#and I think it's better than Harry Potter

[short666bread]

nighttime routine in an au where the marauder’s map has pinch zoom

[deswhomst]

Dead Gay Dad (& Others) From The 70s

Prompt by @moonyscribe — Marauders microfic — POV Harry Potter — Minor Wolfstar. Implied/Referenced Jegulus, Marylily, Gilderat. Word Count: 1319

Harry Potter had seen countless strange things in his nineteen years of life. From being thrown into a world of magic to becoming their savior, it had felt like nothing could truly surprise him anymore. He was wrong, of course, and he realised that as he held a portrait of four ghosts that stared back at him as if they were still alive.

“Well?” His father prompted from within the wooden frame. “Who are you?”

Harry was genuinely speechless. He had seen his father in Snape’s memories but this was different. James could see him—acknowledge him. He couldn’t be more than sixteen but Harry had never known any version of him. He will take what he gets.

“Prongs,” Remus Lupin tugged at his sleeve, demanding his attention. “He looks like you.”

“Right!” Sirius Black agreed wholeheartedly. “It’s like James with green eyes. And a bit older.”

Peter Pettigrew chimed in with, “Maybe it’s James from the future.”

Sirius snorted. “I wasn’t aware that a person’s eye color changes with age.”

The four of them were gathered around in a secluded area of the Hogwarts grounds, it seemed, and there was no one else in the frame. They were all dressed in their Hogwarts uniforms as well. At first, when Harry had wedged the portrait from under Sirius’ old desk while cleaning up Grimmauld Place, he had assumed it was a joke of sorts—something Sirius had left behind to annoy his parents, maybe, but the more he looked at the portrait, the more alive it got.

“I’m—my name is Harry,” he forced himself to say. “How are you … I didn’t know portraits could be made like this?”

James grinned, evidently proud of himself. “We didn’t think it would work!” he told him. “We basically trapped our fifteen year old selves in a portrait—it wouldn’t matter if we were alive or dead. This portrait will always have us at this age.”

“We wanted to give it to someone worthy of it,” Sirius added. “But my mother dearest saw it and confiscated it …”

“You are from the future, though, aren’t you?” Peter questioned.

Harry had to bite down on his tongue hard as he nodded. This man was the reason his parents had died, but Harry could not tell them this. If this is a version of them trapped here in time, a happy version of them, then he had no intentions of ruining it. Not because of a crime not yet committed where they are.

“I’m …” Harry cleared his throat. “Yeah.”

James perked up at that. “Are you related to me, then? I’m James Potter,” he said so casually. “Are you my son?”

Harry has been through his fair share of problems but nothing could quite compare to the amount of pain he was in at this moment.

Yes. I’m your son. Hi, Dad.

“No,” he said. “I’m a bit farther from the future … I have a great great grandfather named James Potter.”

The lie was necessary, Harry thought, to ensure that the four of them didn’t find out what happened to them.

“Wait,” Sirius squinted suspiciously. “Do you know about Voldemort? And the war?”

Harry shrugged. “Yeah we read a bit about it … Voldemort died, and the war ended ages ago. Everything’s good here in the future.”

It’s not as if Harry didn’t miss Sirius and Remus, too, but he was too distracted by James to notice anyone else’s presence that well.

“That’s amazing!” Peter grinned. “We have been expecting the worst.”

“Yeah, but it’s years into the future,” Remus reasoned. “Who knows what happened in between.”

“He must know,” Sirius gestured towards Harry.

“Wait, who did I marry?” James asked. “Was it Regulus?”

What?

Sirius groaned. “James, you’re not marrying my stupid brother.”

“But, Padfoot—!”

“No!”

“You’re just jealous that he loves me more,” James poked out his tongue at him.

“Low bar,” snorted Remus.

Harry kept blinking at the portrait. Regulus? Regulus Black? Why would James want …. what …

“Regulus,” Harry repeated. “What about Lily?”

“Lily?” James furrowed his brows. “How do you know about her?”

“Er— the … the frame!” Harry said. “It has—well, there’s Lily written on it … so I thought she’s your girlfriend or something …”

Sirius burst out laughing. “Prongs, mate, you’re pathetic.”

“You’re one to talk,” Peter said, amused. “You’re always wrapped around Moony.”

