#hphm year 8

[dirtyfox911911]

Chiara 🐺

I have nothing to add to her, she has a pretty good design :}

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Gonna draw all BH friends just because

Keep an eye out for your fav!

#hphm #hogwarts mystery #hphm art #chiara lobosca #hphm chiara #beyond hogwarts #hphm year 8

[raccoon-lair]

Who knew that from the very beginning, fate itself tied us with threads so that we could be together?

🦁❤🐍

#hphm #harry potter hogwarts game #harry potter hogwarts mystery #hogwats mystery #hphm mc #hogwarts mystery #barnaby lee #hphm barnaby #keira richardson #barnaby×mc #my art #digital art #art #artwork #artists on tumblr #Spotify #hphm year 8 #year 8

[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

how long after the main story do you think this post hogwarts story supposed to be, i mean i know it’s called “year 8” but does that mean it’s straight after graduation/summer holidays or? cuz some of these characters look barely any older than their current appearances despite the height difference, while others look several years older. we’ll find out eventually i suppose.

I think that question is better answered by looking at the books themselves and trying to figure out how Harry’s story could concievably overlap with MC’s story. Because that’s what the writers need to be considering. MC can’t really have any interaction with Harry that is in any way memorable. Though they could be one of the crowd who sees him arrive at The Leaky Cauldron. Several people introduced themselves to Harry in that scene. Easy enough for MC to just slip into the crowd. Could also imagine Hagrid asking for MC’s input on what pet to get Harry if and when he’s out of earshot.

The trouble here is the question of how long this story can feasibly go on. I sincerely doubt they’ll drag it out all the way through Deathly Hallows…but then again, I never expected “Year 8” at all. I figured the story would be resolved at the end of Year 7. But now that I think on it, there are a couple of issues with that. 1) If R has people all around the globe, it may take another seven years to deal with them. 2) Like you mentioned, the outfits. They took a lot of time and went to a great deal of trouble to adult-ify the characters. Seems like a bit of a waste to just give them a handful of chapters.

Either way, I wouldn’t think too hard about the time-skip and how much the characters have physically aged. That was never going to make much sense. It’s just willing suspension of disbelief that they didn’t age for seven years, and then suddenly transformed from how they looked at eleven to how they look at eighteen. Presumably they were all aging gradually and we just never saw it because of programming limitations. The time-skip is likely to just be the same as ever, meaning we fast forward through the summer. Though as MC is out of school now, that might not even be necessary. Just depends on how soon they move to London. Boy howdy, that’s going to be interesting for Luca. You can take the Mage out of Sheffield but you can’t take Sheffield out of the Mage.

#Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery #HPHM Datamines #HPHM Year 8 #Harry James Potter

[astie-hearts21]

I finished TLSQ named "Murder Mystery" and I was surprised how Talbott started smiling like that more often...so sincerely...like this!

I love him ❤

AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP!

She flirts with him😏

AAAAWW! HE TRUST HER...HE TRUST HIS WIFE, I'm happy😭

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BONUS! ~

And yeah, she likes to call him "Tally"~😏

(But he didn't like that nickname, but she still call him😉)

#harry potter hogwarts mystery #hogwarts mystery #talbott winger #hphm #asteria hearts #hphm mc #talbott x asteria #talbott x mc #hphm talbott winger #hphm talbott #beyong hogwarts #year 8

[struckbyelectriclove]

listen i have opinions about merula's new hair

#this has been plaguing me ever since they dropped her year 8 model #my magnum opus fr #i feel weirdly unwell after drawing this i feel like somthing has been taken from me/jjjj #merula snyde #ekaterina solokov #should i tag as ship. should i #my ocs #my art #comic #hphm merula #hphm mc #hphm #hogwarts mystery #sorry abt this i am like. mentally unstable

[lumosposts]

#hphm #hogwarts mystery #hogwarts mystery spoilers #daily prophet #year 8 #post hogwarts

[usernoneexistent]

The moment I saw adult Charlie model in the recent spoilers, I just had to draw him with a baby green welsh dragon.

#charlie weasley #hogwarts mystery #someone had to draw him #green welsh dragon #hphm spoilers #year 8 model

[missnight0wl]

Heyo, hope you're well! Since the recent posts have talked about the adult models, I feel it would be kind of fitting to talk about career options after Year 7.

Since Year 1, we have always had to choose among three options, and it looks like we'll have to choose among three styles of furniture and three locations for our flat (they may or may not be connected, but that's a separate issue): this leads me to believe that our career options will ultimately be narrowed down to three.

I personally believe our final choices will be Auror, Healer or Curse-Breaker, which I think represent each of the Attributes in that order.

Thoughts?

Hello! I hope you’re well, too!

Hm, your proposition sounds interesting. And it does make sense! However… I feel like it might be too much work for Jam City, to be honest.

See, while you absolutely have a point with the three options concept, I have to point out that usually, it’s basically a cosmetic thing. Let’s take a look at our Animagus form. Sure, an eagle might have different animations than a dog and a cat (which are also not exactly the same, I believe), but overall, all of the forms are used the same in the same situations. The flats we’re getting have the same floorplan. When we choose our companions, the differences are relatively small and it’s mostly about dialogues. Even if you look at dates, they’re not that different, no matter who you choose to date (the exception here are mini side quests you get before deciding about exclusive dating).

To be fair, it wasn’t always that way. JC used to be a little less lazy about it. For example, we had House exclusive side quests. Very simple but totally unique for each House. Another great example is the “Egg Hunt” SQ. I believe you don’t play the game since the very beginning, so you might not know about this one. But, without spoiling anything, there is a part where MC and Charlie have to earn some money, so you get three options: to help Rosmerta, to help Bilton, or to help Tulip. And all of these routes are totally unique. Well, maybe not totally because the end goal is the same, after all. However, I’m pretty sure that if you removed the scene where MC chooses one of the options, you could put all three routes one after another – and it wouldn’t be odd at all. It was really cool because it felt like everyone actually played a little different side quest. But sadly, I don’t even remember when was the last time JC put this much effort into… anything, really.

