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sunflowerim · 2 years

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You can throw a party full of everyone you know, you can start a family who will always show you love

Marauders au. Word Count: 1678.

Sirius lay quietly in his bed in the dorm room as he fiddled with his pocket watch. 10 minutes to midnight. And Sirius would be thirteen years old. The pocket watch had been an early gift from his uncle Alphard; one of the two people who seemed to care about his birthdays. The other person would be Andromeda. She’d probably wish him in the morning.

Sirius had never been overly excited about his birthdays like the other kids. For him, it was just a reminder that he’d lived another pathetic year of his life. Especially after last year when his mother had sent him a strongly worded “birthday wish” reinstating that Sirius Black was a disgrace to the Black family and that she shouldn’t have birthed him on this “cursed day”. All this because he wasn’t sorted into Slytherin like the rest of the family. Because he refused to uphold the family traditions. He couldn’t remember the last time his parents had actually celebrated his birthday. He’d be just glad if he could make it through the day without being traumatised by either of them. He hated birthdays.

Not exactly the positive outlook a twelve-year-old should have.

Which is why he hadn’t even told his friends about it. At the beginning of this school year, James had been furious. “I have known you for a whole year now, how come your birthday never came around?” He absolutely refused to buy that Sirius didn’t know his own birthday.

Right now, James was snoring soundly in his bed. Remus was also in deep slumber, completely engulfed in his sheets. Sirius watched as the hour, minute, and second hand of his pocket watch aligned on 12 and he whispered “Happy Birthday Sirius.”

Almost immediately he felt a wad of paper being put in his mouth and a sack of cloth being put on his head. He tried to protest, but in a moment he was off the ground as his hands bound themselves in a lock. Even his wand was out of reach. He tried to shout for James but he knew that his muffled screams were barely audible. He struggled helplessly as his body floated out of the room and down the stairs. In the dark, he couldn’t see the caster of the spells. It was probably one of his cousins here to humiliate him on his birthday, but how they got past the Gryffindor portrait, he didn’t know.

He felt a soft thud as he was placed on what he guessed was the couch in Gryffindor common room. In a moment his hands were free along with his face and mouth. The darkness made it impossible to see yet he stood up angrily ready to shout at whoever was messing with him this late when the lights came back on and he saw that he was surrounded by a crowd of kids from his class and a few older kids he’d befriended over the year. From behind him, he suddenly heard the chorus of Happy Birthday and turned around to find James walking towards him with the cake, Remus and Lily in tow. Sirius was stunned. He watched with his jaw hanging open. To his side, stood Frank Longbottom, grinning ear to ear, wand in hand. That cleared up the mystery of Sirius’ hijacker.

“Happy Birthday Siri,” James announced as he stood before Sirius.

“Bu- but you and Remus are upstairs! You were snoring!” Sirius’ mind was a mess.

“Ah, that was nothing a few spells couldn’t fix. You’d be surprised to know how many tricks Frank knows,” Remus grinned.

Sirius turned to Frank and received a side hug. “Happy Birthday Black,” he said as he shook him lightly by the shoulders.

He turned to Lily, the girl he argued with almost every day, mostly because Lily insisted on following the rules and Sirius on breaking them.

“You too?”

“If you’re questioning my presence here, then, I might fight with you, but that wouldn’t stop me from showing up on your birthday. I promised Remus I’d be nice to you today. If you’re surprised to find that everyone including me is here despite the curfew, then, you must know that I have been overpowered by Mary and Marlene,” she replied nonchalantly.

“Damn right we did,” Mary snickered from Sirius’ other side.

“Language,” Lily chided.

“Aw, come on Lils, it’s Black’s birthday,” Remus interrupted. “You have to cut everyone some slack today.”

Sirius’ eyes started to prick. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He cleared his throat before speaking again.

“How did you guys even know?”

James set the cake down on the coffee table and embraced Sirius in a bear hug.

“Never underestimate my powers of flattering the professors.”

Sirius huffed a laugh, “What?”

“Yeah,” James let go of Sirius and joined in on the laughter. “I asked Dumbledore.”

“Dumbledore?” Sirius couldn’t hide the amazement in his voice. “You went to Dumbledore for this? I seriously underestimated you.”

“Guys, I think we should cut the cake soon or Marlene will fall asleep right here,” Lily buzzed in.

“What? No, I’m awake.” Marlene violently rubbed her eyes to shake off the sleep.

That erupted a burst of collective laughter from the common room.

Sirius could only nod. He didn’t trust himself to speak anymore. This was too overwhelming for him. Not only had his friends found out about his birthday but also broken the curfew to celebrate it with him, even Lily. To say he was touched would be an understatement.

Sirius cut the cake as the common room burst into the birthday song again. As soon as he’d taken the first bite of the cake, another cake appeared out of thin air and sailed right up to Sirius, smashing into his face.

Sirius wiped the cake out of his eyes to find Lily standing with her wand extended.

“I was promised I could do the honours if I cooperated,” she grinned mischievously.

“Evans you just wait,” Sirius all but screamed as he ran after her with his hands filled with cream but Lily still had her wand on her, and with a simple flick, she froze Sirius in his steps. Remus and James burst into laughter followed by the other kids.

Lily came forward and gave him a short hug. “Happy Birthday Black."

She muttered a spell as she released him, bringing him back to motion.

Sirius couldn’t even be mad. Tears started to well up as he thanked her. He couldn’t remember the last time either of his parents had hugged him.

"Now, now, Siri, let’s distribute the cake so that we can open your gifts and sleepy people can go back upstairs,” Remus said, guiding Sirius to the couch.

“Gifts?” Sirius was dumbfounded.

“Of course,” James patted him on the back, rather hard. “What’s a birthday without gifts?”

Mary and Marlene went off distributing the cakes as Lily yawned, “I’m off to bed now Black. I didn’t get you a gift because my presence should be enough.”

Sirius managed a laugh, “Thank you for coming, Evans.”

Remus arched an eyebrow at Lily.

“Fine, I’m kidding Remus, Jeez. Here you go, Black.” She dug out a box of sweets from under the couch and handed it to Sirius. “Okay bye.”

Sirius smiled at the retreating form of Lily, as she walked over to where Mary and Marlene were.

“What did you tell her, Remus? Why was she so nice to me?” he chuckled.

“Oh shut up. You know she’s a nice person. She is just not fond of our pranks,” Remus said.

“Yet she likes you perfectly fine,” James pouted.

“Well, what can I say, I’m just that nice James.”

James pouted again as Remus continued, “Don’t worry, she’ll warm up to you people too”.

Next Remus presented his gift, a nicely wrapped package, which Sirius opened to reveal a box from Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop filled to the brim with various prank items. Sirius was sorted for the whole year.

He jumped to hug Remus, “Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. I’m gonna have so much fun with these.”

“Leave some hugs for me too,” James said as he took out his present from under the couch.

Sirius’ breath caught in his chest. Anyone could tell what the gift was but James had taken care to wrap it nevertheless. That adorable fool.

Sirius laughed fondly at the badly wrapped gift.

“Hey, I did my best,” James protested.

“Thank you,” Sirius said, voice heavy with emotions, as he unwrapped it to find the latest model of Nimbus, the wooden handle polished so finely it shone in the light from the fireplace.

Sirius gently set it down and turned to hug James. Tears threatened to spill out and this time he didn’t hold back. He couldn’t speak and he could only hope, as he buried his face in the crook of James’ neck, that the hug would convey how thankful he was, for everything.

“Trials start next week. Let’s go together,” James muttered as he caressed Sirius’ hair.

Sirius only nodded against James’ shoulder and let James comfort him.

His own family had never done anything for him other than make his life miserable, so how could these people he’d known for a little more than a year care so much? Even Lily, who he argued so much with. But he didn’t doubt it. He believed it when they cared, he accepted it when they showed love, hoping that he could make them feel loved too.

Sirius looked around at all the faces in the common room, the people who’d come despite being on the receiving end of some mild pranks, people who’d come because they admired the marauders, seniors he’d managed to charm with his pranks, and Lily, Mary, and Marlene eating the last of leftover cakes.

He might not have gotten a family who loved him by birth, but he indeed had found a family for himself here in Hogwarts and at that moment, that is all that mattered. He was home.

A/N : Sirius'birthday is around the corner and he's turning 63!! I wrote this and obviously couldn't wait for 3 more weeks to post it (I'm very impatient). Listening to Matilda makes me think about Sirius a lot, so here's an early birthday fic for our beloved Sirius Black!

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ssszlami · 1 year

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Harry Potter characters as things my friends have said except there's way too many characters

Yes, we write down funny things we say, no that's not weird

Harry: “I wanna jump out a castle window but like not die”

Ron: “WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING???”

Hermione: “It’s feminine to write a paragraph”

Neville: “Lore update: I’m confused as hell.”

Luna: “Hey I can’t come to the party on Friday night, I just bought a bunch of cows and I gotta chill with them.”

Ginny: “I feel like you’re only dating me for my brother.”

Draco: “My chat is in it’s gaslight era”

Dean: “This is a lot like a cult for a Christian movie”

Seamus: “Agility: Setting things on fire and watching it explode... but in different directions.”

Dumbledore: “No one here has committed any crimes, and if you have, they were funny crimes, so it’s fine”

McGonagall: “When u get to the exam its not gonna be helpful that you spent your lessons drinking gatorade and eating donuts”

Snape: “If you’re going to traumatise children at least make it aesthetic”

Sirius: “I’m so alpha that the men around me change their sexuality to accomodate for me”

Remus: “I have four lines of self-hate for you”

Lily: “The milfs in my bag”

James: “No beta we die like parental figures”

Molly: “Goodnight offspring.”

Arthur: “How often a day do you reckon your car gets a boner?”

Fred: “Love. Truth. Bodacious Booty.”

George: "In this world, it's either meme or be memed. In my case it's both."

Percy: “It is boring! But.....we like boring.”

Bill: “Sometimes you gotta ruin the vibe for the greater good”

Charlie: "Close your face nipples and think about dragons"

Oliver: “I’m a white man, we always win! Except at sports….except at hockey”

Hagrid: “You can't say fuck you to the dog!”

