#c: peter pettigrew

[messervixen]

Happy birthday to James Potter. You would have loved cheesy extravagant promposals <3

[sleepershell]

Some General Marauders Era Headcanons

NOT canon compliant (I don’t care about jk shitface’s canon lol)

Regulus Black (the main character as far as I’m concerned)

~ French, I mean cmon the Black family motto is toujours pur for gods sake. He absolutely speaks French. Other than that, they can be traced to German (Walburga’s side) and English heritage.

~cis bi boy (sapiosexual?)

~ c-ptsd, depression

~ messy curly medium-length hair, long nimble fingers, one of those people with a few lovely moles in choice locations, slutty waist, angular jaw, kind of set in eyes, not tall but a bit taller than Sirius

~ most dogs freak him out (lol oof)

Sirius Black

~ french (& English, German) ofc.

~ amab queer, omnisexual mlm

~c-ptsd, adhd

~ wavy long black hair, also a slutty waist, not very tall, squinty eyes, latently a little muscular

~ big believer in a leather jacket

James Potter

~ I stan desi Potter. But also love the idea of Euphemia being Greek per her name so Jamie boy is part Greek and part Pakistani on Fleamont’s side. He only speaks English but has some terms and things from both Greek and Hindi.

~ cis bi guy

~adhd

~ needs glasses ofc, I imagine he’s super nearsighted.

~ super messy hair, lean and muscular, medium tall

~ red converse wearer

Remus Lupin

~ Welsh, English, and Portuguese. He speaks only English.

~ amab, queer, demisexual?

~ anxiety

~ chronic pain from wolf injuries

~ scarred all over, light brown hair, tan, he’s the tallest, skinny but not lacking muscle, limps sometimes and often needs to stretch his sore muscles, hairy!!

~ always wearing a sweater

Peter Pettigrew

~ English & German. Speaks English.

~ cis, bi

~ anxiety, definitely does self-soothing movements

~ fat !! no skinny wormtail in this house, wavy blonde hair, the cutest cheeks known to man, callouses on his hands and no one can figure out why

~ asthma

~ loves naps

Pandora Rosier

~ Another family who absolutely must be fluent French speakers. So I think they have some Afro-Caribbean on one side and the other is very much originally French. Speaks English and French.

~ cis fem, pansexual, demiromantic

~ autistic

~ hair is super light blonde and looooong in dreads, light blue eyes, brown skin, quite tall and thin, all her features are super delicate and lithe, she’s kind of otherworldly tbh but she certainly doesn’t act so she’s got quite the mad scientist competitive streak

~ amazing at charms

Evan Rosier

~ Afro-Caribbean, French, English. Speaks English and French.

~ he/they, omnisexual (and by that I mean he fucks everyone ha-hey)

~ super light blonde hair either cropped or in a protective style, brown skin, light brown eyes, braces, dead average build, but still suave af don’t be mistaken everyone wants this kid, not hairy

Lily Evans

~ English and Scottish, speaks English.

~ cis gal, questioning but likely demisexual

~ fat!!, straight-ish red hair ofc, freckles, green eyes, cute small chubby hands, radiant smile

Barty Crouch Jr.

~ English, speaks English and all curse words in every language he could get people to teach them in.

~ queer amab bisexual

~ I won’t begin to try to dissect the workings of Barry’s brain but depression could be a start

~ eidetic memory

~ needs reading glasses? but like most of the time they’re not on him or they’re broken. so he just like uses his crazy big brain to just remember stuff or else he mostly never reads outside of studying times

~ brown hair but whenever he gets the chance he buzzes or dyes it green for fun, stick and pokes and self done piercings, tall but not Remus tall, lean muscular, hairy ass legs

Dorcas Meadowes

~ Ethiopian and English. Speaks English.

~ cis girl, sapphic

~ dark skin, black hair often in long braids, dark eyes, athletic curvy build, long fingers

~ literally prodigy herbologist, also amazing at potions and divination

Marlene McKinnon

~ Filipino!!!!!!!!!!!! speaks English and Filipino (maybe some of another regional language of the Philippines).

~ cis girl, sapphic

~ adhd, depression

~ lactose intolerant

~ short queen, freckles, dyed blonde but def experiments with color and cut, usually straight or a little wavy, muscular but it doesn’t really show she just seems kinda thin, some stick and pokes, several ear piercings

~ wears red cowboy boots, studded belts, low rise, cut up t shirts, hats

Mary Macdonald

~ Brazilian on one side and South African & English on the other. Speaks English and Portuguese.

~ cis girl, bisexual

~ ehler’s danlos syndrome

~ wears her dark hair natural curly, curvy, average height, belly button pierced, huge gorgeous smile, adorable button nose

lol

Severus Snape

~English and Polish. Speaks English.

~ cis, hetero

~ depression, anxiety

~ straight long black hair, pale, Remus tall, fairly average weight, dark eyes, strong nose

~wears mostly black

~ amazing at potions

[fractured-hq]

PETER PETTIGREW

Age & Birthday:  September 1959 - August 1960

Gender & Pronouns: Cis Male, He/Him

Blood status: Up to player.

Sided: Death Eater/Order Member

Occupation:  Up to player.

Face Claim: Up to player.

ABOUT THE CHARACTER

SCHOOL

School: Hogwarts.

House: Gryffindor.

Extra curricular: Up to player.

Quidditch: Add position and years. 

BIO

GROWING UP

Up to player

START OF THE WAR

Up to player

PRESENT TIME

Up to player

CONNECTIONS

Marauders: Former friends before the betrayal.

Things to consider:

Peter betrayed the Order and pushed them to go into battle with the Death Eaters, even if it wasn’t for Harry Potter’s life. 

Peter is currently OPEN and played by PLAYER.

[sayssnape]

(peter complaining that snape is mean to him)

voldemort: wormtail, surely you are mistaken. severus is too honourable to insult you so. right, severus?

snape, flicking pettigrew off behind voldemorts back: never, my lord. i truly admire your minion.

peter: ...

snape, mouthing: f u c k y o u

[andromeda---tonks]

The saviour with regrets

I’m thinking of writing a new book but I want to see if anyone would actually read it. Below is the prologue. The story is on my Wattpad.

On the 31 July 1980 James Potter and Lily Potter nee Evans welcomed a set of twins into the world. A busy St. Mungos was crowded, the friends of the Potters and Longbottom's were all in the waiting room. Sirius wails to Remus about the gender. Peter's hands were placed on his shaking legs. His arm aching terribly, he couldn't control the grunt of discomfort until it was too late.

Sirius stopped his wails for a moment much to Remus' pleasure “You ok there Wormtail”.

“Yeh, just nerves I think Pads”. Came a grunted reply.

 Sirius never got the chance to answer as James Potter burst into the waiting room. Head shooting towards Remus and Sirius “Both both of you were right. Come meet your niece and nephew”.

The Quartet of friends made their way to room 201 where Lily Potter was lying down, a shine to her forehead but never mind that in her arms were small bundles. 2 to be in fact. James dragged Remus, Sirius and Peter to the left side of the bed where there was no medical equipment. 

“Meet Harry and Anastasia Potter”, Lily stated calmly as to not wake the 2 sleeping babies, as quiet as she was Harry awoke, his green eyes showcasing. He moved his arms which disturbed the figure wrapped in the rose pink bundle. Anastasia woke with a yawn showcasing her hazel eyes with dilated pupils.

Lily handed them to James, who put them in the bassinets, and propped herself up. “Remus, will you be Anastasia's godfather and Sirius you Harry’s.” Unamused Peter glared at Lily and James which went unnoticed as Remus and Sirius bombarded them both, careful with Lily. “Peter”, James finally spoke up “you can be the godfather to the next bunch”. Peter flinched; there would be no next bunch.

A year later 31 October 1981

James heard a knock on the door passing Harry to Lily and balancing Anastasia on his hip he shouted just one moment. 

“Lily love, go put Harry down for a nap, I'll be there with Anna in a minute.”

James walked to the door while prying Anna's fist out of her mouth.

Opening the door of the cottage let a guts of cold air in. Anna shivered though wrapped in a blanket. Peter was standing there, a figure behind him wearing a black cloak.

