Gryffindor Girls: The Runaways Fancast
Also called, nowhere girls.
I have them my own name cuz I didn't like Valkyries, sorry, I just don't think they would call themselves that and also I just didn't like the name for them, but the runaways fits with the facts that it's the 70's and they are rebellious promising muggleborn / halfblood teenage girls, sue me.
I also fits to bcs to me the girls didn't become actually close in until their fourth and fifth year. Before that they had very on an off friendship, like a toxic boyfriend that keeps coming back worse that cat pee smell. And Lily kept isolating herself and making herself not very nice to be around by making excuses and hanging out with basically only Severus.
I will not include Alice bcs like a said in another post, I think she's not part of the group but more like individually friends with the girls, also, she's older and probably graduated / about to when they are in the 4-5th year. I will not include Pandora because to me they do not know each other more than in passing, except for Dorcas, she is friends with Dorcas, and knows Emmeline, cause, duh, they're in the same house, probably same dorm. But not close. Hermione & Lavender typa relationship (without a ron bcs Emmeline is NAWT interested in Panda's magic weed reeking boyfriend)
So, the girls are: Lily Evans, Marlene McKinnon, Mary McDonald, Dorcas Meadows & Emmeline Vance.
Originally I was going to include one of my oc who in my hp word is the fifth Gryffindor roommate who's Frank little sister who died in pretty early on the FWW, but I thought it was better to only include canon character (even if we barely know anything about them) & also, she is not even that close to them lol, it's a bit of a Marauders + Kingsley minding his own business kind of relationship, so here we are.
Each one of the girls are running away and most importantly to something.
Lily Evans (yes, it was hard to choose from the many great fancast but I love me a good AnnaLily :)
What if I say she is autistic and her special interest are 1. Magic in general, 2. Charms, 3. Potions. Hates and loves transfiguration at the same time. Is genuinely impressed and irked that James is so good at it. He thought it was because Lily couldn't possibly fathom anyone being better at something than her, never mind him but then realized she was just genuinely impressed with his sharp wit and transfiguration talents a long with his potions knowledge from his da. They had a lot of screaming matches, pranks, tears, apologies (half hearted and true ones), scoldings from McGonagall and detentions (Lily is supervising, no way she got more than one (1) detention in her record, and even that is stretching it) before they saw each other truly without anyone else in the way. No Severus, no Sirius, not any friends or old grudges and past impressions clouding the person before them.
Fancast: Sophie Skelton, Annalise Basso, Laura Berlin.
- Hates quidditch as far as James is aware. Actually just doesn't care much for this sport, think muggle sports are better but everyone think she just dislikes sport. Mind you she was the only girl in her soccer team in primary school, she kicked ass. But if you ask her she will tell you about the one ™ knee injury.
- Loves flying on the other hand, drives James mad. OG ragebaiter, makes him rant for hours about how could someone so talented for seeker could be so bullheaded and shortsighted and boring. Lily finds his dispair the joy in her life.
- Eats white chocolate only. Hates any other kind.
- Petunia used to make her pancakes on special occasions only, like birthdays or when she was feeling down. Loves and hates her comfort food, makes her cry but also happy.
- Cried for her sister a lot specially during her first 4 years at Hogwarts, each year added more reasons to what used to be simple homesickness, childish pettiness and jealousy.
- Pretends to be the magical fairy godmother to her friends when they are feeling down, only Mary gets it (at least until Marlene saw the movies and boasted about it to the others who couldn't understand the reference that she was built different, and that they just didn't get it).
- Had a magical rat pet for a week until it disappeared. Will not admit that she cried a little bit after. Her Cinderella moment gone. Guess who it was and who choked the life out of poor peter.
- Will not listen to anyone about stop making notes for Remus when he is sick. Even when his excuses are extremely poor. Took her an embarassing long time to actually believe he wasn't just sick. Smart but was pretty naive for someone very smart, genuinely believed what Remus told her (even if she was skeptical of anything that came out his friends mouths).
- Had practically no friends on her house. Bit of Harry Situation, everyone flocked to the smart beauty one second and then avoided her the other. They found the most ridiculous ways to turn on her for the smallest mistakes or just over a whole load of nothing. Stopped caring after fifth year when she finally had a group of friends that had her back like Ron and Hermione had Harry's.
- Bit of a people pleaser. Very strange, will not care anything but her own bullheaded single mindness one second and then start looking around for answer on the other. Very confident but also insecure? And on the weirdest of things (on everyone else perspective)
- Goody two shoes who's a troublemakers rule-breaker, walking riddle.
- Drives everyone mad, Sirius, Remus, Emmeline, Dorcas, Marlene, Mary but especially James.
