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They’re such cuties 🥰

Warm up dorlene

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The real reason hagrid couldn’t get a date is no one believes him when he says he’s like 9”

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Dogs Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine is so seriously a Remus Lupin song.

Pair it with the View Between Villages by Noah Kahan and 🤌✨

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Well that didn’t fuckin stop Reggie

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Petition to rename Kingsley Shacklebolt to Kingsley Bolt?

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definitely not thinking about that

whatever u do don’t think about how Nymphadora Tonks was killed by a woman who looked just like her mother

just don’t think about that

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I think we, as a fandom, should show more appreciation for Nymphadora Tonks. Her character is one of the most intriguing and fun to explore, especially with her unique metamorphmagus abilities. Plus, she’s so clearly queer-coded—it’s hard not to see her as canonically genderfluid.

But beyond her individuality, there’s her fascinating family dynamic. People often overlook that Tonks is also a Black, and there’s so much depth in exploring her life with Andromeda and Ted, as well as how her heritage shapes her identity.

She was a member of the Order of the Phoenix, a fierce fighter, and a devoted mother, even though she barely had time with Teddy. Tonks was an extraordinary character who deserves far more love and recognition for everything she was and stood for.

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Sirius Orion Black III (inheritor of 12 Grimmauld Place)

Such a silly goofy name

The Blacks are a super fancy family known for their association with Dark magic. They’re named after stars which belong up in the black sky and look down at everything else

Bro can turn into a black dog that is easily mistaken for the Grim

So subtle well done Joanne

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I wish that I could hug whoever made this.

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I patted my dog tonight :) she’s super cuddly and warm :) she did lick my face tho lol

hey

hey friend

dont kill yourself tonight ok

you have a really pretty smile and i know its not always easy to manage one but itd be a bummer if we never had the chance to see it ever again

youre really important and you matter a lot so stay safe and try and have a nice sleep

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She gives amazing hugs I know bc I said so

I think all my problems would be solved if Sybill trelawney gave me just one hug

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Enjoyed the bubble sounds!

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Yep same :) she was one of the first characters I ever felt represented by. She was so special and important to me because she was Just Like Me (I’d have been quoting Hogwarts: A History too you have no idea how insufferable I was,, my dreams were written like the books)

relating to hermione as a kid and now (and what that says about my autism habits)

I was recently talking to my sister about how when we were younger (like 8 and 10) we used to pretend to be the HP characters constantly, like 24/7 we were driving our parents insane. We had assigned characters too- she was Harry and I was Hermione (and our cousin was Ron), and she was asking me the other day if I felt like I ever actually related to Hermione as a character or if she just became so special to me because she was, like, Mine. I had never really thought about it, so I just answered no, because I'm not particularly stellar in school.

And then I gave it some thought later, because it is rather shallow of me to reduce Hermione to just, you know, academia.

I was diagnosed with autism a couple years ago, which is an interesting thing to process in your late teens/early 20s. The more I think about things, the more I can tie key autistic traits of mine to Hermione.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't (necessarily) a post to prove a strong theory that Hermione is autistic- more so just to commentate on the fact that she resonated so deeply with me as an undiagnosed autistic kid (not to say that she couldn't be).

Hermione has a deep need to know it all. "Insufferably", too, as Snape might add. This is probably the most obvious thing, but I'm thinking about it a little deeper than just "she knows so much about everything and she's super smart in class". I think that Hermione ties her own intrinsic value to knowing. It's kind of like a role she's settled herself into- if she's not the girl with the answer, who is she? She's built a sense of identity and meaning around being a sort of walking library of information. There's a lot more to Hermione than just her knowing a lot, but I think she struggles to see that about herself sometimes and just clings to this being her sole archetype. I think it stems from a deep set insecurity about herself and a feeling of being awkward or not fitting in. She doesn't click with her peers, so she tries to be better than them (by containing a Library of Congress level of knowledge, facts, and know-how).

But she also genuinely gets joy out of learning and exploring information. I don't want to discount this with the previous statement, because I really do believe that Hermione loves to learn and derives real enjoyment from reading, soaking up facts, practicing spells and potions, etc. There's this genuine joy that I really resonate with from her that comes from being able to know as much as humanely possible about the castle, or her classes, or whatever else.

