List of people who should have played Grindelwald

-Colin Farell - the guy who played him in deathly hallows - a mop - tom hiddleson - daniel Radcliffe in a blonde wig - tom Felton - matt smith - David Tennant - the kid from home alone - a snake - a shadow from a subway sub - Judy Dench - the ghost of Shakespeare - me in a blonde wig

So I’ve always had this knowledge before but it just occurred to me that the first time Ron and Hermione truly saw Voldemort was when he walked into the Hogwarts courtyard with a dead Harry in Hagrid’s arms.

That was the first time they actually truly saw Voldemort.

Harry was alone went he went into the chamber in PS/SS.

He was (nearly) alone when he saw Tom in CS. I say nearly because Ginny was there but she was unconscious. Still, it’s entirely possible that she got a glimpse of him before he took her life away. A sort of Phantom of the Opera esque moment where he lured her down into the chamber and then she collapsed. But I digress. 

He doesn’t appear at all in POA.

Harry’s the only (live) student in the graveyard in GOF.

They were not physically capable of being in the corridor to see him at the end of OOTP, no matter what the movies try to make you believe. (God the movies; they just—they just calmly stood there looking on I mean, really, Ron Weasley calmly stood there while Voldemort hovered over his friend? Yeah. There’s no way that’s canon. Ahem. Right. Digressing.)

He doesn’t actually appear in HBP and Ron/Hermione aren’t there to witness any of the memories.

They caught a glimpse of him during the Battle of the Seven Potters, I’ll give you that, we know Ron points out that he can fly so he must have seen him from a distance.

But no, it’s not until the end of Deathly Hallows that Ron and Hermione truly get a look at Voldemort. And it’s when Harry’s ‘dead’. Something about that is shocking but beautifully poetic. Only when Harry falls are they able to face Voldemort and stand their ground against him. 

lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism

this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard

I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.

can I volunteer to be a penguin

I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.

So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.

Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army

Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.

Carry on …

I love everything about this post.

If I fail to reblog this it is because I am dead. 

the older i get the more i realize what it meant for lily and james potter to die at 21. when you’re 11 and you’re reading the books, watching the films, 21 feels ancient. it did to me. even the actors they picked looked like they were in their thirties, because actual 21 year olds standing next to harry in the mirror would have been an excruciating sight i think. actual 21 year olds lined up in the photo sirius shows harry would have been horrible to see. they weren’t adults. i look at 21 year olds now and most of them are still teenagers. and i’m so sad because you know harry turns 21 and then 22 and then 28 and 29 and realizes how terribly young his parents were, how brave they were, how exceptional they were, GOD I’M SAD IM GETTING A BEER

do u ever wonder if 99% of ur followers are either bots or super inactive blogs bc ya boy has a few thousand + nobody is sending asks or talkin to me so……. to the maybe 10 or 11 followers reading this, i love u

a msg to u from the dog that finally learned how to give me the dang ball

ASHTON SANDERS FOR WE THE URBAN

post-crying face is such a look

you’re a weathered pirate captain, grizzled and grey, and you’re traversing an uncharted (and infamous) stretch of water to escape the british navy. your crew is uneasy, muttering mutinously as night falls - you’ve heard the stories, but you don’t believe they’re true…

the year is 3036, and you’re an intergalactic criminal, wanted for smuggling stardust. you’re hiding out on a remote tourist planet, keeping your head down and your hat low to avoid catching attention. you order a glowing aquamarine cocktail from the bar, and feel the bass thumping in your chest.

it’s been six months since the nuclear apocalypse. you’re in the mountains, surrounded by lodgepole pines, somewhere in the north american west. you know you’re in a fallout zone, so you throw back an irradiative pill as you trudge along, skipping through the stations on the radio you carry.

you’re an assassin, and you’re one of the best in the business. you’re attending a gala for the social elite, slipping through a sea of glittering gowns and sleek suits, and holding a flute of champagne. your target is leaning on the bar, and you smile like a shark when you catch their eye.

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

1-800-ARE-YOU-SLAPPIN

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow