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basiatlu · 7 months
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I see it too and not because I’m in the same position with my feet tucked between the couch cushions as I type this.
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valoale · 9 months
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12 Grimmauld Place
Sketch dump because why not
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addsalwayssick · 5 months
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if i ever go see 12 grimmauld place i will do the griddy in front of it for sirius and regulus black
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alltoounwellll · 2 months
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in your opinion what's the best marauders plot line??????
probs the prank 🤭 teehee I love angst and this specific brand of angst is so delicious
I also appreciate the sirius leaving grimmauld plotline, because if I am anything I am a black brothers stan !!
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lunaoblonsky · 4 months
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Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
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When the dust in the air takes form as the ghosts of your own past.
The rooms at 12 Grimmauld Place hold ghosts and memories of the past.
Regulus' room was never occupied or offered up to Order members, not while Sirius was staying at 12 Grimmauld Place. It wasn't just because of Sirius, Kreacher was also making sure no one step foot inside his room when the Order was busy and frequently staying there.
They never explicitly address it, but they have a silent agreement.
I headcanon Regulus visiting Sirius' room from time to time just to feel like he's with Sirius again. Even though they weren't talking in the end, it still felt like he was going through it all with someone. That he wasn't so completely alone. Just hits differently now, being stuck with his parent's violence — the permanence of it.
Sirius' room is where he probably found a box of cigarettes Sirius left. Maybe he tries it the first time in the secrecy of his brother's room. And he hates that he's putting known, toxic muggle smoking sticks in his mouth, tasting the smoke, the menthol, the bitterness that latches on to the back of his mouth — just to feel like he can have something with his brother. He knows he's being pathetic. Look at him. He's choking on smoke because he doesn't know what he's doing, but Sirius kept doing it all the time when their parents weren't home, he just wants to feel close to him again. He doesn't look like an esteemed Black heir, now, does he?
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CUE SIRIUS YEARS AFTER. Visiting reg's room from time to time. Looking at the pictures and newspaper clippings of Voldemort. He's still angry but time's done what it always does and dulls its edges. Of course, he still loves his brother. He never stopped loving him.
He's never stopped hating the person he became either, but it feels different now. It's more grief and weariness, than the hurt and burning it used to make him feel.
Given everything he's been through. Everything he's seen and witnessed people do. He sees how much of a kid Regulus was. Like he was, at the height of it all. His brother was never violent, he was only stupid, so stupid, and loyal to a fault. He was stubborn. Immovable. Sirius never managed to change his mind on things. Yet he also never flourished in Bellatrix's show of cruelty. Regulus loved their parents but loathed their violence.
His brother was just a kid.
Looking at how young Harry and his friends are, looking at Narcissa's son — he can't help but feel rage because the kids deserve better lives. He's watching it happen all over again. Why doesn't anyone see how the children are reliving their worst years?
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Regulus never ended up being right after all. In all his insistence that Sirius was the one who was wrong, that their parents weren't truly evil, that purebloods where different from the rest of wizarding society.
But surrounded in a tomb of his brother's belongings, surrounded by what remains of his memory, faced with reminders of how young he was when he died when Sirius, himself, is old enough to father James's child (Regulus too, he thinks brokenly) — he wishes. He yearns. To go back in time and take his brother away with him. To do things differently. To not let his parents do what they did to them. He wants to go back and tell his brother to shut the fuck up, that he doesn't fucking care, and he's coming with him. 
To show Regulus why he's wrong. Why their parents are wrong. Instead of only ever screaming back. Because Sirius was shown, more than he was told. He only realizes this now, with years on his back.
They were only kids. 
He wants nothing more than to take Regulus' hand and run towards a life that should have been given to them. To run, until all the pain falls off from their shoulders, happy just like they were, a long time ago.
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dewitty1 · 1 year
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You can buy Sirius Black’s Islington home now
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Number 12, Grimmauld Place, ancestral home of Sirius Black, is up for sale. Okay, it’s a well-presented grade II-listed Georgian flat in Claremont Square, Pentonville, N1. 
The iconic address, HQ of the main resistance to the dark forces of Voldemort, was a filming location featuring in ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry of course, and Gary Oldman as homeowner Sirius, and is available for £385,000. The light and airy leasehold first-floor period property boasts access to a rear garden, with studio, separate kitchen and bathroom, and is mid-terrace. Plus, if entry to Hogwarts is not available to you, then the Gower School and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School are virtually on your doorstep.
