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my personal favorite sirius is when he’s pissed the fuck off but still trying to keep his manners

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Creative Question: if you were writing a fic on these crack or rare ships ... How would you give them a happy ending ? ( no breakup or dead dove but a happily ever after)

Tom X Myrtle. AU where she lives and they end up together. I know sounds unbelievable but if you were to conjure a happily ever after... how would you go about it ?

Sybill Trelawney X Sirius

Molly X James

Hermione X Cormac Mclaggen

Harry X Cho

Harry X Neville

Luna X Ron

Okay, this is fun, I will be keeping it short for each pairing since I want to answer them all. I don't think I gave a satisfying answear for all of them, but that's what I have.

I also feel like the first few ships here are way more @saintsenara's fort than mine (especially Tom x Myrtle), but I can say how I'd go about making it work if I had to write it myself:

Tom x Myrtle - in the AU where they accidently meet in the library while Tom is reaserching the Chamber (hasn't found it yet and hasn't murdered anyone yet), a lonley Slytherin and a lonely Ravenclaw with no other friends, two supposed muglgeborns who think themselves better than their peers and hated for no reason — he might say one nice, charming thing and then Myrtle would latch on and not leave him alone since she decided he's freindly. She will be just annoying and persistent enough to break him down, and maybe, maybe you can get it to work.

(And then they use the basilisk to kill Olive Hornby or something)

Sybill Trelawney X Sirius - Like, if I had to make it work, gun to my head, maybe during year 5. Like, we know Sybill is a drinker, and Sirius drinks a lot during OotP — so maybe they could be drunk enough for something to happen. But, I don't think it's likely they'd meet during the books (unless Albus makes Sybill part of the OotP), so maybe during the war? Like, Sirius decides to learn more about the prophecy to better protect the Potters, and he thinks Trelawny is useless at first until she says something kinda prophetic... I don't really know how to take it from here. Just, I just think their personalities won't work at all. Ever. But that's the situation I'd start from. Probably.

Molly X James - I mean, we know James likes redheads, but I refuse to consider Molly cheating on Arthur, she isn't the type — so this is an AU where Molly and Arthur didn't get married, Lily and James aren't dating when they join the Order in this AU and Molly joins the OotP in the first war. Then I can sorta see it maybe happening.

I am opposed because then Harry won't exist, but James and Molly will live happily with a bunch of kids, and Voldemort would attack a different kid — maybe Neville. Lily would also get to live, just not with James (a side of romantic Lilipad?).

Hermione X Cormac McLaggen - Canonicly, Hermione likes pretty Quiddich players (Krum, Ron, she thinks Harry is hot), so Cormac fits her type, and he was clearly ecstatic about going out with her to Slughorn's party. I'd say we need to make Cormac smarter, but this would be cheating, so, just AU away Hermione's feelings for Ron, and I think you have a decent basis to work from if you are really inclined. (Do I think he's ideal for her? No, not at all, but he at least fits her type, which is something, I guess).

She still goes Horcrux hunting, and he stays behind, worried and comes to join the Battle of Hogwarts at the end, and they get a cute little scene after/during the battle. Then Hermione has her career, and Cormac becomes a professional Quidditch player.

Harry X Cho - Have Harry ask her to the Yule Ball in 4th year before Cedric. That's it, that's the solution. She then goes with him and isn't as weepy throughout 5th year. They will have a crisis about Hermione, but it won't be as bad as 5th year, so they will pull through (though she might be insulted that Ron was his hostage for the lake, but she'll be comforted that it wasn't Hermione).

Now, Harry is not a great boyfriend to either Cho or Ginny, so he probably breaks up with Cho pre-horcrux hunt like he does in canon. She might hit back more than Ginny does and get a bit more info, but I don't think Harry tells her everything after Mariatta. So he goes Horcrux hunting, and they meet again in the final battle, and then live happily ever after in a slightly strained marriage with some trust issues, but they're both ignoring it. It's actually not that different from Harry and Ginny, as Cho might also go the professional Quidditch player route. That or some ministry job.

Harry X Neville - Easy, they bond a lot during the D.A. in 5th year, so just push it further. Harry is pretty fond and protective of Neville already. Neville really looks up to and adores Harry; this pairing will handle themselves okay. And Neville, when Harry gives him all the "I need to break up with you to protect you" might call bullshit like he does in DH about them waiting for Harry to fight. So, we might see Neville, who knows about the horcrux mission but chooses to stay with the D.A. and sneaks info to Harry somehow — and Harry has a whole different set of reasons to torture Amycus (Yay!).

(That final talk with Neville before Harry goes to die would look quite different though... if it happens)

It works, they're good. They're happy.

Every Christmas post-books, they visit Neville's parents in St. Mungo's and then they visit Harry's in the cemetery in Godric's Hollow.

(I can also see this ship getting together post-books. Like, in a fic where they're both Hogwarts professors, Neville teaching Herbology, Harry teaching DADA, and they bond and get together then as young traumatised professors)

Luna X Ron - Not crack, I love this one actually. Luna is clearly fond of Ron; she thinks he's funny, she laughs too loudly at his jokes and sings Weasley is our king under her breath sometimes — It can be argued that Luna had a little crush on Ron in canon. Ron isn't as fond of her as she is of him, but he likes her far more than Hermione does, so it wouldn't take too big of a change.

I'll get them together in book 6 (perhaps instead of the Lavender situation), probably, and then book 7 will change a little (especially in Malfoy Manor and perhaps, how they find their way there after visiting Xenophilius and learning Luna was kidnapped), and then they get married and have three kids with weird-ass names.

(Could be the same universe with Hermine x Cormac, I guess)

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A Matter of Fate Chapter 6 is up!

Sequel fic to A Matter of Chance.

Following Voldemort’s return, Harry and Theo must navigate their new relationship as the wizarding world turns on Harry, and visions of the graveyard and the Department of Mysteries plague him. Dumbledore is speaking to Harry and telling him about the Order of the Phoenix’s mission — too bad the Order is as useless as ever. Almost as useless as the Ministry, who have gotten their claws into Hogwarts, ignoring Voldemort’s return and forcing Harry further and further into the political spotlight (something Theo seems to enjoy too much for Harry’s liking). But things can only get better from here, right?

