#borgin

[augustuscaesarsalad]

We are going to scam you.

[saintsenara]

luna x borgin? i could see this going disastrously for all involved. post-hogwarts she’s a shop girl a la tom riddle, and she manages to convince him that the crumpled horn of the crumple-horned snorkack would bring in millions of galleons to borgin & burke’s if only they go off together to look for it … 👀 he’s quite nosy when we see him in CoS but also likes to talk a bit of behind-the-back shit. luna’s ministry conspiracy theories (when chatted off eight hours a day) would probably interest him. meanwhile she’s being shaped into the world’s worst informant for the remaining voldemort sympathizers. do we think they could flop in a fun way?

banger.

my preferred version of luna's post-hogwarts journey sees her skipping off happily to become an mlm hun. the impression we get of borgin and burkes in canon - operates as a closed-circuit of select customers all buying and selling from each other, scams poorly-educated women, your upline gets to strut in every so often and be a bitch to you about how you will buy his poisons - suggests that it's already a well-known player in the pyramid scheme game.

two weeks into her job, and luna suggests flogging essential oils alongside all the cursed necklaces. borgin is delighted and begins to suspect that she might be the one.

things crash and burn when it emerges that luna was claiming that a sniff of sandalwood could not only keep away nargles but could prevent any form of curse damage. borgin's entire downline is dead, lucius is fuming, and voldemort - seeing which way the wind is blowing - switches to a gofundme scam, conning people out of vet fees for nagini, instead.

[overheard-at-hogwarts]

Draco: I'd like to buy your strongest poison.

Borgin: Aisle six, next to the sympathy cards.

[hpnames]

Owner of the Borgin and Burkes antique shop (pictured), Mr Borgin deals with Dark artifacts. Lucius Malfoy sells him a few items to evade Ministry raids conducted by Arthur Weasley, and Draco uses a couple of objects from the shop years later. It is unknown what happened to his coworker, Caractacus Burke, who was once lucky to buy the Slytherin Locket from a desperate Merope Riddle, and years later hired Tom Riddle to work at the shop.

I imagine that Borgin might be a play on “bargain”.

Caractacus is a variation of Caratacus, British hero who fought the Roman invaders. The name means “beloved”.

Burke is a British slang for murder, referring to William Burke, a serial killer who, with help from a partner, murdered dozens of people in Edinburgh in the 1820s and sold the bodies to a medical school.

Bonus: the shop is located at Knockturn Alley, which is a play on “nocturnally” (“during the night”, referring to the shop’s shady business).

[my-beautiful-wickedness]

365 days of Harry Potter

Day 228

[calebski]

Leading Men Series: Reboot #36 Basil Borgin (Borgin)

Scruples can be overcome - By desire, or galleons

[Rare Character]

Co-proprietor, Borgin and Burkes, Knockturn Alley.

[youre-a-w1zard-harry]

Borgin and Burkes

13B Knockturn Alley

[my1galaxy]

BORGIN      & BURKE