kennedyclintonkat:

marlenemckinnons:

and when did it become okay for one character to be the bully of everybody, huh? because that’s not what harry potter is about. we should totally juST STAB SNAPE!

let me tell you something about Severus Snape. we were best friends in middle school. I know, right? It’s so embarrassing. I don’t even… Whatever. So then in seventh year, I started going out with my boyfriend James who was totally gorgeous but then he died to protect me and my child, and Severus was like, weirdly jealous of him. Like, if I would stop hanging out with him because he used a racial slur against me, he’d be like, “Why didn’t you call me back?” And I’d be like, “Why did you use a racial slur that’s been appropriated by the Death Eaters?” So then, for my life after Hogwarts, which was an all-justice anti-Dark Magic life, I was like, “Severus, I can’t invite you, because I think you’re a Death Eater.” I mean I couldn’t have a Death Eater in my life. There were gonna be people there with their basic human rights! I mean, right? He was an active member of a terrorist organization. So then he told his warlord some information that made him want to kill me and my family, it was so retarded. And then he dropped out of the terrorist organization because he just wanted to fuck me and saw me as an object to be won and not a person to be loved, and he came back like some hero for hearing this prophecy, and all of his hair was all greasy and he was totally a bully, and now I guess she’s on crack.

fredcollins:

OKAY, SO, MY DAD COMES IN AND HANDS ME A LETTER TODAY AND HE WAS LIKE “well I don’t know what’s happening but I’m pretty sure this is for you” AND THIS IS WHAT HE HANDS ME:

so naturally I OPEN IT.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I WAS EXPECTING TO FIND

someone legitimately took the time and money to write out this letter EXACTLY as it appears in Goblet of Fire, and COVER IT IN STAMPS. THEY EVEN SEALED IT WITH WAX.

I DON’T KNOW WHO THE FUCK DID THIS 

WHAT IS HAPPENING

butterbeerformyrealfriends:

prongsmydeer:

I think it speaks to the fact that Snape was fucking horrible that Neville’s worst fear was not Bellatrix Lestrange, the person who tortured his parents until they could no longer remember who they were, or even Voldemort, whose name the act was committed in, but his school teacher who bullied him nine months at a time for years on end.

jaymhensley:

so i found my old vcd-copy of harry potter and the chamber of secrets and… i don’t know what’s more entertaining, the movie or the subtitles.

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cloysterbell:

Out of context Harry Potter quotes are the best things ever.

• “Tired of walking in on Harry, Hermione and Ron all over the school, Professor McGonagall had given them permission to use the empty Transfiguration classroom at lunchtimes.”
• “Stars winking in front of his eyes, he grabbed the top of the hat to pull it off and felt something long and hard beneath it.

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confusedtree:

Pretty much every single facet of Wizard society in the Harry Potter books is an anachronism so what I want to know is how are they socially advanced enough to know that segregation based on ethnicity is totally uncool but still think that ballpoint pens are stupid

There’s a lot about the universe of the Harry Potter books that is infuriatingly stupid and I know they’re just books but so much of the characterization and plot develops around these rules that Rowling so weakly and haphazardly establishes that one can’t help but start trying to sift through it all

Like, what is the general metric for common decency in the Wizard world because this is a society where someone can literally scoff at the idea of dying in a car crash as if to suggest wizards have a contingency for that sort of thing that they just don’t feel like sharing with muggles

There’s also a complete absence of consent for pretty much every aspect of daily life. At any moment someone can jinx you and rob your body of its autonomy or make slugs sprout from your face or entirely rewrite your memory and this behaviour is both encouraged and enabled in the education system and so long as it’s not within view of people who are incapable of doing the same thing there is literally no recourse for that kind of shit

The closest thing to any consequence at all is getting shipped off to what is essentially the Boss Level Alcatraz where demons physically feed on your happiness which is a bit of an overkill for pretty much everything Mundungus Fletcher gets away with

Why wasn’t Hermione secretly a murderous misanthrope having the worldview she had and being lucid to this entirely offensive dichotomy? Why do people say they wish they lived in the world of these books? Don’t wish that. This is a horrible horrible awful place where existence is suffering and also someone might turn your snot into aggressive bats