#moja rambles

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Merry Christmas/Holidays everyone! :3

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I love being a crafty person with a cat.

*written while desperately trying to wrangle away her thread from her cat's mouth* XD

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Some rambling about “Fantastic Beasts” ahead…

Had I been given free reign to finish the series, I’d have given Grindelwald a second Hallow. It would have raised the stakes and given Dumbledore a (dire!) reason to finally move (‘Gellert’s one step closer to being the master of death! I have to step in NOW before we're past the point of no return!’) and it could easily be fit into the timeline: Riddle had acquired the ring in 1943. Have Gellert find out in-between 1943 and 1945 and steal it from him - which would have given these two dark wizards, one veteran and one in the making, a nice connecting line as well - and Dumbledore taking but never using it after the duel. And have Riddle steal it back, when he visits the school after 1945 as he asks to become a teacher. See, the timeline fits perfectly!

Hell, you could even hint at Riddle already having created two Horcrux by him being unfazed by Gellert threatening him - can’t kill him, after all. 

Plus, with the ring/stone temporarily in Gellert’s possession…guess what he can exploit perfectly to throw Dumbledore off balance in the final duel? Exactly - ‘I resurrected your sister, this is what she told me…’ Cruel, just cruel. 

The ring would overall work better than the cloak - Gellert explicitly wanted to ring for strategic reasons and it’s not entirely unfeasible for him to come across the Gaunts boasting about it…

And not giving him all three hallows leaves speculation open as to what being a master of death truly means....

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You know what I just realized, after reading another post, about the Battle of Hogwarts and Tonks & Bellatrix's deaths?

A mother (Tonks) was killed by a mother (Bellatrix) was killed by a mother (Molly Weasley). It's a red line, connecting all three characters.

You cannot tell me this wasn't intentional and symbolic.

And this makes me wonder about the fate of Molly Weasley...

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Disappointed that there are what feels like 1,281,273 fics about characters we know very little about (looking at you, Regulus Black and the entire entourage of characters allegedly aligned with the marauders) but the fandom completely SLEEPS on characters we know just as much about, but who actually have a fascinating political stand. :/

For example, I have included Carlotta Pinkstone now in two of my fics, but she has all but 6 (!) fics on Ao3 (and I’d say she’s the focus of two of them :/) and nearly no posts here on tumblr. 

Now, what makes me so curious about her?

She’s born in 1922, so a) she was likely a student of Dumbledore. b) She was alive and grew up with the festering conflict with Grindelwald, so she was probably influenced, and confronted with his political stand and the opposition. c)She developed a resistance against the Statute of Secrecy, believing that wizarding and muggle societies should mix (and boy let me tell you, I cannot make this an essay about why I think this should absolutely be debated more within the HP fandom and in-universe as well but it should!) And finally, d) She was willing to stand for her point so strongly that she went to Azkaban SEVERAL times for showcasing magic to muggles. 

We do not know what spells she used in front of muggles (I have my own headcanons that she actually attempted to help muggles with medical issues/struggles, but that’s only a headcanon), but one definitely has to admire the defiance and perseverance of this woman. On top- we don’t know when she went into prison, but she could have been at Azkaban during times when the Death Eaters were either burning the country, were imprisoned themselves or even reigning. So for her to SURVIVE a dictatorship that stood directly opposite to what she wanted to represent…that woman has balls of TITANIUM. 

And the fandom is completely sleeping on her. :/

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Seriously, Harry being somewhat of average height (let's say he's 1.80m, that seems to be a number floating around a lot) and Ginny being pretty small gives the CC fandom the unique chance of having James (II) and Lily (II) being of smaller to average height, too and ALBUS, of all people, completely defying genetics and ending up at ~1.95m or something. XD

(And Scorpius actually ending up smaller than his boyfriend, yanno?)

So, I'd say, advocate for small/average height Harry, it opens a lot of funny possibilites for the next generation.

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More rambling about the Blood Pact and omfg, did I just solve the riddle of the ages of who killed Ariana Dumbledore?!?

My own realization shocked me so much I figured this deserved its own post.

Within this post, I started to take apart the rules of the Blood Pact and concluded that

a) during the three-way duel in Godric’s Hollow in 1899, Gellert wore the Blood Pact

b) the Blood Pact did not activate during the duel, so

…Gellert was unlikely to have WANTED to attack Albus during this duel.

