#or bc 'it was snape's fault' (it wasnt)

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☕️ wolfstar vs prongsfoot!! thoughts 🎤

omg thank you so much :D what a tasty topic to talk about!

(it got so long im putting it under the cut 😅)

[important note: this is how i feel about those ships, not a meta which ship is better/more canon]

i need to preface with saying that im a wolfstar shipper, first and foremost. I wasnt shipping prongsfoot from the beginning (I wasnt shipping any non-canonical couples while reading / right after finishing the books tbh. shortly after entering the fandom I encountered wolfstar and that might be a major reason why I still ship them). but I do see the appeal of prongsfoot, and I am a proud wolfstarbucks enjoyer. (also note that I imagine them by default in their 20s, so before Azkaban, but after Sirius runs away, but i will talk about book canon too). But enough personal lore. 

prongsfoot is an amazing ship and in a different universe it would be The Ship of The Marauders / MWPP fandom - have some things happened differently (if we got more actual James content earlier than the 5th book). They are joined at the hip, they invented the two-way mirrors to talk during detentions, Sirius runs away and the Potters take him in, Sirius is bored and James tries to lighten him up by bullying Snape, James trusts Sirius with his literal life. They are each other's favorite person, they would fight for each other, stand up for each other, give their life for the other. They are soulmates, two sides of the same coin, and they do love each other, there is no denying that. Also they are both attractive, capable and competent, so I 100% get the appeal of this ship. However most of the time (not always, just, usually) i see their love as unrequired, romantically speaking. (they love each other and sirius is in love with james - that is true, for me, in every universe - i.e. in canon and in wolfstar concepts/scenarios. however james being in love with sirius romantically is true in prongsfoot-aligned universes) 

Narratively (canonically) speaking, both ships are extremely tragic (and thats what makes both of them interesting*). James dies at 21 and Sirius blames himself for it for the rest of his life, gets locked up in torture prison, and cannot even make up for it by fulfilling his role as a godfather. // Sirius and Remus lose trust in each other during the war, believe the other is the traitor, and even after they miraculously reunite their time together is cut short with Sirius being on a run and then dying. 

But there's one thing that makes wolfstar so compelling to me - they get each other, on some level that nobody else gets access to. 

[note: we are entering headcanon and projection territory, from the pov of a r/s shipper]

I'm not saying James doesn't understand or support Sirius - of course he does. James would be on Sirius’s side no matter what - even if everyone else thinks Sirius is wrong, even if he knows he is wrong. They are ride or die. They also understand each other on a, lets say, intellectual level - they are both exceptionally intelligent, they always agree with each other and they do everything together (bullied Snape, made the map (yeah, remus and peter helped), became animagi (peter was there too i guess), joined the order at the same time etc). 

But there is some part of Sirius that I think James never truly grasps and Sirius never feels truly understood even though he knows james loves and supports him. And thats what makes wolfstar so special to me, bc I think that Remus does get Sirius. 

Wolfstar get each other in a way that they recognize some part - ugly, twisted, buried deeply and hidden from everyone - in the other. They are both deeply misunderstood, traumatized by their childhoods and oppressed by society - just in different ways - and there is no one else who truly gets them on this level. 

While Remus had a relatively happy childhood and caring parents, he was turned when he was five and then later learned it was partially his father’s fault, and was virtually isolated from his peers until he went to Hogwarts; he has a much lower social status than J & S, he is poor and can't find a job (especially after POA) and is generally having a bad time because of his lycanthropy. 

Sirius was emotionally and psychologically abused by his parents that expected him to be the perfect pureblood heir and then, after making his life so miserable he run away, cut him off; also if I remember correctly artemisia-black wrote a meta about Sirius being a victim of the society he was born to “rule”. At the same time, while he is a pureblood, when he runs away he loses the heir status and for a bit (a year? i think?) he has no money to his name. And obviously he is tortured during Azkaban, and then later he is an ex-con on a run with a bounty on his head. 

I also think they both carry some self-loathing in their hearts (just, again, different kinds). Sirius hates himself in a “I was born wrong and deep down I’m evil (and I have to work my whole life to make up for this” way (partially bc he was born in a bigoted abusive family. partially bc he is a scorpio i guess). Remus hates himself in a “I am unworthy of love and I don't deserve nice things” way. 

They are so different - probably couldn't be more different - their personalities and worldviews and even values don't match - and yet there is no one else now who understands the other better.

And then, after POA, turns out they are the only ones left – moreover, they did not only go through the same war, they went through the exact same loss. 

And I do think its evident in canon, to some extent. They reunite after Azkaban and immediately forgive each other – to me it speaks volumes about their relationship pre-Azkaban. How they almost seem like they are reading each others minds in the shack scene, the way they are so ready to murder Peter, and to do it together, how they fall back into a familiar rhythm. They forgive each other 12 years of heartbreak and loneliness and in Sirius’s case torture and knowing the other thought they were a traitor in one short conversation. Would Sirius ask for forgiveness for believing Remus was the traitor if he didnt care about him? Would he accept Remus’s own apology? 

