Ask Moony

Greetings I'am Remus Lupin D.A.D.A Professor at Hogwarts. Also Current Head of Gryffindor House. Married to the Wonderful Dora Tonks, and together we have our brilliant boy Teddy Lupin. Feel free to ask any questions you may have. And I shall do my best to answer them as soon as Socrates delivers them to me. Time line: OOTP-Post-war for details and (N.G. see below) (as of post-war): Full time Teaching D.A.D.A. at Hogwarts For NG: Full time teaching D.A.D.A until retirement at the age of 58. Both Mun and Muse are over twenty one.

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[rpmusings-galore]

                     there ain’t language for the things I’ve seen

                               &&  the TRUTH  is stranger than my own worst dreams.

[pauliedraws]

I animated a bit from the Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban audio book, narrated by Stephen fry. Just for fun, don’t know if I’ll do any more of these.

[askmoony]

RULES  :  repost &  fill  in  with  the  words  you  most associate  with  your  character.

ANIMAL  :  Wolf

COLOUR  :  warm caramel brown

MONTH  :   October

SONG(s)  : Can’t fight the moonlight, somewhere only we know, All about us. 

NUMBER  :  3

DAY  OR  NIGHT  :  Night 

PLANT  :  Whoomping Williow

SMELL  :  Parchment paper

SEASON  :  Early autumn 

FOOD  : Chocolate (naturaly) 

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Maybe Libra or Leo (cause one’s balance and the other’s more for  Griffie chivalry.) 

ELEMENT  :  Earth

DRINK  : Tea, Hot Coco

Tagged by @leeriverofwordsjordan

[mamalazzer]

Harry Potter/Avengers AU

The Avengers are a team of Witches and Wizards fighting against the Dark Lord Thanos. 

Tony is the mad Wizarding inventor who is a genius with a wand. Bruce is a part-time healer, full-time shape-shifting werewolf. Clint and Natasha are Unspeakables. Thor is a Quidditch beater. And Auror Steve has one hell of a shield charm. 

(Oh, and Loki is a Death Eater, which no one is surprised about)

[mamalazzer]

Just needed to add an imperio’d Bucky as the Winter Sorcerer and Peggy in Steve’s compass…

Oh! And Peter going to Hogwarts having Harry Potter like adventures. And Mad Eye Fury is Head of the Department of Mysteries…

And T’Challa, who is from the completely magical kingdom of Wakanda (and has an Animagus that is a black panther). And Scott, who has been incarcerated in Azkaban.

Oh, and I missed Quidditch Warrior Thor the first time (who usually prefers being a beater) so here he is with Wanda, who is a defected ex-Death Eater

[jonswno]

a hard pill to swallow: if an audience can pick up on where the story is going, it’s a good story.

[bumblebeebats]

A kinda related note i hope you don’t mind me adding on: one of the most life-changing bits of story advice i ever received was actually in a class on “Revenge and Vengeance in the Ancient World,” if you can believe it. The professor was talking about how everyone in ancient Greece knew all the Greek myths back to front and told them over and over again - and someone asked why they would keep retelling the same stories if they already knew they ended.

She explained that basically it wasn’t the ending that was the most suspenseful or exciting part, but how you got there. This is why The Iliad spoils its own ending in the opening lines. This is why we have so many different retellings of Shakespeare, of Arthurian legends, of fairy tales. 

There are no truly original stories or truly unpredictable endings. So, IMO, it’s better to focus on how you as a writer/filmmaker/artist/whatever can bring something new to the body of the story rather than trying to shock and mislead your audience. 

[ravenmione]

Battle of Hogwarts

2nd May 1998

Raise your wand for the fallen 50

[diangelosnico]

Hermione Granger for @corporalniks​

“Are you sure that’s a real spell?” said the girl. “Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve tried a few simple spells just for practice and it’s all worked for me. I’ve learned all our course books by heart, of course.”

[leeriverofwordsjordan]

What is your muse’s 19th Century Character Trope?