Lavender: “Not all women want to kiss women. I know, that one was a hard pill for me to swallow”

Parvati: “There is no girl on earth who is so straight she wouldn’t love having another pair of boobs around”

Padma: “Nobody likes princesses!! They’re white bitches who weren’t loved enough as children”

Crabbe: “Pancake....buttplug……pancake…….buttplug”

Goyle: *grunt* “Yes I just farted.”

Cho: “I was like ‘whatever’. Wait no I was really sad”

Cedric: “I just thumbs-upped the roof down”

Krum: “*completely monotone voice* but wait there’s more”

Fleur: “Sexism is bad. Kill everyone.”

Tonks: “Gotta go to the bathroom to change my gender real quick”

Moody: “This is not a time for sassy comebacks, this is a time for SURVIVAL!”

Lockhart: “Because I look cute it’s all my fault. Thats how that works apparently.”

Umbridge: “Oh my god it’s me! Shiny trash!”

Voldemort: “Sorry I’m holding your parents hostage and killing you but your parents can’t hear your screams of terror because they can’t hear you right now”

Bellatrix: “YOU GOTTA KILL SOME CHILDREN TO GET TO YOUR TRUE LOVE”

Lucius: “Have you started another cult?”

Narcissa: “Your son is okay” *sobs and cries*

Kingsley: “I haven’t laughed since 1972.”

Peter: “So, you’re on the floor spooning the rat”

Slughorn: “*loud chewing noises* Wow I hate myself”

Mundungus: “My voice cracked on the crack and im on crack”

Dobby: “I took my ugg boots off for that.”

Winky: “Is she gonna kill me? I’m very excited.”

Kreacher: “It’s just war miss it’s not upsetting at all”

Myrtle: “I went to the toilet and I see like the toilet seat around her neck”

Trelawney: “Teaching pigeons to be art connoisseurs”

Filch: “He’s like a really sticky person!”

Dudley: “Screw you I just want stuff”

Petunia: “Is there a reason you’re interrupting me mid-soup?”

Vernon: “So he’s mad” “Yeah he’s cranky” “No like insane”

Pansy: “I don’t hurt them I just legally stab them”

Lee: “Bro that’s rather cringe”

Quirell: “I don’t need an exorcism” “That’s exactly what somebody who needs a exorcism would say”

Amos: “I’m one of the last old white boys”

Karkaroff: “Terrible behaviour…. ur in denial my guy”

Xenophilius: “EVERY JOB IS A GOVERNMENT JOB, AND I DONT KNOW WHO THE PRIME MINISTER IS”

Greyback: “I… put my hand inside his chest…and ripped out his lungs”

Cormac: “Closeted homophobic”

Blaise: “He’s more attractive in a suit.” “ALL MEN ARE!”

Regulus: “Lucy it’s my turn to drown!!”

Aberforth: “ME? A member of the TEN COMMANDMENTS??"

Nearly Headless Nick: “Well, if you have to execute me… ok”

Marietta: “You can’t slay if you vape”

Mrs Figg: “Old lady woman man and his dog”

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luveline · 1 year

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“That being said, Remus has always found it easier to accept help from Sirius than James. They all know it and none of them bother saying why that is aloud.”

is this intended to hint to a little bit of wolftar or am I just reading too much into it? 👀

I honestly haven't decided but I'm thinking yes? It can either hint to wolfstar or that they both have / had it rough growing up / are traumatised in ways James very much isn't yaknow? or both

#jade's asks #ily

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slytherweasley · 2 years

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Can you pls write about ex!James x Reader where he cheated on her with Lily but regrets.

But till the time he realises reader is in relationship with wolfstar......

After Hogwarts maybe where instead of Remus James belived Sirius was the traitor and they still have some bad blood(Sirius doest go to Azkaban instead they find the truth about Peter)....

Double crossed (ex!James Potter x reader) & (Wolfstar x reader)

Warnings: cheating, angst

You found yourself constantly remembering back to your days at Hogwarts, more specifically the worst day ever and the day you learnt how cruel life can be. You were so in love with James Potter, you’d dated for three years and been friends since first year.

James was the best boyfriend you could ask for throughout your relationship, though you both lacked experience in the relationship department. You never suspected a thing until you walked into your then boyfriend kissing, what you considered your friend, Lily.

You were heartbroken and the two of them apologised constantly but you never accepted their half hearted apologies. You never asked but always wondered why James cheated on you, you thought everything was perfect.

The situation traumatised you, you could never bring yourself to commit to a relationship. You’d lost contact with most people from Hogwarts, until Sirius and Remus invited you to the pub, you gladly accepted considering you were close at Hogwarts.

Your friendship eventually grew stronger as you started hanging out more often. You let your guard down around them, unbeknownst to either of you, you felt the same.

Feelings were eventually revealed and Remus and Sirius welcomed you into their relationship. You’d been together for just under a year but it had been the most fun you’d had in a while.

James and Sirius haven’t talked to each other after James confronted Sirius about setting up Peter. Sirius was upset his best friend didn’t believe he wasn’t a traitor.

Meanwhile James had left Lily after realising his feelings towards you never fully went away and you were what he needed in his life. He didn’t know where you would be or if you’d ever want to see him again.

He never gave up looking but he also knew he hurt you and he isn’t owed forgiveness or a second chance.

You hadn’t seen him until you were invited to a dinner at Marlene’s house, she also invited James and everyone else you were friends with at some point at Hogwarts. You, Remus and Sirius would’ve never gone if you knew who would be there.

As you walked through the door the first person you made eye contact with was James, you felt sick. As everyone greeted you, you couldn’t help but keep your eyes on James.

Remus and Sirius both looked at you wondering what you were going to do. “I’ll make up an excuse and we can go home” Sirius whispers “No, I don’t want to ruin this for Marlene, I’ll have to get over it.”

You talked to all your friends until you strayed off to the kitchen alone. As you fill up your glass you look up to see James.

“Hi” he says quietly “Hi” your voice is blunt. “It’s been a while” “Yes it has” “I’m sorry about everything that’s happened between us?” You wanted the conversation to end, for someone to save you but no one did.

“Can we please talk? I want us to be okay” “You should’ve thought about that when you cheated on me” “I’m sorry, it was the worst thing I’ve ever done, I’m not with Lily, I haven’t seen her in a long time.”

“You hurt me, I’ll never put all my trust in a relationship, I’m lucky I found Remus and Sirius. They are committed to our relationship.” “Sirius is a liar” “a liar? Sirius saved us from Peter” “Sirius isn’t to be trusted, he set up Peter” “set him up? Peter did that to himself.”

Sirius and Remus quickly realised you weren’t around and neither was James. They looked around and eventually found you in the kitchen with James in the middle of an argument.

“Is everything okay?” Remus asks “No, I’m ready to go home” “What is your problem?” Sirius raises his voice at James as you walk over to Remus. “You are my problem” James says “Not this again, I saved your life, believe me or not I don’t care.”

The three of you walk away saying your goodbyes and apparate home. You wish things could be okay with James but it never will.

#tw cheating #harry potter #hp imagine #marauders fic #marauders era #marauders #wolfstar angst #wolfstar x reader #wolfstar x you #ex!james x reader #angst #james potter angst #sirius black angst #remus lupin angst #insecure reader

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slytherinsnekxvii · 3 years

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let's talk about lily evans and the marauders, aka moony, wormtail, padfoot and prongs. given that i didn't use their actual names, i think you can figure out where this is going. it's also long as hell, so. canon vs fanon, marauder edition, except snek is sleep deprived.

now, before we begin, i don't dislike the marauders. or lily, tbh. if I'm being perfectly, genuinely honest, i still go back and forth sometimes but they've been growing on me for a while now. the canon versions, at least. fanon does them real dirty, and that's part of why i'm writing this, because i'm genuinely tired of it. it's an injustice.

you can at least make excuses for james and lily, who were so undeveloped that jkr practically dropped a fill-in-the-blank sheet of character information in our laps, but sirius, remus and peter were around long enough for y'all to get real acquainted with them.

in canon, sirius black is an unhinged mf. genuinely. this isn't to say he's a bad guy, in fact, we see that he's still capable of doing good things, still capable of love, still capable of all the things that prove he's actually not bad at heart, just,,, severely traumatised and very steeped in negativity from his time with the dementors. what i'm saying is that this man is absolutely, no questions asked, no holds barred demented, and how could he not be? the guy sat wrongfully imprisoned in azkaban for twelve years, a good portion of which he spent as a dog in order to protect himself from the dementors. he certainly wasn't completely insane, but you cannot tell me that he was all there. he got out of azkaban fuelled almost solely by the intent to get revenge on pettigrew, tried to commit murder in front of three witnesses who were also children—one of whom was his godson—ate rats and was also malnourished, which i'm certain did not help the situation any. this man is off his goddamn rocker, and you know what? you love to see it. good for him.

oh, but, snek, that's what he's like as an adult. what about when they were at school? before azkaban? my guy, the reaction he has to grimmauld place is not the reaction of someone without trauma. i don't believe that walburga and orion were the type to physically abuse their children, but whatever happened in that house helped to fuck him up enough that he skipped the joke of part of practical joke, and pranked snape by telling him how to meet a werewolf that he knew would be fully transformed and dangerous to humans. more than that, the werewolf was remus, whom he's friends with, and who—best case scenario—would be facing a trial if james hadn't stepped in. you can say that maybe he didn't think about or understand the gravitas of his actions, but at the end of it, that's not how properly sane people react to people they dislike, and that's not how they treat their friends. if anything, it reads like he was in the middle of a breakdown and absolutely losing his shit and he wasn't thinking at all.

my guy went through some serious shit, and was in no way completely mentally stable. we can see pretty clearly that he's got a serious dark side to him that probably would have gone unbridled had he not disagreed with his family, and yet, fanon took one look at him and went, "teehee, uwu bad boi go vroom."

fanon said padfoot is a pretty boy with nice hair who is tastefully traumatised from his horribly abusive household. sirius rides his motorcycle and plays jokes and flirts with anything that moves, but he can do no real wrong and always comes back to his soft, bookish, chocolate-loving boyfriend remus, who will laugh about his lycanthropy and quietly disapprove but secretly laugh at his friends' antics while hiding his smile in his cardigan.

