Welcome to Day 19 of The Tortured Poets Fest!
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✍️ get the matches, toss the ashes by elidereads & @thefogofthefuture
Ship(s): Theodore Nott/Astoria Greengrass
Astoria considers the navy ink. Thinks about the postal owl and her familiar eyes. We would know if they put him back in Azkaban, Draco had always told her. He’s too clever to be found unless he wants to be.
Glancing at Daphne, she says, “It’s Theo.”
“How could you possibly know that?”
(Or: Newly divorced, Astoria Greengrass receives a mysterious letter from someone she hasn’t heard from in five years.)
🕯 even if i die screaming by horansbaex
Ship(s): James Potter/Regulus Black
The other thing about grief is that it’s a lonely road because Regulus wouldn’t talk about it. Not at school, not with his friends, definitely not with his brother. The days continue to pass and you don’t understand where everyone gets the energy to go out, to fall in love, to be with family, to hang out with friends, because something earthshattering has happened; but you go out, you hang out with family and friends even though something earthshattering has happened. Even so, a shattered earth continues to spin, and Regulus continues going to work, cleaning his apartment, going out with his friends on Tuesdays and Fridays, having breakfast with Sirius on Saturdays and dinner with Lucius and Draco on Sundays.
🗝 unforgivable sins by lucio
Ship(s): Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy, Draco Malfoy & Narcissa Black Malfoy, Narcissa Black Malfoy & Andromeda Black Tonks
“Sacrifices must sometimes be made.”
“And in the name of sacrifice,” you say, voice hard, “you would let him into your ancestral home?” You cannot imagine a bald man with a snake’s eyes ordering you to bring him tea, like a common housewife. Panic seizes you at the thought of what he might do to Draco, what cruel devilry might seep under your son’s door and into his vulnerable mind.
You were raised as a Black. You know, better than most, that whatever the Ministry may deem unforgivable magic, some horrors are unimaginable.
(Or, Lucius invites Voldemort to live in the Manor after disappointing him at the Ministry, and Narcissa decides that this is a step too far. Loosely inspired by The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived by Taylor Swift.)
📜 the price we paid (for peace) by alibraryofsoulsandstars
Ship(s): James Potter/Lily Evans
“It…it involves us, doesn’t it––this prophecy?”
Lily already knows the answer.
“It does,” Dumbledore confirms gently––gravely.
“...and it isn’t good news, is it?”
Lily Evans Potter has always been made of fire, not ice––and when fate decides to come for her son––oh, does she let it burn and rage.
🖌 Underneath the same moon, in different galaxies by mercurialwitch @mercurial-witch
Ship(s): Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
That night, Moony and Padfoot howled at the moon, their hearts beating in sorrowful unison aching for each other.
A glimpse into the lives of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, two separate lives oceans apart.
𓇢𓆸 who's afraid of little old me? (you should be) by avian_TARDIS @avian-tardis
Ship(s): James Potter/Regulus Black
Anyone who knows Regulus Black’s story knows that Taylor Swift’s Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? fits him perfectly. Here’s how.
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