#myrtle warren

[ashlunes]

Not the secret she expected him to confess

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It’s a small, easy to forget but incredibly important detail that Draco befriended Moaning Myrtle.

Think about it. Draco Malfoy - Slytherin pureblood raised to be a blood supremacist Death Eater who threw the “Mudblood” slur around left and right as a child - grew so close with the ghost of a Muggle-born witch who was killed by his master that they exchanged all their secrets and she was his only true confidant in sixth year. He let her see a side of him that nobody else saw; he let her see that he is sensitive, and people bully him too, and he allowed himself to cry in front of her multiple times.

All of this is canon.

That unlikely friendship alone almost certainly contributed to his change in loyalties and loss of faith in Voldemort’s cause. Her being a ghost forced him to look past her blood status and - quite literally - see her soul. She helped open his eyes to how little a person’s blood status actually matters.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that JKR introduced this crucial, in many ways groundbreaking detail … and then totally brushed it off. A huge basis for a full redemption for Draco in Deathly Hallows was already established by this unlikely friendship, but of course, it went nowhere, because she just wouldn’t dwell on any positive plot point or character development for Draco that she herself came up with and put into canon.

[tohru02]

Knights of Walpurgis Era students!

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𝕶𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖂𝖆𝖑𝖕𝖚𝖗𝖌𝖎𝖘 𝕰𝖗𝖆 𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙

!! UPDATED VERSION !!

WIP : this list is unorganized and I am in the process of organizing information in it.

-> note: those who are unfamiliar with KoW era may mistake characters such as Euphemia Potter or Fleamont Potter as part of it. They were born in the 1910s, so would have been born a little too early to qualify! (+ many of the older professors as well) this list only included characters born from 1921-1935. Anything before 1920 is what I call “The Forgotten Era”, including characters such as Callidora, Cedrella, Charis, Euphemia, Fleamont, Merope, Marius, Dorea, Irma, ect.

-> note 2: some characters we only have last names for. Some characters we only have first names for.

1. Who were the Knights of Walpurgis?

The Knights of Walpurgis was the pre-existing club that would later develop into the Death Eaters. It was led by Tom Riddle, and his "friend group" (though, allegedly, he didn't truly care for any of them.) It would have started in his earlier years at Hogwarts and the official club disbanded in 1945 (and founded in 1938), when he graduated. The absolutely confirmed members are Tom Riddle (duh), Avery Snr, Lestrange Snr, and possible members are Rosier Snr, Mulciber I, and Nott Snr. A lot of people have actual names for the characters, but they are all fannon. I myself have a few hc names for the members as well! Abraxas Malfoy is not anywhere on the confirmed or potential list, and neither are any members of the Black family. (the Black family members that would attend Hogwarts around the same time was Riddle would be: Walburga and Lucretia, who would be almost exactly Tom's age, then also Alphard, Cygnus, and Orion who would be a few years younger. + also Araminta who would be way younger than Tom and the others)

Knights of Walpurgis -> play on the Walpurgis Night, the evening of April 30 when, according to legend, witches and demons gather.

CHARACTER LIST

• Tom Marvolo Riddle (December 1926 - March 1998) - the leader

• Abraxas Malfoy (Lucius Malfoys father) (born before 1954...hc: 1926*)

• Orion Black (Sirius Black’s father) (1929 - 1997)

• Alphard Black (sometime between 1925-1928, hc: 1928, Cygnus's twin) (cygnus & alphard are walburga's younger brothers, children of Pollux Black and Irma Black (nee Crabbe) )

• Cygnus Black (1928** yes im aware his tree says 1938, but jkr admitted herself that was a mistake, so im changing it from 38 to 28) (also boo jkr sucks, how do you mess up SIMPLE math like this??) (1928 - 1992)

• Ignatius Prewett (marries Lucretia later, uncle to Fabian, Gideon and Molly Prewett, implying he likely has a sibling) (*born 1925)

• Walburga “Octavia” Black (born in 1925) (Sirius Black’s mother)

• Druella “Emmerence” Rosier-Black (hc born 1925) (mother to Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa, married Cygnus Black)

