#anti dursleys

[aficionadoenthusiast]

you're telling me that sirius black spent 13 years in azkaban with dementors and has no memory loss??? the man that half the fandom hcs as having adhd, depression, and/or anxiety?? that guy??? i don't think so

give me sirius who isn't immediately comfortable around remus because his strongest memories are of the end of the war when they each thought the other was the spy

give me sirius who is super weary about dumbledore because he can't remember his good deeds, only the manipulation

give me sirius who instantly, i mean, the very second he escapes, runs straight to the dursleys to take harry because he only knows the horrible stories lily told them and how they acted at james and lily's wedding, and thinking about harry is one of the only things he could do in azkaban

give me sirius who barely considers regulus a brother because he can only remember him as their parents' lackey

give me sirius who hates snape even more than he already did in series because only their worst fights come to mind when he thinks of the other man

give me sirius who fights with everyone in the order because, don't they remember all the horrible things dumbledore did??

give me sirius who has panic attacks and constant anxiety in ootp because grimmauld place is literally a house of horrors to him

give me sirius who can barely look his friends and harry in the eye because he only sees death and despair

give me sirius with fucking trauma

[sk1fanfiction]

on dursley revisionism

Random people with wrong opinions: "Harry wasn't abused by the Dursleys" (bonus points for 'just neglected', which is a type of child abuse btw or 'that's all fanon')

Things that the Dursleys canonically did that are abuse just off the top of my head:

Swung a frying pan at his head (at the age of 12)

Grabbed him by the neck and basically tried to strangle him (even light pressure to the neck can cause internal damage)

Starved him

Verbally abused him

Locked him alone in a small cramped space as punishment (which can cause permanent psychological damage btw, and that's in adults. It is literally a type of torture.)

Made him sleep in that same small cramped unhealthy space when they had an extra bedroom

Encouraged their son to bully him and beat him up

Left him to be possibly attacked by a vicious dog

Bonus: Hid the evidence of his existence to outsiders and didn't speak about him to others (a typical thing for abusers to do)

And more. That boy is unrealistically well-adjusted.

I know the shitty guardian trope is so common in British children's lit (think Roald Dahl) that it became normalized, but it's not. It's abuse. I am worried for the children in your lives tbh.

[severussnape-prince]

Snoliday Week 3: Resolution(s)

Here's my first contribution for @snapecelebration 's Snoliday!! Enjoy, and please consider leaving a comment 😊

Resolution by DancingInTheSliverGlow on ao3.

Summary/Teaser:

They're nearly at the sidewalk, when the piercing wail of an upset baby reaches Severus, and he remembers that Lily has a child.

"The child. Harry." Severus says, looking at Dumbledore. "How?"

Dumbledore shakes his head. "I do not know. Do you need help apparating? I can take you to Hogwarts, or your residence at Spinner's End…"

Severus doesn't answer. He's too busy looking around, finally seeing for the first time since he got there.

The house is in ruins. Parts of the outer walls remain, but that's it. Everything else is obliterated. The roof is completely gone, disintegrated. So is the second floor. The furniture, and whatever else she might've had in her house is shredded.

Even by magical extents, this is extreme.

And somehow the child survives?

[these-conquered-woodlands]

I finally found a wolfstar fic i like:

Stealing Harry by copperbadge - https://archiveofourown.org/works/987408/chapters/1947158

Summary: In an alternate universe where Sirius Black never went to Azkaban, Harry divides his life between the Dursleys' house and Mr. Black's bookshop -- until Sirius realises what the Dursleys are doing to him, and takes him away from their care.

a little old, but gold. a bit severitus-ish too. it deserves a lot more recognition and love. and the snape here is 🤌

(also this is a 11 part series but i mainly recommend this first part)

[darklinaforever]

When people try to claim that James has changed and that without that, Lily would never have gone out with him, when it's canon that behind Lily's back he was still going to harass Severus... Wow. What an evolution.

Also, even if Lily would have known about it, Lily is not a symbol of virtue. We're talking about the same girl having managed to find amusing what James suddenly did to Severus, levitating, head down and soap in his mouth.

And if I ever hear anyone claim that James and Severus shared a rivalry again, I'll scream. James harassed Severus with his group of friends. Many against 1 is not a rivalry.

I also once saw someone claim that Severus had permanently broken the relationship between Lily and Petunia with this branch thing, when their relationship was shit from the moment Lily was discovered to be a witch and that Petunia was jealous as hell. And also, it's canon that it was James who ruined the last possibilities of a good understanding between the two sisters...

