to a flea market and he falls in love with me a little more

Bakery 7: My lover and I spend a slow morning in my London flat

Bakery 8: the flat above my bakery that I share with my lover

Bakery 9: when my lover dies because this is a gay movie and one of us has to

Villian Series:

villian 1: my teenage years spent with my 2 boyfriends, before the war (70s jams)

villian 2: the second in command to the villian

Villian 3: appearing in the midst of a battle to turn the tide in my favor

villian 4: after the war, getting back with my 2 boyfriends (90s jams)

villian: life playlist

Misc.

I'm gonna go to jail!

if I was at a Teen Party™ with my best friend whom I share romantic tension with

If you do not recognize what the revolution stands for, you are part of the problem.

it's MY manic episode, so I get to choose the music

obviously we also have the snockhart movie soundtrack

I'll update this list when I have time lmao

[bookworm-2692]

Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to know better

tagged by @araku-validrava way back in may lmao

Top 3 ships: uhhhh I don’t often tend to ship things??? Like I read a fic with a ship and I’m like “oh cool” but otherwise it’s like... whatever??? Maybe I’ll list a ship and the fic it’s from lmao...

Nizar/Severus from @deadcatwithaflamethrower‘s Of a Linear Circle

Ren/Yuuki from @airdeari‘s The First Nonary Game

Monty/Percy from The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Song: Roar Like A Lion by KEiiNO ft. Te Hau Tawhiti - it has surpassed Spirit in the Sky as my favourite keiino song, and remember: spirit in the sky was my favourite song from eurovision 2019, and i’m still salty it didn’t win! Please go listen to roar like a lion - its got maori singing and sami joik and is just an overall bop (several of the songs on keiino’s album are collaborations with various indigenous groups all over the world)

Last Movie: i... don’t remember??? oh wait! prince caspian! because i saw gifs of the pevensie sibling actors meeting up with a guy who had a collection of the narnia props (lucy with a sword!) and eventually found where those gifs were from and while i was there (on stan) i decided to also just watch a narnia movie and hence prince caspian

Reading: a draft of a novel a friend is writing, and fics as they get updated. i have a pile of books to read but like. uni only ended a week ago lmao

What food are you craving right now?:  i just had dinner (thai green curry that i made!) so im not hungry so not super craving anything atm...

tagging: @caelytrix @lebannabell @the-pulp-almanac @spacedogprincess @qayalec @luna-and-mars @adrift-in-eden @hypnotized-so-mesmerized @kappa776 of course you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to! remember: it took me six months to finally do this lmao

[neversidekick-blog]

Flamethrower’s Alleged Harassment

What’s going on?

deadcatwithaflamethrower has suggested she is the victim of a targeted campaign of harassment, and along the way she’s used some antisemitic dogwhistles, which would be problematic on its own, but is especially insidious IMO given the topic of the alleged harassment.

I am positive that I am one of the people she says harassed her, though I maintain I did no such thing. 

I’m going to attempt to provide the fullest accounting of these events possible, with the caveat that I simply don’t have copies of a few key pieces of evidence.

If you’re going to follow along, I ask you read all the screenshots and quotations carefully, because the details do matter if you want a complete picture.

The first two sections are background info for those unaware of a few relevant facts. The issue of alleged harassment follows.

Jewish Snape

Flamethrower has written a long, serial HP fic called Of a Linear Circle. In it, Severus Snape is portrayed as Jewish. While his Jewishness is touched upon in multiple chapters across multiple parts of the series, this is how it is introduced:

“I didn’t know you were Jewish.”

Severus rolls his eyes and taps the bridge of his nose. “It isn’t obvious?”

Nizar gives him a baffled look. “What does your nose have to do with it?”

“It’s a…stereotype.” Severus grimaces at Nizar’s continued look of confusion, but he still meets older adults who’ve never heard the word used that way. “Racism.”

“Oh. Idiots,” Nizar mutters. “Besides, if you wanted to see some truly horrific examples of nasal protuberances, you’d find yourself a Viking who’d had their nose broken four or five times.”

