#Neville the Badass

[ravenclawravings]

Hey guys! I know it's been a while, and although both Alex and I have no plans to continue this page at the moment, we wanted to give you an update.

Ultimately: We are both still alive and just fine.

However, I do have a favor to ask you guys, if anyone can! I know some of you are super excited for the new HBO HP series, some unsure, and some don't want it at all. I am excited, possibly too excited. I want to know how I can get involved with the show, and am wondering if anyone who still pays attention to this blog knows a guy. I even already wrote a pilot episode because I'm just crazy like that.

It never hurts to ask, right?

[avegollum97]

Nevile did really get into his own after he changed that damn wand of his didn't he ? I mean he probably remained shit at potions despite being a pretty damn talented wizard other wise , just like Tonks can't do house job spells without caching stuff on fire. we are led to believe that his main problem with his confidence was probably that fucking wand that dint accept him and that fought him all the way every time he tried to do anything with it ,and I mean Snape entire thing since day one was that he dint even allow for wands in his class room , but how in the hell didn't any ONE of his teachers that actually teached him spell work of any kind ever notice ?! His insane grandmother(who literally sabotaged him dispite them being presumably decently rich , and even if they were not at least the Weasley probably got to choose the wands even if they were second hand , no one seem to force a specific one on them in memory of a dead son ),his head of the house , Flitwick ,and every defence teacher he ever had fucked him on this , not bloody Snape ! You can be a wizard without potions easily after all but u cant be one if cant cast spells right . When hangrid got kicked out , to never be allowed to a proper adult wizard , they dint take his cauldron and pouders the took his wand .

[dufferpuffer]

^^^ You right. 100% right. Neville's family was a NIGHTMARE. Neville grew up too 'normal' for his family, and it terrified them. They abused him and belittled him for things out of his control. Harry grew up too 'weird' for his family, and it terrified them. They abused him and belittled him for things out of his control. I bet if a Boggart lesson had been done in the first year Nevilles would have been his grandmother - and Harry's the Dursley's coming to take him home. By third year they had both thankfully gotten some distance from their home lives. Harry had learned he had friends in the magical world that would always come save him (literally... in a car...) and so his biggest fear became being paralyzed by his trauma (dementors) Neville has become a much stronger boy, but he still suffered the feelings of inadequacy from a childhood of never being good enough... and that solidified within his Potions class, his worst subject, with a strict teacher. Strict because Potions is a dangerous thing to mess up (and also because he's a git) - and harsh on Neville because he was a problem student that consistently got himself hurt.

Longbottoms boggart wasn't Snape.

I mean you'd think this would be obvious enough - but people who hate Snape bring it up as their sort of trump card. "He was so bad he was a 13yr olds biggest fear!" No. He wasn't. Boggarts don't quite work like that. Boggarts are not themselves your worst fear - they make you FEEL your worst fear. Hermione isn't actually scared of McGonagall. (I'm sure alot of first years are scared of her though I mean she is strict and stern and a little scary at first.) Did she have some irrational fear of suddenly failing all her classes? Yeah, maybe a little bit - but it is BECAUSE she is scared of not being good enough. From the first book we see her struggling to fit in with her peers. She is muggleborn, she learned she was a witch so suddenly that she poured herself into being the most perfect witch she could.

Professor McGonagall, a stern and strict witch she respects, telling her she isn't good enough despite all of her best efforts makes her FEEL her worst fear. It has nothing to do with Minerva personally - honestly it could probably be replaced with Dumbledore or someone... its just she has far more interaction with Minerva.

SO - Longbottom and Snape: How do I know that Snape isn't his absolute worst fear? Because he still attends Potions every fucking week!!! Do you think RON could attend Charms if it was run by a spider?!? He can pass Snape in the hall, he can sit in the same room as Snape, he can even be teased and bullied by Snape. His parents were tortured to insanity by Death Eaters. Severus Snape is NOT his worst fear, that's stupid. Snape just makes him FEEL his worst fear - like McGonagall makes Hermione feel hers. SO what is Neville worst fear? I think the clue comes with him quickly saying that he also wouldn't want the Boggart to turn into his grandma. Inadequacy. Neville has never been good enough. He has low self worth. The tiniest bits of praise overwhelm him. He never wins any house points and losing some devastates him. He got his magic late, his family kept trying to tease it out of him, thought he was maybe a squib. He has a proud legacy to uphold and he is terrified he cannot. He is the worst potions student Snape has ever had.

