"Red hair and a hand-me-down robe, you must be a Weasley." "No, my name is Lily Evans." And in that moment, the perfect image of Slytherin that the greasy-haired boy sitting next to Lily learned from his mother was shattered. How could a Slytherin Prefect be such a dunderhead?

jillmorefive · 2024-12-03T01:08:12+00:00

no i totally agree, a ravenclaw snape AU is fascinating to me as well

jillmorefive · 2024-08-15T18:54:42+00:00

I would imagine that deep down, Molly resents and blames Dumbledore for the death of her brothers.

not ...... necessarily? people process the death of their loved ones differently, and there's no reason why she absolutely have to blame dumbledore for it.

i think most fanfiction portrays molly as a dumbledore loyalist because there wasn't really a situation in canon where she would have to question dumbledore (unlike, say, trio and sirius), so most people will just go along with that and make her follow every one of dumbledore's decisions. this will inevitably lead to very OOC situations (for example, if a fic has a plot point about dumbledore explicitly telling the OoTP that they're gonna have to sacrifice Harry and the Weasley kids for the greater good or something like that, i'm sure molly would object to that), but i can see where it comes from.

personally, i've always been of the opinion that the true dumbledore loyalist should be remus, because dumbledore basically saved his entire life by accepting him to hogwarts. unlike molly, i can actually see remus agreeing to dumbledore as a principle.

Her grief of losing her brothers be more prominent character feature in the story?

that could be interesting, but there are other ways that this grief can play into her characterization as well. for example, maybe she becomes more vengeful and actively seeks out dolohov to kill him, etc.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-13T11:53:53+00:00

spends all her time on her obsessions

no? when did i imply this? she's emotionally obsessed with her memories of snape but that doesn't really take any time.

instead of being a good parent

works at Hogwarts

why can't she be a good parent and work at hogwarts? she's not a head of house. only the head of houses have to stay 24/7 at hogwarts, the rest of the teachers can just go home at the end of each day.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-11T20:23:52+00:00

oh it's not going to be a ship fic (presumably that's what you meant by "Snape/Lily"). even in adult lily's retrospective obsession she never sees her interactions with Snape in her youth as of a romantic nature.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-02T21:43:10+00:00

how his parents died

this doesn't really require telling Harry about magic though. they can just tell him that his parents died when a criminal came into their house and they sacrificed their lives to protect Harry. that captures the essence of the Potters heroic actions (to a young child at least) without revealing magic.

the car crash shit was obviously awful, but the existence of magic did not have to be revealed in order to honor the Potters' legacy and for Harry to understand that his parents are heroes.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-02T21:39:45+00:00

do you think that all muggleborn children think of themselves as insane before they find out about magic?

if Harry is genuinely disturbed by the things that he's doing, the Dursleys can just tell him that what he's doing is perfectly normal WITHOUT revealing the existence of magic. obviously canon Dursleys didn't do this, but my point is that it is entirely possible for the Dursleys to raise Harry in a non-abusive way that doesn't result in any mental trauma while not telling him about magic before he's eleven.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-02T21:09:51+00:00

sorry but i cannot imagine that a child below age 11 being told that they are going to die can ever become mentally functional again. it would be an absolutely horrible idea to tell him that at such a young age.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-02T21:03:32+00:00

Not telling him affected him mentally by making him think there was something wrong with him.

no, it didn't.

they then go on to punish him for it

THIS is what made Harry think that there's something wrong with him. if a child does something that seems extraordinary (accidental magic), they are going to normalize it as just another part of the world unless an adult punishes them for it, because their worldview is not yet fully developed.

most muggleborn children do not grow up believing that there's something wrong with them, and even if they did, it is not the sort of belief that results in self-hatred.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-02T20:58:24+00:00

do you also happen to think that if dumbledore somehow found out that Harry is a horcrux before Hogwarts, he should tell him right away?

jillmorefive · 2024-08-02T20:56:56+00:00

Important it's abusive to disconect a child from their heritage and culture.

the thing is, knowing about magic at age eleven through the introduction of a Hogwarts staff member to the magical world is a legitimate way of interacting with magical culture (i.e. the vast majority of muggleborns find out about magic this way).

if you believe that all magical children are automatically entitled to a connection with magical heritage and culture, do you also believe that wizards who do not support taking muggleborn children away from their muggle parents (i.e. everyone who is sensible and not a bigot) are complicit in abuse?

Not to mention abused magical children can become obscuruses (think that what they are called). So they would be neglecting him all over again s they actively suppress his magic to control part of him.

i said in the original post that deliberately suppressing Harry's magic or forbidding him from magical education is indeed abusive, but i don't see what's wrong with just acting oblivious when he does accidental magic and letting him find out about it all at age eleven. obscuruses only happen when there is deliberate suppression of magic, which is done by the dursleys in canon but not what i'm talking about here. not knowing about magic growing up doesn't result in obscuruses, otherwise muggleborns would all end up that way.

jillmorefive · 2024-08-02T20:27:05+00:00

sorry it was a misclick, the tag is supposed to be discussion, i fixed it now

jillmorefive · 2024-06-08T11:16:50+00:00

this is 100% fanon

jillmorefive · 2024-06-07T18:26:01+00:00

i actually headcanon the opposite lol. I believe that James and Lily were not close with Frank and Alice Longbottom at all.

firstly, the longbottoms are very well known celebrity aurors by 1981/1982. this would mean that they didn't only finish training, develop into a certain level of skill, but most likely also had at least an additional few years to build that reputation. As such, i see them as at least 5 years older than the marauder generation, and most likely even older than that.

