follow every rainbow

From kalligeneia:

Give me a pairing or character(s) from any fandom you know I'm familiar with, and I'll write you a few lines about them AT HOGWARTS!

Giant space robots will be properly humanized. :P I might be slow to answer, but I will, I promise.

Day 11: Character you’d become best friends with

( This was pretty difficult, in fact )

Unrelated ETA: I've mentioned before that I love Gunnerkrig Court. There are many, many reasons for this, but one of the main ones is the setting itself, with the whole magic-and-science thing going on.

So far, because of the characters it's been focused on, "science" seemed to mean technology/robotics/etc. But it turns out there is also this.

WHY ISN'T THAT PLACE REAL AND WHY AM I NOT THERE.

There's something that I've been thinking about since DH came out, and that's people immediately assuming Grindelwald was German. Obvious parallels aside... you do realize that Germany as we know it didn't exist in the 1880s, right? So he's either from the German Empire (the one with Bismarck) or the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the one with Sissi movies Strauss II the Habsburgs).

Now, while Grindelwald definitely sounds German (I think I read somewhere that she got it from a map?), Gellert... not so much. And Google tells me that the name is - guess what - Hungarian. Means "powerful soldier", by the way. And, yes, I'm double-checking with different sites.

Now I sort of want an excuse to call him Austro-Hungarian somewhere and see if people go "nonono he was GERMAN!!!" (I wouldn't object to people writing him as someone from the German Empire, mind you. I just object to people assuming countries haven't changed since the 1880s.)


In a sort of related note, I have this pet theory about Durmstrang being relatively new and founded during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or maybe a bit earlier, during the Austrian Empire. It makes sense because of the name (Sturm und Drang, an artistic movement that didn't happen until the late 1700s) and the presence of students from several nationalities, including Slavic countries. (It still doesn't explain Bulgaria, though. Sorry, Viktor.)


So, my conclusions about this, in short:

1) I'm the nerdiest nerd in Ravenclaw.
2) One would think someone who likes the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its history wouldn't go out of her way to associate it with the Dark Arts. o.O

The full version of the cover for TRC volume 20 is gorgeous. It also has CCS!Clow's sun staff, as opposed to the moon staff he had on an older splash page. I... I think I'll turn off my brain and hope for the best.

Please don't be the same guy. Please.

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Anyway. Drabbles.

1. For helga_b: Luna and a car. Completely spoiler-free.

( and Ginny, just because )

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2. For arcadia_: Merlin, Clow and Yuuko. There was also supposed to be a willow tree but it didn't make it there. D:

( Disney!Merlin this time )

Again, both are spoilery and over 100 words. I wonder what happened to my drabble-writing ability. :/

For mon_starling, Draco:

( spoilers, blah blah )

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For allira_dream, Neville/Luna:

( do I have to say it again? )

Clarín ya publicó un artículo sobre los audiolibros de Deathly Hallows. No sé si tiene spoilers (obviamente no me puse a leerlo) pero les recuerdo que éste es el diario que en el ranking de libros más vendidos describía a PoA como "una rata inofensiva resulta ser un peligroso hechicero" y que spoileó a los cuatro vientos el final de GoF el día que salió la edición en inglés.

Así que a evitar la sección de Sociedad, gente. D:

*ya se está poniendo nerviosa*

(This post was written with Harry Potter and Card Captor Sakura in mind, but it works for any fandom with magic in it.)

 ( The promised meta post! )