Snape makes Neville feel inadequate. His grandmother makes him feel inadequate. But mix them together... and suddenly these two very scary people that seem to have such control over his life... look a little ridiculous.

DO you think Lupin is LITERALLY scared of the moon...? Or does the moon make him feel powerless and dangerous and inhumane? DO you think Harry is LITERALLY scared of Dementors...? Or is he scared of how powerless he is against the horrible way they make him feel - the trauma they bring up from the deep recesses of his mind?

Snape was not so horrific, so awful, so scary, so mean - that he as a man became Nevile's worst fear. He, like his grandma, makes him feel inadequate.

[sonics-atelier]

Snape is an asshole here's why

This has been marinating in my drafts for quite a while, I'm so sorry for the delay @watcherintheweyr

First off this sick bastard emotionally and verbally abuses children he's not a decent person in the slightest. Are you guys aware that Neville actually flinches when he hears Snape near him and that he was his bogart ?

I could actually go on and on about how he's traumatized students but I don't have the energy go read the books.

He actually held a dead woman's body while her husband died a few moments before and her kid is crying there scared. He is sick.

He is an actual fucking bigot. Dude only went to dumbeldore when he realised the girl who he had been pining after was going to die because of him. ( not the badass move you think it is )

We have canon evidence that he harassed muggle borns. Facist much ?

There's just sm things wrong with him yk ? I don't mind if you like him unlike some assholes I'm not one for moral policing.

This is just to make sure you guys aren't blind to his crimes and harass people who don't like Snape. ( he actually reminds me of a lot of abusive teachers I had to deal with so :/ )

[stellahoi]

hi marauders fan, question :

if i were to write a fic abt Lily (pregnant) leaving James bc he isn’t over regulus (this would be a post jegulus world) to live in a cottage in france with Mary would anyone be interested ?

i have seen too many jegulus post that are along the line of « james would never get over regulus after he died » or « james getting with lily after regulus died but never being the same and never being fully happy with her » and i can’t take it anymore, if you don’t like lily aka the most amazing and badass woman ever then you don’t deserve to say her name 😒

anyways i want to write this, and i want to know if i would be doing this for myself or if i should post it somewhere

also would you all be okay with redeeming Severus ? possibly him being an uncle to harry and helping lily out with escaping england and james, and accepting she’ll never love him but being there bc he does ?

(also you can bet i’m saving Alice and Frank from Bellatrix and having Neville and Harry being raised as cousins)

idk, i guess i’ll write it anyways, but i don’t think i’ll publish it anywhere if i know no ones interested 🤷🏻please answer me and tell me if you have things you want to see in this if it do post it so i don’t feel like i’m screaming into the void 🥲

[forest-falcon]

The Butterfly Effect

Chpr 11

🐦‍🔥🚒 💚👓👨‍🏫

"Keep her steady," Casey instructed on the approach to Tracy Island.

"Time to suit up."

Jonesy was all too-ready to strap into the exosuit.

Virgil and Brains had taken his measurements - so many measurements, to the point where it had become a borderline annoyance. That was, until the final suit had been unveiled. It wore like a glove - a state-of-the-art glove worth more than his entire flat. And oh...OH had it been fun to use in training.

Tam was strapping into her jet pack - the only one of them who had shown promise at mastering the bat-shit crazy device during training. Jonesy had given his own reenactment of Neville Longbottom flying a broom. The jetpack initially fired too much, and then, too little; dropping him a small height onto his rear.

"Just a tad more sensitive than the firetruck then?"

He gave an impish grin and rubbed his bruised backside.

Mac had passed on the chance to use the confounded contraption after that; but Tam, never one to shy from a challenge, had donned the pack, only to make it look easy.

"This is so much fun!"

"Looks it! I worked out all the bugs for you on my go!"

Jonesy smiled at the memory.

Her joy had been contagious, and it had been nice to see her elated smile mirrored on the Tracy brothers faces as they watched.

He'd only really met Virgil beforehand. It was at the Crystal Spire in London when brainiac, Yost, managed to set his own building alight.

Virgil had saved all their asses, several times, that callout.

"Say, Virgil? What was that badass Ironman suit you used to lift those rocks off Mac, in London?"

"You mean the exosuit?"

"Sure. Erm...do we get to try out one of those in our training?"

"I mean, I don't have anything against you learning how to use it-"

"I'm sensing a but..."

"But... it's made to my measurements, and I'm somewhat larger than yourself."

"Alright show-off," he'd grinned.

"I better get squeezing me some extra gym sessions in!"

"No objections here!" Mac winked.

