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katniss in book 3: my childrens playground is built on dead bodies and bones, i never wanted children but peeta convinced me, i will never heal from what happened to me. the end 

me reading that shit at 15:

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Could you imagine being Voldemort’s brother if you weren’t at all interested in his genocide, and have to spend all of your time proving to everyone else that you don’t support what he’s doing?

Even worse, imagine being his identical twin. So you not only have to prove that you’re not like him, but also that you’re literally not him.

I’m just picturing this kind of lame, not super interesting guy. His name is something pedestrian, similar to Tom. Something like Bob. Bob Riddle. He was probably a Hufflepuff. He’s got some low-level job, like as a Welcome Wizard at St. Mungo’s. His love life is non-existent, because the only people who want to date someone who looks exactly like Voldemort are the kind of people who marry convicted serial killers.

But Bob’s unexciting life is constantly made exciting by people throwing stuff at him, cursing at him, literally cursing him, and/or arresting him on a daily basis.

The Daily Prophet constantly speculates about whether or not he actually does support Voldemort, and the Quibbler says he doesn’t exist at all, that Bob is actually just Voldemort trying to earn minimum wage so as to sponsor his genocide. Media headlines dub him “Lord Voldeborb.” So Bob has a series of memoirs published to prove how dissimilar he is to his brother.

And eventually having all these books written about him convinces him that he can write. So he writes an autobiography about how boring his life is.

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Evidence that Harry James Potter is not unobservant like many people like to claim

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burr-ell
eaglesforthecup:
  • Realized Hermione would not know about the troll because she was in the bathroom in PS
  • Keen enough eye to spot the winged key
  • Noticed Dobby’s eyes in the bush in CoS
  • Recognized that Lockhart was a fraud right off the bat at age 12 (Ron did too but Hermione, Miss Brightest Witch of Her Age, was distracted by the pretty and lots of other adults were fooled too)
  • Deduced that the girl who died in Tom Riddle’s memory was Myrtle
  • Recognized how tense/anxious Ginny looked and realized she knew something about the Chamber
  • Noticed the paper in Hermione’s hand when she was petrified
  • Recognized how weird it was that Fudge was being lenient on blowing up Aunt Marge and later connected it with them worrying about him and Sirius in PoA
  • Realized (before Hermione) that Dumbledore wanted them to save Buckbeak as well during their time turner shenanigans
  • Deduced that every champion besides Cedric would know about the dragons in GoF
  • Noticed Ron’s jealousy of Krum
  • Caught a reflection of light on the glass case of the Sword of Gryffindor and found the Pensieve
  • Connected the dots and realized the Pensieve showed memories because of his experience with Tom Riddle’s diary
  • Noticed that Dumbledore had been avoiding him in OotP
  • Picked up on Draco’s “dogging around” comment
  • Noticed that Daily Prophet article about Sturgis Podmore breaking into a secret in the Ministry and recalls that Podmore hadn’t shown up for guard duty
  • Recognized the difference between his actual dreams and the ‘visions’ which helped save Arthur Weasley’s life
  • Heard Kingsley whisper, felt something shoot past him, saw the blank expression in Marietta’s eyes and put two and two together, something Umbridge, Fudge and Dawlish couldn’t perceive
  • Noticed Draco giving his mother the slip in HBP
  • Deduced that Draco had become a Death Eater
  • Recognized that the ring on Dumbledore’s desk (and remembered Dumbledore was wearing this ring when they retrieved Slughorn) was the ring Marvolo showed Ogden
  • Realized that Tonks’ grief was probably heartbreak and figured out she was in love (even though he didn’t have enough context to realize it was Remus and not Sirius)
  • Noticed when Ginny didn’t seem enthusiastic about meeting up with Dean (this is very common when you have a crush, but still)
  • Noted how weird Slughorn’s tampered memory is with the dense fog
  • Noticed that Malfoy kept disappearing from the Marauder’s Map and eventually realized he was using the Room of Requirement
  • Put two and two together about Ron and the love potion
  • Caught Voldemort’s eyes flashing scarlet in Hokey’s memory
  • Deduced that Malfoy’s plan was coming into fruition based on the whooping and gave Hermione and Ron a warning plan before he and Dumbledore left
  • Noticed the blue eye in the mirror shard in DH
  • Realized Regulus was RAB
  • Perceptive enough to realize Ron had to be the one to destroy the locket
  • Also perceptive enough to realize he had to open it with Parseltongue
  • Recognized that his Invisibility Cloak matched the description of the cloak in the Deathly Hallows story
  • Noticed things about Luna’s room that made him realize Luna hadn’t been in her home in weeks, catching Xenophilius Lovegood’s lie
  • Connected the dots of The Grey Lady’s story from the “Albania” clue and realized Voldemort had found the diadem and had hidden it at Hogwarts when he tried to get the DADA job
  • Remembered he had seen the diadem in the Room of Requirement before
  • Realized that Draco had become the true master of the Elder Wand, not Snape, the night Dumbledore had died
  • Realized that this made him the true master of the Elder Wand after his skirmish with Draco at Malfoy Manor
There are probably other things I didn’t catch, but there you have it. Harry James Potter is a rather perceptive boy with a keen eye and a good mind for deductive reasoning
also, (because that appears to be the #1 example of harry oblivious potter)
  • WAS PERFECTLY AWARE RON AND HERMIONE WERE CRUSHING ON EACH OTHER.
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someone put brooklyn nine nine quotes in harry potter and it is honestly the best thing ever😂

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prongsmydeer

The most hilarious thing about the fact Buckbeak had a trial and lost is that later on JKR resolves the issue by having Hagrid take him in again and renaming him Witherwings. That’s literally all it took. What if in POA, Hagrid simply said, “Sorry, Buckbeak flew away.” 

