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Honestly I just really like the AU's where Harry is not the boy who lived and someone else is, but I don't think I've ever been able to find a well written long one where Harry doesn't turn Dark which is not where I like going with it. I just like the idea of what happens with Harry's hero complex and like interactions with people without the whole Boy-Who-Lived title hanging over his head!
So long as Harry still grows up with the Dursleys, I can⌠actually see this really well (because, you know, the canon characterization exists). It is interesting to consider how Harryâs relationship with the magical world changes if he isnât simultaneously introduced to the âBoy-Who-Lived vs. You-Know-Whoâ thing - if he isnât given any expectation that he should be the hero or fear for his life. (Would he still be taken to Gringotts by Hagrid and form that connection to and feeling of responsibility for the Philosopherâs Stone?)Â
I think the usual direction to go with this is to make Neville the Boy-Who-Lived, and I kind of like the idea of exploring Harry as a Heroâs Companion instead of the hero. Although, I also kind of like the idea of Harry doing his own thing completely, at least initially, before getting roped into the growing conflict. Hmm, this seems like it could be a fun rewrite exercise, though Iâd need a specific âwhy should I write thisâ bait (some special scene or canon divergence development) before Iâd bite personally for a fic or ficlet. (Not because I think this concept isnât worth it, itâs just that I have so many Canon Divergence HP fics already, Iâd need something really tempting and DIFFERENT to what Iâve already written.)Â
However, I also accidentally read this ask kind of backwards and my brain went, âHmm, what if this was in a world where Harry was still the Boy-Who-Lived but no one knew that he was the Boy-Who-Lived? What if Voldemort just kind of vanished one day and no one knew why?â The logistics of it are a bit tricky, since we donât actually know how exactly the wizarding public learned about the deaths of Lily and James Potter, but thatâs not a big hurdle to tackle. So, Harry would have a different form of the âBoy-Who-Livedâ responsibility, if he was let in on the secret, but none of the fame, which would be kind of interesting.Â
AND THEN my brain fed me a THIRD AU, based on this post that Min reblogged the other day (I havenât reblogged it to my own blog yet, sorry, Min), a Canon Divergence in which Dumbledore straight-up DIES during or shortly after the First War. Shortly after works better for logistics of what Iâm imagining, so weâll go with that for this proposal.Â
Like, basically everything else is the same. The Potters are still murdered by Voldemort. After Hagrid takes Harry to the Dursleys, Sirius tries to kill Peter and gets sent to Azkaban. The Longbottoms are tortured by the Lestranges. Barty Crouch Junior is sent to Azkaban by his own father. Severus Snape is pardoned on Albus Dumbledoreâs word. Etc. Etc.Â
And then Albus Dumbledore dies. Because, like, heâs super old. If we go with JKRâs original estimates of Dumbledoreâs age, heâs more than a hundred. Maybe he has some health complication due to years of stress and duels.Â
Whatâs tempting to me about this is that, while I dislike Snapeâs teaching style, I do have a lot of sympathy for Snape as a character and I think heâs a really good/fun character, and I think the idea of Albus Dumbledore posthumously dumping all his âI think Voldemort is still aliveâ suspicions on a largely unaware Snape hilarious. Like, Snape is something like 23? 24? 25? And suddenly Albus Dumbledore is dead (Minerva McGonagall is Headmistress of Hogwarts, obviously) and Voldemort might come back someday.Â
Note: Dumbledore didnât learn about horcruxes until COS when Harry dropped Tom Riddleâs diary on his desk. Dumbledore had suspicions about how Voldemort may have achieve semi-immortality before that, of course, but nothing was confirmed until Harry gave him a horcrux.Â
So, like, how does the series continue from there? Without Dumbledore, I sincerely doubt the Philosopherâs Stone would ever make its way to Hogwarts, so youâd need to come up with something else. The Chamber of Secrets opening could still happen and, in fact, could happen early if we put sufficient pressure on Lucius Malfoy for some reason or another. (Maybe politics are a little more openly aggressive without the influence of Albus Dumbledore?)Â
Personally, I like the idea of a positive Harry & Snape relationship in this AU, though I think it would also be plagued with angst and difficulties and sharp remarks (which is what makes it appealing to me!), if only because I like to imagine Snape actually developing a vaguely positive relationship with his dead best friendâs son, and then Harry drops the diary on a desk and Snape is forced to make the Parseltongue connection and thinks, âFUCK.â Â
Actually, Dumbledore getting killed or dying in any of the early books could be super interesting. Hmm. Iâm sorry, this isnât even remotely the AU you shared, but this is where my brain went. Thank you for sharing!Â
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Critically Underrateed Genre of Fanfic: fics where the Primary Antagonist of the series just fuckinâ dies, and everyone has to deal with the fallout of not having the Antagonist. How doesnât even matter- actually, the more senseless and absured the death the better. Fire Lord Ozai chokes on a tomato. Joker gets run over. Palpatine leans too far back in his chair and falls out his stupid aquarim window.