respectfully, what in the absolute fuck.

i'd put that meme in here if i could, the one that's like, "well done, you've broken _______ down to its bare essentials," but no. i can't bc it doesn't even apply. this isn't a meme, it's theseus' fucking ship.

fanon broke it down, and replaced the pieces one by one until we got to this point, where we need to sit down and ask ourselves, "is this even the same character?"

the answer is no, by the way. it isn't. when people talk about woobifying characters—you know, taking away every flaw they have, romanticising everything they do and making them only capable of doing good, wonderful, lovely things?—this is what we mean.

and it'd be one thing if it was just the one character, but, no. fanon went all in and made them all squeaky clean and boring, especially peter, who draws the shortest of the straws.

remus got fucked, too. not just because fanon insists on sticking him into a relationship with sirius. which, we'll tackle wolfstar in a bit, but that's not even the worst of it. here, we have yet another example of blatant, rampant woobifying. again, is he a bad person? no. we know he's a good guy, we know he's generally kind and well-mannered, we know that he wants to fo the right thing but hey, fun fact. did you know that you can be nice and a coward? did you know that you can be benevolent and good and kindly and have the greatest of intentions and still be shady as fuck? no? ask dumbledore. the man played people like chess pieces when he needed to, and he was a twinkly grandpa. these are things that can coexist.

teenage remus is a coward who, understandably, does not stand up to his friends, likely for fear of being ostracised, and doesn't uphold his prefect duties as he should and takes part in their bullying of snape as a result. he lets them romp with him in werewolf form while they are in their animagus forms and then, he lets them continue to do so even after they have multiple close calls, which, again, had anything happened, would have resulted in a trial in the best case scenario.

grownup remus is still a coward, he tells no one that sirius can move about the school in his animagus form despite wholeheartedly believing that he's a mass murderer, he tries to run out on his wife and unborn kid. he isn't deliberately making attempts to harm anyone, but he's content to sit back and let things happen to him and around him so he doesn't rock the boat, although he is capable of action, which we see when he is more than willing to help sirius merk pettigrew in the shack. he can be careless, he runs out to the shack knowing he hasn't taken his wolfsbane and ends up transforming in front of the students he, as a teacher, is meant to be protecting. of course, this doesn't negate his good qualities, it just bears repeating that his flaws do exist, and they're pretty serious.

fanon moony is always pleasant and kind and soft-spoken and bookish, and he always has to have his chocolate. he knows when to tell off his friends, and he'll do it, even if he's secretly amused by everything they do and laughs about it with his best friend, lily evans, who coincidentally spends all her time with them so he and sirius can go on double dates with james and lily and no one has to remember peter exists.

why. theseus' ship 2.0. does the actual character still exist or is this something entirely different thing bearing the same name?

as for peter, who needs peter pettigrew, the actual, legitimate, fourth marauder when you have lily evans? canon pettigrew is opportunistic as fuck. he's latching himself to the biggest bad on the block and he's going all in. for teenage peter, that was james and sirius, and for adult peter, that's voldemort. canon peter is good enough at transfiguration to master the animagus transformation, just like his friends, and he's good enough at potions to brew the potion that gives voldemort a body. and honestly, you can't say he wasn't brave. he could've run off somewhere and died, or changed his identity or something after he faked his death and framed sirius, but, no. he goes and resurrects voldemort. that's fucked up, yeah, but it happened and honestly, i respect that it. he stuck to his guns.

fanon wormtail is lucky if he exists beyond being a spineless sycophant for james and sirius, or an evil conniving little rat who's looking to toss his entire friend group to the wolves at eleven.

of course, this isn't meant to negate his bad qualities, he still murdered people and framed sirius and sold out the potters to die, but his good characteristics do exist, and james, sirius and remus genuinely were his friends.

and now, we get to lily and james.

we have hardly any information on either of them. they're a pair of cardboard cutouts that we can paint and stick flyers to and colour outside the lines however we want. we can do whatever the fuck, as long lily is brave and smart and somewhat kind and james is brave and willing to die for his family. we were essentially handed a pair of ocs.

and yet.

what little bits of canon we have are thrown out of the window regardless.

james is privileged and rich, and he throws hexes for fun. he's willing to hex lily when she disagrees with him, and then, he goes behind her back to continue hexing snape after she believes that he's stopped doing so. and that's all we know about him until he dies for his family at twenty-one years old. once again, say it with me: this does not negate his good qualities. he definitely had them, he took sirius in when sirius ran away from home, he became an animagus to keep remus company as a wolf, and he saved snape in the shack, thereby saving remus and sirius by extension. him having flaws does not make him a bad person.

fanon prongs is a feminist. he fights for equal rights for women everywhere, and he constantly treats his girlfriend, lily, like an absolute queen. he's the hottest boy in school and everyone claps when he walks through the halls. mcgonagall and dumbledore are always patting him on the back and making jokes with him. he has a built-in dark detector that helps him sense when someone is a evil and needs to he punished.

give me a break. the dude's cool and all, but was the gary stu treatment necessary?

...oh, he needed to match fanon lily? right, right.

canon lily is a contradiction unto herself. she's supposedly a great friend, but since we see her at a point where they were already drifting apart, we see her putting little effort into keeping their friendship afloat. she victim blames based on rumours, she doesn't seem to care over much about what snape has to say about the people who have been tormenting him since day one. and she's justified, of course, she doesn't have to stick around. canon lily is a bit of hypocrite, she says that snape calls everyone of her birth mudblood, but then that begs the question why she still hangs around with him if that's the case. he calls her mudblood, she retaliates by calling him snivellus, and finishes up with a dig about his underwear, which, sure, it's kicking a man with a rusty spoon and pouring salt in the wound, but she's, again, justified. i get where she was coming from. and then, of course, she dies for her kid after marrying the guy who relentlessly bullied her quote-unquote best friend for their entire school careers. but, like i said, canon lily is, in many ways, a contradiction.

lily is basically a plot device. she pushes everyone's narrative but her own, and does little else.

of course, this trend would continue in fanon. fanon lily exists to be the perfect girl who gets really angry over the slightest injustice, and of course, she gets to be one half of one of the oldest enemies-to-lovers "it was just sexual tension" cliche pairings in the book. she's just,,, a mary sue. in so many fics, so many headcanons, she's just pettigrew's stand-in, a girl to form a gang with marlene, mary and dorcas—who happen to be more undeveloped ocs who also get the woobify mary sue treatment—to parallel the marauders. there is nothing compelling about her character when she's presented as a saint, and even less when she's supposedly the other moral compass for the marauders that doesn't actually work because she thinks that james is cute.

and this brings me to the next topic. jily. what, why, how. this was supposed to be a healthy, happy relationship that would have lasted in the long run? absolutely not. even for its time, i can't say that i see it lasting.

first of all, jkr presents james' crush on lily as just that: a crush. a mildly obsessive one, but a crush nonetheless, which she tries to liken to the pulling of pigtails. and then, we see that james' way of getting her to go out with him consists of blackmail, and when that doesn't work, he resorts to threatening her. this could have been set aside if he had actually, genuinely changed when they started spending more time together, but as we're told by sirius and remus, he didn't. he just got better at hiding what he was up to. and it has to be that he hid it, because if she knew, this further damages the character that she's set up to have and paints her out to be either unable to stand up to him or an enabler.

regardless, they get married. and while i have trouble believing that it was out of genuine love, there are scenarios that could make some semblance of sense. it's wartime, after all, and maybe lily is worried about her stability in the wizarding world, so why not marry into an established family whose son is already showing interest? or perhaps, she falls into the trap of every bad boy cliche ever, and she thinks to herself, well, i got him to be better then, maybe i can get him to do even better in the future. or maybe, she doesn't get into a relationship with him immediately and sees him on and off, until eventually, she accidentally gets pregnant and they scramble to have a shotgun wedding so as not to leave lily alone at nineteen with a baby. or maybe they marry each other because they're there and sure, neither of then is ready and they don't know what love even is but what else is there to do when there's a dark lord about? anyways, the point is, they get married.

and then what? if we count pottermore into canon, he goes on to further damage her relationship with petunia and vernon, to the point where she ends up crying. if we don't, she fades into the background enough that nobody has anything to say about her. she's harry's mum, she's james' wife, lily potter, she was kind and smart and brave and that's it. her agency is gone, anything else we have of her personality is gone.

jily just,,, wasn't built to last. and, yeah, this,,, this is a hill i'll die on.

same with wolfstar, honestly. there are so many reasons why it wouldn't work, but fanon has made it so fucking prevalent that it's literally everywhere no matter where you look.

first of all, i've said it before and i'll say it again. sirius is more likely to get with james that he is to ever end up in a relationship with remus. their chemistry is just,,, underdeveloped. net zero for a relationship.

secondly, sirius instigated the werewolf prank, and lupin would have paid the price for it. this could have been overlooked, but he doesn't seem the slightest bit guilty about any of it when it's brought up in poa. he could have been responsible for lupin losing the security of his place at hogwarts in the best case scenario, and in the worst case, his life. and he seems to look forward to full moons, even though they clearly aren't pleasant for remus, which,,, yeah, you're going to have fun, but like, maybe be concerned about the fact that your friend undergoes excruciating pain and it isn't a pleasant time for him? read the room, my g.

thirdly, they don't trust each other as much as fanon seems to think they do. they were both willing to believe each other the traitor before ever suspecting pettigrew. sirius thought remus gave away the potters, hell, he thought remus was a spy for voldemort, and remus was convinced that sirius was a mass murderer. neither of them needed to be convinced.

fourthly, maybe i'm reading too much into it, but like. sirius had money. remus had no money, since, yk, he was a werewolf and struggling for cash and still, sirius,,, did not leave him any money. i feel like if you had money to spare, you would give to your friend who is literally poor. but, again, maybe i'm reading too much into it and this isn't as valid a point as i think it is.

and ehh, the fifth reason is that it's,,, actually very much not the representation for the ltgbt community that fanon says it is but y'all aren't ready for that conversation.

anyways, just,,, even when you set the couple shit aside, the power dynamics between everyone here is fucked. like, james and sirius are clearly at the top of food chain calling the shots and egging each other on. then there's lily, who isn't even a marauder, but is always ever-so-slightly above remus but still not on their level, because, well. neither of them actually listen to her. remus is the novelty friend, the friend who's,,, alright, i guess, but you keep them around specifically because they're funny or they can dance or they have something that you can either show off to other people or keep as your little inside joke, your little secret, yk? and peter is just sort of there. like, yeah, he can do what we can but does that make him as good as we are? no. does he have a funny little something about him that we can exploit? nah. therefore he sits at the bottom. and like, yeah, james and sirius are on the same level, but james is yanking sirius' chain, not the other way around. anyways, like i said. power dynamic's fucked and it bothers me that we were given all of this, and fanon decided to take it all and throw it away so they could give us flamboyant!badboi!sirius black x softboi!motherhen!remus lupin going on double dates with feminist!trustfundbaby!james potter and saint!lily evans while ignoring peter pettiwho?

theseus' fucking ship, indeed.

anyways, this needed to be said. it might not make as much sense as i want it to, considering it's 4:12 in the morning as i'm posting this, after taking a break from writing to do some research and coming across way too much content about fanon marauders, but it's here and it still makes enough sense that you can read it and understand what i mean. and like, at the end of the day, you can go ahead and headcanon whatever you please, you can write fic and make art and do whatever you like, just,,, remember that they're exactly that. headcanons. stop presenting fanon as canon. please. i'm literally begging. we actually have evidence against it. just,,, acknowledge that they're headcanons and stop putting them forward as though they're able to fit into canon. please.

