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      JK ROWLING LOVES TWO THINGS :    1.  the name game   &   2.  alliterations.  she is the queen    of taking a name to use the meaning of it to develop her character    OR   takes a past person with that name to build her character.   FOR EXAMPLE : 

Minerva =   Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy Dolores = pain   &   sorry Hagrid = having a bad night  which he has a lot of Weasley = weasels, known for their bad luck Alastor = the avenger of evil deeds

THE LIST GOES ON!   along with it, even though I do not agree with everything she has said after fact, but it is something we need to    respect.  

Now, I    never   understood how anyone came up with    “DOE”   for a realistic nickname for Dorcas. It makes no fucking sense to me    &   it makes me sick. Therefore, I decided to do some research on this name. Dorcas means gazelle. Gazelles are known for being graceful. The nickname Doe comes from the American meaning of Dorcas which means Doe    (   but Dorcas isn’t American !   ).     STILL,  this is weak compared to her one line,   “THAT’S DORCAS MEADOWES….VOLDEMORT KILLED HER PERSONALLY.”   animals known for being female   &   being graceful does not add up to this shit. 

It    contradicts   her own being, her own canon.  NOW, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT PEOPLE NAMED DORCAS !  A Dorcas in Shakespeare’s place only dully notes for coarseness. There is a Dorcas    (   the original Dorcas in my mind  )   from the Bible.  She was a woman of stature    &   power. She was known for her good deeds. mainly providing clothing for the poor. When she died,    the widows were weeping   in mourning   &   she ended up being resurrected back to life, there is an implication that she was a widow herself. 

THEN THERE WAS DORCAS KELLEY IN IRELAND DURING THE WITCH TRIALS.     ugh, my mother. my dear, dear mother.  Dorcas “Darkey” Kelley was a brothel owner    &   serial killer who was burned at the stake for witchcraft in Dublin. On St. Patrick’s Day, her brothel was raided after being accused of killing a shoemaker,   &   in the authority’s search, found five skeletons. She was sentenced to a partial hanging   &  a burning. FROM A JOURNAL OF THAT DAY,     “She was placed on a stool something more than two feet high, and, a chain being placed under her arms, the rope round her neck was made fast to two spikes, which, being driven through a post against which she stood, when her devotions were ended, the stool was taken from under her, and she was soon strangled. When she had hung about fifteen minutes, the rope was burnt, and she sunk till the chain supported her, forcing her hands up to a level with her face, and the flame being furious, she was soon consumed. The crowd was so immensely great that it was a long time before the f******ts could be placed for the execution.” 

There was Dorcas Good    (   real name Dorothy   ),   who was accused of witchcraft at the age of 4. she confessed to being a witch   &   that her mother was consorting to the devil. it was claimed that the child was   deranged   &  would bite anyone that came near her like a feral animal. She was     charged and placed in jail   at the age of 5. It was said that this girl was given a pet snake that could talk to her   &   the girl was its servant. 

Then there was Dorcas Hoar who was another widow charged   &   hanged for witchcraft during the witchtrials. She was a fortune teller   &  an accused burglar. which makes sense since a widow could not earn money   &   a fortune teller was one of the only jobs they could legally do. so –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 

The name Dorcas has a    DARK   history with   light   history. It is a contradiction of stories. A name that is closely intertwined with doing good with stories of witchcraft   &  brutal murders.  DOE IS A SORRY NAME FOR DORCAS. it does not do it justice. no one is going to look up their name   &   say hey ! this is what I am going to be called. There are    two nicknames   that come from Dorcas in its natural state.  1. Dor meaning pain. 2. Cas meaning legendary son.  Doe is a contradiction   &   scrubs down the importance of what she did. why a man like Voldemort, with such power   &   borderline immortality had to come after her himself to kill her. hell no    !   this girl did not spend her days sipping tea   &  knitting sweaters for the poor. this girl was grit. she was conniving. she was a murderer. she was a witch. she was powerful.  she had an made immortal asshole   quake   when he was winning a war. she was a    threat.   she killed people of his army as easily as plucking petals from a flower. the evidence of it is in her   ONE   line.   VOLDEMORT KILLED HER PERSONALLY!  and he made damn well people knew he    killed   her because all he is known for that killing curse, going in   &  out, getting his business done. but, no, he sought this witch out   for blood.    AND WIDOWS WEPT   that day because   finally   their husbands deaths have been avenged. thank you   &   goodnight. 

