Sky Full Of Stars

Here’s to everyone fighting their own battles.

Here’s to every brave warrior.

Here’s to you.

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BECAUSE I MEAN

It started in Azkaban: wizards escaping, among them Bellatrix Lestrange, wanted for torturing the Longbottom Aurors under the Cruciatus Curse. It ended with Professor Dumbledore executed at his own school.

He who must not be named did not wait to gather followers. His second attack was through the now Minister of Magic Dolores Umbridge, who had Dumbledore imprisoned and Harry Potter expelled. She appointed Severus Snape as headmaster, and purged the school of Mudbloods and Halfbloods, and those who empathized with Muggles. Many in the Ministry were either arrested or fired.

The third attack was spread over several different magical cities – in each Muggles and Muggle-born were tortured and killed. The Death Eaters increased in ranks; allies were the Dementors, Giants, and Werewolves.

Three years later Dumbledore escaped from Azkaban, and the Order of the Phoenix began fighting back against the darkness which had begun to spread into the non-magical world. Rumor had it that the Boy Who Lived was leading them, along with his godfather Sirius Black and the son of the Longbottom Auror, Neville Longbottom. Together they sought the seven Horcruxes, to put an end to Voldemort.

A battle took place at Hogwarts that same year. Both students and teachers fighting back against hordes of evil wizards trying to find and kill Harry Potter. Supposedly Potter had been killed, though this rumor has long since been disproven. Weakened from his time with the Dementors, Dumbeldore failed to destroy the last Horcrux, the serpent Nagini, and was killed by Voldemort himself. Many died, among which the Minister of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Arthur Weasley, the Werewolf Remus Lupin, and the Auror Nymphadora Tonks. Auror Alastair Moody, Headmaster Severus Snape, and Xenophilius Lovegood, editor of the Quibble, are missing in action. Professors Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick, and students Padma Patil, Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas were among those put on trial and either imprisoned or executed.

Harry Potter and the remaining Order of the Phoenix fled the scene and are missing in action.

Six years passed. The purification of the wizarding world continued and many more muggle-born were killed, while muggles aware of the wizarding world were tortured and enslaved. Among them were the parents of the wanted Mudblood Hermione Granger, who later died in servitude to Lestrange. Slowly the purification spread into the non-magical world, and Muggles started disappearing ; strange things happened, and all lived in fear, hiding away from the darkness spreading across the world.

Two years before 2003, a group known only as The Resistance, started committing acts of terror against the pure-blood community, as well as harboring muggle-born fugitives. Attacks escalated – most notable being the swamp infestation of the Ministry complete with live Imps and Will O’ Wisps – until the bombing of the Salazar opera house, causing the deaths of many elite pure-bloods, and corresponding with the disappearance of Draco Malfoy of the Ministry of Magic. Later investigation determined he provided intel to The Resistance which led to the bombing, and was promptly stripped of his title.

High-profile members are believed to be:

Luna Lovegood, daughter of Quibbler editor Xeniphilius Lovegood

Neville Longbottom, son of the Longbottom Auror

Ginny Weasley, daughter of Muggle sympathizer Arthur Weasley

Fred & George Weasley, sons of the Muggle sympathizer

Draco Malfoy, Pure-Blood Traitor & disgraced son of Lucius Malfoy

Ron Weasley, companion of the Boy Who Lived

Hermione Granger, lover of Ron Weasley and companion of the Boy Who Lived

Here’s a little tutorial about the female torso (as for the legs, maybe another time :))

make me choose: remus or sirius

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Ultimate security as Harry is the only one capable of opening it. 

Myrtle proudly spending her time acting as a guard/lookout. 

Later, Harry diligently teaching Ron, Hermione, and a few choice others, like Neville, how to mimic parseltongue so that they can open it too. 

Muggleborns experiencing vicious satisfaction that they’re using this chamber as a place of education and defense, reclaiming the very space Slytherin built to rid the school of their presence. 

Hermione methodically dismantling the basilisk’s corpse, covertly selling the priceless ingredients to potion masters, using the funds to continue their work - buying books and battle robes and new wands for those who can’t afford it. 

