Chapter Four: Unwelcome Arrivals

Chapter Four: Unwelcome Arrivals

Harry and Ruby return to Hogwarts. Two unexpected arrivals turn up at the feast. Dumbledore and Snape plot. Read from the beginning at FFN|AO3!

"Oh, there you are," said Hermione, elbowing her way through the crowd. "Come on, we don't want to be late for schedules."

Hermione said schedules as if the schedules were tickets to a blockbuster film.

At least someone's starting off the year in a good mood, thought Harry as they filtered into the Great Hall. He tried to ignore the snatches of conversation.

"That Potter, he's probably up to no good again."

"Still think he isn't a Dark Lord?"

"I'll bet anything he's the one who destroyed the wards."

It was impossible to ignore — not with the staring and pointing. Harry's already low mood plummeted to the ground as he followed Ron and Hermione to the Gryffindor table. Professor McGonagall was already moving along the table, handing out schedules.

Ron uttered a low groan as if he had been wounded.

"What?" asked Hermione, already absorbed in colour-coding.

"Double Defence, first thing in the morning."

Hermione shook her quill at him, dripping cobalt blue ink. "Oh, get off it, Ron, he's only your brother!"

I'm thinking of doing something to celebrate Chapter 100 since I just realised we're in the #90s now, but I'm not sure what yet

Do you think Harry and Tom would be able to use each other's wands?

1000% yes, I believe they could.

I think I mentioned here, that Harry's wand sees Voldy (especially post-resurrection) as an extension of Harry, and Voldy's wand is considered kin. Like, the wands recognize each other and the owners.

So, I think Harry's and Voldemort's wands would, like, barely recognize it's a different person. Like, post-resurrection, Harry and Voldemort share blood and soul and their wands were already magically kin, so basically, it's like almost the same person.

If Harry picked up Voldy's wand, the yaw wand would be like: "Hmm, Tommy's a bit different today, oh well," and just roll with it. Same goes for Harry's wand.

I think a lot of magic is just going to consider Voldemort and Harry extensions of each other, and so would their wands.

However, I think it isn't true for all wands who accept them, just their interwind wands that share a core. Like, the Elder Wand chose Harry, and wouldn't accept Tom, because it's sentient in a different way than other wands. Draco's wand, which also accepted Harry, wouldn't accept Tom probably, because there the acceptance was based on Draco's feelings. But, their wands, which are just as bound together as Harry and Voldemort, yeah, they would barely notice if they were switched up.

Like, the wands won't notice, but Harry and Voldemort would.

On the Pottermore page about wand woods, it's said wands adapt to their user and their spellcasting style. So, I headcanon their wands have adapted to them over time. Harry would notice the Yaw wand is more sensitive to nonverbal magic since Tom probably casts nonverbally more often than not and the wand got used to it. The Yaw wand would probably be proud like its owner and won't allow a subpar wizard to use it (luckily for Harry, he'd be fine on that front) Similarly, Tom would find the Holly wand more volatile and prone to overcharge spells and be more protective of its user. Both wands would be chill with being used creatively though, considering Harry sometimes uses spells intuitively different than how they are meant to be used and Tom probably invents magic whenever he encounters a problem that doesn't have a magical solution yet.

He transformed into the great black dog before they left the cave, and they walked back down the mountainside with him, across the boulder-strewn ground, and back to the stile. Here he allowed each of them to pat him on the head, before turning and setting off at a run around the outskirts of the village.

think it is a Very Important detail that sirius as padfoot lets the trio give him head pats as they say goodbye after the cave scene in gof

@prequelsnet prequels appreciation week: day 2 — antagonists

↳ Anakin Skywalker

and there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. that there was no vader. that there was only you. only anakin skywalker. that it was all you. is you. only you. you did it. you killed her.

I just had an experience I need to share with everyone, I just went to my local Toastmasters club (it's a club for public speaking) and this ~75 year old lady was pulling up the slides and I saw her FFN Story Alerts page filled with Pride and Prejudice fanfic that she was reading.

This is the first time I have seen fanfic in the wild and it was so unexpected, I was trying so hard not to say something.