• Lucretia Black-Prewett (born 1925) (born to Melania Black (nee MacMillan) and Arcturus Black III, married Ignatius Prewett, sister to Orion Black)

• Eileen Prince (mother of Severus Snape) (born before 1930)...hc: 1928

•Myrtle “Elizabeth” Warren (aka "moaning myrtle") (1929 - 1943)

• Olive Hornby (myrtle's bully) (born 1929*)

Olive Hornby’s unnamed brother (born around 1929) (hc: 1928) (hc name: Oscar Hornby)

• Tobias Snape (father of Severus Snape) (hc: born 1928)

• Lyall Lupin (father of Remus Lupin) (born 1929)

• Frenir Greyback (werewolf who bit remus lupin) (born before 1947, hc 1929)

• Rubeus Hagrid (born 1928)

• Hope Howell (mother of Remus Lupin) (born before 1982)...Hc: 1929

• Unnamed Longbottom (hc name Flynn Longbottom) (hc: 1925)

• Elspeth McKinnon (hc her name before marriage was Elspeth Pettigrew) (hc: born 1925)

• Mrs Pettigrew (no first name or recognized name before marriage) (hc: born 1925)

• Mr Pettigrew (no first name or recognized name before marriage) (hc: 1925)

• Angus McKinnon (related to Marlene McKinnon, often depicted as a father) (hc: born 1925)

• Enid __ (married name is Longbottom) (hc: born 1925) -> marries Algie

• Augusta ___ (married name is Longbottom) (hc: born 1925)

• Algie Longbottom (hc: born 1925)

• Winky Crockett (slytherin, quidditch captain from 1940-1944) (hc: born 1925)

• Bernie Bott (wizard bean dude aka guy who made those disgusting flavoured jellybean things) (born before 1935) (hc: 1926)

• Barty Crouch Sr (father of Barty Crouch Jr) (hc: born 1927)

• Florean Fortescue (runs an ice cream shop in Hogsmeade) (hc: born 1928)

• Ignatius Tuft (minister for magic, was in office from 1959 to 1962) (hc: born 1925)

• Mrs Parkinson: no first name or recognized name before marriage (hc born 1926)

• Mrs Greengrass: no first name or recognized name before marriage (hc born 1925)

• Mrs Carrow: no first name or recognized name before marriage (hc: born 1924) (hc name -> Amorette Carrow)

• Mrs Malfoy (would have a different maiden name) (mother of Lucius Malfoy) (hc born 1926)

• Mrs Mulciber (would have a different maiden name) (mother to Bruce Mulciber II) (hc born 1926)

• Mrs Nott (would have a different maiden name) (hc born 1926)

• Lestrange Snr (hc 1926)

• Edmund Avery Snr (hc born 1926)

• Mulciber I (hc born 1926)

• Rosier Snr (hc: 1926) (I have an oc for him named Evander Victoire Rosier, brother to Druella and a few OCs)

• Wilbert Slinkhard (author of a defensive magic book, often hc as wendy slinkhard's father) (born before 1978, hc: 1929)

• (unnamed) Nott (possible relation to Theodore Nott) (hc born 1926)

• Mrs Crouch / Barty Snr's wife, no first name or recognized name before marriage (hc: born 1926) (hc name -> Ophelia)

• Nobby Leach (minister of Magic) (born pre-1945, hc: 1925)

• Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank (born in or before 1930) (hc: 1928)

• Irma Pince (born before 1974) (hc: 1928)

• Argus Filch (born before 1951) (hc: 1925)

• Poppy Pomfrey (nurse at hogwarts) (born before 1954, hc: 1925)

• Minerva Mcgonagall (teacher at hogwarts, head of gryffindor house) (hc born 1925, on October 4th)

• Malcom McGonagall (Minerva’s brother) (hc born 1928)

• Robert McGonagall Jnr (Minerva’s other brother) (hc: born 1929)

• Elphinstone Urquart (McGonall’s husband, died in 1985, married her in 1982) (hc: born 1925)

