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[bloodyhellharry]

I, for one, am very interested in your opinions on the marauders as printing techniques

James is woodcutting, fun, simple, lots of contrasts

Sirius is monoprint, unpredictable, hard to control and irreproducible 

Remus is etching, delicated and scatchy, but complicated and sort of dangerous if you don’t use the right equipment

Peter is a stupid copying machine that looks harmless and easy to manage but is actually very ready to ruin your life

Snape is Litho, very difficult and greasy

[whatshouldwecallme]

When someone asks me how I feel about 2016

[karlosmadera-deactivated2019022]

I think I broke Harry Potter

So it’s 3AM and It’s just occurred to me that the most telling scene in the entire Harry Potter franchise is the scene following the announcement of the participants of the Triwizard tournament.

When Harry’s name is pulled out of the cup, literally one of the first things he is asked is “did you ask an older boy to put your name in the cup for you?“ or something to that effect, insinuating that, that was something nobody prepared for and that it was something that totally would have worked if anyone had been smart enough to figure it out.

However, in an earlier scene a student is turned into a hundred year old man when they try to artificially age themselves with a potion and put their name into the cup. Meaning someone trying to dangerously age themselves with potion they aren’t familiar with was something the teachers genuinely considered to be more likely than someone asking for fucking help from another student.

In other words, the wizards in Harry Potter’s world are so reliant on magic that it doesn’t occur to anyone save for people like Harry that asking for help is even an option in a given situation. This explains why wizards are so fucking ass-backwards at everything, they’re so confident that their magic is capable of doing everything for them that it has never occurred to fucking anyone that perhaps asking for help from the muggle world might be of some use.

Think about it, the wizarding world hasn’t changed in hundreds of years while in that same space of time the muggle world has figured out fucking space travel. I know it’s a cliché to say to say someone could have fucking shot Voldemort, but seriously, somebody totally fucking could have, he killed like 50 people, he was effectively a terrorist, if anyone in the wizarding world bothered to ask for help from the muggles instead of just telling them there was an invisible asshole flying around shooting death curses at everyone, they may have been able to help. 

Pretty much the only reason Voldermort thinks he’s better than muggles is because he’s able to kill them with impunity using magic, something he’s only able to do so easily because muggles don’t understand what magic is. Voldemort is basically like a fucking disease, he’s an invisible, lurking entity preying on mankind from the shadows like a cowardly piece of shit. You know what else did that? Smallpox and we stomped that to death the second we understood it. That’s the difference between muggles and wizards, when muggles don’t understand something, they figure it out.

And here’s the kicker, the only reason muggles don’t understand magic at all is because the wizarding world deliberately withholds information about it. However, even if the wizarding world kept doing that, it’d only be a matter of time until a muggle figured out what magic was and how to stop or harness it because that’s what humanity does, it pushes past what we think is impossible to see what’s on the other side. We didn’t understand the sun as a species originally and now we use it to power satellites and smartphones.

The wizarding world isn’t a realm of infinite possibilities, it’s a universe of strict limitations where boundaries are never questioned. The muggle world is where the real magic happens. That’s why during the course of the Harry Potter books, which are set between 1991 and 1998, the muggle world (our world) discovered dark matter, cloned a sheep and invented fucking MP3s while the wizarding world were literally paying some dipshit to figure out what the purpose of a rubber duck was.

Wow, I really shouldn’t think about this stuff when it’s like 3AM, it gets kind of dark.

[sarellathesphinx]

#the wizarding world prides itself on standing still#because they think they’re already at the pinnacle#but they’re not and one of these days they’ll find that out the hard way

[slippedintothatadultlife]

And do you guys remember the awesome science wizard?

I mean, he can do wandless magic. Only the most powerful wizards can do that! Not even flipping Voldemort could do that! And how do you think he’s done it? You can see it there: ‘A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking’.

He practically understood the ins and outs of magic by reading quantum physics and books like these. And the author of the book? He’s a muggle. This wizard not only learned how to use magic, but learned about the world through muggles and muggle findings. He could beat Voldemort if he wanted to, but I guess he wanted to expand his knowledge more than battling it out with this sore eight year old throwing a tantrum over blood purity.

There are more important things than blood purity, and the muggles know that.

[ro-zden]

And that is one of the many reasons why focusing on ‘Blood Purity’ is such a bad idea. The Wizarding world needs people like Harry Potter, like Hermione Granger, like Justin Finch-Fletchley - Muggleborn wizards, Half-Blood wizards, wizards generally brought up in the Muggle world. These are witches and wizards who have grown up from being primary school children learning science, knowing how to do things for themselves manually, knowing how the other half lives. They know how to ask for help, how to think outside the box, and if they put their minds to it, they could enrich the wizarding world with so many bright ideas that their peers brought up solely in the Wizarding world come never have dreamed of.