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The wizardly pied-à-terre is also conveniently close to King’s Cross St Pancras station for when you need to catch the train from platform 9¾ (or hop on a Eurostar to Paris). It’s pretty minute, though, so probably not suitable for large pets or house elves.
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Edit-it was sold the minute it went on the market, that's how good the price is...
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trick or treat 👻
Delphini lingers at the edge of the kitchen in 12 Grimmauld Place.
She's listening. 
The ringing had been bothering her for weeks now, every time she's back to their home in London she hears it. Almost like something is calling to her, beckoning. 
The ringing grew louder and louder until it was impossible for her to ignore, screaming like a banshee.
It isn't exactly strange. There have been several objects throughout the Black households that Delphini had felt a pull towards. Grandfather often explained that it was likely due to the connection between mother and daughter; that their estates were full of Bella's magic, the sheer force of it imprinted on various objects.
The young witch circles the kitchen, fingers nails tapping along the marble counters as she follows the ringing towards the pantry.
“Kreacher!” The elf appears beside her in a snap, a small broom in hand. 
“Yes, Mistress Delphini?” Kreacher starts with a smile, beady eyes look up at her adoringly. Delphi can hardly drag her gaze away from the small door across the pantry, her magic far too enchanted with whatever rests inside. 
“What have you got in there?” Her voice is high-pitched, curious.
Kreacher hesitates, either unsure what Delphini is asking or just reluctant to answer. 
“Mistress Delphi?”
“Open it.” She demands, arms crossing. “Now.” 
With a snap of the elf’s fingers the door creaks open. Delphini takes one large step forward, peeking into the dark cupboard curiously. There's a large array of rags neatly folded along the floor and a smaller piles of artifacts placed carefully beside it. Delphini falls to her knees, hands quickly reaching to search through the items. 
“Can Kreacher help Miss Delphini find something?” The elf seems nervous, as though she were about to reprimand him for his petty theft. Delphini doesn't answer, ripping through different objects in search of the ringing, of the pull. She tosses aside a pair of her great-Uncle’s cufflinks, a cup of silver branded with the Black family crest, a worn Slytherin tie, then comes the photographs. 
Her Uncle Orion and Grandfather look so alike in their younger days. If there were just a few less years between them they could almost pass for twins. There is a third Black in this picture that Delphini does not recognize, he covers both of their faces jokingly with each flash of the camera.  
Walburga and Lucretia stare up at her, each with an equally menacing glare before slowly glancing at each other and winking. 
She almost doesn’t recognize the Black sister’s at first, having thought the swaying image of her mother looking up at her was actually herself. Delphini pauses, leaning back on her heels to take in the photo with more interest.
Auntie Cissa looks so small, she’s sitting in the lap of the one girl that is unfamiliar to Delphini. She knows who she is, of course, has heard the story in all of the limited words Grandfather can manage. Andromeda is seated in a wooden chair, Narcissa propped and leaning to the side. Bellatrix stands behind them both, her arms draped around each of their shoulders protectively. Every few moments the two smaller sisters jerk and laugh as Bellatrix pinches their shoulders lightly before the three of them erupt into peals of laughter.  
“Look!” Kreacher offers, startling Delphini out of her stupor. “Mistress Bella and her baby!” He sounds genuinely eager as he thrusts another photograph in her hand. 
This photo appears to be in significantly better condition than those prior. It was certainly newer than the rest. Bellatrix leans back in a cushioned chair, clearly in the drawing room at Grimmauld. There is a small bundle in her arms. Delphini’s eyes burn for a moment. Mum is exactly as she remembers her before those awful wizard took her away. In the photo the new mother gives a tired smile to the camera before someone walks into the frame, ruining the photo. 
Delphini hums, rubbing at her eyes before putting all the photos back carefully. 
“Did Auntie know you saved all these spoilt photos, Kreacher?”
“I'm not sure, Miss.” Kreacher answers honestly. 
Delphini sighs, shaking her head lightly. She’d rifled through all the objects Kreacher had tucked into the corner... 
...She can still hear the ringing.  
Delphi turns away from the pile, leaning into Kreacher’s den deeper before glancing around the large boiler taking up the center. 
“Little Miss-” Kreacher starts but she already saw it. A gleam of silver, a small chain tucked away deep behind the base. Delphini doesn't even bother asking what it is. It shoots out from around the ruddy pipes with a snap of her finger, she's still too young to be allowed a wand but magic listens to her all the same. 
Everything goes quiet the minute the face of the jewelry falls into her slender hands. She can't hear the creaking of the pipes nor Kreacher’s nervous tutting, the ringing in her ears so powerful it's almost overwhelming. 
