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eaglesnick · 1 year
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101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government
Thing 58
In the week before Christmas, absentee Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked
‘Where have you been?’: Rishi Sunak confronted by reporter over strikes and travel chaos."  (The Independent: 23/12/22)
No, he wasn’t hiding in a fridge. No, he hadn’t gone on holiday. He had been busy vetting candidates for the long vacant post of Ethics Advisor. So who did he choose?  He chose an investment banker of course, a man cut from the same cloth as himself, Sir Laurie Magnus.
But Sir Laurie Magnus isn’t just any old investment banker. He is an investment banker who has donated thousands of pounds to a Conservative MP, Nick Boles. The same Nick Boles who:
“...learns lover's language and puts the £678 cost of lessons on expenses.”  (MailOnline: 09/08.2012)
He is an investment banker who was educated at Eton, and Oxford.
He is an investment banker who had business dealings with the disgraced Robert Maxwell and Sir Philip Green.
Above all, he is an investment banker who has agreed to relinquish the power to launch his own investigations into allegations of ministerial wrongdoing. As Ethics Advisor he can only initiate a probe into alleged misconduct of ministers if asked by Rishi Sunak to do so. In short, he is a toothless lapdog.
So much for the Sunak promise:
“This government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.” (Rishi Sunak: 25/10/22)
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redhoodedangel · 5 months
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Okay, picture if you will…
Reader as the daughter of Lucifer Morningstar and Mazikeen…
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In essence, a love child that Maze and Lucifer decided to train in combat…
When they come to Earth in LA, they decided to send her off to train with the best of the best on Earth, including Batman. There, Reader meets Jason and the two become friends, eventually dating…
Then, Joker kidnaps him after a mission at a school goes topside…
And Reader… goes… fucking… ape…
In the same way an animal goes berserk when their pack, mate or human is in danger, Reader goes twice as crazy… like Joker and Harley have some competition…
She starts using torture techniques, learned from her mother on anyone working for Joker or who sympathized with him… Looking for Jason for days and months on end…
Which leads her to Frank Boles…
In front of his wife and children, she forces the truth out of him without having to pull out a knife…
Joker is hiding Jason in the underbelly of Arkham Asylum to torture him…
Issuing a threat to Boles to not tell Joker she’s on her way or else, he’s a dead man walking, and wishing Mrs. Boles luck on separation/divorce proceedings (they gonna need it), she’s off to Arkham…
Once inside the belly of the beast, she immediately hears screams… and she doesn’t waste a second, ripping the heavy-duty door off of its hinges.
Joker has a branding tool with a ‘J’ that was still hot, Harley looking at her in shock and horror, and Jason, reddening eyes full of tears and pain with a newly branded ‘J’…
“Okay, now you’ve really pissed me off…”
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Reader goes fucking nuts and Joker, for the first time, is genuinely terrified…
Like, he thought he could beat her up like Jason, but she managed to do the one thing that he thought impossible…
Making him feel pain without making him laugh….
It becomes clear to him that Reader is beyond human…
She was a living, breathing monster with the face of a pretty girl…
A monster fighting for her lover… and that lover was Jason…
Unlike Batman, love wasn’t her weakness… it was her weapons, the very tools she was using to deliver the same punishment he had placed onto Jason onto him…
Even Harley could tell she wasn’t normal in the slightest and actively stayed out of her way purely out of shock, for once thinking about her self-preservation rather than her clown-faced man-candy (if you can even call Joker a man or even man-candy).
With Joker nearly beaten to within an inch of his life, Reader is shaken out of her murderous stupor by a single broken word…
“B-Babe…”
Her eyes then turned towards the sight of her boyfriend, her Jason. The tape hanging off the corner of his mouth, skin stained with blood, tears and other copious substances. His eyes still pained and red now looking at her and pleading.
Without a second thought, she goes up to him and cuts him out of his bindings. Ensues a lot of tears and ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ and just a lot of emotional shit…
Then Harley pulls out a gun from Joker’s pocket and shoots her, ruining the special moment…
Only it doesn’t kill her… the bullet bouncing off her…
Y/N had always been careful around weaponry, as she didn’t know if she was invincible like her father or at risk of being destroyed completely like her mother. She had managed to get nicked a few times during fights…
But those were before she met Jason…
She realized what was going on as she shielded Jason from the hail of bullets and shrill angry screams coming from Harley…
She was vulnerable by herself, but impenetrable around Jason…
It was a strange reversal of what was going on with her father around his detective colleague, Chloe…
Without fault, she whips around and sets her sights on Harley, grabbing the gun, twisting and breaking her arm and destroying the pistol in the process…
Flashing her demon face, Reader says to Harley, “If either of you touch him again, you’re gonna wish I had sent you both to Hell just now…”
In the midst of this, Jason passes out from the pain of his untreated injuries. With her supernatural strength, Y/N picks up Jason and turns to leave, unfurling her black and green angel wings…
Boy, Batman was going to give her a hounding and her parents were going to be singing praises…
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Hi are you taking requests if so could you do sick Nick blankenburg x reader if not i totally understand have a good day/night
hope you love it🤍
It had been a long day, you had two classes this morning and then you had to study for an exam later during the day.
By 7:30pm I was exhausted so I made my way to Nick’s house. I was so busy with school I hadn’t had any chance talking to him today.
When I got to the house Nolan was in the living room but I didn’t see Nick
“where’s Nick?” I asked, making him look at me
“in his room, I think he was going to take a nap, he wasn’t feeling to good this morning.” He replied making me nod my head.
“thanks!” 
I made my way upstairs to his bedroom. I knocked before poking my head in, I saw him laying on his back with eyes closed.
I made my way softly in his room on the other side of his bed.
I placed my hand on his forehead to feel that it was warm. I heard nick grunting before slowly opening his eyes.
“Hey babe, you probably shouldn’t be here, I don’t feel to good” he groaned
“you look like you might have a fever, and there is no way I’m leaving… let me take care of you” 
“I love you babe, but I don’t want you to get sick” he said softly
“let’s worry about you first… did you eat anything today?”
“no…” he said making me shake my head.
“I’ll go make you some soup and I’ll bring back some medicine, I’ll be back” I said getting up and going downstairs
I went to the kitchen and grad some stuff to make some soup, while getting the medicine.
