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Selected pages from: Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them

#( added to the bestiary | animals )

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“I will stay gentle no matter what I endure, I am so much more.”

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

#( words to live by | isms ) #( track of mind | isms | newt )

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Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One (2010)

#( owls over fellytones | ron weasley )

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I HAVE THREE WORDS THAT WILL BRING JOY TO YOUR HEART:

little league quidditch

#( to chase the sads away | positivity ) #( another book entry | all hcs ) #[ this is forever and always so dang cute ]

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yo im gonna tack onto here some things thnx for bearing with me

viktor's relationship with igor karkoff and general feelings about his headmaster

also viktor's relationships with hermione & fleur, especially once the triwizard tournament and school year were done

also im yet again considering yeeting my oc ravenclaw on here but idk idk lmao

a peek into james growing up and going from little shit to being on lily's romantic radar & actually like. married.

some about graves's family and consequently his place in it

bannerless ooc list of some things i gotta do o'er here for reasons and stuff

newt's golden trio verse (yes this messes with a lot of things & yes im gonna address that)

hcs about graves being found, his recovery process after

also some insights to his life before grindygross ruined everything

single dad survivor james verse, at some point. and hoo boy does that change a thing or two i'm fully aware-

scars posts for uhhh,, everyone. im sorry, they've all been injured a lot and most of it has been magic related-

and there's probably more but we'll start there and see how far we get. i have a lot in my drafts to still deal with too but that's gonna be low-priority against everything else i wanna do tbh

#( out of spells | ooc ) #[ i have some of this drafted but not as much as i should ]

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the older i get the more i realize what it meant for lily and james potter to die at 21. when you’re 11 and you’re reading the books, watching the films, 21 feels ancient. it did to me. even the actors they picked looked like they were in their thirties, because actual 21 year olds standing next to harry in the mirror would have been an excruciating sight i think. actual 21 year olds lined up in the photo sirius shows harry would have been horrible to see. they weren’t adults. i look at 21 year olds now and most of them are still teenagers. and i’m so sad because you know harry turns 21 and then 22 and then 28 and 29 and realizes how terribly young his parents were, how brave they were, how exceptional they were, GOD I’M SAD IM GETTING A BEER

#( courage is a choice | isms | james ) #[ ugly crying i think about this TOO OFTEN ] #[ and every year on my bday #this was most of my brainspace on his bday this year too :ccc ]

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(by maud_bsc)

#( so many places to be | scenery )

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Children. They were teaching children. 

Rowena, Godric, Salazar; they tended to forget that. They saw young minds, young acolytes - eyes that would look up to them. Not innocence. Not childish wonder.

Toughen them, said Godric.

Make them smart, said Rowena.

And ambitious, above all, said Salazar.

But war and the real world; that was not where children belonged. Aye, they would belong one day, but it was not their part to turn them cruel, make them hard, make their eyes dart sideways always looking for ways to twist the world to further their own ends. They were to protect them. Shield them from the worst so that some good, some kindness would find its way into an ever darkening world. To give them weapons and teach them how to use them, but never tell them that those weapons were their only hope.

She’d seen in all the battles she’d rode out to just how dark the world could be. Was it not their duty to bring light into this world? To fight darkness with light; not with more darkness - with divisiveness and strife and hatred?

I will take them all, she said. 

I will protect the ones you will not. I will save them. I will give them a home. They will be the last rays of all that is good in this world. I will teach them kindness. I will teach them loyalty. I will teach them selflessness.

I will teach them how to be the backbone, the heart of this world. I will teach them how to stand steadfast, when all hope is lost. 

I will teach them how to be human, to be more than just one single word.

No, she knew, theirs would not be an easy path, or a glorious one. They would have no songs. No great tales in books. No laurels. No consolation, no thanks.

But they would be the reason why, when the darkness finally came, all of them in all their different colours would stand shoulder to shoulder and draw their wands as brothers in arms.

Not for achievements. Not for trophies. Not for power.

For goodness. For hope.

And when the time came for them to choose the words that would forever guide the children that would come to them, Helga smiled and engraved, upon a bronze plaque, these words:

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.

(But her students remembered a very different set of words. Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.)

(Helga Hufflepuff requested by boney-eyes-jefferson)

#( house pride: hufflepuff ) #long post for ts #( soul bared | aes. | newt )

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life motto

#( his hair his smoke his dreams | aes. | graves )

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tag dump seven ft. ensemble charas part 2 !!

