I firmly believe that Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum remained friends after the triwizard tournament and that one night while they were celebrating Fleur and Bills engagement a very drunk Fleur bet a not as drunk Viktor that she could catch a snitch before him and so they competed and he won and Fluer lost her end of the bet saying that she would name her first born after him
and that is why their kid is named Victoire and the only reason it isn’t spelled with a k is to annoy Viktor
harry potter
You know what story I’d like to see from the Harry Potter universe? A story where the Wizarding World and the non-magic world actually finally collide and work together and it’s… fine. Like, not perfect, obviously, but better than before because christ look at how much each world is keeping from each other! Well-trained magic-users could well be able to end diseases of the non-magic world; non-magic scientists could work out a way to banish Dementors, to restore souls even – science can already quite literally bring people back from the dead –
Natural disasters? Powerful magic users could potentially divert hurricanes and earthquakes, or at least minimize their damage. Your fantastic beasts have escaped? Well, we can use these satellites to pinpoint and track their locations. You wanna explore space, visit Mars maybe? The combination of cutting-edge science and cutting-edge magic can help with that. There’s so much potential there!
(There would be horrible things as well of course. A magic user gone rogue would probably be able to do a lot more damage than a non-magic user, for example. Things would probably be really tricky and terrible in the early days of this alliance. But ultimately, I really do think the positive would outweigh the negative.)
I don’t think this is a story JKR is ever going to write. I’d like to write it.
DAY 9 OF THE ALLIANCE
“I’ve got tomorrow’s Muggle papers here,” Ron said. “The non-magic papers,” he corrected himself.
“Right,” said Hermione. She hadn’t slept properly in several days, and it showed. “Just put them anywhere on the desk, Ron.”
Ron added them to the pile of stuff. Hermione took a drink of something Ron didn’t recognise – was it a Muggle concoction? It looked disgusting – and sighed. The curtains were still drawn, because there were still cameras and photographers lined up on the lawn.
“Please get some sleep,” he told his wife.
“Let’s look at the papers first,” said Hermione.
She placed a copy of The Times next to a copy of The Daily Prophet. One of them was in colour, and the other one was in movement.
“Gifs,” said Rose. She still hadn’t gone to bed.
“What?” said her mother.
“That’s what the Muggles call moving pictures. Gifs. Did you know that? I didn’t know that.”
“Another bit of bloody lingo,” grumbled Ron.
“Prime Minister seeks list of wizard ‘undesirables’“ Hermione read from the front page of The Times.
“No-one’s been referred to as ‘undesirable’ in years!” Ron said. Hermione shushed him.
“Wizarding Pinkstone Accords meet with protests….What happens next?…Worldwide fears over magic grow…The Quibbler is full of nothing but praise, though, and suggestions for combining magic and Muggle technology…”
“Werewolves could soon be claiming YOUR benefits,” Rose read from the Daily Mail.
“And oh! The Daily Star has just uncovered the sex tape of a D-list celebrity, so nothing from them. But this isn’t looking good.” With a sudden sweep of her wand, Hermione sent all the newspapers, including the wizarding world ones, into the waste paper basket. “Rose, your brother’s been asleep for ages. You should follow suit.”
Rose nodded and made as if to get up when Ron stopped her.
“Rose, what do you think of this? This alliance? It’ll affect your generation most of all.”
“I…” Rose stared down at the piles of papers on her mother’s desk. They were magically increasing by the minute. “They don’t teach you much about Muggles at school. Not unless you take Muggle studies. And Granny Granger was dead by the time I went to Hogwarts, and Grandad was in that nursing home…”
Hermione’s lips pursed in a strange way.
“They just tell you Muggles are stupid at school,” Rose finished helplessly. “When I did Muggle Studies, none of the pureblood kids in the class believed for one second that Muggles had created a rocket and flown to the moon…” She pointed one finger at the ceiling, where the moon wasn’t. “Or that they had, like…tracking machines in space. Or organ transplants, or an Internet, or any of that stuff.”
“I didn’t believe it either when you told me,” Ron said to Hermione cheerfully. But Hermione did not look remotely cheerful. An owl was flapping at the window and the people outside were shouting at each other to take pictures of it.
“Okay. Okay. To bed now, please, Rose,” Hermione said, and Rose went. The stairs creaked as she hurried up them to the relative safety or her bedroom. As Ron let in the owl a hundred cameras seemed to go off at once. It was like being in a middle of a lightening storm.
