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Narcissa Black

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

Youngest daughter of Cygnus Black III and Druella Black (née Rosier)

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This might be a weird question but why are you so interested in religious imagery and Jesus Christ and what makes you realize that "oh this going to be my longtime special ihterest now "

When I was a child my father took me to church and then my brain latched onto it like a symbiote

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hm.

I would argue that out of the human folk, muggleborns are the ones most actively hated and harassed by the pureblooded society.

there was definite hatred and dislike towards muggles generally, as shown by unprovoked attacks in the later books, but it doesn't really compare to the direct targeting of those who were muggleborns - the muggle attacks seem a sort of 'wrong place, wrong time' and to generally evoke fear*, whereas the muggleborn attacks are to try and get rid of muggleborns entirely.

remember too that muggleborns were considered by many purebloods to be essentially a subsection of muggles, so this dislike of muggles extends to muggleborns. The statue of 'magic is might' having the muggles squashed underneath wizards would have also included muggleborns.

squibs too, while disliked and definitely discriminated against, were more of this idea of a shameful place in society rather than the real possibility of being wiped out/forced to languish in Azkaban if they were muggleborn.

don't get me wrong, it would have gotten far worse for both squibs and muggles. But I think OP is being flippant when they say that being muggleborn was only a problem when it came to society yknow

*no doubt these attacks would have also been important in the theoretical takeover of the muggle world if voldemort hadn't been.. lousy..

So what kind of discrimination do you think Muggle-borns suffer?

Not being accepted by the magical aristocracy is honestly such a minor thing compared to pretty much anyone or anything else in the wizarding world. Squibs are below them, Muggles too, and then all the non-human creatures lol. Complaining about being the child of Muggles and the discrimination you feel is like me complaining that when I’ve been in other European countries, as a Spaniard, they didn’t consider me white or rich enough lol.

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I honestly think that like at the point at which the prank is discussed in canon, it's been what? just under 20 years since it happened and since then, there was a war, sirius was in prison for 12 years, his best friends have died and betrayed him, it's been a LOT

and then on top of that, when he talks about the prank, he's trying to connect with Harry and is speaking on it for the first time since azkaban like.. I think he's going to feel a bit differently and also more DISTANTLy

"sirius didnt give a fuck about the prank" god forbid i want to imagine my fav with a crumb of emotional intelligence

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Okay fuck it I rbed this in tags but I feel like I have more to say about this.

I would probably call myself a chill book-purist, being that I think of the movies/wiki/pottermore/cursed child/the author's interviews as something that's like a pick 'n mix at the cinema - a lot of it ends up contradicting itself, pottermore was written predominantly by other people, etc etc etc - so I like to stick to book canon and then choose what I enjoy from the pick 'n mix.

I only recently learnt about Pandora, as we never find out her name in the books and I'm not really in that part of the fandom, but we can use her as an example.

From what we know about her is that she:

looks a lot like luna

Is probably just as open minded and free as the other two lovegoods that we know

dies when luna is 9 from a spell backfiring

luna believes she is an extroardinary witch.

That's all. From later additions, we learn her name and not too much more. Personally, I don't love the headcannon that Pandora is actually Pandora Rosier, but why not? How does this interfere with canon? Answer: It really doesn't.*

Making Pandora into Pandora Rosier is by no means 'trampling over canon,' because there's nothing there to say that she's not a Rosier.

It's fun, because there are pre-established relationships and attachments we know these named characters have (as in Xenophilius and Luna with Pandora), so why not give them a backstory that's fulfilling and interesting and interacts with other established characters, because the wizarding world is tiny, so of course, they could easily know each other.

You're right, people could make a whole new OC and attach it to families/other characters. That's great too, and actually many people do that in fics, some of them being my absolute favourite characters. But the Marauders fandom is also pretty collaborative, so of course the characters that are explicitly in canon are going to be more popular than the OCs, especially in posts that are specifically for that community, where people want to share what they think about a character we all care about. Not for likes. For fun.

And c'mon man, calling people lazy writers for establishing blank-slate characters is just weird. You are able to voice your dislike without putting other people down.

*(I will cop that the interpretations of Sirius' character isn't my vibe!)

