#biggest apologist on earth i swear

[padfootastic]

We canonically know it was Sirius and James who had the easiest time with their animagi transformations, as Remus stated Peter needed all the help he could get from them in POA, but they literally became animagi at 15 but started trying even younger. That requires confidence in spades, to be around 13 and decide to accomplish magic that grown adults struggle with and might not even be taught in school (maybe animagus transformation is taught 7th year, but we don’t know for sure). Sirius and James really went “Maybe you adults can’t become animagi, but we’re better so we can.” What’s even better is that this confidence/borderline arrogance is completely justified because they did do it.

that’s exactly what i mean!!! to know something is (presumably) way out of ur league and still attempt to do it requires some serious chutzpah. i’m just imagining these bite sized twelve year olds (bc u know how boys are, right, they’re tiny until they’re suddenly not) sitting in a circle, absolutely serious frowns on their face, poring over tomes the size of their heads and going ‘mhm, yeah let’s do the one that has serious risk of disfigurement, disability, or death—oh also, imprisonment in azkaban. it’s the only option’ like the babies didn’t even consider not doing it, ykno? i’m also divided on whether i want remus to be in the know about it or not. like, the way i’ve written it (and seen) before was that they only tell him once they accomplish him so they don’t give him a false sense of hope (or alternatively, in the fics i don’t like, remus doesn’t have to act as the ~moral guide who tells them to stop).

but also, consider this. a remus who’s starved for friendship, who’s a bit dark and a lot selfish on the inside, who secretly wants them to do this and succeed. which means u have four cocksure boys basically pushing their mind, body, and magic to its limits for 3 whole years. like. have u seen how impatient teenagers can be? the fact that they kept at it that long, despite presumable obstacles, tells us so much. honestly, if i put aside my dislike for remus, i’m so in awe of and in love with marauder friendship lol it’s ridiculous how tight knit & loyal they were (atleast in hogwarts)

and the point about their arrogance being justified—that line literally sums up james and sirius lol like yah they were seriously cocky bastards but also,,,they had every right to be? those fuckers earned every bit of confidence they had, why shouldn’t they throw it around 💀