Tag: harry potter

spookylupin:

sirius coming out as Very Not Straight to the marauders and lily in 7th year and

• james just is so proud he cries and doesn’t stop crying for the entire conversation
• remus is very quietly accepting and then later takes sirius aside to tell him that he’s thrilled that sirius trusted them with this and that he’s proud of sirius and that he’s there if sirius ever needs or wants anything (sirius promptly goes and flops on his bed and has a romantic crisis)
• peter isn’t quite sure he gets it but he does know that sirius is very cool and so this is probably also very cool and that he likes very cool things so he’s pretty cool about it but occasionally asks the uncomfortable question which makes james’s eyes go a bit buggy even though sirius always laughs them off
• lily is a bit taken aback that he even told her but then hugs him and then tells him that she’s at least kissed half her dorm and that she and mary mcdonald dated for a bit in fifth year

(fred telling sirius [after months of fawning over sirius post-learning he co-created the marauder’s map] that he thinks he might be into only dudes and specifically lee jordan and is that weird and should he tell mum)

(and sirius hauling fred into the living room of grimmauld place in the middle of july to have a Talk with him about how that isn’t weird at all and that’s pretty cool actually and that fred should tell molly but only if he feels comfortable doing so and that he’s not obliged to and by the end of it, sirius understanding why james cried the whole time when he came out)

glamor-pants:

mousefeets:

i mean this is a boy who basically thinks that if you make a true statement and then sneer it is automatically a very clever insult?

like

AH, WEASLEYS

THERE’S… A LOT OF YOU

YOU’VE ALL GOT RED HAIR 

I GUESS YOU DON’T HAVE VERY MUCH MONEY, COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING …

…./SNEER????

#draco malfoy expert wordsmith #luckily harry and ron have really low rival standards#ron is basically like WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT THE COLOR OF MY HAIR #WAS THAT A TRUE FACT YOU JUST SAID #FIGHT ME!!!!

lovepadfoot:

agunfulloftigers:

lily evans going home after fifth year and the “mudblood” incident and chucking all her quills away, and showing back up at school in september with a load of pens – pens from the pot on her windowsill; pens she’d found lying around in the kitchen; pens she’d nicked from petunia – because something in her wanted to act as a constant reminder to snape that she was a mudblood. and in any case, she’d never quite managed to get used to quills.

#james being riduculously curious about these featherless quills #and finally swallowing his pride to ask her #what the hell they are #lily finding it amusing that he #the great james potter #has no idea what a muggle pen is #and james finally realising he doesn’t have to be a dick #to get her attention #sirius teasing him for it later but also secretly curious #about these pens #both of them going to remus #who is in muggle studies #to learn more about the muggle world

i just needed these tags on my blog

elvendork:

i have a lot of secret hermione headcanons like. she was insufferable at muggle school as well and generally not well liked. she was the girl whose parents were both dentists and she read too many books and tried to talk to people in her class about them but they generally thought she was trying to show off. so when she gets into hogwarts she throws herself into the new culture and reads as many books as her parents will pay for, including her text books and several history books and when her parents refuse to buy the unabridged history of magic and also some legends, she seriously considers hiding out in flourish and blotts so she can just read it in the bookstore. but she wears her robes around the house and sends about forty letters to hogwarts asking questions about the school year and the course load and how the grading scale works and if they’re very sure they’ve told her everything she’s going to need. and her parents are worried about her but they had been already? because she has such a hard time making friends. and they hope she’ll be able to make friends at hogwarts.

the first letter she sends them is full of descriptions of the castle and the sorting and background information on gryffindor and she mentions that she met neville and he’s very sweet, and the classes are so interesting, and she loves them very much! and the next few are also like that and kind of strained. and they suspect (correctly) that she again does not have friends.

a couple weeks into november, she sends them a letter full of complaints about ron’s study habits and how he’s teaching her wizard chess and how both he and harry are very brave but also not very good students. and she tells them about hagrid, who is eight and a half feet tall and the nicest person she has ever met. 

they stop worrying as much until they get a letter at the end of term saying that hermione has broken about 20 school rules and also congratulations your daughter scored over 100% on almost every exam.

notbecauseofvictories:

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all the ways.

no, literally, all the ways.

Okay, this is the…super extra sparknotes version of my dissertation on Harry Potter and the ways its worldbuilding is just asking to be shaken to pieces. It’s called:

~*Ten Ways To Irreparably Fuck Up a Civilization: A Harry Potter Rant*~

1.) Put the major base of your economic power—such as a national bank—in the hands of a class you are busy oppressing. Because goblins definitely have forgotten centuries of warfare and specicide anti-goblin sentiment and will totally treat your ancestral gold with the fairness and even-handedness it deserves. Ditto with house elves and your children.

2.) Don’t try to understand or theorize about how your power works. Do not inquire as to how a particular measure—spell, hex, or charm—works. Do not try to test its effects. If a spell builds a house, do not attempt to test the durability of the roof—the roof will have come into existence with the necessary durability for roofs. Do not ask why a perfectly ordinary Latinate word and a stick of wood conjures the Platonic Form of a roof. Have no engineers or philosophers. Make sure no one thinks the phrase “hypothesis.“ Make sure no one tests theirs.

3.) Make sure the schooling that you do offer is, essentially, a technical school. Make no attempt to teach students how to write, read, do maths, or think critically, even though those skills may be required. Those who do not arrive with such skills must learn them independently, because helping students with learning disabilities or those who come from difficult home lives is for chumps. Also, make sure to sow the seeds of deep social divides that will persist through your population’s adult life.

…there is no alternative.

4.) Don’t have any institutionalized pre-schooling or post-secondary education. Because everyone worth educating has access to tutors, or parents who have the time, energy, and ability to teach. Do not have institutions for further learning, because there is nothing more to learn. Do no try to understand how your power works.

5.) Allow the government to be the single biggest employer. Small businesses may be tolerated, but private chains, corporations, or conglomerates should not be allowed to operate independently. Make sure that your population gets its news from the government. Dissenting voices that cannot be rendered unemployed can be narratively shamed.

6.) …and then have that government rife with corruption and barely representative. The people in power now should be descendant from the people in power then. They should love their own kind. Trial by jury is unnecessary. Elections are unheard of. Influence talks, and money covers a multitude of sins. Nothing says forgiveness like a bag of galleons and an invitation to the Malfoys’.

7.) Don’t innovate. Your mores should be Victorian and your aesthetic Medieval. “Technology” is a broom, a radio, and an hourglass.

8.) Don’t have any contact beyond the incidental with the civilization literally occupying the same space as yours. Particularly if there is significant crossover in population. In fact, make sure those individuals who emigrate from that civilization cannot return, cannot discuss their new country with friends and family, or use their new-found knowledge to help those friends and family. God forbid they try and help that civilization in turn.

Reduce interest in their world to a laughable hobby. You are the only civilization for them now.

9.) Ensure that all those who do not fall within specific parameters are labeled Other and de facto exiled from your civilization. Particularly squibs and werewolves and other species. An accident of birth implies someone isn’t at fault.

10.) Expect people to quietly stand by. Some of them will. Most of them will. But sooner or later you’ll piss one off, and all the ones who have been afraid to speak out will nod, will join in, and the whole affair will come tumbling down around your ears as that one troublemaker screams to the heavens for justice and knowledge and innovation and truth and light and then my dears

then

your civilization is well and truly fucked