I’m making some gifs for a thing
harry potter
Drawing this was emotionally taxing.
(Thanks you talking-bird-jessie for suggesting this scene from Order of the Phoenix!)
Reblogging because this is beautiful and totally should’ve been in the movie
Why are moments like this not in the movies? :’(
I have this headcanon that after Neville proposed to Hannah Abbott, he went to his parents at St. Mungo’s and sat with them. Even though he was sure she wouldn’t understand or remember, he held his mother’s hands and told her, “I’m getting married, Mum. She’s great. You’ll really like her.” Alice just hummed and stared off into the distance. No reaction. Neville still stayed, telling his parents all about Hannah and their plans, and how she wanted so badly to come meet them and he would bring her next time.
Then, as he put his hand on the door handle to leave, he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Alice. She held out her hand as she had done so many times before. Expecting a candy wrapper, Neville held out his hand but felt something heavier drop into it.
When he looked down, there were two rings. And when he glanced to his mother’s hand, there was an indent where her wedding ring had once rested but was no longer there.
Is everything in this post designed to make me fucking sob?
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Goblet of Fire Deleted Scene
I want to get asked out like this.
Imagine the planning that went into this.
Like the Durmstrang student would have to have gone to his friends and been like, “hey lads, you know Sally? The one with the hair like the sun from the bird house? I’m going to ask her to the yule ball, and I need your help.”
“Dude, just ask her.”“No, I need to be impressive! We’re all going to walk up to her in sync, and then we’ll all bow because she’s amazing and we respect her, and it would be an /honor/ if she accepts. And then I’ll ask her, and then she says yes, and then we walk out like the power troup that we are!”
Buddies look at each other awkwardly, “okay…..”
Harry and Ron look so defeated afterward
Because they just wish they could be as coordinated as the slick guys from Durmstrang
And the Durmstrang bros are barely keeping their cool as the walk away. Look at them, they’re so happy it’s adorable.
I love everything about this. When she looks back at her friends and they’re like GO GO GO YES YES. And them being like bro u done it!
This is my new otp! Like I don’t even know their names but i need a 20k fic and I need it asap!!
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HOW A SLYTHERIN IS HANGING OUT WITH A GRYFFINDOR AND A RAVENCLAW!!???
Every time I bow to people I just look weird
That slav wizard game
This is what I like in a man
arthur weasley, aka the world’s biggest muggleboo who probably larps as an office worker on the weekends
officemaster: you have… *rolls dice* successfully transferred the call to your boss’ voicemail! you hear the distant ringing of the fellytone from the inner office for a moment before the machine picks up, securely delivering the regional manager’s message to its intended recipient.
arthur weasley: *pumps fist in air, high-fives xenophilius lovegood*
sirius black: is it my turn yet?
officemaster: no.
xenophilius lovegood: i search the supply closet for binder clips.
officemaster: *rolls dice* you find a small cardboard box with three binder clips in it, but in the process of retrieving it from the high shelf, you knock a bottle of toner off. it hits your left pinky toe. *rolls dice* you lose 1 HP.
xenophilius lovegood: best fetch quest EVER.
sirius black: so is it my turn now?
officemaster: no, shut up. remus?
remus lupin: wait, is arthur still at the front desk?
arthur weasley: yeah
remus lupin: i approach the front desk. *clears throat* “Hello, Shirley. Were there any messages for me while I was out?”
arthur weasley: “Yes, Mr. Crumplebottom. Phillip Smythe from home office called about your business trip. I put him through to your voicemail.”
remus lupin: “Good work! Thank you very much. I shall remeber this come time for your Christmas bonus.”
sirius black: is it my turn yettt???
officemaster: merlin’s balls man, yes, it’s your turn
sirius black: i attempt to seduce the visiting sales representative
remus lupin: what? you can’t do that
sirius black: sure i can, i have like 25 charisma points
remus lupin: but we’ve all got the casual friday modifier right now, and if you get a sexual harassment lawsuit we can’t advance to the next meeting until the litigation phase is over
sirius black: i’m chaotic neutral, what were you expecting?
remus lupin: besides, arthur’s receptionist character found out she was married in the last session, remember? you would have to roll a natural 20
arthur weasley: hey, no metagaming–sirius’ character wasn’t there at the time, he was trapped in the fax machine
xenophilius lovegood: i still don’t think that’s how fax machines actually work
officemaster: sirius?
sirius black: yeah, arthur’s right, i couldn’t have known about that. *shrugs* i attempt to seduce her.
remus lupin: oh my god i hate you so much right now
sirius black: get bent lupin
remus lupin: you wish
sirius black: i don’t have to
officemaster: *rolls dice* *winces*
sirius black: what? what happened?
