A discussion on fanon spells.
TL;DR: A lot of commonly seen spells probably don't work directly on humans. Protego is absolutely nuts.
I see a lot of the below spells appear a lot in Harry Potter fanfiction, and often, they have vastly different or additional functions than they do in canon.
Summoning Charm - In some fics, characters are able to summon other witches and wizards. However, Accio is described as a spell for summoning objects, not people. We've seen multiple objects be spelled unsummonable throughout the series (e.g. Slytherin's locket, Gryffindor's sword), so I'd assume, for sanity's sake, that wizards cannot be summoned as well.
Levitation Charm - You can't use this on people. Mobilicorpus exists to move around human beings in the air, though it isn't seen being used for vertical transportation.
Reductor Curse - Oh boy, is this spell abused. People seem to think of it as some sort of explosion spell, like Confringo or Bombarda. Sure, Reducto appears to cause a small explosion, but it is mainly described as "blasting solid objects to pieces," sometimes into dust, and is only ever used on objects. I can't recall a single time it is actually used on a person in canon, and if it was, said person would be obliterated into tiny pieces.
Severing Charm - I believe this spell is only used once to harm another person, and it's when Hermione accidentally cut Ron in Deathly Hallows after the café fight. It is never used like Sectumsempra, nor does it demonstrate similar cutting capability in regards to human flesh. Note that it is called the Severing Charm, not the Cutting Charm.
Shield Charm - ...this is pretty OP. The following assertions are all supported by the books:
The shield is invisible, but appears to manifest physically, as it knocked Snape off his feet in Half-Blood Prince (although this could be because of a reflected spell).
It doesn't seem to have a fixed size.
It protects against and is capable of reflecting a wide variety of spells, both visible (e.g. Stupefy, Expelliarmus) and invisible (Legilimens, Accio). It can apparently block physical forces as well.
It may be able to linger after being cast and could work in both directions, as it prevents Hermione from chasing after Ron in Deathly Hallows.
Honestly, given a powerful enough caster, it appears the only thing it can't block is the Killing Curse, and maybe the other Unforgivables.
The moral of the story is, get good at the Shield Charm and spam it forever (since magical stamina isn't a thing).
said person would be obliterated into tiny pieces
I think this is the point. Most of the time I read it, someone is killing someone else with it.
I think I've only ever seen it kill a person or hammer on a shield.
that wizards cannot be summoned as well
Didn't Harry summon Hagrid in DH?
The Reductor Curse and Severing Charm were created to be used on solid objects. But there is proof of the latter being used on humans and working and i can't imagine a curse not working on humans.
I'm a little confused if it worked or not, here's the quote:
Somehow, Harry found his nose an inch from the dragon-fire button. He punched it with his wand-free hand and the bike shot more flames into the air, hurtling straight toward the ground. “Hagrid!” Harry called, holding on to the bike for dear life. “Hagrid — Accio Hagrid!”
The motorbike sped up, sucked toward the earth. Face level with the handlebars, Harry could see nothing but distant lights growing nearer and nearer: He was going to crash and there was nothing he could do about it. Behind him came another scream, “Your wand, Selwyn, give me your wand!”
Hagrid had jumped off the bike to take out a Death Eater, so he was below. It says the bike sped up, but he had just hit the "speed up" button on the motorcycle, and I don't think Accio exerts any force on the caster. Hagrid is next seen on the ground, although he survives, so it might have slowed him down some?
Or get really good at the killing curse and spam it a lot. Voldemort had a very good point in sticking to it.
Or we could do this weird rock paper scissors thing where killing curses lose to transfiguration, but fast charms beat tranfiguration, but lose to the killing curse.
The summoning charm is very OP though. It acts like a search engine if you use proper adjectives for your subject. Hermione summoned Dumbledore's Horcrux Books, despite never having seen them.
Hermione summoned Dumbledore's Horcrux Books, despite never having seen them.
Which is monumentally amazing, if you get into it...the amount of stuff you could get! I mean shit, didn't she only ASSUME Dumbledore took out some HYPOTHETICAL books on Horcruxes from the library? And yet she was able to summon said hypothetically removed books she didn't even KNOW EXISTED OR NOT, WHERE THEY EVEN WERE, or...GOD DAMN, and it WORKED! That's just insanely powerful and abusable.
