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3 professors forced to share a hotel room during a travel to a wizard expo ... due to budget cut because Hogwarts have sustained yet another annual Voldemort-related disaster( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

#severus snape #albus dumbledore #minerva mcgonagall #fanart of these three profs is my fav kind of art #hp fanart #:)

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listen to the wind blow btw. and also watch the sun rise

#any reference to the chain always makes me end up listening to it for hours on end #every damn time #and it still slaps #music #fleetwood mac

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Absolutely a sucker for the “ARE YOU HURT” once over. The wandering hands, frantically checking for blood or pain just SOMETHING. ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of what they might find while searching. The panicked look on the face of the person doing the checking, the glossy, confused “I’m fine” from the person being checked. HOO BOY just inject that shit right into my veins

#i love that scene so much #iconic #sherlock holmes #good ol' old lit

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The potions prodigy 🧪🪄🌿✨

#severus snape #hp fanart

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Young Minerva McGonagall ❤️

#another re-reblog #i never get tired of looking at this again #so good #the queuesge

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thinking about this moment again:

particularly in regards to this conversation:

thinking about inej, who is actively dying, asking kaz for an apology. inej, whose native tongue leaves no room for triviality here. this isn’t “you were mean to me and you need to make nice,” it’s so much deeper.

this is “promise me you won’t treat me like a piece in your chess game again. promise me you won’t keep acting like i’m replaceable. promise me i’m not just another one of your investments.”

this is the first time we see inej holding kaz accountable, the first time we see her ask him to be more, to do better. this is the precursor to the “without armor” conversation. and i think it’s fitting that we never hear whether or not kaz did apologize. because at this point, i don’t think he’s ready to give inej what she’s really asking for here, and in a way, it’s best that she doesn’t hear him say the words. he’s not ready to mean them yet.

#six of crows #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #grishaverse

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cackling like a maniack

#mhm

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#lgbtq+ #had some terf blogs snooping round here so i'm sticking this here like a 'keep out' sign of sorts #this is also just really poignant too

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Trying to be edgy in those stupid goggles. ok emo boy

#lol #kaz brekker #nina zenik #grishaverse

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When Snape gives his first DADA speech, he talks about needing to be “flexible and inventive.” This is the part that Hermione says sounded like Harry.

In the same chapter, Harry gets the Half-Blood Prince’s book. He says that the Prince seems to have taken issue with nearly every instruction, and later talks about how the Prince doesn’t just stick to potions. Hermione hates that he uses the book’s instructions, and although Ginny gives her a perfect excuse later when Ginny is upset about Harry following the instructions of an unknown author, that isn’t why Hermione is upset from the beginning. She hates that Harry is outperforming her, yes, but I don’t think it’s just a matter of pure pride. She doesn’t get upset about Harry outperforming her in DADA the year before, and even asks him to teach them. She specifically hates that Harry is outperforming her by not following the same instructions. Personally, I think Ron’s got it right when he responds to her initial objection that it’s not Harry’s own work by saying that Harry is still following directions just like everyone else, he’s just following different ones. Harry is not the one thinking outside the box or trying to find clever ways to solve practical problems like the difficulty of cutting up sopophorous beans; he’s simply doing what the directions in front of him tell him to do. He may not deserve credit for being a potions genius, but he doesn’t deserve less credit than Hermione. Frankly, as someone whose entire job is following SOPs for performing chemical testing I don’t really see what the big deal about potions is, except for the fact that the author of their NEWT book is apparently an idiot whose instructions would never pass our internal audit *shakes fist*

We don’t yet know the identity of the Half-Blood Prince, so we have no reason to connect Snape’s philosophy about facing the dark arts with the inventiveness of the Prince’s problem-solving. But it does set this comparison up, and it also puts Harry’s greatest strength against Hermione’s greatest weakness, which is her refusal to deviate from the expected way of doing things. She is very book smart, and she has reasoning skills, as shown by the way she solves the puzzle in the first book — also, as it turns out, Snape’s — but she lacks innovation. In fact, Snape sneers at her answer in his DADA class for being “straight out of the Standard Book of Spells”; he can’t say she’s incorrect, and yes, he is of course being a jerk, but I think that he also has little respect for that kind of rote knowledge. I would argue that it’s a better educational strategy to encourage students to find ways of applying knowledge and thinking beyond memorisation than it is to just mock them (beyond just being unhelpful to make students afraid to answer, none of them register that he wants them to show original thinking, they just think he’s being a dick for no reason), but that’s not the point. Even as Harry and Ron use the Prince’s instructions to great success, and no harm comes to them because of it, Hermione refuses to change her mind about it, and when they offer to let her use the same instructions, she stubbornly insists on using the faulty original directions that give poorer results, for no reason other than her unwillingness to accept that the official version is not always best.