I applaud including Jewish characters in fic, even in the case where they are not Jewish in canon. Positive portrayals of Jewish characters should be encouraged throughout fandom.

Picking Snape to be the character from Harry Potter to reframe as Jewish is a complicated choice, because of the vile and enduring antisemitic stereotype relating to Jewish people having large, ugly noses. 

Consider the following quote spoken by the Marauder’s Map in POA:

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.

Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.

Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.

Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

Leaning into a stereotype is a difficult choice. It’s not bad, but it should be handled with some thought. IMO you either need to ignore the canon association with Snape’s nose, or you need to deliberately deconstruct it.

Flamethrower did neither. This by itself I would not say is antisemitic, merely clumsy. She went to great efforts to portray Snape’s Jewishness positively, and I honestly applaud that.  

But I know I’m not the only person who encountered it and was uncomfortable with the antisemitic stereotype being on display so clumsily. Not that I thought it meant flamethrower or her fic were antisemitic, just that this particular use of a stereotype was uncomfortable. 

A Thread about Hebrew

Of a Linear Circle is heavily concerned with linguistics. It features discussions of many languages, including Hebrew. One of those discussions contains an error, a faulty transliteration. This is a minor mistake, and in a fic with so many linguistic discussions, some mistakes would happen for even a true polyglot.

The problem is that when a Jewish fan commented with a polite suggestion of a fix to the error, flamethrower proceeded to Goysplain both Hebrew and the Shoah to her.

It’s not a good look. It’s arrogant and condescending. By itself, though, it’s not antisemitic, just an author being a little too defensive and overbearing. But it’s there, and more than a few Jewish fans noticed it because flamethrower has promoted the fact that Snape is Jewish in this fic.

Where the Harassment Supposedly Begins

At some point, a Jewish fan (who implicitly identifies herself as such later), leaves a comment on the chapter of flamethrower’s fic with the potentially upsetting antisemitic nose stereotype.

The request is for a tag or warning of some kind for the comment, just so it doesn’t take readers by surprise. Perhaps requesting the fic as a whole be tagged with “antisemitism” is a step too far and would seem bizarre, but the gist of the comment is a request for a content warning. Flamethrower could have sorted out a note or a less inflammatory tag if she cared to do so, but she never replied to this comment.

The fact that she didn’t reply to this comment doesn’t matter really. She gets a lot of fic comments, so the idea she missed one or didn’t feel like replying isn’t the issue. 

But this comment was left on August 10, and when it received no response for a week, I believe the same fan sent flamethrower an ask on the same topic, which is where the saga of supposed harassment begins.

The Ask

The text of the ask was as follows:

HI! I LEFT YOU A COMMENT RECENTLY ON YOUR FIC OF A LINEAR CIRCLE, BUT I CAN SEE YOU WERE VERY BUSY AND PROBABLY DIDN'T SEE IT. I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND ME ASKING, BUT WOULD YOU MIND TAGGING IT FOR THE ANTISEMITIC HUMOR IN IT? I KNOW IT WAS MEANT IN GOOD FAITH AND YOU HAD A JEWISH FRIEND CONSULT, BUT NOT ALL JEWS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH JOKING ABOUT STEROTYPES, AND FOR THOSE OF US THAT AREN'T, A LITTLE WARNING WOULD BE VERY KIND. THANK YOU!— queried by heatherly84

I consider this fairly innocuous and polite. As I said above, perhaps the reasonable outcome wasn’t the exact tag suggested, or even a tag at all--maybe a note in the intro notes of the chapter warning for it would have sufficed.

But this is how flamethrower responded:

So, because you had a single moment of twinge due to a child character’s self-consciousness regarding their appearance and their religion as they struggle to come to terms with stereotypes they face every day…you want me to add a tag to my fic that will see it immediately black-listed as anti-semitic even though it’s absolutely nothing of the sort.

No. No, I will not.

I am not here to gatekeep your internet experience. If that moment made you uncomfortable, you should a) think about what the character was going through instead of expecting it to be the author being a dick, and b) click your back button.

EDIT: No, wait. I’m not done.

