dear moz ; we are pleased to inform you that your application for BILL WEASLEY has been accepted to 𝐧𝐨𝐱 ! charlie hunnam is now taken. you have twenty four hours to submit your account, or else your role will be reopened !
⧼ charlie hunnam , cismale, he/him / the wizard by black sabbath + the secret is this: every great magic trick consists of three parts / THE PLEDGE. the magician shows you something ordinary. unaltered. average. of course, it probably isn’t. / you think you may have gotten it from your father, this unfortunate habit. on one hand is your father’s vice : muggle ingenuity, inventions, innovations made with nary a wand or a potion. in your house, the dishes wash themselves and the needles do its own knitting, but the most magical thing is that the car in the shed could move on its own even before your dad enchanted it to fly. on the other hand: you become fascinated with muggle magicians. / pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. / you are both son and curator of the museum of your father’s curiosities. you and your sibling run rampant through an exhibition of your own making. your mother says that you’ve always been one of her seven favorite artefacts. you give her two different badges that she can show off to add to the collection. / pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. / THE TURN. the magician takes that something ordinary and makes it do something extraordinary. the audience tries to find the secret, but they’re not really looking, are you? they want to be fooled / you get a job at the bank, which is what anyone would expect from the former head boy. you take your outstandings and you apprentice under a master goblin and you peek into faults and see treasures as far as your eyes can see. / pay not attention to the man behind the curtain. / you bring back what you can for the family and part of your paycheck always goes to them . you help pay for charlie’s new wand. you get percy a pet. the young ones get toys that they don’t have to share with each other if they don’t want to. / pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. / you tell them you’re being transferred to egypt a few hours before you leave. / and so the magician said a spell and disappeared with a magic trick. / THE PRESTIGE. but you wouldn’t clap for that, would you? making something disappear isn’t enough. it’s making something reappear that’s the hardest. that’s why the trick has three parts. / you come home to visit and ron gets a senet board. you reach behind ginny’s ear to pull out a knut. you close your hand over the coin and open it again to reveal an amulet meant to promote clear-headedness. you wish it wasn’t so late a gift. your brother moves to romania and so you come home with a new stack of piercings in your ear so your mom has something else to scream about . you take the dragon fangs he gives you as thanks and fashion yourself some earrings. you come home and you meet a girl who makes you want to show your hand. neither of you ever do, really. you come home, is the thing. / once again, we’re not paying any attention to the man behind the curtain. / at some point, someone in the ministry asks you if you’ve any inkling about goblin smithing practices. goblin-wrought silver is enchanted using magic not yet known to wizardkind and they’re all still curious. you’ve worked there for how long? shouldn’t they have gotten comfortable? shouldn’t they have let something slip by now? you laugh. as if your bosses hired you because they trust you. / you still come home, is the thing. / the trick has three parts. it always has. you’re a showman, a connoisseur of delights, a shiny distraction with one hand drawing attention while the other pulls the rug out. all those gimmicks. all those tricks. you’re still working on the reappearing, aren’t you? ⧽ ━━ hey, isn’t that WILLIAM 'BILL' ARTHUR WEASLEY ? i read a daily prophet article on them, once ; the THIRTY-NINE year old pureblood WIZARD is a GRYFFINDOR alumnus who has gone on to be a CURSEBREAKER . i’ve heard they can be quite PROTEAN & VENTURESOME, but i don’t know… they came off very BULLHEADED & RETICENT in that interview. it really is hard to know what to believe these days though, isn’t it? [ moz, twenty2, hast, they/them ! ]