Nolan eventually joined me in the kitchen
“how’s he feeling?” he asked
“Not good, I think he might have a fever” 
“Crap, poor nick”
You finished making the soup and made your way back to nick
“here you go” giving him the medicine.
Once he takes it, you give him the soup
“thanks babe” 
“anytime” you replied sitting next to him
You ended up putting on a show on Netflix
Nick put the empy bole of soup on his night stand before looking at you with puppy dog eyes
“what?” you asked chuckling 
“can we cuddle?” 
You let out a laugh before nodding
You both ended up falling asleep to the show playing in the background.
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wetgaysocks · 2 years
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If you and the boy had a 5 person pass list (5 people you can sleep with, no questions or repercussions) who would make it onto your lists?
my list is
Scott Morton
Nick Topel
Chase Stobbe
Jörg Nink
Sam Cushing
from the selection I gave him (he didn't have any inspiration)
Scott Morton
Jörg Nink
Sam Cushing
The boling twins (basically the same person anyway)
Nick Topel
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Easy To Hate Family Trees
The family trees for Easy To Hate aka the story that my OC Anneliese Erika Green exists for.
Story is a Harry Potter Next Generation fic based around Albus Potter description below. This can also be read on Fanfiction.net, under the account SomeKind0fMagic and the Wattpad account somekindofmagic1
Albus Severus Potter. Second child and youngest son of the famous Harry Potter. A Slytherin. Who would have thought. And who would have thought that the saying 'its easier to hate than to love' would become oh so true for him.
Avery Family
Meryn Avery (Slytherin) + Stephanie Avery (nee Reid) (Slytherin)
Oliver Benjamin "Oli" Avery (Slytherin), Olivia Link "Liv" Avery (Slytherin), Holly Cordé Avery (Slytherin), Amelia Amidala Avery, & Isabela Rosalie "Isa" Avery
Abbott-Longbottom Family
Neville Longbottom (Gryffindor) & Hannah Abbott-Longbottom (Hufflepuff)
Frank Neville Longbottom (Gryffindor) & Alice Hannah Longbottom (Hufflepuff)
Boles Family
Lucian Boles (Slytherin) + Eugenia Boles (nee Spencer) (Slytherin)
Elizabeth "Lizzie/Liz" Boles (Slytherin) & Jordan Boles (Slytherin)
Creevy Family
Dennis Creevy (Gryffindor) + Melanie Creevy (nee Martez) (Gryffindor)
Oliver Dennis "Oli" Creevy (Gryffindor), Colin Dion Creevy II (Gryffindor), & Amanda Melanie Creevy (Gryffindor)
Finnigan Family
Seamus Finnigan (Gryffindor) + Lavender Finnigan (nee Brown) (Gryffindor)
Elisia Diana Finnigan (Gryffindor) & Zoe Renee Finnigan (Gryffindor)
Goyle Family
Gregory "Goyle" Goyle (Slytherin) + Millicent Goyle (nee Bulstrode) (Slytherin)
Charlotte Marié Goyle (Slytherin), Robyn Faith "Rob" Goyle (Slytherin), Rohyn Kian Goyle (Slytherin), Felix Freddie Goyle, & Seren Willow Goyle
Green Family
Charles Bolish (Durmstrang) + Sarah Bolish (nee Bareilles) (Slytherin) & Ewan Green (Slytherin) + Nicole Green (nee McGregor) (Slytherin) & Ivan Aleksandrov (Durmstrang) + Katarina Aleksandrov (nee Dimitrov) (Durmstrang)
Katrina Green (nee Bolish) (Slytherin) + Peter Green (Slytherin) + (deceased) Danielle Green (nee Aleksandrov) (Durmstrang)
Aidan Leoric Green (Slytherin), Antonio Juliani “Tony” Green (Slytherin), Derek Desmond Green (Slytherin), Dominick Kieran Green (Slytherin), Liam Alistair Green (Slytherin), Randolph Leo “Randy” Green (Slytherin), Genevieve Rosella “G” Green (Slytherin), Anneliese Erika "Anne" Green (Slytherin), Alexa Adrienne “Lexi” Green, Liana Lila Green, Clara Annika Green, Odette Anabel "Dot" Green, Elina Laverna Green, Eden Starling Green, & Nicholas Barnaby "Nick" Green
Lupin Family
(deceased) Lyall Lupin + (deceased) Hope Lupin & (deceased) Edward "Ted" Tonks (Hufflepuff) + Andromeda "Dromeda" Tonks (nee Black) (Slytherin)
(deceased) Remus Lupin (Gryffindor) + (deceased) Nymphadora "Dora" Lupin (nee Tonks) (Hufflepuff)
Edward Remus "Teddy" Lupin (Hufflepuff)
Malfoy Family
Lucius Malfoy (Slytherin) + Narcissa "Cissy" Malfoy (nee Black) (Slytherin)
Draco Lucius Malfoy (Slytherin) + Astoria Malfoy (nee Greengrass) (Slytherin)
Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy (Slytherin)
Montague Family
Graham Montague (Slytherin) + Daphne Montague (nee Greengrass) (Slytherin)
William Joseph “Will” Montague (Slytherin), Diana Astoria "Di" Montague (Slytherin), Daniel Phillip "Dan" Montague (Slytherin), Matthew Carson “Matt” Montague (Slytherin), Thomas Graham "Tom" Montague (Slytherin), Andrew Harrison “Andy” Montague (Slytherin), Charlotte Elizabeth “Lottie” Montague (Slytherin), Megan Daphne "Meg" Montague, George Louis Montague, Oliver Alexander Montague, Catherine Anne "Cat" Montague, & Wyatt Arthur Montague
Nott Family
Theodore Nott (Slytherin) & Pansy Nott (nee Parkinson) (Slytherin)
Keely Pansy Nott (Slytherin), Charles Theo "Charlie" Nott (Slytherin), & Libby Kiera Nott (Slytherin)
Scamander Family
Xenophilius Lovegood (Ravenclaw) + Pandora Lovegood (Ravenclaw)
Rolf Scamander (Hufflepuff) + Luna Scamander (nee Lovegood) (Ravenclaw)
Lysander Newt "Ly" Scamander (Ravenclaw) & Lorcan Neville Scamander (Ravenclaw)
Thomas Family
Dean Thomas (Gryffindor) + Taylor Thomas (nee Brooks) (Ravenclaw)
Ivy May Thomas (Ravenclaw) & Michael Chris "Mikey" Thomas (Hufflepuff)
Way Family
Mason Way (Muggle) + Amanda Way (nee Boles) (Muggle)
Castanova Elizabeth "Cas" Way (Slytherin) & Amy Kayleen Way (Ravenclaw)
Weasley-Potter-Granger Family
Arthur Weasley + Molly Weasley (nee Prewett) & Monsieur Delacour & Apolline Delacour
William "Bill" Weasley (Gryffindor) + Fleur Isabelle Weasley (nee Delacour) (Beauxbatons)
Victoire Gabrielle "Vic" Weasley (Hufflepuff), Dominique Ginevra "Dom" Weasley (Beauxbatons), & Louis Charlie Weasley
Arthur Weasley + Molly Weasley (nee Prewett)
Charlie Weasley (Gryffindor)
Arthur Weasley + Molly Weasley (nee Prewett)
Percy Weasley (Gryffindor) + Audrey Weasley (nee Fairfax) (Gryffindor)
Molly Scarlett Weasley (Gryffindor) & Lucy Hermione Weasley
Arthur Weasley + Molly Weasley (nee Prewett)
George Weasley (Gryffindor) + Angelina Weasley (nee Johnson) (Gryffindor)
Fred Oliver Weasley (Gryffindor) & Roxanne Angelina Weasley
Arthur Weasley + Molly Weasley (nee Prewett)