I mean by that CANON manner of how the spell works, you could literally just go, "Accio lost Aztec Gold" and it'd come to you if it still existed, no matter where it was or anything! Or any other lost, historical, priceless stuff, like old paintings or whatever. You don't even need to know WHERE something is to summon it, or even that it exists! If it does, it'll just WORK. And it doesn't even matter how far away it is either!
And it works for vague shit too, like Mrs. Weasley on Fred and George's pockets of prank stuff or whatever.
Accio seriously has to be the most broken spell in the universe. And it's CANON broken.
My headcanon is that a strong attack spell can be blocked by a shield, but it breaks the shield so if you throw attack spells at the target faster than it can cast new shields you win. Casting a new shield in the middle of running isn't easy after all.
I think that's how most people write it. Maybe we sub-consciously associate the Shield Charm with like, Star Trek Deflector Shields? As in: the shield has a certain amount of 'oomph' put into it and that 'oomph' can get worn down by attack spells, with big attacks just popping it like a soap bubble.
I sort of thought you were gonna be like 'the paint stripping charm is straight fanon and why would we expect it to work on human skin'. Different direction than I though you were going.
In the vein of your post though: I have two thoughts.
First: even if I can't cast the levitation charm on a human person (or, if you're familiar with Worm, if we assume the levitation charm is manton limited) then shouldn't I still be able to cast it on someone's clothes? Ditto for accio?
Second: I think the fundamental difference in perspectives here is that you seem to be thinking of spells as being task oriented. "The levitation charm is a spell designed for the task of lifting inanimate objects, therefore it cannot be used to lift animate objects." I think most of us think of spells as being more function oriented. "The levitation charm is a spell which lifts things." For me, the severing charm is like hedge clippers. It's designed to be used on dead things, or generally on non-human things. But if I want to, I can use my hedge clippers to decapitate someone. If I have a hammer spell, while it might be designed for nails, I don't see an immediate reason it couldn't be used on skulls. That's not to say I think your point is without merit, it is totally possible that due to how magic works, a spell designed for task A cannot be used for task B. Maybe the severing charm has inbuilt limitations to prevent it being used on humans, or some sort of conceptual orientation so that it is purpose/task driven and can only do what it was built for. however, the fact Hermione accidentally cut Ron using the severing charm would seem to suggest against this. As an additional note, while the severing charm might be inferior to Sectumsempra for combat purposes, I would suggest that this has more to do with Sectumsempra being a curse; we saw how difficult it was to heal a wound caused by it, while presumably the severing charm would be very easy to heal, making it much less useful for combat.
I may be wrong, but I am certain Newt summoned Jacob to him in Fantastic Beasts. That or himself to Jacob.
Newt summoned the Occamy egg that Jacob was holding. He also summoned his niffler, and in the books Harry summoned Trevor while practising it in the Gryffindor common room, so a living item isn't necessarily an exception, though a muggle human might be.
The moral of the story is, get good at the Shield Charm and spam it forever (since magical stamina isn't a thing).
We have seen Harry get exhausted by doing nothing but trying to master spells. The Patronus I won't say anything since there were other factors involved, but the summoning? There is no excuse there for that exhaustion unless magic usage has an impact on the body.
He was up all night learning it, if I recall correctly. Sleep deprivation was the cause there
I have seen things i never thought id see...
What the hell is Alpha/Beta/Omega?
Why can't people write actual sentences?
Why are there so many great ideas that just suffer from horrible writing?
Many people ship these two characters, who have the most unmanageable hair in the entire series, yet I’ve never read a fic that goes into detail about exactly how bad their kids’ hair is. I mean wild, untamable hair, hair that defeats Hagrid’s beard in battle, hair that pulls asunder the stones of Hogwarts, hair that strangles their dormmates in their sleep, hair that makes the Whomping Willow pull up its roots and run away, hair that frightens the denizens of the Forbidden Forest, hair that disturbs the centaurs’ astrological prophecies by pulling the stars down from the sky, hair that brings about the apocalypse. That’s the only logical outcome of two people with such bad hair getting together and having kids.
"The award for 'best villain' goes to Albus Dumbledore!"
"I have no clue how I deserved that."
"The award for 'best main character' goes to Daphne Greengrass!"
"I can't remember doing anything, like, at all?"
"The academy award for 'most likely to start a Revolution' goes to... Hermione Granger!"
"What the ****?"
She's known to mysteriously disappear for days at a time, but Augusta has always put that down to the obvious carelessness and forgetfulness of her disappointment of a *grandson. No matter how she reminds him, that boy just can't seem to keep track of his toad!
