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Professor Lupin let out his breath very slowly. “So this is why you think you’ve been struggling to make progress with the Patronus charm? Because a part of you wants to let the dementor close, in a way, in order to hear your parents?”
Harry nodded again, though more guiltily this time. “I want to let the boggart out, just once, and, er, not cast the charm.”
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Twelve year-old Harry took a pinch of the proffered floo powder from Mrs. Weasley’s flower pot, dropped it into the Burrow’s empty fireplace, choked on a breathful of hot ash, and stuttered out, “D-Dia-gon Alley.”
The Floo Network, being invented by wizards and therefore following a system that was a good sight more whimsical than it was logical, did not dump poor Harry out one grate too far, in Knockturn Alley. Instead, Harry tumbled out of a different hearth, still coughing on soot, and found himself on the floor of the Dragon Valley pub. Before he could even get his bearings, a strangled voice from over to his left called out, “James?”
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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Ever since she’d been small, Hermione’s reward for good marks had been a rampage through a bookshop, so the day she tore open her O.W.L.s results and triumphantly brandished the eleven Outstandings, her beaming mother said, “We’ll go to Foyles tomorrow,” without any discussion required.
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“Where did you come from?” Dorian demanded.
“He was so loud,” Cole said, blinking at him with all that disingenuous blue. “She’s taken, hurt, hurting, and I have to bear it: holding a debt so large my life and soul can’t lift it, so I have to give my heart and wholeness, too. But they’re going to cut her off, let the magic all run out and leave the hollow shell to haunt me, and I have to bear that too, but it’s too high a price; I have to go to her.” He shrugged. “So I came to help him.”
“Let’s keep going,” Bull said.
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