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[daggermckinnon]

Event: The Nott Party November 4th, 1980

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Marcus straightened his sleeves, rolling back his shoulders so that he stood an inch taller. He was learning. He had dressed his best, but not so well that he had the look of someone trying too hard. His robes he had purchased especially for parties like these, and they were plain because they were the only dress robes he had in his possession. The golden embroidery was subtle, and Marcus had taken to twisting it with a spell between formal events so that it took a new design each time he wore it. Tonight, it formed a neat braid along the cuffs. Anything more would be ostentatious for one who had climbed up from a pile of corpses.

If Narcissa had noticed him hovering, she didn’t show it. But then he would never have expected either of the Malfoys to acknowledge him so openly. He was just a McKinnon (and Marcus feared that was all he would ever be)--they had no reason to. But Marcus wanted more. What, he didn’t know exactly. Answers maybe. A map, someone to tell him what the fuck he was doing. A distraction from the past and the memories that replayed in his head every time he closed his eyes, every time he got even a whiff of iron or rust.

He waited until her conversation had ended and the wix she’d been speaking to moved on. Then he made his move, standing some two feet from Narcissa, observing the flowers decorating the hedge as if he wasn’t immune to any beauty they might possess. Oh Marcus saw it alright--these flowers were luminous, clearly imbued with magic--but it left a bitter taste in his mouth. These people had so much, while Marcus had sold his soul just to have a roof over his head. 

“Alexander Nott in the Wizengamot,” he said quietly. “I’ll be seeing his face a lot more from now on.” And his schedule. His correspondences. But was he useful to the Silent Dagger. He looked at Narcissa; her beauty wasn’t lost on him either, and though it didn’t leave that bitter taste, it was terrifying. She was terrifying. Maybe if Marcus hadn’t already lived through the worst kind of nightmare, he'd never have let himself have anything to do with her or Lucius. But he had, and instead of trembling in fear, he felt the same daring and reckless courage as if he were holding his hand over an flame. 

[markedpotter]

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ladylycorine replied to your post: I have almost finished all of Gail Carriger’s...

Build a game…the fandom might find you. Happened to me with Animorphs.

There was a grand total of 1 indie in this fandom so I don’t think it’ll fly... buuuuuuut....

Marauders/HP au?

[daggermckinnon]

Denmark & Winter - Don’t Fear the Reaper

Seasons don’t fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain, we can be like they are

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Narcissa Malfoy inspires Marcus. If she has someone to grieve for (Marcus has heard the whispers about her sister, the one who married the muggleborn), you’d never know it from looking at her. It’s been a year since Marcus’ family died, but he still feels like it’s something you can see on him, like he’s still covered in flecks of their blood or coated in their ashes. The presence of someone like Narcissa in his life is exactly what Marcus needed after their deaths. He has never seen anyone as self-possessed as Narcissa. She’s bold, and brave, undermining the Dark Lord in secret, and she has the foresight and caution to bound them all to secrecy, a little piece of magic that has saved Marcus numerous times already. If she fears death, she certainly doesn’t show it. And it’s infectious. When Narcissa pressed the knife to his flesh, Marcus should have feared for his life. He was about to take another step further from everything he’d been raised to be, further from his family; a defiance that was sure to bring him death, if it ever came to light. And yet for the first time Marcus felt alive. It was secret, exciting. Standing in her light made him feel strong by proxy. The Malfoys gave him purpose, a job at the Ministry. As a Silent Dagger, Marcus is redefining happiness without his parents and Matthew. And if he dies in the process, at least then he doesn’t have to feel their deaths anymore.  

[markedpotter]

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Number Thirty-Three: Battle Pack (We Fight So Well Together)

James might’ve never noticed Narcissa Malfoy had he not been invited to attend a party once at the Malfoy Manor (alongside Evan, of course, always with Evan). To James, it had always been her husband he’s had to look out for, but Narcissa showed him that it wasn’t always the ones with the Mark that were the problem. He knows purebloods - and she’s pureblood. She’s got the robes and the hair and the coy smile. She even has the son to dote on, the only child she’ll likely ever need. And James would’ve underestimated her, had it not been the fact that he tended to stay in the shadows whenever around a large group of Death Eaters, and had seen Narcissa subtly take down a grown man with just the bite of her tongue.

Yaxley had been going on about something he’d done for the Dark Lord and, apparently, it was something he shouldn’t have taken credit for because Narcissa’s innocent line of questioning had led to the entire story derailing. No one would blame her, of course, she was simply asking, but James had noticed her smirk behind her glass of champagne and gaped.

He understands now that a battle isn’t always with a wand.