“It’s Moony,” Sirius winked at Remus, who rolled his eyes affectionately. “And the difference is that he actually likes me back.”

What? What? What the fuck?

“Oh, sod off,” James muttered. “I used to have a crush on Lily but I’m with Regulus now,” he explained to Harry. “Lily is with Mary, too. I love them, we’re all friends so it’s not weird or anything.”

“Regulus isn’t our friend,” Sirius corrected.

“He’s my friend,” said Peter.

“And mine,” added Remus.

Sirius sent them all a nasty glare.

James ruffled his hair. “I��m so confused… I don’t even remember putting Lily’s name on the portrait.”

“Let it go,” Remus said. “You doodled it anywhere you could.”

“I suppose …”

“It’s right here,” Harry said confidently this time. “I’m literally looking at it,” he waved a dismissive hand. “So, you two”— he pointed to Remus and Sirius —“are together?”

“Do you mind?” Remus asked pointedly. “You sound a bit homophobic to me.”

“Doesn’t he?” Peter agreed.

“What?” Harry blinked. “No—no! I’m not … I’m just wondering… I thought you guys are friends.”

Sirius arched a brow. “Do friends do this?”

To Harry’s utter horror, Sirius grabbed Remus’ tie and pulled him into an insanely inappropriate kiss. Sirius and Remus. Sirius and Remus. Sirius and Remus. Sirius and Remus.

“Okay, I think he gets it,” James called out to them. “Stop traumatizing Harry.”

“Why, does two men kissing traumatize you?” Peter asked.

Harry had no response to that. He has been staring at Remus and Sirius, jaw dropped, unable to look away even when the two of them had finally broken apart. He had never, once, considered the possibility of the two of them being more than just friends. Or of his father with Regulus Black. Or his mother with someone called Mary.

“Yes, Harry,” Sirius said. “Are the four us being gay traumatizing to you?”

“N-no!” he instantly defended himself because this was obviously not about that. Harry was more upset at how much of their lives will always remain a mystery to him. “Wait—four of you?” He looked at Peter. “You, too?”

James grinned, nudging his friend playfully. “He’s with this bloke called Gilderoy Lockhart.”

Giledory??? Lockhart??? And Peter???

“Neat,” said Harry, because what the fuck else was he supposed to say to all these insane revelations?

“It is neat,” James nodded. “So is Regulus.”

“Shut up, Prongs,” Sirius hit his shoulder.

“I’m with someone, too,” Harry said directly to James, because he wanted him to know. “Her name is Ginny.”

“Yeah?” James seemed interested. “That’s a sweet name, Harry.”

Harry grinned. “Yes. I think you both would get along!” he said. “She plays Quidditch, and I know you used to as well. She’s a professional.”

“Really?” James matched his smile. “That’s so cool! What position does she play?”

“She’s a Chaser.”

“Like me!”

“Like you,” Harry confirmed. “I play too! I’m a Seeker.”

James laughed fondly. “So you’re like me and Regulus, but opposite.”

“Yeah,” Harry chuckled. “And she’s my best friend’s little sister.”

Remus and Peter snickered.

Sirius passed James and Harry a very unimpressed look. “You Potters have it in your genes to go after your best friend’s little siblings, do you?”

James pursed his lips in amusement. “We do, don’t we, Harry?”

“My best friend wasn’t dramatic at all about it,” Harry added just to tease Sirius a bit. “He gave me his blessings and everything.”

“You see!” James jumped at the opportunity. “Why won’t you give me your blessings too, Padfoot?”

Sirius scowled.

Harry and James both grinned.

[blepsalot]

Hey, does anyone have any recs for any kind of media with good rep?

Like, disabled rep, POC rep, fat rep, queer rep, literally anything.

Trying to put together a list of better media to rec to HP people when we tell them to read better books.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

hello! do you think percy would be a good minister of magic? i have been reading a fic that explores this path for the character that's amazing but i was wondering if what we know about him in canon would really allow him to be a good one

No, I don't think he'd be a good minister. Or that the position would be good for him.

Listen, I like Percy, I honestly think he's an interesting character, and I like his arc (even though I wish the ending of it would've been a little different) but that guy is not minister material.