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Hey I have a question for you if you ever end up writing more meta on wandlore. In book 7 Harry's wand spits flames at Voldemort. The explanation we're given is that it imbibed some of his powers in the graveyard. The problem is it didn't react to him like this when Harry faced him in book 5. I think this is just a plot hole on JKR's part but from an in-universe POV do you have thoughts on what could have caused this? Only thing I can think of is either that Voldemort briefly possessing Harry in book 5 further linked them and/or that in book 5 Harry didn't even try to defend himself because he was taken by surprise and thus didn't try to do anything before Dumbledore intervened. Interesting to hear your ideas.

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This is a really fun ask, I love me some wandlore! That and one of my favorite pastimes is solving JKR magical plot holes by figuring out the magical theory she didn't think all the way through.

So, the first thing I did was compare the two scenes you mentioned. This is the one from book 5:

“I have nothing more to say to you, Potter,” he said quietly. “You have irked me too often, for too long. AVADA KEDAVRA!” Harry had not even opened his mouth to resist. His mind was blank, his wand pointing uselessly at the floor.

(OotP, 813)

This is the one from book 7:

It was over: He could not see or hear where Voldemort was; he glimpsed another Death Eater swooping out of the way and heard, “Avada—” As the pain from Harry’s scar forced his eyes shut, his wand acted of its own accord. He felt it drag his hand around like some great magnet, saw a spurt of golden fire through his half-closed eyelids, heard a crack and a scream of fury. the remaining Death Eater yelled; Voldemort screamed, “No!”

(DH, 58)

Now, honestly, you're right, if the magic imbued Harry's wand in the graveyard I'd expect it to react to the killing curse Voldemort casts in book 5 the same as it did in book 7. And clearly, it does not. Even when it's the same situation, same spell, same enemy, Harry can't defend himself (if for different reasons). In both, his wand isn't even aimed at Voldemort at first at all.

So, I started wondering what is different between the scenes. Clearly, the situation is almost identical, so what difference could affect how Harry's wand reacts?

And then it hit me: Voldemort's wand.

In the first scene, in book 5, Voldemort is using his own wand, yaw and phoenix feather, brother wand to Harry. In the scene in book 7, the wand Voldemort uses is Lucius'.

So, my theory is that Harry's wand reacted differently because Voldemort wasn't carrying its brother, but a different wand.

So, with this in mind, let's try to explain what Harry's wand is doing and why.

The explanation we get in the books is that the Piori Incantatum in the graveyard essentially "charged" Harry's wand against Voldemort specifically:

“I believe that your wand imbibed some of the power and qualities of Voldemort’s wand that night, which is to say that it contained a little of Voldemort himself. So your wand recognized him when he pursued you, recognized a man who was both kin and mortal enemy, and it regurgitated some of his own magic against him, magic much more powerful than anything Lucius’s wand had ever performed. Your wand now contained the power of your enormous courage and of Voldemort’s own deadly skill: What chance did that poor stick of Lucius Malfoy’s stand?”

(DH, 600)

But I already mentioned here, that I don't think this scene is the real Dumbledore. So, I'm not sure how much faith can be placed in this explanation, especially since when Voldemort carried the brother wand, Harry's wand didn't shoot out golden flames.

(As an aside, I don't think wands can sponge up magic like that at all...)

But I think Harry's subconscious is right about the flames resulting from the multitude of magical connections between Voldemort and Harry. After the graveyard, they are, like, crazy magically connected. We've got:

Soul - Harry has a piece of Voldy's soul because he's a Horcrux

Blood (spirit) - Voldemort used Harry's blood in his resurrection ritual so their lives are bound to each other.

Magic - wands share a core.

And I'm going to forgo talking about the prophecy for this, but it's kind of bonkers how many layers of magic are binding them. And I think this is the key to it all.

So, essentially you have two wizards, that for the intent and purposes of magic, are as close as kin as possible. By soul and spirit, they are an extension of each other. So certain magic (like Lily's blood protection that is based on blood) probably sees Voldemort as an extension of Harry or vice versa. But they are not the same, as Dumbledore said in OotP: "but in essence divided", and other magic can recognize that (like the Elder Wand).

And the wands know this. Voldemort's yaw wand and Harry's holly wand are referred to as brothers, and I think that name is quite telling. Brother wands don't seem to want to fight each other, they share a core so they aren't meant to turn on each other, they are kin, extensions of each other. This is why the Priori Incantatum happened in the graveyard — to stop them from fighting. And if Harry cast a spell in the ministry in OotP, it would've happened again.

I think that first Priori Incantatum did change something and mattered for what happened in book 7. It basically was like an introduction. Afterwards, Harry's wand can recognize Voldemort, his magic, and his wand.

What I think happened with Lucius' wand is not far from Harry's subconscious explanation. The wand recognized Voldemort as Harry's kin, an extension of Harry himself, but he was carrying an unfamiliar wand - an enemy wand. I think the combination of kin with an unfamiliar wand is what caused it. Kind of like a jealous sort of "Harry isn't supposed to be with another wand". The yaw wand was fine because it shared the same core, the wands are connected just like Voldemort and Harry, so the brother wand wouldn't register as a threat.

For the holly wand, being attacked by an extension of Harry with an unfamiliar wand, felt off. Wrong. The magic felt wrong like it was 3 inches too far to the left. And I think that's what it reacted to. To the sense of wrongness that comes with seeing a familiar person somewhere, they really shouldn't be. This whiplash, I think, is what registered as a threat to the holly wand.

We know some wands can be sentient to this degree. Sycamore wands, burst into flames when they get 'bored':

It is a quirk of these handsome wands that they may combust if allowed to become ‘bored’, and many witches and wizards, settling down into middle age, are disconcerted to find their trusty wand bursting into flame in their hand as they ask it, one more time, to fetch their slippers. 

(from Pottermore)

Hazel wands die with their masters:

so devoted to its owner that it often ‘wilts’ (which is to say, it expels all its magic and refuses to perform, often necessitating the extraction of the core and its insertion into another casing, if the wand is still required) at the end of its master’s life

(from Pottermore)

So I think it's completely in line with what we know about wands that Harry's wand would get protective when something in Voldemort's magic feels off due to the unfamiliar wand. On the same page about wand woods holly wands are said to be very volatile and protective, so the behavior fits its personality. I think Harry's wand is protective of him and acts up to protect him when it recognizes it needs to. Voldemort and Harry's connection along with Voldemort using a different wand registered to the holly wand as a threat it needs to protect against.