James suddenly remembered Dumbledore warning “your children are being targeted by Voldemort, the reason why we don't know but i suggest you live under the concealment of magic, tell only your closest friends”. Why had this memory flashed back to James he did not know but he felt like it was a warning. Anna squirmed on his hip, he looked down at her to hush her but then noticed a wand pointed directly at him from the stranger's cloak. Gripping the want was a pale almost blue hand. James knew who it was at that moment having played a part in the first wizarding war. Positing Anna so she would not fall when he ran, he decided his next decision. He pressed his tattoo that matched with Lily’s. A warning of potential death. They got it for this situation after Dumbledore warning, James shaped like a stag with the letters AHL underneath. Lily’s was a doe, with the same letters under the doe. When he heard scrambling upstairs he knew she had got the warning. The wand in Voldemort's hand had risen higher. James knew at this moment he had to run, for his family. Voldemort pushed Pettigrew as James turned and ran. James ran through the living room and up the oak stairs. He pushed a hall table over to buy his time. Anna was on his hip, screaming as though she knew. 

“Da da” a smile appeared on James's face, his baby girl's first word. He saw the light before he heard the words.

“Avada kedavra” he felt his hip sink, a face squash into the side of his torso. He felt Anastasia Potter die. James screamed, for his baby. The smirk from Voldemort's face fell as he felt himself become weaker James noticed out of the corner of the glazed over eyes. Voldemort stumbled, hand gripping the side of the wall for balance. Now it made sense for Voldemort to try to target his children, James realised his children could weaken Voldemort. 

As though he came back to reality a green flash of light illuminated the hall. Then James felt a pain in his lower back. He fell, his arms still wrapped around dear Anna. That was the moment James Potter took his last breath.

Voldemort stumbled over James Potter and his daughter. Heading to the room where he heard scream come from as James Potter screamed. Lily Potter no doubt knew her daughter was dead. Another scream had reached across the hall and onto the stairwell when James Potter's body fell making a table fall in the process. Voldemort now knew where Lily and Harry Potter were hidden. Opening the door the hood of his cloak lowered he saw a mother standing in front of her child. 

“Let me have the boy, Lily” a deep voice echoed across the room. Deep down Voldemort knew his follower Snape had a desire for this mudblood to be his. 

“NO, take me please, not Harry!” Already fed up with the pleading, Voldemort flicked his wand in Lilys direction. This killing curse felt the same as James Potters had, it did not drain him, unlike the half blooded now dead baby. Voldemort paced towards the crib where Harry Potter sat, eyes glazing over from the noise of the commotion. Voldemort yet again flicked his wand of the last of the Potters. To him time went in slow motion. The flick of his wand drained his energy just as much as the baby girl had. His pronunciation of the curse was sloppy as he couldn't get words out right. Finally the green light emitted towards the boy, casting shadows over the nursery. It hit the boy but reflected, similar to what the girls had done but the girl absorbed it as well as his energy. The boy however reflected the curse. The last thing in Voldemort's eyes was a 1 year old's eyes glazed over and a green light reflecting off his irises. 

Peter was still positioned next to the door where his lord had pushed him. He heard James cry out Anna's name in agony, Lily pleading for Harry's life. It failed. He gathered the courage to step inside the house to see if Voldemort needed anything. He heard crying. Not that of a man but that of 2 babies. He trudged up the steep stairs of Godric's Hollow and there he saw Anna. Grabbing her away from James Potter arms he cradled her. Stepping over his first friend's corpse, he made his way into the nursery. A black cloak on the ground, which was worn by Voldemort. He looked at Harry and saw a lightning bolt mark on his forehead, blood rising to the surface. He felt blood seep onto his hand where he was holding Anna. Setting her down on the nappy changer he took the baby bodysuit off as Lily had once instructed him to do. He peeled off the bodysuit and inspected Anna's back. On her back was a lightning bolt scar that covered the whole expanse of the back and wound round her neck. Peter assumed the curse must have still been hitting her when her body had gone limp, explaining why the scar was bigger than Harrys. Knowing she needed medical help more than Harry, Peter made a decision that would change the fate of the Potter twins forever. 

Peter buttoned up the baby bodysuit and when it was on Anna headed towards the fireplace, leaving Harry in the nursery. He flooded to his late fathers home, which was located near a hospital. Peter reached the house and took Anna Potter towards the hospital. Knowing Anna was losing blood quickly he ran. He ran and when at the hospital handed Anna to a Paramedic that was heading into the hospital. Peter kept his head bowed.

“She's an orphan, treat her and take her to Wool's Orphanage. Hurry shes losing to much blood”

With that Peter ran, across the road and into an Alleyway. From there he apparated towards Malfoy manor to share the news that Lord Voldemort is dead.

Sirius Black arrived at Godric's Hollow to celebrate Harry and Anna's first Halloween. He noticed something was off right away. The door swung open. Curious Sirius walked towards the stairs because Harry and Anna would be having a nap before they went out trick or treating. He saw the table flipped. But continued past it knowing how James liked to prank. He crossed the corner and saw James lying on the floor not breathing. A boggart surely. 

“Riddikulus”. James didn't move. James didn't turn into anything funny. Sirius ran towards James and checked for a pulse. There was none. Sirius ran towards the nursery. Lily was on the floor. Sirius ran towards Lily and checked for a pulse again there was none. He saw blood on the floor dripping from the nappy changer. All he saw on the surface was Anna's bobble. A wail erupted from behind him. Harry Potter sat in his crib, a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. ‘Where's anna?!’ Sirius realised she was not there. He ran towards Lily Potter to gather memories of where Anna was. He then ran towards James Potter to do the same action. After gathering the memories he placed them in 2 vials. His best friends were dead, his godson alive but scarred, Anna was missing. Sirius let out an earth shattering scream beside the body of James Potter. As Sirius fell limp against James the vials shattered.  

Remus Lupin arrived at Godric's Hollow to celebrate Harry and Anna's first Halloween with Sirius, Peter and the Potters. He noticed something was off right away. The door was wide open. All of a sudden Remus heard an earth shattering scream. Altered Remus quickly apparated to the Longbottom's who were part of order of the phoenix. Rushing he told them the situation and told them to gather all the members and meet at Godric's Hollow.  

Wand drawn Remus walked around the bottom floor before continuing upstairs, an old habit of the war. After scanning the bottom floor he heard the floo in the living room go off. Pacing towards the living room he saw all members of the phoenix except Sirius. Remus relayed the situation this time to a group of people and told them to follow him in case the intruder was still in the building. First, he saw the table flipped. But continued past it. He crossed the corner and saw James lying on the floor not breathing. Remus heard several gasps behind him but he was concentrating on the figure crouching over James. 2 figures pushed past him to haul the figure up and it was at that moment Remus knew betrayal. Sirius Black was hauled up from his position over James. Remus could not believe it, his best friend was a traitor. 

Remus stayed in his position for several minutes until Albus Dumbledore broke him out of his trance. “Sirius Black is being taken to Azkaban as we speak for betraying the Potters to Voldemort, there is no trial necessary as the memories from the group are good enough. Lilly is dead, Harry has survived the killing curse though. Longbottom went through Harry's memories when he realised Harry was alive. It was blurry and disfigured but it showed Voldemort wearing a long cloak killing Lily and trying to kill harry. Voldemort is dead. When the curse hit Harry it reflected back. I suggest you try not to speak in favour of Sirius, you will be seen as a traitor. It was confirmed tonight that Sirius also killed Peter Pettigrew and 12 other muggles. Anastasia Potter is also missing. We will be conducting a search for her tomorrow. Get some rest Remus.”

6 years later

“As Minister of Magic I call the search and rescue off for Anastasia Potter. She is presumed dead. On Tuesday there is to be a funeral for her. She will be buried next to her parents Lily and James Potter.” 

Remus cried that day, he was at the Weasley’s after they convinced him to spend time socializing especially after a death confirmed. “No, NO. I promised Lily and James I would look after her,” Remus sobbed.

Remus cried for Anna and for Harry. Harry didn't even know he had a sister. His ‘family’ wouldn't let anyone tell him his sister is dead or even that he had a sister.

So this is the prologue, let me know if you like it.

[buttercupbuckk]

MARAUDERS

HEADCANON:

Heya peeps. I got bored and I'm in a marauder-ing mood, so, here you go! I hope you enjoy.

SIRIUS BLACK:

Fluent in French, but it's his first language so he often gets words muddled when he speaks English - he has to look to Moony too often for help.

He didn't eat ice cream until 3rd year - on their first weekend at Honeydukes.

Sirius regretted to inform the boys that he was lactose intolerant, he claimed: 'how was i supposed to know?', to which Prongs replied: 'ice CREAM, Pads, CREAM!'

In 5th year, he started buying two Gryffindor Quidditch jumpers every term, because he knew how often Moony wore his old ones on the night after full moons.

He can't cook for shit - do not let that man near a kitchen, damnit. He set the fridge on fire the first time he went to Peter's house!

