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captain-price-unofficially · 6 months

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SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS (Glickenhaus, 1993)

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patar-fuifui · 8 months

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Tfw you're in a 1am call talking about cereal lore only to find out one of your besties does not like cinnamon toast crunch.

Cinnamon.

Toast.

CRUNCH.

#patar's doodles #the cauldron #sleeplessracoon #partylovingmikey15 #rydiabun #splatoon #squibs #IM STILL REELING OVER THIS LMAOO

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fanfic-lover-girl · 8 months

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Pureblood Purists Actually Have Valid Concerns

Disclaimers

Before I start my post let me make 2 disclaimers since some people have a tendency to twist words on Tumblr:

Not all blood purists were death eaters. I am not condoning DE terrorism here. I am referring to people who held pureblood beliefs but never fought in a war to oppress people.

Harry Potter is a fictional world. My arguments are not meant to be extended to the real world.

Assumption about Magic

JKR does not specify the origin of magic. Is it like ATLA where it's a spiritual kind of thing and people are blessed by Lady Magic? Or is it a gene thing and wizards are a subspecies of human? For me, I am going to go with magic being a gene thing. If magic was like bending in ATLA then wizards should not be such a tiny minority.

Missed Potential of Umbridge Interrogation Scene

This post was inspired by Book 7, Chapter 13 – The Muggle-born Registration Commission. Specifically, the part where Umbridge is interrogating this poor muggle-borne woman named Mrs Cattermole.

‘Could you please tell us from which witch or wizard you took that wand?’

Umbridge's line of questioning is so ridiculous and JKR missed a golden opportunity to introduce some nuance here. She paints all purebloods who are not blood traitors as evil/bigoted. Just because this is a kid's book it does not mean she has to treat kids like idiots. Instead of painting purebloods as bigoted fools who believe magic can be stolen or sadists making up crack in this sham kangaroo court, she could have used this dialogue to present valid and ignored concerns of purebloods. Instead of crap like this, the Voldemort regime could be jailing purebloods who married muggles or mugglebornes on the count of them diluting their race. Or maybe firing half-bloods and mugglebornes and giving those jobs to purebloods. These actions are still wrong but at least they would be rational and add some depth. And purebloods have serious cause for concern. Let me point out 5.

Concern 1 - Existence of Squibs

In the books, we don't know the blood status of the parents of prominent squibs like Filch. But I bet the likelihood of your kid being a squib increases dramatically if one of the parents is muggleborne.

It makes sense to me that mugglebornes could be descendants of squibs. Making mugglebornes basically muggles who won the genetic lottery. In book 2 I think, Arthur claimed Granger was a historical wizard figure and asked Hermione if she bore a relation to him. She denies this but what if someone in the Granger family was a squib in the past and years later she got lucky?? So basically if you mate with a muggleborne, you are basically reproducing with a muggle. Which in turn increases the chances of a squib kid. Squibs can't function in the magic world properly.

Concern 2 - Wizards are a minority

Wizards are a minority in a muggle majority. It's a fact that minorities are wiped out when they reproduce with the majority.

Hagrid says this in book 2:

“Dirty blood, see. Common blood. It’s mad. Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out.”

If Hagrid is right and most wizards are half-blood, how is this a good thing? Given enough time, if wizards keep diluting their race like this by reproducing with muggles, the wizard minority will slowly be erased which leads to...

Concern 3 - Cultural Erasure

It's more than just blood dilution but loss of tradition. Even if a muggleborne like Hermione integrates into the wizarding world, she will never truly grasp certain customs and traditions that pureblood families like the Weasleys and Malfoys will. For example, I came to the US for college. Even though I have been here for half a decade now, I will never understand what it is like to grow up as a kid in the US. I don't appreciate US holidays like Thanksgiving and Memorial Day. My kid likely will but they will have to learn those customs from an external source or maybe my future husband's family. Someone like Hermione may even see some pureblood/wizarding traditions as archaic and unnecessary. Over time, wizards will lose their culture and practically become muggles with magic. Which is why Hermione being minister of magic sometimes leaves a sour taste in my mouth. There's a reason why only born citizens can become president/prime minister for countries like the US (I would like to believe there is a reason anyway).

Concern 4 - Reproductive Issues?

Also, why did wizards need muggles to survive in the first place? Were the women/men having fertility issues? Was the wizarding population so minuscule that they were inbreeding? Or were they simply just horny for muggles? If small native/African tribes are/were able to survive without reproducing with white invaders or other outsiders why is it different for wizards??