Now, my point here is that having three separate careers feels quite complicated to execute. Sure, we can have some parts that could serve as a “template”. For instance, an Auror interrogates a witness while a Healer takes care of a patient while a Curse-Breaker talks with someone about the cursed artefact. On top of that, we probably already have all the necessary locations. But in general, I think that these careers would require a more individual approach. And again, it means work and time.

I guess it’d be a bit easier to execute if the careers were made the same way as the classes, meaning that they’re kind of separated from the main story. But then again, shouldn’t a career be a rather big part of MC’s adult life? I don’t know… Admittedly, it’s hard to make any predictions since we don’t even know what JC might be planning as the plot of Y8, but I imagine that the career would be almost like a force putting everything into motion. Or at least that a lot of things will happen around our job. And of course, you can come up with a plot that will fit all three careers in a meaningful way. But I think it’s simply harder, and JC doesn’t like to make things harder for themselves, usually.

Another issue: what about other careers? We’ve been hearing about MC being good with creatures since forever, and I’m pretty sure that more than one person suggested that they’d be a good Magizoologist. It’s a quite prominent theme in the game, so it’d be weird to abandon it now. In fact, during the O.W.L.s TLSQ, we could express interest in many careers. What about becoming a teacher? I know it’s basically impossible to please everyone, but still, I think it’s worth pointing out.

Personally, I suspect that the most likely scenario is that we’ll be forced into one career… kind of. Here’s what I’m thinking:

MC will be hired by the Ministry because that’s probably where we spent the most time, Moody mentors us for years now and whatnot. It’s also possible that we’re gonna save the Ministry from R. However, MC will be hired as a Curse-Breaker. It won’t matter much anyway because they’ll still help Aurors, at the Department of Magical Creatures and wherever any help is needed. They’ll occasionally stop at St Mungo’s to save the day, too. In other words… they’ll basically keep doing what they’re doing right now.

I know it doesn’t sound super exciting or ideal. But to be completely honest, I feel like it might be the best compromise for everyone. Nobody will get their dream job, but most people will get some part of it at some point. JC, on the other hand, will have an easy job creating a linear story.

So, here are my thoughts at this point. To be clear, I don’t think your idea is bad. In fact, I quite like it. However, I’m also trying to look at it a bit from JC’s perspective, I guess.

By the way, my belief that we’re probably gonna get a very linear story is actually one of the reasons why I’m not enthusiastic about Y8 in general. This game always had its limitations and it rarely ends well when JC tries to push them, so I just honestly think it’d be better if it was left to our imagination.

#hogwarts mystery #hphm #hphm datamine #year 8 #jam city #ask #wannabeeliana

[justonedrawer]

Eyo there I am

#hphm #me in school #me at home #me for no reason #me when ma babies are growing up #I'm not ready for year 8-

[avidrawsthings]

Will tag as spoiler for those that haven’t gotten as far in Hogwarts Mystery yet:

Anyone else getting the feeling that the game will potentially go up to the Second Wizarding War/Battle of Hogwarts? I certainly don’t think they’d be going out of their way to create the adult models for MC and crew AND new locations all for just one more year in-story. This feels more like a Phase 2 type thing. Everything that took place at Hogwarts was Phase 1. Why not slap another 7 in-game years at this point?

#avi rambles #hphm #hphm spoilers #spoilers #year 8

[dirtyfox911911]

Penny

It’s Penny

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Gonna draw all BH friends just because

Keep an eye out for your fav!

#hphm #hogwarts mystery #hphm art #penny haywood #hphm penny #beyond hogwarts #hphm year 8

[unfortunate-arrow]

𝐎𝐂 𝐱 𝐎𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: A Masterlist — 1960s-2010s

An open offer for oc x oc interactions for all of my HP OCs and the types of relationships that they’re open for! This also functions as a masterlist for my Hogwarts dorms. In addition, everyone featured will only get one tag to avoid breaking the post.

Interactions for ocs born between the 1870s & 1950s can be found here.

The preference is for mutuals and the ability to slip it the (few) storylines. If any of them strike your interest, please comment, reblog, send an ask, or DM and specify with the OCs’ names.

Extra Info:

Total Number of OCs: 18

Number of OCs Open for Dormmates: 12

Number or OCs Open for Friendships: 16

Number of OCs Open for Love Interests: 1

Eras: HPHM, Golden, HPMA, Next Gen

𝙷𝙾𝙶𝚆𝙰𝚁𝚃𝚂 𝙼𝚈𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚈

Huck Fitzgerald

b. november 28, 1972 | saggitarius

hufflepuff | muggleborn | irish | entp | enneagram type 6w7

in a different universe than the ruth & the o’donnells

a little more removed from the drama of ‘R’ and the cursed vaults

an orphan and raised by his aunt and uncle from the age of 5

traveled quite extensively with his aunt and uncle who are both in fields related to archeology and therefore knows how to hold a very basic conversation in a few different languages

more of a cat person than a dog person

makes friends easily, although most aren’t close friends

healer to stay-at-home dad to ancient studies professor at hogwarts

Love Interest:

Dorm: Huck | Rohan Khanna | Diego Caplan | Reid Van de Lune (kc-and-co) | Marty Raymond (@hogwartsmysteryho)

Open for: Friendships

Ruth Lyman

b. july 17, 1973 | cancer

ravenclaw | muggleborn | irish | jewish | infj | enneagram type 8w9

not involved very much in the cursed vaults, she works more as a background character like levi kidd

raised by her father and her grandmother in a bakery in dublin, ireland

a quieter soul who spends time alone but enjoys being with other people

a literature nerd

works as a tutor for the younger students while at hogwarts and for a few years between the end of hogwarts and the start of the wizarding world

a children’s book author and later, the charms professor at hogwarts

Love Interest: Conor O’Donnell

Dorm: Ruth | Badeea Ali | Tulip Karasu | Isabelle Dubois (@endlessly-cursed) | Lyse Spindle (@magicallymalted)