He has glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to the top of his bed in the dorm.

He LOVES fluffy stuff. He has fluffy socks, blankets, pillows, ect.

Stabbed himself in the eye with Andromeda's eyeliner pencil - it's why he refuses to wear the stuff.

Didn't know any normal swears until 1st year - when he met Remus Lupin.

Has and will dare Peter to eat a whole pot of gravy from the kitchens.

When Remus became a Prefect, he would sneak into the bathroom to take bubble baths.

Asked Dumbledore out on a date on a dare, the man winked and said: 'maybe next time.'

Has broken a total of four (4) pairs of James' glasses.

The Potter's absolutely adore him

He broke his ankle trying to climb a tree in 6th year because Wormtail was stuck and too scared to come down.

Buried his mother's favourite china plate in the garden before he ran away

His first tattoo was a moon that was enchanted to show the phases of each night - so he would never forget, no matter how far he went

Despite his Animagi form being a dog - his Patronus was a wolf; which got a few giggles from James and Peter

HE'S A BLUSHER

REMUS LUPIN:

He is, without a shadow of a doubt, Welsh. But he stopped speaking infront of the boys when James repeatedly asked him to say the names of some towns.

He only speaks Welsh when he gets angry, and this happens at least once every 2 months.

He spent the first 3 weeks of first year wondering why they used such stupid words for passwords

For ages 5 to 9, he wanted to be a Hufflepuff because he adores Newt Scamander.

By the way, he would risk his life for Newt Scamander

He introduced the boys to Queen, Star Wars and Elton John

He can't actually eat chocolate, so his comfort food is macaroni & cheese OR garlic bread, but never together

Fucking hates jigsaws - he nearly killed Peter when he suggested they do one.

He knows full well that Sirius abuses his privileges as prefects - but he never bothers to say anything

He taught James and Sirius how to swear, well it was more like they picked it up from him.

He has a radar for when the other 3 do stupid shit without him

He didn't know the boys were going to become animagi

He found out when he saw Padfoot on his bed, fast asleep. He thought: 'who's dog is this?', before he noticed a little scar on his snout - exactly the same to one Sirius had on his nose.

The first time the boys were with him on the full moon, was the first time it wasn't mentally painful.

He's actually terrible at Scrabble - but don't tell James.

C A N D L E S

Taught himself how to braid hair for Lily and Sirius.

He's scared shirtless of snakes - it's why he screamed in first year when he saw Slytherin decorations.

Minerva McGonagall is his role model.

Has a scar on his bum from when Prongs had to shove him with his antlers to calm him down on a full moon. Sirius still laughs at them.

JAMES POTTER:

He knows how to make daisy chains, and he loves to do them in summer

He can't swim properly - the best you get out of him is a funky dive and a pathetic float

Cried when Darth Vader revealed himself to be Luke Skywalker's dad.

Dyed his hair purple once in 7th year - didn't change it until Lily pushed him into the Great Lake, threatening to make him do extra Head Boy meetings

He enjoys cleaning, he finds it destressing

You will not catch this boy dead cleaning their dorm though - that's been a lost cause since 2nd year

Makes Peter a cake evwry year for his birthday, without fail

He can't bake for shit, but Peter still eats his birthday cakes without complaint

He has a mild addiction to Disney films. By mild, i mean he can sing every song from Cinderella without thinking twice

He has gone through approximately 42 pairs of glasses from 1st to 7th year.

Accidentally sat on McGonagall when she was in cat form

His antlers grow from his head when he gets angry - this is extremely difficult to hide during Quidditch

Up until 5th year, it took him over an hour to get from the Great Hall to the Gryffindor Common Room.

Still calls it 'Remus' furry little problem' without fail

When he first held Nymphadora - he nearly dropped her on her head. Andy hasn't let him touch her since

An Ace at Transfiguration, much to Minerva's liking.

He's bloody awful at CoMC and DADA

Joined Flitwick's choir in 1st year, quit in 3rd

He doesn't actually like Butterbear.

PETER PETTIGREW:

Sleep talks, has done since he was 6.

Oddly silent, and he earned himself the nickname 'Creeping Jesus', in 4th year.

He was ginger when he was a baby, but it faded into blonde

He hasn't got freckles, but he has cute moles dotted around

Didn't like being a rat animagi until he found out he could sneak into the kitchens at night to eat

The first time he called James a horrible name, 'asshole' for example, James cried for 2 hours before Peter apologised

Had braces from 2nd year till 5th

He kept getting sweets stuck in between them

He never gets a hangover - no matter how drunk he gets

He has awful memory. He couldn't remember his last name until McGonagall called it out in class

Hates beaches because of the sand and the seagulls

The only one in the group that hasn't passe dout on a roller-coaster - much to Sirius' dismay

He used baby shampoo until he was 13

ABSOLUTELY HATES SOCKS

His favourite film is, and always will be, The Parent Trap

He was once chased down the hall in rat form by mrs norris in 6th year.

[under-the-lake]

‘I enjoyed the [DA] meetings, too. It was like having friends.’ - Luna, Friendship and Loyalty: Why She is NOT a Manic Pixie Dream Girl

This quote from Half-Blood Prince, Chapter Seven, is one of the blunt yet calm and non-judging statements Luna can come up with occasionally, and that usually startle people because of their accuracy and/or bold honesty. While Luna can be very Berkeleyan in her conception of reality, her friendship once given seems to be given forever. Contrary to many characters in the Harry Potter series, she’s loyal to people before being loyal to her House. Luna has also been deemed to meet the requirements for being a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG). I beg to disagree with that statement. Maybe she ticks some of the boxes, but many of her traits and actions stand in opposition to that. So I’ll also explore that side of her here. These two short paragraphs already showcase Luna as ambiguous. Exciting, right?

Loyalty, Friendship, Empathy and MPDG

I’ve been asking people around me what they thought of Luna. Many put her loyalty, friendship and empathy forward. First it might be useful to define those terms. I know we all have some idea of what they are, but I was thinking of a more academic point of view (still wondering why Louhi was not sorted in Ravenclaw). I’ll try and make it short (I can hear you snort…).

Loyalty

Loyalty has been a theme running throughout the series from the very first chapter. Mr Dursley’s loyalty to the family principle of not mentioning the Potters is tested a few pages into the first book (Philosopher’s Stone, Chapter One). Dumbledore’s loyalty to the Potters is shown straight in as well (PS, Chapter One). I mean why would the headmaster bother bringing a baby to their foster parents himself if there was not a good reason? Harry’s loyalty to the Dursleys is settled rapidly as well, and further into the book (PS, Chapter Two), Hagrid’s loyalty to Dumbledore is stated by the gamekeeper very soon after he meets Harry (PS, Chapter Four). Loyalty as a virtue is associated with Gryffindor House by the Sorting Hat in each of its three songs (PS Chapter Seven; Goblet of Fire, Chapter Twelve; Order of the Phoenix, Chapter Eleven). It is therefore associated straightaway with the hero of the story, and by default, and tacitly, slyness and unreliability are associated with the ‘enemy’ that are Slytherins. None of these traits is mentioned in so many words, but Gryffindors are the ‘brave at heart’ whilst Slytherins ‘use any means to achieve their ends’ (PS, Chapter Seven) and that doesn’t change throughout the books.. Luna is a Ravenclaw. So what then?

What is loyalty? I mean we all have a sense of what it is, of course. Supporting our friends, our family, fly high the values we share with a society, support them whatever the circumstances, swearing allegiance to a master or an institution (sometimes even to social constructs). Loyalty is a virtue, albeit, as many point out, a complicated one, because it puts the person in front of hard choices, for instance telling their friends the truth or being bold, or honest, or doing things that they wouldn’t normally do, or acting against their own inclination. Some say loyalty is only a feeling because it’s always grounded in some sort of attachment for a person/institution/society. There’s no denying that loyalty cannot be affectless, but it doesn’t follow that the feeling is a positive one. You can be loyal out of fear, for instance. Take Wormtail. Of course one can question the very use of the term ‘loyalty’ in his case, but it ticks most of the boxes. What are the boxes, then? After reading the ‘loyalty’ entry of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Kleinig, 2017), I decided to make the boxes as follows: a) there needs to be some strong form of attachment that can go as far as devotion via professional commitment (like for a lawyer), b) this attachment makes the person want to secure (or at least not to jeopardize) the well-being/interests of the person/object/concept they are loyal to, c) this attachment makes the person put their interest and well-being after those of the object of loyalty, and d) there might be an interest for group survival (either genetic or other). That last one is one of the boxes that relate to family relationships, friendships, house loyalty etc…

The question is, how does Luna relate to loyalty? I reckon she’s one of the most loyal characters in the whole Harry Potter series, because she doesn’t question the concept. Her friendship, therefore her loyalty, once given, is given forever. Whilst she can be very Berkeleyan in many ways, Luna is full black or white when it comes to friends.