Ronald Bilius "Ron" Weasley (Gryffindor) + Hermione Jean Granger-Weasley (Gryffindor)
Rose Molly Granger-Weasley (Gryffindor) & Hugo Arthur Granger Weasley
Arthur Weasley + Molly Weasley (nee Prewett) & James Potter + Lily Potter (nee Evans)
Harry James Potter (Gryffindor) + Ginevra Molly "Ginny" Potter (nee Weasley) (Gryffindor)
James Sirius Potter (Gryffindor), Albus Severus Potter (Slytherin), & Lily Luna Potter
Wilde Family
Mason Wilde (Ravenclaw) + Olivia Wilde (Hufflepuff)
Oxford Gerard Wilde (Gryffindor)
Zabini Family
Blaise Zabini (Slytherin) + Luna Zabini (nee Parker) (Slytherin)
Lorene Pansy Zabini (Slytherin)
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wpdariacutnes · 1 year
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byneddiedingo · 2 years
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Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg, 1932) Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Rita La Roy, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Sidney Toler, Morgan Wallace, Sterling Holloway, Hattie McDaniel. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren, Josef von Sternberg. Cinematography: Bert Glennon. Art direction: Wiard Ihnen. Film editing: Josef von Sternberg, Costume design: Travis Banton. Music: W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Paul Marquardt, Oscar Potoker. At once fascinating and perfectly ridiculous, Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus is a domestic melodrama with music and a bit of road movie thrown in. For most viewers it's chiefly of interest as an opportunity to see Cary Grant before the familiar "Cary Grant" persona had fully developed. He's a little rough around the edges still, slipping from an attempt at a fully American accent back into whatever his particular blend of British and American accent is, and his gift for looking faintly amused at absurd or difficult situations -- with which he's often confronted in Blond Venus -- hasn't quite emerged yet. At this stage of his career, he was little more than a useful leading man -- or second lead, in this film -- on the order of a John Lodge or a John Boles, there to show off the real star of the film, like Mae West in I'm No Angel (Wesley Ruggles, 1933) or Loretta Young in Born to Be Bad (Lowell Sherman, 1934) or Jean Harlow in Suzy (George Fitzmaurice, 1936). Or, of course, Marlene Dietrich, who is the reason Blonde Venus was made at all. Sternberg's obsession with Dietrich is on full display here as he crafts another story about a man willing to sacrifice his own love to make a woman in love with another man happy -- the role played by Adolphe Menjou in Morocco (1930) and here played by Grant, whose Nick Townsend, a rich playboy (he's identified as a "politician" in the screenplay, but we never see him either run for office or perform the duties of one), who gives up Dietrich's Helen Faraday twice: both times to let her return to her husband, Ned, played a little stodgily by Herbert Marshall. Of course, the real man in Helen's life is her son, Johnny, played by the terminally cute Dickie Moore. I like the way Sternberg both exploits and undercuts Moore's cuteness, as in the scene in which Johnny wears a hideous Halloween mask on the side of his head that's usually facing the camera. But then the whole film is full of Sternbergian tricks, such as the two amazing narrative jump cuts. The film opens with the meeting of Helen and Ned as he and some other hikers come upon her as she's swimming nude in a pond with her fellow chorus girls. She sends him away, though he discovers where she's performing before he goes. Cut from the girls splashing in the pond to Johnny splashing in a tub as Helen bathes him. Sternberg and his screenwriters omit what might have been a movie in itself: the second encounter of Helen and Ned, their courtship and marriage. Similarly, after much ado has reduced Helen to poverty and implied prostitution, there's a scene in which she gives a fellow derelict the $1500 Ned has paid her off with and goes off to, we assume, commit suicide -- or "make a hole in the water," as she has put it. Cut to a shot of an expanse of water, but then to a montage which tells us that Helen has resumed her career as a cabaret performer and has become the toast of Paris. Again, stuff that might have been almost an entire movie on its own has been (fortunately) elided. If Sternberg's tricks had been applied to a story that made more sense to start with, Blonde Venus might have been something of a classic. Instead, it's an extraordinary but often entertaining mess.
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Nick Boles with his Daemon Lily.
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dappercyborg · 5 years
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BILL CASH: I've not seen the Bill
NICK BOLES: it's been on Twitter since yesterday, not our fault you didn’t do the homework that was set
speaker: I don’t need to comment further
(Basically)
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thrusticus · 5 years
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votenet-blog · 5 years
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Tory grassroots turns on Nick Boles after resignation
Tory grassroots turns on Nick Boles after resignation
Author: Ben Quinn / Source: the Guardian
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Tory voters in Grantham deny their local party has been the subject of a ‘Ukip takeover’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Strolling past the green where the market town of Grantham is soon to erect a statue of its most famous daughter, William Hemstell admitted to having mixed feelings about the news that the local MP Nick Boles was quitting…
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hello there!! i have been busy latley with starting a new job, but my search for something rotten servers was fruitless (maybe becasue i didn’t look hard enough who knows)
but it did make my friends and i to create a something rotten discord ourselves!!
so, if you love something rotten and want to hear more about my takes on it, or just hang out and talk about this amazing show, or even just looking for more spaces to ramble about your incorrect quotes. please do not hezitate to join us!
