#hp6

[hogwartscastle]

Snape after Harry Potter injured a classmate with one of his own created spells:

[romionarry]

harry being overtaken by the sudden bone-deep certainty that something is horrifyingly wrong with his best friend a split second before anything alarming actually happens … curious

[hpseeker99]

Bellatrix: I'm a reverse necromancer. Harry: Isn't that just killing people? Bellatrix: Ah, technicality.

[wambsroy]

“Let go, Bella!" snarled Narcissa, and she drew a wand from beneath her cloak, holding it threateningly in the other's face. Bella merely laughed.

"Cissy, your own sister? You wouldn't —"

"There is nothing I wouldn't do anymore!" Narcissa breathed, a note of hysteria in her voice, and as she brought down the wand like a knife, there was another flash of light. Bella let go of her sister's arm as though burned.

— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter two: Spinner’s end.

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katie mcgrath (merlin) as bellatrix lestrange

elizabeth debicki (tenet) as narcissa malfoy

[meear]

"it is my mercy, and not yours, that matters now" was a raw fucking line like rip albus haters but im different

[spiritedstars]

"I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."

[kawaii-kozume]

What's your comfort movie? Mine's one about a genocidal cult rising to power and intimidating children to do their bidding, like murder!

[thenicestthingiveseen]

Me: Harry Potter had the potential to be even better than it was if it didn’t erase and destroy the characterization in the book

Also me: *completely forgiving and understanding of things that had to be chopped and sacrificed for the sake of the FirstPrince love story within a 2 hour limit*

Don't worry rwrb film, you're safe with me

[halfbloodgf]

Can we talk about the fact that Severus Snape left everyone, both the characters and the readers, like this: 🤡🤡

I mean, no one knew wtf was going on with him. One moment u think he's bad, the next u think he's good. And then u think he's the villain again. But then he gives his memories to Harry and we all realize that he was the fucking hero all along.

In hp1, we think it's Snape who was trying to steal the philosopher's stone, or who tried to knock Harry off his broom. But then comes the end, and we find out that he stopped Harry from falling (saved his life) and was protecting the stone...🤡

We still hated him in hp 2 and 3...

In hp4 Harry suspects that Snape had the Dark Mark, and ends up discovering that he did. There's even the scene that Harry sees: Igor Karkaroff accuses Snape in court in front of the Wizengamot, saying he was a Death Eater, and we're all like😯😃 (finally know the truth!!). But then Dumbledore defends him😐🧍🏻‍♀️, and no one, not Karkaroff, not Harry, not us readers, understand anything. We don't know whether to trust him or not. So, again...🤡

In hp5 everything is confusing with him. We don't know if he wants to help Harry (occlumency lessons) or not. He calls Voldemort "Dark Lord" (only Death Eaters do), we see his worst memory, which, again, leaves us bewildered and not knowing what the hell to think of him now. Harry himself doubts that his father was a good person, even wondering if James didn't force Lily to marry him, and empathizes with Snape. Then the whole thing with the prophecies, and Harry trying to warn Snape about Sirius and his supposed kidnapping. The Order arrives to save Harry and his friends, which suggests that Snape warned them.

But along comes hp and the Half-Blood Prince, Snape appears to be helping Draco Malfoy with what the Lord entrusted him with —The scene where Bellatrix accuses him, tells him that she doesn't trust him, and then she is surprised:

In the books:

[...]Do you really think that the Dark Lord has not asked me each and every one of those questions? And do you really think that, had I not been able to give satisfactory answers, I would be sitting here talking to you?”

She hesitated. “I know he believes you, but…”

“You think he is mistaken? Or that I have somehow hoodwinked him? Fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen?”

[...]

“And through all this we are supposed to believe Dumbledore has never suspected you?” asked Bellatrix. “He has no idea of your true allegiance, he trusts you implicitly still?”

“I have played my part well,” said Snape.

In the movies:

The line where he says “Dumbledore is a great wizard”, Snape is actually being smug and subtly saying he’s such a good actor (I mean, come on, the man deserves a fucking Oscar), he’s managed to deceive Voldemort so well that he has revealed his grand plan to him. He practically seems to be laughing at the double meaning of his own words, mocking and lying to the black sister's faces like the fucking boss he is. The way he's literally drinking a glass of wine while laughing at the Dark Lord. The whole scene is just excellent.