Can I just ask why you are so pressed about OCs being projected onto canonical characters that don't really have canon personalities? Like I just really think it's a non-issue for people to include characters like emmeline vance or caradoc dearborn to add some more familiarity, or even literally just named characters, such as marlene mckinnon and dorcas meadowes.

Like it's fun to have characters people recognise, and it's fun be able to build a personality around what little we know about them in canon, and therefore have a challenge whilst also having the freedom of an OC.

idk man I just don't think it's so deep that you have to be reminiscing about the old days LOL

Honestly, it’s not at all hard to make up your own character, name her Pandora, and pretend she’s canon. Like, who even is Pandora? You only know she had a daughter and a potion blew up in her face, all that stuff about her being someone’s sister is pure OC. It’s like naming your character Jasmine and turning her into Jasmine Rosier, what’s the difference? Why not just go ahead and create Jasmine Rosier from scratch if you’re going to throw canon out the window and make up wildly implausible relationships? And if you want your personal crop-top-wearing twink to hook up with Remus Lupin, why not just make your own OC instead of destroying Sirius Black’s character? I genuinely don’t understand the need to pass off your OCs as canon characters while trampling all over the actual ones, instead of just inserting your OC into the story with an original name. It’s not like you’re putting in more effort, real effort is trying to make everything canon compliant and racking your brain to keep things coherent and as close to canon as possible. Everything else is just lazy writing and a desperate need for likes because you named your character Dorcas instead of Lydia.

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Can I just ask why you are so pressed about OCs being projected onto canonical characters that don't really have canon personalities? Like I just really think it's a non-issue for people to include characters like emmeline vance or caradoc dearborn to add some more familiarity, or even literally just named characters, such as marlene mckinnon and dorcas meadowes.

Like it's fun to have characters people recognise, and it's fun be able to build a personality around what little we know about them in canon, and therefore have a challenge whilst also having the freedom of an OC.

idk man I just don't think it's so deep that you have to be reminiscing about the old days LOL

Honestly, it’s not at all hard to make up your own character, name her Pandora, and pretend she’s canon. Like, who even is Pandora? You only know she had a daughter and a potion blew up in her face, all that stuff about her being someone’s sister is pure OC. It’s like naming your character Jasmine and turning her into Jasmine Rosier, what’s the difference? Why not just go ahead and create Jasmine Rosier from scratch if you’re going to throw canon out the window and make up wildly implausible relationships? And if you want your personal crop-top-wearing twink to hook up with Remus Lupin, why not just make your own OC instead of destroying Sirius Black’s character? I genuinely don’t understand the need to pass off your OCs as canon characters while trampling all over the actual ones, instead of just inserting your OC into the story with an original name. It’s not like you’re putting in more effort, real effort is trying to make everything canon compliant and racking your brain to keep things coherent and as close to canon as possible. Everything else is just lazy writing and a desperate need for likes because you named your character Dorcas instead of Lydia.

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man even if she didn't know that Mary is commonly hced as black, it's still fucking crazy talk to say that Mary acts as a slave to Lily

even if it's a joke it genuinely just makes me feel so nauseous

her actual headcanons aren't much better tbh 😭😭

Comparing Mary to a house elf is CRAZY work ngl

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... what?? The reason we never find out about Lily's friendships aside from Severus is because the only primary source we have of their era is through the very limited lens of Severus' memories.

We know that Lily does have friends, as they appear with her im Snape's Worst Memory, and she later says to severus:

"[...] none of my friends can understand why I even talk to you."

this implies she does, at the very least, have friends who are close enough to her that she is able to talk to them about her friendship with Severus, whether it's Mary MacDonald or not.

We as readers do not see inside her mind and neither does Severus. You cannot claim to know what she 'gave a damn' about aside from the Order, her friends, her husband and her child.

teen snape defenders actually scare me because we all know snape. you've met him. i've met him. we've all had a snape. that piece of shit who says awful things about your other friends and makes you feel bad for being yourself and tries to control your life and disses everything about you while pretending they care. your "best friend". that's snape and it boggles my mind that there are people who can defend who he was to lily at all.

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something I've been seeing a lot of is people actively 'deadnaming' jkr (as in calling her incorrect pronouns, calling her exclusively by her pseudonym) and while that is objectively funny, please remember that trans allyship is not just about respecting them, it's about 'respecting' everyone's rights as humans.

