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i lowkey pity dumbledore like he had to go through years of emotional torment which culminated in him having to defeat the love of his life in a duel and imprison him for life and then just when he thinks he can sit back and relax and just do his job, tom riddle gets old enough to start causing trouble like ???

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the day a fanmade film finally accurately portrays the scene where voldemort meets hepzibah smith is the day when i’ll finally know peace

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The death eaters are actually so incompetent like i’m surprised Voldemort had any patience with them at all cause they just kept fucking up lmao

This is a Barty Crouch Jr appreciation post

For being the only Death Eater who hasn’t fucked over their Lord and Savior. Not even once! He is such a good employee it brings tears to my eyes. Voldemort has such shit subordinates it’s ridiculous he has gotten this far to begin with because every single, named, Death Eater has done something, intentionally or otherwise, against him. It’s peak comedy.

Like. Literally.

Regulus Black: stole Voldemort’s locket horcrux, left Kreacher as a key clue for Harry and Co. to solve that particular treasure hunt.

Lucius Malfoy: bungled the prophecy heist. Couldn’t even kill six teenagers. Got a majority of the inner circle captured again at the end of OotP and sent to Azkaban. Has a shit wand.

Narcissa Malfoy: said Harry was dead when he was in fact, not dead.

Bellatrix Lestrange: actually said outloud where the cup horcrux was hidden, thought the fake Sword of Gryffindor is actually real and treasured it to bits. The sole reason the DE in-fightings started during the Malfoy Manor capture.

Peter Pettigrew: spied on Snape for a summer, got absolutely nothing. Couldn’t stop Harry and Co. from escaping Malfoy Manor, got strangled by himself instead.

Draco Malfoy: brought a bunch of Death Eaters into Hogwarts and, that’s about it. Hagrid’s hut burned down and Dumbledore’s dead (via his preapproved plans) and Bill got scratched, but otherwise jackshit happened. Couldn’t manage capture Harry at any point in the Deathly Hallows, even if the Chosen One is right in front of him. “Gave” Harry the Elder Wand which lead directly to Voldemort’s ultimate death.

Vincent Crabbe: helped Harry destroy another one of Voldemort’s horcruxes. Thanks for the fiendfyre dude.

The Carrow siblings: students were disappearing into the Room of Requirement and didn’t noticed any of it. Called Voldemort to an extremely defensible castle for the final showdown. (They had a whole army and they couldn’t take down a castle full of students and barely two dozen adults. Maybe Riddle is bad at his job too.)

Severus Snape: brought an incomplete prophecy to Voldy during the first war, which sent him down the path to get blown up by a baby. I’m not counting the subsequent twenty years of spying and Harry Protecting because at that point he’s not Voldemort’s loyal subject anymore and thus no longer belong in the category of “we want to help the Dark Lord but we keep on fucking over the Dark Lord.”

So like. I have to applaud Barty, because goddamn it he was so competent? He had a job to do and he did it? He never aided Harry Potter to the detriment of Voldemort? And even if he did fuck up (letting his dad get away), he fixed it immediately and no one was any wiser? He fooled three schools worth of wizards for a whole year? His convoluted plan with the goblet portkey actually worked? Even when he was discovered at the end the consequences didn’t get dumped onto Voldemort? God he was such a good employee I kind of wish he hasn’t died now.

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No cos i feel like banning muggle / wizard relationships in the Harry Potter world almost makes sense. I understand why such a law would exist, as in a relationship between a muggle there exists an extreme power imbalance in favour of the wizard / witch.

There are even several examples of that toxic power imbalance in the lore, of course the most famous being Merope and Tom snr. But also Queenie and Jacob would be examples of this, as she manipulates him with magic to get her way, completely disregarding his wishes and infringing on his free will.

I’m not saying muggle / wizard relations should be banned, but i feel like anytime a marriage between a magical and a non magical part happens there should be some type of regulation / control, for example, somehow determining that the muggle is not under the influence of any curse or love potion. But idk

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i love that scene in gof when harry comes back from the graveyard clutching cedrics dead body and desperately sobbing over him and the whole time the hogwarts band is like

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the death eaters attack ollivanders.

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Voldemort: Avada Kedavra

Baby harry:

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im pretty neutral to bellatrix honestly i only have her as my profile pic cos i cba to find another one rn and also she’s hot

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trying to get back on tumblr after having spent the last few years of my fandom time on twitter... i feel like an imposter even though i spent many evenings in my most formative years here on tumblr and damn I MISS being an active part in a fandom on here lol

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man, the hp movies really did most of its supporting female cast dirty. tonks is basically a background character past her first movie, fleur loses any and all depth she might have had, cho is treated horribly, hermione doesn’t have any of her flaws, very few of molly weasley’s really interesting scenes make it in, and the part of ginny is played by a cardboard cutout

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No one helped Tom Riddle.

