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2024-12-23 13:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The night was dark as Aries walked down to the Quidditch field. It was no longer smooth or flat, but rather looked as if someone had been building long, low walls that twisted and crisscrossed all over it.
Fleur was already there, pointedly ignoring the odd looks Bagman was giving her and attempting to stay as far away from the rather large man next to him.
Diggory's loud swearing at the condition of the pitch signaled his and Potter's entrance.
"Don't worry Mr. Diggory, M...
2024-12-22 15:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post"You have power! Power that could have served the Dark Lord, if not power that could make you a new one! Instead you choose to play the Game. We should wipe them all out, just as the Dark Lord would have wanted."
"Your Dark Lord was a fool." Aries voiced had turned to ice. "And so are you." Lucius made to leave but Aries stopped him at the door. "Tell me about Barty Crouch." The sudden change in topic and tone seemed to surprise the Malfoy Lord.
"Why would you want to know about h...
2024-12-21 19:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post"It meets expectations, though I find the curriculum to be lacking."
"Well of course." Lucius drawled. "Dumbledore's disapproval of the Dark Arts leaves us in an unfortunate situation."
"The Dark Arts are not for everyone, Lucius." Cassiopeia's dislike of Malfoy had been much more venomous than Aries had been able to figure out.
There was a missing clue there that no matter how hard he pressed, she would not give up.
"Hogwarts allows for what is needed and the last t...
2024-12-20 14:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post"Relieved."
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Fleur brought her coy smile back in full force. "I am no fool Aries Black. Potter? Malfoy? Greengrass? And zen your friends from your school. All powerful. All connected. You seek the life zat I want."
"I'm no Light wizard Fleur." She had walked up to him, letting her fingers trail across his back. "And my goals are not what one would consider good."
"Of course not. The paz to greatness is not for ze weak. But for ze strong. And ze strong must make sac...
2024-12-19 15:56:10 +0000 UTC View PostIf not for the house elves of Hogwarts, Aries would not have been surprised if the room had been one massive web of spiders.
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Fleur did not look nervous, something that intrigued Aries considering her behavior up until now. She still looked at him as if she was studying him, or rather sizing him up.
Did she mean to fight? No. It was something else, something that Aries could not put his finger on. The French girl seldom seemed serious, rather spending her time laughing ...
2024-12-18 14:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post"Ladies and gentlemen, we have made a decision." The rabid whispers of the crowd quieted as Ludo Bagman addressed them.
Dumbledore's spectacled eyes passed over each of the champions, lingering on Aries with a slightly worrisome look.
"Fleur was unable to reach her hostage but demonstrated an excellent use of the Bubble-Head charm. We award her twenty-five points." Aries could tell the French girl was disappointed with herself, though she seemed thankful enough for her sister's ...
2024-12-17 13:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostAries was torn between going to save her and continuing on but his choice was made for him. Fleur blasted back one grindylow just as the other's long finger popped her bubble.
He reacted on instinct and his spell hit Fleur before the water pressure crushed her skull, but the momentary loss of concentration was enough for the grindylows to swarm her.
Suddenly the water was alight with magic as spell after spell flew from Aries' wand and hand. The water turned red as his spells rip...
2024-12-15 11:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post“But even I cannot deny the evil that can be caused by the Unforgivables. It takes something inside you so resolute, so deep, to cast them that in many ways once you do there is no turning back.”
“Despite what they may have been created for, the truth is that they are undeniably the cruelest of magic, simply because of what they do to your very core, to your soul.”
“Even giving someone the mercy of a painless death with the Killing Curse is beyond anything the Dark Arts ...
2024-12-13 13:17:53 +0000 UTC View Post"I swear you should have been in Ravenclaw, this is the second year text book for magical history. You don't even go to the bloody class most days, it's sodding unfair that you're still in the top five for the class. I don't even know how you manage that."
I didn't say anything for a moment wondering how I should explain that I've figured out that we take a test on a very strict but hard to follow schedule that I've mapped out to know when I can just skip days that nothing of interest ...
2024-12-13 13:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostThey stared at each other for a moment before she turned and walked right out of the library, causing Draco to let out a depressed sigh.
"She's bloody gorgeous. Too busy pining after you to even look at me. Bloody shame that is."