• Eugenia Jenkins (served as the 29th minister of magic from 1968 to 1975) (born before 1951, hc: 1925)

• Margot Droope (received an award in 1944) (born before or in 1931, hc; 1926)

• Miranda Goshawk (born 1921) (author who wrote the standard book of spells, a Herbology encyclopedia, and the third volume of the Which Owl series) (Miranda’s siblings are all older and would technically be the era before her, but she has 8 older sisters. We know the name of three; Diadema, Romilda and Tangwystl)

• Suzanne Sterling-McGregor (hc name for Dougal McGregor’s wife, who is also a muggle Scottish farmer) (hc: born 1925)

• Havana Everleigh-Hornby (hc name for Olive Hornby’s brother’s wife) (hc: born 1928)

• Selena Sapworthy (author of textbooks and has a portrait in Hogwarts hung up that’s based on a portrait of Mary Shelley) (hc: born 1928)

• Arabella Doreen Fig (cat obsessed squib from Little Whinging) (hc: born 1925)

• Ragmar Dorkins (manager of the Chudley Cannons Quidditch team. his team lost 350-0 in a game against the Appleby Arrows.) (hc: born 1928)

• Dominic Maestro (runs a record shop) (hc: born 1928)

• Valeria Myrriad (was head of Gryffindor house before Minerva) (hc: born 1923)

• Kevin Broadmoor (beater for the Falmouth Falcons, got no less than 14 suspensions for rule breaking) (hc: born 1925)

• Karl Broadmoor (beater for Falcon Falmouths, got no less than 14 suspensions for rule breaking) (hc: born 1925)

• Glynnis Griffiths (seeker for Holyhead harpies) (hc: born 1925)

• Billy Stubbs (lived in the same orphanage as Tom Riddle) (hc: born 1929)

• Amy Benson (lived in the same orphanage as Tom Riddle, Tom showed her something in a cave that scared her enough into silence. Mrs Cole described her behaviour as strange after that incident) (hc: born 1926)

• Denis Bishop (lived in the same orphanage as Tom Riddle, Tom showed him something in a cave that scared him enough into silence as well. Mrs Cole described his behaviour as strange after that incident too) (hc: born 1926)

• Ellen Cracknell-Umbridge (Dolores Umbridge’s muggle mother). (hc: born 1926)

• Orford Umbridge (Dolores Umbridge’s wizard father) (hc: born 1927)

• Antoine Grimalkin (was a powerful Dark wizard and Death Eater who fought during the First Wizarding War alongside his wife) (hc: born 1926)

• Bedilia (original last name unknown)-Grimalkin (fought in first wizarding war along his wife) (hc: born 1926)

• Rosa Kasaru (one of the grandma’s of Tulip Kasaru, is highly speculated to be in a relationship with Mary Kasaru + culinary judge) (hc: born 1926)

• Mary Kasaru (one of grandma’s to Tulip Kasaru, is highly speculated to be in a relationship with Rosa Kasaru) (so one of them was born with a different last name but idk which one lol + culinary judge) (hc: born 1926)

• Kellen Carrion (owned a poaching business for magical creatures + also is a muggleborn) (hc: born 1927)

• Catriona McCormack (Captain and Chaser of the Pride of Portree in the 1960s) (hc: born 1928)

• Gwendolyn Morgan (witch who played Quidditch for the Holyhead Harpies) (hc: born 1925)

• Hamish MacFarlan (quidditch player for the Montrose Magpies) (hc: born 1927)

• Agnes Nutt (elderly witch living in Hogsmeade) (hc: born 1925)

• Filius Flitwick (Hogwarts professor) (hc: born 1927)

• Pomana Sprout (Hogwarts Herbology professor) (born 1931 or 1932)

• Theo Strongarm (potioneer who served as a member of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force) (hc: born 1924)

• “Dorothy ‘Dottie’” Pudifoot (hc name for Madam Pudifoot, creds to @ace-aussie-asshole for the name!) (runs Pudifoot’s Tea Shop and loves all think pink and lovey dovey) (hc: born 1927)

