the north pole has never been less graceful

okay, so the MC and the E do... what, exactly? oh my god, Einstein.

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:50:18 GMT

I feel all... blah.

School's started again and I have tons of homework to be done by tomorrow (which is Monday.) Not to mention I have to have my phone number in German memorised, and be able to list all of the numbers from 0 to 12 when asked. This would be easy, really, except that I can't fucking talk because I've lost my voice.

Anyway. We're reading Lord of the Rings in English, which is pretty damn cool. I'm up to page 63 and Frodo still hasn't left the Shire, yet, which I find amazing. It's filling me up with all sorts of glee because, by the end of the book, I'll be one of those elite people hanging around dirty street corners with cigarettes hanging between their fingertips, bitching about how the LotR movies totally ruined the books.

Er, maybe not.

I already do that about the Harry Potter movies, anyway, and that's good enough for me. Of course, I'm talking about it moderately... even the horror of Emmione isn't enough to send me fleeing to a street corner with a cigarette packet in my hands. Nothing will make me touch those packets. It's sort of like shock advertising, I think: they can't ban cigarettes - or won't, probaby there are quite a few smokers in the Government higher positions - but they sure as hell can put gruesome photos on the packets. And they do, and it's gross, and yeah.

That made no sense.

Anyway, it's almost midday and I'm going to my dad's soon. Since I generally don't go on the computer much over there, I'm taking my homework and LotR and hoping like hell that, by 6 pm, I'll be able to kick back and pretend to read while really watching So You Think You Can Dance Australia over the top of my book. (I don't care what anyone says, that show is nifty. Or at least spotting the people that I know is nifty. Same difference, really.)

Reg out. I need to go find a box of tissues.

bugger

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:10:21 GMT

I went to my friend's birthday party last night. It was great. She was freaking out by the time it was half-way through because no one was listening to her, but in the end everyone had a great time.

We spent the last hour lying on her bed. Three guys, four girls (excluding the birthday girl, who was on the floor) just piled on top of each other. I had someone's thighs resting in my lap, my friend was sitting between my knees and I had half of my body on top of the guy next to me. It was chaos. Also, my friend was flirting with her ex the entire night.

I stayed the night with the friend who was flirting with her ex, had an argument with her other ex-boyfriend via txt messaging, while ex-who-she-was-flirting-with confessed his love to her... via txt. All the while we were just lazing around and I was doing everyone's eye make-up to make us look trashy. It worked.

We woke up this morning at almost 9 o'clock. We were going to leave by 10. I had to be dropped back at my place, which I should have thought was strange to begin with. I didn't. I had eaten lollies for breakfast -- nothing is strange after that.

One thing: my grandma had a heart attack yesterday morning. I... I feel really horrible when I say that I didn't feel anything. I don't know. Maybe I'm numb. In a sick, perverse way, I think I'm sort of glad. She's had it really rough this past year, and I'm glad that it's over. That she can't be in any more pain. But I feel so wrong because I'm not crying and I'm not particularly sad, either, I'm just... numb.

So she recovered from that. Then I went to party, got dropped home, walked inside and my sister told me that my grandma had passed away over-night.

And when I think that I was probably being a dickhead and having a fun time when she died... I don't know. I just.

Fuck.

Am I allowed to spaz out just this once?

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:48:58 GMT

I'm getting my braces off in eight weeks! YES!! :D

*smooches orthodontist*

Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster.

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:44:34 GMT

the phone call comes
in the middle of an important
speech.

the room goes quiet,
and Charlie Dalton smirks.

Mr Nolan, he says,
it's for you. It's God.

he is seventeen and therefore
invincible.

I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. (+victoire and teddy)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:47:07 GMT

Ugh. I think I've just found a new fandom - but along with Little Miss Sunshine and the History Boys, it's the sort of fandom that I'm afraid to touch lest I shatter my vision of the movie. And oh my god, Dead Poets Society is gorgeous. Truly madly deeply, and no, I'm not going to apologise for making a shameless Savage Garden reference. Neil/Todd OTP, man. Beautiful.

So DPS has put me in the mood to read A Midsummer Night's Dream, and, to my utter joy, I have it! We're reading it in class this year, can you believe? My only problem is that I don't have much patience when it comes to Shakespeare. I've got a mind that isn't incredibly modern when it comes to some things, but I'm not so anachronistic (patient, creative, etc.) that I can read Shakespeare as fluently as I can read, say, Poe. Or Milne - and no, I'm not about to apologise for talking about A. A. Milne, either.