Open for: Friendships

Ryan O’Donnell

b. august 18, 1973 | leo

gryffindor | half-blood | irish | esfp | enneagram type 8w7

the firstborn quadruplet, although the second born child

chaotic disaster quad

most involved in the cursed vaults mystery

“i hate mysteries, they need to be solved” vibes

the rolling stones over the beatles any day

impulsive and kind and someone that you can count on

puts on a front that he’s always brave and has everything together

has a bit of a reputation for causing trouble

plays chaser on the gryffindor team and has a friendly rivalry with his sister, cara

cursebreaker

Love Interest: Penny Haywood

Dorm: Ryan | Ash Khanna | Ben Copper | Jae Kim | Charlie Weasley

Open for: Friendships

Cara O’Donnell

b. august 18, 1973 | leo

slytherin | half-blood | irish | enfp | enneagram type 8

the second born quadruplet and the third of five siblings

disaster bi quad

chaotic and messy, but she’s still put together

enjoys quidditch and skateboarding, but no other sports

plays chaser on the slytherin quidditch team and has a friendly rivalry with her brother, ryan

artist who eventually becomes an illustrator

Love Interest: Rowan Khanna

Dorm: Cara | Ismelda Murk | Merula Synde | Liz Tuttle | Semele Thorne (endlessly-cursed)

Open for: Friendships

Sara O’Donnell

b. august 18, 1973 | leo

hufflepuff | half-blood | irish | esfj | enneagram type 2

third born quadruplet and the fourth of five siblings

soft sweetheart quad

has a tendency to put others’ problems and needs ahead of her own

always willing to lend a hand, especially to her friends

would say that tonks is her best friend

worked in the hospital wing in her sixth and seventh years

was named prefect in her fifth year

not the most invested in the vaults, but she’s going to help out her siblings

healer

Love Interest: Barnaby Lee

Dorm: Sara | Nymphadora Tonks | Penny Haywood | Rowan Khanna | Chiara Lobosca

Open for: Friendships

Conor O’Donnell

b. august 18, 1973 | leo

ravenclaw | half-blood | irish | istp | enneagram type 5

youngest quadruplet and child

least involved in the cursed vaults mystery and is fully done by his sixth year

honestly, he’s usually just here because of his siblings

keeps to himself and hard to get to know

stutters and because of this, he doesn’t speak much and deals with feelings of fear, shame, and aniexty

also swears like a sailor and has no shame about it

plays seeker for the ravenclaw quidditch team

really good at nonverbal magic

architect

Love Interest: Ruth Lyman

Dorm: Conor | Talbott Winger | Andre Egwu | Victor Ketsueki | OPEN

Open for: 1 dormmate

𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙾𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚁𝙰𝚂

Camila Valdez

b. september 19, 1979 | virgo

slytherin | half-blood | spanish | irish | american | cuban | intj | enneagram type 5w6

second of five children

attended hogwarts in the same years as harry & co.

silently beefs with draco malfoy because she thinks he’s an insufferable jerk

named prefect in her fifth year and headgirl in her seventh (much to her immense surprise)

becomes the astronomy professor in 2004, at the age of 24

is helping to raise her two youngest siblings, amada and joaquin who were both born in 2000

she’s a fair professor, willing to give out second chances to those who earn it

Love Interest:

Dorm: Camila | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: Friendships, colleagues, 4 dormmates

Nicholas Wraxall

b. february 2, 1989 | aquarius

hufflepuff | muggleborn | american | australian | mbti | enneagram type 1

hogwarts professor (still not sure what exactly he teaches, what subjects don’t have ocs?) and head of hufflepuff

orphaned at the age of 12 and then adopted by an eccentric and wealthy pureblood wizard

gained a reputation for being the weird american kid during his time at hogwarts

played seeker while at hogwarts

worked as an auror for a few years before becoming a professor

became a professor by accident

his reputation as a professor is the hot professor that half the hogwarts student body has a crush on

totally oblivious to student crushes

either teaches muggle studies or flying

Love Interest: Frances Fersen (@endlessly-cursed)

Dorm: Nicholas | Harker Hartford (potionboy3) | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: 3 dormmates, friendships

𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙲 𝙰𝚆𝙰𝙺𝙴𝙽𝙴𝙳

Finn MacKade

b. december 30, 1996 | capricorn

ravenclaw | muggleborn | irish | english | istj | enneagram type 4w3

eldest of four boys with an identical twin brother

an avid photographer who is rarely seen without his camera

plays chaser while at hogwarts

someone who is good during a crisis, but terrible at handling the aftermath

kind and trustworthy but private and introverted

takes the big brother role pretty seriously, but not always the strongest with it

becomes a professional photographer and works for the daily prophet for about a decade before moving to free lance work

Love Interest: Scotty Rosier (@drinkyoursoupbitch)

Dorm: Finn | Efesto Vecellio (@nicos-oc-hell) | Duncan Ludwig (@usernoneexistent) | Jimmy Crouch (@potionboy3) | OPEN

Open for: Friendships

Nate MacKade

b. december 30, 1996 | capricorn

hufflepuff | muggleborn | irish | english | istj | enneagram type 2w1

second of four children with an identical twin brother

soft, sweet, kind, sunshiny, big heart

massive history nerd and one of the few students who have never fallen asleep while binns is teaching

nate’s a great friend, but he doesn’t open up very much

usually wears his heart on his sleeve

often puts others ahead of himself

a bit of a people pleaser

archivist then historian and finally, history of magic professor at hogwarts

Love Interest: Nova Hartley (@gaygryffindorgal)

Dorm: Nate | Quincey Alderly (gaygryffindorgal) | Conner Everett (@amerrymystery) | Zephyr Mercury (@slytherindisaster)

