“And suddenly, it’s as if there’s no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other.”

Harry.

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"I know I will be long dead before you read this..."

ive been in my marauders era for 4 years now, these are just the receipts. love these boys

all of gryffindor: look at our prefects dawg, we’re never winning the house cup

draco malfoy

Auror Harry James Potter

"He's like fire. It beckons you with its shine, but if you get too close, you will get burned."

One of my favorite Remus : Knight Remus !!

My entry for @/ashbee_.art’s DTIYS

Also this is technically a birthday post for the only man I’m allowing myself to really appreciate. Happy birthday Moony, you would’ve loved Noah Kalan

An old golden trio art trade piece I did on twitter for @love_lytime! (Harry being teased by his bffs)

Plus and extra golden trio sketch :)

Hottie

Harry Potter Misconceptions

Do you ever cry thinking how smart and how well Harry did in school despite how difficult his life was? Like school would be the last thing on my mind if someone was trying to murder me every semester

And if Lily and James had lived you know those top tier nerds and academic competitors would have filled their home with books and love of learning

If Harry with little guidance and school discipline could master a patronus charm at 13 then a Harry raised by James and Lily would be brewing NEWT level potions with his mum at 11 and discussing transfiguration theory with James at 15 and dueling with his godfather at expert levels before Hogwarts

“He’s just a boy.”

Commission of Remus and Sirius from Dear Your Holiness by MollyMaryMarie for @/midnighttomoscow 🤍 (two versions of each character Remus with or without grey hair and Sirius with or without facial hair)

Anyone ever pissed at Snape because he literally had the students buy shitty potions textbooks?

Like literally the same book he used when he was at hogwarts

The same book he spent time correcting so that it actually worked

That’s the book he had his students buy, and then he didn’t give them the corrections.

That alone makes him an unforgivable character because he liked to watch children fail.

That’s the book he had his students buy, and then he didn’t give them the corrections.

On the contrary, canon rather suggests that Snape did teach the kids the revised instructions.

Snape clearly instructed the class verbally:

Prisoner of Azkaban:

Snape doesn’t instruct them to use the textbook; he puts the instructions on the board:

Order of the Phoenix:

and, in another lesson:

Additionally, Order of the Phoenix gives us some other clues.

So McGonagall knows that Snape only takes Outstandings, which means it’s been an ongoing decision - it’s not new for Harry’s year.  And why would Snape get away with only taking the best?  

Well:

He expects everyone - even Neville, Crabbe and Goyle to gain an A.  That’s his absolute baseline.  He doesn’t anticipate anyone getting a P, T or D - which is a huge ask, expecting his class to attain the three top grades, without any one of them getting one of the three bottom grades.

Yet evidently, he’s been succeeding.  

So doesn’t that rather suggest that he’s teaching them from his own knowledge rather than the textbook?  Is it really plausible that every student would succeed, and not a single one would fail, if he was only teaching from the textbook?

After all, Umbridge says:

And the real litmus test?

Well, in Half Blood Prince,Slughorn doesn’t write on the blackboard at all.  Not once.  Instead, he points the kids at their books:

So let’s look at Hermione and Harry.  Hermione’s potions are perfect under Snape.  She can follow instructions to the letter, and she always creates a flawless potion.  She enters Slughorn’s class, continues to follow the instructions from the textbook, and she flails.  

In contrast, Harry was continually distracted in Snape’s lessons - usually because of their joint animosity.  Harry was less inclined to concentrate, and Snape made it impossible for him to relax - and for the most part, Harry was preoccupied with other events (e.g. Triwizard Tournament).  Despite all of this, Harry still gains an Exceeds Expectations at OWL.  

Under Slughorn, Harry finally follows the Prince’s instructions to the letter (he can follow Snape’s instructions, as long as he doesn’t realise Snape’s at the helm), and he creates flawless potions.  Although he doesn’t have the innate talent that we see displayed by Snape throughout the his textbook corrections (although I’d argue that Harry has so much on his plate, he has no time to invest in becoming a prodigy), Harry is skilled enough to successfully follow all of the Prince’s methods and techniques, and turn out excellent potions.  

Overall, this suggests that neither Hermione or Harry is capable of seeing instinctively what’s required; both only succeed when they’ve got the notes before them and follow them to the letter.  Snape, by contrast, was an instinctive Potions maker - it appears Slughorn is teaching in the same way he always did, and we know he taught Snape - so it seems likely that Snape’s flair wasn’t taught to him.  

It all rather indicates that Snape was teaching the kids his revised methods.  It’s plausibly less apparent during the early years that we see him teaching, because presumably, the easy potions do not require intense modification.

As for why he had them purchase the textbook?  Perhaps it was the only one available.  Interestingly, the textbook that you’re complaining about is the NEWT level textbook - is that the reason why Snape requires an Outstanding grade at OWL, because he knows the textbook is shoddy, and will require great skill on the part of the student to make sense of it?

Is there ANY suggestion, at ALL, in the textbook, that Snape’s NEWT class textbook was Advanced Potion-Making?

When we see that on the list, it’s Slughorn’s textbook of choice, after Slughorn has taken over the subject.

Theory: Snape either uses a better textbook for NEWT classes, or doesn’t use a textbook at all and expects his students to rely on the knowledge base he’s instilled in them, and basic research skills, to figure shit out on the fly, and Slughorn sets the textbook he used twenty years ago without a second thought.

The pile of secondhand copies he offers to Harry and Ron even has Snape’s personal copy at or near the top, which means it’s highly unlikely either that Snape was actively using said pile of textbooks for the past twenty years, or that the pile has been added to for twenty years.