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moonlightdancer26 · 2 years

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If you could change one thing about the Harry Potter books, what would it be? (No reason to limit yourself to 1 thing if you can think of multiple changes you’d make) 🤗

The Marauders, Lily, and Dumbledore.

Let’s start:

Remus Lupin:

I wished they had taken him literally endangering students’ lives more siriusly. I would like to change how much Remus manipulates Harry and the readers into thinking he’s an innocent victim who was being treated badly by meanie Snivellus.

He endangered the entire school, he kept secrets from Dumbledore, he forgot to take his potion (which Severus brewed for him) and it led to him nearly eating three children.

Sirius Black:

I wish they had taken him nearly murdering someone, showing no remorse, thinking the victim deserves it just because they were curious, using his “best friend” as a murder weapon, abusing his slave, and bullying Severus even as a full grown adult more siriusly.

I despise how J.K. Rowling tried to paint him as this super cool father-figure when he was really a manipulative, slave-kicking, child-abusing, reckless, immature lunatic who never grew up.

James Potter:

Sigh, I don’t even wanna get into detail cause I know it’s gonna turn into a 100,000 word essay full of rage and hatred so I’ll just keep it short.

The dude sexually assaulted Sev, harassed Sev, bullied him mercilessly, choked him with soap (*cough* equivalent of waterboarding *cough*), tortured him, immobilised him, and showed no remorse.

Yet he’s still seen as a saint, a hero, and a great person by society.

Why?

…because he died for his family?

Oh boo hoo -_-

And the Hogwarts staff (specifically McGonagall and Hagrid) talk about him with so much affection, it’s actually sickening. And the fact that he was made Head-boy even after the terrible shit he pulled is just proof the Hogwarts staff didn’t care about their students’ safety.

I wish they could’ve taken the shit he pulled more siriusly. Like holy shit, Sev was traumatised by that monster and he’s surrounded by people who think he’s an angel.

I’m glad J*mes P*tter died early.

Lily Evans:

I wish she was more caring to Severus. Every time I reread The Prince’s Tale, I find myself disappointed. She’s always interrupted him, and she doesn’t give a fuck about what he goes through.

I dislike her, and the fact that Severus dedicated his entire life to someone who thought they were better than him and didn’t value their friendship kills me.

I wish we could’ve seen more of badass Lily. I wanna see her give James a taste of his own medicine. I wanna see her defending her best friend. I wanna see her beat the living shit out of the Marauders (James and Sirus the hardest) and telling them to stay away from Severus. I wanna see Lily valuing their friendship and Sev’s love for her. I wanna see Lily actually caring about Severus.

And I wish the books would stop portraying her as a saint. She’s extremely flawed and very bitchy. Like, at least with James, we saw his fucked up side, and Harry acknowledges it. But with Lily, literally never! She’s still seen as the angelic mother who sacrificed her life for her child, and it’s annoying. And this fandom portraying her as a Mary Sue makes my blood boil.

Albus Dumbledore:

Oh boy, where do I even begin.

Aight, lemme just release some anger:

NYAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!👹👹👹

Okay... *takes a deep breath* that felt nice. I apologise for going all Voldy on y’all.

I wish he had been more caring to Severus.

Severus is my biggest reason for hating Dumbledore.

He manipulated and used Severus when he was most vulnerable.

He let Severus almost get mauled to death by a fucking werewolf when he was just a kid and forced him to stay quiet and never punished his abusers. Dumbledore not only dismissed it but gave 0 attention to the possible trauma that gave Severus? Like holy shit, Sevy was literally fucking traumatised and Dumbledore did nothing!

Like I don’t care if y’all are in love with the Marauders and if y’all are a bunch of nasty apologists, no kid ever deserves that. He let Severus get bullied relentlessly by the kids he has a creepy ass obsession with for 7 fucking years with no punishments.

He let Severus be misguided and groomed by Lucius and the other Slytherins and into the Death Eaters. Hell, if Dumbles did shit and stopped the Marauders, Sev would 100% not have become a Death Eater.

Severus isn’t a saint but he never pretended to be the hero (even though he was -_-). He had one goal and he completed that by saving Harry. Severus was willing to die a villain, but Dumbles always has to play the hero.

“AnD wHaT uSe WoUlD tHaT bE tO aNyOnE?”

Fuck him. Severus was literally shattered and suicidal and that bastard used him and manipulated him when he was at his most vulnerable! He could've been so much kinder to Severus instead of telling him that killing himself wouldn't be of use, treating him like a pawn and not giving him a shred of compassion when he was literally suicidal!

Like, I get it, he had to fight a war yadda yadda but let's not act like the old cunt was morally justified for everything he ever did and didn't have any flaws. I understand that manipulation is necessary in a war, but can we come back on what exactly makes Severus so easily manipulated—and even more so, why he is at Dumbledore's mercy all his life?—Dumbledore let him be cruelly, emotionally and physically abused for seven years until he was broken enough. He let him, intentionally or not, become a Death Eater.

The spying, the things Severus must have witnessed, the forced stay in the toxic place that broke him in the first place were what Dumbledore asked from manipulated him in believing was what he deserved. Hogwarts was practically Azkaban to Severus, and it’s all because of the Marauders and Albus.

Albus’s manipulation of Severus is predicated on Severus being emotionally unhealthy/unstable to execute said plan. Dumbles does not want Severus to get better, because a healthier Severus means a Severus not doing what he’s told because of guilt he never let go of. Dumbledore manipulated Severus for like 18 years, that’s not okay.

“Dumbledore manipulated Snape for the better, he did it for a good cause”

Many people say this. However, if he had taken better care of Severus... then would manipulation even become necessary?

Wouldn’t it be just as good—if not better—if Severus could clutch to the wonderful feeling of being loved and having his pain acknowledged (rather than dismissed), a bit like therapists and just—family/friends—do?

If Albus had actually given a fuck about Severus, and showed that he actually cared for him and didn’t see him as just a puppet. Severus would’ve been attached, he would’ve stayed completely loyal to him.

This is why Severus was so loyal to Lily.

Because she was the light in his darkness, she taught Severus what it is to love, she showed him kindness and love. That’s why he loved her, that’s why he was incredibly devoted to her.

If Albus had done the same, he 100% would’ve earned Severus’s loyalty, and he wouldn’t have to manipulate, deceive, and force Severus into it.

I wish he would’ve done something about the Marauders’ bullying of Severus (and bullying in general).

There are a few more, I’ll just list them here:

I wish Hermione literally permanently scarring a girl’s face for life and showing no remorse could’ve been taken more siriusly. (Siriusly, Hermione... what the hell?)

I wish Hermione would treat Ronald better, and I also wish her literally attacking him with birds could’ve been taken more siriusly.

I wish Fred and George literally selling date-rape drugs could’ve been taken more siriusly.

I wish Fred and George’s cruel pranks could’ve been taken more siriusly and I wish they’d get called out!

I wish everyone (in the series and the fandom) would’ve taken everything Severus went through siriusly and not just dismissing it and thinking of him as petty. The poor man was traumatised and no one cared.

I wish Remus and Sirius would’ve apologised and they all move on and become good friends. Think about it, Severus, Sirius, and Remus would be SUCH an iconic trio! And there’s something about that thought that gives me a fuzzy and happy feeling inside. Maybe it’s cause I’ve also been bullied and I’d feel better if my bullies apologised to me.

I wish someone would’ve called Sirius and Remus on their bullshit. I want someone to just confront them, to scream at them, to call them out on their bullying ways. Actually, if Harry was the one to call them out and yell at them, it would be a million times better! (Siriusly tho, that would be epic!)

I wish Ronald wouldn’t have been painted as a jerk for “abandoning” Hermione and Harry. He was right, Harry didn’t have a plan and they made no progress whatsoever, and Ronald was worried about his family.

I wish I could change how Percy was treated throughout the series. His family was terrible to him (except Molly). I’ve already explained a lot in my answer to an ask a while ago, right here.

I wish people would take McGonagall’s treatment of students (especially Neville) more siriusly. They call Severus a child abuser when this woman exists.🤦‍♀️

I honestly wish Sirius Black was a villain. He would be extremely badass and I think I’d love him!

I wish Draco and Hermione ended up together (still love Romione tho)!

There’s more but I’ll stop here. I didn’t expect this to be so long, my apologies!

