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beth | she/her | 18+ barty crouch jr enthusiast sideblog ↦ @eyelinerhangover

[deathnguts]

Regulus is so weird for me in modern aus because like in a traditionalist not normal humans household in the 70s, journaling incessantly and not listening to music ever is passably normal but like popping him into the modern day and telling me he has an instagram and Spotify account is hate speech actually

[ih8ikura]

[morsmortish]

frat!rosekiller where barty ends up as treasurer despite looking and acting like someone who would embezzle funds and evan routinely traumatises pledges through horrific experimental forms of hazing

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

obsessed w this person in the replies

[morsmortish]

@katakosmos

[sugar-petals]

modern media in a nutshell

[katakosmos]

wait i’m obsessed with evan bullying barty in early hogwarts years…the popular powerful pureblood heir and the kinda awkward always sick ALSO pureblood but viewed as an outcast because his of his father’s role in society…like??????? ohhh and if we take a sprinkle of canon and have evan in few years above barty…mhm. i’m licking my lips.

exactly...!!!!

evan bullies barty during all his years at hogwarts. for me he's just one year older, so he has plenty of time. he yells insults at barty so everyone can hear, grabs him, touches him, curses him in the hallways. he puts so much effort into bullying barty, it's his favorite thing in the world to do. it probably bothers him that barty never fights back.

evan is the "if you wrong me, i'll get revenge right away by beating you up" type. barty, on the other hand, is the kind of person who plans, his revenge comes silently and sweetly. and fuck, revenge does he indeed get as soon as he finds out evan is obsessed with him. he tortures him every day of his life until he dies. one could argue that barty marries evan only for this.

the thing that has me crying laughing the most about this au is that, when they become partners in crime, they can't let anyone know that they're now friends, so the bullying has to continue. it turns them both on.

and also, evan is the only person in the whole school that calls barty "junior". everybody knows that kid was down bad the second he saw barty for the first time.

[mossy-of-the-valley]

popular girl lily who is begged by barty to fuck him because he just wants to get all of his firsts over with and hes sooooooo pathetic she gives in and they do it and hes so whiny and barely even lasts and lily is very very embarrassed to say she fell for that loser

[juvianism]

geek boy!

[rackspend]

i mourn nettspend’s bleached eyebrows like my dead wife

[lamb-slaughtered]

[crabanarchy]

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

[crabanarchy]

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

[embodement]

ghostface x itafushi

[bearsockz]

[morsmortish]

barty is such an interesting character because like. he didn’t have to do any of that. he had daddy’s money and a mysterious cloak and the moral compass of the literal devil. the 9-5 office job cannot have been that bad man you did NOT need to switch it up 🙏🙏

[morsmortish]

literally the biggest problem is james potter’s life was that the girl he had a crush on didn’t like him back

[morsmortish]

thinking about it, it doesn’t make total sense that THIS is the character we chose to make a poc. as i said in the tags, he lived in a bubble of nepotism and privilege, and he was deliberately made to be a morally grey character, in a similar way to snape!! a lot of the behaviour we see james exhibit is recognisable in those with white privilege, and imagining that a poc, whatever race you hc james to be, would have the structural power within 1980s britain to be popular or well-liked, let alone a bully, is absurd. to push the traits of a being in a racial minority upon james would naturally detract from his canon personality, and to push his canon personality would leave us unable to adequately portray the poc experience. i am all for racial diversity in this fandom, and i don’t at all think there’s enough of it, but simply taking a character with (white) lived experiences and declaring that they will be the representation is simply not enough. to effectively push diversity and representation, it is so much more meaningful to create new characters, or take those who’s life we know little about, and create their lived experiences in line the whole time with being a poc. even snape would be a much more interesting character to explore this with, but i struggle with it being the ultra-privileged, wealthy, popular, spoilt, arrogant character.

[mossy-of-the-valley]

and if i said that james being white was important to his character because the reason he acts like that in canon is due to his white supremacy

[roysflowers]

no more daddy. in 2026 all men whimper on floor pathetic