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Shamrock is in phase 1! In this phase, he is learning to associate a clicker with rewards, learning the precise positions he needs to be in with a handler, and learning to refuse food from others/on the floor in all situations. He will be introduced to the harness and treadmill, as well as learning early pattern work for guiding like learning how to stop at curbs and watch for obstacles both around and above a person. We're all cheering you on, Shammy! #shamrock #5P70 #guidedogsfortheblind #formaltraining

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“Said #NoWomanEver” exposes the aggressive harassment women face every day

On Sunday, women on Twitter had a message for men: #NoWomanEver has fallen in love with her catcaller, harasser or stalker. The sarcastic tweets expose how pervasive and invasive misogyny is to women’s everyday lives. After going through the hashtag on Sunday, some men began to realize and tweet their complicity in this.

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harry potter: so many people are dead

harry potter: well at least now i know what to name my children

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isn’t it amazing!! six continents, seven billion people on the planet, and a whole lifetime of choices and outcomes and in this particular string of decisions, in this point in time, out of everyone i get to meet, i got lucky enough to know you

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“Sir, am I allowed to tell Ron and Hermione everything you’ve told me?”

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social media aus make everything better lmao literally imagine the harry potter books + social media. second year someone snapchats a picture of literal death threats written on the walls in blood captioned ‘’hogwarts its the safest place in the world’ lmao bitch where??’ fourth year #potterstinks is trending locally on twitter. sixth year story gets out about harry’s conversation with snape and everybody in the gryffindor group chat changes their name to ‘roonil wazlib’ for a week. draco bitching about harry on yik yak as if the entire school doesn’t know for a fact its him. 

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           “Nearly Headless. How can you be Nearly Headless?” Hermione asked.                                                               “Like this.” Nick replied.

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Honestly Harry, sometimes you’re such a Hufflepuff.

I know there’s that fan theory that each member of the Golden Trio represents one of the other houses: Hermione is Ravenclaw, Harry Slytherin, and Ron Hufflepuff. But that’s never really felt completely right to me.

Because, yes, Harry is resourceful and clever and determined. But he’s not ambitious. Ron is the one who looks in the Mirror of Erised and sees himself as Head Boy, and Quidditch Captain, and the guy who won Gryffindor the House Cup. And Harry is a leader, sure, but it’s not because he necessarily wants to be: he just can’t trust anyone else to get the job done. I also wouldn’t really describe Harry’s brand of intelligence as cunning or shrewd. That, at least to me, suggests a kind of smarts that is more calculating and deceitful than Harry normally is.

How would I describe Harry? He works hard (not always in school, but when he deems it necessary), and is “unafraid of toil.“ He throws himself into practicing the Patronus Charm in his third year no matter how draining it is, he practices Quidditch for hours on end without (much) complaint, and he plans out his lessons for Dumbledore’s Army in advance and trains all its members. He’s kind to everyone he meets (except those who dish out unpleasantness first), and generally quite tolerant (except of Slytherins). He has a strong sense of what is fair, and defends it vehemently. He’s usually quite honest: this is the boy who would rather go through torturous detentions with Umbridge than pretend that Cedric Diggory died any way other than the way he did. And loyal? Yeah, Harry’s loyal as fuck.

Is Hufflepuff a perfect match for him? No. He’s often impatient, he lies when he has to, and he frequently lets his biases blind him. But Slytherin isn’t a perfect match for him either.

And when your first reaction to a friend crying is to immediately try to run to them and make them feel better, even if you don’t know how and you’ll get in even more trouble for it, and you have to be physical restrained from doing so… yeah, I suspect you might be at least part Hufflepuff.

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Is there a part of Sirius right now that’s just like, “Awww the last time I saw you, you could barely say one word, and now you’re walking and talking and accusing me of murder and threatening to curse me to death and I’m just so proud. Can someone take a picture so we can put it in a scrapbook under ‘Baby’s First Death Threat’????”

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“Um… what the fuck? I just put myself between you and a wand that wanted to murder you, and you’re just going to dump me on the floor? I mean, yes, I’m a cat and I’ll land fine, but still. Humans say cats are bitchy, but at least we’re not ungrateful. Well, we can be ungrateful, but at least we’re not thoughtless. Well, we can be thoughtless, but at least we’re–you know what? That’s not the point. The point is, I’m great and you are rude.” 

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This is such a small moment, but I think it accurately captures that stereotype (which is often true) that a lot of women will, in the face of any kind of perceived failure on their part, decide that they are somehow worth less.* Hermione makes one “mistake,” and suddenly she is willing to minimize her entire intelligence. Hermione, you’re thirteen and not only did you figure out what illness your professor suffers from, but you immediately understood the possible social, political, and economic ramifications if that information got out, and knew you had to keep it secret? You’re miles more intelligent than most of the adults you encounter in the wizarding world.

*This isn’t to minimize the fact that this is a struggle that people of any gender identity can have, but I think it is especially true for many females.

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Does it say more about Peter or Sirius that all it takes is one nod from Sirius for Remus to switch thirteen years of assumptions about who the traitor Marauder was?