Concern 5 - Lack of New Blood

Still focusing on Hagrid's quote. Let's say every pureblood family started with a muggleborne wizard/witch. Therefore given enough generations, Granger could theoretically become a pureblood name like Malfoy or Weasley. But there's a problem: there aren't enough mugglebornes!

Read Hagrid's quote carefully. He said wizards would have died out if they did not intermarry with muggles. Not that wizards would have died out without mugglebornes adding to the population!

This further adds to my blood dilution argument. Basically, we have a fixed magical gene pool which is being stretched every generation with more and more half-bloods being popped out.

Conclusion

Pureblood purists have rational reasons to favour blood purity and to be frustrated with "blood traitors". As more pureblood families like the Weasleys intermarry with muggles/mugglebornes, there is an ever-smaller marriage pool for purebloods. Throw in cultural dilution too.

If JKR wanted to add depth to the muggleborne discrimination, she should have shown how mugglebornes are critical to the survival of wizarding kind and how much purebloods actually need them. Maybe show them using their muggle knowledge to improve wizarding society while she's at it too? But it's like muggebornes like Lily and Hermione have amnesia and forget all about their muggle background! At least make wizards reap the benefit of magic and technology to balance out the issues of reproducing with mugglebornes and muggles.

I just wish JKR could have given purebloods more of a voice. Not all purebloods are crazy, bloodthirsty DEs or Dumbledore bootlickers. And oftentimes, there are reasons behind discrimination that should be examined and explored, instead of just demonized. Harry Potter is seven books worth of wasted potential. I don't know how anyone can say JKR was excellent at world building when the wizarding world feels so tiny and incomplete.

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hchollym · 1 year

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What if Percy had a squib child?

Ooh, this is an interesting question! 🥰

First, let's talk about Squibs in general.

Squibs are treated terribly by most of the Wizarding World, including families who are opened-minded about Muggle-borns. Consider this conversation in Book 1:

“Are all your family wizards?” asked Harry, who found Ron just as interesting as Ron found him. “Er — Yes, I think so,” said Ron. “I think Mom’s got a second cousin who’s an accountant, but we never talk about him.”

It is heavily implied that this cousin is a Squib, and even the Weasleys (who are known for being rather liberal with Muggle-borns) don't talk about him. Most Squibs that we know about were certainly never regarded highly (like Argus Filch & Arabella Figg). They were often disowned by their families, and they weren't allowed to attend Hogwarts (which we know from Angus Buchanan). Even if they received jobs in the Wizarding World, they were not high-paying careers, and the Squib was still looked down upon.

So if Percy's kid is a squib? Well, I think he handles it better than most of his siblings (and parents) would, but it's still rough overall.

It likely results in him cutting off most of his family (again) because even if they say they're okay with it, they treat that child differently (or ignore them entirely), which Percy is not going to let happen. This could eventually cause some resentment from his other children, who feel like they've lost out on a relationship with the Weasleys because of that one kid.

Some of Percy's siblings may be supportive, but only to a certain extent (i.e. George would give the kid a basic job in his shop when he/she gets older, Harry and Hermione pity the kid so they are at least nice, etc.). It's a lot of indirect discrimination though, and Percy knows it, and he can't stand it.

He probably blames himself, thinking it's karma for his mistakes, and even though he loves this child, he can't help but initially feel disappointed and embarrassed. He gets over it quickly though (and feels guilty about those thoughts), but he's heartbroken, because he knows this kid won't have the opportunities or support that their siblings do, but he's willing to bend over backwards to help.

He likely immerses himself into muggle culture, learning as much as possible and spending time there on a regular basis (going to the park, cinema, etc.). I'm willing to bet that he works his arse off to afford sending this kid to a high-end private boarding school for muggles, so he/she has a similar academic experience to their siblings (as opposed to living at home year round) and because he researched enough to know that children who go to boarding school are more likely to be successful adults.

Percy probably works even harder to save for college (which he thinks is an awesome opportunity anyway), and he pays for expensive hobbies like horseback riding and private polo lessons. Basically, he just does everything possible to give the Squib a good life in the muggle world.

I think he would certainly mean well, but he would go a little (a lot) overboard (because it's Percy). The kid appreciates it, but sometimes, he/she just wants to have fun going to Quidditch games without Percy being paranoid that someone is going to be mean and hurt their feelings.

Essentially, this Squib is cut off from most of the Weasleys and the Wizarding World, Percy goes into overprotective (borderline suffocating) mode, and the kid knows how much Percy loves him/her, but they really wish that he would back off and relax some and just let them live their lives.

