I’m in tears now cause like what if like everyone finding out Lupin was a werewolf was not because of the whole werewolf night but rather just Lupin doing dumb shit like walking up the stairs like this

I’m still dead because people in tags and notes are like “I walk up the stairs like this…Am I too…A werewolf?”

There’s no brain cell whatsoever in this squad and I’m ok with this

Which Marauder would be the first to download Tiktok?

Discuss.

Peter.

And they all give him shit for it, but he doesn't care. He doesn't make videos, he just watches them, and he shows Remus a prank video once, and Remus' face turns white and he looks Peter dead in the eye and says 'do not show this to them'

But he already had and by then all is lost and James and Sirius quickly become Tiktok famous and Remus and Peter now live in constant fear of being pranked for a 30 second video

ok, no.

i have been convinced.

w’sup, friends! due to the my sharona virus my partner lost his job, and i took a pay cut, and now i’m looking for a way to put a little extra cash in my pocket in order to make ends meet. consequently, i’m offering fic commissions. i specialize in wolfstar, and marauder’s era in general, but am open to quite a few others. just dm me and we can discuss it. i’m pretty open in terms of explicit content/kink stuff. dm me for details on that as well. you can find examples of my work on my ao3 account. if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to hit me up.

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stay healthy, my dudes. thanks so much for your support over the years. you’re all ballers.

deuces,

-diz

“Where is my bloody wand?!”

“Should we tell him?”

“Nah…”

Tottally and absolutly inspired by this post by @littlebitellie

hello everyone please take my quiz, “which gay-coded (but not canonically gay) harry potter character are you?” 

Y’know, house elves could’ve been so much better if they’d stuck just a little bit closer to the standard “magical being that cleans your house” folklore.

Like, it isn’t servitude. They move in of their own accord, and if they don’t get any recompense or appreciation, they’ll move out again within a couple of days and knock over your umbrella stand on the way out. You can keep them around by leaving out gifts for them - bowls of cream, thimbles of whiskey, shiny odds and ends - but if you ever pay them in coin, the contract is broken and they’re gone for good. Depending on how shitty you were, you may never get another house elf again (word spreads fast). But if you never pay them in money, they can’t leave; once it’s formed, breaking the contract only works one way, for whatever reason.

So you have these great old families who’ve had a house elf or elves for generations, have skimped on gifts and generally been horrible people, but who are canny enough and quick enough to make sure their house elves never get any coin. It’s part of the contract that the elves are not to be seen or heard unless called for; therefore they must bear witness silently to any atrocities committed in these horrible old places, and are forbidden from negotiating their pay or release. The house elves have tried every trick they know to get paid in coin, but the old families have exactly the same number of tricks to make sure they don’t - because they’re well aware that if this extremely powerful magical being is no longer bound by the contract, their house is going to burn to the ground.

And then there’s Hogwarts, which accumulates a massive number of house elves simply because of its size and the fact that it’s a very interesting place and house elves are curious by nature. They’re recompensed fairly, for the most part, and generally enjoy the work. Students are warned: absolutely do not tip the house elves, you may leave out small gifts but do not give them any money. They are paid in food and drink and shelter. They do not take money.

Enter Hermione, who doesn’t quite grasp how all this works, and she is furious. These poor creatures are indentured servants at best, slaves at worst, and Something Must Be Done. She launches on her righteous campaign to get the house elves paid fairly, in coin, like everybody else, and is so caught up in the perceived correctness of this that she fails to listen when people try to explain that the way it works is already fair and agreed upon. It becomes a story about misguided activism and the fact that you must listen to the people you’re campaigning for before you begin campaigning.

Eventually she does listen, and the house elves tell her that here, for the most part, things are okay; it’s the elves trapped with the rich old skinflints who need help. There are a few house elves at Hogwarts who don’t want to be there anymore, and who have been unable to negotiate a fair release, and so once a month Hermione puts a coin on her bedside table with a very clearly written note that says TIP, with an arrow, and any house elf who wants out contrives to get to that room before their shift is over.

The freeing of Dobby goes about the same, except it’s a coin Harry slips into the book instead of a sock. Dobby then joins Hermione’s activism from a place of intimate knowledge of where the system is most broken; he is of the opinion that the contract should be breakable both ways - it isn’t fair that only the masters can break it, house elves should be able to leave any time, for any reason, even if they’re being paid correctly. Most house elves think he’s nuts for trying to break with tradition like this but… something something metaphor for unionization, something something.

I think that could’ve been neat.

Sirius Black, the world’s most dramatic boyfriend

This is the greatest piece of art I have ever come across and it needs to be shared. 😂

…hey Harry Potter fans, we’re all in agreement that Dumbledore brought the Philosopher’s Stone to Hogwarts in Harry’s first year as a test to see whether Voldemort was paying attention and what sort of state he was in, now that Dumbledore’s chosen champion was old enough to hold a wand, right?

Like, Harry learns what magic is and it’s time to start moving towards the full and final destruction of Tom Riddle Junior, so Dumbledore has a chat with his long-time alchemy friend who’s been keeping this thing safe for literally six centuries straight, and ‘borrows’ the easiest source of immortality he can find as bait for a trap to lure Voldemort out into the open so Dumbledore can get the lay of the land to prep for the next seven years.  This is canon, right?

This post just passed 50,000 notes, which is way more than I expected when I first made it, and can I just say, the tags and notes are full of so much vitriol against Dumbledore.  People loathe him so much.  I don’t think I ever realized how much before this!