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rrrusskaya · 7 years
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Versace Spring - Summer 2018, photoghraphed by Nick DeLieto.
Models: Vittoria Ceretti, Rianne van Rompaey, Lexi Boling & Binx Walton.
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Wedding Shenanigans
A/N : Not me using my cousin's wedding as a plot for my fic. This has been sitting in my drafts for a while really didn’t have the nerve to post it. I’m still nervous tbh. Please don’t hate me if it’s bad my over dramatic ass just went a little overboard.
Pairing : Tom Holland x Indian! Reader
Summary : you are back home for your best friend’s wedding and Tom decides to accompany you.
Warnings : just over dramatic crap, sexual innuendos
Mini Playlist : Aa toh sahi, First kiss
(Note- As our country has a vast diversity of languages the italicized dialogues represents whatever native language you speak. I didn’t want to emphasize on a particular language.)
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"You sure you wanna tag along?" you try to confirm with him again.
"Yeah I have never attended an Indian wedding before. Moreover I should have an experience you know for future just like Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra our grand wedding" he chirped. 
"We will be staying at my parent’s house so no room sharing with me" 
"What? Not again! But why can't I share a room? I mean your parents do know that we live together" 
"Yeah but that's India honey, no sleeping together before marriage" 
"I have to sleep all alone at night without you that's not fair" He whined.
"You can share a room with my dad then" you suggested.
"What? No not your dad" he gave a mortified look. 
"Why what’s wrong?'' you let out an airy laugh.
"I’m really scared of him" you chuckled at his confession
"What? Don’t laugh at me, he really intimidates me" 
"Well he is the only person who will decide to give my hand to you or not, so man up baby" 
"And it's just for one night then we will go to the resort where the wedding will take place. And there hopefully we can share a room or you can share a room with Rahul or the other guys. I'll talk to them about it.
"Not that chump!" he immediately protested.
"What is with you and him?" you chuckle.
"When the person is a potential candidate to steal your girl you have to be a little defensive" 
"God how many times do I need to tell you that we never had anything between us, he’s just my childhood friend." 
"You may not have but I have noticed the last time we went to visit your parents he is always trying to woo you and moreover you parents like him too" he grumbled.
"Aww someone is jealous" 
"I’m spiderman. Why would I be jealous? He says defensively, you smirk.
"Ok spiderman pack your things quickly"
You flew back to India the next day, you stayed the night at your parents house before leaving for the resort to attend your best friend’s wedding.
''Y/N!!" Your best friend squealed in excitement as she eagerly hugged you.
"Missed you so much. 
"Me too babe. Can’t believe you’re getting married. When did we grow so big?" you pout.
"Hey Y/N" 
"Hi Rahul. Missed you so much bro" you hugged him.
"Hey darling let's go to our room shall we? You must be tired" Tom eavesdropped in your conversation.
''Yeah I'm a little"
"Hey man how are you?" Rahul asked.
"I’m good, mate. Will talk to you later."
"Yeah sure, go take some rest" Tom literally dragged you away from him.
"What was that?" you frowned.
"Nothing" He said. You chuckled, shaking your head at your boyfriend’s possessive attitude.
After settling down in your room you went to freshen up. You stepped out of the bathroom drying your with a towel as you informed Tom.
"Okay so tomorrow is haldi" 
"What’s that?" 
"Well it's a ritual where we apply turmeric paste to both bride and groom, it is said turmeric improves your skin tone. I know it sounds stupid but age old custom so can’t be changed" you continued. 
"So don’t wear something expensive as the turmeric stain will be hard to remove. You will be with the guys I have told Rahul everything so you will not have any problem'' he rolls his eyes. 
"And please don't end up killing him''
The next morning after the puja was completed your best friend was made to sit on a seat decorated with flowers. As all the married women applied turmeric to her blessing her for a happy married life. Then came all of your turn. And you guys didn't leave a spot, painting her completely yellow. 
"Y/N come here let me apply some turmeric so that next will be your turn" a woman offered.
"No thanks I'm fine" you dodged her somehow. 
You went back to your room to change, Tom returned as well.
"You guys played quite a holi I see" you comment seeing his face and kurta painted yellow.
"Yeah but why didn’t you put that?
"I'll only apply only when it has been touched by my husband on my wedding day"
"Well I can help you with that" he backed you up against the wall caging you and slowly leaned down. You felt butterflies in your stomach as his face inched closer to yours, you thought he was going for a kiss as you parted your lips instead he tilted to the side brushing his cheek to yours and he did the same thing with your other cheek. 
"There you go" he maneuvered you to face the mirror and you saw turmeric paste on your cheeks. 
"Tom! Seriously? I thought-" you huff
"What did you think darling?" He whispers with  a sultry voice.
"Nothing!" 
"Someone is horny" He chuckles.
"Shut up you dickhead!" you snapped.
"But weren't you thinking about my dick in the first place?" He teases to annoy you even more.
"Ugh!! you know what Rahul is much better than you!" saying so you ran inside the bathroom shutting the door. 
"What? What did you say?" he heard your giggles from inside. 
Later in the day you were in the community hall of the resort with your friends discussing your dance performances.
"Guys we can’t let the groom’s side win do you get that?" you state.
"Chill Y/N we are gonna set the stage on fire" 
"So what songs are we gonna perform? And please no bole chudiyan" you quip.
"Dilli wali girlfriend?" one of them suggested.
"Yeah that will definitely be kept for the end other than that?" 
"Cutipie?" 
"Nah" 
"Deedar de? Odhani? Sawan mein lag gayi aag?" Everyone suggested in a chorus, someone even suggested ooh la la.” you facepalmed at the chaos. 
"Guys are you planning to seduce those pot bellied bald uncles and middle aged judgemental aunties over there?" everyone went silent as you continued
"No right? So please something sober and fun. These songs can be played in the after party when the main event is over" 
"Morni banke?" someone suggested.
"See now you’re getting it" After a lot of discussion finally you all agreed on some songs and started to choreograph the dance steps. Your eyes went to your boyfriend whom you had completely forgotten in the middle of this.
