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saintsenara · 10 months

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rare pair tag game

thanks for the tag, @said-snape-softly :)

i'm pretty sure everyone has done this by now, but if you'd like to, please consider this a blanket tag.

apart from all the tomarry and the odd dabble in remadora, i am a rare-pair enthusiast, so i am delighted to spread some propaganda here... the criterion i've used for a rare-pair is less than 2500 works on ao3.

pairs, little metas, fic recommendations, and some suggestions for authors to follow under the cut.

sirius black/severus snape

why i ship it:

this one can just about claim to be a rare-pair.

sirius and severus are narrative mirrors, whose complicated relationship to themselves and to each other is crucial for driving several of the most important arcs in the series.

in particular, sirius - constantly haunted by guilt and grief over his role in the death of the man he loved [you can decide if his love for james is platonic or not, but i definitely think the text thinks it isn't...], trapped in his childhood home, unable to have his real loyalties acknowledged before his death by the fact he's on the run - leads harry through his journey in hero-worshipping, then being disappointed in, then forgiving james. and then promptly dies.

this is one of harry's most significant areas of personal growth - it begins to chip away at his rather black-and-white morality, which is finally destroyed by his ability to confront the complexity of dumbledore in deathly hallows - but it is also key narratively: harry coming to understand james starts to hint to the reader that it is lily - otherwise absent from her son's conception of himself - who is the key to the mystery...

which brings us to severus - constantly haunted by guilt and grief over his role in the death of the woman he loved, trapped in his childhood home, unable to have his real loyalties acknowledged before his death by the fact he's a spy - who gives harry, and us, the final piece of the puzzle. and then promptly dies.

put them together, though? well, you get the delicious tension of two fundamentally broken people - who cannot comprehend the possibility of their own redemption - bound to each other. can they forgive each other and themselves? is it a disaster? the story can go either way.

and even in fluff there is so much potential for d r a m a between sirius' recklessness and severus' cunning, sirius' emotional control and severus' temper, the fact that sirius is canonically hot and severus is canonically not, how they react to harry and draco [i don't usually accept the fanon that severus is his godfather, except when it means snack can be fighting about it], and so on.

and i'm a sucker for two bitter old men getting a happy ending. sue me.

want to give it a read?

if you trust nothing else i say in my life [and why should you] you can trust this - second life by nwhiker and cassandra7 is one of the greatest pieces of writing i have ever seen, not only in this pairing but in this fandom full stop. it's a profound and solemn meditation on loving and grieving, choice and chance, and the great pain caused by the divide between the magical and the muggle worlds.

then, for gorgeous angst with a happy ending - two boys kissing by @writcraft and the merit in trying by brightened

albus dumbledore/tom riddle | voldemort

why i ship it:

the facetious answer is because they wouldn't be so obsessed with each other if there wasn't some sexual tension underneath it.

the facetious and nsfw answer is because it appeals to the part of me whose favourite book aged 11 was lolita

the serious answer is that they should be horrifying together: they're both liars; both incredibly self-righteous; both living behind masks which conceal their true emotions and motivations; dumbledore took one look at tom as an eleven-year-old, said "he reminds me of gellert", and then did nothing about it; tom thinks dumbledore's a hypocrite and is right, although not for the reasons he thinks; there is a colossal age gap; there is virtually no scenario in any timeline where they could be openly in a relationship unless one of them is concealing his identity; and - really, this seems quite minor in the grand scheme of things - they are constantly trying to destroy each other.

but.

intellectually, they are the only two characters in the series who could be the other's equal - i'm sure that violent arguments about the twelve uses of dragon's blood trigger the majority of their sexual encounters, and a man who's passionate about your research is hot.

if either of them ever fancy being honest - so, no - there is a shared cavernous [although, in tom's case, unacknowledged] grief in their lives which has shaped their not-as-divergent-as-the-text-thinks-they-are views on death, love, duty and so on. their active refusal to understand each other [i.e. dumbledore entirely misreading voldemort's motivations in the job interview scene] and commitment to constantly underestimating each other [i.e. voldemort bouncing around like an idiot in the chamber of secrets instead of using his brain and remembering what a phoenix is] could, in time, lead to something almost resembling acceptance. i mean, just imagine the hurt/comfort sex which happens when voldemort finds out about grindledore.

the way dumbledore describes the young riddle - "self-sufficient, secretive, and, apparently, friendless" - is also an exact description of him. that each sees himself in the other canonically drives their hatred of each other, but it could also appeal to two very vain men in a much racier way. after all, who doesn't want to bang their narrative mirror?

and being an orphan probably doesn't seem so bad when you realise your boyfriend's family is aberforth.

want to give it a read?

i can't recommend concordance by @laeveteinn enough, particularly for one of the best-written dumbledores i've ever seen. i find dumbledore is often written either as far more whimsical than i'd like, or far more fiery and radical [when one of his most interesting personality traits in canon is his tendency towards inaction], but this dumbledore is the perfect balance of contradictions, while tom is his canonical feral self, longing to perceived, rather than the emotionless sociopath of so many other stories.

i also recommend as an entire ocean in a drop by eldritcher, which really leans into just how similar these two are underneath all the artifice.

albus dumbledore/severus snape

why i ship it:

well, we've had dumbledore with one lost boy, let's have him with another [i haven't been brave enough to venture into dumbledore/harry yet, but i'll take recommendations...]

as with riddledore, we have the potential for horror here: a vast power imbalance; enormous age gap; the fact dumbledore sends snape out to potentially die every time he goes off to voldemort; and - this is the crucial one - the fact that dumbledore's recognition of himself in snape is pure self-loathing ["you disgust me"] manifested in punishment [allowing snape to be humiliated in front of fudge, not stopping the presumed-to-be-real moody searching his office, making him give harry occlumency lessons, not letting him teach defence against the dark arts].

