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a little reblog of this - one of my faves - for its anniversary!

chewing gum remus lupin/nymphadora tonks teen | 2.1k words

last year, i’d have been right in there, displaying my natural command of bum-related humour (i get that from dad). maybe i’d have given myself a bum-chin, until they were all laughing so hard they had tears streaming down their cheeks.

but unfortunately, the boys’ sides won’t be splitting this afternoon. because i’ve gone and got myself into a mire of unrequited love and now i’ve forgotten how to be fun.

god, i’m pathetic.

an auror walks into a bar and misses a werewolf. no, this isn't a joke. it's nymphadora tonk's bloody life at the minute.

this piece was written for week one of @ladiesofhpfest, which focuses on all the single ladies [you can find the masterlist of the week's fics here].

author's notes under the cut

when i heard that the topic for this week would be single ladies, i knew there was really only one gal i could be thinking about: everyone’s favourite pink-haired auror, tonks.

like many readers, i loved tonks in order of the phoenix - particularly because she felt so markedly different from the other women in the series. she was bolshy and punky and confident. she was allowed, unlike hermione and ginny [who are certainly interesting female characters who defy lots of stereotypes, but still do so in a way which never lets them be too much], to be messy and clumsy and over-the-top. she was allowed, unlike almost every other adult female character, to exist without her relationship to the domestic sphere being placed under the microscope [indeed, she cheerfully handwaves away her own lack of interest in domesticity the moment she meets harry]. if you compare her to someone like molly weasley [tied to the kitchen whether she’s in the burrow or grimmauld place] or minerva mcgonagall [her apparent spinsterhood softened by putting her in the quasi-maternal role of a boarding school teacher] or bellatrix lestrange [whose defiance of a gendered society which seems to require pureblood women to stay at home is treated as an aspect of her villainy], then tonks stands out for how incredibly refreshing she is. she’s an icon.

and then, of course, like many readers, i found her arc in half-blood prince to be a bit of a flop. it’s consistent with the rest of the series’ worldview of love as something you have to suffer and sacrifice for, but it was still really jarring to see a confident, unapologetic woman made so pathetic on account of a man.

chewing gum, then, was written to defend the tonks of half-blood prince. it situates her feeling worn thin within the context of the war, rather than just lupin, and her worries about her job and her relationship with her colleagues and her parents. it examines the fact that she’s only just starting to learn what her mum left behind when she walked out on her family, and how that makes her think about her childhood and her aunts and her lost relationship with sirius. it thinks about how she’s grieving and how that grief is making her unmoored, and how her desire to cling on to remus comes from the other upheavals in her life.

it was also written to defend her from a criticism of remadora which i think is unfair: that tonks’ affection for lupin comes out of nowhere, and that lupin is forced to be in a relationship he doesn’t want by pressure from her and the weasleys. the lupin of chewing gum is - to be frank - a fuckboy, whose attraction to tonks is real and obvious, but who is held back from taking the relationship beyond just sex by the hulking beast of his own self-loathing.

i’ve always thought that tonks - who’s shown to be very emotionally astute - is aware that this self-loathing means that any affection lupin feels for her is only ever going to be partially expressed, and that her devotion to him is only partially reciprocated. she recognises that this is fucked up, she just doesn’t care. and we can all relate.

[the title is a reference to the excellent sitcom of the same name, written by and starring michaela coel. tracey, the chaotic main character coel plays, has immaculate tonks vibes.]

#asenora fics #remadora #nymphadora tonks #fuckboy remus lupin #chewing gum #one year old today!

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[saintsenara]

tbh if my friends' animagi forms were a majestic stag and a badass dog, but mine was a RAT, i also would've betrayed them.

#true #nobody wants to be the flop in their group

[saintsenara]

not a sirimort fan myself but they could bond over being down bad for james potter…

ok, this one i'll buy.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships

[saintsenara]

subluxation - a snippet

rodolphus lestrange/percy weasley mature | major character death

and a little snippet from chapter four of subluxation, which will be up tonight...

this chapter is a big one. it's the day of lord voldemort's coup and - therefore - the very first day percy and rodolphus meet. it is not love at first sight.

Audrey’s gripping his hand.

Her palm is slick, clammy. His isn’t much better.

She was called back from her day off an hour ago - called back from zen tranquility in the Muggle world to pandemonium in the magical one. The Minister’s full junior staff is assembled in a row against the wall in Meeting Room J. Biagio is crying. Clarice looks like she’s about to be sick.

