#boggart's theory

[mitsuki91]

Okay so HOT TAKE ABOUT THE BOGGART YOU ALL.

*Inhale deeply*

First of all you all have the WRONG conception about of what a Boggart his. A Boggart is something who uses fear for defense, and that's means he uses the kind of fear that make you JUMP AND RUN AWAY. So I can see Neville fear to meet his most hated professor around castle; Neville itself was a timid, nervous child, always on edge, self-conscious. He tried to became "invisible" in school because he didn't have all this magic (at least he didn't show) and he want to avoid bulling, and Severus Snape was one of the people who bullied him (yes, even among all the professors)... Yes, the worst, that's mean that was the one Neville doesn't want to see around the castle.

But beside that, if you tell me that Neville's Boggart had to be Bellatrix Lestrange... You are full of shit. Bellatrix, in the life Neville actual lived, means nothing. She is pain, maybe, or "rational" fear because she is a powerfull witch that defeaut two great Aurors, but she is also in Azkaban, eaten by the Dementors, and Neville never had direct experiences with her. He was less then two years old. He can't remember and never will. He can feel pain thinking about what could have been his life with Frank and Alice, but pain is not fear. If I have to think about an alternative Boggart before Hogwarts, I think about his uncle, who let him fall out of the window.

In the same way I think that Harry's Boggart can't be Voldemort in third year. Or, maybe, only Raptor and his backface, but not Voldemort, and even him is not likely. Before the Dementors, I think Dudley can be my bet; Harry used to run from Dudley all the time when he was a child.

THAT BEING SAID.

You really, and I mean REALLY, just thrown out of the window all the poverty, bully, abuse, and the same indocrtinated shit Draco feel for in the Slytherin house when speaking about Severus Snape? I can't belive it. "He belived in their propaganda" HE WAS AN HALF-BLOOD. HOW CAN HE BELIVED IN PUREBLOOD SUPREMACY. He just want an easy out from his father, you have to think just about two second to see it.

Also, for the Lily thing, I read days ago one fucking gold meta when someone explain that when someone are abused and used to not be belived he doesn't even try to correct the false impression someone had about him. Dumbledore interrupted his babbling ("You disgust me") and he simply gave up.

Also, if you don't want to belive this, okay, but as some-other-one said days ago, you have to have some start point in changing yourself. Usually when someone you care about is touched in a wrong way by something you belived (... That's implying Severus belived in Pureblood supremacy and just no- but you do you I think). Another one is Regulus; I see some meta where when he discovered the Horcrux he finally understood that Voldemort try to make society implode, let all the Pureblook kill each other, and be the last one still alive at the end of the game... So he fear for the society as a whole, a place where he wants to live, rules he wants to follow that give him status and money, and try to destroy him. That need other meta, I know, I know.

... I don't know if I forgot something. Sigh.

But I can't stay silent after reading your answer...

Severus Snape: Says a slur that he didn't mean when he was sixteen

Everyone: Look how horrible he is! He's so racist! If you like him you're a horrible person!

Snape Supporter: He's just a fictional character.

Everyone: Horrible person!

Marauders: Harrasses someone just because they wanted to be a Slytherin at eleven for seven years straight, won't take no for an answer(James with Lily), and are all rich without doing anything to help poorer people

Draco Malfoy: Says the same slur, meaning it, for years

Barry Crouch Jr.: Tortures the Longbottoms for Voldemort, murders people, and inprisons Mad Eye

Bellatrix Lestrange: Murders people, literally in love with Voldemort, and tortured the Longbottoms

Tom Riddle: IS VOLDEMORT

Everyone: What great characters! Literally perfect.

Other person: *points out everything the characters did*

Everyone: They're just fictional characters!

[letsgethaunted]

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Let's Get Haunted (@letsgethaunted)

BONUS: The Dodleston Messages - Thoughts, Theories, & Homework Photodump

Image 01: Welcome to the BONUS EPISODE photo dump! Image 02: French newspaper illustration from 1911 describing a poltergeist event that occurred in Algeria involving 14 year-old Therese Selles + Matthew Manning’s bedroom wall with (allegedly) about 600 signatures from different historical figures spanning from the 17th C onward Image 03: Boggart illustration Image 04: Boggart illustrations Image 05: Map of UK Ley Lines + Map showing Dodleston location Image 06: Nine Ladies Stone circle in Derbyshire: Circular formation of upright stones dating to the Bronze Age, popular for walks & scenic views Image 07: Map showing Ley line from Nine Ladies to Meadow Cottage Image 08: Maps showing Meadow Cottage was originally divided down the middle into two separate plots of land in the 1800s. Image 09: Symbol Debbie says most resembles the one on the book Lukas showed her in her dream, Image 10: screenshot of the plainsongs I found - can any of you guys send me links to these songs being sung so I can play them for Debbie?

[demoncatto]

Is the mirror of erised related to Boggarts?

The have basically the same powers but in slightly different ways

They both instantaneously shows you something very specific to you

Your biggest fear, your true desire,

And in a way our fears are usually out desire flipped over, "harry wants to be with his parents, his biggest fear is a dementor that can suck his soul, which will not let him pass to the other side to be with his parents"

"Nevil saw Snape, his biggest fear is a teacher that unfairly punishes him, and we know that he desires to be a good student that his grandma would be proud of"

Maybe the mirror is a Boggart that's flipped over due to the way mirrors work

If you have more examples please let me know

[sitp-recs]

hello!! i love your recs so so much, and i finally have something to ask. what about fics where harry is very good at something beyond just having powerful magic (love that trope tho) like commanding a classroom, solving a complicated puzzle, or idk even whittling. and draco notices and likes it? like competence kink. thank you!!

Oh I love this ask! Such a great concept, and not something I see often (competent Auror Harry is pretty popular though!). I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch of fics and might add more later, but these are all great:

In Which Harry is Magnetic North and Draco Is An Idiot by bryoneybrynn (T, 13k)

For as long as he can remember, Draco’s been bringing fake dates to his family’s annual Yuletide celebration in order to evade his mother’s matchmaking. This year, Potter’s posing as his pretend boyfriend. But as the party gets underway, it gets unclear who’s playing who, who’s pretending what, who’s not pretending at all, and what the game really is. Confused? Yeah, so is Draco…

Unfinished Business by cupiscent (E, 20k)

Ten years after the War ends, Harry and Draco still haven't got their act together. But maybe it's not too late.

This is Never Happening Again by hpleems (M, 32k)

“Potter,” Malfoy said, shaking his head. “Do I look like I care about your holiday plans? Trust me: this is *never* happening again.”

Meet Me at Midnight by thestarryknight (T, 57k)

Harry was beginning to wonder if he’d ever make anything again when Malfoy stormed through the door of Harry’s furniture shop. Now Harry’s got an impossible Ministry commission to finish, and even less energy than ever to deal with his elusive muse. That is, until he stumbles upon the surreal and beautiful world of a mysterious fae creature…

A Room Up There (And You In It) by thestarryknight (T, 59k)

When Preservationist Draco Malfoy was assigned to work on Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, he was excited to delve into the gorgeous Black family antiques. His excitement quickly ended when something in the House decided it did not like his presence one bit. Featuring a grumpy antiques lover who most certainly did not sign up for this, encounters with a vengeful apparition, and a healthy application of Christmas spirit.

