#made by julia

Rita Skeeter gets up close and personal with the Hufflepuffs who knew Harry Potter best. 

(The Slytherin Class of 1999 - Where are they Now? /Gryffindor’s Golden Graduates: How Gryffindor’s Class of 1999 are Shaping the World /Wit Beyond Measure: Ravenclaws in Profile)

[ficlets by hpedit]

swimming the same deep water as you

1. why don’t you call me - james blake (why don’t you call me what we both know I am?)
   
2. beekeeper - keaton henson (tact from me is like blood from a stone)
   
3. never play - emily & the woods (I didn’t ask to be born / I don’t think I’ll ask to die)
   
4. christmas in prison - emmy the great ft lightspeed champion (and I dream of her always / even when I don’t dream) 
   
5. afraid of the dark - phildel (I was never afraid until you / oh the weapon you make of my heart)
   
6. the same deep water as you - the cure (can’t you see I try? swimming the same deep water as you is hard)
   
7. malfoy’s mission - nicholas hooper (instrumental)
   
8. glass vase cello case - tattle tale (breathe into my hands / I’ll cup them like a glass to drink from)
   
9. cosmic love (acoustic) - florence and the machine (and I was in the darkness / so darkness I became)
   
10. lights on - fka twigs (the man that you are is defined / by the way that you act in the light)
    
11. crazy in love - sea oleena (look at what you did to me)
    
12. landfill - daughter (wipe away your tear stains / thought you said you didn’t feel pain)
    
13. dark parts - perfume genius (I will take the dark parts of your heart into my heart)
    
14. no sound but the wind - editors (I’ll help you carry the load / I’ll carry you in my arms)
    
15. hey, that’s no way to say goodbye - lianne la havas (but let’s not talk of love or chains or things we can’t untie)
    

COMMON ROOM RADIO: THE HUFFLEPUFF HOUR

Your dormitory may be in the basement, but here at Hogwarts FM, we know your Hufflepuffs have your heads in the clouds. None of us have ever seen inside your common room - thanks to your privacy rules - but we’ve heard enough about the leafy corners of houseplants and rows of squishy armchairs to be tempted. Here’s our mix of laidback shoegaze and indie for you, you dreamers, you cheerful folk, your bumblebee stripes, your respect for others, your green fingers. Puff, puff, pass. 

home - diiv / pearly dewdrops’drops - the cocteau twins / in between days - the cure / stuck in the middle with you - stealers wheel / faith unfolds - s.c.u.m / days - the drums / silver lining - rilo kiley / tugboat - galaxie 500 / i’m a cuckoo (the avalanches remix) - belle & sebastian / this must be the place - talking heads / open arms - elbow

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COMMON ROOM RADIO: THE GRYFFINDOR HOUR

If you’re going to invite anyone to your party, make it a Gryffindor. You’re a bunch that’s often accused of putting your brawn before your brains, but we know you’re smart, and very discerning: we’ve never been to an event in Gryffindor common room we didn’t like. So here’s your mix of anthems. For the common room that’s never quiet, the common room full of chatter, the one that’s always got a comfy seat by the fire and a story to tell you about Quidditch practice - here’s a set of songs you can sing together, at the top of your lungs. 

dream machines - big deal / killer bangs - honeyblood / radioactive - kings of leon / bad kids - black lips / bedroom eyes - dum dum girls / gold on the ceiling - the black keys / gonna make my own money - deap vally / buffalo stance - neneh cherry / left hand free - alt-J / the stars keep on calling my name - mac demarco / with a little help from my friends - the beatles

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COMMON ROOM RADIO: THE SLYTHERIN HOUR

A Slytherin is a good friend to have. The Snakes are shrewd, and calculated, and always seem to be two steps ahead of the rest of us - we’ve noticed, subterranean friends, that you’re never found at the scene of the crime. Your common room should not be welcoming, underground as it is, with those porthole windows that look into the depths of the Black Lake, but there’s a regality to it that puts an inch onto the height of everyone who walks through your doors. Here’s your mix of cool-as-ice beats to inspire you as you plot world domination. Are the rumours of an underground Stock Market really true?

busy earnin’ - jungle / bulletproof - la roux / swingin’ party - kindness / i never learnt to share - james blake / yellow flicker beat - lorde / drop the other - emika / what’s a girl to do? - bat for lashes / grounds for divorce - elbow / love is to die - warpaint / life round here - james blake / kill all your friends - my chemical romance

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COMMON ROOM RADIO: THE RAVENCLAW HOUR

Ravenclaw, we get it: you like it when we play ‘study music’. But we don’t think you’re always studying up there. Ravenclaw common room is where to go when you need to relaxed, to be curious, to ask questions. It’s where you go when you’re tired of homework and just want to study a ceiling painted with an accurate map of the stars, or gaze over the grounds, or even just to ask a passing student for their answer to the meaning of life. Ravenclaw, you are full of quirky charms, magical-experiments-gone-wrong, and esoteric lore, and we love you for your eccentricities. Please take this mix of ‘study music’ with our understanding that it will be just background noise to the rich fabric of your everyday life.

alpha shallows - laura marling / evening - tops / what the water gave me - florence and the machine / blue monday - flunk / war - emmy the great / twins - gem club / murder of birds - jesca hoop / water me - fka twigs / i know places - lykke li / slow life - grizzly bear / landslide - fleetwood mac

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POSTWAR: DRACO MALFOY[ficlets by hpedit]
 He is dead. But no matter where you will go, you will still feel the pressure of his hand upon your shoulder, his claim upon your life, and the things you did in his name. And you will never be able to forget how it felt.

NATURE VS NURTURE: a Malfoy cannot change its spots

     In his eyes, and in the eyes of his father, Herbology was an unsuitable subject for a man to excel in - but his skill with plants was a happy partner to his Potions ability and, really, in all those years in living in that manor with its palatial garden, had the Malfoys not learned to love the things that grew there?
     When the manor (with its rose garden, orchard, several ponds, follies and vegetable plot) was sold to the Ministry to cover trial costs, Draco moved to their shambledown house in the southern countryside (once a third holiday home, now the most valuable piece in the Malfoy property portfolio) and kept a Potioneer’s garden, plus a succulent or two indoors for company.

-julia’s #1 crack headcanon: Draco takes to gardening after the war as a form of therapy
[more ficlets by hpedit]