Delectablymysticaldefender

SEVERUS SNAPE SUPPORTER /DEFENDER

[deathdaydungeon]

Why did JKR say that Snape "didn't die for ideals" when she made him say "only those whom i could not save" in the books ?? It doesn't really make sense... what's your opinion about it ?

I know that for some fans, everything JKR says is Word of God and must be adhered to.  I am rather more loosely on the side of ‘Death of the author’, in the sense that authorial intent is generally of little interest to me; the words on the page within canon are what counts.

I think that JKR wrote the books a very long time ago, and some of the remarks she makes off the cuff in interview (or on Twitter) are not necessarily canon compatible.

I suspect that, at times, she’s modifying what she says with an eye on the audience (we saw this a little with her opinion of Draco, with her fears that some fans were more gracious towards him because of Tom’s appearance).

My other guess would also be that we all live with characters in our minds.  My personal headcanons when it comes to Snape move all over the place.  I therefore wouldn’t be surprised if the characters in JKR’s mind at present are perhaps a little different to the ones she originally committed to paper.  There’s certainly been one or two things released onto Pottermore that I personally feel aren’t coherent with canon.  

But then, that’s why we use canon as a term - so we can discuss media without the sands shifting around us.  

[shampooligan]

you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent. like check this out

[flimflamflummox-deactivated2021]

Here’s my favorite lolcat:

Next stop: Noobshire

[switch-up-snowfox]

it’s often the cute meme’s that age well once you get past the “literally everywhere” phase.

[scaliefox]

I like this classic

[princesstigerbelle]

More classics

[hymnofvalefor]

I went through almost ten years of photos on my Facebook page go find this

[owl-librarian]

But WAIT! DO NOT FORGET. the granddaddy: 

[tzikeh]

HOLD UP THERE 

SKIPPY 

“I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER” GOT FAMOUS OFF THE BACKS OF THE PIONEERING LOLCATS

THIS WAS IN THE BEFORE-TIMES 

WHEN THEY WERE KNOWN AS 

CAT MACROS 

AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO MAKE ANY SENSE

AND NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO SCROLL THROUGH A FUCKIN’ FEW MORE

[sophiaslittleblog]

All of these cat memes hurt and I feel like I’m looking at caveman drawlings. When did memes become so complex.

[seananmcguire]

[seananmcguire]

[hangingfire]

And that’s when I realized it’s been literally YEARS since I saw an “INVISIBLE $ITEM” LOLCAT image. years. YEARS.

[miricleo]

How did this one get left out? Classic.

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Long but funny, classic.

[severusdefender]

what if the reason severus got drawn to the dark arts wasn’t that it was ‘dark’ and ‘tempting’ but that he was told he shouldn’t be curious. he probably couldn’t afford muggle books and only had his mother’s old textbooks to read while at home so when he got to hogwarts, he wanted to read everything he could get his hands on but an entire section of the library was closed off to him. imagine telling someone who decided to modify his 6th year textbook for fun that he couldn’t read hundreds of books because they contained forbidden knowledge

[delectablymysticaldefender]

This really makes a lot more sense to me. I always thought that he was driven by the desire for knowledge.

[arwensundomiels-deactivated2019]

Harry Potter and the Socercer’s Stone (2001)

[delectablymysticaldefender]

And so it begins.

[c-is-for-circinate]

…hey Harry Potter fans, we’re all in agreement that Dumbledore brought the Philosopher’s Stone to Hogwarts in Harry’s first year as a test to see whether Voldemort was paying attention and what sort of state he was in, now that Dumbledore’s chosen champion was old enough to hold a wand, right?

Like, Harry learns what magic is and it’s time to start moving towards the full and final destruction of Tom Riddle Junior, so Dumbledore has a chat with his long-time alchemy friend who’s been keeping this thing safe for literally six centuries straight, and ‘borrows’ the easiest source of immortality he can find as bait for a trap to lure Voldemort out into the open so Dumbledore can get the lay of the land to prep for the next seven years.  This is canon, right?

[c-is-for-circinate]

This post just passed 50,000 notes, which is way more than I expected when I first made it, and can I just say, the tags and notes are full of so much vitriol against Dumbledore.  People loathe him so much.  I don’t think I ever realized how much before this!

I find that so interesting, because god knows Tumblr and fandom and fans at large tend to love tricksy bastards who play chess games in their heads.  Dumbledore’s far from the first old man who sent other people to die for his war.  He’s not the first character who’s manipulated kids, or raised children to be warriors because he believed they had to be.  He’s a long, long way from the first desperately flawed mastermind we’ve seen.  But god, do fans hate Albus Dumbledore.