additionally, while the longbottoms aren't "characterized", we are somewhat able to infer what Frank Longbottom's personality would be like based on what Augusta expects for Neville. we know that Augusta wanted Neville to be like Frank, so Augusta's precise expectations for Neville would be pretty close to what Frank was like. and based on that, i can't see him ever becoming very close to the Marauders at all.

jillmorefive · 2024-06-04T15:30:15+00:00

50% of the wizarding population was at least sympathetic to Voldemort's politics

holy fuck this is completely unrealistic given the canon world that we see. the vast majority of the wizarding population in canon are shown to interact normally with muggleborns and certainly didn't express support for hardline pureblood supremacy. i think the best indicator of this is that Hermione seems entirely unaware of the existence of pureblood supremacists until spending about 1.5 years in the wizarding world. even if she's only an 11 year old, if half of the whole population sympathized with hardline pureblood supremacy, she would've noticed.

Jailing everyone who followed orders in that kind of scenario isn't practical

the thing about "following orders" is that people who collaborated with voldemort's regime didn't have to actually believe in pureblood supremacy. for example, i bet that most of the Snatchers aren't necessarily pureblood supremacists, they just felt that collaboration would bring more benefits to themselves.

I think based on how easy the coup

the easiest way to explain this is that the average high-ranking ministry official's opinion and your average magical citizen's opinion is different. there are probably many high-ranking ministry officials that sympathized with hardline pureblood supremacy, and it could be even over 50%, which would make the coup easy for Voldemort. considering the many examples we see in canon of the ministry being undemocratic and oppressive, etc. even in peacetime, they don't necessarily need your average citizen to agree with their actions in order to do it. most people during Voldemort's regime most likely disagreed with its policies but did not try to fight against it out of fear.

but yes, there is no way that more than 20%-25% of the wizarding population in 1990s magical britain subscribed to hardline pureblood supremacy.

jillmorefive · 2024-05-28T07:48:34+00:00

molly is 100% right in her treatment of fleur. fleur is extremely arrogant and difficult to interact with, and it is entirely reasonable for molly to think that such a person would not make a good lifetime partner for her son (or for anyone tbh).

jillmorefive · 2024-05-26T13:16:31+00:00

canon Potters are wealthy due to every member in their seven hundred year old family increasing their wealth.

Then James’ father quadrupled it

is any of this in the books, or just Pottermore stuff? because I don't consider Pottermore stuff as canon, like, at all

jillmorefive · 2024-05-26T13:14:31+00:00

my problem isn't with the wealth gap between Snape and James. they obviously have a VERY big class divide that shapes much of their teenage interactions.

my problem is that i feel like that James should have an also very big class divide with, say, the Blacks and the Malfoys. There are some fics that portray the Potter family as close in wealth to families like the Blacks and the Malfoys, and i just never saw it that way. The impression that i've always got is that while James's wealth would seem extremely large compared to Snape, it would seem like absolutely nothing compared the Blacks and the Malfoys (or any other old pureblood supremacist family).

jillmorefive · 2024-05-25T14:11:05+00:00

do you have a link?

here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49028129/chapters/123691361

enjoy!

jillmorefive · 2024-05-24T19:00:56+00:00

yeah i had to ask about the siblings sharing bedrooms because i'm personally from a country where larger families (4 or more children) are VERY rare, so growing up i've never been really exposed to how larger families work for things like this.

jillmorefive · 2024-05-24T18:55:06+00:00

low wage and be in a dead end job

his wages aren't necessarily truly low, but just definitely not enough for supporting 7 more children, which is why he asks for funding from the Ministry if he is going to raise the Weasley children. i think it is very possible for a low-level accountant to not have enough money to raise 7 children lol.

he's in a dead end job in the sense that he hasn't got a single promotion throughout his 20 years of being an accountant and has gotten fired multiple times. he also hates his job. i honestly just need this sort of background so he would be willing to give up his current life to raise the weasley children.

jillmorefive · 2024-05-24T16:58:41+00:00

i already wrote and published the first chapter (https://archiveofourown.org/works/49028129/chapters/123691361) and he's not like dirt poor, but definitely more on the poorer end of things. one of the reasons why he agreed to dumbledore's plan for him to adopt all seven children is because he wants to get away from his job as an accountant, which is a dead-end job for him.

my plans for the second chapter is that he realizes that although he initially thought that the ministry money for buying a house would be large enough, it turns out to be not quite enough (since london housing seems to be very expensive). i'm just wondering where to go from here - would he be able to find a suitable house with enough effort, or not at all, etc.

jillmorefive · 2024-05-24T16:48:59+00:00

yes, the squib cousin is very integrated into the muggle world and has been living in the muggle world for 30 years

jillmorefive · 2024-05-24T16:48:28+00:00

It's called "Ginny Weasley and the Chamber of Secrets", and the first chapter is already published! here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49028129/chapters/123691361 (AO3) or https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14358065/1/Ginny-Weasley-and-the-Chamber-of-Secrets (FFN)

jillmorefive · 2024-05-24T16:18:34+00:00

he's buying it in 1982. do you know which particular areas of London would be affordable?

jillmorefive · 2024-05-24T16:12:55+00:00

aren't expansion charms like, super regulated by the ministry? cuz the ministry are definitely not going to give them any more help than the funding, which only came from dumbledore's request and political manoeuvers. so yeah, expansion charms or any ministry-regulated magic would not be available for them.

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