What really gets me here is that you are asking me to tag a scene as anti-Semitic when this underconfident Jewish-born child, already dealing with horrible stereotyping, is promptly reassured by an Adult that there is nothing wrong with his faith or his appearance, and said child shouldn’t put stock into the people doing the stereotyping.

You want me to tag something as Bad that is meant to be enouragement for anyone in that position, a common theme in YA lit.

Are you sure it’s the perceived anti-Semitism that’s the problem, or is it something else entirely?

I saw the ask and flamethrower’s response shortly after it was posted on her tumblr. To say I found the response troubling is an understatement.

Flamethrower condescends to a fan asking, not for any substantive change or edit to the fic, but to a mere content warning.

Flamethrower presumes to tell someone how they must feel about the handling of antisemitic stereotypes in a fic, which would be bullshit even if she didn’t handle this particular antisemitic stereotype so clumsily.

Flamethrower accuses the fan of some secret and malicious motive because she, the author, is overly defensive.

Particularly considering the topic of antisemitism, I found the response wanting, so I decided I should say something.

The Submission

In an attempt to convey to Flamethrower that the concerns about the antisemitic stereotyping of Snape’s nose wasn’t the concern of a single fan, and to try to open a dialogue and point out some other missteps I felt she had made in the general region of Jewish representation in fandom and antisemitism, I decided to send her a submission.

I am an ancient member of fandom from the days of usenet and livejournal, and to be honest I just never got tumblr, so I had to create an account solely for this purpose. I’m sure that makes me sound like a bizarre dinosaur, but it’s the truth. And I created this account and wrote up a submission to flamethrower and sent it in.

Admittedly, my tone was a little sharp in a few places due to very genuine frustration, but as I tried to make clear, I was trying to appeal to her to do better, not simply condemn, and definitely not harass.

The following is the full and exact text of my submission to flamethrower: 

I feel that you're being deeply disingenuous. You introduced Snape being a Jew in your fic with the following lines:

“I didn’t know you were Jewish.”

Severus rolls his eyes and taps the bridge of his nose. “It isn’t obvious?”

And a Jewish person rather politely asked you to mark it as referencing antisemitic stereotypes, because holy fuck you made a character whose nose is remarkably large in canon Jewish and leaned into that in. Sure, you followed it with a joke about Viking noses, but that's not the deconstruction you seem to think it is. It's just a handwave that accomplishes nothing.

That, by itself, I could maybe give a pass, but then there's this comment thread: https://archiveofourown.org/comments/113294382 Someone tells you they're Jewish and gives you a bit of helpful advice about a bit of Hebrew linguistics that you have absolutely and totally wrong; it's not something, as you suggest in your replies, that varies with regions. It's universally understood, but you talk over the person whose cultural language you're using as if you know better.

But the part that really crosses the line is that you say the following in your scramble to throw shit against the wall to insist you could be right:

Then there are the parlances common to specific groups that are just fucking GONE because of the Holocaust, and we don't have any way now to know how they might have said certain words.

You Goysplain the Shoah to a Jew.

If you actually care as deeply about positive representations of Jewish characters in fandom as you say you do, maybe listening to actual critiques from actual Jews should be a thing you do, instead of reacting defensively and shutting them down.

Also, please never refer to a person as "Jewish sidekick" again, as you did in that thread. Unpacking the baggage there would take a separate submission. I'm taking the time to write this out, perhaps foolishly, because I hope you're sincere about caring and will actually listen. Shutting down the voices of Jewish people is not a part of portraying Jewishness positively in fandom. I hope you can see that and will listen and do better.

She posted and responded to this. I don’t have a screenshot of her response, nor do I have the full text because of how quickly she deleted it, but I do have a partial quote of her response:

However, you did accuse a Jewish woman by proxy of Goysplaining, which I find incredibly insulting on my best friend’s behalf. (She wants her name left out of it for anxiety reasons, and given how this is probably going to turn into a huffing and puffing Drag Down The Evil Witch Goyim thing, I don’t blame her.)