And I wonder: how much of that is because we feel like Dumbledore betrayed Harry, and how much of it is because we feel like Dumbledore betrayed us?

Most of us were so young when we started reading the Harry Potter books.  The world was magic and Harry’s home was terrible, and a kindly old man with twinkling eyes and a white beard winked, and seemed to know everything in the world, and we thought he’d promised to take care of each and every child given unto his care.  We thought that meant us too.

There’s a thing that happens as kids grow up, when they begin to realize that their parents and the adults around them are flawed and broken and making things up as they go, and sometimes make very real mistakes.  Sometimes as grown-ups we find ways to forgive the adults that raised us for all the good and bad they did, and sometimes we cut them out of our lives forever.  But there’s always that feeling of betrayal, with the realization that a trusted adult did actually cause us harm–and not just because they used their best judgment and tried their best to protect us and it wasn’t enough, but because they decided something else was more important than our well-being and meant it.

As a human and a character, Albus Dumbledore is fascinating, flawed, fallible, with complicated priorities and a chess board for a brain, and he’s motivated by guilt and big-picture thinking and ego and a very real desire to do good for the world in the broadest possible sense all at once.  As an adult that Harry trusted he failed rather badly, but it’s up to Harry to decide how he feels about that, and Harry has plenty of complicated feelings of grief and forgiveness and self-sacrifice of his own.

We trusted Dumbledore to be the Good Adult.  The kindly man who had his students’ best interests at heart.  And he wasn’t.  He wasn’t what he promised us he’d be, and I think that’s what so many readers can’t forgive him for.

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Interesting take on Dumbledore and the way people currently view him.

[supervillainphd]

I’m at Leviosa, a Harry Potter convention and Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood) is here. During the Q&A he was asked about Alan Rickman and he said that Alan had such an intense charisma that he could have shown you nothing but kindness for 20 years and you would still be terrified of him. He said that he had worked with Alan on a film before Harry Potter and that he thinks Alan May have put in a good word with the casting director for him. But the best take away was when he was describing the security in set to make sure that people didn’t steal any props but Alan was the only one who got away with it. He wouldn’t even hide what he was doing. He would give props to children who were visiting the set or just take things to give to charity auctions and that when one of the producers finally worked up the courage to tell him to stop Alan flat out said no. Sean said it was “benevolent thievery”

[delectablymysticaldefender]

What a good guy he was.

[smalltownboymp3]

Introducing ... The Big Six

[beaubcxton]

POTIONS IN HP UNIVERSE creation challenge: @lovesickjily vs @beaubcxton

↣ Wolfsbane Potion 

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Reblogging for that wonderful quote.

[severousse]

Friendly reminder that Severus Snape woke up every morning knowing that no one would ever care or worry about him and that JKR never bothered to explore this part of his character.

[delectablymysticaldefender]

No, nothing friendly about that reminder. Just sad.

[professorlupins]

“So I give you fair warning, Potter,” Snape continued in a softer and more dangerous voice, “pint-sized celebrity or not - if I catch you breaking into my office one more time -” 

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Nice set.

[klauswanderer]

Slytherin basement.

[delectablymysticaldefender]

As a teenager?

[cutefunnybabyanimals]

What an absolutely gorgeous kitty. via /r/aww https://ift.tt/2L4l0Ww

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Stunning 

[cutefunnybabyanimals]

These eyes via /r/aww https://ift.tt/2LAe7vv

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Me, watching Nagini bite Snape.

[snapeslips]

“ My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you? ”

[delectablymysticaldefender]

So many took so much for granted.

[mysnarkyslytherinsecret]

Due to personal reasons, I’m going to love Snape forever.

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Same

[striders]

not to like make a huge fucking post about shit that’s been talked to death but it really genuinely scares me how many straight girls think it’s normal to just… not like your partner. like they think it’s normal and okay for their boyfriends to openly think they’re stupid and annoying and to be totally derisive about their interests and for them not to be friends or have things in common or enjoy each other’s personalities or encourage their interests? you are supposed to be friends with the person you’re in love with. you are supposed to want to talk to them about the things that make them happy. you do not have to settle for people who treat your entire personality as a burden outside of what you do to cater to them.

[delectablymysticaldefender]

It’s not normal, it’s not healthy, it doesn’t have to be. 

Don’t accept it. Not every man is like that.

[emmablowguns]

Snakes

[plomptipples]

This is how Tumblr’s search function works

[delectablymysticaldefender]

Pretty accurate