I Always See In Slytherin Aesthetics+hc’s+tropes About Not Showing Emotion And Being Cold And Calculating.

Put Your Money on Me

Fugitive Sirius Black x Bounty Hunter Remus Lupin

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Remus grimaced at the bitter taste of the cheap beer and pushed the plastic cup away from him. The bar in which he was currently situated was grimy and filthy, although the dark red and black tones hid it quite well. Unfortunately, the inferiority of the beer could not be hidden. 

He sighed quietly, discreetly glancing at door. His patience was running thin and the dodgy nature of the rough-faced men sitting around him was putting him on edge.

Many times in his twenty-five years of life, he had found himself questioning why he made the choices he made. Why had he, at the tender age of eighteen, decided to pursue a degree in Criminal Justice rather than sequestering himself in English Literature? Why had he not gone to Law school, Grad school, or any of the other places he could have gone? Instead, he had found himself writing an exam, and rubbing shoulders with bond agents.

All this had led him to this exact moment where he sat in a grubby bar, waiting for his informant, a shifty-eyed man named Arthur, to arrive.

Not for the first time, he cursed Sirius Black.

Depending on who you asked, Sirius Black was the heir to the criminally rich, Black crime family, but he was also the black sheep, stepping out of his family’s footprints, and joining the opposite, clean side of the law, at least for a while.

The one thing that everyone could agree on was that six months ago, Sirius Black had, through many eye-witnesses and his DNA found on the murder weapon, brutally murdered Peter Pettigrew, a fellow cop, in the back of a Knockturn Alley, a drug-breeding ground. 

The story was that Black had a change of heart, and had turned his back on the law, following in his family’s footsteps. He had been dabbling in drug distribution, and Peter had found out. It was believed that Black had gone mad after the death of his estranged, younger brother, Regulus, leading to his actions. Technically, there was no actual evidence found proving that Black had done anything illegal, well anything illegal other than the eventual murder.

Peter had notified the police force, but being a new, nervous rookie, he had wanted to prove himself. He had followed Black that day, and Black, trying to cover up his crimes from being discovered, had shot Pettigrew. 

Sirius had then been apprehended by his fellow officers, but Pettigrew, who had fled with a bullet wound was no where to be found. The Leuitenant, Barty Crouch, had later confirmed that Peter had been found dead. 

Remus didn’t care much for the details of how and when. Despite the homicide charges, Black, through his influential name, and many connections, had managed to get out on bail. This is where Remus had come in the picture, when five months ago, Sirius Black had not shown up to his court date. 

An extended search had been done, but Black had disappeared into thin air. He had taken a large sum of money and had fled, officially making him a fugitive.

Remus, a bounty hunter, had been contacted by a cop named James Potter, Black’s partner, to help hunt him down. For reasons, Remus didn’t want to ponder, Potter had promised to pay Remus a hefty fund to find Black before the FBI did, 

Remus personally did not really care for the details. He was here for the check and the check alone. Well, before atleast. Now he thought mournfully of the money he would never get, based the ways events were unfolding. 

“Remus?” rang out a voice from behind him. 

Remus spun in his seat to see a short, chubby man with a receding auburn hair line. Mentally matching him with the profile in his head, he nodded. 

Gesturing for Arthur to take a seat, Remus fixed the collar of his black trench coat and raked back his brown hair, scanning the bar one more time for any eavesdroppers. 

“Thank you again Arthur, for reaching out. Any information you share, small or big, will be very helpful.” 

Arthur simply fidgeted in his seat, looking down at his lap.

Remus, mentally sighed, before softening his voice more, “I understand you’re nervous but I’m not a cop. I’m not going to arrest you, Arthur, I’m paying you, remember?”

At the mention of money, the cost Remus would have to pay for Arthur’s words, the shabbily dressed man looked up with resolve in his gaze. 

Taking a look around the bar, like a ghost would jump out from the corner, Arthur began telling Remus what he knew.

Arthur was an, alleged, member of the Death Eaters, the most notorious gang in the city of Gryffindor.

Perhaps through a final attempt of honour and honesty, Arthur had reached out to Remus, revealing a different tale to Remus, one that the Daily Prophet, had not been telling.

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Hours later, Remus felt drained, staring blankly at the dirty bar counter, long after Arthur had scurried off into the night. The knowledge that Arthur had confirmed sat heavy on his chest. 

He tightened his coat around him as the cold, night hit him when he walked out the bar. Despite the late hour, the city was mostly silent around him. Even the partygoers of Gryffindor knew to not stay out too late. You never knew who would find you. 

Remus, still and stealthy in the night, cut through the side streets, one hand firmly around a sleek, black gun, under his coat. 

Pausing in the corner of an alley, as a patrolling officer passed by, Remus glanced up at the night sky. Despite the smog that covered downtown, Remus glanced to where he knew he would otherwise see the bright, constellation Regulus, and felt emotion bubbling in his throat. 

Shaking himself out of it, he stepped back out on the street and slinked around the block. 

He only relaxed and released the gun, firmly hiding it’s shape from sight, when he stepped into his apartment complex. 

