TLAT Newcast Part I (Updated)

Calum Worthy as Charlie Plex.

Sam Page as Luke Harper

Michelle Williams as Alice Griffiths.

Robert Sheehan as Frank Longbottom.

Odette Yustman as Carlotta Meloni.

Sonam Kapoor as Prudence Daly.

Felicity Jones as Clancy Goshawk.

Helen Flanagan as Shelley Mumps.

Joe Armstrong as Sam Dearborn

Garrett Hedlund as Lathe.

William Moseley as Adam McKinnon

Eddie Redmayne as Reg Cattermole.

Georgie Henley as Mary MacDonald

Richard Dempsey as Peter Pettigrew.

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Antonia Thomas as Donna Shacklebolt.

Evan Rachel Wood as Marlene Price.

Andrew Garfield as Remus Lupin.

Ben Barnes as Sirius Black.

Music Again

Henry Wolfe's "Someone Else"
I owe you guys an excerpt, so I'll post one soon...

My Body, Young the Giant

First of all, I literally want to have this song's children.
YES LITERALLY.
Second, said children would all be L/J shippers because Young the Giant (also the James Potter sex riot on tumblr) is inspiring the hell outta my L/J muse.
Which is much more helpful for Chapter 34 than Chapter 33.

What Jules does when she doesn't want to do homework...

(make memes, not get a lay. Although...)

First 33 Excerpt

“Well, if it were me,” began Marlene, “I’d like to find out by having one of my mates scheme to keep it a secret from me while I’m in the next room, but... oh wait...” 

 “Well in that case, you’re welcome,” retorted Donna coolly.

-Chapter 33

Chapter 32 Post

So FINALLY I've updated!
Thank you guys so, so, so much for everything. You are all really exceptionally wonderful.

Oh, one thing I wanted to address was my using Operation Mancy instead of Operation Cloony. Operation Cloony is OBVIOUSLY the better name, no doubt about it. But I didn't want to steal anyone's idea, so I didn't use it. In my brain, the ship is Cloony, even if the Op isn't =P

So I'll chat a bit about Chapter 33 now.
It's called "Of Marlene."
It's a Marlene chapter (SHOOT WHO KNEW?!)
Expect:
    Quidditch
    Adam
    Prudence
    Operation Mancy
    The return of Miles Stimpson

Brooke Fraser's "Something in the Water"
Carrying me through the last bits of writing for Chapter 32 =)

“Good evening, housemates,” Shelley’s voice cut through the brisk air. She had turned in her seat and, as though just noticing Lily and Carlotta, smiled broadly at them
 “Hello,” sighed Lily, probably anticipating an altercation.
 “Hello, Shelley,” said Carlotta. “What a pleasant surprise: I didn’t realize you could leave your coffin before sunset.”
 Shelley rolled her eyes, rising from her bench and climbing up to the higher level where her two housemates sat. Lily was immediately next to the wooden wall at the edge of the stand, meaning that the only available seat was beside Carlotta, who scooted closer to the redhead when Shelley sat down.

-Chapter 32

I was writing this scene and got extremely amused by the idea of redhead, brunette, and blonde sitting in a row--Carlotta and Shelley bickering and Lily just rolling her eyes wanting to die--during Quidditch tryouts. Lol so I drew it.

The Fat Lady—for that is whom he addressed—huffed. “It’s a matter of aesthetics, boy. Decorum. The dignity of these hallowed halls, through which your own forefathers, distant and recent, walked themselves, I’m certain...”

“My distant forefathers,” Sirius interrupted, “were, in all likelihood, muggle-hating chauvinists, if my more recent ones and the general habits of their contemporaries are anything to judge by. So I’ll smoke where I damn well please.”

“Well...” James swallowed. “What are you doing here?”

“I was exploring,” said Valentina. “But I’m not sure which floor I’m on.”

“The second.”

“The second,” Valentina echoed. “West Wing?”

“That’s right. Do you—er... live here?”

“No, I’m in the East Wing.”

“No, I mean...” Children were so dense sometimes. “Do you live in the castle?”

Anonymous asked...

I'm going to be 50 by the time this story is updated, aren't I?

IDK when do you turn 50?

“We used to have fun, didn’t we?” asked Charlie, ignoring her question.

“No. We used to have angry sex.”

“That’s what I meant. What happened to that anyway?”

“You started to fancy me, and tentacles are a turn off."




(P.S. Chapter 32 features Charlie Plex POV--I'm not sure I've ever done that before =P)

Just a Few Things

The thing is, in the last week, my entire life got pulled up by the roots, twirled around some Hagrid-sized being's head, and thrown down again on the grass, left to its own devices to re-root and work all the biology shit out all by its lonesome.

BTW, my life is a tree apparently.

Fortunately, I am apparently quite adept at gardening, and I like to think that for the time being, all is mostly as it should be again. 

Thank-you for your patience, and I shall endeavor to get this chapter finished as quickly as possible.

If I have been grouchy with anyone around here or on tumblr, I am sorry. 

AND, I hope you all enjoyed "Snaps." I don't really know where that came from. I had the idea for Snaps being about James's heart condition (lol, not literally) rather than the delicious treat for some time, but I was walking along and the rest of the story just sort of came to me, so I scribbled it up and posted it, and I am just glad that you liked it. 

For those of you who think it's deterring me from writing Chapter 32, however, fear not. I was having a bit of a... well... dry spell (see Lily circa Chapter 19). Going 24 hours without writing anything creative is really unheard of for me, so the fact that I went several days was thoroughly displeasing. But "Snaps" sort of got me in a mode again, and I wrote a bunch over the last two days, so hopefully, I'm back on track.

So on to nicer things: here's some stuff I can tell you about Chapter 32.

Bridget Shacklebolt makes a return.

Marlene and Prudence have a chat.

Donna helps Marlene with something.

Donna, Lily, and--to a lesser degree--Remus have crises of conscience.

James has a touch of insecurity.

Sirius has a touch of angst. 

(And yet somehow this is a rather upbeat chapter).

There's a reference to Chapter 24 that made me go "AWWWW" when I wrote it (and puppies rejoiced).

Puppies won't be rejoicing on the Quidditch Pitch.

Puppies will be at least moderately pleased in the Head student office.

And for anyone freaking out about threats of sex scenes: I can't write anything graphic to save my liiife. I think of Allison Janney in "Ten Things I Hate About You" and I just can't. I'm a fade-to-black kind of girl. (Not that there's anything fade-to-blacky going on in Chapter 32... (I don't know yet, actually), but I felt I should touch on this.)

Much love to everyone, and thank-you for the feedback on "Snaps," which I just checked and has 51 reviews. Oh my god, you guys, thank you!

Have a wonderful, wonderful day/night/whatever.

Love,

Jules

P.S. what the hell? Excerpt?

“Well,” she began stiffly, “I suppose—rubbish as it is—I’m sympathetic.”
 “To... Shelley?”
 “No, not to Shelley. She’s a stupid bint.”