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Snippet from entwined, my tomarry ballad of songbirds and snakes au on ao3:
Mayor Aberforth drew a name from the bowl, which was rubbish since he already knew the capitol picked their players. They didn't want to leave anything up to chance, even something as simple as a slaughter (but, well, it wasn't so simple this year, was it?)
“Hermione Granger,” the mayor announced.
A girl with dark hair as big and frizzy as Tom had ever seen it squared her shoulders and marched up the stage, her “Sunday best” having clearly seen better days. The dress was worn and dirty in many places, the flowery pattern—either lavender or lilac—faded to look almost grey.
She stood like a soldier prepared for war, but there was nothing else remarkable about her.
“Lucretia Black, the girl is yours,” Slughorn announced.
Well, perhaps they could suffer together. The last tribute was his, after all.
“Harry Potter,” Aberforth called.
The camera was pointed at a young man, hair wild and dark like an untamed forest. His eyes were startlingly green beneath a pair of glasses that were both too big for him and had clearly seen better days. His skin was warm, dark and tan, freckles prominent enough to count through the screen.
There was a stubborn set to his jaw that Tom knew reflected in himself, a determined hardness to his eyes that gave him pause.
The boy didn't move towards the stage quite yet. The air felt charged around him, tense and waiting for his next move. He radiated confidence and an air of sophistication that didn't match his appearance; he looked even less presentable than the girl, shirt untucked and sleeves rolled up to his elbows.
Finally, Harry—was that really his full name? What kind of parents did he have?—shouldered his way through the crowd, people parting for him like he was some sort of celebrity.
A large, pudgy boy snorted as Harry approached, face full of smug satisfaction. He seemed to be saying something, but the broadcast didn’t pick it up. Tom watched Harry walk up to the boy, pause for a brief moment before continuing on. A flash of movement so fast Tom wasn’t entirely sure what happened.
Then pandemonium erupted.
The boy started flailing and screaming, his smug expression morphing into one of terror as he clawed at his clothes like he was itching like crazy. “GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! MUM! MUM!”
“It’s not poisonous,” Harry called without even looking back as he strode up to the dais while Aurors swarmed the still-screaming boy and Tom finally realised what Harry had done when one of the Aurors pulled a snake from the back of the boy’s shirt.
He dumped a snake down his shirt, and continued walking as if he’d done nothing.
Gasps erupted throughout the room, students whispering to each other and shooting Tom a few glances, the looks ranging from pity to contempt.
“Did you see that?”
“Was that a snake?”
“Did he kill him?”
Tom may have been slightly impressed, but he shoved that feeling down. He didn't care if the boy could walk on water, he wasn't going to ogle him like the rest of his district was doing. Like a handful of the other mentors were doing.
“He's all yours, Tom Riddle,” Slughorn smiled.
Jaw clenched so tight he was shocked he didn't crack a molar, Tom nodded. He didn't take his eyes off the screen as Harry stood proud on the stage, hands shoved in his pockets like this happened every day, as if the Reaping was beneath him. Then he turned his sharp gaze back to the still-shaking boy and two people fluttering around him that had to be his parents.
“Tom?” Alphard murmured under his breath.
He didn't reply, just sent him a scathing look before turning back towards the screen, his tribute—and oh how he liked the sound of that—now standing on the stage on the opposite side as the girl, her name inconsequential to Tom.
Unlike the upper districts, no one even attempted to look happy.
Harry tilted his chin up, eyes defiantly staring up at the screen, and for a moment, Tom felt those eyes pierce his very soul. He scanned the entire crowd, Aurors included and shouted, “You can kiss my ass!”
Then the Aurors grabbed the tributes and hauled them away as the camera started to turn away. The girl looked undignified and scattered, but the boy looked above it all, somehow regal even as he was dragged away by a uniformed man.
The cameras went dark before flashing the signal of the capitol, Grindelwald’s symbol of power; a triangle with a line through it and a small circle in the centre.
Slughorn clapped his hands together, turning towards the students. “I hope everyone was paying attention, because we will not be going over this again. The tributes are due to arrive tomorrow. Good luck students,” Slughorn said, and he sounded inanely sincere. “And may the odds be in your favour.”
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@profoundmakerdreamerss-blog apparently guy 1 really misses their sleeping together 😭🥺 and also bcs guy 2 used to phone his gf and theyd jerk off to that he misses that too 💀
theyre still work buddies they just dont fuck anymore :(
researching homoeroticism for a fic im writing and I went down a quora rabbithole and omg there are so many ppl who had gay experiences and just?? moved on??