I also love hearing that Severus was obsessed with Lily just because he loved her and couldn't stand her death. Like... Sirius and Lupin couldn't stand James' death years later and I don't see anyone saying they were obsessed ?

Beyond that, when Lily demanded it Severus left alone VS James who never took no for an answer from Lily when it came to going out with him, which he tried to do for the majority of their schooling before making her blackmailing Severus into going out with him... Who was really obsessed, James or Severus, I wonder ?

[cubeapples]

the trope where voldemort finds out about harry's abuse by the dursleys and gets So enraged, that he kills the dursleys is so funny to me.

you're telling me, that genocidal maniac lord voldemort, who has killed scores and scores of people, has been left neglected and abused in an orphange himself, would fall so in love with a teenager that he would get worked up over child abuse? lol.

he'd probably snicker over the irony and parallels of his and harry's childhood and move on.

there is NO way he is getting worked up over harry being abused. he would feel satisfaction at the fact that he and harry had virtually the same horrible childhood because he is a sick, sick man.

he was the one who's been trying to murder harry for several years, he'd probably be annoyed/impressed vernon didn't finish the job for him. and like, you know voldemort literally killed harry's parents, right? harry's loving parents, who died protecting him.

the empty gesture of voldemort killing the dursleys is so overused and ooc imo.

[urstarlitharlot]

harry who cuts chunks out of his hair to piss off petunia hating it being messy.

harry who only truly feels at peace around ron, hermione, and sirius.

harry who refuses to get help because then he has to admit he can no longer help himself.

harry who was raised catholic.

harry who stays up at night terrified that he's a bad person.

harry who will never forgive the dursleys, but still loves them and tries to rationalize their abuse to him.

harry who snaps at people and then freaks out because he's scared he's turning into petunia.

harry who holds his own hands to comfort himself.

harry who always feels a little bit like a child because he was never able to be a child.

HARRY 😭🫶🏽

[ashboilol]

The Marauders: Bullies who sexually assaulted a person. Basically Draco Malfoy and his cronies who were shown the Light.

Fandom: Such feminists, I love them!

Draco: Human equivalent of garbage who bullied anyone with lower social status, and mocked an orphan. Also gladly joined the DE.

Fandom: So tragic! He had no choice, we love him! He deserved better.

Dursleys: Gross, shallow human beings who abused the orphan they were in charge of, and even starved that child (and only because Vernon's promotion was cancelled).

Fandom: They have a reasonable hatred, and Petunia is sympathetic!

Dudley Dursley: Actually apologizes for his behavior and abuse, unlike oh-so-great James Potter.

Fandom: Bad!

Ron Weasley: Brave kid who has commited countless selfless acts and protects his friends.

Fandom: Bad! Hermione deserved better! Wife beater! Predator! Hermione should have cheated on him with Harry!

Severus Snape: Also does brave, selfless acts, and is known by HIS ENEMY'S SON as the bravest man Harry ever knew. Proves he really loves Lily.

Fandom: Bad! He was obsessed with Lily and a creep and he stole Lily's patronus! He also bullied Neville!

Lavender Brown: Nice and caring, and gives Ron the affection he deserves. Also does countless brave acts, helps to round up Skrewts, and fights in the DA despite the danger.

Fandom: She should go, she is ruining our ships!1!1!1! (Side note: I do ship Romione, but this anti-Lavender bullshit should stop.)

Cho Chang: Cares about and loves her boyfriend, and simply wants to know how he died because she loves him. Also offers to take Harry to the Ravenclaw common room, and fights in the DA.

Fandom: So annoying, can't she stop crying about Cedric?

[greenerteacups]

thoughts on Ginny and Harry as a couple?

There are a lot of people who find their romance in HBP forced. I don't think it's forced so much as underwritten, and the books don't get the chemistry quite right (though the movies certainly don't, either). There's potential, but they just don't get enough actual scenes of substance (besides Harry thinking she's pretty or feeling jealous of Dean) for a lot of readers to buy that they're not only in love, but deeply enough in love to break up, get back together, and wind up married.

