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THE GRAB BAG MEME
I. Post a list of your characters.
II. Ask questions! Anything from "Why'd you pick up character X?", "your most hoped-for canonmates for Y", "how would you describe your canon Z to somebody totally canon-blind?" to total ridiculousness like "your character in a band AU, how does it go". This is a getting-to-know-your-lineup meme ( Read more... )
I. Post a list of your characters.
II. Ask questions! Anything from "Why'd you pick up character X?", "your most hoped-for canonmates for Y", "how would you describe your canon Z to somebody totally canon-blind?" to total ridiculousness like "your character in a band AU, how does it go". This is a getting-to-know-your-lineup meme ( Read more... )
Yeah, that is always one thing I was sad about in the books, that Ginny didn't get all that much screentime in terms of what she was feeling/how things were affecting her! But bawww Ginny, Gryffindor through and through.
But hoo boy, Jamie and magic. IT'S SAFE TO SAY IT'S COMPLICATED. So without spoiling too much, I will just say that he and magic have a bit of a love-hate relationship. He has grown up knowing he has this weird, scary power that no one else around him has, and he spent the longest time thinking he would be hated if people found out.
So he kept it from everyone, including his sister! And... eventually everyone found out, predictably, but things were still far from okay. Because he and Mae had stumbled across this whole world of magic that had been right under their noses the whole time.
So by Jamie's current canon point, he has learned how to control his magic a little, and he even has a sort of appreciation and wonder for it! It makes him curious, he wants to be able to use it, but it still also scares him. At one point he lmao describes it like it's a crack addiction, as if he's addicted to magic and he worries where that addiction will take him. And I believe this is how he sees it all the time! As something that controls him and his life, hence why he wants to be able to use it properly.
In the City, his thoughts get a bit more complicated because there are all these people who can do all these awesome things! And they are not like the magicians in his world, who as a general rule are all awful power-hungry people, which perplexes him even more. So, again, he's curious and he wants to know about all these other kinds of magic. And he wants to maybe learn more about his own magic, since in the City he doesn't have to worry about those awful power-hungry magicians.
AND WELL after the AU curse where he became a pretty evil magician for a weekend, he's hesitant and scared all over again, but that hasn't stopped the curiosity. SO YES, love-hate. He likes being able to do magic, I think, but he is terrified of hurting people with it. In the City I think he is more willing to use it, just because there are so many other people with magic, but the fear is still there.
I'd be interested in developing that further, though, to get him to be a bit less scared and a bit more confident in practising magic. Eventually! Because it would be fun, I think, for him to be able to use it a little without there being hideous consequences. BUT YES, he has complicated thoughts. On the one hand, it's the only thing he's really good at (in his own opinion) and on the other, it's powerful and dangerous and scary and apparently like crack. :|b
HAHA IT'S OKAY, I TL;DRED TOO. (and they totally need to hang out more, okay so this can be Mission: Crawford-Weasley friendship.)
UM OKAY another question, what is your favourite scene with Ginny in canon?
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Oh, Jamie. Ginny has totally had magical demonstration dates where she just mucks around in Xanadu or something and is like ~magic~ for whoever is curious. They should talk about magic, she's totally fascinated with other worlds and their versions of it and how people perceive it. And with Fred here, who knows what magical shenanigans these Weasleys will get up to. >_____>
OKAY UM. Favourite scene for Ginny in the books... would basically be every scene because she doesn't have a lot, sob. :| But if I had to narrow it down, I'd say... that I have like, four. I AM CHEATING.
I'm quite fond of the scene in HBP where Harry's just woken up the day after he arrived and Ron, Hermione, and Ginny crash his room and Ginny and Hermione are pretty much bitching about Fleur. It's such a petty, girly thing that really reminds us that Ginny is still the little sister of the family and Does Not Like It when her brothers get girlfriends and it's just hilarious. "She talks to me like I'm about three" and then when Ron and Harry are like, "Aw c'mon ease up," Ginny glares at Harry and is like, "Oh, I suppose you like it when she says 'Arry, do you?" and it's like LMAO GINNY CALM DOWN. (And then during the wedding in DH when Gabrielle Delacour is making eyes at Harry, Ginny glares daggers at her. Really, Ginny. Really.)
I also like the argument she has with Ron in HBP when he and Harry walk in on her making out with Dean. Because, omg they're having a fight about SNOGGING. And they draw their wands and they're So Angry and Ginny is scathing and teasing Ron about it and it's awful and brilliant because later, Ron is making out with Lavender Brown and Ginny comes up to Harry and calls her brother a 'filthy hypocrite' and is like, "It looks like he's eating her face, doesn't it?" Sooooob.
