[elderswear]

[raptorific]

The scientific method. Use. Use the scientific method. “We may never know.” Bologna. Use the scientific method.

[birdsy-purplefishes]

They don’t have that. They have MAGIC.

[the-gallium-knight]

Where there are patterns of cause and effect, the scientific method has insight. But if they’d started using it we’d all be aparating on fucking Mars by now.

[stormcloudkitten]

The scientific method isn’t really a great way to determine “hmm how did this baby not die when all those other people did” because what are you gonna do to prove whatever your hypothesis is? Avada Kedavra at a bunch of babies whose parents love them very much? Good luck finding your test subjects, dude.

[raptorific]

They could have done autopsies on the victims of the Avada Kedavra curse, compared to autopsies on people who died of natural causes, eventually isolating the true cause-of-death in the bodies of the victims, and then use this new understanding to create an effective counter-curse without anyone needing to sacrifice their life for their child.

The scientific method could also be used to isolate the composition of Phoenix tears, the process by which they spark perfect cellular regeneration, and then synthesize an artificial version with the same effects, essentially rendering all of medical science obsolete. 

The “can’t be done” and “we may never know” attitude of the wizarding world has seriously limited their ability to progress as a society.

[beshabar-deactivated20140730]

look okay they’re still using medieval quills over pencils, I think cellular regeneration is still many innovations away in the wizarding world

[raptorific]

Yeah but they could make all of those leaps in like a week if they used the scientific method. Bring in like, ten muggle scientists, get them to analyze the shit out of everything, then send them home with some extra spending money and fabricated memories of a science conference out-of-town

[victorionious]

#ravenclaws.. #whaat a ravenclaw…

[raptorific]

Don’t get it mixed up. I’m not just advocating science for the sake of better understanding. I’m a slytherin, so I’m looking for practical applications for the knowledge gained through use of the scientific method. 

For example, why is the wizarding world still effectively using carrier pigeons? Sirius Black demonstrated that instantaneous communication is possible via the floo network, so why not fill cigarette lighters with floo powder? This would not only be the wizarding equivalent of a cell phone, but would also allow streamline the process of creating entryways into the floo network.

There are people, like Tonks, who can rewrite their own genetic code with a thought. There are people, like McGonagall, who can completely change species and retain human cognition. There are potions, like Polyjuice, that rewrite your genetic code temporarily, replicating both a person’s nature and nurture. They’ve naturally perfected genetic engineering, but their understanding of how these processes work has left them completely unable to apply it practically.

For example, if they did a little bit of research and development, they could isolate the genes that allow for magical abilities, replicate the process by which Polyjuice Potion works, and synthesize a new potion that allows people like Filch, who were born squibs but desperately want to be wizards, to drink a little bit of potion every day so they’re able to use magic. 

Or, if they isolate the genes that allow Tonks and Teddy to rewrite their genetic code at will, as well as the process by which animagi are able to retain their human consciousness while in an animal body, they could easily create an effective treatment for lycanthropy that allows werewolves like Lupin to control the shift between man and wolf and retain control of themselves while in wolf form. 

Additionally, if they did research on what contagion causes lycanthropy, they would be so much closer to creating a vaccine that makes it significantly less communicable. 

[fndungeonmom]

i love when the harry potter fandom gets all sciency

[homeschooledangel]

i love when the harry potter fandom gets fed up with the wizarding world’s bullshit

[wheeloffortune-design]

I’m a Gryffindor and I approve of this because I’m against STUPIDITY

[auckie]

When I was little I wanted to be Italian REALLT badly bc I loved the movie cars and specifically had a crush on this fucking THING

Which doesn’t speak English at all, all it’s line are in Italian and it’s name is GUIDO. And everyone knew I was obsessed with Italy in elementary school but they didn’t know why bc I, even as a young autistic child, had the sense to know this was a rightfully so, highly mockable thing. So I would read about cars on IMDB and then one day someone posted a crackfic on the message boards there and it was about this guy getting drunk and beating his wife, and it snapped me out of my fugue long enough to realize how absurd wanting to be Italian was, but then it made me cry really hard and my parents were like ‘hey what the fuck’ and I didn’t have the chutzpah to admit anything so I told them I saw a naked lady online and then they went into the computer and found all the weird south park midi songs I downloaded on lime wire and I thought they were literally going to kill me for about two weeks.

