#harry's kids

[wisteria-lodge]

I’ve always hated how the Weasleys and Ginny just don’t exist in Potter children names, even though they are the only family that Harry has known.

Personally I think that in his 20s Harry would have to be extremely critical of Dumbledore, and would also try to distant himself and his children from all the deaths.

But yeah, I feel like Fred is a name that George could have given to Harry and Ginny, because I feel like he would have felt weird about using it himself (although Rowling’s thoughts on George are bizzare, he marries his brothers ex girlfriend which is like. No), and he and Fred adored both Harry and Ginny. But I bet Bill’s child would have been named Frederick William Weasley. I think his son is older than James Potter Jr.

So Frederick Harry Potter is - yes.

But Weasleys and Potters seem to use a lot of muggle royalty names. Weasleys are more mythological - so everything is very arthurian, and Potters are more contemporary: Harry, James, there is a Charlus in the line. Fleamont is an outlier and even then - Monty. A very posh muggle name.

Idk, why not Richard, Joanne? Why not Margaret? Vivian? Gawain? Maybe dare I say Evan!!! Because Fleamont was a surname!! Ugh I hate her naming choices so so much and by the way we know she is good at naming!! Joanne WHAT in Renesmee was that????

Right??? She is usually really good at this sort of thing. Idk maybe we're supposed to read Harry's kids names as thematic or symbolic (which also doesn't really work, but whatever.) Or she wrote the epilogue after Book 4, which is why everyone still has Book 4 levels of characterization?

In addition to yours (which I like) Harry might also want to consider:

Ariana (tbh I think Albus would be deeply uncomfortable with a child named after him, but would feel much better about a child named after his sister.)

Phoenix

Godric

Wulfric (also a stealth Dumbledore name, and 'Wolf Potter' brings in a little of that Remus + Werewolf angle)

Elaine (gets that Arthurian connection in there, and sounds enough like 'Eileen' that it can be a stealth way to honor the Prince family, if Harry wants to do that. Also she's the "Lily Maid" of Astolat.)

Guinevere (would be Gwennie or Jenny for short, and "Ginny and Jenny" is adorable)

Holly

idk Ginny names her pygmy puff Arnold. Maybe she'd like a super anglo name like Albert, Herbert, Stanley, or Barney (which are also possibly weasley-coded names, if Harry's alias is 'Cousin Barney'?)

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Welp, if JK Rowling being executive producer and therefore being fully involved in the show wasn't enough for people to boycott, then here's HBO basically saying they don't care JK Rowling is a bigot from hell who literally helped lead a harassment campaign of lies against Imane Khalif in her transphobia and obsession with women being terf's standards of women alongside posting harassment against trans people on twitter at times, they gonna stand by her, while using the excuse, "personal views". Hmm, yes, personal views- that's one way to uh, call what the fuck JK Rowling comes out with a-lot- last I checked personal views do come with consquiences if said out loud....a thousand times in JK's case and still counting....especially if they hurt people, but hey, if it means making another Harry Potter project to milk, just let it fucking be I guess.

[girl-drink-drunk]

you would fuck that old man. i would fuck that old man. we are the same. hold my hand

[im-a-mess-of-a-person]

regulus thinking he hates kids.

and then regulus immediately loving little harry so much it hurts to breathe.

because he’s just a mini james and oh my god he’s precious and adorable and regulus would protect him with his life.

harry loves reg too because he’s just so calm and peaceful

the first time he held baby harry he thought he was about to hyperventilate but he’s always giving calm and peaceful anyways

james thinks it’s the most adorable thing ever and he lives to see his two favorite people loving each other.

[limerence-leftovers]

I know two men who are currently single. One is 26, and the other is 38.

I’ve spoken with both of them at length about what they want in a woman, seeing as they’re cishet and white.

They both immediately went for physical attributes. Thin, but needs to have a nice butt. Boobs can’t be too big. One likes short hair, the other likes long hair. They also went into facial features for some reason. That was the part that made me really uncomfortable as I hadn’t expected either of them to have been that focused on appearances.

