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one of the most striking parts of sotr is the contrast between the capitol’s animalistic language vs haymitch’s association of nature with his loved ones.

on one hand, you have the dehumanizing language of the capitol towards the tributes—“piglets”, “claws”, “fur”, “paws.” on the other, sid is haymitch’s “rooster”, the district six kids are his “doves”, the gray rabbit is a reminder of his girl. even when wellie dies, haymitch goes from describing her gory death in human terms to that of a “headless baby chick.”

it’s just so fascinating to think of the natural world as a form of resistance, from the bird imagery to the districts’ plant names. the capitol does everything in its power to weaponize the natural world in the arena, to make the districts feel like animals, to create the illusion that they can control nature itself. but they all share the same planet, capitol or district. it’s a reminder of the shared humanity that the capitol tries to erase. so for the districts, to embrace nature is an act of rebellion in itself.

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Every Hisuian Regional form and Regional evolutions as emojis Also including Basculin because the dex entry calls them a regional form

I LOVE the version of Lucius in your fic Prison of the Phoenix. He's different from a lot of portrayals I've seen. Why did you decide to write him how you did?

A lot of the fun of writing a book-accurate fix-it fic comes from taking the events of the book, and removing JKRs (simplistic, misleading, sometimes just weird) narrative framing. Slytherins = baddies, Gryffindors = goodies, you know. 

This is especially fun with Lucius Malfoy, who just like… isn’t very evil? Chamber of Secrets is his most villainous book, and I’ll get to that, but otherwise? He tries (unsuccessfully) to get the animal that attacked his kid killed. He donates to hospitals (but in like, an evil way.) He is a hilariously incompetent Death Eater, and then he's Voldemort’s punching bag. 

That’s kind of the point of Lucius. He looks the part. He commits to the aesthetics of the thing, with the hair and the peacocks and the snake-wand-cane. He likes the mystique of walking into a room and knowing that you know (but can’t prove) he’s a dark wizard. It allows him to be… kinda lazy. He can coast on his family name, money, reputation, privilege. I really think that if you sat Lucius Malfoy down and asked him to walk you through all the wizard-supremacy talking points he wouldn’t be able to do it. He’ll toss around words like “mudblood” and “mudblood-lover” no problem, but in the end he doesn’t really care. Lucius is not a true believer. The way the world is set up benefits him tremendously and he doesn’t want Voldemort back. That’s just text:

“Use your brains, Ron,” said Bill. “If they really were Death Eaters… I bet they’d be even more frightened than the rest of us to see him come back. They denied they’d ever been involved with him when he lost his powers, and went back to their daily lives… I don’t reckon he’d be over-pleased with them, do you?”

Lucius and friends had too much to drink at a sporting event, put on the old outfits (again with the aesthetics) and started levitating muggles. Which obviously isn’t GOOD, but they’re not killing or torturing, or furthering any kind of agenda. It’s important that Barty is so insulted and pissed off by the way they’re basically playing Dark Wizard that he casts the Dark Mark to “show [them] what loyalty to the Dark Lord meant, and to punish them for their lack of it.” Which kicks off most of the events of the book. 

Prison of the Phoenix is going to have a companion, parallel fic told from Harry’s POV (tentatively titled Harry Potter and Malfoy’s Suspicious Interest in Werewolves.) Lucius does show up in that one, and I was honestly surprised by how much more frightening and intimidating he is when filtered through Harry’s perspective. Because with a Severus POV… when Severus is used to spending time around Voldemort, Greyback, Bellatrix, honestly Dumbledore and Sirius Black…. Lucius is not scary. Lucius wants to buy presents for his son, go to high-profile events with his beautiful wife, and wear a variety of snake-themed accessories and extravagant hats. 

I wanted a kind of college-roommates-who-stayed-friends feel for the Severus + Lucius relationship, because they are friends. Sirius calls Severus Lucius’ “lapdog,” and Narcissa calls him Lucius’ “oldest friend.” Lucius is also part of the welcoming committee when Severus is first sorted into Slytherin. He’s five years older (I think Jason Isaacs is the only Harry Potter adult the same age as the character he plays), which would have affected the dynamic between him and Severus a lot in school. Personally, I think it makes sense for Lucius to be a little protective of this brilliant half-blood kid with no money. And as an adult, there’s some guilt mixed in there as well. Severus probably would not have been sucked into the Voldemort thing nearly as deep or nearly as fast if it hadn’t been for Lucius, and the war kind of destroyed him. Lucius remembers a younger Severus who was modding potions, inventing spells, coming up with cheeky nicknames for himself, and that person is gone. That’s a big part of the reason he’s so invested in the Severus/Remus relationship in Prison of the Phoenix. Something about Remus has managed to wake up parts of that younger Severus, and Lucius thinks that’s fantastic.