Then the fallout of thier unfulfilled plans and the space they took up happens to everyone around them and we get a nice look at everyoneâs inadiquacies and secrets that were being kept until after the menace was dealt with and whoâs going to see those unfinished opportunities and decide⌠why NOT them?
Nature abhorrs a vaccum, after all.
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While Iâm disagreeing with Lily Evans fanonâŚ
Iâm bothered by the tendency in fanfiction to give Lily a fiery temper for which she is notorious. Fanon!Lily will hex people for doing the slightest thing to upset her, and everyone knows this. Often, she throws punches and small objects at those who incur her legendary wrath. The Marauders live in fear of crossing her, for hell hath no fury like a Lily Evans Potter who has been mildly displeased.Â
So, um, guys, in canon⌠Lily doesnât actually do that.
Hermione sends attack birds after Ron. Mollyâs disapproving rage frightens her children and her husband. Ginny has a reputation for hexes. Maybe youâre thinking of one of them?
Hereâs what Lily does when faced with something that might or does make her angry:
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I read your tags on your Umbridge post and now I definitely want to read or write Umbridge being put on fire. That's an absolutely amazing idea.
Ron and Harry, every single Potions class since first-year: âHermione, when are you going to light Snape on fire again? You should do that again. That was good. Please, do that again. You did it once.âÂ
But, yeah, this is the relevant excerpt from that fic:Â
 âI didnât think that teachers were allowed to ask those sorts of questions of their students, professor,â Hermione interrupted, with a smile that looked rather painful.Â
 Umbridge offered her own smile, full of friendliness, only with an intense emptiness in the eyes. âI am an individual quickly becoming deeply concerned with the standards of moral integrity that have been allowed to persist here at Hogwarts, Miss Granger,â she said. âWhat sort of teacher would I be if I didnât worry for the well-being of my students? I think we can agree that prefects should be offering the school exemplary models of moral character!âÂ
 âUnfortunately, I think that itâs difficult for everyone to agree on what exactly constitutes exemplary moral character,â Hermione answered, without missing a beat, in her absolute best âteacherâs petâ voice.Â
 Harry wanted to whoop in support.Â
 Umbridgeâs smile seemed to twitch on her face. âPerhaps among students who donât know better, Miss Granger!â she trilled. âThank goodness that these sorts of decisions are made by experienced authorities, who know best how to guide rebellious children away from dangerous and irresponsible behaviors, back towards traditional values, so that they may eventually become upstanding citizens of good character.âÂ
 Harry very much got the sense that, somewhere in that sickly sweet word-vomit, he was being given immediate reason to grab Hermione by the wrist to prevent her from lunging across the desk to break Dolores Umbridgeâs nose. He quickly took Hermioneâs hand.Â
 Some part of him felt absurd for doing it. The rest of him scoffed at that, still brimming with rage at Umbridgeâs condescending everything, vindicated by the knowledge that it would not actually be the first time that Hermione Granger had attacked a teacher. Sometimes he forgot that Hermione had once lit Snape on fire in their first-year, sometimes he wished sheâd do it again to get them out of Potions classes, and right now he was convinced she was sooner-rather-than-later going to land herself in detention for lighting a second teacher on fire.
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âA clever plan..because if Harry here and his friend Ron hadnât discovered this book, whyâGinny Weasley might have taken all the blame. No one would ever have been able to prove she hadnât acted of her own free willâŚand imagineâŚwhat might have happened thenâŚThe Weasleys are one of our most prominent pure-blood families. Imagine the effect on Arthur Weasley and his Muggle Protection Act, if his own daughter was discovered attacking and killing Muggle-bornsâŚâ
It brings me SO MUCH joy that the plot of Chamber of Secrets basically happens because Lucius is terrified out of his mind of Arthur and Molly Weasley and their SEVeN kids who were all raised to hold the line in case anyone tried to start a genocidal regime again. They are so powerful and so dangerous to any attempted rise to power from the Death Eaters, and Lucius feels the need to try and marginalize and demonize them in order to decrease the threat they pose.
And boy was he right to be concerned, they areâŚunstoppable. Each and every one of them. You thought it was impressive that it took five Death Eaters to kill their uncles? Try having a couple Weasleys illegally on the airwaves, one destroying Voldemortâs Horcruxes, one protesting at Hogwarts, one running loose in the government, one housing escaped prisoners, and one getting foreign support!! More children than they can afford? Try more children than you can effectively stop!!