Anyways. 

It turned into a meta about wolfstar. Im. so sorry. 

I'm not saying wolfstar is more “canon” - bc it isn't, especially from the doylist perspective (jkr didnt intend for them to be read as a couple). But I did read the metas proving that wolfstar is canon written while the books where coming out and my heart breaks for those people who still had hope back then. It also doesnt really matter which is more canon (its prongsfoot) (but again, not from the doylist perspective). 

In conclusion, I like prongsfoot and I do think its a very good ship I ship them in a more passive way - i reblog metas and fanarts, I have one fic idea that technically starts with prongsfoot and sometimes I read fics, but i dont think about them enough to call myself a prongsfoot shipper per se. But I do think Sirius is in love with James, even while shipping him with Remus. I know I sound like a broken record, but Im once again bringing up wolfstarbucks - I do ship prongsfoot in the wolfstarbucks context, but not so much on their own, if that makes sense - and not bc I dont get the appeal, bc I do. But Im also delusional and Ive been shipping wolfstar for way too long to abandon this ship now, even if shipping them is very impractical (for various reasons). 

*also i think it interesting that i mostly engage with domestic fluff, hurt/Comfort, angst-with-a-happy-ending, fix-it type of fics. its not bc i wish things happened differently in canon (maybe besides sirius dying but thats a separate, not shipping, issue). wolfstar is tragic, in a way, but i very rarely engage in canon-compliant type of content. however I wouldnt be interested in wolfstar if it wasnt tragic. i know many people have different approaches to shipping, and it might be weird to see someone talk about how tragic wolfstar is and the turn around and talk about how happy they are in a seaside cottage or whatever. tragedy of wolfstar makes it interesting for me and a seaside cottage makes me happy bc i get sad when i think about canon. also did i mention im a delusional person. 

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Ok so for context, this is when molly is hugging harry after the minister came in and was being ignorant about Voldemort coming back.

A sweet moment, bc harry is blaming himself and molly told him that it wasnt his fault.

And it's abruptly broken by Hermione slamming the window to catch something. We know that it's rita skeeter that she caught right? So that means rita was in there the entire time. And prior to the hugging, sentimental stuff, Dumbledore was in there with snape and mcgonagall and telling them what they had to do in prep against voldy. And he let molly and snape find out about sirius's animagus form bc he needed sirius and snape to reconcile, or at least be nice to each other bc they have to work together in the order.

So he asks Sirius to transform. So that means that rita saw him transform. Even if she didnt see, she mustve heard molly exclaiming sirius black. So had hermione not caught rita, everyone would've found out about sirius

[lizziebennet]

aurora who is your fave and leave fave HP character? who do you think is most/least overrated? Underrated? Is there any part of canon you ignore/disagree with? Do you have any headcanons you feel are #real or should be? What are some of your fave moments from the books? From the movies? In a HP mood :)

yessss anon lets get INTO IT!!!!!!!!!

my favorite character is harry himself which i guess is kind of an odd choice. but as much as i love lOVE other characters like ginny hermione sirius remus ron i COULD KEEP GOING harry is like my #1 for all time. my ride or die. my boy. my heart is so full of love for him. 

my least favorite character is snape lmao

i think a character that is overrated is draco?? like there are sooo many draco stans and people who ship draco with like p much every character u can think of and i just never really got that?? like i think some people view him as a like a tortured bad boy character but if u go and reread like PoA or something its like.. no ... hes just a giant dick like sure maybe he’s not capable of murdering another human being but that doesnt make him a good person it just means hes not a total sociopath... lets raise the bar a little higher yall 

i feel like ron is an underrated character and im also guilty of this. like when i think about harry potter characters i love ron is not the first or like third name that comes to mind BUT i do think he is an integral part of the trio. his friendship w harry is so important and hes so warm and loving and like yeah he has a lot of faults but hes brave and good too. i think this is largely due to the movies’ portrayal of ron. they used him as a vessel for comic relief and ended up making him seem very dumb?? rip :/

i try my absolute hardest to forget that cursed child ever happened ! 

as for headcanons i dont have a ton that are super fleshed-out. idk nothing comes to mind rn...

FAVE BOOK MOMENTS: wheN harry freaks out in dumbledores office after sirius dies in OotP is one of my favorite scenes in literaTURE HISTORY, “theres no need to call me sir, professor” , “several sunlit days” , “roonil wazlib” , harry deciding that he would fight voldemort even if there wasnt a prophecy in HBP, and counTLESS MORE THAN FOR SOME REASON DIDNT MAKE IT INTO THE MOVIES 

favorite movie moments: buckbeak’s flight in PoA, the graveyard stuff in GoF, the last scene in SS.... tbh this was hard i have so many issues w the movies

thanks for being curious peach im always down to discuss hp and this was so kismet bc i actually had dreams involving hp last night!!