Augustus Rookwood - Mr Rookwood, they have to call him now - is slithering up and down the line, snapping at anyone with wonky knots in their ties or lint on their robes.

The hum of chatter rolls in from the Atrium. It sounds warm, the ordinary murmur of people catching up with old friends and bantering with old Quidditch rivals. The canteen staff - all identically uniformed in starched black - are roving around with platters of canapes and trays of champagne. Percy thinks - absurdly - that, if he can find a silver lining in this miserable day, then it’s the fact that the Death Eaters have considerably upped the usual standards of refreshments at Ministry events.

But perhaps that’s a given if you’re trying to pull off a coup. He wouldn’t know.

Hands are being shaken, and partners and children are being asked after, and holiday plans are being discussed, and nobody - absolutely nobody; not a single solitary member of the great and the good of wizarding Britain - seems shocked that the entire world has been upended in a matter of hours, on one completely ordinary afternoon.

And that’s what’s so terrifying. That Scrimgeour apparently didn’t see any of this coming, but everyone else did.

Seraphina Holliday, who presents the six o’clock news on the WWN, kisses Mr Yaxley on both cheeks and asks if he and his wife are still coming over on Sunday.

Mr Selwyn laughs uproariously at a joke told by one of the Wizengamot’s most distinguished members as he shows him to his seat.

Half of the Hogwarts governors are milling around the place, making cheerful conversation with mass-murderers. There are representatives present from Gringotts and St Mungo’s and the Diagon Alley Shopkeepers Guild. The Prophet’s chief political correspondent drains his glass as he gabs away to Travers - Mr Travers, they have to call him now - like he’s an old friend.

Percy realises that he probably is.

The Unspeakables have slithered out of their domain to greet Mr Rookwood like some conquering hero, miraculously returned from a mission all thought doomed. And, out of all the mundane horrors which have greeted him since lunch, it is the sight of Mr Croaker - who sends his father a card every Christmas and complimented his mother on her hat at the last staff party - thumping Rookwood on the back and saying ‘bloody wonderful to see you, Gus’, and Rookwood replying ‘likewise, Saul’, and Croaker grinning and saying ‘this is quite the soirée, isn’t it? I hope the gaffer’s paying you overtime’, and Rookwood winking at him and saying ‘I shall pretend I didn’t hear you say that’, and both of them collapsing into laughter which makes tears start to slide down Percy’s face.

Rookwood clicks his fingers at him.

‘Pull yourself together, Weasley,’ he hisses. ‘The Minister’s starting his speech in five minutes and we don’t want you dragging the Ministry into the gutter by blubbering like a schoolgirl while he’s addressing the nation.’

‘Yes, sir.’

Rookwood leans close, whispers so that only Percy can hear him. ‘You remember what you were told earlier, I hope?’

‘Yes, sir.’

And so Percy has to swallow down his panic, swallow down his tears. Because Rookwood claps his hands at them and tells them to line up on the dais which has been erected in the Atrium. And there’s no time to escape, to run, because a hundred camera bulbs are flashing, light ricocheting off his glasses until he’s staggering forward half-blind, still holding Audrey’s hand.

Banners are draped everywhere, and while they show the Ministry’s insignia and not the Dark Mark, the fact that so many people are walking around with rolled-up sleeves makes clear that these two symbols are now one and the same.

The only comfort Percy can find - the only comfort - is that, as he looks out at the sea of chairs and scans the signs affixed to them (Avery - McNair - Mulciber - Carrow - written in an elegant handwriting he recognises as Mafalda’s) he doesn’t see one labelled The Dark Lord.

A hush falls over the room as Mr Thicknesse, in magnificent emerald-green robes, his hair slicked back to display his high forehead, steps onto the dais and places a series of notecards on the lectern. The senior under-secretaries line up behind him. Dolores Umbridge is directly in front of Percy, standing to attention, positively vibrating with excitement. A bejewelled snake has been clipped to the velvet bow she wears in her hair.

It’s so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Percy wonders if the hammering of his heart is echoing in the room.

