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“Imagine you’re bisexual and both your crushes start dating”

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ronmione in my style

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Hogwarts through the seasons [X]

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make me choose » @peachparfum asked: james or and sirius?

I don’t think we’ve ever had such a pair of troublemakers!

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James and Sirius who are so in sync with each other they propose at the same time

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Looking for some trouble tonight

Take my hand I’ll show you the wild side 

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Tho I can perfectly imagine Lily rolling her eyes, James stomping in his own feet ‘cause he can’t see a thing without his glasses and Sirius laughing hysterically at him

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Ruff day Pads?

Really? Come on Prongs, you can do better than that.

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prongsfoot and their homoerotic on-pitch antics

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based off this headcanon 

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have you done marauders as rats yet?? if not, which rat would you assign each marauder (+ anyone else u want) pls

I might have done this before but cant be sure!!!! Since the wild rats are not all that different from each other, we will do some fancy rats Sirius has a satin fur, which is softer and longer and finer than the standard fancy rat. He is a black rat ofc.

James is a rex rat. Look at him!!!!

Remus is a brown hooded rat because they are very basic and very loveable. Just little dudes of fancy rats

and Peter is a dumbo rat because that is the last one who would ever sell you to the enemy!!!!

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i would also love to hear more about prongsfoot youtubers!!! what's their most viral video? where else do they travel to? how did they get into making videos?

Hahhaha so I am imagining that their channel is based on these adventure videos which are either them working as a team (having to travel from point A to B without starting money or other difficulties) or against each other (competing who can make their way to goal fastest or playing stuff like tag games.)

They would start their channel with all kinds of little silly challenges that teenage boys can come up and slowly start doing bigger stuff. They are using all the money Sirius got from Alphard and also James's trust fund to get the thing started lmao. Sirius is in charge of editing!!!

I think they would have lots of fun with all the exploring and adventuring, coming up with creative ways to earn money during the trips and doing strategic route planning in challenges. And the fact that they are both just naturally funny, good looking and charming will get them more attention.

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not shipping remadora is transphobic because tonks is nonbinary coced. i know this because i am a they/them user

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Hey how are you? I was actually curious how the characters' main writing was like. I remember that Harry makes his "i" like Lily's and Ron has a bad writing but I don't remember well for characters like dumbledore, Snape, Malfoy...

Hi, I'm doing pretty good, swamped with uni, but I don't have much to complain about.

Luckily for you, I actually have some notes regarding canon character handwriting. These notes are from supplementary books (Fantastic Beasts & Tales of Bettle the Bard) which actually have the character's handwriting in them. Along with some quotes I found about character handwriting.

(Also I'm not using signatures from the movies)

Harry:

'She had made her “g”s the same way he did' (DH) - Harry's handwriting shares some letters with his mother's handwriting. Notably, the "g".

Ron:

'Ron’s untidy scrawl' (CoS)

 'said Ron, scribbling away, making his writing as large as possible' (CoS)

'Harry stared at the word “Pig,” then looked up at the tiny owl now zooming around the light fixture on the ceiling. He had never seen anything that looked less like a pig. Maybe he couldn’t read Ron’s writing' (GoF)

Hermione:

'Harry could make out Hermione’s neat writing' (CoS)

'And Hermione’s done four feet seven inches and her writing’s tiny' (CoS)

Dumbledore:

'Written in narrow, loopy writing he had never seen before' (PS)

'The narrow handwriting was vaguely familiar' (OotP)

'thin, slanting writing on the parchment' (HBP)

'were five words written in the thin, slanting handwriting that Harry recognized as Dumbledore’s' (DH)

McGonagall:

From the actual HP books we get McGonagall's handwriting as well, due to her signature being on Harry's Hogwarts letter:

Snape:

Thanks to the HBP book, we also have some notes about Snape's handwriting:

'and yet his writing was minuscule and cramped' (OotP)

'cramped handwriting' (HBP)

 'Although Harry had offered to share his book with both of them, Ron had more difficulty deciphering the handwriting than Harry did' (HBP) - I take this to mean young Snape had tiny handwriting and that might be slightly similar to Harry's own (hence his ease at reading it).

'I think the handwriting looks more like a girl’s than a boy’s' (HBP) - assuming the handwriting is small and has some flourishes. (I kina imagine Snape's and Lily's handwriting is similar, which is why I think Harry's handwriting is a little similar to the Prince's)

Hagrid:

We also have some notes regarding Hagrid's writing which is nearly eligible.

'even a scribble that looked as though it was from the Hogwarts gamekeeper, Hagrid.' (CoS)

'He recognized the untidy scrawl on the brown paper at once: this was from Hagrid' (PoA)

Tom Riddle's:

'Riddle’s reply came quickly, his writing becoming untidier, as though he was hurrying to tell all he knew' (CoS) - meaning his handwriting is quite tidy usually.

(On an unrelated note since I've been searching for mentions of writing in the books I encountered this line in PS:

Harry cheered up a bit when he found a bottle of ink that changed color as you wrote

Considering we all talk about Harry's gold cauldron, I think we need to talk about Harry's color-changing ink. More cute Harry additions to Fantastic Beasts since I found them adorable:

The kid's adorable, I don't understand how the Dursleys could keep hating him, my boy.)