Yeah! What happened?!
Sirius botched both his action and his save. His character was fatally bear-maced in the face. Remus’ character was forced to spend an entire session on sensitivity training for his remaining employees. Sirius returned in the following session as a dual-class IT guy and paladin.
Out of curiosity – because I loathe Draco too – what makes you like Hux but not him? Is it just the different ways they’re presented/that people react to them?
yeah, pretty much. like– the best comparison to make here is how i feel about malfoy vs. how i feel about bellatrix lestrange, i.e., i love bellatrix lestrange. love seeing her in the text, love her dialogue, she’s just a joy to read about. and the way she’s presented in the text is– if you’ll excuse the slur– she’s a bitch; the text knows it, the text revels in it. she tortures one of my favorite characters and the one i most identify with (hermione), she uses horrifying language and does horrifying things, she’s a domestic terrorist who wholeheartedly follows an ideology explicitly based on naziism.
and draco malfoy is also a domestic terrorist who follows an ideology based on naziism. the kid is hitler youth, there’s not really any way of getting around this. like, okay, he has a really difficult sixth year because his family has put him in a situation where he has to do a terrible murder that he doesn’t actually want to do. that sucks, you know. having to be hitler youth sucks. but that doesn’t, like… make it okay to be hitler youth.
but fans react more or less as if the opposite is true, as if the fact that malfoy feels unhappy makes it okay that he does evil things. as if, even though bellatrix and malfoy both call hermione a mudblood and curse her/her friends because they’re muggleborns and do their damnedest to get voldemort into power, malfoy feels sad about it– as if that puts him on a completely different moral plane than bellatrix. and, y’know, i disagree with that.
and bellatrix dies, and i cheer when bellatrix dies! every time! it’s one of the best moments in the series, it’s a crowning moment of awesome for molly weasley, bellatrix is so unbelievably horrible and deserves it so much, it’s absolutely beautiful.
but i keep feeling like there’s something i don’t get? people who say that malfoy is better, morally, than severus snape? people who think the canon cuts him a raw deal? and i’ve never seen anything in draco malfoy other than being a rich middle school bully who becomes hitler youth. (probably because, like. there’s so much pain and trauma in this series. me, i like that moment when hermione spins to harry and ron and says no, call me a mudblood, i am a mudblood, that’s what i am– i mean christ, she’s carrying so much, she’s so heartbroken and tired and she’s got the whole world on her shoulders, and i love hermione so much because of that moment of pain.
i love harry so much for smashing dumbledore’s office after the only person who ever promised to remove him from an abusive household dies. i love neville for that moment when he doesn’t want to tell harry & co. that his parents were tortured to death and he has to stand there and listen to his gran tell the whole story, and i love dean and george and cho chang– and i think their pain is more sympathetic and more worthy of attention than malfoy’s, because the kid’s pain generates from having to be hitler youth, and– forgive me– i’m a jew. i don’t find that pain sympathetic at all.
and i don’t find bellatrix sympathetic because of her pain. i don’t find bellatrix sympathetic at all, really. i don’t think you have to sympathize with a character to like them.
but people do sympathize with draco malfoy– that’s that reaction, it’s sympathy. and i think it’s kind of telling that fandom looks at, say, cho chang crying because her boyfriend is dead at the hand of magic nazis, and says “ew, gross, whiny,” and looks at draco malfoy crying because he’s magic hitler youth and says “wow, sad, beautiful.” like. i think there’s a couple things going on there and i think it’s pretty easy to see what they are.)