Also, I’m glad you told me that there’s no reason to limit myself to only one, cause god knows I can never pick one. It’s either 1000 reasons, or no reasons at all. There’s no in between.😂

Have a lovely day!❤️

#harry potter #severus snape #pro snape #pro severus snape #snape #anti snaters #hp #professor severus snape #professor snape #anti james potter #anti jincel porker #anti sirius black #anti remus lupin #anti lily evans #anti lily potter #anti lily evans potter #anti albus dumbledore #anti dumbledore #asks

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you know why wolfstar makes me so sad. it’s bc when you’re bipolar you ALWAYS think things are going to go wrong. you know happy things are going to crash, so you’re scared of being happy, and often you destroy things before they can end just so you have some control

and then with trauma and anxiety added on, you have experiences of people actually abandoning or hurting you, so it just confirms all of that.

it’s impossible to believe that love won’t end in tragedy to start with. and then with mania you are ALWAYS going to crash and if you’re on a high in your relationship (from being super in love) then you’re going to crash in that relationship too

all this being said - if you and/or your partner don’t understand how bipolar disorder changes your perception of reality and therefore seriously affects your relationship, you’re almost doomed

which brings me back to wolfstar. where sirius black, my bipolar king, has been shamed and abused for his extremes and outsider-ness for so so long. he turns it into a badge of honour, being dramatic and loud and arrogant and over-the-top as a performance, even when we see through the eyes of remus how much depression cripples him behind the scenes. he crashes in a way his friends just don’t understand, and seems so over the top. his friends ADORE him, love him for everything that he is. but they don’t understand how his disorder drives so much of his behaviour and neither does he

sirius was waiting on tenterhooks, from the moment he fell for remus, to be hurt. the amount of times he destroys things himself to (try and) avoid lupin destroying him. he’s always just expecting it

the most sad and tragic thing is that remus is also deeply traumatised and reacts to it in a way the exacerbates all the bad effects sirius’ disorder has on their relationship. sirius can’t always see reality, and remus keeps so many secrets its impossible for him to know what is reality. sirius is never quite sure whether remus is being honest with him, whether he has the full picture, and that’s a nightmare for someone who is always waiting for things to go wrong. and remus also has such a hot temper he flares up at a moment’s notice, most of the time not understanding that sirius isn’t speaking from himself, but from mania or depression

and most of all - he doesn’t understand the extent, the tragic desperate extent, to which sirius is always just waiting for this to go wrong

i don’t think sirius ever truly believed remus was the spy. i think the devastating trauma of the war was all his greatest fears come to life, and he was just no longer able to see reality. his disorder, remus’ secrets, the lack of understanding they had of each other at that level meant it was impossible for him to see what he knew to be true, or to reach out and grip onto remus as an anchor

as a bipolar person it is beyond heartbreaking to see all my own fears reflected in someone else and watch them destroy their own relationship just bc they think it’s going to happen anyway, bc they don’t fully understand themself, bc their experience of the world is so unimaginably brutal and traumatic they are being pummelled back into the ground every time they have even a hope of getting up

so. i love sirius black so much. wolfstar is deep and passionate and raw and tragic and authentic and such a beautiful story because of it. but i wish so, so much that bipolar (or bipolar coded) characters in media were fully and authentically represented and got to have happy, healthy relationships

#sirius black #remus lupin #wolfstar #atyd #all the young dudes #otp: i'm mental about you #ch: we choose who we really are #hp #hp meta #meta

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CW: improper emotional support animals. Please respect support animals and let them do their work. Don't pet them, don't talk to them, don't annoy the person they belong to. They're working, let them do their job. Also don't claim your pet is an emotional support animal just to take it everywhere.

Harry held the leash short as he walked Snuffles through King's Cross station, not able to keep the shit eating grin off of his face.

It had taken Sirius and Remus nearly all of summer break to modify a collar so nobody could force Sirius to take his human form without him wanting to.

All it took afterwards was a letter to Professor McGonagall, explaining to her that Cedric's death had traumatised Harry so much that he was indeed in need of an emotional support animal. And now here they were.

People already stared at him, now at least he didn't need to worry about the why. With Sirius by his side he couldn't care less if it was because of the massive black dog, or because they believed he was nuts by saying Voldemort was back.

Another good thing was that Snuffles acted as his personal bodyguard, a thing absolutely needed with a lunatic being after him once again.

In general Harry couldn't think of anything that could go wrong in his fifth year at Hogwarts, absolutely nothing.

For once things might work out just fine for him.

Sirius had taken to roaming around the castle at night, his ears always open for what was going on while everyone was tucked into their bed. Over the day he spent his time by Harry's side, much to the dismay of Umbridge.

Nothing, absolutely nothing could go wrong for Harry.

Arthur had been saved, Snape's Occlumency lessons were bearable. Even when Dumbledore's Army had forced the headmaster out of the castle, Harry still felt safe. Which was a first. To say the least.

That was until he woke up with a scream, the picture of Sirius twitching on the floor burned into his brain.

The only thing stopping him from running to the Ministry was a low whimper near the window of their dormitory.

Sirius.

This was a trap.

Telling the dog what had happened, Harry sent him off to warn the Order and then return instantly.

Together they sat in Harry's bed, waiting for news.

#harry potter #sirius black #fix it #gnarf writes #dog #i don't know where this would end #but the idea is funny 😂#sirius lives #dont treat this too Sirius 😂 its just a bit of drabbling

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chdarling · 2 years

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"Also, I always feel the need to add this disclaimer: In TLE, wolfstar is not portrayed as a perfect happy relationship, one true love to end them all (à la jily, lol), but rather an exploration of two deeply troubled young men who are drawn together and torn apart. So, in that context, I think Remus/Tonks still makes sense."

I'm actually glad to hear this because I am not pro Wolfstar. I guess the main thing that troubles me about it is the thing you wrote here. Both Sirius and Remus are deeply traumatised people and people like that are not good in forming healthy relationships (don't ask me how I know this 😂).

Another thing is that people just feel the need for someone to be with somebody and the reality of life is that people sometimes end up alone. And I kinda liked that about Sirius in canon. It's completely ok to be alone. Not everyone has to have a partner.

Oh, I definitely agree about Sirius. I have always read him as someone who is not overly interested in romance, even as a teen, which I find refreshing!

Both Sirius and Remus are deeply traumatised people

This is what I love about writing wolfstar to be honest! At the risk of sounding very pretentious talking about my own work, I’ve always seen TLE as a story first and foremost about trauma — how it impacts our choices, how we heal from it, how the hurt of it compels us to harm others — and I suspect this is why wolfstar kept popping up in my early drafts, even when I wasn’t sure I wanted to include it.

I am very interested in writing messy, troubled, imperfect characters and relationships, and while I may have a hard time seeing canon 1970s wartime wolfstar as being happy and healthy, that’s part of the appeal to be honest. So much depth and drama to explore. 😅

(And then write fix it AUs and let them be happy because ow)

#ch answers #tle #fair warning to wolfstar purists though #tle wolfstar is problematic lol

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200 followers!

So here’s a list of One shots for celebrate✨

Everyone Deserves A Someone by LoquaciousLupin

With nothing better to do during the holidays at Grimmauld Place, Hermione and Ginny wonder whether their former Professor has a special someone - with no other ideas, they do the only thing they can and ask him. With a little help from Tonks, Remus answers their questions as honestly... as he can. Remus and Tonks fluff.

A Beautiful Tune by SweetDeamon

I'm...not coming." he said, reaching to shove his hands deep into his pockets. "On the mission. With you." Tonks stared at him in confusion. "Why not?" she asked, grip upon the cloak in her hand going limp. Remus struggled to come up with a convincing lie. "Because I...I..." Because I'm dying. Because you've struck me dead in the heart.

The Unspeakable Girl by SweetDeamon

"She makes me feel so on top of this world that I wish I'd never been born into it in the first place! So I can't stand to talk about her, Dad! I simply can't!" In which Remus Lupin visits his father and confesses something quite extraordinary. Based on information from POTTERMORE. Consider yourselves warned. RLNT.

The Future's Not Ours To See by Gilpin

Remus Lupin has a lot on his mind; his current undertaking for the Order of the Phoenix, and how to obtain questionable potions from an unhelpful Apothecary owner. Can he bring both to a satisfactory conclusion?

Rhapsody in Blue by copperbadg

Remus has decided it's time to cure Tonks of her awkwardness, the only way he knows how.

Kissing It Better by Lady Bracknell

On her first date with Remus, Tonks discovers that spilt beer on wooden floors is the enemy of the less than surefooted everywhere. Will she die of embarrassment, or will Remus find a way to make it all better?

Kiss and tell by Lady Bracknell

For all his supposed genius, Sirius Black had always had rather a blind spot for the patently obvious.

What To Make Of Him by Lady Bracknell

Neither Ted nor Andromeda know quite what to make of their daughter's boyfriend. Can he win them round over Sunday lunch?

On First Impressions by cafei-au-lei

"'You know,' Sirius said, 'it's kind of funny. For someone who thinks Remus is so annoying, you sure can't seem to stop talking about him.'" A series of moments in Remus and Tonks' developing relationship as they get to know each other and learn that maybe first impressions aren't necessarily everything. OOTP. Fluffy oneshot.

The Order's Most Eligible Bachelors by cafei-au-lei

The Order's Most Eligible Bachelors, or: the ladies indulge in some firewhiskey and gossip. Sirius and Remus stumble upon a game they're not sure they want to be privy to (okay, maybe Sirius does.) The results lead to some necessary conversation and introspection for a few of the parties involved. Oneshot.

The Talk, Or: The (Lighthearted) Trauma of Teddy R Lupin by cafei-au-lei

Teddy knew when Dad brought out the firewhiskey that something was suspicious. Then again, maybe he wasn't giving Dad enough credit for being the cool parent. AU. Remus and Tonks survive to raise their son and give him The Dreaded Talk. Oneshot.

Movement by MrsTater

Things appear to have changed. One shot, RLNT

Retrograde by MrsTater

Sequel to Movement: Tonks strongly suspected, though she hadn't much experience, that it wasn't normal for adults who fancied other adults to do what she was doing now.

Kernels by MrsTater

A Transfigured Hearts outtake: a cosy night in with Remus takes an unexpected turn when popcorn finds its way into odd places and leads Tonks to make an important discovery.

Party till the wolf comes by MrsTater

Fatherhood doesn't send Remus on a pub crawl, but announcing the birth of his son to his closest friends turns out to be the next best thing.

