cecily-knight
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can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.
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Potter Sibling Stuff:
James: Why can’t I go in the kitchen?
Lily: *Hiding fallen feathers behind her back* No reason.
James: Then let me through.
Albus, From The Kitchen: ARGH!
James: *runs in and freezes*
Albus: *holding scratched arm next to a hippogriff* This isn’t what it looks like.
James: Well then what is it!? Because it looks like a Hippogriff in our kitchen!
Lily: This is all a dream *hand swishes*
James: That only worked once!
Albus: In our defence, Mum and Dad only said we couldn’t get a baby Hippogriff, they never said anything about a fully grown one.
—
Lily: *holding sketchbook* What’s this?
Albus: What are you doing in my room!?
Lily: Looking for your diary.
James: Oh I have that. Thought it was a very gay hand written novel at first.
Albus: *snatching diary* Give that!
—
James: No.
Lily: Yes.
James: No!
Lily: Yes!
Albus: Hey guys, you were taking too long and I did it anyway.
James: Wha — NO!!
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James: Why do I have to do the dishes? I did them last night!
Lily: Because Mum and Dad love me more.
Albus: Yeah, and they hate the way I do them.
Ginny: Hey kids, oh and James, it’s rubbish day tomorrow so take the kitchen bins out.
James: Wha — I have plans!
Albus: Not anymore trash man.
—
Albus: Oh yeah, and James.
James: Yeah?
Albus: Try a silencing charm next time, it really—
James: *throws pillow at Albus*
—
Lily, Wearing Crop Top And Shorts: I’m going out.
James: Not in that you’re not!
Lily: Why not!?
Albus: Because it’s ugly.
James: At least wear something that goes together well.
—
James: *plonks on the couch*
Harry: Took me ages to fluff those pillows.
James: Sorry.
Albus: *steps over back and squats with a plate of cold pizza* What are you guys watching?
Harry: Some Muggle cop show.
James: What!? Why doesn’t he get yelled at for that!?
—
Lily: Can I invite a girl over?
Harry: Sure.
Albus: Could I invite a girl over?
Harry: No.
Albhs: Why!?
Harry: It’s just inappropriate.
Albus: What about a boy?
Harry: That’s fine.
Albus: *silent in polysexual*
James: Could I invite a boy —
Harry: You’re still grounded.
James: For what!?
Harry: *Points to dirty dishes*
James: That was Lily’s—
Harry: I don’t want to hear the excuses.
—
Albus: I may have gotten into a fight.
James: With who!? A dragon!?
Albus: No! Just some twenty-five year old with a lighter.
James: What!? Are you okay!?
Albus: Yeah I’m fine, he wasn’t very good.
James: You’re covered in cuts, bruises and burns!
Albus: And? You should see him.
Lily: *walks in* Again? What did he say this time?
James: AGAIN!?!?
—
James: *walks into bathroom to see Albus bleaching half his head* Did you have another mental breakdown?
Albus: No. It was a panic attack actually.
—
Lily: How is James better at makeup than me!? He doesn’t even wear it!
James: I’m gay, I don’t know.
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Albus: This is a bad idea. Maybe we shouldn’t do this?
Lily: James will be hella pissed.
Albus: Okay, let’s go!
—
Albus, Over Phone: Hey Mum. You think you forgot something at the shops?
Ginny: Oh shit! Lily asked for rye bread.
Albus: I meant me!
James: You forget Albus again?
Ginny: Why didn’t you mention it?
James: You forget your child and I’m somehow to blame?
Ginny: Don’t give me that back talk!
James: Backtalk!?
Ginny: You’re grounded!
Albus: This was so worth getting left behind.
—
Lily: Can I stay over at a friends house this weekend?
Harry: Sure.
Lily: Thanks!
James and Albus: How was that so easy for her…?
Alan Rickman, David Thewlis, Gary Oldman and all those are iconic in their roles in Harry Potter, but I’ll always be a bit sad about that casting, because having that ‘Marauders era’ cast be age appropriate would’ve just been so much better for the story.
Sirius wasn’t this old man who spent 12 years in Azkaban, no he got locked up at 21. He spent almost third of his life in a cell. He wasn’t this wise father figure to Harry, he was a reckless thirty-something who never really got the chance to mature past 21.
Remus was an exhausted, bone deep tired man carrying both physical and mental scars from the suffering he went through. Because he’s a werewolf, because of the war, because he lost all of his friends. And he’s only 33 when first introduced.
And Snape. Snape wasn’t an old bitter man who just hated everyone and enjoyed being antagonistic. He was 31 in Harry’s first year. He began to work for Voldemort as a teen, and as a double agent at 20. He’s a thirty-something bitter man, who never got to really live or make real connections. From Harry’s perspective he’s scary and intimidating, but really he’s just kinda…sad and pathetic. And then especially that scene where Snape is begging Dumbledore to help save Lily, and promising anything in return. (Because apparently Dumbledore needs something in return…for saving people.) He’s twenty. Barely out of his teens. Rickman was good in that scene, but having someone who actually looks twenty, would better show how scared, young, guilty and just desperate he was. That might not put Dumbledore in such a good light, though.
And then, the characters I think would’ve been the most important to cast age appropriately. And most people probably already agree and know who I’m talking about. James and Lily. They were 21 when they died. When Harry sees them in the mirror of Erised, they’re 10 years older than him. That’s the age difference Ron has with Bill. In that scene I might understand somewhat them being in their thirties, because that’s what Harry wants. He wants his life with his parents, he wants to have been raised by them. Though, I don’t know if the mirror could know what they might’ve looked like in their thirties, since they didn’t live that long. But then, in the cemetery when Voldemort’s wand spits the last spells cast, we see Lily and James as they were. 21. They’re telling their son to hold on just a moment longer. And they are 7 years older than him. In Deathly Hallows, Harry sees Voldemort kill them. They’re not this happy couple who’s got to love each other for a long time, only to have that happiness torn from them, no they started at Hogwarts ten years ago. They’re 21, and they’ve barely tasted that happiness. At the end of the book Harry talks to his parents. They comfort him and promise to stay with him, as he goes to die. Harry’s seventeen. James and Lily are four years older than him.
It wouldn’t have felt as nice. Harry being comforted by someone who looks almost his age. But it wasn’t nice. It was pretty tragic. Casting people who look 21, would’ve really made it land on the audience. It was a tragedy. They were barely adults.
I would love to lose focus and have a consensual workplace relationship with hugh grant
Hunger Games Relevance
(Please read/boost if you’ve ever read/watched the hunger games or you care about what’s going on)
I don’t know if other people feel the same way but especially with the new hunger games film coming out I’ve been absolutely floored by some of the parallels between the world in the series and the current conflict in Palestine.
Firstly, Suzanne Collins did say that she partially got the idea from flicking between channels showing reality TV interspersed with footage from the Iraq war so I guess there’s a good reason for me to be seeing similarities now.
But the fact it’s being live-streamed - the carnage - the propaganda - the fact that lots of us have been following the same few (often very young) journalists who have become the ‘face’ of Palestinian resistance (because right now journalism IS resistance being actively targeted by Israel) - it’s all crazy familiar.
I saw a clip of Israeli’s sitting on a hill watching and laughing at the bombs dropping on Gaza today as though they were fireworks just minutes before Israel bombed the 3rd floor of a paediatric hospital. The same ‘Sderot Cinema’ where Israeli’s bought deck chairs and snacks to ‘watch the spectacle’ of the 2014 bombing campaign on Gaza.
