Verbis Diablo

"There was a house in a field on the side of a cliff, and the waves crashing below were just said to be a myth. So they ignored the warnings from the ships in the docks, now the house on the cliff is the wreckage on the rocks..."

[ilonaa-burke]

Lucius‌:

“Yes, well, Narcissa and I like to make connections,” he said, preening. It was always nice to be flattered. “That is a good idea though - the shop. There’s a book of curses I’ve been looking for. I might drop by later.” He snickered, dropping his voice to a whisper. “There’s someone I’ve been looking to curse for a while now. Haven’t found the appropriate, ah, punishment yet.”

“Of course, the world is very much all about who you know these days...” Ilona nodded, even though she had never been one to fully follow their ways, she knew how the Pureblood society worked. “Ah, well if it’s a book of curses that you are looking for, I can definitely help you out. Or if not, then I can at least point you in the right direction.” She grinned. “Oh? Well this I must hear all about. Care to divulge?”

[ilonaa-burke]

Bellatrix‌:

Bellatrix shrugged off Ilona Burke’s pointed question; she didn’t bother setting weighty distinctions to words like ‘friends’ or ‘acquaintances’ like other people did, and didn’t much mind that it bothered people. If they wanted to be persnickity about these things, let them–let them waste their energy defining friendship rather than doing something worthwhile and memorable. “Oh, don’t worry, I won’t,” Bellatrix said, taking another drink. “I’d like to say it’s not often that we get the Ministry to pay for this kind of entertainment, but we all know it’s the only thing the Ministry is actually good for anymore.”

“Oh, I don’t know about that.” Ilona responded, taking another drag fro her cigarette before she continued. “After having to visit them at least once a month for around the last decade, I’ve found they can be very useful if they are approached in the right way.” She paused briefly, leaning her head in slightly. “The trick is to not make them aware that they are helping you. The less they know, the more you benefit. But there’s plenty time for you to learn that old trick, and you never know, maybe one day they’ll all suddenly drop dead and we won’t have to put up with their everything is fine facade that they have going on here.”

[ilonaa-burke]

Evan:

“Business talk?” he asked, his gaze shifting across the crowds. “I’ve been trying to linger by the Minister of Magic but so far the conversation has been rather dull and Quidditch related.” Evan turned back to Ilona with a very small smile. He wondered how long this event would go on for or how long people would want to drag on the celebrations. People seemed to like to party even during war. “It’s not as entertaining as I first thought it would be.”

“Business... Curiosity... Whichever way you want to look at it, they’re one in the same.” Ilona replied with a slight shrug. “Ah yes, I doubt that he will have very much to say about anything else this evening. He’ll be trying to pretend that the rest of his little world isn’t falling out of control by the minute. No one at the Ministry seems to be able to do distractions subtly these days, everything has to be over the top.” Ilona waved her hand in the general direction of the crowd to further emphasize her point. “With any hope it will all be over soon enough and we can all leave.”

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[ilonaa-burke]

Cassius‌:

“Mm, I know. Like when I need a good poisoning, hmm?” he teased, still grinning at his companion. Any other time, she might have been highly irritated with him for his continued teasing, but the smile on her face told him that for now, at least, he was in the clear, and damn if he wasn’t happy to see that smile. “If that’s the case, then you ought to see yourself through mine sometime.” 

He laughed, shaking his head as he took another drag from his cigarette. “It’s Quidditch,” he said again, shrugging. Another drag, another chuckle, and Cass let his gaze fall on the hullabaloo for another moment before his eyes came back to her, as they always did. “How have things been in your little corner, here, ‘Lo? Have you successfully avoided the hoi polloi, or did they come to you instead?” Lifting his hand, his fingers moved to the ring she wore around her neck, playing with it idly for a moment before he spoke again. “Brutus is here. I saw him in the crowd, but managed to avoid him for just a little longer. We’ll have to give him an answer about that party.”

“That was one time, and I thought we already agreed that you weren’t going to keep bringing it up. And besides, that happened to be one of my most perfectly executed plans to date and not even you can deny that it was good.” Ilona smiled, thinking back to the event in question. To this day, the Ministry still hadn’t figured out what had really happened to all those people. 

“What do you think, hmm? Of course they came to me.” She chuckled, rolling her eyes. “I don’t know what it is about these people, it’s like they see someone who clearly has no interest in talking to anyone and suddenly they think, you know what, I’m going to go talk to them.” Ilona shook her head before taking a drag from her cigarette. 

Ah the ring. Cassius’ ring. It had been on a chain around her neck since the day she woke up wearing it, always waiting for the day she either convinced him to take it back, or got it resized so she could actually wear it on her finger. “It’s still there..” She muttered quietly, glancing up at him. It was funny how they could go months without acknowledging it, or the fact they were actually married, but of course if they didn’t remember themselves, Brutus Avery had a habit of making sure they remembered. “He is? I’m surprised that he hasn’t cornered us both yet.. We both know that he isn’t going to give us much of a choice.”