E: Yes, inspired by discussion in the previous Trevor thread. Posted here for greater visibility!
The way they argue over every mundane thing doesn't feel very 'old married couple' to me. It feels more like how siblings always start fights over nothing. I know we're supposed to see Harry and Hermione having the brother-sister connection, but I see it more with Ron and Hermione tbh.
"There was another petrification?"
"No, some upper year Hufflepuffs were apparently growing Marijuana..."
I just found it on accident and finished reading it in one sitting. As a sucker for romance and haphne as a whole it made me giggle and laugh and i loved every minute of it. Petrificus Somewhatus has earned a new life long follower in me and i hope you all give this fic a read its fucking brilliant.
Story: Daphne Greengrass and the Importance of Intent https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13133746
If you don't know about it, the pre Endgame meme has Ant-Man shrinking down and crawls into Thanos's butt and then he returns to his normal size, causing Thanos to explode. I would like Harry to force/coerce Rita to do this.
Not because he's depressed, nihilistic, or anything like that. Okay, maybe a little. But you know those people that don't have to try and yet still be the best because they're talented or good at bullshitting?
Basilisk? Cool
Mass murderer and dementors after him? K
Forced into the Tri-wizard tournament? No problem
The kind of Harry that would show up to the tasks hungover and still lead the tournament.
(Cause he's just that good at pretending to be good)
Subversion of the usual trope.
He's quite shocked to find out that having a half-life means that he now has the same random chance of decaying at any moment as an atom of Caesium-134.
The Premise
What You Leave Behind is an AU rewrite which, aside from a prologue, begins at Kings Cross Station on September 1st when Harry is 11 years old. Rather than a singular premise for the AU, the author’s purpose is fourfold. From their profile:
An exploration and expansion of Hogwarts as a truly magical place.
A different trio of main characters.
A believable, slow burning, in-depth love story.
A believably powerful, proactive Harry Potter.
There are also several points of divergence from the canon, such as:
- Ariana Dumbledore is alive
- The Order of the Phoenix is treated as a terrorist organisation by the Ministry
- Albus Dumbledore has been banished from England
- Sirius Black escaped Azkaban much sooner
- Harry was born in 1979 instead of 1980, so he starts Hogwarts one year earlier
It was this last divergence which most interested me, because rather than becoming fast friends with Ron and Hermione, Harry becomes close to Cho and Cedric. Full disclosure – I love Cho Chang, so there is a huge bias for me in favour of this story. Like the author, I feel like both Cho and Cedric got the short end of the stick in canon, so a story which was going to make them much more central, fleshed out characters was a big draw card for me.
The sad part is that this fic was abandoned after 11 chapters back in 2015, so whilst I feel it was intended to be a full 7-year story, it cuts off in Harry’s third year.
The Plot
There’s a sort of self-contained mystery plot for Harry’s first year, but it isn’t as complicated as the ones in canon, and once it is solved it comprises most of the set up for the subsequent years. Aside from the noted parts of divergence, most canon lynchpins are carefully observed and kept in place, showing that the author put a lot of detail into keeping it realistic. The blood protection is kept but cleverly worked around with the use of a vanishing cabinet, for example.
There was one scene fairly early on which I found genuinely galling, and was somewhat horrified at how glazed over it was. Harry accidentally performs a spell too advanced for a first year, and immediately an Auror (who was already stationed at the school on another assignment) comes out from under the disillusionment charm she’d been using to spy on him and takes him up to the headmaster’s office. Once there she floo-calls the ministry, and within minutes 11-year-old Harry is surrounded by the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and the Minister for Magic.
Under a suspicion that Harry might have been in contact with Dumbledore – not Voldemort: Dumbledore – they cast legilimens on Harry’s mind and proceed to probe through his entire life. There is no legal preamble, no rights that Harry might have, literally no adult in Harry’s corner saying “don’t raid this child’s mind”, and no one asks him for permission or even tells him what they’re going to do. Afterwards, Harry is collapsed on the floor and thinks to himself that he feels violated, but no one really shows any concern and then that’s kind of the end of it. It made me Umbridge-level mad to read that, and I couldn’t believe that even the headmaster, who was in the room at the time, made no protest about it whatsoever. I’m still not sure if the author intended to revisit how incredibly invasive, dangerous, and damning of the ministry that scene was, but I hope so.
