There are two sides to every story. Harry and Ginny tell one hundred about how the proposal went because “let me taste another bean” isn’t exactly the “yes” people expect to hear.
People always joke about the Marauders thinking a stray dog is really Sirius but imagine that the Marauders are exploring the Forbidden Forest and they split up and all of a sudden, a deer comes over and nudges Sirius. And he’s just like, “Oh, hey, mate.” And the deer just nudges him again. And they finally decide to head back to the castle but the deer is having none of it so they literally have to drag him out of the forest. Only they’re panicking because he’s not changing back and come on James, this isn’t funny, you know we can’t get caught. And so they start to worry that something is wrong and he can’t change back. And so they smuggle him back into the castle. And by smuggle I mean, they throw the Invisibility Cloak over him but since he’s a deer, it doesn’t really cover much. And that’s the story of how Professor McGonagall looks up and sees three boys shoving a headless deer past her doorway and she promptly decides that it’s not her problem.
So they get the deer to the common room and it’s only then that they begin to speculate that maybe this deer isn’t James after all. But the deer just keeps doing really vague things that could be James. And they spend the rest of the afternoon having to decide if this really is James and if it is, if he’s messing with them or if something’s wrong, and if he’s not, did they just kidnap a deer?
before hagrid even met harry (and before he knew how terrible harry’s life with the dursleys actually was) he baked him a cake to celebrate his birthday
I appreciate how seriously Oliver Wood takes Quidditch in the books:
“Bad news, Harry. I’ve just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I’d got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn’t care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first. Honestly, the way she was yelling at me… you’d think I’d said something terrible. Then I asked her how much longer she was going to keep it…”
“Harry, this is no time to be a gentleman! Knock her off her broom if you have to!” -
“Oliver, calm down!” said Fred, looking slightly alarmed. “We’re taking Hufflepuff very seriously. Seriously.”
“Where is Wood?” said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn’t there. “Still in the showers,” said Fred. “We think he’s trying to drown himself.“
“It’ll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we’ve got to win today, we’ve got to.”
“This is our last chance - my last chance - to win the Quidditch Cup. I’ll be leaving at the end of this year. I’ll never get another shot at it.”
“We’ve got three superb Chasers. We’ve got two unbeatable Beaters…” "Stop it, Oliver, you’re making us blush." "And we’ve got a Seeker who has never failed to win us a match! … And me.” "We think you’re very good, too, Oliver." "Cracking good Keeper.”
“I think we’d better check with Puddlemere United whether Oliver Wood’s been killed during a training session, because Angelina seems to be channelling his spirit.”
‘You ran away from home?’ ‘When I was about sixteen,’ said Sirius. ‘I’d had enough.’ ‘Where did you go?’ said Harry, staring at him. ‘Your dad’s place,’ said Sirius. ‘Your grandparents were really good about it; they sort of adopted me as a second son.’
(and I know this set will probably be confusing to some people since a lot of people like Kristin Scott Thomas as Walburga but she’s always been Mrs. Potter to me)
“How come she married him?” Harry asked miserably. “She hated him!” “Nah, she didn’t,” said Sirius. “She started going out with him in seventh year,” said Lupin. “Once James had deflated his head a bit,” said Sirius.
When it was announced that Noma Dumezweni would be Hermione in the new Harry Potter play ‘Cursed Child’ it instantly sparked my inspiration! I wanted to draw my take on Hermione in her teenage years. I experimented a lot with keeping it rough to chill and I really enjoyed drawing it! Hope you like :)
remember in deathly hallows part 2 when harry was about to go into the forest and he was saying goodbye to ron and hermione
and he got a hug from hermione
but they made ron and harry just look at each other instead
ok
If people think the REAL Ron Weasley would not have knocked anything in his way flying and physically dragged Harry back by the back of his shirt talking about how he wasn’t going to lose another brother YOU’VE GOT ANOTHER THING COMING
You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It’s time you learned some respect!“
“It’s time you earned it.” said Harry.
But some of his sass is highly underrated:
CoS:
“I know what day it is,” Dudley repeated, coming right up to him.
“Well done,” said Harry. “So you’ve finally learned the days of the week.”
GoF:
“Only you said this morning you would have done it last night so know one could see..I’m not stupid you know!”
“You’re doing a really good impression of it!” Harry snapped.
GoF:
“Congratulations, Harry!” she said, beaming at him. “I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How you feel now, about the fairness of the scoring?”
“Yeah, you can have a word,” said Harry savagely. “Good-bye.”