And then when they ALL show up to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts? What a trip for Lucius Malfoy! Hey bigots! Would you like to pick an opponent based on which Quidditch position they excel at, or do you wanna roll the dice and go with one of the brothers who got 12 OWLs? Those are your only two options because Weasleys are EVERYWHERE and the weak link is NO ONE. The fear that must have been in his heart when one or two of them was around every corner of the school taking down his DE palsâŚis so amazing to think about. Glorious. Iconic. Every Weasley has red hair, freckles, and a drive to destroy the concept of blood purity at all cost!!
The Weasleys are not always nice or right, but they are GOOD and they believe in standing up for what is good, and when evil is around they SHOW UP to fight it. No questions asked. And evil is so scared of them, so worried about what they can do, that it resorts to desperately weaponizing a little girl to try and stop them.
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Werewolf McWerewolf
So I know weâre always complaining about Lupin and how itâs ridikulus for someone not born a werewolf to be named freaking âGuy-raised-by-wolf John Wolf-likeâ but, like, thereâs a simple explanation no one ever talks about.Â
Itâs a freaking assumed name.
Think about it. Remus was a little kid when he got attacked. It would have been all over the papers at the time. Itâs in the papers later when another kid gets attacked by Greyback in HBP. So it would ruin everything if Lupin turned up at Hogwarts his first year only to have some wizard-born prat (*cough cough Snape*) say âLupin? I know that name from somewhereâ and go looking through old Daily Prophets.Â
Dumbledore was probably like âWhy donât you pick a new name?â and this little shit future Marauder went âHmm, Iâll go for something subtle.â
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tbh the only evidence i need that harryâs a gryffindor is the fact that he kept going back to the forbidden forest after voldemort tried to kill him, aragog tried to eat him, lupin turned into a wolf and attacked him, the dementors tried to kiss him, barty crouch was murdered and turned into a bone, umbridge was kidnapped by centaurs,, boy had to die in that forest before he stopped going back
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Hey, LK! I was thinking about fic ideas earlier (I desperately want to write about something), and thought about a Sirius and Remus role reversal (kind of). Remus gets to Petigrew first and ends up in Azkaban. What do you think would change?
Ohh, thatâs an interesting concept! Okay, uh, top of my mind: lots of things would change, but first thing to figure out is probably how exactly that happened.Â
Because A) James and Sirius were incredibly close, such that James trusted Siriusâ plan to make Peter the Secret-Keeper and have Sirius play decoy...
B) Sirius and Remus actually suspected each other (I think this is pretty much explicitly said in POA), so Remus was kept far out of the Secret-Keeper loop and probably didnât know where exactly Peter was hiding...
and C) James, Sirius, Lily, Remus, Dumbledore, and basically the entire Order of the Phoenix had no clue that Peter was a spy/traitor until too late. Even Dumbledore hadnât been told that Peter was the true Secret-Keeper. Everyone thought that it only could have been Sirius who betrayed them.Â
SO, Iâm assuming that something like this happened: Remus intercepts Sirius before Sirius can go after Peter. Sirius tells Remus about his failed decoy plan and Peterâs betrayal. Remus also starts hunting for Peter, but he and Sirius either split up to cover more ground, or Sirius decides to look after Harry instead. If Sirius gives up the hunt and leaves it to Remus, either Remus convinces Sirius to protect Harry or Sirius realizes that all of Voldemortâs followers (who are still loose) will want revenge. (We know that very shortly the Lestranges will attack the Longbottoms for information.)Â
Ultimately: Remus finds Peter first. Peter Pettigrew is, unfortunately, a clever and capable bastard sometimes, so itâs possible that he could frame Remus for his murder like he did Sirius (itâs possible that he planned this escape in case he was discovered). If you want Peter dead, then maybe Remus does kill Peter (because Remus was straight-up cool with Siriusâ plans to murder Peter in the 3rd book, and itâs Harry who stops them). However, Peter still somehow manages to frame Remus as the bad guy, OR someone takes this opportunity to persecute Remus for being a werewolf (though Remus being a werewolf apparently wasnât public knowledge until POA).Â
Sirius would try to help Remus (unless he was in hiding with Harry from the Lestranges or something), but if it came out during Remusâ trial that he was a werewolf, it would definitely not help his case. Sirius is a disowned, rebellious 22yo bloodtraitor; he would not have that much strength or leverage against a Ministry determined to prosecute. I donât remember anything in particular about Crouch being prejudiced against werewolves, but I think that can be assumed of almost any ambitious Ministry official.Â
(If you want Sirius not to know that Peter is the real traitor, like how in canon Remus didnât know Peter was the real traitor, you are gonna have to do some more significant bending/alteration of canon from the beginning.)Â
What does this change? Â