Open for: Friendships

Jack Whitten

b. february 28, 1997 | pisces

slytherin | muggleborn | irish | english | estp | enneagram type 7

reckless af and a bit of a trouble magnet

dyslexic

not a fan of quidditch, much to everyone’s surprise

he likes fishing, soccer/football, and hurling… and broom racing

has an identical twin brother

his recklessness is a result of abandonment issues as his parents disappeared when he was a baby and no one knew anything about it until about twenty years later

magiopalentologist

Love Interest: Sage Carridan (@kc-and-co)

Dorm: Jack | Maxim Raeburn (potionboy3) | Levi Vecellio (nicos-oc-hell) | Isander Yaxley (gaygryffindorgal) | OPEN

Open for: Friendships, 2 dormmates

Benedict Whitten

b. february 28, 1997 | pisces

ravenclaw | muggleborn | irish | english | intp | enneagram type 6

prefers to spend his free time in the outdoors

he has abandonment issues and thus, doesn’t let himself have too many close relationships

very hard to get know

goes by “ben” sometimes, but absolutely hates being called “benny”

tends to bottle up his emotions

he ends up joining the frog choir by accident

plays seeker on the ravenclaw quidditch team

he starts his working life as an archivist before being hired as the curator to the scamamder wizarding natural history museum in london

Love Interest: Lottie Turner

Dorm: Benedict | Marco Han (magicallymalted) | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Thea Whitten

b. may 29, 1997 | gemini

gryffindor | muggleborn | irish | english | vietnamese | esfp | enneagram type 4w3

the middle of three sisters, both of whom are muggles

thea’s an avid baker

she’s the cousin of jack and benedict, whom her parents are raising

her mother passed away when she was thirteen

shows her love via flowers

she has a big heart and is soft but chaotic

she plays beater on the gryffindor quidditch team

herbologist who later owns her own florist shop

Love Interest: Noa March (@thatravenpuffwitch)

Dorm: Thea | Mary Ann Von Dynne (endlessly-cursed) | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: Friendships, 2 dormmates

𝙽𝙴𝚇𝚃 𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙴𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽

Sophie Pembroke

b. january 7, 2000 | capricorn

ravenclaw | half-blood | irish | welsh | english | isfp | enneagram type 4w5

eldest of three with a younger brother, rhys, in hufflepuff and a younger sister, emmy, in gryffindor

her mother died when she was nine and then her father had a stroke when she was sixteen

tends to keep to herself, although she doesn’t mind other people’s company

tea lover

plays keeper on the ravenclaw quidditch team

stubborn, sarcastic, and doing her best but feeling like she’s failing herself and everyone else

descendant of max pembroke through his son, harry, and william devlin through his daughter, lucy

inherited max’s cat allergy

wandmaker

Love Interest: Luke Battersea

Dorm: Sophie | Victoire Weasley | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: Friendships, 3 dormmates

Luke Battersea

b. july 21, 2000 | cancer

gryffindor | half-blood | irish | scottish | english | intp | enneagram type 5

youngest of five by quite a bit

sole survivor of the attack that killed his parents and older siblings when he was six

grief-ridden and generally kinda of angry

acts like everything is no big deal and that he’s cool with it, but really, he’s got a lot going on

grumpy old man energy

dog lover and a star wars nerd

plays seeker on the gryffindor quidditch team

obsessed with finding the truth about why his parents were murdered

great-grandson of simon battersea, through his son, oliver, and edmund kennedy, through his daughter, cecilia

Love Interest: Sophie Pembroke

Dorm: Luke | Joaquin Valdez | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: Friendships, 3 dormmates

Declan O’Donnell-Lee

b. september 1, 2001 | virgo

slytherin | half-blood | irish | english | istp | enneagram type 3w4?

eldest son and second of four children born to sara o’donnell and barnaby lee which also makes him the second oldest of the ten o’donnell cousins

dyslexic

the odd one out amongst his family

sports boy through and through

plays seeker for the slytherin quidditch team and is eventually named captain of the team

dog lover

plays quidditch professionally as a seeker for the ballycastle bats

Love Interest: Callie Black (@mjs-oc-corner)

Dorm: Declan | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: Friendships, 4 dormmates

Quinn Power

b. december 1, 2004/5 | sagittarius

slytherin | half-blood | irish | american | english | estp | enneagram type ??

middle of five children with two older brothers, kevin and jason, a younger brother named orion, and a younger sister named cassidy

a werewolf who was bitten at the age of five after his parents accidentally angered a werewolf

plays beater for the slytherin quidditch team

demisexual and biromantic

angry in general, mostly at himself

grumpy loner

descendant of minerva kennedy

career is tbd

Love Interest: Open

Dorm: Quinn | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: A love interest of any gender, friendships, and 4 dormmates

Jude Cozens

b. june 13, 2002-2005 | gemini

gryffindor | muggleborn | american or canadian | ixxx

hockey obsessed

doesn’t know who his father is

moves to the uk because his mother got married

angry about the move to the uk and very disappointed by the lack of hockey

has played ice hockey since he was little, he plays center

highly allergic to bees, so he carries an epi-pen

heterosexual

very new and undeveloped, plus his name might end up changing (previously nico, now jude)

Love Interest: Noor Verna-Dhendron (@legilimenace)

Dorm: Jude | Scott Morris (potionboy3) | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN

Open for: 3 dormmates, friendships

#oc x oc connections #hphm #hogwarts mystery #hp professor oc #hp golden era oc #hpma #magic awakened #hp next gen #hp next gen oc #my aesthetic

[helenadurazzo]

The Lord of The Underworld and His Lady of Spring Part 1

In this story for the HPHM x Twisted Wonderland AU, Vil, Rook, Epel, Deuce, Ace, Asteria, Jamil, Kalim and Helena are talking about their recent performance at a competition and their shortcomings due to be tired from dealing with an overblot in the midst of it. However as things start to look for the better, even with Grim’s location unknown to the girls temporarily, they turn south faster than one could imagine.

