Is it Dumbledore telling him he's expelled from Hogwarts?
Is it James and Sirius?
is it himself, covered in soot as he comes back from a shit job at the mill factory?
Also I sure hope their DADA teacher back then didn't make them fight one because, as @ghostscarface pointed out to me, when you really think about it it's such a bad idea to force kids to reveal their worse fear in front of their peers?! The Maraudeurs would have never let him live this down.
I don't think they had DADA together, but at any rate, Sirius would have 100% seen his Mother.
Harry talking about a creepy supernatural experience he had as a kid and the trio all simultaneously realizing that Harry saw a boggart that was trying to hide in his cupboard but found it already occupied
Percy is a nerd (complimentary), we know that. But what if he read muggle horror and sci fi combined with his maladaptive daydreaming?
He would 100% appreciate the character designs but also be fucking terrifed because of how vivid his maladaptove daydreaming would make the images, like a love-hate relationship.
That one lesson where his class has to face boggarts and Percy's is just a horde of the most hideous and grotsque creatures. His classmates are just staring at him like, ". . .Are you okay?"
And Percy's just like, ". . .I forgot about that." Pointing to a random 8 feet skinwalker that crawling on the ceiling and with an unhinged jaw. "Oh my god, that was my favourite character!"
Rumours definitely spread and people were concerned for him for a while.
Sandman Vol 2 19 was published with a cover date of September 1990. The issue took place in 1593 and once more featured William Shakespeare. The issue introduced to the Sandman universe King Auberon, Dick Cowley, Hamnet Shakespeare, Henry Condell, Richard Burbage, Will Kemp, Queen Titania, Nixies, Peasblossom, Skarrow, and Puck/Robin Goodfellow. They were a mixture of historical figures and creations of William Shakespeare and were imagined for the comics by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. The issue was also the basis for an episode of The Sandman radio drama. ("A Midsummer Night's Dream" Sandman vol 2 19, DC Comic Event)
For this story for hphm girls week 2026 by @hphm-fandom-events focuses on the sisterly bond of Melody and Lottie Midway when the former is a third year and the latter is a first year. After a nasty encounter with a boggart, rather than going on their originally scheduled walk, Melody decides to find a cozy corner for her and her sister to be in together
To better understand this story, read the first part of Lottie Midway and the Cursed Vaults
Theme: Siblings
Melody, Jackie, and their father, Jonathan, belong to @melodymidway
Lottie Midway’s POV, December 1986
Lottie stopped shivering shortly after she and Melody entered the class and even more so when they reached the kitchens. The warmth from the kitchen ovens radiated around the space and almost let her forget that boggarts kept lurking around each corner ready to strike at a moment’s notice. Lottie tried to keep that pushed to the back of her mind though as she followed Melody into the kitchens. Her sister was right after all, something sweet and a cozy corner was just what she needed after the coldness that she felt in more ways than one in the courtyard.
Melody was a presence Lottie knew she could always trust. Even when they were smaller, Melody was the person who would help her or Louis when they needed help with something or someone to lean on. In a way, it felt like nothing could break her determination. Her sister did not even think twice when she stepped in between her and the boggart. And Lottie hoped that one day she would also be as brave and fearless as her. After all, if Hogwarts was going to be a place of secrets and mysteries, she would need that energy to thrive.
It seemed like they were not the only ones in the kitchens with the exception of the house elves who were working to prepare the next meal for the denizens of Hogwarts. Lottie assumed it was someone who was serving detention since the kitchens seemed to be a rather common assignment. She eyed the girl curiously, she seemed a little older, likely around Melody’s age if Lottie had to guess. She had her red hair pulled back into a low ponytail in order to keep it out of her face and her dark eyes intently examined one of the ovens. Ultimately, whatever she had been waiting for seemed to have come and she brought out a tray of freshly made treacle tarts.
“Hello Tulip.” Melody greeted the other girl with an amused smile, “I see you found yourself in detention.”
Tulip shrugged but did not feign innocence, “I only jinxed Merula since she was being a nuisance. A rather spectacular prank if I do say so myself.”