Friendship

Aristotle (him again) devoted a big part of his thinking to what friendship might be. Peoples (or some people among the peoples) have been discussing the topic of love and friendship as something fundamentally human (I don’t think I agree with that, but that’s not the point here). Ancient Greeks and Romans put friendship above romantic love in their scale of feelings (and I must say I do agree with that): it’s philia, friendship-love (Deavel & Deavel, 2010). That’s why there’s such a canyon of difference between the words ‘pal’ or ‘mate’, and ‘friend’. It has to do with the level of intimacy you share with the person (mentally and/or physically), but also with how much you embrace that person with all their qualities and faults, not trying to change them for your or their sake, but also being able to tell them truths in their face that nobody else would dare utter without fear of losing them.

If we go back to Aristotle, he defined three types of friendship (which, for him, is a kind of virtue, meaning people must constantly work on it): friendship for use, for pleasure, or complete friendship (Aristotle, in Mogg & Tully, 2012). It is easy to understand the first: the person whom the ‘friendship’ is bestowed on is only a means towards an end. For instance, take Peter Pettigrew. He never loved his three Marauder companions, but he used them to get protection. In the second type of ‘friendship’, the person who bestows his ‘friendship’ on someone wants to derive something pleasant out of it, still not considering the feelings of the other. That could be, for instance, the kind of relationship Romilda Vane would like to have with Harry, or again Pettigrew and the Marauders. A complete friendship means that the person desires positive things for their friend, for their sake and not their own. It’s valuing the friend for themselves, and not as a tool. Usually, in analysis of the Harry Potter series, only the friendship between Harry, Ron and Hermione is viewed in this light (Mogg & Tully, 2012). That might be because it indeed develops over seven years, involves living together not only in the comfort of Hogwarts or the Burrow, but in a tent (granted, with all comforts as well), on the run, on a mission, not really knowing where they are going. As Mogg & Tully put it, the evolution of friendship in Harry, Ron and Hermione goes from being a working group of complementary units to sharing and learning from each other and supporting each other’s psychological development.

Yet, I question this exclusivity in the sense that Luna’s character makes her a good candidate for that kind of friendship. She might not tick each box, but I’ll explore the concept, as well as try and state that Luna is NOT a MPDG among other reasons because of her take on friendship and loyalty. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe not. That’s the excitement of research, isn’t it?

Empathy

Empathy is a fashionable word nowadays, so it tends to be used to convey many things. However, primarily, it means the ability one person has to feel ‘in the stead’ of another, to step into their shoes and feel ‘with’ them. It is a central concept to the building of human societies, because it allows people to create bonds with one another. Empathy can lead to altruistic motivation, meaning that one who feels empathy towards others might want to help them. In the Sandford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stueber (2019) says that according to one of the philosophers who currently studies empathy, Batson, the predominant trait of empaths is selfishness (sic), that the altruistic bit of empathy is not the most common, and what determines if a person will help another or not depends on how strong they are personally, and what the cost of helping the other would be. To be truly altruistic, moreover (and quite obviously), the helping behaviour must not be directed towards a personal goal. That’s sort of logical, given the name is ‘altruistic’, but again, there are different forms of help. Other researchers (Ciladini et al., in Stueber, 2019) state that when in extreme conditions, this altruistic behaviour stems from a sense of oneness between the actors, the emergency or extremity of the situation leading them to behave as one body, therefore saving limbs rather than individuals. Empathy could go that far.

Of course I chose to mention those bits of the article because they serve my purpose, my question being Luna and empathy. I guess one could write books about all those three topics, but what is given here will be enough to shed some light on Luna.

A Manic Pixie Dream Girl?

For those who are into sociology and pop culture, the term is familiar. For those who are not, it requires a definition. The phrase was coined in 2007 by Nathan Rabin (in Nilson, 2020) but this type of characters actually were always there in pop culture in various forms. However, Rabin said that since this character was growing more and more common in films, it might be useful to coin a concept, and so he did: a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a female character whose only role in the plot is to guide a soulful young male character towards embracing life and its mysteries. My inner feminism starts at such a phrase and all sorts of arguments come to mind to destroy it. After all, I am Louhi, The Witch Of Pohjola. However, it is true that MPDG characters exist and must be taken into account. Now the question is, what defines a MPDG?

A MPDG is a character who, at first, seems to have none. She stands out of the crowd, and represents something mythical or otherworldly at first, for the males around. That makes the MPDG attractive, along with some sort of dreaminess. Among the other ‘symptoms’ of the MPDG (Pasola, 2014) are innocent bluntness, lack of self-consciousness, and a propensity to desert conversations she doesn’t find interesting. There is even a ‘test’ (Bechdell-Wallace test) to assess MPDG-ness in a female character, and it consists of three statements: 1) the plot must contain at least two women, 2) who talk to each other and 3) discuss something else than men. This test has apparently been widely used to analyse films and culture (quick google scholar search… didn’t have time to read) since its appearance in 2005. Bechdell says that if a female character fails that test then she can be deemed a MPDG. I think it is a bit too straightforward.

Appearances… can be misleading. Therefore, while Luna fails the test (Pasola, 2014), there’s more to see than meets the eye, and Luna is worth the analysis. So, my stance is that Luna is NOT a MPDG, however much she looks the character at first sight.

Luna: what about her, then?

Luna is sort of vapoury, has a mythical or mystical je-ne-sais-quoi about her, conveyed by her waist-long blonde hair, protuberant eyes that give her ‘a permanently surprised look’ (OoP, Chapter Ten), and her rather peculiar choice of jewellery (butterbeer-cork necklace or radish-earrings). In the films, this effect is carried on further by Evanna Lynch’s voice, which gives Luna an ethereal quality. Therefore she physically sort of fits the MPDG trope. Moreover, according to literature, as said before, she fails the Bechdell test.

BUT. I don’t agree Luna is anywhere near a MPDG.

Let’s start with the definition of a MPDG. According to it, Luna should be a sort of muse to a man and guide him to embrace life and its mysteries. Well. Er… aha. There’s already a problem here. Because Luna guides nobody to embrace life and its mysteries. She sometimes says things that are just plain true and takes a rather original stance when it comes to relationships with others. She doesn’t guide anyone. She never seeks people to help them or offer any kind of advice. If she happens to be there at a moment when she can say something that seems relevant to her, then she’d do it. That’s not guiding. It’s a chance meeting. At least that’s how I see them. You could argue that she guides Harry. Why yes, but the bias is that we see the whole story from Harry’s point of view, so there’s no way we can be sure Luna doesn’t give the odd piece of her mind to anybody outside Harry’s presence. She doesn’t act like a muse either. Harry doesn’t daydream about her, his thoughts don’t get back to Luna every now and then. He basically doesn’t give a damn about her, at least at first, and if he occasionally does, it’s either by chance or for lack of a better option, like when he invites her to Slughorn’s Christmas party, or when he has no choice but to take her along to the Ministry. After that last adventure, though, his attitude towards Luna changes, she has grown on him, but in no respect is she a muse to him. He’s too much entangled with his love life, his loyalty to his parents, the Order and Dumbledore, and his need to save the world every now and then, to care much about others. To add to this, nowhere in papers analysing MPDGs do the words friendship, empathy and loyalty appear to describe the characters. And Luna can feel all three, and shows them throughout her appearances in the Potter saga.

Luna is empathetic, though in her own way. She can sense how others feel and offer comfort, yet it’s not the usual kind. ‘You’re just as sane as I am’ (OoP, Chapter Ten) is not exactly comforting at first to Harry, when he thinks he’s being mental, seeing the Hogwarts carriages being pulled by winged skeletal horses. He has just seen how unusual Luna is, reading the Quibbler upside down and believing the cock-and-bull stories her father prints about Fudge’s army of Heliopaths. However, at the end of the same book, they discuss Sirius’ and Luna’s mum’s deaths, and ‘as [Harry] watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly’ (OoP, Chapter Thirty-Eight); Luna sort of comforts Harry in spite of herself with her optimism, and she couldn’t do that without being empathetic. In Deathly Hallows Luna is the one person who keeps Ollivander alive while both are imprisoned in the cellar at Malfoy Manor, as he acknowledges to her on leaving Shell Cottage: ‘I’m going to miss you, Mr Ollivander’, said Luna, approaching the old man. ‘And I you, my dear,’ said Ollivander, patting her on the shoulder. ‘You were an inexpressible comfort to me in that terrible place.’