Asteria belongs to @princess-of-pearls-and-stars while Helena belongs to me. These stories are Inspired by Chapters 8, 9, and 10 of Book 6

One minute, they were talking about their recent concert appearance and shortcomings. The next, Ramshackle shook in a way that Helena and Asteria were both convinced the old and archaic building was going to collapse. It had been abandoned for years after all and was a wreck when they first moved in.

Epel was the first to bring the suspicions everyone was thinking into words, “Was that an earthquake?”

Rook looked out the window in an attentive way just like a hunter, and his eyes widened when he found his target. “No it isn’t, look out the window.”

Kalim rushed over to the window and followed Rook’s eyes towards the sky with his own, “What in the world!? There’s a bunch of guys flying through the air! Are they on hoverboards.”

“Technology like that means it might be related to Ignihyde.” Asteria did her best to remain calm.

“I’ve been to Ignihyde many times to watch animes with Idia.” Helena reminded her sister, “And while I believe they have a handful of these hoverboard things, it’s certainly not that many. And those don’t even look like students.”

“That’s not possible…” Vil breathed, not really paying attention to the girl’s words it seemed not that it mattered all that much. “This school has a magical barrier to keep out intruders. And it is always up as long as we don’t have a special event going on.”

“Maybe that sound was the barrier getting breached!” Jamil theorized.

“But how?” Vil reminded him, “It is complex magic.”

“Some are coming this way!” Rook called out to alert the group, “Let’s see there is one, two-!?” He then did a 180 degree turn and faced the group, “EVERYONE GET DOWN!”

Large sounds followed as figures crashed into the structure of Ramshackle. Soon enough they were all on the floor trying to get cover. Helena barely even noticed Asteria’s protective arm around them.

“Asteria! Helena!” Deuce called out first, rushing over. “Are you both ok?”

“I-“ Helena was about to respond before she was silenced by the sight in front of her. There were at least three guard looking figures in some sort of technologically advanced armor. It was a metallic grey with a couple of its accents being a glowing blue. They appeared to be quite hostile and heartless, nothing like Ortho, well, at least when he wasn’t trying to shoot the school down with a laser beam to save Idia from a crazy ghost bride that is.

Once they regained their footing, Jamil jumped in front of his Housewarden, “Kalim get back!” He firmly instructed as he looked at the guards the same way Helena did. “I’ve never seen that kind of gear before…” He muttered to himself, although Helena could just barely hear his words and assumed others could as well to some extent.

“Hepta team coming in.” One of the mysterious intruders started, seemingly alerting their master of a discovery, “We’ve got visuals on subjects D, E, and G. Moving in for capture.”

“I haven’t the faintest idea who these people are.” Vil began as he tried to examine the guards from a distance, “but crashing through windows shows an appalling lack of manners.” He turned to the rest of the group with a firm expression, “I hereby declare this an emergency! By my authority as Pomefiore Housewarden, I authorize the use of magic on the intruders!”

“Oui!” Rook seconded as the vice housewarden.

“I do the same for Scarabia!” Kalim mustered in his most authoritative voice. “Prepare for battle!”

Vil’s eyes turned to Deuce, Ace, Epel, Asteria, and Helena, “Freshmen, stay back, and do not get involved for your own safety. Heartslabyul students, call your Housewarden!”

“Yes sir!” Deuce, Ace, Epel, and Helena said in unison, however Helena could see out of the corner of her eye that Asteria was frustrated by sitting on the sidelines. But surely she knew that their magic only seemed to work half the time in this world, right?

The same robotic guard spoke again, “Subjects D and E exhibiting hostility, Subject G showing signs of retreating. Requesting permission to engage.”

“Permission granted.” A voice over the robots intercom sounded. “Execute capture plan C”

~~~

“They’re all struggling…” Epel observed as the battle commenced.

“Those oar-looking staffs can churn out spells real quick!” Deuce pointed out with a great amount of perception.

“AUGH!” Vil exclaimed as said oar-looking staff-thing shot another intense concentration of magic.

“VIL!” Rook called out as Vil collapsed on the ground, and by the looks of it, also lost consciousness.

“Subject E is subdued.” The robotic guard sounded. “Securing now.”

“GAHHH!” Jamil screamed out as the same thing that happened to Vil moments ago occurred to him as well.

“JAMIL!” Kalim panicked.

“We have also secured Subject D, all that is left is Subject G.” The robotic guard informed its instructor or head of operations Helena theorized. “Tetra team has already captured Subject F.

Once the last capture is complete we will rendezvous then return to HQ.”

“Where are you taking them!” Kalim frantically requested, “WAIT!”

“Whoa…” Ace breathed, “The housewardens and vice housewardens went down in seconds.”

“And it’s not over yet…” Asteria pointed out, “They were talking about a Subject G, perhaps that’s Kalim or Rook? But why did they stop if that’s the case?”

“didn’t they say that ‘Subject G’ was retreating? If we assume it is someone in here then it has to be one of us.” Deuce determined.

“But who would that be?” Epel pondered.

“Heck if any of us know.” Helena snapped. “We should just stay low.”

“Tetra team has regrouped with Hepta Team.” The intruders sounded again.

“What in Tarnation!” Epel exclaimed again as he looked up, “They are hauling a cage. Wait… ain’t that…”

“LEMME OUT! GET ME OUT OF HERE!”

Helena and Asteria recognized the voice even before they saw who it came from. As they looked simultaneously through the rubble and dense amounts of people. They spotted Grim, being carried in a cage with tight bars as he attempted to escape his prison. How did he end up in such a predicament after the Shrouds helped with retrieving him earlier?

“GRIM!?” Asteria called out frantically.

“Ace! Asteria! Helena! Deuce!” Grim cried out.

“We need to stop them!” Epel got on his feet, “Come on, I ain’t doing this on my own am I?”

“Right!” Deuce agreed, “Hold on Grim! I’ll save you!”

“Dude, Vil just told us to stay back.” Ace tried to remind them, “Helena has a point you know, if we fight we will loose, we should just stay low, and come up with a plan when we can have, no offense, a stronger team?”

“Don’t be such a coward!” Asteria quickly got on her feet pulling out her wand, with Helena reluctantly following suit.

“OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!” Ace pleaded, but presumed he had no choice.