The way not everyone in the capitol was evil or bad and some people actively supported the districts but realistically they were still complicit in the exploitation - even if just through ignorance.
The incredible amount of children dying - the bombing of hospitals and withholding of resources (like in District 8 in Mockingjay), the taking of people not involved in Hamas into administrative detention (hundreds arrested in the West Bank - like how the victors were taken in Catching Fire even the ones who weren’t involved in the rebellion), the collective punishment of Gaza (the firebombing of District 12).
The way Israel dropped pamphlets from the sky to tell Gazans to evacuate south and then bombed the route (literally straight out of the games I swear - the video of the pamphlets falling was like the scene with the parachutes in Mockingjay which represent hope and then detonate).
It’s so eerily similar and I just wonder how so many watched those films and read those books and are silent now - why could they identify resistance and oppression and desperation and exploitation in fiction and not reality?
And I wonder if maybe it’s because we have to remind ourselves that we aren’t Katniss in this situation - we aren’t the heroes - we are the Capitol and District citizens watching it all happen on our screens - and that’s an unfortunate and uncomfortable concept to grapple with.
James Sirius’ First Display of Magic
It was a small gathering by Weasley standards. Arthur had been simply delighted by the Muggle barbecue gifted to him by Harry and Ginny as a late birthday present and had immediately sought to try it out.
Molly, possessing years of experience with Arthur’s experiments had insisted on forgoing the invitations to the rest of the family until she could be certain he knew how to work the contraption now taking pride of place in The Burrow’s back garden.
Harry had offered to take the kids home for dinner, but Arthur had been adamant that he, Ginny and the kids stay and appreciate the gift they had given him.
“I think dinner’s going to be a while,” Harry muttered to Al as he settled beside him on the picnic blanket Ginny had laid on the ground only a few minutes ago.
The news didn’t seem to concern Al who was much too busy picking up sticks and twigs from the grass beside them and comparing them before throwing away the ones which, Harry assumed, had been deemed unworthy.
A bottle of butterbeer floated across the garden, coming to a stop in front of Harry’s face. “Thanks, Molly,” he called, plucking the bottle from the air and tilting it in the direction of his mother-in-law who was standing by the back door, holding a cauldron cake just out of James’ reach.
Harry took a long pull from the bottle, closing his eyes for a second and appreciating the crisp spring breeze upon his face and the aroma of newly-bloomed snapdragons drifting to him from the flowerbeds.
His peaceful reprieve did not last long. The sound of Ginny’s exasperated voice drifted to him much as his butterbeer had done.
“Dad, it’ll be so much quicker to use your wand."
"It’s a Muggle barbecue!” Arthur cried. “We must use matches, Ginny!"
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The Way Ahead
A/N: Asked @floreatcastellumposts to give me a prompt to get me out of my writer’s block (If anyone else wants to send me a prompt, then please do!). She gave me ‘McGonagall finds out that Harry is an Auror’ and this was the result:
Minerva sighed as she fell heavily into the chair behind her new desk. Her bones ached from weariness; she took a sip of her tea in order to suppress the yawn threatening to escape her. There was no time for rest.
The parchment in front of her was so long the end of it snaked off the edge of the desk and trailed onto the rich carpet, the list of chores upon it stretching across the office.
Minerva took her quill and began searching down the list, ticking off items which had been dealt with. Hagrid had managed to secure the Thestral herd this morning. Minerva tried not to think about how much longer that particular task may have taken if not for the increased number of volunteers who could now see the winged horses roaming the battle-scarred grounds of Hogwarts.
She scratched her quill across the parchment, and scanned down the rest of the never ending list. The repairs of the castle were taking longer than expected, due in part, to the ancient magic holding much of the structure up. And creating a definitive list of which students would and would not be returning in the Autumn was proving rather difficult. Nobody, it appeared, was quite ready to think about the future just three short weeks after the fall of Voldemort.
“I’m getting too old for this,” Minerva whispered, lifting her cup to take another sip.
“Nonsense,” came a voice from behind her. Minerva jumped slightly, having forgotten once again that her new office came with an audience. “I should think there’s still a few decades in you yet.”
She did not bother responding to Albus’ remark, his portrait, it seemed, would be just as taxing as the man himself had been.
Never mind that his tenure of the school had not started with the most devastating battle Hogwarts had seen in its long history, never mind that she would have to oversee a cohort of students who would be unable to walk the corridors without replaying scenes from said battle, never mind that a vast number of them were dealing with the loss of loved ones to Voldemort’s tyranny.
Minerva was pulled from her morose thoughts by a soft knock on the door. She bit back another sigh, mentally steeling herself for the next in a long line of problems she was sure was about to walk through her door.
“Enter.”
The door opened slowly, almost tentatively, and a shock of untidy black hair appeared around it.
“Good evening, Professor,” Harry Potter said politely. “Do you have a moment for me and Neville?”
Minerva pressed her lips together, attempting to hold back a smile. She doubted there was a single witch or wizard in the country that couldn’t spare a minute for Harry these days.
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April 15th: Found
Day 15 of @hinnymicrofic, posted a few days late. Busy weekends, and all that.
“Aha!” Ginny exclaims suddenly, triumphant. “I found it!”
Harry attempts to mask his amusement. She’s clasping his palm in one of her small, freckled hands, while diligently referencing Unfogging the Future, trailing her finger along the text with the other.
“This is your head line,” Ginny says, pointing to the faint line running horizontally somewhere in the vicinity of the center of his palm. “Awfully short, don’t you think?”
Harry squints at the line, and then back up to the twisted line of her smirk. “What’s short supposed to mean, then?”
Ginny looks down at the textbook and reads, “Those with below-average head lines tend to be incredibly thick. They befriend lanky red-headed gits, play Seeker, and they often don’t notice when girls give them hundreds of opportunities to–”
“That’s what the book says, does it?”
“It’s all here, Harry. Who am I to question fate?”
“You shit.”
Ginny snickers and releases his hand, which Harry regrets immediately. “Divination is such rubbish, I can’t believe an examiner is going to actually evaluate me on this.”
“Ron and I just made things up,” Harry remembers. “Seemed to go fine.”
“Didn’t you get a P?”
“Yep,” Harry says unconcernedly, lifting her hand and examining her palm as though reading it. “But then we got to drop it altogether.”
“Hm,” Ginny considers. “Maybe your head line is longer than I thought.”
Her hands are small, almost delicate looking. He glances at the textbook, sees a diagram with lines like “heart” and “marriage” and “life” that can allegedly be foretold. He has a brief, cynical moment where he wonders how short those lines are on his palm, and then feels grateful Ginny hadn’t mentioned it. Hadn’t mentioned any of the sticky ones, really.
“If you squint really hard you can see my money line,” Ginny jokes. “It says I have nine sickles.”
He looks up at her, strangely overcome with the sensation of being understood; that she’d know without needing to explain how difficult it would be for him to talk about an uncertain future, that she’d gravitate toward taking the piss and joking about sickles to spare him.
“I’ve got a prediction,” Harry says.
“Oh yes?”
I’ll never get over you. “You’re going to get a D in Divination.”