"You’re getting bored right? I’m so sorry babe this why I said you should pass this one out" 
"Hey no I’m fine plus I kind of figured out a little of your conversation, you are talking of some kind of dance competition" 
"Wow you are improving I’m so proud of you. And yes you’re right tomorrow we have sangeet at night and it’s a dance off bride vs groom and we are gonna smash them" 
"Oh you will, darling. How much of an aggressive competitor you’re no one knows better than me" He chuckles.
"Hey! I’m not aggressive" you protest.
"Do I need to remind you of the one time you were literally about to throw the controller at the tv screen after you lost a match of fortnite?" 
"Okay in my defense you cheated" you narrowed your eyes.
"No I didn't," He says haughtily.
"Yes you did, you distracted me-" you argue back.
"What did I do baby?" His voice was low as you remembered about the distraction he caused.
"Uh never mind" you stutter all flustered.
"Hey Y/N c’mon let’s practise" Rahul called you.
"What’s he gonna do?" Tom frowned.
"He’s my dance partner, I would have asked you but you don’t understand the lyrics well so"
"Yeah yeah I get it, now go" He said rolling his eyes.
You began to practice the dance for the sangeet it went on for sometime. But later everyone got bored to dancing to the same song so random songs were played
Sun baby deadly hai teri walk ni
Tere thumke bhi karte hai talk ni 
Ho dil kare dekhi jaun teri ore
Tu nazre mila toh sahi
Dil diya hai jaan bhi tujhe denge
Tu ik vaari aa toh sahi
Dil diya hai jaan bhi tujhe denge
Tu nazre mila toh sahi
Tu ik vari aa to sahi
You started to move your hips sensually as Rahul joined you too. His hands went to wrap around your waist which made Tom uncomfortable as his face tensed up. You were laughing and giggling unaware of Tom watching you with a pointed look as you both were getting too close to his liking. You looked over your shoulder to find a very displeased Tom. An idea crossed your mind as you waltzed your way to him.
Kab mummy daddy mere tu patayega
Leke band baja ghar mere aayegaKab tak mujhe aise hi ghumayega
Tu baat badha to sahi
Dil diya hai jaan bhi tujhe denge
Tu ik vaari aa toh sahi
Dil diya hai jaan bhi tujhe denge
Tu nazre mila toh sahi
Tu ik vari aa to sahi
Grabbing his hand you pulled him to the center your friends hooted and whistled. You began to dance around him and nudge his shoulder playfully before lacing your hands around his neck pulling him closer to you. You turn around your back pressed against his broad chest as you take his hands and place them around your waist and continue to sway against each other.
............
Next day your best friend was sitting in the courtyard surrounded by all the ladies. The mehendi artist drew beautiful and intricate patterns on her hand with the henna.
You and your girl gang got ready to perform for the occasion as the song ‘mehndi hai rachne wali’ started to play in the background. You all danced to the song gracefully. After the performance you all also got your mehendi done.
"Tom! Tom! Where is my food?!" You yell sitting on your bed with wet henna on your hands.
"Wait a minute my hungry devil" Tom comes with your plate of food.
"Seriously you just can’t wait for a few minutes" He huffs sitting next to you.
"I’m so lucky to have such a sweet and caring boyfriend" you gush. 
"Yeah yeah, now open your mouth" You do as he says. He brings the spoon near your mouth to pull it away immediately and eat the food himself.
"Tom!" You protest, he stifles a laugh. This is a nice punishment for you now cannot work your hands.
"Yeah very funny, don’t talk to me" You turn your face away from him annoyed.
"Hey I’m sorry, here take" He holds the spoon in front of you as you open your mouth to eat but that little fucker does it again going into a fit of laughter.
"You!!" You lift your hands to hit him.
"Ah, ah love don’t think of it or your artwork will only get ruined" He chuckles as you huff in defeat.
"Okay now c’mon, this time no pranks I promise" You frowned at him still dubious but this time he finally fed you. 
"You know they write the name or initial of your husband in this. I made the lady write your initial, think you can find it?" you looked at him with a  playful expression. 
"Is that a challenge, love?" 
"Well maybe" you shrug. 
"Then I fucking accept it!" He gets on to search through the intricate patterns drawn on your hand but soon he realized it was hard than he thought as he frowned.
"Don’t worry baby you have the whole day, you’ll find it eventually I suppose" You snicker.
Later in the evening the sangeet ceremony took place and as expected you guys won the dance off. After all the elders and children were done having their dinner and retreated to their rooms, the younger lot of you as decided earlier had your own kind of mini bachelor’s party with everyone ending up drunk. The boys were dancing on to some peppy bollywood item number, later you and your girlfriends took the stage as the music continued to play.
Ae Yo, Ae Yo
Seene Se Laga Ke Baahon Mein
Mujhe Le Lo
Jaldi Hai Kaisi
I Like It Nice And Slow
Your body swayed sensually as the guys hollered and cheered you girls with a few whistles.
Meri Heart Beat Fast
Aur Sab Lage Mujhe Slo-mo
Mujhe Slow-mo
I Want You Right Now
I Need You Right Now Come
You stretched your hand pointing your finger directly to your boyfriend motioning him to get up and come to you. He obliged with a smirk plastered on his face and strided towards you.
Hassa Hassa Ke Gaya Fasa
Tu Toh Dil Mera
Nasha Nasha Tera Chadha Nasha
Jab Dekha Chehra Tera
Meri Life Mein Yun Kar Gaya Kyun
Har Din Love Wala Season Tu
What You Gonna Do?
Jo Main Keh Du
Meri Heart Beat Ka Reason Tu
His hands rested on your hips as he knelt down to ear and whispered
"You really do like it nice and slow don’t you love?" you elbowed him playfully.
‘‘Fuck off!!’’
‘‘Ow!’’ He groaned chuckling.
…….
It was your bestie's big day as you were getting ready for it putting on your saree.
"Tom can you help me with the pleats of my saree please" 
"Sure darling" He squats down to gather the silky material of your saree, you smoothen the pleats as he holds them in place.
"Thanks hun" You tuck in the pleats inside your underskirt securing them with a pin.
"Anytime sweetheart" He stands up on his feet smiling.
You went on to do your makeup and were busy putting on your jhumkas when Tom’s eyes went to your reflection in the mirror. And boy he was mesmerised, you looked unearthly. He slowly walked to you resting his chin on your shoulder, his arms wrapping around your waist, the sweet scent of the jasmine flowers pinned to your hair intoxicating his senses.
