Pure-Blooded Prince

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus "Veni, Vidi, Vici" -I came, I saw, I conquered The doors of the common room quietly open as you say the password. Inside you see a group of students gathered around the fire that heated the cool room. It was pretty quiet, of course it was it was late at night. The sound of water plus the crackling of the fire seemed to provide the perfect white noise that made this seem like a dream.

[cartooncoyote]

This is actually the best intro to a porno that has ever existed

[satanblessitt-deactivated201608]

There is no way this is a porno

[zombiesahoy]

This is the best porno there has ever been.

[usingtimewisely]

The way he says “HEY WHAT THE FUCK” shaped me as a person

[thebibliosphere]

It’s been over a decade, and I still think “I’m a lemon stealing whore” to myself every time I take fruit off a lemon tree.

Which isn’t often, but it’s often enough.

[sol-illo]

[valtsv]

a cat tried to break into my house while i was cooking (i opened the back door to let some air in) but it ran away when i saw it

[valtsv]

cat burglar...

[lumichenart]

Make your peace possum-ble 🌱 I couldn’t believe I had never drawn a possum before! 🥲at least that’s fixed now~ 

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

just realized ive never seen a ‘wizard school’ concept in fiction that has like, arts classes.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

WHERE is the hallway gallery of badly proportioned moving portraits? the clay sculptures wobbling around on uneven legs? the week the magical fabric stores get overwhelmed by non-crafters with the One Mandatory Cloak Sewing Project? the magical item crafting equivalent of throwing LEDs and coin batteries together with masking tape?

we have been ROBBED up to this point i tell you

[letmesherlockthis]

I am more worried, that there is no how to do basic household chores lessons in these schools. Like what spell helps me tidy up my apartment? How should i wash my robes? Should I hand wash them or magic wash them or is machine okay? How do i prepare an egg as breakfast? Sorry Potion just teached me how to mix drinks, but not how to cook. What magical disease are going around and what should i do, if i bleed almost to death? Like first aid should be mandatory.

[mischief-marauders]

Give me a Hogwarts that:

Has a third option for dorm assignments at Hogwarts. Male, female, and genderless rooms for each year in order to help students feel more comfortable in their rooms.

No more strict sitting with your house at meals rules. Make the tables houseless to increase interhouse relations and help students make friends outside of their houses

Puts as much emphasis on quidditch games for house points into other non athletic student activities. Dueling club, academic competitions, student games, etc all count for house points

Mandatory monthly therapy sessions for students deemed at risk. Students that have family members that are known death eaters, students that come from a not ideal home life, or even students that just need help, etc to prevent them from falling through the cracks and having somewhere to turn to.

Has clubs, meetings, and safe spaces for marginalized students. A safe space for muggleborn students to meet with a muggleborn professor who they can share and get advice from.

Mandatory service hours with some of the professions around the school. Students needing 40 service hours each year or they can’t graduate. First year they need 40 hours of volunteering in the kitchens with the house elves. Second year they volunteer with Filch. Third year they volunteer with Hagrid, etc. This will lessen the strain on the workers and help students appreciate the elves and employees more.

Mandatory muggle history and society class in order to destigmatize the hate of muggleborns wizards and witches and help the purebloods understand them and where they come from better.

One headmaster running the school and any major decisions they make have to go through a small committee consisting of the heads of houses. The professors are the ones who spend the most time with the students and should have a say in punishments, suspension, expelling, or any major decisions involving a students life at Hogwarts. Checks and balances.

[previouslysane-archive]

a harry potter au where everything is exactly the same except harry’s glasses have transition lenses

[deathdaydreamm]

[forlovefromfear]

Would never have been allowed to happen. JKR is categorically against transition.