After first year there are a few other miniature mysteries which drive the plot forward, most of which revolve around DADA professor Elphias Doge. The characters make note of the oddity of Doge returning after Harry’s first year, since the DADA curse is a thing remarked upon and even bet on by the students. But Elphias sticks around as the enigma, setting Harry & co on a mission to discover the Founders’ Rooms of Hogwarts. Whilst a sort of Founders’ treasure hunt is not the most original of ideas, it has a certain shine to it in the YA/Fantasy/Adventure genre. I myself love a good “find all four and unlock the secret power” narrative, and I like it when there is a canon basis being used as a springboard for a deeper story. In this case, of course the Chamber of Secrets is Slytherin’s room, the Room of Requirement is Ravenclaw’s, but there are two original ones being looked for too. The author seemed like they knew what they were doing and exactly where they were going with the plot, but the story cuts off so early that we only get as far as seeing Hufflepuff’s room, and even then not all of it.
There’s sort of a neat tie in where the hunt for the rooms coincides with the Chamber of Secrets being opened, leading Harry to believe that someone else is looking for the rooms too. What is also interesting here is that the set up for Ginny being given Tom Riddle’s diary still occurs just as it did in canon, but there are some pretty strong indications nonetheless that she isn’t the one who opened the Chamber this time, and I was looking forward to seeing who did.
Harry also gets an idea for being on the front foot in the fight against Voldemort, but whatever it was, it seems to be a long game idea which is heavily hinted at involving bringing the philosopher’s stone to Hogwarts. Effectively Harry’s first two years are not overly eventful affairs, but his third year (which would have been his second year in the original timeline) appears to be combining the plot of PS and CoS.
Overall I’d say it was an engaging if not overly cohesive plot, and since the story was never finished it’s unclear how good the payoff would have been.
Premise point 4 – the powerful Harry – is featured quite heavily as well. Without giving too much away, Harry receives special and consistent training, not just on his general spellwork, but also on the philosophy of magic. I’ve noticed that in many of the fics which are recommended to me for review there is a solid effort put into explaining the mechanics of magic, into pinning down the rules of what will and won’t work, and why. Here, Douglas Adams is quoted directly to provide a metaphor for the use of magic as an exercise in a duality of mind, an embraced contradiction to free oneself from the constraints of logic and make the best use of magic (“aim for the ground and miss”). Given how very not logical wizarding society in general is, and how difficult it is to wrap logical laws around the abilities of magic in J.K’s canon, this philosophy is a pretty satisfying one, though I wish it had only retained a similarity to Douglas Adams and not broken the fourth wall in explaining it.
There is also an explanation given as to how very subjective magic is in its application. A conversation around the term Ēthos Anthrōpōi Daimōn occurs between Harry and another character (redacted for spoilers), which was striking enough that I’ll quote it directly.
"It means 'character is destiny'....In the magical world, it's a simple truth. Your character informs your Patronus, colours your spellcasting, even chooses your House at that school of yours. But it's more than that - it's a way of looking at things. It means that you create the reality you know. You are what you seek to know about yourself."
I really enjoy this kind of deep-dive into the wizarding world of magic.
Lastly, the various plots are spaced out between good doses of slice-of-life writing. I love good character development, where not everything is about Voldemort all the time and sometimes it’s just about kids growing up and finding their feet. Harry, Cho and Cedric are all seekers on their respective teams, just like in canon, and quidditch games take a pretty central spot in Harry’s social life. Props to the author – they made me really enjoy reading about quidditch again. The matches played out differently to the canon ones but were still really gripping, and of course the outcome of every match has a bearing on the relationships between the members of the trio.
I find that this kind of detail gets left out of many plot heavy stories, but it makes the story elements balance nicely, allowing for a more immersive experience because we get to know our characters as people, not just as adventurers.
The Writing
Writing quality was extremely good, reminiscent in many passages of J.K herself, which gives a warm, familiar feel to it. A few spelling errors scattered around, but few and far between. Aside from one indirect reference to masturbation, it’s all pretty PG. It’s written in 3rd person limited from Harry's POV, but a chapter each is also told respectively from Cedric and Cho’s POV.
On the downside, it may be a nitpick, but way too many characters are comfortable calling Dumbledore by his first name. Technically Dumbledore is no longer a professor in this story, but English conventions would dictate that you would still at least afford him the respect of calling him by his last name, especially when you’re not even an adult yet. It’s one of those details which takes me out of the story a bit, since Dumbledore himself often takes careful pains to afford due respect to others when he refers to them. Remember when Harry was ranting about ‘Snape’ in HBP, and Dumbledore kept chiding Harry to call him ‘Professor Snape’?
