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HAVE YOU EVER BEEN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING? Aurora "Rory" Archer hasn't either, but she would like to just to know what it feels like. She's curious like that. When you grow up without a father and mother who won't speak a word of him, curiosity is the only option. Her whole life is basically like a game of Clue (sans the murder weapons). She simply understands nothing. She cannot explain why she likes the songs she likes or the food she eats or why she was born with mousy brown hair instead of a glossy blonde like her brother and mother. She doesn't understand why things fall and lights flicker when she's upset or how she was able to learn to play piano so quickly (just because she knows how to play doesn't make her good at it. There's a difference).

What she does grasp the concept of is that she's the least favorite child and if she dozes off in maths class one more time she has to say thirty Hail Mary's. Her life is not interesting but it's hers and she can't complain because she doesn't know anything different.

To her convenience, during her eleventh Summer, a woman in a cloak appears with an invite to magic school! So now Rory is a witch and loves every second of it. She meets two enthusiastic gingers called Fred and George while out buying her school things and they become her best friends.

Despite all this, her curiosity just grows more and more. She finds herself asking things like "How do broomsticks work?" and "Why is my Professor a ghost?". As she gets older it turns into "Why did I stop growing before I turned 13?" and "Why did The Beatles have to break up?". Then there's the real pressing ones like "Who and Where is my father?" and "Why does Fred always look at me like that?"

Now she's in her fourth year and not a single question has been answered. She knows practically nothing about life except that no matter what: it goes on.

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( CAST )

Jenna Colema as Aurora "Rory" Archer

Selena Gomez as Marina Dobbs

Corey Fogelmanis as Aaron Archer

ALSO STARRING....
james phelps as fred weasley
oliver phelps as george weasley
freema agyeman as angelina johnson
leon thomas iii as lee jordan
literally whoever you want as the rest of the harry potter cast!!!

( SOUNDTRACK )

*the playlist is in a specific order so certain songs should fit the tone of the book as you read along!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1f3DkXlgH2XdZqzI2epzAu?si=33HBcuDuTjqTp4lgHZiecA

( DISCLAIMERS )

— be kind to myself, yourself, and others in the comments and enjoy the book!!

( DEDICATIONS )

my rock, my platonic soulmate, my bestie from across the ocean, my much more talented and scottish friend potterblacks

my inactive but very amazing writer and friend expectoremus !!

thank you both for inspiring me, helping me, and guiding me throughout these past five years with this book and life in general <3 i love y'all to the moon and to saturn

FIRST STARTED;
OCTOBER 31ST, 2015
ENDED;
NOVEMBER 30TH, 2015

gif by the amazing remuslupout