#replacement for Harry Potter

[crowleysgirl56]

Hey fellow former Potterheads and current Good Omens obsessed fandom. Have you been looking for a new book series to replace Harry Potter in your life? Are you stupidly obsessed with Good Omens and see references everywhere? Then look no further than the Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series!

What if the government had a secret sanctioned department run by witches? Oh and witches and magic are real. And something super bad has been prophesied to happen involving demons and gods?

I’ve just finished reading the first book and it’s so great. Ultra feminist, all female characters, trans positive stories and characters, a twisting mystery, and action packed narrative. This series blows Harry Potter out of the water.

Where does Good Omens come in? Well there’s an ancient witch family with the surname Device. Scenes set in Soho. Ineffable is mentioned at least once. Fights with demons. And I had to highlight the following passages when I came across them:

Now admittedly the Crowley mentioned here is either Aleister Crowley, or potentially Zak Crowley (who has written a number of occult books).

And when Chinara says “Nothing lasts forever” I literally gasped out loud. #traumatised

You can’t tell me that maybe Juno Dawson was sprinkling in some references. Or maybe it’s a complete coincidence and my brain is just too full of brainrot? Who knows!

In any case, this is a great book and I’m really looking forward to reading the second (mostly because the first ends on a god damn cliffhanger!)

Join me in my next post where I’m going to share who my dream cast for the characters are, because this absolutely needs to be into a TV series (you know, instead of fucking rehashing Harry Potter again maybe).

(TW: transphobia. However there’s a lot of positive fight against and I loved it)

[replacing-posts-with-rats]

[thalthanmadanus]

Draco is THE antagonist of the story and I'm lowkey sick of people diminishing his character's importance in the story and to Harry's character development. so I'm writing an essay about how Draco as a character is fucking important especially his antagonistic arc

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1. The crumbs:

First of all, and this doesn't get mentioned often, Draco is the first magical kid Harry meets his age.

Not only that, he is our first glimpse at two major upcoming conflicts in the series: Blood Supremacy, and Hogwarts houses.

Draco plays the important role of the narrative foil to Harry. (even wikipedia references them in the "foil" page)

Draco's main function as a character is to showcase Harry's best traits, through being his most worst. Unlike, Snape and Voldemort, Draco is more concerned with creating internal conflicts for Harry than external ones.

He is the character that says mudblood the most, with the frequency decreasing every book. He is the character that plays with/teases/bullies the psychological vulnerabilities of the trio (specifically Ron and Harry). He is one of the few characters that give rational criticism (against Hagrid, calling out the trio dynamic..) that, taken outside the keyframe imposed by the author, can showcase the flaws in Harry's views and his bias. He is also the only character that shows moral self-reflection that isn't motivated by either a reward or "love", which not only serves as character development for Draco but for Harry too who grows to sympathize with Draco, a small breakup from his fixed binary morality.

Draco is also a very active character. His actions and choices affect the plot. The majority of the first book literally happens because of his dumbass. In the second book, he is our first introduction to the word mudblood, he's also the main suspect to the two main mysteries. If Draco wasn't such a bitchass, would buckbeak gave been in said place for Harry to use him to save Sirius?

He is important narratively but what interests me is his importance to Harry's arc.

What separates Draco from other antagonists is that he creates internal conflicts that stem from his personal conflicts with Harry, because of Harry as a person. Not because Harry's the chosen one standing in his way, not because Harry's lily or James's son. Because Harry's Harry. and this exchange is mutual.

Their personal dynamic is set up in their first meeting. Harry, upon hearing two sentences from Draco, reacts negatively because of deeply personal issues (Dudley). I don't think Harry reacts personally to any other characters the way he did with Draco? Considering that Draco wasn't even hostile in his first sentences.

While Draco targets both Harry and Ron, there's a clear difference in how Draco bullies them both but also how Harry and Ron perceive Draco.

Draco is crueler on Ron. And his bullying doesn't feel personal, just apathetic, humiliating and mean. It feels like Draco is more cruel on Ron because Harry chose Ron over him and it shows by Draco coming back every now and then searching for Harry's compartment, trying to egg him, to look for a way that will make Harry regret rejecting Draco.

