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tension ⚡️

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it’s halfblooded prince but malfoy tells the truth from the very beginning and they solve their problems together

(and some post war stuff)

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i wanna know about the ring composition meta!

Ok, so, I am a bit unhinged about this 😂 I quite literally froth over all the parallelism, the foreshadowing and chiastic structure of these books, so I decided to put it all in once place and write a meta ... but the trouble is, there is SO much ground to cover that I am having difficulty breaking it down. Here are some of the main snippets and a few of my favourite points -

If something is characterised by chiasmus it denotes a structure in which words/events/stories are repeated in reverse order. For a Harry Potter relevant and more visual representation, it looks something like this -

PS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OoTP, HBP, DH

or refer to this excellent little diagram -

The chiastic structure and ring composition in Harry Potter can be broken down in a few main points -

The beginning (PS) and end (DH) meet - a story in which the beginning and end are at one point.

The 'big turn' or central line and Parallel halves - If the beginning and end are going to meet, the story needs a 'big turn' (a 180 so to speak) at some point to divide it into two halves, with the first half of the story being the outgoing and the second half, the returning. In the case of the HP books this is done by creating seperate sections (PS, CoS, PoA) that are placed against one another (OoTP, HBP, DH) across a central dividing line (GoF), thus making these halves parallels of one another.

Here are a few of my favourite examples of the joined beginning and end

The Forest Again: Harry's first encounter with Voldemort takes place in the forbidden forest, having stumbled upon the dead unicorn. This first encounter is echoed in 'The Forest Again' in DH which is to be Harry's supposed last encounter with Voldermort. 

Hagrid and Harry, together again (🥺): Hagrid brings baby Harry to Privet Drive on Sirius's motorcycle, Hagrid takes adult Harry away from Privet Drive on Sirius's motorcycle. Hagrid introduces Harry to the Wizarding World and is the one to tell him about Voldemort, Hagrid witnesses Harry's supposed death at the hands of Voldemort in The Forest Again and carry's his body to Hogwarts. 

Parents at Christmas (this one has to be my favourite): Little Eleven year-old Harry sees his parents for the first time over the Christmas Holidays, full of hope and longing, he is fascinated and absolutely entranced by their living reflections in the Mirror of Erised. On Christmas Eve in DH, Adult Harry visits his parents graves for the first time and, perhaps also for the first time ever, grieves fully. He sees his would-be home for the first time and experiences the murders of his parents through Voldemorts memories. 

The other Gryffindor champion (ahhhh another fav!): In PS,  Dumbledore awards Neville Longbotton, the decisive last-minute points necessary for Gryffindor's victory over Slytherin for the House Championship. Similarly, in DH, it is Neville's contribution in the final hour, his killing of the serpent Nagini with the Sword of Gyrffindor, that takes Voldemort over to mortality, thus ensuring victory once more. 

And some of the parallel halves

in CoS Harry takes a wrong turn in the floo network and ends up inside the vanishing cabinet at Borgin and Burkes where he spies on Draco Malfoy. In HBP, Harry once again finds himself spying on Draco Malfoy at Borgin and Burkes when he should be with the Weasleys, suspicious about what Draco is purchasing, which incidentally turns out to be, yep, the very same vanishing cabinet.

Both CoS and HBP have major plot points around the significance of a mysterious book, CoS - Tom Riddle's diary, HBP - the Half Blood Princes textbook.

In PoA Harry is introduced to his godfather, in OoTP (need I say more? 😭) he loses him.

In PoA we witness an authetnic prophecy made by Professor Trelawney, in OoTP we witness the authentic prophecy made by Professor Trelawney.

In PoA Snape is furious with Harry at the story's end, he is borderline unhinged because he suspects Sirius's escape has everything to do with Harry. in OoTP Harry is furious with Snape at the story's end, he is borderline irrational after Sirius's death for which he wants to believe Snape is responsible.

There are many, MANY more, but these will have to suffice for now, this is already turning into a thesis 😂

The last point where the ring composition in HP is concerned is -

The rings within the rings - What really takes this from interesting to remarkable is that not only is the series as a whole structured this way, but so is each individual book. Each and every book has its own joined beginnings and endings, an echoing midpoint and story turn, and chapters that echo one another across the story in axis. There are rings within the rings. 

Some super quick examples of this are (it's important to note that the chapters mentioned below are almost always each-others actual numerological parallel within the book) -

First and last chapters of CoS (1-2, 17): Harry meets Dobby on his Birthday, Dobby gives him a dire warning and tries to imprison him to keep him away from Hogwarts. In the latter, Dobby's warnings come to fruition and Harry gives Dobby freedom.

Chapters 4 and 20 of PoA: The trio frets over Scabbers failing health, mysterious longevity and about the ministry's efforts to capture Sirius. In the latter chapter, the trio corner Sirius, learn of Scabbers real identity and the true reason behind his seemingly ill health.