Percy as a minister would be pretty similar to Fudge. He's a bureaucrat who'd be constantly chasing the approval of other influential people (he'd have his limits, but, he'd still do it). He is not particularly charismatic, and while he is intelligent, he's not the wisest. Specifically, because he chooses to be blind when it suits him (like, not realizing something is up with Ceouch Sr, because Percy got to do the job he wanted).

Percy idolized Crouch Sr. Percy as a minister, especially if we're immediately after the war, is going to crack down on all Death Eaters like Ceouch Sr did. Percy was out for vengeance after Fred died, and I don't think he'd be sated once the war is over. He'd 100% use his position to make life difficult for anyone associated with the Death Eaters and improve his own family's standing. What I'm saying is that he'd be pretty corrupt. Not that he'd see it as corruption, that's just how the ministry is and always was, and he'd see no issue with it because the ministry is perfect in his eyes.

(Also, I would've actually preferred seeing him step away from the ministry, at last for a bit post-canon. I think the environment there is doing Percy no favors, frankly. Him going back to work in the ministry post-canon is like going back to the abusive ex that gaslit you)

Yes, he had an arc, but his arc wasn't about seeing the faults in the system at large. I mean, I don't think he really sees the problems with the ministry as an organization.

Even post-canon, he'd think (like most characters, to be fair) that the problem in the ministry was the specific people there. That if they replaced some of the people in power, Death Eaters and Voldemort wouldn't be an issue again. He wouldn't consider that the problem is the system itself and how the ministry operates (part of that selective blindness I mentioned). It means that, just like Fudge, when Hermione or someone would come to him like: "yo, there's a problem with how this works" he'd say: "that's impossible! that's how it always worked! We can replace the person in charge and that'll fix it" and call it a day. He could be convinced to add some reforms for the sake of muggleborns, but I don't think he'd come up with them himself. And maybe he could be convinced to get the dementors out of Azkaban under the right conditions but I won't hold my breath for it.

Percy loves rules and bureaucracy, and he adores the ministry (as an organization) the way it is. He isn't going to be the solution to the WW issues.

Also, I think Percy is the kind of boss who'd be a horrid micromanager, and that is a potential recipe for disaster in the ministry. He just likes when everything is done to perfection and how he thinks it needs to be done, so he'd constantly check on his subordinates and annoy the shit out of them. I don't think he'd survive more than one term. (Hermione, might also do this as a minister — one of the reasons I'm not a fan of her as the Minister of Magic either)

Do I think his tenure as minister would damage the Wizarding World? Probably not. It'll stay more or less the same. He'd be pretty efficient in getting what he wants done, but what he wants is probably not what the Wizarding World in Britain needs.

(Though, he might just be chosen/elected because they don't seem interested in actually solving their issues, yk?)

Do I think he'd be a good minister? Not particularly. He'd be there for his term(s), not change anything big, and keep the status quo more or less intact. History would remember him as an okay if forgettable minister (like Fudge would've been remembered had Voldemort not returned in his term). Like, I think he'd be better than Fdge in certain aspects (he has more of a spine), but, like, that's a pretty low bar.

[ceruleanblueshells]

Scorpius Malfoy who never really got over the trauma of the time travel, who's brain uses so much power to cope with being alive that it becomes harder and harder to excel in academics. Who used to have an eidetic memory but now all his memory is spent remembering the smile of his mother. Who used to understand assignments like the back of his hand but now he can't even recognise his own hands. Scorpius Malfoy who went through something, and has to live with it,and has changed because of it, ridden with academic guilt and the rot of his apparent golden mind.

[bruhduck]

Severus Snape from the perspective of someone who experienced bullying both from her classmates and her teachers

Well, as the title of this post says, I've experienced bullying both by my classemates and by my teachers. In elementary and middle school.

And I think this is one of the reasons that led me to defend Severus Snape's motivations and feel a great empathy toward him, as a teenager but also as an adult.

I know this is just my opinion, but it is an opinion that has been forged by my personal experience, so I would like that people will listen to it.

I'll start with the bullying of my classmates, because it's easier to talk about.

I've never suffered bullying that someone would call "severe": I was never beaten, I was never threatened; I was also quite integrated into the classes I was in, actually. I was excluded only a few times because I was considered too introvert and not "cool" enough.

