dervish and banges

tariq kyle writer at hypable.com 21. san francisco. works at a tech company doing customer support. AccioCharm63 on Pottermore muggles found Hogwarts.  ghosts haunting Hogwarts. for fun you can follow mypersonal blog

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Take me to church. (at Seattle, Washington)

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disney. potter. work. life.

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URL Graphics

I reached my first hundred so I thought I’d do some URL inspired graphics to celebrate! To get one:

Please be following moi;

Reblog this post;

Preferably have some kind of Doctor Who URL, but I’ll do Harry Potter ones too

Maybe check out some of my edits?

The graphic will have your URL in the caption

I will try to do them all but it may take a while

This is the first time I’ve done this so I hope it works :)

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Yessssss.

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Me: Nevile, why didn't you actually show up in Cursed Child?

Neville: I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative.

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Missing LGBTQ Representation

Cursed Child had a story line that could have been a breakthrough in LGBTQ storytelling. Why did Albus and Scorpius not end up together?

I mean, c’mon!  “If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I’d choose you.” That’s love.

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The only election that matters is the one for Minister of Magic.

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“Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.”

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It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

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we are only strong as we are united.

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YESTERDAY EVENING I WAS WONDERING WHY REMUS LOVED CHOCOLATE SO MUCH WHEN I REALISED

CHOCOLATE IS POISONOUS FOR DOGS

WHAT IF YOUNG REMUS STARTED LOVING CHOCOLATE BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT KILLED THE WOLF PART OF HIM

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just once I want a Lupin headcanon that doesn’t make me want to sent myself on fire

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congratulations to Minerva McGonagall on her pending retirement today, who is going to look down at her list of first years and see “James Sirius Potter” and just call it a fucking day

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We wouldn’t last two days without her…

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one of the most important things to me about harry potter is its portrayal of happiness. in the harry potter world, happiness isn’t just a feeling—it’s a weapon. look at how harry and his friends fight: with riddikulus, laughter stymies a creature made of fear; with expecto patronum, the very memory of happiness beats back the grim forces of depression.

the weaponization of positivity stretches beyond that. fred and george weasley’s inventions, meant for laughter, turn into arms against umbridge’s regime. and after their departure from hogwarts, their joke shop becomes not only the single bright spot in diagon alley (literally & figuratively) but a hub of defensive magic. the whole weasleys’ wizard wheezes narrative serves as maybe the clearest example in the series that happiness can act as both shield and sword.

there is something deeply empowering in a depiction of happiness as something so tangible and usable. as a profoundly depressed person, i often feel myself scrounging for happy memories and clutching them close; i find myself grasping for laughter in the dark. the physicalization of expecto patronum is not a quantum leap from reality. the boggart’s laughter as combat fuel, the weasleys’ levity as not just a choice but a difficult and defiant one—it’s all familiar.

the series has its share of darkness, but it revels most in the light. it lets us believe that the act of joy is not small, trivial, or inconsequential. happiness is something not just to be lived—it is to be wielded, on your own behalf and the behalves of the people around you, to battle against the world’s heavier elements. harry potter teaches us this.

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H A R R Y  P O T T E R  +  A  E  S  T  H  E  T  I  C

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classic harry