Aries ignored that comment probably too intently. He was happy with Daphne, something he had thought he'd never find in someone who could potentially be his equal of sorts.
Arianna certainly would never have filled that role, but even he could not...
2024-12-12 13:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostAlong with Potions, mind magic and soul magic are also considered in the grey area as well, which I think is pretty interesting.
Though depending on the uses of said magics they can be used as a type of light or dark magic but it's very situational and rare that it comes to that, and it's not like those subjects of magic are the only ones like that.
Technically magic is all about the use of it all, dark magic can be used to have an effect similar to light make and the same can b...
2024-12-12 13:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post"Protego!"
Conjuring the shield I focused as I waited until Blaise shot out a basic stinging hex which bounced off the shield charm.
It was a recent arrangement to be honest, but it shows results especially when I have someone to practice with, though I also believe full-heartedly that Blaise is only helping me out like this because he's actually getting more practice in than I am.
"Stupefy!"
I snapped my wrist down and shot the spell at him fast enough that he had to...
2024-12-11 14:07:39 +0000 UTC View Post"Being one of our heirs can be very dangerous, as some of my children unfortunately learned. No doubt there are some that still believe that if you kill a wizard you gain his power through conquest."
"They are led by a misguided truth." Aries interjected. "Gold, heirlooms, lordships. Such things can be claimed through conquest, but to absorb another's magical core is impossible." He missed the sudden sharp look Godric gave him.
"One should never assume anything is impossible, Arie...
2024-12-11 14:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe conversation turned to politics and the mysterious disappearance of Bertha Jorkins, a member of the British Ministry's Department of Magical Games and Sports but then moved back to more light-hearted topics.
Daphne and Susan were surprisingly getting along well, but Aries had to wonder just how much of Daphne's warmness was faked.
Perhaps she had picked up on his insinuation of playing nice with Susan Bones to form a bridge to her aunt. The two girls left, making t...
2024-12-08 23:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostReminding him of that forces him to think on his words that 'someone of my lineage' is simply above his petty squabbles.
He had just opened his mouth when Hooch arrived back at the pitch telling everyone to get back into positions and get ready for a simple rise up, then hover and lower back to the ground.
She seemed to stress the words though she didn't even blink when it was clear that a student was missing, maybe she ran into McGonagall on the way back. That's the only thing I...
2024-12-08 23:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostFrom there everyone learned how to moment the brooms and it was pretty uncomfortable as one would expect it to be but I didn't say anything mostly not wanting to extend this lesson out any longer than it really needs to be at this point.
"Now, when I blow my whistle, you'll kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your broom steady, rise a few feet, the come straight down by leaning forwards slightly."
From there she counted down, but when she reached two Neville somehow ended up sky...
2024-12-07 22:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post"Famous? What for?"
"When he was a child a Dark Lord came to kill him. Somehow the Killing Curse failed and the Dark Lord was destroyed. He's known as the Boy-Who-Lived."
"Ah." Godric looked grateful. "He sounds like a man of my own heart. I'd very much like to meet him."
Aries left with the promise that he'd return with Godric Gryffindor's Heir before the end of the year and an interesting recommendation for the Third Task.
Gryffindor was more interesting than Salaza...
2024-12-07 22:45:11 +0000 UTC View PostThat gave him some comfort and he regained control of his magic. "So tell me, why does it matter if Voldemort or the Heir of Slytherin killed your father?"
"Part of me believed that Tom was perhaps my grandfather, or my great grandfather. That just maybe the Gaunts were a false line and Riddle a false name and this whole time the Blacks were your descendants.”
“But Voldemort was not a Black. At the same time being your Heir makes Tom and I almost a weird kind of family. It mak...
2024-12-06 15:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostStill, I gave the elf a big smile, which I'll be honest hurt my lips and jaw a bit but he seemed to glad that I was happy so I just said.
"Thank you kindly Nitwin. I'm ever so happy you'll be helping me out. I must be going now, but know that you've helped me out immensely."
He seemed proud as he nodded before hurrying back to an oven that seemed to be cooking about seven different chickens at once.
With that I turned and walked out of the open door which changed to show t...
2024-12-06 15:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post"You didn't think to open a book before coming, aye Potter?"
Yeah this was getting a little close to mental bullying, while I'm very aware of it and even will freely admit that I'm completely fine with doing so myself.