Now. Being a Teddy/James shipper, I naturally find myself quite disliking Victoire at times. My reasons for disliking her are sub-par, but as a slash fan, I excel in that I actually have reasons other than "but Teddy and James are meant to be! Die, you non-believer!"

Unleash the evil robotic bishies.

And, well, my reasoning is this:

She's Teddy's girlfriend. Yes, this is your typical fangirl jealousy talking - except that I LIKE Teddy. No obsession here, thank god. And I like to picture Victoire as an independant woman... and I don't know, somehow I got the impression that she wasn't when James started talking about she and Teddy snogging on the platform. This is undoubtedly screwed up.
She's dating an older guy. Which means nothing, normally, except that Grandma Molly wouldn't like it, which means that she disrespects her elders. *snerk*
She's Teddy's girlfriend
She's Teddy's girlfriend
She's Teddy's girlfriend
exclamation point exclamation point exclamation point (!!!)

So I decided, in a fit of genius, that Victoire could be a pretty cool kid - we just need to take away the reason that I dislike her. Sorry, Victoire. Teddy isn't marrying into the Weasley line. If this Universe's James ever becomes magically attracted to him (or guys in general?), Teddy might date another Weasley (Potter), but there's no marriage in store for this guy.

Instead, you are the opposite of Rose. Teddy flicked your nose as a kid and you're automatically BFFs!

The reason that I do this is because I cannot, cannot support a relationship where the partners were/are not friends. In fiction I can write about a couple that are purely physical, but only if there is some sort of underlying, fucked up love there - if it's just detached porn, I can't do it. I can't read it, can't write it, can't even comprehend it. Why?

This applies to Teddy and Victoire, too. In order to make me like the pairing, we've got to start from the beginning. This means stripping away any thoughts about snogging each other silly, jokes about "TEDDY, YER GONNA MARRY VICTOIRE AN' BE A WEASLEY, OKAY?" and get back to the basics. Teddy and Victoire, friends. Teddy and Victoire, awkward teenagers attempting to give romance a shot. Whether or not they'll make it (and whether or not Teddy/James happens) is entirely up to their natural chemistry.

And I can't control it. I can't write the characters to be good together. It just has to come out that way, which sucks.

Up next: Victoire, Dominique and Louis. When: who knows? I'm currently side-tracked by attempting to find good Neil/Todd. It's out there, I know it, I just need to find it first...

the Granger-Weasleys, That One Italian Wizard and the Spitefully-Adopted Daughter

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:00:14 GMT

Now I'm moving onto a new family (and subsequently any people that get pulled into it) -- the Weasleys! Er. Granger-Weasleys, because I honestly cannot imagine Hermione letting the kids go by without at least some remnant of her maiden name in there. They probably just refer to themselves as Weasleys, though.

First off, a lot of people seem to be under the impression that Rose and Albus will be all buddy-buddy, and will surely make up the next Trio with Scorpius tagging along. I ask you now: what the fuck is up with that? We DO NOT WANT these kids to be clones of their parents, guys, just like we don't want to be clones of our parents! They've probably grown up together, yes. And this is exactly why I believe that Rose and Albus, at the very least, do not get along. We'll get to Hugo later.

Now, maybe you're more tolerant than me. But personally, assuming that these kids have grown up together, and assuming that Rose has Ron's temper (which is somewhat like my own), if someone poured sand in my hair, I would not be happy. Neither, I assume, would Rose. And then let's also assume that she holds petty grudges. If Albus poured sand in her hair at the age of, say, three or four - she might not remember exactly why she has this big grudge on him. All she knows is that it's worth hating him, because he did something completely dispicable.

Digging out my copy of Deathly Hallows, I have at least two lines against me:

'Hi,' said Albus, sounding immensely relieved.
Rose, wearing her brand new Hogwarts robes, beamed at him.

Or, er, something to that effect. I may have misplaced a word or two, because though I am a touch-typer, I lack the ability to look at a book and type coherently at the same time.

