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Harry Potter spent his eleventh birthday in a cabin on a tiny rock in the middle of the sea, listening to his cousin snore on the couch.
When a knock sounded on the wind-swept, rain-drenched door, it was not a giant fist (or a half-giant's fist). It was a short sharp rap that sounded once, twice, three times before Minerva McGonagall simply charmed the lock open and stepped inside.
"Apologies," Minerva said crisply, as Vernon raced out brandishing his rifle and Petunia pulled Dudley up off the couch and behind her. "I wasn't sure you could hear me over the weather.” The rain fell down behind the professor in a roar. She was perfectly dry.
Minerva fished in her pocket without looking, because the only things allowed in her pockets were only ever exactly what she needed. “I've come to deliver this," she said, pulling out a letter and handing it to Harry, who was cross-legged on the floor, "because our owl post seems to have been unable to get through.”
“And I've come to deliver this," she added, pulling out a second letter, "because Hogwarts by-laws require a professor to hand-deliver acceptance letters to Muggleborn families for their explanation and comfort."
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"All her growth was the conveying of a corpse of hope."
(From 'The Rainbow', D.H. Lawrence)This is a story about coming into one's own, a meditation on the twilight of girlhood and the violence of crash-landing into womanhood. Follow Hermione as she navigates through the quagmire: Saving the world, getting top grades, falling in love, lust, and a whole lot of trouble, and comes out of it hopefully (at least) partially sane.
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- Part 1 of Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear
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“The process of not hating him had been like scaling a wall with no purchase. It was an obstacle so high and harrowing, she couldn’t see the top. All her focus was on scaling the damn thing without causing any casualties. How was she supposed to have known that there was no even ground on the other side either; that, in fact, there was nowhere to land at all? How the bloody fuck could she have guessed that on the other side, there was only an endless plunge... A perpetual freefall. Permanent, amplified vertigo. ”
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“For so excruciatingly long, she had been helpless against life’s circles, always spinning, spiralling, and circuiting. Draco had picked her up and carried her to the sun. They were in the white-hot centre of it all, the point of burning stillness, and everything revolved around them. ”
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“Hermione straightened and began to walk. The Spectre of Time trailed behind her.
But what was life if not a constant spate of dying? Each second marked its own death. Each death was marked by the footfalls of the Spectre; by the beat of her pulse. ”
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If feelings were quantifiable, if she could pick them up, shake them free of impurities and guises, and compare them on a weighing balance, Hermione would have demonstrated what she knew for sure – that she had been resented more than she had been loved. (ch. 95)
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When Harry tells her "you're my four brothers and a sister,"
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It was an astonishing selection – perfectly varied, intriguingly complementary. Unsteady fingers pulled aside the cover of the first book.
See here, this witch named Granger!
She quickly flicked open the rest and found a scrap of parchment in each:
Odd to begin with and she only grows stranger.
Her hair is electric,
Her ways are eccentric,
Beg or berate, you cannot hope to change her.
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blood will tell but often it tells too much by elumish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Aug 2016
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They don’t talk about what Percy did during the war.
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"One wanted me to legalize Life Debts just so they could owe you one.”
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Wherein book 7 is completely ignored because wars don't tend to happen so quickly; Percy Weasley runs a safehouse [because that's as close to administrative work as you can get in a war], and everyone gets a chance to play minor character bingo. Get your cards and markers ready!
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- Part 1 of Ben Folds's Series
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Brilliant. Wonderful Draco, too
“We really are sorry,” Fred says as Percy walks through the sitting room. “But you’re our brother.”
It makes Percy pause. “And you’re mine. And I’m older.”
“You outrank us,” Fred says. “Got it.”
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“How does that work?” George asks.
“Magic,” Percy deadpans.
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“Haven’t been sleeping,” he answers blandly. “You, on the other hand, are the picture of health, despite having walked into—and this is just a broad guess—several walls and a lamp post.”
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“Yes.” Molly breathes deep and puts her hands on her hips. “You’ll leave in two days; we have to send word ahead, of course.” Her tone is crisp and unassailable. She puts her hands on Percy’s shoulders before walking around him and poking Draco in the chest. “Sit up straight,” she barks. Draco remains slouched, but Molly is out of the room and doesn’t see it.
“Well,” Arthur says into the silence, “that went rather smoothly.”
“You know she’s crying in the other room, right?” Draco asks. He raises his eyebrows when Arthur and Percy both glare at him. “Just making sure.”
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Field Guide to North American Dragons by PacificRimbaud
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 May 2020
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Draco Malfoy never asked for Charlie Weasley, a flying car, or fucking America, for that matter.
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lovely
“Draco Lucius—” Pansy perches on the front of the chair beside him.
“Fuck Lucius,” says Draco.
“Draco Fuck Lucius Malfoy.” Pansy crosses her legs and leans back.
//Apart from Pansy, no one’s ever held my hand.”
Charlie laughs. “Now someone has.”
“We’re not having sex. That’s not what this is.”
“Not in the slightest.”
“The snakes are, though.”
“Yeah.” Charlie sounds serene. “They are.”