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TROPHY HUSBAND HARRY POTTER EVERYONE 👏
#I want to eat him up he looks so yummy#fuck hes so cute in this#harry potter#harrymort#the reverse corset style waistcoat?? plss <33
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Hello everyone! I forgot I had a tumblr for a moment. Oh well. Here’s an artwork I did of my little AU. :)
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what was dumbledoes plan if he hadnt gotten cursed by the ring in book 6
Hi!
It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to answer this ask, because, well, I really can't say for certain. The plan he executed throughout books 6 and 7 was due to his imminent death. Everything about what Dumbledore orchestrated for the final two books was built upon the knowledge he wasn't going to see the end of the war.
But, I'll take a stab at this, what do I think Dumbledore's original plan was pre-cursed ring.
So, Dumbledore isn't dying after getting the ring, great, it means he can continue to collect memories about Tom Riddle and search for the other Horcruxes on his own. This is what he does in HBP and seems to always have been the plan. For him to destroy all the Horcruxes, leaving Harry for last.
I think Snape would still be the Potions teacher in 6th year and there would be a different DADA teacher. Moving Snape to the DADA position and getting Slughirn back, was a move near his death, I feel he wouldn't do it if he wasn't dying. (He'd probably still take Harry to visit Slughorn to get the memory though, if a bit later and it'll go down differently).
Basically, all the events would be pushed back. Sorta.
So Harry isn't receiving Horcrux lessons in his 6th year because Dumbledore doesn't need to ensure Harry can keep searching for Horcruxes after he's dead. If Dumbledore isn't going to die, he doesn't need to ensure Harry will continue his work after he's dead.
Dumbledore would not plan with Snape to kill him at the end of book 6, because Dumbledore would conclude Harry and the Order would have better chances with him than without him. So, even after retrieving the fake locket, he'd do what he needs to ensure his survival if he isn't already dying.
So Dumbledore's plan, in broad strokes (since I hit a lot of unknown variables when trying to apply it to canon as we know it) was to find and destroy all the Horcruxes himself. While he's doing that, during Harry's final year, he starts showing him the memories of Tom Riddle and teaching him about Horcruxes to prepare him for the knowledge that he is one of the Horcruxes who need to die.
In the beginning of book 6, we get this scene:
“But while I was at the Dursleys’ . . .” interrupted Harry, his voice growing stronger, “I realized I can’t shut myself away or — or crack up. Sirius wouldn’t have wanted that, would he? And anyway, life’s too short. . . . Look at Madam Bones, look at Emmeline Vance. . . . It could be me next, couldn’t it? But if it is,” he said fiercely, now looking straight into Dumbledore’s blue eyes gleaming in the wandlight, “I’ll make sure I take as many Death Eaters with me as I can, and Voldemort too if I can manage it.”
“Spoken both like your mother and father’s son and Sirius’s true godson!” said Dumbledore, with an approving pat on Harry’s back.
(HBP, 77)
This scene tells me Dumbledore is glad Harry is prepared to die to take down Voldemort, that he is thinking about it and preparing himself for this eventuality because that's what Dumbledore needs to happen. Dumbledore needs Harry to be a willing martyr to have a chance at killing Voldemort. So Dumbledore will allow Harry to be more involved with the war in these alternate 6th and 7th years and teach him about Voldemort to build up Harry's dedication to the cause of destroying Voldemort and his sense of responsibility. Finally, after Dumbledore destroys all the Horcruxes, he'd tell Harry that he's the final Horcrux and needs to die.
I think Voldemort taking Harry's blood was integral to the next steps in Dumbledore's plan:
“He said my blood would make him stronger than if he’d used someone else’s,” Harry told Dumbledore. “He said the protection my — my mother left in me — he’d have it too. And he was right — he could touch me without hurting himself, he touched my face.”
For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore’s eyes.
(GoF, 696)
Now, what this "gleam of triumph" references is a bit up in the air. I have two possibilities:
Dumbledore knows the prophecy, and if the prophecy is true it states: "one must die at the hand of the other", Voldemort taking Harry's blood ensures he can kill him and destroy the Horcrux. which Dumbledore needs to happen.
Dumbledore suspects this would allow Harry to return from the dead — that Lily's protection in Voldemrot's blood would ensure Harry would survive sacrificing himself, or he at least hopes it will. Theoretically, it would make sense, and Dumbledore is knowledgeable enough to reach this conclusion. Although he can't be certain of it in this uncharted territory of magic. So he'd hope.
It could also (and more likely) be a combination of both.