It took him a few minutes to find his key in his messy pocket, but he quietly inserted it, swinging open the door of his apartment, and immediately turning around and re-locking the three locks on the door. Throwing the keys into the bowl beside the door, he kicked off his shoes, and stepped into the kitchen, not bothering to flip the light on. 

Moonlight filled the apartment from the now slightly open blinds, that Remus swore he had fully closed before leaving. 

He busied himself looking for a snack in the cupboards, humming quietly under his breath.

Remus stilled when he heard a noise from behind him , and before he could blink, someone had wrapped themselves around him.

Remus gasped before he smiled, relaxing into the hold. 

Sirius’s arms wrapped themselves around Remus’s waist and Remus leaned back into his broad and warm chest. He sighed happily as Sirius placed his chin on the top of Remus’s head. 

Taking a minute to breathe in the man’s comforting scent, Remus spoke, “I thought I told you you to not open the blinds. Anyone could see you!”

Sirius let out a laugh, “Someone is going to see me in the dark room, in the middle of the night, on the sixth floor, through the barely open blinds?”

Remus huffed, “Siriu-“

Sirius simply tightened his hold on Remus, nudging him for a kiss. At the last moment, Remus turned his head so that Sirius’s lips met his cheek instead.

Sirius sighed before murmering, “Ok, I’m sorry, my love. I’ll be more careful. I'm just-, I'm getting a bit antsy in here.” 

This time when Sirius leaned down for a kiss, Remus happily obliged. 

He pushed out the thoughts of his troubling conversation out of his mind. That was something for tomorrow, tonight was just for them. 

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This idea would not leave me alone until I wrote it. I'm not sure if I intend to write more or leave this as a oneshot. Let me know what you prefer!

Ya’ll, I’m sure that Young Royals is great

But I would like to see RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE stuff under the goddamn red white and royal blue tag besties..

the amount of times that ive had to hold my breath to stop from cackling like a maniac when reading fanfic of any kind is truly disturbing

I never realized how fatphobic the Harry Potter series is.

like Joanne.....

- Dudley Dursley

- Vernon Dursley

- Marge Dursley

- Peter Pettrigrew

- Crabbe 

- Goyle

These are all antagonists and their fatness/lack of conventional attractiveness is used to make them worse. They are bad people but fatness/obesity is shown as a negative trait to show them as bad or use them as comedic relief. 

 Vernon  “His mean little eyes now slits in his great purple face”

Dudley “His piggy little eyes fixed on the screen and his 5 chins wobbling as he ate continually” and “Very fat and hated exercise—unless of course it involved punching somebody”

Marge “She was very like uncle Vernon, large, beefy, and purple-faced, she even had a moustache, though not as bushy as his.”

Whenever they are shown as mean people, they are also shown as fat.

Peter : He is shown as less than the Marauders at Hogwarts, because compared to them, he is fat and short. Also, everytime he does something bad, JKR continually describes him as fat and grubby.

Peter sucks but his fatness is made to make him even worse and less than.

Crabbe and Goyle: Their personality traits are literally just being fat, stupid and mean.

Harry and Ron are made able to knock them out and polyjuice them by putting cupcakes infront of them, they are considered dumb fat people.

Their fatness is associated with being dumb, mean, and greedy.

All of these people are also shown as prejudice and when their close-mindedness is shown, their fatness is intertwined.

I call them my favourite characters but I au place/write them in every tragic love story written in human history despite their’s being sad enough.

“I call them my favourite characters but I au place/write them in every tragic story in human history despite their’s being sad enough.

hehe

Kaz: This is my girlfriend Inej.

Kaz: And this is my girlfriend‘s girlfriend Nina.

Tropes from Marauders/Wolfstar fics that I can’t stand!

- that Sirius is a playboy (there is no canon proof to support this. The only time girls and sirius are mentioned is when (in snape’s memories) girls are looking at sirius but SIRIUS IS PAYING THEM NO MIND. He is described as attractive and confident but only with his friends, not girls)

- the overdramatic view of the prank. (There is no canon proof that the prank caused some HUMUNGOUS rift between remus and sirius. In fact, it is talked about how the marauders as animagi and remus as a werewolf had many close calls when they were together on full moons. It then says how they laughed about it afterwords. Remus wasn’t as stiff as fanon makes him to be._

-THE OVERDRAMATIC VIEW OF SIRIUS’ MISTRUST OF REMUS DURING THE WAR (let me just go off here. Just like the prank, there is no proof that the mistrust thing was really a big deal. 

- there is no proof that sirius mistrusted remus because he was a werewolf, he literally became an animagi for him! Sirius is in the order of the phoenix, an organization to fight a HATE GROUP. He was open minded.

- There is no proof that sirius even KNEW about the fact that remus was with the werewolves. Dumbledore is very secretive and could have told remus not to say anything and remus himself is very secretive. Sirius probably didn’t even know that remus was with werewolves. All he knew was remus was gone a lot and would not say where he’s going without excuses. He could have been saying he was visiting relatives but it was obvi he wasn’t to sirius. That would obvi cause suspicion from sirius when in a middle of war that;s killing everbody, knowing theres a spy, and remus is lying. But there is no proof it’s because he was a werewolf.