but then this stops, when snape does the tremendously brave thing of agreeing to kill dumbledore, and their dynamic equalises, as dumbledore recognises that snape is courageous, steadfast, and redeemed. i'm always struck in half-blood prince by the fact that dumbledore has it with harry's sniping about snape and straight-up tells him to shut up, as well as by the fact that he very nearly gives the game away and confesses why snape switched sides [the thing he promised not to do] when harry finds out it was snape who gave voldemort the prophecy.

and within this equalised dynamic - so this hot geriatric sex is happening in the afterlife, i guess - we have two men who are intellectual close-to-equals, who understand grief and guilt, whose aesthetic senses are charmingly mismatched, who are rarely honest but might be for each other, and who have lots of profound similarities which might lead somewhere...

want to give it a read?

cheerfully disregarding everything i've just said about how snumbledore could work, i highly recommend in infinite remorse of soul by @perverse-idyll, which is a chilling look at how dumbledore uses the power imbalance between the two to assuage his own guilt through snape's humiliation.

for something much more wholesome, i'm a big fan of byzantium by eldritcher

petunia dursley/severus snape

why i ship it:

because vernon is a dick.

i'm fond of petunia, who i think is one of the most interesting characters in the series because of how full of contradictions she is, and who i think is also a victim in fandom spaces of how the adult cast was aged up for the films [in canon, she's only in her early twenties when lily dies, and the implication is that vernon is a good deal older than her)] which makes her inadequacies, such as her inability to truly care for either child in the household, seem much more nuanced than they do if she's pictured as a middle-aged woman with considerable life experience.

like snape, she teeters on a knife edge between various chasms: she is a working-class girl from the midlands made good in middle-class surrey, he is a working-class half-blood boy who spends most of his life in pureblood circles; she ends up with her whole life wrapped up in a square little house when she's barely out of her teens, he ends up with his whole life wrapped up in spying at the same age; she hates the wizarding world and yet covets it, he hates the muggle world and yet cannot escape it; she loves lily and she hates her and she loathes her for dying, he... well, you know the rest.

want to give it a read?

i was first convinced by this pairing by the lovely regretfully yours by @maria-de-salinas, which takes both snape and petunia's awkwardness and bitterness and moulds it into something really tender.

i also highly recommend barking at the moon by rinsbane, the summary of which speaks for itself.

merope gaunt/tom riddle sr.

why i ship it:

our first canon pairing, and probably the most problematic of the canon relationships, since the series never acknowledges that tom sr. is a rape victim.

but i have found myself recently in my merope era and, in particular, in an attempt to give her more nuance than she gets in canon. as i've said to anyone who'll listen in the three broomsticks discord server, i loathe the implication in canon that merope dies because she just cba to live [since it directly justifies voldemort's belief that her death was shameful] and prefer to see her as someone who was desperate to escape a truly horrifying life [the fact she's going to be forced into an incestuous relationship with morfin is right there in canon...] and so did something she didn't have the capacity to understand the implications of [this is not a woman who's ever heard of consent] because she thought it would give her the first chance to be happy in her life, watched it all crash and burn around her, and would have very much liked to have lived to raise her son.

i doubt there was anything real or tender in her relationship with tom sr., of course, and his escape - while merely a brief stay of execution from his son's perspective - is tremendously brave. it's impossible to write tom/merope fluff [although i respect you if you're inclined to try] but fanfiction gives a space to explore the intricacies of their relationship which canon doesn't allow, and i'm obsessed.

want to give it a read?

i'm recommending myself here, and assuring you that you will enjoy: enchanter's nightshade, which explores how merope's attempts to keep her husband enslaved fail; the snow child, which treats the relationship as folk-horror; and the shack at the end of the lane, in which there is redemption, in the end.

the best exploration of tom sr. dealing with the fallout of the relationship is @phantomato's exquisite ganymede, which feels so truly embodied that you can't pull yourself away from the page.

bellatrix lestrange/tom riddle | voldemort

why i ship it:

our second canon pairing, i am obsessed with these two and the tragedy and - to some extent - tenderness bound up in their relationship [which can be proven to be there because noted softy @whinlatter loves them].

i've written before about my conviction - in contrast to a lot of bellatrix fans - that her relationship with rodolphus is utterly miserable, and that voldemort is the only man in her life who can understand her desire to make a life for herself which is not constrained by the gendered expectations of her social class.

obviously, lord voldemort is not a shining paragon of a boyfriend [and he is an awful choice as a baby daddy, bella, get it together], but i think the enormous power imbalance is perhaps slightly less enormous than is sometimes assumed - certainly, she tells him to his face in half-blood prince that he's wrong to trust snape [she's a clever woman], voldemort never physically punishes her for anything [rip to lucius malfoy, who seems to get picked for this in her stead], and voldemort tolerates a surprising amount of nonsense from her which shatters his mystique.

all of which is to say... the scream when she dies isn't just because he's losing the war.

want to give it a read?

tee hee, i'm recommending myself again, and encouraging you to take a look at: atramentum, bellamort's last afternoon together before voldemort goes to the potters; nor all that glisters gold, bellatrix's life - including her relationship with voldemort - through sirius' eyes; and death (eaters) in paradise, because murderous psychopaths deserve crack fics too.

draco malfoy/tom riddle | voldemort

why i ship it:

because the ship name is taco.

these two are a pairing which i enjoy with my tongue firmly in my cheek [and tom's tongue firmly in draco's], as i do with most other things in which draco is a main character [do i want to read drarry angst? no! do i want to chuckle? absolutely!], although this should not be taken as saying that many of taco's fabulous authors don't manage to make the pairing entirely plausible.

in fact, consensual taco [non-con is, of course, its own beast] often has some of the best characterisation of both tom [fretful, mercurial, stubborn, and nowhere near as charming as he thinks he is] and draco [prissy, a very good judge of character, someone who likes being taken care of, and much braver than he appears if he absolutely has to be] i've seen in the fandom, largely because - unlike other voldemort-centric ships [especially tomarry, but also voldemort + any of the adult death eaters] - there's no sense of inevitability there. these two aren't connected by a shared bit of soul, or a prophecy, or having gone to school together, or having been hooked in by voldemort in the first war when he was unassailable.

