A Few of my Favourite Things

[australet789]

cute kitty will exchange purrs for attention  

i missed drawing marichat kisses

[straightfaxx]

If you haven’t read the books

You won’t know that the Elder Wand was also called the Deathstick

Ron was actually a Prefect

Harry, Fred and George got a “life-long ban” from Umbridge after they attacked Malfoy on the pitch

Dumbledore hired a centaur named Firenze to teach Divination

Neville Longbotton could’ve been “The Chosen One” but Voldemort chose Harry

Fenrir Greyback was the werewolf who bit Remus Lupin as a child

Harry attended Bill and Fleur’s wedding disguised as Barny Weasley, a red-headed Weasley cousin

Lily was actually a few months older than James

While still alive, the Bloody Baron, who became the ghost of Slytherin House, was sent by Rowena Ravenclaw to retrieve her daughter, Helena, whom he was in love with. When Helena, who became the ghost of Ravenclaw House, refused to go with him, he became angry and stabbed her. Then, distraught with having killed her, he killed himself

Harry mended his own wand with the Elder Wand before he got rid of it

Harry, Ron and Hermione met Neville in St Mungos, who was visiting his parents and his Gran told them what happened to Alice and Frank 

The Potters’ had a cat

Harry got  miniature broom from Sirius for his first Birthday

Bathilda Bagshot was a friend of the Potters’

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• Peeves was a poltergeist who haunted Hogwarts and frequently harassed students • A house elf named Winky was an integral part of the plot of Goblet of Fire, she was Barty Crouch’s elf • Dobby worked in the Hogwarts kitchens, Dumbledore paid him a wage and he gave Harry the gillyweed • Harry and Ginny’s first kiss wasn’t creepy or in the Room of Requirement, it was in the Common Room after winning a Quidditch game • Snape had his own challenge on the quest for the Philosopher’s Stone that was a test of intellect and included drinking potions • McGonagal protects Hagrid and takes FIVE spells to the chest in order to let him escape when Umbridge tries to get him incarcerated • Sir Cadogan! Fantastic painted Knight • That random piece of glass that Harry looks through and sees Alberforth in, was actually a mirror given to him by Sirius who wanted to keep in contact with him while he was at Hogwarts, it was also what he used to keep in contact with James over the summer and during classes • Harry has a complete break down after the Sirius’ death and trashes Dumbledore’s office - it’s super cathartic and heartbreaking

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• RON WAS ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD FRIEND. • Harry and Dumbledore seeing Voldemort’s mother and the abuse she went through.

[i-sveikata]

ooooo boy okay

the triwizard tournament maze was actually WAY more interesting than the movie version: Harry straight up ran through some fog which turned the whole world upside down, he answered a riddle for a sphinx in order to get past her and actually encountered a blast-ended skrewt

blast-ended skrewts were hybrids of a manticore and fire crab, bred by hagrid which he introduced to the students during classes. they had sparks flying out of their rear ends which would explode. females had suckers and males had stingers.

not all of hagrid’s lessons were disasters!!! he once buried leprechaun treasure in his back garden and gave each student a niffler and set them loose to see whose would catch the most gold (the winner won a bar of honeydukes chocolate)

fred and george’s pranks against umbridge didn’t only involve the massive fireworks display: they placed nifflers in her office on more than one occasion and it nearly bit her fingers off trying to get at her gold rings and they even created a portable swamp which sealed off a whole corridor and didn’t give anyone instructions on how to remove it

they left Peeves with a command to ‘give them hell’ and the poltergeist, who never listened to students ever, took the words to heart and started pretty much wrecking the entire castle

the teachers kept coming to umbridge with all of their problems because they didn’t have the ‘authority’ to deal with it themselves (even though they could totally fix it) which resulted in umbridge running herself ragged trying to keep up with each new disaster. 

at one point harry witnessed peeves trying to undo the fastenings for a chandelier and saw mcgonagall say out of the corner of her mouth as she walked past ‘it unscrews the other way’

when snape demanded to see harry’s potion book after he injured draco in the bathroom, he went and retrieved ron’s book instead, who he didn’t realise had signed it with a spell checking quill. The magic had worn off and read ‘roonil wazlib’ instead and when snape asked who that was harry lied and told snape that was his nickname.

in the second book, during valentine’s day, lockhart hired dwarves to carry harps, wear gold wings and pretend to be cupids while they read out love letters. Harry received one from Ginny in front of a crowd of people and was so embarrassed he tried to run, but the dwarf caught him around the legs and then sat on him so he could recite the rest of the love poem. 

percy weasley moved out of the house after the fourth book when harry said voldemort was back, choosing to side with the ministry and his ambition over his own family whom he stopped talking to for several books. he arrived back just in time to fight in the battle of hogwarts, reuniting with his family and apologising for his behaviour right before fred was killed.

cho never sold out dumbledore’s army to umbridge. it was her friend marietta edgecombe.

in the sixth book when harry was obsessed with finding out what malfoy was up to, he sent kreacher and dobby to spy on his whereabouts

ginny actually had a personality??? her and harry’s relationship didn’t feel weird or forced (and there was definitely no strange shoe tying incident)

it was actually tonks who found harry on the train in the sixth book after malfoy broke his nose and left him there. her patronus had changed so much (to resemble the shape of a huge hulking creature) that for a while harry thought she was in love with sirius and was mourning his death

pettigrew hesitated when harry and ron tried to overpower him so that they and the rest of the prisoners could escape the cellar at the malfoys. the silver hand voldemort crafted then turned on him for this small act of humanity and strangled him to death, even with ron and harry attempting to save him.

