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harry potter meta
degrees of lewdity
i am an 一设多梦 (one sona multiple characters) yumejo, i will ship myself with any and all characters i like, i am an x reader ooc headcanon apologist (not that i ignore canon, i just sometimes make an exception when things are ooc. two cakes and all)
i have multiple developed sonas for harry potter, degrees of lewdity (ocs also featured!), danganronpa, identity v, nezha, percy jackson, haikyuu, final fantasy xv, tot, hsr, genshin, um... if i remember any more ill add them.
technically i should list the characters i ship myself with but i get so embarrassed because the list just goes on forever. i have a strawpage now with the list. sort of
Well we know on him, that it's his nose (even if he won't admit it), but when it comes to you...
Norton likes your thighs and belly, if that makes sense. Bigger thighs and such means you're eating well, plus then he can lay down and rest his head on you for a free pillow. He likes knowing that he's been able to provide for you that you aren't going hungry, and he likes the warmth of your lap.
Maybe he can even close his eyes and rest for a bit with no nightmares... Just this once.
Having baby’s fever and carrying mini Itha to normal Itha and holding the little guy up, and giving Ithaqua the puppy dog eyes with a simple, ambiguous “please?”
Unfortunately, all this does is leave Ithaqua confused. Please what? He doesn’t understand.. (he’s to innocent— doesn’t understand what you’re asking for..)
HAH yup, pretty much. Ithaqua is very sweet in a relationship sure, and he loves you lots, but his standards of social and relationship norms are very skewed. He would probably think you're asking him to pick up the critter, so he'd set down his weapon and grab it before looking to see if that makes you happy. If you look confused at him, well then he's also going to be confused.
The man isn't a mind reader, you'll have to tell him at some point!
hi what do you think jealous sex w norton and naib would look like 🥹
Probably a spitroast with Naib in front and Norton in the back, so they can argue with each other while fucking you silly- Naib is the more reasonable one usually, calming Norton down when his jealous tendencies act up, but... Let's just say they both can't stand when a man flirts with you when they're right there.
So obviously, they gotta remind you why you're dating THEM and not some other loser! They're not angry at you at all btw, just upset that they didn't stop such callous flirting sooner! And also blaming and bickering with each other...
Another thing fandom needs to start doing more of is projecting on tops.
There are delicious amounts of psychological distress you can inflict on that guy once you get into his head. The brainworms of forcing agency and initiative on someone who genuinely is Not Fucking Ready For It are exquisite.
To quote myself: Domtops in fics are always written to have such uncomplicated and healthy relationships to their sexualities and for my mental health I need us to collectively start giving them complexes about being some kind of monstrous predatory freak of nature instead.
Make that guy have a panic attack b/c someone in his daydream told him to stop and he kept going anyway.
New and improved! Sad Wet Dog of a top is thinking about how he wants to hurt you but doesn't want to hurt you and the contradiction is slowly and steadily making him Lose His Whole Fucking Mind.
ok personal feelings aside, one of THE most controversial aspects of the HP series is the issue of house-elves. the series doesn't take a clear stance on the moral issue (Hermione is usually shown to be "right" on moral issues but this one is a bit murkier; most of the characters adopt a "just wait for her to stop talking" mentality about it, or actively tell her she's in the wrong, and then it just sort of fizzles out). It's easily one of the story aspects that I see the most criticism of, to the point that I found myself hoping the new HBO show would cut them out entirely.
Buuuuut I just had a thought of a way that the House-Elf Problem could be fixed, and with very few tweaks to the story, too! ok come with me on this....so if I were rewriting the story from the beginning, the house-elf lore would be:
House-elves show up in big, grand manors, attracted to places of finery and history
no one quite knows where they come from but you need to maintain a certain level of grandiosity to keep them
they don't stay where they aren't needed; if there aren't a lot of messes they just leave unless they have a great fondness for the family
HOWEVER
much like the legend of Selkies, if you hide a house-elf's clothes, it's unable to leave your home
this is considered very cruel but not illegal due to wizarding society being unfair to nonhuman magical creatures
the Malfoys have hidden Dobby's clothes and until they give him some, he can't leave
the Hogwarts house-elves can still think Dobby is weird and embarrassing for talking about private house-elf business to humans (rather than because he's a freedom-loving weirdo)
Hermione internalizes this as "all house-elves are slaves, this is cruel and horrible" because whenever she sees one they're working extremely hard and they don't want to talk to her about their status/situation (because that's elf business and none of yours)
Winky can just get normal fired/banished like a servant
Crouch talking down and mistreating her is still an issue!! that's not good of him to do!!
the Order feels they have no choice but to hide Kreacher's clothes because he knows too much, they can't let him leave
Hermione initially, foolishly campaigns for SPEW to end the enslavement of all house-elves
when she actually TALKS to the Hogwarts elf staff they basically tell her, yeah no those are rare situations, please stop speaking for us, we want to be here
her angle can CHANGE to be, there should be some oversight to make sure that house-elves are only serving consensually, since it's so easy to take advantage of them
which is a decent position to take!! but could still have a lot of people rolling their eyes and refusing to help because I Don't Think It's That Much Of An Issue
I think in general this would be a more nuanced take while still pretty much having every single story beat able to be preserved? Thoughts?
just a fun little exercise where i try to imagine how the various Horcrux versions of Tom might differ based on what age they were when placed in the item and the item itself. the last part's relevant because he got the Cup and Locket at the same time (from killing Hepzibah Smith) and it would just be more interesting if they were different because the inherent magical properties of the item affected them somehow, so here we go!