Dashing Neighbour with 2,000 pounds a year

Tagged by: @murder-popsicle

Tagging: Anyone who wants it? @joannahunts @aloneinxthenight @askmoony

[askmoony]

: Mysterious Bachelor in want of a Wife {XD where is the lie? )

[annerb-fic]

The thing about Harry Potter as a character is that he is insanely observant when he actually cares enough to pay attention. Meaning 90% of the stuff he deems unimportant flies over his head, but he makes these huge leaps of logic and intuition when he bothers to focus. Like in the books when it comes to anything relating to Voldemort or Death Eaters or People Not To Be Trusted (Draco, Umbridge). Growing up, he had to be able to see when a situation was going south long before the frying pan or Dudley’s fists came his way. But he also had to be able to ignore and tune out the constant flow of shit and neglect he was treated to.

If you think about it, for all the better aspects of Hogwarts, it still followed this same basic pattern. He had to pay close attention to the things trying to kill him (even classes took a back seat to this), but find a way to ignore and not acknowledge all the rumors and staring and people thinking he’s a prat or the heir of slytherin or a liar. I think this is why the arguments that Harry is a mushroom and notices nothing, and the arguments that he is deductively brilliant can exist side by side. He’s both. It’s also why, in my opinion, he tends to be ridiculously observant of Ginny once he starts to notice her as something important. She barely exists in the early narrative other than Someone to Be Saved. It’s also why Ginny can sometimes feel like she ‘comes from nowhere’ in the narrative. As far as Harry is concerned, she did come from nowhere. The switch in Harry’s brain went from Doesn’t Matter–Ignore to Very Important–Pay Close Attention, and BAM, there she was. Everywhere.

[hilokaul]

We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

[leeriverofwordsjordan]

What is your muse’s 19th Century Character Trope?

Dashing Neighbour with 2,000 pounds a year

Tagged by: @murder-popsicle

Tagging: Anyone who wants it? @joannahunts @aloneinxthenight @askmoony

[askmoony]

Troubled Suitor who has fallen upon Hard Times 

Tagged by : @leeriverofwordsjordan

[pencilscratchins]

not to keep putting harry potter on your dashes in 2019 but i just got the part where harold and his friends destroy government property and was like “sick” (click for hopefully better quality smh) [redbubble] [speedpaint]

[prokopetz]

I am 100% convinced that “exit, pursued by a bear” is a reference to some popular 1590s meme that we’ll never be able to understand because that one play is the only surviving example of it.

[prokopetz]

Seriously, we’ll never figure it out. I’ll wager trying to understand “exit, pursued by a bear” with the text of The Winter’s Tale as our primary source is like trying to understand loss.jpg when all you have access to is a single overcompressed JPEG of a third-generation memetic mutation that mashes it up with YMCA and “gun” - there’s this whole twitching Frankensteinian mass of cultural context we just don’t have any way of getting at.

[sandovers]

no, but this is why people do the boring archival work! because we think we do know why “exit, pursued by a bear” exists, now, and we figured it out by looking at ships manifests of the era -

it’s also why there was a revival of the unattributed and at the time probably rather out of fashion mucedorus at the globe in 1610 (the same year as the winter’s tale), and why ben jonson wrote a chariot pulled by bears into his court masque oberon, performed on new year’s day of 1611.

we think the answer is polar bears.

no, seriously!  in late 1609 the explorer jonas poole captured two polar bear cubs in greenland and brought them home to england, where they were purchased by the beargarden, the go-to place in elizabethan london for bear-baiting and other ‘animal sports.’  it was at the time run by edward alleyn (yes, the actor) and his father-in-law philip henslowe (him of the admiral’s men and that diary we are all so very grateful for), and would have been very close, if not next to, the globe theatre.

of course, polar bear cubs are too little and adorable for baiting, even to the bloodthirsty tudor audience, aren’t they?  so, what to do with the little bundles of fur until they’re too big to be harmless?  well, if there’s anything we know about the playwrights and theatre professionals of the time, it’s that they knew how to make money and draw in audiences.  and the spectacle of a too-small-to-be-dangerous-yet-but-still-real-live-and-totally-WHITE-bear?  what good entertainment businessman is going to turn down that opportunity? 

and, voila, we have a death-by-bear for the unfortunate antigonus, thereby freeing up paulina to be coupled off with camillo in the final scene, just as the comedic conventions of the time would expect.

[scientia-rex]

you’re telling me it was an ACTUAL BEAR

every time I think to myself “history can’t possibly get any more bananas” I realize or am made to realize that I am badly mistaken

[wenamedthedogkylo]

Not just an actual bear. A polar bear cub.

Imagine a fully grown man running offstage to be “killed” by a baby polar bear.

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Fair Ladies by Alan Wolton