Overheard by MrsTater

Sirius tries to play matchmaker for an ambivalent Remus and Tonks, but when everyone keeps overhearing everyone else's conversations, things get a little complicated as shapeshifters prove to be anything but predictable... Updated Sept 3, 2007

The Honeymooners by MrsTater

Two years after their wedding, Remus and Tonks finally make it on their honeymoon. But now they've got something they didn't when they first married, will they be able to stop thinking about it long enough to enjoy themselves? AU

A Conversation That’s Not About Veela by starfishstar

Harry and Professor Lupin talk about women, and other things. During Christmas of HBP. (A gen story, but with very strong hints of Remus/Tonks and Harry/Ginny.)

Sleeping by starfishstar

Tonks sleeps; Remus muses

Precisely What I Mean by starfishstar

Remus with Teddy was easily the sweetest thing Tonks had ever seen. It seemed Remus couldn't ever hold Teddy without gazing down at his son with a huge, helpless, delighted grin. "Don't your cheeks ever get tired?" Tonks couldn't help teasing him once, and he'd glanced up, bewildered by the question – he didn't even realise he was doing it.

A Slow and Stopping Curve by aegle

Concerning Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks. Set during Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.

St. Margaret's by aegle

Remus, Tonks, a Muggle automobile, and a slightly disappointing beach adventure

On Bethlehem Down by aegle

Remus Lupin finds himself at Nymphadora Tonks' flat on Christmas Eve, 1996

The poem which i do not write by aegle

So, it has come to London with them, whatever it is.

The Watch by Sirussly

He'd grown so used to her endless chatter and relentless questions, a burning ball of energy with a laugh like her mother's. Some nights Tonks would listen to him instead, to stories of war and the price one pays for being a soldier in the middle of it. Occasionally neither of them would speak, but once her hand found his and stayed there until the sunrise coloured the sky.

Flame by Eat a Taco

It's strange what the soft light of a candle can do to someone.RLNT, sometime during HBP

Cover Me by Maggiemaye

Remus and Tonks embark on a mission that tests their well-established partnership to its limits. Even while surrounded by Death Eaters hidden in plain sight, they find that their greatest threats may come from within.

Expecto Patronum by Shimotsuki

Remus and Tonks have dinner at the Potters' after seeing Teddy off on the Hogwarts Express. James and Al are full of questions, including one that not even Harry knows the answer to.

Meet the Reindeer by SweetDeamon

Nothing untoward had happened since Teddy had arrived home from Hogwarts for the holidays this year. So far there had been no manically jingling elves, no traumatised Santa Claus, no mass snowball fights, no exploding cans of fake snow and as of yet nothing had come hurtling down the chimney or splattered anything or anybody with ammunition of the culinary kind. So far. RLNT AU.

Meet the Teacher by SweetDeamon

In which Remus and Dora receive word from Hogwarts that their son's homework has been completed in a far from satisfactory manner. The subject? Defence Against the Dark Arts. The topic? Werewolves. They've been expecting trouble since the beginning of term...but who feels less prepared? Teddy's parents or Teddy's teacher? Neville has a hunch... AU. RLNT. Rated for mild language.

A Study In Pink by SweetDeamon

"He isn't entirely sure how it is that a certain pink haired witch came to be lying snugly in the bed beside him yet again, or indeed why such a thing had ever occurred the first time around..." RLNT.

A Piece of Cake by SweetDeamon

"How long does it take to make a bloody sponge cake!" "You can't rush art, Sirius." Tonks attempts to bake Remus a birthday cake. "Attempts to" being the key phrase here... RLNT. Happy Birthday Gelly Bean!

The Christmas Waltz by Lady Bracknell

As Christmas approaches, Remus and Tonks dance around the idea of togetherness, wondering if either of them is leading, or know where they're going at all.

Mistletoe and Wine by Lady Bracknell

Remus falls foul of the mistletoe. Twice. RL/LP, RL/NT, LP/JP, rated for language.

Afraid of the Dark by Lady Bracknell

Remus had always been ill at ease in the forest, but when a mission for Dumbledore sends him into the heart of the place with Tonks by his side, he finds his apprehension harder than usual to shake off.

The Luck of the Draw by Lady Bracknell

She sits on the carpet, shuffles the cards, then deals them out. She came here with the hope of forcing the issue, because she just knows they shouldn't be about can't and won't.

Chione by: cafei-au-lei

Remus has confirmation that Tonks may return his feelings - now all that's left is to decide what to do with this rather exciting and terrifying information. And although it's been a strange year, this year's Christmas could shape up to be one of the best Remus has ever had. Takes place after "The Order's Most Eligible Bachelors." RLNT OotP holiday fluff.

The First Night by: cafei-au-lei

Most major events in Remus' life have done nothing but reinforce the crushing inevitability of his condition and the life that it has condemned him to. But maybe there is hope to be had, after all.

amare by: cafei-au-lei

At first, the idea that Tonks and Professor Lupin could be together was equal parts baffling and absurd. But then, maybe it did make a tiny bit of sense, Ginny thought, as she watched the way Professor Lupin looked at Tonks over the breakfast table. But she still couldn't help but think that this love and relationships thing was far too complicated. RLNT.

War Baby by MrsTater

It's time for Teddy's first outing, and for Tonks to make peace with a noble great idiot. Set during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Perchance To Dream by: MrsTater

A dream leads to an argument and an unexpected quest to seek out the meaning. Will Remus and Tonks kiss and make up? More importantly, who will come out on top? RLNT, Deathly Hallows, Mature.

Like a Cat in the Sun by starfishstar

Remus is in a house full of women.

#nymphadora tonks #remadora #remus lupin #remus x tonks #harry potter #allaboutremadora

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tumbledfreckles · 3 years

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Absorption

A Chem-verse Blackinnon Drabble, based off the events leading to James saying this in the pub:

"Hi, Marlene, nice to see you again. With clothes on, too. Lovely."

You can read All About the Chemistry here

"I'm hungry."

"Already? We only just finished."

Marlene opened one eye to glare at Sirius across the pillows. From her half prone position, she didn't present the threatening figure she normally would, but she hoped the effect would carry.

It didn't.

"I wasn't talking about you," she clarified, when he only continued to wiggle his eyebrows in the wake of her stern look. "I'm actually hungry. For food."

"Should have known. Of course I've left you satisfied in other hungers," Sirius caressed the thigh that draped over his hip. His touch lit a path of sensation that almost distracted her from the current goal.

Almost.

"Do you have any? Food that is," Marlene nudged her toe into his calf before he could make another joke.

"Maybe," Sirius was quiet, stroking her hip as he thought. "Remus definitely had some biscuits that he bought only yesterday. Shouldn't have eaten them yet. I know he had chocolate too and that normally goes first."

"Anything a bit more healthy?"

"Jesus, you're fussy, woman," his hand on her breast made a mockery of his incensed tone. "Ummm, Peter bought some grapes, I think. Always trying to lose weight."

"He won't miss them?" Marlene's back arched, pushing herself more into the pleasant touch.

"Well, considering he ordered a pizza for dinner when he got home, I think not," Sirius' voice was muffled, his lips now pressed into the curve of her neck.

"Sounds great," Marlene gasped, an involuntary reaction as the hand on her hip slid lower. "Can you go get them?"

"I'm busy," he nipped at the soft skin behind her ear. "If you hadn't noticed."

"You can continue once you've got me my nourishment," she encouraged, even as her hips bucked into her hand. "And it's not like you can continue if I'm not here."

"True," he acknowledged, his hand reaching her centre. "But I can't do this, if I'm not here."

"A great point," Marlene's body betrayed her, hunger for him taking over. She reached for him. "But later, you'll go."

"Of course."

But much later, when they were both satisfied once more, he refused. Of course he did.

"You're the one who's hungry, still. Your more than satisfy me, love."

"Flattery will not get you of this. It's your place. You should go."

"I'm exhausted by my efforts."

"You are not, I know for a fact you could go another round in about five minutes."

"What are you, a sex prophet?"

"Maybe. But more like, a woman experienced in the ways of Sirius Black."

"And how lucky you are."

"Even luckier once I get some food to go with the great sex he provides."

"You know where the kitchen is."

"Sirius," she made his name last several extra syllables as she whined.

"Just go. You could have been there and back and eaten half the biscuits in this time."

"I could also be eating them if you'd gone too."

"No one’s even here, it's not like you need to put clothes on."

"Chivalry is so dead right now."

"I ain't no gentleman, McKinnon, you know that," the suck on her neck and the rough squeeze of her bottom added emphasis to his point.

She wouldn't tell him how much it turned her on.

Unfortunately, he knew her body well enough by now to tell, anyway.

"Prat," she mumbled as he grinned wickedly.

"As if it's not why you're here."

God help her, why did she have to be attracted to the bad boys?

Not that he was as bad as his leather jacket and dishevelled appearance made him look. Far from it, really. Marlene might have gone into this for the sex, but she hadn't missed how sweet and caring he could be too.

Sometimes.

Not now, apparently.

"Fine," she huffed, making a big show of shoving him off her and getting off the bed. "But I'm not sharing."

"Fair enough," he watched her head for the door, predatory gaze in his eyes to the last. "But I reserve the right to try and change your mind when you get back."

Marlene rolled her eyes but couldn't help the smile that formed as she opened the door. She darted through it before he could see.

Stepping lightly, but hearing no noise through the flat, she made her way to the kitchen. It didn't take long to locate the grapes in the fridge, but she had to hunt through various cupboards to find Remus' stash.

"Biscuits, biscuits," she muttered to herself, moving blocks of chocolate and bags of pasta. "Where the fuck does he keep them?"

"Right at the back, to try stop us taking them."

"Thanks," Marlene reached up on her toes and located a family sized packet of tim tams before she froze.

The voice behind her wasn't Sirius's.

She fell back, landing heavily on her heels. Turning slowly, using the chocolate bickies to cover her chest, she faced the speaker.

James lay on the couch, phone held above him in one hand, the other balancing a glass of juice. His face was turned away from her, focused on his screen.

"How long have you been there?" Marlene asked, glad of the kitchen island between them, hiding her pantless state.

"Came home during your last round, I think," he still didn't look at her, and she was glad, as her cheeks flamed with heat. "Hi Marlene."

"Hullo James," she went to gesture at her biscuits but realised she probably shouldn't move. "I, uh, got hungry."

