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why does everyone have such strong vivid memories from 2010 associated with dynamite by taio cruz

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So I was rereading Harry Potter, when I came across this and thought- what if instead of Cedric Diggory, Cassius Warrington had been chosen to compete in the Triwizard Tournament?

Imagine Dumbledore calling out the name of the Hogwarts champion and it isn’t a Gryffindor, or a Ravenclaw, or even a Hufflepuff, but it’s a Slytherin. A student from a House most people hate.

Imagine Cassius Warrington getting up, and three out of four Houses are booing at him and shouting things like “NO!” or, “We can’t have a Slytherin champion!” or demanding a retry. But he’s a Slytherin- he’s been dealing with this shit since he got sorted, so he keeps his head high and joins the other champions.

Imagine Harry trying to catch Warrington alone because he doesn’t really want to associate with Slytherins (plus Malfoy has this tendency of being around the guy ALL THE TIME since he got chosen), but at the same time he’s also fair enough not to want him to walk into the first task unprepared.

Imagine Warrington walking over to Harry a few months later, and Ron and Hermione both jump into a protective stance, wands out, but instead of attacking Harry he just tells him to stick the egg underwater. (Because Slytherins don’t forget those who helped them out).

Imagine Warrington and Harry helping each other out in the labyrinth.

Imagine Harry being devastated when Peter kills Warrington- because Voldemort doesn’t care what house they’re form, a spare is a spare.

Imagine the uproar that causes among the Slytherins, because some of their parents really are Death Eaters and they know what really happened.

Imagine Slytherins fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts and shouting “This is for Cassius!”

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To All the Mutuals I Still Follow Even Though We Only Had That One Hyperfixation in Common Like Five Years Ago

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(via alyssemazakian)

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my kitten says hello

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y’all ever see a sibling interaction in media and just know….it was written by an only child

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Active voice: I loved your book

Passive voice: Your book was loved

Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you felt the need to write a book

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I hear my mom shrieking downstairs, shouting up to me about “THE CATS! THE CATS!”

I run downstairs, thinking someone has died or something and see THIS:

I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO PUNCH SOMETHING TO GET OVER THE ADORABLENESS

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Earlier this summer, an 8-year-old girl named Saga Vanecek was doing what she often does: wading in Sweden’s Lake Vidostern.

“I like to walk around finding rocks and sticks in the water, and then I usually walk around with my hands and knees in the water and in the sand,” she explained to Radio Sweden Wednesday.

It was then that she felt something odd beneath her hand and knee. She lifted the object and saw that it had a handle.

She pulled it out of the water and carried it over to her father. “Dad, I found a sword,” she said.

“I’m not sure you should be touching it anymore,” he replied. “It looks fragile.”

Saga and her father took the sword to authorities and found that it was very old indeed.

“Indeed an amazing story!” Mikael Nordstrom, head of the cultural heritage department at the Jonkopings County Museum, told NPR in email. “We now believe that the sword is about 1,500 years old.”

8-Year-Old Girl Discovers Iron Age Sword In Swedish Lake

Photo: Jonkoping County Museum

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As psyched as I am about the Good Omens series, there is a bit in the trailer that looks like they’re going to be including Aziraphale’s magician scene and I don’t know if I can experience that amount of secondhand embarrassment again