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- Draco had a severe existential crisis beginning in book six when he was ordered to kill Dumbledore , and was so distraught that despite having plenty of chances , he deliberately sabotaged himself. One of his attempts resulted in Katie Bell being harmed and soon after Harry spies on Draco and sees him in Myrtle’s bathroom , crying and throwing up and looking disgusted with himself.

During the Battle of Hogwarts , when Crabbe dies , Draco is completely inconsolable and nearly throws himself into the fire that killed his friend out of grief

- Also in “ The Cursed Child ” Draco is a very loving father to Scorpius and is working really hard to help mend the damage done by the Death Eaters and it’s pretty well implied he’s been cast off by much of his family

“ I have come to you because my son is crying and hurting and you’re keeping him from his best friend ” - Draco lecturing Harry because Harry ( super OOC btw ) wasn’t letting Albus hang out with Scorpius

- SIRIUS WAS ABUSED FOR BEING A GRYYFINDOR IN A SLYTHERIN FAMILY AND THAT’S WHY HE HATED GRIMMAULD PLACE

- Sirius and James were pretty much brothers, and Sirius often hid at the Potter home in his Hogwarts years

- Thinking of Harry and just knowing James’s son was alive gave Sirius enough strength to handle TWELVE YEARS of Dementor torment

- Hagrid was always feeding Harry and inviting him over for tea and just generally treating him like a son and was entirely a mess when he thought Harry died

- Fred and George memorized all the hidden secrets of Hogwarts in their first year , the bloody geniuses

- Once when Draco called Hermione a Mudblood in front of the Gryffindor Quidditch team , Fred and George got so furious it took the whole team PLUS onlookers to hold them back and George was straight up about to just ditch wands and throw fists

- Fred had a crush on Katie , Angelina , and possibly Lee Jordan ( I mean if you read it again and pay attention you can see the gay crushing )

- It’s implied that George is the technical guy in their plots and Fred is the idea guy , but they both have a knack for design and tricky magic

- Fred and George created a secret underground radio system designed to help people hide from Death Eaters and not ONCE did they get found out , they were war heroes

- George was also possibly bi? I mean he definitely seemed to have a thing for Oliver Wood , and Katie

- RON IS A GREAT GUY IN THE BOOKS AND HIGH KEY CRUSHING ON HERMIONE FROM THE START AND HIS BIGGEST FEAR IN BOOK SEVEN WITH THE HORCRUX NECKLACE???? THAT was real and raw and emotional af for Harry to witness

Ron’s biggest fear was losing his crush to his best friend and both of them leaving him behind I MEAN

- DURING THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS RON IMITATED PARSELTONGUE SO WELL HE MANAGES TO GET INTO THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS TO STEAL BASILISK FANGS AND HERMIONE WAS SO IMPRESSED

- Flitwick was so impressed by the twins swamp prank that he REFUSED to take it down for like a month and then took down some of it , leaving a section as a monument to the twins groundbreaking magic AND a giant fuck u to Umbridge

He never reveals how he removed it and it’s implied that over time the swamp just grew back completely anyway???

- Fred and George created both actual love potions AND daydream potions that allow the user to pretty much experience a dream for real

- Fred and George deliberately hire people that are discriminated against ???? HEROES????? No but like they hire delinquents and werewolves and Muggle-borns and even give poor kids discounts ??? And they probably got hate for it but just keep on going ???

No but really the twins would be the nicest employers I love them ???

- DUDLEY

Dudley started being nicer to Harry In like book five and in book seven he was very distraught to learn that Harry had an army of murderers after him and got super indignant about the way his parents didn’t seem to care

- PETUNIA WAS REALLY BITTER THAT SHE WAS A SQUIB AND IT DROVE A WEDGE BETWEEN HER AND LILY BECAUSE ALL PETUNIA EVER WANTED WAS TO BE A WITCH

Aggggggggghhhh I’m just so sad about Draco in the movies he’s so much realer in the books

[silentthevoice]

Petition to change “he looked at her like she was the sun” to “he looked at her like she was the moon” and any other variation bc I look at the moon in wonder and love and amazement while I’ve only ever just squinted angrily at the sun

[louisamayanniecat]

He looked at her like she was the sun, in that he never looked at her except in frustration. He basked in her warmth, he complained when she was gone, but he never looked. On days she was muted, he complained. On days she was stronger, he hid from her. He never looked at her until she was leaving, and in the beauty of the sunset he wondered how he’d never seen her before.

