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🐾 Beasts (WIP)
Summary: Ginny Weasley comes of age among them: the beasts, the wild things of their world. (or: how the youngest Weasley won the Hanging Out With Hagrid Award). Canon compliant, multi-chapter, post-war, non-linear narrative, flashbacks. PS/SS through post-DH (1981-1999). Harry/Ginny. Author's notes (1+2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10+11, 12, 13+14) Trailer | playlist | moodboards
🌳 Orchards
Summary: The orchard is a wild, thousand-flower, crumpled-gate, fall-down-fence sort of place, where things grow that you’ve never asked for, that you’d never expect. Summer of ’96, the story of something flowery he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow.  Canon-compliant, oneshot, summer between OotP and HBP. Non-linear narrative, flashbacks/flash-forwards to DH. Harry/Ginny.  Meta on Ginny's t-shirts 👕
🪟 the room at the top of the house
Summary: It’s doing something to him, watching her like this, all loose and laughing and bare-legged, ray of light and warmth and wonder sat atop his bedsheets. It’s turning him on, it’s setting him alight. Canon compliant, post-war, oneshot. Harry/Ginny. NSFW.
💭 think / hope
Summary: Kill your darlings, push them out to sea // Harry and Ginny's first evening apart after the breakup. Canon compliant, oneshot, missing moment, post-HBP. Harry/Ginny. Written for Hinny Microfic April 2023 days 13 & 14.
🌼 flower(y)
Summary: Are you sorry? // Moments after the kiss. Canon compliant, microfic, missing moment, HBP. Harry/Ginny. Written for Hinny Microfic May 2023 day 10.
🍳 warm light peaceful (quiet)
Summary: Two big things happen on Monday 31st July 2000: Harry Potter turns twenty, and Robbie Williams releases a little song called Rock DJ. Canon compliant, microfic, postwar. Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione. Written for The Three Broomsticks 'A Very Harry Birthday' Fic Fest 2023.
🏴‍☠️ dead ends
Summary: Later - much later, when he's leaving - he’ll tell her: ‘I’m a dead end.’ ‘Fuck off,’ she’ll spit back, fuming. ‘We’re all dead ends. You’re not bloody special.’ Canon compliant, microfic, Remadora. Written for @remadoramicrofics.
🏹 the huntress
Summary: The last day of August 1997, she comes downstairs in her dressing gown to find Kingsley in the kitchen with a Muggle newspaper that says that Princess Diana is dead.
Canon compliant, microfic, Harry/Ginny. Written for anon ask prompt.
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#master list#nothing to see here just a spot of housekeeping#all my drivel and daydreams in one place#writing#meta#headcanons
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I loved the fanfic Beasts by whinlatter so much, I made an 8-tracks style playlist about it.

What makes it an 8-tracks style playlist?  Because it has 16 songs – 8 tracks for Side A and 8 tracks for Side B.  No more.  No less.

There were two songs that initially inspired this playlist, and it would have been easy to make a 5 or 6 song long playlist.  Or I could have every song that had a lyric that fit, and would have made a 20-30 song playlist.  But 16 songs exactly?  That was the challenge… and the fun. I wanted to make sure every song fit lyrically with the story and musically with each other.  Sometimes I chose covers rather than the original artist, not because I liked the song better, but because it fit with the other music. It got me to dig through old songs I half remembered and discover new artists I'd never heard before.

But I’m talking too much.  See below for each song and why I thought it fit.  Whinlatter has done beautiful work writing a story that is melancholy and hopeful, dark and funny, about characters that are broken and hurting each other and loving and strong all at the same time. I looked for songs that carried the same spirit.

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this is ??? absolutely unbelievable ????

thank you SO so so much for building this exquisite playlist and BEAUTIFUL reflection on my fic good god. i am blown away by the thought and consideration and time spent responding to the work and pulling out these scenes and finding wonderful musical pairings for them. did i just trip over racing to the kitchen to get my airpods out and sit with this playlist for a few hours? yes! you bet your ass i did! and i already know it was worth it! i can’t believe someone took the time to do this! you’re a marvel!

#beasts#i’m a sap so am genuinely moved that you did this#thank you soooooo so so much!
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More from my old hard-drive. I'm trying to be a more organised person digitally and that means I'm going on a deep dive into ancient files. Always very weird to be confronted with old work. Some of it I hate because is so bad, and some of it I hate because it's good and I don't think I can ever do it again.

This one is not that good but it's not that bad.

Here's Aberforth Dumbledore working on new ways to bring the crowd in.