#( ask the sorting hat | tag dump ) #( doesn't like things loose | tina goldstein ) #( lively company | queenie goldstein ) #( bravest baker | jacob kowalski ) #( madam president | seraphina picquery ) #( war hero | theseus scamander ) #( deserves better | credence barebone ) #( an old friend | leta lestrange ) #( always on the high horse | gellert grindelwald ) #( the boy who lived | harry potter ) #( brilliant but scary | hermione granger ) #( warmhearted groundskeeper | rubeus hagrid ) #( fascinated with muggles | arthur weasley ) #( lovingly scary | molly weasley ) #( cooler than anyone ever | bill weasley ) #( works with dragons | charlie weasley ) #( perfect prat | percy weasley ) #( gred & forge | fred & george weasley ) #( knows what she wants | ginny weasley ) #( nightmare in pink | dolores umbridge )

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tag dump six ft. ensemble charas part 1 !!

#( ask the sorting hat | tag dump ) #( herbology prodigy | neville longbottom ) #( just as sane | luna lovegood ) #( exceptional artist | dean thomas ) #( explosives expert | seamus finnegan ) #( astrology girly | lavender brown ) #( raised in snobbery | draco malfoy ) #( jumpy for a professor | quirinus quirrell ) #( crankiest potionsmaster | severus snape ) #( definitely deranged | sirius black ) #( coolest DADA professor | remus lupin ) #( scared of death | voldemort ) #( seethrough seer | sybill trelawney ) #( full of himself | gilderoy lockhart ) #( a free house elf | dobby ) #( don't call her nymphadora | tonks ) #( mad as a hatter | alastor madeye moody ) #( procurer of a professor | horace slughorn ) #( stern and kind in equal measure | minerva mcgonagall ) #( never sure what he is up to | albus dumbledore )

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reblog if you are ok with mass booping

#( out of spells | ooc ) #[ FOR THE BOOPS !! ]

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-kicks in door- hap birf to one james potter !!!

#( out of spells | ooc ) #reminder he would be 64 if he didnt die <3

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the noble and most ancient house of #000000

#( fwooper's song | !crack ) #[ makes me giggle every time ]

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#( ripped at every edge | percival graves )

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Sometimes I want to just grab people who defend Snape’s actions, by the lapels, and shake their stupidity loose…

Yes, he was violently, creepily obsessed with Lily Evans. That does not make what he did okay.

Do we excuse stalkers in the real world? No, we see them as hella creepy (the damn truth of it all).

He even tried to barter the lives of James and 6mo Harry for Lily, ffs.

And people say he was only mean to Harry to keep up cover… well no. Fred and George, plus others, told all the first years to watch out for Snape because he was a known twat… a bully.

He mocked Hermione straight up, for her enthusiasm to learn. And later on, mocked her physical appearance.

He treated Harry like dirt, because he -a grown ass adult- couldn’t let go of his hatred towards the child’s father. An adult, in a position of power, used it to torment a child/minor… that would be prosecuted as hell in modern times.

He actively went out of his way to torment Neville Longbottom, a child whose parents had been tortured so violently by Bellatrix Lestrange that they now sat as drooling husks in the Janus Thickey Ward of St Mungos. People excuse that for some reason.

But remember that Snape scared Neville SO MUCH, that the Boggart they faced in third year actually turned INTO Snape for Neville. A boggart takes the form of your greatest fear… that says a lot.

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“Oh, but he died for Harry”

No, his very last line said it wasn’t for Harry at all.

“You have her eyes.” means he was seeing Lily. The obsession he had for her was terrifying, and bordering on psychotic (under psychological definitions, he was in a position where this focus was unhealthy and actively prevented him from living a normal life).

We all will love someone, have affection for someone and watch it go unrequited… half of growing up is knowing when to let it go and move on. Relationships, certain goals, dreams, etc.

Snape never did that. He clung to this twisted ‘love’ for Lily, and clung even tighter to the hatred he felt for James Potter…

Yes, James Potter was an absolute twat to Severus in that one little snippet of memory we got. I’m not sure if you’ve met many teenagers, but most of them are absolute little shits on occasion…

But you know what else James was, besides a twat? He was someone who defied modern conventions, he helped Sirius deal with being the only Black in Gryffindor (imagine how that went down at home), gave Peter courage in an abstract way, but most importantly… saw his friend Remus was in a situation where he’d become completely undesirable to the general population… and broke the law to show support.