She laughs in that unrestrained way she has, and Harry wonders if what he’s found with her has etched itself into his palm, something permanent, irrefutable. He can’t bear to check.
I’m still obsessed with 5SOS5, so I want to focus on Bad Omens for the Marauders’ era. It can even apply to platonic relationships, like Lily and Snape because we canonically know that Snape was hurling slurs at other Muggleborns and Lily was justifying her friendship with him to towers (“It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends—you see, you don’t even deny it! You don’t even deny that’s what you’re all aiming to be! You can’t wait to join You-Know-Who, can you?”), so Lily ignored the signs of what her best friend had become until she no longer could (“Can't help the way I keep ignoring every omen / Every omen / Heaven knows I should let go / It's nothing that I don't already know”), that song is ridiculously fitting for the backdrop of the war and how it’s tearing apart every relationship (romantic relationships [like Jegulus if that’s your ship, Wolfstar where Remus and Sirius canonically distrusted each other, but probably tried to ignore the signs until they had to acknowledge “there’s a spy, and I think it’s the man sleeping beside me right now”], platonic relationships [Peter and the Marauders where none of them realized his betrayal until far too later, Lily and Snape], familial relationships [Sirius with his family depending on how one views his relationship with them in the years before he left.]) People who tried to keep their relationships, hoping that eventually they’d go back to the way things were if they just ignored the warning signs, but eventually they were no longer able to pretend and had to acknowledge that this was irreparable.
Also, unrequited love (“I cried in your dark brown eyes for the thousandth time / 'Cause you love somebody / I died when you left that night for the thousandth time / 'Cause you love somebody else”) fits great, so Snape/Lily from Snape’s perspective in Seventh year, where he utterly destroyed his friendship with her but still is in love with her, and then watched her fall in love with James. Unrequited relationship set during the first war are honestly perfect for this song, because it’s got the distrust element and the “watching the person you love be in love with someone else” aspect; 5SOS decided the First Wizarding War was the theme of their 5th album (note, this is a joke, they have not made any comments regarding Harry Potter, the album just has great vibes for it)
It's fine, I'm not hyperventilating or anything.
Look, I've actually listened to this album (at least the songs i like from it) a lot since it was brought to my attention after its release. And as I've said before, I've never been a follower of 5SOS. I think before someone actively began passing me their songs, I'd listened to one by choice and knew it was them, and that was only because I came across it on the radio one day.
But it's like they really did craft the perfect album here for the First War years within HP, and I love that so much. I could rant on and on about several of these songs in relation to headcanons for that era/ships/characters, but Bad Omens is a BIG ONE. It's actually become one of my favorites, right up there with Caramel. And then I was guided to the music video, which was admittedly a trip, but it was also so very perfect.
I think in my initial review, I compared it to Wolfstar (also Jegulus), but I think I remember saying it gave me strong First War vibes in general, and it definitely does that. It can honestly apply to every relationship during that time period, whether platonic or romantic, no matter what side of the war someone fell on.
I love your comparison to Lily's and Snape's friendship and how it fell apart. I have...some issues with Snape that I try not to vocalize to often in a serious way, mostly sticking to joking headcanons that don't amount to much, the him watching Lily slip away from him and fall in with James, fall in love with him as he stood back and was forced to watch must have hurt so badly. I think Snape was too obsessive to a degree that any relationship between him and Lily couldn't have been sustained for long, regardless of his meddling with the Dark Arts and who Lily considered to be bad people, but the song fits so well because of that and everything else.
The whole Peter betrayal thing as well. None of them saw it, not a one. Peter was that good. He blended into his surroundings that well and was so easily overlooked that no one had the slightest idea of what he was truly doing. But you can't tell me that somewhere in him there wasn't guilt. There are numerous substantial reasons to dislike JKR, but the fact that she never once even tried to explain why Peter did what he did will forever be one of mine. Those were his best friends all through school and beyond. No, we don't know what happened, how they treated him, and maybe it's a fandom thing (though i don't think it completely is) but I've always thought James cared a lot about Pete. I think he kept Peter close because he liked him. They must have liked him, otherwise why stay his friend? Why trust him enough to give him the responsibility of keeping your family safe?
Say what you will, but they loved Peter, and he must have loved them at some point. It makes no sense why Peter would have betrayed James of all people. Sirius, maybe. That actually lines up because I think Sirius was cruel to Peter when he wanted to be, had little patience for him overall, so him framing Sirius is sort of like his just desserts. He didn't do anything to Remus that we know of, and I think that's because Peter likely always idolized Remus just as much as he did James and Sirius, but Remus was always far kinder to him in the grand scope of things. So something must have happened at some point to make Peter think that betraying James and essentially being the cause of his death was warranted. Was it because he drifted away, focused on the war and his family more than his friends? I don't know, but I'd like to, because there are gaps there.
(sorry. that was a tangent i didn't initially intend. oops)
Back on the main point, Peter must have had some sort of guilt for what he was doing and what he did. You can't be that cruel after spending half your life with people you claim to like/love and then blow everything up with one action and decision. So relating this song back to him and the way everyone circled around him and never focused in on his true nature is so very fitting.
I could write an entire ten page essay on this song in relation to Wolfstar. I've been thinking about it a lot and trying desperately not to do so, because I know the more I do, I'll want to write a fic about it. And that's the very definition of been there, done that repeatedly, not just myself, but the Wolfstar fandom as a whole. The entire Remus/Sirius distrust, slipping away from one another but still clinging on out of desperation has been done so many times and I'm trying incredibly hard not to add more to it unless it just won't leave me alone.
What I really want to talk about with this song is Jegulus. And I'm no expert. I'm only just pushing my toes into the water with it, trying to acclimate myself with the whole thing because I actually really like it in a way I thought I wouldn't we I jumped back into fandom and found it to be this large, growing thing that I'd never even seen mention of back in the day when I was writing before. It was a bit baffling, but...I dunno. I'm coming around to it more and more. But my point is don't judge anything I say to harshly because I'm only going off of the small amount of things I've seen/read.
But just think about their relationship in relation to how we know canon goes. James gets tired of chasing after Lily, falls in with Regulus somehow at some point, possibly before he gives up the ghost. Maybe it's Reg that makes him see reason and that James is being a knob, I don't know. They gravitate to one another, fall in love, but it's never the most stable of relationships because it can't be. Regulus is still a Black, James is exactly who he is in every way, that golden boy, head in the sun, pure to his core no matter what you want to say about him bullying (which has two completely different sides, but that's not the topic at hand here). Regulus is a Slytherin, James a Gryffindor. Tensions are mounting higher because of the growing war. They're constantly being tugged apart, in different directions, but they try so hard.
They ignore the signs when they can, they focus on one another as much as possible, but it's never enough to avoid the outside world circling around them like vultures. Regulus takes the mark and James can't sit by and watch his life go up in flames because of his decision, so he finally says enough and pulls back. He dives into his Head Boy duties headfirst, sways Lily to him in the process, but maybe him and Regulus continue to drift to one another because they can't help themselves and James still holds onto the hope that he can convince Regulus to turn his back on his choices. It doesn't work. James finally says enough, sets off into a life with Lily instead, fully committed, and Regulus can't tell him why he has to stay where he is, why it's so important, but he goes after the locket for James, to try and make it easier to put an end to the war. And we all know how that ended.
