#the fact this woman was hailed as a feminist icon confused me 20 years ago but now??? hoooo boy

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Oh my god THIS I LOVE Lyall, he seems like such a sweetheart, and it being semi his fault his son was bitten, yet he stays with him, searches for treatments, charms the room they lock him in every full moon... Hope, his poor mother - being a Muggle scared of big scary men only for her son to become a werewolf, I wonder how she coped?? How she loved her son? What she did with him, for him...? ...Oh. We learn NOTHING...? She doesn't get even a paragraph? Cool. Right. Thanks, author lady.

I don't dislike Pottermore additions for the most part. The idea of adding extra little nuggets of 'world-building' into a story that doesn't have much (because it leans heavily on English history for its world and also didn't need much, its 'present day' focused) Is fun. And unnecessary enough to ignore if you don't want it.

You don't NEED to know about who Remus' parents were, or exactly HOW Dumbledore came and told them Remus was able to go to school, or WHY Fenrir bit him when he was a little kid, or HOW Tonks first told him she liked him and his reaction... But it is FUN.

However, it's shocking, actually - for a series where the crux of the story is 'Mothers love' - how little mothers are considered. Or women in general, when separated from their male partners.

Within the books... it makes sense we know very little about Lily, until a little at the very end. That was part of the big reveal. That was the crux of Snapes character, and a dramatic thing for Harry who has always thought first and foremost of his father. It was cool. But after-the-books-blog is the PERFECT place to expand on that shit without altering the flow of the books at all? Just for fun...??

the funniest and the most infuriating thing about Pottermore is that when you read the backstories Rowling has written for the main character’s families, it’s always like, several pages of description of the career and school-days of like, Harry Potter’s grandfather or Remus Lupin’s father and then it’s also like, oh yeah I guess Harry’s grandmother was also a person who existed idk, or yeah Remus had a mom but that’s about it. 

And I’m like, stares at the camera like I’m in the office.