I don’t know if anyone has ever asked you but what are your thoughts on Harry becoming an Auror versus him becoming the Defense Teacher?
it's certainly an interesting topic and a lot of people have Thoughts..
i am partial to immediate post-war auror!harry. he and ron rounding up death eaters on the run and trying to help hermione and kingsley with policy reform. but after harry gets promoted to head auror, i can genuinely see him getting disenchanted with the administrative parts of the job. so i guess i'll say i love auror!harry, and even head auror!harry, but i don't particularly enjoy head of MLE!harry. i just don't get why he would ever want that job. he's not a bureaucrat, he's not particularly taken with management or self-promotion. he hates having power over people. my opinion is that, once he's leveled up enough in his career that it no longer includes casework and mentorship, it would be a total slog for him.
that's when i could definitely see him bowing out to teach. but perhaps not right away? maybe he's listless for a year or two, thriving in early retirement and being a full time wife guy before McGonagall finally convinces him to be a guest lecturer for a six week O.W.L. unit
after that she gives him other units to teach until she's tricked him into full salary and benefits.
i’m waiting for this moment i’m already gone. this post feels very already gone-coded
ok but here me out under the cut because spoilers
what if it’s ginny saying this … not harry?? like he’s convinced that without her memories and their Shared Trauma (TM) she can’t possibly love him, but ginny has been in love with him for a lot longer than that end of fifth year. and love isn’t a feeling, or something to be experienced, it’s a choice.
i know i have absolutely no business asking when you just dropped a chapter on thursday and feel free to just ignore me i’m just really excited… but do you know when we’ll get a sneak peak of the next chapter?
a sneak peek you say? of chapter 14? how about instead of a big long one.. i give you like four really little ones?
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“How long has it been since you took a vacation?”
Harry’s mouth snapped shut and he blinked several times in utter confusion. “Sorry, what?”
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Ginny stilled. “What are you saying?”
Padma gave her a flat look in response. “You know exactly what I’m saying.”
“I think you’ve gone mad, actually.”
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“What have you done to it!?”
“I-” Harry shifted uncomfortably, “I tried to renovate.”
“It looks like you never got past demolition.”
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Sitting up on the mattress, Ginny pulled in a steadying breath and pushed her sweat soaked locks away from her face. The images faded little by little until she could blink without reliving the horrors of her nightmare in the back of her mind.
Only, as she peered into the shadows, she found sleep mussed hair and alert green eyes staring back at her.
i can’t wait for the sophie interaction you teased before. idk why but i LOVE when the exes talk to the main character i feel like they always let something slip and it gives all the angst.
- the sophie stan
crap now i can't remember what snippet i shared. should i share more? should i share the whole scene? no right?
ah what the heck. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Grinning from ear to ear, Ginny collapsed into the chair across the table from Harry. The music blared loudly from some kind of electric speakers in the corner and the buzz of conversation in the crowded pub added to the noise. She felt alive for the first time in weeks. Blessedly relaxed now that they'd escaped the oppressive silence of a half-dead house.
“I LOVE IT HERE!”
Harry chuckled from behind his pint. "Yeah, now that you’ve cleaned everybody out.”
“No, not just that,” Ginny waved away her success in hustling darts. “They’ve got no clue, do they? About you, or me, or quidditch or any of it! We’re just people!”
He hummed, downing the last of his ale and pointing to Ginny’s watered down cocktail. “Are you done?”
Ginny swiped at her glass, hoping he didn’t see it was all ice.
“Come on,” Harry reached for his coat. “You had your drink.”
“Just one more!” Ginny begged and she noticed him bite back a grin at her pleading tone. “It’s not even nine!”
He scowled at her from across the table, but she put on her most saccharine smile and after a couple lengthy seconds his shoulders slumped in defeat.
“Fine,” He huffed, then held up an index finger. “One more.”
“Harry?”
They looked up at the same time to see a girl about their age, with sleek blonde hair smiling down at them. She had a slight gap between her front teeth that didn’t at all detract from her looks. If anything, it added to her charm, offsetting her strong jaw and full lips.
“Sophie!” Harry visibly swallowed. “I didn’t think you still worked here.”
“Oh, god no,” The girl called Sophie laughed. “I quit ages ago. Just come round to see the blokes and rub it in. How are you? I haven’t seen you since you moved to Sussex…”
Ginny watched in dreaded fascination as Sophie pulled up a chair and Harry launched into a quick story about Teddy. This was followed up by Sophie chatting animatedly about her mum’s salon business and her dog named Clive.