“Snyde likely deserved it.” Melody replied without a second thought, “What did you do?” She added.
“The sea urchin jinx.” Tulip said extremely casually, “I must admit those spikes matched her eyes quite well.”
Melody chuckled, “That’s brilliant.”
“Thank you.” Tulip gave a quick bow, still quite proud with herself, “What brings you and your sister here? I doubt you two are here for detention.”
“Not yet at least.” Melody chuckled as she gazed around the kitchen, “Just came looking for something sweet.”
Tulip’s face brightened at that as she grabbed to treacle tarts and place them on a plate without needing to be asked. “Take these, they won’t be missed.”
“Thank you.” Melody smiled before turning back to her sister, “Come on, I know just the place.”
Lottie nodded at her sister and then turned to Tulip and gave her a grateful smile before quickly following Melody’s lead. Even as they walked away from the kitchens, Lottie could still smell the sweets, with the treacle tarts being a small piece of that for them to experience away from those mystical kitchens.
Even though Lottie acknowledge the dark corridors of Hogwarts could have a boggart around any corner, she almost forgot about them. Melody moved about the castle as if she had mastered the layout as well as a professor or even a seventh year. Lottie supposed that last year where she was facing the ice vault likely played some sort of part to that. Yet Lottie cherished it more than anything since it taught her about intriguing locations around the castle. In this case, Melody led her up a staircase that Lottie was convinced she had never noticed before.
“Where are we going?” Lottie asked curiously.
“You’ll see.” Melody smiled over her shoulder.
It didn’t take long after they reached the top of the staircase for them to find the cozy corner Melody had promised. It was more so a window with a modest bench but the view made it all the better. Lottie’s eyes were glued to glass as she gazed outside. It reminded her of the views she would get in the Gryffindor common room and how she could see the grounds of the school and the lands beyond it.
“It’s such a beautiful view.” Lottie admired the view as she took a seat on the bench.
“Well you know what people say.” Melody told her as she took a seat next to her. “Problems suddenly become small and insignificant once you look at them from such a height.”
“You are right again” Lottie acknowledged with a smile as she took one of the treacle tarts from Melody.
The tart was still warm to the touch and completely appetizing in smell and sight. Without worrying about the fear within the walls, she gently closed her eyes to take a bite and savor the taste. The boggart she had faced in the courtyard had nearly faded completely from her memory, yet only nearly.
The thought that her dear father would turn on her with cold eyes had shook her to her core. She had admired him growing up and had clung to him as a kid. Her mother had even told stories about how she threw tantrums while they were in France and he remained in England. Yet when the boggart changed to their brother when Melody blocked Lottie from it, her sister seemed unfazed and fearless when she cast the boggart banish charm. Apparently fear was not going to stop her sister in her quest.
Lottie turned to her, her black curls shifting ever so slightly, “Mel?”
“Yes?” Her sister responded.
Lottie desperately tried to suppress her own fear of the boggart “Were you scared?” She paused before adding, “of the boggart? Of those rumors about Jackie being true?”
For what felt like an eternity, her sister didn’t respond. She instead simply gazed out at the school grounds below them as she contemplated. The silence puzzled Lottie, after all, surely her sister was more sure of herself with how she seemingly hardly hesitated when it came to stepping in between her and the Boggart.
“Yes.” Melody confessed, “But I wasn’t going to let that stop me.” She then turned to Lottie, “You should never deny your fears, but you should not let them stop you either.”
Lottie briefly turned away, “It’s just… you didn’t hesitate.”
“You didn’t know the boggart banishing charm.” Melody pointed out, “I did, so I only did what was right for us both.”
“I should have known the charm.” Lottie interpreted, “Shouldn’t I have.”
“Nonsense, you’re a first year, and even if you weren’t, our Defense Aganst the Dark Arts professor this year isn’t effective with teaching like the past two I’ve had.” Melody revealed, “Me and some of my classmates had to actually go out of our way to make sure we knew how cast the charm after a boggart attacked during herbology class.” She then turned to Melody and Lottie simultaneously turned to her, “It wouldn’t hurt to know the charm though with the boggarts flooding the castle. I’d be happy to teach you.”