So here we have a problem: as we can see at the beginning of the Epilogue, Albus is incredibly anxious to meet the Granger-Weasleys. When they finally meet, he is immensely relieved and Rose beams at him. I'm going to go out on a whim, sound like a dork and say that... maybe she was trying for a fresh start? Personally, I'm about to start a new school soon, and I am freaked out of my wits. Really. If anyone that I disliked were to be going to the same school as me, I would definitely make the effort to tolerate them, just so I could have someone there from my past life for comfort.

(As it is, no one that I know is at that school, but let's move on from the subject.)

So poor Albus, who has always liked Rose and never knew shy she didn't seem to like being around him, is overjoyed. Rose is tolerant, both are anxious, and they arrive at the Sorting Hat. Albus is put into Slytherin (he will eventually grow into the characteristics of a Slytherin; cunning, etc. etc.) and Rose into Ravenclaw, because she's Hermione's daughter and it's pretty much unanimously agreed on that Rose is the smarter of the Granger-Weasleys. Did it mention that in the Epilogue? God, I can't remember.

This strains their newly-budding tolerance of each other. Rose is getting along well with her Ravenclaw buddies: she's a typical Ravenclaw, really. She likes to study. Unlike her mother, she doesn't like to study to be the best (or at least that's how I've always read Hermione's character, which might contribute a little bit to my dislike of her), she just likes to know things. She likes the feeling of being able to rattle of a string of facts, like certain people like making others laugh.

As I said, Rose holds grudges. She's one big melting-pot of her parent's traits, because when she was little, she spent a lot of time mimicking them and their habits. This is partially why she likes to read. She's got Ron's temper and habit of making rude comments without thinking and Hermione's loyalty and inability to tell anyone about what's going on in her lovelife. She sleeps in late most days and eats a huge lunch to compensate for her missed breakfast.

Rose has bushy red hair and her father's blue eyes. I like to think that, when she's older, she travels to Italy and meets a nice Italian wizard. They settle down but are unable to conceive. This causes a massive falling-out between the two, because the wizard wants children and Rose is of the opinion that if she can't conceive, she isn't meant to conceive. They divorce. Rose, pissed off beyond belief, goes and adopts a twelve year old orphan who is already in her first year at Hogwarts. They manage to get close over the summers to come, but never have a true mother/daughter relationship.

Albus's future was touched upon in the first entry. To go into more detail, Betty, his wife, is two or three years older then Al. She's a short woman with blonde hair. Betty is incredibly patient and likes to read gay porn. When she found out about Albus and Scorpius's affair (which stemmed from nothing but almost two decades of friendship and a mutual attraction), she first made sure that they weren't completely gay, then told Albus that it was either a threesome or a divorce. Albus chose the threesome because, well, he married Betty for a reason. He loved her, y'know. :')

Betty is also a Muggle who knows nothing about Albus's magic. She finds out when Scorpius transfigures a dead cockroach into a bouquet of flowers for her on her 32nd birthday. Needless to say, she was pissed.

Er... okay. So that's Rose, and more information on Albus than you really needed to know (and to be honest, more than I needed to know!) so now it's time for Hugo, and the relationships between the Granger-Weasleys. Also I might touch upon Rose's relationship with that One Italian Wizard and her Spitefully-Adopted Daughter. Yes, I do realise that that last one spells out "sad." Didn't mean for it to happen, but there you go.

Hugo, Hugo, Hugo. Did you know that in all of the fics that I've read, he's been fucking awesome? No lie. Usually I get really annoyed by the way that characters are portrayed (example: Sirius the manwhore, Sirius the clown, Sirius the manwhore-clown), but Hugo in fanon, from what I've seen, is just cool.

Raise my hand if you feel like you're Harry meeting Bill for the first time. No one? Me? Okay, Grace, that's enough. You can put your hand down now.

Thank you.

Okay. Here are the characteristics of Hugo that I can pull out of the top off my head... that I've seen so far:

a druggie, or at least someone who always looks stoned
insightful: somehow always manages to know what's going on, even when he is preoccupied looking stoned
a rebel - black hair, bad attitude, yet very protective (a likely candidate to give the "you break his heart I'll break your neck" speech)
NOT A COPY OF HERMIONE OR RON WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

So, I took this character and modified him to my liking. He is still, in essence, the popular vision of Hugo: attractive. Sorry. It's a guilty pleasure of mine, I think: hot guys with stuffy names. Really. If I ever meet a gorgeous guy named Fernando or Edmund or Wensleydale I will jump his bones. Actually, if I ever meet Wensleydale I will first demand to also meet Adam, Brian and Pepper. But I shall jump his bones eventually, I tell you!