After the Bridge: The Full Story (Jem/Tessa)
hi Cassie! idk if you’ve noticed, but I think you’ve invoked a small (and quite entertaining) url revolution. — hornyjem
I did. I am very proud. :)
This is the full story of After the Bridge, a tale for those who might have wondered what Tessa and Jem did after they met on Blackfriars Bridge in the epilogue of Clockwork Princess. If you’ve been waiting to read it until it was done, it is now done.
Those who do not like Tessa&Jem together or Jessa sexytimes probably should skip this. (You will not miss anything that will affect your understanding of later books.) Those who like that sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
After the Bridge alternates POV between Jem and Tessa. This is Part Five, the full story. As this is one short story and not chaptered, each post will contain the whole story from the beginning up to the point where that part ends so that new readers or readers who don’t remember what happened won’t have to hunt down the previous post(s.)
AFTER THE BRIDGE : Now with (sexy) art by Cassandra Jean!
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Because I know this has been sold out for a while and it’s not fair to those who couldn’t get a copy: The Waterstones special edition Chain of Thorns extra —
Matthew to James letter
Anyone who wants to help transcribe it would be very welcome!
Harry Potter Next Gen as modern family moments
Harry: *reading a letter from Teddy after he leaves for Hogwarts*
Ginny; Harry?
Harry: Make sure to take care Harry, I’ll miss you guys so much
Ginny; nice huh?
Harry, full on crying: Nice! Im gonna go mail him another robe
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Hugo; you know that hero essay we have to write
Hermione: Mhmm, what about it
Hugo: Well dad kinda assumed I wrote it about him, but I didn’t
Hermione: don’t worry I’ll talk to him
Hugo; you don’t think he’ll be upset, I wrote it about you?
Hermione, touched: you wrote it about me?
Hugo; you know me, I didn’t think much. What’s a hero? Someone whose not afraid of anything and whose strong, that’s you
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Bill: Im actually relieved, the day that I’ve been dreading. The day you two have finally have out grown me has finally arrived.
Bill, crying; I’m handling it really well.
Victoire: Dad are you crying?
Bill: No
Dominique: are you sure you’re okay?
Bill: Yep
Victoire: Oh Merlin he is crying
Dominique: I’ve never seen dad cry before.
Victoire, starting to cry: but dad if you cry then I’ll cry.
Bill, still crying: I’m not crying
Dominique, also crying; we made our dad cry
Bill: you totally did
Victoire: Because you are our daddy!
All three: *harsh crying and sobbing*
****
Ron and Hermione after Rose got a bump in the head.
Hermione: can we please just call your sister?
Ron: No way, Ginny will be all judgement and condescending, like she’s perfect and I don’t know how to take care of a baby
Hermione: Ronald, she is your family.
Ron: Right so-
Hermione picking up the phone: Of course she’ll be judgmental and condescending
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Louis: I remember crashing through the wall and the ambulance ride to St Mungos
Bill: That wasn’t an ambulance, I drove you
Louis: then what was that siren?
Bill: that was your mother
Fleur: I ‘as worried!
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Harry: I did not pick Lily up early from play school
Ginny: Lily, did Daddy pick you up early from school?
Lily: No
Harry: See? Case closed
Lily; we didn’t go
Ginny: Case open
Lily: we went shopping
Harry: Ha Ha, shush now, Lily-
Lily: we bought matching hats
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George: Act like a parent, talk like a peer.
George: I call it “peer-renting”
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Percy: There are very few parenting issues where I come out on top.
Percy; You know I’m distant. I work too much, my French braiding is sloppy
Percy: finally, something that isn’t my fault.
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James: Whoa, you’re being a little-
Rose: Obstreperous? Recalcitrant? Truculent?
James: I was going to say “cray cray”
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Ginny: Hermione and I are going to go on this beautiful hike while you all sit and think about how selfish and thoughtless you’ve been
Hermione: *nods in agreement*
Rose: if we’re thoughtless how can we think?
Ginny:…
Hermione: …..
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James: In Legally blonde, Elle won her case because she was true to herself and dressed cute
Harry: James, this is real life, not an excellent movie
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James: Al, before you say no-
Albus: No.
James: I haven’t even told you yet!
Albus: I’m sticking with no.
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Ron: Marry someone who looks sexy, while disappointed
Hermione: *looks to Ron in disappointment*
Ron: see?
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Ron: I’ll get you fixed up *bandages Hugo*
Hugo: Where’s mum?
Ron referring to Hermiones work: She belongs to the people now
Rose coming in: My allergies are acting up again
Ron giving her medicine: well it’s your lucky day, because missy, doctor dad is in the house
Rose: where’s mum?
Hugo: some people took her
Rose: …..
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Dominique & Victoire arguing
Bill: Ah ah ah, let’s this in court, the food court. The honorable judge Cinnabon presiding
Victoire: That place smells like the inside of Louis Quidditch Robes
Dominique: I like the food court
Lily: me too
Bill: don’t worry girls. We’re not gonna deprive ourselves because of Victoires aversion
Dominique: *cackles*
Victoire: ….
Bill: …..
Dominique suddenly stops: Oh, Victoires aversion, I thought you said-
Victoire shakes her head rapidly
Dominique: Never mind
Bill 0-0 *slowly realizes*
****
Angelina walking until she slips on eggs
Angelina: Fred! Why?
Fred: Im making my egg dropping project
Angelina: maybe don’t make such a mess in the hallway
Fred: Got it! What if I’m the container!
Angelina: there’s a thought- wait no Fred!
Fred, on the edge of the stairs with Roxy putting an egg in his mouth
****
Fleur: What a wonderful dinner
Bill: I’m impressed
Teddy with his arm around Vic: Thanks next time let’s do it at our place
Victoire realizing he accidentally told them they’re moving in together
Louis: I’m in, just give us a owl to let me know
Bill: our place?
Victoire: Well since I’m finished school now, Teddy and I were thinking of getting a flat
Bill: I-
Louis: are you doing sex?
****
Hugo: I’m moving into the attic
James: Cool
Albus: The attic?
Hugo: Hey, at least it’s big, Teddy said you used to live in a closet
Albus: *gay silence*
****
Ron taking care of Rose alone
Hermione over the phone; Keep an eye on rose she has a tendency to wander off
Ron realizing Rose did exactly that: ‘Mione I’m completely capable of-
Hermione: You lost her didn’t you?
Ron: No no no, she is right here, hi honey
Hermione: I can it in your voice, check the dairy case
Ron finding her and trying to open the door: Do you honestly think-
Hermione: doors don’t pull they slide
****
Time for some queer book recommendations!!
The Falling In Love Montage - Ciara Smyth
Not My Problem - Ciara Smyth
Here The Whole Time - Vitor Martins
Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas
Some Girls Do - Jennifer Dugan
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
Gender Queer: A Memoir - Maia Kobabe (graphic novel)
The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang (graphic novel)
On A Sunbeam - Tillie Walden (graphic novel)
The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta
Only On The Weekends - Dean Atta
Nimona - ND Stevenson (graphic novel)
If You Still Recognise Me - Cynthia So
Sasha Masha - Agnes Borinsky
The Tea Dragon Society - Katie O'Neill (graphic novel)
Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram
Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston
The Passing Playbook - Isaac Fitzgerald
The Prom - Saundra Mitchell (watch the musical first!!)
