#why are there no muggleborns…

[octoir]

I’ve read several very strong arguments for lily/tom riddle too! namely—

-Tom riddle most likely experienced discrimination at Hogwarts due to his last name

-Lily also most likely experienced severe discrimination at Hogwarts due to her last name

-We never see muggleborns in any influential positions of power (none in MoM, none as Unspeakables, none in masteries, none at Hogwarts teaching positions…) at best, we usually get halfbloods, which is very telling of the systemic discrimination that exists against MB.

And obviously, both are brilliant. (blood wards, horcruxes, etc)

So, we have two brilliant, discriminated against , assumed muggleborns, who are (or at least pretend to be) genial and polite to the public, even when there is every reason for them to not be.

Given, I think Lily is a hell of a lot more moral than Tom, and I actually think they would end up resenting the hell out of each other, but hey! they have something to talk about!

ship question because I think you’re doing that, thoughts on Lily/Voldemort 🤔

thank you so much for the ask, pal!

i'm currently trying to make a lilymort fic happen simply because i delight in chuckling malevolently while writing, and it's tremendous fun.

not - obviously! - because i think it's particularly canonically plausible as a pairing, but because it allows me to indulge in two things i love about lily and voldemort's respective canon characterisation: that she's outrageously bolshy and that he's got an oedipus complex.

i think it's very, very striking that - while he does do this in the films - in the books voldemort never uses lily's name. when speaking about her to harry he only ever refers to her as "his/your mother", but - even more interestingly - in his internal monologue during the scene in deathly hallows in which we see him replay his trip to the potters' house the night he murders them, he also only refers to lily as "the mother" or "the woman", whereas he refers to james as... james.

his fury at lily's refusal to stand aside - her refusal to do [as he sees it] what his own mother did and abandon her child - is just pure projection of his eye-waveringly deep-seated mammy issues, and i really like the idea of that being taken to a slightly less murderous [but no less unsettling] conclusion.

especially because lily "i'd rather date the squid" potter would be having none of it. a woman who's got the gumption to tell voldemort to get fucked when he's seconds away from murdering her and her child isn't going to hesitate to tell him to get a grip when he's trying to persuade her into "i've come to collect you from the orphanage" role-play.

and, since we know canonically that voldemort does have a weakness for bossy [and/or deranged] women with great hair, i think it's going the distance...

[limonnitsa]

MUDBLOOD

[shootingthe-stars]

with every god awful take about james potter on the internet an angel loses its wings.

what do you mean he didn’t care about the dark arts and death eaters until it affected him personally. what. you mean the famously blood traitor potter family? you mean one of the only actual canon things we have about james being that he hated the dark arts? you mean the james that yelled at snape for calling lily a mudblood?? you mean the james that went on the front lines of a war he had the privilege to not fight in????

please anti blood supremacy is literally ingrained in his core beliefs can we just keep this ONE THING about him 😭

[shrimpalbuspotter]

Delphi "Everyone's a little queer!" Diggory

Albus "I'm dumb she's a lesbian" Potter

Scorpius "we were good as married in my mind" Malfoy

[arcas-xviii]

Currently cackling with laughter over those poor muggleborn kids that had to work out what the fuck all these weirdos were talking about when they discussed 'He who shall not be named' and like

One goes up to another student asking who they're talking about, just cause, ya know, they're new here n all that

Pureblood student: *quiet staring*

Muggleborn: yeah, so who is it?

PB: you know who??

M: umm... no? I dont? That's why I'm asking? Who is it?

PB: no, its... hes... you know who

M: what do you mean? I don't know who, I'm not from round here, how am I supposed to know?

And it just keeps going in this 'Who's on first' -esque style until they're both screaming

[the-phoenix-heart]

Every day I think about how Lily Evans should have been a slytherin

[bi-snape]

Lily or Laura?

Who will Sev pick :) I gotta write a fanfic about my au involving my oc laura at one point.

(I made a post talking about an au where sev ends up in a muggle mental hospital which is where he meets laura. I've made a bit of fanart of him and her because I'm slightly obsessed with them.)

[ziaverse]

imagine muggleborns playing senior assassin at hogwarts. The purebloods/halfbloods would be so confused 😭😭

[yumeurl]

i think its kinda funny that jkr is miffed that many ppl love draco and just chalk it up as tom felton being handsome, which is a weird statement in of itself already, but moreso that its the original books that shows more of dracos cute side than the movies

the film does include dracos aversion to violence, as well as film exclusive scenes like drawing harry and making a paper crane just to deliver it to him, and book scenes does show more of him being a lil shit and going too far at times, like when he got frustrated and started shitting over harrys mom, or cedrics death. but the books show much more moments of dracos bullying tactic, that when left to his own devices and not just mimicking his father hell do shit like: making dementor clothes just to scare harry and even planning it w three other ppl(ALLEGEDLY BC NO ONE WOULD EVEN DO THIS BUT HIM), charming buttons for potter stinks, having dramatic retellings of whatever embarassing thing harry did on the slytherin table. like bro YOU wrote that, ycouldve just made him a pure asshole, ycouldve just continued making him say that he wants hermione dead. instead u wrote him like a kid who has the most shallowest definition of bullying. instead you wrote him warning them about the death eaters in gof, like for what??? is it to show hes dumb and wanted to brag?? bc that doesnt even make any sense, hes been shown hes able to keep his mouth shut when its related to his father, we atleast only hear it when he shares it to crabbe and goyle, not to golden trio

like did u even read the books u wrote?? not my fault u wrote him so baby. u wrote james w worse bullying tactics than him bro

[elysianymph]

just saw someone rate regulily 1/10 cause regulus was a death eater and lily would never date him bc of it

AND YOU THINK JAMES WOULD??? SINCE WHEN DO WE CARE ABOUT THESE THINGS!?!!??