That's just my guess though, but this was a fun scenario to think of, so thanks for the ask! 😊

#ask me #anon ask #percy weasley #hp next gen #weasley family critical #speculations #hp #my thoughts #my opinion #my headcanons #squibs

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broomsticks · 5 months

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Day 21: A thought-provoking fic

these little powerless bones

dirgewithoutmusic on AO3 | @ink-splotch on tumblr • 841 words • original character

littlebastardreviews posted the collected facts from the 2014 UK Editions of Harry Potter: and this fact caught my eye. 'Only one non-magical person has ever managed to get as far as the Hogwarts Sorting Hat before being exposed as a Squib.' But, gosh it just makes me want a story where a squib did make it through. So here's a drabble about a squib with a quick mind and a hand-me-down wand, who refuses to be denied her birthright.

power should never be something born into your bones. different doesn’t mean broken and humans were put onto this earth to help each other. I HAVE ALL THE EMOTIONS ABOUT THIS FIC and it will probably be by far the most kudosed—and probably also the shortest—one i rec here but. yes. no words. i will be thinking of this one till the day i die.

Read on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/3111215

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#hp rec fest #hp fics #hp gen fic #squibs

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griffynbird101 · 9 months

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Harry Potter: The Wizarding population doesn’t make sense

At the beginning of this tumblr (a few gears ago now I posted a series of rough calculations for the populations of wizarding populations across the globe based on the number that JK Rowling gave (1.1 Million Wizards in the world, 6600:1 Muggles to Wizards). I also calculated the number of children attending the identified schools. (I am in the process of digitalizing these posts because I know they’re hard to read)

Looking back my calculations were not entirely accurate because they assumed that the ratio would apply everywhere and didn’t account for societal factors. That aside, while creating them I noticed a very big problem with the number given.

Based on what I calculated then, the UK specifically had about 10 000 people in total. Recently I discovered that I was mistaken and the problem is much worse than I thought. JK Rowling stated (casually??) that there were “about 3000” Witches and Wizards in the UK.

….This is a society that has been around for a thousand years or more. In fact; a thousand years ago the British Isles had enough children to open a gigantic castle as a school. The numbers just don’t add up. Supposedly this society that marries young, and lives longer than average humans took a THOUSAND years to reach a measly 3000? No. I don’t think so. In fact, the logical idea would be that a reproducing wizarding society should have surpassed their muggle counterparts ages ago.

By contrast; it took hundreds of years for muggles to implement mandatory education, for many years we didn’t even have understanding of germs, and by all means even today there are many ailments that wizards can heal and muggles can’t. And today population trends have people marrying older and having fewer children, whereas in Wizarding society having children is still a priority.

Evolutionary speaking, muggles probably wouldn’t even exist anymore, or be a minority. Wizards in the old days had a much higher chance of survival and living to passing on their genetic information. Plus; Muggles just randomly have magical children sometimes…

Still; there are 67 Million+ People in the UK, and “about 3000” in Magical Britain.

In order to make this make some sense at all, there has to be a high percentage of squibs. Wizards can’t be having dozens of magical children that marry and have dozens more magical children; there has to be some kind of reason why there are so few magical people when they have such a better chance of having children. And yet squibs are apparently supposed to be rare.

What I’m saying is; The Weasley’s should be “The 7 magical weasley children vs those other 7 who we had to leave at the muggle orphanage” because otherwise my brain explodes.

Alternatively; Rowling should be banned from doing math because everytime she makes a flippant comment like “about 3000” she inadvertently makes either 1. A world that just doesn’t make sense or 2. Gives me a nightmare about a literal hellscape where apparently the world is filled with abandoned squibs that no one talks about (or Harry’s too dumb to notice) and where Cygnus Black was apparently a victim of child marriage (unrelated; he was born in 1938, Bellatrix was born in ‘51 you do the math).

PS: I am well aware that thinking too deeply about a children’s series where kids do magic, fight evil wizards, and go on adventures is a very silly thing to do; but I don’t seem to have an off button and this has been floating around in my mind for a few years now it was gonna come out eventually. So you TAKE my word vomit.

