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Okay. I kinda wanted to address my ghosting era (era's?) because a few of you have been asking me if I was okay.
I am very good! School has just been really hard these last few months and I need to really focus. I didn't mean to abandon you guys and leave you hanging. I just had other things to take care of and it might be like that for the next few months as well.
I'll try to get around to answering all of the notes in my inbox and get to the posts that you all have @'d me in. I really appreciate you and I can't wait to catch up on everything that I've missed in the snapedom!
I don't think I've ever shared this here, but many years ago I created an extremely exhaustive guide to potions and ingredients in the Harry Potter canon, also based heavily on real-world knowledge and history of herbalism.
I use it as a reference all the time so I thought it might be useful! In the interest of completeness I also included stuff that's only vaguely canon (from video games etc) but since it was made so long ago it doesn't include information from the FB films, Cursed Child, Hogwarts Legacy or the mobile game lol. But it's very very exhaustive and detailed haha, much more than the wiki if I do say so myself.
POTIONS AND INGREDIENTS Compiled by Jana H. (seriousbrat.tumblr.com) Credit goes to HP wiki, on which I based a lot of this list, and the we
It's split into first a list of potions (many of which include relevant historical information, probable ingredients, and even brewing instructions where those exist) and then a list of ingredients (also with discussion of real-world applications/significance of those ingredients.)
It's designed so you can easily invent your own potions for fic-writing purposes or make a more educated guess as to the ingredients of potions that exist in canon, rather than a hard-and-fast guide to what is or isn't canon. Basically you don't have to follow the information exactly haha, it's just a guide. If you look at the ingredients of potions that we do see in canon, they usually make complete sense with the purpose of the potion and have obviously been well researched.
guys regulus and umbridge are so perfect for each other
they’re both evil little shits who like to pretend that they’re the heroes of the story and the victims of their situations even though every awful thing they did was a conscious choice! they’re made for each other!!
I really can’t express how much I love the idea that Snape is not a nice, palatable victim of trauma. I love that he’s bitter and spiteful and that he can’t get over what was done to him. It’s raw and human and likely the most realistic thing to come out of those books.
Every fan of Harry Potter has indulged in the fantasy of waiting for an Owl to deliver the fateful letter that will declare your future as a witch or wizard at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. Every one of us old or young had dreamed of riding the train at Kings Cross Station, taking the boats across the black lake and seeing the castle for the first time, of having dinner in the great hall, of finally figuring out where you belong in the world and it just feeling right. They fantasize about seeing their common room for the first time finally feeling that warm sense of belonging and meeting the friends that you will keep for the rest of your life. Every single one of us had fantasized about meeting our professors, exploring the grounds and discovering our latent potential. It’s a comfort for many of us and happy place to go in our minds to escape reality.
For the witches and wizards of the Wizarding World that childhood fantasy is their reality. They too wait with bated breath for their letters. They too fantasize about finally feeling that “at home” feeling, the feeling that you finally belong to something bigger and more wonderful than their wildest dreams. The chance to prove themselves. The chance to start over for many, the chance to leave their sometimes abusive homes for a place that finally actually feels like home to them. Harry was one of those people. Dumbledore was one of those people. Hermione, Ron and even Neville all find this sense of belonging sooner or later. They all find their forever home at Hogwarts the way we all dream.
Now imagine being Seveurs Snape.
You live in a house with a father that doesn’t understand you and screams and yells at you and your mother on a daily basis and you feel so alone in the world. You have one peer who appreciates in you the magic that allows you to rise above the squaller and cruelty in which you live. You have one friend who sees you for who you are and appreciates that about you truly, while being forced to inhabit a world that not only doesn’t understand you but is actually often openly hostile to you. Hogwarts, you beleive, will be your escape from this hell, and best of all you get to take this wonderful friend with you. You are being whisked away to a fairy tale castle where dreams come true and you will finally feel safe and finally feel a real sense of home. You stay up all night all week waiting by the door in the early morning for the letter that is finally going to change your life. You pour over it with your best friend, going over every aspect of this incredible opportunity in your mind over and over. You’re planning how you’ll make the most of it. You finally let yourself look forward to something, to open your heart to something, to dream of something. Your greatest hearts desire to this moment is finally coming true.
Then you get on the train.
And the hell begins before the first day has ever even started. Your friend is angry at you for something entirely out of your control, and even though you make up destiny has deigned that on this day you will meet the person that will destroy any hope you ever entertained of Hogwarts being a home at all. His name is James Potter. His partners in the crimes which will forever change your life are Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black. From the moment you meet you are ridiculed by them, physically abused by them, and the worst part is from this day forward it is never going to end.