[auckie]

The reason I was downloading South Park episodes and songs on limewire and frostwire was because I was also obsessed with Kenny McCormick and for school we had to make a shitty little website about a world issue, so I found this free platform that doesn’t exist anymore but it was like a horrible little wix site from the mid aughts, and we based my groups theme on global warming. But when we were done with it I repurposed it as a perosnal site and lied about being a voluptuous blonde 19 year old woman who worked at a fictitious restaurant called the lunchbox, and I just wrote about how obsessed I was with Kenny McCormick and my sister found it and was like what the fuck is wrong with you. But she never told my parents. She also found this 80 page story I was writing about buddy the elf and all my weird skater ocs breaking into the moulin rouge, and at one point I was sick of buddy so I had a herd of buffalo trample him in the middle of a city and it was very tragic but jarring and unexpected. And she referenced a part of the story to me and it made me SO fucking paranoid that I wiped our entire, family shared packard bell computer and got in huge fucking trouble for it.

[kalichnikov]

[ginevvra-blog]

are we not even going to talk about how unexplored the ginny/tom relationship is

they wrote to each other for an entire year, tom riddle was closer to ginny than anyone else had ever been without reservation and she in turn was the object of his almost religious focus and devotion and study, he knew her deepest and darkest most innermost secrets, secrets that curled up inside her like velvety tendrils trying to claw their way out of her throat, secrets that she had never breathed a word about to anyone else after he had ensnared her into the deceptive cradle that was his gentleness and warmth. she went to him for advice, confided in him about her bruised heart, asked him all of the questions she had never dared ask her parents or brothers or teachers, clutched the diary dearly to her chest and told him the little details about her life, everything everything, they were profoundly close, chillingly so. tom riddle knew ginny weasley inside and out, lived vicariously through her, she had literally poured her soul into him, so much that he began pouring a little bit of his soul back into her i cant breathe

tom riddle aka voldemort poured bits of his soul back into ginny weasley 

a part of him will always be inside her, lying dormant but sharp-eyed in the dark corners of her mind

she got to know that side of him so thoroughly, the solicitous kind thoughtful tender side, he was everything and everywhere all at once, ginny weasley was best friends with fucking lord voldemort ok

why was this never explored, where is the narrative for this

why did jkr not incorporate this more into the story, why did ginny not have a more pivotal role in tom’s downfall, where was her part in the tom/harry chronicle of which she was so clearly involved and included, the only other character to be consumed and completely drowned in tom riddle’s darkness and come out thriving and pulsing and very full of the life he tried to devour, why was this simply left untouched, this could have been so much more, so much better, it nearly writes itself, its all there, what the fuck

[fanonical]

harry potter telling his kids wild stories about the stuff he got up to as a kid, and his kids looking it up in history books just to make sure he’s not bullshitting them

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

He is, but always about the mundane stuff.

Albus comes back from a conversation with Ron and Hermione to tell his siblings “Dad was teasing us again. Hogwarts never had an interhouse spelling competition, and even if they did, Auntie Hermione says that “floccinaucinihilipilification” isn’t a word they’d give to First Years.”

“Oh.”

“They really did make him fight a dragon in fourth year though.”

[vintagegeekculture]

The distinctive and memorable Thailand-only covers for the Harry Potter novels.

[fanonical]

finally some book covers that don’t just spoil the ending for first time readers.

[shardwick]

Fun at Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes.

[wanderingweasleys]

#ActualSiblings

[astoria111]

I just read one of the best Drarry fics I’ve read in a longgg time and I must share!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8184311/chapters/18751001 (link)

Secrets |  Words: 395365 Chapters: 62/62 

I don’t have any words for this fic because I just finished but OMG. The dynamic between all the character are so realistic and I feel like that’s what really sold me to this fic. It’s the longest fic I’ve ever read and it took me around 3 days to read it, and you know that feeling when you don’t know what to do with your life after you’ve read a really good book? THAT’S ME! My fav chapter has definitely to be when Harry breaks down in Lucius’ arms THAT HAD ME LITERALLY SOBBING. I reccommend this so much to anyone who has time to read a long drarry fic AHHH have fun!!!

[drarrycious]

I actually really want to see a story where Malfoy is the well liked Professor who tells his students all the tips and tricks to succeed in various subjects and life in general. He will truly show his students not only the subjects that he’s teaching but like, things you need to know in life which ain’t taught in school. (His dark mark is a running joke of awful choices, “and that’s why you need to think before you do,” but Malfoy makes sure to put emphasis on this to convey exactly how much one can fuck up.)