Lottie’s eyes widened with gratitude, “You would.”
“Of course.” Melody assured her as she playfully punched her sister in the arm, “That is what older sister’s do.”
Because simply explaining it as "halfbreed with a Boggart Father" isn't very easy to understand, and I feel like it's easy to get the wrong impression of how something like that is meant to have happened in this specific context. Like yes, the story is sad, but it's not a non-con situation.
Only three members at the moment (family tree is too screwy to depict visually):
Abraham Boogey
Anastasia Reaper (Boogey)
Abyssina Boogey
I have made a post about Abyssina here, and while I further explained her life in a community post here, that's not super publicly available.
Basic Rundown:
Abyssina was the first OC, she's a Cursed Era character around the same age as Dom/Nyx Weasley, sorted into Gryffindor, and she's a halfbreed with a Boggart for a father, specifically a Boggart who took the form of her Mother's late husband. They're named the way they are because HP characters all have really on-the-nose names, and I felt like these names were pretty on-the-nose (Abraham: Father to all, Anastasia: Resurrected and Abyssina: Abyss, with Boogey being a Boogeyman reference and Reaper being a death reference).
Abraham Boogey and Anastasia Reaper:
Abraham and Anastasia would have actually been Marauders Era characters, roughly around the same age as characters like Gilderoy Lockhart, Olivia Green and Jacob. They were both sorted into Gryffindor and were kind of a friends to lovers situation, although they didn't get officially married until well after the first war had ended. Abraham worked as a low ranking Ministry Official and Anastasia worked as a Magizoologist, specialising in amortal beings (Poltergeists, Dementors, Boggarts etc.).
They didn't have children together for a variety of reasons, including a lack of desire to and also a fear of pregnancy on Anastasia's part. I haven't fully thought out this part, but I would imagine her birth story might've been fairly traumatic, possibly ending in her mother's death, so she is very afraid of pregnancy.
During the second wave of the war, neither of them really "picked a side" so to speak, although they definitely weren't pro-Voldemort. Abraham really just had no way to fight back, since he was technically working for a bunch of Death-Eaters, and Anastasia had no idea how they would even contact the Order. So they stayed out of the battle, mostly because they weren't sure how to fight back and they were a little afraid that if they did and Voldemort won, they would lose each other.
Anastasia did end up losing Abraham. He died at some point during the second wizarding war, although before the final battle, and Anastasia was heartbroken. She didn't really see a point to fighting back against Voldemort when to her, it seemed like he had already won. He took the love of her life away from her, so in her grief she accepted that he would win and there was no point to defying him.
When Harry Potter won, she tried to move on, but a part of her had died that day with Abraham Boogey.
Abyssina Boogey:
This is where the genetics get a bit screwy. A year or two after the war ended, while Anastasia was working, she encountered a Boggart who took on the form of her worst fear, losing Abraham. The difficulty with that is that, she already had. Her worst fear had happened, so the Boggart didn't have much power over her and she was able to communicate with it. It wasn't healthy, it was no way to grieve, but visiting this Boggart was the only way to see her husband again, so she did it quite often.
Eventually, she ended up sleeping with the Boggart, and as you can guess by the fact that I mentioned she was scared of pregnancy, it was very much a case of "you have sex once and instantly get pregnant". After this happened, she stopped seeing the Boggart, because with this act it became very suddenly clear how she had perverted and distorted her husbands memory. She did decide to keep the child though, admittedly out of loneliness, although she was a very gentle and loving Mother.
Abyssina is, as a result of this, biologically Abraham's on a technicality. She shares genetic material with him, although in all ways that matter, she is not his daughter. Due to the fact that the Boggart had taken the form of Abraham, Abyssina also ended up looking very much like him, but also not like him at all. Her hair was just a little too dark, her skin a little too pale, her eyes a little too shiny, and there was something almost uncanny about the way she looked. Like she was Abraham's daughter, but she also wasn't. She has pointed ears and her skin is almost too smooth, and there's a certain haunting quality to her that makes her look just not right. Like an imitation of a person.
