#hp feels

[mermaid886]

*orders rare Hp figure off small website*

Email: “Sorry, we don’t actually have the figure to send, your order has been cancelled.”

Rinse and repeat four more times.

*sigh*

So, if you don’t actually *have* the figure, why don’t you take the listing down or update it to reflect out of stock?

[harrypotterfandomunite]

Thiccc with 3 C’s

Must be v thiccc indeed

[kaellecappuccino]

It just dwell on me how absurd it was that Fleur Delacour had an immediate crush on Bill Weasley.

That man was both ginger and British. In French culture this is a condamnation for Hell whitin MINUTES

[roonilwazlibimagines]

breathless Ron kisses and him whispering sweet nothings against your lips 🥺

This is exactly how Ron loves to make out. 

And it ranges from ‘you’re so pretty’ to ‘how did I get so lucky?’ to ‘I love you’ to ‘I want to spend the rest of my life with you’ to ‘your lips are so pretty’ and you’re just giggling because you’re so flustered and he just has a stupid smile on his face. 

And then one day when you start making out and he pulls away you beat him and start whispering sweet nothings to him and he just has the biggest smile on his face and he can’t stop grinning because all of those sweet nothings he said about you are true and he just loves you so much

[sunshinesanctuary]

Ugh, alright, can i just talk about how badly I wanted a Draco Malfoy redemption arc?

I love the Harry Potter characters but I don’t love the books. At least not enough to read them over and over. Rowling was cruel to her characters. And not in a way that makes sense as a writer. She used characters with qualities she didn’t like and treated them badly on purpose. She had the opportunity to address rampant child abuse and instead rationalized it away. Which, frankly, is a very dangerous dynamic in a serious for kids and teens and it pisses me off no end. Dumbledore and Snape’s fans are really just all abuse apologists.

I have extremely dubious views on Rowling’s character as a person based on how she treated her characters - specifically abusive and toxic relationship dynamics. (Dumbledore & Harry, Snape & Lilly, Snape & Harry, Snape & Neville, Snape & Draco, Snape & Lupin, -sensing a theme here - James & Snape, Dursleys & Harry, Lucius & Draco, Neville’s grandmother & Neville)

For example: Draco was designed to be spoiled, cowardly, unpleasant, racist, and narcissistic. Rowling was not subtle about her belief that this child, raised in a deeply dysfunctional and toxic environment, somehow deserves what he later went through and because she decided he was weak, basically collapsed from the strain. The problem I have with this is not that weak characters exist in this universe, but that they’re almost all Slytherin. (Slughorn is the other obvious example of this). She didn’t really bother to develop her Slytherin characters either. 

Additionally, there are obvious toxic traits in many of her “good” characters that are either ignored, downplayed, or rationalized. The biggest example: Dumbledore. Also, Snape.

Dumbledore was a villain and an abuser. Granted, he was the most subtle but he was not a good guy. A bumbling, funny personality (which was a very deliberate misdirect btw), does not redeem him.    

Snape was a villain and an abuser. Once again, martyrdom does not redeem his abusive treatment of literal children. Also, his obsession with Lilly was not love. Nor was it remotely appropriate.  

Lucius was an abuser to both his wife and his son.

The Black family were abusers.

The Dursleys were abusers.

Neville’s grandmother was an abuser.

James was a nasty cruel bully. Granted he didn’t really get a chance to grow up and mature but the kid was an ass.

The fact that there is a rampant theme of kids in abusive families that is never addressed bothers me a great deal. Harry, Neville and Draco all went through horrendous emotional and psychological abuse. Harry was the only one whose trauma was even slightly acknowledged and it was completely rationalized. (He names his kid after 2 of his abusers… wtf, Jo? You wanna know who looked out for you, Harry? It wasn’t either of those assholes. It was Remus, Hagrid, Sirius, Arthur, Molly, Minerva) And while we’re on the topic of Harry’s trauma, you know who understood? Who Harry bonded with immediately? Who would have helped him heal? Sirius. And who gets killed before they can hardly establish a solid relationship? Fucking Sirius. *throws hands in the air*

The Potter series has a reputation of being this wholesome, magic, good vs evil, growing up story but this shit is seriously dark. And not for the reasons that pissed off the evangelicals. And not for the reason that it features a war fought mostly by teenagers.