Luna doesn’t seem to ‘need’ friends. As in, she’s not actively looking for friends. She probably has a whole world in her head that fills her. That doesn’t mean she’s not happy having some friends, as the mural in her bedroom at home is proof enough of. When she acknowledges friends, then she’s loyal to them. Had she not been so, she wouldn’t have stood alongside her dad and advocated Harry’s interview to be printed in the Quibbler. She wouldn’t have fought with Neville in the renewed Dumbledore’s Army in Deathly Hallows. She wouldn’t have stood to the Malfoys while being held captive. In return of her loyalty, one of the next offspring in the Potter family is called Lily Luna. I think we can reasonably say, along Aristotle in Mogg & Tully (2012), that when Luna bestows her friendship on someone, it is a complete one. She doesn’t want to change people, doesn’t want to use them, just wants the best for them, whatever the cost for her.

Luna doesn’t question her feelings. What she gives, she does fully. To the Trio, Neville, Ginny, and also Ollivander and Dobby. That leads her to not talk about her friendships, and therefore, maybe, people to think that she doesn’t have any. However, she expresses them in sometimes odd ways verbally, like when she agrees to go ‘as friends’ to Sulghorn’s Party with Harry (HBP, Chapter Fifteen), and sometimes in hidden ways, like in that ceiling painting she did in her room back home, and that the trio discovers when visiting Xenophilius during their hunt for clues about the Hallows (DH, Chapter Twenty-One).

Luna doesn’t forgive. She doesn’t need to. She’s so detached that it sounds like she’s not hurt by people being mean to her. A fine example of this is the finale of OoP, when Harry meets her on his non-way to the End-of-Year Feast, and Luna is looking for her possessions (OoP, Chapter Thirty-Eight). She doesn’t hold a grudge towards her fellow Ravenclaws for being mean to her. Therefore, she doesn’t need to forgive either.

Some people have suggested Luna could have autistic traits (Belcher & Stevenson, 2011; Guha, 2020). There are indeed traits that could lead into that direction, and the web is full of people discussing that possibility. However, Rowling has denied that (it’s all over the web, but I cannot get my hands on the place I read that bit of interview…). Luna is just… Luna, the moon girl, whose name is maybe only the moon, or, as Le Callet (2018) suggests, a tribute to an Assyrian satirist from the 2nd century AD, Lucian of Samosata, who wrote A True Story, a fantastic tale about creatures like tree-women, or Selenites living on the moon and grilling frogs (moonfrogs, ring a bell?), breathing the vapour that wafts from them. He was also a known critic of the belief in the paranormal and of religious superstitions. Then part of him stands in opposition to Luna’s: she does believe in weird stuff, has odd superstitions (Nargle infested mistletoe and all that), which she eventually has to give up (like Crumple-Horned Snorckacks). Luna’s name might also be a tribute to Cyrano de Bergerac, the French 17th century author of Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon which is a classic in the field of early French science-fiction (see illustration below, by Henriot, 1900, Cyrano in front of the Moon). After all, Rowling is learnt in French and French literature, so we cannot rule this hypothesis out. In this book, Cyrano travels to the Moon using rockets powered by firecrackers… The inhabitants of the Moon are four-legged creatures who have talking earrings which are used to teach children.

All in all, all well considered, there is not much to back up the idea of Luna being a MPDG, and I am quite relieved to see that my small researches and musings have led me to that conclusion. You could say I am biased, wanting my conclusions to fit my hypothesis. Who wouldn’t? However, it is reassuring to find that one’s mind goes not astray, somehow. I find, after all this thinking, that we can learn a huge lot from Luna, even if she appears only sporadically in the story: human values that make people strong in a moral sense: resilience, trust, loyalty, friendship, self-confidence.

Now this has been done, I want to delve further into Luna’s character by exploring the job of Magical Naturalist (that appeals to me a lot, being a biologist myself, with specialisations in botany, zoology and ecology), as well as exploring her relation to Death, comparing it to how the other characters embrace it (or not). But these are completely different stories.

Thanks to Little My, Purple, Andromeda, Kikimora, Dawn, and Thetis, for sharing their opinion of Luna with me.

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[theboyswithasparebitofparchment]

Something different

Haven’t posted in a solid minute but that’s because I’ve honestly...been very lazy.

I ain’t going to lie.

But, I have been ‘pimp my ride- ing some of my old posts because since I last wrote them , over a year ago , I’ve realised that they’re really shite.

So I give you a refurbished short reel of one of my older posts, that I give a lil comedy TV spin on (inspired by a Brooklyn 99 opening)

Annnnddd I really hope you like it! Which may not be likely arghhh im so tired hahahha

How the Marauders got their name.

*2am in the Gryffindor Tower*

James: *concentrating hard, beads of sweat rolling down his face* Slowly just position my quill in a swift motion...

Remus: Prongs, its just your signature, why has it taken you a full 20 minutes?

James: art takes time Moony, you’d rather i slop on my name like some maniac, i think not.

Sirius: c’mon James, I’m starving

Peter: yeah, when are we having lunch?

Remus: Guy’s it’s like 2AM

Peter: well, its lunch somewhere. I maybe dining with a lovely Puerto Rican family, get some respect Moony

*Remus sighs in annoyance whilst Sirius gives a ‘he has a point you know’ expression’

James: Wait.Just. A. Minute.... YESSS the Map is finished!

All hail the magic parchment. Now let’s officiate it... with our mouths!

*James plants a kiss on the map, wet ink staining his lips*

Remus: *in a stern tome* yeah, we’re not doing that.

*sirius and peter simultaneously shake their heads awkwardly*

James: okay, well now i look like an idiot for making out with a piece of parchment, thanks a lot guys

Peter: but no one asked you to do th-

James: *interrupts* -Okay, that aside, now onto important matters...

what to name it? So when we make millions, obviously, we have our trademark on lockdown.

Remus: That’s a pretty good idea, ink lips

James: *shyly* aw, thanks Moons

*Remus looks at him with a ‘that was supposed to be a joke’ look’*

Sirius: well, it has to be something catchy. Maybe a pseudonym but still,like, cool and stuff

Peter: erm...ooo!

how about The Marauders! Huh, sexy right?

*James groans, Remus makes a disgusted face*

Sirius: Wormtail... no. And stop describing things as sexy. It’s weird and definitely not sexy.

Peter: what’s not sexy about The Marauders

Sirius: okay thats it, go stand in the corner

*Peter hangs heads in shame and turns to the wall, turning around to face the group, smiling shyly*

Sirius:(without facing Peter) turn around and face the wall dude

Peter: * turns slowly* You sick bastard

Remus: *looks straight at the wall, awkwardly, the Office style*

James:Right okay ... sorry, what were we talking about again?

Peter: nicknames

Sirius: Pettigrew, shut up or so help me Merlin, i will make you clean my bed... without magic

*peter mimicks zipping his mouth closed*

Remus: what about... a hybrid of all our names? Or maybe our nicknames?

James: huh. Okay, so what about...Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and ...

Sirius: *interrupts* DEER!!!

James: *stares with confusion*

Dude no. And STOP saying deer when you know my animagi is clearly a DAMN STAG, there’s a clear difference.

Sirius: *shrugs* potahto, avacado...

James: *sighs frustratedly* that’s not the bloody saying and you know i-

Remus: -okay, can the married couple please calm down and save their domestic for later, before Merlin forbid they have make-up sex in front of us.

*james and sirius jokingly wink and throw flirtaious gestures at one another*

Remus: okay so, moony, wormtail, padfoot and prongs comes to....

MWPP *writes it down onto parchment* hmm, doesn’t sound too bad?

James: MW-APP, sounds like a muggle washing detergent, scoff!

*remus gives a ‘you’re not supposed to say the word’ expression*

- anyway it’s a lame name, ooh I made a rhyme. Back to the topic. How about.....Ooh! How about... the tail turds? Because we all have tails?

Remus: *deadpan tone* you are aware you just called yourself a turd, right?

James: Oh wait, yeah...

but that means that you’re all turds too so,

check and mate Lupin *smiles smugly*

Remus: *inhales sharply and pinches bridge of nose, whispering under his breath* why are you like this?

Sirius: I’ve got a great one, how about the Dangerous Incredible Cool Krew, crew with a K because its how the kids say it today.

*everyone shares stares of disgust*

Remus:so... you want to name our group DICK?

Sirius: no, i said Dangerous Incredible Cool Krew.... WITH A K!