That's not to say I don't see the appeal. There's a very cool scene in Book 5 where Harry's doing a woe-is-me-Chosen-One act, and Ginny effortlessly puts him in his place about it by reminding him that she was possessed by Voldemort at eleven, which is a rare glimpse into her character and also a great synecdoche for their relationship — Ginny is a grounding presence who, like Ron and Hermione, isn't going to be awed by his past adventures because she knew him before they happened. In that respect, Ginny's probably one of the few women Harry could feasibly wind up with, because he only ever seems comfortable around people (let alone girls) who can see past the Chosen-One schtick and treat him like a normo (see: Ron, Hermione, the Weasleys, Luna, Hagrid). True to type, he doesn't get interested in Ginny at all until she's ditched her celebrity crush and ceased to view him as an idol, because in his heart of hearts, Harry wants to be a normal boy, and it's stressed over and over that part of what he likes about his relationship with Ginny is how normal it feels. He kind of has a horribly supercharged version the celebrity dating problem: after the Battle of Hogwarts, anyone he meets is going to know him first as Harry Potter, Chosen One, Boy Who Lived, and Actually Fucking Resurrected Messiah of the Wizarding World, which is... I mean, it's possible that there are witches out there who could get over that, but Harry's not an extroverted guy, and I'm not sure how he'd go about finding them. Ginny's the one who's been there since the beginning, doesn't need anything about him or his past explained to her, and actually likes him for who he is.

When you look at it that way, it's not surprising he married his high school girlfriend. She's one of the few people still alive who doesn't see him as a demigod.

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

If Dudley turned out to have magic just like Harry, would the Dursleys treat him any differently?

Why Muggle-borns go to Hogwarts even when their parents are dubious. Why the Dursleys took in Harry (and they really couldn't say no).

The short answer: yes.

All's right with the world, they have their wonderful normal son Dudders, a freak of a nephew who they all know is blatantly a wizard and Petunia takes out all her rage on, and then the worst thing in the world happens, Petunia relives her childhood as Dudley on his eleventh birthday gets his mysterious letter.

I imagine they are in denial for the first few days, pull what they did with Harry and try to burn the letter, refuse to tell Dudley what it's about, and it gets worse when Harry gets his fucking letters but because they didn't send McGonagall to visit Harry with the letter I imagine we end up in the Hagrid situation.

Then when it's all too real, Dudley is definitely a wizard, I imagine they don't know how to react but it's with a lot of anger toward Lily, Petunia herself for having these genes/it clearly being from her side of the family, Harry for infecting their son, and even Dudley.

I imagine they try to keep Dudley from Hogwarts however this won't go well (see above links at top of the post). Dudley ends up going and is very aware of how isolated he is and quickly figures out that he is Muggle-born/dirt to the wizarding world. He tries to make up for it by bullying Harry as usual to provide a sense of normalcy, but this goes quickly sideways as he's bullying the Boy-Who-Lived who is very famous and at this point worshipped in the series.

And of course you'd get the Dursleys being weird when he goes home for the holidays and alternating between pretending he doesn't have magic at all and insisting Dudley just not talk about it or anything Harry's getting up to because they aggressively do not care.

Now, I don't know if they'd be hitting Dudley with frying pans but I don't imagine things would be good if Dudley turned out to have magic.

[radiohead-spiderman]

Lily and Petunia have such an interesting and complex relationship and there aren’t enough fics that delve into that.

From what we know from canon, the two were relatively close before Lily’s magic was discovered. We can assume that Petunia’s resentment ramped up when Snape and Lily started to become friends, which was partially because she just didn’t like him and thought he was a weird but if you look at it from a child’s perspective it paints it in a different light, children are easily possessive of things and people, siblings especially, sisters especially.

Her resentment was furthered with their parents treatment of the two. Petunia was the eldest sister, between the two she was the less remarkable, from what we know and can assume from canon, Lily was the golden child, when she received her Hogwarts letter and their parents reacted positively and from what we’re told in the books, ecstatically even, which furthered her resentment even more when she even wrote to Dumbledore asking if she could go to Hogwarts too, but he had told her, though kindly, that because she was a muggle she could not.

Petunia lashed out the only way she knew how to, with resentment and envy, which makes sense really.

If Petunia was already envious of her sister, and their parents put Lily on an even higher pedestal after they found out she was a witch, adding Dumbledore’s words about Petunia not be able to go because she was a “muggle”, then it’d make sense that Petunia would resent Lily, to make her a “freak” in her eyes.

Petunia’s jealousy and resentment came from many things with Lily’s odd abilities, with Lily spending time with Snape, with Lily discovering she was a witch and their parents praising her for that, with Lily’s acceptance into Hogwarts and Petunia’s rejection from it, with pureblood James Potter.

That’s not to say that Lily is at fault or that she didn’t care, we KNOW Lily loved her sister. We can safely assume that she wrote to Petunia throughout Hogwarts, her letters probably getting more scarce as they grew and Petunia had stopped responding, but Lily still sent Petunia a letter when she gave birth to Harry, she still felt that her sister was important enough to her to send a letter announcing Harry’s arrival.

Petunia’s resentment even caused her to marry Vernon because he was everything that Lily was not. He was a boring regular man with a boring regular life. (Which we learn from this part in the books below)

“Mrs Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be.”