The corners of the pendant are inlaid with small snake heads, their silver bodies making up the framework for the locket, twirling together to create a sturdy clasp. Along the cover rests a beveled ‘S’ her fingers trace the emerald gemstones embedded along it so carefully. The ringing turns to whispering.
Oh, this isn't mother’s magic. Not at all.  
“Kreacher,” Delphini speaks sweetly. “Where did you get this?” 
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pademelonluck · 9 months
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1995. 12 grimmauld place.
micro-microfic.
remus: it's been 12 years, sirius. you can't just expect me to be normal around you!
sirius: and you think i can be? i spent 12 years in that place, thinking about you. you were my unexisting patronus. you were the face i saw when i closed my eyes. you were the one thing keeping me from going as nuts as the Longbottoms!
(remus hugs sirius)
remus: i'm sorry i wasn't there.
sirius: but it wasn't your fault, remus.
remus: sometimes i feel like i should've been there with you. sometimes hell isn't so bad when you're with the people you love.
sirius: then this hell, right now, is the best it could possibly be.
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The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black and their relationship with Muggles
So I’ve got a small essay about the Black family and their surprisingly pro-muggle relations which all stemmed from me reading about their gas lights in Grimmauld Place. This is all research and musings of an evening so feel free to add or correct, anyone who finds this of interest.
Generally, the Black family is associated with looking down on muggles to the point of extreme hatred. We are given examples of family members who are disowned for marrying muggles, muggleborns and even supporting muggle rights. In one example, we are shown that one of their number wanted to make muggle hunting legal. Overall, it does not paint a particularly positive relationship.
However, it is curious to note that Grimmauld Place is stated to have been a muggle house, which the Black family coveted and managed to acquire. Now, while I doubt the muggles fared well out of this exchange, it is strange that someone in their family would find a muggle property so alluring that they went to the trouble of acquiring it when surely they already owned other properties in more wizard heavy areas. Another interesting muggle point is that 12 Grimmauld Place has gas lighting. Now, this is probably late 1800s for instalment (if we assume that wizards are not currently making old fashioned gas lights), which would put it at Phineas Nigellus Black’s time. It would suggest a surprisingly not anti-muggle outlook, which might explain why he became Headmaster at Hogwarts. It would be a strangely modern move (contemporary with muggles), but even if installed post their popularity in the muggle world, Grimmauld Place still appears to be shockingly modern and muggle in comparison to Hogwarts and potentially other wizarding homes such as the Malfoy’s Manner (or even the Burrow, which is described as being created/held together with magic).
Now, this could be fun to tie in to Sirius and his pro-muggle beliefs but the most interesting conclusion I find to this is revealed in Kreacher’s Tale where Regulus is stated to have wanted to bring wizards out of hiding and to rule over the muggles. This is rather more in keeping with Grindelwald’s ideology and rather juxtaposed to Voldemort’s actual results (although the Death Eater’s movements may have changed over time). It may even suggest a more positive (although by no means pro or supportive of) attitude towards muggles compared to other Death Eaters. In this light, Regulus’ betrayal of Voldemort might be seen as more than just a reaction to the Horcrux creation (and treatment of Kreacher?) but also of further ideological differences, which would certainly make sense considering the fact that during the first war, he was known to have gotten cold feet.
All in all, while seen from the outside, the Black family appears to be outdated, they may have been surprisingly modern by wizarding standards, choosing to live in the centre of a huge muggle environment, even at time adopting some of their technology. While they were certainly not pro muggle, their attitudes may have been somewhat different to that of the Death Eaters we see in the Harry Potter books. Their House, unlike many other wizarding families, may have seen a greater tug between tradition and innovation, potentially installing new fangled muggle lightning within the same generation as disowning family members for supporting muggle rights. It was a House struggling to survive to a rapidly changing world, which perhaps aided in its downfall.
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witchoftheisles · 5 months
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12 Grimmauld Place
Of all the world’s great cities London is one of the oldest, with its history spanning nearly two millennia. It is the capital city of England; it has been since William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings and was named King of England in the newly completed Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066. Through its higgledy-piggledy streets, all teeming with life, runs the River Thames, weaving like an ancient serpent through the city’s bones, coursing away through the thousands of years as the rumbling city swells in size around it, like an ever expanding wave.