About Harry & Ron perception about Draco, it's showcased in the second book by the two main major events Draco was suspected in

1. Opening CoS. It was Ron who suspected Draco for this, not Harry. Ron suspects Draco for an action that affects everyone in the school.

2. Sending Dobby. Harry suspects that it was Draco that sent Dobby to prevent Harry from coming to school. Harry suspects Draco of an action that targets him specifically, and his reason of suspect? "because Malfoy hates me". It's personal.

Another instance of Harry making every issue personal with Draco: In the fifth book, after the sorting hat's song about houses unity

'And it wants all the houses to be friends?' said Harry, looking over at the Slytherin table,where Draco Malfoy was holding court. 'Fat chance. '

I'm also pretty sure the reason why Harry chooses not to be in Slytherin was 50% because Draco got sorted into Slytherin. the other 50% being Hagrid telling him that Slythering are eviiil. Btw a conversation that wouldn't have happened if Draco hadn't brought up houses in their first meeting.

Like I said, most of the plot in the first book goes back to Draco.

My main point is that the relationship between Harry and Draco as characters is beyond goals, motives, obstacles, moral causes bla bal bla, and is on the spectrum of "I took that personally".

2. the main plate:

Draco transitioned in the sixth book from an antagonist to a "side character" with a life. His role as character no longer functioned by his connection to Harry.

and this is where a flip of dynamic happened, where Harry became the antagonist to Draco's arc.

He's the one following him. He's the one egging him on (in the first 5 books,it was always Draco starting conversations with Harry, but in the sixth book, it's mostly Harry who started conversations with Draco) He's the one hurting him (Sectumsempra) (even on accident). He's the one trying to create obstacles to Draco's goal.

and why is that? why was Harry so obsessed with Draco?

If it were because of a moral righteousness, then why not focusing on Snape who's probably more suspicious? like who cares about Draco.. yeah he's sus but Dumbledore says it's not important..

This line of thought is more Ron and Hermione because they don't share the kind of deep personal issues towards Draco like Harry does.

so why is harry so obsessed?

"Harry, knowing and loathing Malfoy, was sure the reason could not be innocent."

This line in the sixth book explains it. Harry knows and loathes Draco with more emphasis on *knowing*.

Harry admits that he knows Malfoy, of course the fruit of labor of staring at Draco for five years, but why does he even stare in the first place? Because Harry is curious about Draco.

In comparison with Snape and Voldemort, our other antagonists,  Harry doesn't show the same enthusiastic curiosity for them. At least not the same way he does with Draco. Most of what we know about Snape and Voldemort are shown through external ways. Either their memories of memories of other people about them. Their character arcs happen outside Harry's vision,  either in the past or in a memory. It's not Harry who seeks those information. They come to him.

Draco, on the hand, most if not all of his character development happens in front of Harry. From his bullshit in the five years to him crying in the bathroom, him lowering his wand, him lying in the Manor. even the visions that Harry sees through Voldemort about Draco torturing Rowle, are happening in the present. Draco's character development is laid bare in front of Harry. 

but back to his obsession in the sixth book, it's because Harry knows Draco so well that not only he's right about him being a DE, but "Malfoy being up to something" is not something new to Harry, it's actually a normal thing that kept happening for 5 years of his life. Malfoy was always up to smtg. It's this idea of a normality that fuels like a new purpose in life for Harry after being wrecked by Sirius' death. Not only the mystery tingles his detective neurons, he knows he's right about Draco which only fuels his persistence. Draco being a person he hates also downplays the guilt/shame Harry could feel while stalking him. like I'm sorry but Harry was shameless and embarassing the whole year. The way Hermione and Ron looked at him sometimes so funny, also Hermione distancing herself from Harry when he talked to McG about Draco like "idk this person". Harry was kinda giving pre-HBP Draco vibes lowkey.

This shows that Harry himself is motivated by personal feelings (though negative) as an antagonist to Draco's arc himself.

And the important point here is the flip of dynamics. Draco is not just a mere side character in Harry's life. If anything, the moment he tries to become a side character with his is own arc, Harry is forcing himself in it. Because they're both foils to each other. It doesn't work on just one side.