Among Ancient Pines by Theartfulldodger (M, 74k)

Every day, Draco Malfoy tries. With every fiber of his being he tries. But he doesn’t much think about what he’s trying for. In his final term of Healer training, Draco is unfortunate enough to find himself on a plane, the only means of traveling to a small, magical town in rural Alaska. Years of hard work have culminated in an opportunity to work with an experimental wandmaker to study the intersection of Healing and wand theory.

Azoth by zeitgeistic (E, 88k)

Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait? Harry has no idea; he’s too busy trying not to be in love with Malfoy to care.

Little Deaths and How to Avoid Them (or Draco Malfoy's Guide to Stop Dying and Start Living Instead) by nerakrose, dustmouth (T, 96k)

Malfoy is way too interested in coroner reports for somebody who's definitely not looking for ways to die, Harry wants to be friends with him, and Ginny wants to break up with Harry.

[theflikchic]

I really hate that whenever the HP fandom discusses Snape as Neville's boggart, they just rehash the same debate of "Is Snape being Neville's Boggart fucked up or not?" instead of (with everything we now know about JKR) discussing: "What are the implications of Lupin being framed as a good guy by having everyone laugh at a man in a dress because haha men don't wear dresses and especially not THIS man how silly to help a student get over his fear when they all wear robes anyway?"

Because THAT has taken over my brain and despite all the takes that make Harry Potter sound like a hate manifesto and some theories about what MIGHT be transphobia in those books, I'm not seeing ANYONE talk about this (probably because it has to do with Snape).

Genuinely, I think this is the discussion about that scene we as a fandom should be having and we're not.

And this is not meant to be like a "defense of Snape". I'm thinking in the narrative and in real-life: Lupin decided to help Neville get over a reasonable fear by making that fear- a man who bullies him- funny and to make that fear funny, he instructs Neville to crossdress it which is framed as funny by the narrative because "men don't wear dresses" when what Neville's grandmother wears is already very similar to what MOST wizards are shown wearing- the only difference being that she is a woman.

Like, is this not weird to anyone else- especially with what JKR's been spewing. I really find this interesting and I barely see ANYONE talking about it. What are the implications?

[maxdibert]

These are the comments you received on the James defense post. I’d love to see your responses to them if you’re interested in answering.

what i don’t understand is how someone defending a 15yo james potter (thus apparently making them a classist which u think is tantamount to death lmao) is better than y’all defending snape? like. how is That not fascism considering mans was a literal DE who agreed w the ideals from a young age and also created torture curses that he used frequently enough to become his ‘signature spell’ and also became an adult who went on to bully literal children from his position of authority (and even becoming a kids boggart as well as actively harming other kids) whereas james was a kid who was a bully and went on to die at the age of 21. snape lived til his mid 30s and never stopped being an asshole. so. being a fascist defender of a racist bigot, how are you throwing stones at classists? also. if you’re talking ‘european cultural context’ pls remember this is not post-industrial britain and is a society of its own separate from the trad class system of the muggle world. money might play a role but so does blood politics and james was considered a ‘blood traitor’ which would’ve been a stroke against him during voldy’ speak war era. snape, on the other end, actively supported and endorsed the rhetoric. that’s just one layer to it. u can’t just juxtapose any theory to any context without considering the difference in that society from the one marx envisioned. that’s just lazy work.

You really talk a lot about class and aristocracy and brag about your experience and education and how much of an intellectual you are, but you still don’t understand that classes in the wizarding world are not the same as classes in our world. You use big words, brag about your experience, and clearly assert your moral and intellectual superiority over others, yet you don’t understand the meaning of “eat the rich”, the concept of class, the accumulation of capital, or even what capital and the means of production are. Or, most likely, you understand, but you just manipulate with these words to defend Snape thinking that no one can see it.(If you want to debate more substantially, I can send you my meta about classes from a Marxist perspective in the wizarding world. ( though you’ll probably say I don’t have enough neurones to write anything coherent😄)

Regarding the first person, I’ve already talked about this many times, and they’re mixing up concepts. First of all, I don’t understand what adult Severus has to do with James, because the relationship between James and Severus is limited to their teenage years. It makes no sense to bring adult Severus into the debate because we’re not talking about that Severus. We’re talking about the teenager in a teenage context with a teenage bully.

And, even so, if we were to talk about the adult, we could discuss how the violence inflicted by James Potter probably influenced his character as he grew up, precisely because it left him with a host of unresolved traumas. These include an inability to manage his emotions or deal with stressful situations as a functional adult, due to a significant developmental delay directly tied to his experiences at school and the importance he still places on them as an adult.

In any case, that’s beside the point. On the other hand, these people seem to be willfully obtuse. Rowling didn’t create a world out of nowhere; her world is the British Wizarding World, and throughout the series, she uses analogies for real-world political and social issues (like discrimination against Muggle-borns, which is supposed to be an analogy for racism but comes off as ridiculous, or Voldemort being a sort of Hitler figure but not even reaching the level of a nationalist terrorist party leader, or the werewolves being a disrespectful metaphor for HIV victims). So, it’s based on the real society she lived in, which is specifically post-Thatcherite Britain. For these people to claim that Severus was some kind of fascist racist and then have the audacity to deny that Rowling’s world is connected to the real world—when it’s closely based on real-world social dynamics and constantly shaped by her bourgeois, reactionary perspective—is as contradictory as it is ridiculous and even shameful.

And I’m sorry, but class is something that permeates everything. Class is the trunk of the social structure from which other branches of intersecting social issues emerge. Homophobia is also tied to class; feminism is tied to class; racism is tied to class. All the problems and axes of discrimination in our society have a class-based foundation because the social pillars on which it is built were based on class castes that date back to pre-Medieval societies. The Roman Empire was a class society; ancient Egypt was a class society. Our cultural references are strictly linked to class. Ignoring this and claiming that Rowling somehow created a completely isolated bubble uninfluenced by the politics of a world closely modeled after ours, and with issues she constantly alludes to in her work, is basically not understanding a thing, having the reading comprehension of a monkey on amphetamines, or simply refusing to acknowledge the obvious to avoid re-examining personal prejudices or deconstructing their neoliberal perspective.

As for the second message... Yes, I mean, I would tell them that not only am I an intellectual, but I also studied Law + Political Science, have two master's degrees, and have worked in unions. So, it’s not a matter of what I think; it’s that I literally have qualifications in this. I’m a criminal lawyer and political scientist. It’s not like I’m drawing my conclusions from a handful of Tumblr posts I came across.

They’re telling me I don’t understand the concept of means of production or capital accumulation to defend a character who literally lived off the wealth of his ancestors and used that economic and social capital (because there are various types of capital) to maintain a position of power over others during his school years. A character who, precisely because of his accumulated capital, managed to sit at the top of the social hierarchy without lifting a finger and who had nothing to lose by acting like a tyrant because he had an economic and familial safety net (another type of capital) to fall back on. All this while the character he attacked was on the opposite side: working-class, with no resources or financial support, and zero accumulated or generated capital.