• Matthias Pickering (selfish wizard who founded The Unforgivable to make himself rich and powerful) (hc: born 1923)

• Ewan Ward (Auror) (hc: born 1924)

• Alastor ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody (auror) (hc: born 1924)

• Wilkie Twycross (employee for ministry of magic) (hc: born 1926)

• Eunice Murray (Seeker for the Montrose Magpies. Died 1942) (hc: born 1924)

• Araminta Melfiula Black (walburga's cousin, noted for her hatred of muggles) (no birthdate) (hc: 1932)

• Erica Stainwright (houskeeping guru in the 1950s) (born 1932)

• Neil Lament (slytherin quidditch captain from 1944-1948) (hc: born 1930)

+ many other unnamed parents of marauders characters lol

MY OCS

Cecile Lois Rosier (druella's older sister, second born) (born 1923, died 1949)

Eldora Colette Rosier (druella's oldest sister, first born) (born 1920)

Malika Lestrange (born 1923). -> mother to Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange

Merletta Vida Rowle (born 1926) -> would marry Evander and become the mother to Evan, Pandora and Felix Rosier

Marvin Vida Rowle (born 1926) -> Merletta’s dead twin brother

Florence Trelawney (sybil trelawney's mother) (born 1926)

did i miss anyone??

(Excluding a lot of “___’s characters parents, just trying to go for people who are mostly named!)

also if u have any hc names for some of the parents pls share!

FRIEND GROUPS

The “Damsels of Walpurgis” (credit to @ace-aussie-asshole for the group name idea)

- Mrs Nott

- Mrs Lestrange

- Mrs Mulciber

- Mrs Avery

- Mrs Rosier

- Mrs Malfoy (mother to Lucius Malfoy) (technically her future husband is not apart of the Knights, but she’s included in this anyway)

- Mrs Dolohov (mother to Antonin Dolohov) (husband would also not be a part of the knights)

- Druella Rosier (née Black) (her husband was also not apart of the Knights, but I think she’s included since she’s a Rosier and has family still associated with the knight)

• almost none of these women have cannon names, but since all the men of the Knights all have kin of the next generation bearing the same family names, it is rightful assume all of those men got married. The “Damels of Walpurgis” refers to these women, BEFORE they got married. They would have their maiden names. @ace-aussie-asshole made a post about this group of women, coming up with fannon names for them: here is the post

The Vixens

- Walburga Black

- Lucretia Black

- Druella Rosier

- Eileen Prince

The Knights of Walpurgis

- Tom Marvollo Riddle

- Lestrange Snr

- Mulciber I

- Nott Snr

- Rosier Snr

- Edmund Avery I

[overheard-at-hogwarts]

Sirius: Who do you think would be easier to sleep with: Moaning Myrtle or a Mountain Troll? James: Mountain Troll.

[wisteria-lodge]

Why do some readers/writers dislike an ambitious, talented and compassionate female character like Hermione but love charachters like Lavender or Myrtle whos shown to be average and desperate for attention from boys?

So there are a couple of things going on here.

One is that people don't like perfect characters. We have names for perfect characters - like "goody-two shoes" and "mary sue."

I love Hermione to bits, but I love that while she's good at observing people, she's actually not great at people. She can miss things, accidentally be judgy or insulting, accidentally come off as too intense and annoying. Of course, sometimes she's intense and annoying on purpose, and that ties into her "bring a gun to a knife fight" problem solving strategy. I love that she has a tendency to panic and freeze up, I love that she argues for fun, that "pleased" on her often manifests as "smug." I love that she's a workaholic, and has this intense need to be useful that leads to her downplaying or hiding her own issues - and playing a kind of support-staff mom-friend role that she does chafe against if she does it too long.

But. I also get that Hermione reminds a lot of people of that cousin who picks fights about politics at Christmas. If someone finds her annoying and self-righteous in a way that isn't compelling, I get that.

I do think there's one more thing going on here, especially with this particular collection of characters. Recently, I've been watching a push back against JKR's framing, which I'm honestly enjoying very much.