The dessert:

The dynamic completely evolves again with the end of HBP as Draco gains a moral sense and Harry watching Draco's character development unfolding gains a more nuanced view than his old black/white one.

In DH, Draco and Harry are not antagonists anymore to each other. Draco and Harry are kind of heroes to each other?? as they both try to save each other like two times.

A lot of people downplay Draco's lie in the Manor, comparing it to Dudley's "You're not a waste of space" as "character development" moment.

bruh.

Dudley said that after Harry saved him. Draco literally was the one who took the initiative to lie, expecting no reward, literally had more to lose by lying, he was literally acting against his own interests, his family's life was in danger!!! Harry saved Draco after Draco saved him.

also Draco's character development started with him lowering his wand.

but back to being each other heroes. Our other comparison is Ron who is in both situations where Harry saves Draco but he's the one reacting negatively and complainig about them saving Draco, not Harry. Which is funny because Ron says "we saved you" but in both cases it's Harry who's doing the saving and Ron is  just there witnessing, and again I don't think he still realizes what was happening since the sixth year. He thinks his hostile feelings towards Draco are the same ones Harry has. That they're similar. Ron.. Harry literally almost risked your life to save Draco.

It also speaks of character development from Harry that he's not reacting negatively anymore towards Draco. He grew out of it. Like Draco also was starting to grow out of his toxic ideologies.

They're both growing up simultaneously.

And Draco was The first wizard kid Harry talked to (with no precognition or insidious motive)

Draco was the first character who he flew with

Draco was the first character who he dueled with

and so in DH,

Draco was the first character who tried to help Harry with no selfish motive

Draco was the first character that flew with Harry on the same broom (at least I think so?)

Draco was the first and only character whose wand Harry dueled with against Voldemort and won.

I wish I could write more. About Sectumsempra. About wand connection. but I'm tired.

[emilykaldwen]

If you still think you can throw money in any capacity to any Harry Potter related content + theme park

There are two main ways that Warner Bros. et al. get paid from Universal according to this contract. The first one is a “Guaranteed Fee,” which is paid every year on July 1st.

Every time you purchase a Butterbeer, licensed product, on-ride photograph, or even a bottle of Gillywater from one of the Wizarding World lands at a Universal Park around the world, a percentage of that sale will go directly to the rights holders (Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling).

[citrusotakutea]

I was worried about "Severus Snape as he was" being replaced as soon as the reboot was announced. Not only is it happening, people, including so-called Snape fans, are happy about it and want you to be as well.

People have been telling me not to worry this whole time but the show hasn't even finalized the cast yet and already people are JUMPING at the chance to change canon, fanart, their headcannons, and more because of one actor.

As I thought, no one truly cared for the greasy, poor Half-Blood, his story or what it had to say.

But he's "just fictional", right?

Mark my words, they'll retwist his character into something unrecognizable from the original. As of last week, they've created a new character. This reboot is supposed to last 10 something years. Original Snape fans, when you get shit for liking anything resembling pre-2025 Snape, don't say I didn't warn you.

Snape was perfect to me. I didn't see any reason to change his story or likeness, which yes, is very very VERY important to his character. Just because you could swap it out for other ""undesirable"" (the actor is a conventionally attractive man, just black) features, doesn't mean that that actually fits his current story. They will have to alter his motivation, mannerisms, and backstory for this. More. All for one actor.

They did not think this casting choice through by the way, if you think they care about Snape's character or representation at all. It's painfully obvious someone unfamiliar with the plot as a whole but also unfamiliar with Snape made this choice. They chose the actor and will twist the story to fit him. Not the other way around, where the story made sense in some parts, and then they made the decision to cast an actor of non-English or non-Irish decent. There are different ethnicities that could have fit this (personally, if I had to, I would have gone with someone of Rroma descent, not hard to find in England) regardless, it would have made sense that he would be visibly mixed race.

I pointed this out back in December but many parts of Snape's backstory being stolen taken and attributed to a black man, now living in England in the 60s/70s, makes the story take on a racist undertone. Many Snape fans could point out what his backstory originally intended to highlight in terms of discrimination, especially in terms of classism. But HBO took a look at a young, poor, abused child who fell into the wrong crowd, joined a cult (or gang, if you will), who then reformed but ultimately had students and peers alike distrust him because of his looks and past... and thought "Yep, let's cast a black man in this."

