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I believe that Luna is the only student at Hogwarts who designs and sews her own clothes. Not only is she is an artist who stays true to her vision, but she is not afraid to speak uncomfortable truths. She is both passionate, and compassionate. I am in awe of Luna Lovegood.

#luna lovegood #yes good #I’ve been doing more sewing and stuff recently bc getting more into cosplay

mischiefhasbeenmanaged

Remus: You know I really like Tonks

Mad-Eye: Do you really want to be in a relationship where you can say “that’s not how your cousin used to do it”

#wolfstar #nymphadora tonks #remus lupin #sirius black #mad eye moody #lol

sarahthehappygiraffe

Headcanon that Hufflepuff have a cat who’s like everyone’s, who just hang around in the Hufflepuff common room. No one knows where it is from, but now it’s here and it’s a quite nice cat. It sleeps on different students every night, makes them play with it when they have studied for to long and lies in their laps and purrs when they need support and warmth from a kind animal who’ll never judge you.

marauders70s

this cat will routinely have litters of kittens. surprisingly there are always the exact number of kittens for the number of lonely students who need them. there is also always one kitten in one litter that looks exactly like the mama cat. she will continue the great tradition.

#hufflepuff #cats #good headcanon

embroiderycrafts

I have been learning how to embroider during lockdown. This is my latest creation, the Hogwarts crest. by DrawYourSword

#embroidery #hogwarts houses #cool concept

internettythings

Harry Potter fixed his broken wand with the Elder Wand in Deathly Hallows. Why (other than the obvious plot point) didn't Dumbledore offer to fix Ron's wand in Chamber of Secrets?

ravenclaw-draconum

The wand Ron was originally using was second-hand and thus wasn’t well matched for him, so it was better for him to get a new wand regardless. (Similar to how Neville was held back by using his father’s wand). Though, the teacher’s could’ve done more to help him get a new wand rather than having a student go around with a broken wand all year.

#my addition #ronald weasley #albus dumbledore #good commentary

datarep

Each Harry Potter book as a wordcloud in the shape of a concept from the book

#cool concept

halfling-at-heart

Im convinced the entire Harry Potter series is just James and Remus headcanoning their lives while high as fuck

marauders70s

then they are both depressed af little shits

gobstone-d

@marauders70s’ tags killed me:

lilyaceofdiamonds

Thank you for putting @marauders70s’s tags @gobstone-d, i was going to if someone didn’t. They’re hilarious!

marauders70s

YOU GUYS DON’T UNDERSTAND THERE WERE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF WORDS HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS ALL THE WAY TO POA AND IT CUT OFF SO EARLY I HATE TUMBLR

marauders70s

okay you guys i’ll give it another go (finishes this…1 year later lol my b)

It got WAY long, and there’s…some plot??? so I’m putting a buster here

Keep reading

#marauders #hp fanfiction #cool concept

stilesstays

the straight up funniest thing i know is when people go “harry’s a dumbass and never noticed anything because he thought snape was evil in PS!!!” like so did you bitch…… finding out it was quirrell is literally a plot twist you fucking moron

lytefoot

The plot twists in Harry Potter are, for the most part, very Good Plot Twists.

A bad plot twist does one of two things. One, it comes totally out of left field, and makes much of what went before complete nonsense. Or two, it’s telegraphed way in advance and you totally see it coming.

A good plot twist is highly unexpected–or at least, unexpected if you aren’t genre-savvy and trying to predict plot twists–but once you know it, the entire narrative is viewed in a different light.

Philosopher’s Stone is an entirely different book when you read it knowing that Quirrell, not Snape, is Voldemort’s minion. It’s even more different when you reread it understanding the complexities of why Snape hates Harry but protects him anyway, or why Dumbledore won’t tell Harry the whole truth yet.

Chamber of Secrets is an entirely different book when you read it knowing who the Heir of Slytherin is. You thought it might, somehow, be Harry, too, the first time you read it. AND the whole thing takes on yet ANOTHER layer of meaning after the end of the series, knowing that Harry was also a Horcrux.

Prisoner of Azkaban is an entirely different book when you read it knowing that Sirius was framed. And yet again, when you reread it knowing the history of the Marauders–and especially if you reread it in light of all the fan-lore about the Marauders, if that’s your bag–it takes on a different character again.

