#hpatootp

[caffeineheroes]

Harry shrugs. “I’ve probably done more dangerous things.”

Sirius shares an alarmed look with Remus, and Sirius clears his throat. “That might be, but it would gut me if anything happened to you.”

Harry gives Sirius a startled look. “Oh.”

“Yeah, oh,” Sirius replies. “You might have to do dangerous things. I might not be able to prevent it, or protect you. But I want you to take care of yourself as much as you can.”

Harry nods. “I promise.”

“Good enough for me,” Sirius replies. “I just need to know that you’re not going to hurl yourself into danger like a Gryffindor.”

Harry laughs. “I thought that was my job?”

“Try to think about it before you do,” Remus says wryly. “I think that’s all we can ask.”

--From Stronger at the Broken Places, "Part the First: In Which Sirius Begins to Prepare," by enigmaticblue (Part 3 of The Many Lives of Sirius Black series)

[barnabusthebarmyballetschool]

Think

@hinnymicrofic Day 13 | 288 words

With Cho, he overthinks.

He overthinks about how to ask her to the Yule ball, until it is too late and she has a date already.

He overthinks about how cool he looks next to Neville and Luna with sap from some weird plant in Neville's lap covered on his face.

He overthinks how to flirt. How to find the right funny thing to say that might make her smile.

He overthinks how to kiss her for the first time. Where he should place his hands, how much pressure should he put into his lips? Open or closed mouth? He waits for an excuse like a mistletoe to kiss her.

But with Ginny, everything comes naturally. It is innate, as easy as breathing. As if his body was wired to know how to be with her without even thinking how to be.

He doesn't think to ask her to the ball, but he subconsciously watches her all night long. How she winces when Neville steps on her toes.

He is not embarrassed sitting next to Neville and Luna with sap on his face because she is sitting right next to him, covered in it as well. She laughs at the look on his face before cleaning him with a simple charm.

He doesn't even consider it flirting with Ginny as they tease each other constantly that summer before his sixth year. Everything he says makes her smile. And everything she does makes him burst into a fit of laughter.

He kisses her without even thinking about it or without ever planning it. One look at her blazing gaze and Harry knew. He knew how to hold her, how to kiss her. 

With Ginny, he doesn't think. He knows

[blitheringmcgonagall]

I like reminding myself of this quote from hpatootp:

“Like the person Sirius cared the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

And this quote from the film (it’s actually Dumbledore in the book) I think fits really well for Sirius:

Harry: And what if after everything I've been through, something's gone wrong inside me. What if I'm becoming bad?

Sirius: I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. You understand?

This part really hits hard.

Because it’s heartbreaking hearing Harry think so badly of himself and have such self-doubt. And because Sirius shows what a fantastic godfather he is and how much he truly loves Harry.

And because surely he’s thinking of another lost teenager who bad things happened to.

And a grey-haired elderly wizard with dark skin who said the same words to him many years ago after he ran away from home.

[harrison-osterfield-appreciation]

| Anyway, trans rights.

[lemonemenom]

“Have a biscuit Potter. And sit down.”

@buginateacup

[1outofmymind]

And not only students.

just read “snape’s worst memory” and i’ve got to say that if the rest of his backstory is along the same lines, that’s sad but it’s no excuse to be a dick to your students

[alicewonderful]

[its-a-constant-vibe]

[asexualenjolras]

"I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. You understand? Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters." - Sirius Black to Harry Potter, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'.

What I love most about this quote from Sirius is that I can imagine Remus Lupin saying it to him during their time at Hogwarts.

Imagine: Sirius has just abandoned his family and finally run away, and is living with James and the Potter family. But before he did, his mother had screamed:

"You are a Black, Sirius - you have our blood in you. It runs deep inside you. You are one of us. You always will be."

And Sirius begins to believe it. He starts to believe that he is, too, a bad person. Like his family. And he tells the Marauders how he feels, and he is vulnerable in front of them for one of the first times in his life. And Remus shuffles forward onto Sirius' bed, kneels in front of him and touches his face and runs his finger across his cheek, wiping the tears and, very simply, tells him:

"I want you to listen to me very carefully, Padfoot. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. You understand? Besides, the world isn't split into good people and bad people. You're a Marauder. And we love you."

AND - I can also imagine Sirius having said it to Remus in return, after a particularly nasty transformation. Remus cries that he is afraid that he, deep down, is a bad person. And Sirius shuffles closer to him, placing a hand on his cheek and running his finger softly down his scar before saying:

"I want you to listen to me very carefully, Moony. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. You understand? Besides, the world isn't split into good people and bad people. You are my Moony. And I love you."

And Sirius remembers it and holds the words close to him. And then finally shares them with Harry, because that's the thing that got him through the torture of Azkhaban and the Dementors.

[weasleyapologist]

best fucking purchase of my life

[caffeineheroes]

Today is Halloween 2023. Do you remember where you were on this day in 2012?

Visualize it.

Now imagine your best friends were just murdered. You were betrayed and falsely imprisoned for their deaths.

You're still in prison and your name is Sirius Black.

Not until next summer do you finally escape, living off rats in a dilapidated house on your old school's property while hunting the man who framed you.

Freedom is snatched away a second time and you go back on the run, but at least you don't spend the summer in prison. Yet as the leaves bloom red and gold, you find yourself living in a cave, begging for scraps at a nearby village through frost and snow.

The following summer, you go back to the childhood home of your nightmares where you were physically and emotionally abused until you ran away for good. Or so you thought. You spend the next year locked inside, not allowed to leave. Visitors come and go, sometimes staying a few nights or even weeks. But the rest of the time you are alone with the literal screams of your mother's cursing and slurs echoing through the empty house.

Your last summer arrives, but you don't know it yet. You leave the house to save your godson and never return. You're 37 when you pass through the veil.

You were 33 when you escaped from prison.

And you were only 21 when your bright future was snuffed out.

---

We forget how young Sirius was when he went to Azkaban. Or what 12 years really means until we look back on how young WE were 12 years ago. How much we've changed and the experiences that shaped us. That whole time, Sirius was trapped in a time capsule of his darkest depression. And after all that time, he barely lived at all.

[azoraahai]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Avengers: Endgame (2019)

[1outofmymind]

Justice for Sirius Black.

SIRIUS BLACK DESERVED BETTER

[alansrickman]

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[everygif]

Fred and George in Order of the Phoenix•

[cinnamonhoney-tea-moved]

Headcanon that Tonks took on Lupin as a middle name.

So she's Nymphadora Whichever-Ludicrous-Middle-Name-Rowling-Has-Assigned-Her Lupin "Dora" Tonks. :)