Right.

Not to mention one of the books is called "Half-Blood Prince"? Where is the half? If he isn't mixed at all, are we going to hear about the pureblood Prince family of African descent living in England for hundreds of years? Slavery? His pureblood classmates immediately target him despite knowing his family's history. Hello?

Let's be honest, we all know this was a poorly thought out attempt at getting more people interested in the show by using diversity and controversy. What about Hermione? If she's not cast with a black actor either, honestly this just doubly confirms my point about Snape. Not to mention, the potential for casting colorism if she ends up being light-skinned and mixed but the Half-Blood Prince is not. Hell, Harry and James should be South Asian just going off what's popular.

This is just as bad as J.K. Rowling's Twitter stints where she'd just make up stuff on the spot because she could. In fact, it's exactly like that. They're throwing BIPOC fans, not bones, but scraps desperately hoping a couple thousand more people will flock to the show BECAUSE of the political controversy it will create.

As for long, die-hard Snape fans, they could care less. Even though he is pointedly one of the characters in the history of ever with the biggest, most rabid fanbases-- to the point where we have a famous religion and/or cult. I've been asked if I was a Snape Wife. The girl reading this, I'm sure you have, too.

This will change how you're allowed to interact with Snape in the fandom. Even if the reboot gets canceled early or if it's largely ignored by fans, some people won't allow you to acknowledge the original Snape. Because "his appearance doesn't matter", you'll have to recognize him as Paapa. His "status doesn't matter", so you'll have to recognize him as Paapa. "Snape doesn't matter."

Snape, in all honesty, in terms of characterization is one of the most thought out characters in Young Adult fiction I've ever read. There is not one word on a page that isn't meaningful in some way. It's not wrong or bad to acknowledge that. It's also not wrong or bad to like his old appearance.

Snape fans, please know that we don't have to take this lying down. Speak out about it on social media, contact HBO, or sign a petition. Anything. But, please, don't stay silent.

Ah, yes. Snape the person who got lost his best (white, childhood, a girl) friend by saying "mudblood" while being sexually assaulted, joined a "Nazi wizard cult", and later on shows personal growth by telling the portrait of Phineas to not say "mudblood" and dying for someone else's son. Will Petunia get hate for immediately distrusting him? Will James and Sirius? Doesn't matter because they (Marauder's Era) were RIGHT to immidiately distrust the *checks notes* only black man in their private school in the middle of bumfuck England. Snape supposedly didn't wash his hair, had bad teeth and an ugly nose, and was hated in school because he involved himself with dangerous dark magic. One of those being a "shanking spell" (my joke here) he created. Hell, he's constantly emasculated by the characters and story. Not to mention, Snape's parents, an abusive alcoholic and a (also ugly) neglectful witch, will now be portrayed by black people. Yay! Diversity win! It's not like those were issues among families and young men that were being highlighted in English society, either. Clearly all inherently black traits. Yep. I'm glad this is what our community is seen as.

Whether you want to argue that being ethnically English is important to Snape's character or not-- I'm sure they thought this change through very well. Just trust me bro, his original story doesn't matter, accept this.

[atlasdoe]

Are we ever going to talk about how The Marauders fandom is physically unable to like a character unless they're flawless

this is kinda a rant so if your sensitive don't read but i've been seeing a pattern recently

like for example:

The headcannon that Sirius lost all of his friends and regretted the prank when in cannon nobody gave a shit apart from Snape

The headcannon that Mary obliviated herself turning into Dumbledore obliviating Mary. I swear people started noting how selfish it could be to erase the memories of your friends who died in a war and leave their orphaned son so the fandom had to change the headcannon so that Mary doesn't do it but Dumbledore does cause god forbid one of these characters actually does something shitty on their own accord

Any idea of Regulus, Barty or Evan going to Dumbeldore for help and Dumbledore rejecting them. Dumbledore would've jumped on having another Death Eater spy for him. When have we ever seen him turn anyone down???