[ilonaa-burke]

Lucius‌:

“Of course,” he said, waving his hand in the general direction of his wife. “But she didn’t drag me here. I came voluntarily.” Lucius patted his pockets, lined with clinking galleons. “To collect my winnings. The best part about betting big is winning big. And I always win.” He took a puff of his cigar, childish delight twisting into something slightly more sinister. “Or I confound the other person into thinking they’d lost.” He snickered, turning to Ilona. “I’m very good at that. Want some extra galleons?”

“Of course. I imagine that the both of you thrive quite well in events such as this.” Ilona nodded, letting out a small chuckle when Lucius patted his pockets, proving her point. “No no, you can keep your money, Lucius... Though if you’re really looking to get rid of it, perhaps you should stop by the shop one afternoon and we can see what we can find for you.”

[realdiepie]

No one ever apologized for making me this way.

(insp.)

[ilonaa-burke]

I did it 'cause I wanna and I did it 'cause I'm gonna and I did it JUST BECAUSE I CAN I did it 'cause it makes me feel so  g o o d, and I did it because FUCK "the man" I did it 'c a u s e   I ' m   c r a z y  and no ones gonna save me AND I DID IT just to cut the noise I did it 'cause I'm d r u n k  and I did it yea so what 'cause baby I'm just one of the boys

[luhan-ci-blog]

Touch what is mine and I won’t even try to make your death look like an accident (◕‿◕✿)

[ilonaa-burke]

Bellatrix:

“What, I can’t come say hello to an old friend?” Bellatrix asked with a girlish giggle as she leaned against the wall next to Ilona. Quite the contrary to what some of her friends has suspected, Bellatrix had been rather looking forward to the party. Not, of course, because she particularly cared about Quidditch, but because any party was chaos personified, approved and encouraged and partaken in by everyone. Besides which, she hadn’t gone out and raised hell in quite a while–not since the war had picked up momentum–and she longed for the thrill of complete abandon. “As a matter of fact,” she said, taking a swig of her third…fourth? drink, “I am quite enjoying that ‘palava’, as you call it. So much potential…”

“Oh, so we’re old friends now, are we?” Ilona asked as she glanced over at the other witch. Sure, she knew Bellatrix, they run in the same circles, but Ilona was very particular of who she kept as friends and she considered very few people to be as such. “Hm, potential for drunken idiots fighting perhaps... But you can get that at any function if you ply the right people with enough booze. But by all means, if you’re enjoying it, don’t let me stop you.”

[ilonaa-burke]

Alice:

“Hmmm?” Alice turned, raising her eyebrows. She’d slipped to the side in order to look for Frank - they didn’t need to spend the whole evening together, of course, but she’d rather like to talk to him again now. Luckily he was tall enough that she ought to be able to spot him over the crowd, as long as she wasn’t in the middle of it. Being short was a great inconvenience sometimes. 

“I’m just looking for my fiancé,” she said, after she thought she registered the question. “It’s a bit hard to do that from in the middle of everything. Seems like you’ve had enough of it though. There’s quite a lot of people tonight, I don’t blame you for standing over here.”

Ilona raised her brows as she waited for the other witch to catch up with her question, nodding slightly once she eventually answered. “You’ll find him eventually, I’m sure...” She replied before taking another draw from her cigarette. 

“Mm, you’d be amazed at what you can learn from standing just on the outskirts of large groups. It’s not just the bored people who choose to stand here, don’t be fooled.”

[ilonaa-burke]

Lucius:

He rolled his shoulders back, mouth firmly set in a thin line. Lucius himself was quite satisfied with Puddlemere’s win - and the profits, of course - but he particularly disliked drunken people. There were so… grabby. And not to mention the amount of idiots who always seemed to mistaken him for a woman.

“Far too much,” he cringed. He sneered at her cigarette, opting instead for a cigar. “I never expected to see you here, though. Cassius convince you?”

Ilona inclined her head, a knowing smile ghosting her features. She’d long since had more than enough, hence why she was now on the outskirts of the party, keeping a safe distance away from it all. “Sometimes we all have to go places we’d rather not... But yes, for once he was the one insisting that we come along.” She nodded. “And you? I assume your wife is here this evening too?”

[ilonaa-burke]

Evan:

It was not a team he supported but it was a free party that Evan was not going to miss; he had no other plans so, why not enjoy a drink and keep an ear to the ground at the same time? With his hip flask tucked into his jacket pocket, Evan held a glass tumbler in one hand as he paced around the outskirts of the event, nodding ‘hello’ to a few familiar faces as he went. 

Catching sight of another familiar face, Evan smiled and decided to approach as he sipped on his whiskey. “I’m just enjoying a drink and the opportunity to watch people,” Evan replied, a soft smile tugging at his lips. “I don’t even support Puddlemere.”

“I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one here this evening that isn’t a fan.” Ilona nodded in agreement. Sure, she wasn’t a fan of any Quidditch team, or the sport at all for that matter, but it was nice to be talking to someone who wasn’t cooing over the Puddlemere players. 

“So tell me, in your observations, have you found anything worth noting? Perhaps we could trade notes on what we’ve seen.”