Hugo is... short. I should tell you that now. He is a short ass. He's a year younger than Lily, making him three years younger than Rose. He's also barely two inches taller than her. Taking in mind that he is a male, she is a female and therefore she is more likely to be shorter than him - yes, he's teased about it. A lot. He developed a height complex when he was thirteen and all of the boys in his year level shot up. His voice just broke. Yeah, he was the short kid with the funny voice walking around amongst all these tall guys whose voice either hadn't begun to break yet, or had already broken. Most likely over the summer.

Nevertheless, he managed to luck out on his genetics. He didn't inherit Hermione's bushy hair, but did inherit her eye and hair colour. He got Hermione's eyebrows, Ron's jaw, Charlie's nose and Bill's cheekbones. Hugo likes to drink tea, eat apples and talk while there's food in his mouth, which pisses off most of his classmates because they always end up in the crossfire. He doesn't talk much in the morning (he is not a morning person), but when he does... yeah. He has bad timing.

Hugo has average grades in all but his favourite class, History of Magic, in which he is failing. He loves history, but is more concerned about the Muggle stuff rather than Wizarding history - not to mention the fact that he spends most of his lesson staring through Professor Binns and trying to think why they let such a boring man teach such an important class. When he's not doing this, he's passing notes with the girl next to him, or sleeping.

The girl next to him in History of Magic is Jane. He was in the same boat as her when they crossed the Lake, and made the mistake of mentioning her to his mum and dad in his first letter back home. Jane was apparently his mum's middle name, and from then on he sought out her friendship. Jane ended up being in Slytherin, was a little untrusting and despised Hugo's mum for giving him her hair colour. She said that brown was the most boring colour in the world, which considering that her hair was brown, only made Hugo laugh.

Hugo and Rose, I like to think, have an ok relationship. They're not best buddies, they're not as close as the Potters, but they're not terrible to each other, either. They tease each other and Rose flaunts her age and taunts Hugo about his height, and in return Hugo rattles off terrible insults like "at least I don't eat slugs." This always causes her father to groan and go slightly green, although neither of the two have ever bothered to find out why.

I'm not as enamoured with the Granger-Weasleys as I am with the Potters and the Scamanders, to tell you the truth. I'm still working on their characters, which probably doesn't help at all. All I really know about Hugo's future, for instance, is that he and Jane move in together (platonically) when they're fresh out of Hogwarts and, at Jane's suggestion, move into a village of goblings to help Hugo overcome his height complex.

Then Jane meets a guy, said guy kicks Hugo out, Hugo returns to the Big Bad World of Tall People anndddd...

I don't know what.

Probably he just works at Gringotts or something. And I swear he'll have a normal relationship, unlike his relatives. I promise.

interesting revelations about Lysander/Lily

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:48:56 GMT

Last night I on the FA Park SCUSA thread for Lysander/Lily. It really helped me figure out a lot of stuff about their relationship.

How many years are between Lily and Lysander?
I like to believe that Lorcan and Lysander are in James's year, and in my canon James is two years older than Al. So that would make four years between them? They don't really have a relationship until the end of Lily's sixth year, though, and by that time she's already 17.

How did Lily and Lysander fall into a relationship?
THEY WERE PUSHED. :P

Lol. All jokes aside, they just got to talking one day, I guess. They'd grown up around each other, Lorcan is best friends with James, James is close with Lily; it happened pretty naturally. They never even really considered themselves "going out" - the other one was just there, and they loved each other. Plus that whole "let's run away to an abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere and freak everyone but Lorcan out" thing helps. XP

What does Lysander look like?
As a little boy, he looked like one of the white-blond boys on this page. As he grew, his hair darkened considerably to a dirty-blonde. His eyes are brown, and his nose was broken in a fight he and Lorcan got into when they were eight. Lorcan hit him with a plastic shovel, and since then has been overly kind to everybody.

Did Lysander go to Hogwarts or another school? If Hogwarts, what House was he in?
He was in Gryffindor, because he isn't study-orientated enough to be in Ravenclaw, he isn't loyal enough to be in Hufflepuff, and he just flat-out isn't a Slytherin. He asked to be put into Gryffindor... and grew to like it there.