#asenora fics #writing snippet #percy weasley #rodolphus lestrange #subluxation

[saintsenara]

Hello! I don´t know if you still sharing your opinions about ships? But if you are, i would love to hear your thoughts on Ludo Bagman/Augustus Rookwood, Amelia Bones/Emmeline Vance, Igor Karkaroff/Augustus Rookwood, and Rodolphus /Bellatrix/Voldemort.

thank you very much for the ask, anon! and i will never log off from doing these.

ludo bagman/augustus rookwood

i fully back this.

i'm on the record that i think bagman was a genuine death eater sympathiser, but that he was not a marked member of voldemort's inner circle - rather, that he was a low-level informant rookwood convinced to nab state secrets from filing cabinets by promising to give him "a job" afterwards.

in canon, the people who hear bagman explain this at his trial all assume he means "job" in the gainful employment sense.

skill issue. those of us who have reached a higher level of understanding know that he meant "job" in the... other sense.

amelia bones/emmeline vance

yes, absolutely - but only if they're both older women, since i've never vibed with the idea of everyone who was involved with the order/the ministry during the first war being the same age as the marauders.

instead, i am hooked on the exquisitely tragic potential of the two having come together during the first war as women who were already middle-aged - seeking comfort from both the unrelenting horror of what they were living through and from having to present bulletproof, hard-nosed masks to the world in order to survive in what is very clearly a man's world - and then thinking, after 1981, that it might be possible for them to be happy now that voldemort was guaranteed to not be coming back...

which is then derailed by amelia taking the ministry line during the order of the phoenix timeline, and not being able to face the idea that the dark lord might have returned. leading to a messy break-up when emmeline rejoins the reformed order.

and then the potential of reconciliation, after fudge is forced to acknowledge that dumbledore was telling the truth and amelia reaches out to her love to eat humble pie.

they were planning to meet up for lunch - and each was secretly hoping it would turn into more than that - later that week.

nobody told lord voldemort that him deciding to have them both murdered would rather interfere with those plans...

igor karkaroff/augustus rookwood

canon.

the list of death eaters which karkaroff gives in his attempt to be released from azkaban is sufficiently disorganised [he doesn't seem to target specific lines of voldemort's operation, for example - rookwood is the only ministry-based informant he names] that he's evidently just airing personal grievances for fun and profit.

rookwood gets dragged into it, then, because he persuaded karkaroff to break up with his boyfriend of six years, nailed him once, and then ghosted him.

bellatrix lestrange/rodolphus lestrange/lord voldemort

also canon, but only if the configuration of the triad is that only bellatrix and voldemort fuck.

rodolphus is an aroace icon, living his best life in a queerplatonic throuple. he has this specific vibe:

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #unhinged and deranged ships

[saintsenara]

ahhh, thank you so much for the rec of inhuman resources, pal! especially in such illustrious company.

I could use some humor in my life today - do you mind recommending some of your funnier fics? And/or any fics you find funny? Thank you!

Of course anon- I hope these cheer you up.

My fics

Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Health and Safety Inspection

Snippet:Although touted as the “safest place in Great Britain”, the school has been subject to several break-ins. Unwanted guests have included a knife-wielding mass murderer and a mountain Troll.

Sirius Black and the Goblet of Freud

Snippet: Nobody could afford Hermès on a PA salary unless it was the type of Hermès sold out the back of someone’s van. 

Sirius Black's guide to using an extraordinarily intelligent cat to order a broom.

Snippet:I have just noticed quite how much this is sounding like your novels and would like it known that I am no cat shagger and that this tale will not have an unexpected turn.

Other fics

@leogichidaa's Psychoanalysis Sunday's series

So now Regulus is sat on a cream chaise lounge, staring at the ceiling, across from Dr. Boring, with the PhD in Stupid Questions. “Do you often find yourself in competition for your mother���s affection?”

@lanaturnergetup stolen glances, stolen cauldrons

“What’s in the sack?” Rosmerta said. She recognised the differences in her own tone: cutting, on edge, as opposed to flirtatious or anything close to banter.

“Well – there were these cauldrons, see,” Mundungus said. “I nicked them off Warty Harris – but really, he stole them from old Sid first, so I–”

@ghost-of-bambi Calling Dr Prongs

"This is nurse Padfoot speaking. What's your problem, Desperate in Divination?"

@saintsenara Inhuman Resources

MM: Well, let me tell you, she’s a total bitch. But, actually, I reckon they won't go for her. I dunno, she's just... a bit too prissy to be Death Eater material. If you ask me, at least.

@celestemagnoliathewriter Dave the unwanted Gryfindor

It started with his name, three days into the term. James and Sirius thought it would be funny to call him Dave, instead of Dionysius. No matter how many times he told them his name, the boys never called him anything but Dave.