So probably, if we go all technical, his spells were NOT aimed at Albus.

Now, by Aberforth’s description of the duel in Deathly Hallows. Albus stepped in to stop the duel.

And here is where I think things get interesting. Because we have TWO scenes that I was made aware of are quite close, but…not identical. They are parallels and I think, very much intentionally made so by the writers.

The three-way duel of Godric’s Hollow in 1899 and the three-way duel of Bhutan in 1932 (the latter being, admittedly, short, lol).

Both times, we have four participants in EXACTLY the same constellation. Albus, Aberforth, Gellert AND an Obscurial. Both times, the Blood Pact exists (though is it carried by different person).

But only the last time, the Blood Pact breaks. Now why is that so? There MUST be a crucial difference between the scenes. And, from all I can gather, the differences are:

In 1932, Albus is wearing the Blood Pact.

In 1932, Credence survives.

Forgive me if I disregard a), because I think it’s unlikely the boys made a pact that differentiated between who was wearing it. That wouldn’t work into the aim of the pact to begin with (aka to keep them BOTH from fighting each other). And even while Gellert was wearing the pact, Albus didn’t move against him…if the Blood Pact wouldn’t have affected him, why should he not have moved already before 1932?

Okay, let’s go on. So the crucial difference is, in 1932 Credence survives. But what are the implications?

By Albus’ words in SoD, Gellert wanted to KILL, while he wanted to protect. That is bluntly what he states to be the reason the blood pact broke. And Albus succeeded this time, Credence is alive.

But…wait…

What does this say about the duel in 1899???

It means that, during the duel in 1899, either Albus DIDN’t want to protect his siblings or else, Gellert DIDN’T want to kill. Because otherwise, the conditions would have been exactly the same as in Bhutan, 1932, and the pact would have broken in 1899 already.

And, frankly…I already pointed out, Gellert wouldn’t have wanted to hurt Albus. He didn’t want to kill him, thus wouldn’t have used a spell that had the potential to kill Albus. Albus, on the other…you cannot tell me that he didn’t want to protect his siblings, even then. :/ So Albus wasn’t the one to cast a spell capable of killing anyone, either.

It isn’t either that the Blood Pact takes the person the spell is aimed at into consideration, too! It did break when Gellert wanted to hurt/kill Aurelius, who is all but a stand-in for Ariana in this situation. Had Gellert wanted to hurt/kill Ariana, it should have broken, too.

So…uh…

Conclusion is, during the duel of 1899, ABERFORTH cast a spell capable of killing and probably killed his sister.

O.O

Alternatives:

Honestly, the first alternative I can think of is that the Blood Pact took into consideration the fact that hurting/killing Ariana was an accident. Meaning that, if either Albus or Gellert accidentally cast a spell that, in nature, would not have aimed to kill, but was too strong for Ariana, anyway, the Blood Pact would have registered the non-lethal intention and wouldn’t have activated/broken. We have not seen the clear nature of the Pact, only know through Albus that the Pact is sensitive enough to register even the THOUGHT of working against each other.

Which brings us to a second alternative that is, imo, even darker (yay). If we assume that the Blood Pact works in that it registers all actions Albus& Gellert take that would work AGAINST a collaboration, as in, it would activate the second one of them thinks to scheme against the other…and it didn’t activate, neither break through the duel in 1899…and Gellert did enter the duel with the intention to hurt/kill Ariana….

…then the Blood Pact did not consider that an act AGAINST the partnership, but as an act STRENGTHENING it. The magic within the Blood Pact would have considered Ariana’s death something BENEFITTING the relationship of Albus&Gellert. Holy shit, how macabre is that. :O (And, obvi, that did not work out in reality.)

(Disclaimer: Of course, as all of this is formed around my own conclusions, feel free to discuss it with me. :3)

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Re: Ariana dying on Albus' birthday.

(Not my canon, but interesting and valid nevertheless)

Of course this would have a profound effect in Albus. He himself would likely never want to celebrate his birthday ever again and everyone in the known and close to him (Elphias, Aberforth) would likely not want to either, or respect his wishes.

But what about the public? The tabloids? Once he gets famous, there's a guarantee each and every year in August, he gets articles about his accomplishments, his fame, his character, his development...those ideolizing him and NOT knowing too much about him would send him cards and wishes and gifts maybe even...

Oh, that would rip him apart mentally. All that praise on that specific day and all he can think about is the death of his sister.