What House was Lily in?
Gryffindor by nature.

What is their first date like?
They don't go out on dates.

What is their best memory of the other?
They don't really have a best memory. The way they see it (not that it's spoken, or even truly realised between the two), if you can pick out a "best memory" of your loved one, that's a little sad. You should love every moment that you spend with them.

Do they get married? If not, what do the parents have to say? Grandparents?
Nah. They're too unconventional for that. They stay in their little shack and refer to themselves as Gladys and Bob. Except not really - they do stay in their shack, though.

Luna and Rolf don't really mind. Neither do Harry and Ginny. In their eyes, if their kids are happy, well... Although I do think that Harry at least would be a little disappointed, because the only child of his to marry was Al (who then had a threesome with his wife and Scorpius. And James is just a bachelor.)

Do you even need to ask about how Molly reacts? XD

Do they have children? If so, your descriptions would be lovely.
No, they don't have children. They do end up buying a kitten, though. They named him Fluffy, in a fit of creativity. Fluffy is a Long-Haired Burmilla, and likes to sleep between them on the bed.

What jobs do you think they would get?
Lily does the local paper run on her bicycle, and Lysander splatters paint on a canvas and sells his work to art galleries nation-wide. He manages to do this by making up complicated meanings for different bits of paint.

If they moved in together, where would they live?
In a small shack/bungalow/thing by a beach, with a forest behind them and a town a few miles down the road. Lysander bought it the summer before Lily's seventh year and, to put it simply, they ran away together. Lily turned up on the Hogwarts Express as usual on September 1st and thoroughly avoided any questions. She spent the next month trying to calm her parents down, though. James wouldn't even talk to her.

What is one thing they can't stand about each other?
Lysander can't stand the fact that Lily loves her brothers. He was friends with James and was on friendly terms with Albus, but later in life he sort of ditched Lorcan. I think it was hard for him to understand that not everybody needs to abandon their family in order to love somebody. Lily hates the fact that Lysander won't reconcile with Lorcan.

What's their favorite thing about each other?
Everything.

Interesting revelations:

after running away, Lily appeared on September 1st and avoided her family, who were waiting for her hopefully. Albus caught a glimpse of her, though, and told his parents. By that time, the train was already gone. Lily spent the next month trying to calm down her parents. Albus helped calm them down, which improved Lily and Albus's relationship a lot. James wouldn't talk to her.
both of them were in Gryffindor
Lorcan was James's best friend (but was a Hufflepuff), and Lysander was in James's dorm and was therefore friendly with him anyway
they don't get married
they don't have kids
they have a cat called Fluffy (who probably is a bit evil because he hates his name - or at least that's Lily's excuse, but that's only because Fluffy likes to scratch up her arms during the night)
Lily does the local paper run on a yellow bicycle. Lysander "paints"
in front of the shack there is a beach; behind them a forest. There is a town a few miles down the road
Lysander ditched Lorcan in his mid-twenties
it's the cause of most arguments between the two

Next Gen: Scamanders and Potters and contradictions galore

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:39:57 GMT

I think I'm truly one of the few people that actually like the Epilogue. Not for what J.K. did to the Trio, Ginny and Draco, though: Hermione and Ginny aren't baby-making machines, Draco and Astoria Who?, Harry and his inability to name his children after someone who isn't dead... there have been many complaints, and all were better articulated than any of mine have the potential to be. So I'll cut to the chase.

I love the kids. I know that quite a few people don't, because we aren't told anything about them and they're "bound to be clones of their parents", but they're not. At least not in my personal canon, which admittedly is a bit fucked up and whimsical. In my PC, everyone has some angsty little friendship-romance going on, and everyone smokes and has petty little arguments on the hood of a broken down, old car in a back alley or on top of cliff at sunset. This is just how I deal with canon, okay? I make the characters into people that I can, not relate to, but... people that are far from perfect. So fucking far, you wouldn't believe.

In any case, I love the kids. I've mentioned that already. But you want to know why?

I love them because they're blank slates. They're up to your imagination.