Seeing actually in effect on someone I spent enough time with to build a cliche but decently strong connection to was kind of sad.
"What is the difference, Potter, between monkshood and wolfsbane?"
Ok, this one I wasn't really sure about at all because...
2024-12-06 15:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostBut unlike Herbology, I actually found the subject more than interesting enough to look into it outside of the classroom.
So far not much spell progress in learning jinxes, hexes, curses or any counters but I've read a lot about them so that's something.
Last up was Transfiguration as I haven't had either Flying lessons or Potions class to actually talk about them yet.
Transfiguration was actually really boring as it was just more note taking until we started a spell to tu...
2024-12-06 15:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post"The Chamber of Secrets was reopened. Dumbledore kept a lot of it silent, but Thomas kept us informed. It was then that he found out that he was a Parselmouth."
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"What?" Aries interrupted. "How?"
"We don't know. Dumbledore thinks that Voldemort transferred some of his powers the night he was destroyed."
"Did he discover how or why?" Cassiopeia asked. Aries and her exchanged a silent look. This was a serious matter that she would have to research.
"No, but Par...
2024-12-04 16:18:14 +0000 UTC View PostLooking over towards Draco, I didn't so much as blink before walking forwards and was about to go past him to get to breakfast when he jutted out a hand, with his wand in it, in front of my way.
Looking over towards him, I gave him a bored eyebrow raise while he smirked and said.
"Not so tough now huh mudblood. What? Did you think you could insult a Malfoy and get away with it while in this house, a noble house that your filthy blood shouldn't even be in-" He was going to continu...
2024-12-04 16:10:28 +0000 UTC View PostFrom there we all went to our individual rooms that the dorms were made up of. Yeah, I got my own room, I'm now coming around to the fact that maybe this house isn't all that bad.
Well I would think that if it wasn't for the fact that the second the Prefect walked away, Draco had started walking towards me.
Something I didn't bother looking in his direction for, and instead just closed the door in his face before he could enter or grab me.
Turns out that there are wards on...
2024-12-04 02:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostThough I was disgusted by the overwhelmingly sweet taste from whatever was in my cup, I nearly spat it out.
It was a mix of pure muscle and self control that stopped me from grimacing as I slowly forced it down my throat without my face showing anything other than mild boredom.
Placing the cup down, I looked in it and noted that it was orange, yep not drinking whatever abomination that is again.
I'm pretty sure I know where the kitchens are, maybe I can convince one of the...
2024-12-04 02:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post“You were all in a stasis and he tried to place a compulsion on me. It didn't work so he made all of you reject me. Made you all think I was jealous of how successful you all were and you forced me out before I could even tell you what happened to Harry."
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"No. . ." Sirius was sobbing and had fallen to the floor.
"Your godson's death is not on your hands Sirius." Cassiopeia's voice was unusually soft to Aries' ears. "Stronger minds than yours have fallen victim to such ...
2024-12-02 18:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe article about the death of Moaning Myrtle revealed little, only that a culprit was found and later proven innocent by who else but Albus Dumbledore.
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It was with a long sigh that Aries left the Hogwarts Library. He had wanted to confront Potter on the matter, but the second Hogwarts' champion had been too caught up in his new girlfriend, Susan Bones, to discuss it.
Draco had told him that it was the Weasley girl that had been taken into the Chamber by the supposed He...
2024-12-02 16:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostBlood was everywhere, but Ivan would clean it up. He was good at that. A simple cleaning charm removed Kruger's blood from him and as he made his way to leave Haydn stopped him.
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"Aries?" He said. "Could you cast some of your wards on the door?"
"Why?"
"You didn't think you'd get all the fun with him would you?" Haydn said incredulously. "Arianna is our friend too."
Aries nodded, casting the spell, and left them with only one instruction: "Don't kill him."
... 2024-12-02 16:05:23 +0000 UTC View PostHaydn and Ivan were waiting for him, their dates amusing Daphne who was giving him a quizzical glance.
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"Kruger had every intention of getting 'lucky' with Arianna tonight." Aries said far more calmly than he felt. "Even if he had to rape her." That drew anger from both of them and like two silent shadows they went after Kruger.
It wasn't hard to entice him from his friends, a small compulsion charm convinced him to follow. Aries led him to the very classroom Kruger had...
2024-12-01 19:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post