-  There is also no proof that sirius became cold or distant towards remus because of his suspicion during the first war. Like people show in fics. Remus is very smart, if sirius was acting cold towards him, he would have put the pieces together. In the shrieking shack, remus is shocked to know that sirius thought he was the traitor. Sirius acted normally towards remus while having a doubt in the back of mind, and only at the VERY END of the war. when peter had become a spy and was wispering things about remus in sirius’ ear

- Also, I think that sirius didn’t actually fully doubt remus but instead had a small doubt in his mind from remus lying and peter wispering. If Sirius truly thought remus was the spy, he would not have been civil with him. He is fiercly loyal to the people he loves and is very brash, he could have confronted remus about betraying lily and james.

- Lastly, sirius doubting remus,  to me honestly, shows me how high he thought of remus. Sirius had to play “Pick which one it could be” it couldnt be james bc he was targeted, peter was thought too dumb. But Remus, sirius thought remus was smart and capable enough. He was just being realistic

LASTLY, the trope that lily and james mistrusted remus, There is no canon proof of this. Like i said earlier, remus would have noticed if all his friends began acting weird towards him. There is no canon proof that anyone but sirius even came close to doubting. and from lily and james’ personality we can difer that they didn’t doubt him. James was loyal to a fault and lily “was there for me at a time no one else was.- remus”

The way I would give my firstborn child for Paxton Hall Yoshida to please fix his goddamn posture.

My Wolfstar/Remus Lupin Playlist

My Remus Lupin/Wolfstar Playlist

- Dandelions - Ruth B

“And I've heard of a love that comes once in a lifetime And I'm pretty sure that you are that love of mine” - Remus and Sirius before the war when everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.

“And I see forever in your eyes” - A forever that they won’t get, but right now, it feels possible.

Demons - Imagine Dragons

“I wanna hide the truth, I wanna shelter you But with the beast inside, there's nowhere we can hide“ - During the war as Remus goes on missions. He tries to hide it from Sirius, this other side of him, but it creeps in.

“Though this is all for you, don't wanna hide the truth“ - He’s doing this for Sirius and James and Lily and Harry, so that the war can end. He wants to tell them so bad that’s it’s for them, that’s he not leaving them, that he would never turn on them.

Running with the wolves - Aurora

“I'm running with the wolves tonight” “But don't you know we're stronger now“ - As much as he hates Greyback, during the werwolf missions during the first war, there is a type of freedom. For the first time he feels like maybe this isn’t a bad thing. That there is freedom in being different.  

“A gift, curse“ - But with this, the distance from Sirius grows. Sirius doesn’t understand that for the first time Remus feels like he truly belongs, all he sees is Remus with the enemy.

- Visions of Gideon (Sufjan Stevens)

“I have loved you for the last time” - Remus trying to convince himself that he no longer loves Sirius after Halloween 1981

“ I have touched you for the last time” Remus reflects on Sirius when he goes to Azkaban thinking he will never see him again and that’s this is the end. Never again will their hands touch.

- This Year’s Love (Jasmine Thompson)

“This year's love had better last Heaven knows it's high time I've been waiting on my own Too long” - After Sirius is found innocent and they are at the headquarters. So much time has passed but they have been alone for so long. and it’s time to try again.

“When you hold me like you do It feels so right, oh now“ - They are so different but their love is still so right.

Godspeed - Frank Ocean

“I let go of my claim on you“ - Sirius is gone now. Dead, and Remus knows he needs to move on. He decides to alteast try.

“There will be mountains you won't move“ - This can’t be changed, Sirius is gone.

“'i’ll always love you”  - but he knows in his heart, he will never forget.

“Until the time we die“

- I Shall Believe - Sheryl Crow

“And I know you're on to me That I only come home When I'm so all alone“ - Remus seeking comfort from Tonks after Sirius’ dies.

“No one heals me like you” - Remus about Tonks.

“ Not everything’s going to be the way it outta be” - He knows that Sirius is his love but he doesn’t want to be alone even though this isn’t the way it’s meant to be. He is meant to be with Sirius

“I shall believe” - He believes he can heal.

Touch - Sleeping at last

“Invisible machinery These moving parts inside of me Well, they've been shutting down for quite some time” - Remus as he’s dying at the Battle of Hogwarts. He knows he’s been ready to go for a while. The pain from the wars and from loss and from being a werewolf have crushed him. He’s been shutting down for a while. He just wants peace.

‘But God, I want to feel again“ - He knows that with his death he’s leaving behind Tonks and his son, but he’s just so tired.... he wants to feel again. He loves his son but he knows his time is here.

“Suddenly discover signs of life” -With his death, he is ready for life. To see them again. To see him again.

Harry And Draco

Sometimes I think about how beautiful Harry and Draco could have been. In canon obviously Draco was a prejudiced jerk but in another universe. I think if there was no war and Draco and Harry were a bit more openminded, there could have been something. I think even in canon, there was always something  there between them, but they never acted on it because they never accepted it, so it eventually faded. But in another universe, they could have had such a beautiful love story. 

I think that between the lines of the books, there was definitely “something” between Harry and Draco that was never written.