#harry potter book

[artbymaranne]

Here's an updated /slightly more realistic version of my Ginny because I am suffering from an art block and this is the only thing that turned out okayy

[capriddle]

I find it very interesting that Voldemort is often described with a soft tone of voice or with soft, delicate movements. I believe that this further emphasizes his being a Lord also and, above all, in his ways. He is elegant, calm and charming by nature, an excellent conversationalist (for example I think of the Goblet of Fire when he talks to Harry before the Death Eaters arrive). He's not a madman (at least not a total madman) like he appears in some scenes in the films and I really regret that they forced Raplh to play him this way, because he is phenomenal at playing calm but terrifying villains.

[the-most-faithful]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (NEW SCRIPT)

Since the closure of theaters in 2020 due to Covid the play The Cursed Child has been revised and modified, creating a shortened version not divided into two parts, with a total duration of 3 hours. The new show has cut scenes and merged some developments, but has also added scenes and details that have drastically changed the relationship between certain characters. Unfortunately, to date an official version of the revised script has not been published and for those who have not had the opportunity to see the performance we can enjoy this new script.

Thanks to the work of those who attended the show we have a detailed script of the new version in which the relationship between Scorpius and Albus has been made clearly romantic.

The credits for the work in English go to @stormythalamus and here you can find their PDF version. They have given permission to share their work but remember to always give credit, they have put a lot of time and effort into making it.

I instead finished translating the work into my language, Italian, yesterday and you can find it here and here. I'm also working on a layout of it with concept art and illustrations so I can print it out and bind it for personal use. I'll add that to this post as well when it's finished.

Here you can find the Italian translation in pagination: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16W7vvv328eBOkaTgk-Ao-N2OoN_DI2KV/view?usp=sharing

P.S. Hope you like the covers I made English and Italian

[ironkoalastrawberry]

I don't trust fans who hate Harry at all.

[maxdibert]

what do you think of harry joined the ministry as an auror after the war? It doesnt quite sit right with me after all the things he went through—it felt like a damage control move from the ministry with how shitty they were handling the war as in “look he’s one of us!”. i always think that the better fit for harry is to become philanthropist

So, does it make sense for Harry to dedicate himself to hunting dark wizards? Yes.

Do I like seeing the protagonist end up becoming an active part of the establishment and, on top of that, essentially the magical equivalent of an MI5 agent? No. Because ACAB. Because the Ministry of Magic is a corrupt piece of garbage. Because working as the government’s lapdog seems pathetic to me, and to top it off, it leaves a very neoliberal message of “everything changes so everything can stay the same.” There’s no social progress—just killing the big bad villain, but the structure of society and the pillars upholding it remain untouched. They’ve replaced the aristocracy with the upper bourgeoisie, but the working classes? They can still go screw themselves.

I mean, it doesn’t surprise me because Rowling is like that—she’s a bourgeois masquerading as a progressive, but within a framework of neoliberal social democracy leaning conservative. So the end of her saga is a reflection of that.

Harry is bourgeois too—disgustingly rich, without any sense of social or class consciousness. He doesn’t fight Voldemort because Voldemort is an oppressor but because he’s bad, because he killed his parents, because he threatens him and his loved ones. There’s no ideological background to his personal fight. He doesn’t care about those things. The only one who cares even a little about how discriminatory structures in the Wizarding World are built is Hermione with the whole house-elf thing, and even she comes across as nauseatingly paternalistic about it. Very much a “white savior” type.

So yeah, the fact that Harry ends up being a magical cop and everyone else just becomes obedient sheep, neatly integrated into a society that’s still woefully behind in terms of civil, labor, and social rights compared to Muggle society—even in the ’90s—doesn’t surprise me either. They’re all privileged enough not to care about real problems. And those who aren’t privileged to start with end up becoming privileged by association or marriage (the Weasleys). So, yeah, it’s all fine.