I also think Lucius might be the character who knows Voldemort the best. He’s one of the only Death Eaters who Voldemort calls by their first name (Bellatrix, Severus, and Draco are the others) and he’s weirdly familiar with his “slippery friend” Lucius, addressing the whole speech about how/why he returned to him, for some reason? Anything that helps Voldemort make sense as a person I’ll take, and to me it makes sense that young Tom Riddle charmed Abraxas Malfoy, Lucius’ father, first. The dates are right, and he’s exactly Tom’s type - rich, pureblood, probably easily flattered (let’s be honest) and sitting on a pile of magical artifacts. It’s very Hepzibah Smith vibes, is what I’m saying. And rich, posh, popular seventeen year olds don’t join cults. But if Lucius’ father was already in a cult… 

It also makes sense to me that Tom Riddle got sort of stuck when he killed Marvolo Gaunt, and made his first horcrux at sixteen. He has this fascination with sixteen year old pureblood wizards (so Barty, Draco, and Lucius would have fit this profile.) He sort of wants to be them, but also sort of wants to break them? It’s messy, and complicated. It’s creepy and compelling, that Lucius is aging but this spectre that’s dominated his life isn’t. 

And so when Lucius gives Ginny the diary in Book 2… it makes sense that he’s just trying to get rid of it. He was just at Borgin and Burkes selling dark artifacts, but knows that the diary is worse. He needs to make sure it can’t possibly be traced back to him. So he gives it to the daughter of the head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office. (It is an enchanted muggle artifact, after all.) If Arthur Weasley finds it and deals with it, fine. If Ginny is discovered with it in a way that blows up in Arthur’s face, also fine. If it does get to Hogwarts and does open the Chamber of Secrets - well Draco is going to be fine, and it might undermine Dumbledore. If it was really important to Lucius that the diary rid the school of muggleborns… he would have given it to Draco and had him use it. Or given it to Draco, and told him to leave it somewhere for an enemy to find. But Lucius doesn’t do that, because he doesn’t want Voldemort back and his politics just aren’t that important to him. 

The one trait I did give Lucius is being an unrepentant wife guy. (And I mean… it doesn’t contradict anything. There isn’t anything in the books to suggest that he isn’t a wife guy.)  EDIT: I cannot believe I forgot the little "it's going to be okay" wrist squeeze Narcissa gives him right before he passes Voldemort his wand. This meta does a fantastic job getting into who Narcissa is, and I am officially justified in writing them just as googly-eyes about each other as I want. Also going full Gomez and Mortica makes them a better foil for the Weasleys, and the (not typically on the same page) Arthur and Molly.

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Hogwarts Legacy Classmates

This list is for anyone who needs references as to which named NPC's attend the MC's classes in fifth year.

I watched back all of the cutscenes, so I've made it as detailed as possible. But if I've forgotten anyone, please let me know and I'll update the list!

Astronomy

Professor Satyavati Shah

Adelaide Oakes

Amit Thakkar

Andrew Larson

Arthur Plummly

Everett Clopton

Garreth Weasley

Grace Pinch-Smedley

Leander Prewett

Nerida Roberts

Beasts

Professor Bai Howin

Adelaide Oakes

Amit Thakkar

Andrew Larson

Arthur Plummly

Everett Clopton

Garreth Weasley

Imelda Reyes

Leander Prewett

Natsai Onai

Nerida Roberts

Poppy Sweeting

Samantha Dale

Sebastian Sallow

Charms

Professor Abraham Ronen

Charlotte Morrison

Cressida Blume

Duncan Hobhouse

Leander Prewett

Natsai Onai

Ominis Gaunt

Poppy Sweeting

Samantha Dale

Sebastian Sallow

Defence Against the Dark Arts

Professor Dinah Hecat

Adelaide Oakes

Andrew Larson

Arthur Plummly

Cressida Blume

Everett Clopton

Grace Pinch-Smedley

Imelda Reyes

Leander Prewett

Mahendra Pehlwaan

Nellie Oggspire

Ominis Gaunt

Poppy Sweeting

Sebastian Sallow

Divination

Professor Mudiwa Onai

Adelaide Oakes

Andrew Larson

Charlotte Morrison

Eric Northcott

Everett Clopton

Imelda Reyes

Natsai Onai

Poppy Sweeting

Flying

Madam Chiyo Kogawa

Arthur Plummly

Charlotte Morrison

Evangeline Bardsley

Everett Clopton

Hector Jenkins

Lawrence Davies

Mahendra Pehlwaan

Samantha Dale

Sophronia Franklin

Herbology

Professor Mirabel Garlick

Adelaide Oakes

Everett Clopton

Leander Prewett

Lenora Everleigh

Natsai Onai

Ominis Gaunt

Poppy Sweeting

Sebastian Sallow

Violet McDowell

History of Magic

Professor Cuthbert Binns

Amit Thakkar

Andrew Larson

Eric Northcott

Everett Clopton

Imelda Reyes

Lenora Everleigh

Natsai Onai

Ominis Gaunt

Poppy Sweeting

Samantha Dale

Potions

Professor Aesop Sharp

Amit Thakkar

Andrew Larson

Garreth Weasley

Imelda Reyes

Leander Prewett

Natsai Onai

Ominis Gaunt

Poppy Sweeting

Priscilla Wakefield

Samantha Dale

Sebastian Sallow

Violet McDowell

Transfiguration

Professor Matilda Weasley

Amit Thakkar

Duncan Hobhouse

Everett Clopton

Garreth Weasley

Leander Prewett

Natsai Onai

Nerida Roberts

Poppy Sweeting

Sebastian Sallow

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Another of my friend K's suggestions - when she found out I'd never watched twilight she suggested we do so together, but she keeps insisting she won't tell me what happens in the last ones in advance because then I'll 'never agree to watch them'. i am afraid.

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