Day 4 for September Scribbles a little more background on this AU FDTD/HP mini-story series.
So let’s talk about some practicality and background for these crazies and this crazy world. Now the world itself I had to make some adjustments to it obviously and the characters themselves. First of all, the age gap is not as much. Mostly because I needed it tighter to make this work practically – not sure how practicality and magick goes together, but this is where they are living.
Our beautiful Hogwarts is set-up as follows:
Students attend in the elementary/primer school age as strictly students up until high school level and graduation.
After graduation – students have the option to continue with advanced studies to go further in magick or they have to basically commit to part-time teacher roles with younger students while still taking some classes. This keeps you in school until you’re about 24-ish depending on your skill level and how far you want to go.
Now as far as going back and forth to the other side – this is a little more fluid or rigid depending on your family and skill – this will be a little clearer with someone of the Gecko backstory – but we’ll get there.
Seth is appearing as 22yrs old in this story (why I choose to deal with him at this age is beyond me) And despite his talents, he’s not a fan of extra studies- which leaves him part-time teaching….oh god!!!!! He’s shaping young minds.
Richie appearing as just 21yrs – obviously he’s going through the advanced studies. He keeps to himself a bit and he’d be further along – but there was an incident last year, that’ll come up. He just wants to know everything and try what hasn’t been attempted…I’m sure nothing will go wrong here.
Kate is appearing as just shy of 18yrs when we start – she’s finishing her senior year, but since she actually got ahead studying on her own, she’s in some fairly advance classes. She’s just so happy to be in the environment that she’s got an almost permanent smile on her face.
Now as far as characters from the Harry Potter World showing up…that may happen. But understand that I’m not following any of the timelines from the books – so the characters will be themselves, but that’s about it. Also if this happens – it would be very limited to some extent.
Clooney – now where he comes from is sorta explained in that first little story. He’s an unusually large Crup – mostly these guys are the size and coloring of a Jack Russel terrier. Clooney is a different story. He’s mostly black with a few wisps of white on his paws and the tip of his tail and he’d the size of a small German Shepard with ears that stand straight up – trust me if you see his reflective blue eyes in a dark hall without a Gecko (or apparently now Kate) with him you are NOT going to have a good time.
Azil – now this pale grey Jarvey is bit of a mischief maker. He’s almost always with Richie, hiding in a pocket, resting on the back of Richie’s neck while he studies, or sleeping nearby. His language is about what you’d expect it to be living with those two knuckleheads. Azil showed up not too long after the Gecko’s mother disappeared…but that’s another story.
Well that’s it for now. If you have questions or thoughts on things for this please let me know. I’ve gotten so many nice asks on this. It’s totally making me smile. Oh and before I forget, I wasn’t going to post this AO3 – but would you guys like me too?????
Thank you for reading and as always: Love to My Loves!!
Okay guys - So this is the first Mini-story for my AUFDTD/HP world. This has been a long time coming. I hope you like the stories as I release them. If you missed the preview story that’s here. And all stories will be tagged with the AUFDTD - which is noted on my page. This first one is just to give you guys an idea of the characters and where they’re at. There are going to be some fun surprises in this series. Thank you for supporting my works.
Story One: First Impressions
Richie’s muttering woke him up and Seth tossed a pillow in his brother’s direction, swiftly dodging it as it boomeranged as nearly collided with his own face.
“Asshole.” Snickered the creature hiding on a shelf above Richie’s bed, its eyes reflecting eerily in the predawn light.
“Asshole is right.” Richie muttered sleepily fumbling for his glasses, “Why are you throwing your pillow at me, again?”
“Did you enchant this damn thing to hit me in the face?” Seth snarled shaking the traitorous feather-filled thing at his brother, who was still trying to find his glasses.
Richie chuckled despite his plight, “Only if you threw it at me first.”
“Fix it!”
“Quit throwing shit at me.” Richie countered, before requesting, “Azil, can you see my glasses?” The grey Jarvey wound himself down from the shelf and delivered a pair of glasses to the younger Gecko. “Thank you.” He blinked as his eyes adjusted to the lenses. “Wait, why are you up so early?”
“You. You are why I’m up so early.” Seth grumbled dropping the original pillow to the ground and flopping back onto the remaining pillow that he now only sort of trusted. “You were talking in your sleep. It woke me up.”
“’Cause you never wake me up with that.” Richie stretched his arms over his head and cracked his neck. “Our separate sleeping quarters will be ready tonight. I’m gonna grab a shower before everyone starts getting up.”
“Knock yourself out.” Seth closed his eyes, hoping to get a little more shut-eye before the orientation shit-show started.
