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10. “Is that my hoodie?”

12. “Tell me what’s wrong.”

14. “I missed you so much.”

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Working for the Order was really starting to wear me out...

Constantly having to look over my shoulder, and most of all fearing that Sirius wouldn’t come home. With Lily and James in hiding, it had brought my mental state down so much. When I was alone, I cried until my body couldn’t produce the tears any longer. I held Sirius extra tight when we slept, afraid he’d be taken in the night. 

I was off today, no mission to report on for Dumbledore. It was a particularly cold day, so I stole one of Sirius’s sweatshirts. It smelled just like him, it brought back some happiness to my mind. I mindlessly cleaned around the small apartment we rented, anything to keep me from thinking about Sirius’s whereabouts.

I chewed my nails nervously as I stared at the clock, knowing Sirius should have been home by now. I paced by the door, the palms of my hands becoming sweaty. Tears started to surface, panic beginning to consume me. Then the lock clicked, and I saw those storm grey eyes I had been dying to see all day.

“Is that my hoodie?” he asked, his lips quirking into a smile.

“What took you so long to get home?” I inquired, ignoring his chipper mood.

“Reports took longer than usual, are you alright darling?” he sighed, his brows furrowing.

“I just... I missed you so much.” I admitted, rushing into his arms.

He hugged me to him, not understanding what was going on. I sniffled as I tried to keep my tears at bay, not becoming successful as a few fell. Sirius pulled back to grab my face in his hands, his eyes searching mine. He wiped my tears away, thumbs stroking my cheeks gently.

“Tell me what’s wrong.” he insisted. 

“I was just worried something had happened to you. This war has really taken a toll on me, I worry about you every second we’re apart.” I confessed, my fists clutching his shirt. 

“How about we ask Dumbledore to put us on more missions together? I think we’d make a pretty great team.” he winked, lightening the mood as I chuckled.

“You think he’d do that?” I questioned.

“I don’t see why not...I don’t want you to be sad anymore my love.” he whispered, nuzzling his nose to mine. 

“I won’t be sad once this is all over,” I sighed, leaning up to kiss his lips.

How it was that Dark Wizards were able to come to such power, Alastor did not know but the rise of yet another tyrant after total domination was a good enough reason to prove himself. As such he found himself with a ticket aboard a ship and not too long afterwards, he was in the halls of MACUSA looking for his apparent ‘partner’ to help track down a dangerous witch. The Ministry believed him a very capable Auror, he had already filled five cells in Azkaban and showed no signs of stopping, he wanted to prove them right.

firstwizardingwar replied to your post “Anyone else noticed that Arya hasn’t addressed Gendry by his name once...”

She hasn't. I was wondering this too after ep2. I think it's going to be a significant moment when she does finally.

headcanon that arthur weasley built the burrow not just with spare parts found here and there but arthur built it by hand to learn “the muggle way”

arthur learned how to install windows, build rooves, fit plumbing

molly would have fussed but she knew what arthur was doing - this wasn’t just about his fascination with muggles

as his family grew from molly to bill, to charlie, to percy, to fred and george, to ron, to ginny over the course of the first wizarding war, arthur needed an outlet to relieve stress, worry, frustration, terror

because although arthur & molly weren’t in the order the first time, they were allies and new parents in a war

and so arthur hammered, welded, fell off the roof, burnt his hands, and ended up in st mungos many times

and molly got in on the act

with toddlers in tow, molly went to muggle markets and charity shops to pick up odds and ends and charm them to her liking

when arthur got particularly frustrated, or it looked like a chimney was upside down, molly picked up the do-it-yourself book and did it herself

when she fixed the problem, arthur would kiss her soundly and swing her around in the air

molly’s brothers, fabian and gideon, and arthur’s brothers (names unknown) would visit and the whole extended family would hammer and nail

although ron was only one year old at the time and not yet in need of his own room, when uncles fabian and gideon were killed, both ron’s room and the attic were built in grief

while arthur was particularly upset, he unknowingly picked up attic construction materials containing the now family ghoul, who has stayed with them ever since

although they had to use hundreds of charms to keep the burrow upright and safe,

I'm relistening to the audiobooks and got to the next Dany chapter today. She repeats "I am a dragon" over and over and over to desperately be strong when she is really terrified. Tiny Dany <3

Most of my fanfiction reading tends to be jily-focused rather than marauder-centric… but definitely check out my fanfic recs page and I’ve just cleaned up my tags so you might find something in my fanfiction tag. 

However, I have some long-form jily-centric fics that have marauder-centric elements as well that I recommend:

(1) I alway always always recommend reading Once Defied and Twice Defied by pennyardelle. While it looks like Twice Defied was last updated in 2014, the series won Best Canon awards at HPFF. Once Defied focuses on their 7th year and Twice Defied is post-graduation, I believe.

I have Sirius Black's birthday written down in 4 places and cited as being September 3rd. Now I hear it's November 3rd. What on earth happened in my brain somewhere that I wrote it down wrong??

I also had this perfect headcanon that the marauders always threw a start-of-term birthday party in the common room and played pranks that they'd planned all summer.

Now I have to live with Sirius' birthday being a few days after Oct 31st???

Tragedies of War - Marauders Era (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/293006110-tragedies-of-war-marauders-era?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=harold-snotter-jk&wp_originator=oyK6WUvVQXjeVrdAT9HFytVg4trrxSJx4jvb1ZcX8q4SZGDjFv%2B7F%2FnQO532%2BxX2CA%2FQEZkI%2BmnIYlBRW6BKPARxi92QiulU4zUkfIKxjuBpkcsMFkQ%2FfxaAkK%2FiZF0g

Ever wondered how certain people from the Marauders Era died? Well wonder no more!