Harry regarded her with a genuine smile on his face, though he kept shooting Ginny wary glances out of the corner of his eye.
“Er,” Harry stammered once a story about Clive jumping from a moving motorcar wrapped up. “We were just about to grab another round, do you want one?”
Sophie laughed, looking taken aback. “Always the gentleman.”
“Really,” Harry smiled sheepishly. “It’s no problem…”
She shook her head. “Thanks, but I’m meeting friends.”
Harry gave her a tightlipped smile and nodded once, then shot Ginny a terrified look before hurrying off to the bar.
“God, he’s fit,” Sophie groaned, not bothering to hide the fact that she was staring directly at Harry’s arse. “Good in the sack too-”
Ginny choked on the ice she’d been chewing on, sputtering as watered down vodka stung the back of her nose.
“Oh, sorry,” Sophie winced. “Have you guys not…?”
“N- no,” Ginny coughed. “It’s not… we’re not-”
“Woman to woman?” Sophie continued on, looking at Ginny seriously. “Don’t get too attached. He’s locked up tight, that one. Doesn’t let anyone in, and I don’t mean figuratively. We went out for months, and I never once saw his place.”
Ginny stared, her mouth slightly parted in utter shock.
“I mean it’s thrilling… for a time. He’s a mystery you can’t help but want to unravel, but then you never do and you’re just left with a headache.”
“We’re not together,” Ginny finally clarified, unsure if she could listen to another second without her head exploding. “I’m-” She cast about for anything she could say to a muggle, an actual muggle. “I’m his best friend’s little sister.”
“You’re Hermione’s sister?”
“N-” Ginny blinked several times. “You know Hermione?”
“Crazy hair, bit uptight?” Sophie scrunched her nose. “I don’t think she liked me very much.”
⚡️Lightning - Have you ever spontaneously added something to your story that you wouldn't have added normally? If so, what made you do it?
i feel like i do this a lot actually. especially with multi-chaps? i typically have a very loose outline of the chapter but outside of the bullet points, everything else is just spontaneous or an idea i come up with in the moment.
the most recent thing was hermione, luna, and padma showing up to grimmauld place in chapter 16 of the path from you.. that was not in my original outline but the chapter was so boring and nothing really spurred ginny and harry to the next stepping stone without it. i'm not sure if that counts as something i wouldn't normally add though....
OH! the almost kiss trope... i've never been a huge fan of it tbh, but it just fits so well with tpfy!harry & ginny's one step forward two steps back thing that i couldn't help myself.
Rereading tpfy and I’m more convinced than ever that Gracie is just a red herring and Coach Bodimont or Clarence is the actual stalker.
I feel like Gracie dropping off Ginny’s gear, her knowing the patronus, meeting outside of Ginny’s apartment is just to throw us off.
Personally i really like the idea that it’s Coach Bodimont mainly bc Harry thinks the stalker would have to be a man and immediately that always makes me think they have to be a woman. Second bc she would have so much access the stadium and she left Ginny with Harper and then Ginny gets the note. She has an inside track to the case and knows who the main suspects are and Harry and Ginny just assume she’s helping them. Also she would be able to curse Morgan and Gracie at anytime and still be so unassuming because Hinny think she’s helping them.
I just really think it’s her but also I don’t rule out a Keyser Söze situation with Clarence.
have you given a sneak peak of ch. 6 already gone yet? if not please!! i have strep throat and it’s the only thing that will cure it.
girl you have been sick for like three weeks are we sure these fics aren’t making you WORSE
Someone coughed from the other side of the pitch, bringing the barrage of emotions to a screeching halt, and Ginny sat up just enough to see Hermione appear between the trees.
Her expression was wary, her shoulders tight and her steps measured.
“Did you draw the short stick, then?” Ginny asked, resuming her horizontal position and staring up at the clouds.
Hermione sat down next to her in the grass. “Actually, we flipped a coin.”
Ginny laughed, but there was no humor in it. She could imagine it easily, her family gathered around in the kitchen arguing over who would be the first to try and talk to her. They probably debated for a ridiculous amount of time, going round in circles trying to figure out how they could explain in a way that wouldn’t overwhelm her.
She was so tired of being tiptoed around. Sick to death of it.
They settled into a strained silence broken only by the chirp of birds and the buzz of honeybees.