[brawltogethernow]

It’s fine to want nothing to do with Harry Potter now that JKR is being regularly and publicly terrible (I’m listing that way myself even though I don’t want to because the association is just overpoweringly distasteful), but seeing the shift in how people discuss HP on this website to be like, “It seems obvious to me that this franchise was always poorly constructed, derivative drek littered with red flags anybody would notice with a cursory glance - there’s absolutely nothing genuinely appealing about it.” …That’s just very funny, sorry. Like yes that is unfortunately not how the relationship between a person’s moral character and their skills works, but mostly I was alive and had a developed consciousness between 2000 and 2008, so I cannot take this seriously. It wasn’t the biggest literature phenomenon of recent times because it had a uniquely strong marketing strategy, guys.

[harocat]

The books are well written with engaging characters, great worldbuilding, and a story that captured people like no other. There is literally no overestimating the phenom the books were. And no the movies did not make it. They were MASSIVE even before the films. Before the films even came out, the NYT made a separate children’s bestseller list because a ton of people complained that ‘kid’s books’ were taking up too many sports on the NYT bestsellers lists. It’s honestly ridiculous to argue that HP’s popularity was made by the movies. Come on.

And the thing about red flags, is that most things that are legitimately problematic in the books are fantasy staples. JKR didn’t invent the anti-semitic portrayal of goblins. It’s an old as hell trope that’s in countless fantasy stories. The house elves were based on Brownie folklore, even down to the tradition of their freedom coming from a piece of clothing being given to them. People were not talking a lot about the casual transphobia in doing things like describing Rita Skeeter’s hands as ‘mannish’ because casual transphobia was so ubiquitous that it was the norm, and that transphobia was often actively violent. I just don’t think it crossed many people’s minds that 'wow JKR described Rita Skeeter’s hands as mannish once in the year 2000, so I think she’s probably a T*RF.’ And this doesn’t make it okay, and it doesn’t mean these aspects of the books aren’t problematic! But it does mean that like, no it wasn’t 'so obvious’ even to MANY progressive minded people. And I also don’t think it makes her a terrible person. What makes her a terrible person is what she’s doing NOW.

The idea that they’ve 'always been awful’ and we 'should have known’ is really and actually just… kind of cowardly? Instead of acknowledging that unfortunately yes, bad people can make good things, people are taking the easy way out and going 'well obviously a bad person makes bad art. it’s ALWAYS been bad, and my brain is so huge I know this’, because god forbid we have a more nuanced view and don’t see the world in the most simplistic terms possible. It sucks when bad people make good art, but you’re not special for not ever liking Harry Potter.

[petermorwood]

Put very briefly: “Hindsight is always 20:20.”

[slytherin4ever]

Draco: HYDRATE OR DIE-DRATE

Draco: *aggressively throws water bottles*

pansy: …uhh

Blaise: he’s trying to yell mental health and well being into us.

Draco: I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU

Theo: *crying* it’s working

[teashoesandhair]

In the wake of JK once more being a total jk, here’s a (non-exhaustive) thread of works by Black trans writers.

Don’t Call Us Dead - Danez Smith, poetry about Black masculinity, police brutality, gender and queerness. Probably the best book of poetry I’ve ever read. Smith has several collections available and you should read them all.

The Deep - Rivers Solomon, a speculative fiction novella about the descendants of murdered slave women. Themes of trauma and memory. Really beautiful writing. Their sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts is equally unmissable.

Redefining Realness - Janet Mock, the memoir of Mock’s childhood and adolescence as a trans woman before she transitioned. Mock’s second memoir, Surpassing Certainty, focuses on her life in her twenties.

Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender, a YA novel about a teenage trans boy (at the start of the book), Felix, as he further questions his identity, tries to find love, and works on his artistic future. Everything that makes YA novels great.

Reacquainted with Life - KOKUMO, a debut about Black trans womanhood and the power of her voice and body. This work is so hard to describe. Ferocious? Lively? Witty? Completely different to literally any poetry I’ve ever read? All of the above and more.

Mannish Tongues - jay dodd, a poetry collection about Black youth, queerness, religion, family, and gender. I hate how pretentious the word ‘visceral’ is, but it’s pretty accurate here. dodd’s collection The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is also phenomenal.

