heaven's here, it's right where you're standing
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“That’s bullshit,” Sebastian mutters. “Why should anyone believe they’re worthy of you when all they know is bloody drivel published in some useless gossip rag? Just because some sweaty prick knows your middle name from some stupid article -”
“No one knows my middle name,” she interrupts.
Sebastian freezes, words dying on his tongue. “No one?” he repeats.
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speak the language of love like you know what it means by elsaclack
Fandoms: Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)
01 Jul 2023
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“There’s a - tradition. Around the school. I dunno if you’ve ever heard of it, erm - it’s - so, when a - when a couple is courting, and things are - going well, I suppose, they - they do this, er, thing -”
“Trading ties?” she interrupts.
Sebastian’s blood runs hot, and then cold, and then hot again. “Yeah,” he breathes. “How did you -”
“Poppy and Natty told me about it at the start of term,” she shrugs, and her broom rises and falls comically with the movement. “They go around your wrist, do they not?”
“They - yes. Yeah, usually - usually couples exchange ties, and - you’re right. They shrink them down and it goes around your wrist.”
“Your left wrist.” she says.
“Your left wrist,” Sebastian confirms.
“Sort of like a posy ring, right? Like a declaration of the intent to propose. That’s what Poppy said.”
He nods. His ears are burning, suddenly.
“Right, like a - yes. And there’s a merging charm, too, to seal the ends together, so - yes. A - a posy ring.”
Her brow furrows thoughtfully. “What do you suppose was the original purpose of the sealing charm? And who figured out it could be used for something like this?”
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turning to the left and right, colors shining in your eyes by elsaclack
Fandoms: Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)
30 Jul 2023
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“He actually likes ballroom dancing a lot. He’s never actually said any of this out loud, mind you, but I always kind of got the impression that he’s disappointed Hogwarts doesn’t host an annual ball anymore. It’s the only skill his parents forced him to learn as a child that he enjoyed and still enjoys. I imagine he’d find the prospect of a ball romantic.”
“He actually did mention ballroom dancing to me over the summer,” Poppy says - the details are a bit fuzzy, as it was in one of his earliest letters to her, but she remembers smiling into her pillow while she read it, stretched out across her bed at her Gran’s house, reading his elegant scrawl in the glow of the afternoon sun. She’s certain she can find it in the box she’s stashed all of his letters in under her bed in her dormitory.
“That would be so romantic,” Mabel says - gaze twinkling and distant, like she’s picturing the whole scene unfolding in her mind.
“Too bad there’s not a ball,” Sebastian sighs.
“Who says we need a ball?” Mabel asks mischievously. “I happen to know of a place in the castle where ballroom dancing happens all the time - eternally, one might even say.”
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who could ever leave me, darling? who could stay? by elsaclack
Fandoms: Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)
07 Aug 2023
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“This’ll be such a funny story to tell your kids someday,” Sebastian mutters as Scribner drags them both by the hoods of their cloaks to the library’s entrance. “‘Gather ‘round, kiddos, let Uncle Sebastian tell you all about your mummy and daddy’s first kiss, it all started with daddy’s panic attack getting us ejected from the library -’”
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