hello.

i am jocelyn. i am 23. i love reading and math and spaceships. i have a degree in dead languages. i want to be a librarian when i grow up. this is my blog; it contains ramblings on bookish and otherwise nerdy things.

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

[ohboywonder]

the most unrealistic thing about harry potter

is that no teacher ever called him James by accident, or that Ron never was called “Bill-, eh Charl-, no Per-, argh!”

[animateglee-archived]

As a younger sister who knows this struggle all too well: THIS IS REAL. Pretty sure 70% of my past teachers still think I’m called what my sister is called in fact.

Imagine Fred being called Percy by McGonagall accidentally and then he gets so offended that he refers to her by “Professor [insert any other name but McGonagall” for the rest of the year, costing Gryffindor a considerable amount of points one at a time.

From then on, she vows to just call them all Mr Weasley.

Until Ginny comes along and she calls her Mr Weasley by accident and Ginny “accidentally’ calls her Sir and it starts again.

[kyraneko]

It’s lightly off-topic but also slightly relevant but I have long cherished this mental image of Professor Snape saying something snappish to Harry in just the wrong tone of voice and Harry absentmindedly, wearily, and completely accidentally responding with, “Yes, Aunt Petunia.”

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

which would have all kinds of additional ramifications when you remember snape is the only one who knew petunia personally

[mjrtaurus]

He asks Harry to stay after class and straight up asks him “Am I truly that unpleasant?”

[sheepfulsheepyard]

Okay, okay, okay, this is probably deeply off-track, but all I can think of is Harry––who upon learning that Snape, of all people, his pain in the neck potions professor knows his aunt––has now received what can only be called a psychic punch to balls. 

How, how, how, is a teenage boy supposed to rectify this, mentally? Connect these strange unjoined worlds to somehow explain that Snape––Snape!––knows his Aunt Petunia?

“It doesn’t make any sense, mate,” Harry tells Ron, blearily, desperately wishing at age thirteen years that his butter beer was a real beer. “It just––it can’t be. Why would he know Aunt Petunia?” Ron grimaces. “Why would he want to? I mean, I know he’s Snape, and all that, but––”

Harry writes his only letter back to #4 Privet Drive, dotted with tears, and it has one line: How do you know Severus Snape?

Petunia writes back: DO NOT MENTION THAT MAN EVER AGAIN. 

And this. This. Sparks a light in Harry’s head. This is the same way Petunia talks about celebrities who have deeply, personally offended her. Usually when she fancied them and then they got married. It’s so completely clear to him, now: Snape is deeply, irrevocably, utterly in love with Aunt Petunia. 

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[magicfolk]

Harry Potter + text posts (x)

[pvirgiliusmaro]

Hufflepuff: Oh, fiddlesticks.

Slytherin: Look, I understand that this is a tense situation but let's watch the fucking language.

[kafkasdiariies]

Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini

[ghostlybelladonnas]

has this been done yet

[hockyeah]

*blows a kiss under the stage* for the pit orchestra

[galacticpasta]

*blows a kiss behind the stage* for the run crew

[vintagedad]

*blows a kiss to the rafters* for the phantom

[incorrect-harry-potter-quotes]

Ron: I made tea.

Hermione: I don’t want tea.

Ron: I didn’t make tea for you…this is my tea.

Hermione: Then why are you telling me?

Ron: It’s a conversation starter.

Hermione: That’s a lousy conversation starter.

Ron: Oh, is it? We’re conversing. Checkmate.

[rlinarts]

Wanted to do a take on Hermione.

[exeggutor-deactivated20171218]

everyone who died at the battle of hogwarts missed All Star by Smash Mouth’s release two days later

[hisnamewasbeanni]

It’s so tragic, they still had so much to do, so much to see

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Map of the internet as of May 1973. The entire internet.

[therealmyfriendsarefiction]

Did you read #illuminae by @misterkristoff and @amiekaufmanauthor ? I love this book so much! The format was so unexpected and seriously ever but is awesome. Be sure to check this one and #gemina before the third #obsidio comes out. ⚜️⚜️⚜️ #aminotmerciful bookmark by @behindthepagesstore and mug by @eviebookish ⚜️⚜️⚜️ #illuminaefiles #illuminaefiles_01 #jaykristoff #amiekaufman #randomhouse #getunderlined #orangeandbluebooks #bookstack #pileofbooks #bookpile

[malfoyiss-deactivated20180702]

Draco: I hate potter

Blaise: the sky is made of spaghetti

Draco: what? No it isn’t.

Blaise: oh, my bad. I thought we were playing that game where we see who can come up with the biggest lie.

[broadwayfangirlblr]

Dear Anyone Who Hates Cats

My cat literally sleeps next to my face until she thinks I’m asleep and then she’ll move to the end of my bed. If I wake up at night she’ll go back up to me head and stay with me until I fall asleep again. In the morning she’ll follow me when I call her. She’s a precious lil nugget.

[nut-burger]

idk it’s still a bad musical

[sweethotnight]

yesterday this girl in my academic writing class sits down next to me and puts 3 bananas on the desk (which was jarring by itself) and i had two bananas in my backpack so i wanted to see if she would notice if i added those to her banana pile when she wasn’t looking and when she finally looked back at the bananas she sighed and said really quietly to herself “oh my god…i have so many…” and put all five of them in her backpack

[sweethotnight]

ok its not that funny

[classicmeevs]

It is that fucking funny

[mariolucario493]

Viktor Krum rescues Hermione Granger by half-transfiguring into a shark during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, February 24, 1995