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mzminola · 3 months
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Reading oodles of blogs' Percy Weasley tags and came across the idea of Percy becoming a werewolf sometime during the canon plot, and okay, I see the drama and emotional arc potential...
But as soon as I saw "werewolf Percy" my brain immediately leapt to him getting bitten as a kid.
We know Voldemort sent werewolves after people in the first war, that Percy was around five years old when the war ended, that Arthur worked for the Ministry and was against basically everything Voldemort was about, and that Molly's brothers were in the Order of the Phoenix.
So...yeah, final year of the war, either as outright revenge or fulfilling a threat when coercion failed either against Arthur or the Prewett brothers, V sends a werewolf (probably Greyback) after the Weasley kids, and Percy's the one to get chomped.
This just. Completely changes the family dynamics.
How is Percy gonna keep an eye on the younger kids, when he needs to be separate from everyone every full moon? Does he overcompensate as The Responsible One the rest of the time, or has that role not been pushed on him as hard?
How do Arthur & Molly handle interactions between the kids? Especially rough-housing? Percy's got a magical chronic illness now, a growing collection of scars, and possibly feeling ill in the days/before after the full moon (I can't remember how canon that was). But with all the stigma around werewolves, they're not well understood; how paranoid are all the adults about Percy scratching or biting one of the other kids during normal sibling tussles?
I think it's the extra-canonical materials that said the Lupin family moved a lot to avoid anyone figuring it out, but the Weasley's aren't doing that. They've got an established house with seven kids, they're not packing up to leave, and the Diggory & Lovegoods might be a bit far for a walk, but not by broomflight. Do the Weasleys try to isolate in their little plot of land, to avoid neighbors figuring it out, or do they just become super strict about allowed interactions? Do they make up an illness?
I could see them deciding to be strict about interacting with the Diggorys but lax with the Lovegoods, because if Xenophilius starts claiming the middlest Weasley child is a werewolf, no one believes him.
Dumbledore likely showed up immediately in the aftermath (or as soon as he heard, depending on how well hidden they kept the attack) to give the same offer of education he gave the Remus Lupin.
Alternatively, what if they can't keep it secret, because the Death Eaters told everyone? It's supposed to be a way to keep everyone scared, after all.
And of course the details of how Percy in particular got bit affect things. Was he outside when he wasn't supposed to be? To retrieve a lost toy, to get something from the garden, to fulfil a dare from an older brother? Did one of the adults miss a headcount? Did little five year old Percy throw himself in between a younger sibling and the big scary monster?
I think the most positive thing for everyone involved would be for Dumbledore to convince Lupin (because you know he wouldn't intrude on his own) to befriend the Weasleys. Lupin gets a new support network after his old one catastrophically imploded, Percy gets a role model, and Molly & Arthur get a third adult in this mess.
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sonwar · 2 years
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The Mystery of the Pears (89958 words), Regulus Black/James Potter Chapters: 3/3 Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: fruitbowls
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itsjaywalkers · 4 months
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YOU LIKE DRARRY???
I LOVE DRARRY NONNIE this is actually kinda embarrassing bc i didn’t get into it until . 2 years ago . even tho i first read the books when i was like 12 . but better late than never ig😭
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dreadlord-mr-son · 1 year
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A friend and I are trying to disassemble the Harry Potter story for spare parts and see what happens if we rebuild it with more of the JKR stench shaken out, and to our own preferences and sensibilities.
Like okay first. She wants to replace the Dursleys with a nicer family who just put not-Harry under the stairs because they literally don't have the room for him. But he's no locked in, he gets as nice a bed as they can put under there, and he's encouraged to decorate the space and make it his.
Friend points out that we need at least one trans character and floats the trans-Ron idea she'd discussed a while back. I add "not-Harry can be agender, with 'fuck it, whatever' pronouns". The sort of character I call "cis by default". As in, they'd just go through life thinking they're cis and this is just what being a man/woman is, until something makes them question themselves.
We get into the details of werewolves for a while, and I mention I want to keep the house elves but like. Nix the entire "slaves who enjoy being slaves" thing. Go back to actual fae creatures from myths. They're house brownies. People are fucking terrified of them.
A strange magical creature shows up in your house one day and starts doing the chores and you just have to live with it.