"Oi, I'm gorgeous as is! Have to give the other guys a chance, is all."

*. *. *.

Jonesy had thought that would be the end of it.

Brains, the Island's resident engineer, inventor and down-right genius, had decided to upgrade their London fire uniforms. Their design was kept the same, as to not give cause for others in the firehouse to ask questions. Everyone in Phoenix had their measurements taken, so it had come as a complete surprise when his very own exosuit was unveiled.

He hadn't ever expected the need to wear it for real - well, a real life rescue.

Jonesy looked around the cabin; studious, contemplative, worried.

Tycho; typing God-knows what on his Tony Stark-esque device. Col. Casey and Captain McCready, busy analyzing a holoprojection of the island.

He leant towards to his best friend; Tam. Her worry was obvious. Perhaps not to everybody, but he knew her. He knew how much she had connected with the Tracy family during her training; their backstory not too dissimilar to her own. Not so much the rockets, and fantasy island; but growing up with only one parent, only to lose the other much too early in life.

He leant over and took Tam's hand.

"Hey. They'll be okay."

He gave her fingers a squeeze.

"How can you know?"

"Because I. am. Iron. Man!"

Jonesy whispered emphatically, flexing the suit with a small hydraulic whine.

Tam shoved him with a smile.

Mac rolled his eyes.

McCready glared at him through the holoprojection of Tracy Island.

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

Worse than the human ears...

They gave it flat human teeth too 😫😫

Why did they to that to him!? 😭

Real polar bear teeth for comparison (picture from the WWF. Baby is sleeping)

Book!Tuunbaq was so much cooler... it kept appearing out of nowhere like a blizzard. It was huge and seemed to grow with danger, like there was no end to it, like a proper snow stormm. It was a real creature of the ice... cruel, merciless and larger than nature.

What they did for the show... I can't 😭

in the amc adaptation tuunbaq is a gross guybear but in the book its always just described as a bigger than average polar bear who maybe has a longer neck or something sometimes

so i guess my issue is that the men on the ship had seen alot of/hunted normal polar bears, and tuunbaq looks nothing like a polar bear to me: a person who has had limited experience with them. a man on a ship trapped in the arctic hunting said bears would be far more intimately familiar with them and so i just have a hard time believing that they would see this thing and think it was a polar bear and not a demon from hell sent by god to torment them :/

[hp-confessions]

Jkr claims to be such feminist, however, her books are solely based on male friendships or male/female friendships. All the strong female characters don’t have strong female friend(s). We don’t hear about Lily, Molly, Hermione, Ginny, Tonks, or Fleur’s female friends. Yes, we get to see mild friendships like Luna and Ginny or Hermione and Ginny. Yet look at the male friendships: the marauders brotherhood, or the brotherhood between Harry and Ron. We know Ginny is popular and I’m assuming Lily was somewhat popular too, who are their friends then (don’t say Neville and Luna because she had to have more friends than that! And I refuse to believe Snape was Lily’s only friend)?? Why wasn’t there any mention about Harry’s godmother?? Did Molly really never have any friends to let off some steam? The same thing with Tonks and Fleur?? Why couldn’t Hermione have a group of girlfriends she hung out with when the boys got annoying?? Couldn’t she have a female friend or two that she really got along with?

It’s almost like jkr hated writing about strong female friendships and had no trouble writing about male friendships. Did she have no female friends of her own and just acquaintances, so she assumed every female was like that?? I need fics where all these girls have a badass groups of girls behind them. HP needs more female friendships. HP is a misogynistic series written by a self proclaimed feminist.

~

[english-history-trip]

More adventures in manuscript hunting

So I've got two depictions of Philippa of Hainault here from different editions of Froissart's Chronicles. They show the badass moment I was unaware of when she rallied the troops on horseback before the Battle of Neville's Cross against the Scots.

The first one is very pretty and detailed, but clearly way out of date (the artist of this edition puts 15th century Burgundian fashion on everybody.) The second one is simpler, but may have been produced closer to Philippa's lifetime (none of these have a date, other than some time between 1350 and 1450). Also, she's kinda warlike and fired up, even riding astride instead of sidesaddle.

So the question is:

[sproutedlavender]

Neville Goddard is a literal genius????

So I've been reading the full collection of Neville Goddard's teaching and let me just say, I am absolutely blown away.

This guy is a genius, 'nuff said.

Sure, I've seen lot's of things on the law of assumptions around, but it really didn't stick for some reason. Anyway, I started reading books by Neville Goddard and everything just makes so much sense! He explains it in such a way that it's like a light bulb just comes on.