TL;DR

Harry's wand recognized Voldemort as a kin of Harry. Voldemort's wand is its own kin, and therefore not a threat in OotP. The moment Voldemort, whom Harry's wand now recognizes, used an unfamiliar wand (Lucius' wand) Harry's wand registered him and the unfamiliar wand as a threat and reacted to protect Harry. The magic flames shot out were its own, not Voldemort's sponged-up magic.

At least, that's my theory.

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I have a question. It's said that wizards have longer lifespans than muggles right? Does that mean they age more slowly or do they just live longer in their old age?

Sorry if that’s a bit confusing. Let me give an example: if a wizard meets a muggle of the same age in their teenage years and sees them again in their 40s or 50s, would the wizard look younger than the muggle?

What an interesting question. Kind of a tricky question too - both because there isn't much data, and because JKR is extremely bad with numbers. that's just something you have to accept, if you're trying to come up with consistent canon worldbuilding.

The only characters we meet who the text treats as "old" are Olivander, Dumbledore, and Slughorn. (I guess technically Grindelwald, Dippet, and Flamel, but don't know much about them.) If Dumbledore was born in 1881 and died in 1997 (as per Rita Skeeter's book) then he was 115 when he died. Which means he was 61 when Tom opened the Chamber of Secrets, and still a redhead. So far, so normal. Tons of sixty-year-olds haven't gone white or grey.

Slughorn also taught Tom Riddle, and would have to have been... probably in his thirties or forties when they had that conversation about Horcruxes? Which would put Slughorn between 80 and 90 during the main timeline of the books, where Harry describes him as an "enormously fat, bald, old man." He's also being pulled out of retirement, so... that still fits? Voldemort and Hagrid are basically the same age (like 70-71 during the final book.) Neither of them are described as "old" - but Hagrid's giant blood is probably making a difference, same with Voldemort's snake experiments.

Rita Skeeter is also useful here, because we know she's 43 during Book 4, and when we see in the Death Eater trial flashbacks (about ten or so years prior) Harry describes her as looking visibly younger. Trial!Ludo Bagman is young enough for Moody to call him "boy" (20s?) with fits with him being "a powerfully built man gone slightly to seed" ten years later. Karkaroff looks "much younger; his hair and goatee were black," not silver like they are during Book 4. But, Karkaroff is also a very high-strung guy who has spent the last ten years under a lot of stress, I would not be at all surprised if he's gone prematurely white like Peter and Remus.

Speaking of Remus... he's 36 during Book 6, and thinks he's "too old" to marry Tonks. It's a little unclear how old Tonks is, but I always puts her as a contemporary of Bill, since Mrs. Weasley keeps trying to set them up. So, mid twenties? A ten year age gap is something you see in *muggle* relationships, and they do fit the "half your age plus seven" rule. I would think that if you aged more slowly as an adult, an age gap like that would be even *less* of a problem.

So, with the the evidence we have... and knowing that it goes against a lot of accepted fanon... I think I have to go with the second option. The canon answer is that wizards don't actually age slower, they just spend longer looking old.

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hot take: harry potter IS a cinnamon roll, it's not his fault everyone is so horribly mean to him. He has a surprising amount of restraint.

by which i mean he's justified in snapping back i phrased that weird

Eh. I mean. To each their own interpretation. But for me this doesn't quite work. I definitely hate the idea that Harry was just being angsty in 5th year for no reason. Clearly he was suffering from severe and very justifiable trauma and PTSD and reacting accordingly.

But like. Harry can be pretty deadly. In book 1 he murdered Quirrel and never felt bad about it. In book 2 he took Lockhart hostage and forced him to walk first into the Chamber so if the basilisk popped out it would eat him. In book 3 he considered killing Sirius. Especially when he was young, Harry was feral af. And it continues. In book 5 when a Death Eater's head gets regressed to baby age, Harry is still fully ready to curse him and it's only because Hermione stops him that he doesn't. In book 7 he stuns Death Eaters in and air-born battle where he knows full well that doing so will likely result in them falling to their deaths (confirmed by the fact that he holds back from attacking Stan Shunpike because he doesn't want to kill him.) In book 7 he also makes no effort to locate Crabbe after he's rescued Draco. And goes into the final battle with Voldemort fully intending for him to die. You could definitely justify all this. But like. Canon Harry is very much in ;looks like he could kill you and could actually kill you' territory vs the pure cinnamon roll soft boi Harry we often get in fanon.

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I’ve heard what jobs you think that Hermione and Harry would be good at. I was wondering what job you think would be a good fit for Ron.

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I saw you just did Hermoine’s career and I really love the idea of her being a journalist! I was wondering what you think would be a well, better, career for the rest of the Golden Trio? We know JKR made Harry Head Auror, a choice that I very much disagree with. I personally like the idea of him being a professional quidditch player or the DADA professor a lot more. And for Ron, I believe he also became a high ranking Auror…? Correct me if I’m wrong. I was just wondering what you’d think their better career choices would be!

Talked about Harry here & here.

Talked about Hermione here & here.

So, let's talk about Ron:

I actually like Ron in a ministry position more than either Harry or Hermione. Ron is the member of the trio best suited to work within the system. He is good with people, familiar with how the world works, fine with bending the rules and the corruption here and there, and has the mindset to be able to work within it and make the best of it. He is also the most balanced member of the trio and the one I'd trust the most as minister (kinda discussed here), especially if we give him a few more years to grow into his own.

In semi-canon (because nothing outside of the books is fully canon to me, and the epilogue does not mention their professions), Ron became an Auror with Harry, then, 2 years later, stepped down to join George in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Now, I don't think this is as antithetical to Ron's character as Harry and Hermione's future jobs are.

(For context, Hermione is not Minister material, she is best suited to work in a position that allows her more leeway to bring the change she wants + she isn't a diplomat, she's a "my way or the highway" type of person. Harry, while charismatic, isn't much for working as part of a team. Even within the Golden Trio, he does a lot on his own as he hates asking for help and risking others. This would be even worse if he needs to work with authority and bureaucracy — specifically authority and bureaucracy of a corrupt system he dislikes and disrespects)

I can't say I'm a huge fan of Auror!Ron, since this isn't something he was ever passionate about or interested in. Harry wanted to be an Auror because it's the only thing an adult he respected (at the time at least. He didn't know it was Barty) told him he'd be good at, which is so rare for Harry (in my headcanon, Harry is an Auror program dropout, because it makes sense he'd start as an Auror). Ron doesn't have the same connection to DADA nor the same sense of responsibility Harry does, so it makes even less sense for him. I can see him decide to go to Auror training with Harry, as it's something none of his brothers did, but I do like that he doesn't stay there. I mean, if he does, he'd still keep getting compared to Harry, which I am trying to avoid.