I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and it seems quite incoherent to start posturing as a Marxist intellectual while defending abuses of power by the magical equivalent of an aristocrat against someone from the working class. And I’m sorry, but the social structure of the wizarding world functions exactly like the social structure of any society that still maintains class-based castes rooted in aristocracy. Pure-bloods are basically nobles, aristocrats, members of families with great lineages—they’re essentially lords. It doesn’t take much insight to find the parallel, nor does it require much knowledge of British culture; just a glance at how modern European monarchies work makes it evident.

But anyway, what do you want me to say? They can bring whatever meta they want, but I’m not going to change my opinion. My issue with these people is basically this: one knows what their strengths are, and I’m not pretending to be an intellectual or acting like I know it all. It’s just that I literally have experience in activism, paid work, and university-level studies (master’s level) on these topics.

I’m not going to share my opinions about physics, theories on how spells or magic might work, or whether certain things are plausible from a logical point of view because I don’t have the faintest idea about those things. I don’t know math, I don’t know physics or chemistry, and I don’t know engineering. I’m an absolute illiterate when it comes to equations. But I’m not when it comes to political theory. I’ve earned honors in political theory.

So, as you can understand, these people are hardly going to change the mind of someone who not only has expertise but also has a damn university degree. And frankly, I don’t think degrees are everything, but aside from that, I’ve spent 10 years actively participating in Marxist union activism, leading the university union, and I also worked for a year in the field of labor law after finishing my degree. So, I don’t know—they can say whatever they want, but I don’t care.

[dufferpuffer]

~~ Looking at Lycanthropy ~~

~~ the Werewolves of the Wizarding World ~~

Vers. 1 I've tried to collect every relevant description of Lycanthropy or Werewolves in the books, to get a clear understanding of what this condition is, what it does, how it works and how it is seen. There are also some of my own thoughts and theories in here - I'll try to make it clear what is my own thoughts and what is canon.

If I have missed anything please mention it. I'd like this to be a thorough exploration of the topic. I will edit the posts.

Part 1: Physical Symptoms of Lycanthropy Part 2: Social Perception of Werewolves Part 3: Regarding the 'Full Moon'... (^In which I claim POA's transformation didn't happen on the Full Moon^) Part 4: Long-Term Lycanthropy: The Case of Fenrir Greyback Part 5: Wolfsbane vs Wolf - Theories of Treatments Part 6: Pottermore and More Part 7: Collected Summary

Note: Prisoner of Azkaban used is the Australian paperback from 2000. I typed out every quote by hand, it sucked ass. Order of the Pheonix, Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows were all from internet sources of American versions so I could copy and paste.

Other 'Meta'

How Powerful is Albus Dumbledore Dumbledore Was Never Mean to Tom Riddle (Part 1)

Meta I wanna do so I don't forget: - Alastor Moody character study - Centaur - Vampires/Vampirism - Pre-Statue of Secrecy Wizarding World - What the fuck were you doing in book 1, Albus? - Non-Human Spirituous Apparitions - Boggarts, Dementors, Poltergeists... and more...? - Arthur Weasley character study (the best character in the books) - Snape vs Lupin's teaching styles

[hazyange1s]

MC: Ronan Sharp

Basics

Full name: Ronan Finley Sharp

Nickname(s): Ron (pronounced with a hard o), Sharpie, Prince Charming (by Sebastian)

Gender: male

Species: wizard/Selkie

Date of birth: September 21, 1874

Nationality: English and Irish

Blood status: pureblood

Wand: laurel, unicorn hair, 13 in, reasonably pliant

Appearance

Hair color: dark auburn

Hair style: loose, short waves with some curtain fringe

Eye color: hazel

Skin tone: fair; often with a light tan

Height: 6’1”

Body type: lean and toned

Clothing style: wears all colors (but especially loves light neutrals, warm tones, and black), prefers comfortable and unique fabrics (flannel, cashmere, fur)

Accessories:

Wears the Sharp family signet ring

Enjoys the occasional hat

Keeps his mother’s picture in his pocket watch

Other distinguishing features:

Freckles (of course)

Scar over his right eye (tried to Apparate at thirteen and splinched himself — still has poor vision in that eye)

Personality

Traits: friendly, enthusiastic, fun-loving, clever, sarcastic, perfectionistic, bossy

Likes: shakespeare, comfort food, medicine/biology, fall, making people laugh, generosity, genuineness

Dislikes: superiority complexes, dishonesty (from himself and others), large birds, flakes

Hobbies: chess, healing, charm creation, archery

Fears: the BIRDS man, abandonment, not being good enough

MBTI: ENFJ-A

Enneagram: 2w3 (268) so/sp

Zodiac: virgo sun, cancer moon, sagittarius rising

Temperament: sanguine

Archetype: the Caregiver

Similar characters: Apollo, Cedric Diggory, Richard Gansey, Lily Potter, Padme Amidala, Derek Shepherd

Family/Friends

Father: Aesop Sharp

Potions master and Slytherin alumnus

Stern with high expectations but well-meaning

Married his step mother when Ronan was five

Mother: Kassady DesRosiers (Fallon)

Pureblood

Dragonologist, Gryffindor alumnus

Killed when Ronan was 15 — he never got to meet her

Sibling: Raegan DesRosiers

Half-blood (same mother, different father)

Technically twins — Ronan was conceived and born first, but they shared a womb for 7 months

Gryffindor

Don’t meet properly until their sixth year

Pet: Apollo (tawny owl)

Received after his Hogwarts letter

Sort of the “communal owl” that all of his friends “borrow”

Gets into fights with the other owls oops

Friends: Poppy Sweeting, Diana Blackwine, Arthur Plumley, Adelaide Oaks, Ominis Gaunt, Garreth Weasley, Leander Prewett, Natsai Onai

Magic

Boggart: ostrich (lame)

Patronus: seal

Polyjuice: turns light green and tastes like fennel

Amortentia: lemon, butter, sage, frankincense

Special abilities:

Selkie blood — passed down from his father’s side and dilute enough to present rarely in a bloodline. Allows him to hold his breath underwater for extended periods of time; great swimmer, affinity for sea-dwelling creatures

Does not possess ancient magic

Exceptional and instinctual Healer

Backstory

Ronan was born in Cambridge, England in secret. His mother Kassady had hidden him from her abusive husband — as well as the fact that he was the product of a love affair with her former suitor; Aesop. Ronan grew up not knowing his birth mother (or the fact that he had a half/twin sister); raised by his father until Sharp married when his son was five.

He had a relatively happy childhood, though Ronan always felt slightly out of place. He was not the overly studious, serious type, which caused misunderstandings between him and his strict father… especially when Ronan is sorted into Hufflepuff instead of Slytherin (the Sharp family’s ancestral House).

But as he grows and learns more about his past and his family, he begins to come into his own as he becomes a Charms prodigy and a guiding light for the next generation of Keepers 😉.