"Sounded like you two were working up quite the appetite," he nodded blandly, as if they were discussing the weather. "Don't let me keep you."

"Oh, er, right," she held the grapes in front of her, and made sure the biscuits were adequately in front of her chest. They didn't cover much, but at least her nipples weren't on display. "I'll just, uh, get back then."

She sidestepped her way to the door leading to the passage. A slow process given she had to keep everything covered and check that James wasn't looking. He didn't so much as blink in her direction, and she consoled herself that he'd probably only seen her bum through the whole affair.

That was okay. She had quite a good bum.

"Hey Marlene," James said casually when she was almost into the passage.

"Yeah?"

"Next time make Sirius get the snacks. Those grapes might actually cover him."

She didn't even check if he was still looking at his phone, just turned and fled the scene. Sirius jumped in fright as she flung his bedroom door back open and threw the biscuits at him.

"You absolute jerk," she gave him a shove as she landed on the bed, pulling the duvet around her waist.

"What happened?" He asked, packet already open on his lap, tim tam half crunched.

"James was home. He bloody saw him rooting through your cupboards starkers," she pulled the bickie from his hand. "Oi, these are mine."

"Huh. Sorry. That must have been the door I heard earlier," Sirius didn't bother with the pack of biscuits again, swiping some grapes instead.

"You could have mentioned that."

"But then you wouldn't have got the food. And I was so hungry," his puppy dog eyes were so ridiculously out of place on his face that Marlene felt herself softening despite her annoyance. And her embarrassment. It was a definite hearty mix of both.

"You absolute jerk," she pulled the food out of his reach, shuffling across the bed for her own private party. "That's even worse."

Sirius growled softly at the loss of both his food and Marlene. The mattress dipped as he crawled across it, moving behind her. "What about if I make up to you?"

"I'm listening," she continued to savour the chocolate that melted off the biscuit in her mouth.

Instead of words of apology, pleads of forgiveness, instead lips pressed against her shoulder. Breath whispered along her neck. Goosebumps erupted of her skin, following the trail of his long, fingers.

"I'll get the food next time," he promised, tugging at her earlobe until she leant back into him.

"You better," Marlene muttered, not quite ready to let him off the hook. "Poor James, he'll be traumatised."

"Jealous, more like," Sirius snickered as he reclaimed his hold on her breast. "With this thing between him and your mate, it's probably the most action he's had in weeks."

"True," Marlene extended her neck to land a kiss on his jaw, the rough stubble scratching at her lips. "Lucky we don't have that problem."

"Very lucky," Sirius agreed, using the angle to claim her lips. "Very lucky indeed."

#blackinnon #blackinnon fic #jily fic #all about the chemistry #chem-verse #sirius black #marlene mckinnon #James Potter #marauder era #marauder fic #modern muggle au

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arrthurpendragon · 3 years

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ICYMI! 4/10/21

Chronicles of Narnia

Close Your Eyes by: @misshiraeth98

Emily Rose always dreamed with her eyes closed. Her heart reaching into the depths of her conscious to bring about a bearable present. When she is mysteriously transported to a world where her dreams are now reality she begins to think she has gone mad! Little did she know this world, Narnia, would lead her to experiences and relationships that would last lifetimes. Emily thought fairy tales only existed in her books but a lion tells her the truth. A happy ending is only the beginning. CH 5 WATTPAD

Harry Potter

Blood and Bone by: @booty-boggins

After the opening of the Chamber of Secrets leads to the death of a Hogwarts student, Tom Riddle returns for his sixth year intent to keep any suspicion away from his involvement. But fellow Slytherin Maeve Rosier knows Riddle is hiding something. The problem is, Maeve has secrets of her own - dangerous secrets that the future Dark Lord wants for himself... (SLOW Riddle/OC) CH 4 FFN

Decadence by: @john-silver

Phoenix Black is torn between a bright future and a Death Eater husband, and what her heart desires—her older brother's best friend, Remus Lupin. With both of her brothers in peril, Phoenix's role in the First Wizarding War is set in stone, as the Black family hurtles headlong toward tragedies they will never recover from. Remus/OC. CH. 15 FFN

Everybody Wants to Rule the World by: @john-silver

An intelligent witch of old English magical blood and French nobility, Jolie Selwyn becomes the object of Tom Riddle's obsession, and what starts as a game becomes something much more deadly. Caught up in a terrifying world she can't escape, Jolie questions where her choices have gotten her. Tom Riddle/OC.CH 3 FFN

Marvel

Come Wind Come Weather by: @whindsor

It was supposed to be a fairytale romance, a soldier and an army nurse. They were supposed to last out the war, then go home and have it all. But Hydra took away everything except for the bond between them. And while this is a love story, it is also a story about pain, and loss, and the ghosts left behind. Peace follows war, just as Summer follows Winter. Bucky/OC. CH. 62 FFN + AO3

If I Stay by: @jewelswrites-ish

Rented out to HYDRA, Maize was given the position to oversee and handle the Winter Soldier during all his missions in an attempt to ensure completion. With her inhuman ability to manipulate metal, she serves her job well until she realizes there is a way to mess with HYDRAs asset and destroy Global-1 - a secret united governmental organization tasked with finding and retrieving enhanced humans for experimentations and their own agendas. CH 2 WATTPAD

Signs of Life by: @misshiraeth98

"Did you mean what you just said?" "I always mean what I say. I may not always mean to say it out loud, but I always mean it." Amelia Nilson was trained to hack the world, but she was not prepared for the virus that would enter her heart. CH. 6 WATTPAD

Unvaliant by: @john-silver

Dulcinea Rook had been doing really well lying low, actually, until an old associate drags her into a mess she wants no part in. A woman not used to trusting anyone, suddenly Dulcinea is stuck with a traumatised super-soldier, a guy with cool metal wings, an ex-SHIELD agent and a disgraced baron. What could possibly go wrong? Bucky Barnes/OC. (TFATWS) CH 1 FFN

Merlin

The Prayer by: @ocfairygodmother

Nerissa finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime when she accompanies her brother to Camelot, in hopes of a better future than as some simple farmer's wife. There she finds out that sometimes, dreams really do come true - even in the most unlikely of ways. • Arthur x OC • CH 8 FFN + WATTPAD // CH. 9 FFN + WATTPAD

Once Upon a Time

your love (is a turning page) by: @ohhitherekatie + @if-you-onlyknew

Jefferson wakes up with a year of his life missing after Pan's curse. The town is oblivious and he is alone yet again. When he meets the town's patisserie chef and part time ballet teacher; Delilah Mason -- he feels a connection to the woman. Not to mention the ring she wears on her index finger -- a ring he stole decades earlier. How does she have his ring? Who is this woman and why has no one in town noticed that they've been cursed yet again? CH 20 AO3

Power Rangers

Aegis by: @fandompariah

A new threat bearing a familiar name is gathering its' forces. Tommy led a force of over 100 rangers in a desperate attempt to buy time. 20 years later a new generation of Power Rangers are being assembled to defend the galaxy. This is an OC centric story, though several canon characters will appear and have prominent roles. CH 79 FFN + AO3

RWBY

MARZ Rising by: @fandompariah

It's been thirty years since Ruby Rose saved Remnant from Salem and almost a decade since it was saved again. Salem is gone yet the Creatures of Grimm remain and now a new generation of Hunters are ready to begin their story... By enrolling at the Breaktide Academy of Menagerie where they'll be trained by legends including Team CFVY and Ruby Rose herself. Part 5 of the Spiral-Verse CH 5 FFN + AO3

Star Wars

Force of Nature by: @thecaillic

Sith Acolyte Darth Viveza is sent on a mission to spy on the Queen of Naboo and keep an eye on two enemy Jedi. Her instructions were clear. Do so and nothing more. She has a hard time doing this, due to the younger of the two Jedi.

All she had to do was wait. Then she would get her chance. Killing a Jedi would take her one step closer to becoming strong enough to defeat her master. Right? CH. 4 AO3

#oc fic update saturday #icymi #ocappreciation

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rsitb-second-account · 3 years

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Mysteries and Mansions

I swear I don’t mean for my fics to all become angst

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Patton shivered, thinking about the ghost. With his face hidden behind half white hair and pale skin, bloodshot green eyes flashed dangerously as soundless words came out of his mouth, threatening death upon the humans.

The human himself had just woken up from a nightmare, visions of what the knife could have done, had it hit his husband and not missed. Had it pierced his skull and killed him. Images of the spider person looking terrified at the very sight of the humans. Patton sobbed, trying not to wake Janus up.

He shook and carefully made his way out of bed, towards the kitchen. Time for hot chocolate, he decided. No peppermint this time, remembering a fact he had stored in the back of his mind. Spiders are repelled by peppermint.

Maybe that’s why the ghost got so violent.. If so, it was Patton’s fault, he was the one who almost always asked for peppermint.

Roman waited until Logan and Virgil were asleep, before he and Remus floated towards the always locked attic of the house. They’d gotten a witch to charm it when they were alive, so it was physically unable to be opened by someone who didn’t have the direct permission of the twins.

This was where they stored their most prized possessions, like portraits’, their weapons that they used to use, family heirlooms.. Things that reminded them what it was like to be alive, things that made them remember a few hundred years before, and remember when they first got the house built.

Unfortunately, Roman also remembered his death. Running for his life, a sudden pain in his chest, collapsing in one of the entrances to the tunnels, hearing Remus’ scream. Waking up weightless, and dead. Seeing his body.

It had felt a little bit good, but mainly traumatising.. He sighed.

Dying had led to so many good things, but it had led to bad things as well. He couldn’t see the sky anymore, he could barely remember the stars. He couldn’t taste his favourite foods, he couldn’t go to a marketplace and strike up a conversation.

All he could do was float around his house for eternity. Sure, he had his brother and he had his friends, but that didn’t mean much when you were missing something that wouldn’t come back. If he had tears, they would be falling freely. He reached out to touch the wall that led outside, only to feel a barrier. The only place that felt solid was the place he hated most. What was the point of having somewhere that felt solid, if it wasn’t going to remind him of life, and not the fact that he was stuck in his house, unable to do things that once brought him joy

He felt guilty, thinking like this. If he hadn’t died, he wouldn’t’ve made the friends he had today, but sometimes, he wished he didn’t have to lose life to gain friends.