So, If you've been having some difficulty grasping the concept of the law of assumption or about how to manifest, definitely check out his books.

Even better, I'm pretty sure finding that Neville Goddard collection was divine intervention.

You know when you get a certain vibe from someone or something and you just know if something is good or bad?

That happened to me with his book!

I literally picked up the book and the whole energy around my lifted, I could physically feel it!

That's how you know something aligns with you, when you feel a complete shift in energy.

So, maybe try out some of Neville's books, (totally not promotion) and see if they resonate with you! There's something completely different about knowing about law of assumptions (hearing it in passing) and knowing about the law of assumptions (realizing you are a badass creator who can literally decide something is yours and have it)

You can have literally anything you want, how cool is that!?!?!?!

Most importantly, have some fun with it!

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

Luna Lovegood the tattoo artist

Post-war. Luna Lovegood becomes a professional tattoo artist, even though she’s been helping people get tattoos for free for many years in Hogwarts. She gives Harry a small dragon tattoo that moves, just like wizard photos do. It will often start flying and shift places between both his shoulders. He also gets a phoenix tattoo and a Snitch with his mother’s initials on his arm. It flutters gently.

Luna helps Draco cover the Dark Mark on his arm with a full sleeve tattoo with blue and pink narcissus flowers.

Luna helps Neville pick a tattoo that she thinks will suit him perfectly… what do y’all think his tattoo would be? I can’t pick between a cute little flower pot on his arm with some cute little quote underneath, or two badass swords crossing each other or something else really Gryffindorlike.

Hermione gets a tattoo behind her ear, hidden by her bushy hair. A reminder that she is a “Mudblood” and proud of it. When Teddy gets older, Luna promises him that when he’s all grown up, she WILL give him a tattoo with a moon 🌙, just as he’s always wanted.

Luna grants Ginny’s wish by tattooing her upper arm with flaming fire, a reminder that she’s brave and her soul is wild like a wildfire.

Even Mrs. Weasley gets a tattoo, seven small hearts on the side of her index finger.

Please add on the list everyone! What would you like to change? Which character would you want to add?

[obsidianpen]

You have made it really difficult for me to find good fics because i like your style way better than others. Ever since reading NG and hauntingly, I haven't been able to find a good characterization of voldy. I really liked the mentor relationship Snape and Voldemort had in hauntingly. I would never ever forgive Snape for what he did . I have another question why did Neville become the "savior " at the end of hauntingly ? He really didn't do much. if it was Hermione or Ron or both that would have been understandable.

aw thanks anon 💕 but the Neville thing - it wasn’t like it was his intention to become the sort of ‘stand in saviour’. It just sort of happened as he came out with his story. And he was present, a much more vocal and badass version of the Neville from before, and Harry was passed out, weakened as asleep in the hospital. Hermione and Ron were also lauded as hero’s, btw. And snape. Neville just became especially beloved

[winterbluesworld]

❝ Be careful what you are saying, because your whole vast world is this inner conversation pushed out ❞ — neville goddard

do you want it? do you really want it?

𝐃𝐎 𝐈𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 !

❝ i want it ❞ — but if u don’t put any work into getting it , or lemme put it this way- if you don’t start applying and doing instead of sitting there on your couch on your phone, overconsuming knowledge and looking at god knows how many success stories— you’ll never ever get anywhere in your life. you’ll never get your sp and they’ll move on to someone else because you won’t stop it from happening. you’ll start slipping and spiraling and you’ll start hating your life, falling back into the cursed victim mindset. sorry to break it to you, but someone had to. you’ll never get your desires and the only thing that you’ll manifest is everything goin wrong and that your life sucks. so stop. just fucking stop. do u know how fucking pathetic you look? and I don’t wanna hear your jackshit excuses because I’ll just lose even more respect for you. get tf up off your couch and do some jumping jacks before putting in a badass , femme fatale playlist and start applying. methods aren’t necessary but they are fun so do those if you want, or if you likes states or affirming, do that! maybe watch one of the wizard Liz videos or something and really get ur confidence up and boosted. do something that you like to do, like painting or squeezing fresh orange juice, or do your nails while watching your favorite show. do whatever to make you feel good. and remember, there’s nothing to stop you from getting your desires, nothing. doesn’t that comfort you, there’s nothing stopping you, ur fucking free to do whatever you please and no one gets a damn say about it.