A) Harry is probably raised by Sirius or raised with Sirius in his life. Given that Sirius has lost all his found family (all the Potters are dead) and the only blood family he has left sucks, I have difficulty imagining that Sirius would give Harry up, especially not when he realizes how much the Dursleys suck.Â
B) Peter Pettigrew could be dead, depending on whether or not you actually want Remus to murder him. Which means that Scabbers never goes to the Weasleys and Remus will need a different motivation for breaking out of Azkaban, if you have him break out of Azkaban.Â
This also means that, if the plot is otherwise not too interrupted, then Voldemort will need someone else to care for him during GOF. Itâs Peter who kidnaps Bertha Jorkins, who tells them about Barty Crouch Junior, which leads to Barty being freed. Either Barty needs a different way to be freed OR you could have Barty never go to Azkaban in the first place (not being caught or outed as a Death Eater), but instead be loyally looking for Voldemort all the while.Â
C) Remus will need to be released from Azkaban for serving out his sentence (possible, I think, if itâs known that Peter is a traitor) OR heâll need to break out of Azkaban a different way. Sirius escaped using his Animagus transformation. You could claim that Azkaban wasnât built to contain werewolves (though the Ministry would try to account for that, maybe their construction wasnât up to par or something)? Or you could have Remus break out of Azkaban alongside the Death Eaters when/if Voldemort breaks them out? Lots of options.Â
Or you could have Sirius Black break his best friend out of Azkaban. If Sirius is forcibly kept away from Harry for whatever reason, I could see him being reckless enough to run an Azkaban prison break.Â
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Okay, yeah, thatâs everything off the top of my head, more or less. Itâs a fun canon divergence! I love coming up with canon divergent ways to make interesting role reversals seem plausible.Â
Details of anything are going to depend on your plot and what you want to accomplish. If youâre not into plotty longfic, you could totally just write a short one-shot of a scene in this potential alternate universe, and leave it there. Say: Sirius visiting Privet Drive for one of his scheduled visits with Harry (much to the Dursleysâ unhappiness), trying to explain to Harry about Remusâ recent breakout from Azkaban and the whole story behind that.Â
In my experience, HP fans know so much about canon as it stands, that you really donât have to give them an extended exposition introduction to an AU. You can just jump right into the middle of the story, drop some clues, and theyâll puzzle everything out based on their absurd amount of knowledge of HP. Maybe explain things in your Authorâs End Notes so readers know they guessed right, if you leave the story as âAmbiguous/Open Endingâ? Â
Happy writing! Hope you find an idea that you enjoy!
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From an inner pocket of his robes Moody pulled a very tattered old wizarding photograph.
âOriginal Order of the Phoenix,â growled Moody. âFound it last night⌠thought people might like to see it.â
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Flirting with the ace spectrum myself, I am thrilled that you hc Sirius as ace. It fits so well, and I really enjoy how you portray his relationship with James and Lily in fdith (especially Lily!). There is so little ace rep for characters that are attractive and considered rebellious as well.
Thanks! Yeah! I like it as a headcanon! (Folks, you remember that a headcanon means personal fanon, right? Itâs not a competition.) Most of my reasoning is âIâm ace and I like himâ, but imo pretty much all canonical âevidenceâ (if we needed things like that) that heâs gay could also put him on the ace spectrum. He could be hcâd as ace or demi and gay.
And yeah, tbh, a small part of it is spite. Iâm really not a fan of most of the other HP ace character headcanons that Iâve seen.
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Reasoning:
- His friends (and Harry) were always the most important people in his life. Like, yes, he loved James most, but he very much loved Peter and Remus as well.
- Granted, thereâs a lot getting in Siriusâ way in terms of a relationship: an abusive family, a war, 12 years of Azkaban, and then the rest of his life is spent on the run. But also the books are incredibly heteronormative and, to my knowledge, thereâs no mention of Sirius ever being in a romantic relationship or ever wanting to be in a romantic relationship.
- Being traumatized can be separate from him being ace.Â
- The pictures of Muggle girls in bikinis permanently stuck to his bedroom wall sounds super performative, aimed at ticking off his parents. So, like, baby gay ace Sirius being like, âThe fuck do other teenage boys find sexy? Scantly clad women? Fuck yeah, deal with this in your shitty house forever.â
- Being ace doesnât mean someone canât give relationship advice. Ace people have relationships with other human beings too.
- I do enjoy Sirius/Remus as a ship (and Sirius/Remus will probably be a thing eventually in FDitH). Ace!Sirius doesnât actually get in the way of shipping Sirius/Remus at all! The ace and aro spectrums are incredibly diverse, and there are lots of different ways to have ace and aro relationships. (Ace people can choose to have sex for a variety of reasons.)