Literally anything relating to Regulus Barty and Evan being forced to do things

I literally once saw somebody say "what if the only reason why Barty was with Bellatrix was because they were having a memorial for Regulus and he was innocent the entire time"

Any kind of excuse that people give for Remus marrying and impregnating Tonks only to run the moment responsibility crops up

Calling misogyny whenever a female character is a villain in a fic or whenever Lily or Tonks are bad mothers (i've talked about this before but fanfiction does not equal headcannons and just because Lily or Tonks or anyone is a bad parent in a fic or is villaised doesn't mean that the writer doesn't like the character or sees them as a bad person)

Ignoring that Evan was friends with Snape, Mulciber, Avery and Wilkes while at Hogwarts (people the fandom villainies)

Any excuse that anyone comes up with for what James and Sirius did in Snapes worst memory

i could go on and on but my point is that nearly every character in the marauders era that we have information on is in some way morally grey and i am so sick of seeing people excuse their actions or coming up with far fetched headcannons to make them more "likeable" I LIKE THEN FUCKED UP A LITTLE STOP MAKING THEM SO BORING

[rewritingcanon]

like i feel like most of the dramione hate is not really about dramione itself its about the shippers like why do you all act like That

[lulublack90]

Prompt 10 - Comfortable

@jegulus-microfic September 10, Word count 172

“James, it’s going in the bin!” Regulus grimaced. 

“What?! No!” James lunged out of his chair and attempted to snatch his old jumper out of Regulus’s hands, but Regulus easily sidestepped him. 

“At this point, it’s more holes than jumper. I will buy you a new one,” Regulus said, twisting the jumper around and showing all the places the cotton had spilt. 

“It won’t be the same, that one is so comfortable,” He whined.

“Tough,” Regulus said, his face completely emotionless as he held his wand up to it and set it alight. It did not take long for there to be nothing but ashes left. James hung his head sadly. 

“Buck up, love,” Regulus smirked as he threw a bag at James. Inside was a brand-new replica of the jumper Regulus had just burned. James quickly yanked it over his head and moaned. 

“It’s even softer than the old one. Thanks, love,” Regulus rolled his eyes and went to make some tea while James ran his hands up and down himself. 

[lilywalkers]

andromeda and sirius can relate to one another because they both left their families in pursuit of a less sheltered, more open-minded life. narcissa and regulus can relate to each other for being the ones “left behind,” obligated to follow family traditions even though they may not agree with them. bellatrix, however, is alone in her struggles. the eldest daughter that should have been a son. the obsessive, frightening girl who gained the attention of tom riddle himself, and soon surrounded herself with people who both loved and feared her. the mad woman.

[loonyloopylupin96]

AU where Remus was one of the people trapped on the ISS recently.

He was in comms with other space agencies on the ground. He wasn't supposed to be the one up there - Minerva is furious, but... They'll deal with that imminently.

It's all fine until the days turn into a week, and they still can't get back down.

And now there's something Gryffindor Space Agency isn't telling the others. Severus, one of those on board, has been advised to stay alert. But for what, exactly?

It's time the wizarding world finds out what happens when you send a werewolf into space.

[stonnedparrott]

Yk the song from Mufasa that's like "I always wanted a broTHHa, what did you say about my broTHHa"

Ya I'm gonna need about a million edits to that about Sirius to Regulus/James

[hptrash-lookaway]

Idk if literally anyone else thinks about this, but I’m also always thinking about Harry being all sad because people don’t really see him when they look at him, they see the bwl or his parents

And yeah there’s a ton of people who do see Harry as just the bwl, but like,, outside of like,, the order and a couple of others, most people probably aren’t seeing Harry’s parents in him, like Lily and James weren’t famous till they died (outside of James being the sole heir to an old line, although it does raise the question of if people took issue with him marrying Lily since she was a muggleborn, anyways how many people would care that much about James being the last Potter outside of other old family lines?) so outside of the people they personally interacted with, most probably didn’t pay that much attention to them, whereas Harry is hella famous and has been that way for most of his life

Idk if I can actually articulate my point but anyways once again thinking about a lot of people from the marauders generation ending up in the hp generation, and Harry’s all worried about no one caring about him anymore because he thinks most people only care about him as a replacement for his parents, but a lot of the people from his generation are only excited to meet them because they’re Harry’s parents

