I am a question to the world,

Alton Arlo Corner “You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. You’re a wallflower.” Sixteen. Halfblood. Former Hufflepuff. Falmouth. Magical Menagerie.

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lilylunapuff:

Lily sat quietly, a nearly untouched pint of butterbeer in front of her. She absentmindedly fiddled with the necklace around her neck, one that she hadn’t taken off in months. It almost felt like a tether, a flimsy and yet solid string attached to something she’d lost. When she thought of where she’d been a year ago, how simple things had been going into her fifth year at school… It seemed like another life. Her innocence was gone now, as well as so many other things. But she couldn’t allow herself to complain. So many people had it much worse than her. And yet she was still wracked with sadness, day in and day out. She painted on her normal, optimistic smile for others, but inside she felt so false. Why wasn’t she able to move on from things like everyone else?

A voice knocked her out of her thoughts, and she nearly jumped out of her skin from the surprise. “Sorry, you’ll have to repeat that,” she said in a kind but shaken voice, looking up to see who had spoken.

With mum being home more than usual these days he felt the need to get out of the house. It made him wish that he was able to move out all the more since with her home all she did was pick at the things she felt were wrong with him, making it clear what a disappointment he was. Sadly his job didn’t pay him enough to move out and with a very limited amount of friends all in the same boat, he had no options. The only thing good that came from his mothers complaining was that it took his mind off the attack and the forewarning he had gotten of it. Each time he was alone that guilt came back despite the assurances of everyone that there was nothing he could have done about it. He found himself at the Leaky Cauldron and as he searched for a seat he spotted a familiar red head. It was hard for him to approach people especially those he wasn’t certain wanted to see him but he plucked up his courage and approached Lily’s table.

His first attempt at speaking didn’t go over well as she jumped in surprise and a blush stained his cheeks. “Oh-uh sorry...I was just saying...wondering if it would be okay to join you,” he murmured quietly fidgeting with his hands.

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daniel-abbott:

Watching the barrier, everything suddenly went silent to Daniel’s ears. While he knew there were screams from the attack, it had all been silenced by his thoughts running rampant through his mind. Who was attacking? The victims? How could he help? Protect those he loved? However, someone’s voice drew him away and looked to find Alton. Blinking, Daniel shook his head out of the trance and said, “I have no idea….do you?” His eyes scanned the other, “Are you all right?”

“I-I don’t know, I don’t think so…” he murmured. The vision hadn’t been all that clear and he wondered if that had something to do with the futures ever changing nature. “Yeah, fine, j-just worried.” Of course, he couldn’t tell Daniel the truth, he’d probably think he was nuts. It was also a very dangerous piece of information. “I’ve never been down there. I-I heard its all dark magic stuff, no reason for them to be there,” he said not sure if he was trying to convince himself or Daniel.

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bristolxcorner:

Bristol only let go of him once he told her how he knew, but even then, she kept her hands on his arms. “You saw it? What do you mean? Saw it where? How?” There was only confusion in her voice as she tried to figure out what he meant and then her brow furrowed. “Wait… do you mean you Saw it? As in like… saw the future, all that Divination sh- stuff?” She’d never been a fan of Divination, always thought of it with amusement, but right now all she felt was shock. “What? Alton, don’t say that that’s dumb. You couldn’t have stopped it even if you knew it would happen. You’d probably have just gotten yourself killed.” No, it was better that he’d just stayed out of it so he didn’t get hurt. But then she began thinking of other people she cared about and her stomach dropped. “Oh Merlin, what if there are people we know down there?” 

Alton eyed Bristol warily, he had remembered what she’d said in an off-hand comment about Divination and it was probably why he’d never mentioned it. Though he didn’t use crystal balls or any of the things they taught in that class, he had no control of what horrors were shoved into his mind. “In my mind...” he paused. “Ye-Yes, like that, but I don’t use any of the things they teach there...it just comes sometimes, in my dreams a lot. I don’t have any control over it,” he licked his lips nervously. The two of them had never been close, another reason he’d never shared this piece of information with her, but now seemed as good of time as any. It was a secret that could get him killed just as much as trying to stop one of his visions. “Probably...if I knew someone in the Order I could have told them maybe.” He should have told Hugo, his family always seemed involved in those things, but he doubted anyone would have believed him. Alton was just a little nobody, why would they take him seriously? “I don’t know..I-I couldn’t see all the faces. They shouldn’t have any reason to be there, right?”

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Barrier

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daniel-abbott:

Daniel had been visiting cities and diagon alley had been on his list. However, the day was interrupted by a chilling breaking report on the Wizarding Wireless Network. An attack. Upon hearing the words, Daniel froze - wondering who was attacking whom. 

Practically falling over himself, he had taken off like a bullet from a gun, runing to try and get to Knockturn. Just as he was about to round the corner, suddenly, the barrier was placed up. Daniel shouted in frustration as the words came onto the radio, wondering what he could possibly do. Standing, there, stricken, Daniel looked around him, trying to find anyone who knew moe - or at least a familiar face.