Academics 

Best Subject: Charms, Magical Theory

Worst subject: Ancient Runes

Favorite teacher: Ronen and Kogawa

Least favorite teacher: Sharp (he’s harder on him than the rest oop)

As a student:

Very popular and personable; gets along with pretty much everyone (but isn’t a pushover)

His dyslexia causes him some trouble. Overall his intelligence and hard work helps him find ways around it

Mischievous — sort of a “thief in the night” that nobody suspects

Future

Career: Mediwizard

Ronan desires to make something of himself; to make a difference and be somebody useful in society. After seeing the impact that the goblin rebellion had on people and watching his sister/friends struggle with all manner of ailments (both mental and physical), he changes his career path from an Auror to Mediwizard.

He’d always had an interest in biology and medicine. The job allows him to dive deeper into those fascinations while giving him the adventure and variety Ronan secretly craves — he winds up traveling around Europe after Hogwarts under the employment of St. Mungo’s. Specializes in curses and mental illness.

Future spouse: undecided for now (side note: I’m always open to MCxMC ships! Ronan is pansexual so we’re not picky 😂)

[cruelfeline]

I came across this broken-down cart by the side of the road, a single skeleton resting alongside. Upon first glance, it seemed fairly unremarkable, but a moment later I was attacked by a boggart. Which isn't interesting on its own - boggarts are a relatively common form of Breakborn.

What was interesting is that there was only one. One boggart, no others. Which is odd: they normally mill about in a group. This one was all by its lonesome, seemingly associated with this broken cart and its skeleton.

Which made me think. My preferred theory is that the boggarts were once human children. Makes sense, given their small size, propensity for throwing pebbles as an attack, and tendency to group up.

Seeing one boggart on its own, seemingly keeping close to this cart with its skeleton... it makes me think about a parent and child evacuating Avoalet together. Only for the parent to die, for whatever reason. While the child corrupts and becomes a boggart. But said boggart may still retain just a sliver of what made it a person, and that sliver compels it to remain with its dead parent.

There's also a little patch of shore violets nearby. And the bit of loot Frey can pick up from the cart is a single shore violet.

Makes me imagine this little once-child boggart straying only far enough from its former parent to pick them a flower. For reasons it can no longer understand.

...anyway, Athia! Super cheerful place!

:|

[messrsrarchives]

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think? (would love to hear your thoughts)

ask game

oh we knowwww what i'm about to say. we know i'm about to put on my snape hat right now. we know how i feel about severus, i'm a broken record at this point.

"we need more complex characte-" YOU CAN'T EVEN HANDLE SNAPE 😖😖

and like yes !! he's an ass. he bullies children, he's neville's boggart (though i do actually fw the idea that that's less snape, more figures of authority and not wanting to be inferior? wanting to prove his worth and make his parents proud but snape is a very strict teacher that makes him doubt that but i digress) like yes !! he's an ass but that's the POINT.

i love that he deflects and is still not perfect. it would have been boring for him to deflect and be perfect. the whole point of his character is to show that you can never truly tell what side someone is on just by how they act.

he's instrumental to the war, he risks his life every day by being a double agent, he plays his part so fucking well and i just love him. i stand by my cancelled wife she did all of it but i stand by her. and the theory that he hadn't killed anyone else? "what about mine?" what about HIS soul? what about HIS sould that is still yet to be changed if he kills albus? what about his soul that is still yet untarnished by the killing curse? what about HIS. the idea that dumbledore is his first kill is everything to me.

i've yapped about him so much but ugh. like ofc he joins them??? not to forgive him or anything but OF COURSE. he's abused by a muggle and his magical mum "does nothing" (she's abused too but he's a child ofc he thinks this way), he's told he belongs in slytherin when besides lily he's never had a sense of belonging before, and then he's fed this rhetoric that muggles infiltrate their society and ruin it and he's thinking of his mum standing by and UGH. ofc he does 😖

and a lot of his actions? like yes he's an ass but ong he's living a double life. and whilst i don't think that excuses anything, i can grant him a bit of understanding when it comes to how harsh he is. he's crafted this persona for years, he can't let it crack at hogwarts. he can't risk it. he has no reason to really now that lily's gone, the one person whose opinion he valued. he'd be a shite spy if he was nice to everyone then rocked up the DE meetings, he physically can't change whether that's because of a lack of motivation to or because of his role

he's an ass but he's not evil. he's the epitome of a morally grey character and i do not trust snaters with anything. free my man from the narrative. and also fanon regulus is just snape in a pretty package SORRYYYY

which actually,,, makes sense. because we see the bad things snape does but we don't see the bad things regulus does. so it makes sense that we're more willing to delve into regulus and grant him forgiveness but 😖 my mans 😖

[otakufimi]

Re-watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. My thoughts:

In the train, the dementors attack more than one compartment surely, so imagine Remus giving chocolate to each compartment on his way to talk to the driver.

Also, Remus gives Harry chocolate after the Dementors attack because chocolate is known to increase serotonin, and serotonin is known to be the "happiness hormone".

In the professor's table Snape and Lupin sat next to each other, imagine Remus trying to be civil and Snape not having it. (Is that why he enjoys so much seeing Snape in drag, you know in the boggarts class, because he tried to put the past behind but Snape is still in the past?)

When Harry is learning the Patronus charm, Remus uses a boggart as a Dementor. If it's a boggart, why does it have the "powers" of a Dementor??

Harry fearing fear itself + people with anxiety fearing fear itself (I studied this)= Harry has anxiety

There are so many wordless and wandless spells in this movie, especially from Remus.

I know there's the theory that Fred and George saw Peter sleeping with Ron on the map, but, what if they never saw him because they only check out on their siblings (especifically the little ones, Ron and Ginny) if something happened to them. Like when Ginny when misssing, because she was trapped in the Chamber of Secrets.

The first thing that Remus does when he transforms is call his pack (Padfoot, Prongs and Wormtail), but they don't come. What if he approached Harry because he saw him as pack? What if he attacked Snape because he saw him "trying to hurt" Harry, his pack?

[havingaverydrarryday]

what are some of your favorite stories?

I have nearly 40 pages of bookmarked fics so this it by no means all of the stories I love. So here's a (not so short) list in no particular order. Some are individual stories, some are series. All on A03, some are restricted.

Azoth by zeitgeistic

Summary:

Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait? Harry has no idea; he’s too busy trying not to be in love with Malfoy to care.

remember me by hupsoonheng

Summary:

On a chilly day in October, Draco kisses Harry goodbye before he goes on yet another dangerous, undercover mission with the Aurors. And then Harry doesn't come back. Only Draco believes that Harry isn't dead, and pours himself into finding his husband despite his friends' pleas to move on and grieve properly. What he finds at the end of that work, though, is not at all what he wanted.

you've got the antidote for me by Kandakicksass

Summary:

When Harry Potter unintentionally severs their soulbond before it can fully form, Draco Malfoy resigns himself to a slow death and decides not to burden Harry with a soulmate he's made it very clear he doesn't want. He's never been selfless before, but for Harry, he can try.