So at the end of hp6, Snape reveals to us that he was the half-blood prince for whom the fucking book is named, ends up murdering none other than ALBUS DUMBLEDORE, and we all learn that all this time his true loyalties were with the dark side...🤡

Oh no, wait! Hp7 arrives, Voldemort kills Snape :0 (Yes!), gives his memories to Harry, and Harry sees his memories and... (NOO😦😨😰😭💔💀). We found out he wasn't the bad guy. That, in fact, he was IN LOVE WITH HARRY'S MOM —"always" still hurts :')— That all this time he was our ally...🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

He practically played with all of us, with LORD VOLDEMORT, the Death Eaters, the Order of the Phoenix, Harry... well, WITH EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WIZARDING WORLD. And he did it as if he were:

Harry fucking Potter named one of his sons after him, which must have made a lot of people roll in their graves (James and Sirius out of anger, Snape out of laughter).

This mf literally woke up one day and said: "okay, here begins my reputation era bitches.😎 Let's leave a few of them looking like🤡🤡"

PD: Sorry if something is written wrong, english is not my language.

[teddyniffler]

Do you think the Gaunts, as Parcelmouths, are immune to snake venom? I am thinking back to hp6, when Morfin was playing with an Adder, they have venom, and Morfin seemed angry with his last snake as he had nailed it to the door... (lovely)... I'm thinking it bit him.

Adder vemon isn't paticularly too dangerous to humans though, so this is why he didn't die. Say if a black mamba were to bite a Gaunt, would the outcome be different?

Please reblog if you would like to for more votes, I am hoping to collect people's thoughts on this

[isalisewrites]

I have been reading your posts tagged as anti jkr and I deeply appreciate how loud and stubborn you are to continue with loving and creating with your full heart.

I have been feeling so conflicted with the recent news and it hurts more being surrounded by people who are so ready to throw me into the pits if they knew. I create hp fanworks in private and away from my other accounts but that doesn’t take away the nagging fear. Well anyways, as you say, I am not going to let these people bully me into what they deem as “good and pure and what is right” I am a trans queer polyam loving person and I refuse to back down.

Thank you immensely again. I hope you have a wonderful night.

And this is why I stay.

Who is anyone to tell a transperson what they're allowed to do or how they're allowed to feel or how they're allowed to interact in this fandom space? This is a shitty situation all around. We know this.

I stay to make people like you feel safe and loved.

I send you all of my huggles and my love, sweetie. Keep being you and keep creating beautiful things that can only be created because you exist.

I'll opine for a bit here. Harry Potter fandom is nothing like Harry Potter canon. No one over here is praising JKR's writing and her version of events.

I write Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort and Newt Scamander/Tom Riddle | Voldemort, both wildly gay pairings. But I'm a multi shipper, so I'll read just about any queer pairing. I've read Sirius/Severus. Draco/Harry. Hell, I've read a handful of Fenrir Greyback/Voldemort. (Not enough of those, I'll say) If the haters think we're obsessed with JKR's version of Harry Potter, they're woefully out of touch. We don't give a shit about HP Canon. I've haven't read the books in over a decade and, little known secret, but I've actually never read HP7 and I've only seen the HP7 and HP8 movies once. I fucking HATED HP6 when it came out and boycotted the series when I was 17. Two decades ago. I only returned to HP because of fanfiction, Severitus fanfiction specifically, when I was 24.

I don't give two shits about canon.

But fanfiction? I love it. I want to see more trans characters in Harry Potter fanfiction stories. I want to see more gay characters. I want to see trans Harry, trans Voldemort. I want to see a variety of ethnicities and sexualities in fanfiction.

Oh, I do have one recommendation off the top of my head.

Godfathers is a Severitus fic that features a Severus/Sirius pairing and a trans ftm Severus. This is my all time favorite version of Severus Snape. One of the best written Severus Snape of all time, in my humble opinion. I appreciate this fic so much.

Those of us in fandom understand that the canon material is subpar. But watering it down to "It's just a children's book. Get over it." is ridiculous and just uninformed. Books 1 - 3 definitely feel like children's books, but books 4 - 7 are far too mature for children. I'd classify Harry Potter as YA (young adult) novels. You know, the same category of The Hunger Games and Twilight.

And I think it's for these very reasons why Harry Potter is the largest fandoms of fanfiction stories of all time. Nobody really cared about HP until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire came out, the book where Voldemort comes back. The same one where Cedric dies and Harry is tortured by Voldemort. Nobody cared about HP when it seemed like it was just a children's book series.

