SheFlooLikeAMadMan

just because blogging about Harry Potter is like blogging about having feet, it doesn't mean I'm going to stop. Always down to discuss: Sorting Headcanons.

[hecstia]

hp moodboards → james potter

“I think you’re like James,” said Lupin, “who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.” 

[stilesstays]

“maybe i should quit too… make pranks all day” 

“mate, you couldn’t stay away from the aurors for a week” 

[lbibliophile]

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

[wizardtowizard-blog]

Who gave you the RIGHT?

[bonnini]

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question. 

[marauders4evr]

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

[not-a-bit-good]

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

[marauders4evr]

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years. 

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

[theotheryongbok]

[my-sun-is-gone-deactivated20180]

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

[gehayi]

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

[frostyemma]

well… well, shit

[a-fangirl-summary]

what

[mintedwitcher]

Oh shit. Its been updated.

[garrettauthor]

…I’ve been in the “Dumbledore was on the darker side of morally grey” camp for years but this…this. Holy shit. Oh no.

[flawedmangoes]

reasons why draco malfoy should’ve had a redemption arc

not wanting to kill dumbledore

lowering his wand and about to join the order

took care of luna lovegood while she in his house

not turning harry in when he was captured

gutted by the death of his friend

throwing harry his wand

was literally a fucking CHILD

[frickyeahducks]

reasons why Snape shouldn’t have gotten a redemption arc

- killed Dumbledore

- bullied children

- was a death eater

- felt no remorse about his betreyal till he was physically dying

- held a grudge against someone for over 10 years and took it out on his son

- crawled over the dead body of his crushes husband to hold her dead body while her infant son was crying alone in his bed

- was not a child lol

[holytragedyqueen]

Also, Snape would have remained a death eater if Neville became the chosen one

[harryjamesheadcanons-deactivate]

Imagine twelve year old Harry not even knowing how awful his childhood with Dursleys had been until he gets to the Burrow.

Imagine him seeing Percy asleep with a book on his lap, and being baffled that a kid might feel comfortable enough in his own home to be so vulnerable in the living room. 

Imagine Molly coming up to the attic to say goodnight to Ron and Harry, and Harry glancing at Ron when he hears her footsteps, trying to figure out what they had done wrong that day.

Imagine him asking George who does all the house chores, and thinking it’s a joke when George answers, “we all do.” 

Imagine Ginny pestering Arthur with questions over the Daily Prophet, and Harry trying to shoot her warning looks to stop it! but then Mr. Weasley looks up and patiently answers every single one. 

Imagine Bill popping in for a visit one evening and Harry being floored when Bill stops to chat with him. 

Imagine Fred chasing after Harry in the yard, playfighting, but Harry actually begins to run for real fear of being hurt. 

Imagine Molly burning something on the stove my accident and tossing it, imagine Harry mentioning to Ron, offhandedly, “she could’ve given that one to me, it’s what I eat at home when I mess up dinner” and not knowing why Ron is horrified.

Imagine Harry seeing what a normal, functioning family looks like, and realizing the absence of love in his own life. 

[melthedestroyer]

“What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron’s, however, wasn’t the talking mirror or the clanging ghoul: It was the fact that everyone there seemed to like him.” – Chamber of Secrets

[dorites-deactivated20241117]

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

[moscowdiscow-deactivated2017011]

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

[dorites-deactivated20241117]

I hope he got them back

[moscowdiscow-deactivated2017011]

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

[amarriageoftrueminds]

“*jkrowling voice* hedwig the owl was trans send tweet”

[a-reasonable-uptight-bitch]

is anyone else’s favourite part of harry potter the daily grind of hogwarts life? when i’m watching the movies i always think they’re missing something and i just realised it’s the part of the book where they’re like chilling in the common room doing homework and all the birthday & christmas presents they get each other every book and dinners in the great hall and stuff

[fanonical]

ron: this is illegal

hermione: don’t be silly, ronald

hermione: it’s just bootlegging potions in a bathroom

[mxlfoydraco]

a concept: Harry Potter with his mother’s hair and father’s eyes instead of vice versa. Harry with fiery dark red hair and soft hazel eyes please and thank you

[tashaneva]

i imagine this is how harry and draco’s first meeting would have gone then haha

[musicalluna]

can you imagine how much more confused arthur would have been in that scene where he first meets harry 😂

[mimosaeyes]

his eyes would probably sweep right over harry at the breakfast table, and then he would freeze and have to do a mental tally of his children

[shoggoth88]

I can see Fred and George really going with it too… “Come on Dad, don’t you remember Harry?” “Next you’ll tell us you don’t remember Craig” “Or Ethel” “Or Annie“ “Or Ryan”

[drawnsnake]

“Or Fred” wait

[wingedcorgi]

some things haven’t changed so much. a little belated birthday present for @maria-tries!

[wingedcorgi]

harry, you have your mother’s sass.

[mechinaries]

i got a couple of requests for the marauders so…here!

[glumshoe]

Apparently it’s now Harry Potter canon that when two werewolves fuck while transformed, the mom gives birth to wolf pups. As in. Regular wolf pups… not shape-changing humans. And that’s where the “werewolves” in the Forbidden Forest come from.

Thanks! I hate it.

[dukebee]

[pixiebootsana]

*After announcing the three champions that will compete in the triwizard tournament, Dumbledore grabs a fourth paper that just came out of the goblet of fire*

Dumbledore: Harry Potter

Harry:

Ron:

Hermione:

Ginny:

Fred, George and Lee Jordan:

Cedric:

Fleur:

Victor:

Draco:

Gryffindors:

Hufflepuffs:

Slytherins:

Ravenclaws:

The Teachers Table:

[prince-aziraphale]

I’ve seen a handful of AUs where Harry is deaf and I love it but it also makes me laugh because I just imagine Tom Riddle monologuing in the Chamber of Secrets and finally turning to a confused Harry who just signs “I’m deaf” and Tom is just like ??????

Voldemort isn’t present Harry’s 3rd year because his spirit is too busy learning sign language because god forbid he can’t monologue to Harry Potter come 4th year when he finally has a body.

[staganddragon-deactivated201804]

Oh my god,

[bramblepatch]

hey so I’m not giving JKR any credit whatsoever for accidentally writing a nonbinary icon (bc if she’d meant to do it she’d never have shut up about it) but Tonks refuses to use even shortened forms of her heavily feminine given name with anyone except close family members and has The Classic Genderweird Dream Power of at-will minor shapeshifting and uses it to look punkishly androgynous with Cool Hair thank you for coming to my TED talk