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"We can free each OTHER"
-Albus Dumbledore
I always thought the blood troth moment was their wedding, just no friends, no flowers, no cheers and applause...but romantic enough.
i am truly obsessed with how gary oldman portrayed sirius through his accent because itās so subtle but it fits PERFECTLY and underlines what sirius was trying to run away from but couldnāt quite
this is all in the context of how much accent is a class signifier in britain, and how much weight we place on class. british people will genuinely do a little once over when they first meet each other to judge the other personās class - hair, clothes and accent at the outset, but also name, where you live and what school you went to. we make judgments and assumption and alignments instantly on this, particularly if someoneās class makes you feel uncomfortable
sirius would obviously grow up initially with an aristocratic and probably harshly so accent. but as he started to rebel against his family, and become acutely aware of what his accent said about him, he would consciously try and drop it. but to change your accent completely in a permanent way is very hard to do
gary oldman has a working class london accent very specifically, not the accent he uses in the films. the accent he uses for sirius is foundationally a posh accent. itās particularly well annunciated, it has sharp consonants, it has a slightly musical lilt to it. but he slips in between long vowels typical of a posh accent (he has long arr sounds for instance) and shorter ones. and he completely removes rounded vowels (think about the way the queen says ādayā or āgoā for instance)
it all adds together to someone who evidently used to have an upper class accent so inherent in him he canāt entirely shake it - but has clearly tried so hard to and has consciously edited and adjusted it to try and move away from a voice that would immediately identify him as from an aristocratic (and in the wizarding world pureblood) family. heās determined that the moment he opens his mouth people will see heās not like the rest of the black family he despises so much
it is such a small detail that you would only understand if youāre well adjusted to the different kinds of southern english accents between different classes, which shows HOW much thought and effort gary oldman put into this. he portrayed sirius as accurately as possible right down to details that only a few people would understand
Lupin continued to stare at the map. Harry had the impression that he was doing some very quick thinking.
All I could think was -
Lupin, mentally: Play dumb.
Lupin: Whoās Lupin?
Lupin, mentally: NOT THAT DUMB
The Marauders
Siriusās so hot omg
Sirius Black playing Chopinās Revolutionary Etude Op. 10 No. 12 in the dead of night at Grimmauld Place after 12 years in Azkaban
I'm having a lot of feelings about how the wizarding world explicitly went underground because of the fear of persecution, that the wizarding population (though powerful) is VERY tiny compared to the wider world (Britain and Ireland are producing like 20-40 wizarding kids per YEAR? as a COUNTRY?), that they were actively hunted by Muggles and their only safety is in cutting themselves off entirely several hundred years earlier...
And then they LIE about it. To themselves. To each other. "Oh, we're hidden because everyone would want solutions to their problems!" "Any real witch or wizard would be at no risk of being burned alive!" etc. None of those things are true. If people DID want magical solutions to their problems, the wizarding populace would be deeply exploited. And we have NO indication that a wizard, tied up and stripped of all possessions (as, you know, suspected witches were wont to be), would be any more able to elude capture and death than a Muggle.
And the interesting thing is, that superiority complex won't allow them to admit they're scared, even when they're actively trying to move against Muggles. Even anti-Muggle wizards like Voldemort and his followers can never bring themselves to admit that there are just so many Muggles that wizards are at a fair threat of extermination, if the Muggles found out about them.
All this to say, this could have been a really fascinating angle for the movies to lean into with Grindelwald, of they weren't utterly terrified of letting him have good points.
Horace Slughorn is creepy and the only reason itās not immediately obvious is because JKR thinks heās straight and is writing him as such, in this essay I will -
*ē §ēē»ä¹ ļ¼ give me akiss.
YOU hate JK Rowling!
Thereās not a single day that goes by without me thinking of when will get dropped the deleted Grindeldore neck kiss scene.
this love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. it is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.
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gay Remus Lupin
Look, itās not like Harry never tried to change his glasses.
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Harry: What about this one, Lily? Lily L: No. Harry: This one? Lily L: No. Harry: I give up. Letās go home. Lily L: This one, dad! Choose this one!
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