This snippet will plague me for weeks on end! arrghhhh!!
“Your wands, if you please,” the worker said, motioning towards it.
Without pause, and to Harry’s great shock, Malfoy pulled out his wand. He slipped it into one of the open holes in the wall without question, then tied the bag shut.
“Mokeskin containers,” he explained to Harry, who was surely watching Malfoy surrender his wand unquestionably in utter shock.
“Mokeskin…?”
“Of course. It’s a standard policy at places like this—the decent ones, anyway. Mokeskin makes it so no one but the rightful owner of the wand can retrieve it.”
Harry took a moment to consider that. Really, he thought, it was quite genius. Having a bunch of wizards getting drunk in a public space did seem like a recipe for disaster, and making it so that they all had to keep their wands out of reach was an excellent way to mitigate any potential damage. Mokeskin was probably the only foolproof way to ensure that the owners of the wands would not have them stolen.
It also must have been bloody expensive too, Harry thought. He knew the mokeskin bag that Hagrid had once gotten him was far from cheap.
Unwittingly, Harry recalled the last time he had seen that bag. When Voldemort had forced him to open it, to reveal all his most precious items…
Maybe I have an affection for broken and damaged things.
…before vanishing them all, forever.
“It’s perfectly safe,” the worker said, drawing Harry’s focus back to the present. “At Cloak and Laurel we take the utmost pride in making sure that all of our—”
“Just take us in,” Malfoy interrupted in a drawl. The worker gave Harry a questioning a look, but didn’t seem to want to argue with Malfoy or ask anything of Harry at all. He eventually nodded stiffly, then opened the door for them to go in. Evocative, jazzy music met their ears, and Harry could see more faerie lights illuminating a much larger space.
Harry swallowed hard. Malfoy didn’t think he had a wand, that was perfectly clear. Harry was perfectly content to let him—and everyone who worked here—think that. He took a deep breath and followed Malfoy into Cloak and Laurel.
The second he stepped over the threshold, the doorway lit up in blue.
Malfoy whipped around, his confused, pale face glowing blue from the now glowing doorway. His magic become bright and frazzled, as did that of the worker’s.
“S-so sorry, sir,” the worker said. “But I must ask that you stow your wand at the front like Mr. Malfoy did. It’s for the protection of all of our clients…”
Harry tensed. He really didn’t want to give away that he had a wand at all, let alone the Dark Lord’s wand…
Malfoy stared at him with his brows raised but said nothing. Harry, not seeing a way around it, slowly reached into his pocket. He reluctantly withdrew the yew wand.
Demon Laurent is confused about the unkempt sacrifice.
fuck art block, seriously.
General Plan:
Weeks 1 and 2: Purpose:
Learn the fundamentals sentence construction
Learn how to spell and count
Start building a phrase stockpile with basic greetings
The Alphabet
Numbers 1 - 100
Subject Pronouns
Common Greetings
Conjugate the Two Most Important Verbs: to be and to have
Basic Definite and Indefinite Articles
Weeks 3 and 4: Purpose:
Learn essential vocabulary for the day-to-day
Start conjugating regular verbs
Days of the Week and Months of the Year
How to tell the time
How to talk about the weather
Family Vocabulary
Present Tense Conjugations Verbs
Weeks 5 and 6: Purpose:
Warm up with the last of the day-to-day vocabulary
Add more complex types of sentences to your grammar
Colours
House vocabulary
How to ask questions
Present Tense Conjugations Verbs
Forming negatives
Weeks 7 and 8: Purpose:
Learn how to navigate basic situations in a region of your target language country
Finish memorising regular conjugation rules
Food Vocabulary and Ordering at Restaurants
Money and Shopping Phrases
Present Tense Conjugations Verbs
Weeks 9 and 10: Purpose:
Start constructing descriptive and more complex sentences
Adjectives
Reflective verbs
Places vocabulary
Weeks 11 and 12: Purpose:
Add more complex descriptions to your sentences with adverbs
Wrap up vocabulary essentials
Adverbs
Parts of the body and medical vocabulary
Tips for Learning a Foreign Language:
Learning Vocabulary:
What vocabulary should I be learning?
There are hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and the large majority of them won’t be immediately relevant to you when you’re starting out.Typically, the most frequent 3000 words make up 90% of the language that a native speaker uses on any given day. Instead try to learn the most useful words in a language, and then expand outwards from there according to your needs and interests.
Choose the words you want/need to learn.
Relate them to what you already know.
Review them until they’ve reached your long-term memory.
Record them so learning is never lost.
Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.
How should I record the vocabulary?
Learners need to see and/or hear a new word of phrase 6 to 17 times before they really know a piece of vocabulary.
Keep a careful record of new vocabulary.
Record the vocabulary in a way that is helpful to you and will ensure that you will practice the vocabulary, e.g. flashcards.
Vocabulary should be organised so that words are easier to find, e.g. alphabetically or according to topic.
Ideally when noting vocabulary you should write down not only the meaning, but the grammatical class, and example in a sentence, and where needed information about structure.
How should I practice using the vocabulary?
Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check - Use this method for learning and remembering vocabulary. This method is really good for learning spellings.
Make flashcards. Write the vocabulary on the front with the definition and examples on the back.
Draw mind maps or make visual representations of the new vocabulary groups.
Stick labels or post it notes on corresponding objects, e.g when learning kitchen vocabulary you could label items in your house.
How often should I be practising vocabulary?
A valuable technique is ‘the principle of expanding rehearsal’. This means reviewing vocabulary shortly after first learning them then at increasingly longer intervals.