OP:
“Not as stupid as you look, are you, Dud? But I s'pose, if you were, you wouldn’t be able to walk and talk at the same time.”
OP:
“An interview?” repeated Umbridge, her voice thinner and higher than ever. “What do you mean?”
“I mean a reporter asked me questions and I answered them,” said Harry.
OP:
“This is night, Diddykins. That’s what we call it when it goes all dark like this.”
OP:
Yeah? Did he say you look like a pig that’s been taught to walk on its hind legs? ‘Cause that’s not cheek, Dud, that’s true…”
OP:
“Wow, I wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life?” said Harry sarcastically.
OP:
“Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.”
OP:
“Well, I’m terrified now,” said Harry sarcastically. “I s'pose Lord Voldemort’s just a warm-up act compared to you three.” [..]
“You think you’re such a big man, Potter,” said Malfoy, advancing now, Crabbe and Goyle flanking him. “You wait. I’ll have you. You can’t land my father in prison.”
“I thought I just had,” said Harry.
HBP:
“And they’d love to have me,” said Harry sarcastically. “We’d be best pals if they didn’t keep trying to do me in.”
DH:
“Are you out of your mind?” demanded Harry. “A plot to get this house? Are you actually as stupid as you look?”
headcanon that since the slytherin common room is under the lake there’s a room where the walls and ceiling are glass and you can just see into the lake like an aquarium
headcanon that when this was first done the mermaids got really aggressive and hateful about it and started ramming the glass but since it was magic this just caused them injuries
until a deaf/hoh slytherin started to teach them sign language and it took a long time bit by the time they left hogwarts they and the rest of the house were communicating with the mermaids and on good terms
eventually it becomes a part of slytherin house culture you’re a slytherin you know sign language because if you don’t chat with the mermaids they get grumpy
this helps a lot of deaf/hoh students
this also gives slytherin the best grades of any house on all aquatic magical studies
the mermaids give terrible dating advice do not trust them
The most common mermaid dating advice, of course, being “Drown him”
can y’all shut the fuck up about snape when we had LITERALLY THE SWEETEST MAN EVER
Can we talk about how Hagrid is a half-giant and basically the only of his kind at Hogwarts? How his birth was revealed without his consent in a “news” article, causing parents to see him as incompetent and violent? How he took the fall for a crime he didn’t commit because he looked brutish and dumb compared to the golden-child prefect Tom Riddle, who accused him? How this caused him to miss out on the rest of his education and left him to be banned from using magic, the biggest indicator of outsider status in the magical world? How, despite all of this, he’s still genuinely a better person than a kid who got bullied a few times and became obsessive over the girl he didn’t get? How Hagrid’s love of those big, scary monsters isn’t because he’s silly or naive, but because he knows what it’s like to be seen as a monster when it’s not true?
Hagrid is miles more interesting and compelling, but people can’t get past the obsessive, creepy asshole.
i mean each to their own but i really don’t understand this perception of james as a cold and brooding pureblood. we’ve seen his capacity for cruelty, yes, but we’ve also seen him brandishing an invisible sword and proclaiming the gryffindor motto, scribbling the initials of his crush on an exam paper, messing up his hair to impress a girl, referring to lycanthropy as a “furry little problem” etc. i guess he’ll always be a dork to me. he had his moments, of course–the boy was spoiled, coddled, he lacked impulse control, didn’t think things through–but i’m just not down for this characterisation of him as sneering and cynical. i’m not. and here’s the main reason why.sirius. because sirius WAS that guy. sirius was the lip-curling, supercilious pureblood. sirius didn’t give a fuck. UNTIL JAMES. there were a lot of ways in which these two were one in the same, but this inexorable attitude is just not one of them. because as far as i can tell, sirius saw a light in james. saw something separate from his pernicious pureblood world. saw something worth saying no to slytherin. if james had been as cold as people paint him, how the fuck would he ever have dragged sirius out of that dark?
As requested by a couple of people, here is the copy of the actual Pottermore quiz that will break down how much of each house you identify with at the end of the quiz. And before you say “omg, that equals to more than a hundred percent!” this quiz works a little differently than most. Instead of questions that are like “"this" answer is the Slytherin one and “this” answer is the clearly Hufflepuff one” I believe that the questions work more like “this option gets you 5 points for Slytherin, this one gets you 4, this one gets you 3 to add up at the end” etc for all the houses, so they’re like “how much is this a _blank house_ thing to do” which is probably a more accurate representation than the former option.
Example: My results were 82% Slytherin and 79% Ravenclaw, so I’d probably be one of the ones that the sorting hat took my preference into account, since I’m almost equally both. ;)