Your best friend is put not just in a different house but in the house that hates your house the most, and from this day forward you will forever have a strain on the only true friendship you’ve ever had. From this day forward you will have to meet them either in secret or at least in private to avoid angering both your houses at best and facing ridicule at worst. The moments you stole with this friend in the muggle hell will ironically be the only moments of peace you’ll truly have with them. Not only that, but they are sorted into the same house that 4 of your worst tormentors reside in.
But it’s even worse. Because although at home you can escape form your father and potential school bullies by hiding yourself away in some nook or cranny, making yourself scarce, staying out late at night in the woods or just being as quiet as possible; you will never be able to escape the torment that now awaits every day. You have classes with them, you run into them, you see them trying to take away the only friend you have every day. And it doesn’t even end there, now they have a tracking device that you don’t know about, but somehow they manage to find you no matter where you hide. No matter where you go they are somehow always there. No matter who you talk to, they all act like you’re crazy. Because none of the other professors or students know about the marauders map they find you strange for jumping at every blow of the wind. Because they don’t know about the map they don’t believe you at all when you try to explain that somehow James Potter and his gang seem to pop up conveniently every single place you go to hide and they even blame you for trying to figure out how to protect yourself. They tell you you’re bringing it on yourself for being too weird or too jumpy or too nosy. Even your best friend in the world is starting to doubt you. You feel like you’re going insane.
So you try to have your tormentors expelled. You try so hard to figure out something, anything that will end the days on end of suffering and abuse. But you’re the weird kid. You’re the ugly kid. You’re the emo goth kid. Nobody gives a shit about you and you know it. You know you’re on your own. You’re a half blood, so the the people in your house who were supposed to have your back ignore you at best and tease you about it at worst for letting Gryffindor students get the best of you. Any hope you had of Hogwarts being your home has been destroyed.
So you try to follow James and The Gang around. Yes everyone sees you as creepy for this, becusse you don’t have a map that magically tells you where they will be at all times. You have to go about it the old fashioned way. You hide behind bushes, you peak around corners. Yes everyone finds you creepy now on top of everything else, but it’ll be worth it if you can finally enjoy what was promised to you at age 11, a home. You’ll finally be able to breathe.
But no. Instead what happens is your tormentors figure out that you know that they are putting the lives of students in danger by wandering the grounds with a werewolf against the wishes of the headmaster. You know that if you can just prove it that the torment will be over, but what you don’t know is that they are one step ahead of you, and for the unimaginable crime of trying to thwart them; they are going to plan to inflict a dangerous illness of lycanthropy on you at best, maul you to death at worst. You are close to both your proof and your death when one of them gets cold feet at the last minute and decides he doesn’t in fact want to go to prison.
You think “maybe it’s finally over now”, “maybe everyone will see now that they are cruel, that this is what they’re really like”, “maybe I’ll finally get a moment of peace, maybe Dumbledore and Lily will finally beleive me”. But no. Of course not. Because remember, you’re the weird emo Slytherin kid and your life is secondary. It always has been. Dumbledore swears you to secrecy to protect one of your tormentors, so you get no justice for the attempt on your life. Because Dumbledore had forbidden you to speak about your traumatic experience of almost being murdered, your best friend doesn’t beleive you at all and instead blames you for sneaking around. They don’t even give you the chance to defend or explain yourself. Instead you’re made out to be the creepy bad guy who wants to destroy the Potter Gang out of jealously.
Worst of all you secretly suspect that your best friend has a thing for the person who makes your life a living hell every single day. You see the stolen glances and the way they look at each other, the way she is never totally on your side. You tell yourself that this is all in your head, that Lily would never betray you that way. That all the hours you spent dreaming of Hogwarts together will mean more than a crush. But oh, sadly you are very wrong there too.
Not even a few months after attempting to take your life your abusers are back at again. Remorseless as ever they hunt you down like dogs and follow your every footstep. You haven’t a moment of peace even to do your normal school work. The only place you are safe is your common room, and even then you can’t let your guard down.
Then one day it happens.
The little pieces of happiness that you’ve managed to tuck away from yourself are cruelly ripped away. They manage to find you again. The torment us as usual. They all gang up on you, each taking a go for their own amusement. They fling you on your back, force you to vomit, force you to listen to their emotional abuse while they make a go at hitting on your best friend, and the torment does not end there. Now they are picking you up off the ground and taking off your clothes. Now on top of every other humiliation they have amused themselves by sexually humiliating you in front of everyone in your class including your closest ally. Every part of you is on fire inside and out and the depth of horror and hurt inside you is so big you don’t know what to do with the feeling. Then your friend finally steps in. But now you’re so hurt and angry that it’s bursting out of you in the worst possible ways.
Now the worst thing finally happens.