My ideal job for Ron would position him somewhere he won't be compared to Harry or any of his brothers, because that's what he really wants. And if he goes to work in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Ron is literally stepping into Fred's shoes. So, I don't like that, thematically for Ron, even though, character-wise, as a character who cares about his family a lot, it makes sense.

So, in my personal headcanon, Harry would quit being an Auror to become a professor, and Hermione would honestly be a brilliant journalist (a headcanon I adopted from a different anon, but it fits her so well and would be a fun parallel with Rita). But Ron is someone I'm a bit more vague on since I can see him in multiple careers.

Currently, the top career on my mind for Ron is a Healer, maybe — it'll set him apart from his other siblings and Harry, he has the grades for it, he can keep his cool under pressure, he likes helping people, and he's good at cheering people up when things are bleak with humor. I think Ron could be a good Healer if he chooses to pursue it. The only big downside for me is that it doesn't lean into Ron's strategic nature (which becoming head-Auror or another ministry position could). And I can't see him inventing new cures or potions, that's not Ron — but he'd be good at actually caring for people and using the healing spells/potions at his disposal creatively when needed.

Plus, Ron's wand (his own, baught post-CoS) is willow and unicorn hair, and according to Pottermore, willow wands are particularly suited for healing magic:

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it. While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) my willow wands have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. It has always been a proverb in my family that he who has furthest to travel will go fastest with willow.

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So, yeah, Healer Ron is my favorite idea at the moment. If anyone has other ideas for Ron, I'd love to hear them because I really do struggle with him more, since he doesn't have a specific field he is good at/passionate about like Harry or Neville, nor does he have Hermione's spesific convictions.

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god i’d forgotten that in the letter harry writes to sirius in ootp at the end of his first week of detentions with umbridge where she’s torturing him with the blood quill, he tells sirius “we’ve got a new defense against the dark arts teacher, professor umbridge. she’s nearly as nice as your mum” as a way of trying to indicate to sirius how awful umbridge is

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like godfather, like godson

i am always thinking about harry and sirius parallels because no two characters in the series are as similar as these two and it never fails to kill me. both ran away from abusive homes because they’d had enough and found a surrogate family with their best friends and their family (and this is the first time sirius lays eyes on harry post azkaban, running away just like he did) 

“She deserved it,” Harry said, breathing very fast. “She deserved what she got. You keep away from me.” He fumbled behind him for the latch on the door. “I’m going,” Harry said. “I’ve had enough.” (POA)

“You ran away from home?” “When I was about sixteen,” said Sirius. “I’d had enough.” (OOTP)

they go all angry caps lock while defending each other

“DON’T TALK ABOUT SIRIUS LIKE THAT!” Harry yelled. He was on his feet again, furious, ready to fly at Dumbledore, who had plainly not understood Sirius at all, how brave he was, how much he had suffered… (OOTP)

“HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO HARRY?” roared Black. “HOW DARE YOU FACE HIM? HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT JAMES IN FRONT OF HIM?” (POA)

they’re deeply unimpressed with voldy and taunt their cowardly enemies about saying the name

“Well, I’m terrified now,” said Harry sarcastically. “I s’pose Lord Voldemort’s just a warm-up act compared to you three — what’s the matter?” he said, for Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had all looked stricken at the sound of the name. “He’s your dad’s mate, isn’t he? Not scared of him, are you?” (OOTP)

“Voldemort, teach me tricks?” he said. Pettigrew flinched as though Black had brandished a whip at him. “What, scared to hear your old master’s name?” said Black. (POA)

they’re in the exact same circumstances in ootp - forced back into abusive homes by dumbledore (and then harry is further retraumatized at hogwarts by umbridge), begin to break down as a result. their ways of coping with that trauma are also very similar. they prefer being in dangerous, risky, life threatening, adrenaline charged situations over being in the homes they were abused in. sirius is partly joking here but the fact still is that he straight up prefers being on the run from the ministry (while living in a cave eating rats, no less) and risking azkaban/the dementors kiss again over being back in grimmauld place. similarly, harry states that he would rather face a dragon - even though he is more terrified than ever before in the lead up to the first task - than be back at privet drive. 

Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive with Dudley was good to know; it made him feel slightly calmer. (GOF)

“Personally, I’d have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. You think you’ve had it bad, at least you’ve been able to get out and about, stretch your legs, get into a few fights… . I’ve been stuck inside for a month.” (OOTP)

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This will always be my favourite Harry and Sirius moment. The only thing that made Harry accept that Sirius was actually dead was because only death would stop Sirius from being there for Harry.

It just shows how much Harry valued Sirius and most importantly he knew how much Sirius cared for him

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whatever u do, do not think about how the last words harry ever heard sirius say were “come on, you can do better than that!”

whatever u do, do not think about how the last words sirius ever said to harry were “harry, take the prophecy, grab neville and run!” (it reminded harry of another time, 15 years before when another man shouted the same words to his wife in an attempt to save him)

whatever u do, do not think about how sirius black died with a smile on his face and laughter in his eyes, finally reuniting with the man who was the other half of him

whatever u do, do not think about how on this day, 18 june 1996, harry potter lost the closest thing to a father he had and screamed himself hoarse as he struggled to save him, struggled to save another person who had died to protect him

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After drawing this art of Sirius, it got me in the mood to keep with the old picture frames, so what's a better fit than drawing my own characters from the late 1870s? (also an excuse to draw Victorian suits)

These two are the main detective duo from my book Iridescent, and I love them and the bizarre Otherworld around them dearly.

(I plan on drawing more from my book and I have two almost ready pieces, so watch out for that 👀)

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A really silly question but do you think after the war Harry would change is iconic round glasses?

This is free for anyone to headcanon as they wish, and it could go either way:

On the one hand, I can see him keeping them because he is used to them. He likes how he looks in them enough and doesn't care to change them. They are recognizable to everyone, and glasses can change a lot about your appearance if you switch the shape and look completely.

On the other hand, I can see him wanting to change them because they are very iconic and recognizable with the image of the Boy Who Lived, which he might want to change in the future.