She's an awkward, clunky outsider. I think that JKR (yuck) was praised a lot back in the day for writing a female character that was a different type of girl than other typical female main characters. Hermione sort of started this trend of like a weird "books not looks" character in media, which I think started off well-intentioned and then snowballed down a slippery downhill slope into the "not like other girls" movement. But Hermione stands out to me as an outside the box female character because not only is she bookish and academic, she's actually lonely and a little gauche. For her first two months at Hogwarts, she has literally zero friends, and it's not until Harry and Ron ultimately adopt her into their group (which really never expands in any serious way) that she has any connection with her peers. She's abrasive and she says things that come off rude or hurtful without meaning to hurt feelings. The rest of their year frequently finds her obnoxious. She can be quick to anger and has really strong emotions. She's not great at making friends or small talk. Of course, Harry and Ron love her in spite of these things (and often because of them, especially in Ron's case), but she can be a little bit hard to swallow when it comes to the rest of her peers.

She needs to be on top of the situation, and is a bit of a control freak. Hermione gets very uncomfortable when she doesn't know what's going on, or what they're going to do about it. She doesn't do well in the face of the unknown. I think her intense need to plan things and learn as much as she can stems from this intense discomfort with being out of her depth and out of control. As an autistic person, I have a really hard time with spontaneity or a lack of understanding of my surroundings, because I already feel so out of place and usually overstimulated, that I need to have some kind of grasp of reality in the form of control and planning. I really see this in the way Hermione ends up making almost every detailed plan for the trio, whether it's homework plans or polyjuicing Crabbe and Goyle or packing and researching way ahead of time for the horcrux hunt. 5. Hermione is loyal as hell. Even though she might not be the most social people-person, and doesn't do well in front of a crowd, Hermione would do anything for Ron and Harry. I actually think this is maybe the strongest trait that all three of the members of the Golden Trio share, despite how different they all are. Hermione is extremely emotionally attached to her friends, and despite sometimes getting annoyed with them, continually drops everything to help them, whether it's doing their homework or saving their lives. It's also part of the reason I think that Romione can't be anything other than endgame- even if they bickered or fought constantly, they're both such fiercely loyal people that they'd stay together out of sheer stubbornness and dedication (not that I think they'd have an unhealthy relationship as adults- I'm the biggest Romione fan, just addressing a common critique of them I've heard).

Anyway, I don't know if all of these things (and I could list more) put her on the spectrum or not- I have a really bad habit of diagnosing every single character I relate to with autism and I'm trying really hard not to do that here. But I know that I felt really seen by her as a 10 year old, and as I reread the series now at 21, I still feel incredibly seen. She's a badass and I love her so much.

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I wish they could’ve been happy so bad it keeps me up at night

People talk a lot about how Regulus felt when Sirius left but what about what Narcissa felt when Andromeda left?

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Is it diabolical of me to put Serena Waterford there among all the others? Absolutely. I’m sorry. But you cannot deny, you cannot tell me she isn’t Narcissa (I’m only on the third season of Handmaid’s tale so please forgive me).

Please take this whole thing as a joke.

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Marlene’s section of the big chonky gyatt of a yap

MARLENE URSULA McKINNON: she/her, Gryffindor, does really pretty calligraphy and has a set of good quills for special occasions, her eyes are a mix of turquoise and brown flecks, Irish, halfblood, the grey area between moral and immoral is very thin for her, lectures her friends when they’re stupid, likes liquorice (especially the red), started a Snivellus Is Concerningly Kickable Club (S.I.C.K.), does photography, in that she takes a ridiculous amount of pictures of her cat, her favourite going out shoes are cherry coloured go-go boots, wears scarves, and her hair is always in two plaits for quidditch games, her hearing isn’t the best so she loves fireworks and isn’t bothered by the sound, was good at climbing trees as a kid, has plenty of silver earrings, she’s the bright sun in your eyes and the murky night sky, her parents like that she plays quidditch, but she’s not into playing after she graduates, she’s not really superstar kind of great at it imo… she’s got good aim but Dorcas is a way better Keeper than she is a Chaser, but they ignore that for the sake of their homoerotic enemies locker room flirty banter because they’re equally talented academically for their homoerotic enemies classroom flirty banter and they’ve gotta keep it even yk, she cut her hair short at the end of 4th year and then grew it long again before deciding to keep it at mid-length during the war

And a mood board bc why not <3

… plus the alternate version bc I couldn’t decide between the two (the vibes are only slightly different but it matters to me, okay)

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I often forget that ppl aren’t mind readers so I was like yea duh and then I Remembered

I made another one for Hermione :D (I made the drawing of her today)