James Potter was an unregistered animagi, and so were the others. To support Remus… that was big. If they’d been caught…

And he grew out of the d-bag phase, which was the most important thing. People say it was only Lily’s influence that did it, that if she’d been with Snape… that would have ‘fixed him’, but it’s incorrect.

People only change if they are open to it, if there is an internal drive to do so, and external influences are important to a lesser or greater extent (more support).

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Also, I absolutely abhor people treating Lily Potter (nee Evans) as a commodity. She was the Brightest Witch of Her Age, unlike anything Slughorn (collector of the best, brightest, most connected and talented) had every seen… she was brilliant. Lily Potter faced down the firebolting Dark Lord Voldemort, KNOWING she could not win. KNOWING her husband had died on the stairs trying to save them, give them more time… KNOWING he was going to kill her, but god dammnit, she was not going to stand aside and let him hurt her baby, her Harry.

Voldemort told her to stand aside, that she could live if he let her kill the child… [As per his deal with Snape, who seriously believed she would actually take that deal… thus showing he knew NOTHING about Lily at all].

…but she did not.

Lily Potter put herself between Voldemort and Harry in a blatant display of defiance, of love, of devotion that even death could not diminish. And it was that, her Gryffindor nature to protect and fight to the end, to never back down… that saved her son.

That put a magical barrier around her son that Voldemort could not touch.

Lily Evans was not a prize to be won by James or Snape, she was a brilliant, clever witch who actively CHOSE who she wanted to be with. Do you think James could have stopped her from doing anything, if he tried? No.

Kind and empathetic, but a lioness with deadly intelligence.

That was Lily Evans-Potter.

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In short… yes, Snape died.

And it was, in a very roundabout way, for the benefit of good… but what we really get when you examine the text critically… if that the whole thing was literally just Severus’s way of throwing a big ‘Fuck you’ at Voldemort for killing Lily.

It must also be noted that JK Rowling herself has said that if Harry were anyone else’s child, if Snape had not loved Lily, he would not have cared in the least what happened to him.

Some see that as romantic. Let me step on that notion with harsh reality.

A child who has a giant target painted on him from the second Trelawney uttered a syllable of her prophecy… who is hunted by the darkness and abused by his muggle family members; who finds a new world where people readily accept him and are actually excited to see him…

[In canon …he is immediately pissed on by a man who knew his parents but won’t tell him anything.]

In the AU version we are discussing, where Snape feels nothing for Harry… just imagine it. Watching a grown man (Voldemort) and his followers attempting to murder a child, year after year, and feeling nothing… not a single desire to even talk to him about it.

He has no empathy for the child.

Well, he has none for Harry in canon, either. He just stares at Lily’s eyes and apparently that turns on his ‘protect her DNA’ senses internally or something… which isn’t much better.

If we have to celebrate any male character, where the flying firebolt is the Hagrid love?

[Still annoyed with Dumbledore]

Right off the bat, Hagrid went out of his way to care for baby Harry, and then child-Harry when he came to tell him about Hogwarts. Like, he brought a cake, got him a present, talked to him, treated him nicely, sent him a letter his first week at hogwarts… all the way to the battle when his face was abso-fucking-lutely devastated while he carried Harry’s ‘body’ in his arms…

And you could see on his face that he remembered carrying baby Harry just like that, a tiny thing cradled in his big half-giant arms… except this time Hagrid thought he’d failed. He thought Harry was dead. And it was killing him.

But people want to hold up Snape as the ultimate pseudo-father figure for Harry?!

No.

Enough.

It is Hagrid.

Always Hagrid.

With Sirius and Remus being cool uncles on the sides…

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This is how it is, fight me.

#anti snape for ts #long post for ts #[ i was feeling Grouchy about this so im rebageling again ] #[ hagrid was our hero !! hagrid was the one of unwavering loyalty #the one doing his best despite being wronged in his life #snape held onto being wronged and REFUSED to change despite plenty of opportunities #and if it hadn't been for that one choice he wouldnt have helped against moldy voldy at all ]

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16-17/∞ pictures of Daniel Sharman

#( here comes trouble | james potter ) #[ fuck hes so pretty tho ]