I Cry Happy Tears

A major Harry Potter obsession

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Their Son

He hadn't seen or heard anything of him in many years. The night James and Lily died Remus lost everything. The war might have ended, but it sure as hell didn't feel like that to Remus. The war had cost him everything, and for ten long years he had failed to move on. He kept longing back to long gone years and long gone people.

He thought of them every single day, and it hurt. And whenever he thought of James and Lily, his thoughts would lead him to little Harry Potter. Albus Dumbledore had asked him not to go looking for the kid, to let him grow up far from the wizarding world, where he would be save with his relatives and outside of the spotlight. However, Remus couldn't help but worry every now and then. He had heard enough of Lily's stories about her sister, their relationship and especially her sisters attitude towards all things magical to wonder whether James and Lily's son would really have a youth as good as Dumbledore liked to pretend. But he agreed. It would be better not to visit the boy. There was no way he could do anything for him in case the Dursleys did indeed treat him poorly. He could barely take care of and support himself, and with his lycanthropy he thought it better to stay away from little Harry.

Harry Potter has started Hogwarts

Was the headline on the frontpage of the Daily Prophet on the morning of September 2nd, 1991 and Remus couldn't help but feel a jolt of joy run through his body when he read it. Finally, after so many years he had found a sign of life from Harry. Of course there had always been rumours, people who claimed to have met him or seen him on the streets, but Remus had always doubted most of these stories. Harry had been sorted into Gryffindor. Remus smiled. James would have been so proud of him! Of course, Lily would have persisted that it didn't matter to her what house her son ended up in, as long as he was happy, but Remus knew that she too, would secretly love it that Harry had ended up being Gryffindor.

Harry Potter saves the day yet again

Was the headline on the frontpage of the Daily Prophet on the morning of June the 5th, 1992 and Remus got curious. What kind of boy had Harry Potter become? Was he like James? Bigheaded due to all his fame, a star on the quidditch pitch and loyal to his friends? Or was he more like Lily? Always seeing the best in others, incredibly kind to anyone and standing up to any prick who needed it? He did not know, as he had never yet met the kid. The article, however, told him that Harry James Potter was brave. Brave like both Lily and James had been. Always doing what they thought was right.

Dear Remus, I am collecting photo's of James and Lily to give to Harry

Was the first sentence of the letter Remus received only hours after he had read the article and it moved Remus more than he had expected. From the letter Remus deduced that Harry knew nothing of his parents. The Dursleys had told him even less than Remus had feared. It saddened him deeply. Lily and James Potter deserved to be remembered, and above all, by their very own son. He couldn't bear to think about what this knowledge would have done to them, had they known. He opened boxes he had left alone for many years and cried when he went through all of those memories.

Harry Potter solves the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets

Was the headline on the front-page of the Daily Prophet on the morning of May 30th, 1993 and Remus' supposition was yet again confirmed. Harry James Potter was not one to hang around in times of trouble and was not one to obediently follow rules and orders. Harry James Potter is brave, will stand up for what is right and do everything he can to help others. Harry James Potter resembled both of his parents, by interior and exterior.

It was all these mentions of Harry he had heard over the last few years that made him take the job when Dumbledore offered it. The last straw that pushed him past his worries about his Lycanthropy and allowed him to take the job he had dreamed of having for so many years. He would also finally be seeing the son of Lily and James Potter, the friends he had been so lucky to have known.

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hi ,, im SUPER sorry if this sounds rude , but hows rowling racist / antisemitic ? im sorry if that sounds bad , im just confused and i havent rlly heard that before ,,,

good question! let’s take a look at two of the ‘fantasy races’ in her book series, goblins and house elves.

now, goblins are, in Harry Potter, a greedy race of people who control the banks and do not trust wizards. in Bill Weasley’s own words,

“We are talking about a different breed of being. Dealings between wizards and goblins have been fraught for centuries … There has been fault on both sides, I would never claim that wizards have been innocent. However, there is a belief among some goblins, and those at Gringotts are perhaps most prone to it, that wizards cannot be trusted in matters of gold and treasure, that they have no respect for goblin ownership.“

they’re also very secretive and speak their own language specifically so wizards can’t understand them.

this is… pretty much a caricature of Jewish people. which is unsurprising, because most goblins historically have been caricatures of Jewish people (and i think, indeed, that is the origin of the goblin in mythology).

racist… well, let’s look at house elves.

house elves are a species of slaves who are born into doing slavery except… they LOVE being slaves; they love doing work for free, they don’t want to be freed, they don’t want to be paid… they just want to happily work for others… stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Hermione is actually treated like shit by the narrative for having the audacity to care for and feel discomforted by the fact that elves are still enslaved.

if this isn’t familiar to you, a lot of anti-black, pro-slavery propaganda basically characterized black people as “slaves be nature” and that they’d be happier as slaves than they would be freed.

hope this helps.

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Fuck, I never knew/noticed this, but immediately at the start of this text I saw where you were going. This is just sick. The more I learn about Rowling, the less I put up with her. When I was little, she was like my hero, for giving me, giving us this amazing world! However, she is really disgusting me right now. There is one thing I want to say though: Bless This Fandom. I love how all of us Hardcore Harry Potter fans can live in the world Rowling created, how much time we spend thinking/reading/watching HP, but as soon as the topic turns to Rowling herself, we all AGREE immediately to step away from her. How this whole fandom just divorced from it’s creator, it’s wonderful. How we have managed to build a world of Harry Potter without Rowling in it. How the majority of the fandom has just turned their backs on Rowling, how bad things like this (or the black hermione incident, the dumbledore is gay thing, the lack of representation for many different minorities, the trans-tweets) are. I think thats worth a lot. And I’m proud of our fandom for this <3

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What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron's, however, wasn't the talking mirror or the banging Ghoul, it was the fact that everyone there seemed to like him.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

WHY DOES THIS NOT GET MORE ATTENTION??? THIS LITTERALLY RIPS MY HEART OUT EVERY TIME!

The Dursleys abused Harry so badly, that even after a year of Hogwarts, where he is considered a famous celebrity and the hero of the Gryffindor quidditch team, he still thinks he is an unlikable person. That people aren’t supposed to like him. That it is unusual if they do. 

HE IS LITTERALLY 12 AT THIS POINT! A LITTLE 12 YEAR OLD WITH NO REASON AT ALL TO DISLIKE! And yet the Dursleys made sure he thinks so badly of himself...

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What’s wrong with Dumbledores logic?

Dumbledore made so many weird or bad choices for hiring teachers

Let’s start with Snape: verbally abuses students, punishes students (and especially Gryffindors) for nothing, 

Filtch: all he wants is to torture children. Why on earth did he choose to work on a school if he hates kids so much? Litterally helps Umbridge torture/abuse students, probably also did so with the Carrow’s, keeps making nasty remarks to students.

Quirrel: even if he didn’t know he was posessed by fucking Voldemort, the stammering, scared man didn’t look so capable at all. But I guess we can forgive him some of his choices for DADA professors, seeing the critical shortage as they needed a net one each year.

Well, Lockhart, for obvious reasons