SpireaSalix

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Ni yo se que titulo ponerle pero siento que este a sido mi dibujo mas intimo

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Already sunburned☀️

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Birthday boy <3

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What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

hm. not sure because i feel like no matter how fringe the opinion it will be popular in one corner of the fandom or other. However, I'll go with my opinion on the Sectumsempra incident. I feel that it is not as big a deal as it's made out to be in some corners of the fandom and the bad thing about isn't what people focus on and also it's not even the most morally questionable thing Harry does in the series by a long shot.

I think some people tend to treat it as something Harry did with knowledge and intent, when he didn't. He didn't even use the spell because he dislikes Draco. He did it in a frantic moment of self defense when the first few spells he tried didn't work and he was shouting the first thing that came to mind. The terrible thing is that he was very cavalier about trying out unknown magic. The actual context he used it in - self defense agains a probable Death Eater who was attacking him and had escalated to Unforgivables - is actually pretty understandable. However, had he not walked in on Draco the probable victim of his spell would have been Cormac Mclaggen, who he had actually intended to test it on due to his dislike of him. This is hugely irresponsible, as was his decision to test another spell on Ron. (Though we must remember that his education has not stressed the potential risks of using unknown spells on people.)

Harry didn't know what the spell did and used it only in response to an attack and only after several of his other spells didn't work (btw shoutout to the fact that Draco actually lasted longer in a duel with Harry than any other character in the series except Snape). People sometimes put it into the real world context of a fight between people at school getting out of hand to the point one person nearly dies. But that's not what happened. This is a heightened fantasy context of two people who are now literally on opposite sides of a war getting into a serious fight. Also, although people say Harry didn't feel bad he actually was absolutely horrified by what he has done, so much so that he completely lost his composure in the moment which is a very atypical reaction for him, even in dangerous or upsetting situations. And then he subsequently completely stops investigating Draco even though the fight and what Draco says right before it further substantiate Harry's theories about Draco.

The really notable thing to me is how upset Harry is when Draco is hurt - to the point that he freezes up and panics, which is one of the only times he reacts that way in a high stress situation - and how it is Pansy and not Draco who vilifies Harry. It's also really interesting that Harry could have probably gotten himself out of trouble by mentioning that Draco was saying some super incriminating stuff and then attacked him and tried to use an Unforgivable Curse on Harry (which remember, carries a life sentence in prison). But even though Harry previously brought concerns about Draco to McGonagall, during the whole time she apparently yelled at him over this incident he never brought any of these extenuating circumstances. Given that Lucius is already in jail and the Malfoys have lost their standing in mainstream wizarding society (as well as among Death Eaters) Harry's accusation would probably have been taken seriously and he might well have been able to land Draco in jail. However, instead when Harry sees the vulnerable position Draco is in he backs off.

So yeah Harry definitely made a horrible mistake in this scene, but I see it more as drarry fodder than as evidence of him being a vicious psychopath.

Were this anyone but Draco, I can't imagine Harry reacting in a similar way. I mean, imagine him walking in on some other Death Eater saying a bunch of incriminating stuff and then getting attacked by that Death Eater and injuring the Death Eater more than he intended while acting in self defense. (Remember in book 5 Hermione was the one who had to stop him cursing the Death Eater whose head was de-aged to a baby.)

And the other weird thing is that Harry does other more morally grey things. In book 2 he makes Lockhart go first into the Chamber. If the Basilisk was waiting there he would have been killed. In a moment of anger in book 6 he chokes Mundungus so hard he starts turning blue, and never feels bad about it or apologizes. In book 7 he won't attack Stan with Stunners but he does use them on other Death Eaters, which presumably risks killing them. (There's also his use of the Cruciatus Curse in book 7 which I personally find to be a dumb and ooc scene added for a silly reason and thus just don't count as canon even though it could have been a super interesting moment if done well; but if you do count it, that's wayyy darker than the book 6 scene). I love Harry but he's not just an uwu soft cinnamon roll though I don't think he's an evil psychopath like some parts of fandom do either. He does make some morally grey choices that make his character interesting and complex and flawed, but the bathroom fight in book 6 really isn't one of them imho.

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Harry P. drawing compilation ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)

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What if the scene in the bathroom had ended in a different way?

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Harry Potter, my forever boy (ꈍᴗꈍ)💚

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[hpffwritersguild]

Hi writers, bit of a bittersweet announcement today.

After some deep thought and many, many rounds of discussions amongst the mod team, we've made the decision to sunset The Guild at the end of July.

The long and short of it is that life got a bit bigger and busier for all of us than we'd ever anticipated. New jobs, new moves, new humans - and of course, doing all of that when the doing is harder than it's ever been before. With all of that going on, running a server like this to the standard that it deserves to be run is next to impossible. We don't have the bandwidth anymore to run, let alone build, the workshops we had ideas for. The changes we had planned to implement to make the server easier to navigate have been in limbo since last winter - it's disappointing for us that we couldn't swing everything we'd wanted to do, but it's also just not fair to all of you.

To that end: we will be continuing with the archival project, to move our resources off Discord and onto Ao3 and our Tumblr. We will have this completed before the server closes. We will also be having one final WAT in July as a send off on July 10-12. Hopefully this gives everyone the time they need to connect with everyone they want.

And on a personal note... I love the community that we've built here, and I'm extremely sad to see it go. And I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done, and the work all of you have done. I hope you are too. I hope that all of you can carve out some new pocket in fandom or writer space that will work for you the way it should. I hope that your pillow is always cool, that your socks never bunch up in the toes, that they never run out of your favorite treat. I hope life is kind to you.

Thank you so much for your support and your stories over the last five years. Take care of yourselves.

-LP

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Soft kisses <3

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art by 織田サメコ (@AoshimaShunnnnn)

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utter unawareness (Grimmauld Roommates AU)

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Illustration #5 of my Drarry Titanic AU fanfic

Link : https://archiveofourown.org/works/83133926 This is my favourite — and my most recent one, which probably explains it

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