Logan watched the twins leave and he sighed, careful not to jostle the drider that had built a web between his horns. He didn’t know exactly what they were doing, but he knew that they missed things, like the stars.

Logan didn’t understand why people loved the stars so much, but, then again, he had never seen them

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#dragon logan #spider virgil #ghost roman #ghost remus #human patton #human janus #sanders sides #sanders sides fic #sanders sides au #logan sanders #roman sanders #remus sanders #virgil sanders #patton sanders #janus sanders #Ash tries to write something

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uthseikoashx-inflamedme · 4 years

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Boggarts: why we can suppose they evolve through years

(Hi, here again up to no good (basically, theory). I apologize for the mistakes, the poor grammar, the choice of words which may be incorrect, etc.)

This post can be considered as an introduction: I want to talk about several specific Boggarts, first and foremost Albus Dumbledore’s one. Yet, before, I need to justify why I believe Boggarts’ form is not petrified, fixed through time. So let’s do it here.

Several weeks ago, I wondered what Albus Dumbledore’s Boggart was back in 1927. We know his Erised reflect shows an adult Gellert Grindelwald - however, in 2007, JKR declared Albus used to see his family in the Mirror, just like Harry.

It could be a “redcon”, but what if it’s not? Our deepest desire might change through the years. But isn’t it the same about our deepest dread? So could it be the same with Boggarts? And consequently, has Albus different Boggarts depending on his age?

However, we don’t know a lot of things about Boggarts: are they able to change, or are they always mirroring the same fear?

Why Boggarts’ form could evolve

Remus Lupin explained in PoA that Boggarts take the form of the deepest fear of a wizard or witch. The way Remus presents them, the way each character is associated with an unique Boggart’s form in the books, both of those things could mean that a person has one Boggart. Nevertheless, even if we don’t have any canon clue about it - or I think so? -, I believe Boggarts are supposed to evolve.

Ron, Seamus, Parvati… their Boggart are inspired by phobias and traumas. But people are often able to go through those phobias after years. The phobia of a 13-year-old wizard is not necessary the same 45 years later, etc.

We can simply think that fears are strongly connected to our experiences, what we are currently passing through. For example, Hermione’s Boggart at 14, during the exams in PoA, is McGonagall who tells her she failed all the tests. But if she meets a Boggart at 18, during DH, it can not still take this form: Hermione is constantly in danger, because of her blood status and her friendship with Harry - and I didn’t mention the quest of the Horcruxes. How can her deepest fear still be fail her exams?

Depending the context (the war), the age and the experiences, a Boggart may definitely change.

Boggarts are clues to understand a character though

It doesn’t mean that a Boggart is useless when we want to talk about characters’ personality or psychology. In fact, a Boggart is often a good way to discover the true nature of several persons in Harry Potter (and now, Fantastic Beasts).

Remus Lupin’s Boggart is the full moon - but his deepest fear is not the moon itself, it’s how he is doomed to take the form of a werewolf every month. He’s scared of what he could do while he’s not himself anymore, disgusted by his own nature of monster - or more accurately, what he considers to be a monster. In a way, Remus is scared by himself. His Boggart tells a lot about his self-esteem and his opinion about himself: he is not confident, he loathes his own condition - even if he’s not responsible of it. We know that for sure thanks PoA, the end of HBP and DH.

We could also talk about Newt’s Boggart in FBtCoG - a desk. Dumbledore says he’s afraid of working in an office, but we can understand it’s a bit more than that - Newt’s afraid of being stuck far from everything we likes and care about, magical creatures. Only near them he’s useful, free, etc. Again, Boggarts contain informations about a person’s heart, a person’s intimate nature.

Molly Weasley’s Boggart is also extremely interesting. We discovered it at the beginning of OotP: it takes the form of Ron’s corpse, then Fred’s corpse, etc. We can deduce two things: on one hand, a Boggart can actually have multiple forms for the same person; on the other hand, a Boggart often shows an idea, is a symbol of an immaterial dread. Here, Molly is scared of losing her family, evidently not of a corpse.

Boggart’s form can be symbolic: it might show an idea and not a literal fear

It actually proves what Professor Lupin said about Harry’s Boggart: Harry is not afraid of Dementors, he’s afraid of fear itself. Dementors are a symbol. Boggarts have to be interpreted to be understood.

(well, about Harry, we could argue he’s most afraid of losing control and be vulnerable, which is something related to his fear, or he’s scared of Dementors because his first experience with them was quite traumatising, like Ron is afraid of spiders because Fred and George transformed his plush in a spider when he was young)

We can also suppose that Boggarts’ form change a lot when a wizard or which is young and reflects an “immature” fear. I don’t want to say that children’s and teens’ dreads shouldn’t be considered as “serious” dreads; but in the books, the students have more childish fears than adults - in a way, those fears are immature because they are still in development. We could guess that adults’ dreads are more constant, more symbolic. It’s still a theory.

The consequences

(To be fair, we could argue that Harry’s Boggart didn’t change from PoA to DH - although he went through awful experiences, saw dreadful things, his deepest fear stayed constant. Consequently, it would not support the system we developed.

However, I think we can all agree on the fact that Harry is a bit special - I mean, he’s the hero, he has a very strong personality, he is particularly determined, has to carry the consequences of a prophecy at a very young age, must lead a quest and a war against one of the most dangerous wizard… So the fact that he’s already quite mature at 13 seems pretty clear to me - Lupin says it, “there are things in your past others cannot imagine” (give or take). So I don’t think it destroys the theory - it’s an exception more than a rule?)

Having evolving Boggarts means that studying the Boggart of the same wizard through the ages mirrors the evolution of that same wizard. For example, imagine Harry’s Boggart at 40 would require to understand what Harry became. Does his Boggart still take the form of a Dementor? If it does, does it have the same meaning as it had twenty years before? If not, what could it be? etc.

And in my opinion, a perfect character to study and theorise regarding his Boggart is Albus Dumbledore - after all, he lived 115 years and we have glimpses of his evolution through a whole century. And we will talk about Ariana. And Gellert. But unfortunately, not in this post. Sorry. (it sounds like a cliff-hanger - and it is)

Thanks for reading, I will be happy to read your opinion on this! :)

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mischiefandi · 3 years

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the marauders in class at Hogwarts - headcanons (2)

A/N: here’s another headcanon because i just love these characters so much and im feeling very inspired recently. obviously this is just me describing what i picture when i think of the Marauders, but i honestly kind of love these headcanons and i feel like they fit quite well :)

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headcanons below the cut <3

James

James’ favourite subject is Flying

nothing compares to the feeling he gets when he’s racing against the wind

flying above the grounds of his school

he tends to show off his skills

performing tricks for his fellow classmates

flying out of his teacher’s reach when she scolds him

he doesn’t really pay attention to her remarks, though he does work very hard

he trains a lot because he wants Gryffindor to win the Quidditch cup every year

he’s highly competitive and confident in his abilities

he’s not a bad student in other branches, but he often gets distracted by his mates

he’s always playing pranks on teachers and showing up late to class, tie not made correctly

he absolutely hates anything too mathematical, which automatically ruins Transfiguration, Ancient Ruins, and Astronomy for him

though he still gets rather good grades in those subjects

however he loves Charms and gets excellent grades in that class

he is very clever and he doesn’t mind shoving it in certain people’s *Snape’s- cough cough* faces

when he chooses to work hard, it usually turns out great for him

though he doesn’t often choose to

Sirius

he’s probably the worst student out of all 4 marauders

too busy making his classmates laugh or teachers fume with anger

he’s been to dumbledore’s office so many times, he couldn’t even count them if he tried

he often finds himself in detention with Mrs. McGonagall, who keeps a very sharp eye on him

they always end up chatting towards the end of detention though

he would never admit it, but she’s his favourite teacher

he finds her brilliant and he adores pushing her buttons

Sirius is smart, but he gets bored easily, and his love for adventure gets in the way of long hours of work

he only really enjoys one class which is Defence Against the Dark Arts, because it’s the only one in which he can actually do something

it’s also because it’s the only class he actually finds useful aside from Charms

he is however a gifted wizard and even though he isn’t a very devoted student, his magical prowess never ceases to amaze the staff members of Hogwarts

his favourite spell is Wingardium Leviosa, with the occasional Alohomora

they always come in quite handy

Remus

while Sirius is the worst student in the group, Remus is definitely the best

he loves learning about magic

he also loves reading, which explains why he enjoys History of Magic so much

he’s always sitting somewhere beside a fire or against a cool window, reading a book about mythical creatures or about unfamiliar hexes

he’s passionate about Defence Against the Dark Arts, and he’s oftentimes caught waving his wand at objects in the dormitory, practicing his spells

it’s no surprise he’s the one who’s always helping his friends out with their homework

he never complains about their lack of work or motivation

he’s always willing to help them, unless he’s in a very bad mood

when he has his off days, he pretends he’s got a lot of work to do

when really he just stares into the void, unable to concentrate on his books

aside from those days, Remus pays a lot of attention to his classes

he enjoys each and every one of them for different reasons, though some more than others

if he had to pick one class he really didn’t like, it’d have to be Divination

he doesn’t like its illogical and inconsistent characteristics

Peter

Peter’s not good in school, but he isn’t bad either

he’s just average

in everything

he’s not particularly passionate about anything, though he really enjoys Potions

unlike most things in life, if you follow the instructions properly, you always get the result you were hoping for, and that’s why he likes it so much

Peter works a lot but his grades unfortunately don’t always match up to his efforts

he gets very annoyed when James or Sirius get better points than him, especially when they boast about barely studying for the test

he thought he’d enjoy Flying, but his first experience on a broom traumatised him so badly he got a special permission slip not to have to keep attending the class

James used to tease him about it but eventually offered to help him deal with his fear of heights, a proposition he gratefully declined

while he isn’t particularly talented or skilled, he’s a very good listener, and he enjoys listening to his teachers talk, especially when they’re passionate about their subject

he often asks Remus for extra help or explanations and Remus gladly helps him out

he might not be an exceptional wizard, but Peter always tries his best

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