- Heâs canonically super good-looking, so this is a fuck-you to anyone who confuses asexuality with an inability to find a partner, or finds an attractive fictional characterâs inability to reciprocate sexual attraction makes them in any way âlesserâ. This falls under the âIâm ace and I like himâ category.
Other HP Characters Iâve seen HCâd as ace:
Luna Lovegood -> You do you, totally, but sheâs also like the one character who is definitely not neurotypical. So like... I feel like this is a headcanon to be careful with (see: confusing asexuality & neurodivergence with âinnocenceâ).
Neville Longbottom -> You do you, again; I donât really have strong feelings about this one. Plenty of evidence, in that Nevilleâs romantic experiences (Ginny) end in friendships and he doesnât seem too concerned about dating, but I feel like itâs something to handle carefully in tandem with his fatness and initial lack of confidence.
Charlie Weasley -> I like this one just fine! People who hc Charlie as gay point out that moving several countries away from an overbearing family is a very queer move, which is fair; but Iâd counter that imo I think Molly is more likely to be freaked out by the idea of Charlie never getting married than she is to be freaked out by him marrying a man. So he could also be ace.
Charlie could intend to stay single and/or childfree forever, actually, no matter his sexuality. I think Charlie intending on being childfree would freak Molly out more than him âliving in sinâ with someone of any gender. So, tbh, most importantly I hc Charlie as intending on being childfree.
Peter Pettigrew -> Donât like this one at all. Feels like this is an excuse to ship James/Lily and Sirius/Remus without feeling bad that Peter doesnât have anyone. Also feels like this stems out of him being the âunattractiveâ Marauder bc heâs canonically fat and plain-looking.
(Look deep into your heart and try to tell me that Peter wouldnât be treated very differently by some parts of fandom if he was canonically good-looking, or even if he was thin and there was room to interpret him as good-looking.)
Horace Slughorn -> I like this one, actually. Could just be that Slughorn (like all other Hogwarts teachers) keeps his love life far away from school, but he seems to find his thriving platonic social life extremely fulfilling. Given the whole Albus Dumbledore mess, the idea of Slughorn being a closeted or lonely gay man makes me sad, so I prefer to think of him as very happily single regardless of his sexuality.
(Horace Slughorn having a secret, exasperated husband or wife somewhere, however, would be extremely funny. Unlikely, imo, but very funny.)
Voldemort -> I feel like this is just because people are grossed out by the idea of him having sex. Just because heâs an asshole, it doesnât automatically make him aro or ace (love potion babies being incapable of love isnât official, immovable canon and even if it was, it smacks of punishing innocent people born due to non-con/rape, which imo is very gross).
Imo (even outside of the Cursed Child making Bella/Voldemort a thing), Voldemort being heterosexual makes perfect sense. The guy was misogynistic (can be inferred by his overall behaviour) and had no qualms about using/manipulating women (see Hepzibah Smith and Helena Ravenclaw), so unfortunately itâs not unreasonable that heâs had sex. Why not? Like, Tom âfurther down the path of immortality than anyone elseâ Riddle? You think this self-centred asshole wouldnât have fucked-up evil ritual sex for kicks? Or just to try it out? (Though obviously ace people can still participate in sex for a variety of reasons.)
Sorry, I didnât intend for this to be a âVoldemort fucksâ argument, but also: donât headcanon characters as aro or ace just bc the idea of them fucking grosses you out. (I am not saying you are obligated to imagine it, obviously.) And donât headcanon characters as aro or ace just bc the idea of them experiencing sexual or romantic attraction grosses you out.Â
That Voldemort didnât intend to have heirs (or get married) because he intended on living forever is a different issue - you know, the âhim generally being an asshole who honestly disdains all other peopleâ one. (I feel like it should be clear here that I am not implying being childfree makes you an asshole. Being childfree is a valid life choice that makes no inherent statements on oneâs morality or compassion.) If Cursed-Child!Voldemort actually knew about Delphi and had her on purpose, then I definitely do not headcanon that it was for good reason or would have treated Delphi well.
BETTER EXPLANATION of my feelings on Aro-Ace!Voldemort here:
https://lullabyknell.tumblr.com/post/626637391058370560/i-think-voldemort-definitely-fucked-but-that
Anyway!
Ace Sirius Black! Because tbh, why not?
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i think voldemort definitely fucked, but that doesn't mean he couldn't be ace/aro - because it's about the lack of attraction, so he still could have had sex but felt nothing towards the ppl he did it with. a number of ace ppl have sex for various reasons, so it doesn't really disqualify him from being ace
I know how aromanticism and asexuality work. No offence (and no hard feelings, donât worry about it), but I am asexual, so please donât come into my askbox telling me how the ace spectrum works.
