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parsonne

i like me better when i’m with you

after wasting way too much time mourning the life he wanted, kent’s starting to grow into the life he has.

ironically, it’s what allows kent and jack to find their way back to each other in the end.

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this is what i’m doing now: writing 50k+ fics about boys kissing. who knew?????

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i’m coming back to tumblr but idk if it’s on this blog or another one yet

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i came back as @parsonne

i’m coming back to tumblr but idk if it’s on this blog or another one yet

i-vanim-di

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that scene in the second Harry Potter where Harry has no bones in his arm is probably the most disgusting use of cgi

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that wasnt cgi they literally removed daniel radcliffes bones for that scene

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I hope he got them back

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they didnt have the budget to put them back in so for the rest of the movies in the franchise they used cgi to make it look like they did

#body horror cw

the harry potter books rated by mentions of how handsome sirius is

philosopher's stone: no direct mention of sirius but hagrid gives harry a photo album with pictures of his parents and you know sirius is being actively handsome in at least a third of them (5/10)

chamber of secrets: a hollow, empty book (-10/10)

prisoner of azkaban: uncle vernon disapproves of sirius' hair at the beginning of the book which means it looks sufficiently punk rock even after twelve years in prison. harry thinks sirius looks handsome in the photo from his parent's wedding day and hp is super pissed off at that point so it must be an objective fact; other than that not a great time for sirius or his #look (7/10)

goblet of fire: sirius looks good even when his face is made of flames. feels true and right. (8/10)

order of the phoenix: an entire flashback devoted to the "casual elegance" of sirius' hair and how good-looking he is. at one point he looks "rather haughty and bored, but very handsomely so". excellent stuff jkr. would get full marks except for my inability to accept the end of this book (9.5/10)

half-blood prince: one can only hope that sirius is keeping it fresh up in wizard heaven but who can say for sure (2/10)

deathly hallows: sirius is described as carelessly handsome in a photo, although im personally skeptical about how careless it was. ghost sirius is tall and handsome, as per usual. (8/10)

Soup what'd ya hate about soup

TOMATOES IN SOUP......CORN IN SOUP

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the new ask meme: send me literally anything and ill tell you something i hate about it

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remus sketch request for @mxnyards over on my twitter

bloodyhellharry

Minerva has nine lives.

The rest of the order

somanypetals

look at this scandalous forum discussion about malfoy’s hair from 2003

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why don’t wizards on trial have the option to consent to veritaserum? like I get that it’s illegal to force it on someone and that’s cool, but why not have it as an option for people who are testifying that they’re innocent? like wouldn’t that just make sense? you have a potion that can prove 100% if someone’s telling the truth, but instead of using it you just lock innocent people in soul-sucking prison forever? would it just make wizard court tv too boring if half the cases were solved in like two minutes?

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For serious tho

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For Sirius tho…

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From the Harry Potter Wiki page on Veritaserum:

Limitations

For the same reasons Muggles don’t use polygraph tests in court, Veritaserum is no more reliable than its Muggle counterpart. Since some wizards and witches can resist its effects while others cannot, Veritaserum is “unfair and unreliable to use at a trial” and would be difficult to use as definite proof of guilt or innocence.

Another problem is that the victim states what only they believe to be true, so the victim’s sanity and perception of reality also factors in during interrogations. Therefore, while the drinker’s answers are sincere, they are not necessarily true. This is the main reason why Barty Crouch Jr.’s testimony was only partially credible, as some of his answers were true in his mind, but known to be false by his interrogators; Cornelius Fudge believed that Crouch being a “raving lunatic” as a mitigating factor on the Veritaserum’s full effectiveness, thus chose not to believe half of it.[3]

Resistance

Despite being the most powerful truth serum in existence, it can still be resisted through different methods, including the taking of its antidote and Occlumency.[2]

(and)

Author’s comments

J. K. Rowling has said that Veritaserum “works best upon the unsuspecting, the vulnerable and those insufficiently skilled (in one way or another) to protect themselves against it… just like every other kind of magic within the books, Veritaserum is not infallible.”[3] For this reason, she explained that even if Sirius Black had been given the opportunity to testify to his innocence under Veritaserum, the Wizengamot likely still would have found him guilty by claiming that Sirius was using trickery to be immune to it.[3]

Guys? This isn’t a plot hole. It’s a plot POINT. The infallability of the serum is only half the picture. The other half of the picture is a corrupt government which is more interested in maintaining the appearance of having everything under control than actual justice and public safety. Sirius was never going to get a fair trial, with or without truth serum. Between his family background, his own plan w/r/t letting people think he was the Secret Keeper and Peter framing him so neatly, Sirius knew perfectly damn well that the only people with any reason to trust him were already dead - and even if he did have access to Veritaserum, that would only prove he believed he hadn’t done it, not that he hadn’t done it. Peter Pettigrew, hopeless student, an illegal Animagus at fifteen and therefore not dead? Sure, Mister Black, whatever, please have this lovely new coat with arms that tie in the back. He was howling with laughter and appeared mad precisely because he realized there was no way out for him and that he was going to pay the penalty for a crime he had not committed, because the priorities of the Ministry was getting things sorted out speedily and with the least amount of damage to the Ministry’s reputation.

quick question ive been moving out of my apartment so i havent got cursed child yet (but its on preorder) and i just want the 411 on this question alone: how similar is it to that spoilers story that gave the whole plot of it like a couple of months ago