The next step, for Dumbledore then, would be to ensure Voldemort would kill Harry, and Harry would actually be in on this plan, to a degree. Harry would know he needs to die, not that Dumbledore hopes he won't stay dead. I think Dumbledore would still give Harry the resurrection stone, so his parents could walk him to his death as a last comfort even if he's hoping the blood protection would keep Harry alive.
I don't think Dumbledore really believed in the Master of Death, as in, that it would really make you immortal, at least not by this point in his life. I also don't think the resurrection stone worked for him. He left Harry the legend so he could learn about the wand Voldemort has and figure out he isn't its master, not to master death, but to outsmart Voldemort. Not that it was needed because Harry was always the master of the Elder Wand. This time around, none of this would be necessary since Dumbledore would still have the Elder Wand, so no wand mastership shenanigans. And Harry doesn't try to become the Master of Death (I don't think that was ever really the plan), but Harry would still be the MOD, just, no one would know.
After the final Horcrux dies (with Harry) and Harry returns either Dumbledore or Harry (more likely) kill Voldemort. I think in this version, how that final duel would go is that Voldemort still brings Harry's corpse to the school, to gloat at Dumbledore. Dumbledore speaks to him, calm and collected, and they start to duel like in the Ministry of Magic at the end of book 5. Then, mid-battle, Harry gets up to everyone's shook and joins the fight, so we have a three-way duel, kinda paralleling the three-way duel of Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald. Harry is the one who ends up casting the killing curse that kills Voldemort. Like, I just think it should be Harry to do it, and I think Dumbledore thinks so too. In this battle, Dumbledore would probably not make an attempt to really kill Voldemort:
“No, it isn’t,” said Harry thoughtfully. “He’s a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don’t think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked. It’s almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could….”
(PS, 217)
As Harry said, I think Dumbledore would give him the final blow if he can. If Harry didn't return, Dumbledore planned to do it himself, but he'd wait a bit, to give Harry the chance. With all of Dumbledore's talk of mercy, he is pretty hellbent on killing Voldemort. Super fixated on it. Voldemort is, like, the only person Dumbledore considers it good to kill. He tells Harry it was good he spared Pettigrew, but Voldemort doesn't deserve the mercy in Dumbledore's eyes. So, he would justify casting a killing curse (either Harry or himself) if it's at Voldemort.
And, if, like in the canon book 7, Harry uses Crucio and Imperio, I think he should get to finish the set. He can survive and throw off all 3 unforgivable curses, he should cast all 3 too. I don't know, something about it feels right to me. "one must die at the hand of the other" along with ending the books with what started them — an Avada Kedavra.
(Sorry, I kinda got ahead of myself about the final battle)
But I think the essentials of the plan was Dumbledore destroying all the Horcruxes himself, getting Voldemort to kill Harry and destroy the final Horcrux and then he or Harry (or even Snape) would kill Voldemort. Overall not that different than what we ended up getting.
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tbh the real advice I’d give to anyone is, do shit alone. go to a museum & go at your own pace & leave the instant you’re done. go somewhere you’ve never been and just wander around, duck into & out of places as it pleases you. linger as long as you’d like.
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I truly fucking despise the new season of Doctor Who being promoted as one that will be unique for showing the Doctor's queerness or whatever the fuck. There's this attitude under all this promo like the 15th Doctor is the first queer Doctor as if a) the 9th Doctor didn't kiss a man b) the Doctor didn't canonically change genders and c) when they were a woman was CANONICALLY in love with another woman. like HELLO??? I don't even like 13 and yaz that much and think they should've been written better, but there's something so misogynistic and revisionist about people acting like David Tennant saying Isaac Newton was hot in the anniversary special is "confirming the Doctor is queer" or that Ncuti's doctor will be the first queer Doctor. like...i hate it. This whole line of marketing reeks of Disney's "first Gay™" style marketing and I fucking hate it.
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my dad walked in on me making this 4 my yotube banner and was like what r u doing today just as he saw me highlight the text and was like ah
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Thank you for the art trade!! for @belphi 🌹
▶️Dark Harry
Thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity!
[Short plot for this pic]
Harry intends to destroy the dark forces from within and finally destroy Voldemort. But things are not going well. Harry's resolve seems to be crumbling at any moment in the face of so many deaths.
And worse, through his obsession with Harry, Voldemort's madness grows worse.
Harry must fight this monster, even if what himself becomes in the end...
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I saw this joke on Twitter of Voldemort being like "you sure he's dead? Narcissa, go check he's dead"
And jokes aside, this actually shows Voldemort is scared of Harry. He's scared if he approaches Harry, the fucker will get up and bite him like a feral beast or sth.
I think it’s really impactful that the Dark Lord is afraid of Harry. Not many people can get Voldemort afraid. Now I understand the poor guy's expression when Harry did get up in the courtyard. Man almost got a heart-attack.