Way Down We Go by xiaq

Summary:

The war was over. Or at least that’s what the papers said. They’d been saying it, for months, as if people needed reminding. Maybe they did. *** In which Harry and Draco both run away from their pasts and conveniently choose to hide in the same tiny American town. It's super.

Variation by LowerEastSide

Summary:

Adaptation under isolation and domestication; characteristics both immutable and variable.   After suffering enormous losses, Draco Malfoy must now struggle to define his place in the post-war world. Through dashed hopes and changing fortunes, Draco carves out a new niche for himself. But adapting to life with Harry Potter may be the biggest challenge of all.

The Star Splitter by oflights

Summary:

On a routine time travel assignment to the past, Draco stumbles upon 7-year-old Harry Potter and witnesses his neglect and mistreatment by the Dursleys. In the moment, there is only one solution, even if it goes against all his training as a Time Agent: he has to bring Harry back to the future with him. In which Draco burns his life down for the sake of his former school rival.

It Was All Just a Game (Rewrite) by write_me227

Summary:

If there's one thing that Draco Malfoy yearns for, it's seeing Harry Potter in pain. How that happens, he doesn't care. When Potter's name is pulled out of the Goblet of Fire, Draco sees it as the perfect opportunity to fulfill his greatest desire. Except Saint Potter has luck swimming in his veins. He needs to be distracted... And the best way to do that is to make him fall in love.

The Man Who Lived by sebastianL (felix_atticus)

Summary:

Draco breaks a cup, and one thing leads to another. A story of redemption, tattoos, dreams, mistakes, green eyes, long conversations, and copious amounts of coffee. Set in New York twelve years after the war.

19 Years Later by ladyroxanne21

Summary:

Due to a previous agreement and a lack of communication, Draco realizes that Harry's cheating on him. He then has to decide if he wants to forgive Harry or leave him. But Harry's not about to let Draco go without fighting to stay together.

Chaos Theory by Tessa Crowley (tessacrowley)

Summary:

Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. One gene varies, one neuron fires, one butterfly flaps its wings, and Draco Malfoy's life is completely different. Draco has always found a certain comfort in chaos. Perhaps he shouldn't.

Recursion by Tessa Crowley (tessacrowley

Summary:

A process is recursive when it defines or contains itself; e.g., the Fibonacci sequence, which determines the next number as the sum of the previous two. But not all recursive processes are mathematical. Recursion can happen in a temporal context when, for instance, the powerful magical force that is true love drags you back in time so it can create itself, endangering the fate of the Wizarding World—not to mention the very fabric of space and time—along the way.

Grounds for Divorce by Tepre

Summary:

Malfoy finds a coin. Harry finds a letter. A story about histories, a story about families. A story about a lemon tree somewhere in Upper Egypt.

Soup-pocalypse and The Great Curry Cataclysm by SquadOfCats

Summary:

Eleven years after the war, Draco Malfoy leads a quiet, boring, and perfectly respectable life, thanks very much. Or, at least he does, until a sudden and very unexpected veela awakening causes him to throw soup all over Harry Potter in the middle of the Ministry cafeteria.

Stately Homes of Wiltshire by waspabi

Summary:

Malfoy Manor has mould, dry rot and an infestation of unusually historical poltergeists. Harry Potter is on the case.

Valebis by Heerayni

Summary:

Valebis or Farewell. For Draco, it is all that remains. Death is a reward to be earned. But every reward must be deserved and it seems there remains a final, cruellest test before the time for Valebis arrives. Shattered heart and soul, Draco knows there is one last thing he can give to the reason of his destruction, the saviour of the wizarding world : His Life. Veela!fic- NOW with Epilogue

Redeem Me by Samayel

Summary:

Two years after the events of Harry's sixth year at Hogwart's, Draco stumbles back into his life. Harry is a bitter and vengeful young man, Draco is a walking wreck...and who is helping who? (Explicit rating is for later chapters. This fic is HBP compliant with only very small adjustments to suit this plot.) OOC- is for semiDark!Harry.

If Wishes Were Children by oldenuf2nb

Summary:

Harry Potter has tried to move on with his life after Draco Malfoy walked away from him months before with little or no explanation, but it's been hard. Then, on a joyous day at the Burrow, Narcissa Malfoy makes an unexpected appearance...

All Our Secrets Laid Bare by firethesound

Summary:

Over the six years Draco Malfoy has been an Auror, four of his partners have turned up dead. Harry Potter is assigned as his newest partner to investigate just what is going on.

Kiss Me (Under the Light of a Thousand Stars) by Iwao

Summary:

Harry rescues Draco Malfoy from Azkaban, where he has been imprisoned for three years after the war. Draco is not as Harry remembers, as Azkaban leaves its mark on even the strongest of wizards. With no memory of who he was or how he came to be in Harry's care, Draco needs Harry's help if he is to have any hope of making a full recovery. But Harry has his own demons to fight and together with saving Draco, Harry must also discover a way to find himself.

You open always (petal by petal) by birdsofshore 

Summary:

Harry’s not the kind of person who pays for sex. He really isn’t. Until he is.

Of Wands and Trees by Omi_Ohmy

Summary:

All Draco wants to do is be a wandmaker, but to do so he needs to understand the soul of trees. Of course, the only man who might be able to help him is the one man who is more of a mystery to him than any tree.

In the Mirror by CorvetteClaire

Summary:

Draco is standing on the top of the North Tower with his wand pointed at Dumbledore. How in bleeding hell did he get here? An alternate version of Harry's Sixth Year at Hogwarts. Harry is intent on saving Draco from his father's machinations, but when Draco leaves Hogwarts, Harry can't protect him. And Voldemort has ways of forcing people to do his bidding.

The Fall of the Veils by lettered

Summary:

This is the fic where Muggles find out about wizards, wars are fought, Apparition is abolished, political conspiracies abound, Draco is asexual, and Harry has Legilimency sex with him.

The Voldemort Manor by kedavranox 

Summary:

The Malfoy Manor is a state run museum, renamed The Voldemort Manor by the Ministry for Magic. As part of his probation, Draco is assigned as sole caretaker. When the Manor hosts a series of high class events celebrating the Wizarding World’s fourth Yuletide season Post War, it brings with it a swathe of people Draco hasn’t seen in years; including one, Harry Potter.

A Big Black Sky by alexmeg

Summary:

Draco shifts his head as he turns to look at Scorpius, his cheek touching the pillow. "Did you know that…" He pauses, his throat convulsing, and it sounds audible in the silence, besides Michael's steady, even breathing from the other bedroom. Scorpius is staring back at him, in wait of something new to learn, a beautiful and intelligent child. He has Draco's mind. He has Draco's eyes and nose and mouth and hair. He is his. All his. All he has of Michael are his wild curls and the green of his eyes, and sometimes he looks into them and imagines that they aren't Michael's, but someone else's. Draco leans his head closer, biting the quiver out of his lips before he breathes a laden and shuddering exhale, and he whispers, "You are my star in a big black sky."

The Green Vial by eidheann for capitu

Summary:

After months of seeing Harry Potter walk into his Apothecary disappointed and hopeless, Draco offers to carry the baby that Harry can't. Now he's just got to hide the fact that he's been half in love with Harry for years.