And Potter is the Professor everyone is intimidated by cause that’s the great Harry Potter who saved everyone. Poor Potter is awkward as hell and just gives his everything in his subjects but ends up seeming really strict and expectant. 

And it’s only the petty quarrels between Malfoy and Potter which help the kids understand how awkward Potter is and that he doesn’t expect perfection from them, just participation. And hey, he ain’t all that strict, just really sarcastic in his admonishments.  

[elderswear]

*raises hand* uhm I have a question

Why couldn't they reducio the acromantulas

[its-nanse]

[petalstofish-deactivated2022041]

Do any of you ever think about how Sirius gave Ron Weasley his first owl because he’d spent a year watching Harry and therefore also spent a year watching Ron.

Sirius knew Ron didn’t have much and when Ron lost ‘Scabbers’ Sirius knew Ron would hide he was upset. After all,Ron couldn’t have a new pet because his family was poor and he’d never ask his parents to replace a hand-me-down rat.

I’ll bet anything Ron reminded Sirius a little bit of Remus who never had many things either and so Sirius made sure to do for Ron what he’d done for Remus whenever Remus couldn’t afford something new for himself. Sirius bought Ron a new pet…the coolest pet…his very own owl.

Sirius Black loved Ron Weasley pass it on.

[clownasaurus-deactivated2020100]

Hermione Granger: *comes from muggle world and discovers magic*

Hermione Granger: *witnesses humans transfigure into animals*

Hermione Granger: *time-travels multiple times per day*

Professor Trelawney: “I can prophesize the future.”

Hermione Granger: “Bullshit. That can’t be possible. Fuck you.”

[kaldwinss]

#you gotta draw the line somewhere #you gotta draw the fucking line in the sand dude #you gotta make a statement #you gotta look inside yourself and say #what am i willing to put up with today #not fucking this    

[rachellephant]

anyways hermione is a cutthroat bitch and her demonizing divination is due to the fact that she literally #cannot with emotional forms of magic. quidditch? which requires an emotional partnership of trust with the broom? nope. divination? which requires an emotional openness and willingness to forego logical conclusion at the whims of fate? are u fuckin kidding me. patronuses? which require not just technical skill but also a deep connection with your own emotional core? uhhhhh we’ll just let harry handle that one.

movie!hermione, w/ her advanced emotional intelligence and absolute willingness to meet each and every emotional need the boys have, should have of course been good at emotional magics like divination. shes fucking superwoman. but book!hermione? who destroyed a girls face without mercy because she ratted out the DA? who erased her parents memories so she could fight in a war? who solved dumbledores’ mysteries using ancient runes, an art that is practically the math of magic? book!hermione will destroy you and she will do it armed with the cold hard facts and the cold hard facts alone. book!hermione doesn’t give a shit. instead of getting a regular pet, book!hermione was drawn to a magical cat who is self-serving and intellectual and helped her gather clues rather than serving as an emotional companion. i mean fck.

full offense but hermione is so hardcore and logic-driven and she literally could give a SHIT about ur feelings

[strictlybecca]

@lisapanda

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In book 1 when their major plot puzzle is character establishing to set us up for the series, Hermione straight-up explains to Harry that she kicks butt because she has logic (which is apparently rare for wizards) and Harry kicks butt because he has emotional understanding and heart. (Ron is unconscious for this conversation and doesn’t get a speech, but presumably he kicks butt for being the only one of them with an ounce of common fucking sense.)

[firebirdeternal]

Hermione: High Int, average Wis, Cha dump stat. Ron: High Wis, average Cha, Int dump stat. Harry: High Cha, average Int, Wis dump stat.

There’s a REASON they’re basically unstoppable when they work together.

[lordharrypotter]

[10knotes]

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[macleod]

ight so you know how the weasleys car is in the forbidden forest, right? and also how harry went in to the forest to face voldemort. just picture harry walkin up an being ready to die and everything and then the car just comes out of nowhere and absolutely creams voldemort. like 60 mph dukes of hazard type shit

oh my god 

[kat2kool]

Ford Anglia Potter, you were named after the bravest car I ever knew

[indigobluerose]

… that’s a fucking better name

[hpandcarbs]

you: Marauders Netflix show

me, an intellectual: Lee Jordan’s radio show podcast

[lilprxcious-deactivated20190907]

I need to see Severus in these

[deathdaydungeon]

@madfantasy

[madfantasy]

Yes, it needs to be done.