#harry potter #wizarding world #jk rowling #doesn’t make sense #population #inaccurate numbers #inconsistent worldbuilding #squibs #muggleborn #what #overanalyzing #jk rowling can’t do math

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beyondthecanonwizardingworld · 1 year

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Smaller wizarding British schools (p5)

Broadoak School

Founded in 1940 by Theseus Scamander, then Head Auror, for all in need including limited magical and Squibs ("magic-borns") in close cooperation with the S.S.S. but generally consists of British military children. First located at Broadoak House, the Scamanders' original home in Dorset. It moved to a modern secondary school in Milwich, Staffordshire afterwards then a farm in the Lake District in the 1970s for security from Valdemar.

They predominately specialize in Magizoology and a large, since renamed: Non-Magical Studies department (both always required) along with Charms, DADA, and true History along with a proud sports program, everything devoted to ensure tolerance in their students. Magic-born and limited magical students share theoretical classes with the student majority but have separate magic subjects, in growing acceptance.

The acorn, a reminder of strength, power, and of childhood, proud on a flag beside the Union Jack. Their "Muggle" uniform typically British school style (like Ilvermorny or Hogwarts' prep uniform for trips) in brown and purple, inter-swappable to preference, with a cloak or blazer, especially after school. They take students on suspensions from other schools, its height during the Muggle Revolution (1955-70) particularly from Hogwarts without question.

Broadoak started a day school, with students taking the Union Bus (military) to school. Boarding grew through the 1970s as cabins expanded though older students can camp. Since then, their reputation grows and have a friendly rivalry against Kelynek but Pumlumon sees them as a clear threat, representing Muggle Britain.

(Pictures:

1: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photo-of-two-acorns-3123900/ with added text

2: https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-farm-gate-and-green-grass-field-1094544/

3: https://www.pexels.com/photo/the-flag-of-united-kingdom-7807857/

4: Made from quozio.com and zoomed.)

#smaller wizarding british schools #scamander family #lake district #wizarding schools #squibs

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midnightstargazer · 11 months

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I have a lot of thoughts about squibs.

And I've been saving them for after the Regulus Black Fest ended, because the fic that I wrote for that involved a squib OC, and I can't really talk about my ideas without talking about her. Author reveals for the fest happened yesterday, so ...

Being a squib seems like an unnecessarily tragic and unpleasant fate. Unnecessarily being the key word. From what is shown in canon, there's no good reason why squibs shouldn't have a place in magical society, but for the most part they don't. And it all ties back to Hogwarts, really.

Squibs are not allowed to attend Hogwarts, and there's never any sign that they can take O.W.L. or N.E.W.T. exams under any circumstances (e.g., if they are tutored at home). But there are several classes that don't require magic!

Out of the core classes, Herbology, Astronomy, and History of Magic would be very squib-friendly subjects, and Potions might or might not be. (I'm pretty sure JKR said at some point that potions do require using a wand, but that's never actually mentioned in the books, so Death of the Author applies). As far as electives, Care of Magical Creatures and Muggle Studies definitely don't require magic, and the latter would be very useful for squibs, who by definition are not Muggle-born. Ancient Runes and Arithmancy are too much of an unknown to say one way or the other.

Depending on how you count the questionable ones, squibs could possibly study anywhere from five to eight of the Hogwarts school subjects. For comparison, Harry and Ron each earn seven O.W.L.s and consider that to be a good outcome. Five N.E.W.T. classes seems to be considered a full workload, although students are shown taking anywhere from three (Neville) to seven (Hermione). So it's totally feasible for squibs to earn as many N.E.W.T.s as the average wizard, even if their choice of classes would be more limited.

Why is this important? Because those exams determine your entire future in the wizarding world.

It's obvious that O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s are needed for most career paths, limiting squibs to undesirable jobs with low barriers to entry. We see this in Mr. Filch, who clearly hates his job as the Hogwarts caretaker but likely has few other options. And yet, why shouldn't a squib be a herbologist, or a reporter for the Daily Prophet, or an office worker at the Ministry, or even a professor at Hogwarts? Just like not all Hogwarts school subjects require magic, neither do all careers in the wizarding world.

At the same time, squibs born into "pure-blood" families can't possibly have an easy time joining the Muggle world. Yes, Mrs. Weasley has a cousin who's an accountant, and Aunt Muriel says that in her day, squibs were often sent away to live among Muggles. But so many wizards are utterly out-of-touch with the Muggle world, and it's hard to believe they would have any idea how to help their child make a life for themselves there, even if they wanted to. And that's not even addressing the prejudice that a lot of wizards have against anything or anyone non-magical.

The flip side of that is what it would be like as a parent to realize your child isn't showing signs of magic. In a society where magic is prized so highly and not having it is seen as a sign of inferiority, I'd imagine few parents would be happy to discover their child is a squib. Even those that do love their kids unconditionally would inevitably worry for them, knowing their lives will be harder because of it. For those that are prejudiced based on magic and blood ... yikes.