Goblet of Fire is an entirely different book when you read it knowing about Barty Crouch Jr. You felt sorry for that boy in the pensive too!

Order of the Phoenix is a different book when you read it knowing what Voldemort wanted in the Department of Mysteries, and how he meant to get it.

Half-Blood Prince is a slightly different book when you read it knowing that, holy s***, Harry “0 for 5 on spotting the bad guy” Potter is actually right about Draco Malfoy being a death eater, but it’s vastly different when you read the Horcrux lesson and Harry and Dumbledore’s relationship in light of the Deathly Hallows. Snape’s departure at the end of Half-Blood Prince is an entirely different scene when you read it after having read The Prince’s Tale.

The reason people think that Harry was a dumb-a** for falling for all of this stuff is that you can only read that first book–the one you read without knowing the twist–one time. These twists are beautifully, wonderfully set up, so when you read them the second time (or the third, or the twenty-fifth), you absolutely see them coming, you see all the signs, you can’t imagine how anyone (for example, your past self) could have possibly missed it. But they are twists. You might see them coming if you’re genre-savvy, but you certainly wouldn’t see them coming if you were a person living the events.

#good commentary #when I first read them I read the series 4 times back to back #and every time there was something new to be learned

incorrectmarauders

Remus: Padfoot just created a group chat called Padfoot’s Surprise Party and then left the group.

James: I’m feeling a lot of emotions…but mostly respect.

#lol #marauders #sirius black #remus lupin #james potter

bailwhoreganaxoxo

Charlie Weasley is my favorite Asexual representation like... mom I don’t want sex I want dragons? WHAT A VIBE.

#charlie weasley #ace characters #aro characters #dragons

macbethheadband

Shout out professor rj lupin for not flipping absolute shit when he sees harry with the marauders map in the hallway that night. i seriously cant stop laughing he could have gone oh FUUUUUCKK!!!!!!!!!! but hes got like plus 15 repression and a proficiency in Bullshitting so he just says ‘hmm yes yes oh is this a? a zonkos? haha cool.’ Legend.

#remus lupin #literally just got back from watching this movie for extra credit for myth class lol #marauder’s map

panyawan

Luna Lovegood

#Luna Lovegood #fanart

millabub

Okay but imagine Charlie Weasley at Bill and Fleurs wedding. Did he come alone? Did he bring a date? Or did be just appear with a dragon?

Charlie: yo bro I brought a date

Bill: Charlie....thats a DRAGON

Charlie: yeah? So?

And then, when the Death Eaters appear and Fleur in the background is punching death Eaters left and right, Charlie just relEASES THE DRAGON.

#charlie weasley #my small aroace dragon loving child

sporadicwriting

Magic Systems

I don’t know how popular the separation of hard and soft magic systems is in the HP fandom, but if we were to apply it, both systems would be present and constantly changing during the books. The first books are usually full of hard magic, that is to say, specific magic with more or less set rules. They learn a spell for making things levitate, to open locks, to shoot sparks, to turn animals into specific objects (etc.).

However the more we delve into the core of the story, the more we are confronted with soft magic. It starts in the first book as well when it is mentioned that Lily’s sacrifice protected Harry. It is described as ancient magic and doesn’t have a specific incantation. Then we have Riddle’s diary which (is later explained) contained Voldemort’s spirit through obscure magic. In PoA Lupin wonderfully demonstrates both systems with painfully specific spells such as Wadiwasi and Riddikus on one and the Patronus on the other side. Such examples continue through all books until the very end.

My point is, it seems to me that the more poweful a witch or wizard becomes or the more meaningful the magic is, the softer the system becomes. Maybe it is because once a certain level of skill is reached the magician is able to go beyond the specific intent of a spell and expand on it. This becomes clear mostly in duels. Looking at Voldemort and Dumbledore or McGonagall vs. Snape it seems more as though each combatant adapts the magic their opponent casts and makes it their own to counterattack, instead of simply just blocking and casting a new spell. It is much more fluent and a true manifestation of their power as opposed to for example the way the DA fights the Death Eaters.

#magic #magic theory #cool concept #good headcanon #good commentary