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capbarnes

The Triwizard Champions

Now, let me be clear. If chosen, you stand alone

bevsi

Hermione & Luna getting ready for a study sesh

#art

bevsi

Luna, Harry, & a baby thestral

#art

antlered-pluto

Hogwarts ~ 1978 ✨ 🍫

I haven’t been able to draw in a little while, so thought I would draw everybody’s favourite werewolf to get back into the swing of it- because I will never not love Remus John Lupin. This colouring style is sort of new for me, and I’m really pleased with how it came out! (I guess this means I have to do a marauders series, huh?)

Find more of my art here

[ please do not repost without permission and credit <3 ]

hutsanddragons

10 Charlie Weasley Headcanons

Charlie absolutely loves his Weasley sweaters to no end and sends a formal thank you note to his mother each time she knits him one.

Charlie became obsessed with dragons when Fabian brought a copy of ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ to dinner when he was four and read parts of it to him.

Gideon actually got him his first broom and taught him to fly.

When Charlie started school he regularly went to visit Hagrid and have conversations about dragons that would end up with Charlie rushing back to the castle because he stayed too late.

Charlie once spent 48 hours outside. Not because he was locked out or anything…he just loves the outdoors and didn’t even notice the time passing.

In fourth year while all the other kids in his grade were starting to date Charlie came to the conclusion that he was in fact. Asexual and Aromantic.

He actually had problems accepting this until a certain Hufflepuff in his year by the name of Nymphadora Tonks to shut up because at least he wasnt a teenage girl named Nymphadora. (”Seriously Charlie stop laughing”)

He was actually the first person to refer to Tonks by her last name. (best friends ever since)

After the war Charlie brought Hagrid to Romania to see the dragons.

The day after ‘Dora’s funeral Charlie charmed a stripe of his hair pink and never got rid of it.

likeawildthing

marauders valentines 2/4 - Sirius Black

(thx ayesha for your creative/punny mind)

#happy valentine's day #sirius black

pansoph

for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’

beefmilkthings

jerry is here

eruriholic

my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”

cuddlyaxe-deactivated20190218

When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”

I was done for the day.

ravenpuffheadcanons

This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.

elodieunderglass

I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”

I did not find my husband in this way.

In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”

“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.

The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)

Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.

kat2107

I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English.

When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.

“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”

“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”

Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG

eridaniepsilon

My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…

backonrepeat

I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.

That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.

Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.

eridaniepsilon

I love those stories so much…

acleverforgery

Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.

She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.

American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)

Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)

learningftw

that’s hilarious

shiraglassman

I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY

speakertoyesterday

Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?

So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.

The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”

andhishorse

What the hell Biblical Hebrew.

moral-autism

Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.

liminalreader

^Given that the Latin word for sheath (like, for a sword) is literally “vagina”, I can verify that this metaphor is a time-honored one.

liminalreader

Oh yeah and one time my Latin professor was at this conference in Greece and his flight was canceled, so he needed to extend his hotel stay by one more night.

Except he doesn’t speak a lick of modern Greek, and the receptionist couldn’t speak English. Or French. Or German. Or Italian. (He tried all of them.)

Finally, in a fit of inspiration, he went upstairs and got his copy of Medea in the original Greek (you know, the stuff separated from modern Greek by two and a half thousand years). He found the passage where Medea begs Jason to let her stay for one more day, went downstairs, and read it to the receptionist.

She laughed her head off, but she gave him the extra night.

fatterdragon

All of these *chef’s kiss* but the Medea one is hands down the best

whatshouldwecallhomer

s/o to my classics professor who managed to get a tire changed on his rental car while doing research in Greece by telling them his chariot had broken down

runawaymarbles

I was once in the Italian equivalent of Costco and could not find hide nor hair of some vegetarian meatballs that we had bought there before. I didn’t know the Italian word for vegetarian, but I DID know the words for “lie” and “meat.”

ravenclawpride-hp

Just thinking that Sirius said to Harry that he can't wait to walk through the Hogwarts's doors as a free man and then he just... never walked throught the castle again