Did The Aurors Following Harry Around Ever Notice His Relationship With Ginny?

Did the Aurors following Harry around ever notice his relationship with Ginny?

Ha! I assume you mean the ones in England after he gets back. Good question. Most of them, no. They weren't around each other very often, and Harry was really good at ditching his tails. But there was one auror who definitely noticed. And yes, you've met him. :)

my favorite boys are watching the sunset sky 💖

"'Professor,' Ginny says politely because for all she has learned to resent Snape, he’s her head of house, her teacher.

'Miss Weasley,' he says, head inclining the perfect amount like he’s practiced it.

She nods in response, and idly wonders what the Malfoys would think if they knew he was here.

'Did you say something?' Snape asks, eyebrow lifting.

There’s a slight buzz in her ear, but she brushes it off with a firm shake of her head. 'No, sir.'"

Is this the first time Snape uses Legilimency on Ginny? And if so, why would he look into her mind in this moment? Was it because she thought of the Malfoys, or was he listening before that?

Yes.

If you think about it, these scenes from the beginning of OOTP are the first time we see Snape The Double Agent. At this point, he’s already gone back to Voldemort and paid his respects, maybe taken his licks for not coming immediately when he was called to the rebirth ceremony. He’s engaged in the double agent work that he never actually did much during the first war. (How much time passed between him telling Dumbledore about the prophecy and Voldemort disappearing? Not much, I don’t imagine.)

So this is Snape, in the Order of the Phoenix, not just Dumbledore’s secret contact, but out in the open for all Order members to see, most of whom Snape probably doesn’t trust. And does Voldemort know he’s in the Order? Does he know he’s there and sent him there to spy? Or does he just think Snape is spying on Dumbledore, et al at Hogwarts? Hard to say. But he’s playing a really, really dangerous game. One he knows he has little chance of surviving. But he is working every contingency, and when everything has to be planned that carefully, any rogue outlier is a problem.

Ginny Weasley, Slytherin student, is an outlier. She doesn’t carefully fit and he isn’t sure if or how much of a threat that outlier might be. Even if just as a girl who might have loose lips and talk about the Order in her common room. It’s one of the reasons he starts giving her so much attention. It’s threat assessment. (Not so much threat as a dangerous witch as much as a leak or a rogue vector.)

So, yeah, he’s using legilimency on her here. He needs to understand her better, understand what she thinks about him being here. To see how much she actually understands. Keep in mind though, that legilimency isn’t mind-reading. You don’t just get to hear someone’s thoughts. It’s messier than that. He’s trying to get a general read on her.

I just wanted to submit a little Tobias appreciation message. He's honestly one of my favourite characters I've read in a series. His development throughout (with Smita, his double agent role, and how Mags was part of his motivations) was wonderful, and I totally didn't see it coming. His interaction with Harry in the pub after Ginnys trial was just the icing on top of the cake

So thank you for that!

Thank you so much! He started just as me going, "huh, what does a not completely awful Slytherin guy look like?" Not to mention, I have a 'let men and women have platonic loving relationships' agenda. Plus, I love me a sarcastic little shit with a very hidden heart of gold. And like, someone who does have a sense of self-preservation, and that being okay! So many of the protagonists in these hero books are celebrated for their willingness to just sacrifice themselves over and over again, often recklessly with a giant lack of self-worth or understanding of consequence. But, like, it's okay to protect yourself, you can still be able to make moral and just choices! And the strength of Slytherin really can be the ability to weigh impact and consequences. I guess I wanted another chance to show how a Slytherin might bring strengths to a fight that benefits from a variety of skills/approaches.

And you loved his interaction with Harry? Hmmmmmm...

How about a tiny snippet of Armistice #4?

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They end up at the Leaky Cauldron and it’s packed with people, every single one seeming to be staring at them, whispering behind their hands. This is exactly why Harry doesn’t come to places like this.

“You can, of course, scowl at me the entire time,” Tobias says. “Or even punch me. But that’s going to give everyone the wrong impression after this weekend’s little photo op.”

Harry focuses on Tobias, the staring crowd suddenly secondary. “So this lunch is me showing the world that I’m fine with you and in no way suspect you’re sleeping with my girlfriend.”