Stain of Silence by brummell (actualite)

Summary:

After the war, Draco serves out his sentence in Harry Potter's house.

Accidental Magic by PenguinAnimagus

Summary:

After the war, Draco left the magical world. He doesn’t lead the easiest life, doesn't sleep enough and has another mouth to feed. He doesn’t expect to be forced to go back early, but when his son’s accidental magic threatens the Statute of Secrecy, there’s only one person who can help.

Is It True That You Like To Sleep Alone (or is it what you just tell everyone) by LadySlytherin

Summary:

In the wake of the war, Draco has worked hard to scrub the taint from his name. He is society's darling and he relishes the rewards that come with it. Not ready to settle down - and with no intention of ever marrying one of the young witches his parents keep trying to force on him - Draco is enjoying the freedom to sleep with whomever he wants, whenever he wants. When Draco finds out he's pregnant, and that the father could be one of three different men, he has to figure out what comes next. It could be a fairy tale come to life...or it could be the biggest scandal in the history of the Wizarding World. It's all in how Draco manages to spin it...

Draco Malfoy and the GenderBend Blend by pixiedunhoff

Summary:

Draco takes a liking to GenderBend Blend and goes out on Halloween, which leads to an encounter with Harry Potter.

Special Gifts by oldenuf2nb

Summary:

Ten years after a devastating accident costs Harry Potter the love of his life and leaves him with life altering injuries, he is asked to return to Hogwarts to help the child of an old friend, with the help of an old adversary.

That Which Divides Us by oldenuf2nb

Summary:

Three years after what would have been their seventh year at Hogwarts, the war between the forces of light and Voldemort's minions grinds on. But even within the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix there are vast disagreements over what is good for 'the Chosen One' and his volatile relationship with Draco Malfoy has many on edge. Sometimes even the best intentions can reap disaster.

la pesistencia de la memoria by ScorpioPhoenix 

Summary:

Harry loses 5 years of his memory and doesn't remember his relationship with Draco. Who ended up pregnant by a strange curse. Harry tries to re-live his past, as Draco fights to keep his present. But will their love win in the future?

Strawberry fields (bitter bites) by sirlivi

Summary:

There is a truth, generally accepted amongst wizarding society, that while an unmated Alpha may spend their rut with whomever their desires dictate, an unmated Omega must not …

Hospital Shirt by Aeliz

Summary:

Draco has spent over a decade building a life in America, when a mysterious patient in Britain falls ill. After a barrage of letters and requests, he finds himself forced home -- to save the life of one Harry Potter.

If stars died of old age by DefNotForWork

Summary:

His mother had had six months after his father had died. But it was expected; they had prepared and were already rather distanced. Draco hadn’t been ready, and Merlin, he had been so in love. He knew he was counting down in weeks, not months.

Telling the Bees by hiimcibee

Summary:

Scorpius’ body was found in Hogwarts one early morning.

In the Blood by BiscuitBrunch

Summary:

Harry Potter thinks Draco Malfoy is a slimy git of a defense lawyer, who couldn't care less about doing the right thing. Draco Malfoy thinks Harry Potter is a filthy pig of an Auror, who couldn't care less about doing the right thing. They fight, fuck, fall in love, and fight some more. When they're on the brink of getting their shit together and starting a family, a blood curse surfaces that threatens the lives of Draco and their unborn child.

Eight Days A Week by Romaine

Summary:

This is foremost a love story and second it's about those growing up years. Becoming adults with adult lives and adult decisions. Yes, Harry's a Trainee-Auror and Draco's a Healer-in-Training after the war. Yes, Harry eventually moves into 12 Grimmauld Place. And, yes, attraction happens between Harry and Draco and they fall in love, but then there's more. Draco is now free from Voldemort, free from fear of going to Azkaban, free from his Father's beliefs, and free to be the person, the witch, the woman she always felt she should be. And for Harry, it’s time to lose the shackles of his childhood and discover who he really is and what’s truly important in life. This story begins one year or so after the Battle at Hogwarts and follows their relationship faithfully for two years. The final chapter will take place later in their lives. This is a positive transition story without body dysphoria, but will contain moments where prejudice and slights arise. This story is categorized as M/F.

Jolene by Romaine

Summary:

Harry comes back from a mandatory holiday and finds that an Auror raid on his favourite establishment could expose his biggest secret. However, another has even more secrets than he does at stake. - has a sequel, Jolene Deux

Tooth Rot and Chocolate Cake by Anonymous

Summary:

Draco Malfoy has an eating disorder that has gotten progressively worse throughout the years. No one knows how bad it truly is. No one, except Harry Potter, who catches Draco head in the toilet, hands halfway down his throat, purging his brains out - not once, but twice.

The Songbirds of Avebury Manor by Tessa Crowley

Summary:

Harry Potter presents as alpha at fifteen, and it is supposed to change his life for the better. Instead, it leads him to a beautiful noble omega he cannot have, a political plot he cannot escape, and a threat on his life.

Blood Link by CorvetteClaire

Summary:

It is Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, and Voldemort has returned to full power. The Death Eaters assault the castle and lay siege to it, injuring Draco and trapping the students inside. Chaos and much angst ensue.

Double Edged Sword by Romaine

Summary:

Harry thinks his life has been planned out, but the night he comes of age changes everything. Now there are decisions to be made and a path to be chosen, and the choices before him will change the lives of everyone he knows. But when destiny calls, Harry finds himself ready to listen.

This is an epic story of the love between Harry and Draco. Join them as they journey through their life together, through the good times and the bad, facing obstacles both external and internal, and see how they come to be who they were meant to be

Turn by Saras_Girl

Summary:

One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.

All Life is Yours to Miss by Saras_Girl

Summary:

Professor Malfoy's world is contained, controlled, and as solitary as he can make it, but when an act of petty revenge goes horribly awry, he and his trusty six-legged friend are thrown into Hogwarts life at the deep end and must learn to live, love and let go. Stanley!!

Alucinatio by alexmeg

Summary:

"It's... it's not good," Harry tells them lowly. "They've given him a month's time, only." There is so much he needs to explain, but his head is foggy and exhausted and he can't think properly, can't think of how to relay all that he's learned. "Have you heard of Alucinatio?" is what he starts with. "The Daydream potion," Hermione says. "The person who intakes it experiences very vivid and realistic daydreams of all they could ever want, but is essentially in a severely catatonic state out in the external world, incapable of any basic functions." Harry nods. "Somebody's given it to Malfoy." He remembers the tattered remains of a black cloak wrapped around Malfoy. "I think it might have been Professor Snape." They take a minute to process that. "And... the cure?" Ron asks. "Tears of anyone the experiencer craves love of," Hermione answers.

The Lily Spell by pickledghost

Summary:

Harry Potter is one of the most handsome and sought after alphas on the Hogwarts Higher Education Programme. Draco Malfoy on the other hand, is the Seventh Year omega son of deceased Death Eaters and is widely ignored and shunned by his peers. Harry doesn’t even know Draco exists until he discovers that the younger boy is pregnant with his baby thanks to a spell gone wrong.