#this is quality#aberforth#hp fanart
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Anonymous asked:

For the unhinged and deranged ships,

Harry/Michael Corner. The Venn diagram of their canonical exes is a circle

Michael Corner/Tom Riddle

saintsenara answered:

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

michael corner/harry potter

we have to say flopping, i fear!

it initially looks like it would work, since harry clearly enjoys being gassed up by michael and michael enjoys telling him how fantastic he is:

"Look," he said and everyone fell silent at once, "I... I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be modest or anything, but... I had a lot of help with all that stuff..." "Not with the dragon, you didn't,” said Michael Corner at once. "That was a seriously cool bit of flying..."  "Yeah, well - " said Harry, feeling it would be churlish to disagree.

but we know that this initial spark would sour pretty quickly, since michael is famously a sore loser. he's not going to put up with harry constantly being an absolute legend for long.

[by which i mean everyone loves to focus on capslock harry in order of the phoenix, to the detriment of "yes, i am an icon" harry, but it's his best book too!]

michael corner/tom riddle

sure, why not. the opportunity to swap stories about michael's sexual performance would help tom and ginny achieve their destinies as bffs who spend their days yapping over a pinot grigot.

[this also works, as anyone with taste knows, as a tomarry premise.]

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horrifyingly... yes.

#unrequited michael/harry is canon i fear#a position i sincerely hold#their ship name is literally ‘marry’ 🥲
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Anonymous asked:

Antonin/Salazar Slytherin. I’m just mindlessly throwing darts atp

saintsenara answered:

no, you're correctly identifying a hot ship, anon.

my favourite incidental character detail in the books is that dolohov is clearly a great pal.

he travels all the way to hogsmeade to wish voldemort luck for his interview and buy him a drink after:

"Then if I were to go to the Hog's Head tonight, I would not find a group of them - Nott, Rosier, Mulciber, Dolohov - awaiting your return? Devoted friends indeed, to travel this far with you on a snowy night, merely to wish you luck as you attempted to secure a teaching post."

[dumbledore's just being a bitch here because he's so gutted he doesn't have a group of lads ready to assemble for pints at any opportunity...]

dolohov is also is gassed for yaxley when he achieves his greatest professional triumph:

"My Lord, I have good news on that score. I have - with difficulty, and after great effort - suceeded in placing an Imperius Curse upon Pius Thicknesse." Many of those sitting around Yaxley looked impressed; his neighbour, Dolohov, a man with a long, twisted face, clapped him on the back.

[voldemort - in contrast - couldn't give less of a fuck because he's too busy flirting with snape.]

and what do we know about slytherin? also stupendously devoted to dealing craic with the lads:

For were there such friends anywhere As Slytherin and Gryffndor? Unless it was the second pair Of Huffepuff and Ravenclaw?

these two are a pair of true #lovers, and i think we can all agree that mashing their capacity for deep and abiding commitment together can only end well.

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#antonin dolohov just being a great bud#he was the best guy around!#what about the people he murdered?#what murda!
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PT 1: LILY IN HER OWN WORDS🪷

*despite being at the center of the narrative- the mother who saves harry with the “power of love,” we know very little about lily evans. many characters tell harry what his parents are like- brave, or kind, or good at potions- but harry, and the reader by extension, rarely gets to see for himself. finally, in the later books, we get some flashbacks which show what lily was really like without the halo of death. her voice, her words, her tone all serve her characterization (if you’re interested in pulling from the book, and it’s okay if you’re not.) in this part i’ve gathered almost every instance where lily speaks herself from childhood up to october 31st. most are from snape’s pov, one from voldemort’s, and the letter stands by itself. the next part will be every instance of speech post-death. just a little something of interest for the lily evans enjoyers (◡‿◡✿)

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PT 2: FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE🦌

*this part has to do with harry hearing lily’s voice. until i looked through the books for this, i totally forgot that he was in the torture nexus of hearing his mother beg for his life. in the third book, her death screams haunt harry as his worst memory every time the dementors come near. it's torturous, but he also wonders if its better than never hearing her at all. the only things lily says in the series that aren't memory are "hold on your father's coming" and "you've been so brave." she never says i love you. she's the sacrifice. she was on the altar. she has no mouth but she must scream.