- You either love or hate her, most love her, she's a very difficult person to hate. Feel annoyed at? Very easy. Dislike? Pretty common. But hate? Genuinely impossible unless you are the devil™.
- She's like that annoying younger sister that you dislike as you grow apart but will never stop loving (yes petunia I'm looking at you)
I wanted to include at least 2 of each Marlene Fancast, one with blonde hair and one as a brunette. I love hair turning darker and duller as a metaphor for loosing yourself, which is funny because I love brunette/dark hair. But the point for the characters that have this going on (Lily's da, Petunia, Marlene, and some others Im still not sure about) is that this is not who they are, even Marlene, who was always a brunette in my head and not a blonde hair turned darker, is more like true self when her hair is lighter. But while for petunia and Mr. Evans their hair darkening is about losing their whimsy, true aspirations or dream, the magic of childhood if you will, with it them losing the gold parts of themselves and leaving only the boring, nice but not good or just outright horrible part of themselves, Marlene's change was about pretending to be something, someone she was not and in admist wearing and tinkering with this mask, this armor if you will (I love Knight-Marlene), she unexpectedly found true raw parts of herself that she could show anyone before the 'mask' and so she need to lose herself all over again (going brunette) and learning to find herself in this past too, or at least find something worth loving even if she is not longer that (or discovered she never was on the first place) to be able to truly live with her self, free of limitations, masks and the dilemma of "who is the true me?" The answer is somewhere in between.
Usually Marlene's fate in my AU's depends on whether she can make this change, by embracing the old parts of herself that she hated, hid and was repulsed by while still rejecting the conformity, norms and limitations that come with this past. If she can do it, then she lives and sometimes, maybe she can even save her family. If not, well, bye bye Marlene. We never truly knew you.
All the other girls go true a similar journey and I think that the only ones that survive both in canon and in most of my au's are Emmeline and Mary.
Her and Mary are the closest of the girls for a very long time, they were the toxic couple before the group became one, they bonded over similar interests, make up, clothes boys, their love and problems with their family, their difficulties learning and keeping up with the rest, especially their exasperation, annoyance and at first, bregruding affection for Lily, whom they thought was uppity, with a stick up her ass, and looking down on them for being not as smart as her. Until they actually had proper conversations that did not involve Severus (the actual stick up their asses) and yelling.
Fancast: Sophie Thatcher, Lily James, Alicia Vikander.
- Middle siblings of a big family. First girl after 3 sons. Loves her family to death but also feels suffocated by them. Like they will never let her be her own person. She will always be what they want her to be.
- Her family follows a magical brach of Christianity. You would be surprised at how common it is, especially in halfblood families.
- Middle Class, they used to be upper middle class but during whole deal with Grindelwald they kinda got on a debt and they payed but haven't recovered yet. Her mother married up into the family and wants the same for all of her children, specially the girls. Pushes them to the ministry, to the blind dates with boy. Is sometimes too bold and not political savvy enough and has been made a mockery by others. Marlene hates it but also cannot stop being boy centered and chase after them and validation which is kinda the only way to get validation from her mother.
- Her da means we'll and loves her but is also a bit of a pushover. Being the second son and not the heir to the McKinnons, never had to worry about it that much. They do not live at the mercy of their uncle per se but also they kinda do. Not entirely, but he helps them. A lot.
- Is a Chaser in the Gryffindor team. Actually wanted to be a beater. They didn't accept her cuz they thought the first time that she was doing it only because Sirius as reserve at that point. Which, rude. That's was in third year, grow up.
- Will get that Beater position. Even if she has to put someone in the infirmary for year to get her way. For the sake of not going to Azkaban this is a joke.
- Big Quidditch rivalry with Dorcas, toned down a bit after started being in the same friend group but the tension were still very high. Became only a bit better after they became "friend' (nobody actually knows what the fuck is going on, not even them, Merlin save these girls)
- Hops from one life destroying homoerotic friendship to another like it's her life mission. GIRL. CHILL OUT. You fon ot need to prove you loyalty and utter devotioness at your super smart friends by kneeling in form of them and swearing an oath of loyalty like a knight. NO. BAD MARLENE. THAT WAS NOT AN IDEA.
- Would probably do the 10 things I hate about you/Descendants songs in the middle of the whole school thing. If she was out. Would probably still do it and then realized that it was not as platonic and she thought it was in her head and then pretend it was for Sirius in embarrassment for three whole months until everyone forgets about it when James (bless his soul and curse him) one ups her doing the same for Lily after they became somewhat okay at not going after each other's throats (spoilers, it didn't work, Lily though he did it as a prank but in the end she didn't kill him)
- Had a magical makeup artist phase where she would just, make art on someone's face. Super talented. Got talked down of it by everyone who thought it was stupid and too girly and wouldn't make money during her whole third year, finally quit in November of 4th year. One of the few things that made her feel feminine and it didn't feel forced :/ nobody took it seriously bcs of her constant hobby jumping. During 7th years the girls realized that it was actually serious and felt really bad. Started paying Marlene to to their make up professionally which she didn't understand cuz she wasn't a professional but whatever, cash is cash, right?