Draco deserved better. What if the trio had one day become a quartet, huh? IMAGINE the shenanigans that would have ensued. Minerva would have been beside herself. Not to mention the conflict with Snape would have had to have been addressed at some point. (OOH - Minerva defending Draco from Snape after Draco sides with Harry). I believe the only thing keeping Draco from the support of the adults that supported Harry was Snape. He favorited/claimed Draco and in doing so deliberately shielded him from the influence of other adults. Molly would have adopted the shit out of Draco if he’d been Ron’s friend and she found out about his home life. (So would have Fred and George). Arthur would have fought Lucius on the spot. Minerva would have had his back, Gryffindor or no. Hagrid would have made him tea and patted his back awkwardly while Fang drooled in his lap after he had a meltdown over the pressures at home.

I feel like Draco and Harry would have been great friends. They both understood crappy abusive families. Definitely a potential bond there. Friendly(er) competition on the quidditch pitch. Play fights followed by genuine support after a good match. Ron and Draco snarking each other constantly. Hermione’s exasperated attempts at moderating them while Harry sniggers and eggs them on. Draco clearly envied the camaraderie Harry, Ron and Hermione had. He deserved some happiness too. He deserved wholesome relationships. He deserved the chance to learn better dynamics. He deserved better. He deserved the chance to be better.

[puffofstuff]

My Ravenclaw friend said he would be fine with his kid being in any house except for Hufflepuff I’m-,,, what’s wrong with Hufflepuffs?

[mild-lunacy]

Stiefvater and the Audience Ga(s)p

I was reading through Stiefvater's blog post about her health struggles, specifically thinking about the mentions of the rather predictable fandom response to the resulting errors in The Raven King, her absences from touring, etc. I was thinking about how fandom-- and online culture in general-- tends to catastrophize, assume the worst of people but specifically creators. Naturally, that's if we're not idolizing our faves. Maybe you can't have one without the other, I'm not sure.

Even when I agree in principle-- for ex, about queerbaiting issues-- in the end I disagree when the discussion frequently turns to intent. Some people do talk about queerbaiting regardless of creator intent, but that's a touchy topic and a difficult balance to strike, isn't it? If you're upset, you want to blame someone. And if you see something wrong, the default assumption (even if it's a reasoning error) is that it's intentional. No one thinks to imagine the thing that irritates or hurts them is just a largely meaningless accident, let alone a result of totally unrelated personal issues like with Stiefvater. Surely it's got to be related, people reason. Surely it's about you.

However, the fact is, 95% of the time, I'm guessing it's not, in fact, about you, or me, or us (or even them). It's about the creator(s) and whatever their needs, desires and personal issues are. So yeah, I'm guessing most creators don't do anything either for or against fandom, most of the time. Is that an ugly truth, or just boring?

Sometimes creators want to keep you in suspense. That does happen. JK Rowling and Moffat, for example, are both fans of playing with fans' minds in that way. But it's not personal. It's a part of the performance, rather. In the case of shocking plot reveals, your shock as the audience is part of the theater of it all. Actually, this kind of audience manipulation is probably as old as stories. I'd imagine Shakespeare must have been a fan of the shocking reveal/reversal where possible. Romeo and Juliet is full of that sort of thing. And that play really plays with the audience, too. I only imagine it was limited by the fact that it wasn't a long-term serial. Alas.

Anyway, back to the point. Anytime someone assumes the creator(s) are out to get you (or us) just for kicks and/or for some even more nefarious reason, I'd take a step back and indulge in some healthy skepticism. Not that I expect this to happen anytime soon, alas.

[aspararavenclaw]

Do you know what breaks my heart?

Dumbledore sends Mcgonagall to take the black dog in Hagrid's garden to his office after imposter Moody is caught.

Sirius loved Minerva Mcgonagall, and must have been beside himself with worry over Harry. Minnie would have been such a comfort to speak to, if only he wasn't notorious mass murderer Sirius Black... the young man who betrayed Lily and James and killed Peter...

Sirius couldn't be comforted or ask for information because he could not stand the thought of Minnie shrieking in fear or to see cold hatred and disgusted tears in her eyes when she looked at him.