#asenora fics #dolores umbridge #inhuman resources

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3 professors forced to share a hotel room during a travel to a wizard expo ... due to budget cut because Hogwarts have sustained yet another annual Voldemort-related disaster( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

#hp art #screamed at this

[saintsenara]

I'm a firm believer of "write a 100k fic for the one scene you can't get out of your head"

I also firmly believe your readers should never be able to tell which scene it was.

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a little reblog of this - a great personal fave of mine - for its anniversary!

other women and of purer blood narcissa malfoy/severus snape explicit | 7.7k words

narcissa could not pinpoint the exact moment when she realised that married life was not what she expected. perhaps it had been when she had tried to make polite conversation with abraxas about the malfoys’ new business ventures in palermo, which were forcing lucius to spend several nights away from home a week, and her father-in-law had looked at her with pity and said that the family had no investments in italy as far as he knew. perhaps it had been lucius’ face last month, when she failed to get pregnant again, as she had every month for the three years they had been married. she had not expected, when lucius presented her with the magnificent diamond which seemed to be growing looser on her finger every day, that she would be so lonely.

narcissa is adrift, rattling around malfoy manor, when an equally lonely man comes into her lonely life.

this piece was written for @womenofthehouseofblack fest [you can find the other fics in the collection here].

author's notes under the cut

the title comes from voldemort’s line in deathly hallows, spoken when harry has just revealed to him that snape was in love with lily potter:

He desired her, that was all, but when she had gone, he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, worthier of him.

when i first read this, i immediately had one person in mind for voldemort to be speaking about: narcissa.

after all, she and snape definitely have a tension in half-blood prince, when she visits him at home - and how on earth does she know how to find his house so easily if she hasn’t been there before? - in cokeworth. 

and i have never been able to see snape and voldemort sitting down for a chat about women in general, but voldemort forcing him to confess an attraction to narcissa - a revelation which would give the dark lord the opportunity to humiliate lucius, draco, bellatrix, lily’s memory, and snape and narcissa all at once - is something which seems extremely plausible.

all of which is to say, i think that snarcissa is canon.

other women and of purer blood is set in the summer of 1978, after lucius and narcissa have been married for three years and snape has just left school. it is primarily an examination of two things: class and gender. [so, yes, as many commenters have pointed out, the lady chatterley’s lover vibe is deliberate.]

in her post-series writing and interviews, jkr is clearly of the opinion that the wizarding world is egalitarian in terms of gender - and certainly aspects of its history, such as the fact that there were female ministers for magic centuries before british muggles found themselves with a female prime-minister, support this. but, within the seven-book canon itself, gender roles do seem to be considerably more restrictive than she believes, especially when they intersect with the expectations of social class. the canonical narcissa, like almost every other pureblood woman we meet [such as Molly weasley] does not work, and her narrative arc across the series is defined by her role as wife and mother.

i have always wondered about how narcissa must have felt a pressure to conform to class and gender expectations, owing to both bellatrix and andromeda’s rejection of social convention [for example, i think you can read narcissa’s estrangement from andromeda as something she feels she should do, while bellatrix wants to do it]. in nor all that glisters gold [author’s notes here], another piece i have written for this fest, i look at how bellatrix chafes against marriage, which she sees as coming with a curtailing of her ambition. the narcissa of other women and of purer blood feels the same - reflecting on the opportunities for work and study that her marriage has brought her.

bellatrix also chafes against motherhood. the narcissa of this piece is uncomfortable with the fact that her own childlessness aligns her with her wayward sister - and, as she points out, that motherhood is something which andromeda has "won" against her.

bellatrix is happy, though, to be thought immodest - something lord voldemort is all too happy to make use of. [poor narcissa, realising that bella is having much better sex than she has ever had, despite the fact lucius is hot and voldemort appears to be made of melting wax…]

narcissa, in contrast, has a more complicated relationship with modesty and desire. the description of the witches’ clothing is intended to bring to mind the high-collared and long-sleeved dresses of the edwardian era - which lacked the looseness and ease of the medieval clothing magical people are often depicted as wearing. narcissa in this is someone who is rather buttoned up, and who finds it difficult to express her own wants and opinions selfishly. that lucius - who is written here as neither cruel nor abusive, just distant - doesn’t realise this, and assumes that her need for validation and attention [a trait shared by the canon draco - he must get it from his mother] can be bought with pretty presents, is but one cause of the rift between them.

snape, in contrast, provides narcissa with the comfort of understanding. where lucius patronises her about her "little parties", he supports her greater ambitions. he also offers her a way of freeing herself - even if just for the time they’re together - from the restrictions of her class.