I can also see him going for something in between, like, if he buys round glasses that have a gold wire frame instead of a black one (since Harry really likes gold as a color). It will create some visual difference, but stick to what he (and everyone around him) is used to.

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Wow, thinking back, Ron really was clever in the earlier books. He was the one who knew how to beat that giant chess board, AND he figured out that Tom Riddle was not a good person as he made himself to be while Harry assumed Tom had something good for Hogwarts by stopping the supposed monster from attacking anymore students. I truly miss those days of Ron being clever. The movies really did ruin Ron's personality in the later books. Also, the later books showing Ron being dragged into that unnecessary teenage romance was definitely not my cup of tea.

Yep, talked about here and here.

I wish the movies didn't influence Ron's characterization in the later books. I even preferred Romione as a concept in the earlier books because a cleverer Ron worked better with Hermione (whose flaws were more addressed earlier on). Really a shame, in books 3 & 4 I was really shipping them, and then book 6, just soured their romance for me, even if I still like the pairing.

But I'd still take book 7!Ron over Movie!Ron anyway. At least he had some clever/wise moments and had more emotional intelligence...

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This is a response to this post, so I'm adding it here.

And sorta, though, I'd say their different stages overlap with each other depending on the situation.

Also, sometimes, Ron does enjoy an ass-kicking, when it's Draco being turned into a farrett, or making Umbridge jump at horse noises — but these are all situations Ron wouldn't consider bad violence (the Wizarding World has candy that melts through your tongue! Anything that isn't permanent and has a campy-wizard element to it isn't that bad, and Ron can enjoy it when it happens to people he dislikes). I'm sure he'd have laughed at Draco if he succeeded in making him vomit slugs in CoS. Ron is uncomfortable with what he sees as "real violence," and even then, if he thinks he needs to, if someone deserves it, he would do it, sometimes guiltily, but he would (if, not as extreme as his friends). He is also the first to jump to punching in a schoolyard fight:

Ron was shaking with fury. Everyone was staring at him. “Get stuffed, Malfoy,” said Harry. “C’mon, Ron. . . .” “Oh yeah, you were staying with them this summer, weren’t you, Potter?” sneered Malfoy. “So tell me, is his mother really that porky, or is it just the picture?” “You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry — both he and Hermione had grabbed the back of Ron’s robes to stop him from launching himself at Malfoy — “that expression she’s got, like she’s got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?”

(GoF, Ch13)

Ron jumps straight to trying to physically attack Draco (I assume with his fists), Harry and Hermione hold him back while Harry sasses Draco. So, I wouldn't call Ron the "warning" since he often jumps impulsively to defend his loved ones, like the above quote, and other times too:

“Eat slugs, Malfoy,” said Ron angrily. Crabbe stopped laughing and started rubbing his knuckles in a menacing way. “Be careful, Weasley,” sneered Malfoy. “You don’t want to start any trouble or your mummy’ll have to come and take you away from school.” He put on a shrill, piercing voice. “‘If you put another toe out of line’ —” A knot of Slytherin fifth years nearby laughed loudly at this. “Weasley would like a signed photo, Potter,” smirked Malfoy. “It’d be worth more than his family’s whole house —” Ron whipped out his Spellotaped wand

(CoS, Ch6)

“No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood,” he spat. Harry knew at once that Malfoy had said something really bad because there was an instant uproar at his words. Flint had to dive in front of Malfoy to stop Fred and George jumping on him, Alicia shrieked, “How dare you!”, and Ron plunged his hand into his robes, pulled out his wand, yelling, “You’ll pay for that one, Malfoy!” and pointed it furiously under Flint’s arm at Malfoy’s face.

(CoS, Ch7)

“My children,” he bellowed, pointing at her. His voice was cracked, high-pitched, he sounded distraught. “Where are my children? What has he done with them? You know, you know!” “I-I really—” stammered Hermione. The man lunged at her, reaching for her throat. Then, with a bang and a burst of red light he was thrown backward onto the ground, unconscious. Ron stood there, his wand still outstretched and a look of shock visible behind his beard.

(DH, Ch26)

Ron is quick to attack, but his go-to, in the early books especially, is to physically lunge at people, and even later it's jinxes and a Stunning Spell. And I like how even he is sometimes shocked by his own quick response to threats/insults to his friends/family.

Harry tends to go to sass first, but if he's angry/distressed, he will attack first, and quickly at that. Like with Amycus, or punching Draco in OotP:

“— but you like the Weasleys, don’t you, Potter?” said Malfoy, sneering. “Spend holidays there and everything, don’t you? Can’t see how you stand the stink, but I suppose when you’ve been dragged up by Muggles even the Weasleys’ hovel smells okay —” Harry grabbed hold of George; meanwhile it was taking the combined efforts of Angelina, Alicia, and Katie to stop Fred leaping on Malfoy, who was laughing openly. Harry looked around for Madam Hooch, but she was still berating Crabbe for his illegal Bludger attack. “Or perhaps,” said Malfoy, leering as he backed away, “you can remember what your mother’s house stank like, Potter, and Weasley’s pigsty reminds you of it —” Harry was not aware of releasing George, all he knew was that a second later both of them were sprinting at Malfoy. He had completely forgotten the fact that all the teachers were watching: All he wanted to do was cause Malfoy as much pain as possible. With no time to draw out his wand, he merely drew back the fist clutching the Snitch and sank it as hard as he could into Malfoy’s stomach —

(OotP, Ch19)

He holds George back at first, since Harry's first response is sass (usually), while the twins are more similar to Ron (if a crueler), but when Harry reaches his limit (which he spends all his fifth year at his limit), he kinda loses it, sass and warnigns completly forgotten.

So, it's a little more complicated than that, and their stages overlap quite a bit.

I also want to add these tags from @maraudermysteries:

#also i think it's worth noting that a lot of the time when ron is suggesting violence i think he's joking#he's just trying to lighten the mood a bit with some dark humour#like he wasn't actually considering poisoning umbridge

Because, yeah, sometimes the mean things Ron says are jokes. He tends to be the most aware of the mood of the other two members and actively lightens it with humor. We see him make dark jokes like this in DH, too, to mitigate Harry's dark mood and Hermione's stress. But, as I said, sometimes, his threats are serious, definitely when the threat isn't lethal or the bad sort of violence.

But yeah.