                            you WIN some, you LOSE some

                                      e x c e p t            f o r           m e 

                                                I           ALWAYS           WIN

they were ride or die in the sense that they rode and some people died

OH MY GOD UR A STAR BBY !!!!!!!

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RP Positivity: Accepting

All the ships with you??? Allison Argent and Noah Foster has been a real fun crossover ship with @cravesfreedom There’s elements to my Andromeda x Rabastan ship with @aimovoriia that are only possible in rp because JK doesn’t let me have anything nice. Katniss and Gale who should have ended up together in canon buT WHAT CAN YOU DO. Brooke Maddox and Noah Foster !! Girlfriends Hanna Marin and Spencer Hastings with @ineveryvein is what dreams are made of and Katherine Pierce and Stefan Salvatore cause they’re the OTP that should have been. 

typical of hermione sends him a book one year for his birthday, which covers the comprehensive history of one of the most ancient civilizations as well as establishes the magic that is allowed to exist in the streets in plain view of muggles. typical of harry to shove it to the bottom of his trunk. 

he pulls it out later when nightmares chase away any hope of sleep. for the first time in his life he pours himself over the pages, smiling at an appendex that lists ‘fleamont potdar’ and discovers his grandparents in glossy, matter-of-fact pages. 

he doesn’t know exactly what calls him there but he packs a single bag and books a cheap red eye with no real agenda in mind. traveling by magic so soon after being released from st. mungo’s feels wrong. 

he finds his grandparents again near their old home, through neighbors that ignore personal space. he decides he doesn’t mind so much, as leathered hands brush away his hair and cup his cheeks. he allows himself to be lead by hand through most parts of char dham, picking up the words he can and absorbing the wandless magic the temples have made their own.  

death hangs in the air through the ghats of varanasi, quite literally breathing it in from the cremation pyres that form the clouds in the otherwise endlessly blue sky. but silence doesn’t swallow it as it did hogwarts, children still run in circles around him and there is a seemingly endless song-like chant echoing in the air. for the first time since he was seventeen, harry understands how he too can exist in such a seemingly surreal state – it teaches him life and death could ( and should ) exist simultaneously. it teaches him that there is still more to be enjoyed, that life still goes on in the face of death.

he stays through to observe diwali. given a diya to light, he sits along the bank of he sits along the bank of a stream and sets off a light display from his wand for the children searching for sparklers. it is the first time in his life where he cries in public and isn’t overcome with embarrassment. 

he brings his friends to celebrate holi, he makes sure to write teddy and andromeda a detailed letter about the inclusion and celebration of the werewolf population. thinking of remus, battered though he may have been after a full moon, covered in color and blinking against the sun is all the push he needs to demand more comprehensive rights for the subset of the population back at the ministry. 

IM YELLING AND LIVING FOR ALL OF THIS 

okay, as stated previously it begins at the start of his sixth year. finally growing into his looks ( but not quite his ears, yet ) he begins to experience a whole new set of attention beyond the usual marvel at his scar 

he’s thankful to be out of the country as he turns eighteen, there are one too many polls in one too many publications regarding it 

he makes the cover of witches weekly the first time he is photographed after growing his hair out and it reads: “desirable number one.” ginny and george have it made into t-shirts to be given out with every purchase at weasleys wizard wheezes. harry calls it ‘the worst day of my life.’ 

he becomes more comfortable in his skin as he races through his training as an auror – it builds with his confidence in wandless magic and is a huge problem for people who want to have a conversation with him without staring.