Magical Creatures — THE QILIN

The qilin is an extremely rare part dragon-part horse creature with the ability to look into a person’s soul. During the walk of the qilin, the creature determines the new leader of the magical community.

I've been recently sadly falling back into my Harry Potter/Wizarding World phase, so if you have any Harry Potter/wizarding world requests, please send them in!! the tags will show what ill write for but you can always ask if you don't see something you're interested in!

JESSICA WILLIAMS as PROFESSOR LALLY HICKS FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE 2022 | dir. David Yates

Jacob: "Really don't want my eyes pecked out!!"

Lally: "We need a distraction."

Theseus: "Like what exactly?"

Newt: "Why is everyone looking at me?"

I'm correct. Fight me.

am i funny yet

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE Prof. Lally Hicks at the Candidate’s Dinner

Professor Hicks’ defensive magic is superb.

I, as well as the characters from Fantastic Beasts, wish you a lovely Eid Mubarak!

Chapter Eight - Unable To Stay, Unwilling To Leave

Guess who finally pulled their shit together and managed to upload?! This girl!

I apologise for the delay but I've been ridiculously busy with work and other things unfortunately - but come on, let's be honest, I was *never* going to abandon a fic about Titanic, let alone a Newtina Titanic one! :D It just takes a while to write chapters sometimes due to life and other things getting in the way - I hope that it means the chapter is better for taking the time to work on it instead of just rushing!

Fun fact: I went to watch Titanic the Musical about a week and a half ago, and it was amazing! I had no idea that it was a thing until I accidentally saw an advertisement for it a couple of months ago while perusing pamphlets at my local inn while having dinner with family, and I'm so glad that I went to see it! Honestly highly recommend it for anyone interested in the sinking, even though it's not strictly 100% historically accurate (but it's a musical so we'll allow it some artistic license there), or anyone who loves musicals! It apparently premiered on Broadway six months before James Cameron's movie came out, which I thought was interesting - two different forms of entertainment about the same shipwreck releasing/premiering on the same year is such a coincidence!

This chapter features the scene with the soundtrack that this whole fic is named for, so I highly recommend you listen to the song "Unable to Stay, Unwilling to Leave" during *that* scene. I really hope I did the scene at least half the justice it deserves because it's one of the most emotional scenes, it's probably one of my favourites, and I cry every time I watch it - you can watch the scene HERE if you're unfamiliar with it (or if you just fancy checking out one of my favourite scenes)!

Unlike the other chapters, this one isn't named after one of the chapter names on the DVD - mostly because the scenes involved all had scene names like "Cal Spurned" and "Get on the boat, Rose" XD I figured it might be an idea to just name it after the piece of soundtrack the whole fic is named after, so here it is!

This chapter is, as always, not beta read and there are probably errors but hey ho!

A quick warning that this chapter features a few deaths - including an important side character.

Anyway, without further ado, enjoy the chapter!

THE CEREMONY — FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE (2022)

Newt *walking into his house*: Hello, people who do not live here.

Theseus: Hey.

Jacob: Hi.

Lally: Hello.

Newt: I gave you the key to my place for emergencies only!

Albus: We were out of Chocolate Frogs.

Newt: what if-

Theseus: No.

Jacob: No.

Lally: No.

Newt: You don’t even know-

Tina: Look at me. No.

Newt: Alright

For the ask game, Percival Graves (the real one) and 4, 7, 8, and 12! Or, if you can't do him (he was barely in there, I understand), Lally Hicks.

Thank you for the ask! And I'm so happy that you chose Graves; he really interests me. Let's see what we can do.

Question #4: To put him in any other media. . .a book (or at least some other bit of reading about him, the original Percival Graves). I always find myself wondering a) did he really exist? (I've heard that apparently Grindy literally just did a transfiguration spell or something and he was going around as Graves when Graves might not even have existed) but I want to believe that he did. If he did, who was he? What was he like? What's the story of his past? I want to know all this! A book could definitely do the trick, I think.

Question #7 Something the fandom does that I like. . .I haven't seen much of him in the fandom (since I stick around the Newtina tags really) but maybe I can answer instead here for Lally? Everyone sees her as a mood, and she really is! She's such a strong character with heart, and she's fearless. I guess this doesn't really answer as to what the fandom does, but I haven't really looked a lot into Graves or Lally here, in respect to this question.

Question #8 Something the fandom does that I despise. . .I can't answer for Graves here bc I'm not super familiar with him. So I'll go with Lally. Well, maybe it isn't so much what the fandom does as what we're given. It's true we only see her in SoD but I feel like she could have and should have had more in general. Like she's an awesome character, and adds to the story. I feel like she's kind of been brushed aside. Again, I've been hiding in the Newt x Tina corner of the fandom so perhaps I'll find more stuff about her (and Graves) in other places.

Question #12: A headcanon I have for this character (I'm going with Graves here bc)

I don't know if this is feasible or not, but I've wanted to believe that (going with the idea that he did exist) he would have been a man with a strong moral code, knowing what's right and what's wrong and not hesitating to get his hands dirty if that was necessary to be sure that there was justice. Like I kind of see him like with a vigilante kind of "I know what's right and I'll do what everyone else would be afraid to, to defend that." That's kind of my idea. And I think if Grindy had done something to the person of the original Percival Graves, Graves wouldn't have gone out without a fight.

Thank you so much for the ask! This was fun.

Ask me more questions, lovelies! <3

Theseus: There’s a war going on there isn’t the time for romantic dalliances

Newt: Of course not

Theseus: We need to be focused and driven and- Newton?

Newt (looking at something over Theseus’ shoulder):

Theseus:Newton?

Theseus (turns to see what Newts looking at and sees that it’s Lally and Tina approaching): Honestly-

Lally (as Newt and Tina do their usual set of flirting):What are you scowling about Auror Scamander? It’s far too nice a day to be so sour.

*brushes some lint of his lapel*

Theseus:

Tina: I think we interrupted a brotherly chat Lals

*Tina and Lally smirk at eachother and walk off*

Newt(grinning):What was it you were saying?

Theseus: Just stop talking