Tag: harry potter

kyraneko:

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AU where Minerva McGonagall has a little less faith in Albus Dumbledore so she does agree to leave Harry at the Dursleys.

But then proceeds to move right in next door with her wife because Albus never said that she couldn’t.

So Harry grows up with two grandmalike aunties next door, who basically finnagle him into living with them in all but name. It’s great, until he gets to Hogwarts because he keeps accidentally calling McGonagall Aunt Min instead of Professor.

The more I think about this the better it gets because suddenly a small biracial orphan appearing on the Dursley’s doorstep is less scandalous and gossip worthy in the
pasty ass white suburbia of Privet Drive, when it’s compared to the elderly lesbian interracial couple who moved in next door.

Okay this has an amazing amount of potential for Harry, but I am very filled with curiosity about Minerva’s wife.

1) Who is she? and more importantly

2) How did this marriage come to pass?

I mean I am all for Minerva McGonagall having had a wife already at this juncture in her life, but consider 

1) Utter BAMF who is acknowledged to be out of everyone’s league Minerva McGonagall walking into a Ministry break room full of lady Aurors and the like and saying, “I have a child that needs looking after and a neighborhood full of prats who need scandalizing and will marry the first woman to say yes” and there is a moment’s shock and then the verbal equivalent of half a dozen bridesmaids diving for the bouquet with one clear winner who was a split second faster on the uptake and they end up in love by the time Harry is old enough to toddle properly.

2) The house next door is being sold by the daughter of its occupant who just inherited it and wants nothing to do with Little Whinging except to inflict herself on all the narrow-minded bastards long enough to get a good price for it; when Minerva walks in the door there is a mental adjustment that leaves her swooning (or maybe that’s Minerva) and after tea, dinner, and certain other activities she invites Minerva to live with her instead of selling it.

3) Minerva specifically tracks down the schoolmate she knows to be best at making stupid people regret everything, and asks her to pretend to be her wife, share a house in Little Whinging with her, and help keep an eye on Harry Potter. Both of them solidly overestimated their ability to keep the relationship fake.

riverthunder:

malfqy:

remember in goblet of fire when minerva says ‘potter’s a boy, not a piece of meat!’

imagine harry telling her everything after the battle of hogwarts, telling her about how dumbledore raised him like a pig for slaughter, and how he had to die and mcgonagall gets so goddamned mad

she loses control for the first time that harry’s EVER seen and she’s actually yelling, she’s so pissed that harry was seventeen and he had to accept death and dumbledore KNEW he would have to die and NEVER TOLD HIM

and harry’s about to cry because yeah his friends would be devastated if he was gone but NO ONE got this damn pissed that dumbledore had raised him so that he could die at the right time and mcgonagall’s in the middle of a rant and he just shoots up and hugs her and she’s stunned into silence but after a moment she hugs back and it’s great

and then she goes up to her office and starts screaming at dumbledore’s portrait because ‘i don’t care if it had to happen, albus, he is a CHILD-’

This is the Minerva McGonagall content we deserve, and make no mistake, we were robbed

wizcrdingheadcanons:

105. The different Hogwarts houses celebrate birthdays differently:

Hufflepuff: 

• On their birthdays, the Hufflepuffs get woken up with cake in bed before breakfast
• The night before the other students prepare the celebration and the cake, and they visit the kitchen for ingredients
• The Hufflepuffs make sure to never forget any birthday, and it’s a priority to celebrate every birthday equally much, even for students who are not their closest friends
• The students who have their birthday in summer or during the Christmas break gets celebrated when they come back in autumn, no one is forgotten
• The student is presented with little surprises throughout the day, like all the portraits wishing them a happy birthday 

Gryffindor: 

• The Gryffindor students have the loudest celebrations
• The day starts with all the other students in their dormitory singing happy birthday
• During the day the students will randomly burst into song, and they can be heard singing everywhere in the castle
• The birthday girl/boy/person is sometimes given a crown or hat to wear during the day, and every time they see someone wearing one, they all start singing
• Once, Fred and George Weasley enchanted the statues and suits of armour in the school to sing every time she/he/they walked by
• The singing always drives the professors crazy, and all except Dumbledore, Lupin and Hagrid give out detentions to anyone who sings in their class 
• “You’re SO OLD!!”