So, with that in mind....
Have some Voldemort Wins AU but being shit-scared of Harry who is literally chained to a wall and he dares not approach him cus Harry traumatized him 🤣
Warning: Mentions of Gore and Murder
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“Maybe it’s because I’m not dead yet.” said Harry conversationally, ignoring how dry his throat felt. “You should do something about that, by the way.”
For a moment, Voldemort looked afraid. Afraid of a seventeen-year-old teenage boy. Satisfaction surged inside of Harry. Lord Voldemort was afraid of Harry Potter.
“I can’t believe it,” breathed Harry, staring at him with full disbelief, unable to process the new revelation. A disbelieving, slightly mad laugh escaped him. It echoed hauntingly across the walls of the cell.
After his short laughing fit rescinded, Harry asked, “Afraid to have another go at me, are you?”
“You can always wrap your hands around my throat and squeeze until I stop breathing,” said Harry helpfully, flashing a smile. “No magic necessary.”
Voldemort remained in place, not moving a single step. Harry felt like an animal on display, with Voldemort watching him without approaching him.
“Or are you afraid to get that close?” asked Harry. Another smile crossed his face. “I won’t fight. I’m in no state. My arms hurt like hell, and so do my legs. You know, Snape called me a pig for slaughter,” he saw Voldemort stiffen, “and I think hanging like this really fits that role. All you need to do is slit my throat now. Or belly. Whichever you prefer, I’m not picky. Just make it quick. You owe me that much.”
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girls will spend one work shift reading wikipedia articles on the early christian church and start saying shit like "I'm just like nestorius of antioch"
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this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long
like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal
doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY
i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong
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Wait!!! Have you remembered to sexualise and lust after a morally repugnant fictional character today??
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Hey I have a question for you if you ever end up writing more meta on wandlore. In book 7 Harry's wand spits flames at Voldemort. The explanation we're given is that it imbibed some of his powers in the graveyard. The problem is it didn't react to him like this when Harry faced him in book 5. I think this is just a plot hole on JKR's part but from an in-universe POV do you have thoughts on what could have caused this? Only thing I can think of is either that Voldemort briefly possessing Harry in book 5 further linked them and/or that in book 5 Harry didn't even try to defend himself because he was taken by surprise and thus didn't try to do anything before Dumbledore intervened. Interesting to hear your ideas.
Hi!
This is a really fun ask, I love me some wandlore! That and one of my favorite pastimes is solving JKR magical plot holes by figuring out the magical theory she didn't think all the way through.
So, the first thing I did was compare the two scenes you mentioned. This is the one from book 5:
“I have nothing more to say to you, Potter,” he said quietly. “You
have irked me too often, for too long. AVADA KEDAVRA!”
Harry had not even opened his mouth to resist. His mind was
blank, his wand pointing uselessly at the floor.
(OotP, 813)
This is the one from book 7:
It was over: He could not see or hear where Voldemort was; he glimpsed another Death Eater swooping out of the way and heard, “Avada—”
As the pain from Harry’s scar forced his eyes shut, his wand acted of its own accord. He felt it drag his hand around like some great magnet, saw a spurt of golden fire through his half-closed eyelids, heard a crack and a scream of fury. the remaining Death Eater yelled; Voldemort screamed, “No!”
(DH, 58)
Now, honestly, you're right, if the magic imbued Harry's wand in the graveyard I'd expect it to react to the killing curse Voldemort casts in book 5 the same as it did in book 7. And clearly, it does not. Even when it's the same situation, same spell, same enemy, Harry can't defend himself (if for different reasons). In both, his wand isn't even aimed at Voldemort at first at all.
So, I started wondering what is different between the scenes. Clearly, the situation is almost identical, so what difference could affect how Harry's wand reacts?
And then it hit me: Voldemort's wand.
In the first scene, in book 5, Voldemort is using his own wand, yaw and phoenix feather, brother wand to Harry. In the scene in book 7, the wand Voldemort uses is Lucius'.
So, my theory is that Harry's wand reacted differently because Voldemort wasn't carrying its brother, but a different wand.
So, with this in mind, let's try to explain what Harry's wand is doing and why.
The explanation we get in the books is that the Piori Incantatum in the graveyard essentially "charged" Harry's wand against Voldemort specifically:
“I believe that your wand imbibed some of the power and qualities of Voldemort’s wand that night, which is to say that it contained a little of Voldemort himself. So your wand recognized him when he pursued you, recognized a man who was both kin and mortal enemy, and it regurgitated some of his own magic against him, magic much more powerful than anything Lucius’s wand had ever performed. Your wand now contained the power of your enormous courage and of Voldemort’s own deadly skill: What chance did that poor stick of Lucius Malfoy’s stand?”