This is not to say we shouldn't call her out on her discrimination and inflammatory statements that have greatly impacted so many people's lives, but don't sink to her depths.

Calling her a different pronoun will not affect her at all, but in a world where everyone can see everybody else's actions, it draws a line to say "this is okay, this specific act is fine".

fuck jkr, but don't do it at the expense of the trans community.

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okay big talk time. in light of the UK Supreme Court ruling, i'm seeing a lot of posts about fandom spaces. i woke up to see a tiktok that says "if you write fanfic, there's blood on your hands too",,, so let's talk about it.

because there is no refuting that fandom spaces keep JKR relevant. there is no refuting that by producing any kind of media based on this franchise, we are engaging with her and we are keeping her universe relevant. we cannot deny that.

we often see people turn around and say "jkr would hateee what we write!" and that's true. that's so very true, but it isn't enough. your headcanons and your stories and your art Are Not Enough. particularly over on tiktok: if you post HP content over on that platform, you are promoting JKR. my existence in this space as a trans man is NOT an act of protest. everything else i do is, so what do we do about that?

we NEED to be talking about these things. about jkr, about her money, about her actions, about the bigotry in the source material, and if you are not in a position where you can have those conversations, then you need to be listening. because engagement with jkr is infact life of death.

and we carry that guilt. we do, of course we do. if you are somebody who hasn't yet been able to let go of this series like me, then we carry that guilt. even more so if you are a member of any of the communities that jkr has harmed - the guilt is heavy.

but,,, let me make one thing clear: this is not your guilt.

if you are not profiting her. directly, then you are carrying guilt that is not yours to carry. that guilt is hers to bear, and the lives we are about to lose are on her conscious. we have been forced, time and time again, to carry the weight of her bigotry.

but,,, we're carrying it. and i think there's a certain amount of guilt that makes us better. i think there's a certain amount of guilt that makes us more conscious human beings, and that makes us more receptive to these discussions.

you can use that guilt, you really can. you can talk. you can listen. you can educate. you can step away if the guilt gets too much. you can use that guilt for something good.

do NOT push it away. whilst it isn't ours to carry, we are not in a position where we can throw that guilt away and wash our hands of it - we are here, we are engaging, we have to accept that. if we simply pretend as though we are not, then all we do is cause harm.

because fandom spaces can do a lot of good, especially for those that jkr has harmed. fandom spaces can do so much good, but only if we are conscious of the ways in which we are engaging, and we are willing to sit and have these difficult conversations.

if i were not in the position i am in now, i would leave. i would leave this fandom space and at this point? i am in fact urging those of you are able to, to go. for your own sakes and the sakes of everyone around you.

but as someone who has been having conversations about JKR for ages? i am in no position to step back. i'm in no position to turn away and give up. not when there are so many people who benefit from these discussions and who benefit from safe spaces.

and the reason it's a safe space? it's because I Talk. because i Have These Discussions. and no matter how much i do, i am still promoting her when i go on to post a headcanon or update my fics. i am still promoting her when i engage in this space.

and there's still guilt.

don't chuck that guilt aside, let it fuel you in making safe spaces safe again.

there is absolutely no refuting that by being in this space we are causing harm. so if you are not in a position to leave this space, here's some things you can do to make it easier for everyone both in and out of it:

Listen. if you are not in a position to talk about JKR, then actively listen. actively listen, understand, process, and adapt.

Merchandise: stop posting your merch, secondhand or not. you know that you get comments asking "where did you get this!?", stop posting it. makes that small adjustment for wider good

Keep educated: on the bigotry in the books so that you aren't perpetuating it, on jkr's actions, on politics. keep educated as much as you can to make sure that you are not unwillingly causing harm in what you are doing

Block: block those who are going to the studios, who are posting merch, who are talking about the reboot, who are doing ANYTHING to support her. if you see a video? comment on it. the continued relevance of people in this space who have supported a bigot is Immense. do not allow for complacency - bigotry is bigotry no matter how many views it gets you.

and above all, hold that guilt. hold it. feel it. utilise it.

and if you are in a position where you can leave this space? then i encourage you to do so. i encourage you to Move On, and find new ventures. i encourage you to do that if you can. and if you can't, then i'll still be here to guide you through it all and keep having these difficult talks.

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YOU hate JK Rowling!

