So fanon is wonderful and I love what this fucking community has created (Theodore Nott as a character for instance) but I was thinking about all of the things that are ACTUALLY CANON. Like. Things that Break Your Heart in the Best (And Worst) Way that are fucking Canon. So anyway, here’s a list
- Remus and Sirius still called each other ‘Moony’ and 'Padfoot’ after Azkaban
- Dobby and Malfoy call it the Come And Go room
- Neville learns to be brave all by his fucking self because until the 5th book, he canonically has no friends
- Luna’s clothing is stolen from her and hidden /throughout the castle/
- James, Sirius, and Peter decide to become animagi for the sole purpose of helping Remus handle the full moon
- Remus Lupin cannot get a job anywhere
- Draco Malfoy tried to become Harry Potter’s friend
- Fred and George are smart but just don’t care, and are actually SUCCESSFUL
- Angelina gets harassed for being black
- Quiddich has no gender. Anyone can play regardless, it just has to do with how good of a player you are.
- Ron is really good at chess
- Trelawney gets roughly 60% of her predictions correct (I have a whole long big rant about her I’ll be posting at some point)
- Malfoy knows about Sirius’s Padfoot form
- No one in the Order of the Phoenix (except for the marauders) knew about the animagus forms during the first war
- Crookshanks is friends with Sirius
- Luna painted her ceiling
- Neville and Ginny went to the Yule Ball together and he kept stepping on her toes
- Cormac was your stereotypical “fuck boy” and scared Hermione Granger of all people into hiding
- Lockhart loves to sign his name, and calls it “joined up writing”
- Neville’s parents never recovered
- Arthur is confused why wearing a kilt and a poncho would be weird
- Neville’s grandmother fought off Death Eaters and is a fucking bad ass
- When Hermione’s teeth grew because of a jinx, Snape did literally nothing, sending Goyle up to the hospital wing and saying that he “saw no difference” with Hermione
- Malfoy made badges about Harry Potter
- Ginny was possessed by Voldemort and Harry (and the rest of the world, it seems, sometimes) forgot
- Harry’s mirror in his room at the Leaky Cauldron in Prisoner of Azkaban, talked to him
- Remus was bitten because of something his father did.
- Peter got an Order of Merlin - first class
- Snape almost got an Order of Merlin for catching Sirius (then he escaped again lol)
- Mollys clock had a hand for each member of the family. I wonder what happened after Fred…
- Luna’s mother experimented with spells
- Draco legitimately repented
- Harry told the secret of the sorting to his son… it’s a SECRET POTTER!!! Remember when Ron was worried it would be wrestling a troll?
- Hagrid was in his late 60s during the Battle of Hogwarts
- Owls literally understood human language
- Dean didn’t grow up with his biological dad (or any dad as far as we know, though he does say “parents” at one point)
- Ginny wrote a poem for Harry when she was 11
- Sirius’s entire immediate family was dead when he got out of Azkaban.
- House Elves are a lot more powerful than wizards give them credit for
- Winky and Hagrid were both alcoholics
- Sirius heard rumors of Voldemort’s potential return before Dumbledore did
- The Sneekoscope never lied
- Sirius was laughing while he was being arrested
- Sirius and Buckbeak were bffs
- The Gryffindors used to have a reserve team… that didn’t happen again, I guess?
- Aberforth had a thing for goats
- Pig-widgeon and Crookshanks’s disappearance from the 7th book are never explained (bitter)
I have more. I know I do. But it’s almost 3 am and I need sleep. If you care, I have sources for Every Single One of these, hit me up, I’ll prove them all!