they have to choose each other. or, more accurately, draco has to choose tom, and tom has to get chosen.

and the results have me entertained.

want to give it a read?

then you will want to have a look at the travelling cabinet by @the-paper-monkey [and its sequel, bluebeard], truly the gold standard of taco content with an absolutely brilliant draco, whose sheer capacity to cling on and make himself an irremovable part of tom's life may just end up changing the course of history.

narcissa malfoy/severus snape

why i ship it:

because i am in deep with the conspiracy theory that it's canon. i am absolutely certain that narcissa is the person that voldemort is referring to at the end of deathly hallows - "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". it seems highly unlikely to me that the canonical voldemort would give a shit about snape fancying any random pureblood [although the snapemort version is, naturally, hugely jealous], but snape having had some sort of liaison with narcissa, and the ability knowing this gives voldemort to humiliate snape, narcissa, the memory of lily, bellatrix, lucius, and draco is definitely information he would go out of his way to remember...

plus, how do you know where he lives, babe? v suspicious.

want to give it a read?

if you want some fluff, you will very much enjoy the incredibly sweet the reformed man by gingertart50, which features narcissa nursing snape back to health post-nagini and is a favourite re-read for me when i'm drunk and it's christmas.

if you want some very-much-not-fluff, other women and of purer blood by yours truly will scratch the itch...

minerva mcgonagall/severus snape

why i ship it:

because i'm an equal-opportunity age-gap fan, and there is far too little older woman/younger man in the fandom.

and look, i'll admit it, i'm a fan of the fanon that snape and mcgonagall are friends prior to dumbledore's death - i'm not sure it's canonically plausible, but this sign can't stop me because i can't read - and i like the idea of that blossoming into something more, especially in fics where snape survives the second war. after all, he is a man who definitely needs to be treated quite strictly [and i don't just mean in the staff room], there is a shared loneliness and grief to them both, they're intellectual equals despite the age gap, and bickering about quidditch is absolutely fine as a method of foreplay.

plus, you can't tell me dumbledore's portrait doesn't ship it.

want to give it a read?

for a fic which shows minerva at her acerbic - and yet still sensual - best, always but not necessarily forever by gingertart50 is an old, fluffy, and very funny, favourite.

for something much more bittersweet, that good night by kelly_chambliss has my heart.

severus snape/tom riddle | voldemort

why i ship it:

because voldemort is canonically down bad for it - there is no need to believe snape's ridiculous cover story for not attending his resurrection, to try and spare lily as a treat for his man, and to give him a nice, painful death which allows the narrative to move on and harry to defeat him if the dark lord isn't firmly in his simp era.

more seriously, they obviously have an enormous amount in common, particularly in terms of their backgrounds [harry draws a connection between all three of them, but actually the fact that harry is rich in the wizarding world, not a slytherin, and with a muggle mother, therefore giving him a pureblood name, means he can't relate to the post-childhood experience of both halves of snapemort].

as a result, i think snape is the death eater who comes the closest to understanding voldemort's motivations - above all, the fact that he's not seeking an oligarchy, which the malfoys etc. obviously believe - while voldemort is someone snape feels understands his intellectual interests and his creativity.

want to give it a read?

boy, are you in luck, because i myself have a snapemort wip - scylla and charybdis. it is not wholesome.

tom riddle/myrtle warren

why i ship it:

because it started as crack and now i love them.

in particular, i just have so much respect for being incredibly annoying as a method of seduction, and i think myrtle's commitment to just following tom around chattering at him - and, therefore, without her realising it, preventing him from committing all sorts of crimes - is iconic.

want to give it a read?

then my unhinged rom-com - bookbinding - shall provide.

tom riddle | voldemort/ginny weasley

why i ship it:

because i enjoy seeing my dear friends who ship hinny shake and cry.

but also because ginny and tom have an enormous number of similarities, right down to the fact that they both have yew wands [if you're sick of people saying harry has an oedipus complex, you'll be delighted to be confronted with the mountain of evidence ginny reminds him of the villain who keeps trying to kill him instead].

they are both very good liars, quick thinking, remarkably resistant to shame, possessed of nerves of steel, predisposed to violence, brown-eyed, so hot they have harry gagged, and the profound enemy of someone whose surname is smith.

despite what he claims, tom was absolutely not just sat politely in that diary gritting his teeth while ginny complained about having second hand robes and idiot brothers. as he says, he opted "to start feeding [her] a few of my secrets", and i think it's justifiable from canon that they were at the very least half-truths [for example, i would not be shocked to discover he tells her he's a half-blood orphan brought up against his will in the muggle world - there's no other reason, i think, for him to successfully make her tell him these things about harry without it], which means that ginny has lots of lovely emotional leverage over him.

plus, as with tomarry, you have the element of "this is kind of inevitable" in the relationship, and the mysteries of fate are always sexy.

want to give it a read?

this is a tommary/hinny/tominny triad, but it has had me in a chokehold since the first time i read it - shameful company by merrivale, which, truly iconically, manages to be epilogue compliant.

