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WHO: Lucius and Draco Malfoy
WHEN: July 1985 and July 1997
WHAT: Draco is scared and his father tells him a story about Harry Potter
WARNINGS: Angst
REPOST: Hogweeds

( You don't want the Aurors to take Daddy away, do you? )

WHO: Lucius Malfoy; appearances by Abraxas, Narcissa, and Draco
WHEN: 1970 to mid-1980s
WHAT: White peacock husbandry over the years

( I know you think he's ridiculous )

WHO: Rodolphus & Bellatrix
WHAT: Travelling
WHEN: 1971-1981
WARNINGS: Sunburn, stubbornness

( Do we look like tourists? )

WHO: Fabian Prewett & Ione Meliflua
WHAT: Overnight vigil for binding purposes
WHEN: Full Moon in May 1980
WHERE: Rural pureblooded wizarding estate (Crabbe? Goyle? not relevant to our purposes)
WARNINGS: None

( There are fates worse than death. )

WHO: Tina Bulstrode and Allegra Zabini
WHAT: Two bored witches take a deliberate wrong turn on a hospital tour
WHEN: 1980, after Allegra's return from abroad
WHERE: St Mungo's
WARNINGS: None significant

( I can't say if I admire those who can sit through another speech about paint colors )

WHO: Fabian Prewett & Ione Meliflua
WHAT: Eating waffles.
WHEN: 1980, after May Day
WHERE: A waffle restaurant in London (run with it, y'all)
WARNINGS: Fabian is a cynical jerk, film at 11.

( Don’t offer, if you didn’t mean it. )

[Charmed so that everyone but her mother, and her mother's favorite people can read]

Say you have a lovely job that your mother so desperately wants you to keep. Say you apply for another job, that you want. Say you get hired at that job. This will mean disappointing your mother. Perhaps it means she'll turn you into something horrible.

What do you do? Go with the job you love, or stick with the one you hate?

If I have to hear another person in this house mention the weather to start a conversation I'm going to set the solarium on fire.

WHO: Fabian Prewett & Ione Meliflua
WHAT: The hard part of a solicitor's job is working with materials. Or at least the cold part.
WHEN: The night of May Day 1980
WHERE: Ness of Brodgar, Orkney
WARNINGS: None

( Who wants to do magic, when you can watch television? )

WHO: Fabian Prewett & Ione Meliflua
WHAT: Ione had a bad day at work
WHEN: Early 1980
WHERE: Fabian's flat
WARNINGS: Medical squick, blood

( I could be a hermit. I'd be very good at it. )

WARDED TO BARTY.

[...]

Have the Lestranges contacted you concerning any training for tonight?

Saint Valentine is also the patron saint of bees and the plague.

And the holiday was reappropriated from a raucous ancient Roman festival called Lupercalia, the main event of which was a sacrifice of animals resulting in women lining up to be slapped with the pelts for a fertility ceremony.

I wonder that the newspaper here is called the Prophet when it writes of things that have already taken place. This is what you call an iron, yes?

[DE Crew]

This hound you call a Grim, where can I find one like it?

The muggles near this moor have their stories, and I am bored after finishing my book would test how deep is their fear.

WHO: Barty Crouch Jr and himself
WHAT: sleeping, part 1.
WHEN: 1982 - 1990s
WHERE: his mind

( sweet, sweet slumber )

WHO: Allegra Zabini
WHAT: Seven one-sentence drabbles for seven dead husbands
WHEN: 1970s - 1990s
WHERE: US & Europe
WARNINGS: The husbands are dead

( 💔 )

( Prompt: Between the wars ft/Pasque. )

WHO: Bellatrix
WHAT: Azkaban
WHEN: 1981-1996

( She laughs. )

FOR: Em
WHAT: It's possible to avoid the difficult conversations
WHEN: 1970s-1980

( I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude )

FOR: Alicia
WHAT: Lestrange Christmas Letters
WHEN: The 70s

( Christmas Letters to friends and family / slightly modified for the audience )

Everywhere there is peppermint for Christmas, even in the vodka.

Why, Britain?

MALFOYS + LESTRANGES

We're going with mauve and gold for the Christmas portrait this year, and no arguing because it was Draco's decision. Rodolphus, if you'd like me to take care of your outfit, just send over your measurements again. No complaints either, from any of you, or I'll let Mother coordinate it next year and you all know what that will be like.

On a similar note, do any of you have suggestions for what I might get the Dark Lord for Christmas?

November, 1980

( Numbness. )

11th of November, 1980

What determines whether you've made the naughty or nice list?

8 November 1980

[Barty]

Barty.

5 November 1980


Bonfire Night should be bonfire week.

[Death Eaters]

Taking bets on how many fireworks casualties are reported in the muggle press. Or how many can be perpetrated by us. It's perfect. This is the night they all blow each other up. Why not join in. It's the English thing to do.

[ NARCISSA MALFOY ]

Narcissa, darling, I need you to rescue me from this awful meeting I'm trapped in. I mean, the Improper Use of Magic Office? Father insists it will prove useful one day, and of course, there is the Cause. But it's so tedious.

Tell me how you and Draco are doing. Do either of you need me to bring anything home after this?

WHO: Bellatrix and Rodolphus
WHAT: The most dangerous anniversary
WHEN: October 23, 1981
WHERE: Who can say
WARNINGS: Sadism, murder

( Let's go out )

The stars portend an eventful Allhallowtide, and I have so many candles to light.

[Death Eaters]

There is much opportunity for discord in darkness this night. Enjoy.

[Tom Riddle]

Maybe I have been too long in England with your sense of humour. With the suggestions of stars, I am wondering if the Hollow may hold Hallows at Allhallowtide? It is a chance worth taking, while the rabble revel.

WHO: Serena Burke & Evan Rosier
WHAT: Practice makes ... perfect? (Week 1 Prompt 1)
WHEN: A lost weekend somewhere in 1981
WHERE: Rosier manor, Lancashire
WARNINGS: Murderbabies (toxic relationship, torture, mentions of sex)


( I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies / I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife  )

WHO: Serena Burke
WHAT: Prompt VII Homework
WHEN: 1981
WHERE: Serena’s room, Pulcele Hall, Canterbury.
WARNINGS: Functional parent-child relationships! Also some incredibly brief mentions of murder, domestic violence, suicide, sororicide, and infanticide.

( Edward Gibbon on History: Little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. )

[SERENA]

Are you awake right now?