And yet the bullying I suffered left several scars on me. These scars are a deep insecurity in my abilities and physical appearance, social anxiety and an even more introverted personality than in the past, which unfortunately still limits me a lot today.

It was a bullying made of normal teasing, but which was repeated often. Too often, so much so that it became exhausting.

For the stupidest reasons anyone could think of: I was shy, I spoke on rare occasions and the few times I did, the words struggled to come out of my mouth.

I was too kind, and many of them took advantage from it. Because they knew they could do everything to me, I would never said anything.

I wasn't good at gym. Other kids rolled their eyes when teacher put me on their team, they yelled at me every time I made a mistake (magically, if someone else made the same mistake this didn't happen, but with me it was mandatory to get angry).

On two occasions they aimed the ball at me on purpose, hitting me right in the face. The teacher didn't say anything: she just smiled and calmly told me to go to the bathroom and rinse my face (as it was useful, but... ok); she did it because the two children who hit me, laughing with satisfaction, were her nephews.

I was ugly, they said, but I just think they were right, because I've never seen myself as beautiful, not everyone is lucky.

I often vomited. In class, in front of everyone. Yeah, it's kinda disgusting, but it's an important part of my story, sorry.

Like many other children in my school, I had health problems related to anxiety from having to put up for five years with that same teacher who didn't say a word to her nephews when they hit me in the face with a ball twice on purpose.

She was (is) a bad teacher: not because she wasn't good at teaching, but because she was one of those who hate her job and take out their frustration on poor, defenseless children, and I was a very sensitive child. I vomited out of the anxiety of having to stay stuck in a classroom for six hours every day with her. For a long period, it usually happened once a week. When my mother, desperate, came to pick me up from school, even if every time was a nightmare for me, I was pretty happy, actually.

"Today I spared myself the viper", I thought. But in the meantime, the vomiting thing had become another reason for my classmates to ridicule me.

"Aren't you going to vomit today, Sofia?", they said laughing and making disgusted faces, and I felt like crying. Because obviosuly I hated when it happened, even though it saved me one day a week.

What I said is about elementary school.

In middle school I changed most of my classmates, but we all knew each other anyway. Our town is very small.

And so things didn't change (with the only difference that I didn't vomit anymore, since I had gotten rid of that teacher).

However, something much more disturbing happened in middle school, which went beyond simple teasing and irritating jokes. It was always just a hypothesis, to be fair, but... I still have a strong suspicion that some of my classmates had violated my privacy.

There has been a strange period, in the third year of middle school.

My male classmates had always been terribly childish, with their stupid jokes and... inappropriate behavior towards girls (including me), who should have been taken more seriously in my opinion (between the ages of 11 and 13 you have to be aware of certain gestures that you make.)

But at a certain point they seemed to have targeted me and they did it with jokes in which they showed they knew things about me that they couldn't have known. Things that were too specific.

And they weren't just talking to me, they were making those jokes out loud, in front of everyone. My classmates and teachers looked at them and at me confused. I just pretended to be equally confused, but inside I was trembling and asking myself: "How do they know?"

How do they know about my dog's death? How do they know what I read and watch? How do they know about the people I text who are strangers to them? How do they know about some of the messages I write? And then a strange theory formed in my head: somehow I don't know, on some occasion I don't know, they must have stolen my phone and spied on it. It was the only explanation that seemed sensible to me.

But I had no proof, and I felt crazy thinking that, just like now. So I kept the theory for myself, today is the first time I speak about it to anyone.

And yet, after all these years, a part of my head tells me that I've always been right.

There was no way they knew certain things, I assure you.

This weird but at the same time so sensible idea made me feel violated. Much more than when one of my classmate touched me in places he shouldn't have (several times) and the others laughed like idiots. Because the very idea that someone had crossed the line that much seemed so disturbing to me and gave me the shivers.

As I said, it wasn't bullying that we would call "severe", but all these experiences left me with a sense of deep bitterness, of contempt for those people who only a few months later simply started ignoring me, pretending not to know me. Or worse, who were friendly with me. Or who simply forgot about everything. All people who never apologized and who probably never even repented.