[markedpotter]

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☤ : Is there anything about their health they are continuously on edge about? Something they disregard?

Physically, James is pretty healthy. Yes, his body has more scars than it used to (Dittany was in short supply in the dungeons where he was tortured), but he’s physically fit. It’s his mental health that he struggles with. Sometimes, it feels like he has two sets of memories. He may have a dream that feels so real and wake up with an entire new recollection. In these moments, he disregards the dream as nothing but exactly that - a dream. But that doesn’t change the fact that sometimes he remembers one thing, sometimes something completely different. It doesn’t change the fact that he knows his friends really well and all his memories don’t add up to what he thinks they would do or say. But… they’re memories. They’ve got to be real then, don’t they?

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Oh why not just do all the muggle ones? You know, because Muggles are so classy right? || What is your character’s opinion of Muggles? // Does your character look down on Muggleborns? // Would your character ever use the phrase ‘Mudblood’? // Is your character familiar with Muggle technologies, customs, or money? // What is your character’s blood status? // Has your character ever watched TV or gone to the movies?

What is your character’s opinion of Muggles? 

That’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer.His view of muggles is of course very negative, but there’s a lotof ground to cover with this question.

Like many wizards Lucius thinks muggles and theircostumes are strange, and not in a quaint way. The belief that mugglesociety is somehow lesser than wizarding society is prevalent evenamong wizards who aren’t blood-supremacists, and so Lucius feelssafe in displaying some of his distaste for muggles publicly –after all, almost everyone agrees that trying to understand orinteract with muggles is a waste of time, and those who disagreedon’t matter.

But of course Lucius feels more than the typicaldisdain expressed by the bulk of wizardkind – he actively hatesmuggles. He sees them as a threat to wizards and their customs, andthat contact between the two groups would inevitably lead to thedestruction of the one with less members, meaning his side. TheStatute of Secrecy doesn’t help either because all it does is forcewizards into hiding – and though he doesn’t want to coexist withmuggles he thinks it’s a disgrace that the wizards are the ones whohave to hide. He firmly believes that muggles have to die for thewizarding community to prosper.

It’s also good to remark on the aspect of bloodpurity. Lucius subscribes to the idea that the more muggle ancestrysomeone has the more likely it will be that they will be terriblewizards, and the mixing of blood will eventually lead to theextinction of all magic in a lineage. At the same time he isn’t asradical as someone such as, say, Bellatrix, so he’s fine withhalf-bloods (although he still sees them as inherently inferior) andcan mask his disgust of muggles and muggleborns well enough forpolite-society.

Lucius’ hatred of muggles comes, not surprisingly,from fear. He sees muggles and muggleborns as things that can changethe wizarding society, what it means to be a wizard or witch, andeven magic itself, and as someone who craves stability the prospectis terrifying. He still very much believes in all of the blood-puritythings, but his strongest, guttural reactions are motivated by thefear of the things he thinks he’ll lose due to the presence ofmuggles and muggleborns.

Does your character look down on Muggleborns? 

Yes. He believes that muggle-blood dissolvesmagic-blood and consequently magic itself, and therefore magicproduced by muggleborns is lesser than those produced by pure-bloodand even half-blood wizards, as if it were tainted.

Would your character ever use the phrase‘Mudblood’? 

ONLY ALL THE TIME?! Really though: He doesn’t useit in public or with people whose opinions on muggle-borns he isn’tfamiliar with, but he uses it liberally around people who share hisviews.

Is your character familiar with Muggletechnologies, customs, or money?

Lucius avoids associating with muggles on principle,but on the occasions he’s had to go out in the muggle world heobserved and heard enough to know what a car looks like, thatelectricity is a thing that exists, things like that. He’s morefamiliar with muggle economy as he’s dipped his toe in the murkypond of capitalism before, but he refuses to deal with muggles inperson and hires someone to do it for him.

What is your character’s blood status? 

The official answer is, of course, pureblood. BUT theMalfoys have this dirty little secret, which Lucius  is privyto, that they had a couple of half-bloods in the family. If onefollows the most common definition of pure-blood (read: not the oneused by most blood-supremacists) that a pureblood is someone who hasmagical parents and grandparents then Lucius would indeed be apureblood, but by the more extreme measures (that say that absolutelyall of a person’s ancestors had to be pureblood) he isn’t. TheMalfoys did all manner of things (bribery, threats, murder, etc.) tokeep it a secret, and I wouldn’t advise any characters who aren’tclose to Lucius to mention it. If you bring up the half-bloods in hisfamily tree, he’ll bring on the pain - I am not even jokingright now.

Has your character ever watched TV or gone to themovies? 

No. And he is really proud of it too.