{"id":142635,"date":"2015-08-04T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/04\/prismatic-bell-cinematicnomad\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:54:14","slug":"prismatic-bell-cinematicnomad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/04\/prismatic-bell-cinematicnomad\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-142635 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/04\/prismatic-bell-cinematicnomad\/attachment\/142636\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_no5aqhOIDA1rkv63oo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_no5aqhOIDA1rkv63oo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_no5aqhOIDA1rkv63oo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/prismatic-bell.tumblr.com\/post\/122440072971\" target=\"_blank\">prismatic-bell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cinematicnomad.tumblr.com\/post\/122269664914\" target=\"_blank\">cinematicnomad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/aplatonicjacuzzi.tumblr.com\/post\/118760261672\" target=\"_blank\">aplatonicjacuzzi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/crazybutperfectlysane.tumblr.com\/post\/118623158103\" target=\"_blank\">crazybutperfectlysane<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So I was rereading Harry Potter, when I came across this and thought- what if instead of Cedric Diggory, <i>Cassius Warrington<\/i>\u00a0had been chosen to compete in the Triwizard Tournament?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Dumbledore calling out the name of the Hogwarts champion and it isn\u2019t a Gryffindor, or a Ravenclaw, or even a Hufflepuff, but it\u2019s a <i>Slytherin.<\/i> A student from a House most people<i> hate.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Imagine Cassius Warrington getting up, and three out of four Houses are booing at him and shouting things like\u00a0\u201cNO!\u201d or,\u00a0\u201cWe can\u2019t have a Slytherin champion!\u201d or demanding a retry. But he\u2019s a Slytherin- he\u2019s been dealing with this shit since he got sorted, so he keeps his head high and joins the other champions.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Harry trying to catch Warrington alone because he doesn\u2019t really want to associate with Slytherins (plus Malfoy has this tendency of being around the guy ALL THE TIME since he got chosen), but at the same time he\u2019s also fair enough not to want him to walk into the first task unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Warrington walking over to Harry a few months later, and Ron and Hermione both jump into a protective stance, wands out, but instead of attacking Harry he just tells him to stick the egg underwater. (Because Slytherins don\u2019t forget those who helped them out).<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Warrington and Harry helping each other out in the labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Harry being devastated when Peter kills Warrington- because Voldemort doesn\u2019t care what house they\u2019re form, a spare is a spare.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the uproar that causes among the Slytherins, because some of their parents really <i>are<\/i> Death Eaters and they know what really happened.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Slytherins fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts and shouting\u00a0\u201cThis is for Cassius!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine Harry returning with Warrington\u2019s body, and the crowd realizes what\u2019s happened, but Warrington\u2019s parents don\u2019t show up. There\u2019s no one to mourn him, to cradle him in their arms and cry for their son. The Slytherins know why. His parents were Death Eaters, too.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Slytherins reaching out, asking for help from classmates from other houses. They\u2019re terrified, truly terrified because the being their parents claimed would never hurt them because they\u2019re pureblood, they realize that <i>he does not care<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Slytherins in the 5th book sneaking off to join Dumbledore\u2019s Army, to learn more about who Voldemort is without their parents acting as a filter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the shock when they\u2019re told what he\u2019s <i>really<\/i> done.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that a few talented Slytherins went with Harry and the others into the Ministry of Magic. The others are a bit wary but they prove themselves as friends.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine them being confronted by Lucius Malfoy in the the Hall of Prophecy, and when the Death Eaters descend, they know that any one of them could be their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the shocked gasp of a Death Eater as they realize their own child, a pureblood, is standing defiantly with Harry Potter. They choke back a cry. They can\u2019t let their child know that they were about to duel to the death.