#she has no mouth but she must scream#god#jerking awake only to dwell on the sound of his mother’s voice#‘or did he’ ruins me tbh#lily evans#lily potter#meta
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Anonymous asked:

What do you think of Ginny’s “I knew you wouldn’t be happy if you weren’t hunting Voldemort” line in HBP? Do you feel like she’s mischaracterizing Harry or do you think there’s some truth to it? Or do you think the line meant something else entirely and people are just taking it at face value?

great question, anon! i think there’s a lot of truth in that line, even though i don’t think ginny realises quite how much at the time.

i think it’s important to remember how much ginny doesn’t know at the point she says these words. we know she doesn’t believe in or know anything about the prophecy (‘All this Chosen One rubbish is just the Prophet making things up as usual’). we know she knows nothing about horcruxes, and while she knows harry has had private lessons with dumbledore and that he was with dumbledore the night he died, that’s really the extent of her knowledge of it all. it’s why harry letting slip he’s going to go bump off voldemort in DH is such a shock to her: harry talks candidly to ginny as he would to ron or hermione, who are both in the picture, and gets a stark reminder of how little ginny knows when she responds with shock (‘So it’s true? That’s what you’re trying to do?’)

important, too, that ginny says these lines at the funeral of someone harry loved and cared for. harry - a person who already has enough reasons to seek revenge on voldemort - has just had one more reason laid at his door why voldemort needs to be brought down and paid to pay.

this is what ginny means when she says harry would not be happy if he wasn’t hunting voldemort. were harry to leave the task of hunting voldemort to others, he would not be content: he would be restless and angry and would find it unbearable (à la sirius in ootp). ginny would not ask it of him - in fact, she relates to it (‘Maybe that’s why I like you so much.’) she knows their relationship would not be tenable under those circumstances, either. she knows he would choose the cause over her, and she accepts and respects it (‘There some things worth dying for’ - i’ve talked about it elsewhere, but ginny believes in self-sacrifice, as all of harry’s loved ones tend to do).

i think people who bristle at this line (often doing bad-faith readings of the books to support different ship agendas, once again a reminder that you can make the case for other ships without wilfully misreading the text) don’t like the implication that harry fighting voldemort is about him making himself happy. their argument is that this responsibility was put on harry by others: that harry is only ever a victim, that it’s not about his happiness but about an externally-imposed duty, that he did not choose this path.

but while the text is clear that harry is a victim in many ways, it is also absolutely clear that harry chooses to be the chosen one. he chooses to make the prophecy true: he chooses his own path, as dumbledore knew he would, and he does decide that it is the only course of action he can live with. it’s happiness in the sense of ultimate purpose and a satisfaction in the service of a worthy goal, one no-one else could succeed in. it’s hermione who puts it most bluntly back in ootp (‘Do you like having this connection to You Know Who?’) harry bristles at this at the time, but the truth is he does get some sense of drive and purpose from his connection with voldemort and the fusing of their fates, in ways he increasingly (though silently) comes to accept as the series goes on.

so the reason the words are more true than ginny could ever know at this point is the narrative is the fact (as i say, often overlooked in analyses of harry’s trauma but vital to his character) that harry does derive something like happiness from taking on voldemort alone. ginny doesn’t know about harry’s choice to be the chosen one: she just knows him, and she ends up making a shrewd and correct assessment of him even without some very important information about harry’s road ahead.

(last thing - it’s worth clocking how harry reacts to this line. he can’t bear to hear her say these things (not because they are false; because they are true!) and he leaves because he’s worried he will buckle and change his mind if he keeps sitting with ginny, because she brings him happiness too — a different kind of happiness, one he has decided he is not entitled to because of the fate he has accepted for himself. to harry at least, it’s a scene spent with - by his own narrative admission - someone who understands him perfectly. worth not leaving that part out of the analysis, i find…)

#hunting voldemort does make harry potter happy and that’s the tea#meta#hinny#ginny weasley
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Anonymous asked:

The Ginny and Peter parallel though?? How have I never thought about that?? It‘s so horrifying and insanely compelling to me at the same time. I would love to hear (read?) you elaborate on that.

"Sirius, Sirius, what could I have done? The Dark Lord… you have no idea… he has weapons you can't imagine…. I was scared, Sirius, I was never brave like you and Remus and James. I never meant it to happen…. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named forced me - " "Harry – oh, Harry – I tried to tell you at b-breakfast, but I c-couldn’t say it in front of Percy. It was me, Harry – but I – I s-swear I d-didn’t mean to  - R-Riddle made me, he took me over..."

thank you so much for this question anon.  i have been thinking about this for a long time - about how ginny weasley might have made a really, really good traitor - and would love to talk more about my thinking behind it. a little meta on traitor talk - who flips, and why, and why ginny weasley might be the peter pettigrew to the trio's marauders after all - can be found below the cut (with spoilers for beasts chapter 14). 

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i'm afraid i've only found more peter-ginny parallels since!

for starters, there's all the listening at doors...