(DH, 600)
But I already mentioned here, that I don't think this scene is the real Dumbledore. So, I'm not sure how much faith can be placed in this explanation, especially since when Voldemort carried the brother wand, Harry's wand didn't shoot out golden flames.
(As an aside, I don't think wands can sponge up magic like that at all...)
But I think Harry's subconscious is right about the flames resulting from the multitude of magical connections between Voldemort and Harry. After the graveyard, they are, like, crazy magically connected. We've got:
Soul - Harry has a piece of Voldy's soul because he's a Horcrux
Blood (spirit) - Voldemort used Harry's blood in his resurrection ritual so their lives are bound to each other.
Magic - wands share a core.
And I'm going to forgo talking about the prophecy for this, but it's kind of bonkers how many layers of magic are binding them. And I think this is the key to it all.
So, essentially you have two wizards, that for the intent and purposes of magic, are as close as kin as possible. By soul and spirit, they are an extension of each other. So certain magic (like Lily's blood protection that is based on blood) probably sees Voldemort as an extension of Harry or vice versa. But they are not the same, as Dumbledore said in OotP: "but in essence divided", and other magic can recognize that (like the Elder Wand).
And the wands know this. Voldemort's yaw wand and Harry's holly wand are referred to as brothers, and I think that name is quite telling. Brother wands don't seem to want to fight each other, they share a core so they aren't meant to turn on each other, they are kin, extensions of each other. This is why the Priori Incantatum happened in the graveyard — to stop them from fighting. And if Harry cast a spell in the ministry in OotP, it would've happened again.
I think that first Priori Incantatum did change something and mattered for what happened in book 7. It basically was like an introduction. Afterwards, Harry's wand can recognize Voldemort, his magic, and his wand.
What I think happened with Lucius' wand is not far from Harry's subconscious explanation. The wand recognized Voldemort as Harry's kin, an extension of Harry himself, but he was carrying an unfamiliar wand - an enemy wand. I think the combination of kin with an unfamiliar wand is what caused it. Kind of like a jealous sort of "Harry isn't supposed to be with another wand". The yaw wand was fine because it shared the same core, the wands are connected just like Voldemort and Harry, so the brother wand wouldn't register as a threat.
For the holly wand, being attacked by an extension of Harry with an unfamiliar wand, felt off. Wrong. The magic felt wrong like it was 3 inches too far to the left. And I think that's what it reacted to. To the sense of wrongness that comes with seeing a familiar person somewhere, they really shouldn't be. This whiplash, I think, is what registered as a threat to the holly wand.
We know some wands can be sentient to this degree. Sycamore wands, burst into flames when they get 'bored':
It is a quirk of these handsome wands that they may combust if allowed to become ‘bored’, and many witches and wizards, settling down into middle age, are disconcerted to find their trusty wand bursting into flame in their hand as they ask it, one more time, to fetch their slippers.
(from Pottermore)
Hazel wands die with their masters:
so devoted to its owner that it often ‘wilts’ (which is to say, it expels all its magic and refuses to perform, often necessitating the extraction of the core and its insertion into another casing, if the wand is still required) at the end of its master’s life
(from Pottermore)
So I think it's completely in line with what we know about wands that Harry's wand would get protective when something in Voldemort's magic feels off due to the unfamiliar wand. On the same page about wand woods holly wands are said to be very volatile and protective, so the behavior fits its personality. I think Harry's wand is protective of him and acts up to protect him when it recognizes it needs to. Voldemort and Harry's connection along with Voldemort using a different wand registered to the holly wand as a threat it needs to protect against.
TL;DR
Harry's wand recognized Voldemort as a kin of Harry. Voldemort's wand is its own kin, and therefore not a threat in OotP. The moment Voldemort, whom Harry's wand now recognizes, used an unfamiliar wand (Lucius' wand) Harry's wand registered him and the unfamiliar wand as a threat and reacted to protect Harry. The magic flames shot out were its own, not Voldemort's sponged-up magic.
At least, that's my theory.
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Voldemort: I just… ngh. I don't want to be perceived, okay? I'm just… not here.
Death Eaters: *visibly sweating and extremely confused* I uh.
Voldemort: Don't call me Tom Riddle.
Death Eaters: Ok Voldemort.
Voldemort: No. Don't call me that either. Just... Don't refer to me.
Death Eaters: .... ok
#whats that quote?#the mortifying ordeal of being known??#its why vee refers to himself in third person
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