[tisayemate]

Finding Your Sky

Ron Weasley x Gryffindor! Reader Comfort Summary: When Ron Weasley feels down about his studies and his fallout with Hermione, a quiet Gryffindor steps in to help him regain his confidence, leading to a renewed friendship. AN: I just watched The Wild Robot, so I got inspired to write this

This fic was inspired by:

The library was eerily quiet, the kind of stillness that amplified the rustling of pages and the tapping of quills. Ron Weasley slumped at a table, surrounded by heaps of parchment and dusty textbooks. The dim light from the enchanted candles overhead cast shadows across his face, highlighting the furrow in his brow.

It had been a rough few weeks. The fallout with Hermione still weighed heavily on him, and his grades were slipping. He felt like he was losing ground—not just in his studies but in his friendships too. Harry was preoccupied with Quidditch practice and trying to keep up with his own studies, leaving Ron feeling more alone than ever.

“Blimey, Ron, you look like you’ve just seen a Boggart,” Harry remarked as he walked past, tossing a friendly grin his way. Ron offered a half-hearted smile in return, but it didn't reach his eyes.

“Thanks, mate,” he muttered, looking down at his notes. But he couldn’t shake the feeling that he was drowning in a sea of self-doubt.

Just then, a soft voice interrupted his thoughts. “Hey, Ron.” It was a Gryffindor girl from his year, a quiet one he had never really spoken to much. He recognized her from classes and had seen her in the common room, often lost in her books. She had a kind smile and an air of calm that intrigued him.

“Hi,” he replied, trying to mask his misery.

“You seem... I don’t know, a bit off,” she said, her tone gentle. “Everything okay?”

Ron shrugged, pushing his hair back in frustration. “Just trying to study for Potions. It’s a mess. Hermione’s... well, she’s not talking to me. I just feel like I’m failing at everything.”

She took a seat across from him, her eyes bright with understanding. “It’s normal to struggle, especially with everything going on. If you’d like, I could help you study? I know Potions can be tricky.”

Ron hesitated, feeling a twinge of embarrassment. “I don’t want to burden you.”

“You’re not a burden,” she insisted, leaning forward earnestly. “And I want to help. Everyone needs a little support now and then.”

His heart softened at her sincerity. “Alright, then. I could use the help.”

With that, they dove into his notes, her gentle guidance bringing clarity to the complicated theories of potion-making. Ron found himself relaxing in her presence, her laughter bubbling up over their shared frustrations and the absurdity of Snape’s assignments. It felt good to be reminded that he wasn’t alone in his struggles.

As they worked, he noticed her eyes sparkle with excitement when she explained a particularly tricky potion. “You see, when you add the powdered Dragon Liver at just the right moment, it creates a reaction that enhances the entire mixture!”

For the first time in ages, Ron felt a flicker of hope. “Really? I didn’t know that. You’re amazing at this!”

She blushed slightly, her cheeks tinged with pink. “Thanks! You just needed a different perspective, that’s all.”

Their laughter echoed softly in the library, and Ron could feel the weight of his worries lifting. By the end of their study session, he felt more confident, like he could actually face the challenges ahead.

“See? You’re not failing, Ron. You just needed someone to remind you how brilliant you really are,” she said with a smile.

“Yeah, well, it helps to have someone like you around,” he replied, feeling a warmth spread through him.

As they packed up their things, Ron couldn’t shake the feeling that something had shifted. He wanted to include her in his world, to share that renewed confidence. “You know, Harry and Hermione are always looking for new friends in our group. You should join us sometime. I think you’d fit right in.”

Her eyes widened in surprise, and she smiled. “Really? I’d love that!”

“Great! We can sit together at the Great Hall tomorrow, and I’ll tell them all about your awesome Potions skills,” he said, his excitement bubbling over.

The next day, Ron introduced her to Harry and Hermione. To his relief, they welcomed her with open arms, and he couldn’t help but feel proud to have her by his side.

As they laughed and shared stories, Ron felt lighter, his confidence soaring higher than ever. He glanced at the girl beside him, her presence a comforting anchor in the whirlwind of his emotions.

Later, as the sun began to set, casting a warm glow over the castle, Ron and his new friend walked outside, the golden light illuminating the path ahead. He took a deep breath, feeling the cool air fill his lungs.

“Thank you for everything,” he said, glancing over at her. “You really helped me see things differently.”

She smiled, her eyes sparkling with warmth. “Just remember, Ron, no matter how tough it gets, you have the power to rise above it. Kiss the sky, and don’t let anyone keep you down.”

In that moment, Ron felt something shift within him—a sense of belonging, a feeling that maybe he could conquer the challenges ahead, not just in his studies, but in his life as well.

And as he stood there, looking up at the expansive sky, he realized that this was just the beginning of something beautiful. With newfound confidence and a supportive friend by his side, he was ready to embrace whatever came next.

[girl-named-matty]

Do you have any headcanons for Professor Fig, including what his Boggart would be?

Random Professor Fig headcanons by me!

Professor Fig, we all love him! 

I’m pretty sure it's safe to say that he was definitely a father figure to MC in the time that they were together. 

He never had any kids himself but MC was like his kid. 

He and Mariam met in school and he most definitely fell first. Her intelligence and beauty is what drew him in. 

Mariam was aware of his feelings for her and thought it was the cutest thing ever, joking about it... until she fell in love with him too.

He is a Gryffindor. 

He's a half-blood.

He taught Magical Theory at Hogwarts.

I feel like he’s definitely the kind of guy to get to know his students really well. Always the professor you could come to if you had any problems. 

As for his line of work after school, it is said he abandoned a career at the Ministry of Magic to follow Mariam in her journeys. So I assume he was trying to get into the Department of Magical Law Enforcement or the Department of International Magical Operation. 

And from him leaving a career for Mariam, we can only assume he was a great husband. 

He’s a very caring person with a strong moral compass. 

Although I HC that he and Mariam probably snuck out a few times during their school years (lol) 

Always had a picture of Mariam on him, he’d look at it almost every single day especially after his death. 

His favorite classes when he was in school were probably Magical Theory, Defense Against the Dark Arts, or Divination. 

Although he disliked the History of Magic class due to the rambling, he really enjoys the subject in itself and is very well versed in it. 

As for his Boggart, this one’s a bit tricky. I see him as a guy who would be really close to his family and it would probably have to do with losing one of them or maybe it had to do with an experience he had as a teenager. 

And since fears change as you get older and you change, I feel like after his marriage to Mariam, his boggart would probably be losing her. 

Sucks that that one became true :(

He definitely seems like he’s the oldest sibling. Has more sisters than he does brothers. 

#1 women respecter. 

I feel like he’d get along really well with Professor Weasley and Professor Onai. All of them have some sort of child/child figure/child in their family and so they’re kinda like the Hogwarts parent trio ™ 

[sitp-recs]

Do you fics that portray Harry as academic/"book smart" or that are not focused on Harry being a man of action/ physically powerful wizard? I crave a trope reversal :)

Hi anon! Ohhh that’s a great one, I’d love to see more academic/researcher Harry in fic. I got a couple recs for you, you might also enjoy my rec list with odd jobs :)

Forget Our Heritage by dwell_the_brave (T, 16k)

When Harry Potter returns to England to take the All Souls Fellowship Examinations, the last person he expects to see in Oxford is Draco Malfoy. After all these years, has Malfoy truly changed?

