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I'm super hyped to read more of Canis Major, its hilarious to me how absolutely gone V was on Sirius after like 30 seconds of knowing him, I can't wait to see how unhinged he is in the later chapters of "It Runs" especially during the bike riding scene and the part where S almost got caught <3

Yeah, after the first chapter, you can just imagine how completely lost he is by the second. Man is down bad, he's bitten more than he can chew and while he's all cool and collected in Sirius' eyes, internally he completely lost the plot and is in a spiral of obsession and want and confusion.

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#it runs in the blood #sirius/voldemort

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First of all, yay for Whiskers. We could have done without gut-wrenching return to the cabin part though (that’s a lie, hurt me more I like it).

I have a thought/note/question/ramble… on the Fidelius. I’m obviously not here to HC-police but it was made quite clear through the text and responses to comments that you subscribe to the idea that the Secret can be obtained through torture when it’s (Pottermore) canon that it can only be willingly given away (big asterisk on the “willingly” though, because it seems like threats don’t count as coercion).

I’ve always liked the latter option as it made the most sense with respect to the Keeper switch in the books yet I can obviously see why the Cruciatus being on the table ups the drama potential in It Runs. I guess what I’m trying to say is how do you imagine the different route the story would have to take if the Secret couldn’t be tortured out of someone? I feel like it could go either so much worse or better.

It's been some time since I read the books, but I don't think in the books is mentioned anywhere that it can't be obtained through coercion.

However, I found on wiki that:  "methods of magical coercion such as Veritaserum, Legilimency, the Cruciatus Curse, or the Imperius Curse had no effect on the charm." This is not in the books, thought!

However, if someone is tortured through non magical means, or threatened, I think they might become willing to share the secret.

It's not as if you can take it out by using the Cruciatus until the victim becomes mad with pain, mind broken, and they say it like that, unaware of what they are doing.

No, someone that is tortured but remains sane and aware, can willingly choose to divulge it.

That is my interpretation of it. If there is a choice, then it is a willing action. Sure, the other choice would be to die if you don't tell Voldemort what he wants, but it is still a choice you willingly make, at the end of the day. You choose your life and comfort over the Secret.

Otherwise I don't know why Sirius would have bothered to hide in the books, why it was assumed Voldemort would go after him because he was the Secret Keeper. Why would Voldemort want to get his hands on Sirius, the Secret Keeper, if the Keeper can't be tortured, coerced or made in any way to divulge it? But everyone was under the assumption Voldemort would go after Sirius, and thus they switched, because Sirius was too obvious of a choice.

So it is possible for Voldemort to get the Secret out of someone, by some means, surely. Otherwise Sirius would have been the Secret Keeper and that's that, if there was no danger of the Secret being forced out of him. The point was that he becomes a target by pretending he is the Keeper, so that Peter won't ever be suspected, won't ever have Voldemort after him. Thus, the need to protect Peter implies there is a way to get the secret out of the Keeper.

Does that make sense?

#fidelius charm #it runs in the blood

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If Sirius HAD been the secret keeper in It Runs In The Blood, what would Voldemort have done? 🤔

I will answer that in Canis Major. For a few days, Voldemort thinks it is Sirius, so he has some plans in place.

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Sirius was careless.

He'd rip his clothes and laugh, lose a broom and not care, spill whisky on the couch without a glance down. He was careless with his people too. He'd say brash things that hurt feelings, give too much truth, bark too loud a laugh. He didn't notice, or maybe just didn't care.

Pansy noticed though.

He was around a lot more since Draco finally pulled his balls out of his pocket and started dating Harry.

When he was around she found someone to watch who was far more interesting than anyone else in high wizarding society. She set aside her silent judgement and cutting comments in favour of careful contemplation.

He was a slash of neon in her pastel life. She couldn't look away and he liked that.

The first time they slept together, in the back of his old Mustang, he dropped her off and she did her best to not be hurt by his nonchalance. To not wince as he drove away with a squeal of tires.

It was casual.

It didn't matter that she knew how to decode him better than anyone else, that she knew his moods by the weight of a footstep, or his desire by the tightness of his grip.

Her favorite bra ended up in his dresser, a toothbrush by his sink. She slept better wrapped in his cigarette scent than in her silk sheets at home. But she knew from the start that he would break her heart.

Her boy broke all his favorite toys.

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Can't wait to write more fics and snippets inspired by ttpd 🙌 (and Chappel Roan, and others)

Also can't wait to submit them all to the @ttpd-tears-and-all fest 💕💕

#sirius black #rare pair #so excited

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A short, smutty, angsty, happy (?) grindeldore.