Idk it’s also funny to me to think about it being like still in the middle of the war and the order really caring about Lily and James being back and feeling more confident, and outside of like Snape, most of the death eaters and Voldemort aren’t fully sure who they’re looking at for a few seconds, like they’ve just been so focused on Harry for so long, only caring about them when that prophecy came out

(and considering it had to have come out around when Harry was born because due dates are so fickle and he was 1 when they were killed, it had to be max a year till they were found, not too long in the grand scheme of things)

Also I’m imagining that this is more teenage James and Lily, so it doesn’t help that they don’t look exactly how they did before dying

(My reasoning for most death eaters not caring about James and Lily before the prophecy is that I believe the theory that most order members weren’t public knowledge, they didn’t have to go into hiding until the prophecy was made (if DE’s cared about them, no way they wouldn’t have been in a protected house from the start), we don’t really know what defying Voldemort means so it could’ve been anything, doesn’t necessarily mean it was in a way Voldemort would’ve cared about till he sat down to figure out which family the prophecy could be about and was like “oh wait”, and some other reasons that make sense only to me and idk how to word them)

(Like I really think they’d be in the same amount of being famous as Tonks would be pre-prophecy, she’s an order member, she’s an auror like James who probably doesn’t take shit from all those death eaters who should’ve been in Azkaban and are now living normal lives, and she has a dramatic family history, her mom was completely disowned from a very well known family for marrying her dad, when they didn’t even completely disown Sirius!! And then she had a baby with a known werewolf, yet there’s not ever really a sense that she’s that famous or that death eaters care that much about her)

[ultrafandomythings]

I am, in fact, a Draco apologist. BUT!! I am a Harry defender FIRST 😭😭 so sometimes drarry fanfic be pissing me off

[platos-babygirl]

So one thing I've been exploring is what Harry got from his mum other than her eyes. Honestly, disregarding canon (obvs) I think it would be cool if there were a few more clues. like.

Harry has his mothers lips and her smile and it kills Petunia a little bit more whenever she sees it.

He has his mothers hands and her warmth and the way he hugs people is so reminiscent of her that Sirius nearly burst into tears the first time Harry hugged him because it reminded him so much of Lily.

Harrys hair is wild like his mums. His dads hair was always ruffled and messy but it could always be tamed, Lilys on the other hand was often tied back or kept short because it would go all over the place.

Harrys little toes were the same as his mums. He didn't know it but they looked exactly the same, incidentally, most of the people born on his mums side of the family were born with the same shaped little toes.

Harry's eyes were the same as Lily's but they were also the same as Lily's aunt and her grandfather.

There are small hidden details in Harrys body and body that reveals the true history of the Evans family and enough of a resemblance that Harry looked like his dad but also gave just strong hints of Lily in ways that nobody could describe.

[ribcage-bitch-ass]

ominis gaunt and mc - 1897

plz reblog, it’s better than liking!

[rewritingcanon]

It irks me that people wanted Harry to put Remus' name on his son Babes, that man was avoidant as fuck throughout Harry's whole life. He wasn't even going to tell him that he knew his dead parents or that he was their friend (I'm talking about book!Remus, so I'm not considering that scene of them in PoA real). And after that, he never tried to be present in Harry's life, which I understand since he suffered a lot of hardships from being a werewolf but still!!! The closest Harry and Remus ever became was in book 7 after Harry called his bullshit and didn't fall into Remus' manipulation (the "It's what your father would've want, Harry"). Please, imagine being scolded by a 17 yo for leaving your pregnant wife and unborn child...burn I get why people hate Harry's name choosing, but Albus makes more sense and also Ginny would love an antique name so she would be 100% on board with that. And I hate the Severus too but well I support Harry's rights and wrongs (even if it's more the author's fault than his own). Side note: The name is bad but every other alternative I've encountered is WORSE.

yeah i was thinking this but i wasn’t gonna be the one to say it 😭 i think people overestimate how close those two were thanks to fanon. like yes harry definitely loved him but nothing bro did warranted getting a child named after him.

and i agree, i think the second son being named after dumbledore makes sense for harry but sliding snape into that had to be just honest to god fan service LMAO