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awh man, lou's smile when they were doing compliments at the end of the bts video for "one year later" :'))💖 is there a man with a sweeter smile in this world idk

also jacob saying, "lou, the colossal thinker, the big brain, a man of earth with celestial thoughts, painting mortal ideas with pastels from the heavens," god i love when words can be that pretty!!! chefs kiss writing right there.

and vic saying jacob is just as great as they suspect everyone thinks he is! :'))) honestly so wholesome, it was really cute they took the time to acknowledge and uplift each other to close off the year-long episode. what a wild year that must have been!!!

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I feel like the entire Black family essentially saw Barty as a replacement for Regulus. Like, when Regulus disappeared Bellatrix took Barty under her wing and trained him and sort of used him as a replacement little cousin.

And Sirius can't quite allow himself to grieve or feel sympathy for Regulus because there's too many complicated emotions there, but he looks at Barty and sees a kid the same age as his little brother who was sucked into the death eater cult just like Regulus was. And he allows himself to feel angry about how Barty was treated.

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okay can we talk about how horrible snape is towards lupin??? he literally makes remus's class write an essay on how to kill a werewolf!! and remus then has to read and mark them!! wtf?!?!!? borderline inhumane behaviour.

okay, can we talk about how horribly Lupin treats Snape??? He literally encouraged the class to laugh at their teacher, undermining his authority. Imagine Snape in his grandmother’s dress—how mature!! And then Snape still had to brew a complex potion for him!! wtf?!?!!? This is borderline complete disrespect.

What seems worse to me is how he gaslights him throughout the entire damn series. Lupin is worse than Sirius because Sirius is upfront about it. Sirius can’t stand Severus, and he doesn’t hide it or pretend otherwise—he doesn’t try to be nice or fake a sympathy he doesn’t feel. Lupin, on the other hand, treats Severus as if they were old friends or close schoolmates, fully aware of everything that happened between them and what his friends did. He’s condescending and paternalistic towards him, and then he makes him relive all the trauma of public humiliation through the boggart lesson.

Honestly, if I were Severus, I’d have outed him as a werewolf much earlier. I’d take someone like Sirius any day, who at least doesn’t pretend to be a good person, over someone like Lupin. Guys like Lupin are the worst because they act like “nice guys” but are actually manipulative gaslighters to the core.

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When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

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ehhh I agree and disagree with this - while Snape only agrees with Malfoy, he knows that Hermione takes great stock in what her teachers say and think of her, and it's his words that make her cry and run, rather than Malfoy's.

I will not even try and argue that Neville's potion skills are bad lol because they really are awful, but it's one thing to say that to him, and another entirely to say it to both another new teacher - who wouldn't have had any proper opinions on Neville yet - and to the rest of the class.

Snape says "possibly no one's warned you, Lupin" (implying that many teachers find Neville a threat and/or useless, further demoralising*) "I would advise you not to entrust him with anything difficult." (treat him as lesser than the other students, he will be bad at anything you try to give him)

*while I don't doubt other teachers may know Neville isn't the strongest (especially McGonagall), the wording here really implies that most teachers also talk about how useless he is which... idk maybe I'm too soft but to me this is cruel.

While what your teacher did to you is horrible !! I do still think that Snape's actions towards students were also horrible within the context of the wizarding world

I don't think that 'treating your pet like a lab animal' thing is necessarily true. While animals do get treated badly very casually in HP (and seriously what's up with that it's so freaky to me) but Severus did not use Trevor as a lab animal just because that's the status quo.

He did it to purposefully cause Neville distress. He knew Neville couldn't fix the potion by himself, and there was a chance (however small) that Neville wouldn't get Hermione's help in fixing it, or that the potion wouldn't be fixed in time. He threatened to use Trevor in order for Neville to be upset, simple as that.

Honestly, he had the antidote in his pocket, I mean, it was a lesson for the kid so he’d stop being a damn useless. Keeping on reproaching him for these things is just being a dumbass.

I had a teacher who would call you up in front of everyone and start commenting on the physical appearance of 15-year-olds, analyzing the clothes they wore, their hairstyle, or whether they wore brand-name clothes or not, all in front of their classmates. He would even encourage the class to laugh or join in. Seriously, people who think Snape was cruel have no idea what Catholic school in the 2000s was like.

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ate uppp