Chapters 8 and 30 of GoF: Harry sits in the top box with Barty Crouch Jr, Ludo Bagman, top Ministry officials and the Malfoys a the Quidditch World Cup. In the latter chapter, Harry finds himself sitting in spectator-full courtroom to watch the trials of Barty Crouch Jr, Ludo Bagman and other former Death Eaters by top Ministry officials.

Fourth and Fourth last chapters of OoTP (4, 35): In what is Sirius's first appearance in this book, we see him fighting with and pulling a curtain over his mother, an insane member of the Black family. In what is Sirius's last appearance in this book, we see him fighting with and being sent behind a veil by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange, an insane member of the Black Family.

Again, there are many, MANY more but I think I'll stop rambling and save them for the meta 😆 sorry for the extremely long winded answer here!!

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Playing with copics. DADA Professor Potter is the bees knees

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my piece from 2019 for @cauldronzine that I never posted! sleepy draco and harry :)

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The pictures of the reunion are sending me

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Expecto Patronum 🐉

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Happy Birthday to Sirius Black!

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@dailyhpgifs​ | Celebration Event - Day Five - favorite trio: Harry, Ron & Hermione: the golden trio

“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”

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hbp draco 🥲

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“Padfoot. Are you barking mad? You’ll blow the entire operation.” HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007) dir. David Yates

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Thinkin bout the gang :)

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i am remus lupin i am a monster i am a pisces i am crying in my kitchen in 1981 i am sitting in the astronomy tower with a beautiful boy i am on my fifth cup of tea i am waking up in a pool of my own blood i am get lonely by the mountain goats i am a terrarium in a glass jar i am in love with a mass murderer i am a wild creature i am double checking the answers on my test i am an outsider looking in i am giving you a piece of chocolate i am the crescent of the moon i am the buzzing of cicadas i am running from my problems i am my mother’s son i am an egon schiele painting i am making my friends laugh i am betting on loosing dogs i am the tame werewolf i am a professor late to class i am sixteen years old putting grass on your knee i am reading you a poem i am a talking heads song i am the last of the gang to die i am holding you like water in my hands

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sunkissed

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Get me with those green eyes, baby

As the lights go down

Gimme something that'll haunt me whenever you're not around

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sirius and regulus are like. they loathe each other and can’t be in the same vicinity without it turning into a fight but would do anything for each other. they haven’t had a civil conversation since sirius got sorted into gryffindor and sirius never forgets how he hoped and hoped when the sorting hat was put on reg’s head and how it all drained away the moment it shouted slytherin. sirius thinks regulus is weak and pathetic for buying into their family’s bullshit and tries and tries to change his mind usually in the form of spitting insults but still sighs in relief whenever regulus stays quiet and their parents leave him alone. regulus tells himself his parents are right and sirius deserves it when walburga punishes him but can’t stop the sickening feeling he gets every time. sometimes regulus almost laughs in admiration in the ridiculous ways sirius stands up to their family and notices how sirius covers up for him but neither of them mention it. sirius clings onto james as a replacement because he’s his brother now and his other brother who was barely a brother at all doesn’t matter but to want to replace someone that desperately means you had to have mourned losing them deeply first. they pretend to ignore their brother’s existence at hogwarts but always keep track of where the other is. sirius hexes the slytherins regulus is friends with, half out of spite and anger and half hoping it’ll somehow stop reg from getting in too deep with the wrong crowd. regulus looks at peter and remus and especially james and wants to kill them. 

they think back to the days when they were very young and sometimes actually got along and everything was easier and miss them but they’d never admit it. they never stop hoping the other will see sense and things will be different one day while knowing it’ll never happen. they know each other like the back of their hand yet don’t understand each other at all. the war comes and every time they’re sent on missions and battles they’re filled with dread at the possibility of who the enemy on the other side will be. grimmauld place is heavy with all the times they spewed venom and fought until they were both bloody but if you look close it’s littered with the small moments they tried to look after their brother too. they loved each other but both of them would die ten times over before ever calling it that. when sirius hears of regulus’s death he says in an emotionless voice of course the stupid idiot got himself killed while every moment sirius could’ve done something to prevent this outcome crashes down on him all at once. when regulus is in that cave about to die and drinking the potion that makes you see your greatest regrets he sees the moment sirius was running away and looking at regulus for the first time with something like pleading in his eyes and saying you could come with me and sirius’s hand twitched towards him like he wanted to grab him to take him away or hug him or punch him and regulus slammed the door hard in his face. 

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Dads coming to collect their boy!

Also Hermione says black trans rights

Typically Harry wouldn't be excited to go back over breaks, but with his dads its just different.