- It took moths of coaxing and convincing but she got one of her passions back. With the support of her friends this time. Is not her full time job of course but it's nice to have it back.
- Likes singing out loud, not super good voice but also not bad, just does it to enjoy the song better.
Same as the other girls, Mary's dilemma is that of belonging or more like never truly doing so. For the muggles, she is a black woman, which comes with its own set of prejudices and troubles along with culture and the feeling of wanting to belong to it rather than be in the outskirts of it by being the daughter of an immigrant and never having set a foot or knowing much not even the language of her bloodline. While in the wizarding world, she is muggleborn, basically a muggle, since despite being brilliant, she struggled with studies for most of her time on Hogwarts and merely pretended to not care and that this was on purpose cause she cared more about boys or parties. Because it was better than being seen as a gossip boy-crazy party-loving dimwit that didn't care about school and barely passed because of it, than admiting that no matter how much she studied, how much she tried, she was always behind others. At least that way she had control. Control of being sent as dim only because she did not care rather than because she could not be better despite trying so hard.
Having dyslexia in the 70's is not for the weak. Never mind all of her other personal issues.
Fancasts: Sophia Bryant, Taylor Russell, Alexandra Shipp.
Fancast: Sophie okonedo, Savannah Lee Smith, Precious Mustapha.
The fancast are a few shades lighter than what I imagine Dorcas to be except for Miss Mustapha but the actitude is nailed if you've seen them. Not an actress (as far as I'm aware) but miss @/Marsthecowboys on insta is THE Dorcas Meadows ❤️🩹
For a more young Dorcas I love Leah Sava Jeffries. I think she would do magnificent job.
Dorcas is a young pureblood woman from inmigrants parents and is looked down upon due to her having foreigner parents even if they've lived more than half of their lives on Magical England and she was born and raised there, she need to find a husband that does not mind that her family are "outsiders". She comes from kind loving and ambitious parents and Dorcas is a kind loving and ambitious daughter, she wants better for herself and for her parents she must be the best, with or without a man.
Fancast: Nhung hong, Minnie mills, Andrea Chaparro
I've actually only ever seen as Nhung Hong as Emmeline ever since I entered the fandom, before seeing her on a random search for a fancast i never truly had a face for Emmeline in my head. The other two fancast, Shayla from tsitp and Gertrudis from Como agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate, great show btw, love the magic realism totally a watch) I included only bcs I've seen lots of people have them as a fancast and I wanted to share them in here even if they are not how I see Emmeline ❤️
In my HP, there is a "system" to kinda keep track of families, how many times they have "sullied" (🤦🏻♀️) their blood line and what draws the murky line between a half-blood and a pureblood. I kinda made this up while pulling an all nighter so sorry for any spelling mistakes or weird stuff that doesn't make sense.
So, I've always wondered, where does a half-blood stop being a halfblood? Let's say I'm your regular wizard guy, wixen, whatever you call them. And the last time someone in my bloodline married a half-blood was over 20 generations ago and the last time someone married a muggle/muggleborn is even before that, does that mean I'm a half-blood ? Or I'm I considered a pureblood now?
So since wizards are silly (very nice word), I decided that they made a silly system that regulates who is and who isn't a pureblood, they they would absolutely do someshit like that. Only people who haven't had their bloodline sullied by 9 generations can call themselves pureblood. And very loosely. Since the taint has been "washed out" by then. Nobody truly actually recognize these people as purebloods but it gives them a bit of a higher social standing, because it's basically just a tool to control the people scare / bribe the people to stop bringing new blood into the wizarding world, if the muggleborn bred which each other that's on them, but not which the "pure". People want to be recognized as pure bloods to they do everything in their power to "discourage" the mixing and the children are keep watched at all times so that they don't mix with the unbefitting.
Emmeline comes from a 8th generation halfblood family, it's on her to get a good pureblooded man to marry her and so their family is on good standing once again with the uppity upper class (even though they know they will never see them as clean, some choose to blind themselves to the truth and some just what the higher pay that comes with belonging to a pureblood family once again, even if they will never stop being a halfblood, if the children have purebloods spawn, their lives get better), and so that's how they control the breeding of the population in such a chaotic society that is the wizarding world.
Not very developed idea but I hope I make my point understood on how and why Emmeline is also in that "in-between" like the other girls.
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