Aesthetics came next. Both want ‘alt goth / witchy’ women. It should be worth noting both of these men said their potential partner can’t wear too much makeup.

Lastly came personality and interests. They both said this is the most important thing to them, but they also ‘have to be pretty’. Oh, and they need to listen.

I have some single ladies I’ve also spoken with.

It’s the opposite. They rarely care about looks. It’s about chemistry, emotional connection, feeling safe, and sharing common goals / ideals.

While I know it’s not ‘all men’ it sure as fuck is a lot of you. Also both of these men think they’re part of the ‘good cishet white liberal men’ who voted for Kamala, despite one of them not voting at all.

He’s the 38 year old. To make things worse, he’s trying to date a 24 year old. 🤷‍♀️ His criteria for a potential partner was also under the age of 30 because it means less baggage and they’re still ‘fun to be around’.

You don’t want to know what he doesn’t bring to the table. Either of them, rather. 😅

We do have a male loneliness epidemic, but it’s not women’s fault. We don’t owe you anything. We’re not vending machines you put tokens into and get sex out of. Male culture made by men and perpetuated by men has made men this way. And it’s your job as men to fix it, not point the finger at us and say it’s our fault for not wanting to be with you. Some of us like myself want to actually HELP you, but you guys rarely want to listen. You instead want to complain to us about our gender and how unfair we’re being by not giving you a chance.

We don’t owe you anything.

On January 20th, 2025 and forward, they’re going to try to take our rights. They may succeed.

Men have to take from us because they’ve gaslit themselves into seeing us as the enemy, despite having driven us away by their own actions centered around self interest.

“It’s not all men. But it sure is a lot of you.”

[team--charlotte]

at any given moment

[my-castles-crumbling]

letter - Jegulus Microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - word count: 246

“We got an interesting letter in the post today,” Regulus said lightly when James walked into the sitting room, just returning from work.

“Oh? Another from your mother cursing my entire family bloodline?” the taller man joked, sitting next to his husband on the couch and resting his arm around his shoulders.

“I said interesting, not normal,” Regulus rolled his eyes. “No, this was a letter about your son.”

James grinned. “Oh, he’s my son, now? But last week when he caught the Snitch in ten minutes, I seem to recall him being your son.”

“Hm, well, you always did have a wild imagination,” the younger man smirked. “But anyway, do you know what your son did?”

“No, but I can’t wait to find out,” James grinned.

“He snuck off in the middle of the night with your bloody Cloak and tried to go into the Restricted Section. And when he was asked why he said he was trying to find a spell to turn the Slytherins green,” Regulus explained, a frown on his face.

Immediately, James broke into loud laughter, beaming with pride. After a few minutes of chuckles, he finally calmed himself and nodded, looking at an annoyed-looking Regulus. “Yeah, okay,” he acquiesced. “That one’s on me.”

“Quite,” Regulus rolled his eyes.

“But did you save the letter? I want to hang it up,” James asked, eyes shining with glee. “I’m so pr–ow!”

And Regulus didn’t even feel sorry for pushing him so hard.

[vanessas-bookereport]

one thing that so many students forget is that, a win is a win. if you planned on doing english homework but instead you finished your history essay, celebrate that, don’t be upset that you didn’t sick to your plan, at least you got SOMETHING DONE. a win is a fucking win and don’t let anyone tell you different.

[issues4him]

13 year old me happily ignoring the ‘18+’ and ‘MDNI’ on all my favorite smuts

[toorumlk]

— chapter 7, goblet of fire

i felt the strongest urge to draw this endearing scene :’)

[madefortherain]

MY favourite canon wolfstar moment? oh, definitely when harry wonders why sirius never complains about being on his knees for floo calls

[wisteria-lodge]

why wouldn't ginny sign off on severus when she signed off on albus? because in a way dumbledore still manipulated harry but he still gets to be a name for harry's kid

also i think the name fred would have been reserved for george's kids no matter what

do you think that the kids names are mostly related to harry is because ginny can have names related to her from her siblings' kids?