#gellert grindelwald #albus dumbledore #grindeldore #a bit of Voldemort because he always finds his way into my fics even if he has no business there

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1) Would you ever write another Snack? Turmoil is one of my favourite fics of all time and you get Severus’ internal monologue so perfectly!

and 2) What do you think happens after the events of Turmoil? Do Sirius and Severus get their happy ending?

Lots of love, always ❤️

I don't know if I will write another Snack, but I would like to! They are both such interesting characters, foils to each other.

Oh, I have so many thoughts about Turmoil universe! There are three possible endings.

The most likely, is canon-like. They work with Dumbledore, pretending to be on Voldemort's side, and they win. But this means Severus dies as he did in canon, because he would still be the one to kill Albus, and thus make Voldemort think he owns the elder wand. Sirius would never recover from it.

Or, by a miracle, Severus ends up surviving somehow- I would like that the best. They can finally be free, and Sirius would adopt Delphini, why not, since he would know about her as he is pretending to be on Voldemort's side. But I don't know how Sirius would ever forgive Severus for agreeing to 'sacrifice' Harry at Albus' orders. (Severus doesn't know Dumbledore means for Harry to survive, that there are the Deathly Hallows at play here. He has no idea about that, so when he gives Harry the order to die, he genuinely believes Harry will die, and I don't think Sirius would ever forgive this).

There's also the possibility Sirius finds out about Harry being a Horcrux now, from what Dumbledore tells Severus in his last year of life. Because Severus is now with Sirius, he cannot make himself sacrifice Harry, because he knows Sirius would lose it. So, in this case, they'd make the horrible choice to save Harry, by telling Voldemort Harry is a Horcrux.

Thus Harry is taken prisoner, but unharmed, kept safe, given to Sirius and Severus to protect.

Voldemort wins the war. However, even if this is tragic news for the world at large, and neither Severus nor Sirius are too happy about it (what with V killing Lily and James) they do have each other now, and they do have Harry, and the knowledge they are protecting the only thing left of Lily/James. They are high ranking Death Eaters, the most treasured, since they told Voldemort about Harry (neither are stupid enough to say he's a Horcrux or that they are aware what Horcruxes are, they just drop plenty of hints that Voldemort realises on his own, finally) so the world is at their feet. They enjoy all the privileges and the new world would respect them.

Harry, however, is not happy- he's a prisoner, even if a very comfortable and treasured prisoner, and most of the people he loves died, while he's made to live under Sirius and Severus supervision whom he obviously hates. At best, Sirius could persuade Voldemort to spare some of Harry's friends, maybe Ron, maybe even Hermione, to make his Horcrux 'happy', but that's a best case scenario.

So, pick the ending you like best! They all have some bad parts, but I would chose the one where they work with Dumbledore and make the world a better place for Harry, and Severus survives. Maybe, eventually, they can reconnect, even if Sirius will never truly forgive Severus for telling Harry Dumbledore wanted him to lay down his life. Perhaps Harry would convince Sirius that he doesn't mind, that he forgives and respects Severus. It's the most hopeful ending of all. Plus, it has Delphini in it, and everyone knows I love that girl, and especially would love her raised by Sirius.

#turmoil #my writing #snack #severus snape #sirius black #sirius/severus

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Sirius and Voldemort sharing a sweet moment.

@kazuza-art you are the best! ❤️

#lord voldemort #sirius black #it runs in the blood

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I did this art for an AU where they all attended Hogwarts together, trying to convince two very very talented authors to write about it (it didn't work cause nobody loves me ç_ç)

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An amazing present from my friend @kazuza-art . It is for ‘It runs in the blood’, after the meeting where Sirius brings that spicy parchment for Voldemort.

#lord voldemort #sirius black #it runs in the blood #death star

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Would you ever consider writing a story where Harry goes back in time to raise Voldemort? Your Ouroboros young Tom and your EMD Harry would make such a contrasting pair, I can just smell the emotional manipulation, possessiveness from here ! 

Oh, no! Poor Harry! I can't put him through that! 😂

I picked Voldemort to go back in time and raise Tom, specifically because all I had seen so far with the trope was Harry, or Hermione, or generally someone 'good' that wanted Tom to grow up differently, wanted him to be moral. So the only appeal for me in writing Ouroboros was having Voldemort do it, who wouldn't want to change Tom or scold him/love him into becoming 'a better person'. (Which is funny, because that is what changes Tom in the end).

In fact, initially, it was a very morally bankrupt muggle woman that adopted Tom (I wrote about 300k of that fic before I switched it), and then it was Bellatrix ( wrote about 40k of that, too), and then it was Bellatrix AND Voldemort together, before I finally landed on Voldemort on his own to raise little Tom.

