Whenever Hagrid finally decides to retire as Care of Magical Creatures professor you can bet your last knut that Charlie Weasley flies back to England the following week excitedly waving his resume and recommendation letters from no less than two Scamanders and the Minister of Magic, Hermione Granger.
I’m pretty sure he would also have recommendation letters from Rubeus Hagrid, the retiring professor, Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived and a very confusing one from Puddlemere United player, Oliver Wood, saying that he was one of the best Seekers he had ever seen.
Not to mention the fact that he flies back to England not on a broomstick or any other normal form of transportation, but landing on the Hogwarts grounds on the back of the largest dragon anyone has ever seen.
Reblogging again for that last addition.
Charlie: *glides in on a dragon* HELLO HIRE ME
Everyone: What the fuck
Ron: (in the background, mortified) this is normal
Not just any large dragon, either. A huge Norwegian Ridgeback that immediately curls itself around Hagrid’s Hut once Charlie dismounts. And it purrs when Hagrid dodders out of his hut to see what’s going on.
Norbert sneezes some sparks into Hagrid’s beard for old time sake. Hagrid bursts into joyful sobs. “He remembers his mummy! After all these years!”
eighth year headcanon where harry comes to school fucking ripped after letting out all his post-war frustrations at the gym and draco fucking whimpers when he sees him because that shoulder to waist ratio is ridiculous and his biceps are like bigger than my head merlin are you seeing this pansy
why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you
This is both against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan God’s. This is blatant satanic blasphemy
frollo has logged tf on
Reblog if you too are against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan Gods.
His backstory tbh. I love this story about a neglected kid from an old mill town who ran around in his parents’ clothes having dreams of being a big, respectable wizard.
Having a best friend, having teen troubles, being recruited to the dark and still being a young, dark wizard while becoming a spy to save the only good part of everything, his former best friend, and having that fail and just rolling on from a rude and feral kid into being this bitter, mean, petty man—it’s all very good.
3. Do you consider Lily a good friend?
I think she was an average friend, and she definitely left for the right reasons. I legit had to look up “good friend” traits bc I wasn’t sure overall.
I think Lily was an alright enough friend, she was only a teen , and sure, did slip with that little smirk. But she also wasn’t a trained professional friend who knew how best to navigate an “at-risk youth.” She was a teenage girl whose friend was being courted by blood supremacists. And a plot device, so, y’know. Shit gets sticky
8. What’s one of the dumbest headcanons you have for Snape?
Answered already, but I’ll add: I think he keeps plants, Crowley style. You can hear him muttering ominously as he putts around in his grey night shirt at 3 AM, watering and eating the wilted leaves
10. Favorite Snape fic?
Oof, this is hard. Hmmm, That Awful Boy is great. He’s a human wreck in that, in an unflinchingly real way. It pops.
Snegurochka has The Blue Doorwhich is a good old fashioned, infidelity drama
Delphi’s Fantastic Beastswhich is all Kettleburn/young professor Snape, a good build-up between an old, snarky and a young, cynical academic
Uhhhh, and for gen family fic, oliver.snape’s The Definition of HomeI’vereread a few times, bc there’s a part where Harry is brough home by the police that is *chef’s kiss*. There’s also a sequel
There are other fics that I’m reading and really into, these are just my classic faves.
13. How do you think Snape treats his own House?
I think he knows it’s a House with its own pack of rich, little shits that he lets run wild and very obviously turns the other cheek, bc he enjoys the misery they visit on everyone as long as they know damn well not to make his day any more difficult
In-house, he ignores them unless someone’s on fire and too useless to put it out themselves. If a first year is crying, he just approaches very menacingly across the common room until they squeak quiet bc they’re so intimidated by him. By the time he arrives, the kids are all stone quiet with stiff upper lips, and he just gives them a cold once over and drifts on to his office, where he expects no one to bother him unless it’s a worthwhile question about school work
Some days if he’s in a good mood, he’ll leave his office door open and counsel a few easy fixes, nip a few petty feuds in the bud that are more trouble than they’re funny. But overall his Head style is very hands off, fend for yourselves; very “If I have to answer for one of you idiots getting caught, there will be Words. Do better. I’m not your mother.”
He does tutor regularly tho. The most access you’ll ever have to him is during a tutoring session, where he’s almost a decent adult.
AU in which Snape dies during the werewolf prank, becomes a ghost, and he and Moaning Myrtle form an angry dead teenagers club
This would likely, depending on how certain events play out, lead to them being joined a generation later by Ginny Weasley.
No Snape requesting Voldemort let Lily live means no opportunity given to Lily to keep her life, enabling her to sacrifice it for Harry, meaning Harry gets killed as a baby.
Assuming Harry even happens in this outcome, because Lily’s reaction to James and Sirius killing her at-the-time best friend with a werewolf prank is probably not “eventually marry one of them.”
Anyway, no Harry to figure out things about the diary, open the Chamber with parseltongue, or kill the Horcrux before it can eat Ginny.
