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[wizengamot-chiefwarlock]

how does all of this

become this

"erm.... quiet...! please...!!! 🥺🥺" *pained expression*

and then movie-only fans open their big dumb mouths and try to tell me that Harry's a wimp and an attention-seeker ironically this is the only scene in which Movie!Ginny behaves like Book!Ginny

[jkrowlingsupporter-deactivated2]

Please let the show bring more of sassy, whitty, no filter, intelligent Harry James Potter because scenes like this pained me watching the movies after reading the book.

Also same with Ginny i hope more of her true character gets shown in the show as well.

[morphmaker]

This comic takes place during Goblet of Fire.

[pottersofthefuture]

This is hilarious

[joannerowling]

When it comes to Cho, i think JKR either made her name genuinely thinking it was correct, but based on available ressources that weren't all that trustworthy; and/or she intended for her to be half Japanese, half Chinese (much like Blaise Zabini has a French-Italian name) in order to be more broadly representative. It makes sense because in Japanese Cho (or Chou) means "butterfly" which just fits with how Jo tends to name her characters in HP (non-main female characters often have flowery or graceful names, and Cho is a Quidditch player + Harry's love interest, naming her after a delicate flying creature makes sense). Cho first appears in PoA, which was written around 1997 (and the character itself was probably designed before that), when the internet was in its infancy. Jo was also a lower middle class white woman, with little reason to have connected directly with anyone Chinese in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s. All in all i don't see how you can conceive of this as offensive, let alone as racism, unless you WANT to. At best it's a bit of cluelessness, not any different than, for example, some of the weirder European-sounding names in mangas like FMA.

[e-von-dahl]

Sometimes I think the jokes about how JK Rowling names characters and places are exaggerated, then I remember she named the hospital for mentally ill people “st mungo’s” which is literally one letter away from being an ableist slur

[joannerowling]

… There is no hospital for the mentally ill people in Harry Potter. It's a general hospital, only for magical problems. The main character we see staying there got attacked by a giant snake.

Interesting that you remembered the name "St Mungo's" and immediately thought "mentally ill", though.

[e-von-dahl]

Girl… basically everyone we see at st mungos is suffering some type of mental trauma, be fucking fr

You can’t seriously be out here defending jkr from tumblr shitposts in 2025, you might as well be defending elon musk from twitter memes

[joannerowling]

… Yes, for plot reason. Did you think JKR was about to make Harry walk about the whole hospital and meet every patient after giving us the floor plan? We meet four people fitting your description. There's Neville's parents (who were tortured so badly they no longer remember him), Lockhart who obliviated himself, and Broderick Bode who's in a coma after Lucius Malfoy forced him to try and steal the Prophecy in the Department of Mysteries. The reason we meet them is to set up Bode's murder (Harry sees the healer bring Bode a plant which later turns out to have been a Devil Snare) + give further context to Neville's hatred of Bellatrix, since he'll meet her later in the novel. And Lockhart is just there for fun.

[pottersofthefuture]

My local Catholic High school is named St Mungos and no its not a school for the mentally ill. It's a scottish name where jkr lives and lived whilst writing the books - not surprising she was influenced by scottish names. Literally patron saint of Glasgow amongst other things.

[accioronwealsey]

[atmyhighestpeak]

I will forever be angry when non-Chinese people run around complaining about how Cho Chang isn’t a real name. Most people with Chinese names are going to anglicize it for convenience in English-speaking contexts instead of just writing down the Chinese characters each time… that doesn’t mean their names aren’t ‘real’? 張秋 is a real name. There are real people with the surname 張 and real people with the given name 秋. If you think a cultural name sounds weird, or like ‘ching chong’, that is entirely your problem. You can hate JK Rowling without being racist and eurocentric about it.

“But Cho is a Korean last name” ah yes because we all know names are trademarked to one language and nationality alone. Forget names like Kai, May, etc which are commonly used across many different cultures.

“But 張秋 would be Qiu Zhang, not Cho Chang!” No, 張秋 is 張秋. It can be anglicized many different ways because it’s a transliteration, not a strict translation. The transliterations ‘Chang’ and ‘Zhang’ often refer to the same character. It’s almost like English isn’t the only language in the world

[velvet4510]

Let’s be real: Narcissa Malfoy was actually NOT the best parent in the Harry Potter series.