“You didn’t need come back you know. You got all your credits last year, and with who we are, they would have let you do your teaching courses part-time. You could have stayed on the other side.” Richie stood in the doorway, looking much smaller than his six-foot-two-inch frame.
Seth sat partway up and sighed, “You’re here; I’m here. Besides, someone has to keep you from blowing your fool-self up.”
“Whatever you say, brother.”
He sighed and attempted to get comfortable, before hearing a distinctive ripping sound. He opened one eye to stare down the Clooney, who was ripping the hell out of the maroon and gold scarf. “Really?”
The mostly-black Crup snorted and gave the item another good tare.
“You know I really don’t care if you didn’t like her or how she smelled. If you cock-block me again, you’re gonna go stay with Eddie on the other side.”
Clooney flashed his teeth at Seth before rolling on his back and yawning, as if bored by the threat.
“I knew I shoulda docked your damn tails for real.” Seth closed his eyes again and attempted to get that last hour or so of sleep he so desperately needed to deal with what today was going to be.
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Kate Fuller had never been happier in her life; never. She’d spent the last four years studying magick from home, doing triple the homework, and only coming here during breaks for testing. To see the campus alive and full of others studying like her was so exciting. She wouldn’t have changed the last four years, though. The last four years had been hard, but her family was the most important thing. After years of secretly treating her mother when her father wasn’t looking, her mother’s illness was finally cured. And nothing short of a miracle, her father agreed to let her study the magick that ran wild in his family, but somehow skipped him.
The only thing that made her slightly sad was that most everyone here knew each other and it was going to be hard to be the new girl in her technically second to last year of required training. Thankfully, Hufflepuffs were known for being inviting by nature so she at least was going to make friends in her house. She smiled at the sunshine and the activity buzzing around her. How could anyone not love the busy environment?
“Hey, you’re the new girl, Kate, right?” A smiling red-head offered her hand to Kate. “I’m Holly, I’m supposed to show you around, but you already know the campus don’t you?”
Kate shook the girl’s hand. “Yeah, I’ve been here every summer for testing. They made exceptions for me because my mother was so sick.”
“Well, it’s totally different being here during the school year. Way crazier and lots more fun.” Holly winked and they made their way across the courtyard. “So are you doing advanced studies? Or training to be a teacher?”
“Well, I’m taking advanced classes this year and after that I haven’t decided yet.” Kate paused by the fountain and admired the way the water jumped back and forth – it was always off during the summer.
“Do you have your class schedule?”
Kate finished the paper out of her cloak’s inner pocket and handed it over, watching Holly’s eyes scanning it quickly.
“You are gonna have a lot of Ravenclaws and Slytherins in those first two classes. Oh and that first one…yikes, that’s a super small class I think mostly Slytherins.”
“Oh, I don’t really mind other ho…”
“No, no no….I didn’t mean it like that.” Holly waived away Kate’s concern about her opinions on other houses and continued. “But have you ever seen a Slytherin when they’re stuck in a morning class? Seth Gecko blew out a window once when his lab partner accidentally spilled his coffee. It was nuts.”
“Gecko…” Kate bit her lip, that name sounded awfully familiar. “Is that family famous for something?”
“Infamous is more like it.” Holly hopped up and sat down on the fountain. “Ray Gecko was super powerful, but into all kinds of dark magicks and supposedly that’s how their mother died – some kind of fight, but they were on the other side when it happened, so no one knows the real story. Of course, the brothers aren’t all bad.”
Kate cocked her head to the side, “Well, it wouldn’t be right to judge them for what their father did.”
Holly let out a little laugh, “I meant they are super nice to look at. Even though Seth’s grouchy and kind of a womanizer. And Richie’s well…I don’t know what he’s about, but if there’s trouble going on, then it’s probably one of them. Come one, we should get you settled in.”
They started back to through the courtyard when a chorus of screams echoed in the air and Kate Fuller was staring down the largest, darkest colored Crup she’d ever seen.
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“I can’t believe you left the damn door open.” Seth was yanking his gloves on as he and his brother sprinted down the halls. “He’s gonna eat someone.”
Richie was managing to keep up and still finish tying his tie, “Crups only attack Muggles, so unless someone snuck in, we’ve got nothing to worry about.”
Seth shouldered the door open, not bothering to acknowledge the other student, who squealed in surprise at nearly being hit and kept moving towards where he’d heard the screams. “Hufflepuffs are basically a Muggle and the yelling came from the main courtyard. So I’d say we’ve got reason to worry.”
As they made their down the steps and a blonde in a bright blue coat brushed by between the brothers as she ascended the stairs. “Good Day, not always dangerous Geckos.”
“Wait what?” Richie went to turn around, but Seth grabbed his arm.