Islington is an Inner Borough of London, located directly north of, and a stone-throw’s away from, the old City of London. In the early 18th century to the early 19th century, a new style of architecture was born; the Georgian townhouse. Muggle architects were ever more drawn to the ancient Greek and Roman styles; architectural beauty marked by symmetry, proportion and balance. Towns flourished in this period and London Town most of all; Islington was the proud new home of several Georgian townhouses. In 1807, Henry Dupont started work on the square of townhouses that would become Grimmauld Place, on land owned by the Marquess of Colchester. In the spring of 1812, the houses were completed and became highly sough-after, fashionable houses to own by the British aristocracy. 
In 1865 Cygnus Black II, at the age of twenty-two, was walking through London after having visited the British Ministry of Magic in Whitehall. He suddenly found himself in a very beautiful and impressive square of townhouses, with a rather lovely and flourishing garden in the centre. He persuaded the Muggle gentleman living in number twelve to pass over the keys and the deeds (and in one night the home seemed to vanish from Muggle existence) and 12 Grimmauld Place remained in the House of Black for 131 years, until 1996. When Orion Black, the husband of Walburga Black who was the granddaughter of Cygnus Black II, lived in number twelve, he added more anti-Muggle protection and made the home Unplottable. When the last remaining male heir, Sirius Black III, passed away, he left it to his godson, Harry Potter.
The home played an important role in the Second Wizarding War; it was the base for the Order of the Phoenix from 1995 to 1996 and when the Golden Trio were on the run, it provided a safe haven for them in the late summer of 1997. 
After the war ended, at the end of the summer in 1998, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley moved back into 12 Grimmauld Place as they were soon to begin their careers as Aurors. As Neville Longbottom also started work in the Auror Office, he joined the boys in London. For the next year, they would be the sole occupants of the old townhouse, alongside Kreacher who lived there until he passed away in the winter of 1999. After Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley graduated in the summer of 1999, they joined the boys and three became five. During that summer, Harry and Ginny got engaged, Ron and Hermione decided to find their own flat and Neville, who over the last year of the war became romantically involved with Hannah Abbott, decided to move in with her after the summer. Harry and Ginny discussed moving house but eventually decided, as they had a house inherited from Harry’s Godfather Sirius, and Ron and Hermione were going to be renting a flat in London, that they would stay and make 12 Grimmauld Place their home.
By the time Harry and Ginny’s first born son James came, 12 Grimmauld Place would be unrecognisable from the Pure-Blood style extravagance it used to be when owned by the Black family. The front door was painted a proud Gryffindor red, the silver serpent knocker became a golden phoenix knocker (in honour of the time the house had spent being a home to the Order of the Phoenix) and inside all of the old paintings and tapestries were removed. The history of the home remained in the old wooden floors and the doors and the wide sweeping staircase crawling up the house, but the old ideas were swept out and the home became brighter and more vibrant.
At the top of the home, on the fourth floor, the bedrooms belong to James and Albus. James inhabits the room that used to belong to Sirius (his namesake) and Albus inhabits the room that belonged to Regulus. On the third floor lies the master bedroom where Harry and Ginny reside, a smaller double bedroom that belongs to Lily and a shared bathroom. The second floor is home to Harry’s study, the sitting room (which was used as a playroom when the children were young, and then transitioned into a family room where the Potters love to enjoy each other’s company) and a bathroom. The first floor houses the impressive drawing room where the curtains used to be filled with doxies and an entire wall held a tapestry of the Black family tree but which now holds pictures of the Potter family. The ground floor is where the dining room is found, where many a large family Christmas has been held with much merriment and cheer. In the basement is the kitchen, with its stone floors, living beneath the house above; it seems to be constantly moving, the life-force of the family home.
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ivorydragoness44 · 2 years
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Sirius Black x Reader: Mundane
Word Count: 473 Warnings: Angst Summary: Sirius finds the Reader in the kitchen washing dishes by hand, no wand to be seen. They wanted time to think and decompress from all of the Wizarding World happenings.
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  It was a relatively quiet day at 12 Grimmauld Place. No Order members were within the vicinity, with the exception of yourself and Sirius Black.    Sirius stepped into the kitchen area and took pause.    “What are you doing?”    “Thinking,” you said, keeping your focus on the dishes you were cleaning.    He let out a laugh. “Could’ve fooled me. It looks like you’re actually doing a chore.”    “Excuse me for doing such a mundane task,” you said dryly, not looking over at him.
   It was easy to tell that Sirius was in a teasing and playful sort of mood. Any other time you would have enjoyed or tolerated it, but you were in no mood for it at the moment. There was so much going on in the Wizarding World as a whole and your personal one that you felt as if you could not keep up or handle it half of the time.    Stepping over to you, he leaned against the counter.    “Did you forget that you have magic? Save the hard labor for the Muggles.”    His small smile faded as he saw that no such joy from his words was brought to your face. Quietly, he stepped behind you and cautiously wrapped his arms around your frame. Not another word left his mouth as you continued to wash the dishes.    His lips pecked your shoulder, but still not a word.
