hello miss padfootastic, today I am thinking about godfather Harry who would move mountains for Teddy, when Remus never moved mountains for Harry. :(
yES!!! miss imp ur so so right for this
i don’t care how ooc it might be but i truly fully believe teddy was a traumatised harry’s salvation postwar. he kept that boy alive. physically AND mentally. harry will literally do anything for him and nothing is ever too big or too much for his godson.
i’m thinking of—harry, parenting teddy, wondering about how easy it is (it’s not, really. he’s a child bringing up another child. but take away the nappy changes and the constant crying and the keeping a living being other than yourself alive part, and it really is easy. bc he loves parenthood. loves teddy. so much) and wondering why remus never wanted this. how he could have given it up so easily. it’s honestly just really sad? like makes him hold teddy tight and never let go? primarily i think he just pities remus at that point.
i can ALSO see harry being offended, not on his behalf, but primarily on teddy’s. because this wonderful, amazing child should’ve not had his father attempt to walk out on him, shouldn’t have had to grow up an orphan but that’s what it is. i’ve only read one fic w a similar premise but i rly need more where harry is just. mad at remus postwar for his treatment of teddy lmao.
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Long convoluted tangent about why I think the Black sisters were closer than the Black brothers.
Sirius and Regulus, didn’t care for each other as much as we make it sound like they did. Sure, maybe they cared a little, but Sirius regards Regulus with a slight disdain in his later life, and even before that, we know that Regulus was canonically the golden child, so, Sirius probably regarded him with a bit of disdain then too.
This is going off of canon, so, the argument ‘we don’t care about canon’ doesn’t apply here, because I am talking about canon, the conversation is centered on canon.
I’d argue that the Black sisters were closer than the Black brothers, and I will be going on a long tangent about it.
Taking Androemda out of the picture for a moment, and just looking at Bellatrix and Narcissa versus Regulus and Sirius, the former would immediately win in terms of closeness, there is genuinely no argument you could use to say that Regulus and Sirius were closer than Bellatrix and Narcissa.
Now adding Andromeda into my argument; and before I hear “well Bellatrix and Narcissa hated muggles and muggleborns so obviously they hated Narcissa” shut up, Regulus also hated muggles and muggleborns so BONK SHHH. I’d argue that Bellatrix’s hatred for muggles also stems from Andromeda choosing Ted over them, in Bellatrix and Narcissa’s eyes at least. Furthermore, we don’t know of any favoritism between the three sisters, canon wise, sure, we can assume that Bellatrix was the favorite as she was the oldest, but, we could also assume that Narcissa was the favorite as she was the youngest, and stuck to the family’s values, or, Andromeda could’ve been the favorite as she was the middle child and the calmer of the two sisters, Sirius had stated that in the eyes of their parents, Regulus was the golden child.
To add even more to this, Andromeda, unlike Sirius, and like the rest of her family(before her daughter), was a Slytherin, now that matters because she spent a considerable amount of more time with her sisters, and because her being a Slytherin, means she was as she was supposed to be, in her family’s eyes, while Sirius was a Gryffindor, which meant he was already starting to get ostracized, but it also means he did not spend nearly as much time with Regulus as Andromeda did with her sisters.
Another thing that furthers my point is when the two got disowned, Sirius when he was sixteen, Andromeda when she was freshly graduated and when she had married Ted Tonks, it also matters on how they got disowned and why, Sirius ran away first, then got disowned after that, while Andromeda got disowned because she married a muggleborn, and after she married him.
I do suppose you could argue that Bellatrix and Narcissa hated Andromeda because of what Bella said in Deathly Hallows,
‘She is no niece of ours, my Lord,’ she cried over the outpouring of mirth. ‘We – Narcissa and I – have never set eyes on our sister since she married the Mudblood. This brat has nothing to do with either of us, nor any beast she marries.’
Though, I can see the clear implications in “have never set our eyes on our sister”, Bellatrix did not say that she or Narcissa hated her; sure, it could be implied, but I do not take it as such. Furthermore, this is Bellatrix, saying this, and in the context for that line, it was Bellatrix defending herself and involving Narcissa in it as well. Now, to further my point, Narcissa would have been between 15-16 when Andromeda was disowned, and while Narcissa considered Andromeda a blood traitor yes, we do know how strongly family means to Narcissa and how much it guides her choices, and around that age, siblings, sisters especially, mean the world to the younger ones, while with Bellatrix she was the eldest and probably felt anger and disgust, Narcissa was the youngest and probably felt more hurt.
On the topic of Narcissa’s disdain towards muggles, after Deathly Hallows where Draco marries Astoria Greengrass who didn’t believe in her own family’s pureblood ways, Narcissa didn’t approve of Draco’s wife yes, but she still loved her son. I would also argue that that’s Cursed Child however and, I personally take almost everything in Cursed Child with a grain of salt.
With everything we know about Narcissa and Bellatrix, and the few things we know about Andromeda, we can assume that Bellatrix felt betrayed and went with the immediate disdain and revulsion type of betrayal, while Narcissa felt betrayed in a more ‘how could you do this to me?’ way.
Oo, to add even more to this, Bellatrix’s disdain could’ve grown even more because of how close Andromeda and Ted were to the Order, and since Bellatrix was Voldemort’s right hand woman, and she was indefinitely devoted to him and his cause, that would’ve furthered her disdain and betrayal for her sister, while Narcissa was never a real Death Eater, nor did she have any allegiance to Voldemort, we can further prove this when she lies to his noseless face about Harry being alive, so, while Bellatrix’s betrayal would’ve burned hotter, Narcissa’s opinion was probably not very swayed.
Maybe I’ll make a follow up on this, but, from everything that we know, canon wise, the Black sisters were infinitely closer than the Black brothers, and felt more betrayed by their sister’s disownment, rather than how Regulus felt about Sirius’ disownment.
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