Ginny herself doesn't have any negative associations with Dumbledore, but she totally does with Snape. We know how he is in class, and he was also headmaster that year that the Carrows were running wild and casting crucio as punishments. So if Harry said "I want to name our son Albus," she would probably say... okay, sure. If he said "I want to name our son Albus Severus," I think it would be more... I can't do that Harry. I know he was ultimately a good guy, but I have too many horrible associations around him.

The name Fred is interesting. Because I could also see the reverse, that psychologically another person in the world named 'Fred Weasley' would be just Too Much for George. Letting it be 'Fred Potter' might allow him a little bit of helpful distance. And personally, I would not want to be named after my parent's dead identical twin.

Sadly, I think that the reason all the names go back to Harry is that the narrative just isn't that interested in Ginny. She's important in relation to Harry, and the names of her kids reflect that

[faiell]

seventeen years old

[izooks]

Regular school shootings are only a "fact of life" in the USA because a small minority have figured out how to game the system and impose their will on the majority.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I have ~Thoughts~ on the Harry Potter Phenomenon that was

(Courtesy of memories prompted by this Tumblr Poll)

Back when I was a senior in college (back in the mid-to-late 1980s), I actually wrote a fantasy novel for kids aged ~8 - ~11 (in a self-designed course for a single credit, under the guidance of my Literature advisor), inspired by a series of dreams and recurring characters that showed up in them.

My advisor encouraged me to try and get it published. And so, I arranged with teachers from my old school to have a class of 30 or so 10 year-olds beta read it, and give me feedback for revisions. The kids also encouraged me to try and publish it.

So I did.

Now, back then, there was no "Self Publishing." The closest thing was "Vanity Publishing," where you would pay 100% of the publishing cost of your book, which would be printed in hard copy, for the benefit of having 500 -1,000 books shipped to your personal address, which you were then responsible for storing and selling out of the trunk of your car in a parking lot, somewhere. And if word got out that you were trying to claim credit for being a "published author" because of a Vanity Press book, actual publishers wouldn't touch you with a 40-foot pole.

If you wanted to get published, you had to buy that year's copy of Writer's Market: a listing of magazine and book publishers, and agents, with a brief description of what material they published, and what they wouldn't touch.

Guess what genre no agent or publisher was interested in handling?

That's right, Gentle Readers: Fantasy for children aged 8 - 11. I would have happily sent out a dozen queries for each story I wrote, if there were publishers and agents willing to look at them. But for three to four years of trying, in directories of two-columns of tiny print, and several [hundred]* pages long, I'd be lucky to find two or three outlets even willing to look at fantasy for kids.

The general consensus, across the publishing business, was that fantasy was a dead and obsolete genre. If it was for kids old enough to read chapter books and novels, it must also be firmly grounded in realism and actual history, because everyone knows the only people buying books for kids that age were teachers, who wanted stories with practical applications in the classroom.

***

After 3 - 4 years of trying, while I was in grad school, I finally got a rejection from the one agent who agreed to read my novel. A few days later, I received news that my mother had died from the breast cancer she'd been fighting, and my heart just went out of the project altogether.

A few years later, the first Harry Potter book was published. And it became a worldwide phenomenon. And it was the kids, themselves, who were driving the sales.

See, I think the real reason the books were such a success, even though they were never really very well written, was because they were in a genre the audience was hungry for -- a genre they'd been denied access to for all of their young lives.

Someone who is starving will think even moldy bread is delicious.

*Gosh, what a word to leave out via typo; the Writers Market rivaled the Manhattan Yellow Pages in length.

[lilithofpenandbook]

The scene where Snape protects the kids from Werewolf Lupin is so fucking funny to me

He goes from "IM GONNA MURDER YOU" to "What's going on" to "oh SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!"

The amount of emotions that he goes through in those five seconds is priceless

He literally fucking pauses for a whole second going 'what the fuck..?' and then his brain catches up to his eyes and he goes "WHAT THE FUCK?!!"