(Hermione saving a portion of those ingredients for her own research, straightening in triumph when she learns what basilisk venom does to horcruxes, knowing she has vials of it hidden up in her room). 

Harry reverently adding the Chamber of Secrets to the Marauder’s Map, proudly continuing his family’s work and reveling in the difference they’re making. 

Ginny is the one who suggests using the Chamber. Of course she is. Harry isn’t the type to think of that, but for Ginny… for Ginny the Chamber still haunts her dreams, too often, and she’s furious that a part of the castle is restricted to her - a part of her home that she wants to avoid. She suggests the Chamber, partly for the DA’s benefit, mostly for her own. 

Visibility is a concern - what if someone sees them going into the girl’s restroom? They think it’s a serious issue until Ron starts laughing. No one comes near that bathroom anymore, he says. Not ever. It was barely an issue while brewing a month long polyjuice potion, Ron and Harry popping in and out to add ingredients or to stir. Now though? Now that Myrtle has stepped up her game (shrieking, flooding the room if someone unwanted comes near), now that Hogwarts is infused with rumors that Harry fought a basilisk right in there, now that the nearby corridor still has a bloody, horrifying message that even the professors haven’t been able to erase*… well, students avoid the area like the plague. 

Even if they didn’t, the House Elves help them out. Dobby did, after all, suggest the Room of Requirement before Ginny brought up the Chamber. Who better than the workers who see but are not seen to help the DA keep watch? 

The castle helps too. By now it knows Harry and desperately wants to protect its students. More than once Umbridge follows a DA member, only to find the staircase moving unexpectedly, taking her in another direction entirely. Sometimes there’s even a door directly beside the lavatory - appearing out of nowhere - that students can slip inside if they feel the need… 

Getting out is the other concern. At first they think to bring brooms or levitate one another out… but that’s just not practical. Then, one of the Hufflepuffs asks the obvious and yet oddly illusive question: how did Salazar get out? They start a search and by the end of the day they’ve found at least four hidden exits. 

One exit leads out into the Forbidden Forest, a space that’s not nearly as terrifying as it once was. Harry speaks quietly to Firenze and secures the help of the centaurs for when they need safe passage late at night. One day they encounter a group of acromantulas… and Harry learns of Hagrid’s strict new rule - friends of Hagrid are never food, no matter how easy the prey. The students don’t realize it, but they’re slowly gaining allies. Those in the forest begin to take notice of the children who walk both bravely and respectfully through their trees. 

(And one day when they’re too tired to walk back, a familiar blue car pulls up and throws open its doors. Ron cheers like a maniac. Ginny laughs and threatens to tell their dad). 

Though the exists are great, it’s Hermione who realizes the Chamber’s true benefit - it lies outside of Hogwart’s apparition zone. How can it not? Godric, Helga, and Rowena didn’t know of its existence when they first made the wards. So now the DA can go with ease, they just can’t pop in from anywhere else in the castle. Which is, admittedly, perfect. Apparition lessons begin in earnest. 

(And during the Battle of Hogwarts, DA members take Slytherin students by the hand - those who wouldn’t, couldn’t, fight their own families. They take them down to the Chamber and tell them to apparate out. Leave while you still can. Keep safe). 

 Harry realizing that parseltongue is easily imitated and coming up with an actual password that has to be spoken, one linked to a spell too. It helps that the snakes around the entrance are semi-sentient and are loyal to their new master. They know who’s meant to go down there and who’s not. 

Neville joking one day that they should be learning how to use swords, considering that’s how the original battle down here was won. Harry takes it seriously. Not the swords bit, but using physical/muggle fighting techniques on wizards who are too reliant on their magic. They begin reading up on hand-to-hand combat and knives. 

Harry needing to test their progress and getting a really stupid idea… but honestly, those often work out in his favor. So one sunny, Saturday morning - when everyone else is lounging outside - Harry sneaks the DA into the third floor corridor. Fluffy is gone, as is the mirror, but the rest remains, no doubt left in case Dumbledore ever had to guard something else precious. Hermione, Ron, and Harry spend the day supervising, teaching their peers how to react under pressure, think through situations, and rely on one another’s skills. 

