#harry potter 4

[hayden-davis]

[thexnormalxstuff]

A yearly tradition every year since the books came out I’ve read the potter books once snow stuck to the ground. Doing it all on Kindle this year instead of my usual hardbacks and I’ve found excuses to pick it up more than if I had the hardcovers.

[ghost-bison]

Y'all I used to have an unhealthy Harry Potter obsession and even before falling in love with David Tennant and his acting skills I always thought Barty Crouch JR was an iconic bitch, so yesterday I forced my mom to watch The Goblet of Fire for the bazillionth time

She was not happy, but at least I got my 5 minutes of David Tennant being completely unhinged after the breakdown that Good Omens 2 brought upon my heart and my soul

[gphoenixsims]

📚 Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet: 3 printed versions; 📚 Vampire Academy book #1: 1 printed, 1 e-book version, 1 e-book version of the 10th Anniversary Edition, 1 Audiobook and 1 graphic novel Edition; EDIT: Damn, forgot I have the graphic novels of the first 3 books too lol 📚 Harry Potter, The Chamber of Secrets: 2 print versions (in my language and the English MinaLima Edition), 1 e-book version and 1 Audiobook.

[sasa-chan]

Day 16:

[ezzakennebba]

“come along, ginny, dear!”

[lightningant]

underappreciated factor in "harry and tom riddle in the same era" fic is that they would then grow up to make a great old married couple

[cressida-jayoungr]

Reblogging for Grey Redux.

The costume designer for this film was Jany Temime.

One Dress a Week Challenge

June: Grey

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour

This dress barely appears onscreen, but fortunately, it has been exhibited. Grey chiffon is an interesting choice for Fleur's dress, but she makes it look sophisticated. The floral edging is a nice design--I thought it was holly leaves at first, which would have been a fun seasonal touch--but I wish they had gone with something that had a stronger contrast with the color of the dress. The color values are a little too close, and it sort of looks like a mistake. I also think the wrap adds something, so it's too bad it wasn't used in the film. I do like the little spray of white in her hair.

[g3othermal3scapism]

the marauders fandom is dangerous it will suck you in. you think ur safe from harry potter’s dad and his gay friends fanfiction. u think i dont care about that. thats not me. im safe. but ur not.

[mrs-sharp]

Everytime you realise your favourite fictional character is... fictional.

[sparrowlucero]

this is the iconic dinosaur horror jurassic park wishes it was

[visenyaism]

“It’s snobbish to tell people that YA lit that communicates themes through allegory alone cannot give you a sufficient political education” okay

[milarepas]

This was last night, when they took away a mother and her daughter, who is a minor, just for posting on social media about what is happening in the country.

Some of the people who are in the Helicoide are minors, who are being tortured for no reason, The dictatorship does not care how old we are, for them we are all terrorists.

Many people have died, and now they want to silence us. I'm scared, please spread this, let the whole world know what's happening here.

If you want to help, here are ways to donate, but spreading the word also helps a lot.

https://x.com/UNDERTEHE/status/1818996246750670982?t=bK1kH27svogaWatKNXa8pw&s=19

REBLOG THIS, PLEASE

[remysa]

My creations preview LIST

Here is link for my own creations library. Some of updating, recombined. Next part soon but link is general for all anyway.

SFS

Lifehack: Double click MMB on file at SFS ->download. (Only files, folder is not working). After quick to close browser tabs also with MMB. =)

Always big thanks for sharing <3

[ultravioletbrit]

“dead” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 357 words

Part 3/5 (part 1, part 2 / part 4, part 5)

“What are you doing?” James asks Regulus after he lets Sirius into the flat.

“Trying to escape.” Regulus says like it’s obvious as he’s trying—and failing—to open James’ window.

“Why?” James asks in a tone that clearly says, ‘what now?’

Regulus stops trying to open the window but doesn’t turn around.

“I still think that’s an imposter and you could be dead any second. Then he’ll try to frame my brother, and he’ll be falsely accused of your murder, all because you opened the damn door when you shouldn’t have.” Regulus squeezes his eyes shut. He knows he’s making this so much worse, but he can’t seem to stop the nonsense that’s spilling out of his mouth.

“This is your brother!?” James asks and Regulus takes a deep breath and turns around.

“Reggie!? What the fuck are you doing here?” Sirius asks Regulus—justifiably shocked—before turning to James. “Do you know each other?”

“Oh yeah, we go way back.” James’ voice is dripping with sarcasm and he rolls his eyes at Sirius then turns to Regulus. “Wait. This is the brother you’re hiding from?” James asks.

“Hiding?” Sirius asks James.

“He barged in here and said he needed to hide from someone.” James starts explaining to Sirius. “He looked kind of panicked, and I thought he might be in trouble or something.” Regulus realizes neither of them are paying attention to him, so he starts to slowly inch his way to the door. “So, I let him stay, but I realized pretty quickly he wasn’t in any real danger. But then I thought he was kind of snarky and he’s gorgeous so…errm… I still let him stay.” James finishes while rubbing the back of his neck and avoiding eye contact. This gives Regulus the opening he needs to slip behind Sirius.