Why can they live their lives peacefully and serenely, smiling and boldly like in the past?

Why do I, instead, after all these years have to struggle with these damned scars?

It's so unjust.

And I can say the same for many people around me who suffered bullying as well: my sister, some of my friends. I have seen them suffer and this makes me so angry: they didn't deserve it, no one deserve it.

After all this, it seems obvious that I feel sorry for Severus Snape.

For the bullying he suffered, the humiliation, the jokes about his physical appearence, the stalking (do you know how terrifying it is to think that your bullies have a map through which they can know where you are at every hour? What could he have thought when he found out about the Marauders Map?), the SA (yes, it was SA), the lack of support from his friends and his teacher (Lily was a bad friend to him, I'm sorry to say it, but it's true. And his Slytherin classmates didn't seem to be there for him when he needed them, just like his teachers), and the fact that none of his bullies apologized (James died too early but if he didn't I don't feel like he changed that much, Sirius still called him Snivellus, Peter... Ugh, Remus is the only one who show regret, but he didn't apologize to him for what we know and he can't help but justify himself and his friends. The other people who laughed at Marauders' "pranks"? Where are they? Do they even remember him? Who knows).

It's so obvious to me that Severus is angry, furious. Full of hatred, contempt, frustration, bitterness. I can perfectly understand him.

And yet in all this negativity, the feeling that predominates in him is love.

After all what he has suffered, it is love that pushes him to redeem himself, to act. Unconditional love.

And shouldn't I respect and defend this character who should inspire many people? Who inspires me?

Someone who has suffered so much worse things than me, and yet manages to be better than me.

But I've also mentioned the bullying I suffered from teachers. So what do I think of Severus Snape as an adult?

Let's go back for a moment to my personal experiences.

I've already talked about the teacher who made me feel so anxious and who played favorites with her nephews. She was the worst, but she wasn't the only one who treated me badly.

I suffered public humiliation in class, several times. They incited the other kids to laugh. The reason was, once again, my shyness. I've never done anything to get noticed, I've never disrespected anyone, I wasn't arrogant, I've always obeyed, I got excellent grades, I've always paid attention in class. Simply... They found my shyness funny, or ridiculous. Something to make fun of, to "crush" to make me become "stronger" (yeah, many people in my town think like this...)

I'll be honest: I never wanted to have Snape as a teacher, because for how I am, he would have made me anxious.

He is a strict, demanding teacher, his only presence is intimidating. I wouldn't have liked to have a class with him or be evaluated by him.

And I have no problem admitting that he had unprofessional behaviors that I will not try to justify, because I can't and I don't want to (I give these examples: when he read Skeeter's article in front of the whole class to make fun of Harry, the "I see no difference" line, the thing about Neville's toad).

However. Personally, reading the books, I didn't see in him even a shred of the malice that some of my teachers had. He does things that a good teacher shouldn't do, that's true, but again, I say this as someone who knows what it's like to be humiliated by a teacher: there are worse out there, guys, and given Snape's mental state (all the trauma he's suffered and the fact that he doesn't even want to be there, in the place that caused him most of that trauma, these are important things to consider!), honestly he could have been a lot meaner.

Besides the fact that I see his very harsh teaching methods as a sort of "defense mechanism": he was only 21 when he started teaching, only three years older than his older students (I have his same age, I wouldn't be able to handle an entire class, at all).

A teacher that young has to be respected, especially a teacher who everyone remembers as a "pathetic" bullied kid.

Moreover, I think we don't talk enough about the fact that SWM happened only a few years earlier: some of the older students might have remembered it. Maybe they personally witnessed it.

And again, he is a teacher I would define very strict, sometimes unfair, but certainly not a child abuser as some people have called him. Don't use random words, please.

As for the definition of bully, I've thought about it a lot: in an old post about the Slytherin issue I said that I thought what he did was bullying, but today I wouldn't even call it that. I just can't call him like that.

But this is about my personal perception and it's a complex issue, other people can have different vision.

Because, you know, maybe you had kind and caring teachers, and if this is the case, good for you. Maybe that's why Snape seems like a monster of a teacher to you, but I assure you he isn't. It's true that I said I wouldn't have wanted him as a teacher, but if I had to choose between him and some of the teachers that I had? Him, surely, a thousand times better.