Ideally, words should be reviewed:
5-10 minutes later
24 hours later
One week later
1-2 months later
6 months later
Knowing a vocabulary item well enough to use it productively means knowing:
Its written and spoken forms (spelling and pronunciation).
Its grammatical category and other grammatical information
Related words and word families, e.g. adjective, adverb, verb, noun.
Common collocations (Words that often come before or after it).
Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading
Reading is probably one of the most effective ways of building vocabulary knowledge.
Listening is also important because it occupies a big chunk of the time we spend communicating.
Tips for reading in a foreign language:
Start basic and small. Children’s books are great practice for beginners. Don’t try to dive into a novel or newspaper too early, since it can be discouraging and time consuming if you have to look up every other word.
Read things you’ve already read in your native language. The fact that you at least know the gist of the story will help you to pick up context clues, learn new vocabulary and grammatical constructions.
Read books with their accompanying audio books. Reading a book while listening to the accompanying audio will improve your “ear training”. It will also help you to learn the pronunciation of words.
Tips for listening in a foreign language:
Watch films in your target language.
Read a book while also listening along to the audio book version.
Listen to the radio in your target language.
Watch videos online in your target language.
Activities to do to show that you’ve understood what you’ve been listening to:
Try drawing a picture of what was said.
Ask yourself some questions about it and try to answer them.
Provide a summary of what was said.
Suggest what might come next in the “story.”
Translate what was said into another language.
“Talk back” to the speaker to engage in imaginary conversation.
Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing
Tips for speaking in a foreign language:
If you can, try to speak the language every day either out loud to yourself or chat to another native speaker whether it is a colleague, a friend, a tutor or a language exchange partner.
Write a list of topics and think about what you could say about each one. First you could write out your thoughts and then read them out loud. Look up the words you don’t know. You could also come up with questions at the end to ask someone else.
A really good way to improve your own speaking is to listen to how native speakers talk and imitate their accent, their rhythm of speech and tone of voice. Watch how their lips move and pay attention to the stressed sounds. You could watch interviews on YouTube or online news websites and pause every so often to copy what you have just heard. You could even sing along to songs sung in the target language.
Walk around the house and describe what you say. Say what you like or dislike about the room or the furniture or the decor. Talk about what you want to change.This gets you to practise every day vocabulary.
Tips for writing in a foreign language:
Practice writing in your target language. Keep it simple to start with. Beginner vocabulary and grammar concepts are generally very descriptive and concrete.
Practice writing by hand. Here are some things you can write out by hand:
Diary entries
Shopping lists
Reminders
What could I write about?
Write about your day, an interesting event, how you’re feeling, or what you’re thinking.
Make up a conversation between two people.
Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You don’t need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.
Translate a text you’ve written in your native language into your foreign language.
Write a review or a book you’ve recently read or a film you’ve recently watched.
Write Facebook statuses, Tweets or Tumblr posts (whether you post them or not will be up to you).
Write a short story or poem.
Writing is one of the hardest things to do well as a non-native speaker of a language, because there’s no room to hide.
There are lots of ways to improve your writing ability, but they can be essentially boiled down to three key components:
Read a lot
Write a lot
Get your writing corrected
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I still did everything wrong
He inherited his whole face from his dad
megumi inherited his green eyes from toji (ˊ̥̥̥̥̥ ³ ˋ̥̥̥̥̥)
One of my resolution for 2022 is to post daily (no matter if they’re sketches or works in progress) but it seems with this resolution, my daily sketches of DaChuu will be revealed =.=;
by Harrisad25
Her name was Anastasia Carina Evans. She was a freak according to her aunt and a demon according to the matron at her orphanage. They tried to beat her down to keep her soft and quiet after all that is an omegas place, but she was not born to be quiet and soft she was made to bring the world to its knees and she would.
Not really good at summaries but read the story it’ll be good I promise.
Words: 6633, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Underage
Categories: F/M, M/M
Characters: Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Harry Potter, Death (Harry Potter)
Relationships: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Neville Longbottom/Draco Malfoy, Regulus Black/Luna Lovegood, Cho Chang/Cedric Diggory, Angelina Johnson/Fred Weasley, Alicia Spinnet/George Weasley, Ginny Weasley/Blaise Zabini, Fleur Delacour/Bill Weasley, Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum, Sirius Black/Severus Snape, Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks, Orion Black/Walburga Black, Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy, Cygnus Black/Druella Rosier Black, Bellatrix Black Lestrange/Rodolphus Lestrange, Andromeda Black/ Barty Crouch jr., Abraxas Malfoy/ Daphne Greengrass
Additional Tags: Dark Lord Harry Potter, Female Harry Potter, Sane Tom Riddle, Possessive Tom Riddle, BAMF Harry Potter, Business Women, Original Character(s), Out of Character, Insanity, Black Family-centric (Harry Potter), Good Malfoy Family (Harry Potter), Good Tom Riddle, Dark Tom Riddle, Seer Luna Lovegood, Master of Death Harry Potter, Death, Overpowered Harry Potter, Alpha Tom Riddle, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Harry Potter, Overpowered Tom Riddle, Professor Tom Riddle, Dark Lord Tom Riddle, Prophecy, Alpha Harry
So earlier today, @sissaf and I got into a conversation about the current arc in the comments of Chapter 41 Part 1, and the topic of my theories about Tsukasa came up. I couldn’t explain all of this fully in a comment so I made an entire obsessive post about it instead… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just be aware these are just my own personal interpretations and opinions of what I’ve read up until now, and I could be entirely wrong, and no one has any obligation to read all this or agree with me^^
❀ Theories after the jump–> [Spoilers up to Ch. 45]
*Edited to include info from a comment on 08/30/2018~
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