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a DA Slytherin facing off against their own Death Eater parent. That they make the decision to let their child defeat them, because in that moment, they realize that they love their child more than they fear Voldemort. They go down, mask unveiled, and the Slytherin kid has to be dragged from the fight before he gets killed.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Book 6 Slytherins getting more friendly and cooperative with the other houses. Two years of Voldemort terrorizing the muggle and Wizarding world, two years where their parents just up and leave some days, cringing from the pain in their arm, two years after the death of the first Slytherin pureblood, Cassius Warrington, killed by Voldemort\u2019s right-hand man, and they\u2019re slowly hitting the breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Slytherin kids keeping tabs on their parents, sending the information to Harry, who shares it with the Order of the Phoenix, and hoping that their parents won\u2019t be killed.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Book 7 Slytherins low-key rebelling against the new oppressive Hogwarts staff.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the final siege on Hogwarts, where Slytherins stand proudly by their fellow houses, knowing full-well they could be fighting their own parents. Some Slytherins <i>know<\/i>\u00a0their parents were in the fighting. They hope to find them first and sneak them away. Their fellow students understand. Professor McGonagall allows 7th Year Slytherin, Pansy Parkinson, to duel a death eater in her stead; her father is under that veil. She knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the aftermath of the battle; every house suffered loses. Slytherin students crying over the deaths of friends they made in every house.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine <\/p>\n<p> a Cassius Warrington statue made in his honor, the first Slytherin to fight and die nobly with Harry Potter, the boy who lived, in the face of ultimate evil. He was a true Slytherin, and it\u2019s in his name that Slytherin children and their families have cut all ties with the Death Eaters, denounced Voldemort, and are finally living in peace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/batty4u.tumblr.com\/tagged\/but-this-would-have-been-immensely-wonderful-in-many-ways\" target=\"_blank\">#i do enjoy cedric #but this would have been immensely wonderful in many ways<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mn0M2cKXYSEfrR5QtKlEamQ\" target=\"_blank\">batty4u<\/a>) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine a story in which Harry <i>wasn\u2019t<\/i> in love with his fellow champion\u2019s girlfriend, but after her boyfriend\u2019s death just hugs her so long, so hard, and says \u201che wanted to win for you. You should know\u2013you should know he won, he did it for you\u201d and gives her the best hug and shoulder he knows how to be because <i>her parents aren\u2019t there either<\/i> and she must know why.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Imagine Harry staring over her head at everyone else until Hermione steps up\u2013it doesn\u2019t take long, but it takes long enough that when she does all eyes are on her as a source of motion\u2013and says \u201cwe\u2019re never going to forget this. They\u2019re not going to get away with it\u201d and the girlfriend just latches onto Hermione and everyone is in wands-out stance convinced she\u2019s about to attack the <i>shit<\/i> out of Hermione, and then the girlfriend stares into her eyes and says \u201cdo you <i>promise me\u201d <\/i>and Hermione just gives her this super-firm nod and says \u201cI promise\u201d and the girlfriend just collapses on her, sobbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Imagine Dumbledore trying to give some flowery speech about inter-wizard solidarity while glossing over why, because Slytherins have always been a touchy subject, and Ron gets to his feet and says \u201cProfessor, I need to say something important\u201d and Dumbledore is so surprised he just cedes the floor, and Ron\u2013after that awkward moment when he realizes everyone is staring at him\u2013says he didn\u2019t know Warrington particularly, but he knows how Warrington and Harry played. That each was always cheering on the other. Both wanted to win, but neither was willing to undercut the other by underhanded means. He finishes up saying \u201cI think\u2013I think it\u2019s important everyone should know he died being what a champion should be. Because he could have abandoned Harry and instead he stood up with him to play the game the honest way, and he died for it. And\u2013and Slytherin House should be proud, and we should all be proud, because Warrington was a good bloke.\u201d He sits back down all flustered because he didn\u2019t actually stand up meaning to make a speech. And then Pansy Parkinson stands up before Dumbledore can take back control of the room and says \u201cI want to tell Weasley thank you.