For an example, a lot of people think that James II is a prejudiced jerk like his grandad, but see, I'm a fan of both James's - I love 'em. I don't get it. Draco's a jerk, and look at his fanbase! James is a jerk, and suddenly he's scum. Why is that, you ask? Because he's in Gryffindor! He has to be omg!perfect! I don't think half of these people even realise what they're doing. It's fine that you dislike the character, but... don't judge him because he acted like a prick when he was a teenager. Really.

So my point is that, yeah, you might think that James is a jerk. But in my canon, he's just... himself. He isn't a jerk. He's got a temper, he isn't a clone of Ginny OR Harry. He's got messy red hair, hazel eyes, and freckles.

Anyway. I'm not a big fan of AS/S. Shock horror, etc. etc. It's almost like an unwritten requirement that everyone who could stand the epilogue and doesn't shudder at the thought of slash is automatically an Albus Severus/Scorpius fan. Um, no. Again, I like them in my PC... but in fanon? Not really. My tastes are too whimsical, and I've already admitted that, but I like to believe that Albus isn't the sort of guy who sits around and whines because Scorpius may or may not be friendly with someone other than him.

I AM a fan of James/Teddy. Actually, the Rules of Being a Godson is practically my Teddy/James bible. I can't see either of the characters any other way, now, which makes me a bit grumpy, but oh well. Sam wrote the story so gorgeously that I don't mind.

Andddd the point of this post is what? you might find yourself asking. Well, yeah. I'm getting to that. First I had to ramble on about the Epilogue and make no sense.

Along with liking the Epilogue for the new characters, I'm one of those people that consider what JKR says in interviews to be canon. They might not be in the books, but I take her word over my imagination. Thing is, I then bend that word. I'm a Sirius/James shipper, a James/Lily shipper and a Lily/Sev shipper. This doesn't mean that I blatantly disregard the fact that James and Lily married. This doesn't mean that I believe that James or Lily cheated on the other. It means that divorce happens, but just because two people are divorced doesn't mean that their love, while it lasted, was not true.

But I digress. When J.K. released the Weasley family tree, I didn't whine and groan. I accepted it for what it was, and decided to believe in it. Draco and Astoria? All right, then. Well, all I've got is a name - I could make Astoria anyone I want her to be. If I wanted to, I could embrace the slight Draco/Harry shipper inside me and say that Draco divorced Astoria, Harry divorced Ginny and they ran off into the sunset.

Percy and Audrey? Alright. Here come plotbunnies stampeding towards me about Audrey, who is really a man named Hepburn Polyjuicing himself into the image of his best friend (who is in turn pretending to be Hepburn) because his love for Percy Cannot Be Denied. And hey, I like Penelope - she and Percy can have an angsty little would-be affair on the side!

I like the idea of Luna and Dean. I think it's gorgeous. It's exactly the sort of relationship that I end up making every ship into - it's sort of like a dream. I can't see them in a full-blown relationship. They're unique. And I don't think that any relationship that they had would last, but I still am a Dean/Luna shipper.

Yet at the same time, I am in love with the idea of Rolf Scamander and Luna. They just match up perfectly. And Lorcan and Lysander? Heck yes! Maybe it's the fact that they're twins that got me... plus this page of icons has me squealing over the appearance of most of the NG kids! Cute little boys with white-blond hair. omgigglefit :D!!

So now my PC is that Lorcan and Lysander are in James's grade, because... um, just because. Maybe the grade below, maybe the grade above (I choose to believe that James was in fact going into year three in the Epilogue, and he just finds great joy in reading and writing letters), but around his general age. Also, they'd be closer to him than Al, for some reason which I haven't figured out yet. I feel like they'd mesh better with James than Albus, really.

So after viewing this thread at FA Park, I'm sort of starting to believe that Lily and Lysander hook up. Lysander, I believe, would be the slightly more down-to-earth twin. He doesn't really believe in his mum's theories, instead opting to follow in his dad's footsteps and prefer to chase after the real animals on the family's annual summer holiday. Lorcan just buggers off with Luna (meant in a nice way, of course.) However, he doesn't want to pursue a career in animals... he doesn't really know what he wants to do. He likes black&white Muggle photography, but is rubbish at it.

Lorcan is much more like Luna. He's sort of... weird, if you will. He appears more there than Lysander, but most likely isn't paying attention at all. He doesn't speak much: he just listens. This totally contradicts the "he doesn't pay attention" remark, but when someone is actually talking with him rather than to him, he'll be that great person. He'll be the shoulder to cry on (and he won't dry it after, not to purposefully embarrass you but because he just doesn't see anything wrong with crying.) He's more sure of himself than Lysander, who struggles against the stereotype that everyone has on the Scamander family.