"You look so gorgeous, darling." 
"Well thank you, love. You look no less handsome either" And it was so true he actually looked like a snack in that designer kurta. You turned to face him gazing into his soft brown eyes. There was a certain kind of flicker in his eyes which you knew all too well though you were tempted to give in but attending your best friend’s wedding was also important so you brought your hands in front of his face and shook your bangles the jingling  sound broke him out of his trance as he shook his head, blinking his eyes owlishly.
"Now who’s horny huh?" You teased.
"Shut up!" His face turned red all flustered.
"Aww it’s ok baby boy" You tease him even more.
"You’re so in for it later, Y/N" He warns playfully.
"Will see" You winked mischievously "Now c’mon let’s go" you walked out hand in hand towards the dias where the wedding nuptials were to be performed but had to stop on your tracks when you saw a group of aunties coming your way.
"Oh no! Aunties incoming just smile and greet them" You direct Tom warily.
"Do I need to touch their feet?" He asks nervously as you frown.
"No! That’s too much respect they deserve" 
"Y/N how are you?" One of them asked. "You’ve grown so big! You remember me right?" Another lady badgered you with more questions.
"I’m fine, how are you all?" You gave a broad smile as you yourself were confused who the hell they are.
"Everything is going fine for us. So happy Y/F/N is finally going to happily settle in her life, so when is your turn huh?" You gave a tight lipped smile having no clue what to answer.
"You know my sister’s son is in the government sector, a really nice boy and earns a very handsome salary you know if you want-" you cut her off immediately.
"Umm aunty, meet my boyfriend Tom" 
"Hello'' Tom greets them timidly.
"Oh hello-’’ she looked at him with a judgy face okay you kids enjoy then, let me see if anything is needed there or not" 
"Yeah sure" 
"What was she saying?" Tom asked curiously.
"Nothing just trying to set me up with one of her relative’s weird nerdy son" 
"What the-!!" 
"Relax she got her answer which is a clear no. Now let’s go and see the wedding" You went near the dais and observed all the rituals take place one by one. It was the time for walking around the fire for seven times as your best friend and her husband stood up and started revolving around the fire while you showered flowers on them along with everyone.
"Why are they circling around the fire?" 
"It’s quite similar to exchanging vows you see, the bride and groom promise each other to be together for seven lifetimes with the sacred fire as witness" you explained, Tom nods his head in understanding when something went through his mind.
"Y/N let’s get married" Tom says out of nowhere taking you by surprise.
"What?" You chuckle lightly.
"I'm serious Y/N, let's just get married like right now. I mean everything is set, you are dressed no less than a bride and I’m looking handsome as hell and we have a priest right there" 
"Ok Tom, I totally get what you’re saying. But honey, I don’t see a ring" you showed him your empty ring finger scrunching your face.
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“Easter Holiday Break” || YEAR 3 – Ch.31 (HP au)
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Day posted: 11/10/2020
Word count: 3, 260
Relationship: EVENTUAL severus X oc (slow burn)
Rating: E for everyone
Warnings: none
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A/N: This is my first fan fic I’m writing mainly as a way to practice. This is a retelling of the hp books with an inserted character. Although most every character will be written about, this is mostly for the pro snape fandom. Please do not fear, although this is a severus x oc story, it is an incredibly slow burn as I do not intend for them to get together at all until after the final book events. Chapters will be posted twice a week.
This derivative work follows the events of the Harry Potter books by Jk Rowling and is intended as a fun way to practice my writing. Thank you for reading :D
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Heather was deep asleep early morning when her whole bed started shaking violently. Someone was banging on the girl’s dormitory door yelling her name. She sat up and groaned, remembering what Draco had said the night before. She leapt out of bed and dug in her trunk for her Quidditch uniform, hugging everything to her chest ready to run to the bathroom when she saw her stolen library books had become dislodged and fallen to the floor.
She picked them up quickly and shoved them in her trunk, locking it closed. No one else was awake, the violently shaking bed hardly made nose thumping around in its spot, and so she figured it was safe to continue getting dressed. Ten minutes later she was out in the common room with half the team waiting with Marcus as everyone else slowly came out.
“Hurry up! This is practice time you’re cutting into!” Marcus yelled into the boy’s dormitories and slammed the door.
Heather had never seen him so unraveled. He was pacing the common room, shoving furniture and pillows out of his way as his pacing circle widened. Finally, Draco and the Keeper, Miles Bletchley, came out with messy hair and half-lidded eyes, ready to leave.
They walked down to the Quidditch pitch and Heather and Draco broke off from the rest to get their brooms out of the shed. By the time they walked in, Marcus, the Keeper, and the two beaters were doing pull ups on their brooms which stayed suspended in the air, unmoving, as they raised themselves.
“What is this?” Draco motioned at the sweaty faces of Peregrine Derrick and Lucian Bole. “I’m a Seeker. I don’t need to do this, do I?”
Marcus jumped down from his perfect pull up and pointed at the empty spot next to him. “Both of you.”
“B-b-but – ”
Heather groaned and pulled a stuttering Draco along beside her. She placed her broom on the ground and held up her hand. “Up.” The broom lifted, following the motion of her hand and let her guide it up above her head until her outstretched arm could no longer guide it and it froze in place. She jumped and grabbed onto the broom, dangling from it and looked over at Draco who had done the same.
“One.” She nodded at Draco and together they heaved up. She closed her eyes and groaned, willing her tired arms to pull her up as high as they could. She felt the top of her head hit her broom and opened her eyes. “Just a bit more!” she whispered, trying to get her chin over the handle. Her arms shook and she glanced over at Draco, who was still dangling, arms fully extended, with a face as red as a tomato. She dropped down and covered her smile so Draco wouldn’t see in case he ever stopped squeezing his eyes so hard.
The cold blue morning turned warmer and pink as the sun started to rise just beyond the trees. Her arms were pounding and sore and her uniform was already soaked with sweat when Marcus started drills. They hopped on their brooms and practiced double the amounts they normally did. They went through play after play and every possible situation they could get into.
Heather was rolling, flipping, twirling, and diving all over the place until Marcus was assured she wouldn’t mess up any moves with the Quaffle under her arm. Peregrine and Lucian, whose drills normally consisted of aiming the Bludgers at apples and oranges that Marcus got from the kitchens, was now them aiming the Bludgers at each other and occasionally at Heather and Graham.