[as i’ve mentioned in the notes to nor all that glisters gold, this is something i also believe voldemort offers bellatrix, and the parallels between snarcissa and bellamort in other women and of purer blood are deliberate.]

the canonical lord voldemort does not appear to respect narcissa - he clearly underestimates her, and his complacency in assuming that she isn’t a complex person proves to be his undoing. but he does not, i think, lack respect for her because of her role in the home. we are almost always shown voldemort in a domestic context in canon - which is fascinating, given that he’s always emphasised as someone who has managed to infiltrate the masculine-coded spaces of wizarding politics - and we see this play out in other women and of purer blood. voldemort recruits his death eaters through the male patron-client networks which are shown to govern wizarding society [lucius’ letter of introduction for snape, for example], but he also makes use of women’s social networks. lucius may not completely appreciate why voldemort regards gossip and female friendship and who has asked whom to be a bridesmaid as useful [narcissa, who is constantly subjected to gossip, understands very well], but the dark lord has clearly been reading up on the spread of all sorts of social movements in which women play a key role in converting their male relatives to the cause…

i also don’t think that voldemort’s lack of respect for narcissa comes from her gender. his lack of respect for lucius however, does…

lucius malfoy’s relationship with his masculinity is something which is displayed very interestingly in canon. he is written as somewhat effete - something which was played up in the films - but he also clearly regards himself both as a protector and as someone whose role as the male head of an elite family should be accompanied by a certain level of deference from men whom he considers beneath him. this is the reason why voldemort chooses to emasculate him in the opening chapter of deathly hallows by taking his wand, and why voldemort keeps him confined to the domestic space of the manor from this point onwards. this masculine competition drives lucius’ relationship with snape in other women and of purer blood - in which he notices the flirtatious vibe between his wife and a man he considers his social inferior and chooses to assert his dominance with humiliating ease.

lucius’ relationship to his manhood is also why i am certain that voldemort knows about the unbreakable vow made between snape and narcissa in half-blood prince - he would be delighted to remind lucius that his failings as a death eater drove narcissa into the arms of another male protector. draco is, of course, not a character in this story, but his presence is still felt. after all, i have always wondered exactly how voldemort got his claws into him - and exactly what role narcissa played in it.

we have one suggestion here. when voldemort disappeared in 1981, narcissa breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he was never going to collect on the debt she owed him for his silence…

she was wrong.

#asenora fics #snarcissa #narcissa malfoy #severus snape #other women and of purer blood #one year old today!

[saintsenara]

why DOES slughorn know about horcruxes?

it's a good question, anon - and one which i'm sure has preoccupied many of us at one time or another...

and luckily for us there is an answer on the canon page:

slughorn knows what horcruxes are - just as regulus does and as i'm convinced snape does - because horcruxes canonically aren't bizarre, unknowable magic. what is unusual in what voldemort does isn't that he makes a horcrux... it's that he makes seven.

slughorn understands what a horcrux is and how one is made, then, in the same way that ordinary people who are not murderers understand how a body can be dismembered and disposed of - entirely conceptually, but with that conceptual knowledge still being more than sufficient. we can assume that many books which relate to defence against the dark arts mention them - but they do so, as hermione notes, obliquely; in the knowledge that this is enough for the purposes of anyone who isn't seeking to head directly to prison. and we can also assume that the actual step-by-step instructions for making one exist in a text which has as its real-world equivalent a manual for committing some sort of atrocity which would be found on the dark web.

except - of course - secrets of the darkest art was on the shelves in a school.

albus... please.

that harry, ron, and hermione don't know more about them is partially due to the information blackout put in place by dumbledore at some point after voldemort graduates. which is a genuinely interesting example of how the magical world seems to understand safeguarding - the teenage voldemort is able to encounter material about dark topics without any adult supervision, is told by slughorn not to mention this to anyone else, isn't clocked in any way as someone who's becoming radicalised, and who is dealt with after the fact by students losing the right to encounter this specific dark topic entirely.

but it's also due to the fact that the narrative role harry plays in the series - and, specifically, the way he is voldemort's mirror-character - requires the horcruxes to seem more arcane knowledge than they actually are. deathly hallows - since it's moving towards an epic battle between individual manifestations of good and evil - has to set up harry [and his two trusted retainers] as the only person who can know about the horcruxes.

but it's important to note that how the text shows this is that harry is the only person who knows voldemort well enough to guess what the objects are and where they might be - ron and hermione, for example, are completely unconvinced by the idea that there's a horcrux in gringotts until bellatrix gives it away, because they can't understand, whereas harry can, that voldemort would feel insecure about not having a vault there.

and so we can say, through this, that - if harry asked tonks or kingsley or moody or slughorn himself - they would canonically know what a horcrux was. but this would still be ultimately useless to harry - because their knowledge wouldn't go beyond what he saw in slughorn's memory, what dumbledore told him, and what hermione was able to work out from the books dumbledore had taken off the library shelves.