I’m still baffled over the fact that there are people who think that Tom Riddle should have just become a better person despite his circumstances. Like he should have just opened his eyes one day and shaken off every negative thing weighing him down and become a good person.

These people are the same ones who use Harry Unrealistic Abuse Survivor Potter as an example. Harry had shitty experiences and was abused growing up and he turned out to be an angel so obviously Tom could have ended up the same but chose not to.

There are many similarities between them, this is true. Such that make me ship them. But there are differences.

Harry Potter:

Was wanted by his parents.

Loved by his parents and godfather.

Grew up in a world not ravaged by a World War that had bombs dropped on his home city every year and didn’t live in a Great Depression.

Found out he was very wealthy and could afford anything his heart desired.

Got his first friend when he was 11. It was an owl who was also his first gift and pet.

Made his first human friend at 11. Made more after that.

Was popular at Hogwarts from the jump(because of something he personally didn’t do) and because he was in the ‘good’ House.

Was catered to by Dumbledore and given liberties not usually allowed to 1st years. That made him cool.

His best friend’s parents treated him like he was their own son.

His godfather, despite not being the best adult figure, tried to be there when he could be.

Was accepted as a Halfblood and didn’t really face any backlash for it.

Tom Riddle:

Wasn’t wanted by his parents.

Wasn’t loved by his parents.

Grew up in the middle of the Great Depression caused by WWI, and during WWII where London was perpetually bombed for years, killing people all the time.

Was dirt poor.

Didn’t have any friends.

Was not popular from the jump. He was in the ‘evil’ House after all.

Was disliked by Dumbledore, the Deputy Headmaster of his school.

Wasn’t wanted by the rest of the family he had.

Was thought to be a Mudblood in a House that hates them.

There is a common theme here. Tom Riddle is incapable of opening his eyes and becoming a better person because he needs help with all this bad just piling up. An example to follow to help him would be nice. Harry Potter has Ron Weasley, Hagrid, Hermione, his Housemates, the Weasleys, Sirius, Remus, his parents’ love and adoration, MCGonagall Dumbledore’s support, plus Dumbledore’s Army, even Snape and many others. He has wealth on his side to take care of himself with if he has to. The muggle side isn’t at war. His time period is pretty decent. He’s generally popular in school from the start.

And what does Tom Riddle have on his side to bring him out of the darkness and show him a better way of life from what he was stuck facing when he went ‘home’ every year?

Harry escaped becoming a second Voldemort by having someone there. A friend. A parental figure. Someone that gave a damn about him and wanted what was best for him. Someone willing to teach him. Perfect strangers just willing to stretch out a helping hand.

Harry didn’t wake up one day and suddenly become an angel who can do no wrong and represents all the goodness in the world. Even in his worst times, someone was there to talk him down and teach him better, whether he wanted to hear what they had to say or not. Tom Riddle didn’t get that. Dumbledore wasn’t doing anything to try and help him, and he was the kid’s teacher, not some strange woman with half a dozen kids that Tom barely knew.

And you know, sometimes people need help and they shouldn’t be shamed for needing that help.

One wrong move could have created a 2nd Voldemort, and one right move could have made certain that Voldemort never happened at all.

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If this essay doesn’t kill me, nothing will. I’m currently grappling with the concept of connecting Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness with post-structuralism. I don’t know whether I’m being very clever or very stupid. (x)

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one of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual. she forgot that the average straight teenager does not have an inner monologue about how attractive his opponents, friends, and godparents are. and thus we were blessed with bi harry.

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I wonder what tom’s feelings regarding merope were. Like, i know he considered her weak for dying. And he probably thought she was a disgusting blood traitor, considering she had him with a muggle. But were there parts of him that harboured any other feelings towards her? I know he can’t love anyone, but i really wonder what he thought about his mother. Maybe he in some ways felt abandoned by her. If i remember correctly he reacted angrily (though discretly) to hepzibah smith describing her as a ”ragged looking woman” so idk

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the hogwarts houses as traumatic events in harry potter

gryffindor: actual teenager harry potter coming to terms with the fact that he had to die to save his friends

slytherin: the slow decline of draco malfoy into depression and self-loathing as he attempts to live up to his father’s legacy

ravenclaw: cho chang not coping with the death of her boyfriend and the way she feels towards harry, who is indirectly responsible for his death

hufflepuff: cedric diggory being killed just because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time

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i still can’t get over cursed child saying that cedric diggory, shown to be one of the kindest most decent people in hogwarts, would turn into a death eater and kill neville all because he lost the triwizard tournament. i mean this is a guy who insisted harry take the trophy for saving his life, wanted to replay a quidditch match his team won because it wasn’t fair that harry was distracted by dementors, and disapproved of the ‘support cedric diggory/potter stinks’ badges. his personality wouldn’t just do a whole 180 because he lost one time.