“We have a lot of work to do,” said Hermione.
poc!potter makes so much sense though
think about it: petunia and vernon /hated/ james potter, made up stories about him “probably being unemployed” and they seemed to thoroughly dislike him for more than just the magic. how much d’you wanna bet me that their prejudice may have been on the racist side? they treated harry pretty awfully, even considering his magic. they hated that he looked like james as well.
plus, harry has “great skin” but no specified skin colour or tone or anything!
draw and write about east asian harry, south asian harry, black harry. draw harry potter in every single race there is.
poc!potter is not really a racebend bc it’s all within canon
like, aunt marge has no idea about magic or anything and she clearly hates harry, and seems to be able to make generalisations about ‘harry’s lot’ despite never having met his parents and not knowing anything about them.
it would make more sense as to why people keep commenting on him having his mother’s eyes and dark skin and green eyes are a rarer combination than light skin and green eyes.
harry’s grandad made the family rich by inventing a potion that straighten’s hair, the one hermione uses in book 4, that’s a product way more likely to be used by poc, especially black poc like hermione, and so is more likely to come from a poc who noticed the demand in the market as it was relevant to them,
it would explain why no muggle ever investigated harry, why his teachers and other adults were content to let him be bullied and abused, because the area where he grew up is clearly very right wing, (voted tory/ bnp likes the EDL kind of place) so a mixed race kid is way more likely to be ignored.
it also add’s an extra dimension to Harry’s love for the wizarding world, the way he overlooks a lot of it’s flaws, because not only is it the first place he is loved but it’s also the first place he doesn’t have to deal with racism (at first at least)
funny how peter pettigrew is always headcanoned as ace and/or aro
bet it has nothing to do with how he’s fat eh
nothing at all
funny how edits and aesthetic posts always use the “platinum trio” as meaning draco, blaise and pansy when the real trio that was mentioned time and time and time again was draco, crabbe and goyle
again, probably nothing to do with how they’re fat
funny, again, how lucius malfoy and vernon dursley have clear parallels and similarities, and that lucius is definitely worse a person than dursley, yet lucius is the one who gets redemption arcs in fics
just a coincidence that vernon is fat
Funny how fatphobia is never the canon prejudice people decide to overwrite.
Funny how Neville is always drawn as tall and thin, even in the many works of fanart that look nothing Matthew Lewis, despite the books’ descriptions of him as ‘plump’, ‘chubby’, and ‘round-faced’, erasing one of the few heroic fat characters in the series, one of the only ones not to have his weight used as shorthand for a cruel personality.
Also, about the “platinum trio,” let’s remember that Blaise was such a small character that we didn’t even know his gender until the sixth book. Literally the purpose of Blaise was to be at the end of the alphabet. And yet he somehow gets more attention than Crabbe and Goyle. Hilarious. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
I getcha but he is one of the very few black Hogwarts students in a book/franchise that’s at least 75% white, so really don’t think it’s a negative thing that he’s eclipsed his white counterparts
harry potter books rated by my dislike for snape
philosopher’s stone: what a dick calls on harry just to humiliate and demoralize him tool bag number one 10/10
chamber of secrets: same ol’ same ol’ but points for making fun of gilderoy lockhart 6/10
prizoner of azkaban: wow fuck you snape tried to get remus fired 500/10
goblet of fire: i think harry was too busy fearing for his life to care too much about snape 5/10
order of the phoenix: bitch called lily mudbloog hell nope also the legilimency and the bullying dude you’re an adult get over it 510/10
half-blood prince: yikes 400/10
deathly hallows: i’ll give him a you tried star 8/10
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You know what story I’d like to see from the Harry Potter universe? A story where the Wizarding World and the non-magic world actually finally collide and work together and it’s… fine. Like, not perfect, obviously, but better than before because christ look at how much each world is keeping from each other! Well-trained magic-users could well be able to end diseases of the non-magic world; non-magic scientists could work out a way to banish Dementors, to restore souls even – science can already quite literally bring people back from the dead –
Natural disasters? Powerful magic users could potentially divert hurricanes and earthquakes, or at least minimize their damage. Your fantastic beasts have escaped? Well, we can use these satellites to pinpoint and track their locations. You wanna explore space, visit Mars maybe? The combination of cutting-edge science and cutting-edge magic can help with that. There’s so much potential there!
(There would be horrible things as well of course. A magic user gone rogue would probably be able to do a lot more damage than a non-magic user, for example. Things would probably be really tricky and terrible in the early days of this alliance. But ultimately, I really do think the positive would outweigh the negative.)
I don’t think this is a story JKR is ever going to write. I’d like to write it.
Why ‘Fantastic Beasts’ makes no sense as a political allegory
Why ‘Fantastic Beasts’ makes no sense as a political allegory
In terms of race and gender prejudice, the American wizarding world is more progressive than no-maj society. The MACUSA president is a black woman, there’s a woman of color on the Auror team, and Tina used to be an Auror.
Yet this all takes place within living memory of slavery, during a time of massive social inequality in the no-maj world. It makes you wonder: What about magical children born to no-maj families? The culture shock must be tremendous.
In no-maj society, women and people of color were second-class citizens in 1926. Meanwhile in the magical world, sexism and racism appear to be minor issues, but you’re forbidden from befriending any no-majs—a difficult feat for any muggleborns. It’s almost impossible to imagine how this works from a historical perspective.
What about magical kids who were born into slavery? Were they whisked off to Ilvermorny, the American Hogwarts, while their friends and family remained enslaved? Once they grew up in the magical world, were they expected to ignore the plight of people like themselves, and follow the MACUSA’s policy of non-interference in the no-maj world? In the context of a character like MACUSA president Seraphina Picquery, this raises a lot of troubling questions, none of which are even hinted at in the movie.
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