There was a post you wrote about Harry and Hermione's ruthlessness and how Ron is more normal compared to them (unfortunately I can't find it or else I would link it). But I feel like there have been several situations where Ron is kinda... merciless? He's more likely to wish ill for people he doesn't like and Hermione is generally horrified by such remarks. So, at times, I see Hermione as the moral compass with Harry and Ron being more ruthless. But then there is truth to that Rita scene analysis. So, I can see him being the moral compass of the trio as well. Who do you think is the real moral compass of the trio then?

So, I don't think moral is exactly the right word. Moral and ruthless aren't opposites, not always. So, it's a little more complicated than that. What I usually say is that Ron is the most hinged in the trio, and Harry and Hermione are more unhinged, which, isn't just about ruthlessness/marcy.

(Past posts about this: Harry can be scary, Harry is willing to kill, Hermione's ruthlessness, Ron's mean streak)

Harry — is very empathetic and forgiving on a personal level when he understands someone but couldn't give less of a shit about the larger systematic issues or people on his shit list. He is empathetic and would go out of his way to save people he considers innocent:

“We were hundreds of feet up! Stan’s not himself and if I stunned him and he’d fallen, he’d have died the same as if I’d used Avada Kedavra!!...”

(DH, Ch5)

But if someone deserves it, if he sees someone as undeserving of mercy, there is none:

well, unless you count Quirrell, and he got what he deserved seeing as he was working with Voldemort.

(HBP, Ch4)

Harry had pinned Mundungus against the wall of the pub by the throat. Holding him fast with one hand, he pulled out his wand. “Harry!” squealed Hermione. [...] “I — no — what — ?” spluttered Mundungus, who was slowly turning purple.

(HBP, Ch12)

Wriggling around he cried, “Stupefy!” and a red bolt of light shot from his own wand, cleaving a gap between the four pursuing Death Eaters as they scattered to avoid it.

(DH, Ch4) - He cast Supify at a DE in the Battle of the 7 Potters, knowing it's like casting an AK. He also cast Confringo and other spells that would kill them.

“Hasn’t changed much, has he?” Harry muttered to Ginny, who grinned. [...] Lockhart’s memory so badly that he had landed here in the first place, though, as Lockhart had been attempting to permanently wipe Harry and Ron’s memories at the time, Harry’s sympathy was limited.

(OotP, Ch23)

As Amycus spun around, Harry shouted, “Crucio!” The Death Eater was lifted off his feet. He writhed through the air like a drowning man, thrashing and howling in pain, and then, with a crunch and a shattering of glass, he smashed into the front of a bookcase and crumpled, insensible, to the floor. “I see what Bellatrix meant,” said Harry, the blood thundering through his brain, “you need to really mean it.”

(DH, Ch30)

What Bellatrix said, as a refresher: “You need to mean them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain — to enjoy it — righteous anger won’t hurt me for long...”

Harry's sense of justice is based on his loyalty and understanding of people. His loved ones or people he understands deserve forgiveness even if they did awful things, others though? Others who do evil deserve everything coming to them, and Harry would gladly be the one to serve justice if he could and feel satisfied at their misfortune.

Ron — can be mean. He talks a lot about violence and enjoying Malfoy being in pain (when it is easily reversible). He complains about having to save Draco and threatens to punch/curse people more than Harry and Hermione:

Malfoy and some of the other Slytherins cheered. Hermione was dancing on tiptoes. “Do you think he’s all right?” she squealed through her fingers. “Who cares?” said Harry and Ron together.

(CoS, Ch11) - about Lockhart

“I’m here!” came Ron’s muffled voice from behind the rockfall. “I’m okay — this git’s not, though — he got blasted by the wand —”There was a dull thud and a loud “ow!” It sounded as though Ron had just kicked Lockhart in the shins.

(CoS, Ch16)

“She’s an awful woman [Umbridge],” said Hermione in a small voice. “Awful. You know, I was just saying to Ron when you came in . . . we’ve got to do something about her.” “I suggested poison,” said Ron grimly.

(OotP, Ch15)

As Smith strode away in an annoyingly buoyant fashion, Ron glared after him. “Shall I jinx him? I can still get him from here,” he said, raising his wand and taking aim between Smith’s shoulder blades. “Forget it,” said Harry dismally. “It’s what everyone’s going to think, isn’t it? That I’m really stup —”

(OotP, Ch24)

He is the member of the trio to suggest violence the most often and rant angrily, but he doesn't actually go through with his threats as much as Harry and Hermione do. He can be cruel and take joy in the pain of people he dislikes/harmed people he cares for, when he doesn't see it or when it's easily reversible. He is rarely the one actually doing the harming, and when he does, it is way less extreme than the type of things Harry and Hermione pull.

He is very aware of the situation and entertains violence and even killing when he thinks the situation calls for it:

“What are we going to do with them?” Ron whispered to Harry through the dark; then, even more quietly, “Kill them? They’d kill us. They had a good go just now.”

(DH, Ch9)

But he doesn't like it:

“You’re the boss,” said Ron, sounding profoundly relieved. “But I’ve never down a Memory Charm.”

(DH, Ch9)

Even when it's Lockhart, Ron feels guilty about his state:

“Er — how are you, Professor?” said Ron, sounding slightly guilty.

(OotP, Ch23)

His violence is reactionary to protect his friends, and he is the member of the trio that kills/curses the fewest people. He can do it, and would be loud about people deserving it, but he doesn't like people being hurt, even when he doesn't like them, even when he says he's fine with it, he doesn't like seeing it, in contrast with Harry, here, who is unphased by the thought of killing Death Eaters and chooses not to for cold, practical reasons not out of any sense of morality or aprehention about killing:

Harry shook his head. “We just need to wipe their memories,” said Harry. “It’s better like that, it’ll throw them off the scent. If we killed them it’d be obvious we were here.”

(DH, Ch9)

Hermione — is a weird case, because she's a hypocrite. She is horrified at the unforgivable curses, she is terrified at the thought of killing anyone:

“Kill them? They’d kill us. They had a good go just now.” Hermione shuddered and took a step backward.

(DH, Ch9)

She's empathetic to house elves and anyone in a position she considers weaker and in need of help. She calls out Harry and Ron a lot about taking joy in someone's pain or laughing at others' misfortune (even when Draco was turned into a ferret, for example).