James: *stiffles laughter* wow, at-least we know you thought about that, Long and Hard Sirius *snorts*

*all aside from Sirius laugh*

Sirius: dude...

Remus: c’mon prongs. He was clearly Packing in a lot of ideas before he Came out with that, right Pads?

*more laughter erupts from the trio whilst Sirius looks around sheepishly*

Peter: *from the wall* we’re talking about your penis

Sirius: No one asked for your input Wormy, now you have to do my bed, now who looks like an idiot?

*the group chimes in with a mumble of ‘its still you pads’ *

Sirius: *in a assured tone* okay...well no-one’s going to take it that way.

In a matter of fact, I for one love the name.

yeah, thats right.....

I love D I C K and only immature peop- oh wait......

OH S*it, I see it.

*awkward silence lingers in the room*

Remus: All in favour to go with Peter’s idea, say I

James: I

Sirius: I

Peter: *still facing wall, raises first in air, triumphantly* i am victorIOUSSSS

END

[dumbledearme]

harry potter genderbend first generation dream cast:

read Chronicles of Hogwarts: Time Steals Nothing here

This post is subject to changes;

Roma Lupin ☾ Jemima Kirke

Gryffindor

Moony

Sirius Black ☾ Ben Barnes

Gryffindor

Padfoot

Peter Pettigrew ☾ Jamie Bell

Gryffindor

Wormtail

James Potter ☾ Aaron Johnson

Gryffindor

Prongs

Lily Evans ☾ Karen Gillan

Gryffindor

Mudblood

Severus Snape ☾ Louis Garrel

Slytherin

the half-blood prince

Bellatrix “Bella” Black ☾ Katie McGrath

Slytherin

Narcissa “Cissa” Black ☾ Dianna Agron

Slytherin

Andromeda Black ☾ Anya Taylor-Joy

Slytherin

Regulus Black ☾ Tom Sturridge

Slytherin

Lucius Malfoy ☾ Alex Pettyfer

Slytherin

Rodolphus Lestrange ☾ Nathaniel Buzolic

Slytherin

Bartemius “Barty” Crouch Jr ☾ Sebastian Stan

Ravenclaw

Teddy Tonks ☾ Jeremy Allen White

Hufflepuff

Frank Longbottom ☾ Johnny Lewis

Gryffindor

Alice Kane ☾ Natalia Dyer

Ravenclaw

Molly Prewett ☾ Molly C. Quinn

Gryffindor

Arthur Weasley ☾ Adam Hicks

Gryffindor

[marauders70s]

101 EXPERT (I mean expert) Harry Potter Trivia Questions

So background story is that my sisters and I went to a Yule Ball Harry Potter themed New Years party at a library and they had “expert” trivia which was only 10 questions and was multiple choice (pff lame, cheating) and we got every single one right including the lines but they didn’t count one of ours as right and the tie breaking question was how many birthday presents did Dudley get on his first birthday (of course we’re all IN UNIFORM and my hand shoots up and I’m like “before or after the zoo?”) and it’s before the zoo so we say 37 (”there’s only 36? that’s two less than last year!” “No Diddy, you missed the one from Auntie Marge underneath the big one from Mummy and Daddy [37] and we’ll buy you two new presents while we’re out today.”) And then they counted it as wrong because they said 35 and my Ravenclaw sister has a FULL AUTIE MELTDOWN in front of a bunch of people and looked up the passage on her phone and person refused to accept our answer and blah blah long story short we had to escort her yelling into the parking lot about the unfairness and I promised her I would write her 101 EXPERT-Expert level trivia questions. She then proceeded to grade her answers by halves and was annoyed she only got a “C.”

So, without further ado, 101 EXPERT HP Trivia questions under the cut.  (Don’t use the internet or books! That’s cheating!)

What is Charlie Weasley’s middle name?

What are Molly’s younger brothers named?

Which country was the foreign minister from at the Quidditch World Cup?

What year was that cup held?

What were two Quidditch World Cup player names?

What is a name outside of Cedric or the Potters who was killed personally by Lord Voldemort?

What was the name of the muggle killed by Nagini at the Riddle House?

What was the village of the Riddle House called?

Name the cross streets of Harry’s dementor attack.

How many palomino stallions pull the Beauxbatons carriage?

Name six electives years 3-5.

Name all 7 core classes.

Name 5 Year 1 textbooks.

Name 4 Lockhart books

Who was Harry’s O.W.L. instructor?

Outside of the Golden Trio name 4 Boggarts in Lupin’s third year Defense Against the Dark Arts class and who they belonged to.

Who was the apparition instructor Harry’s sixth year?

Which finger is Peter Pettigrew missing?

Which hand did Pettigrew cut off for Voldemort’s resurrection potion?

Which ghost was NIck jealous of in the Headless Hunt?

Name the victims of the basilisk attacks in order.

Where did Harry hide the Half Blood Prince’s potions textbook in the Room of Requirement?

Where did Voldemort find the diadem of Ravenclaw?

Who was the goblin Harry cast the imperius curse on to break into Bellatrix’s Gringott’s Vault?

How old was Barty Crouch Jr. when he tortured the Longbottoms?

Where is Mrs. Crouch buried?

What was the name of Luna Lovegood’s mother?

What was Harry’s “Weasley” name at Bill & Fleur’s wedding?

Why did Bill & Fleur name their first daughter Victoire?

In which class and with which teacher did Hermione ask about the Chamber of Secrets?

What is the address of Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes?

When was Ollivander’s established?

What company does Vernon work for?

Who is Dudley’s best friend?

What school does Dudley attend and what are the school colors?

How many people serve on a full Wizengamot trial?

Name three of Mrs. Figgs’ cats.

How did Moody lose a part of his nose?

Who was the Death Eater who heart-slashed Hermione in the Department of Mysteries?

Who sent four stunners into Professor McGonagall?

What is the “last spell cast” incantation Mr. Crouch uses on Harry’s wand?

What are Harry’s wand specifications?

Who owned Scabbers before Ron?

What are Crabbe and Goyle’s first names?

Who does Mary MacDonald marry?

In what year of school did Hagrid’s father die?

When did Hermione trap Rita Skeeter?

What color were Rita Skeeter’s Robes the first time Harry saw her?

Who is the barman of the Leaky Cauldron?

What is Cornelius Fudge’s middle name?

How was Theodore Nott first described?

How many languages does Mr. Crouch speak?

Where did Percy claim the dragon dung “fertilizer” was a sample from?

Which twin speaks to Harry first on the train?

Which class does Augusta Longbottom think is a “soft” subject?

Who is the overseer of O.W.L. testing?

Who does Hermione pose as under polyjuice in the Ministry of Magic?

Which is the first statue to break in the Ministry Fountain of Magical Brethren in the fight between Dumbledore and Voldemort?

What is the last name of the “Tale of the Three Brothers?”

What is one of Gamp’s Fundamental Laws of Transfiguration?

How old were the Creevey brothers when they died?

What was the Creevey brothers’ father’s job?

What did McGonagall enchant to charge down the hall in the Battle of Hogwarts?

Name 7 kinds of dragon in the series.

Roughly where is Durmstrang located?

Name five kinds of Weasley Pastilles.

What kind of ice cream does Hagrid buy for Harry in Diagon Alley?

Where is the Hogwarts cattery?

What floors are the common rooms on?

How many governors are there on the Hogwarts School Board?

What village is the burrow located next to?

Who did Mr. Weasley borrow the camping tent from in the Quidditch World Cup?

How many people could see thestrals in Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures class?

Name three Ravenclaws in Harry’s year.

What is Professor Binns’ first name?

Who was the next headmaster/mistress after Minerva McGonagall?

Name five Hogwarts headmasters.

Name three wizarding magazines.

What kind of magical creature is Crookshanks mixed with?

Name an hor d’oeuvre at Slughorn’s Christmas party.

What do you get when you mixed powdered root of asphodel with an infusion of wormwood?

List the rooms the trio/Harry had to cross in order to get to the Sorcerer’s Stone?

What is Dumbledore’s full name?

What was Aberforth once charged with?

What did Mundungus try to buy when he went off-duty guarding Harry?

Who did Augusta Longbottom put in St. Mungo’s fighting her way to freedom?

How did Neville break his father’s wand?

What did Alice hand her son on the closed ward?

When did Dumbledore tell Harry about Neville’s parents?

What two chocolate frog cards is Ron trying to collect on the train in Book 1?

Name the injuries of the golden and silver trio in the Department of Mysteries.

What was the first ingredient listed by Wormtail aloud in Voldemort’s resurrection potion?