The kids also felt way too linguistically advanced for their age . The fact that a twelve-year-old Cedric uses the word ‘pontificated’ sort of crystallises the overall problem, but you see it scattered throughout the chapters.
However, there were more good sides to the writing than bad sides. The author will occasionally drop a line here or there that really stood out to me as a good metaphor or clever phrase, and something that fits very well with the genre. Here is one of the lines which caught me:
Cedric was just putting the finishing touches on a decent-sized ball of anxiety over Quidditch Tryouts when Harry got his attention.
Lastly, I want to briefly draw attention to the humour. The author’s flavour of humour really tastes like the Potterverse and gave me some literal laugh out loud moments in public, which fic doesn’t often do. From accidentally *engorgio-*ing Hedwig to Fred and George building a 15-foot snow monstrosity there are some pretty great pranks and funny moments peppered throughout the story.
Characterisation
Needless to say, Fred and George were spot on. Their only downside is that I wish they had been around more often.
Cho and Cedric are completely believable given the templates of their canon characters. Cedric is an all-round competent good guy who is uncomfortable with his overbearing father and in need of some genuine adventure in his life. Cho is the vibrant girl that canon Harry got a crush on in Prisoner of Azkaban, rather than the sobbing wreck she was in Order of the Phoenix. She’s cheerful, kind, intelligent, and more than a bit fanatical about quidditch. It doesn’t feel like she’s supposed to represent a substitute for Hermione, because her nerd-babble is largely restricted to quidditch. She also has a very different attitude to Hermione and makes friends outside of Harry and Cedric easily.
However, that lack of an exposition side character means that Harry picks up a lot of the slack. I am not sold on Harry’s characterisation. Although he’s still sorted into Gryffindor in this story, he reads very much like a Ravenclaw. He’s very cerebral, knowledgeable, intellectually curious and emotionally muted. The author said that they wanted to feature the magic of Hogwarts with an element of the wonder you experience in the magic of it, but when Harry enters the castle that really doesn’t come across. By and large, he plays hardball when it comes to being impressed, which means we can’t go on any journeys of unabashed wonder – Harry isn’t there to take us on that ride. He loves flying but plays it cool and is somewhat indifferent to quidditch; rather than nervous he’s critical of the sorting system upon first hearing of it, and of his friends he shows the least emotional investment in anything. He is also far older than his tender eleven years, not only with the very advanced language he uses but with the deeply abstract principals he applies very easily to his magical education. I’ve read that by 11 years old, children are only just beginning to comprehend things in abstract ways, and Harry feels as though he’s already at university level before he hits puberty.
I don’t inherently dislike the idea of a Harry who is more disciplined, proactive and curious about magic, especially in an AU where there are some pretty decent justifications for leveling Harry up (and there are some good justifications, but they’re spoilery so I won’t say them outright). However, unless you’re incorporating the use of a time turner or dimensional shift, then I still expect an eleven-year-old to act like an eleven-year-old, even an intelligent one. Moreover, most of the groundwork for Harry becoming as good as he is happens off screen, which gives a feeling of it not being earned, and detracts from the believability of his development.
This is not to say that Harry’s characterisation is all bad either. He has moments of being embarrassed, being funny, making mistakes and doing general awkward growing up. There is a budding Harry/Fleur happening in the background, which was slotted in pretty seamlessly for an endgame pairing. Harry meets Fleur at a kind of international quidditch boot camp over his first summer holiday. To begin with Fleur on a broom felt very jarring and out of character to me, but there’s no real canon reason for me to have assumed this, aside from a vague, prejudicial feeling of her. I reminded myself that you can absolutely be snooty and arrogant and posh and still love sports, and once I accepted that aspect Fleur felt like a very natural fit.
Aside from our main cast, there are a smattering of background characters written with varying degrees of skill. Zacharias Smith takes over Draco Malfoy’s role of all-round git but doesn’t feel like a Slytherin, which is awesome; Katie Bell has more personality than she does in the books and it’s a refreshing addition; Cormac McLaggen is perfect, if largely absent, and Tracey Davis is a great addition of this dour, cynical Slytherin with not one whit of pureblood fanaticism. Mike Vaisey and Daphne Greengrass are meant to be two more examples of relatable, non-evil Slytherins, but both come across somewhat generically. Daphne’s attractiveness is mentioned more than once, indicating some possible Harry/Daphne before the Harry/Fleur happens, but despite attempts at giving her an interesting back story the girl herself has an unremarkable personality. It’s possible that this would have improved as the fic went on, but it was abandoned too early for there to be any shipping payoffs.