[moonymode]

slytherin aus are a non-sequitur to me because the truth is that if that character was put in slytherin they wouldn't be "the same but more cunning" they would be a child immediately inundated by supremacist propaganda deliberately designed to groom the next generation of "eligible" wizarding youth into upholding a violently racist and classist system. this isn't something slytherin evolved into; it's literally the reason slytherin was founded as a house. "slytherins are ambitious" "slytherins are high-achievers" please think about why exactly the children of the blood supremacist house are more likely to achieve higher positions in society. slytherins don't bend rules in a charmingly roguish anti-establishment fashion, they're the ones writing them, they're the ones stacking the deck.

it's possible to write "good" slytherin characters, but first you have to recognize why the characters who lived in slytherin are almost always some flavor of racist villain. it's not "unrealistic" or unfair; that's a deliberate result, that's the whole point. there have been compelling narratives written around deprogramming and redeeming radicalized characters, especially children. that would be vastly more honest and interesting than pretending slytherin is actually just the tragically misunderstood edgy gifted kid house.

[mirrorofliterature]

the only UK general election lily evans could have participated in is the 1979 one where margaret thatcher got elected

damn that's depressing

[timeisacephalopod]

Y'all are aware of that 10 hour Harry Potter retrospective but the thing that gets me the most out of that whole thing that I never considered when reading the series is that wizards can obviously chose to adhere to the Statute of Secrecy but like... Magical creatures can't make that choice and Fantastic Beasts literally starts with Newt chasing down a rogue niffler, meaning that muggles probably frequently encounter magical creatures. There's no way that muggles and magical creatures could reasonably be segregated- Hermione's cat is half magical creature so how many muggle cats are also half neasel?

Like why on earth would you invent a world in which you have scores of animals, and also plants, that cannot reasonably consent to secrecy from muggles and the excuse of witch trials falls flat when actual magic exists that should factor into how those witch trials play out but never seems to come up. Anyway, the most unrealistic thing about a universe with magic and dragons and shit is that muggles would somehow never run into and remember a magical creature, there's zero way the wizards could catch every muggle who has seen something and obliviate them that's a herculean task designed to fail I refuse to believe no nifflers have ever stolen some muggles shit enough that they'd know what them little bastards were.

[alice3876]

Guess I'm a half-blood then

Also read the tags they're kind of part of the whole point of this reblog lmao

A question for all the Harry Potter fans. Do you think our blood status ( Like Pureblood, Half-blood, Muggle born) Depends on whether our parents are also Harry Potter fans.

Like for example, both my parents aren’t Harry Potter fans. So hypothetically would that make me a muggle born?

Basically if you’re parents aren’t Harry Potter fans then your a muggle born.

But if only one of you parents are a Harry Potter fan and the other isn’t then that makes you a Half-blood.

And lastly if both of your parents are Harry Potter fans then you’re a Pureblood.

(I’ll just leave this here for now. Do what you wish with this information. Also feel free to repost with your thoughts ig. Idk I’m bored)

[nezuscribe]

slytherin!gojo, and his pureblood mania. something imposed on by his parents ever since he could walk, and it was only more than obvious coming from such an old house like theirs.

so imagine him and muggleborn you, the first muggleborn to be sorted into slytherin for over three centuries. you don't know why, and you questioned it just as much as everybody else, but there was no use.

of course you became a pariah, and of course most of the teasing and comments came from gojo and his friends. they made it their mission throughout the years to remind you of just how different you were compared to them.

and sure, maybe it helped ease the thoughts that gojo tried to hide deep in the back of his mind that you were maybe a little cute, pretty even. and that whenever he heard you laugh, especially at a joke from someone else, his chest tightened. but he pushed those down, far far away.

over the years you grew thick enough skin, but even you couldn't help the way some of their comments stabbed themselves into your heart, made your face crumble momentarily. and gojo saw, and even though he acted like this is what he wanted, it was far from it.

so when he say you on the common rooms couch one night, your potions homework laid out in front your you as you slept soundly, curled up into a little ball, his initial reaction wasn't to spill ink all over the parchment (which he guessed one of the other boys might have done, and he hated that he could see them doing it), but to pull a blanket over your frame, watch as you cuddled into it. your face was lit up by the fireplace near you, your features just as beautiful as always.

his expression softened, and before he could stop himself his hand had gone up to your face, his thumb atoms away from your cheek, your skin soft beneath him. and before he could do anything else, he snatched it away, the ring of his noble house burning into his flesh.

but it was no use, he knew what was happening, and despite years of trying to lie to himself, the great gojo satoru, the prince of slytherin, was hopelessly in love with you.

[unfortunate-arrow]

🖊 + colm 😊

— Despite being placed in an orphanage at the age of 4, Colm was not truly orphaned until he was 13. His parents were arrested for planning an uprising against British rule when he was four and Colm never saw them again. His father died when he was 5 and then his mother died when he was thirteen. Both Michael and Joan O’Shea died in prison. This is one of the reasons that Colm does not like the British or the British army.

Send me a “🖊+an OC“ and I will talk about that OC!