My stance on Tom Riddle generally, however, is that âif you donât have any other aro/ace headcanons, then fuck off on calling Voldemort aro/aceâ. I will admit that my previous statements were more specifically levelled at the people who want to use asexuality in place of abstinence, so this wasnât clear, but I actually have a problem with this alternative interpretation of Voldemort too.
Oh, gosh, this got sorta long. Okay, Iâm just going to full-on complain about all my issues with calling Tom Riddle aromantic or asexual or both. (Obviously, your headcanon is not my headcanon, YMMV obvs, but hereâs why Iâve got beef with it:)
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Iâm gonna copy-paste what I said about not liking the headcanon Ace!Voldemort in the last post for reference and context.
Voldemort -> I feel like this is just because people are grossed out by the idea of him having sex. Cowards. Just because heâs an asshole, it doesnât automatically make him aro or ace (love potion babies being incapable of love isnât official, immovable canon and even if it was, it smacks of punishing innocent people born due to non-con/rape, which imo is very gross).
Imo (even outside of the Cursed Child making Bella/Voldemort a thing), Voldemort being heterosexual makes sense. The guy was misogynistic (can be inferred by his overall behaviour) and had no qualms about using/manipulating women (see Hepzibah Smith and Helena Ravenclaw), so unfortunately itâs not unreasonable that heâs had sex. Why not? Like, Tom âfurther down the path of immortality than anyone elseâ Riddle? You think this self-centred asshole wouldnât have fucked-up evil ritual sex for kicks? Or just to try it out?
Sorry, I didnât intend for this to be a âVoldemort fucksâ argument, but also: donât headcanon characters as aro or ace just bc the idea of them fucking grosses you out. (I am not saying you are obligated to imagine it, obviously.) Donât headcanon characters as aro or ace just bc the idea of them experiencing sexual or romantic attraction grosses you out.
That Voldemort didnât intend to have heirs (or get married) because he intended on living forever is a different issue - you know, the âhim generally being an asshole who honestly disdains all other peopleâ one. (I feel like it should be clear here that I am not implying being childfree makes you an asshole. Being childfree is a valid life choice that makes no inherent statements on oneâs morality or compassion.) If Cursed-Child!Voldemort actually knew about Delphi and had her on purpose, then I definitely do not headcanon that it was for good reason or would have treated Delphi well.
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I will try to be clearer this time. Anon, I promise that Iâm not trying to lecture you (as I assume you were not trying to lecture me), and you may know all of this already, but I want my thoughts on this to be very clear.
Sorry, Aro-Ace!Voldemort just really annoys me personally because I feel like people are 1) slapping the label on him because theyâre uncomfortable with the idea of Voldemort having sex (valid, but asexuality =/= abstinence);*
2) are uncomfortable with the idea of Voldemort having anything resembling sexual or romantic feelings at all, which ignores the fact that Voldemort was a human being, and imo implies Voldemort was âtoo corruptâ or âtoo selfishâ or âtoo evilâ to experience any form of ârealâ attraction (as though abusers and toxic people are somehow removed from these experiences);Â
and 3) because people want to make any potential interaction Voldemort had specially âselfishâ and âself-centredâ and âunnaturalâ by saying he felt nothing whatsoever for his partners.Â
*(The conflation of asexuality with abstinence is the first step of âkinda thoughtless ace repâ that I often see, so itâs what I focused on earlier.)
I definitely donât think that Voldemort loved any potential partners he might have had (because heâs an asshole), but I think the desire to remove anything resembling sexual or romantic attraction from the equation completely is weird, uncomfortable, and should be examined.
Because I think for a lot of people (not everyone, obviously), this stems from an unconscious desire to equate a lack of sexual and/or romantic attraction with âthe Otherâ.
Other:
verb gerund or present participle: othering
  view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself.
Asexuality and Aromanticism are linked with the concept of âthe otherâ in literature a lot. Youâll also see this with non-binary gender or agender representation. The concept of âthe otherâ is something extremely real in terms of all forms of prejudice (ex: homophobia, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, sexism, and so on) out in the real world, and so it inevitably comes through in all forms of literature and other media.
It comes up a lot in Fantasy and Sci-Fi media.