Edit: I got my hands on the 2017 edition of Quidditch Through the Ages, so I have more handwriting to add for anyone curious:

We've got in this photo: Ron (with comments), Neville, Susan (with comments), Hermione, Padma, Earnie, Melicent, Hermione again, and Draco.

(I'm not sure who commented on Ron and Susan's names as I don't recognize the handwriting. These are two different commenters I belive, due to how they write their 'S' and 'i'. The 'stinks' next to Ron's name might be Bulstrode as the 's' and 't' are a little similar)

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Hello guys i wanted to do a kind of crossover harry potter/ japanses magical girl with Hermione for the character design challenge

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Wizard Fashion History 1/?: Mantuas and the Statute of Secrecy

This is the last point at which wizard fashion and Muggle fashion were completely in step.

1692 is the point at which the Statute came into full effect, and is therefore our point of divergence. We’re starting here in our more historically grounded discussions of wizard fashion because until this point wizard fashion was Muggle fashion, wizard gender norms were Muggle gender norms. There’s some holdout from this period as late as the 90s - the pointed hats that are required for school and are to some extent normalized as unisex are probably intended to be derivatives of the brewster’s or alewife’s hat worn by Muggle women who brewed and sold beer out of their home. (This iconography has something of a murky origin point in our world, with a number of arguments for and against alewives-as-witches, but I think in-universe for this story we can safely say the link is there as an inspiration for wizard fashion.)

(left: 1624 woodcut, artist unknown; right: Arthur Weasley in a pointed brown hat, Chamber of Secrets (MinaLima illustrated edition))

Before I delve into menswear of the period, I want to look at womenswear, because I know more about womenswear and I can talk about it for hours I just think it’s neat.

The mantua (right) was a women’s garment consisting of a single overrobe worn over a stomacher and a contrasting petticoat. It originated as a women’s version of the banyan (left), a men’s robe inspired by kimonos and other robe-style garments encountered in Japan by European traders. Both the banyan and the mantua were originally intended to be “undress” wear, the kind of thing you wear at home when you’re lounging around. Mantuas, though, proved exceedingly popular, and sort of took over women’s fashion. (You’ll notice that both of these are robe-style garments worn as ordinary clothing, and that by the late 17th century the skirts of a mantua were very simple and didn’t involve farthingale or panniers - I don’t think Joanne did this on purpose, but it is interesting that our point of divergence already includes a degree of normalized “robes”.) As shown in the photos up top, court mantuas or fancy-dress mantuas could be cut back to showcase the lady’s stomacher and spiral-laced stays and petticoat, with the overrobe held in place by ties or pins.

(Salmon stays and busk, V&A - this is a little earlier than 1692 but illustrative of the kinds of bright colors you could see in stays meant to be seen.)

Making a mantua involved creating a single garment made to measure that was draped and pinned across the body rather than cut from an existing pattern. Mantua-makers, rather than dressmakers, became the norm for womenswear across much of the 17th and 18th centuries, and their style of garment construction was distinct from tailoring. Most mantua-makers were women, and most of the women working in garment construction as proprietress of their own establishment were mantua-makers. This is significant because Madame Malkin does her robemaking in the same manner - she works with each client individually and drapes and alters as she goes. Her shop is a descendant of the mantua-making tradition, a further indicator of ties between wizarding fashion of the 1990s and Muggle fashion three centuries earlier.

The elephant in the room, so to speak, is that I’m discussing upper-class fashion. I’m also only discussing Western European and particularly English fashion, but that’s because of where HP is set more than anything else. The class distinction is also one I’m doing on purpose, though, because upper-class wizards were the ones most involved in political arguments about the Statute, and their tastes in clothing would be just as aspirational and trendsetting as the upper class’s fashion choices are today. Since the wizarding world entered into a period of intense isolation after this point, those aspirational fashions are the aspirational fashions for some time. Almost for the rest of time.

Next time: the banyan, “undress” wear, and what men were doing

Further Reading on Modern Reconstructions:

1690s Mantua Ensemble - The Modern Mantua Maker

1690s Striped Mantua - Fashion Through Herstory

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which season would you assign each marauder?

Okay so James is summer because he's the sun - no just kidding haahha but he is still summer. Good Quidditch weather, upbeat mood, up for everything and a little too much ego as the most hyped season eventhough it is torturing us with heatwaves!!

Remus is an autumn kind of guy all the way. He is the pumpkin spice, maroon coloured sweater, pumpkin soup cooking, reading my book with a cup of tea aesthetic Pinterest girlies can only dream of! Also he is damp and chilly all the time.

Sirius is winter. Ethereal, quiet and beautiful but deadly if not handled with care. Greyscale is his whole vibe. Romanticised by many but also icy and menacing.

Peter is spring. Luring you with prospects of nice weather but then being fucking cold in the mornings and too hot midday. Sudden, unexpected hailstorm. Pretty flowers. Babygirl.