#I know this isn’t Harry Potter

[neverenoughmarauders]

I’m still in shock….

I have a friend who sat through a 1h seminar on what to do if she was kidnapped / taken hostage (her work is the kind of work you’d need to know stuff like that). This is the sort of seminar that the people running it probably do a few times a year. After the hour my friend raised her hand to ask: what, if anything, is different if you’re a woman? (You know - what if you’re in the half of the population that aren’t men). And the guys were like: oh yeah this whole thing is assuming you’re a man. If you’re a woman there’s lots of other stuff. We can set up another slot to talk about that.

Like wtf?

I don’t know how many women there were in the room but I got the impression there were quite a few. Did they ever conceive the idea that this should be information to be given out without people asking? I get we’re a long way from perfect (I’m sure that there’s so much other stuff if we’re disabled, queer, from a different ethnicity, etc etc. but seriously, we’re not even at the stage where they can run a seminar that includes women? Or rather more dangerously, you let women sit through a seminar that makes them unprepared for what could be coming?!?)

Maybe I’m an idiot, but whereas I try to stay on top of the questions I have to ask when I’m in the minority, I usually like to believe the f** obvious stuff is covered.

[that-bitch-kat3]

regulus: why did you take him away from me?

james: take him away? regulus he would’ve died in that house. you know that.

regulus: no he wouldn’t have, i was trying to protect him! i would’ve protected him-

james: i couldn’t let him get any more hurt. he’s my brother, when he gets hurt i have to be there-

regulus: he was my brother first.

[fanaticloser]

I need a tag that says “Fake dating but one of them thinks it’s real and the one who knows it’s fake actually falls for them and there’s angst but they end up together in the end”

[anonymouse5]

if this gets 100 notes I’ll write a wlw marauders oneshot idea I have

[a-great-tragedy]

The slytherin skittles definitely have a murder podcast where they talk about unsolved cases that they 100% didn’t do, and discuss about how smart the killers were like: “They must of had such an intricate plan in order to commit something like this” “Yeah, it’s a shame no one else helped her plan it…” “Oh, I’m sorry, they were probably doing more important stuff, like- oh I don’t know, executing the actual murder”

[hard--headed--woman]

i will never stop hating the fact that severus snape is so loved like the guy is a misogynistic asshole who bullied kids to the point they were traumatized because of him, mentally tortured a 15yo boy with the memories of his abusive childhood and made this boy's life hell just because his dad married the woman he has a creepy obsession on, joined a terrorist group to kill people he deemed inferior and take over the world, was a shitty teacher, favoured his own house, was ready to get a baby killed and gave the information that could have got him killed without batting an eye, called his best friend a slur, told everyone another teacher was a werewolf and so made him lose his job just because he was petty, was horrible to everyone, was terrible to the woman he "loved" and her son, and didn't even join the good side because he realized his mistakes... the guy is pure evil but he's loved because uwu he was in love with lily 🥺 huh no he was obsessed with her and a bastard actually. you love him and forgive him because he's a man. can you imagine if a female character did all of this ? she would be the most hated character ever.

[theunknownpoetssociety]

marauder rare pairs!

sirius and pandora

james and dorcas

lily and barty

regulus and marlene

mary and evan

emmeline and snivillus snape

[basiatlu]

Silk Commission for Chris!

[lemongrass77777-moved]

Sirius wearing a skirt when he’s staying at school for Christmas holidays and nobody cares because the wizarding world doesn’t have gendered clothing.

[velvetkiisses]

am i unfunny of is this comment so fucking hilarrrr

[remusbuzzcutt]

E IM IN NEED OF YOUR PETUNIA THOUGHTS PLS 🙏

i always think about the scene in little women where amy wanted to go to the ball with meg and jo. THAT is petunia. she was bitter and angry that she couldn’t also go to hogwarts like lily did. she picked up ballet to try impress her parents, who saw lily as the golden child. but the attention never felt like it was enough for her. she got involved with the wrong crowd at one point and started smoking and the sorts when she considered herself to be a “perfect christian girl”.

towards the end of highschool, she met vernon, who gave her the attention and love she had always longed for.

whenever she looked at harry, she couldn’t help but see her own failure as well as lily’s. they both had the potential to be great, but it didn’t turn out well for either of them. petunia wanted a life on the stage, to be admired; she never expected to be occupied with a family.

[7potato7]

The physical pain when you look up fics for a fandom and a good chunk of the top ones by bookmarks are Har*y Po*ter crossovers T-T

[harmonygold]

I wanna write Harmony fanfic but I’ve got total writers block 🥲

I’m imagining in book 6 after Dumbledore dies (😭) a Harry/Hermione comfort scene:

like maybe he sees her alive and safe after he sprints down from the tower and he runs to her and embraces her and drinks in her presence and she can’t stop crying and they just cling to each other.

[moderndayamymarch]

I feel like people get the harry potter character’s social standings wrong/off

snape- below the poverty line poor. it’s canon that he grew up in the worst neighborhood in a poor industrial town. so much of his character stems from him growing up as a poor kid with an abusive father

lily- also not rich!! she’s from the same industrial town and lived close enough to snape that they were playing on the same old rusted playground. her family was better off than snape’s but not by much. I would imagine like lower middle class/working class. her dad was probably a factory worker and her mom was a secretary or teacher

petunia- same as lily (obv) and that’s why she’s such a middle class social striver. she’s so proud of the fact that she has a nice house in a nice suburb with her husband’s nice company car parked in front. she sends her kid to a nice private school (but not like eton bc she’s not that wealthy). she works her way up to like upper middle class. but that insecurity of growing up lower class is still there!!

james- he grew up rich and his family is socially influential/connected (it’s implied they’re like aristocrat adjacent bc they’re descended from the perevell’s and related to the gaunts)! but a trust fund kid!

sirius- rich, wizard aristocrat

lupin- I would imagine he grew up middle class(ish). he obv doesn’t have a trust fund or family money but his father was influential enough to be quoted about werewolf legislation. so he was probably like a mid level ministry employee? I’d argue he grew up with a level of money similar to the weasley’s

peter- honestly idk. probably just middle class. definitely not wealthy or aristocratic.

what’s wild is that tom riddle’s the only character who has both british and wizard aristocracy roots. his father’s family was obviously gentry/possibly titled (or at least an ancestor had a title). his mother’s family were direct descendants of slytherin.

[spw-art]

me when my favorite old white guy is parroting Fox News anti-trans rhetoric and I’m so cringe for crying over it because I’ve been so autistically interested in him and his music for six years. anyway get well soon Alice I hope the backlash makes you do some actual fucking research. yes I know he’s not on the internet I’m just upset.

[cherry-pop-elf]

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER FOUR OF THE DRAGON EVENT IN HPMA ALSO VENT BECAUSE MY DISABLED ASS IS HAVING A MENTAL BREAK DOWN OVER A DIGITAL DRAGON

Im not ok I’m not ok I’m not I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok I’m not ok

I hate how much I’m crying and sobbing right not over this. My life has been so horrible right now and this felt like the one thing I actually had control over. The one thing I could handle. The one thing I could be proud of and enjoy. Like a real life pet or something. Something that my disabled body could enjoy. That can actually DO. I’m not even sure if I’m making sense anymore. I just know my stupid emotions are making me sob my eyes out I DONT WANT VICTORIA TO GO AWAY! THIS ISNT FAIR! WHAT CAN I DO TO STOP THIS?! I HATE THIS STUPID GAME FOR MAKING ME SO ATTACHED THIS INSNT FAIR! PLEASE DONT GO VICTORIA PLEASE STAY HERE!