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[episkied]

"like the fact that the person sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said dumbledore quietly.

[wickd]

slytherin house: those cunning folk

"You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that."

slytherin | hufflepuff | ravenclaw | gryffindor

[witchcraftsource]

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”

[cinderllas-archived]

2k celebration edits ☾ ⤑ @quaffled requested: make me choose ∞ cedric diggory or fleur delacour

“You know the prefects bathroom on the 5th floor? It’s not a bad place for a bath.”

[lunaathorne]

@wizardingnetwork event 02: return to hogwarts → core courses for first years

"honestly, am i the only person who's ever bothered to read 'hogwarts: a history'?"

[wylanvnneck]

↳ @firestarsandseneschals asked Ginny Weasley or Hermione Granger

"Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest."

Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them. "What did you tell her?"

“I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. "Much more macho."

“Thanks," said Harry, grinning. "And what did you tell her Ron’s got?"

“A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.”

insp.

[thestral]

“Hey, pay attention to me! I’m fascinating.”

zatanna zatara, the magician

[daywing-moved]

07.31 ➵ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, H A R R Y P O T T E R.

anyway - harry, a very happy birthday to yeh.

[rheanrya]

@wizardingnetwork event 02: Return to Hogwarts

↳  Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

[mischiefsmanaged]

insp. (x)

[fantasylitnet]

HERMIONE GRANGER

“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things! — Friendship! And Bravery!”

[episkied]

THE HARRY POTTER SERIES (featuring colors from the book covers)

[wickd]

hogwarts house aesthetics: slytherin

"Now, there a few things you should know about Slytherin - and a few you should forget..."

[gruumpy-cat]

the veela thing or, alternatively, jkr is the worst in too many ways to count, so here’s another one.

fleur delacour is one of my favourite characters in harry potter and her treatment in canon hurt my lil’ feminist heart so fucking much.

here’s a girl who is obviously someone who is capable and smart and a powerful witch but let’s reduce her to the fact that she’s beautiful. let’s also ignore her massive bravery in getting involved in a foreign war while she’s barely out of school. let’s ignore the huge misogyny behind the belief that a girl can’t be beautiful and smart/capable. that if she’s pretty, it must mean she’s shallow and not good enough.

jkr’s treatment of veelas is just another show of misogyny on her part and honestly, it’s very uncomfortable to read.

veelas at the world cup - arthur's casual comment: 'and that, boys, is why you should never go for looks alone' implies there's no other value to being a veela than being some thing that's pretty, and i'm using 'some thing' very deliberately here because throughout the hp books, they're reduced to pretty, shiny things. it also, once again, heavily implies that beautiful girls are nothing more than their looks.

the veelas are also reduced to...animals and female hysteria in their moment of anger, acting completely wild which is... pretty fucking terrible. especially when you put it into perspective on how angry women or women with opinions on literally anything have been treated throughout history, and, what’s worse, still today.

let’s get back to treatment of fleur - maybe 80% of what we see of her in goblet of fire is ...variations on how beautiful she is and how men behave around her and interact with her. which is, frankly, a fucking awful way on jkr's part in treating a badass female character who is a triwizard champion. she's always shown as being the weakest in the tournament and in the second task, the only one who fails...oh silly girl, right? later - strong female characters like molly, ginny and hermione treat fleur like garbage for absolutely no reason except that they don't consider this beautiful, shallow girl as good enough?! and then the male weasley family members are your standard 'ogling her and drooling over her' type of people. men, who, up until their interactions with fleur, were mostly acting like normal human beings towards women.

ugh.

let’s just abuse women’s sexuality and also let’s reduce it to manipulation.

are girls worthy of badassery and respect only when they’re not feminine and/or beautiful?

fuck that. fleur delacour is fucking amazing.

[cinderllas-archived]

2k celebration edits ϟ ⤑ @jamespttr requested: Remus Lupin (Harry Potter Series)

“It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.”

[lunaathorne]

@booksociety 's back to school event: harry potter and the philosopher's stone

"everyone starts at the beginning at hogwarts, you'll be just fine. i know it's hard. yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. but yeh'll have a great time at hogwarts."