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi, a YA novel about a Black trans teenage girl and having to confront the existence of monsters. Emezi also has an acclaimed adult novel out, Freshwater, and I believe their new adult novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, is out in August 2020.

trigger - Venus Selenite, poetry about being Black, trans, queer, and unapologetic. This one is hard to get hold of, but worth it if you can. Selenite also co-edited and is featured in Nameless Woman, an anthology of writing by trans women of colour.

Surge - Jay Bernard, a poetry collection written in response to the 1981 fire at New Cross Road, as well as Grenfell Tower and the Windrush Scandal. Bernard is one of those poets who can use 10 words to say more than most of us can in 1,000.

Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color - ed. Venus Selenite, Ellyn Peña and Jamie Berrout, this one includes several stories by Black trans women and is, as a body of work, completely invaluable. The stories here range from semi-autobiographical and romance to sci-fi and speculative fiction.

Resilience - ed. Amy Heart, Larissa Glasser and Sugi Pyrrophyta, an anthology of writing by ©AMAB trans people. Again, this anthology is not specifically dedicated to Black trans people, but it includes work by KOKUMO and CHRYSALISAMIDST, amongst others. This book is super varied, with short stories, poetry and personal essays.

Consider ordering these, where possible, from independent Black owned bookstores.

You can also financially support Black trans people through donating to organisations such as this and these.

Important addendum: I tried incredibly hard to find published works by Black trans women, because trans women are the focus of JK Rowling’s tweets and indeed an overwhelming amount of violence and bigotry in general, but I’m sure it’s no surprise to anyone that Black trans women are enormously discriminated against by the publishing industry, and are routinely denied a platform for their work and their voices. Literally, when you Google ‘black trans woman author’, you just get Janet Mock’s author page. I think all of the books by Black trans women in the list above, with the exception of Janet Mock, are self/indie pub.

I have trawled through online indie and radical publishing magazines, message boards, and nearly 100 lists of ‘trans authors you must read now!’ and I would charitably say that about 1% of people featured in such lists are Black trans women. Obviously, Black trans women are writing, but the lack of available platform for their work is a huge barrier to their voices being heard. If anyone else has recommendations for work by Black trans women, whether it’s a physical book, an online chapbook, an Insta account of poetry, or anything else, please add it, because there must be so much more than I’ve managed to find.

[grimdr]

the Trans Women Writers Collective, now River Furnace, as well as being the most substantial project to publish writing by trans women of color (they published Nameless Woman), like, ever, in particular published a number of booklets by Black trans women or including work by Black trans women, all of which are incredible, including:

Just Another Dead Black Girl, by Michelle Evans

Sketches of Various Times, by Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite

To Freedom, by Eros

Radical Trans Poetry, vol. 1

Radical Trans Poetry, vol. 2, which includes work by Delilah Pierre, among others, who is currently funds to help her transition.

I would highly recommend the entire booklet series, and River Furnace (a collectively-run irregular magazine-project) is just as compelling and important. if you want to help support the creation of a new kind of publishing that will allow Black trans women to speak without having to fight constantly against publishing gatekeeping to, quite literally, survive, consider supporting their Patreon and looking for similar projects in your local area (or potentially helping to create one!).

EDIT: as the notes pointed out, also check out Lady Dane Edidi Figueroa, author of, among other things, Yemaya’s Daughters (link is to Figueroa’s website, including her other books), and one of the editors of The Black Trans Prayer Book, “an interfaith, multi-dimensional, artistic and theological work that collects the stories, poems, prayers, meditation, spells, and incantations of Black Trans & Non-Binary people”.

[fanonical]

see the reason hermione can’t be a ravenclaw is because she wants definite answers to everything, she wants to be right, she wants the world to be rational and explainable and solveable

whereas you look at luna lovegood, actual ravenclaw, and her response to the door’s ‘which came first, the phoenix or the flame?’ question - she answers ‘i think the answer is a circle which has no beginning’, to which the door replies ‘well reasoned’. not correct, not the right answer, not even the best answer maybe, but it’s a good answer, and it’s accepted. the way hermione thinks, she would spend ages trying to find the correct answer and sit outside the door for a week

[rylandbuckleys]

JK Rowling seriously never knows when to stop. She is persistent in her ignorance and it is horrible to witness. She built a world - a universe, where people found themselves, sometimes in their darkest moments, and now, has been blinded by her own lack of education.

