all these stars

ellie: she/her. leo. enfj. california. ravenclaw. the stars in your dark side are brighter than the sun.

[harryurpotter]

Rowena Ravenclaw: Wait, Salazar, how come you ended up with the shittiest common room? We dished out the money to make them equally AND you're the richest sod out of all of us

Salazar Slytherin: [thinks back to installing a giantass slide into the Chamber of Secrets and putting a statue of himself in it]

Salazar Slytherin: Uhhhhh... taxes [sweats heavily]

[batmansymbol]

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.

[henessy]

800 followers celeb ✧ . * — remus lupin for @olilvanders

did you like question ten, moony? loved it. give five signs that identify the werewolf. excellent question. d'you think you managed to get all the signs? think i did. one: he’s sitting on my chair. two: he’s wearing my clothes. three: his name’s remus lupin…

[anywayfuckjkr]

why is it, when something happens, it is always you three? (format)

[angeolras]

blonde undercuts do it better

[angeolras]

maybe the real journey was the shawarma we ate along the way

[angeolras]

some of yall in the tags are noticing the carolrhodey teas and i love you for that

[lestrangely]

When you hit your pinky toe on the edge of the table.

[wizardingworlddaily-blog]

[morticiahaddams-deactivated2019]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) dir. Chris Columbus

[saulaie]

Happy Samhain from Harry and one of his hissy pals

[ghostlywriterr]

Rome, Italy.

[angeolras]

western civilisation is fundamentally post apocalyptic

and can’t be understood without understanding that rome fell

and all european civilisations grew up in the ruins of rome

literally, the ruins, every city has a carcass in it

— lim

[bob-belcher]

#harry’s reaction though

[blainchel]

[insp]

[miamiweisz]

Chamber of Secrets promo shots for Vanity Fair (2002) 

[hugvvarts]

hogwarts is my home

[grangerhermiones]

♡ Draco Malfoy Appreciation Week ♡ - Day #2: Favorite obnoxious/smug moments