And yet... and yet:

1. She keeps a woman in a jar and is proud and overjoyed by it:

“No, you see . . . Rita Skeeter” — Hermione’s voice trembled with quiet triumph — “is an unregistered Animagus. She can turn —” Hermione pulled a small sealed glass jar out of her bag. “— into a beetle.” “You’re kidding,” said Ron. “You haven’t . . . she’s not . . .” “Oh yes she is,” said Hermione happily, brandishing the jar at them. Inside were a few twigs and leaves and one large, fat beetle. “That’s never — you’re kidding —” Ron whispered, lifting the jar to his eyes. [...] Harry looked and saw that she was quite right. He also remembered something. “There was a beetle on the statue the night we heard Hagrid telling Madame Maxime about his mum!”

(GoF, Ch37) - Hermione is elated, Harry doesn't care, and Ron is horrified.

2. She hides an incurable curse in the D.A. partchment and tells no one about it:

and Marietta gave a wail and pulled the neck of her robes right up to her eyes, but not before the whole room had seen that her face was horribly disfigured by a series of close-set purple pustules that had spread across her nose and cheeks to form the word “SNEAK.”

(OotP, Ch27)

Both she and Harry feel justified in what happened to Marietta:

“Ron’s dad works for the Ministry too!” Harry said furiously. “And in case you hadn’t noticed, he hasn’t got ‘sneak’ written across his face —” “That was a really horrible trick of Hermione Granger’s,” said Cho fiercely. “She should have told us she’d jinxed that list —” “I think it was a brilliant idea,” said Harry coldly. Cho flushed, and her eyes grew brighter.

(OotP, Ch28)

And while Ron goes on angry rants about Mariatta, and I don't think he minds she got cursed, I don't think he'd ever have done that himself. Nor is he as satisfied with it as Harry and Hermione. He is thinking that they shouldn't have let her in in the first place, not that she deserves what she got.

3. She tells Harry not to help Ron cheat because it's wrong to do:

“I want a word with you, Harry.” She took a deep breath. “You shouldn’t have done it. You heard Slughorn, it’s illegal.” [...] said Hermione shrilly. “You spiked Ron’s juice with lucky potion at breakfast! Felix Felicis!”

(HBP, Ch14)

When she did the exact same thing, knowing it was cheating:

but Harry caught Hermione’s arm and held her back. “What?” said Hermione defensively “If you ask me,” said Harry quietly, “McLaggen looks like he was Confunded this morning. And he was standing right in front of where you were sitting.” Hermione blushed. “Oh, all right then, I did it,” she whispered. “But you should have heard the way he was talking about Ron and Ginny!...

(HBP, Ch11)

And Harry didn't even help Ron magically cheat; he didn't put the potion in, he just tricked Ron to think he did. Hermione on the other hand...

4. She set a teacher on fire with no moral qualms:

Reaching Snape, she crouched down, pulled out her wand, and whispered a few, well-chosen words. Bright blue flames shot from her wand onto the hem of Snape’s robes.

(PS, Ch11) - though, I'll give her that the fire didn't seem to burn Snape.

5. She led Umbridge to the centaurs on purpose:

“Is it very far in?” Umbridge asked, as her robe ripped on a bramble. “Oh yes,” said Hermione. “Yes, it’s well hidden.” Harry’s misgivings increased. Hermione was not taking the path they had followed to visit Grawp, but the one he had followed three years ago to the lair of the monster Aragog. Hermione had not been with him on that occasion; he doubted she had any idea what danger lay at the end of it. “Er — are you sure this is the right way?” he asked her pointedly. “Oh yes,” she said in a steely voice, crashing through the undergrowth with what he thought was a wholly unnecessary amount of noise. [...] “Please,” said Hermione breathlessly, “please, don’t attack us, we don’t think like her, we aren’t Ministry of Magic employees! We only came in here because we hoped you’d drive her off for us —” [...] “You said you didn’t hurt the innocent!” shouted Hermione

(OotP, Ch33)

Knowing they would hurt her.

6. Unlike Ron and Harry, she actually harms loved ones (the worst Harry and Ron would do is shout and get angry, maybe give the silent treatment; they won't attack a friend in a moment of rage):

“Oppugno!” came a shriek from the doorway. Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, who yelped and covered his face with his hands, but the birds attacked, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.

(HBP, Ch14)

Hermione is fine causing a lot of harm to people as long as she feels her hands are clean. As long as it isn't dark magic, as long as they are people she considers deserving of it, as long as it's something she can keep emotional distance from. She has a certain moral line that she's terrified of passing because I think she knows she could. She clings to laws and what she knows is right and would loudly reprimand Ron and Harry for their remarks, while doing worse offenses.

Hermione, impolsivly, does some prety unhinged, ruthless shit, but still acts like these things are morally wrong to do. As long as she can justify her actions, claim it was someone else ("I didn't make the centaurs hurt Umbridge"), or say that technically it's legal because of some loophole — she can do some messed up things while still feeling morally superior.

That's why I don't see Hermione as the most moral of the trio and Ron as the most hinged one. They are all capable of violence and ruthlessness; they just have a sense of justice that works differently and have different thoughts on violence.

Harry and Hermione both have a strong sense of justice and tend to take it into their own hands to punish those they see as deserving of it (even if Hermione tells Harry not to when he does these things, she does them herself plenty). They are also more flexible in what is considered just, with Hermione working under her own hypocritical way of: "if I do it, it's fine as long as it's not dark magic, if others do it, it's bad".

Harry's flexibility comes from a place of understanding. If someone did bad things, but Harry understands them (Tom, Draco, for example), they deserve to be offered forgiveness regardless of the damage they did. Harry is the type of person who would justify any of his loved ones murdering someone, because if they do it, it's okay. And if you harm/disrespect people and aren't in Harry's "okay list", you deserve what's coming to you, even torture and death. His justice is influenced by personal attachment and sympathy.

Ron, usually reacts and calls for violence in defence of loved ones or himself, and he is the least forgiving of the trio. His sense of justice also comes from personal loyalty, but in a different way — if you harmed his friends or family once, that's it, you deserve what's coming and he'd talk about it — loudly — even if he would rather not be the one to pull the metaphorical trigger and would feel kind of guilty over you being hurt if he actually witnessed it. His violence also tends to be tamer than the other two.

Ron's violence is saying something mean, a jinx here and there, a punch maybe; he fights like a teenager. Harry strangles, tortures, and is satisfied with how broken Lockhart is; he fights like a soldier. Hermione disfigures, tortures (she kept Rita in a jar!), and takes pride in it; she doesn't like fighting, she hits before the fight. Ron is just so much tamer than the other two. They can all be ruthless, but Ron is who I consider the most balanced member of the trio (and my choice for Minister of Magic).

