#sirius black apologist

[faithless-lovers]

Alright, hear me out here - The difference between Sirius and Remus is the difference between how Mental health and Physical health is treated.

Remus has an ailment that's visible, it takes a toll on him every month, it leaves phsycial scars on his body, it's not just actively discriminated against but places several obstacles to inclusion in regular life. Be it holding down a full time job or creating spaces to accommodate his issues, it singles him out. It creates barriers. It’s something he has to live with daily.

Sirius however is plagued by mental health issues. There are plenty we can attribute to him - trauma and PTSD being the most obvious ones. Depression, shades of ADHD and eating disorders are also things that can be included but let's focus on trauma for now. He grew up in an abusive home (verbal or physical doesn't matter) and things were terrible enough for him to run away.

I also think it's fair to assume that Sirius was on the high functioning end of things - and by that I mean he didn't freeze or shut down or make himself smaller as a result of the abuse, he fought/lashed out/caused trouble - but ultimately Sirius retained a mask of being alright. He aced tests. He was popular. He remained rich.

So at first glance, he's alright. Remus is not.

But Remus’s issues are easier to support - to support not live with mind you. I am NOT dismissing the difficulty of a physical disability or it's impact on a person's quality of life.

I'm only saying, Sirius’s issues are easier to overlook. If he's stubborn enough to not address them, or to deflect attention from it, he can. It doesn't mean the issues are less severe, it means they can be missed.

That's always the difference between a mental health struggle vs the struggle with a physical one. If you find one easier to sympathize with, maybe it's because that's how society has conditioned us to think.

So especially the wolfstar shippers who do the poor Remus, Sirius never deserved him idea? Please shove it. The poor little Regulus, Sirius owed him better thing? Stop. Just because he didn't nosedive into a lake/kill himself doesn't mean he had it easier. If anything the fact that Regulus's mental health was also in shambles is proof of how terrible their childhood was. Also, one isn't meant to protect another just because he was slightly older, when the whole point is that they were both kids who reacted to trauma differently. How does this Fandom forgive Peter faster than Sirius - who BTW didn't commit any actual crimes. Smh.

Yes, I woke up feeling bitter today alright?

[steorras]

i've actually made defending sirius my life's purpose

[maxdibert]

Marauders fans who try to whitewash the actions of James Potter and Sirius Black or excuse them with the pretext that Snape joined the Death Eaters, I have news for you: you’re a bunch of classist idiots, and you don’t even realize it because you’ve never bothered to open a damn book to read about how capital and power work and how they are connected.

Was Severus Snape a racist? No, because believe it or not, there are many reasons to join an extremist group, and when we talk about vulnerable youths, ideology is often the last motive. Severus joined the Death Eaters because he wanted protection, he wanted to fit in somewhere, he wanted power. That need for protection stemmed from coming from a home filled with violence, but also from being systematically bullied at school without any consequences. In fact, not even the attempt to murder him had consequences. His life meant nothing, while his abusers—those rich, popular, and handsome kids (economic capital, social capital, physical capital)—did whatever they wanted without facing consequences. He was poor, friendless, and ugly, so he had no power, he was nothing. The only way to become something, to gain status and defend himself, was to do what other people with capital told him to do, those people he met at his house who didn’t treat him like an outcast. They promised that if he joined their group, he too could win, he could have power, he could be part of something—and he accepted. And he accepted because people like him only know how to do one thing: survive. A poor kid raised in violence is a survivor, and survivors do whatever it takes to stay alive. And they do ANYTHING to stay alive. Severus learned this from a young age, and that’s what he did as a teenager; that’s why he created spells to defend himself and why he made decisions to survive. Were they the right choices morally and ethically? If we ask ourselves this from the comfort and stability of a structured life, probably not, but that wouldn’t be fair, because his reality was very different.

It’s very easy to make the right choices when you have everything going for you. It’s very easy to surround yourself with the right people when you’ve had nothing but good influences around you. It’s very easy to have the right views when that’s all you have to think about and not whether you’ll have food the next day or survive a beating. James Potter had it incredibly easy in life, and even then, he chose to torture a poorer and more vulnerable kid simply because he could. And he didn’t do it alone; he did it supported by his friends, outnumbering him. Potter didn’t have to survive, he didn’t have to fend for himself, he didn’t have to find safe spaces because he was born surrounded by gold and affection, and still, he chose to be a jerk. And he did it because he had the money and the social position to do it. He did it because he was rich and Snape was poor, because he had loving parents and Snape didn’t, because he was a spoiled, classist brat. And so was Sirius. Sirius was classist and violent, and he enjoyed the suffering of others. He had the usual sadism of the Black family, except he changed the discourse about blood. But Sirius also never had to survive. He left his home with a millionaire inheritance from his uncle and was taken in by other millionaires, the Potters. He never had to fend for himself or survive anything, and he never knew what it was like to truly escape from hell with absolutely nothing. And he chose, like his other rich friend, to take advantage of his privileges.

Defending the abuse of power based on class advantage is classist. Not considering someone’s socio-economic conditions when evaluating their decisions is classist. Comparing the decision-making power of someone rich with that of someone who has nothing is classist. Judging the ethics of a person who had everything with someone who has feared for their life since childhood is classist.

And yes, defending the Marauders is classist as hell, and you should be ashamed of yourselves.

[lilacella]

Sirius Black shouldn't have to apologize ever! He did nothing wrong.

[in-flvx]

Sirius didn't abandon Harry to take revenge on Peter. He arrives at the scene when hagrid already has Harry in his arms and won't let him go no matter how often Sirius asks, and dueling hagrid over Harry would be a really bad idea for all the reasons. Hagrid takes Harry to dumbledore and only then does Sirius go to look for Peter. And even that wasn't necessarily for revenge, Peter could have been in danger or dead for all he knew. But he finds Peter, and that man who was supposed to be his and James' best friend, murders 13 people in front of Sirius' eyes, and frames him for the deaths of all of them, plus himself, plus the potters.