It was happening again and he felt like he couldn’t breathe. There wasn’t enough air. Flashes of horrible things kept turning up in his mind. He didn’t want to see them. What use was it if he couldn’t help? His eyes went in and out of focus switching between the scene before him and the one in his mind. As he focused on the street trying to come back to reality he noticed a familiar face. Daniel appeared to be out of breath his face in the same mask of horror as those around him but he seemed unharmed. “Are you-do you...Is anyone you know in there?”

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hugo-xx-weasley:

Hugo just about tries to put a hand on Alton’s shoulder in hopes to at least calm him down, but he realizes that it would do little in trying to comfort him. His comment about the pandemonium occurring being Alton’s fault goes all but unnoticed and he even goes as far to say in a calming voice, “it’s not your fault Alton.” His eyes quickly move away from the boy to a group of elders that are starting to notice how strangely Alton is acting, but it could be because they aren’t yet aware of what’s occurring on the adjacent street. “I’m sure Bristol is okay, she can take care of herself.” Just saying those words feels like he’s betraying himself since his mind goes straight to his own sister and he worries about her safety while this is going on. What would Rose be doing on that street anyways? She would never go there, at least he wants to think so. Concern over his sister takes a backseat since it seems like Alton is just one second away from having a full blown panic attack, so he quickly comes up with a way for the two of them to get out of the situation. “Hey, how about we just go back to my family’s shop? The street’s getting crowded.”

“I could have done something, told someone...mum was right about me.” He tried to take a deep breath, it felt like he wasn’t getting any air in. Yes, if his mum could only see him now it would be proving her right yet again. Weak. Useless. “Yes...Bristol is strong,” he agreed. Not like him. Alton wished he had gotten her strength. There was no reason for her to be in Knockturn Alley, right? From what he’d heard they only sold dark things down there, but people on the edges could have been pulled in...or gone to fight when they saw what was happening. He couldn’t seem to make his lungs fill with enough air, they kept screaming for more despite the gulping breaths he took. Alton was sure that he was freaking Hugo out but he wasn’t sure how to stop it. The fact that he could have done something just kept eating at him. “O-okay...we could do that,” he agreed. Or should they try to do something? What he wasn’t sure. People were staring at him though so maybe getting out of sight was best.

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xodomweasley:

Dom gripped Alton’s hand, standing up. His gaze seemed to be fixed on something else, and Dom found herself looking where the younger boy was staring. She had never seen the magical barriers up in person, but she recognized them from stories her mother had told her, describing the final battle at Hogwarts. She was so transfixed by them that she hardly heard Alton’s words. When the finally filtered through all her thoughts, Dom found herself petrified, standing still as a stone as she stared at Alton in horror. “Gunshots? Is it another attack?”

Alton nodded running a hand through his hair as images flashed in his brain but they were too fast to make out. “Yes...but not the death eaters this time, they wouldn’t use muggle weapons.” His gaze turned to the blonde seeing the horror on her face and it made him feel even worse. The thing about his visions was they weren’t clear, he simply got flashes, he wasn’t even sure what was really going on. Besides who would have believed him anyway? He was a nobody, they all would have just thought he was some raving lunatic or part of the attack. “D-do you think anyone you know is in there?”

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bristolxcorner:

Bristol was officially the worst sister. When Alton told her he had a bad feeling about Knockturn Alley and asked her to stay away, she’d brushed it off because she had no plans to head down there anyway. Towards the end of the day, she decided to stop by his work, knowing he was on the closing up shift at the Magical Menagerie to talk to him and ask if anything had happened. Partly to prove a point because she knew nothing had happened. But as she was walking through Diagon Alley, she heard the shots, heard the shouts and screams coming from the alley nearby. The blonde took off running towards where she knew her brother would be. And as soon as she saw him, she wrapped her arms tight around him, possibly the first time they had ever hugged. “Oh Merlin, Alton. What’s happening? How did you- how did you know?” 

To say he was shocked would have been an understatement, he wasn’t sure that his sister had ever hugged him before. It took him a moment to respond in his confusion before he wrapped his arms around her. The whole thing was quite foreign but it was nice to see that she actually did care about him. “The alley is sealed off, people are trapped, gunshots, muggle weapons,” he murmured pausing for a moment. Alton wondered if she would think he was nuts if he told her he saw things, or if she’d be ashamed of him because he hadn’t done anything. “I-uh, I kind of saw it...I just didn’t know what to do,” he whispered. “It's my fault...I should have tried to stop it.”

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xodomweasley:

Seeing familiar faces had done little to break Dom from the tiredness that seemed to have bound her to her bed since returning from France. It had been too long since she had strayed far from Shell Cottage, but Dom knew she couldn’t lurk within the walls of her home forever. Andrew seemed the best person to see; she had turned her best friend away every time he had come to see her, unsure if she could face him after everything. Still, she knew with certainty where he would be, and when he would be there. Finding him would be easy.