~~~

Asteria noted how the battle was practically over before it started, and somehow ending up as the last to emerge in their line of fighters despite Ace and Helena’s initial reluctance. She couldn’t doubt that it was a disturbing sight to behold.

“Argh.” Ace mumbled mindlessly. “Didn’t stand… a chance… urgh.”

“Urgh guh…” Deuce moaned.

“Dagnabbit.” Epel muttered.

Yet the only voice Asteria didn’t manage to hear, even in a soft tone, was that of her own sister. Her eyes frantically scanned the room and eventually spotted her figure. And panicked when she saw her sister not moving.

“HELENA!” Asteria frantically called out, trying to rush to her but the robotic guards beat her to it, taking her sister.

“Subject G is secured.” The robotic man sounded, “Reporting Back to HQ.”

“Lemme Go!” Grim pleaded, “I don’t want to go! Asteria!!!” He called as his paw reached out to her.

“GRIM! HELENA!” Asteria called out, practically screaming as they were taken away.

“VIL! JAMIL!” Rook and Kalim did the same in nearly identical tones to Asteria.

Rook growled then did a few meditative breaths before turning to Scarabia’s Housewarden, “Kalim, we must tend to our injured freshmen. I will take them to the infirmary.”

“But Jamil…” Kalim stammered, “Jamil’s been…”

“KALIM.” Rook asserted to get his attention. “You must calm yourself. Jamil has been abducted. You need to step up and fulfill your Housewarden duties by yourself.”

Kalim only reluctantly sighed, however it seemed to be more out of concern for Jamil than the idea of added rightful responsibility, “All right, I’ll go summon the other house “wardens.”

Ace grunted again, “…didn’t pick up…”

Asteria rushed to Ace’s side, his mumbling did not sound promising, nor did his grunting. And he seemed to be wincing from pain.

“Huh?” Rook raised an eyebrow.

Ace attempted to speak again, wincing against the pain as Asteria looked at him with widened eyes trying to tend to him and Deuce the best she could, at least Epel seemed to be in a better state, although that wasn’t saying much. “Called…Housewarden Riddle…but he didn’t…pick up…”

“Oh no!” Kalim exclaimed as realization hit his features and he turned to Rook, “Do you think?”

“There is a likely chance.” Rook determined, “We don’t have much time, we must warn whoever we can.”

#HPHM #Hogwarts mystery #Twisted Wonderland #twst #twst book 6 #Asteria Othonos #Helena Durazzo #Helena Othonos #Grim #Vil Schoenheit #Rook Hunt #Epel Felmier #Kalim Al Asim #Jamil Viper #Ace Trappola #Deuce Spade #Styx #The Lord of The Underworld And His Lady of Spring

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I really liked this quest and Asteria kept her boyfriend company!!!

Aaaand his phrases

And adult Talbott looks so handsome~

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Artemis Hexley: The Wilderness Years

Chapter 8: Me Without You

A/N: Artemis catches up with two of her dearest friends over the Christmas period. Warnings: mentions of past trauma and canon character death, spoilers for Y6 of HPHM, language.

Christmas Day at the Burrow was lazy and cosy, and quiet considering the location. With the four youngest Weasley children staying at school for the Christmas break, Artemis and Fergus the cat spent the day with Bill, Charlie, their parents, and their younger brother Percy. 

The traditions had been much the same - Mrs Weasley’s homemade fudge, Charlie’s hand-knitted and endearingly ugly socks, and  mountains of food - but it was a more laid back affair with only adults around. There had been no crack-of-dawn awakening, fewer presents to be opened, and far less noise and movement. It was lovely, and yet somehow, it had lost a little of its joyful spark. 

Artemis had assumed that it was she herself who had lost her joyful spark, having been broken up with only a month earlier, but it seemed that Mrs Weasley shared this view.

“It’s very exciting for Ginny and the boys to go to a ball this year. But I must admit, I do miss having them here for Christmas. It seems awfully quiet without them,” she told Artemis at the very end of the day, after her husband and Percy had already gone to bed. “Still, it’s been lovely having you here instead. Reminds me of that time you came to stay when you were still at school. You and that other girl. What was her name? Meredith?”

“You mean Merula?”

“Of course. Merula. Goodness, it’s so hard to keep up with all the friends my boys have brought back over the years. What is Merula up to these days?”

“I dunno. I never hear from her anymore, not since I left Gringotts. Bill might know, though.” Artemis said, as Bill emerged at the top of the stairs with his pyjamas on and earring taken out. “Bill, you heard from Merula lately?”

“Not for a few months. She left Gringotts back in the summer. Not as dramatic an exit as some people have made” - Bill raised an eyebrow at Artemis, who rolled her eyes - “but still. She’s taken a job with an independent Curse-Breaking agency.” He frowned at Artemis. “I thought you knew that. You still write to her, don’t you?”

“Not really. I just send her a card at Christmas. She never sends anything back, though.”

“So why do you keep sending them?”

Artemis shrugged. “She doesn’t really have anyone else to send them to her.”

“That’s very sweet of you,” said Mrs Weasley. Her smile turned into a yawn. “I really must go to bed. Can I get you anything before I-”

“No thank you, Molly.”

“Okay, dear. Charlie, can you make sure you put out the fire before you go to bed.”

Mrs Weasley bade them all goodnight and went up to the room on the landing which she shared with Arthur. Once the door had closed behind her, Bill descended the staircase and sat down on the bottom step, his head tilted as he looked at Artemis.

“Why so glum, chum?”

“I’m not glum,” Artemis told him. “I’m fine.”

“No, you aren’t,” replied Bill. “You aren’t still moping around after Chester, are you?”

From his seat on the armchair nearest the fireplace, Charlie raised his head and looked at his brother.