After Marcus blew the whistle, Heather touched down hard on the ground and fell off her broom landing on the wet grass like a dead fly swatted out of the sky. She couldn’t move, she couldn’t even feel her arms. At one point her braids had gone loose, probably during the diving roll where she dodged Lucian’s Bludger and almost lost her head and joined Nearly Headless nick.
“Careful!” She screamed as Draco fell down beside her and almost smacked her head with his broom.
“If it weren’t for your brother, we’d still be asleep!” He winced and groaned as he sat up. “You should have taken the broom and thrown it into the fire.” His hair dangled over his eyes as he glared at her. Whatever slicking gel he used for his hair had come off completely with his sweat.
“Practice tonight after Gryffindor’s. After dinner meet in the locker room and DON’T be late.” Marcus looked at everyone, making sure they all heard, and headed out.
Heather sat up now that she could feel her arms again and stretched as best she could. “So how’re you going to even up with Harry? The drills you were doing only help you fly steady and cut corners faster… You have to anticipate where he goes – ”
“Flint and I have it under control.” Draco pushed his hair back and looked up at Peregrine who had made his way over.
“I heard McGonagall suspended one of her Prefects from competing in the National Gobstone Championship last year for getting into a fight over what color the nose plugs should be.” Peregrine stared at Draco and raised his brow. “It’d be a shame if… Potter ended up not playing this match.”
“A real shame.” A wicked grin spread across Draco’s face. He turned to her and raised his brow. “Wouldn’t it, Potter?”
Heather looked at Peregrine to Draco and nodded reluctantly. She stood and left the Quidditch pitch, put away her broom and headed to breakfast. Her spoon shook, spilling half its contents of milk and granola oats before reaching her mouth. It took twice as long to eat and by the time she was done, Harry, Ron, and for a brief second Hermione, had arrived for breakfast.
“We’ll be at the Library,” Ron told her as she left the great hall.
She peeled off her uniform and threw it in her dorm room’s assigned hamper and took as fast a shower as possible, remembering all the essays they had been assigned over Easter break. She had one from Divination, one from Care of Magical creatures – about dragons even though all term they’d only been caring for Salamanders; two half ones from Herbology about two different sentient carnivorous plants, one long one from Transfigurations with tie-ins to Charms – Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick had decided to team up to ruin their break this time; three four-inch ones from History of Magic about the three most controversial laws the Ministry had threatened to pass should the Puddlemere United Quidditch team not change their colors from moss green to mud brown in the late eighteen-hundreds, and one from Potions. The only teacher who hadn’t assigned anything was Professor Lupin.
She should be glad that she didn’t have an essay on cursed socks or hexed pet collars to complete on top of all the other assignments, but now that she had decided Defense Against the Dark Arts was her favorite class and that Professor Lupin was her new favorite teacher, she really wished he’d give out more work than just ‘read the next chapter if you’d like’. How could she improve if all that was normally required was reading ahead and writing short essays on creatures they should be learning about in Care of Magical Creatures?
She picked up her bag and headed down the main corridor towards the library when Neville came running down at full speed towards her.
“It’s happening!” he yelled, his arms flailing behind him as he pointed and ran. “H-hurry!”
“Already? But it’s only been two months!” Heather stopped Neville in his tracks by bracing herself as best she could for Neville to knock into her. She caught his shoulders and steadied him.
“Thanks. I thought I’d keep running until I tripped or something.” Neville’s eyes brightened and he pulled out a green leaf that was slowly turning purple in his hands. “Professor Sprout says it must have been a good batch!”
“Let’s go!” Heather took Neville arm and forced him back into a run towards the third green house.
As they ran they were joined by five other students of different years who had all also heard the great news. Two months ago Professor Sprout had let several eager students help plant several chilled seeds of various living death plants from the same family. They didn’t know which seeds they had gotten to plant, but Heather guessed she had gotten the Freezing Shudder plant by the feint spidery grey veins it had. If she guessed correctly, she’d earn five more points for Slytherin, putting them one-hundred and sixty points in the lead above Gryffindors for the House Cup.
They arrived at the green house and entered to see ten different large plants ready to bloom all lined up against the windows. At the center, sitting at the tables, were twenty or so other students. She stopped Neville from sitting at the first table and pulled him along to the last where Fred and George sat whispering to themselves.
“Why are you two here?” Heather sat across from them, suspicious and amused.
Fred and George smiled at her and crossed their arms.
“We like Herbology like everyone else here.” Fred poked at the table with his finger several times, “and you can’t prove otherwise.”
George leaned in. “And we especially love that plant right there.”
Heather turned to see the one she had planted. “The Frozen Shudder?”
It had the shortest of all the stems but the thickest by a good one or two inches. The green was slowly draining from its leaves and trunk-y stem as it died, replaced by a dark velvety purple. The buds on the very top looked swollen and ready to explode with all the other buds, like a balloon stretched to the max.
“Yeah. And you’re not the only one with a charmed pot.” George wiggled his eyebrows. “Hermione told us.”
Neville turned to her surprised. “Oh! What d’you have growing! Which charms does it have? I tried making one myself with an old pot from home, but everything I plant in it catches fire or grows a single grape.”
“I haven’t grown anything yet,” she lied. “I’m waiting for something good. What’s the point in growing grass or squirting Astrophytum Asterias if it’d be just as easy in a normal pot?” She avoided looking at Fred and George who were holding back smiles as Neville nodded.
Fred mouthed ‘for shame’ at her. “What a marvelous point you have. Which is why we’re going to grow our very own Frozen Shudder.”
Heather tilted her head at them. She was curious as to why they wanted it. It isn’t deadly, it’s most common as a show plant for winning ribbons and medals, and it wasn’t used for any potions she knew of. In fact, to use it at all, a saw is needed to cut off any part of the stem which is completely frozen.
“Oh my! So many here. Alright, I have the list here of everyone’s guesses. I hope you’re all ready – and cover your eyes when it happens!” Professor Sprout shut the green house door and took her seat, taking out a ceramic plate from under her desk and held it up like a shield.
Almost on cue, a feint whistling noise started from all the buds. They harmonized for about a minute, and just as everyone eagerly looked around at the plants, the buds exploded thick juicy petals, pelting everyone in the face and back. Everyone cheered as the last petals fell off the plants and Fred and George dove under the table to collect as many Freezing Shudder petals as they could. Heather looked down at them as they stuffed them into their robe pockets and took a few extra petals at random.