I Think I Love You - Auriane Desombre
The Song Of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Felix Ever After - Kacen Callendar
I Was Born For This - Alice Oseman
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
Solitaire - Alice Oseman
Heartstopper - Alice Oseman (graphic novel)
Loveless - Alice Oseman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
They Both Die At The End - Adam Silvera
History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera
Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker (graphic novel)
Simon Vs The Homosapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli
The Avant-Guards - Carly Usdin (graphic novel)
Fence - C.S. Pacat (graphic novel)
The Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater (book 3&4)
Feel free to add your own recommendations! I'll update the list as I read more LGBTQ+ books!!!
Jake + Zooey Quotes From This Weeks Episode of Welcome To Our Show With Special Guest Jake Johnson
The Train
The last train out of Newcastle was almost empty. It rattled across the large bridges over the black water of the Tyne, and for the most part was quiet, just one or two people per carriage, snoozing in their seats or tapping away on laptops, ignoring the ping of the intercom and the Geordie-accented voice announcing the stops.
The exception to this was the very last carriage, where a large family was making a lot of noise indeed. Dressed head to toe in green and draped in scarves and flags and badges with words like 'Harpies rangers!' and 'These witches have talons!', they stretched across two table seats and the aisles behind too, the tables themselves laden with drinks and tubs of food bought last minute from the M&S in the station.
'-And then I can't believe you just openly told me it's rude to stare!' Albus was bursting out furiously at his father. The rest of the family was roaring with laughter, and Al was occasionally laughing too, though his face was as red as his mother's hair.
'It is rude to stare!' Harry replied, holding out his hands helplessly.
'I wasn't staring!'
'You WERE!' several people shouted back at him, pink faced with laughter.
Scorpius adopted a vacant, dreamy sort of expression, staring into the middle distance. 'H...ello,' he croaked, which only made the rest of the family laugh even more. Teddy's stomach ached from it, and he could see Lily wiping tears from her eyes.
'I didn't say it like that!'
'You DID!'
'I said it normally! A normal hello!'
'You absolutely did not, and you stared for so long - I have never seen you look more like your mother,' said Harry. 'I was transported back to my first visit to the Burrow.'
'Oh!' said Ginny, with mock crossness, and she leaned over the table to place a protective hand on her son's shoulder. 'Ignore them, Al, they don't know what it's like to meet your heroes-'
Albus rested his forehead on the table, between the tub of flapjacks and bottles of butterbeer, his shoulders shaking in despairing laughter. 'Mum, it's your fault, springing that on me... Can't believe I just stared at him... Why didn't you warn me he was their coach?'
'I thought it would be a nice surprise!' said Ginny. 'I thought you'd always wanted to meet Gonçalo Flores!'
'He did,' said Scorpius, 'but I bet he always imagined he'd be very suave and witty, not just... "H...ello...", didn't you, Al?'
'I hate you all, I hate Quidditch, I hate Gonçalo Flores-'
'No, you don't.'
'No, I don't,' admitted Albus, still hilariously red in the face. 'He was so nice about it... just makes it worse...'
'Al,' said James above the family's laughter. He was grinning evilly. 'Is he on your list, Al?'
'Oh my God, shut up-'
'He is!' said James gleefully, as amused 'ooh's' filled the carriage and Scorpius nodded enthusiastically, looking positively elated. 'He is on your list!'
'You know, I was worried for about half a second when I saw him,' said Scorpius. 'But fair's fair, you gave it your best shot, Al, I'm happy for him to stay on the list.'
'What list?' asked Harry, frowning. 'I don't get it.'
'Oh, sweetheart, you're so innocent,' said Ginny sympathetically, leaning back to squeeze Harry's knee. 'You're probably on loads of lists.'
'What lists?' he asked, apparently entirely flummoxed. 'What for?'
'No one tell him,' said Teddy quickly. 'No one explain.'
'Is it a list of people to kill? If someone's on your list you want to kill them?'
'Oh my God, Dad, get more mind healing,' said Lily, which made Ted snort with laughter.
'Al definitely doesn't want to kill Gonçalo Flores...' said James, with a grin that looked eerily like Uncle George.
'Stop it; I don't want to discuss this with my parents-' hissed Al.
'Who else is on your list?' asked Ginny. She looked at Scorpius. 'Who else is on it?'
'Well...'
‘You know who’s on mine?’ said Rowan, who seemed drunker than Ted had ever seen him, ‘Cerys Twycross. That actress from that play we saw last year.’
Lily snorted. ‘In your dreams, love.’
‘Well, yes, precisely,’ said Rowan, which earned him a shriek of laughter from Ginny.
‘You know what,’ said Scorpius, with a brief smirk at Lily. ‘I could arrange that for you. I know a guy who knows her.’
‘Shut up!’ said Lily, sitting up so fast in her seat that the pack of crisps in her lap went flying. ‘You don’t, you’re winding me up, you’re as bad as James sometimes.’
‘Tell me more,’ said Rowan, leaning forward.
‘Yeah, good luck, Ro…’
'Hazel,' said Harry, leaning across the aisle.
'No,' she said at once, shaking her head frantically. The others laughed.
'What does it mean?' he asked. 'You'll tell me.'
'Don't tell him, Haze!'
'I - ask your son-' she babbled.
'Tell me, I'm your boss-'
'Not any more...'
'I'm good friends with your boss, come on-'
'Hazel, don-'
'It's a list of people you're allowed to sleep with,' she blurted out, and then her cheeks flushed pink too.
'Ahh,' said Harry, leaning back. He turned to Ginny with a grin that Teddy did not like at all. 'Like our agreement about Madeleine Marlborough?'
'I beg your pardon?' spluttered James, as Al and Lily both howled in revulsion and the others burst into renewed laughter.
'The Australian singer.'
'Yes, I know who she is, I wish I didn't.'
'Horrible,' Teddy said. 'She's my age. You're both horrible. Who - no I don't want to know.'
'It's not serious,' Harry assured them.
'Excuse me, speak for yourself,' said Ginny.
'Stop!' pleaded Albus, burying his face in his hands. 'The pair of you... I am about to leap off this train.'
'This is terrible,' James agreed. 'This is... deeply traumatising.'
'It's all right for you,' said Ted. 'You'll forget it in about five minutes.'
'Well, that's five minutes too long.'
'You all need to toughen up,' said Harry with a shrug. 'Scorpius, Rowan and Hazel don't mind.' Indeed, they were all spluttering with laughter, Hazel and Rowan exchanging shocked but amused glances.
'They're not related to you!'
'And anyway, sadly I can't imagine we'll ever meet her, our concert days are over and I don’t think we run in the same circles.'
'I think this whole experience demonstrates that just because someone is on your list, doesn't mean that you'll actually enjoy meeting them,' said Albus flatly.
'Oh, Ally, you poor thing, no wonder you were so star-struck,' said Ginny. 'You should have told me he was on your list-'
'GOD-!'
'Back in the day, when-'
'Yes - we know - you met Dad and you couldn't speak in front of him, but you were a little girl, I'm a fully grown man-'
'So's Gonçalo Flores,' said Scorpius, with an exaggerated wink.
Albus screamed into the tub of brownie bites.