When was the first time Harry thought Cho Chang was pretty?

Who was Fleur’s date to the Yule Ball?

What was Kingsley’s exact patronus message at Bill & Fleur’s wedding?

What were Fred, Lee, Lupin, and Kingsley’s code names on Potterwatch?

What present did Ron give to Dobby?

What present did Ron give to Hermione their fifth year?

Name three of Hagrid’s foods he fed to the trio.

Who did Hagrid say he got Norbert(ta)’s egg from?

Name four plants from Herbology.

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[tayrae515imagines]

A Little Push

Requested: Yes by the lovely @superoptimist1997

Ravenclaw reader best friend to murarders and has a crush on remus. Helps them plan pranks and stuff. Thank you!

Warnings: Cussing, FLUFFY LITTLE MOON MOON. I gave their nicknames even fluffier nicknames.

Pairing: Remus Lupin x Ravenclaw Reader

Summary: The maradures come up with a plan because Remus and you are to shy to admit your feelings.

Authors Note: Hope you like it! Thank you again for your request. I love the maradures!!

It was in your second year at Hogwarts when you met the maradures. You had always knew who they were, hell the whole school did but you never really associated with them. 

Until one faithful day in the great hall. 

You were sitting at the Ravenclaw table talking lightly with some of your friends when a very flustered Lucius walked in with neon green hair. For a moment you were silent and then you broke any and all control you had. You started laughing, laughing so hard you actually fell off the bench. The maraduers saw you and grins grew on there faces, finally someone was appreciating their work for what it was for. 

Those five minutes was all it took for your friendship to spark. Now well into your sixth year you five were inseparable. You become the fifth marauder and everyone knew not to mess with you. Pranking with the guys had become your second nature and you wouldn't trade it for anything. You loved the boys as if they were the brothers you never had, all except one. 

When it came to Remus you felt different. It wasn't sisterly or brotherly love it was a burning desire. He was always different in your eyes. He was intelligent, caring, and friendly while at the same time he was mysterious and a lot stronger than people gave him credit for. 

You knew his secret he told you third year, he was terrified that you were going to leave him, pretend you had never met but of course you didn't. It didn't change anything for you. He was still the same boy you had fallen for in second year. The one who helped you study and calmed you down when you started to stress. The one who held your world together when the pressure got to you. You liked Remus so much more than a friend but you were to scared to tell him. 

You didn't know that he felt the same. You didn't know how your smile made his head spin. You didn't know that one look in your (y/e/c) eyes made him fall even further for you. How could you? Not when he too was scared. He couldn't lose you. If not telling you meant holding onto you even as a friend then that’s what he’d do. 

The remaining maradures consisting of James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew knew about the two of you’s feelings. They were getting awfully tired of the longing glances and the shameless flirting that you two denied. They had devise a plan to help you two admit your feelings. It wasn't the best plan they had to admit but why not keep it simple. Just lock the two love birds in a room, eventually they would spill there feeling. Right? 

That was how you ended up in this predicament. Remus and you locked in the dorm room while the reaming three waited outside.  

“Paddy, Let us out.” 

You had raised your voice so they could hear you and even though you tried to remain sweet there was a sour note in your voice. 

“Not until you and Moon Moon suck it up and admit your feelings. Prongs, Wormtail and I are tired of this.” 

Sirius responded in a sing song voice. You wanted to pull him into a hug but also throw a shoe at his face and more recently the shoe option was looking better and better. 

Sighing you let your head fall against the wood door. After a couple moments Remus sat next to you. The both of you were silent, the air was comfortable but you could sense the bit of awkwardness that flew around the room. The minutes seemed to pass slowly, not an utter word was passed between you two. Then something changed when Remus let out a sigh an turned to face you. You turned to face him as well and raised an eyebrow at him, unaware he was about to spill his feelings to you. 

“(y/n/n)?”

“Yes Remus?”

A sigh once again filled the space. 

“I have been feeling this way since the moment we met but I didn't think you would feel the same so I kept quiet all this time. I really like you. I mean more than I have liked anyone.”

Your eyes widened, you had waited so long to hear those words. It had almost become a fantasy of yours. Your heart was beating like crazy and your pulse was speeding up. 

“Remus..”

“I get it if you don’t feel the same. I mean why would you?”

“What do you mean? Of course I feel the same way. Bloody hell who wouldn't like you Remus?” 

He grinned brightly and leaned towards you. Your lips where so close. Almost touching, you could feel the heat from each other.

“It’s true moon moon. whoever doesn't like you is an idiot.”

Sirius said quiet loudly. Rolling your eyes you banged a fist on the door before pushing your lips against his. It was just like you dreamed it. Fireworks filled the space and your nerves burned in excitement. You pulled away when you heard the door open standing quickly you grabbed a shoe from the floor and threw it at the three boys. 

“Lock me in a room again and I’ll kill you all.”

“Damn (y/n) I thought ravenclaws were supposed to be wise. That wasn't wise.”

With that a full pillow fight broke out, feather went every where and laughs filled the room. You felt an hand pull you and suddenly Remus’s lips were on yours again. 

You were at peace, this is were you belonged. All you needed was a little push. 

[freyayuki]

Notes From A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript Exercises Chapters 87-89

These are free, interactive JavaScript exercises. They’re useful and helpful if you want to practice the JS concepts and info you’ve learned so far.

Below, you can see the notes I took while going through Chapters 87-89 of these exercises.

Check out the following articles for the notes I took while going through the earlier chapters of these JavaScript exercises:

Chapters 1-30

Chapters 31-40

Chapters 41-50

Chapters 51-59

Chapters 60-66

Chapters 67-72

Chapters 73-76

Chapters 77-82

Chapters 83-86

You can find the list of exercises here: http://www.asmarterwaytolearn.com/js/index-of-exercises.html.

Exceptions: try and catch

What is always paired with catch?

Answer: try

What is missing from this code? catch() {

Answer: parameter

The try...catch approach is mainly useful for spotting undefined variables  

The code adds the values represented by two variables, and assigns them to a third variable. Display an alert if there's an error.

try {  var harryPotter = ronWeasley + hermioneGranger; } catch(jsError) {  alert(jsError); }

The functional code adds 2 + 2 and assigns the result to the variable neville, which hasn't been declared beforehand. Wrap it in a try block.

try {  var neville = 2 + 2; }

Code a catch block that displays the error, represented by the variable voldemort, in an alert.

catch(voldemort) {  alert(voldemort); }

Code the first line of a try block.

try {

Code the first line of a catch block.

catch(bellatrix) {

Display an alert. Wrap the statement in a try block.

try {  alert("Sirius and James bullied Snape."); }

Code a catch statement that displays an alert that shows the error.

catch(tomRiddle) {  alert(tomRiddle); }

Code a statement that adds 2 numbers and assigns the sum to a variable that hasn't been declared beforehand. Use try...catch. If there's an error, display it in an alert.

try {  var rodolphus = 5 + 4; } catch(rabastan) {  alert(rabastan); }

Display an alert. Wrap the statement in a try block.

try {  alert("I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."); }

Code a catch statement that displays an alert that shows the error.

catch(lucius) {  alert(lucius); }

Code a statement that adds 2 numbers and assigns the sum to a variable that hasn't been declared beforehand. Use try...catch. If there's an error, display it in an alert.

try {  var amycus = 9 + 10; } catch(alecto) {  alert(alecto); }

Code the first line of a try block. On a second line code the first line of a catch block.

try { catch(avery) {

Code the first 2 lines of a function that begins with a try block.

function regulus() {  try {

Code a function using try...catch. Omit  the functional code in the try block. Omit  the code that executes if there's an error.

function sirius() { try { } catch(black) { } }

Exceptions: throw

What is the keyword that passes a value to the catch parameter?

Answer: throw

what type of value can be passed by throw?

Answer: any

what does throw pass a value to?

Answer: parameter

As an alternative to a value, what can follow the keyword throw?