Faint Indirections by ignatiustrout (T, 30k)

Draco Malfoy is the last person Harry expects to turn up in Boston, Massachussetts. But now he's here, and he won't stop requesting books from the library where Harry works.

The Unplottable Time Conundrum by @writcraft (E, 45k)

When the past starts bleeding into the present at Grimmauld Place, an old academic article pulls Draco Malfoy out of his life of luxury. Haunted by the memory of a fleeting post-war kiss and thrust into the ghostly spaces inhabited by Unspeakable Harry Potter, Draco’s easy life is about to get a whole lot more complicated.

Among Ancient Pines by @graymatters (M, 74k)

Every day, Draco Malfoy tries. With every fiber of his being he tries. But he doesn’t much think about what he’s trying for. In his final term of Healer training, Draco is unfortunate enough to find himself on a plane, the only means of traveling to a small, magical town in rural Alaska. Years of hard work have culminated in an opportunity to work with an experimental wandmaker to study the intersection of Healing and wand theory. When Draco arrives, he doesn't find the wandmaker, but does find his apprentice, who happens to have ridiculously messy hair, a lightning bolt scar, and a definitely-not-charming smile.

Azoth by @lol-zeitgeistic (E, 88k)

Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait? Harry has no idea; he’s too busy trying not to be in love with Malfoy to care.

[wafflinglumos]

A deep dive into Severus Snape.

CW: child abuse and neglect, death eater activities, things of the like, vague mention of adults being creepy to minors

(This will follow the books and maybe some parts of the movies, I’m going to put away my own personal biases for this one lol. This isn’t Snape slander or me being pro Snape, rather a deep dive into his character and whether or not I think he can be “redeemed”. This took a long time to write and i tried to be as unbiased as possible so, hopefully this is good, though some of this might read as slander, it’s not my intention)

Morally grey characters are loved throughout all types of fandom and media, which makes sense, they’re interesting, fun to look into, sometimes they’re even better than the main character, however with Harry Potter and the Marauders fandom specifically, these morally grey characters have been changed into “good” characters, so I’ll be looking into whether these characters can be called “good” or “morally grey”, or if they’re just irredeemable.

Severus Snape is probably one of the most controversial characters in both Harry Potter and Marauders fandom, Snape has been called everything under the sun, evil, a hero, a creep, for some reason some people think that if Harry would’ve looked like Lily and been a girl that he would’ve been a creep, however, was he any of these?

Severus Snape’s childhood; Severus was an only child to pureblood Eileen Snape(née Prince) and muggle Tobias Snape, he lived near the Evans’ but in a poorer area, his appearance was scruffy and his clothes were hand me downs, in the books it’s mentioned that he wore long sleeves, heavy clothing even in hot weather which could elude to him trying to cover up bruising, in Pottermore it is mentioned that he had a “desperately lonely and unhappy childhood, with a harsh father who didn’t hold back when it came to the whip”, so if you consider Pottermore canon, then this would further push the physical abuse theory, however even without that, we know that Snape was neglected.

He met Lily Evans at nine, the two became bestfriends after that, while Petunia did not like Severus, Lily did. Their friendship continued into Hogwarts where Severus was sorted into Slytherin and Lily was sorted into Gryffindor, their friendship however grew strained due to Snape’s association to dark magic and Death Eaters/blood supremacists, during this time, a rivalry was formed with James Potter, some argue it was bullying, which it was, however, in my personal opinion it was a rivalry with JAMES, but became bullying when the Marauders got involved, to be clear it was bullying, there is simply not an argument to say it wasn’t, it was 4 vs 1, which is simply bullying. Snape and Lily’s friendship fin fifth year was already rocky due to Snape’s association with aspiring Death Eaters Mulciber and Avery, the former of which had tried to use dark magic on Mary MacDoanld in either their fifth or sixth year, but the ending of their friendship was in fifth year, where Lily had tried to defend him from James after a rather nasty “prank”, where in Severus’ humiliation he lashed out and called her “filthy Mudblood”. He later begged for Lily’s forgiveness, where Lily asked him if he was still planning on joining the Death Eaters, he did not deny this, which marked the ending of their friendship.

Snape during Hogwarts was still redeemable, however, when it gets to adulthood, he’s harder to defend. Severus treated Harry like shit, you can argue that Harry was the byproduct of everything that Snape couldn’t stand, James Potter and Lily’s lack of romantic interest in him, however, people have argued over Snape’s treatment of Harry and there are much more articulate arguments for and against his action when it came to Harry, so I’m going to look into Severus’ other actions.

Snape and Neville; Snape’s treatment of Neville was abhorrent in all sense of the word, he treated him so terribly that he was Neville’s boggart, not Bellatrix who was directly responsible for taking his parents away, but his potions professor. Furthermore, Snape’s lack of care for Trevor was a shit thing for him to do, even more so when he got upset at Hermione for trying to make sure Neville didn’t POISON his pet.

Snape and Hermione; Snape was incredibly cruel to Hermione, we see this when he calls her an “insufferable know-it-all with a really bad set of teeth”, he also called her an “insufferable know-it-all’ again after she answered a question that HE asked, we also see this when Draco accidentally hexes Hermione instead of Harry which made her teeth grow over a foot long, when asking Snape for help, Snape remarked that he “saw no difference”.

Along with his favoritism for Slytherin, Severus was simply a bully. However, he did various acts of good, he saved Harry during quidditch, he saved the trio from Death Eater, he, though begrudgingly helped Harry try to block Voldemort from his mind, he saved Draco from bleeding out, and in his final moments he told Harry all the truths that Dumbledore kept from him.

So, is Snape a hero, is he a villain, is he somewhere in between, is he even redeemable? Well, no and yes. Severus Snape is textbook definition of morally grey character, with a whole list of flaws, and a whole lists of positives, Severus Snape was not a good person, but he was not not a good person either.

Severus Snape is a morally grey character, and is he of the more fascinating characters of the series, I’d say this, in my personal opinion is what makes him irredeemable AND redeemable. Snape could’ve been redeemed, the issue is his “redemption arc” was not a redemption arc, controversial take, sure, but there was not enough time for him to have a FULL redemption arc, if you wanna argue that he had a redemption arc when it came to him being a spy for Dumbledore and technically saving Harry, I’d have to agree and disagree, Snape at most had a “semi redemption arc’’, his actions and shit behavior towards Neville, Harry, Hermione etc etc, was not redeemed, not only because it could not be redeemed, but also because he did not have enough TIME to redeem it. If Snape would’ve lived longer, I think an attempt at a better redemption could have been made, but he did not.

That’s just my view of his character however, whether you love him or hate him, both are understandable. My conclusion however is he wasn’t good or bad. Hopefully it was unbiased, as I tried to make it as such.