Basically, there are some characters who get really flattering edits in the books. Hermione, Mrs. Weasley, Dumbledore are good examples of this. The narrative voice works hard to justify, excuse, or downplay everything they do that's shady, mean, or unpleasant. (and they all do shady, mean, and unpleasant things.)

Then there are characters who are given really unflattering edits. The narrative punishes them, goes with worst possible interpretation of their actions, likes embarrassing them or painting them as pathetic or silly. Draco is the poster boy for all of this. Rita Skeeter is another great example. And I'd say Myrtle and Lavender get pretty negative framing as well.

And so, I think there's a tendency in the fandom to try and flip that framing. Fanworks, and especially fanfiction, want to supply something that wasn't there in the original. The books (and the Fantastic Beasts films especially) are full of unquestionably good, god-like Dumbledore. So what if we explored his darker, more manipulative, side? Hermione's getting hit with some of that as well, and I don't think it's surprising. I think this might have something to do with the slow fandom swing away from Remus... although he's a less clean example, since he was framed very negatively during the later books.

And then of course, the flip of this exists too. Draco obviously, but I'm seeing a real interest in reframing and fleshing out the HP characters who were not treated well by the narrative, especially the ladies. Instead of treating them as stock characters and villains, lets give them the benefit of the doubt. What does it look like inside their heads? Are they really as bad as the narrative makes them out to be? Bellatrix was probably the first, because she's sort of a goth Harley Quinn and has a great look. But now I'm seeing a lot of love for like - Rita Skeeter, Parvati, PANSY. People are shipping Umbridge now apparently?

So Myrtle. Treated a comic character, but once you take away thaat framing she's tragic. (and one of Voldemort's first victims, which gives her a very interesting place in the narrative.) If anyone knows a good fic covering the period in Book 6 where Myrtle and Draco were besties, link me. That has the potential to be such a interesting relationship. Myrtle is of course a perv, which is bad, but also fits in with the way that the books don't take sexual misconduct seriously when it's girl-on-guy. I'd love to read something that leans into those tendencies of hers. Make her a proper, scary villain. Maybe she and Tom Riddle had a past. Myrtlemort lets gooooo.

And... Lavender is in the running for the single character treated worst by the narrative. She didn't do anything, she's just kind of there. She seems girly and femme. She likes Divination. She has a pet rabbit who dies. She's into Ron. She joins the DA, she's part of Neville's resistance. And then the "Won-Won" segments frame her as the most embarrassing, desperate, cringy person who has ever existed. and then she's attacked by Greyback? and in film canon dies? What a thankless character arc. I'm not surprised at all that people have taken that and had fun with it.

Also, just putting this out there. Hepizbah Smith. You guys. Show me Hepzibah Smith with some different framing over the top. She's low-key Tom Riddle's sugar mommy, that is so interesting. Aunt Muriel, she should be a staple of Young!Dumbledore fics. She is mean, and wears crazy hats, and reads people for filth, and has all the tea on everyone. (Also is there a Mr. Aunt Muriel? no there is not.)

Okay. okay. one last one and then I'll stop.

Griselda Marchbanks. Very minor character obviously, BUT. She's high ranking Wizangamot, quits in solidarity when Dumbledore loses his seat, runs the OWLs/NEWTS, and Lucius Malfoy and Augusta Longbottom are in a friendship tug of war over her. I have to know more.

[hptrash-lookaway]

Does anyone else ever think about how even tho Tom Riddle didn’t mean to kill Myrtle, her death still counted for shattering his soul, which means that even if Voldemort’s first death didn’t count against Harry and was counted as Lily’s kill, he’d still be on the hook for Quirrel’s death/Voldemort’s second death in his first year by that logic?

Idk I’m just always thinking about Harry worrying about the state of his soul and worried about being secretly unforgivably evil because of two events no one would really consider his fault, but apparently intent doesn’t matter

[baldingandproudofit]

I made some memes for the fanfiction Ghost in the Latrine by @tealpeal

Myrtle at any given moment )but also when she talked with Hornby in chapter ten)

chapter eleven:

Chapter thirteen:

Will probably add more later bc they make me chuckle lmao