This would make for an interesting, very AU story: James and Sirius expelled and viewed as murderers, Lily shutting James out of her life as her original-universe self did with Severus, becoming an Auror and maybe marrying someone we’ve never heard of, or not, Voldemort slain—so they all think—by members of Dumbledore’s Order of the Phoenix, or perhaps by Aurors, perhaps by Lily, yes, let’s go with that, and his shade sits forgotten in Albania until Lucius Malfoy brings a diary to Diagon Alley and shoves it into the bag of the youngest Weasley child.
And it does its work, and Tom Marvolo Riddle strides out of the Chamber, a horcrux-basilisk at his side and the ghost of a young girl, distraught and furious, joining Severus and Myrtle in the bathroom.
They watch as the young man Myrtle recognizes comes out of the Chamber, followed by the enormous coiling length of magical serpent. Myrtle comes out and screams at him, and she shocks him (he has always feared death), but only a little, and he brags to her about the little girl he just killed, and about the woman, redhaired like her, whom she credited with killing him, who he’s about to go destroy.
Then he leaves, and they follow: three ghosts, three dead children, determined and vengeful and resolved that they be the last.
Lily is on her lunch break at work when the ghost of her childhood best friend sails into her office, followed by the ghost of her friend’s daughter, and the ghost she used to see, on occasion, when she had to use the haunted bathroom on the second floor at school.
It’s the first notice she or anyone gets that Ginny has been killed, and it hurts, and then she’s fleeing the office ahead of an assassination attempt, warning everyone against the basilisk and the boy whose handsome face hides a nightmare.
The Second War begins a couple years early, and different people die, and different people don’t, and when there are horcruxes to track down, spying to do, a certain werewolf in Voldemort’s service who created the werewolf that killed a boy in his fifth year of school, the ghosts are perfect for the job.
When Voldemort dies for real, he dies surrounded by the ghosts of his victims, and he dies screaming.
Other characters are like “I can’t let people know i did this thing that was a total dick move because they’ll think I’m a dick :(“ and these guys are like “I’ll do good things but only if I get no credit for it, it’s important to me that everyone continues to think I’m an absolute bastard”
One of my favorite things is when a character does or says something nice and they’re like “don’t tell anyone about this, I have a reputation” it’s so funny they’re literally like I’m okay with being nice but I draw the line at other people knowing that I’m nice
There is a very disturbing trend of people, specifically Marauder stans, vilifying Severus Snape by claiming that his feelings for Remus were unjustified, petty or otherwise unreasonable.
This disturbing trend has also taken a very disturbing turn of these fans actually praising Remus Lupin for his unending, saint-like and unwavering gentle patience and kindness with the greaseball.
This is not canon at all.
Remus Lupin was almost the cause of Severus Snape’s death at the ripe old age of sixteen. Severus believed that Lupin was part of Sirius’s oh-so-grand plan: not that he too was a victim of his friend’s recklessness, as was the case, but that he conspired with someone he’d been buddy-buddy with for the last five years or so, who had done illegal things for him, and risked things for him. This led to the belief that when said mass-murderer Black escaped years later, that Remus Lupin was once again conspiring and plotting with his old friend to murder a young child at Hogwarts, just as he had done all those years before.
And you know what? He has reasonable grounds for those suspicions. Remus Lupin never told Dumbledore, even after Black hovered over Ron Weasley’s bed with a knife, that his friend was an Animagus, or that he knew about any of the secret passageways, depite canonically believing him to have killed thirteen people including their other friend. Remus Lupin forgot the one goddamn potion that would have stopped him from almost murdering three of the students, and when Snape handed him this potion earlier in POA, deliberately and nochalantly refused to drink it until Snape had backed out of the room because of his fear.
I am glad that Lupin decided to get a clue and decided to be respectfully polite with the one person who could have “let slip” his secret at any time. Really, I am. And it served as a valuable lesson: beware of treating people cruelly, because you just might end up in their hands. But to Snape, this was gas lighting and a blatant attempt to ignore all of the trauma and harm that this man had put him through. Snape’s nightmares of the vicious murderous beast down the tunnel don’t magically go away because those boys “changed” or Lupin is “nice.” Lupin can’t erase the fact (and never tries too) that he endangered people, both on their little excursions to Hogsmeade- don’t get me started- or the son of his dead friend. Snape mistrusts Lupin, and it cannot be said- given his defense of the man later in HBP- that Lupin ever mistrusted Snape. They are not on equal footing. It is difficult to forgive someone when you still believe they are plotting to deceive and harm and entrap, and even though this bitterness is an aspect of Snape I wish was better explored, it would have been nice if this mistrust and suspicion weren’t the case.
I know it’s hard to see. It’s difficult to read the book from Harry’s view and ever believe that Lupin would hurt him: we do not understand yet why Snape would think so. But take a step back from the narrator. Look from another point of view. Lupin’s actions do nothing to make anyone trust him and Snape is not obligated to be polite, nice, gentle or forgiving (even if he should have been). Stop whitewashing pretty little Lupin to vilify a traumatized and abused character. It’s getting really old
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