You call your best friend a slur; something you know will hurt them more than any other thing, because you’re destroyed, because you’re angry at them for letting it get this far, because you’re humiliated and because you’re tired of not being held in a higher regard than the person who has ruined your life; because you’re sick of their moralizing and their pitty.
Now you’ve lost the only person you’ve ever really felt close to. Now you’ve lost any human sympathy forever.
And it’s not over yet. Now you’re upside down again. And this time they aren’t content with exposing the rest of your body for the world to see. Now they are out for blood, and the revenge they have settled on is Sexual Assault. They remove your underwear to expose your most private parts to the world and there is nothing you can do about it. Nowhere you can go. No one who cares. No one who will come to your rescue.
Snape must have felt so hopeless it’s a wonder he didn’t try to end his life. People have done so over much less.
Hogwarts was never truly a home for Severus Snape. Even in adulthood he works in the place that was the site of innumerable traumas and heartaches. Everyday he faces trigger after trigger of the worst day of his life, while protecting the progeny of the only person he ever felt close to and the person who cruelly ripped away any chance he had at normal life. This is why I feel for Severus Snape so much in every scene. He is confronted every day with the worst memories a person can endure yet he chooses to be brave anyway. He chooses to do the right thing anyway. He puts other people’s well-being first anyway. He chooses the side of the light beyond all that had conspired to make a sociopath out of him. He holds a place in his heart for love and he protects that love with his entire being. Platonic love is just as powerful as romantic love and Severus Snape is the perfect example of this. A person even in the worst circumstances can still make the most difference in the world, can still choose to be their own person and make their own choices. Even when the world is wholly against him, Severus Snape is the pinnacle of integrity.
This is why he’s my favorite character. He’s the bravest character in the narrative, but he’s also the character with the most integrity.
The Bones family was a very traditional and well-respected family to be in
Despite this, Amelia’s grandfather on her dad's side was an alcoholic and was a terrible and neglectful father. Because of this, Amelia’s father was determined to be the exact opposite of his dad and was very strict and wanted great things from his own children. Amelia and her brothers got the same treatment from their mother who wanted to prove her own mother wrong when she disapproved of their relationship. Both of Amelia’s parents were set on having well-respected and successful children as if having anything else would mean that they failed. As you can imagine this put a lot of fucking pressure on each of the silings
Amelia got on well with her family anyway. She grew up being taught that family meant everything and she loved her brothers more than anyone. She knew why her parents were the way they were and had a lot of sympathy for them
She grew up in a wizarding town in Ireland, in the same town The Mckinnons lived. Amelia (who always wanted a sister) grew close with the McKinnon sisters, her favourite being Olivia
Amelia was a skilled figure skater. She started lessons when she was four and continued the sport until her death
When Amelia joined Hogwarts with Edgar they were both sorted into Hufflepuff where they met Gideon and Fabian Prewett
Amelia, Edgar, Gideon and Fabian all became really close friends
Her other friends were Benjy Fenwick, Caradoc Dearborn and Pandora Lovegood
She and Benjy dated for a week while they were in their second year
Amelia realised she was a lesbian in her fourth year when she discovered her crush on Pandora
Over time her crush didn't go away and by their seventh year Amelia was head over heels in love but refused to say anything because she didn't want it to be true
Amelia knew that if she told her parents that she was gay they would disown her because of how homophobic they were
She came out to Edgar in their seventh year
THE MOST MIRRORBALL TO EVER MIRRORBALL
She became a prefect and Head Girl while at Hogwarts
After graduating from Hogwarts Amelia started an internship at the Ministry of Magic as she had plans to become Minister of Magic one day
Amelia had no interest in joining the Order and wished that Edgar, Fabian and Gideon didn't but understood why they did
During this time Amelia’s parents were trying to get her to marry Gaspard Shingleton, someone who Amelia had gone to school with and who she knew had a crush on her. Amelia, however was a lesbian and still in love with Pandora so she rejected him at every turn
Because of her connection to the Order, she would try to help out as much as she could but refused to do anything that could get her into trouble
Edgar was killed in early October 1981 and Amelia lost half of her soul with him
After Emmeline is told she goes to the Bones house to check on Amelia. When she gets there Amelia (who is very upset and angry) lashed out on her and told Emmeline that it's her fault that Edgar died because if she didn't break up with him then Edgar would've never slept with Elizabeth and he wouldn't have died
(Really Amelia knows that it's unfair to blame Emmeline when she's grieving just as much but she just lost her twin brother so cut her some slack)
During Edgars funeral Amelia came out to Jamie
When the war ended Amelia continued working at the Ministry
In 1984 she was the maid of honour for Pandora and Xenophilius Malfoy’s wedding
Marauders fandom I am begging you to start giving Emmeline Vance the attention she deserves
Like she was not only the last women of the original Order of the Phoenix standing but she was also a part of the advance guard and when she died had the Prime Minister talking to the Minister of Magic about how much of a asset to the war she was. Also her death was caused by information Snape gave to the death eaters that Dumbledore gave to him so if you’re into Snape and Dumbledore slander theres another reason to hate them
LIKE HOW ARE YOU SLEEPING ON HER????