“There’s nothing to be worried about technically, but I am.” Neville looked around the room again as if double checking that the only plants to have exploded were only the non-deadly ones. “I mean its Fred and George isn’t it?”
Heather laughed and shrugged.
“Well. That seems to be the last of them.” Professor Sprout went by checking the plants and awarded five points to Slytherin for Heather’s correct guess and almost forty to Hufflepuff for all of their correct guesses as well.
Professor Sprout made everyone leave so she could clean up and Heather walked back to the castle with Neville, Fred, and George. Neville guessed why they’d want to grow Frozen Shudders the whole way but he either never guessed correctly or they refused to let them in on it.
Heather yawned as she pulled the library door open and quickly found Harry and Ron at a table in the back talking to a large pile of books. She approached and sat down. “Hello Hermione, how’s the studying?”
“Will everyone PLEASE stop distracting me?”
Ron shook his head. “She’s been like this since we got here. Harry, help me make another pile of books over here, they might be friendlier than this one.”
Heather laughed and took out all her sheets of parchment and her potions book. She stared at it and frowned, shoving it back in her bag and took out her transfigurations and charms ones.
“Oh can we copy!” Ron shuffled his papers around and flattened out his started essay with one sentence on it. He had his quill ready to write as he leaned over to see what she’d already written.
“I HOPE you’re joking, Ron.”
Harry rolled his eyes and moved Heather’s started essay for him and Ron to read.
“I’m not hearing a yes.”
Ron groaned. “Oh quiet, ‘Ancient Runes Made Easy’. And tell ‘Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles’ to mind her own business.”
“Humph.”
Heather wiped the smile off her face with the back of her wrist and turned to Harry. “You have practice today, don’t you? You should tell Wood that Derrick and Malfoy are planning to get you kicked off Quidditch.”
“Kicked off?”
“At least for just this match.”
Harry looked to Ron amused. “And how would they?”
“McGonagall would sooner set fire to her office than kick Harry off and lose the Quidditch Cup.” Ron leaned in. “I think she’ll lose her mind this year. Heard Snape mention it’d be seven years of winning and she almost hexed his pants off. He burst out of the staff room with singed robes.”
Heather snorted. “Well then, when we win I hope she does.” There was a pang of uneasiness in her chest but she ignored it. It was weird to hear that kind of talk come from her own lips and not Harry’s. It made it worse that Ron and Harry were looking at her slightly shocked. “Anyways. They think she’ll kick you out if they can get you in a fight. She let the Gobstone club lose their best player over a dumb fight.”
“Yeah but… That’s Gobstones…” Harry drummed his fingers and shrugged. “No one cares about Gobstones.”
Ron nodded. “Not even McGonagall. So you’ll be fine. I’ll be your second and there’s no way you’ll lose whatever fight – ”
Hermione stood over her stack of books and glared down at Ron. “Ronald! The point is for Harry NOT to get into a fight. Not to win it! Harry if you lose to Slytherin I’ll – I’ll – I don’t know WHAT I’ll do! I’ll get expelled for hexing Malfoy’s stupid face so DON’T get in a fight!”
“Alright!” Harry put up his hands. “I never said I would. Can we all go back to studying and not talk about how at any moment between now and the match I could get cornered by a pack of giant Slytherins?”
They all nodded and Hermione sat back down behind her books. They studied and wrote all day – although Ron and Harry left several times to use the ‘bathroom’ and they always came back half an hour later with smeared chocolate on their lips – and ate lunch in the courtyard on a stone bench just to breath in fresh air.
“How’s Hermione doing it? She hasn’t eaten all day since breakfast.” Harry motioned at the empty seat next to them. “I’d be starving but she says she’ll keep this up all break.”
“Maybe I should bring her a muffin or something. If she passes out and messes up her schedule, we’ll never hear the end of it.” Ron stood and left in the direction of the great hall.
Harry pinched off muffin crumbs and popped them into his mouth. “What would you do… If Sirius Black was knocked out on the ground in front of you? Wandless.”
What would she do? She’d tell a teacher of course… But that wasn’t really Harry’s question. “I wouldn’t kill him… If that’s what you’re wondering. He deserves to go back to prison. A more suitable prison for him. One that won’t lose their most dangerous prisoner.”
Harry nodded.
She looked at him, staring at his muffin, and wondered what Harry would do. He’d say he’d kill him… and she wasn’t so sure he wouldn’t.
“He betrayed them,” Harry whispered. “He took them from us. He took our lives from us. We could have lived as wizards. Already known… EVERYTHING. We wouldn’t be staring at our friends dumbly every time they say something we didn’t already know.”
She thought about what it would have been like to live in a village like Hogsmeade somewhere. Already immersed in wizard culture and learning about muggles from their mother… She felt a hole rip open in her heart and fill with sadness. She wasn’t hungry anymore, and yet she felt starved.
“I’d make him pay.” Harry finished his muffin and stood.
Heather nodded and stood with him, punching his shoulder lightly. “And like always, I’ll stop you from doing something stupid.”
They headed back into the library and after several more hours – and at least three finished essays later – Harry left for his Quidditch practice. Ron had copied several of Hermione’s essays that she kept stacking on top of her pile of books and Ron kept sneaking and by the time it was dinner, Ron had finished two more essays.
Heather sat with her team and ate a roasted chicken leg, mashed peas, a bowl of potato soup, and left early to nap in her dorm until it was time for Quidditch practice again. She met everyone by the lockers and noticed Draco whispering to Peregrine. Marcus didn’t make them do anymore pull ups but they had to sit for at least an hour and listen to Marcus go over strategies again – which revolved around brute strength for Peregrine, Lucian, and Graham, and borderline cheating-but-not-quite from Heather and Draco. Miles Bletchley’s younger brother was there too, who had agreed to help signal Draco if he spotted the Snitch since it wasn’t cheating for the crowd to yell if they saw it before the players.
After practice, Heather dragged her feet down to the girl’s bathrooms and got ready for bed, throwing her uniform in the hamper again and didn’t bother showering. In the common room she had seen Marcus get all of Slytherin’s attention about something but she didn’t have the energy to stay and listen. She fell into bed and closed her eyes, ready to open them up soon to start the day practically all over again until Easter break ended.
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