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Build a life that is unmistakably yours. Form your identity. Explore and refine your taste. Know what moves you, what inspires you. Be your own muse, go to shopping malls and smell new perfumes/try the clothes on instead of getting your inspiration online. A woman without a strong sense of identity risks losing herself in this world.

I remember my mother once saying that she had "nothing." That sentence has stayed with me. Many women were robbed of their identity whether by marrying the wrong man or by being reduced solely to the roles of wife and mother. They were never truly given the opportunity to explore their womanhood in all its depth.

Filch was begging about it and Snape just did.

Le Sérum (The Serum): a short and humorous one-shot in which Voldemort splashes his own extremely powerful Veritaserum all over himself at Malfoy Manor, that he had originally intended for Ollivander. For the next few hours, Voldemort becomes brutally honest, and to his own horror, very prompt to answer the most innocent questions with disarming openness. As a result, he tries to avoid everybody, but… Bellatrix realises soon that something is wrong with the Dark Lord...

Le Sérum (The Serum): a short and humorous one-shot in which Voldemort splashes his own extremely powerful Veritaserum all over himself at Malfoy Manor, that he had originally intended for Ollivander. For the next few hours, Voldemort becomes brutally honest, and to his own horror, very prompt to answer the most innocent questions with disarming openness. As a result, he tries to avoid everybody, but… Bellatrix realises soon that something is wrong with the Dark Lord...

What do you love now, that you hated when you were younger? There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realize something has gone terribly, hilariously wrong.It usually happens without warning.One day you’re a carefree child who thinks vegetables are a government conspiracy, naps are punishment, and cash is the most boring gift imaginable.The next day you’re standing in a grocery…

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Don’t worry I don’t gatekeep 🤚🏻

ahhh perfect. Thank you so much for this. This is perfect and now I am going to obsess over this....

Like James joins CIA or FBI all wide eyed and excited but as he works, his rosy view of CIA and FBI changes......

Or wait? We can set it in during the Troubles era....(in Northern Irish history, from 1960s to 1998 it was a conflict between Catholics and Protestants). I have seen some blogs on parallels between IRA and Death Eaters on everything from how they operated, how ministry responded, similarities between Sirius' imprisonment and imprisonment of other innocent Irish people without trial, breakouts from prison believed to be most secure (Azkaban/The Maze), the collapse of bridges, the fact that both wars ended in 1998.....(I think that Death eaters were Nazis in aim but IRA in how they functioned.).

All I am saying is......a historical au (it does need a lot of research tho....). With James part of the counter terrorism and Severus as a part of IRA.....

Don’t worry I don’t gatekeep 🤚🏻

ahhh perfect. Thank you so much for this. This is perfect and now I am going to obsess over this....

Like James joins CIA or FBI all wide eyed and excited but as he works, his rosy view of CIA and FBI changes......

Or wait? We can set it in during the Troubles era....(in Northern Irish history, from 1960s to 1998 it was a conflict between Catholics and Protestants). I have seen some blogs on parallels between IRA and Death Eaters on everything from how they operated, how ministry responded, similarities between Sirius' imprisonment and imprisonment of other innocent Irish people without trial, breakouts from prison believed to be most secure (Azkaban/The Maze), the collapse of bridges, the fact that both wars ended in 1998.....(I think that Death eaters were Nazis in aim but IRA in how they functioned.).

All I am saying is......a historical au (it does need a lot of research tho....). With James part of the counter terrorism and Severus as a part of IRA.....