As you can see, even if not published, I wrote A LOT about people raising Tom, so I doubt I would revisit the subject.

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is v in iritb interested in women at all? He’s reading to me in that fic as some kind of grey ace, would you agree? Or am I reading him wrong?

Voldemort in "It runs" is not at all interested in women. Some of the Voldemorts I wrote are bisexual, but not this one.

I feel that sex is generally of little interest to Voldemort in most of my fics, with few exceptions.

In 'It runs', I would agree Voldemort reads as grey ace, but I hesitate to label him as such, because there are other matters at play. But, yes, I agree he reads as such, and would, indeed, fit that description.

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After seeing about 50 'Dumbledore is evil' and 'everything is Dumbledore's fault' and 'but why didn't Dumbledore did this or the other' posts in a row, I find myself wishing Dumbledore just fucked off to somewhere nice and sunny in '81, early retirement (or is it early if he's already 100?) and washed his hands off magical Britain entirely.

Some of y'all sound like Fudge with your Dumbledore bashing. I wish, at least, Dumbledore would have left when Fudge and that corrupt as hell Ministry did their best to ruin his name and his image.

Pack up his ancient shit and move to a nice beach somewhere, with his pet bird and a huge bag of candy.

This way, my man Voldemort could have won in like five minutes, and Harry would be dead, Voldemort would rule supreme, Bella would keep being the queen she is, and my little Voldemort shaped heart would be happy.

But no, Dumbledore stayed, orchestrated Voldemort's downfall by giving Harry step by step instructions, gave up his own life in the process, made sure Harry would keep his, because apparently that's what 'evil men' do instead of retiring in comfort.

Not only Harry wouldn't have survived without Dumbledore, but he most likely wouldn't even exist without Dumbledore. Because, you know, this evil man is also the one that took down another dark lord back in the day; if Grindelwald would have won, there would be no Lily, most likely. Thus no Harry.

But yes, go get your 'Dumbledore is evil' badges- I hear Fudge and Umbridge are leaders of the hate club, I'm sure they'll receive new followers with open arms. Draco is probably the secretary, because he hates Dumbledore, too, and he likes making badges.

Also, can someone explain to me how Dumbledore, the only gay man in canon, became the fandom's resident homophobe? That's just weird, my friends. Very weird, to say the least. It gets even nastier when you say he 'groomed' students. That's an awful thing to throw around about a gay dude, you know?

There are so many reasons one can dislike Dumbledore for, but you do have the option to not like a flawed character without turning them into a ridiculous caricature of themselves.

P.S: I am not talking about fics. Write your fics and your characters however you want, whatever makes you happy. Your fic is your domain, and you do whatever you want in there, hopefully with no asshole to attack you in the comments. Same with reading- read what you want, bashing or no bashing. Have the best of fun!

I am talking about these 'meta' type posts on social media, tagged with "Albus Dumbledore", where they act as if canon Dumbledore was legit evil, incompetent or homophobic.

#albus dumbledore #marauders fandom #yes marauders fandom I am looking at you #harry potter #Dumbledore would forgive y'all but I can't #flawed character doesn't mean evil #it means he's just human

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Rhapsody

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Four different men four different body types XD

In order Sirius black, Gellert Grindelwald, Albus Dumbledore and Voldemort xD

My babus ofc is the best one 🧐😤😌

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Hello Metalo, don't know if you have spoken about your opinion on this before but I'm curious whether you have any hopes or plans to write a grindledore (Gridewald/Dumbledore) fanfic dating back to their life pre Grindlewald's ascension to being a dark lord. I'm intrigued to see your mind work through their story.

Yes, I will write an Albus/Gellert story! And rather soon, I think.

It won't be exactly what you want, but not very far, either!

Hope you will enjoy it!

#grindeldore

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So I was thinking about the different reasons Narcissa has a non-star name, and for the longest time I headcanoned it was because Cygnus didn’t give a fuck and was mad about having another girl, so he let Druella name her. Today though, I was reading up on the Narcissus plant, specifically Narcissus poeticus, which among other things is my favourite flower (in my country it’s called nargis) and thought to be the specific flower from the story of Narcissus.

An interesting fact about Narcissus poeticus- ‘the plant blooms late, after the setting of Arcturus about the equinox’.

In HP, names have power, so I propose- Cygnus gave Narcissa her name, and he did it because he was superstitious; he was himself annoyed at having another daughter, but also so annoyed at the rest of the family’s jabs at him- specifically Arcturus’- that he named his daughter Narcissa to tempt fate, so that her ‘bloom’, ie. coming of age, would coincide with Arcturus’ death.

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