The TL;DR
Despite being an abandoned WIP, it’s all round an enjoyable read. It’s impossible to know if the author would have been able to fulfill all of their goals for this fic, but I suspect a four-point premise may have been too ambitious to keep everything tied together. Perhaps that even contributed to the discontinuation. However, if you’re into powerful!Harry or you ship Harry/Fleur this will ring all your bells. I myself don’t find Harry overly believable or likable, but that’s my only real beef with the fic. It’s lovingly detailed with a sound knowledge of canon and its characters, and it’s set up with a plot that I was genuinely keen to follow to its mysterious unravelling. Seeing Harry befriend people who weren’t Ron, Hermione or Draco was also a welcomingly original and refreshing idea. Not that I’ve ever incorporated a rating system on these reviews up until this point, but I’d likely give this one a solid 8/10.
As a reminder, if you liked what you read here and have a fic that you’d like to nominate for a review, please tell me in a comment or message me. Any genre, pairing or rating is fine, though I prefer multi-chaptered, completed fics. Thanks for sticking with me this far!
EDIT: I stand corrected on Fleur's characterisation. Thank you to u/AskMeAboutKtizo and u/4ecks for pointing out that Fleur does canonically dislike riding on brooms.
EDIT: so apparently when Dumbledore picks Harry up in HBP, he confirms that Sirius left a “considerable amount of money” to Harry
According to the Wiki: The inheritance of the property by Sirius Black is almost certainly governed by the magical equivalent of the English Common Law concept of the Entailed Estate. Under this type of arrangement, the inheritance of the covered property by the designated heir ("down the direct line, to the next male with the name of 'Black'") cannot be prevented by disinheritance or any other legal means. The only way the entail breaks is if there is no living descendant who matches the conditions of the entail. When the entail breaks, the property in question can be disposed of by any legal means, including being willed to any person the current holder so chooses. This legal mechanism matches the known circumstances of the inheritance, where the property was inherited by Sirius although he was "disowned", and then could be successfully left to Harry Potter once there was no "direct line, male descendant.
Aw Man, I have to write a description. The title says it all. Do i really need to go on.
I am looking for stories where the castle is sentient and alive. I want to see a mingling castle that helps one of the characters.
Or stories where the house elves don't sit by and let the wizarding world go to pieces and pull strings from the background. Or full take over.
I can imagine that after the war very few people would be willing to give Snape the credit he was due. He would be known as the killer of Dumberdorw and the Headmaster who sanctioned the torture of students.
There’s only so much good will I could expect Harry to be able to create given how little evidence he has, as well as how fickle the wizard if world is. Especially with people like Rita Skeeter running around. And just because Harry defeated Voldemort doesn’t mean everyone will now like or believe everything he says. Dumbledore defeating Grindelwald ended up mattering very little when it came to swaying public opinion in the face of a propaganda machine.
So in order to combat all of this, Harry names his son after Snape. The great wizard Dumbledore and the man who killed him, juxtaposed together in the savior of he wizard of world’s child. Given how in general people are moved more by their hearts than logic, I can see this more than anything helping to convince people that Snape actually was a double agent.
I love Bellatrix as a character for everything she can bring to the table to make a fic good. But by GOD my fellow writers can we all agree to smother the baby talk trope in its crib? She did that like...a handful of times in the books! She’s insane yes but she’s got some self respect! The most I remember her actually doing that was just to say “Ickle Harry” and maybe the childish “I killed Sirius Black” taunts if you wanna push the definition.
This is a character meant to strike fear into the hearts of those around her. One of the most powerful witches and the most skilled duelists in the world. Not being able to read her with a straight face is a problem!!
Whether it is the last cookie, or a pizza, he keeps using the phrase in a trivial manner.
Feel free to post fics too.
Any pairing, any content, there's nothing I won't read. I don't care if it's HagridxDumbledore, Misguided!Riddle, or Harry the Sex God Has a Harem. I want to read them all.
HMU!
Crossovers welcome too.
Edit: I've had some awesome recs, thank you all. I've got a list of twenty+ fics that I'll no doubt spend time reading instead of writing my dissertation.
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