"Hey uh. Thanks for washing the kitchen. Do you want anything as repaymen- OH GOD IT'S HISSING AT ME!"
Give them milk and bread, or wine, and try not to get in their way and hope you don't piss them off.
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tragedykery · 1 year
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I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human
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my-castles-crumbling · 5 months
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Reblog to see how chaotic we are!
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mydarlingdearestdead · 9 months
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Regulus: I am at a loss for words!
Barty, voice over: Despite being lost for words, Regulus yelled at me for the next 45 minutes.
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vampbloodbunny2 · 10 months
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Girls Remus
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,, it's that time of the month"
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seastarconstellation · 8 months
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Grimmauld Place, haunted house...
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sadmages · 8 months
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Gale stabilizing all 3 party members from death after not getting hit himself at all and then dropping this bomb while everyone's on the verge of death. So funny of him
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mzminola · 3 months
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With willing minds and loving hearts go straight to grasp the fire.
Regula Black betrays the Dark Lord Voldemort in October of 1979.
She wakes up screaming in July of 1993 with fragmented memories, shortly before her brother breaks out of Azkaban.
With the war long over but both her Death Eater status and betrayal public knowledge, it's a race against the clock to gain allies and deduce what, exactly, she was doing thirteen years ago that she's so desperately horrified at leaving incomplete.
Teen & Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply. Primary Relationships: Regula Black & Cedrella Weasley née Black, Regula Black / Percy Weasley, Regula & Others. Alternative Universe: Canon Divergence, No House Elves, Always A Different Sex/Gender. Additional Tags: Arranged Marriage, Magical Amnesia & Chronic Fatigue, Horcrux Hunting, Dysfunctional Family, Woman Out of Time.
Title: lyrics from Florence & the Machine's Drumming Song. Epigraph: lyrics from Mercedes Lackey's Cost of the Crown.
All images sources from Unsplash: Floating book, Jaredd Craig. Hourglass, Jonathan Cooper. Pocketwatch 1, Lucas Santos. Bottles 1, Matt Briney. Spiral staircase, Kieran Sheehan. Pocketwatch 2, Mélanie THESE. Quill, engin akyrut. Telephone, Pawel Czerwinski. Bottles 2, Jan Raft. Bookshelves, Iñaki del Olmo. Diadem, Rhii Photography.
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sonwar · 1 year
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been rewatching merlin and i cannot get over the fact that gwaine is just sirius black in different font
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itsjaywalkers · 4 months
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What golden trio era ships do you like?
oh lots of them!! i’m very versatile when it comes to the golden trio era, and you could probably be able to convince me to ship almost everything!! but i think i feel the strongest about drarry + romione + pansy and ginny (do they have a name?? ginsy?? idk😭)
i also enjoy pansmione and linny <333
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dreadlord-mr-son · 1 year
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There is a genre of comment I am just absolutely done with..
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A: "This thing has flaws." B: "It's really popular." <- A: "...fucking SO?"
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tragedykery · 1 year
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the best characters are ones that suffer from a chronic case of Dramatic Cunt Syndrome
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hedgehog-moss · 1 year
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It’s always funny when anglo writers looking to express a specific idea casually pluck a cool ready-made monosyllabic phrase from their language’s unlimited supply and Romance language translators just curl up in the fœtal position and cry. I'm reading a text in which the American author talks about ‘Haves’ vs ‘Have-Nots’ vs ‘Have-Mosts’ —the poor French translator translated this as ‘ceux-qui-ont’ (the French language: don’t worry I’m just getting warmed up), ‘ceux-qui-n’ont-pas’ (nice we’ve doubled the syllable count but we mustn’t falter), and the beautiful ‘ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres’ (300% expansion ratio let’s gooo! we did it great work everybody.) From 2 to 8 syllables—the minute I saw that bulky thing I knew it had to be Have-Mosts in the original and I was giggling. The anglo author happily proceeds to use the phrase ‘Have-Mosts’ 5 times per paragraph because why not! it’s so quick and wieldy :) we don’t actually need the word wieldy 'cause it’s just the normal state of our language <3 meanwhile you can feel the French translator’s desperation grow as she is reduced to juggling with “those” and “the latter” to avoid summoning her creature. Eventually she reaches the acceptance stage and uses ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres again like, it’s my monster. I shouldn’t reject it
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