Tobias looks at him. “Do you think I’m sleeping with your girlfriend?”

Harry lets go of his fork and it falls to his plate with a clang. “I’m actually going to have to punch you, aren’t I?”

Tobias regards him with one eyebrow raised. “It’s a rather straightforward question, Potter.”

“No,” Harry bites out. “I happen to trust Ginny.”

Tobias leans back in his seat. “Interesting answer. It leaves me to ask whether or not you trust me. No chance you think I harbor feelings for her?”

But Harry refuses to be stuck on defense any longer. “What does it matter if you do or not?”

Tobias blinks, a begrudging smile appearing on his face. “Watch it, Potter, or you’re going to make me like you.”

“Are you always this much of a buffoon?” Harry asks.

Tobias looks at him, something frighteningly flinty in his eyes. “Only when it’s useful.”

Harry imagines that’s more often than not.

“Okay,” Tobias says, turning his attention back to his plate. “Explain to me again why Quidditch isn’t a huge bore.”

Harry jabs a chip in Tobias’s direction. “That right there is why Ginny would never sleep with you.”

Tobias nearly chokes on his food, he’s laughing so hard.

**

(I hadn't even opened this file since last May. Eesh.)

Ykw Luke being Annabeth’s evil ex in mortal aus is so overdone.

He's her loser older brother. He only hangs out with the same 4-5 people despite half his college fancying him. He's the designated driver for Percy and Annabeth’s dates. He takes fencing classes. Thalia beat him to the shovel talk and he still holds a grudge to this day.

do you think andromeda was a parlor girl?

I’ve always had it in my mind that Narcissa was a parlor girl. Then I got this ask and really started thinking about it. And I realized, yes, of course Andromeda was a parlor girl. And clearly Bellatrix wasn’t. Bellatrix never needed anyone but herself. She didn’t always know what she wanted, but she knew how to get it. From her parents, from the school, from the people around her and under her. She didn’t need sisters. She already had two,and while they had their uses, more would only get in the way. She had no interest in being beholden to anyone. (At least until the day she met a manwith powers she wanted, wanted, wanted and feared in equal measure.)

Andromeda yearned. Always had from a young age. And even when she wasn’t quite sure what it was she needed, she knew want. For a while she even let herself think that maybe Ted was what she wanted—the source and solution. But he was only a symptom, a point along the path that she truly wanted-escape. Without the sisterhood, she wasn’t sure she ever would have had the courage to take that step, to bind her life to Ted and leave everything else behind. (Only Ted ever felt like home, Ted and a cozy parlor tucked deep into the lowest spaces of Hogwarts. She loses both, in the end.) 

But like a proper Slytherin, she always knew what theultimate cost would be—for love, for her own choice, for freedom.

Of course in the end, she lost more than parents andsisters. She paid dearly for that taste of freedom and self-definition. She paid it and lived it and wouldn’t change it. There was no point in hoping for that anyway.

Narcissa was the one who was weak enough to hope. Ambition ran in her veins just as well as her sisters—the Black sisters were raised on ambition. She wasn’t as focused as Bella or as independent as Andromeda, but she still knew she had to mold the world to her vision. There was a moment when that view was broad and boundless, when Andromeda held her hand out and offered an invitation, a membership that could have shaped her world in fathomless ways.

Narcissa accepted, of course, because one never knew where membership could take one and open doors were often more useful than closed ones.

Only Narcissa shut down the possibilities offered by the sisterhood after watching her sister lose everything, get herself ostracized over a boy, a foolish choice. And so she closed her heart against her sister with strange and dangerous ideas, and a sisterhood that frightened her, that did not always know its place, and set her eyes on a path in the middle of her two tumultuous and churning sisters.

Andromeda might have married to escape, but Narcissa married to be exactly where she was. It was her right. To be admired and well cared for and perfectly in balance on top of a world of order and tradition. If the sisterhood taught her anything, it is her right to self-definition.

What her full potential as a sister could have been, no one will ever know. But there was the tiniest glimpse if you paid close enough attention, the moment she looked the Dark Lord in the eye and lied. Lied andremade the entire world in an instant. She made it hers.