We can’t escape the fact, that she wrote Harry Potter. We all know that, and we understand that.

However, I’ve seen people on Tiktok, Twitter, saying that now, we should all turn ours back on that universe, like it never existed. I wish it were that easy, I do, but it isn’t. Harry Potter is loved, across the globe. Either from those who’ve only read the books, or watched the movies, or both. 

The love that surrounds it, is strong. 

The story of Harry Potter, saved me, since I was little, and it’s a story I revisit, when I’m down. I struggled reading, growing up, thanks to developmental difficulties and sight issues, so I did rely on the movies, more than the books, for a long while. I read them after the movie series ended, so much later on than the majority of the fandom. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter, how you consume them, either way, it does feel tainted, given everything JK Rowling has said and done.

I don’t think, people who love this universe, and need it, should be shunned for it. It’s been around for over twenty years, and it’s got a mind of its own. The fandom outgrew the creation, that is clear. From fanfiction, to cosplay, there are millions of way to enjoy this universe, without endorsing her. You can purchase unlicensed merch, from sites like Etsy etc

I do believe it would be impossible, for everybody, who have committed their love to this universe, should be blamed, when they can’t let go of it. JK doesn’t own our experiences, the joy we feel, for this story.

It might never feel the same again, but please, take care of yourself, you are valid, and she cannot take away your experience.

Remember these wise words of Daniel Radcliffe: 

“I really hope that you don’t entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you. If these books taught you that love is the strongest force in the universe, capable of overcoming anything; if they taught you that strength is found in diversity, and that dogmatic ideas of pureness lead to the oppression of vulnerable groups; if you believe that a particular character is trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid, or that they are gay or bisexual; if you found anything in these stories that resonated with you and helped you at any time in your life — then that is between you and the book that you read, and it is sacred. And in my opinion nobody can touch that. It means to you what it means to you and I hope that these comments will not taint that too much.” 

[charles-jpg]

Whenever I’m telling someone that Harry’s bi because of the way he describes Bill, Draco, Cedric, etc., they usually reply by saying that it’s only because J.K. Rowling is a straight female. But the thing is: that doesn’t fucking matter. At all. It’s the way he was written, so it is who he is. Whether J.K. Rowling meant to do it or not, Harry was bi, and there isn’t anything that could convince me otherwise.

[mariahhasnocause]

You know before the pandemic I didn't believe a school would stay open if there was a giant deadly snake in the pipes with the potential to kill students. Now I could see it.

[batcii-archive-deactivated20210]

how did jk manage to write ootp and not come to the conclusion that the only career w any true meaning for harry james potter was as a goddamn professor at hogwarts like how do u write the da scenes and say “nah he’d want to be a wizard cop”

[hugisak]

#just let him dress in warm sweaters and have tea with neville in the staff room and help first years #harry james potter as hogwarts longest serving defense against the dark arts teacher fucking fight me (@batcii)

[tattooedsiren]

#but it would be so perfect??? #bc it would help normalize his life so much #like there would just be this generation of kids who are like #‘ugh who cares that he killed the dark lord he gAVE US HOMEWORK OVER BREAK’ #like the beginning of every year there would be the new first years who would freak out a little #but then it would calm down #and most of the students would literally forget #until like clockwork the fifth years would have their history of magic class on the second war #and they’d all show up to DADA looking a little awestruck and everyone would be extra quiet #and harry would give this kind of annoyed sigh—except it’s fake bc he TOTALLY knew this was coming #bc binns is a bro and he totally gives him a heads up every year #and harry wouldn’t have any lesson plans for the day and instead he would just sit at the front of the room and answer everyone’s questions #but otherwise everyone would just be like ‘professor potter!! i can’t get my patronus to work! help me!’ #and like they’d go home at the end of the year or for break and their parents—who ARE still starstruck by harry james potter #would pester their kids with questions#and the kids would just be like ‘merlin i don’t know?? potter’s such a huge dork you should hear him talk about proper wand movements’ #but they would all love him #and he would feel safe and normal and utterly accepted #AND I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE (via @cinematicnomad)

[saywhatjessie]

Not to mention it would be an ultimate Fuck You to Voldemort, who put a curse on the teaching position in the first place.

