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Hogwarts houses as Ivan Aivazovsky paintings

[Text ID: A lifetime passes / in the blink of an eye. You look back and think, / That was heaven, so of course it had to end. /End ID]

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (via boysofbooks)

With a content hum, Lily propped open her book and immersed herself in the murder mystery. But not deeply enough to ignore the delightful sensation of James’ trembling fingers curved around her waist, anchoring her to him.

Spells and charms + claude monet 🌠   * [part I]

                                       she felt bigger than her body. high as the stars.                                                                 he pulled away.                                               “ and now we never speak of it again. ”

               Wicked!

One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow.

I saw them standing right there Kinda thought they might care

The number of countries that have their own magical school is minuscule compared to those that do not. This is because the wizarding populations of most countries choose the option of home schooling. Occasionally, too, the magical community in a given country is tiny or far-flung and correspondence courses have been found a more cost-effective means of educating the young

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

— Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias  

but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with ron and hermione. [x]