There’s just so much to unpick, I think, when it comes to Draco And Fandom. There was a discussion on my blog not too long ago about Draco Malfoy vs Kylo Ren, and it basically came down to:
- Draco is a Kylo whom everyone treats like a Finn, which is bizarre
- Well, okay, Draco is at least not a mass murderer
- He’s still a racist though, and he chose to be, and he chose to spend seven-ish books hurling bile and violence at people
- Alright maybe you could see him as like an (eventual) defector from a bigoted cult, like, someone who left the Westboro Baptist Church?
- Except that when that happened in real life, the defectors apologised for their actions and spent ages trying to make up for it
- And Draco never did that, never even apologised. He never did ANY real work, but everyone acts as if he did!
It just baffles me no end. Also it still weirds me out spectacularly how people will condemn other problematic ships (Reylo, Snape/Lily) with one breath and ship Draco/Indian or Black Harry or Hermione in the next. How are you doing that? That’s genuine curiosity: how? He’s a racist! He’s an actual anti-black racist: he laughs along with Pansy when she makes that crack about Angelica’s braids ‘looking like worms’. Why’s everyone got such a blind spot with him? Is it just because Tom Felton’s a nice bloke? What’s going on?!
(And don’t get me started on how horribly Cho Chang was treated by pretty much everyone. Yuck. I’m still surprised Katie Leung actually bothers to give Harry Potter fandom the time of day.)
About the Hitler Youth thing – yeah, that’s what gets me. Like, not too long ago, when my family was together and discussing their various histories, I mention my mum’s ancestor’s flight from Russia during my mum casually drops in ‘Ah yes, people hate us Jews!’. Like, I don’t even know if I really ‘get’ to be considered Jewish – I would assume some belief in God is required at some point and I don’t really have that – but my mother was, she went to a Jewish school and learned Hebrew and everything – and I keep wondering, does she say things like that as a joke or because she actually did grow up thinking people hated her for being Jewish? I’ve never dared ask. But if she did, was it because of people like Draco Malfoy?
So it seems to be a pretty much universally accepted fact that Helga Hufflepuff was the last one to say what kind of students she’d like, and we know that was students who are just, loyal, and unafraid of hard work.
But what if she wasn’t the last? What if it was Rowena Ravenclaw, and she was like, “well fuck I’m stuck with all the nerds and artsy types. Guess I’ll stick them up in a tower and make it really fucking hard for them to get into their own common room because I’m bitter about this.”
Or everyone’s calling dibs and Salazar Slytherin’s not paying much attention and is suddenly left with a bunch of kids, and the only uniting factor happens to be that they’re purebloods, so with his flair for the dramatic (big fancy snake in the plumbing) he goes completely over the top with it and is all like “perfect! These are the kids I wanted anyway! Look at them, they’re so ambitious! And cunning too! We’ll be in our secret clubhouse under the fricking lake!”
Or Godric Gryffindor is thinking really hard about it and looks up to find he’s too late, and is just like “eh, fuck it. Let’s go on an adventure kids!”
I just really like the idea that these characteristics we obsess over that identify us as belonging to our houses, could really just have been a bit of an accident.
Who was the Potter cat?
So we all know the Potters had a cat, right?
All we have per descriptions of this cat is that 1. It was enough of a Potter to make the list when they went into hiding and 2. Harry scared it with his new broom he got from Sirius.
There is further no mention of said cat.
On the other hand, don’t we know another, really old, beaten down, ugly, sad, sad cat?
A cat that befriended Sirius Black and seemed to KNOW Peter Pettigrew’s smell, hold a grudge against him, even?
Part-kneazle, so it has a remarkable ability for finding things that are shiny and that it has a connection to, like, say, a family member.
A cat that knows it’s way around Hogwarts, around the Whomping Willow, almost like it had been there before with another owner.
A cat that absolutely REFUSED to let Hermione leave that shop without him after seeing a certain rat, was CRAZED, almost.
We have no mention of this cat/kneazle’s age, except that it had been in the shop for a while and no one had wanted it. Magical creatures live a long time. Cats live a long time. It’s within reason that this cat could be 30, even 40 years old.
It makes too much sense.
The Potter cat is Crookshanks.
This is by far one of my favorite HP headcanon and no one can convince me that this isn’t real.