I left the issue of favoritism for last. Because yes, Severus favors the Slytherins.

Is it wrong? Yes, of course.

But do we really want to pretend that he is the only one who does it? Also the other teachers (some of them are very loved by the fandom) do it. With the Gryffindors.

Snape is the only one in the entire school who favors the Slytherins.

Everyone is on Gryffindors' side, everyone supports them.

The headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. The head of House, Minerva McGonagall. Rubeus Hagrid.

God, even the other Houses, the Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuffs, are often on Gryffindors' side in order to go against the Slytherins!

So I've always found really annoying (and a bit ridiculous and hypocritical) when the Gryffindors wanted to play the victim of the situation, given that they have the favor of the entire school, except for Snape...

Oh, and Snape may show favoritism to his House, but it is not true at all that he bullies all the students of other houses.

I've read people saying that Snape bullied 3/4 of the school, but where's the evidence of this? He just doesn't like the students in general, but this doesn't mean that he bullies everyone who is not a Slytherin. They are two different things.

The only students that were "bullied" by him, for what I can remember, are three:

Harry, Hermione and Neville.

One who is a miniature copy of the man who tormented him for years (Harry is innocent, yes, but this trigger shouldn't be underestimated), who often behaves arrogantly with him (and often doesn't respect the rules that are supposed to protect him! Like in 3rd book. Harry is reckless most of the time and if Snape points it out to him, Harry paints him as a monster who wants to take away all his freedom, or something like that.)

One who is a brilliant student, but will make lose patience even to the most kind teacher of the world and often speaks out of turn.

One who constantly causes trouble in a dangerous class like Potions literally from lesson n.1 (Snape was right to punish him so often, sorry).

Hey, I love these three kids, you know? But gosh, they would have pissed me off too if I were their teacher!

Oh and correct me if I'm wrong (for real, I don't remember every single detail), but I think Slytherins only act mean when he's not around or behind his back, and generally if there's trouble between students he intervenes immediately.

I'd rather know if the other Hogwarts teachers knew what the Marauders did to Snape, since they seemed to love them so much <3 (But no, they don't play favourites, right? They are all pure and innocent cinnamonrolls).

So yes, I'm a Snape fan. I feel empathy for him as teenager because I know what bullying is, how it makes you feel, I know the way it makes you face life with anger and bitterness (so no, you can't "get the fuck over it" so easily, as someone said).

I defend him even as adult because, despite everything, I consider him better than some teachers I've had (and other teachers at Hogwarts btw) and a capable and responsible professor, even though he lacks on human level.

[antsrust]

Diver! Marlene Mckinnon <3

Another addition to the Olympics AU I have in my head. Marlene is a diver for the Australian diving team.

[cursedwithwords]

In a perfect world Teddy’s godparents would be Charlie/Chiara or Bill/Fleur, but I don't think fandom's ready for that conversation yet tbh.

[hptrash-lookaway]

Idk if literally anyone else thinks about this, but I’m also always thinking about Harry being all sad because people don’t really see him when they look at him, they see the bwl or his parents

And yeah there’s a ton of people who do see Harry as just the bwl, but like,, outside of like,, the order and a couple of others, most people probably aren’t seeing Harry’s parents in him, like Lily and James weren’t famous till they died (outside of James being the sole heir to an old line, although it does raise the question of if people took issue with him marrying Lily since she was a muggleborn, anyways how many people would care that much about James being the last Potter outside of other old family lines?) so outside of the people they personally interacted with, most probably didn’t pay that much attention to them, whereas Harry is hella famous and has been that way for most of his life

Idk if I can actually articulate my point but anyways once again thinking about a lot of people from the marauders generation ending up in the hp generation, and Harry’s all worried about no one caring about him anymore because he thinks most people only care about him as a replacement for his parents, but a lot of the people from his generation are only excited to meet them because they’re Harry’s parents

Idk it’s also funny to me to think about it being like still in the middle of the war and the order really caring about Lily and James being back and feeling more confident, and outside of like Snape, most of the death eaters and Voldemort aren’t fully sure who they’re looking at for a few seconds, like they’ve just been so focused on Harry for so long, only caring about them when that prophecy came out