“You let a crazy person stay in your flat because you thought he was pretty?” Sirius asks, like James is an idiot. Regulus made it to the door and slowly starts turning the knob. “I swear to God, James, you’re gonna get yourself killed one if these days.” The door clicks open and, “Freeze!”

So close. Regulus thinks.

[lines-in-limbo]

Harry and Snape’s Clashing Communication Styles

It's interesting to think that Harry and Snape don’t have longer conversations in the series, but when they do, their communication styles are so different that they often clash.

Harry’s way of communicating is practical and straightforward. He tends to break down complex ideas into simpler terms that he can easily understand. This makes sense, given his upbringing in a non-magical world and his tendency to rely more on gut instinct than deep theoretical knowledge. For Harry, things are usually black and white, and his directness shows his desire to cut through the confusion and get straight to the point.

Snape, on the other hand, has a more complex and layered way of speaking. His language is precise and often sarcastic, which reflects not just his intelligence but also his disdain for what he sees as Harry’s lack of subtlety. Snape’s use of imagery and metaphor, especially when he describes consepts, gives his speech a poetic, almost philosophical quality. He takes pleasure in showing off his superior knowledge and uses this as a way to belittle Harry.

We see this clash clearly in OOTP during Harry’s first Occlumency lesson:

Snape looked back at him for a moment and then said contemptuously, “Surely even you could have worked that out by now, Potter? The Dark Lord is highly skilled at Legilimency —” “What’s that?��Sir?” “It is the ability to extract feelings and memories from another person’s mind —” “He can read minds?” said Harry quickly, his worst fears confirmed. “You have no subtlety, Potter,” said Snape, his dark eyes glittering. “You do not understand fine distinctions. It is one of the shortcomings that makes you such a lamentable potion-maker.” Snape paused for a moment, apparently to savor the pleasure of insulting Harry, before continuing, “Only Muggles talk of ‘mind reading.’ The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter . . . or at least, most minds are. . . .” He smirked. Whatever Snape said, Legilimency sounded like mind reading to Harry and he did not like the sound of it at all.

For Harry, when Snape mentions Legilimency, it immediately sounds like “mind reading,” which is a reasonable but overly simple way to understand such a complex concept. His quick jump to this conclusion shows his need to make sense of something that feels threatening, but it also reveals his limited grasp of the deeper nuances.

Snape, however, can’t resist mocking Harry’s lack of subtlety. His response is laced with condescension as he insists on the complexity of the mind and dismisses the idea of “mind reading” as something only muggles would think of. Snape’s explanation is detailed and philosophical, contrasting sharply with Harry’s desire for a straightforward answer.

Another great example of their different communication styles comes in HBP when Snape puts Harry on the spot, asking him to explain the difference between an inferius and a ghost:

“Let us ask Potter how we would tell the difference between an Inferius and a ghost.” The whole class looked around at Harry, who hastily tried to recall what Dumbledore had told him the night that they had gone to visit Slughorn. “Er — well — ghosts are transparent —” he said. “Oh, very good,” interrupted Snape, his lip curling. “Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. ‘Ghosts are transparent.’ ” Harry took a deep breath and continued calmly, though his insides were boiling, “Yeah, ghosts are transparent, but Inferi are dead bodies, aren’t they? So they’d be solid —” “A five-year-old could have told us as much,” sneered Snape. “The Inferius is a corpse that has been reanimated by a Dark wizard’s spells. It is not alive, it is merely used like a puppet to do the wizard’s bidding. A ghost, as I trust that you are all aware by now, is the imprint of a departed soul left upon the earth . . . and of course, as Potter so wisely tells us, transparent.” “Well, what Harry said is the most useful if we’re trying to tell them apart!” said Ron. “When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we’re going to be having a shufti to see if it’s solid, aren’t we, we’re not going to be asking, ‘Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?’

Once again, Harry demonstrates his practical and straightforward approach. He gives a simple, clear distinction based on what would be most useful in a real-life situation—whether the entity is solid or transparent. This shows how Harry tends to focus on what’s immediately relevant and actionable, and Ron’s defense of Harry’s answer highlights this practicality. Ron even points out that in a real-world scenario, Harry’s answer is actually the most helpful, contrasting it with Snape’s more academic approach.

Snape, though, dismisses Harry’s answer as too simplistic and mocks him for stating what he sees as the obvious. Snape’s communication is more about the theoretical and precise understanding of magical concepts. He emphasizes the deeper, more complex nature of an Inferius, which, while academically accurate, is less practical in the context that Harry is thinking of. Snape’s disdain shows that he values this deeper, nuanced understanding more than the direct, practical knowledge that Harry offers.

These moments really bring out the deeper divide between Harry and Snape. Harry approaches things with instinct and a straightforward mindset, while Snape is all about nuance, precision, and seeing the layers in everything. Because they see the world so differently, they struggle to communicate, which only adds to the distrust and misunderstanding between them—a tension that echoes throughout the entire series.