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His jaw feels tight.  Sometimes, when the anxiety in him must manifest itself despite his attempts to subdue all signs of the emotion, Barty’s face becomes numb.  He holds every stressful moment and guilty thought clenched in his teeth.  He isn’t the same child who can cry and be vulnerable when overwhelmed, can’t seek out a friend in his moments of long-lasting panic.  He just bears it now.  Stuck in the Crouch mansion, dead-eyed and hollowed out for all those years, he has had the practice to become blank.  Call it a trauma response.

This is how he enters the rural village to find Remus Lupin.  Kingsley had asked him to check on the man — no doubt something of simple design to keep him busy, perhaps to keep him from running amok.  Barty often fought with himself over whether the guidance from Kingsley and Dumbledore was appreciated or infuriating.  Could he agree that he is a burden?  Yes.  He knows it.  He is inconvenient.  A walking disaster.  His lashing out at old friends has cost the Order useful intel and earned disappointment in his old headmaster’s eyes — but he isn’t meant to be kind like them.  Barty wishes those two would accept it the same way Moody has (how could they forgive him or trust him? did they forget what he did? Alastor was right when he howled with rage at the idea of any sort of truce; Barty knew he didn’t deserve it, and maybe he wished for some kind of punishment when he approached Dumbledore, but it never came) (how awful to be treated with kindness when you know you should be hated!).

There’s a small tavern and inn on the edge of town that he was directed to.  The woods beyond it extend far — deep, dark, and lonely.  Remus must have traveled in and out of them again and again to come to this village, giving updates to Order members here.  Unfortunately for him, it’s Barty who arrives this time for the status report.  

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1. On Formatting

I, personally, am not too concerned with it. However, that being said if my partner is formatting I’ll do my best to copy it. Though I don’t like the formatting with tons of spaces between words like                      this - its quite excessive, two extra or three extra spaces isn’t bad though.  I prefer to make the text a bit smaller, if I was able I would justify the text so its all even but Tumblr isn’t with the times so.. I suffer.

6. On 'burnbookisms'/anti-blogs

I think they’re childish and awful. They’re worthless, imo. If you have nothing to say that can help someone improve whatever it is you’re criticizing, then why bother at all? It’s like an excuse to be an asshole without your name attached to it. Everyone has more “balls” when no one knows who said it, it’s really irritating. Some people truly have a lot of growing up to do.

10. On URLs 

Personally, I prefer shorter ones. They’re the easiest to remember but also the hardest to come by. I don’t like ones that are quirky or whatever. I’m not even sure what it means but I know it when I see it. I really like the pretty url’s. The ones that really go well with a character or they got lucky enough to even get their name or something.

14. On one liners