\u201d And all of Slytherin House raises a glass\u2013to Warrington, to Weasley, to Potter\u2013and the other houses follow suit. Many years later, Wizarding scholars will say that was the moment Voldemort truly lost.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Imagine later that summer. Harry gets several owls on his birthday, all unsigned. The birds are plump and pretentious and well-cared-for. He will never know which Slytherins sent him their treasures: parchments with hexes developed by the Death Eaters; a strange locket that will only open if he whispers a special spell but that always shows him the picture he most needs to see; a page torn from a potions book that, brewed properly, will allow him extra time to summon a Patronus by giving him a few crucial seconds not just of happiness but of bliss. It doesn\u2019t matter. Harry knows these gifts not as birthday gifts but for what they really are, and he treasures the locket and copies out the potion to send to Hermione and Mrs. Weasley, and when first summoned by the Order of the Phoenix he marches straight up to Dumbledore with the hexes and says \u201cI can\u2019t tell you where I got these, Professor. But they\u2019re in use by the Death Eaters and I think you should have them.\u201d Months later, Sirius will recognize the spell Bellatrix shoots at him, and will dive out of the way just in the nick of time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The final battle. Everyone is there. Sirius somehow ends up herding a group of Slytherins. They all stare at him and he at them, across a centuries-old divide Voldemort has only succeeded in deepening. Then he remembers the hexes. Harry\u2019s locket, now tucked under Sirius\u2019 shirt because Harry\u2019s friends are with him in this battle but most of Sirius\u2019 are dead. The moment that happiness potion saved Remus\u2019 life, his very soul. Snape\u2019s final words to Harry, finally seen not as mockery but real true advice. What Harry said Voldemort said\u2013his first words in his new form. They are kids, and they are sharing the same kind of hurt he once wouldn\u2019t admit to, watching his mother burn his name off the family tree. \u201cWhen we go in there, it\u2019s going to be hell,\u201d he tells the Slytherins. \u201cSome of you are probably going to die. I might go down too, and if I do I want your best curser in the front. But I want you all to remember one thing. <i>There are no spares.\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>Later retellings of the battle never fail to mention the moment a group of angry, screaming teens burst into the Great Hall, wearing their green and silver as the badge of honor it should be, shouting NO SPARES, NO SPARES at the tops of their voices in between hexes and curses and the occasional physical punch. When Hermione is present, she always interrupts the storyteller to be sure everyone knows about the moment Blaise Zabini shoved her to the floor, dropped on top of her, fired off three curses in rapid succession and said \u201cstay alive, Granger, we need you\u201d before jumping back to his feet and vanishing into the melee\u2013how, for all anyone knows, those may have been his last words, and she will not let his sacrifice go unnoted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The aftermath. Malfoy holds out a hand to Sirius, badly injured on the floor. Sirius asks how Malfoy is willing to trust him. Malfoy nods at his chest. \u201cYou\u2019ve got my godfather\u2019s locket,\u201d he says, and when Sirius and Harry finally speak after the battle Harry gives his full agreement to the very first thing out of\u00a0 Sirius\u2019 mouth. They give the locket to Malfoy. Sirius grits his teeth and closes his eyes and opens them and says \u201cHe probably saved my life, giving Harry that.\u201d He doesn\u2019t say thank you. Malfoy hears it anyway. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The school reopens under a single banner: the four Houses united. The House rivalry is reduced to just that\u2013a competition in fun\u2013with those deep divides slowly healing to scars, and eventually away to nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Imagine it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prismatic-bell: cinematicnomad: aplatonicjacuzzi: crazybutperfectlysane: So I was rereading Harry Potter, when I came across this and thought- what if instead of Cedric Diggory, Cassius Warrington\u00a0had been chosen to compete in the Triwizard Tournament? Imagine Dumbledore calling out the name of the Hogwarts champion and it isn\u2019t a Gryffindor, or a Ravenclaw, or even a Hufflepuff, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/04\/prismatic-bell-cinematicnomad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[151,1457,43,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142637,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142635\/revisions\/142637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}