“But we don’t know anything about her”
When have we ever known anything about any Marauders characters???
You want a starting point to her? Here are some headcannons to get you started
She was a Ravenclaw in the Marauders year
She was Pansexual
She had two younger brothers and was brought up by her wizard father after her muggle mother left because witchcraft scared her
Her closest friends consisted of Marlene, Lily, Benjy, Pandora, Kingsley and Frank
She was a prefect
She enjoyed Quidditch but wasn’t on the team
She had a summer fling with Lily during the summer before their fifth year
In her sixth year she started seeing Edgar Bones and was with him until 1981 when they broke up because of the war with the intention of getting back together, but Edgar died so they never got to
She met a muggle women in 1988 and married her in 1990. They adopted a daughter together and were together until Emmelines death
She had messy handwriting
She was never a big fan of the Marauders and found them annoying but befriended Remus during the 80s
She loved photography
She loved football
She grew up in Birmingham
During her third year she taught herself how to skateboard
Her patronus was a Robin
THERE NOW CAN WE PLEASE START USING HER IN FANFICTION!! PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
also she outlived the majority of yalls faves in cannon. Put some respect to her name.
Charity Burbage and Snape's relationship headcanon?
Severus thought she was drop dead gorgeous the day he met Charity. It was also nice to have someone his age on the staff.
During a Christmas party, both of them had a bit too much eggnog and muled wine.
They both woke up the next morning in Severus’s bed, still giddy from their orgasms, but heads throbbing from their hangovers.
Severus grabbed two of his hangover cures and they drank them quickly before Severus pushed her blonde hair away from her face, “Wanna repeat of last night?”
That was the start of their casual relationship until Severus brought her flowers and asked her to dinner.
They bonded over several things and Charity constantly picked his brains for info from the muggle world. She was completely shocked when he mentioned he grew up in the muggle world.
He fell hard and fast for her. They married when he was 33 and she was 31.
They fled to America when the war started again and lived in the muggle world with their three children, madly in love with each other and safe from harm.
- he had braces but then his parents couldn't afford the constant trips to the doctors to maintain the upkeep, and since we all know that Sev is very anal about texture and how things feel, one day he took a pocket knife and just started popping them off.
- Tobias came home to a sink full of small metal pieces sitting on the counter and his son spitting blood in the kitchen sink
Severus Snape is one of those characters that can make or break how you feel about someone, whether you love him or hate him. Personally, I get a little on edge when I find out people hate him for pretty lame reasons. And I know people who hate him get upset with people they know that love him. There’s a lot of characters that people don’t care either way, but Snape can start fights and ruin friendships.
Ok, This is how I imagine Aurora Sinistra has her locs styled (bc why not?) And she always tries different updo's and when she goes to do her astronomy calculations she just ties her hair into a messy bun.
Bonus: Severus visits her after her classes (bc this man never sleeps) and casually ties his hair up in a similar style
i’m such a sucker for snape getting recognition for his talents bc the man is just so damn talented :(((
consider this
snape takes his potions class out to the forbidden forest one time to show them how to collect and harvest potions ingredients. when all of a sudden, they’re ambushed by three/four people who want smth - maybe revenge?? maybe access to hogwarts?? idk bro it’s hp world, this shit happens all the time
as soon as they ambush snape and the kids, snape is already prepared bc he’s a paranoid bastard and casts a shielding charm on the students to protect them - then THISSS starts a fight. he’s fighting them on 4/3, but he doesn’t mind bc he’s used to it (🙄🙄🙄iykyk) and he’s doing all this cool shit and spells and stunts, like this guy can parkour like nothing else and all the students are watching and they’re so fascinated
obviously in the end, he wins. he calls dumbledore to let him know and the aurors come to arrest the guys or whatever and snape just continues on with his lesson bc it’s still class time, gosh, time has been wasted enough
but after that, the students who witnessed the fight became obsessed with him, telling the whole school what happened and then start asking snape for duelling lessons, so snapes like “uh, i’m not your DADA prof, i cant do that” and the kids are like “well why don’t you become the DADA prof” and snape is like “i’ve BEEEN trying 🙄” - which is when everyone remembers how they made fun of snape for never getting the DADA post but now they are all livid and start petitioning for snape to get the job and in conclusion everyone admires him and he’s the coolest person ever