Food tucked neatly into her purse, Dom walked from the door, squeezing her eyes closed as she pictured Knockturn Alley. Twisting and turning, squeezed through a tube, Dom had barely disapparated when she slammed into what seemed like a wall and found herself in a deserted Diagon Alley. At a distance, she could hear noises, shouting. Spinning around, Dom took off in the direction of Knockturn Alley, turning a corner and slamming immediately into another person and stumbled backward, dropping to the ground. Looking up at the person she just walked into, Dom held out a hand. “What in the bloody hell is happening around here? Where is everyone?”

Alton was staring at the barricade to Knockturn Alley almost in disbelief that his vision had come true yet again. Again he’d done nothing to stop it. He hadn’t known what to do but the whole thing made him feel sick. Weak. That’s what his mother would say and she was right. He was weak and useless of no help to anyone. All the people who were injured or worse would be because of him and his failure. He was pulled from his thoughts when someone ran into him. “Trapped,” he whispered. “Trapped in the alley with all the gunshots,” he said, absently taking her hand to help her up. It wasn’t usually something he did so easily, contact, but with his brain as tied up as it was, he didn’t have time to worry about the trivial things.

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hugo-xx-weasley:

Hugo was warned about some kind of impending danger from Alton and just to be safe he had one of his coworkers do a reading on his tea leaves and it seemed to align. Luckily for him when the radio alerted everyone about some kind of attack in Knockturn Alley he was just clocking out from working all day. Pandemonium seem to ensue as the once desolate street starts to flood with people trying to see what exactly is happening. Hugo has learned to keep safe in times like these, but he also has some inner need or rather desire to make sure people are safe. He squeezes his way past a few people only to see Alton standing there freaking out about something and all Hugo can think of is trying to comfort him in any way he can. Once he is close enough he is hit with a question that he does not have the answer to. “I’m not sure. As soon as I heard the news I came outside and haven’t been around a radio since.”

At first, all he sees is the flash of red and it does nothing to comfort him but as he focuses his gaze he realizes who it is. It’s good to see at least one person took him seriously, that one person he cared for was safe. “It’s all my fault,” he muttered his hand raking through his hair making it look even messier. It only added to the crazed look on his face. “Bristol?” he questioned though he knew Hugo had no answers. “I should have done something,” he closed his eyes trying to calm his breathing. Alton was sure he was seconds from hyperventilating, didn’t people breathe into a paper bag to sort out their breathing? He had no clue why though. If he was stronger he could have maybe saved some of these people. Were there any casualties yet?  “I didn’t know what to do...”

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Alton stood outside Magical Menagerie his face paling as he heard shots from the alley over. It was happening again, he had, had a vision of this. He hadn’t known what to do about it except tell the people he cared for to stay away from Knockturn that day, that he’d had a bad feeling about it. Sadly, he didn’t know that many people so he had only helped a handful if they’d even bothered to listen. It wasn’t like people often took him seriously, he was sure his sister hadn’t. Would she be among one of the casualties? Another flash of vision disturbed his thoughts and he clutched at his head leaning against the building for support, breathing heavily. “No....no...” was all he could muster out. If only he could close his eyes and make it all go away but that would only make it more vivid. Why him? Why give this power to someone so weak who couldn’t even help with it. “Has anyone been hurt?” he questioned the first person he saw. It was very unusual of him to make the first contact, but he had to know.

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Honeydukes

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daniel-abbott:

Daniel smirked, “Well, the usual, you know…Firewhiskey, Guinness, vodka, other beers, rum…” He chuckled, nodding at Alton’s words. Icing was often the best part; he couldn’t deny that. Watching as the other drank, Daniel have a grin, “You can take the rest if you want, then.”

Alton nodded at his words as if he too partook in those things when in reality he didn’t drink much. “Right, lots of alcohol,” he surmised. He would be what you called a lightweight and his tastes ran on the sweeter side of things meaning he would probably prefer the embarrassing fruity drinks. People already thought he was pretty odd he didn’t need to be ordering such things to make it worse. “Oh-uh, no- sorry,” he fumbled with his words holding out the drink, a light blush on his cheeks. “You could always spike it.”

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Honeydukes

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daniel-abbott:

“Or maybe I’m just used t’ biter things by now,” Daniel laughed, then looked to Alton, “Not like a cavity. Just like…a cupcake with a tad too much icing.”

“What bitter things have you been drinking?” he asked, curious. “But icing is the best part,” he noted with a smile. He did have a bit of a sweet tooth. Alton reached for the cup taking a tentative sip fearful he might spit it out but he got it down. A bit of pink spread to his cheeks realizing he’d just taken Daniel’s cup without asking. “I think it’s pretty good,” he said sheepishly.

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Honeydukes

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daniel-abbott:

“Are you sure this is pumpkin juice? Rather sweet - much more than usual.”

“Maybe I put in too much sugar,” he ventured, biting his lower lip. “How bad?” he asked, wondering how much he had screwed up.

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