Aromantic-Asexual characters or characters who are functionally aromantic or asexual are often non-human, such as: high elves or angels (who are somehow âaboveâ the âearthly experienceâ of sexual intercourse), robots and other artificial beings (who are often depicted as being incapable of the âquintessentialâ human experiences of love and sex), and aliens (who may be âtoo practicalâ for sexual intercourse for pleasure or something).Â
Sometimes, characters who are functionally (almost never explicitly) aromantic or asexual are human, but theyâre often simultaneously depicted as being 1) too âbusyâ for sex or love (again, asexuality =/= abstinence), 2) almost certainly neurodivergent (which goes back to âthe otherâ), 3) too traumatized to engage in a romantic or sexual relationship (asexuality is not caused by trauma), or 4) too selfish, abusive, or toxic for romantic or sexual relationships.
Too âevilâ for affection or sex.
(And, of course, explicitly asexual relationships, the wide variety of them that exist, some of which may in fact include sex for fun or intimacy, are almost never explored in mainstream media.)
When youâre aro-ace, it can get aggravating very quickly to have the closest thing to your experiences constantly assigned to non-humans, monsters, villains, and the general âotherâ. If there were more positive aro-ace human characters depicted, Iâd probably be less pissed off about this, but without positive explicitly aro-ace human characters to balance this out, in most mainstream media: a refusal or an inability to participate in romantic or sexual relationships is most often a sign that there is something wrong with you. Something broken or monstrous or inhuman.
Which is obviously not true. But itâs still annoying.
So, right, a lot of my aggression due to a lack of aro-ace representation or the failings of aro-ace representation in general comes crashes out at the concept of Aromantic and/or Asexual Tom Riddle.
Because I do not think that most of the people using those terms for Voldemort have bothered to think about the history of missing romantic or sexual attraction being equated with inhumanity. If youâve ever scoffed at the phrase âsex is what makes us humanâ, good for you, but lots of people out there in the world genuinely seem to believe it.
And I think the concept that romantic or sexual attraction is âall goodâ or ânot there at allâ is dangerous. I think it does a disservice to the past and present of abuse, toxicity, and harm that can be wrapped up in human relationships and feelings. Which, let me be clear, is not me attempting to equate romantic or sexual attraction with something inherently dirty or corrupt or bad. Absolutely not. Platonic relationships (friendships, mentorships, family relationships) can be full of just as much abuse, toxicity, and harm.
Human beings can be attracted to ideas that are unhealthy, unsafe, and sometimes unkind. (Which is not me kink-shaming people or anything. Iâm talking about all forms of relationships, and Iâm just saying that sometimes I think important boundaries are consciously or unconsciously crossed in pursuit of relationships/dynamics that initially seem appealing. And sometimes thatâs an honest mistake and sometimes the situation is bad.)
Sexual intercourse is (obviously) not divided into âallosexual and purely selfless, focused on your partnerâ and âasexual and selfish, focused on your own pleasureâ, which tbh kinda feels what âVoldemort fucks, but not because he experiences sexual attraction or actually likes anyoneâ implies.
Voldemort feeling no real love for any sexual partners he might have had is actually entirely separate to Voldemort feeling no sexual attraction for them. I feel like the two points are often confused.
In fact, Voldemort feeling no real love for any sexual partners he might have had doesnât actually disqualify him from having affection for his sexual partners either. Maybe he actually liked them. If we take Cursed Child as canon, Iâd argue that he always seemed somewhat fond of Bellatrix.
This is gonna sound absolutely wild to some people, but I personally donât believe Voldemort was incapable of affection or love. And, in fact, I think he did feel affection towards some people and creatures in his life.
Most notably: I think he felt affection (non-sexual and non-romantic) for Nagini (who was not a person, get that extremely racist Fantastic Beasts bullshit out of here). Granted, I think Voldemort cared about this animal mostly because 1) she was an animal and he had complete control over her, so she was loyal and never a threat, and 2) he put a piece of his soul into her and sometimes had an open connection with her.
But in general I think that a young Tom Riddle had people in his life he sincerely considered friends. He liked them. I think he was quite fond of many of his Death Eaters over the years. Itâs just that he was a murderous, power-hungry asshole who liked torture, so he had no problem in hurting the people around him and showing them âtheir placeâ. You know, how abusive people are like, âWe wonât have a problem getting along, so long as you show me the proper amount of deference and respect, right? Otherwise, any consequences of you acting out will be your fault.â**
**(Please note this is not me saying that âthe abusive people in your life actually did love youâ. I am not saying that. Fuck those people. I just think that itâs kind of dangerous to imagine that a lack of empathy means someone is destined to hurt people, or to imagine that having empathy means you canât hurt people. I think repeatedly categorizing âan inability to traditionally connect with peopleâ as a bad thing in media is potentially hurtful towards many different communities, including but not limited to: the ace spectrum, neurodivergent people, and disabled people.)
I think Tom Riddle might even have been fascinated by the concept of romance as something âenthralling and breathtaking and powerfulâ. I think he may have met people who fascinated him, whom he found âattractiveâ in various ways, but rejected anything resembling an equal or balanced relationship. He just didnât and wouldnât want anyone else to have any power over him. Aromanticism & Asexuality =/= just being an asshole.