This bit of rhetorical gymnastics on her part served an interesting and infuriating purpose. I objected to her refusing to listen to actual Jewish fans trying to tell her things on multiple occasions, and I also criticized her use of the “I can’t have done anything wrong, my best friend is Jewish,” defense. Here she doubled down on that defense, essentially saying the person she has referred to on multiple occasions as her “Jewish Sidekick” insulates her from all possible problematic statements re: Jewishness.

The rest of her response was equally inane, but as I can’t quote it directly in her own words, I can’t justify saying more about it.

A Second, Unpublished Ask

As I mentioned above, I’ve never really used Tumblr. The difference between submitting posts and submitting asks confused me. I knew the original request for a content warning tag was an ask and that I’d done a post. I was afraid I should have sent an ask instead.

I was also rereading her response to heatherly84, and I was annoyed that she didn’t get why the joke about Snape’s nose wasn’t okay.

So I sent in an ask before my submission was posted and responded to.

I don’t have the text of my ask, but I give flamethrower permission to post it in full if she chooses. I recall saying two things:

1) In the form of a question, I tried to walk her through understanding why the joke about Snape’s nose could still read as antisemitic.

2) I acknowledged I’d sent the submission, and said I would prefer she respond to it, since it was more detailed.

Perhaps I committed some terrible tumblr faux pas in submitting a post and an ask on the same topic closely together and that constitutes harassment.

I suspect the former is true but the latter is not.

Flamethrower Deletes Posts and Claims Harassment

In a matter of minutes after flamethrower posts my submission and her response, she deletes it. A new post goes up.

I have to assume the combination of two asks and a submission is what she is saying is harassment. You’ve seen the text of one ask and one post, so hopefully you’ll agree one ask was very polite and the post was slightly terse but A) not harassment, B) not an ad hominem attack, C) and a list of reasons why she was wrong to do certain things, not a list of reasons why she as a person was awful. I maintain the unpublished ask is in the same vein, and she is free to publish it in full if she chooses.

Then she begins posting more, and her claims about what she was sent escalate.

Here we have what is called a dogwhistle: she’s not saying evil Jews are conspiring against her to make her look bad. However, in response to criticisms of potentially antisemitic behavior, she falls back on the trope of “devious” Jews in a malicious conspiracy. This is problematic, and I will say flat out it is antisemitic.

She also misrepresents what was going on: Jewish fans asking her to listen to them without being condescending. Jewish fans asking for a single content warning.

I believe at this point I sent either another ask or submission, with the gist being, “If you’re going to post about things I submitted to your tumblr and characterize them a certain way, I would appreciate it if you reposted them so viewers could judge for themselves whether what you’re saying is accurate.”

Continuing to engage was a mistake, clearly. 

Her vague posting with the context hidden continued.

And she ends by going full non-sequitur. 

She never raised not wanting to attract white supremacists and Nazis as a reason to avoid a warning tag. 

She condescended and attacked and told a Jewish fan her reactions were invalid.

If flamethrower cared about Jewish representation in fandom, opposing antisemitism, and Jewish fans, she could have compromised with some sort of warning in some fashion.

Even if she were absolutely opposed to a warning of any kind, she could have not condescended and invalidated the experiences of Jewish fans trying to speak with her.

Even if she couldn’t do that, she could have avoided deleting all context and then going on a posting spree that suggests an evil Jewish conspiracy is harassing her.

The only conclusions I can draw from all of this are as follows:

1) Engaging with flamethrower as a person who cares about Jewish fans is a mistake, because she cares more about presenting herself as an authority on Jewish experiences to non-Jewish fans than she does to listening to any critique, no matter how minor or polite, from a Jewish fan.

2) Flamethrower is happy to oppose antisemitism in the shallowest possible way to pat herself on the back and seek congratulations from others, but the second she’s in conflict with actual Jewish people, she resorts to vague and just barely deniable antisemitism herself.

3) Flamethrower is unable to accept anything she perceives as criticism, no matter how kindly it’s presented, because she’s too invested in presenting herself as the absolute expert on every topic she has passingly researched for a fic. Her defensiveness over a trivial topic is merely odd, but on more serious topics, it becomes problematic.

4) No one has harassed flamethrower, and nothing she is construing as harassment is part of a “setup” or conspiracy.