#asks answered #horcrux nonsense for fun and profit

[saintsenara]

Any thoughts on Snape/Greyback? Not sure how it would go with his whole werewolf thing, would probably be awful but the idea of Snape having to try and get info from him or something and having to try and interact with him intrigues me

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

and i do think it's starting out as a flop, due - as you say - to snape's whole werewolf thing. but i also think - especially in a story set during half-blood prince or deathly hallows - that it has the potential to get a little bit jazzy as time goes on...

greyback occupies an interesting position in the death eater hierarchy in that he is special - the fact of his lycanthropy, no matter its broader societal perception, means that he's a ready-made weapon, and voldemort canonically values him on account of this - but isolated. he's allowed to wear death eater robes but he doesn't have a dark mark, he is excluded from the network of relationships which link the other death eaters - that they went to school together, that they're related by blood, marriage, or both - and he therefore depends entirely on voldemort's goodwill.

and we can get a hint of how this influences his behaviour in canon. he clearly trades on his personal relationship to voldemort as a way of maintaining his authority over the gang of snatchers he's responsible for - and he's clearly worried that they'll discover his stock with the dark lord isn't quite as good as he claims. he has no qualms about threatening lucius malfoy in deathly hallows - a man who has fallen so far from voldemort's favour he's basically chilling in the earth's core - but he is deferential to bellatrix, who retains her claim to be someone of whom voldemort is fond.

snape, throughout the last two books of the series, is undoubtedly voldemort's favourite minion - and the other death eaters clearly know this. while this is shown in canon primarily in them being resentful of him [yaxley seething when snape takes a brief break from flirting with voldemort to slap him with "lol, you've got the wrong date for potter to be moved" always sends me], it's also going to be the case that they would want to get in snape's good books, in the hope that he'll be able to influence voldemort in their favour.

the mess this would create in this pairing - snape's terror of greyback battling with his vindictiveness, as he delights in seeing someone so fearsome having to submit to him because he wants something from voldemort, going up against greyback's discomfort with submission and desire to assert himself over snape battling with his fear that voldemort will destroy him if he's even slightly rude to his right-hand man - enormously compels me.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #unhinged and deranged ships

[saintsenara]

Okay, here‘s something for you:

Sirius/Voldemort

thank you very much for the ask, anons!

however this is one i'm going to be boring about and not answer in a particularly detailed or interesting way. this is because while sirimort is a pairing which is incredibly rare in terms of works published, some of those works have a certain amount of visibility - at least in the circles in which i move.

which is to say, the short answer is that while i can understand why the pairing is compelling - including in the specific time-travel setting mentioned by the second anon - i've not found the ways i've seen it done thus far interesting to me personally. which is fine - as is the fact that i'm sure many people reading this disagree.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #unhinged and deranged ships

[saintsenara]

thank you for existing. your thoughts are so unique and fascinating and insightful. i love reading your blog.

thank you so much, anon - this is incredibly kind.

#asks answered

[saintsenara]

LOL imagine getting your diary read by the same 12 year old that keeps defeating you

#hp art #harry potter #lord voldemort #this sends me #look at his little snake face!

[saintsenara]

Speaking of Tom Snr being in the Drones Club, have you read/what are your thoughts on In the Bleak Midwinter by The Loud? https://archiveofourown.org/works/15430560?view_full_work=true

I'm dying to find more Wodehousian Harry Potter fics. Do you have any other recommendations? I think someone portraying the Marauders as more like the Drones instead of either evil bullies or extremely cool could be a lot of fun.

i'll be honest, i haven't, anon - entirely due to my instinctive recoiling when i see hermione so prominently featured in a story in which there's no ron as a buffer... but maybe i should get over myself and take the plunge.

and you're in search of wodehousian harry potter fics, you say... well then do i have a recommendation for you: jeeves and the secret society by @perverse-idyll.

#asks answered #asenora fic recs

[saintsenara]

I genuinely went to a primary school called Our Lady of Lourdes, so I'm cackling.

ffs.

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