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urmomw4ntsme · 2 months

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ahsei thoughts on frazel jason/piper and caleo GO

Okay SAW THIS AND WAS LIE. i need to mswer tjsi and. frazel didnt make me feel thst jason/piper didnt make me feel that CLEO CALEO IT FCUKIGN SUCKS EW I WIL TEL MORE.

ok so frazel is oki cuti coupel i like them theg so sweet like "will u hold my hand in fromt of everyone 🥺" vibes LIKE THE ONEEEE HE GIVES HIS LIFELINE TK HER BECAUSE HE TRUSTS HER SM HE HAS TRUST ISSUES HES SCRED AND TERRIFIED BYT HE GIVES IT TO HER AND SHE PROMISES TO KEEP IT SAFE WHY R PJO BOYS SO FUCKING UNRE AL WHEN WILL I FIND SOMEONE WHO WUD LITERALLY TRUST ME WITH TJEIR LIFE LKKE NKT FIGURATIVELY LITERALLY AMD WJO WUD LITERALLY GIVE UP GODHOOD FOR ME AND WHO WUD LITERALLY JUMP INTO THE UNDERWORLD FKR ME KYS FATE ASS BITCH

anyway

um so jsson/piper NO jiper. hehehehe or better yet pason ehehhehe idk what to fee about them tbh thty lowky give steggy vibes mainly cus jason gives me stvve vibes hes also stronh soldier traumatised asf. :( and piper is js like peggy badass gorgeous beautiful shud be with me i shud be kissing her rn alexa play boyfriend by dove cameron :( and I knwo the futjre i readspoilers so now its js there in my brain can do noting about it

omg this fucjing shitp. shit? ship? who knwos i literally adore calypso okay i love her sm but i just fucking hate it that they made her fall inlove with leo?? like this is wrong (to me) on so many levels a. she was CURSED to fall in love with every single demigod who ever went to ogygia or wtv. and it was devastating obvs that she had to go thru tht heartbreak again and again but !!!! IT WAS LITERALLY NOT HE. FAULT THE STUPID FUCJING DOGS sorry gods CURSED HER CUS SHE WAS. R E L A T E D. TO A TITAN. HOW IS THT FAIR. HOW .

and ir was literally. bound to happen. there was absolutely no way that be it percy or leo or whomstever thw fuck went to that god forsaken island SHE COULD NEVER EVER HELP BUT FALL IN LOVE WITH THAT PERSON SHE WAS CURSED. i js googled it btw in case i was wrong or misinformed BUT NO. SHE WAS CURSED. SHE . HAD. TO Fall FOR THAT PERSON EVEN IF SHE DIDNT WANT TO EVEN IF SHE HATED THEMM how is that fair to EITHER LEO OR CALYPSO??? I LOVE LEO SM HE IS MY BABY I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS?????. this IS SOOOOO REMADORA CODED DONT EVEN GET ME STARTEDDDDD like. it felt liek the author wamted both of them to be in a romantic relationship ANY romantic relationship and then was js like ok well theyre byh single lets do it. NO??? NOOOOOOO AND IF U SAY ooooo bu. they spent like 1000 days on the island tgt they developed chemistry NO BITVH THEY DIDNT. LEO WAS 16 YEAR OLD TEENAGE BOY WITH NO ROMANTIC EXPERIENCE EVER. like tell me u have never ever thought u have a crush on someone of the opposite gender while spending time with them even if u probably didnt have a crush on them??? if u haven't thats fine BECAUSE I HAVE and its Normal very many people go thru that u see perosn of opposie gendrr u R FORCED !!!! TO SPEND TIME WITH OERSON OF OPP GENDRRZ and u think omg ...... do i .... Like? them. WHAT. and u probably dont ur js a loser (like i was , like leo was) who has never spent tiem with someone of tbe opposite gender (wa. raised in an extremely 'conservative' read: boys and girls cannot ever just be normal friends household also wen to all girls elementary and high school , leo was js a loser thsts my excuse for hmm) OKAY GET IT???? THEY DID NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER WHILE MAKING MECHANIC PARTS TOGETHER at least leo didnt AND I LOVE MY GIRL CALYSO AND I LOVE ADORE LEO BUT I FUCKING BET IF CALYPSO WASNT CURSED SHE WUD NOT LOOK TWICE AT LEO HE IS LITERALLY JS A LOSER GUY PATHETIC (ADORABLE AWESOME AMAZING FUNNY BUT SRSLY LITERALLY NAM ONE GIRL WHO TOOK HIM SERIOUSLY OUT OF ALL THE GIRLS WE SEE HIM INTERACTING WITJ IN THE SERIOES) anyway thanks for coming to MY ted talk its MINE dont get offended love yall stay safe muah muah

#hazel levesque #frank zhang #jason grace #piper mclean #leo valdez #calypso #hoo #pjo hoo toa #rsoei

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whinlatter · 1 year

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master list: fics, metas, headcanons, writings 🌻

🌿 last updated february 2024 🌿

fics 📖

🐾 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) 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.

metas 💫

Harry's thoughts of Ginny in the Forest (and Ginny's goodbye)

Harry and Ginny's shared experience of going to their deaths

Harry and Ginny at Shell Cottage

Ginny and the Veil

Ginny and Dean's relationship

Ginny's feelings for Harry | Harry's feelings

Harry's postwar relationship with Ron and Hermione vs. with Ginny

The Weasleys on Harry and Ginny’s relationship

Parallels between Sirius and Ginny

Remus as seen by other characters

Ginny and the poem

Ginny and Molly's relationship

The Dursleys' treatment of Harry

Democracy in the Wizarding World

headcanons ☁️

Harry and Ginny's careers, home and married life

Harry and Ginny's flat in London

Harry and Ginny getting back together after the war

Harry and Ginny dating other people if one of them died

Ginny headcanons

Harry and the horcruxes after the war

Hermione as Head Girl (1,2)

Hermione's eighth year

Deamus

The Potter kids

Ron Weasley: favourite uncle

Fleur headcanons

Misc. character headcanons

writing things 📝

Fic writing tips and tricks

#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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ala-baguette · 3 months

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OK but now I really want your "whole meta" about how "Remus talks about Harry when Harry's not around" because, ow my heart!

Im never sure on how to feel about Lupin, because on the surface he's likable, but under that-- where you been, dude? Would love to have you change my mind!