Honestly, I can’t see Harry doing anything that wasn’t super bourgeois because, frankly, that’s what suits him. Being a war hero, spending his money, not giving much thought to how they might want to restructure society from the ground up given that it’s basically stuck in the Middle Ages… I don’t know, lol.

[soraya-snape]

This version of Snape though 🔥

(Source: Das inoffizielle Harry-Potter-Buch der Zauberei: Geheimes Wissen von A wie Accio bis Z wie Zentaur)

[rae-zone]

Journal of Tom Marvolo Riddle in

Whispers of the Forgotten Flame

No titles. No Lord. Just me.

She spoke to me again.

Not in words. Never in words.

A vine curled around my wrist this morning. Soft. Gentle. Forgiving. I flinched.

Why?

Because I’ve never known gentleness that didn’t come with an edge.

For decades I thought power was the end of suffering. That if I could rise above everyone—control everything—nothing could ever hurt me again.

But pain doesn't yield to dominance. It waits. Buries itself in the marrow. And no crown protects you from your own ghosts.

I built an empire of fear. I killed in the name of something I didn’t understand—purity. As if magic needed to be clean to be worthy. As if blood could be measured.

But she—Mother Magic—doesn’t see blood. She sees intent.

She sees the child I once was, alone in the orphanage, lighting candles with his tears. She sees every fractured piece of me I tried to bury in names and shadows.

And she forgives me anyway.

I don’t deserve it.

But she never asked for my worth. Only my willingness.

Lucius is quiet these days. Softer. Severus writes in metaphors now—he never did that before. He feels. I think we all do, and it’s terrifying.

We are not the men we were.

Not Death Eaters.

Not heroes.

Not villains.

We are something else.

Something… becoming.

I cast a spell today without speaking. No wand. Just thought. Emotion. It knit a tear in the tapestry wall—not the fabric, but the memory behind it. I saw the woman who wove it. A mother. A Muggle. She stitched magic into thread with nothing but love.

I wept. I didn’t know I still could.

I see now that the darkest thing I ever did wasn’t murder.

It was believing magic belonged to me.

She was never mine to command. Only to love.

And maybe, just maybe—if I walk this path long enough, if I keep listening—she will let me love her back.

Not as a Lord.

Just as Tom.

[mogomoago]

so I wanted to write fanfic about loki ( myths loki , not the Marvel one ) born again as draco in Harry Potter Fandom , it doesn't have much thought in it , and I will do it so I practice and ublock my art block

[silvermoon-1998]

I'm 100% sure Voldemort groomed Bellatrix.

Of course it might have been just a crush at the beginning on Bellatrix's part but I know Voldemort would milk anything to control his followers esp if one is talented in dark arts and duelling.

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[rincewind87]

[capriddle]

The Battle of Hogwarts was one of those moments in the books that couldn't be touched even a little because every detail was fundamental. The triple fight of both Bellatrix and Voldemort, Harry's reaction when Bellatrix touches Ginny, Voldemort's outburst at Bella's death and the whole final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort. We were heavily robbed, maybe we had something more scenographic but we lost so many other things.

[the-most-faithful]

TIME TRAVEL IN THE CURSED CHILD MAKE SENSE

In this video I explained why time travel in TCC makes sense, debunking one of the most common criticisms of the story.

This does not mean that you may not like the story, but criticizing it using facts that are actually canonical and respect the canon as motivations is not fair. As many problems as TCC may have, many of the criticisms made by fans in recent years are easily debunked.

[ironkoalastrawberry]

I wouldn't want to be in Hagrid's shoes... Imagine picking up a little baby from the house of his murdered parents, and then 16 years later having to carry the lifeless body of that same child...

[heyybeach]

Growing up is actually just enjoying the exact same things you enjoyed at 14 years old, but in a more gay way

[outromoony]

“They’re just fictional characters” ok then why do I feel like their heartache personally cracked my ribs?