Answer: variable

If the variable score is less than 100, pass a message string to the catch parameter.

if (score < 100) {  throw "It doesn't add up."; }

If mulciber is undefined, pass deathEater to the catch parameter.

if (mulciber === undefined) {  throw deathEater; }

If fred doesn't equal george, pass -1 to the catch parameter.

if (fred !== george) {  throw -1; }

Code a throw statement that passes a string.

throw "Sirius has a younger brother named Regulus.";

Code the first line of a catch statement that handles this throw statement.    throw "Peter Pettigrew is a Death Eater.";

catch(wormtail) {

If one variable equals another, throw, passing a third variable.

if (daphne === astoria) {  throw greengrass; }

Begin with  try. Assign the value of a to b, which has been declared beforehand. If b is greater than c, throw an error, passing d.

try {  b = a;  if (b > c) {    throw d;  } }

Begin with try. Assign the value of a to b, which has been declared beforehand. If the value represented by b isn't a number (isNaN(b)), throw an error, passing a string.

try {  b = a;  if (isNaN(b)) {    throw "Fleur has a younger sister named Gabrielle.";  } }

Code a throw statement that passes a string.

throw "Thor is a bully.";

If one variable equals another, throw, passing a third variable.

if (padma === parvati) {  throw patil; }

Begin with  try. Assign the value of a to b, which has been declared beforehand. If b is greater than c, throw an error, passing d.

try {  b = a;  if (b > c) {    throw d;  } }

If a variable has a negative value, pass the concatenation of a variable and a string to the catch parameter.

if (narcissa < 0) {  throw malfoy + "Narcissa Black is Lucius Malfoy's wife."; }

Code the first word or symbol of each line of a function that:

assigns a value to a variable that hasn't previously been declared

tests for an error

passes an error message

displays an alert on the error

function  try    var    if      throw    }  }  catch    alert  } }

Code an entire function that:

assigns a string to a variable that hasn't previously been declared   

tests whether a substring is present in the string, using indexOf

passes an error message if it isn't

displays an alert on the error

function andromedaBlack() {  try {    var nymphadora = "Andromeda's daughter";    if (nymphadora.indexOf("daughter") === -1) {      throw "daughter not found";    }  }  catch(tedTonks) {    alert(tedTonks);  } }

Handle events within JavaScript

When the button represented by bill is clicked, the function is called.

bill.onclick = billWeasley;

In a single statement convert this markup to scripted event-handling.

<input type="button" value="Welcome to Hogwarts" id="hogwarts" onClick="magicSchool();">

Answer:

document.getElementById("hogwarts").onclick = magicSchool;

create two statements. The first assigns the field with the id "fabian" to the variable gideon. The second calls the function prewett when the user clicks in the field.

var gideon = document.getElementById("fabian"); gideon.onfocus = prewett;

When the Submit button in the form represented by pansy is clicked, the function parkinson is called.

pansy.onsubmit = parkinson;

When the user mouses over the image represented by colin,  the function creevey is called.

colin.onmouseover = creevey;

When the button represented by charlie is clicked, the function weasley is called.

charlie.onclick = weasley;

When the user clicks out of a field represented by percy, a function executes.

percy.onblur = weasley;

When the user moves the mouse off an image represented by a variable of your choice,  a function with a name of your choice executes.

ginny.onmouseout = weasley;

Assign an element with an id of your choice to a variable of your choice. When the user mouses over the element, run a function with a name of your choice.  

var cho = document.getElementById("chang"); cho.onmouseover = ravenclawSeeker;

In a single statement convert this markup to scripted event-handling.

<a href="JavaScript:void(0)" onClick="filius()" id="flitwick">Filius Flitwick</a>

Answer:

document.getElementById("flitwick").onclick = filius;

When the button represented by minerva is clicked, the function mcGonagall is called.

minerva.onclick = mcGonagall;

When the user clicks out of a field represented by severus, a function executes.

severus.onblur = snape;

When the user moves the mouse off an image represented by a variable of your choice,  a function with a name of your choice executes.

pomona.onmouseout = sprout;

Assign an element with an id of your choice to a variable of your choice. When the user mouses over the element, run a function with a name of your choice.  

var helena = document.getElementById("ravenclaw"); helena.onmouseover = rowena;

Code an event handler that calls the function when the button is clicked.

<input type="button" value="James Potter" id="bully"> <script> document.getElementById("bully").onclick = info; function info() {  alert("James Potter bullied Severus Snape!"); } </script>

If you click the James Potter button, an alert will show up:

Display the image godric-gryffindor.jpg. When the image is moused over, call the function.

<img src="godric-gryffindor.jpg" id="founders"> <script> document.getElementById("founders").onmouseover = hogwartsFounders; function hogwartsFounders() {  document.getElementById("founders").src = "salazar-slytherin.jpg"; } </script>

[marxuderz]

Peter Pettigrew, O.M. (First Class), (c. 1960 – March, 1998), also known by his nickname "Wormtail", was a wizard and son of Mr and Mrs Pettigrew.

[ao3feed-snape]

Naked On Your Chain (James/Sirius, Sirius/Remus)

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by though

JAMES POTTER X SIRIUS BLACK

SIRIUS BLACK X REMUS LUPIN

* * *

"You wanna fuck Padfoot?" James asked, and Remus nearly knocked his cauldron off its base.

"What...?"

James shrugged. "Sounds like you do."

This is a very dirty story, and maybe a tiny bit dark as well; a rumor about Sirius and James has Remus jealous despite himself. Rated for explicit M/M sex.

Words: 1514, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Harry Potter - Fandom, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Marauders, marauders - Fandom, Marauders Era - Fandom, Harry Potter - Marauders era

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Regulus Black, Lily Evans, Xenophilius Lovegood, Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, Regulus - Character, Lily, Xenophilius, Xeno - Character, Severus, Snape, Lucius, Malfoy - Character, Kreacher - Character, Padfoot, Wormtail, Moonie, Prongs

Relationships: James Potter x Sirius Black, James Potter/Sirius Black, Sirius Black/James Potter, Sirius Black x James Potter, James/Sirius, James x Sirius, Sirius/James, Sirius x James, Sirius Black x Remus Lupin, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, sirius x remus - Relationship, Sirius/Remus, Remus Lupin x Sirius Black, Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, Remus x Sirius - Relationship, Remus/Sirius, Sirius Black & James Potter, James Potter&Sirius Black, Sirius Black&Remus Lupin, Remus Lupin&Sirius Black, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin/James Potter, Regulus Black & Sirius Black, wolfstar - Relationship, Regulus Black/Remus Lupin, Remus Lupin/Regulus Black

Additional Tags: Yaoi, m/m - Freeform, Slash, Slash Fiction, MxM - Freeform, wolfstar, Marauders, Marauders era, Marauders' Era, Marauders Friendship, Harry Potter - Freeform, Gay, Bi, Bisexual, Homosexual, homoerotic, Erotica, Sex, Love, adult, Adult Content, explicit content, explicit - Freeform, Fantasy, Smut, BL, Boys Love - Freeform, Boys' Love, ShônenAi, ShounenAi, Shonen-ai, Shounen-ai, Shounen ai, Shonen Ai, Slashfic, Porn, Bonding, h/c, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt, Comfort, Feels, Fiction, Fluff, Kissing, kiss, Kinks, Male Slash, Male - Freeform, males, boy - Freeform, boys, man, Men - Freeform, Plot, Protectiveness, Kink, Friendship, friends - Freeform, besties, Best Friends, best mates, Lovers, Erotic, relationship, Relationship(s), Hardcore, Sexy, Sexual Content, Explicit Sexual Content, Romance, Sad, Science Fiction, porn with a plot, Porn With Plot, Guy on Guy, UST, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Heartache, Topping, Regret, Anger, secret, Magic, Magical, Magical Boy, Angst, Bi-curious, Explicit Language, Firsts, Tension, Infatuation, Nudity, nude, Fluff and Smut, Shameless Smut, Kinky, Graphic Sex, Graphic, Sexual, Soulmates, In Love, Possessiveness, insertion, Caring, loving, Bisexual Male Character, boy on boy, Bromance

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[hufflepuff-common-room1-blog]

Light Magic vs. Dark Magic: Baseball

Starting lineups for the light magic vs dark magic baseball game

Dark:

CF Bellatrix Lestrange - Quick in the outfield and on the bases. Will get to every ball, and will steal without remorse

SS Lucius Malfoy - Smooth fielder at short, not as quick, but hits the ball hard and gets more doubles than anything

P Tom Riddle - He’s in the most important spot. A lot of power, both when pitching and when hitting

3B Severus Snape - Handles the hot corner with ease, and hits with power and control. Picks his spots well, but can also just blast it over everyone

1B Gregory Goyle - Tall and strong, he plays the position well, and hits with power, though his contact and average aren’t very high

2B Draco Malfoy - Hits singles and plays a quick second base. Doesn’t hit with a lot of power very often, but if he gets a hold of one he can hit it deep

C Vincent Crabbe - A squat catcher, but a good one. Tough, and blocks the ball well. Doesn’t hit it very often, but he can give it a ride if he connects

RF Peter Pettigrew - Wormtail is a slow right fielder, who gets on base but doesn’t get a lot of RBI’s. Fitting that he hits last