Noooo! Don't Tempt Me, Anon! No, really. I would love to, but maybe let's revisit that after I'm done with Knowing Where to Look. I could totally talk about Remus all day, but at this point it would just look like procrastination (which it definitely is). What I will offer you today: Remus is a character you have to love for his flaws. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately?) clinically depressed blurbos completely lacking in self-worth are my peeps. To paraphrase my thoughts on this topic for now:

Remus's absence is not about his feelings for Harry; it's about his feelings for himself.

I'll leave it at that for now and perhaps one day we'll come back with a proper meta on the subject. In the meantime, however, I have several Remus-centric fics I can offer to showcase some of my views on Remus and his relationship with Harry. I somehow always come back to writing Remus and he is featured heavily in several of my Left Behind stories as well as one of my early long fics. I will link here in case you have not read them and are interested:

A Life Filled with Laughter and Ice Cream, Florean Fortescue's Left Behind installment. This one is probably the most relevant to his relationship with Harry (or lack there of). Set during PoA, Florean and Remus share an ice cream and a chat about their lives during and since the first war.

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Remus Lupin's Left Behind installment. Remus takes another stroll down memory lane (and the streets of Godric's Hollow) after his argument with Harry in DH.

To Crave a Dementor's Kiss, Nymphadora Tonks's Left Behind installment. The Remadora story from OotP through HBP. This one is less about Remus's relationship with Harry and more about his relationship with Tonks, but I do think it's a look at some of my feelings on his characterization. (One of these days I'd like to return to this one and rework it-- This was a very early Left Behind story and I was still finding my stride.)

A Lonely Path, my first long fic. An AU with a paternal Remus-Harry relationship. I add this to this list with some hesitancy as it is long, has less basis in canon, is quite old and my views and writing have changed, contains a fair amount of wish-fulfillment regarding Remus's ability to love, and I wrote it when I was 19, so it's rather an immature plot. However, I also don't feel like I can list my writing featuring Remus and not include it. If you chose to take the plunge into my 19 year-old mind, take it with a grain of salt, a little grace, and more as a way to see how my views on this character have evolved over the years.

Thanks for the Ask, Anon, and sorry to not answer you properly. Hope these fics can satiate you for the time being. Now I've got a final chapter of Knowing Where to Look to write!

#remus lupin #character analysis #harry potter fanfiction #hp fanfic #harry potter #fic rec #or maybe just a little shameless self-promotion

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rmwb-fanfics · 1 year

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Watching Deathly Hallows part 1 because I hate myself I guess but can we just talk about the fact that Remus and Tonks are about to announce their marriage and PREGNANCY AND STEVE KLOVES GETS MOODY TO INTERRUPT THEM?

You slimy little bitch.

« It’s in character! » I don’t care.

Ugh, and then Harry just up and drops the « And Remus, your son! » line in Part 2. How do you know about that, huh? Stupid fucker.

Also idk why I just forgot that this whole stupid ass scene introduces Bill as well 💀. Common asf Goblet of Fire movie L.

Brb while I binge read Remadora to repair my fried brain. I’ll stick it out until the Hinny kiss and then I’ll put it back on pause.

#remadora #remus lupin #harry potter #nymphadora tonks

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remus-poopin · 1 year

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do you have any good hp fic recommendations? or anything you've read thats good recently? i’ve been having a hard time finding good ones lately :(

Ok so I don't read that much fanfic in general but lately I've been getting more into it and I'm having a great time. These are ones that I've read in the past couple months that I think are incredible:

Toys in the Attic by @ashesandhackles and @thecat-isblogging-blog

A beautiful exploration of Sirius and Remus friendship post POA. Their characterization here is just *chef kiss*.

2. Of The Fallen - @bluethepineapple

Really nice fic centered around a conversation with Hermione and Lupin. I find that I keep coming back to read this again and again because I adore the way @bluethepineapple writes Hermione.

3. The last mission - @evesaintyves

I don't usually read ship fics but I make an exception for anything @evesaintyves writes about Remadora.

4. Godfather by @floreatcastellumposts

I love anything that has to do with Sirius and his role as a Godfather. Incredible.

5. Drifting - @pocket-lilacs

This hurt me a little but was definitely worth it. I just love Remus and Lyall's dynamic.

6. Home for Christmas - @thecat-isblogging-blog

I actually read this last year or something and it just lives in my head because its so tragically beautiful. Again, I'm so interested in Remus and his relationship with his parents.

7. Savour the Moment- @evesaintyves

THIS WAS SO CUTE AND INCREDIBLE GOOD LORD. Ever since I read this I've been itching for more Ginny and Mrs. Weasley content because I really love reading mother/daughter dynamics.

8. Introspective -@thecat-isblogging-blog

I love a happy Lupin fic and this just provides. I also consider @thecat-isblogging-blog a Lupin expert so anything Lupin related from them is great to me.

9. The wood pigeons by @evesaintyves

I was floored after I finished this lmao. I came for a short remadora fic and left with a beautiful intricate story about lost and hope. 10/10

10. The Seven names of Mrs Zabini - @artemisia-black

I can't give this enough praise. This is actually what made me want to start reading more fics in the first place because I was absolutely astounded with how incredible this was. I've said it before but this reminds me SO much of Gone Girl. Gillian Flynn WISHES.

#also if anyone has any recs for me that would be very welcomed as im just getting into reading fics and im not sure were to find more like-#-these #hp marauders #sirius black #remus lupin #nymphadora tonks #ginny weasley #molly weasley #remadora

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stonecoldhedwig · 1 year

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Fic List

I have not done an updated fic list in a while, so here it is! I want to finish up my WIP this year, and then in the works I have a Dating App AU Jily fic (Remus is a dairy farmer?); another Oxford Chronicles installment; a massive Jily Hogwarts era thing; a Lily Luna/OC Quidditch AU; and about 19 other ideas.