[legolokiismighty]

dude

[kathrynethegreat-deactivated202]

 I, whose youth was passed in the august, unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel the thrill in invoking once more the prayer and the anthem, God Save the Queen!

[oikawas]

MODERN GREEK GODDESSES

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Whisper of the Heart (1995)

[nekolain]

Death #1

I’m not 100% on how to use #tw so if anyone seeing this has advice please give it.

My Grandma was in hospital last Wednesday. Recently I think about death all the time. I can’t help it. It’s not unusual for me to think about death - but usually I do it for a week and try and work through my feelings but now I’m looking at everyone around me and thinking ‘youre going to die’.

I’m not suicidal or depressed - if anything this makes me appreciate life even more - but I feel like I’m constantly in mourning. I’m constantly thinking ‘this might be the last time I see this person’ or ‘if they died these are the steps I would take’.

I wake up in the morning and think ‘I’m glad I didn’t die overnight - I’m glad my husband isn’t waking up upset because I’m dead’. I think about quitting my job so I can spend more time with my family because one day they’ll die. I even thought about being old and alone because my husband is dead. Death all the time. I haven’t watched action movies in a very long time because of all the people that end up needlessly dead. 

I feel happy and I’m capable of functioning. It’s just if I let my brain wander I think about death. It always returns back to that someway or another. I’m not quite sure if it’s healthy or not. Like - lying awake at night thinking about ceasing to exist is not healthy. I know that. I only allow myself to think about death in that way when on public transport - bonus points if it’s sunny outside.

So yeah - thanks for helping me get this off my chest Tumblr. I’ve optimistically titled this post Death #1 in the hope that maybe this will help and I’ll do it again.

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ACOWAR: A Summary

[edendrawsml]

GUYS IT’S DONE!  I FINALLY FINISHED IT!! 

Okay, so a little background.  A long while ago I read This Oneshot by @krzed and I loved it and wanted to make a comic of it.  But since the story is all about their love for musicals, and the characters use the song “All I Ask From You” to share their feelings with each other, a comic didn’t seem to be enough to get the emotions across, so I knew I had to try to make an animatic.  

I wanted to use a version with actual singing in it, but the male and female vocal parts are reversed, so I wasn’t able to find one.

I’m pretty nervous about posting it, but here goes!!

[paranoidrobot-deactivated201110]

Two churches located across the street from each other. At least the Catholics have a sense of humor.

[edgewxrthy]

this is my favorite thing

[xenvitavt]

Base on this.

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This is your random reminder to DRINK WATER!

[readinglikewildfire]

1 MORE DAY

one more dawn…

one more dayyyy

ONE

DAY

MORE

[nekolain]

Me, everytime P5 flashes forward to the interrogation: don't hurt my child, he literally did notHING WRONG, HE IS SOFT AND ONLY 16 DON'T YOU DARE TO SPEAK TO HIM LIKE THAT, HE MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS

[loveladybelmont]

Go to bed.

[icouldwritebooks]

How to Tell if Somebody is fandom!old

- They use terms like lemons, smut, or UST to talk about the genre of their fic.

- They have squicks.

- They want you to have squicks. Which isn’t to say that they want to squick you, just that it’s a useful term.

- *glomps*

- They leave long comments on everything the read. Possibly not in the tags. They might do something super bizarre like send a message or put their thoughts on the end of your post.

- They write disclaimers on everything. Or on literally anything, since nobody does that anymore.

- They write about orbs, and those orbs are cerulean.

- Or literally anything else is cerulean. Cerulean is an outdated term. I’m calling it.

- The tongues of their characters are still battling for dominance, even though it’s 2017, and really a winner should have been declared by now.

- They have a fear of Mary Sue.

- Characters in their modern AU are chatting on AIM instant messenger, and calling each other on landlines. There are references to Ceiling Cat, because the characters are hip to meme culture. This AU is ~modern~ after all.

- Their fic is interlaced with slightly relevant song lyrics (disclaimer, they didn’t write the song.)

- They don’t do any of above, because they are New Fandom Savy, but they write or reblog nostalgic posts about these things.

- They had a livejournal.

- They still have a livejournal.

- They ended up on tumblr only after getting into a new fandom, searching livejournal for content and fellow fans, and suddenly coming to the startling realization that livejournal has become a barren wasteland of tumbleweeds and chirping crickets.

- They miss their geocities site.

- They wrote fic for the X-Files while the original nine seasons were still airing.

- Bonus, they wrote fic for the original Star Trek and published it in a zine, before the Internet was a thing. That’s like super mega fandom old.

- They might be less inclined to call themselves “trash”, but they are totally out there, reading all the things.

[typhoidmeri]

[teawiththegods]

The thing that makes me feel like an old lady is ship names. Back in my day we just threw a “x” between character names and called it a day! Now everything has some made up ship name that everyone seems to know but me bc im a granny! And i refuse to learn them bc thats too much work!

[samodinsdottir-deactivated20180]

Oh my godddd all of this 😝😝😝

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

How I get my summer body:

1. Bone of the father unwillingly given 2. Flesh of the servant willingly sacrificed 3. Blood of the enemy forcibly taken