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Why did Harry use only Expelliarmus on Voldemort but Sectumsempra on Draco? Also, if Expelliarmus was Harry's go to spell why use Sectumsempra when he could use it against Draco's Crucio?

Harry fights Draco really differently than he fights everyone else.

So okay. Normally when he fights, Harry's go-to spells are:

Impedimenta (slow down)

Petrificus Totalus (paralyze)

Stupefy (knock out)

Expelliarmus (disarm)

Which means his strategy is get away from/incapacitate his opponent as quickly as possible and that's IT. Harry is not a flashy or creative fighter the way Dumbledore, Voldemort, and heck even side characters like Percy are. Which makes perfect sense. Fighting has never been a game for Harry. It's never been abstract. He'll do all these badass things but when he talks about fighting (like we see during the DA segments) he's not thinking about it like it's something interesting or cool. He's picturing going up against a more powerful opponent, probably while injured and scared. And what's the best thing to have in that situation? Four useful, all-purpose spells that you've practiced enough times that you don't have to think about them anymore.

Zachariah Smith gives Harry a hard time for relying on spell as "basic" as expelliarmus, which tells us that in-universe, Harry's stripped-down dueling style might be considered kind of plain or boring. But Harry's a very effective duelist, probably because he is so practical. He doesn't care about showing off, looking powerful, or intimidating his opponents.

... except when he's fighting specifically Draco.

When he's fighting DRACO MALFOY, Harry brings out the fun spells:

Rictusempra (tickling)

Furnunculus (boils)

Leg-Locker jinx

Levicorpus (levitate by ankle)

Toenail-growing hex

And also Sectumsempra, which he THINKS is going to be another embarrassing/fun spell, because levicorpus and the tonail-growing hex also came out of the Half-Blood Prince's textbook, and Harry thinks this third spell is going to be another one like that.

So my conclusion is that Harry just kind of... uniquely enjoys fighting with Draco. He's not trying to end the encounter as fast as possible, there probably is some element where he wants to show off, hit Draco with something new or something clever. Harry and Draco have a dynamic where it's *fun* to one-up/get the upper hand over each other, and duels are perfect for that.

To me this is a very natural extension of Harry's "lets plot hypothetical ways to get Malfoy expelled" (which he does with Ron, for fun) and "lets try to figure out what Suspicious Thing Malfoy is up to now" (one of Harry's very favorite past times.) So long story short - when Harry fights Draco, he fights like a teenager. When he fights anyone else, he fights like an auror.

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Based of this post by @xx-thedarklord-xx !! The idea of prof draco marking scorpius’s work is too cute!! I had to doodle my rendition of it 😭

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I adore your long suffering Pansy. How long can she stand her very intelligent, yet very dumb best friend before screaming "just kiss already!"?

I feel for her :’)

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Stop dragging her into this Draco.

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based off that one bob's burgers scene

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i’ve been thinking about them and this tik tok trend for a while but then i had a convo with rosie and i had to draw this

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Ahhh it’s been so long sorry guys!

But I’m back and yes - you are correct I’ll try my best to post a comic oder sketch or something everyday for inktober ✨🐝

Since this is the comic for the first day and we’re already out of schedule I can imagine this taking longer than Oktober :‘) I’m really giving it my best

So enjoy lovelies ♥️✨🐝

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Oh guys this’ll take so much longer than I anticipated 😂😂

Part 1 of „suit“ - day 2 of inktober!

Be ready for dinner with the Malfoys

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My lovely boys

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he’s horrified and have no idea she just loved him even more. Just a fun and chaotic date in a big city.

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I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school. 

And sometimes I think, “Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred.” And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good. 

And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don’t feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I’ve rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways. 

Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it’s much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.

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This isnt a joke my favorite piece of writing advice that I’ve ever seen is someone that said if you were stuck with a fic and couldn’t figure out why or what was wrong, your problem is actually usually about ten sentences back. Maybe there was something wonky about the tone or the dialogue or you added something that didn’t fit but it’s usually ten sentences back. And every single time I get stuck in a fic I count back ten sentences and it’s always fucking there

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malfoy (read in harry's voice, derogatory)

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You’re remus lupin and you’ve spent 13 years shunned by the world due to being allegorically HIV positive. Also you think all of your friends are dead and your ex boyfriend is in jail for having been secretly a nazi the whole time you were dating. Then a reckless old man gives you a teaching job and you’re kind of nervous cause you’re gonna have to face your dead friends’ orphan son whom you never once reached out to all these years. It’s ok you’re gonna take a stress nap about it on the train. And when you wake up the police are there looking for your nazi ex boyfriend and the aforementioned orphan is convulsing on the floor

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hi swymmmm you’re literally one my my absolute favorite artists!! if you have the time or the inspiration... I was wondering if you’d draw a domestic little bathtub scene with drarry!! bubbles and soapy hair and the works!! love you!! ❤️❤️

swiss!! tysm :] that’s really kind of you to say💗💗

ngl the perspective in this drawing is super wack but i like harry’s soapy head 🤲🏼

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[R: I’ve tell that you’re bloody brilliant before? ✨ Because you are!

Hr: *turns into pink* More than thousand times, Ron… 💗 ]