“Bill…”

“I’m just saying that it’s not like Artemis to be so het up about a bloke,” Bill said. He turned back to Artemis. “Was it a bad break up? Do you need me to go and hex him for you?”

“I’m perfectly capable of hexing people myself, and you know it,” Artemis muttered wryly. She shook her head. “No, it’s just… It’s fine. I’m fine.”

Bill looked like he was going to say something to contradict her again, but he did not. Instead, he glanced sceptically at Charlie before shaking his head and also going to bed. 

The sitting room was quiet. Artemis lay back with her head on one arm of the sofa, watching Fergus’ chest rise and fall as he slept on the other. Charlie cleared his throat, and she sighed before turning her face towards him.

“What?” she asked him, and he smiled good-naturedly at her.

“Do you want to play chess with me?”

“I’m not good at chess.”

“Me neither,” said Charlie. “Do you want to play chess with me?”

Artemis shrugged her shoulders and slid off the sofa and onto the floor. Charlie summoned an old and battered chess set, and sat opposite her in front of the crackling fire. As they played, he kept his eyes fixed on the board, as if he expected Artemis to see his every move in them.

“I met up with Jae yesterday,” he told her conversationally, as his bishop moved across the board. “He said he’s back with Chiara.”

“Yeah, they’ve been seeing each other every now and then since the World Cup,” replied Artemis. “They’re taking it one day at a time.”

“That’s what he said. Apparently it’s going well, though.”

“Yeah.”

“Better than last time, from the sounds of things. He said she’s told him stuff that she never told him before. He didn’t say what.”

“Probably because that’s her stuff to tell and not his,” Artemis said pointedly, fixing Charlie with a stern look. Charlie shrugged, still looking at the chess pieces.

“Oh, definitely. I didn’t want to pry,” he said. “It is weird though, isn’t it? What people will and won’t tell the people they’re going out with.” He paused before adding, “Like you not telling Chester about Rowan.”

Artemis narrowed her eyes at him. “Really? You’re having-”

“I’m not having a go,” Charlie said gently. For the first time, he looked up from the chessboard. “I’m just confused as to why you wouldn’t tell him about her. She was your best friend. You loved her so much…”

“I still do.”

“Exactly. So why didn’t he know it was the anniversary of her death?”

“I dunno.”

“Does he know about any of the stuff that happened when we were at school? Or before? The Vaults, Jacob, your parents?”

“No,” Artemis said. Now she was the one stubbornly looking at the chessboard, across which one of Charlie’s rooks moved two places to the right. 

“It’s your move, Artemis.”

She lifted her eyes to meet Charlie’s. He was not talking about the game. She sighed heavily, and uncrossed her arms.

“We had a fight,” she told him. “Chester asked me to go to his family’s for Christmas and I said that I wanted to come here instead, but he didn’t understand why. And he said it was my fault he didn’t understand because I never told him about all that stuff.”

“Why not?”

“I didn’t know how. I mean, how do you explain everything that happened with the Vaults and my family to someone who doesn’t already know about all that?”

“Fair point,” said Charlie, his red eyebrows raising slightly.

“It was easier just to ignore it and not tell him, so I didn’t.” Artemis scratched her temple with her forefinger before continuing, “And then, the longer it went on without me telling him, the harder it got to tell him, because I’d gotten used to him knowing me without knowing all of that.”

“You must’ve known you’d have to tell him eventually, though.”

“No. Why would I? It’s all in the past. Why would he need to know when it happened such a long time ago?”

“Because it still happened,” Charlie told her. His matter-of-fact tone made her bristle, and she shook her head. “It’s still a part of what makes you you.”

“Well, maybe I don’t want to be me anymore!”

Artemis hadn’t meant to snap, but Charlie didn’t recoil when she did. Instead, he sat still, his eyebrows knitting together. 

“Why wouldn’t you want to be you?”

“Because,” Artemis shrugged, “I’m fucked up, aren’t I?”

“You’re not. You just…” Charlie looked as if he were searching for the right words. Eventually he chose them. “You’ve been fucked over.”

“And over.”

“And over again, probably.”

Though Artemis frowned, the corners of her mouth twitched. 

“Is there a difference?”

“Yeah. For sure.” Charlie nodded sagely. The look on his face made Artemis laugh softly and shake her head.

“The stuff that happened back then, it was bad. I mean, not all of it, but a lot of it. The important bits, anyway,” she said. “I liked being free from it in someone else’s eyes. It was almost like really being free from it. I wasn’t just ‘the Cursed Vaults girl’, I was someone else, someone who didn’t go through all of that. I kind of liked being that person for a change.” She swallowed, hard. “I guess being someone else made me feel safer, too.”

“How come?”

“Because even if I was the real me, then this still would’ve happened eventually. And when it did, he’d just become another person who left me. Because that’s what people do. They all leave me.”

“Not all of them,” said Charlie. He looked almost hurt. “The people who matter haven’t left you. Tonks, Penny, Chiara, Ros, Kingsley, Bill, Mum and Dad, me… We’re all still here.”

Artemis nodded. “Yeah. You are. Sorry.”

“It’s alright.” Charlie shrugged. “As for you wanting to be someone else… You know, someone once told me that it was fine for me to just be me, and that you wouldn’t want me to be like anyone else.”

“I meant it.”

“So do I. Yeah, you’re ‘the Cursed Vaults girl’, but that just means that you’re the girl who did all that incredible stuff. You went through all that and you’re still here. You’re still Artemis. And if that’s not good enough to make someone stick around, then that’s their problem. Their loss, not yours. Alright?”

“Alright,” said Artemis.

She gave Charlie a smile that he didn’t return. He looked to be deep in thought, and his front teeth grazed his bottom lip before he said:

“You won’t know unless you tell him, though.”

“Maybe. I dunno,” said Artemis. Exhausted, she rubbed her eyes with the heels of her hands.  “I don’t know what to do. Everything feels like a lot at the moment.”

“You could come back to Romania with me for New Year’s, if you like. Might be good for you, give you some space to think.”

