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This is not the story of a prophecy. This is not the story of a child that had to grow up too fast, the hope the magical world falling on his shoulders.
No. This is the story of the children that were forced to turn into soldiers. Of the army that was born under enchanted ceilings and dark hallways. Of the laughter that turned into heavy silence, and the silence that turned into a terrifying wait.
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littlebastardreviews posted the collected facts from the 2014 UK Editions of Harry Potter: and this fact caught my eye.
'Only one non-magical person has ever managed to get as far as the Hogwarts Sorting Hat before being exposed as a Squib.'
But, gosh it just makes me want a story where a squib did make it through. So here's a drabble about a squib with a quick mind and a hand-me-down wand, who refuses to be denied her birthright.
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when the hat drops over her eyes it asks, 'well what do we have here?'
she’s got a forged hogwarts letter with penmanship that’s perfect down to the ink splatter;
she’s got a complicated string of owls, only half of them forged, from parents to administration to ministry that’s so complicated her name ended up on the first year roll call anyway.
she’s got ten arguments, four pleas, and one smothered threat on the tip of her mental tongue for why the house that comes out of this hat’s brim better not be 'squib'
she’s got a lighter up her sleeve and an eight and a half inch wand in her belt that will never, ever work for her.
'well,' says the hat, 'better be slytherin then'
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“[…]I know *power*; I know power in the way sparks flew from my younger sister’s wand when my family took her to Ollivander’s. But I also know power in the way it curled in my fingers when I watered nightshade and re-potted mandrakes, in the way I learned when making sleeping draught to stir half a rotation extra.
The reason I’m here is to show you that it isn’t about power that lives in your bones. This is about power that you *make*. And that is what Slytherin is for; to encourage the power that you make. And that is what Hogwarts is for; to shape and sharpen the power that you make. And that is what I am here for; to tell you that nobody is powerless, because it doesn’t matter what magic you have in your bones and what family you see in your blood. All that matters is you.
Because *you* are the power, no matter what the doctors say, no matter what the politicians or Lords claim, no matter what family or title or tax bracket or gender or race or religion or magical strength or *person* you are.
*You* are the power you wield, not them. You can change your future if you dare, like I dared with a pointless wand and a lighter. You could even change the world.
All you have to do is use your power to reach out and take it.”
-Sarah Selwyn-Perth, Director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, in her infamous 1989 resignation speech. -
the heir of something or other by dirgewithoutmusic for xiaoguban
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Jul 2015
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When kids in the Slytherin Common Room tossed jeers at the pudgy feet of Millicent Bulstrode, Harry rose up to do something about it. This Harry, now one of Snape’s own, got fewer House points lost but many more detentions– it had never been the colors on his hem that Severus hated.
This was not wishing Harry an easy path. This was not wishing the boy a warm House. This was Harry, three weeks in, sleep deprived and considering running away and going back to Privet Drive. This was Harry in the back of Potions class, blank-faced under Snape’s disdain the way he’d perfected under the Dursleys’s torments.
When Quirrell shouted “troll in the dungeons, thought you ought to know,” and Harry overheard that there was a girl in the bathroom crying, he still ran off to make sure she got out okay. He hesitated first, at the back of the little pack of Slytherin first years (at the back so that no one could get behind him)– he hesitated.
And Millicent Bulstrode, who could never quite keep her tummy tucked in enough, could never brush all the cat hair off her robes, never quite keep her temper in check, hesitated, too.
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Makes something ache a little in my gut
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Albus Dumbledore made a mistake at Godric's Hallow; he misidentified the Saviour as Lloyd James Potter and left Genesis Lily Potter at Tanner's Orphanage. Upon her introduction to the Wizarding World, Genesis changes her name, distrustful of Dumbledore, and enters her first year of Hogwarts with too much power to be normal.
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must in death your daylight finish? (-my sun sets to rise again.) by llamallamaduck
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Naruto
23 Sep 2023
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In which Uchiha Itachi is born, lives and loves as Sirius Black, son of Orion and Walburga Black, brother to one Regulus Black.
It goes about as well as can be expected.
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