ALSO, it's a little thing, but the scene in OotP when Harry is waaaangsting about being possessed by Voldemort and NO ONE UNDERSTANDS and then Hermione and Ron are all YOU ARE AVOIDING US and Harry's like YEAH BECAUSE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND and Ginny just tells it to him straight, like: "Well, that's a bit stupid of you, seeing as I'm the only person you know who's been possessed by You-Know-Who and I can tell you what it's like." And Harry is just like, "... I forgot" and she just looks at him, tone all cool and says, "Lucky you." It really says so much about her because it's like... yeah, up until book five, we all sort of forgot that Ginny went through that in CoS but clearly she's still carrying that memory with her and that's what told me that she has never forgot the lesson she learned with the diary.
And, of course, every scene with Harry is my favourite. The break-up scene in HBP during the funeral said so much about her and how much she cared for and understood Harry. She didn't rage against him for breaking up with her, nor did she passively accept it like some demure thing; it was quite mature, I think, how she took it and said, "Well, I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting down Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much." One, she really seemed to get that Harry wasn't breaking up with her because he didn't care - it was because he cared too much, not just about her but about their world. Two, she said Voldemort when no one else in her family spoke the name.
AND THE OTHER Harry scene I like is his birthday in DH when she gives him ~the best kiss of his life~ and that kissing her was ~better than firewhiskey~. First it's got her humour, because she's teasing him about running into a Veela on his mission so she's got to give him something to remember her by, and he tells her dating will be a little thin on the ground; and then she says, "There's the silver lining I've been looking for." Sob idk it's so lovely and sweet and quiet and it's such a sharp contrast to the panic and rush of their lives that, to me, it really embodies what Harry said in HBP - that being with her was like "something out of someone else's life." I love it. ;____;
OKAY GOSH I CHEATED ON THAT QUESTION. Um. What's your favourite scene for Jamie? 8)
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YES THEY SHOULD TALK ABOUT MAGIC, I think it would make Jamie feel a lot better to talk magic with someone who can understand that people use magic to do awful things (lookin' at you, Voldemort). And lmfao WEASLEY SHENANIGANS, do want.
HAHAHA omg I totally forgot about the scene where they bitch about Fleur, but yes I loved that so much. ALSO LOVED THE SNOGGING ARGUMENT, IT WAS SO PERFECT (especially Ron's flaming hypocrisy later).
Man, Harry was such a stereotypical teenager in OotP, huh. PAGES AND PAGES OF YELLING.
Okaaaaay, MY FAVOURITE SCENE FOR JAMIE. Is not particularly meaningful, it's just hilarious. It's towards the end of the second book, and Jamie is sad and so decides to go to a club and dance and drown his sorrows. (And yes, he is only sixteen.) So he drinks! A lot! As shown by:
“Has Jamie been drinking?”
“Not that much,” Nick said.
“Not that much for you,” Mae asked dangerously, “or not that much for someone half your size who has been known to sing a song and fall over after a sherry at Christmas?”
And then later on:
Jamie chose that moment to almost fall down the stairs. Mae took his whole weight and grabbed the banister. Nick gave Jamie a push in the chest that was clearly intended to right him, but that nearly had him toppling over backward.
Balance eventually restored to them all, Jamie gave Nick an approving look.
“You are my friend,” he told him.
“Yeah, I am,” said Nick.
“But these stairs,” Jamie said sadly. “They are not my friends.”
And then later he and Mae have to sneak back into their house, and Jamie claims it will be good training for when they are ninjas. And gets distracted by a hanging plant. BASICALLY, IT IS SO RIDICULOUS, but it makes me laugh every single time without fail.
Okay! Three pieces of headcanon you have for Ginny. C:
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AHAHAHAHAHAH JAMIE. JAMIE PLEASE GET DRUNK FOR CHRISTMAS OR SOMETHING. AND THEN POST TO THE NETWORK.
Three pieces of headcanon for Ginny. Okay. I will try to make this... not tl;dr, sob. OKAY, so.
1. Her bedroom is on the second floor of the Burrow (which we are told in canon, it's the first bedroom off the staircase). The book states that her bedroom window overlooks the orchard by their house. Headcanon for me is that there's a good space of flat roof right under her window and she climbs out there to sit and think and be lazy because it's the quietest place in the whole house. I also like to think there's a trellis alongside it, covered in honeysuckle, and she can climb it whenever she feels like it. Her mother does not know this because she certainly wouldn't approve.
2. She broke her wrist at the age of eight by falling off Charlie's broom. She wasn't supposed to be using the brooms (though as we all know, Ginny doesn't do very well with following the rules) and had been sneaking around to teach herself how to fly. She managed to put it back into the shed and get back into the kitchen - and when her parents asked her what happened, Ginny lied and said she fell out of a tree in the orchard while picking apples.