Yes, I do think Voldemort could have and would have had interactions purely from a hedonistic standpoint or an âevil ritualâ standpoint, if you choose to believe he never experienced sexual attraction.Â
But I still have to ask, âWhatâs the reasoning behind insisting that there was something âmissingâ in Voldemortâs interactions with other people, besides a choice to be unkind? Why is there a need to distance him from any sexual relationships he may have had, by removing the element of sexual or romantic attraction? Why do these labels have to be put on, of all the characters here, the main villain?â
If youâre like, âI think Voldemortâs second body was a bit fucked up and left him unable to have sex at all (or otherwise impacted his ability to feel sexually aroused in general).â Cool! Fine! Thatâs not asexuality.
If youâre like, âI think Voldemortâs engagement with fucked-up magical rituals with his first body impacted him similarly to above.â Also cool! Physical consequences for magic is neat! Thatâs also not asexuality.
If youâre like, âI specifically think it was the horcruxes that messed him up!â Tbh, I think thatâs kinda weird and I donât like that, because thatâs his soul, which implies that romantic and sexual attraction is a vital part of the human soul. Which gets into âsex is what makes us humanâ territory, imo.Â
If youâre like, âLK, I just straight-up do not want to think about Voldemort fucking or wanting to fuck.â Valid! (Why the fuck did you read this post, though.) Donât just call a character asexual because you donât want to think about them fucking or wanting to fuck, though. Thatâs not asexuality.***
***(If youâre a sex-repulsed ace, thatâs valid, though. If youâre not ace, please donât just unthinkingly slap âasexualâ on everything that squicks you out.)
If youâre like, âLK, I see your points, but Iâm still going to personally headcanon Voldemort as asexual.â
Iâm gonna be like, âYour headcanon is not my headcanon, so I understand. Thank you for listening and for understanding why I personally have issues with marking Voldemort, who through his many actions represents a âvillanous otherâ, as asexual or aromantic. However, I will judge you a little bit if you do not support (not hold, just allow) other interpretations of Voldemort or asexual headcanons of other HP characters.â
If youâre like, âLK, why the hell do you give such a shit about Voldemort like this?â Iâm gonna be like, âHow the hell did you get this far into the post and not get that this is not just about Harry Potter?â
So, yeah, alright, I think thatâs most of my beef with Aro-Ace!Voldemort as a hc.
I just donât like it. YMMV.
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A single-player FPS where you start with your weapons and ammo maxed out, but there are no pickups or loot drops, so you have to make your initial inventory last for the entire game.
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A suggestion for non-Indigenous neopagans: The Norse fylgja (plural fylgjur) is a concept that suits the way white people tend to talk about spirit animals, but without all the yoinking and stomping on closed cultures.
The fylgja is a spirit that follows and protects an individual from the time of their birth and can take the form of an animal. In those cases, the form it assumes is typically representational of a personâs own spirit, but it can also appear as a human as well, though that can have slightly different implications about the nature of the thing. Keep in mind, though, that seeing oneâs own fylgja is said to be an omen that a personâs death is near.
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Literally none of my story ideas come with a plot, ever. WITHOUT FAIL, itâs always just an Aesthetic, like two and a half characters, some very, very vivid settings, and a weird concept. Never plot. Not even an inkling of a plot. My brain tosses me this cool stuff and is like welp iâll be back in 4-5 business monthsÂ
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My gender is uh, um, hmm, ah, itâs uh, uhhhmmm, my gender, itâs like, um, genderâs like, itâs my, yâknow, uh
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i feel like tumblr would really benefit using tone indicators. a lot of people may use them, but i havent seen a lot of it! as a neurodivergent, it helps us understand the tone of what youâre saying. sometimes itâs hard to tell whether youâre actually mad, or itâs just lighthearted, or if youâre being sarcastic!
hereâs a chart of tone indicators if youâre interested in using them:
also: please do not use any of these as a joke. do not put /srs if you are not being serious. these tone indicators are supposed to be helping neurodivergents and neurotypicals alike.
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I had a dream where I had a bunch of cats and there was this little kitten running around loose in the building. I was really concerned it was going to get hurt so I kept trying to catch it. For some reason it didnât really occur to me that it was pretty weird that the kitten had a human hand for a body and second head.
Also this is what I imagine picking it up would be like:
And as a bonus, another weird cat I dreamed about once:
This little fucker was some real nightmare material. Spotted it in the woods and ran away from it till I woke up. However that was years ago so now Iâve decided its name is Half-n-Half and its a little bastard man of ill luck.
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