However, even with all that envy and resentment, Lily was still her sister, we see this when Vernon and Marge are laughing about Lily being a bitch and Petunia isn’t, we see this when Petunia tells Harry that he didn’t just lose a mother that night but she lost a sister(it’s in the movies explicitly so not book canon but it’s still a thing to note)

Petunia treated Harry the way she did because he was attached to the wizarding world and her sister, yeah Harry was a wizard but he was also the spitting image of James, Petunia must have resented him that much more because Harry was the embodiment of the two things that took away her sister, magic and James Potter. More over, Voldemort killed Lily to get to Harry, Lily died for Harry, it’s not an insane thing to think that that added even more to Petunia’s disdain.

Harry was the embodiment of everything that took Lily away from Petunia, magic, James Potter and the very reason her sister was dead. In Petunia’s mind at least.

To add Petunia treated Harry horrifically and no this isn’t an excuse for her inexcusable gross actions, but an unnecessary long look into the reasoning for it.

[aficionadoenthusiast]

just once, i want the hero to absolutely rip on the people who wronged (preferably in a eulogy they're inevitably forced to give). let them go feral, full hate, full rant, just totally demolishing them. no forgiveness in this house, just completely putting everything they did out in the open. blow the audience away with the truth of their actions. oh, they were an abuser? they were a murderer? they didn't recycle? the reckoning has come, it's time for the hero to shine

[roseburning]

Severitus.

Think with me, Petunia only met James once, and she was trying to forget the memory more and more. Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid had only seen Harry as a baby.

I need a fanfiction where Hagrid comes pick Harry up, takes a look at the boy and goes: "This is not James' son."

Black greasy hair, pale skin, big nose.

The was no deniability, the kid looked exactly like a mini Professor Snape, unless, of course, for the famous scar and the eyes — ah, Lily's eyes! Would it be true? Lily Potter was a cheater?!

I doubt that Petunia would even remember that one neighbor she had as a child, who spent most of the year away, that was just as freaky as the sister she was trying to forget and who she hadn't seen in more than a decade, let anole realize that the kid, who she rather pretend didn't exist, looked like him.

//

Snape had alittle petty smile on the lips, realizing that James Potter had sacrificed his little life to save not only a baby that wasn't his, but no other than Severus —no, Snivellus' son.

At same time, somewhere in the other side, James was smiling too, when Snivellus' son got sorted into Gryffindor, basically begging to not go to his father's beloved Slytherin.

//

Rita Skeeter was reveling with the news. The Daily Prophet's machetes spent weeks looking like:

"Young Savior Harry Potter enters Hogwarts with Shocking Scandal!"

"The myth of purity of Lily and James Potter: AFFAIR?!"

"Harry Potter isn't a Potter at all!"

"The Boy Who Lived and the MOTHER WHO CHEATED?!"

[rewritingcanon]

wait bc everyone is always talking about how sirius and harry saw each other as a substitute for james BUT BUT BUT do you ever think that sometimes when sirius looked at harry he saw what only he could understand as someone who also went through years and years of emotional neglect and abuse?? like do you ever think that that was also a reason why harry connected so deeply to sirius. because sirius became the one person to harry that he knew he needed, the figure that was absent from his childhood?? like. like like like.

[profoundmakerdreamerss-blog]

As much as I don't agree with the Dumbledore is the reason for everything that is wrong in the world trope — we have to agree that wizarding world failed both Voldemort and Harry. And Dumbledore had a hand in it; and things could have gone a lot different if, say some different choices were made by some people in power who decided to not do anything.

See, we all agree Dumbledore is not a god, nor could he have helped everyone. We can agree that we don't know much about his and Tom's relationship so we can't really talk about that. But, what we can talk about is his and Harry's relationship. This man left him, a child at the door of a family that hated the word "magic". And worse part is, even after knowing they don't like him — he still insisted that Harry returned to them without even trying to check on him. And the horrible, horrible thing about that is; Dumbledore could have — checked on harry or made someone else do it, in the 11 years of his life. And even more horrible than that is he did make someone check on him, he knew Harry wasn't treated right and he just did not care enough.

He might have created an elaborate plan to make sure Harry survived, but he also made an elaborate plan to make sure Harry doesn't have any self-esteem left when he does.

[severussnapemylove]

When Snaters are going after student Severus and you point out that his actions were responses to being bullied and they try to defend the bullies with

“But they were just children!”

Guess what, so was Severus just a child. A child who’d been targeted his whole life and learned to start swinging back.

You can’t defend bullies with “oh just kids” and vilify their victim for pushing back.