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I wrote a fanfic years ago that I’m embarrassed by now (I was young and sheltered and didn’t get that they have different slang in the UK) but I’m still strangely proud of the moment where the Weasley Twins enchanted the door to Snape’s classroom to play “Love Shack” whenever someone walked in.
People’s reaction to the pottermore tweet about the “ non existent magic aways toilet issues ” in the 18th century are hilarious. Although historically it makes sense and if anybody is familiar with “horrible histories ” ( a popular show -UK ) it kind of explains where JK would have gotten the idea from if it was her. This tweet was still random and hilarious. But the reactions to that tweet were just xD
I wasn’t a Harry/Snape shipper before, but reading Snape’s death scene where Snape said “Look at me” and they stare at each other? That was powerful. I know Snape said that so Lily’s eyes are the last thing he sees before he dies but what was Harry thinking during that scene? I’d like to think there was a shift in how Harry viewed him after that.
Troll! In the dungeons! Thought you ought to know.
Seriously, if this wasn’t written by a troll, I’d be surprised.
I like the idea that Harry would have survived regardless of the method Voldemort used to kill him (even if it’s unlikely). Harry Potter: the only person to survive being bashed in the head with a brick, set on fire, shot, thrown out the window etc
Hopefully, he wouldn’t just survive physically…
I know a LOT of people don’t like Ron Weasley but for those who DO y’all are the epitome of taste. You will BEAT natural selection while the others die off. You ARE the dominant race. You WILL live a long and fulfilled life. Thank you for your great contributions to this earth.
Hug Dudley or hug Draco
Hug Dudley. Continue redeeming yourself you funky lil Muggle
Tumblr right now
My sweet Dolores rules over tumblr!!!
Tumblr is now officially renamed:
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This is appropriate.
I know that each of us has the right to interpret literature the way that we want to, but if your interpretation of Harry Potter leads you to believe that any of the Weasleys are bad people, then I can’t help but think that there’s something wrong with you.
Recipe for a non-canon ship that I will probably hate:
Take a character that you identify with/like a whole lot.
Ignore everybody’s canon personality.
Ship them with the main character because you want them to “get the guy/girl.”
Yes!
I wonder what happened to Crookshanks and Pigwidgeon while Ron and Hermione were off with Harry in Deathly Hallows. Did Ginny bring them to Hogwarts with her? Did they have adventures together at the Burrow?
They ran a popular morning drive radio program. Every morning, they would prank call Dolores Umbridge.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. If only!
"If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs."
- "Holes" by Louis Sachar
ok I get everyone being pissed at Yates/Kloves for their BTS bullshit but like the Malfoy Manor scene in the actual movie was not torture P*rn. Hermione screaming and Bellatrix carving her arm was nothing compared to any scene from Horror movies nowadays. The book barely showed Hermione being tortured too. The only difference is the book had Ron almost going insane with worry and the chanderlier fall & the movie cutting that out. Which was crap but that that doesn't make what was left in bad.
Um, Hi nonnie #2.
First up, let me get this out of the way, so you and everyone else knows this on the front end - and might explain some of what my answer below is going to entail:
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Spout it, diva!
What the Anon fails to realize is that HP isn’t horror. The Harry Potter stories are fantasy adventure. While certain horror tropes can have their place in a fantasy adventure story, too many of them or having them done too intensely is as out of place as a Klingon at Downton Abbey.
Fantasy horror is a common enough genre. I’m not sure about adventure horror, though there are adventure stories with horror tropes, like Universal’s Mummy films. Survival horror is a common enough genre. Anyway, horror isn’t my cup of tea, for many of the same reasons as @diva-gonzo, though not as personal of a connection.
If Anon wants HP in the horror genre, I suggest fanfic.
a Klingon at Downton Abbey…
Draco Malfoy: *becomes less of a piece of shit than he already was*
Draco fans: OMG!!!!! Look how he changed, he’s the best person ever!!!!
Draco Malfoy: *still a piece of shit, just slightly less of one*
You know what I don’t get? When fanfic authors apologize for long chapters. It’s like? You gave me bonus content, for free, and you’re sorry about it? Bruh. I have already named my firstborn after you. Dude.
You know what else I don’t get? When they apologize for short updates. It’s like: look at these new words I gave you! Sorry I didn’t give you even more free words. Bro, that’s at least two words that I did not have yesterday. For free. Dude. Thank you.
And another thing: when people drop out of nowhere with a surprise update and then apologize for it taking a while. Like, dude, I wasn’t expecting anything, and you gave me words. I thought this fic was abandoned, but wait: there’s more. You just popped in and reminded me that this is a Good Fic that I should probably reread. You made my goshdarn day.
Basically fanfic writers are under no obligation to publish anything so when they do update it’s always a net positive because the story is longer now, and I have something to read, so thank you so much to everyone who writes fic at whatever pace or quantity they want.
What are your headcanons when it comes to the magical trace?