The shrieks of laughter and jeers continued as the train snaked through the darkness, swaying slightly as it turned corners. Teddy liked travelling this way; they had known that several of them would be too drunk to apparate after the match, and the Knight Bus and Portkey points would likely be too full of journalists and people staring to be worth it. But Teddy liked the slowness of muggle transport, he liked the conversations that arose from lack of anything else to do, the way that they were cramped in together. He blew across the top of his butterbeer bottle to make the funny hooting noise before remembering his young daughters were not there with him, but at home with Vic, but Lily laughed and seemed to appreciate it anyway.
'If I get an emptier one,' she said, 'and someone else gets another - we should try and make the theme tune to the Bowmans.'
'Ooh, yes, let me help,' said Ginny, seizing a bottle. 'Hazel, you take this one - if we get good enough, we can save some money on the wedding band.'
'Did we book a band?' James blurted out suddenly, and he seized his notebook and began rifling through the pages. 'Did we-?'
'Yes,' said Hazel soothingly. 'It's all arranged.'
'Which one, I don't remember-'
'It's all right,' said Harry patiently, for James was starting to look a little frantic. 'No one expects you to remember everything involved in planning a wedding.'
'OK, I've found it - I wrote here that I booked them - but I don't remember doing it-'
Teddy exchanged a dark glance with Ginny, who picked up a tub of caramelized peanuts and shook them at James in offering. ‘That’s what you write things down for, isn’t it? Grab a handful of these before they’re all gone, I can’t stop picking at them.’
He must have known he was being distracted, for he gave her an irritable sort of look, but he did take a handful and returned to looking through his notebook in a much calmer sort of way.
‘Is your list in there?’ Ted asked, nodding at the full pages. ‘So you don’t forget?’
James’s brown eyes flicked up at him a narrowed slightly. ‘No,’ he said firmly.
‘You said that pretty quickly,’ said Al.
‘Almost too quickly.’
‘I don’t have a list,’ said James. ‘I’m not a pervert like the rest of you.’
‘Everyone’s got a list, Jim,’ said Scorpius. ‘Even if they don’t realise.’
‘Your father and I aren’t perverts!’ exclaimed Ginny.
‘You are, and I won’t hear any more about it-’
‘Hazel -’ began Harry, ‘obviously you both have lists, don’t you? I’m your boss-’
‘I am absolutely not talking to you about it,’ said Hazel.
There was a great, rhythmic ‘ooh’ from the amused family, and James grinned broadly at her, but Harry was also grinning, unfazed and unoffended. ‘So there is a list, then?’
There was another round of whooping, howling laughter, Rowan clapping his hands in delight. ‘He’s got you there!’
Hazel was laughing, her head in her hands, but James, still amused, was leaping to her defence. ‘Don’t twist her words - thank God you’re not an auror now, that wouldn’t hold up in court, would it? Don’t-’
‘He’s so defensive - I bet it’s because their lists are filthy!’ insisted Al.
‘Absolutely not, there’s no list!’
The train began to rattle and sway even more, slipping between towering concrete covered in graffiti. The tannoy chimed and the Geordie accent from before announced that they would soon be arriving into Kings Cross.
‘Excellent,’ said Harry happily, although Teddy felt oddly glum that their journey had come to an end.
They staggered off the train together into the almost empty station, still bedecked in green, still laughing and shouting loudly at one another, their voices echoing off the grubby white tiles. Harry, though Lily had not permitted him to drink much at all, threw open his arms and looked up at the great glass ceiling as he walked. ‘Isn’t it good to be back here, kids?’ he called loudly. Then he span and pointed at Teddy. ‘A few more years and you’ll be here every September again too!’
Ted grinned at him, though the prospect of Dora and Celeste starting school mildly terrified him. He kept walking, and as he reached Harry, his godfather slung his arm around his shoulders. ‘Watch out,’ he told Ted, ‘it goes by in a flash.’
‘Already is.’
‘Bring the girls next time, it was lovely having everyone together. They’d love it - you know it’s no problem getting tickets.’
‘I told you - it’s well past their bed time.’
‘Ah, who cares - the odd late night never hurt anyone.’
‘Easy to say when you don’t have to deal with them the next day!’ said Ted, laughing.
The ticket gates were wide open; the family walked through without reaching into their pockets for the little orange cards. ‘Right,’ Ginny was saying briskly, ‘who’s coming to Ron and Hermione’s with us? Al and Scorpius - are you still going with Ted to Grimmauld Place? Or - no, Lily, was that you two?’
But Lily was ignoring her, pulling urgently on Rowan’s hand and gesturing frantically at the others. ‘Hurry - the night tube isn’t running tonight!’
‘Ah, we’ll get a cab-’
‘Thank you,’ said Harry’s voice, much quieter now. Ted stopped watching the rest of the family chaotically argue over getting the tube or taxis, and looked at Harry. He was watching his son and Hazel; James was pointing at the barrier between platform’s nine and ten, recounting some story. ‘For joking about it all with him, for keeping it light.’
‘Of course,’ said Ted. ‘Wasn’t that what we all agreed?’
‘Yes, but I know it isn’t easy, but you always find the right words.’
‘Sort of my job,’ mumbled Ted awkwardly. ‘He seems to be doing so much better though, so it is getting easier, isn’t it?’
‘It is. It’ll be a good wedding.’
‘TED!’ Lily bellowed. ‘Come ON! We’re going back to yours!’
‘Chill out!’ he shouted back to her, and then looked once more at Harry with great exasperation. ‘What’s she like?’
Harry smiled, though it seemed slightly strained. ‘I mean it. Thank you.’
‘You don’t need to thank me for looking after my brother.’
Harry hugged him, one hand gripping at the silky Harpies flag draped round Ted’s shoulders, the other at the back of his head in his emerald green hair. ‘Good luck with writing the speech,’ he said. ‘Send my love to Vic and the girls.’
‘Will do. See you Sunday.’
They broke apart. ‘Jim! Hazel!’ Harry called across the wide expanse of the station. ‘Let’s go, if we’re too late back Hermione’ll tell us off.’
Beneath the great glass ceiling of Kings Cross, the family hugged, and made their hasty, happy farewells.
I wish I knew more about this story, but this should be 100% standard procedure in every bar or club.
seduce me with ur history knowledge
Why hasn’t this been done before?
I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT
Magnus birthday snippet!
Happy birthday, High Warlock! I’m currently in Southeast Asia so my sense of global time is a bit skewed, but I believe it to be Magnus’ birthday and will be snippeting accordingly! Hope you enjoy this scene from Lost Book of the White in which Magnus has a lot to contend with.
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Magnus found his robe, blinked the sleep from his eyes, and went into the kitchen, where Jace Herondale was pouring coffee into Magnus’s “I’m Kind of a Big Deal” mug.
“Don’t you have your own coffeepot?” Magnus said blearily.
Jace, blond hair in its usual, preternaturally excellent state,flashed him a winning smile that Magnus was not prepared to deal with before he too had some coffee. “I hear you got stabbed by a weird Norwegian thorn,” Jace said. “Also, do you have any soy milk?Clary’s doing a whole soy milk thing now.”
“What are you doing in my apartment?” said Magnus.
“Well,” said Jace, now rummaging in the fridge, “I’d like to think I’d be welcome anytime, what with my close relationship with all three of you. But in this case, Alec called us. Said something about Shanghai.” “Who is us?” Magnus said suspiciously.
Jace waved his coffee cup around. “Us! You know. All of us.”
