Tag: harry potter

bigquidditchhero:

Inspired by this post. Because while I can completely see why Harry became an Auror, teacher!Harry also holds a lot of appeal …

April 2006

The sky had been threatening rain for hours, and now down it came, no doubt to
the dismay of the handful of students out on the Quidditch pitch. Watching from
the window of her office, Professor McGonagall discerned a few Gryffindors
amongst the group and smiled. They had a good team this year, though perhaps
not as exciting as previous years. The Seeker, a slight third-year girl, showed
promise, but certainly she was not in the same league as a few of her
predecessors. Charlie Weasley, for instance, or …

She moved away from the window and glanced at the clock. He was late. She
wondered, not for the first time, if there was much point in holding this meeting.
She could not allow all her hopes to lie with it; there was, surely, only the
slightest chance that he would agree.

The knock on the door came as she was settling herself behind her desk.

“Enter!”

She was amused to observe the slightly hesitant way in which he came into the
room. He pushed back his hood, looking around. His eyes lingered on the
portrait behind her desk, but Albus was asleep – or at least, Minerva thought,
pretending to be. A few of the other portraits called out greetings, and Harry raised
a hand in acknowledgement. 

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marauders4evr:

I’ve been on tumblr for almost four years now and I have seen so many people complain about the various actors for Harry Potter. I’ve seen people complain about Daniel, Emma, and Rupert. I’ve seen people complain about Michael Gamdon. (I’ve complained about Michael Gambon.) I’ve seen people complain about the various actors who played The Marauders. Etc.

But not once have I ever seen someone complain about the two actors who played Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

What was up with that?

Tom Riddle was supposed to be a normal kid, albeit one that’s surrounded by disturbing mysteries.

But he was supposed to act normal.

That was the point.

He wasn’t supposed to be some stereotypical “psychopathic” child who spoke in a monotonic voice and barely showed any expression and looked like the male equivalent of that girl in Orphan.

He was supposed to look like a regular kid.

A regular kid and eventually a regular teenager who smiled and acted smooth and charmed people and was even a bit flirtatious.

That was why it took even Dumbledore so long to pick up on the fact that there was something off about him.

Because he didn’t just look like a walking villain.

He looked like an actual kid/teenager.

Until he let his evil side take over until it literally consumed him and both mentally, emotionally, and physically demented him.

Do you know why J.K. Rowling spent such an enormous amount of time on his backstory?

To show that he was actually human.

To show that evil is not always obvious.

To make you realize that evil could lie within anyone and not just the stereotypical ‘psychopathic’ children who speak in monotonic voices and barely show any expressions.

Plus there’s that whole half-attempt to compare the Second Wizarding War to World War II and one of the most disturbing parts of Adolf Hitler was the fact that he was actually a very kind, laid-back, ‘normal’, guy in public.

And why is that disturbing?

Because it’s one thing to look at the before and after versions of someone and be like, “Well yeah, they were evil from the start.”

It’s another thing entirely to see that someone actually appeared to be quite humane and normal but then did extremely evil things.

Again, it’s all about showing that humanity.

Which was a key theme in Harry Potter.

Especially since one of the other themes in Harry Potter was that Harry was terrified that he was going to turn into Voldemort. It’s a lot harder to see the connection between him and Tom when you make Tom look like the stereotypical ‘psychopathic’ child who speaks in a monotonic voice and barely shows any expressions!

*Flips over a table*

James and Lily not dying and having more children

jiilys:

  • James would be that dad that got up in the morning to make
    tea but then falls asleep at the bench and lily comes out at eight o’clock like
    wtf james get ur head out of the sink we have to go
  •  Lily dressing harry in little shirts with muggle things on
    them and harry having to explain patiently what a fire truck is while james
    walks him to pre school
  •  They have a girl when harry is like three and they call her
    something like Eleanor and lily paints the room pink and flicks the paintbrush
    at james while sirius tells them about his ‘artistic vision’ and remus makes
    faces to harry behind him
  • Harry james potter being the best big brother ever like
    getting her all these toys and shit because hes worried she might get bored and
    just crawl back into mummy’s tummy and not play with him anymore
  • Sirius and remus trying to teach james how to drive a muggle
    car. They get arrested for reckless driving, they have to confound the police
    guy and  lily forces them GO BACK and
    just BE ARRESTED because MAGIC cannot solve ALL PROBLEMS this is your punishment
    GO and BE IN JAIL
  • They end up just getting a fine but lily like MARCHES THEM
    BACK and FORCES them to go into the a cell for he night like officier please
    lock these men up they are fuckfaces and need to learn a lesson REMUS I SEE YOU
    SNEAKING OUT THE BACK DOOR
  • James giving his kids a bubble bath and Eleanor is splashing
    everyone and harry is playing with his little plastic boat and james is covered
    in water grinning like the absolute nerd is he bc hes so in love with his bbys
  • Lily drinking wine straight from the bottle and then passing
    it to Sirius on the couch while they watch tv
  • James trying to do is daughters hair in braids and then she
    ends up crying and hes almost crying and harrys crying bc he feels left out and
    lily comes home and is like wtf is goin on why is everyone sobbing
  • Lily and james staying up at night eating ice cream straight
    from the cartoon and giggling like shhhh don’t wake the kids and james hits
    lily on the leg with the spoon and she puts the empty cartoon on his head
  • They have one more kid and it’s another girl and they call
    her rose or some other kid of flower name and sirius is like wowie and brings a
    shit ton of roses into the waiting room all proud of himself and remus just
    rolls his eyes like wowie sirius u giant nerd
  • Harry refuses to say the word ‘cat’ because sirius told him
    it was a swearword
  • James, remus and sirius getting ballons for Eleanor’s fifth
    birthday like HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLIE and Eleanor is TERRIFIED WHY ARE THEY
    FLOATING DADDY WHY and remus is hugging her and being so confused WHAT DO I DO
    JAMES SHE WON’T  STOP CRYING SOMEONE CALL
    LILY
  • Sirius being the original vodka aunt
  • James dancing with ellie and harry on the bench making pancakes
    and lily is holding rosie and laughing and james is spinning her around and the
    pancakes are burning but no one cares
  • Rose losing the
    blanket and there is a MASS SEARCH PARTY and they CALL SIRIUS AND REMUS because
    this is SERIOUS BUSINESS and rose is crying and they find it under harrys bed
    because he is a little shit eight year old and quote: ‘wanted to see what would
    happen’
  • Remus swapping books with lily and they have their own lil
    book club and sirius and james are jealous so they start their own book club
    but it fails because sirius refuses to read james’s period drama novels and
    EXCUSE ME BLACK DID YOU JUST CRIZISIZE MRS DULBY SHE IS MY FAV CHARACTER
  • Rose starting school and james is legit teary eyed like look
    there goes my baby and he turns to sirius who is legit SOBBING onto lily’s
    shoulder and she’s patting his back and sighing what precious bbys  I love them so
  • Elenor gets a valentine from school and remus is like???? whAT
    IS THIS????? YOU ARE SEVEN????? YOU C A N N O T an then he goes to school and is
    like ‘LISTEN UP HERE ‘JAKE’ YOU CANNOT GO GIVING MY GOD DAUGHTER VALENTINES
    WITHOUT FIRST MEETING ME YOU UNDERSTAND’
  • Harry’s birthday and there is a he cake that lily made and
    everyones singing and rose is getting a piggyback from james and Eleanor is
    swaying with sirius and lily is leaning over and kissing harrys cheek over and
    over and remus is air guitaring and harry thinks hes honestly the luckiest kid
    in the entire universe to ever exist
  • Rosie getting REALLY
    MAD and going SO RED when she’s angry and she just gets SO SO SO SO SO RED and
    sirius starts laughing and then the vase next to him explodes and its suddenly
    very quiet and no one is moving do not anger the small one
  • Remus and james trying to build a deck. James hammers his
    hand and remus is laughing so hard he falls into the whole they just spent two
    days digging. Sirius and lily watch from deck chairs and clink glasses.
  • Ellie one time having to go to hospital because she had a
    severe allergic reaction and three males, one short red head, a seven year old
    girl and a kid who looks like a mini version of one of the older men are all
    pacing the st mungos waiting room and the nurse comes out and lily pops three
    fingers in sirius’s hand from squeezing so hard.
  • Lily and james being those parents who sit on each other’s
    laps like it’s nothing and he plays with her hair while she’s on the phone and
    she fiddles with his fingers when he talks and she kisses his back when she
    sneaks up behind him and he kisses her on the cheek and she’s laughing and
    laughing and hes kissing and kissing and oh look I’ve made myself very sad all
    at once
  • Lily, james, sirius and remus all raising these three great
    kids who think they’ve hung the stars what fun they would have had and oh how
    they would’ve loved each other

melody-garnet:

lightningpotters:

shoutout to george, fred, and especially ron weasley for realizing that harry was stuck in abusive and unhealthy household and, in spite of the massive trouble they knew they could get in, taking immediate steps to personally see him removed from that environment, something no adult in harry’s life did.

looking at you, dumbledore