WIP

A Great Many Things (M, eventual E; Alicia Spinnet/Oliver Wood; canon compliant; probably my favourite OC ever)

Celandine (E; Wolfstar, Jily, Blackinnon, literally every ship ever; open relationships; magical AU)

Coming, Evans? (M, but eventually E; magical AU inspired by Around the World in 80 Days; Jily and Wolfstar)

Highgate Mews (M; established Wolfstar, Jily & Dorlene; Muggle AU; part of the Marauders Map series)

Honeybee Mine (M; Muggle AU; Jily and Blackinnon; James Potter keeps bees)

The Shoelaces Case; or, the many ways to spend your 37th birthday (M; Blackinnon; magical AU; time travel)

Use Your Best Colours (T; canon from Hedwig's perspective; it's so stupid)

Multi-Chapter fics (completed)

In Love and Death We Don't Decide (M; eventual Blackinnon and Jily; Hogwarts era fic)

Miracles series (James Potter as the Boy Who Lived):

A Bitter Little Eucharist (T; established Wolfstar and Jily)

The Marauders' Map series:

Hepburn Avenue (M; text fic; utter chaos as the Marauders meet the girls at uni)

Canterbury Lane (T; Wolfstar; Remus checks Sirius out in a car)

Costa del Sol (T; text fic; established Jily and Wolfstar; the gang go on holiday; currently unfinished for a really petty reason and tbh, probably staying like that)

Caraway Street (E; established Jily and Wolfstar; the post-uni years)

Peverell Hall (G; fluff; James Potter's idyllic childhood)

The Oxford Chronicles series:

The Paintbox (M; Blackinnon, background Jily and Remadora; Muggle AU)

Jily One-Shots

A Little Bloom of Hope (T; Muggle AU; flower shop)

Better Ways (G; pre-relationship)

James Potter and the Case of the Lacy Black Bra (E; everyone lives)

Last Rites (E; canon compliant; emotional smut)

My Heart is Overcome (Gen; canon compliant; fluff and angst)

The Parting Glass (T; fluff)

The Way the Light Looks (T; fluff, but in an angsty setting)

Blackinnon One-Shots

Confession (M; love confessions)

Oceans and Glaciers (E; ok, it's actually a 2 shot, but hey ho; very explicit)

Wolfstar One-Shots

Mosaic (E; 8 one-shots with a lot of different kinks, I guess)

Snowed In (T; first kiss; Hanukkah; Jewish!Remus)

Until It Shines (G; mild angst but also very fluff; canon divergence)

Hinny One-Shots

A Lesson Overheard (E; first time[ish]; canon compliant)

A Place for Hidden Things (T; canon compliant; post-canon; sad but with a happy ending)

Opaline (E; post-war; angry sex and unhealthy coping mechanisms)

Three Gnomes in a Knitted Trench Coat (G; technically canon compliant; a bit of a crack fic tho)

Misc. One-Shots

Afternoon Delight (E; Colin Creevey/Draco Malfoy; yeah, I hate myself too)

Enough Pizza to Feed a Horse (G; canon compliant[ish]; the OotP girls hang out)

Giving Us Doomsday (T; angst; original OotP celebrating New Year)

God Bless the Shed, and All Who Sail in Her (G; fluff and humour; the Potters being Potters)

hoax (G; Marlene/Gideon; angst; implied cheating)

Remember that You are Dust (M; 2nd person POV; the universe addresses the Marauders at the time of their deaths)

The Theory of Relativity (T; established Jily and Wolfstar, previous Remadora and Blackinnon, but not in a misogynist way; Lily is enby)

Rabastan Lestrange/Narcissa Malfoy fics

coney island (M; angst; sex; adultery)

The Burning Edge of Dawn (M; angst; who is Draco's dad?)

Collabs

All's Well That Ends Well (even if it takes four years) with a lot of people (E; Wolfstar; angst then fluff)

WIP: The Secret "Oral" History with @jennandblitz (E; 1980s university; lots of drugs; we affectionately call this Coke Fic)

WIP: We Were Electrified with @siriusly-sapphic (M; how the Lestrange twins became the worst people ever)

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celestemagnoliathewriter · 1 year

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for the kiss ship ask game, if it's ok, Remadora #8. thanks!!!! i love your writing.

Remadora #8 - a kiss in secret! I actually have one more of these in my ask box, so I'll write another soon :)

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Remus descends the staircase at Grimmauld Place in a hurry. The Order meeting is starting any minute now and he doesn’t want to be late.

This is what he tells himself, at least. He doesn’t want to miss the chance of sitting next to—

“Hey, Remus!”

The object of his highly inappropriate desires has taken hold of his arm and he finds himself pulled into the late Orion Black’s study.

“T-Tonks,” he chokes. “The meeting!”

“I need to ask you something.”

She’s leaning against the desk, exhaling rapidly, her chest heaving with irregular, almost nervous breaths. Remus stands in front of her, struggling not to stare down her revealing shirt.

“Yes?”

“Did you finish the report for me?” she asks, as a pleasing, rosy hue covers her face and neck. “The one from last week’s mission?”

“I did,” Remus replies, frowning. “Did you not want me to?”

“No, I did, or I don’t mind,” she says quickly. Biting the inside of her cheek, she adds, “Thank you.”

“It’s no trouble at all.”

It feels as if there’s something between them. If Remus is honest, it’s been there for months, budding and decaying and regrowing again, each time stronger than before, and he’s not sure how much more he can take.

But then she flings her arms around his neck and presses a kiss on his lips. It’s barely more than a peck, their lips aren’t even parted, and it’s over too soon.

Tonks steps back and puts her hand over her mouth. The tick-tick-tick of the antique clock behind them fills the silence.

There’s a creaking sound coming from the staircase.

Remus inhales sharply and looks behind him. The door is half-open and he’s horrified someone has seen them. He shouldn’t have let her pull him into the dark, secluded space. If he’s lucky, it’ll be Sirius who finds them, but if it’s Severus or—

“—no one saw,” Tonks says, in a tone that’s too high-pitched. “I’m sorry . . . I wanted to thank you, and I’ve been meaning to tell you . . . ”

She babbles erratically, confusing him. She’s usually articulate but she’s making all sorts of excuses and he’s wondering if she really just kissed him.