I hope this helped, and remember, if u haven’t heard it in a while, I LOVE YOU , a lot — I really love you and I’m so proud of you for trying even if your going through a tough time, and I’ll keep saying it. your a god, there’s nothing that’s out of reach. if you want to be a hybrid twilight vampire , TVD vampire , TVD witch , TVD werewolf, original vampire , tribrid , shapeshifter , have the scarlet witch powers , be a mixture of a mermaid or a siren , or a half angel and half devil , GO AHEAD ! NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE— HERES THE PROOF , impossible = im-possible.

so go manifest whatever the fuck u want and spam every1s ask boxes with success stories .

love ya !

— coraline

ps , I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors, I was in a rush while writing this

[hedwigette]

too many people and i mean too many people in this fandom describes book ginny as this badass, fierce, girlboss you would think she is the scarlet witch of the hp universe. i just freshly finished the series, and...she was barely there in the books ? like yeah she had slightly more significant amount of presence in the last three books but still nothing compared to the golden trio and neville. where are people finding these badass fierce moments of her ?

I honestly don't know. Maybe they want and like the idea of a loud, imposing woman, like a sort of fetish, for them to think that a woman can be independent and strong (many misogynists in the fandom after all) and one who's more introverted couldn't be that.

But it's true she had one or two funny lines and could be impressive at other times (like in the battles during and after book five) but people are way more exaggerating her personalities and achievements.

She's not a super powerful hero. She's just a girl and it should have been enough.

[tedwardremus]

Good morning (or whichever tz you are in )

I have a few questions, if you don’t mind 😉

What are your thoughts on Sirius having so many tattoos vs him without any ink on him.

During Lily’s time at Hogwarts, do you think she ever gotten detention because of speaking out on the injustice of the treatment towards Muggleborns?

Do you think Narcissa ever reached out to Andromeda after the war? If so, did they reconcile or continue their lives without one another.

Lastly, do you think Alice Longbottom had a moment when she remembered Neville? Possibly after the second war, when Neville visits his mum (Hannah accompanies him).

I’d love to hear what you think, please and thank you 😊

Sirius' tattoos

He doesn't have tattoos. I am sorry, darlings, the movies lied to you. It is not mentioned once in the books that he has tattoos.

I think people want to give Sirius a punk aesthetic, or at least a leather jacket and tattoos because he is a 'rebel' who rides a flying motorcycle,' but I think it's a misunderstanding of his character. He disagrees with his family's pure-blood mania, but he is completely immersed and comfortable in the magical world. We only see him wear robes in the books.

He likes tinkering and inventing things with magic. I think his motorcycle was more a magical experiment and something to keep his hands busy, more than solidarity with muggle culture or an interest in a muggle aesthetic.

I wrote about my headcanon for the marauders and tattoos in this funny fic

Lily detention and muggle-rights

I can imagine Lily's sass probably got her in a detention or two.

We also know from SWM that she is not afraid to stick up for herself and others when she feels an injustice is occurring.

I don't see Lily leading any activist student organizations but she was bold and kind and not afraid to stand up to bullies. So she probably got in a few scraps with other students who she witnessed being cruel to others and if it was a big scrap (James and Sirius both eye her wand with caution in SWM) then yeah, she probably earned a detention or two for being an amazing badass who believes in punching nazis.

Narcissa and Andromeda

I don't think they reconciled. I am not a fan or Malfoy redemption (I know, controversial).

By allowing people like the Malfoys, especially Lucius, to be free from the consequences of being terrorists, the wizarding world doesn't prove that it has reformed its ways. How do we stop the cycle of violence and bring about a society where everyone is valued if the people who perpetuate the violence do not have to face prison and have their wealth stripped away? What is the interest of the post-war government in long-term peace?

I feel like the desire to have the sisters reconcile erases Narcissa's belief in pureblood supremacy and willingness to align with Voldemort's politics. Did she enjoy the experience? No, it was awful. She loves her husband and son, and she had to witness them getting abused by the leader or the terrorist organization they belonged to.

If there is a reconciliation, it is a long, rocky road that may happen in their 80s. Narcissa would have to leave her Death Eater husband and donate all their blood money to an organization that assists muggle-borns.

Andromeda should punch Narcissa in the face after the war.

Alice and Neville

I love reading a good Neville telling his parents about the end of the war fic.

I like to think Alice has some understanding of who Neville is; she gifts him the candy wrappers for a reason. I don't think Alice and Frank ever recover fully.

I do think Alice would be able to squeeze Neville's hand when he visits her and that she loves when he visits and is comforted by the sound of his voice.