1. Diary
made when he was 16, in his 5th year, using Myrtle's death. this one has the least to remark upon not only because we already see plenty of him in canon, but because the diary itself is a mundane Muggle object. so, all in all, just regular 16-year-old Tom.
though, it being his first Horcrux does bring up some questions. see, i had this thought... according to hollowed-theory-hall's theory on how to make a Horcrux:
The split-off soul should, on its own, try to search for life and a body to be bound to. If it doesn't, coax it out yourself and bind it to the Horcrux with the spirit you made in step 1.
and there's an oath at the end to tie the soul, spirit (from the corpse—Myrtle, in this case), and body (diary) together because it's probably still unstable.
it got me thinking, if it was his first time doing it, and there's already so little info about it in the first place, perhaps it didn't go all perfectly? i mean, he probably had to deal with being sent back to London indefinitely, and then framing Hagrid, before getting round to making the Horcrux at all; i assume it'd take some time and he, maybe, just put what he needed from Myrtle (blood) in stasis before getting round to it, and that messed with the stability, who knows! anything could go wrong. the point is i wonder if that instability is what led to the soul wanting a new body/feeling incompatible with its current one, or the ease in which it's able to leave.
2. Ring
made when he was still 16, in the summer after 5th year, using his father's deaths. and his grandparents'.
the ring itself holds the Resurrection Stone, and it is originally made to bring back your deceased loved ones. as in, conjure some apparitions of your memory of them.
it's very associated with longing and grief. ironic, since it was made into a Horcrux following Tom discovering the family/legacy he longed for has already shot itself in the foot... wait, there might be more narrative parallels here than i expected, i just came in here to make some fun headcanons.
so this Tom, not only is he still 16, but he's fresh off discovering he really does have no family now and he truly can only rely on himself. i wonder, would he be in mourning (or denial of it)? or just obsessed with what he's lost? maybe he feels he's lost himself too, being stuck in a ring for decades isn't really living, after all.
3. Locket
the Cup and Locket were both discovered through Hepzibah, so we don't really know which he made first, or maybe he made them at the same time. it doesn't matter, so i'll just do the Locket first:
we also know plenty of it from canon, it reads your heart and uses that information against you... well, i dunno if that's what Slytherin originally intended with it. it probably wasn't originally meant to be used like that... lockets in general are associated with sentimental memory, the way people put images of their loved ones in it... well, Locket!Tom does use Ron's loved ones against him, huh?
perhaps it was meant to be similar to the Resurrection Stone without the apparitions, just allowing you to bask in the memories. how interesting that the original Stone was used for Cadmus' romantic love, and then used by Harry to summon his family, while the Locket was originally about familial love, or well, bonds (the Gaunts), and used to torture Ron with (well yes i think Harry and Hermione are like family to him but it obviously uses romance to pit him against them). am i drawing connections where there aren't any?
i also do like the theory that Merope used the Locket to dupe Tom Riddle Sr. rather than a love potion. put a lock of her hair in, plus another charm of your own working, or maybe the Locket was always like that, where you did the bidding of whoever was "placed inside" it...
ANYWAY i suppose we can see how he might be more fixated on bonds between people than, say, the Cup. oh, where the Ring might use who you've lost to manipulate you, the Locket might use who you have now. different weapons for different situations, huh? (note, don't weaponise your soul containers, it may lead to the destruction of it)
4. Cup
as for the Cup, we don't know what its powers were, if it had any at all, though i think it's a popular theory that it's based off or meant to be the Holy Grail, which is said to have healing powers or immortality or infinite sustenance.
fits Hufflepuff's nature and the way the House in general is associated with the kitchens, so funnily enough this Tom got put in an object made to serve and provide for people. though either way, this isn't making Cup!Tom suddenly generous and giving, he could easily twist it his way in the same way as the Locket was originally meant to be for sentiment. hell, he might even be irritated that the object he's in is made to keep others alive, like dude, that's what he's trying to do for himself, not anyone else!!
though, while the other Horcruxes are probably all messing with their victims (if they have any) mentally, this one might mess with them physically.