This is something I have a lot of thoughts about, so naturally, I've explored it in some of my fics. I've mentioned Marlene McKinnon having a squib brother several times, and he made a brief appearance in a one-shot I posted recently. This is purely headcanon, because the McKinnons are almost a complete unknown in canon, but I see them as being a very open-minded and tolerant sort of family (hence why the Death Eaters came after them), and refusing to reject a squib could be part of that. I've also written a Mrs. Figg-centric story that went into her backstory and how she came to live at Privet Drive.

And here's where we get to the part that I couldn't talk about while the Regulus Black Fest was still anonymous.

The fic that I wrote for the fest was titled A Little Bird Told Me. The basic premise is that Regulus never loaned Kreacher to Voldemort and therefore did not discover the locket horcrux and remained a Death Eater until 1981. However, by the time Voldemort returns, Regulus has a daughter who is quickly approaching Hogwarts age and has yet to show any sign of magic.

In all honesty, I think squibs born into families as extreme as the Blacks would have a very hard time. I have headcanons about what probably happened to Marius Black, Sirius and Regulus's disowned great-uncle. They're not pleasant. But I have a massive soft spot for Regulus and will never get tired of writing redemption arcs for him, so he loves his squib daughter and is forced to confront that aspect of his own prejudice, and that gives him a reason to oppose Voldemort the second time around.

But just because he's making an effort doesn't mean everything is easy for Lyra. She knows perfectly well what being a squib probably means for her future.

“I want to go to Hogwarts,” she murmured. “I want to study magic, just like the rest of my family, and go to Quidditch games, and shop in Diagon Alley, and … and … I don’t want to live like a Muggle.”

Gee, I wonder where the child of a former Death Eater got the idea that living as a Muggle would be such a horrible fate.

No, seriously, one thing that I tried to weave in throughout the fic is the idea that Regulus thinks he's ditched his prejudice, but he really ... hasn't? He's just gotten closer to the sort of mindset that's normally accepted by wizarding society, which isn't the same thing at all. Like, he's plotting against the Death Eaters from the moment Voldemort comes back, but he's still shocked when Hermione describes house-elves' status as slavery, he spent the entire time between the wars continuing to shun Andromeda, and he's uncomfortable with letting his daughter learn about Muggles or even considering the idea that she might live among them someday.

And she's absolutely picked up on that. Not to say her desire to be part of the wizarding world isn't genuine, but "I don't want to live like a Muggle" is very much a learned prejudice, an internalized idea that non-magical = bad, wrong, lacking, and an assumption that her magical ancestry makes her better in some way.

I feel like that sort of thinking is probably common among squibs from pure-blood families, even much nicer ones than the Blacks. Even the Weasleys, for instance, are often very condescending when they talk about Muggles.

All of which seems pretty much designed to set squibs up for failure. There just are not a lot of good options. It basically comes down to either living in a world they have no familiarity with and were likely taught to view as inferior, or living within the world they were born into, but with a second-class status and basically no opportunities.

By the end of the Regulus fic, Lyra has become close to the Tonks family and Ted is starting to teach her about the Muggle world. It's also implied that she might be allowed to take O.W.L./N.E.W.T. exams in the subjects she's been studying that don't require a wand. I thought about having her make a decision one way or the other, but ultimately, I decided she was way too young to know for sure what she wants, and that it didn't matter much what she would ultimately choose. It was more important that she have options and be able to make informed decisions that aren't based on prejudice or fear.

#squibs

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letsallgotothelobby · 1 year

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You won't take me alive!

#art stuff #cgi blood splatter #squibs #action movies

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picklesonjupiter · 1 year

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Filch tells me that wizard society treats squibs like filth. They are seen as lesser than others because they can't use magic. And, I honestly think they are viewed as worse than muggles because squibs are born from magical parents and if they are raised pure-blood parents then they don't know how to deal with a non-magical child. Plus, they must not have many, if any, jobs for squibs in the wizarding world because Filch was allowed to stay at Hogwarts even though he was horrible to the children.

#squibs #filch #harry potter #wizard society #pure blood

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captain-price-unofficially · 2 months

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THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW - “Bird Up!” (Barchilon/Sakurai, 2015)

#squibs

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patar-fuifui · 2 years

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some designs I sketched up for a Splatoween fanart i JUST completed last night!

