I Know I Use The Word Iconic A Lot In Relation To Harry James Potter But I Feel It Bears Repeating Here

Well, I’m really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we’ve met before. 

A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice

Blackinnon Fest 2024 | Day 6

Word Count: 314

Prompt: Quaint

The man in the portrait casually leaned against the golden frame. He eyed Marlene suspiciously; his narrow, dark eyes followed the movement of her quill. He had raised his eyebrows and stretched his head to get a better view of her chart as if he could look straight through her. Like an exam invigilator, he hovered behind her, which sent cold shivers down her spine. 

Afraid to make a sound, she nudged Lily under the table and nodded towards the portrait. 

"Do you see that guy over there?" she whispered. 

"Who? Black? Yeah, he's been staring for a while," Lily shrugged. She had barely looked up from the paper to notice him. 

"Not Sirius," she replied loud enough for the professor to raise their head.

"Uhhhh," Lily looked intrigued, "already on first-name terms. Suddenly, he's 'Sirius'."

She mustered the four boys at the table conspicuously until Sirius and James caught her watching, and they had to suppress to burst out laughing in the classroom. 

The wizard in the portrait cleared his throat loudly and began walking up and down the painting. His shoes made a clicking sound with every step. That was when Lily finally noticed him. 

"You have another admirer," Lily giggled, "creepy portrait guy. Looks like Venus is totally in your favour this month." 

"Ms Evans and Ms McKinnon, five points from Gryffindor for chatting in class," the professor said without looking up from their newspaper, "I'm sure you are still missing the descending houses in your chart." 

"We were just talking about Venus in the 8th house, professor," Marlene replied seriously, which nearly sent Lily into a laughing fit, "we were wondering what impact Venus had on relationships." 

"Oh yes, interesting," the professor folded his paper, "Venus in the house of Transformation, Death, Possession and Intimacy. The time for passionate love, that new beginning after a breakup, the deep connection with each other." 

Lily raised her eyebrows and nodded in Sirius' direction. 

"But beware!" the professor continued, "it's also the time for the big mysteries in life, the time for lurking strangers in the dark and healing from hardship. Very well, Ms McKinnon 10 points to Gryffindor."  

"Very well, Ms McKinnon," Lily repeated mockingly, "thank you for sharing your love life with us." 

Marlene rolled her eyes and threw a piece of parchment at her, "Èist do bheul!"

"Oh, be quiet yourself. Now that you know you're in for passionate love, why not ask him out?"

"Only if you finally go out with that Potter guy," Marlene made a couple of kissing sounds. 

"Urgh, I'd rather go on a date with that creepy portrait guy; that mysterious stranger lurking in the dark." 

"Quiet! Or I'll take another 5 points off Gryffindor!" the professor warned them, and they spent the rest of the lesson quietly completing their astrology charts. 

When the lesson was finished and the girls packed their stuff, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter approached their table. 

Lily dove out of the way and left the room as quickly as possible, leaving Marlene alone with the boys. Sirius grinned obnoxiously with that air of haughtiness as he leaned against her table and blocked the way to the door. 

"I was wondering if you still need help with Venus in your 8th house", he smirked. 

Marlene shouldered her bag, crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows. The other boys were already in stitches with laughter. 

"As it happens, Scorpio is the ruler of the 8th house, and I should know all about that." 

Marlene burst out laughing, "That's the quaintest pickup line I've ever heard!" 

Sirius raised his eyebrows, too, tilted his head and said, "But did it work?"

what kind of music do you think Sirius listened to? favorite songs/bands? I know most of the fandom associates him to punk rock (or Bowie and Queen), but he grew up in the seventies, that was such a rich decade music wise.

also I’ve been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd lately and the song “Brain Damage” makes me think about him and the effects the whole Peter betrayal and Azkaban had in his mind.

Hello anon.

So I have some controversial takes about Sirius's music tastes. I don't think he was achingly cool in his tastes. He spent most of his time either in a really traditional home or a remote Scottish castle. Also the only time we see him being musical in canon, he's singing his own dorky remix of a traditional Christmas carol.

So I can imagine his early tastes being Opera (which suits his personality so much) and classical. I have a HC that wizarding classical music is stuck in the 1600s so young Sirius may well have jammed to something like this:

Note: one of my other hyperfixations is Anne Boleyn

I also don't think he arrived at Hogwarts all 'woke' about muggleborns. I think he had to unlearn some prejudices (we get glimpses of his upbringing when he calls Peter 'Filth'.).

But as he gets older I can see him starting to explore his musical tastes (I still HC him as a massive opera fan).

I see him as someone who likes quite angsty music (Joni Mitchell) and I also don't think his tastes would purely be contemporary music (personally I love stuff from all decades).

I like the subversion of Sirius with an achingly cool taste in music listening and loving something like this (especially the Misbehaving thing)

I also think Delta Blues fits his personality and this is the song that reminds me the most of him:

Dacre Montgomery as Billy Hargrove

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can you imagine lily finding the marauders map and trying to open it 

mr. moony would like to ask lily if she could please put the map down before all hell breaks loose

mr. padfoot would like to tell lily not to put the map down because he’s quite looking forward to mr. prongs shitting his pants

mr. moony would like to tell mr. padfoot to stop saying shit

mr. wormtail would like to tell lily her hair looks nice today and also is mr. prongs doing okay?

mr. prongs is not doing okay

mr. padfoot would like to ask lily if she could find this piece of parchment more often

mr. prongs would like to say fuck you to mr. padfoot and would also like to ask lily if she has ever had feelings for a lad named james potter

mr. moony would like to slam his head against a wall

mr. wormtail thinks perhaps lily should put this parchment down and walk away

mr. prongs does not want lily to put this down as he’s still waiting on an answer about the whole james potter thing

mr. padfoot is having the time of his life 

mr. padfoot would also like to say that this james fellow seems like an awful human being who smells like dung. at least, that’s mr. padfoot’s impression

mr. prongs would like to tell mr. padfoot to SHUT THE HELL UP

mr. moony apologizes to lily

mr. prongs would like to say that james potter is in fact a wonderful bloke and mr. prongs has heard he would make a wonderful boyfriend

mr. padfoot thinks mr. prongs is good at being subtle

mr. prongs thinks mr. padfoot should stick his head up his ass

and lily’s like “what the fuck”

I am a WHORE for “the love is requited, they’re both just idiots”

Sarah Cameron | 1x10

Winona Ryder in LITTLE WOMEN (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

#especially the Skywalker's ones <3

"hands are made for holding" not in star wars. in star wars theyre made for geting chopped off..