Like, Jo, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but COME ON

[timemachineyeah]

I already queued this but also, you do this, but still have Ginny become a famous Quidditch player. Imagine the first time Harry gets called “Ginny’s husband” before “the boy who lived” or “the chosen one.” Imagine how fucking pleased he’d be.

Imagine the first time a student comes up to him looking starry-eyed and Harry’s thinking “Oh no” because he doesn’t want to talk about Voldemort or the war but instead this little eleven year old is like “ARE YOU REALLY MARRIED TO WEASLEY FROM THE HOLLYHEAD HARPIES???!?? WHAT’S SHE LIKE?” and he’s like “oh thank god” because he could talk about Ginny all day. 

[optimysticals]

Yes. Good.

[jukeboxemcsa]

Actually, all three of them should have become professors. Hermione would have become Headmistress, of course–youngest Headmistress of Hogwarts ever, and the only one willing to turn the portraits of her predecessors to the wall if they gave her too much lip about her efforts to modernize the curriculum. (She probably started as Transfiguration professor after McGonagall became Headmistress, but it wouldn’t surprise me if McGonagall was grooming her for the Headmistress job all along.)

And Ron took over as flying instructor for Professor Hooch; everyone thinks he’s an easy A because he’s so mellow and silly and hands out candy for good performances and his brother and sister sometimes visit the class to show off some of their old Quidditch moves and give away Wizard Wheezes to the best fliers, and it’s not until they talk to someone else from a different school or era that they realize that flying is actually really difficult to learn and Ron just found ways to slip all the teaching in under the fun so that they didn’t even notice. Things that seemed like silly tricks or goofy jokes turned out to be mnemonics for complex maneuvers, and of course nobody ever wanted to skip a class under his tutelage.

[holmesianscholar]

thisTHIS

[greymantledlady]

Okay all other canon epilogues can go home, this is the best.

[grimalkinmessor]

Headcanon - Vernon Dursley vs. Voldemort

I have a headcanon that Vernon Dursley intimidated Harry more than Voldemort did, or could ever hope to. Let me explain:

Yes, Voldemort tried to kill Harry on multiple occasions, and even succeeded once. He tortured Harry a few occasions, and possessed him. Voldemort killed many of Harry’s friends and family. He was the most powerful Dark Lord of the age. Pretty fucking terrifying. Intimidating, right? However, despite this, Harry was always able to stand up to Voldemort, openly oppose his rule and views, call him out when he was wrong, taunt him to his face (straight up called him Tom), walk right into the Ministry of Magic while it was under Voldemort’s control and tell off Umbridge in the process. Harry has always been brave, proud, loud, and loyal to his cause above all else when facing Voldemort.

But…Vernon Dursley?

Here’s where we get a little outside point of view.

Vernon Dursley was absolutely horrible to Harry. He was the primary reason for Harry’s abuse, because he “would not have any of that nonsense in our house, Petunia, we agreed—”, and he was as normal and boring as a muggle could be. He was not jealous like Petunia was. He was not raised to think magicals as freaks like Dudley was. He was simply a horrible human being that saw something he didn’t like and tried to smother it.

Putting a child, a child, who could not possibly know any better, into a dirty cupboard away from sight? Their nephew? My guess is that it wasn’t Petunia’s idea, no matter how terrible she was herself. Starving that child, repeatedly, until he became malnourished and his growth stunted to keep him short and thin? J.K.R. also mentioned that she was going to add physical abuse, but kept it out as it would’ve been too graphic for the book’s theme. What kind of fucked up shit did they do to Harry that it had to be censored and edited out? It is a miracle this kid didn’t become an obscurial.