She gets a lot of praise for her vow with Snape and lying to Voldemort to protect Draco. And those definitely prove that her love for her son was unconditional and by the end, she would prioritize him over everything else.

But the thing is, she was quite a hypocrite.

She willingly chose to support Voldemort. She may not have been an official Death Eater, but she enabled Lucius in his tasks as a Death Eater and was backing Voldemort’s cause for years. Lucius was killing and torturing people all the time, and she didn’t care. He did not force her to be involved. She was as committed to fascism as he was. It’s even implied that she joined her husband in torturing the Muggles at the Quidditch World Cup, since Harry asked if Draco’s parents were still out there with their Death Eater masks (plural, not just one for Lucius) and Draco didn’t deny it.

And then Narcissa had the nerve to play the victim when Draco was tasked with a deadly mission, as if that isn’t exactly the path she and Lucius set him on in the first place by choosing to return to Voldemort when he came back to life!

I seriously don’t know what they were expecting when they agreed to keep on supporting someone like Voldemort. There’s no way either she or Lucius were under any illusions as to what Voldemort was capable of doing to his own followers if he grew tired of them. But it seems they were so convinced that they were firmly in his good graces that they played the victim when Lucius screwed up and got himself thrown in Azkaban. Narcissa even demanded that Bellatrix not blame Lucius for what happened, as if the blame was solely on Voldemort for deciding to punish them and not on themselves for getting involved with this maniac in the first place.

It’s quite hypocritical of Narcissa to willingly back a dangerous psychopathic fascist and let him live in her house, and then when her son is assigned a deadly mission, act like she had no idea such a thing could happen to the point of hysterical desperation to counteract it. It also shows some unheathily blind faith in her husband in that she never thought he could fall from grace and didn’t want him to be blamed for something that was technically his fault.

It’s similar to Snape, who also was quite the hypocrite to abandon Voldemort only when Lily was threatened because he knew from the getgo that by joining the Death Eaters, he’d be supporting the genocide of Lily’s kind.

Narcissa did do some remarkably brave things for her son, but these things don’t change or undo the fact that she played a big part in getting her son’s life endangered in the first place. It was her choices and her beliefs - as well as Lucius’s - that put Draco in danger.

This is why the best and most canon-based Malfoy fanfics - especially those about Draco’s redemption during or after the war - are the ones that don’t shy away from Narcissa’s role in Draco’s endangerment and trauma. She may be warm and loving to him directly, but indirectly, she’s certainly not innocent or blameless. You’re not gonna win any Parent of the Year awards if your choices end up dragging your child into a war as an underage soldier.

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[iamnmbr3]

Draco in books 1-6: Why does Potter have to spend all his time with Weasley? I want him to come to my house.

Draco in book 7: not like this

[kyecheng-deactivated20260512]

Litle mandrakes

[alessiajontrunfio]

James and Lily.

[mashallahmangoes-deactivated201]

Current state: emotional mess over these three

[lez-exclude-men]

"Strangely, not many men actually stop to wonder why feminists dislike them so much -- if they did they might notice the statistics are quite damning. But they're too busy explaining to us that they're not like that, that it's not really nice to generalize like that. And if we alienate them with all that talk of men are trash, the risk is they won't join in and help us in our struggle. As if we were incapable of organizing our struggle without them, as if we haven't been doing precisely that for years -- and as if, when they invited themselves into our ranks to join the struggle, they didn't always end up taking over, talking over us and even imposing their decisions on us while they were about it."

-- I Hate Men, by Pauline Harmange

[anotherlifebrotha]

[moronicromantic]

“english isn’t my first language sorry for any mistakes” —proceeds to write the most beautiful work of art ever created with grammar ten times better than an english professor

[catchymemes]

[aeliad]

HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT! 

It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it. 

Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266

[wiseacrewhimsy]

Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.

[the-geek-cornucopia]

In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.

[pluts04]

Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.

Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…

[thou-creature-of-the-deep]

I’ve reblogged his story at least twice; it’s time for Nicole’s.

[samsaragalasinzaraxazeal]

Reblogged him, bout time I got to reblog her.

[blvnk-art]

Harry holding Ginny's face (and she melting inside) through out their lives