“ . . . a secret, I meant it to stay that way, and it’s just, you’re you and I’m me and . . .”

“What?”

“Were you not,” she stops, as her hair colors prettily, matching her pink cheeks, “listening to me? I said we can keep what just happened . . . a secret. If you want.”

“Y-yes,” he stammers. “That’s probably for the best.”

A golden clock chimes behind them. It strikes once, twice, thrice, until it settles on an eighth, sharp trill.

“We’re going to be late,” she says quietly, almost painfully. “I’m sorry. I understand if . . . you don’t want to be partnered on any more missions with me. It’s obvious you don’t . . .”

Remus opens his mouth. “Tonks, why would I want that?”

He’s never seen her look so forlorn. Her shoulders are uncharacteristically slumped, her chest isn’t heaving as strongly, and her eyes are downturned.

“I’m—”

“—tell them I’ve got a headache.” Her tone is weak, but resolved.

“What?” Remus sputters, his hands finding her arms instinctively. “Do you need something for it? I can get you a potion—”

“—can you just tell me this,” Tonks interrupts, as her hair becomes a duller pink, “you didn’t want me to do that. To kiss you.”

“You wanted . . . that was intentional?”

Hurried, staccato steps reach them.

“There you are,” says Sirius. Remus jumps away from Tonks, recognizing how inappropriately close they are, and a knowing smirk crosses his friend’s face.

“Tell them we need a minute more to finish the report,” Tonks says hotly. She glares, turning her nose up, and Remus sees the sharp, Black family cheekbones forming into a mask of haughty, indignant rage.

Sirius grins and hums a bright tune on his way out. He closes the door behind him, leaving Remus truly alone with Tonks.

The Black mask is gone a moment later. It’s Tonks again, open, gentle, and startlingly embarrassed.

“If I kissed you again,” she says, her voice trembling as it finds its previous strength, “would you kiss me back?”

Remus gapes at her, watching the mix of emotions crossing her face. He doesn’t know where to look, but she’s coming closer and—

Her lips are on his again. The realization washes over him that she wants this, and he’s letting her, and he knows he’ll be damned to hell but she’s got the softest lips, most intoxicating scent, and sweetest sighs.

They pull apart a minute later when clipped, impatient knocking interrupts them.

“I don’t have all night,” Sirius says irritably. “Finish your secret report. I told the others you’re battling a ghoul but they’re only going to buy that for—”

While Sirius talks loudly at them, Tonks murmurs against Remus’s jaw.

“We can keep it a secret for now, okay?”

Remus thinks it should be kept a secret forever, their kiss in the study, but when Sirius raps at the door they know they’ve got to go.

“Remus,” Tonks whispers, taking his hand before it’s on the brass doorknob. “We’ll talk later, right?”

He manages to nod; her radiant smile lights up the shadowy study and he follows her out, not realizing he still has her hand in his until they’ve found their seats at the meeting.

ship kiss asks

#remadora #asks #send asks #kiss asks #remus x tonks #tonks x remus #remus x nymphadora #moony x dora #ronks #lupin x tonks #tonks x lupin #canon compliant #order of the phoenix

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andromedablacksstuff · 9 months

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My otp Remadora HC

Remus blushing anytime Tonks flirted with him (every time they saw each other)

She has 7 tattoos, her and Charlie got matching Muggle tattoos on a drunk night out

She got a moon tattoo when they first started dating

He always caught her when she fell and she always blushed when he did

She got so anoyed at him not making a move she started wearing sexier clothes to order meetings to try and get him to

Their first kiss was in the library at Grimuald place he didn't talk to her for days after.

Sirius being there biggest shipper

Ahhhh I have so many head canon's and fic ideas.

#tedromeda #remadora #nymphadora tonks #remus lupin

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hinnyfied · 11 months

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hello could you do 1 or 2 for Remadora please and thank you so much?

For the kiss ask!

This ask made me realize I hadn't actually pinned down how I think Remadora's first kiss went, so this was really fun! I hope you enjoy! ❤️❤️

1. First Kiss

Remus should have known better than to let Sirius get him drunk, but it was hard to deny him. Christmas was over, Harry and the Weasley kids had gone back to Hogwarts, and Sirius was left alone once again. He was downright miserable.

So when he found an dusty bottle of Scotch tucked away in his father's old study and started pouring glasses for them, Remus felt compelled to indulge him.

They had worked their way halfway down the bottle and Remus was feeling light as a feather when Tonks arrived, fresh off a long day at the Auror office.

Sirius gestured to the bottle wordlessly, still too morose to muster words apparently. Like Remus, Tonks obliged without protest.

The bottle slowly emptied as night fell, and before Remus knew it, the three of them were in a right state – all pink-cheeked and laughing hysterically though no one had really said anything all that funny.

Tonks' laugh was loud, rambunctious, and punctuated by the occasional snort. It was silly and full of unabashed joy, just like her. Remus could have listened to it all night.

As the night drew to a close, Sirius had gone to bed, and Remus found himself in a position that he had sworn to avoid at all costs.

He and Tonks had been alone on a precious few occasions, and Remus had learned that it was dangerous, for each time, he found himself falling a little more for her. More dangerous still, there had even been times when he imagined that his feelings might be reciprocated.

That was preposterous, he reminded himself, reckless even, so he mumbled something about being tired and made to head up to bed, but before he had even made it out of the kitchen and into the hall, Tonks' caught his hand in her own.

"Remus, wait," she whispered in a sultry voice he had only ever dreamed of hearing. The sound of his name on her lip, in that tone, made his mouth dry.

He chanced a glance at her, and both his greatest fear and wildest dream came true at once. There was no denying that look in her eyes.

He wanted her, and she wanted him too.

Before he had time to think, to come to his senses, Tonks wrapped her arms around him and their lips met.