Harry’s reactions to Vernon give us a lot of headway on his thoughts about all this as well. When faced with an angry Vernon, Harry ducks his head and flees. He mutters under his breath, but rarely ever says the insults to Vernon’s face (though when he’s particularly angry, he gives us some real gems of sarcasm, my lovely son). Harry straight up flinches several times in the scenes we get with him and the Dursleys when Vernon yells at him. At the Dursleys’, Harry is not the perfect Gryffindor Golden Boy he is at Hogwarts. His inner Slytherin cunning tends to come out more often than not at the Dursleys. He lies and dodges and manipulates his way through his summers, and I have no doubt that it was even more frequent before Hogwarts, but with less efficient results.

But why should any of that matter, right? It’s Harry Potter! The Saviour! The Chosen One! The Boy Who Lived! Why should a couple stupid, angry muggles affect him when he’s faced so much worse?

But he was never any of that at the Dursleys, was he? He was just Boy, and Freak, and Ungrateful Brat, and A Waste of Space.

Well, for one, let’s go back to Voldemort. Voldemort did not have direct access to Harry for most of the series. Voldemort could not take away his freedom. Voldemort could not withhold or deny him food or water. Voldemort could not physically attack Harry within the safety of Hogwarts, and, even if he did, Harry wouldn’t be left to suffer in silence afterwards, as he would always go to Madame Pomfery. And, most importantly, as a Dark wizard whose entire goal was to eliminate/ostracize muggles from the magical world—Magic Is Might—why would he condemn Harry for his magic, the one thing that comes naturally to him, that acts as his saving grace, that keeps him afloat in difficult times, that Voldemort himself understands so closely? Harry could be tried for many sleights against Voldemort, but merely using magic, being himself, is not one of them.

Secondly, Harry grew up in an undeniably abusive household. He was with the Dursleys from the time he was one year old. Children are very impressionable, especially so young, so when this large, fat, loud, purple-faced man shoved Harry in his cupboard, denied him food, forced him to do housework, and (most likely) beat him for doing anything out of the ordinary, it formed a deep psychological connection in his brain: this human equals pain. As a primal instinct, the natural response to pain is fear. I have very little doubt that Harry Potter was afraid of Vernon Dursley on a very base, primal level, that only continued to worsen as he grew, even if he got better at hiding it.

But then Hogwarts came along. A large man, larger than his uncle, had stomped up to Vernon and basically wiped the verbal floor with him. Then he took Harry away from the Dursleys, away from his uncle, and into a magical place where, sure, he was expected to save the world, but he’d done it once before, hadn’t he? How hard could it be?

Unlike Harry’s first impression of Vernon, Harry’s first impression of Voldemort was that of a madman who went after a baby that he saw as a threat to his reign (and what kind of villian sees a baby as a threat) and somehow managed to kill himself while trying to kill said baby. Not very intimidating. Further on, Harry meets Voldemort for the first time. As a skivving, eternally weak parasite, needing to feed off others to survive, stuck on the back of his follower’s head. It’s more comical than scary, really. From then on out, I don’t truly think that Harry was ever really, deeply afraid of Voldemort. After seeing what Voldemort had been, no matter what he would become, Harry would always have that image of a weak, power-blinded man in the back of his mind.

At fourteen, Harry stood in a cemetery, the body of a friend at his feet, and faced off Voldemort when he knew he wasn’t strong enough to take him, when he knew that he was most likely going to die but dammit he was going to die fighting!

At fourteen, he lets a man with much less power, much less prestige, and much more human looking features that aren’t really scary at all, lock him in a room and shove meals at him through a catflap.

Do you see the problem here?

My bottom line, my point, is that if you were to take Harry and put him in a room with Vernon Dursley, he would immediately turn tail and get as far away from him as possible. If you put Harry in a room with Voldemort, he would stand his ground and fight and scream and duel until his last breath.

And if that doesn’t say something about how fucked up Vernon Dursley is, then I’ll eat my fucking hat.

[yoojinkang]

@hogwartsonline quidditch

The Sacred Twenty-Eight (part three)