Now obviously, I'm sure halfbreed Boggart children might exist, but as far as recorded history, Abyssina's existence was unprecidented, and people weren't sure what to think of her. Boggart's are amortal, and therefore neither alive nor dead, and not really conscious, so it was hard to say just how mortal and alive Abyssina was. How human she was compared to how inhuman she was. It's easier with other halfbreeds, because usually they're fully considered beings, but Boggarts are not, so she fell into this legal grey area where she is both an autonomous person and a not quite dead non-being.
Her mother obviously loves her unconditionally, and she finds her daughter to be beautiful, but larger society is very creeped out by her. She'd almost be considered something akin to a dark fae or a changeling, in the sense that she's a dark creature imitating a person, although to the rest of society, it's not quite clear how much of her appearance is real and how much of it is her intentionally taking a form that makes them scared.
Abyssina and her Mother are both fully aware that Abyssina does not really possess many magical abilities of a Boggart, she can sense emotions, particularly fear, and she had some vague shapeshifting powers, much like a metamorphmagus, but she cannot actually read your mind and transform into your greatest fear. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't know that, and why would they trust her to be telling the truth?
She's a Gryffindor, because a creature of fear in the brave house is fun to me, and dormmates with Sage Kelleen and Trinity Lynn (and Dom/Nyx Weasley if you headcanon her as Gryffindor), but she's not really friends with them. Sage (according to my headcanon) is also half-fairy, so you'd think they might get along, but Sage really just doesn't know what to think of her, and Trinity, as much as she doesn't want to admit it, is also pretty freaked out by Abyssina. Aby, as a result, doesn't really have any friends, as far as a "canon-compliant" (she's not canon but you know what I mean) interpretation would go. People are generally speaking too scared of her to try and form emotional bonds, in case she is a dark creature like a Boggart that can use that against them.
(For those that don't know: Trinity Lynn and Sage Kelleen come from a Gryffindor Quidditch Practice Signup Sheet in the amusement park, and the name Trinity was not in popular use until after 1999, so the Next Gen fandom claimed them, and a few others on the sheet, because we have so few characters and we didn't want other people to claim them first. Like, I saw Marauders Era try to claim Cereus Greengrass from HPWU even though HPWU takes place when Harry's already Head Auror and at the oldest she's the same age as Teddy)
She has a pretty lonely existence, and part of that is that she is created from her mother's worst fears. She quite literally embodies everything that terrified Anastasia. She looks like Abraham, she's a daughter that could have killed her in childbirth, she's extremely lonely with no loved ones aside from family to care for her, those are all things that represent Anastasia's worst fears.
She's not really meant to be a happy character, she is kind of tragic and even in the realm of Next Gen, where you'd expect society to be nicer, she's still treated as this extreme other. Of course, Next Gen in general has this whole theme of "I am not my parents/namesakes" and I like to think this theme is present in Abyssina's character.
I don't really ship Abyssina with anyone, it seems antithetical to her theming (she's not meant to be aspec though, people just don't like her), but if I did I reckon some Abyssina/Delphi would work, in an AU where Delphi is adopted by either Concordia Rowle or Draco Malfoy and gets to attend Hogwarts. Just two goth lesbians bonding over how everyone assumes the worst of them for who their fathers are. I do have a Pinterest board called Augurabyss for them.
Other Ships:
Disclaimer, some of these ships would not be "canon", but they are ships I would see working. I have also included the codeshipnames since people do sometimes prefer those ones, and I'm not going to harp on your enjoyment, so these are the words I would use. Also feel free to ship these characters with OC's of your own if you think they'd work.
If you want to use these guys or ship them with your own OC's, go ahead. I'm obviously a Next Gen main person, so I'm fairly used to trading OC's and letting other people do whatever they want with mine, since we have so few characters that are actually the same age and not related that we might as well just share them. Also if someone else wants to come up with stuff for Anastasia's Mother, who would be Riddle Era, I don't mind at all. Preferably keep with the themes of the names I've used though.
Tagging people that I know like my OC's and the specific gens involved: @explodes-like-a-diva @boredomsbonedeep @luvieville and @rustytyperwriter.