There are 850k fics on fanfiction.net and 573k fics on AO3. This isn't counting other websites that solely host Harry Potter fanfiction, too.

There's a reason why there is SO MUCH of it.

It's because the source material is so shallow. We're given just enough to play with and given enough space to change it for the better. JKR isn't a good writer, including her recent stuff. I've broken down passages of her writing before and she's woefully deficient in the art of writing itself. She got lucky. Right time, right place. She got the fame and the money, and this is what she's chosen to do with it.

If someone who has no resources decides to send anon hate to others, I can't imagine what that person would do if they suddenly have the same amount of resources.

To all those spreading more hate because of JKR behind the safety of your screens with what tiny amount of influence you have, if you suddenly had billions of dollars, what would you do with it? Would you suddenly be kinder and advocate for others? Would you suddenly be kind?

Or would you continue to be the same exact person you are today where you try to hurt and frighten others simply because they see a side of this nuanced area that you don't see? Because life isn't black and white.

JKR can't see transpeople like we do. JKR can't love like we do. JKR can't build friendships like we do.

To the haters, you're no different than JKR; you just have less power than her.

I think I'll indulge a bit into canon and quote Movie Harry from The Order of the Phoenix for this.

“You’re the weak one. You’ll never know love or friendship... ...and I feel sorry for you.”

Isa

[romionarry]

safety warning. when reading the harry potter books DO NOT play a drinking game where you take a shot every time harry or ron try to aggressively defend each other’s honour. you will get alcohol poisoning

[hpseeker99]

Professor McGonagall: Alright, I've got a box. We're going to put everything we hate inside the box. Ron: Can I put the Dursleys' in the box? Professor McGonagall: No Hermione: Can I put the Dursleys' in the box? Professor McGonagall: No! Ginny: Can I put the Dursleys' in the box? Professor McGonagall: NO! Neville: Can I- Professor McGonagall: NO ONE IS PUTTING THE DURSLEYS' INSIDE THE BOX!

[del-stars]

Bellatrix <3?

favorite thing about them: her level of cunt

least favorite thing about them: killed my blorbo

favorite line: idk if this is a line from the books but in hp6 when she says 'make the unbreakable vow' helena was giving preteen me an Awakening

brOTP: narcissa that's her girl fr

OTP: quillkillerrrrr

nOTP: not sure if they have a ship name but bellatrix/voldemort

random headcanon: makes a lot of her own clothes

unpopular opinion: fandom will bend over backwards justifying the actions of male characters but act like everything she (&walburga&umbridge) did was just pure evil zero nuance

song i associate with them: hmmm maybe hayloft by mother mother

favorite picture of them: this art by likeafunerall!

character ask game!

[nocturnal-phantoms-fandoms]

Regulus Arcturus Black. in less than an hour:

for @pieceofshitregulus fest

a word, under the cut

Ive no idea if anyone will vibe to it, but alas, I made it, might as well share it. I wanted to focus on what we know about R.A.B: how he joined the Death Eaters so young, how he found out about the Horcruxes, and his journey to the cave.

Icarus - Bastille Natural - Imagine Dragons LOOKATME - Jann you should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde Emperor’s New Clothes - Jann Meet Me In The Woods - Lord Huron Battle Cry - Imagine Dragons We Have It All - Pim Stones What The Water Gave Me - Florence + The Machine The Drink Of Despair - Nicholas Hooper [HP6 Soundtrack] Deep End - Ruelle Goner - Twenty One Pilots In the End - Linking Park

below my interpretation of the songs

Icarus is great for an opening song. It encapsulates the whole of Regulus; his ambition - that led him to join the Death Eaters - was what brought his untimely death and he can blame no one but himself. I especially like the line "you'll drink yourself to death" because his death was, in part, due to the potion he drank. (Also here the part "you leave because you're certain of who you want to be" can be seen as Regulus making the final decision to betray Voldemort and steal his Horcrux, which was the choice that led directly to his death).

Natural is Regulus's internal dialogue, whenever he tries to rationalise the values he was raised with ("In this house of mine nothing ever comes without a consequence or cost"), the sacrifices he needs to make to fulfill the role he's supposed to play in the pureblood society ("That's the price you pay" "You gotta be so cold to make it in this world"), and the choice to join the DE ("rather be the hunter than the prey"). He may battle with himself, but at the end of the day he is a natural - a rightful heir - and he takes great pride in that.