3. During the Carrows' reign of terror at Hogwarts, Ginny was banned from visiting the village of Hogsmeade on weekends - this was mentioned in canon, but we never find out why. Headcanon for me is that she had found a way to charm the suits of armour in the Entrance Hall to broadcast Potterwatch when it aired, blasting the real news at Hogwarts students when they were passing through for meals or to/from class. The Carrows found out it was her because Fred and George Weasley were regular hosts on the underground radio show; so, they hauled her into detention and interrogated her to try and get the broadcast location out of her, hoping to pass it on to their master. She didn't say a word, even under the Cruciatus, and luckily the DA executed some wonderfully loud distraction to call them away before they could continue. So they revoked her weekend passes to Hogsmeade, but Potterwatch and her brothers continued. 8)
NOW THREE PIECES OF HEADCANON FOR JAMIE. (Sob your questions are just so good and I'm unoriginal. ;___;)
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BUT! Headcanon:
1. I imagine Jamie is a movie buff, because he is canonly not much of a reader (literally the only thing he says about Pride and Prejudice is that he liked "the hot soldier buffet") or into schoolwork, and does not seem as though he is a huuuge gamer to me. So I think probably TV is his Thing! Since... in canon he gets bullied in school and uh has no friends (other than Nick.....), so I don't think he has much of a social life. I also headcanon that he is into black and white movies, and that he and Mae frequently have movie nights when she is not off on dates or going to raves with her friends.
2. He has said that he knew he could do magic from a young age, so I think there was probably a period of his life when he was like seven or eight where he thought he was a mutant or a superhero or something like that (I think comic books are probably another of his Things). He probably even made himself a cape at one point, at least until he realised he probably shouldn't draw attention to the fact that he can levitate things and make objects explode.
3. In one of the short stories the author has on her LJ (which I consider just as canon as the books okay...) it mentions that Jamie almost used his magic to push one of Mae's horrible boyfriends down the stairs, but stopped himself before he did. (And then Mae threw a jewellery box at the guy's head anyway, so.) So I headcanon that Jamie probably has a list of guys Mae's dated and how bad they were for her on a scale of one to ten, with helpful footnotes. JUST SO SOMEONE IS KEEPING TRACK, OKAY. One day he will tape it to her bedroom door. Out of love.
And uh because the movie thing is a pretty lame piece of headcanon, 4. Jamie is canonly a football nut! And his dad used to take him to football games until he came out, and then his dad uh... never took him to a football game again because his dad is KIND OF A MASSIVE DOUCHE. So I imagine that Jamie went to a couple of games on his own and then felt like a supreme loser because not even his own dad wants to take him to a game, so ever since then he has only ever watched games on TV and now does not own any football-related shirts/merchandise/anything. BUT HE'S STILL A LIVERPOOL NUT, and if anyone ever lmao offered to take him to a football game (other than Mae because he knows she is not actually interested in it :|b) he would probably CONSIDER THEM A GREAT FRIEND FOREVER. Just on that offer alone. Jamie is special that way.
OKAY UHHH if you could have Ginny be in a romantic relationship with any character from any canon, WHO WOULD YOU PICK.
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Okay, so this was a really difficult question to figure out, and I think I'll always change my mind about who I pick and why. But every time I pair up a character from other canons, the type seems to run in the same direction: that mildly snarky, brooding, serious guy with bursts of good humour that actually make her laugh. Which is hilarious because... those are qualities found in one Harry Potter around the time of OotP (YOU DON'T UNDERSTAAAAAND I AM FULL OF TEENAGE RAAAAEG).
But the trait she tends to look for in a potential boyfriend is the ability to give as good as he gets, because Ginny needs an equal. On the one hand, she can have someone who is as stubborn as she is and helps ground her (Peter Pevensie would be a good example of that sort of boyfriend) at the same time; on the other, she can have someone who fights fire with fire and theirs would be the sort of relationship that flares bright, and hot, and fierce - but brief, and it would end with some massive fight and then they'd go back to being friends after a cold spell. Aka the difference is the former is good for long term and the latter is good for a fling. >____>
I... cannot really think of specific characters off the top of my head, sob. But just going by the guy friends she's had in the City? I mentioned Peter Pevensie already (let's call that ship Weavensie); but in the snarky broody camp, there's Amory, I guess! (Clearly the Blue Light has got it going on.) And Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet. For flying shenanigans.
IDK LET'S GO WITH PERCY JACKSON BECAUSE HE IS BASICALLY HARRY POTTER. /cheats forever aaaand... hmmm. Question for you: Jamie is magically at Hogwarts and has to get Sorted - which House does he end up in and why? |D
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HAHAHA Percy, I love Percy Jackson.
... uuuuuuummmm. Jamie has Gryffindor qualities, but ultimately I think he would be more likely to end up in Hufflepuff, since he hates fighting and would just like it if everybody could sort out their differences over a cup of tea. Jamie is basically the Nice One of the cast of TDL, and while he can be brave, I think his general niceness and loyalty to family and friends are what win there. Also he would never be in Ravenclaw because LOL SCHOOLWORK SHOULD BE OPTIONAL (in his mind anyway) and uh Slytherin is most likely full of terrifying and psychotic people, please don't send him there. (Nick would totally be Slytherin, I bet.)
ON A SLIGHTLY RELATED NOTE, Jamie would absolutely love Hogwarts, omg. A SCHOOL OF MAGIC!!!
If Ginny were a teacher at Hogwarts, what class/es would she take and if she were Head of House somehow, what would happen? C:
/uses pink-haired Jamie icon sob
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