Tag: harry potter

deadgirlshoes:

Imagine Teddy getting a howler from Tonks and he starts to freak out but when he opens it, it’s like

TEDDY GUESS WHAT, THE WEIRD SISTERS ARE COMING TO TOWN. PACK YOUR THINGS, SON, I ALREADY TALKED TO MCGONAGALL AND SHE SAID IT’S COOL. MERLIN’S PANTS I’M SO EXCITED. DON’T TELL ANYONE OKAY, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T TELL DAD EITHER. OH FUCK, IS THIS A HOWLER? I FUCKED UP, I FUCKED UP.

And Remus at the teachers table covering his face to hide his laughter.

remusjohnslupin:

This is the rarest core type. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this. They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike.

Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won.

The Dursley Horcrux Theory

owlpostagain:

There’s this theory floating around that the Dursleys disliked Harry because he was a horcrux.

It’s a nice idea and it conveniently ret-cons the Dursleys into far more sympathetic characters. But no.

There are several major problems.

1. It doesn’t match how other characters behave toward Harry.

The people that dislike Harry generally have a proper reason. For
example, Snape dislikes him because of Lily, Umbridge dislikes him
because he’s sullying the Ministry’s image, etc.

Harry tends to be very well-liked by people that have the chance
to get to know him. The Weasleys, his Quidditch teammates, his dormitory mates, his housemates, etc.

Obviously politics interferes. There are multiple points in the books where Harry-hate becomes
rather trendy- after Norbert in first year, when people think he’s the
heir of Slytherin, when people think he put his name in the goblet, and
when people think he’s lying about Voldemort.

But for the most part the more time people spend with Harry, the more they like him as a person (and the more they’re willing to trust him).
Harry’s not exactly sunshine and happiness, but he’s actually a fairly
likeable guy. He’s polite, kind, humble, and has a knack for saving
people. No one in the series hates Harry because he just gives of a weird vibe.

2. If the horcrux had been powerful enough to turn the Dursleys
against primary school-age Harry, it would have had 10x that effect on
Harry’s personal relationships when Voldemort actually did come back.

The horcruxes radiate more “bad energy” as Voldemort himself grows
stronger. The locket is a good example of this, but so is Harry himself.

Harry’s scar didn’t start to hurt until Pettigrew returned to Voldemort and
Voldemort started gaining strength. Voldemort was extremely weak when
Harry was living with the Dursleys full-time. The horcrux would
have been laying dormant for his entire childhood.

If the horcrux was capable of putting off the Dursleys when Harry was a baby, imagine how powerful it would be after Voldemort returned. We would have seen a major change in how characters treated him, if he hadn’t just lost his friends completely.

3. The Dursleys hated Harry/Lily/James before they met him

In the very first chapter, we see that Petunia loathes her sister and pretends as though she doesn’t have one. Her hatred is so overt that Vernon is afraid to even bring the subject up. Vernon doesn’t even know Harry’s name, and has probably never met him. So while Vernon/Petunia’s treatment of Harry is appalling, it’s not entirely unexpected. The Dursleys’ motivations are perfectly clear in canon, we don’t need to insert magical trickery to explain their abuse. An estimated 40 million children are subject to abuse each year, and their abusers weren’t effected by horcruxes either. Abuse is something that happens, and we don’t need an magical explanation to explain why it happened to Harry.

TL;DR: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.

About the horcruxes

meabhis02:

I hear people saying stuff about how Harry had 1/8th of Voldemort in him, but he didn’t.

If you think about, only one horcrux is intended to be made, but Voldemort pushed that boundary, to create 6 horcrux therefore having his soul in 7 parts, but he accidentally imparted some Tom into Harry.

But if you do the maths each time you create a horcrux you split your soul in half.
So when the diary was turned into a horcrux, it contained half of Voldy’s soul, leaving him with half his soul left.
So the ring would contain ¼ of his soul ‘cuz he only had half a soul to impart.

So here a lowdown
Diary: ½ of his soul
Peverall ring: ¼
Hufflepuff cup:1/8
Slytherin locket: 1/16
Ravenclaw diadem: 1/32
Harry:1/64
Nagini : 1/128
Voldemort:1/128

So no, I. Don’t think Voldy’s managed to split his soul equally into eighths, but it’d be nice if he could.

danekez:

It’s been a while since I practiced profiles. I wanted to draw Lupin, but I was finding his face hard to map out. I wanted him to be a balance between masculine and feminine with severe features that could soften into looking utterly friendly and comforting. He is after all a soft, kind person who was very open and easy to talk to. I imagine he would be seen as such- extremely disarming and comforting to stand next to. But he also has the potential to be extremely intimidating and powerful. It’s a difficult balance without opting for contradicting features- a fearsome face of a gentle spirit or, in the other direction, a soft face on an intimidating person- but I’m happy with the result.