“All of you?” Magnus repeated. He held up a hand. “Wait. Stop. I am going to go put on something more substantial than a kimono. You are going to use your angelic powers to pour me as large a mug of black coffee as you can find, and I will be right back, and then we can talk about terrible concepts like who ‘all of you’ are, or what Alec told you about last night.”
When he returned to the living room, now suitably dressed, he found Alec, arms folded, looking long-suffering. In the far corner of the room, next to the ceiling, Max floated, tumbling in the air. He didn’t seem to be in peril—indeed, he was yelling “Wheeeeeeeeeee” and appeared to be having an excellent time. Under him, Clary Fairchild and Isabelle Lightwood attempted to nudge him back to the ground with a broom handle. With her free hand, Clary was waving a red braid, trying to get Max interested as though he were Chairman Meow. Max was upside-down and obviously feeling good about it. Everyone else was in t-shirts and jeans, but Isabelle, of course, had shown up in a fitted black sweater over a tiered velvet maxi skirt. She was one of the few people who could occasionally make Magnus feel underdressed.
jem and tessa constantly thinking about and showing kit how much they love him added 20 years to my lifespan, cleared my skin, raised my grades, cured my anxiety, and gave me 20/20 vision
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Kit is finally home.
‘You ran away from home?’ ‘When I was about sixteen,’ said Sirius. ‘I’d had enough.’ ‘Where did you go?’ said Harry, staring at him. ‘Your dad’s place,’ said Sirius. ‘Your grandparents were really good about it; they sort of adopted me as a second son.’
(and I know this set will probably be confusing to some people since a lot of people like Kristin Scott Thomas as Walburga but she’s always been Mrs. Potter to me)
You have been generous answering many prompts, including mine. If you have more headcannon about Remus teaching Harry, and having more moments where he’s struck by memories of James/ Lily, I’d love to read it :)
The classroom was in such chaos when he entered (a few minutes late, as usual), that none of his students noticed him come in. Above the noise and chatter, one drawling voice in particular caught Remus’s attention thanks to its sheer unpleasantness.
‘For me to consider a woman she must have certain attributes,’ Malfoy was saying loudly, leaning back on his chair and smirking. ‘I won’t consider anything less. Slim, attractive, athletic, good at cooking-’
‘If she’s got all that going for her, why would she go out with you?’ Harry interrupted savagely.
Remus had to pretend he hadn’t heard so he could turn away and busy himself in the stationery cupboard so no one could see him biting back laughter.
It was so Lily. Not just the quick-wittedness of the put down, but the grimacing, exasperated, withering expression that had crossed his face as he said it. For a second he didn’t look like James at all - everything about the way he held his face was Lily, everything about his tone, everything about the bluntness. ‘God, she’s brutal,’ he remembered James saying admiringly one day.
‘Oh, come back when you get some parents, Potter-’
‘Well I’ve been talking to your mum a lot lately-’
Deciding that the argument was getting a little too serious for him to continue to ignore, Remus grabbed an old textbook from the stationary cupboard and dumped it on his desk loudly, so that they would realise he was in the room.
This seemed to do the trick; the deep ‘oohs’ and sniggers of the rest of the class died away in an instant - Harry immediately adopted the sheepish expression James used to get sometimes, and Malfoy scowled and reluctantly planted all four legs of his chair on the floor.
‘Thank you all for settling down so quickly,’ Remus told them pleasantly, ‘though I would appreciate coming into a quieter classroom in the first place. Now, if you would all gather around this tank…’
It was tempting to have a quiet word with Malfoy about respecting women, Remus thought, as the chairs scraped and the children eagerly gathered around the Grindylow. But then, he’d probably have to have a word with Harry, too, about the inappropriateness of ‘your mum’ jokes.
Well, he thought, as the girls squealed in exhilarated disgust at the grindylow’s slime, he certainly wasn’t going to admonish Harry. Not when his parents would have been so proud.
we may not have been able to save brandon. but the fight is far from over.
this is dustin john higgs.
in 1996, he was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three women and was sentenced to death.
this conviction is entirely false. he didn’t murder anybody.
he has been found not guilty of the crime. at this point, the only reason he remains in jail is because he was at the scene of the crime. the court also claims that he bullied willis hayes, the man who actually did murder the three women, into killing them. however, willis hayes has come forward and has admitted that dustin DID NOT commit the crime, and he’s also even confessed that dustin never bullied him into murdering the trio of women. but the court won’t accept it.
DUSTIN JOHN HIGGS IS SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED ON JANUARY 15, 2021. HE IS GOING TO BE EXECUTED FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT AT ALL. WE CAN’T LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.
@esspress0depress0 @thesevenumbrellas @real-tua-facts @thetrueihaveaname @youngsamberg @umbrellas-be-falling @peterbparkers @amystiago @stranger-umbrellas @glitched-coffee @letsgoravendors @kakakuroo @klaus-is-the-real-number-1 @itty-bitty-rampaging-committee @mariarreynolds @benhargrieves @number5theboy @millicent-is-goose @caseoftheblues @27-umbrellas @the-aro-ace-arrow-ace @the-umbrella-academy-confessions @studentlifeproblems @sunriseseance here’s another chain post for you. you guys know the drill, please make sure to tag anybody you can think of to make sure this message gets somewhere.
List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:
Justice for George Floyd
Justice for George Floyd 2
Justice for George Floyd 3
Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder
Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2
Justice For Ahmuad Arbery
Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2
Justice for Breonna Taylor
Stand with Breonna
Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder
Justice For Tamir Rice
Justice For Joāo Pedro
Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez
Justice for Belly Mujinga.
Justice for Rashad Cunningham
Justice For Tony McDade
Justice for Dion Johnson
Justice for Jennifer Jeffley
Justice for Young Uwa
Justice for Elijah Nichols
Justice for Tete Gulley
Justice for Tazne Van Wyk
Justice for Michael Dean
Justice For Amari Boone
Justice for Darrius Stewart
Justice for Shukri Abdi
Justice for Ashton Dickson
Justice For Darrius Stewart
Justice for David McAtee
Justice for Cameron Green
Justice for Crystal Mason
Justice For Zinedine
Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Justice for Christopher Josey
Justice for Amiya Braxton
Justice For Emerald Black
Justice for Andile Mchunu
Justice for Cameron Green
Justice for Tamla Horsford
Justice for Collins Khosa
Free Siyanda
Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case
Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery
Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality
Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child
Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles
Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People
Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD
Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training
Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test
stop immigrants being poisoned by ICEBan the use of inhumane rubber bullets
Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence
End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA
Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control
Join Campaign Zero
Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!
Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case
Abolish Prison Labour in the USA
Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff’s Office
Donation Links
A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM
Official George Floyd Memorial Fund
OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s child)
Black Lives Matter
We Cant Breathe
43 Bail Funds to Support
Homeless Black Trans women fund
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
Minnesota Healing Justice Network
Women for Political Change
Spiral Collective
When We All Vote
National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses
Venmo names of black trans people that need help
Latino Community on Lake Street
Black Immigrant Collective
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha
Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief
Al Maa'uun
Remembering Shana Isuroon
Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses
Joyce Preschool
Black Table Arts
Northside business support
Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund
Unicorn Riot
Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy
Pimento Relief Fund
Southside Harm Reduction
West Broadway Business and Area Coalition
Division of Indian Work
TC Care Collective
Justice for Breonna Taylor
Justice for Jamee
Justice for David McAtee
ways to help protestors if you are unable to protest
everybody has to do their part. as a reference, this was posted on 1 june 2020. if any links are broken or direct to a place they should not, please feel free to add on with corrections. if there is new information with better knowledge, please feel free to share. thank you.