Hermione is marked by an implicit trust in authority the same way Harry is marked by a natural mistrust of authority. She changes over the series as it becomes clear that authoritative sources like the Ministry have their own agendas, but she still mostly believes that following the rules just because they’re the rules is the best course of action. Hermione is the one who is most reluctant to believe, as Harry and Ron do, that Snape is a villain, even when the evidence points that way, not because she has any reason to actually know better but because he’s a teacher and therefore she doesn’t think he could be capable of working against Dumbledore. She continues to try to impress him even after he’s mean to her over and over because he’s a teacher and that’s what you do in class. The fact that she fails to impress Slughorn as much as Harry does annoys her not because she thinks it means she’s stupid or bad at potions or that she won’t get recognition but because one of her most fundamental expectations about how the world works is challenged by that. She is following the directions to a T and still coming up short relative to someone who is deliberately not. And even when this is obvious, she is unable to change course and try a new approach — the Prince’s approach — because that just isn’t how she thinks the world ought to work.

Harry, on the other hand, is not rebelling just for the sake of being difficult. He tries the official way first, finds that it doesn’t work, and is willing to try a new approach. This is how he is similar to the Prince, whether he wants to think so by the end or not. Interestingly, he at first wants to believe that the Prince is his father, even though everything he knows about the Prince points against that, and it would be in character for James to break the rules, but the difference is that James broke rules for the sake of breaking rules. Harry, for all his propensity for trouble-making, hotheadedness, and rashness, does not break rules just for the sake of breaking rules, or because he’s so arrogant he thinks they shouldn’t apply to him (which is how Snape interprets his many foolhardy attempts to break his own neck, based on what James was like). He is good at DADA for the same reasons Hermione mentions when she draws the comparison between his speech and Snape’s — he is brave and quick-thinking and does not get himself stuck by patterns that don’t work, at least not when he’s in a crisis situation. His unwillingness to listen to authority is not arrogance but rather a lesson learned from a childhood where no adult was on his side and authority never showed itself to be trustworthy. He does not go after Neville’s remembrall to show off, but to help a victim of bullying when no one else is there to help him, it never occurring to him that eventually the teacher would come back and punish Malfoy. He doesn’t go after the philosopher’s stone for personal glory or gain, but because he truly believes that no one is taking the threat seriously. And this is, after all, the only reason he is able to get it. He does not go into the Chamber of Secrets for a thrill or because it’s forbidden but because his friend’s sister is in danger and, after attempting to give useful information to the proper authority designated to handle it and finding out that he was not interested in helping, he felt it was up to them or else no one would save her. So it is relevant to his personality that he tries the regular version first and only changes when it’s clear that isn’t working. He is more than willing to take advice and help from others when he needs it. It is not an attachment to rules, like Hermione, a desire for recognition and success, like Ron, rebellion, like James, or even curiosity, like the Prince, but flexibility. So while he is an aggravatingly lazy student at times, and his priorities are often irritatingly wrong, he does succeed. Who else would have tried to fight the Dark Lord himself with expelliarmus (oh look, another thing Snape taught him…)?? But he used the knowledge he had and didn’t hesitate to act, as opposed to getting locked up because he doesn’t know a spell that will deflect avada kedavra, or to summon horcruxes, or to take down a dragon.

Snape, in comparison, is driven by a curiosity and intensity that Harry lacks. Like Harry, authority has failed him, and like Harry, he does try to go to the authorities first, like he does about Lupin, but his motivations are to protect himself, not to help others. It is not a crime to survive. But it does show an important difference in him and Harry. Unlike Harry, he didn’t have good friends he could count on, and he gets through life playing everything close to his chest. This ends up being useful and enables him to play a necessary role on defeating Voldemort, but Harry’s selfless willingness to let himself be killed for the sake of the whole world — as opposed to Snape doing it for the sake of the love of one person — is also necessary. And Harry does this because there is one authority figure he obeys no matter what, Dumbledore. So it is interesting that all of these characters have defining personality traits and motivations but are often most notable for the times when they break the patterns of their personalities.

#harry potter #severus snape #hp meta #man i forgot how good this guy's metas were

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Harry @ the people who say that Snape wasn’t brave:

#harry potter

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#lmao #memes

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I do love how Andromeda risked it all and ran away from her family for a guy who turns out to be just, you know, a guy

Ted Tonks is slob according to his daugther

When Harry meets him in DH he is described as having a big belly 

He's nice! He loves his family!

Like he's just a normal dude

We love that

#harry potter

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🧙🏻‍♂️🧛🏽‍♂️ them

#albus dumbledore #severus snape #hp fanart

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Whoever had the idea to let him babysit Teddy?

I really don’t know why but in my head interactions between those two were so amusing😂🤷‍♀️

Have a nice Sunday guys :)✨🌻

#lol #lucius malfoy #teddy lupin #hp fanart

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for @mmad-lover who asked for “👀 Okay what about fluffy stuff, maybe Minerva is braiding Severus’ hair, and he hates it but he also loves it and he’s blushing - OR! Severus trying and failing to learn how to knit/crochet and Dumbledore offers his help~ (If I recall correctly, Dumbles loves knitting patterns? So it feels fitting♥️)”

this is in your he deserved better universe which is honestly one of my guilty au pleasures :3 this was prob a daily ritual when he was younger (and more agreeable) and it got rarer when he grew up. but even when he’s older sev still found time to go to his parents and occasionally allow them to pamper him a bit. (he loves it, they love it; it’s a win for all really)

#severus snape #minerva mcgonagall #hp fanart

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#re-reblog this is awesome #the shadows are so cool