“Focus. Devil dog – ten year secret about his tails, potentially mauled underclassmen, and us in an other-worldly amount of trouble.” Seth growled as they continued forward.
They both skidded to a stop in front of one of the school’s fountains, which several of their classmates had jumped into, in terror at seeing Clooney sans his masters.
But one of the girls, brown-haired and wearing those stupidly bright colors, was crouched in front of Clooney. “Well, what’s your name, Handsome?”
Seth winced waiting for the impending growl or bite but was shocked to hear the girl giggle. He was dumbfounded at the fact that Clooney was actually letting the girl scratch his ear affectionately.
“You’re such a sweet boy. Is this your person? He looks pretty worried.” She stood up and offered her hand to Seth. “I’m Kate Fuller.”
“Seth Gecko.” He shook it on reflex.
“Oh.”
“Oh, what?!?” He snatched his hand back with a growl, he knew that look. She heard his damn name and now had she opinions about him. “Forget it. Come on, Clooney.” He turned on his heel and marched back towards his room with the creature on his heels.
“I’m Richie, sorry about him.”
“Richard!” Seth snapped and his brother caught back up with him in a flash.
“What the hell was that about?” Richie adjusted his glasses. “Clooney’s a good judge of people, if liked her, she’s probably fine.”
“Well, the mutts wrong this time. You take him, I’ll be back later.”
“Am I covering for you too?”
Seth shrugged as he walked away, “Do whatever you want. This day cannot end soon enough.”
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Not sure how I feel about this as a whole - but here we go. Again I hope you enjoy reading. Love to my Loves.
If the answer to this is yes then it’s cool and won’t think anything bad of you for it but have to ask does this mean u aren’t being the Harry Potter Skate piece? I was super excited for that one It’s okay u busy. Maybe later ? Very happy for Die at Dawn Skate! Beautiful story. And Love ending and more. Happy for new job. Thank u
Lovely Anon,
Thank you so much for your note.So yes - Die by Dawn is going to be finished. I’m happy about that too. Love Is… I am excited to finish it, but it’s always hard to end a piece - So I have all the feelings about that.
Okay so the Harry Potter/FDTD AU piece - Now I want to do it, I do. I think it’s going to end up a little different than my previous pieces.
First, I have a lot of inspiration notes for this - like roughly 60pages…That’s alot. So I’m a bit overwhelmed with all of it.
Second I’m not super familiar with the Harry Potter world - which will require more research- which will give me more notes, which means I’ll have more to go over and yeah.
So I’m thinking what I may do is write chunks of it out and release it as a weekly to biweekly series of shorts. It’ll be less stressful that way, but I can still share some of the fun/cool/amazing things that my friend and I have gone through.
I don’t know how everyone would feel about it, but it may be the way I have to go with it.
Thank you for the love! My new job is stressful, but it’s good. I think I’m going to love it when I survive the training. I appreciate all of your kind words!!
Sweetie :) I was kidding! That’s why w the smilies. U should be excited about what you create. You wrote us lil devil dog and we loved him. And if it’s a Skate fic of course they will be in it.. Richie isn’t my fav but I love him from u Skate five! I was kidding! Please come back! Apparently I don’t humor either we are same. Please. I am all sorry
It's alright, don't worry about it. I'm just exhausted. I hope you enjoy it when it comes out.
Yes Sweetie :) You’ve said the whole Richie magic disaster thing only a lot. We get it. And you wrote a lil read in about it. What about Clooney though? And Skate epic banter? You are welcome though And I also luv Love Is and Die Dawn. It’s all amazing
I was trying to be funny with that bit. Sorry :( I forgot that I don't always humor very well. I'll show myself out. I'm sure everyone will enjoy the parts you mentioned.
Sweetie :) Can’t speak for everyone, but for me I’m happy you’re writing Potter verse at all. I will take anything Skate u will give us. It sounds a great idea to do lil drabbles to tell their tale over a big long fic. Like Love Is amazing and we all love it, but I’m sure it was so much work for you and your helpers. So I’m happy this new one will be better for you and I can’t wait to read! I loveSlytherpuff. And I can speak for everyone when I say any Skate u do will be amazin and u are loved.
Thank you so much for your support! It's gonna be a bit more time before I start posting on that FDTD/HP AU - I need to finish Love Is... And get back to working on Die By Dawn. And my new job is nuts. But I think the dabbles may make it ton easier on me. I'll use the tag when I start this series. Again thank you, thank you for taking the time to leave me this ask. I truly appreciate it. Again I just want to point out that we are giving Richard "what's the worst thing that could happen if I improvise" Gecko access to magic. It's gonna be a crazy ride.