(Speaking of which, Luna doesn't change her last name. It wasn't even discussed between Rolf and her: it was a silent agreement. Luna Lovegood sounds miles better than Luna Scamander, anyway. I won't even touch on Lysander Scamander. Ew. Still, though...)

Lily wants to grow up. She wants to lead the picture-perfect adult life that all of her parental figures seem to. She wants to get married in a church with a beautiful white gown. She wants to have 1.2 kids and a white picket fence. She wants someone that she can grow old with, talking about anything and everything - and when conversation runs dry, she wants that person to understand that she still loves them with all of her heart. She wants someone who she doesn't have to say anything to, and they'll understand. She wants someone who will drive off into the sunset with her, even if they've forgotten their sunglasses.

She's inherited her mum's hair, with runlike Lily Evan's is less dark red and more orange. She's got her mum's eyes, too (brown, in case you don't know). She's inherited her grandad's habit of doodling mindlessly on her homework and spare pieces of parchment, which often leads to horrified moments when friends lean over and announce her latest "LP ♥ __" scribble to the commonroom at large.

She isn't the perfect heroine. She's got screwed-up morals. In theory she can stand Slytherins. In theory she's fine with such-and-such. Yet when confronted by it, she'll be unnerved. A Gryffindor can do something and she'll only be mildly pissed off, yet if a Slytherin friend does it, she will yell and scream and cause a fuss.

She and Al (who I haven't thought much about and will therefore not touch upon much in this entry) have a good relationship. They're close in the way that siblings often are: they don't argue too much, they have good conversations and don't go insane when they're locked in a room together.

Al is like the black sheep of the family, because he's in Slytherin (which somehow got into my personal canon. I like it, though.) It's not that his family loves him any less - it's that Lily has less of a tolerance with him than she has with James, it's that James grew up being told stories about Tom Riddle, it's that sometimes Ginny looks at him and sees a Harry that she never knew - a Harry that didn't love her. Harry is really the only one that has no unconscious problems with Al being in Slytherin.

Lily and Al have a good relationship. Lily and James have a close relationship, but row like demons. They have the sort of relationship where they'll have one small argument, won't speak to each other for a month, and then suddenly one night they'll turn up at the other's door in their pajamas and the two will spend the entire night just talking. I like to think that James and Albus both got a driving license, and bought a shared car that ends up littered with candy wrappers and empty soft drink cups. Some days the three of them get in the car and just... drive.

I don't know why I like the idea of Lily/Lysander. I think it's because Lily knows who she is - she's just afraid to really get there. And Lysander is there, really, but he doesn't know who he is. They're both incredibly family-orientated - Lily's family is her life, and Lysander, as much as he wants to break away, will never be able to truly get rid of Lorcan. I can picture the two running away at some point, maybe during the summer before Lily's seventh year they just disappear. Everyone else is fretting beyond belief, James is yelling at anybody who mentions Lily's name in front of him, Albus is hiding away at the Malfoy's (because I do believe that he and Scorpius are friends), and Lorcan is the one sending letters to the two of them regularly. I like to picture Lily sitting in the front yard of this little abandoned shack making daisy chains, and Lysander (who bought the shack, and furnished it) sitting on a hammock on the front deck, reading a letter from his twin with this little sad smile on his face.

Whimsical, much? EVERYONE has this sort of thing going on in my universe. They're all a little screwed-up. Not everyone takes Lily and Lysander's route and runs away, however. (As much as I adore James/Teddy, I can't write it for shit. James is a bachelor and Al marries a girl called Betty, which is a horrible nod to You Can Call Me Al. Then my universe gets even more screwy, I contradict myself and he has an affair with Scorpius. And you know what? Betty finds out, and turns it into a threesome. Holy crap, I am loving this woman!)

Getting out of the Scamander/Potter section, though, and avoiding Scorpius because I live by a modified version of the Shitbox Project (in that Scorpius has a pet peacock, but really nothing else), I'll go to the other Next Gen kids...

In a different post, because HOW LONG IS THIS!? I just wanted to say that I was trying not to start a series of oneshots about these kids! :(