Charlie’s offer was genuine, Artemis could tell, but she declined it with a shake of her head and derisive chuckle.

“I don’t have enough thoughts to take up that much space. Besides, I have somewhere I want to be for New Year’s.”

Just north of the summit of Primrose Hill, overlooking the park and with a clear view over London in the distance, stood three tall trees. Their branches in the summer would be decked with thin green leaves, white flowers, and red berries, but for now, they were bare, save for a fine layer of frost that glittered in the dimming light.

Artemis sat on the ground beneath the middle one, her back pressed against the cool rough bark of the trunk, one forefinger running the length of a groove in a root, as she watched the sun set over the city that was just starting to rise. This was not the first time that she had found herself beneath a rowan tree at sundown on New Year’s Eve, having done so every year since what would have been Rowan Khanna’s seventeenth birthday.

She could, of course, have gone back to Hogwarts and sat beneath the rowan tree there, the same rowan tree she had sat beneath the first time - although back then, she had not known that there would be more times to come - but given that Hogwarts was still playing host to the students of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, it would probably have felt too crowded.

“It did feel strange going back there. Hogwarts, I mean,” she said aloud. “Going back there for the challenge and seeing what it’s like now… Well, it’s kind of exactly the same as it was. That’s why it’s strange. It looked the same, but felt different. Not really home anymore, but still homelike. And there are so many memories there. Everywhere I looked, it was like I remembered something, and it felt like it was so long ago it happened, and at the same time like it only happened the week before.”

And thus, it made Artemis feel almost like a child again, and yet so old, both at once. And with Rowan’s memories living in the brief flashes and echoes of the past, she felt both closer to and more distant from Rowan than ever. She had felt that way all year.

“Sometimes I can’t help but wonder what you’d think of me now. What I’m doing. I’m trying to make you proud, but sometimes I can almost hear you tutting at me. I know you would have thought I was stupid betting that I could get Ludo his dragons, and you’d have told me to think before losing Tonks and Chiara and trying to help fight when the Death Eaters came to the World Cup. You’d have come up with something better than just running straight in. You always did come up with something better. And you’d have known what I should’ve done about Chester, too. If you were still here, it wouldn’t have all gone wrong.”

Artemis sighed. If Rowan were still here, she would not have done the things that had caused everything to go wrong. She had not wanted to tell Chester about Rowan’s death, and if Rowan hadn’t died, there would have been nothing to tell.

“Not that I blame you, obviously. It’s not your fault. It’s mine. I’m sorry I didn’t tell him about you. I was stupid not to, really. I should be telling everyone about you, because you were the best person I ever knew. You still are.

“You’d like Chester, though, I think. He’s probably as clever as you, and he’s sensible, and he works really hard and thinks even harder. I don’t think hard enough, so that works out well. Well, it did, anyway. And he likes solving problems and books. He has so many books, and he is always reading, like you were. He’s quite a lot like you, actually.” Artemis tilted her head and raised her eyebrows as she realised something. “I think that’s why I liked him. And it’s probably why it hurts that we broke up, because it’s like losing you all over again.”

Having Chester around had been like having Rowan around again, after all. Like Rowan, he always had a book to hand, and whenever he read he seemed thoroughly engrossed in what he was reading. He was tall and slender, and serious, and sighed whenever Artemis said something stupid. Rowan had done that, too.

“It’s not quite the same, though. He doesn’t understand me like you did. I dunno why I thought he would. It’s not like anyone could ever really understand me like you did. I just… I just miss you, I guess. I wish you were here. I wish…”

But Artemis knew as well as anyone that wishing never changed anything, and never would change anything. It was too late for that.

It had gotten late in the day, too. The sun had fully set now, and she was alone in the dark. It was time for her to leave, to return home to Tonks and get ready to meet Penny and Chiara. So, she stood up, reached into her cloak, and pulled out the book she had bought in the Muggle bookshop earlier that day, one with a blue-and-white cover that the bookseller had recommended. It was a romance and the year’s bestseller, or so she had been told. 

“I don’t really know what a mandolin is, but apparently it’s good. I hope you like it.”

She looked over her shoulder to make sure that there were no Muggles around before using her wand to levitate the book up into the tree, where it settled among the bare branches.

“Happy birthday, Rowan.”

With that, Artemis left the tree and walked back down Primrose Hill in the direction of her house in Camden, her coat pulled tight around her and the lower half of her face buried in an old striped scarf with pom-pom tasseling that was wrapped around her neck. The scarf had been Rowan’s, once upon a time. She had bought it the first day that they met, ten years previously. Five years after Rowan died, the scarf still smelt like her, even if it was so faint that Artemis might have imagined it. Still, even if she had imagined it, even if it wasn’t real, it would have to do. That was how Rowan existed now: in the lingering faint smell of her old scarf, in her undying smiles in old photos, in Artemis’ memories and the stories she and her girlfriends liked to tell one another when they were feeling nostalgic. That was how Rowan lived on, the only way she lived on. 

By the time she had reached the bottom of the hill, tears had begun to sting Artemis’ eyes. She turned to take one last look at the rowan tree before she Disapparated, suddenly knowing exactly where she wanted to go; not to the tall, narrow house she had grown up in and now shared with Tonks, but to the door of a flat in a red-bricked building, which opened to reveal Chester’s tired-looking but handsome face.

Chester seemed more than a little surprised and not entirely pleased to see her. He eyed her with mingled weariness, hope, and suspicion as he asked:

“Why are you here, Artemis?”

“I just want to talk.”

“What about?”

“Everything,” Artemis told him. She took a deep, shaky breath. “Anything.”

Chester’s eyebrows raised sceptically. “Anything?” 

Artemis nodded her head, suddenly realising how desperate she was to be heard, to be understood, to not feel as if there was something - or someone - missing. 

“I'll tell you whatever you want to know.”

#artemis hexley #hp fanfic #hphm fic #bill weasley #molly weasley #charlie weasley #rowan khanna #chester davies

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