Basiclly: Ron has a lot of bark and not much bite (he can bite if pushed, but he isn't going to like it), Hermione has basically no bark, but a lot of bite, and Harry has both a bark and a bite (just in a different way than the other two).

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Hiii!!

I absolutely love your blog ❤️❤️ The posts are so insightful and well put ❤️❤️

My question is, would Harry ever be able to use the killing curse o someone? Like bellatrix said you've got to enjoy the pain in others to perform it and harry did use two of them in DH quite frequently. But never the AK. Even with Voldemort.

So would Harry ever be hurt that much that he'd straight up kill a person with a single curse? And in what circumstances?

Lots of love 💖

Thank you so much! 💕

As for your question: yes, and it's practically canon.

Harry outright says that casting a stupify during the battle of the Seven Potters is akin to casting an AK:

“We were hundreds of feet up! Stan’s not himself and if I stunned him and he’d fallen, he’d have died the same as if I’d used Avada Kedavra!”

(DH, Ch5)

Since it'll kill all the same... and we see he does just that:

As they soared upward, away from the two remaining Death Eaters, Harry spat blood out of his mouth, pointed his wand at the falling sidecar, and yelled, “Confringo!” He knew a dreadful, gut-wrenching pang for Hedwig as it exploded; the Death Eater nearest it was blasted off his broom and fell from sight; his companion fell back and vanished.

(DH, Ch4)

Wriggling around he cried, “Stupefy!” and a red bolt of light shot from his own wand, cleaving a gap between the four pursuing Death Eaters as they scattered to avoid it

(DH, Ch4)

Not to mention, Harry is willing to kill (which I talked of before) and considers it just to do so under certain circumstances, like Quirrell:

“Most of the teachers aren’t in it, and none of them has ever been killed — well, unless you count Quirrell, and he got what he de- served seeing as he was working with Voldemort.”

(HBP, Ch4)

Harry killed Quirrell — intentionally, as he actively chose to grab his face when he realised it hurt him — and he feels no remorse and that he deserved it.

So, I think, under certain conditions, if Harry truly believes the person deserves it, I think he could. In DH, we see he can feel justified and truly mean it when he casts a Crucio on Amycus:

And he spat in her face. Harry pulled the Cloak off himself, raised his wand, and said, “You shouldn’t have done that.” As Amycus spun around, Harry shouted, “Crucio!” The Death Eater was lifted off his feet. He writhed through the air like a drowning man, thrashing and howling in pain, and then, with a crunch and a shattering of glass, he smashed into the front of a bookcase and crumpled, insensible, to the floor. “I see what Bellatrix meant,” said Harry, the blood thundering through his brain, “you need to really mean it.”

(DH, Ch30)

And he does that just for the act of spitting on McGonagall! I think, by the end of DH, Harry could have cast an AK if he felt the other person deserved it and mean it enough for it to work.

As for what circumstances... well, if someone he loves/cares for/respects is beign tortured/harmed/in danger and an AK could easily resolve the situation and Harry is desperate to save them and doesn't think of another solution — I think that's the easiest type of situation that could push Harry to it. A situation where he could save someone like that. But, the situation will need to be either a desperate one, or one where Harry is really angry — so his emotional state will hinder him in considering other solutions. Basically, a situation where his loved ones are at risk, and he has very little time for consideration or he is impulsive because of how angry/distraught he is.

(P.S. I kinda don't think he Crucio-ed Amycus just for spitting on McGonagall, that was like the last straw for Harry. But Neville and the others got tortured by Amycus, and Harry knew that. I think, the spitting was just what triggered Harry's temper at that moment, which was already not great)

(Second P.S. I think he didn't use the AK on Voldemort because JKR didn't want her hero to use the curse. I think, Harry could've, as a character. But also, in his final confrontation with Voldemort, Harry was the opposite of angry and distraught; he was calm and collected compared to Voldemort, who was having an emotional breakdown — so, it's not exactly the scenario in which Harry would likely cast an AK)

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I think you have spoken about this somewhere: how Hermione might actually be emotionally distant from her parents. And I agree that Hermione was 100% bullied in her school and likely did not have any friends, if her first two months at Hogwarts are any evidence to go by. Also, if you factor in the time Hermione spends at the Weasleys from the 3rd book onwards, always arriving earlier than Harry and spending most christmases away from them (the only exception being 6th year christmas). We know Harry preferred Hogwarts (or the ww in general) because that was where he found people who cared for him, where he felt he was "home", which he says so many times. Do you think Hermione considered Hogwarts her home as well? Or maybe, felt a greater sense of belonging in the ww than she did in the muggle world?

Yeah, recently wrote another post about this here.

And I don't know if I'd say she considers Hogwarts her home — it's more that she considers the Wizarding World where she belongs. I think the longer Hermione spent in the WW, the more like a foreigner she felt in the muggle world with her parents. Even when she's with her parents on holiday in France:

I’m on holiday in France at the moment [...] There’s some interesting local history of witchcraft here, too. I’ve rewritten my whole History of Magic essay to include some of the things I’ve found out.

(PoA, Ch1)

She travels to wizard destinations and looks into the local wizard history — not the muggle one.

A lot of fanon portrays Hermione as living in both cultures, but we don't really see that in the books. She fully embraced the Wizarding World by third year. Hermione, as I mentioned in the linked post, sees both worlds as completely separate. And she prefers the magical one, by a huge margin.

I agree with you, she likely didn't have friends in the Muggle world, definitely not close ones like Ron and Harry, and in the wizarding world she had good friends, she had a place for herself, she had things to learn and teachers who liked her — and she's good at magic. She gets spells right first in class, and teachers praise her for it. Hermione likes being good at things, she likes to succeed, and she is incredibly ambitious academically — the Wizarding World gives her everything she ever wanted, essentially. So, she goes all-in on being a witch. It was a choice she made very early on, perhaps even subconsciously.

So yeah, I think, in the Wizarding World, she felt like she belonged, she had friends, she was seen as talented, and though the start was rough (until Halloween), she was accepted. She was still bullied on occasion, but she had close friends in her corner she cared about and who cared about her. It's not Hogwarts that feels like home for her, I think, it's magic in general, the Wizarding World at large.