1. donate
do not donate to shaun king. he has repeatedly collected money to “support” black people, but no one knows where the money is.
BAIL FUNDS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST)
note: washington dc and new jersey have cashless bail systems.
bail fund google doc (also includes lawyers for protestors)
national bail fund network (directory of community bail funds)
community bail funds masterpost by @keplercryptids
resistance funds (google sheets; lists bail funds around the country)
nationwide bail funds (split a donation to the bail funds listed on the linked page with a single transaction)
atlanta bail fund
brooklyn bail fund
colorado freedom fund
columbus freedom fund
houston chapter of black lives matter
liberty fund (nyc based; focuses services on people from low-income communities)
los angeles freedom fund
louisville community fund
massachusetts bail fund
minnesota freedom fund (as of may 30, 2020, they are encouraging people to donate elsewhere since they have raised enough money; as of may 29, 2020, they do not have a venmo, as some fraudulent accounts have been claiming, source)
philadelphia bail out fund
richmond bail fund
MORE PLACES TO DONATE
note: more links are listed in the masterposts below.
northstar health collective (healthcare and medical aid for people on the front lines)
reclaim the block (aims to redistribute police funding to help the minneapolis community)
twin cities dsa (provides fresh groceries and hot meals to people in minneapolis)
2. educate yourself
it isn’t enough to sign petitions and reblog/retweet/etc. nonblack people, including people of color, owe it to black people to educate themselves and correct themselves and the people around them on anti-blackness.
note: more links are in the masterposts linked below.
resources and tools regarding racism and anti-blackness (google sheets compilation)
readings on society, racism, the prison system, etc. (twitter thread)
“where do we go after ferguson?” by michael eric dyson
official black lives matter website
3. give out supplies to protestors
people need supplies to protest safely, and even if they bring supplies with them, they can often run out. if you’re able, stock up and hand them out to people protesting. for more supplies to donate, see the “george floyd action” google docs link in section 5.
water bottles (dehydration and heatstroke are not things people should have to deal with alongside bastard cops. if the police in your area are particularly violent or known to use tear gas, get the ones with the sports cap/suction-thing/etc so people can use them as emergency eye-flushes.)
snacks (make sure to take into account that people have allergies of all sorts. foods will have a little label that says “may contain” and then list any potential allergens. write the allergens on the ziploc (or any container you use) in permanent marker, or better yet, write the snacks included in the pack.)
masks (don’t forget there’s still a pandemic going on. also it will aid in deterring facial recognition when the police try to track down protestors, also part two, if the cops use tear gas, wearing a mask (with the combination of a scarf or bandana) will lessen the adverse effects. lessen, not stop.)
bandanas, scarves, etc. and goggles (ski goggles, swimming goggles, etc.) (see above for explanation on the scarves. same goes for the goggles. anti–tear gas and anti–facial recognition.)
clean shirts (for people who are heavily gassed. also helps deter recognition through clothing.)
wound care supplies (band-aids, packets of neosporin packets or a similar antibiotic, alcohol wipes, etc.; if you can, decant bactine into those little travel bottles.)
a sharpie or another type of marker (for writing bail numbers or emergency contacts on arms, hands, etc. it’s not enough to have your city’s bail fund number stored on your phone; the police won’t give it to you to look it up. give people a marker so they can write it down, preferably not washable so it isn’t easily removed.)
IMPORTANT: KNOWING FIRST AID
tear gas: if you’re hit, get out as fast and as soon as you can. take anyone you can with you. the longer you’re in the gas, the harder it will be for you to see, and it can irritate your airways, making it hard to breathe. if you’re hit, don’t run; it’ll only make things worse on your lungs. when you leave the area, take a cold shower. don’t use hot water (it will only reactivate the agent); don’t bathe (it will only spread the CS around). (source 1) (source 2) (cdc fact sheet on tear gas)
move them to a clean and ventilated area where it’s as safe as possible.
ask them if they’re wearing contact lenses. have them remove it. if they’re wearing glasses, rinse it with water.
solution of half liquid antacid, half water. spray from the inside going out, with the head tilted back and slightly towards the side being rinsed. if they say it’s okay, open the eye slightly while doing this. (source)
bullet wounds: the most important thing is to stop the bleeding. be sure to check for an exit wound and cover that as well. treat both wounds, but treat the worse one first.
stop the bleed (youtube video by uc san diego health)
first aid in active shooting scenarios
making a tourniquet (a commercial tourniquet is best, but improvised ones can work as well if done properly; the most important things to remember is that tourniquets are for limb injuries and are not meant for the head or torso and that they have to be very tightly wound on the injury.)
how to apply pressure dressings
miscellaneous
adult cpr tutorial (youtube video by cincinnati children’s; think of “staying alive” by the beegees or “uptown funk”)
4. be a source of information
be responsible with this. people’s lives are at stake. that being said, the media is a fucking joke and the best way to get accurate information in a grassroots rebellion is amongst ourselves. record everything, but if you are going to share any information at all, be sure to blur people’s faces.
signal (encrypted messenger app; messages delete after x amount of time): app store | google play
tool for scrubbing metadata from images and selectively blurring identifiable features
tech tips to protect yourself while protesting (by rey.nbows on tiktok, via vicent_efl on twitter)
cop spotting 101 (google docs)
know your rights (by personachuu on twitter)
NUMBERS TO CALL FOR ARRESTED PROTESTORS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; SOURCES LINKED TO THE NUMBER)
remember to keep phones OFF unless absolutely necessary. cell phone towers, stingrays, location notifs can all be used to track you and other protestors. don’t fuck around. if your phone must be on, keep it on airplane mode as often as possible and only communicate using encrypted methods. no, snapchat doesn’t count. (a twitter thread on stingrays, for those interested)
lawyers assisting protestors pro-bono (by riyakatariax on twitter)
atlanta: 404-689-1519
chicago: 773-309-1198
minneapolis: 612-444-2654
5. miscellaneous links and links for protestors
masterpost of petitions to sign, numbers to call, places to donate, and more (carrd by dehyedration on twitter)
#blacklivesmatter (google docs by ambivaIcnt on twitter; includes information on relevant events, other masterposts, lists of petitions and donation links, how to protest safely and protests to go to, and more)
george floyd action (google docs; includes information on apps to download, supplies to buy and donate, places to donate to, protest safety, resources on unlearning racial bias, and more)
how to get out of ziptie “handcuffs” (by finnianj on tiktok, via katzerax on twitter)
how can i help? by @abbiheartstaylor
how to make a signal-blocking cell phone pouch
tips for protestors by @aurora00boredealis
twitter thread for protestors (by vantaemuseum on twitter)
also, if you’re protesting, change your passcode. make it at least 11 characters long and don’t use facial/thumb recognition.
HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY
a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity
brooklyn bail fund
minnesota freedom fund
atlanta action network
columbus freedom fund
louisville community bail fund
chicago bond
black visions collective
richmond community bail fund
the bail project inc
nw com bail fund
philadelphia bail fund
the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme
george floyd’s family gofundme
blacklivesmatter.com
reclaim the block
aclu
turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.
youtube will donate to blm for you.