#patar's doodles #splatoon #splatoon 3 #octos #squibs #//i won't post it until after halloween though #c:#splatoon OCs

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ilybigman · 6 months

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cheese?!

#sona #sona art #my sona #cheese #yum yum #shleeeuurrrppp #in my tum tum #i'm kinda tired and gungry if u can't tell #gungry?!#squibs

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bad-biddie · 9 months

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The Unruly

Chapter One

When you pray, what do you pray for?

I pray for god to crush me, break me up into little pieces, and start all over again.

Angels in America, Tony Kushner

The wind bellowed outside causing an unsettling rattle on the windows. Lighting cracked and the house lit up with a flash.

Snape looked up from his desk and glanced out the window. The storm was beginning to pick up after brewing for the pasted two days. He watched as the trees swayed and the clouds swirled. Just for a moment, he wondered what the weather was like in America.

BOOM BOOM BOOM

"Snape!" a voice yelled frantically from the front door, " Please Severus!"

Snape glanced at the grandfather clock across from his desk before pushing his chair back. He had barely cracked the front door when Regulus Black slammed passed him dragging someone along.

"Regulus wha-" he started

"There's no time Severus please," panic laced the young voice of Regulus "She ingested an unknown potion. Symptoms are fever, deliriousness, pain, and extreme thirst."

"Lay her across the table and stop panicking or you'll be of no help to anyone here," Snape said as he began rolling up his sleeves, heading towards his potion storage.

He glanced over his supply listening to the crash of his glassware shattering as Regulus pushed everything off the table, he quickly grabbed three vials of swirling liquids before pausing and quickly snatching up a fourth.

He rushed over to the table where Regulus was lifting the girl. "It would be beneficial to use magic Regulus." He waved his hand so the girl was levitated onto the table

"Drink." He trusted the small vial of Calming Drought. Regulus ripped the cork out and downed it with the efficiency of an Irish man in a pub

Snape brushed the hair out of the young woman's face before placing two fingers on her neck. As soon as his fingers made contact the girl's eyes shot open and she started screaming. She began trashing her limbs kicking Regulus in the stomach making him fall back onto the floor. Snape grabbed her shoulders and held her against the table, making note that he could feel the girl's collarbones as if she were just a skeleton.

"Regulus come hold her so I can administer the potions," Snape glanced up to see Regulus still on the ground staring up at them as if he was petrified, "REGULUS!"

Regulus seemed to move almost robotically pushing himself off the dark wood to take over Snape's grasp on her shoulders. Snape moved around to tilt her head back, his grasp firm on the back of her neck lifting it slightly so the liquid could go down smoothly.

Her gray eyes, which Snape thought matched the color of the sky outside perfectly, looked up at him welling with tears.

"Please no more" she pleaded up at him

"It won't hurt." He said gently talking to her as he would talk to a small child

He gently poured the first potion, a shimmering dark green liquid, down her throat.

"Swallow." He commanded

He continued the process with the next two vials, a deep purple and blood red, he watched as the tension between her eyebrows eased, smoothing the wrinkles until her skin looked as if it belonged to that of a porcelain doll. Her eyes still boring into his started to droop as the Draught of Dreamless Sleep started to take effect. He calmly smoothed the hair that was sticking to her face from the tears and sweat she produced in her panic.

As soon as he was certain the girl was asleep he gripped the back of Regulus's cloak, dragging him to the small parlor. He half tossed half threw the boy onto the couch before he hissed, "What have you done?"

Regulus stared back up at him looking like the small 14-year-old who was crying in the common room about his brother's disownment.

"Are you an impeccable bringing a muggle into my home? Do you know what He will do when He discovers this? Did you even THINK!" Severus hissed

"She's my sister," Regulus said as he looked down at his hands suddenly becoming fascinated with the skin surrounding his nails

"You don't have a sister," Severus stated in disbelief

Silence enveloped the room.

"You have a sister," Snape sat down in the armchair across from Regulus "And she's a squib."

Regulus's head raised to meet Snape's eyes "You have to protect her."

"Tell me everything."

#harry potter #regulus black #severus snape #squibs #death eaters #snape #slow burn

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a-long-furby · 2 years

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Out of touch Thursday but for the science side of Tumblr

#out of touch thursday #oott #the alleles #squibs #ignite learning #gay #pride month #science side of tumblr

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tenth-sentence · 1 year

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The fireworks were by Gandalf: they were not only brought by him, but designed and made by him; and the special effects, set pieces, and flights of rockets were let off by him.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" - J.R.R. Tolkien

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