[ilonaa-burke]

Cassius:

For once, Cassius had been he one who wanted to attend something, and he was sure Ilona was just as surprised as he was. All the same, Cassius was only a man, and this man, well, he loved his sport. He’d wandered off pretty quickly upon their arrival, mingling good-naturedly (for once) with the other Quidditch enthusiasts, but now Cassius wound his way back through the crowd to the edges of the room, knowing that would be where to find her.

“Maybe I just missed you,” he replied, smirking as he bent and dropped a kiss on her cheek. Never was Cassius much for affection, and certainly not in public, but if ever there was an exception, it was Ilona, and beyond that, he happened to be in high spirits. “I was actually enjoying the palava,” he answered, a bright grin on his face “and yes, you can quote me on that.” Producing his own pack of cigarettes from his pocket, he lit one, and a few drags later, turned the beaming smile on his favorite person once more. “It’s quidditch, ‘Lo! At least it’s not some stuffy, boring as all hell party like you usually drag me to. This one’s actually kind of fun. You’re telling me you’re not enjoying this at all?” he continued, fully intent on teasing her a little further. “Not even a little? I’m mingling of my own free will, and I haven’t hurt anyone. Are you not amused?” 

She had to admit, for someone who, for the most part, couldn’t stand parties like this, seeing Cassius enjoying himself so much made her decision to come along with him a little less painful. If he was happy, then she was happy, plus given the amount of times she had dragged him along to this event or the next, it was only fair that he was able to do the same in return. 

“For a start, you know I only ever drag you to those when there is a very good reason.” She pointed out before a rare, but genuine smile crept across her features. Even if he was intending on winding her up, his good humour was infectious. “But seeing you off playing the perfect party guest has me plenty amused. It’s quite the picture actually, makes me wish that you could see yourself through my eyes.” She chuckled. 

[cassius--avery]

           Ilona Burke and Cassius Avery  -  Aesthetic

@ilona-burke

[angry-badger-bitch]

Ask me things.

[augustusrookwoodtbh]

Harry Potter: Tell us about a scar on your body

Hermione Granger: What is your favorite book, how many times have you read it, and why do you love it?

Ron Weasley: Something you’re afraid of?

Luna Lovegood: One thing that makes you different from everyone else.h

Fred Weasley: Can you do any magic tricks? What is the best one you can do? If you can’t do any, what’s the best one you’ve seen?

George Weasley: What is the best prank you’ve ever played on someone?

Neville Longbottom: Tell us an embarrassing story.

Narcissa Malfoy: Do you have a good relationship with your family? Who are you closest to?

Voldemort: If you were to create a Horcrux(s), what would it be and why?

Bellatrix Lestrange: Have you ever loved someone who could never love you back?

Ginny Weasley: Have you ever been in love with an unexpected person?

Hedwig: If you went to Hogwarts, what kind of pet would you bring? (ex: cat, owl, rat, frog)

Draco Malfoy: Is it better to be feared or to be loved?

Rubeus Hagrid: What is your favorite mystical creature?

Dolores Umbridge: Make a list of rules that your family (or whoever you choose) would have to follow if you made the rules.

Lucius Malfoy: What is your most prized possession?

Molly Weasley: What is the proudest moment of your life?

Dobby: Who are you most loyal to?

Sirius Black: Have you ever been accused of doing something you didn’t do?

Argus Filch: What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?

Dudley Dursley: How many presents do you usually receive on your birthday?

Peter Pettigrew: Are you a leader or a follower?

Cedric Diggory: Have you ever had a near death experience?

Albus Dumbledore: What is the greatest obstacle you have ever overcome in your life?

Minerva McGonagall: What is your favorite spell?

Severus Snape: Are you a trustworthy person?

Remus Lupin: If you transform into any one animal or creature, which one would it be?

Uncle Vernon: What is your favorite day of the week?

Mad Eye Moody: Who is the bravest person you know?

Arthur Weasley: What do you think is the best “muggle” invention?

Professor Sprout: What is your favourite class that is offered at Hogwarts?

Nymphadora Tonks: If you could change one thing about your appearance what would it be?

Moaning Myrtle: What is something that always makes you cry?

James Potter: Would you risk your life to save someone you truly love?

Lily Potter: What color eyes do you have?

Professor Trelawney: Have you ever dreamt something was going to happen and then it happened?

Mr. Ollivander: What would your wand look like?

Lavender Brown: Who is the last person who texted and have you ever had a crush on them?

Cho Chang: If you were on the Quidditch team, what position would you play?

Aunt Petunia: What is your favorite flower?

[ilonaa-burke]

WHEN: July, 1978 WHERE: Puddletown, Dorset EVENT: Puddlemere United’s Victory Celebration Party

Quidditch had never been something that Ilona was particularly fond of, and she was sure that there were plenty better things she could be doing with her evening, but there was always one person who would convince her that anything was a good idea, and convincing her, he did. 

Never one to be at the centre of the chit chat, dancing and people making a show of themselves, she kept herself to the outskirts of where the festivities were happening. From there she could observe those around her with ease, collecting any tit-bits of information that could come in handy in the future. 

With a drink in one hand, and a cigarette in the other, Ilona smiled politely as another approached her. “Had enough of all that palava have you?”