Even his breakout from azkaban isn't fueled by revenge. It's because a mass murderer hangs around Harry on a daily basis, and that's... Yk. Dangerous.

Also even without a spy in their ranks Remus was in the most vulnerable position so making him secret keeper would just put him and the potters in more danger, and telling anyone about the secret switch would defeat the purpose of a secret switch.

Sirius did nothing wrong, and I won't even count trusting the wrong person. It's not his fault that Peter switched sides.

The only thing that may have been a bit out of pocket was trying to kill Peter before the eyes of three children, but we don't really know what his plan would have been after getting all of them to the shack, and it's Remus who actually instigates this as soon as he arrives.

[emryyyyyss09]

my marauders hyper fixation is back. get out crimson rivers, im gonna finish it this time.

[starchaserdreams]

The main villains of the Marauders universe, according to me:

Lord Voldemort

Albus Dumbledore

Peter Pettigrew

Barty Crouch Jr.

Severus Snape

[jackie4dinner]

Tumblr needs to introduce the option to have more than one post pinned at a time bc what do you mean I can’t have my Anti jkr rant and my introduction post pinned at the same time???

[mermaidgirl30]

Do I know any Draco apologists in here? Slowly slipping back to my Harry Potter roots. I think I spent an entire summer making edits 😂

[justsumtransdude2000]

Healthy BitchKiller Head Canons

Okay so ik I yap a lot about bitchkiller being this like toxic unhealthy mess of insecurities and shit, but sometimes, I just like to imagine the dynamic of healthy bitchkiller (which I will admit is hard for me bc rosekiller is always my endgame).

So, I present to you; healthy bitchkiller head canons.

-Barty cooks waffles, always with chocolate chips because that's the way Sirius likes them best.

-They go clubbing a lot, like, so much so they've learned to stop asking their friends if they wanna come with bc unlike them they have lives.

-But, none of their dates are at clubs. Their always super chill an cozy and at home with like Barty making Italian food and Sirius baking brownies they'll have to throw away that bc they taste so bad.

-Sirius actively gets clothes in smaller sizes so that Barty won't drown in them bc he's scrawnier (don't take this for twinkifiaction, he's still built, but think more canon Barty right after he's had a stint in Azkaban, and canon in OotP)

-Sirius "Let Me Spoil You" Black and Barty "I Only Accept Apologies in Cash" Crouch Jr.

-Sirius insists on vacationing at least once a year, and Barty insists that the once a year trip be during the winter months. He says it's because he likes the cold (he doesn't, he fucking hates the cold, he's a complainer, and he hates not being able to feel the tip of his nose, and how his face blushes in the winter. The real reason is bc Sirius has seasonal depression and keeping him in the house all winter to see him wither away hurts Barty deeply).

-Barty and Sirius friend groups simply do not mix, and they like it that way. The only exception is Lily and Pandora and its because they love each other (I don't see Jegulus happening in the same universe that Bitchkiller is happening, idk, maybe its because I'm not about that Jegulus life).

-Barty's love language is acts of service - he cleans the house and folds laundry and does dishes and when he's done and Sirius says thank you all he says is, mhmm. Sirius love language is buying shit. Barty will come home to his favorite work boots that were dying being replaced, or new gardening gloves.

-Leeching off that last one - they try to garden, and it looks like shit, but still refuse to give up gardening because they wanna make it work.

-Barty will sometimes bum a skirt off of Sirius to see if he likes wearing it (he never does, but it never stays on for long anyways bc Sirius).

[marislittlestories]

is there a ship name for severus/james i'm asking for a friend

[impishtubist]

Someday, the Wolfstar fandom will start writing fics where Sirius is portrayed positively. I don't know when that will be, maybe a decade from now, but I'll still be here waiting when it does. 😂

[padfootastic]

gonna start excusing anything bad sirius ever did the way remus people do. his actions can technically be seen as hurtful but u gotta understand my man just needed therapy :( u can't comprehend the pain of azakban and having a dysfunctional childhood :( :( the prank isn't a net negative, it's simply an action derived of Sirius's oh so complicated psychology that we need to understand and sympathize with :( :( :(

anon how dare u imply sirius ever did anything bad in his precious, perfect life 😤

(but also—yes)

[maxdibert]

Sirius Black saying that Snape knew more curses than advanced students before even starting at Hogwarts, as if that’s an excuse to pick on him or some kind of justification, just shows that deep down he was always a spoiled kid living in his rich bubble. I mean, who’s going to explain to him that when you don’t grow up surrounded by gold and live in a crappy hole in the neighborhood with an abusive father, it’s completely normal to learn how to defend yourself? It’s like in real life, if some guy who’s literally a millionaire and grew up among aristocrats says that a kid from a super poor neighborhood with a dysfunctional family knew how to throw punches and use a knife. Well, of course he did—it’s called survival.

[hum-suffer]

Accidentally read a story description where James kills Sirius because Regulus asks him and almost got teary eyed.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVEN THINK THAT JAMES 'I TRUST NO ONE MORE THAN SIRIUS ' POTTER WOULD EVER EVER DARE TO EVEN MAKE SIRIUS 'I GET UP EVERYDAY TO SEE JAMES SMILE' BLACK SAD LET ALONE KILL HIM????????

[soleil-black]

Honestly I don't get James Potter apologists

What do you even have to apologize for? That boy hasn't done a bad thing his entire life! It was all justified he was young and in love