5. Diadem
Tom finds the Diadem in the 10 years he spends leaving Borgin and Burke's and returning to Hogwarts for his job interview. we have really no clue when in that time frame he found the Diadem or made it into a Horcrux, so he was ambiguously in his... 30s? 40s? to be honest does his age even matter, i know some people think he wouldn't have matured much at all, though surely he's got to be less hot-headed or impulsive than he was at 16? narratively (in a story where we get to see all the different Horcrux versions, i guess) it might be more interesting for this to be made right before the job interview for a bigger gap between it and the previous, and then there's again a huge gap between current Voldemort/Nagini/Harry.
regardless, onto the Diadem's powers. again, not much known about it other than vaguely enhancing intelligence. you can take that any way you want, whether it's, i dunno, clearing your head so you can think better, helping you create a mind palace a la Sherlock, um, DiademGPT... or would it be RowenaGPT? is the Sorting Hat GodricGPT?? i'm probably using GPT wrong. i suppose you could expect Diadem!Tom to be more "intellectual" than the others, somehow? like, is this Tom more objective? less typical snakey sneaky and more bird strategising? why am i constantly talking about them in the context of manipulating a victim? well, i'm writing a fic...
6. Nagini
this one is difficult, because we don't know much of Nagini's personality. beyond being a snake who wants dinner, i guess. we're not taking Fantastic Beasts into account, we don't even know how much of that Nagini remains in the current one anyway. so this one's really up to you depending on how much humanity you think Nagini still has. i think it's implied to be very little, though, so... a Tom that's animalistic...
7. Harry
uh... this one's even more up to you on whether the soul fragment in Harry is even like... fully... coherent? he obviously doesn't truly possess Harry and yeah that last scene in King's Cross implied it's that baby with no true awareness of itself, so. also wasn't an intended Horcrux. Harry!Tom is whatever you want it to be, i don't have much more evidence.
oh and there's the fact that they've all been stuck in their containers for at least decades. who knows if they're aware of time passing. they all have cabin fever of the highest degree.
I would love to hear your most unique headcanon for Severus, one that you think is controversial or that no one else might share with you
I think that when he was in school, Snape was under the impression that Remus's family was *much* wealthier/more important than they actually were. And then just kind of... never examined this belief, until Book 4 at least.
Like, Remus hangs out with James and Sirius, wealthy purebloods and kings of the campus. He's very thrift store chic/light academia, but maybe it's a style. He's been allowed into Hogwarts even though he's a werewolf (so some rules must have been broken/ignored for him, maybe someone was pressuring Dumbledore.) Severus grew up dirt poor and essentially muggle, he's going to be really, really bad at correctly interpreting Wizarding wealth signifiers. I think that he's under the impression that the Lupins are an old, respected, pureblood Ministry family, on a level with like - the Crouches.
( This one is actually my co-writer @niche-pastiche's headcanon, and we used it as a jumping-off point in our Snupin epic. But I think it counts, because I've seen it ~nowhere~ else. )
One of the most frustrating things in the HP canon is that they have access to a fantastic and essentially PERFECT truth potion, as far as we know.
Some additional information:
Sirius was sent to Azkaban without trial, and this is mentioned in the same book that introduces us to Veritaserum.
While Veritaserum is obviously difficult to make (Snape is the only person we know of who makes it, Umbridge doesn't seem like she has any other options to get it), we have no information that it's prohibitively expensive, impossible, or volatile/dangerous to make
One thought is that maybe the potion is dangerous to take, so it would be like a Victim's Rights Advocacy thing to get it banned from trials, because you can't force someone to incriminate themselves...but this does not seem to be something the wizarding world is concerned with.
In Half-Blood Prince, Albus says that when Morfin Gaunt was prosecuted for murder, there was no NEED for Veritaserum or Legilimency, since he confessed. This makes it seem like those were considered a real option!
So if that was an OPTION in the 1940s, why wouldn't Sirius be able to demand that?
For that matter, why isn't that an option at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban?
My postulation is that it depends on who's in control of the DMLE at the time - and who they think counts as "trustworthy."
At the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, even though Sirius says he's innocent and there are three other witnesses to Pettigrew being alive, Albus insists no one will listen to them, because Harry and Hermione are underage ("the word of two thirteen-year-old wizards will not convince anyone"), and Remus is a werewolf ("werewolves are so mistrusted by most of our own kind that his support will count for very little"). There's no need for that kind of qualification if you have access to Veritaserum. There's no evidence that Veritaserum doesn't work on children, or on werewolves.
So if they allow Veritaserum to be used in trials, they would have to accept that everyone's word is worth just as much as everyone else's. And they don't want that. This administration puts more weight on certain people's opinions than others. They wouldn't be able to preserve that power if they were seeking objective truth.
very true, though there are other reasons Veritaserum's not used often: it's not foolproof because you can use Occlumency to circumvent it (i think this is extracanon though), and you only say whatever you think is true. so even if it was used they can easily disregard it as "the person was tricked into thinking X was true", or is confused or crazy, which is what they say about Barty in book 4:
“See here, Dumbledore,” said Fudge, and Harry was astonished to see a slight smile dawning on his face, “you — you can’t seriously believe that. You-Know- Who — back? Come now, come now . . . certainly, Crouch may have believed himself to be acting upon You-Know- Who’s orders — but to take the word of a lunatic like that, Dumbledore ...”
in which case why waste Veritaserum on them anyway if they were always going to deny their testimony?