I don't think I have many headcanons that are different from what most people think. Like how children with magical parents can likely get away with more because they don't need someone externally to step in if something needs to be fixed and may get missed between all the other magic in the house (because as established in the Dobby incident, it's not that specific)
it seems to be a system that favours purebloods and puts muggleborns at a possible disadvantage because they'll be watched more closely because every bit of magic is assumed to be them
Don’t let people shame you for liking only canon ships.
There’s no requirement in fandom for liking any of the extra-canonical ships. There’s no requirement for liking the canonical ones either.
There’s no mandatory minimum number of non-canon ships that you must like. That number can be zero.
You don’t get your fandom card revoked for failure to ship.
To anyone who says otherwise:
A Harry Potter plot hole that has always bothered me (because it’s about Remus Lupin, of course)
If Remus Lupin was absolutely terrified of having children… how did Teddy happen?
Serious question. Remus panics about the idea of becoming a father. He is convinced his lycanthropy might curse the child, ruin Tonks’ life, and generally repeat the trauma he went through growing up.
He literally tries to run away because he thinks becoming a father is irresponsible.
So this always makes me wonder:
Are we really supposed to believe that the wizarding world, a society that has Skele-Gro, Polyjuice Potion, memory charms, and magical medicine for almost everything, somehow doesn't have contraception? No spells? No potions? Nothing?
Because the alternatives are… interesting (I would say "Riddikulus"):
• Tonks got pregnant on purpose.🤦🏼
• Remus Lupin, who usually seems to know everything about the wizarding world, somehow didn’t understand how babies are made.🥸
• Or the wizarding world, despite all its magical advancements, is just incredibly bad at family planning.👾
Now, obviously this is a joke. But this is really a plot hole. And the reason this question always stuck with me is because it leads to a bigger issue I have with the story:
Teddy Lupin is a narrative plot device. And this isn’t hate toward Teddy. He’s an innocent baby.
What bothers me is what his existence does to Remus and Tonks’ story, because if you look at their timeline, it’s honestly tragic, because they barely had time to be a happy couple.
First, Remus spends a long time avoiding a relationship, even though he loves Tonks, because he truly believes that being a werewolf makes him dangerous and unworthy of happiness.
Then he finally agrees to be with her, but the timing is terrible. It happens right after Dumbledore’s death, when Remus is emotionally fragile and surrounded by people telling him he’s making a mistake by rejecting Tonks.
So he marries her… and immediately feels like he has ruined her life. Everything he feared starts happening:
Tonks loses her job at the Ministry, becomes an outcast, her family disapproves of the relationship, Bellatrix is actively trying to kill her.
Then Tonks becomes pregnant and Remus panics. He comes back home, but spends the entire pregnancy terrified that the child might inherit lycanthropy. His worst nightmare is that he has condemned his own child to the same suffering he endured.
Finally Teddy is born with no signs of lycanthropy. For the first time, Remus seems genuinely happy. He allows himself to believe that maybe, finally, he can have a normal life.
But then, a few weeks later, he and Tonks die.
They barely had time to be happy as a couple. Their only peaceful moment happens when they’re already a family, and it lasts less than a month.
It's obvious that Teddy existed for a very specific narrative reason: to create another war orphan, a mirror for Harry.
But the story already had another couple who could have fulfilled that role far more naturally: Bill and Fleur.
They were already engaged and planning their future before Remus even accepted his relationship with Tonks. If the goal was to show that the war would leave a new generation of orphans, they were already perfectly positioned for that storyline.
Instead, that role goes to Remus and Tonks, two characters whose entire relationship arc is already built around fear, trauma, and the idea that they might never have time together.
And in the end, Remus spends his whole life believing he doesn’t deserve happiness. When he finally allows himself to have it… he gets a few weeks.
And that’s why the Teddy storyline has always felt less like a plot hole.
(And this is why although I do ship Remadora and relate so much to Tonks, my OTP was always and will always be Remus and my OC, Mary Scamander/Mary Hallow.)
This is the same guy that forgot to take his Wolfsbane potion that keeps him from turning into a feral monster, and then turned into a feral monster nearly killed children— his biggest fear.
Remus Lupin is canonically really bad at remembering to take potions if something big is going on. It is not a plot hole.
Assuming they had lots of sex and they’re in the middle of a war it’s really easy to forget a wand wave/potion.
Fandom Problem #13,298:
When someone bitches that, verbatim, "Why does Harry Potter have to steal all the good fanfic writers? They're all writing HP instead of diversifying into good fandoms."
For starters, no one is being "stolen"; writers do in fact have autonomy; no one is putting a bag over their heads and whisking them away to a secret lair and forcing them to write Harry Potter.
Secondly: "good fandoms"?
Thirdly: "Diversifying"? Who the hell arbitrated that someone even needs to be in multiple fandoms, let alone write in multiple fandoms? I've strictly written in one fandom for ten years and counting, and I haven't even scratched the surface of the stories I want to tell lol.
I don't even care for Harry Potter, I found the books and movies boring, but yeesh, this kind of talk skeeves me.