5) I probably don’t know how to use Tumblr properly.

Edited to Add: What I Think Is a Lie

I have been refreshing flamethrower’s tumblr nearly non-stop since this began, as have several people I know. Unless the offer of a different tag occurred in a private message, I am confident in saying it is a lie, particularly given her instant negative reaction to the very idea as shown above. If screencaps are provided, I will of course retract this and apologize.

[ao3feed-dramione]

Of a Linear Circle - Part VIII - The Second Wizarding War

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2F183r3

by flamethrower

Voldemort's second British Wizarding War began on the Ides of March. Wizarding Britain is still reeling, but there is hardening resolve, as well.

Voldemort will be stopped. Dumbledore is not the only magician to make such a promise.

Words: 9588, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of Of a Linear Circle

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Nizar Slytherin, Severus Snape, Salazar Slytherin, Minerva McGonagall, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Astoria Greengrass, Daphne Greengrass, Ginny Weasley, Fred Weasley, Ron Weasley, George Weasley, Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Susan Bones, Amelia Bones, Pansy Parkinson, Parvati Patil, Padma Patil, Galiena deSlizarse, Brice deSlizarse, Elfric deSlizarse, Betisa deSlizarse, Blaise Zabini, Adele Greenwood, Albus Dumbledore, Filius Flitwick, Aurora Sinistra, Pomona Sprout, Rubeus Hagrid, Luna Lovegood, Cho Chang, Lavender Brown, Neville Longbottom, Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, Pius Thicknesse, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Edward Black, Gregory Goyle, Vincent Crabbe, Lucius Malfoy, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Poppy Pomfrey, Sybill Trelawney, Cassius Warrington, Angelina Johnson, Lee Jordan, Alicia Spinnet, Amrish Gupta, Ona Parangyo, Poonima Shah, Tamsin Applebee, Herbert Fleet, Sarah Fawcett, Katie Bell, Kinjal Bhatia, OMC, OFC, Kanza

Relationships: Severus Snape/Nizar Slytherin, Salazar Slytherin/Minerva McGonagall, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Nymphadora Tonks/Remus Lupin, Sirius Black/James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Astoria Greengrass/Ginevra Weasley, Millicent Bulstrode/Susan Bones, Pansy Parkinson/Xavier Macnair, Aberforth Dumbledore/Chao Li, Molly Weasley/Arthur Weasley, Bill Weasley/Fleur Delacour

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Goblet of Fire, Time Travel, Odd Methods of Time Travel, GFY, non-canon relationships, Poly Relationships, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Lily Evans & Severus Snape Friendship, You will never take that tag from me, Good Slytherins, Jewish Characters, poc characters, Lewis Carrol was a fucking Ravenclaw, Adoption, Magical Adoption, Portraits with Opinions, portraits with vital roles, government shenanigans, Ministry of Magic, Second Wizarding War, Identity Reveal, Identity Issues, identity dysphoria, Politcs, Multiple Pairings, Family Secrets, Abusive Dursley Family, Triad Marriage, Lavender Brown is NOT WHITE, Every House has its share of Assholes, Full Death Eater Cast, And Then Some, because Voldemort is supposed to have an army, Peter Pettigrew is still annoying, So is Lucius Malfoy, The Order of the Phoenix - Freeform, The Underground, basilisks are awesome, Loving Marriage, Healthy Relationships

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[ao3feed-snape]

Of a Linear Circle - Part VIII - The Second Wizarding War

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by flamethrower

Voldemort's second British Wizarding War began on the Ides of March. Wizarding Britain is still reeling, but there is hardening resolve, as well.

Voldemort will be stopped. Dumbledore is not the only magician to make such a promise.