The kiss was tentative at first, as though it were asking a question. Remus quickly answered yes by braving a hand on her waist, and the kiss deepened. A small hum of satisfaction came from Tonks and it made Remus weak at the knees.

Tonks closed the small gap that remained between them, their bodies coming in full contact for the first time, and every hair on Remus's body stood up.

It was wrong, but it was exhilarating, and as much as Remus knew he should stop, that he was every possible flavour of wrong for her, he couldn't bring himself to – not when she felt like this.

Regret would come, he knew. He would awake in the morning and remember their goodnight kiss and guilt would swallow him whole.

But for now he allowed himself this rare moment of happiness, lost in a swirl of pink hair and soft lips and warmth.

#harry potter #hp fanfic #asks open #harry potter fanfiction #canon compliant #remadora #remus lupin #nymphadora tonks

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black-occamy · 7 months

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Remadora Microfics, Day 6: Sticky

Written for @remadoramicrofics October prompts, 883 words

Written as part of my Occamy-verse AU, so: everybody lives, everybody lives HAPPILY, there will be insane amount of fluff and cuteness, there will be mentions of polyamory. Disclaimer: I have no idea how children behave, wtf am I even writing…

“Let’s see,” Remus pulled the list and a set of reading glasses from his pocket. “We have books, a cauldron and a set of ingredients…”

“Wand,” Teddy added helpfully, whirling it between his fingers in a trick move that Sirius has been teaching him for the last three weeks.

“Yes, please don’t stab your sister in the eye…”

“I can’t believe the letter still mentions quills and parchments,” Tonks scoffed, looking over his shoulder.

“Changes take time, my love.”

“Can we go eat ice cream now?” Lenore was holding the edge of Dora’s robe, her golden eyes staring at her parents pleadingly. Tonks crouched down next to her, messing the girl’s hair.

“In a little while, my darling Bug. There’s still some shopping we need to do for your big brother.”

Read further under cut or on AO3 🖤

“We’re almost done,” Remus put the list back in his pocket and straightened up looking around for the sign of Madame Malkin’s clothes’ shop. “Robes are the last one on the list and we only need to get the winter coat.”

“In this case, I think ice cream should come first, Rem,” Dora picked her daughter up in her arms. “Unless we want to get the new clothes sticky, right, golden Bug?”

“Ice cream!”

“Sounds like a plan to me!”

Remus exchanged glances with Teddy. It was his day, after all. The boy made a thoughtful face, considering the choices with a solemnity of an eleven-year-old.

“Mum makes a good point,” he finally decided. “I don’t know any cleaning spells yet, and I don’t want a sticky coat.”

“And what about the pet? We won’t have time to go and pick one, Dora.”

All three of them gave him surprised looks. Apparently there has been some discussion happening earlier that he missed.

“I’m taking Pestie to Hogwarts,” Teddy explained. “Auntie and Uncle said it’s okay if I take her with me.”

“Well, if that one is settled too..”

“Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream!” Lenore chanted, tapping an excited rhythm on Dora’s shoulder. Remus gave up with a sigh.

They navigated slowly through the crowd of excited students and slightly less excited parents. Diagon Alley was packed at this time of the year, caught in the annual pre-school-year frenzy. It was fortunate they managed to get around their shopping during the new moon - otherwise the noises and other stimuli of the crowd would have been too much for him.

“Rem, you and the kids find a table and I’ll get the desserts,” Tonks declared, passing Lenore to him. “It’s lemon sherbet for you, chocolate for the Bug and salted caramel for Teddy, right?”

“Chocolate!”

He sat down at the furthest table he could find, one that was nestled cosily under a huge straw umbrella. The shade offered a welcome respite. Lenore huddled against his chest, staring at her brother pointedly. She seemed to be thinking something over.

“Teddy, will you be gone for long?” she asked finally.

“Just a bit, Nora. And I’ll write you letters!”

“Da, can I go with Teddy?” she turned her golden eyes at him. Remus smiled, placing a soft kiss on the top of her head.

“You will go soon, little Bug.”

“Soon means when?”

“In a couple more years.”

Lenore scoffed, “That’s not soon at all!”

“You won’t even notice, with everything that will happen in pre-school,” Teddy offered and for some reason that logic seemed enough for her. “Dad, were you nervous before your first year at Hogwarts?”

Remus fell silent for a moment. Somewhere buried deep in his memories was the day he received his letter and the look on his parents’ faces - fear mixed with that terrible suspicion that it must have been a mistake. He shrugged that image away.

“Extremely so. Are you nervous, Ted?”

The boy regarded him thoughtfully for a moment.

“I don’t know which house I want to be sorted to,” he admitted after a while. “I don’t know if I’m as brave as you or Uncle Sirius. I’m not as caring as Mum or as strong as Auntie Gem. Maybe I could be a Ravenclaw? Am I smart enough to be a Ravenclaw, Dad?”

“You are everything you need to be, I promise you,” Remus reached out, pulling the boy closer in a hug. Lenore squealed, joining in.

“Teddy, you are the best!”

“See, your sister is very right about that. It doesn’t matter which house you’re sorted to. You will make us all proud either way.”

For a few blissful moments he held both of his children, a small part of him trying to figure out how in the world he could be so lucky to have them. He spotted Dora coming in with a handful of ice cones. Her pink hair, long and wavy today, danced around her head like a candy-coloured halo. Remus felt a surge of warmth in his chest, a joy that filled him, head to toes. If he could, he would float in the air.

That is, until Dora happened to trip at this exact moment.

In a split second, the smile froze on her face, her eyes widening. Ice cream soared in the air. Remus stared at it, flying towards him and unsuspecting children, rotating in slow motion.

It was probably a good thing they planned robe shopping after the dessert.

#remadora microfics #remadora #remus lupin #nymphadora tonks #fluff and humor #baby lupins #hogwarts #diagon alley #hp fanfic #occamy-verse #Gemma Appleby #the black occamy #occamy writes

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