And to think, with the deaths of millions, Voldemort wanted to rob his precious Wizarding world of that way forward.

[desuke-dragon-queen-blog]

There is a reason why Hermione was the brightest witch of her age

[empresspinto]

I find it really hilarious that a random featured extra managed to get so many headcanons formed on tumblr

[charlottec21]

This is true, it was stated in the first book that even the greatest of wizards in the world can lack the common logic of the muggle world. Think about it,  the last safeguard to get the the philosopher stone was a rather simple riddle, which was meant to be so difficult that only a few could get through

[obviousplant]

I wrote some fake ‘Best Memories of 2015′ and left them on a community bulletin board.

See Barack’s best memory on Facebook

[nmimarks]

does anyone else feel like they’re in this weird state of being on tumblr where you dont even know if youre genuinely enjoying the site anymore or if anyone here is actually paying attention to you as a person or just your presence in general and youre just floating in this odd in-between place, only coming on here solely out of habit???

[thoughts-memories]

[chalupacabras]

MBTI and why you're fuckin broke

ESTP: you buy so much taco bell you now own shares of the company and the manager lets you fuck his wife on the reg

ISTP: you keep breaking shit trying to take stuff apart. Why do you keep doing this?? You’re like a magpie. Stop breaking shit

ESFJ: you keep getting pickpocketed because you be on that phone

ISFJ: you keep trying to save up for Rainy Days© and Something Big© but you’re still buying food. And concert tickets. And probably really warm scarves and hats

INTP: you have never saved a penny in your life. you have transcended brokeness into hyperbrokeness. your net value is like $4.52 and a McChicken

ENTP: you compulsively buy things that serve zero purpose. The weirder the better. A Barbie doll with big veiny biceps? Yes buddy. Framed painting of Richard Nixon as a 1950s pinup? Hang it over the fireplace you weirdass motherf

INTJ: STOP buying books you DON’T NEED THEM and STOP buying VIDEOGAMES too, buy something you actually need for once. Like muscles

ENTJ: stop hiring all those hitmen and just do the job yourself you coward

ESTJ: You spent all your money on the divorce lawyer that helped you take my house and my car and now you won’t answer my calls, susan, fuck you

ISTJ: you’re not broke. You’re the only one that isn’t, because you’ve got sense. You don’t see the point in spending your hard-earned money on dumb things, like gifts, or charity, or Christmas. Also you will be visited by 3 ghosts at midnight

ESFP: you put up all your money for bail to get your ass out of jail for releasing a live alligator into a walmart

ISFP: how many cats and glitter gel pens and burrito bowls will it take to fill the hole in your heart????

INFJ: All you buy is stationary. You have so many office supplies, all crisp and brand new. You have 100 blank beautiful notebooks that you wanna fill but never have. One time I tried to take one though and you beat me with it

ENFJ: Who cares! You’re the most beautiful and smartest and cutest type. I love all ENFJs, what fine people you are. Just the best, really. Also you buy the most expensive gifts but that’s completely unrelated and has nothing to do with my love for you

INFP: You own more pillows and sweaters than anyone, and you buy the highest quality tea and collect fancy pens. You also like to buy some really neat vintage vinyls and designer perfume. You also have this cursed amulet that whispers to you at night, I guess that’s a little weird

ENFP: you love spending $$ on roadtrips, starbucks, tupperware, balloons, socks, posters, pens, concerts, movies, fast food, Apple products, stickers, popcorn, sno cones, etc. Also you probably accidentally killed someone once and your family paid their family off in court but that’s neither here nor there

[rayinberkeley]

These exchanges between a bigot named Brendan Sullivan, and a heroic troll named Robert Graves, will be the best thing you read all day, I promise.

[ladylou]

I wanna be Robert Graves when I grow up.

[amyw1nehouse]

american historical films be like

[ofwhichiamtheworst]

a male feminist walks into a bar

because it was set so low

[chibikaizoku]

current mood: tamagotchi after it poops

[whatshouldwecallme]

Pain tolerance: Men vs. Women

[lottereinigerforever]

RIP  Holly Woodlawn (October 26, 1946 – December 6, 2015).

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

[amajor7-deactivated20210823]

“gentle loner”

[thisishangingrockcomics-deactiv]

Have u noticed when a guy asks if u have ever seen/ listened to/ heard of something they get more excited when u say no than yes like they’d rather be a teacher and hold the champion belt for more knowledgeable than thou than have a conversation about a shared interest lmao this drives me crazy

[hashtagparksandrec]

[amandaexmachina-deactivated2018]

Donna for the new BBC Sherlock.

[moonblossom]

I would watch the hell out of that. Make it happen please.

[isitcoldenoughforpants]

Only if Tom is Watson

[instant-oatmeal]

yes please