“There’s a hippogriff right there, Hagrid.”

“A different hipprogriff.”

“I’m… pretty sure that’s the same hipprogriff.”

“Prove it.” 

no dna tests we die like scientifically underdeveloped societies

Prisoner of Azkaban continues to be the most frustrating book

Someone should have just adopted Sirius and started calling him Gerald.

Remus: Erm… this is our new order member, my… cousin Gerald. Gerald White.

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“Mr. Lupin that is Sirius Black with glasses!” “Oh come now Minister, Sirius Black doesn’t wear glasses. That wouldn’t make sense.” “Well have Mr. White take off his glasses then!” “He can’t he needs them to see.”

it got better

It’s honestly a miracle to me that wizarding society doesn’t collapse every other week because like

You’ve got this world full of people who can destroy whole buildings or turn people into beetles or make vehicles fly just by waving a stick at them

And there is literally no common sense

Anywhere to be found

Voldemort would never have had anyone find out he was back if he just went around calling himself Steve 

Okay, see, I thought I saved this post to comment on it but I’d like to bring up

The Minister would NEVER EVER disbelieve in Gerald White. He’d buy it hook line and sinker. The wizarding world would buy it hook line and sinker. The GOBLINS wouldn’t but wizards have been shown to be pretty blindingly clueless. Still, Gringotts would grudgingly give Sirius access to the Black fortune.

But, but, but, you know the one person

the one person

who Gerald White would drive AB-SO-LUTELY FUCKING BATSHIT?

Severus Snape.

Snape would do everything, EVERYTHING, to get people to believe that it’s Sirius. But the Order would ignore it (they accepted Sirius as Sirius before anyway) and Remus would just be so… so affronted.

‘Severus, he is my cousin.’

And Sirius would love it. He’d love the fact that Snape just hated it. He’d be the BEST DAMN GERALD WHITE EVER b/c Snape is doing everything from dropping veritaserum into his firewhisky to capturing a dementor in a box and releasing it on Sirius when he least expects it

That one causes problems for a bare minute because SHIT A DEMENTOR ATTEMPTED TO GIVE GERALD THE KISS MAYBE SNAPE IS RIGHT except Harry comes forward and is like ‘excuse me, I’ve never committed a crime and dementors are ALWAYS attacking me, I think they’re attracted to glasses’

and the magical community is like ‘shit, yeah, you’re right’

and just

Spare. Snape goes spare.

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kyraneko

Now I’m imagining Fred and George sneaking extra Weasleys into Snape’s class manifests every year.

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That’s right Harry you go kiddo!! ٩(●ᴗ●)۶

Phew! This one is my longest comic yet: didn’t want to cut out any Harry or Minerva badassery. Also the Carrows are the worst, so this was very satisfying to draw. >:) 

If you wanna vote on the next comic, the polls open every month to my supporters over on My Patreon! :)

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I love how Harry just genuinely likes Luna. Not in a romantic way, but in a “I don’t know how or why but I get you and you get me and I’d be honored to call you a friend and if anyone messes with you I’ll wallop them” kind of a way. I think he just marvels at her level of don’t give a fuck and her absolute sense of self. And then he and Ginny partially name their daughter after her (Lily Luna) and that to me is just fucking precious.

You have to at least ship their friendship.

It’s because Luna leaves him alone. Harry feels upset? Luna talks about her newest theory on whatever magical creature she believes exists. He feels down and depressed? Luna distracts him by talking about Amazon river spirits. Luna gives Harry what he needs, in that she reminds him he is not the center of the universe. That’s what he wants. Harry never wanted to be the savior of the Wizarding World. He never wanted any of it, and he hates that his parents died for a prophecy about him, and he hates thinking about his miserable childhood.

Everyone else keeps accidentally reminding Harry of who he has to be.

Luna is so absorbed in knowing she never once cares about his name as a legend. He’s Harry, her nice friend who holds her shoes for her when she wants to walk barefoot in the woods so she doesn’t startle the moss-people.And he never complains about her oddities, like so many people, and she appreciates that.  And for him, she’s Luna, the friend who just needs him to hold her shoes for her. Luna never wants anything from him but for Harry to hold her things and listen to her talk and give his own input to her theories, mad as they might be at times. When Harry is with Luna, it’s always these quiet, content moments. She’s a bit mad, yeah, but she gets him. And he gets her.

Harry will fight anyone who calls her “Loony Lovegood”. Even though she doesn’t care, he does.

Whoa, I haven’t seen this post in ages. Lookit my old username! :)

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