And then one day things get weird (because they always do with Harry) when he realizes that the miniature chamber the basilisk was kept in is the only part of their hideout they’d yet to explore. See, given their rarity, it’s unsurprising that wizardkind knows so little about basilisks - not that they reproduce asexually or that only a parseltongue can hatch the egg. So when Harry crawls into the chamber, and finds a strange egg-like object nestled there, that begins pulsing a soft green color in his presence, and when he basically says, “What the hell…?” out loud, and when it comes out in parseltongue because he is surrounded by snake things…well, let’s just say a few minutes later Harry crawls back out, very sheepish, a baby basilisk cooing around his neck. He laughs pretty shakily and mutters something about finding their mascot. 

(And they name the beast - because of course they do - and Hermione invents a soft device to cover its eyes and feeding it is an absolute horror… but they do grow to love their ‘mascot.’ And during the Battle - when Harry is off in the forest and Hogwarts is losing badly - no one is more surprised than the Death Eaters when Ron and Hermione come tearing out of the school riding a goddamn fully grown basilisk. Hermione rips off the cover on its eyes and sets to work). 

Peter was the scout. He always had an easier time fading in the background, gathering information about the spot where they would place the prank, the people they targeted etc.(i mean seriously the man became a spy for the Dark Lord and no one suspected him, not one person that’s something) It got even easier after they became Animagi.

James and Sirius were the power behind the prank James with transfiguration and Sirius with charms(he could alter spells like nobody’s business with a bit of time to work out the kinks). They also came up with the best cover stories or provide diversions when they needed to distract the teachers. They sometimes chose their targets when someone pissed them off but Remus? 

Remus was the brain. He chose their targets and decided when and how they would strike. James and Sirius were divas they wanted the attention, they wanted the school to know they were behind the prank but when Remus was behind them no one could figure who did it(one time they managed to convince the teachers and the school that a group of Slytherins were behind the prank and did it so masterfully that even the Slytherins were convinced they made the prank and then forgot about it) Also he brewed the potions when they needed them mainly because while James and Sirius could brew a decent potion while Peter was a disaster, they didn’t have the same patience and talent with them.

McGonagall made him prefect in the hope that he could rein in James and Sirius but she didn’t realize that it was usually James and Sirius who needed to rein in Remus.

Years later when Teddy Lupin comes to Hogwarts and is sorted into Hufflepuff she thinks that she dodged a bullet until one morning the Great Hall is filled with kittens and she realizes with dawning horror that she made a great mistake (teddy, after all, is the son of a marauder and a woman who, for one week, came to class with the face of the professor who was teaching the class, and the less said about his godfather the better) 

I need Lilys’ relationship with all the marauders because who are we kidding- being with James is like being with the marauders, they’ll always be there.

I need Lily figuring out Remus is werewolf when they started patrolling together but not caring.

I need Lily making potions for Remus before and after full moon (after all she is the potions prodigy).

I need Lily getting her period during the full moon and Lily and Remus spending 2 days together just eating heaps of chocolate, reading and complaining about their boyfriends.

I need Lily and Remus having hours of study sessions together in the library where they end up talking and being thrown out of the library.

I need Lily bonding with Sirius over having the most awful siblings.

I need Lily seeing Sirius mend scars given to him by his parents in an empty classroom and listening to him talk about his family for hours.

I need Lily realizing Sirius is not what he pretends to be he is actually a fucking sweetheart who cares about his friends more than the World.

I need Lily and Sirius pranking James together.

I need Lily and Sirius sneaking out to Hogsmeade together to buy chocolates for Remus, quills and school supplies for Peter (because he is really fiddly and tends to break things) and Quidditch supplies for James (because duhh James runs out of them every month).

I need Lily helping Peter with his homework.

I need Lily teaching the most obvious things to Peter without making him sound stupid.

I need Lily realizing that this squeaky nervous boy is actually in love with some girl but is too afraid to say.

I need Lily talking to Peter and telling him he is amazing as he is.

I need Lily encouraging Peter to stand up for himself.

I need all the marauders punching whoever dares to call their Lily a mudblood because she’s amazing.

I need the Marauders being protective of Lily.

I need Lily finding out about their animagus forms and suggesting she becomes one too because more help and all the maauders saying NO in unison because they won’t let her be in danger.