LOOKATME is here because of the lines "I lived for validation I met your expectations Pushed down on my temptation That's not what I want". I see Regulus as a dutiful son, a perfect heir, but one that was craving even more power and raw violence than his parents. He was raised to represent the oldest, most noble pureblood family, in a modest and respectable way - instead his greed pushed him to join the extremist group trying to seize the power by force.

you should see me in a crown is self explanatory. (Though I will admit it fits Bellatrix rather than Regulus a smidge better.)

Everybody Wants To Rule The World is the exact moment Regulus learns about Voldemort’s Horcrux - after joining the Death Eaters (Verse 1) and before planning to go to the cave (Verse 2) to destroy it (Bridge and last Chorus). Here the lines “Turn your back on Mother Nature” and “Nothing ever lasts forever” have a double meaning: they refer both to Regulus (when he joins the Death Eaters; and when he decides to sacrifice his life) and to Voldemort from Regulus’s perspective (what Regulus believes making a Horcrux entails; and what he essentially says in his letter).

Emperor's New Clothes can be a Regulus song if you are delusional trying hard enough. The lines that are repeated for the second time is how Regulus is recalling them after he learns about Horcruxes. While at first he was happy to serve and obey and make sacrifices for his Lord, now he is bitter, thinking about the promises (of power) that turned out to be lies (because apparently Voldemort is trying to become immortal). Regulus betrays Voldemort because he feels betrayed by him in the first place, and the feeling of hurt is so strong, the need to do something about it - throw it all away - so overwhelming, he starts wondering if becoming a Death Eater was ever worth it; to the point of questioning his own hunger for power, even trying to convince himself he never craved it in the first place.

Meet Me In The Woods has some “Regulus learning the truth about Horcruxes and slowly realising what he has to do” vibes. And the lyrics of Battle Cry just scream “Regulus making the final decision to steal the Horcrux”.

We Have It All is another perfectly Regulus song. It’s from the perspective of someone who makes a pact with the devil knowing it was the wrong choice, doesn’t entirely regret it (or is only now starting to) and makes excuses for himself - but in the end calls out to someone who could save him.

What The Water Gave Me: water themed suicide painted as a sacrifice for one’s loved ones. Need I say more? That, The Drink Of Despair from the Harry Potter soundtrack, and Deep End refer to the exact moment of Regulus’s sacrifice via the potion in the cave.

There is a lot of irony in Regulus’s sacrifice that accomplished next to nothing and I believe it makes him that much more tragic as a character. He was promptly forgotten by everyone but a house elf, did not help his cause in any way and Voldemort never even found out that it was him who discovered his secret. Hence the last two songs: Goner, which is another one of Regulus’s letters (begging to be known and remembered after his death) and In the End, because it didn’t even matter.

[meear]

Friendly reminder that Fred and George literally tried to murder another student for trying to take House points from them

Like I know we apparently don't give a damn about NPCs in Harry Potter, but it's insane to me how no one acknowledges how fucking vile the Weasley twins were

(unrelated but it's also very funny how self-righteous Fred and George acted over Percy being a "git" and how they were convinced of their own moral superiority because they were on the good side, when I'm convinced Percy would never have done something so horrible)

Same goes for Harry and Ron mind you. The level of apathy and cruelty they demonstrate is CRAZY like they legit do not give a fuck. And yeah, I wasn't much better than them as a teenager when it came to people I didn't like, but surely that is something that should be addressed by the narrative?? By anyone? Hermione gets like 0,5 brownie point for suggesting that maybe they should tell someone (YES??) but considering she does jackshit about it that doesn't exactly endear her to me

Despite how many times Slytherin is said to be the evil house while Rowling glorifies the Gryffindor House (and she absolutely does, there are many examples in the books), the murder attempts between the two houses have been pretty one-sided (Fred&George to Montague and Sirius to Snape, not to mention the Weasley twins and Sirius were both 100% unapologetic.

Edit: yes, I was intentionally and graciously omitting Harry's attempt towards Draco in HP6 because even though using an unknown spell was unbelievably stupid, Harry had no idea Sectumsempra would do that and he felt awful about it + Draco did try to Crucio him. I'm watching you, though, Harry. You got over it a lil' too quickly when Ginny defended you.)

Well, Crabbe did try to kill the trio in HP7 , though 1) it was in the context of the war, they weren't exactly students anymore, but most importantly 2) the event is treated with the appropriate amount of horror for the situation

I think it's really fucked up that no one seems to find it a problem or even remember it but hey that's just me!