I find that so interesting, because god knows Tumblr and fandom and fans at large tend to love tricksy bastards who play chess games in their heads.  Dumbledore’s far from the first old man who sent other people to die for his war.  He’s not the first character who’s manipulated kids, or raised children to be warriors because he believed they had to be.  He’s a long, long way from the first desperately flawed mastermind we’ve seen.  But god, do fans hate Albus Dumbledore.

And I wonder: how much of that is because we feel like Dumbledore betrayed Harry, and how much of it is because we feel like Dumbledore betrayed us?

Most of us were so young when we started reading the Harry Potter books.  The world was magic and Harry’s home was terrible, and a kindly old man with twinkling eyes and a white beard winked, and seemed to know everything in the world, and we thought he’d promised to take care of each and every child given unto his care.  We thought that meant us too.

There’s a thing that happens as kids grow up, when they begin to realize that their parents and the adults around them are flawed and broken and making things up as they go, and sometimes make very real mistakes.  Sometimes as grown-ups we find ways to forgive the adults that raised us for all the good and bad they did, and sometimes we cut them out of our lives forever.  But there’s always that feeling of betrayal, with the realization that a trusted adult did actually cause us harm–and not just because they used their best judgment and tried their best to protect us and it wasn’t enough, but because they decided something else was more important than our well-being and meant it.

As a human and a character, Albus Dumbledore is fascinating, flawed, fallible, with complicated priorities and a chess board for a brain, and he’s motivated by guilt and big-picture thinking and ego and a very real desire to do good for the world in the broadest possible sense all at once.  As an adult that Harry trusted he failed rather badly, but it’s up to Harry to decide how he feels about that, and Harry has plenty of complicated feelings of grief and forgiveness and self-sacrifice of his own.

We trusted Dumbledore to be the Good Adult.  The kindly man who had his students’ best interests at heart.  And he wasn’t.  He wasn’t what he promised us he’d be, and I think that’s what so many readers can’t forgive him for.

Finally some good fuckin’ Harry Potter discourse.

18 year old Regulus Black willingly drinks a torture potion and dies alone in a cave so that some day, someone will be able to defeat Voldemort.

Horace Slughorn (albeit reluctantly) shows Harry a part of his past he’s kept hidden for years, even from himself, which is a key part of defeating Voldemort.

Narcissa Malfoy looks Voldemort, a man who is not only notoriously evil but also has the ability to READ MINDS, right in the eye and lies to him for the chance to save her son.

Andromeda Tonks’ entire family is killed at the hand of her own sister and some other death eaters and she still finds the strength to go on and be a guardian to her orphaned grandchild.

But Severus Friendzone Snape, that’s the “brave Slytherin” Harry chooses to name his kid after. Ok, sure.

what do you mean wolfstar didnt raise harry

what do you mean this isnt canon (from this post)

When I used to think about Voldemort’s horcruxes I imagined a soul divided in equal portions residing in the different horcruxes and Voldemort himself. I realised that this can’t be true in The Half-Blood Prince Slughorn describes making a horcrux as splitting ones soul in two. This means that when Riddle made his Diary into a horcrux he split his soul in half and physically removed one half from his body and placed it in the diary. This means that he only had half of his soul left when he made his next horcrux, Marvolo’s ring. This half would have been split in half leaving only a quarter in Voldemort’s body. This goes on and on the amount of soul remaining in Voldemort halving each time he makes a horcrux until he had only 1/128 or 0.78125% left in his body.  As shown in the graph above.  So next time you wonder why Voldemort could have done some of things he did, remember how little human he had left in him. I don’t know about you but I think that this is crazy.

Come on guys, I didn’t do maths for 14 notes

So are you telling me that Harry had more Voldemort than Voldemort had Voldemort? 

this is also hecka important when you think in terms of how much power resided in each of his horcruxes. Harry only had a small fraction of Voldemort’s soul in him, and it was enough to torture him for years. Voldemort was only a fraction of what he once was, and look at all the shit he fucked up. Now imagine how powerful his first horcrux, the diary, was. Percentage-wise, it was the most powerful part of Voldemort. Ginny Weasley was possessed by something almost fifty times as powerful as what Harry had to deal with for an entire year, and she was eleven. That’s incredible and terrifying. So if you ever think to yourself, “Ginny was useless” or “Ginny wasn’t nearly as much of a badass as the rest of the gang,” go ahead and punch yourself in the face because Ginny Weasley battled Voldemort in a much more powerful form as an 11-year-old and won.

i never realized this before, but the horcruxes were destroyed in the same order in which they were created

The glow up that Neville had was not just looks wise tho

In philosophers stone, he’s shaking while standing up to his friends, how they aren’t allowed to leave, and he’s completly unsure of himself. Flash to deathly hallows, where we see him have so much confidence in himself that he can kill the muthafcking snake. He kills a horcrux, in front of Voldemort, in defiance of this evil warlord. His mental glow up is so beautiful and I love him so much

This is so important.

In the books, we don’t even have the impression he’s changed much, physically: he’s still short, chubby, unimpressive. But he’s grown as a person, he’s grown into his courage, and he’s gained confidence. Not even confidence that he can win–just confidence in the fact that if he loses he can go down fighting.

Neville’s growth, from the scared little boy who was nearly a hatstall because he was so adamant that he was “only” a Hufflepuff, to the young man who was running around the Battle of Hogwarts beheading snakes and werewolves with Gryffindor’s sword, is such a great character arc.

an alignment chart of harry james potter’s iconic lines (happy birthday lad)