(and considering it had to have come out around when Harry was born because due dates are so fickle and he was 1 when they were killed, it had to be max a year till they were found, not too long in the grand scheme of things)

Also I’m imagining that this is more teenage James and Lily, so it doesn’t help that they don’t look exactly how they did before dying

(My reasoning for most death eaters not caring about James and Lily before the prophecy is that I believe the theory that most order members weren’t public knowledge, they didn’t have to go into hiding until the prophecy was made (if DE’s cared about them, no way they wouldn’t have been in a protected house from the start), we don’t really know what defying Voldemort means so it could’ve been anything, doesn’t necessarily mean it was in a way Voldemort would’ve cared about till he sat down to figure out which family the prophecy could be about and was like “oh wait”, and some other reasons that make sense only to me and idk how to word them)

(Like I really think they’d be in the same amount of being famous as Tonks would be pre-prophecy, she’s an order member, she’s an auror like James who probably doesn’t take shit from all those death eaters who should’ve been in Azkaban and are now living normal lives, and she has a dramatic family history, her mom was completely disowned from a very well known family for marrying her dad, when they didn’t even completely disown Sirius!! And then she had a baby with a known werewolf, yet there’s not ever really a sense that she’s that famous or that death eaters care that much about her)

[mighty-meerkat]

hating harry potter really is going to become the next 'reblog to make a terf mad!', isn't it?

[gaywizardingworld]

Hello? I understand what you’re saying: I agree that more pairings with women should be more popular, like WLW ships for example. But some of these examples are the most boring basic straight ships ever. It’s ok if you like them but don’t blame people for not thinking Remadora is interesting bc it’s not really for many of us. It was one of the most random ships in canon imo, it made no sense and Remus was written with a lot of gay subtext. But even if Remus was straight it still felt forced and out of the blue and All The Characters Need To Be Married / Dating the Opposite Sex vibes. And I’m not gonna start with Hinny. Jilly is a classic Boy Gets The Girl and it’s cute but there’s not much depth to it until the war. Bellamort the most interesting here.

The problem is that people don’t find most female characters interesting and don’t explore their lore. But using Remadora and Hinny as examples is laughable.

[rewritingcanon]

what do u think albus would grow up to be like had he never met scorpius in hogwarts?? i need to know im running an experiment (writing a fic)

[i-need-of-a-hobby]

 this  🤏 close to rewriting the "kings cross" scene in the deathly hallows with regulus appearing to harry instead of dumbledore

[eggmacguffin]

so so so sorry for talking about harry potter

but my brain has been chewing through each and every flaw with that series this past week (in a series of Slumdog millionaire type flashbacks) and what they say about the maniac who wrote it

and listen.

Azkaban.

Azkaban, the only wizard prison (they don't even appear to have, like, holding, it's just Azkaban for everyone) and how very little criticism the concept of torture-forever-prison received within the text despite 50% of named characters who end up sent there being completely innocent. Are there sentences to Azkaban that aren't life? it seems insane if there aren't but also insane if there are, because of how incredibly vindictive and punitive the wizarding legal system is.

Prison in the real world does not succeed in being rehabilitative, of course.

but it is blatantly obvious that harming people who "deserve" it is the primary function of the wizarding legal system. AND how readily acceptable this is to a narrative style very childishly eager to inform you what is right and what is wrong says a lot of things about JKR and like. the concept of prison abolition

a story about a grand revolution that safely returns you to the status quo is one very lazy bad thing. But the blithe acceptance of "offending the wrong politician or a bungled trial or a very casually, comfortably corrupt government can get you sentenced to naked in a cave w/ all your happy memories stolen forever"?

And our brave hero not only doesn't question this, but dedicates his post-series life to supporting it?

what the fuck was she thinking???

[lilywalkers]

the rosier twins would've loved the gruesome parts of classic fairy tales, all the gore and guts, but also the beauty of it. the neat ending with a moral they think they're above listening to, the eloquent prose, the naive characters. they'd laugh and act like they wouldn't be tempted by the same things that tempt the main characters of the stories, when in reality their curiosity and yearning for knowledge would be the death of them if they weren't raised in such a secluded mansion.

[achievement-hunter]

People making Mara/uders fanworks in the year of our lord 2024