Words: 9588, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of Of a Linear Circle

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Nizar Slytherin, Severus Snape, Salazar Slytherin, Minerva McGonagall, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Astoria Greengrass, Daphne Greengrass, Ginny Weasley, Fred Weasley, Ron Weasley, George Weasley, Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Susan Bones, Amelia Bones, Pansy Parkinson, Parvati Patil, Padma Patil, Galiena deSlizarse, Brice deSlizarse, Elfric deSlizarse, Betisa deSlizarse, Blaise Zabini, Adele Greenwood, Albus Dumbledore, Filius Flitwick, Aurora Sinistra, Pomona Sprout, Rubeus Hagrid, Luna Lovegood, Cho Chang, Lavender Brown, Neville Longbottom, Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, Pius Thicknesse, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Edward Black, Gregory Goyle, Vincent Crabbe, Lucius Malfoy, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Poppy Pomfrey, Sybill Trelawney, Cassius Warrington, Angelina Johnson, Lee Jordan, Alicia Spinnet, Amrish Gupta, Ona Parangyo, Poonima Shah, Tamsin Applebee, Herbert Fleet, Sarah Fawcett, Katie Bell, Kinjal Bhatia, OMC, OFC, Kanza

Relationships: Severus Snape/Nizar Slytherin, Salazar Slytherin/Minerva McGonagall, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Nymphadora Tonks/Remus Lupin, Sirius Black/James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Astoria Greengrass/Ginevra Weasley, Millicent Bulstrode/Susan Bones, Pansy Parkinson/Xavier Macnair, Aberforth Dumbledore/Chao Li, Molly Weasley/Arthur Weasley, Bill Weasley/Fleur Delacour

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Goblet of Fire, Time Travel, Odd Methods of Time Travel, GFY, non-canon relationships, Poly Relationships, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Lily Evans & Severus Snape Friendship, You will never take that tag from me, Good Slytherins, Jewish Characters, poc characters, Lewis Carrol was a fucking Ravenclaw, Adoption, Magical Adoption, Portraits with Opinions, portraits with vital roles, government shenanigans, Ministry of Magic, Second Wizarding War, Identity Reveal, Identity Issues, identity dysphoria, Politcs, Multiple Pairings, Family Secrets, Abusive Dursley Family, Triad Marriage, Lavender Brown is NOT WHITE, Every House has its share of Assholes, Full Death Eater Cast, And Then Some, because Voldemort is supposed to have an army, Peter Pettigrew is still annoying, So is Lucius Malfoy, The Order of the Phoenix - Freeform, The Underground, basilisks are awesome, Loving Marriage, Healthy Relationships

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[awisekrakens]

friend I am about to spend my morning reacquainting myself with the first few parts of oalc and possibly skip ahead to Sal moving into the castle partly out of excitement for upcoming chapters but also mostly because their extreme competence is so amazingly comforting and the historical work you put in continues to blow my mind and the plotting is amazingly efficient and -- I don’t know if it was your aim or not but it was achieved -- I swear I find myself relaxing at the same rate Severus does. and aside from the lack of self-preservation, Nizar is #Goals in all things. ‘kind, vicious lunatics’ may as well be a rallying cry for me.

here. have your nice words.

🙋🏻‍♀️

[hp-podfics]

Chapters: 1/23 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Godric Gryffindor/OFCs, Rowena Ravenclaw/OMC, Helga Hufflepuff/OFCs, Salazar Slytherin/OFC, Nizar Slytherin/OMC Characters: Salazar Slytherin, Harry Potter, Nizar Slytherin, Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, Orellana Slytherin, Fortunata Slytherin, Hedwig, OMC, OFC, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Sedemai Gryffindor, Alicia Ravenclaw, Helena Ravenclaw, Ginny Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson, Oliver Wood, Lily Potter, James Potter, Minerva McGonagall Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, inconvenient timing on time travel, Time Travel, Hogwarts Founders Era, GFY, Slytherin Harry, Sort Of, Getting there really, Parseltongue, Language Barrier, I hate Old English, Gryffindor Harry, yes it can too be both, It's complicated!, Adoption, poc characters, PoC, history was colorful dammit!, everyone traveled EVERYWHERE, Historical References, Historical Figures, Basilisk – Freeform, Don't copy to another site, Podfic, Audio Format: MP3, Podfic Length: 15-20 Hours Series: Part 3 of Of a Linear Circle [Podfic] Summary:

Summary from original fic: Harry Potter's fifteenth birthday starts off just like all the others...for the first few seconds, at least. The gift he receives changes his entire life.