'Snape held up a hand to stop [Narcissa], then pointed his wand again at the concealed staircase door. There was a loud bang and a squeal, followed by the sound of Wormtail scurrying back up the stairs. "My apologies,' said Snape. 'He has lately taken to listening at doors, I don’t know what he means by it. You were saying, Narcissa?"'
'Turning to Fred and George [Ginny] said, “It’s no go with the Extendable Ears, she’s gone and put an Imperturbable Charm on the kitchen door.” “How d’you know?” said George, looking crestfallen. “Tonks told me how to find out,” said Ginny. “You just chuck stuff at the door and if it can’t make contact the door’s been Imperturbed. I’ve been flicking Dungbombs at it from the top of the stairs and they just soar away from it, so there’s no way the Extendable Ears will be able to get under the gap...'

...then there's the performance of domestic labour, the implication of humiliating confinement within the home...

“Wormtail will get us drinks, if you’d like them,” said Snape. “And then he will return to his bedroom.” Wormtail winced as though Snape had thrown something at him. “I am not your servant!” he squeaked, avoiding Snape’s eye. “Really? I was under the impression that the Dark Lord placed you here to assist me.” “To assist, yes — but not to make you drinks and — and clean your house!”
The door opened again and Mrs. Weasley popped her head in. “Ginny,” she whispered, “come downstairs and help me with the lunch." “I’m talking to this lot!” said Ginny, outraged. “Now!” said Mrs. Weasley, and withdrew.'

...then there's the service to voldemort: the pathetic figure, held in contempt, that nonetheless allows voldemort to return to a corporeal form...

'"You returned to me, not out of loyalty, but out of fear of your old friends. You deserve this pain, Wormtail. You know that, don’t you?... Yet you helped return me to my body,” said Voldemort coolly, watching Wormtail sob on the ground. “Worthless and traitorous as you are, you helped me . . . and Lord Voldemort rewards his helpers. . . .”
"So Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to be exactly what I wanted. I grew stronger and stronger on a diet of her deepest fears, her darkest secrets... So I made Ginny write her own farewell on the wall and come down here to wait. She struggled and cried and became very boring. But there isn’t much life left in her: she put too much into the diary, into me. Enough to let me leave its pages at last."
#dusting off the peter & ginny parallels in the year of our lord 2025#i ought to get a grip#again#not perfect mirrors#but cracked mirrors and that's what makes it a slay to play with#blame asenora for this one#ginny weasley#peter pettigrew#meta
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thedreamermusing asked:

Thoughts on Peter Pettigrew? And if you ship him with anyone, who?

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thank you very much for the ask, pal! peter is a fascinating character and i always enjoy properly thinking about him.

because - let's be honest - he really goes under the radar, in both canon and fanon. he's extraordinarily cunning, ruthless, powerful, adaptable, emotionally literate, intelligent…

and yet you wouldn't get that impression if you take harry's narrative at face value. even after peter escapes at the end of prisoner of azkaban/cuts his own hand off in goblet of fire.

[which is one of harry's most interesting character traits - his tendency to split the world into black-and-white "good people" and "bad people" is something we talk about a lot, but he also has a tendency to split the world into "special people, who have agency" and "unspecial people, who don't"... hence his attitude to characters such as stan shunpike.]

but the main thing i find fascinating about peter isn't actually the way his talents are overlooked by the text. it's the way he embodies one of the series' central messages: that "it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live" [PS 12].

when dumbledore says this to harry, it's as advice on how to deal productively with grief. and obviously that's a good and healthy message to receive - especially for the children who are philosopher's stone's intended audience.

but the statement has another application, which ties to another one of the series' themes: that all that glitters is not gold.

so much of the overarching seven-book narrative is about jealousy and longing - harry's longing for a family, ron's jealousy of harry's fame, petunia's longing for magic and jealousy of lily, snape's longing for lily and jealousy of james, etc.

and it's also about how this jealousy and longing leads us to see what we want to see - ron becoming convinced that harry's feelings for hermione are romantic, lupin's inability to criticise james leading to his rage when harry's appalled at him walking out on tonks, the death eaters being convinced that voldemort is a champion of pureblood oligarchy, fudge refusing to believe that voldemort has returned etc.

as both ron and harry learn after ron stabs the locket-horcrux, you have to live the life you actually have and you have to know the people you know as they actually are. you can't imagine them into something they're not, become sad and/or angry when they fail to meet expectations it was always impossible for them to fulfil, and then let that sadness and anger fester until the poison within you can no longer be contained...

which is the peter pettigrew special, really...

#this slaps#peter is a textual goldmine#some good fucking good#meta#peter pettigrew#tw: implied reference to sexual assault
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