   When you were finished with the dishes and began busying yourself with drying your hands, Sirius loosened his hold to let you turn around in his grasp. Tossing the hand-towel onto the counter, you allowed yourself to decompress into Sirius’s embrace.
   “We should just run away,” you mumbled into his chest.    “Run away? Where?”    “To another country, continent even. We could find some place quiet, and I’ll put up shields and barriers to conceal us. Then you can finally go outside without a worry of someone spotting you.”    Sirius gazed at you so softly, adoring the hope in your eyes, wanting so much to agree. “Thank you, love. But as much as I love that idea, I can’t. We can’t. We’re needed here. The Order needs you—”    “More than you?” You pressed, riding on the need to get as far away from the war and Ministry as possible.    “No…but this is far greater than the both of us. You know that. Look at me, love. Once this is all over, we can go wherever you want, I promise you. We just have to wait a little longer.”    “All right,” you sighed, “but don’t expect me to be happy about it.”    “Should I take personal offense?”    “No…I’m happy to spend time with you, not waiting around with a sense of paranoia.”    Sirius pressed a kiss to your forehead, “I think I can manage to distract you from time to time.”
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zazzander · 10 months
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12 Grimmauld Place Headcanons
Okay, okay - so - on the Wiki it says that Grimmauld Place is in Islington. However, it's almost guaranteed that this is not the borough the Noble & Most Ancient House of Black would live. For one, the area was historially occupied by wealthy merchants, artisans and farmers not aristocrats. In the 1970s, the place was very run-down and generally working class (though it was undergoing gentrification).
I found this blog which was super useful. They give three possible local stations from which Grimmauld Place would be in short walking distance: Goodge St, Camden Town or Caledonian Road.
While the other locations are probably fine, the Goodge St option is the most intriguing. It would place the house relatively close to the Ministry & the Leaky Cauldron. It's also not that far from Soho, which was a bit of a crazy place in the 70s (according to my googling), and definitely somewhere a young Sirius might have headed out as a rebellious 15 year old (probably where he picked up all those posters in his room).
So I found a square that was built in the Georgian era for aristocratic families called Fitzroy Square in the area. And while Grimmauld Place is obviously a street rather than on a square, I think the vibes are similar.
Fitzroy Square is close to a different station but Grimmauld Place is a fictional street - so I'd say it's a similar in vibe location, just down towards Goodge St Station.
Basically, in my head, Grimmauld Place is somewhere in Fitzrovia. An area of London that wasn't necessary "swinging" in the 1990s (as far as my googling tells me) but would have been perfectly adequate for the Black family in the 1970s.
Any of the above stations are in the old St Pancras Borough area, if I'm reading my maps right, and that's super interesting because it connects to another headcanon of mine about the house.
From the 19th century onwards, the parish and borough of St Pancras was home to a large, mostly middle-class, German population.
Irma Crabbe (Walburga's mother) was the original owner of Grimmauld Place. She inherited it because she was the Firstborn (gender irrelevant). Then Walburga inherited it when her mother died, because she was also the Firstborn. And then when she died, it went to Sirius - despite his disownment, since the house was seperate from the main branch's estates.
Anyway, Irma Crabbe was a German witch from a very prominent family. They were allies of the House of Black and would have used Grimmauld Place for as a house to live in while in England. It would also give them easy access to important locations such as Diagon Alley and the Ministry of Magic.
A large German population would have been a big plus in their books, as they likely didn't purchase No. 12 until the middle of the 19th century (considering the house has gas lamps for lighting, which became fashionable around that time) or later.
The house is also the reason why Walburga and Orion were married to each other; since she came with a large, centrally located house as part of her dowry. Having that estate come into the main family would be very beneficial for the family (the House of Black tends not to marry each other, according to their family tree. The match was very unusual and there must have been some kind of motive).
P.S. the reason why I call Irma a German witch is because of her name "Irma" and because Crabbe does not appear of the Sacred 28 list - so the family likely moved to England after the list was published. Crabbe is an Germanic sounding surname. Plus, her firstborn daughter is named Walburga which is a very Germanic sounding name.
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house-of-lefay · 7 months
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the noble and most ancient house of black:
high cheekbones and even higher rates of incest
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tashassims · 15 days
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12 Grimmauld Place
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dark-country-house · 9 months
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