Slytherin: 

• The Slytherins plan their birthday celebrations for a long time, with organised teams within the house for each part of the celebrations, like music, cake, decorations etc.
• It’s important for the Slytherins to throw the perfect birthday celebrations, and the students pride themselves in having the best parties and surprises
• Every student gets their own little party, sometimes with only their closest friends and sometimes with almost every student of the house
• The parties are often supposed to be surprises
• But the birthday girl/boy/person almost always figures it out beforehand
• Every student gets a personalised verse of happy birthday or their own short song, prepared by the students in the “song group” 

Ravenclaw: 

• Every birthday the birthday girl/boy/person has to complete a treasure hunt, and are given clues and riddles to find the treasure throughout the day
• The clues are given written down on pieces of paper or in other magical ways
• Each riddle leads to another clue and they eventually lead to the treasure that is hidden somewhere on the grounds or in the castle
• The treasure varies for each student and is personalised for that specific person by their friends
• The students of Ravenclaw always makes sure to prepare small but clever surprises for birthday girl/boy/person to discover throughout the day, all leading up to the big gift

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sailor–spoon:

atlasoftheclouds:

legere-librum:

I can never understand how Snape apologetics can stand up for him when he CANONICALLY does this shit.

I can maybe, maybe, understand those who haven’t read the books standing up for him, because honestly the movies don’t cover all the horrible stuff he does. But those who have read the books and still stick up for him baffle me.

I mean, you don’t see anyone sticking up for the Dursley’s or Umbridge, when they do the same stuff to Harry as Snape. How is Snape any different?

SNAPE IS GARBAGE

LOVING SOMEONE DOESNT MAGICALLY MAKE YOU A GOOD PERSON

I’m real fuckin sick of Snape being the main image of Slytherin.

Finally some post I could live up to. Fandoms tend to have an unhealthy relationship with the underdog characters and I get that, But idolizing them and blindly defending against their moralities is the wrong way to admire someone. Snape is one of those whose behaviors shouldn’t be ignored and entirely blindly worshiped. Just because the author loves and gives him almost all of credits for the ending revelation in the end of the series, which should have been Harry, whose credits have not been recognized enough as the main character. Again, I must repeat, he scarifies himself but he is also an asshole. 

hyperactive-lectiophile:

I’ve always had an issue with the ‘all evil wizards were in slytherin’ thing. Theres other things besides ambition that drive people to be evil. Where’s the hufflepuff who thinks society is broken and unfair and decide to burn it down and build a better one from the ashes, or will do anything to keep their loved ones safe even if it means hurting others? Where’s the ravenclaw who starts practicing black magic and experiments on others because of an intense morbid curiosity? Where’s the gryffindor who is convinced their protecting people but are actually hurting them, or can never back down from a fight even if they know they’re wrong? Yes, lust for power and ambition are reasons to become evil, but not the only reason.

sodomymcscurvylegs:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

You know we’re in the dark timeline when Stephenie Meyer has minded her own damned business for years and J.K. Rowling keeps tumbling down the metaphorical steps of murdering her own universe and personal character in the public eye for everyone to see.

Like, if in 2008 you had told me Stephenie Meyer would quietly retire and stay in her lane instead of continuing to write weird Mormon fantasy with nothing but white characters and J.K. Rowling would be on Twitter spouting some shit like “THE GOBLET OF FIRE WAS ACTUALLY ONCE A TRANS WOMAN, I’VE BEEN SITTING ON THIS SINCE 1986!” I’d say you were a fucking liar.

But here we are.

uncontinuous:

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AU where Minerva McGonagall has a little less faith in Albus Dumbledore so she does agree to leave Harry at the Dursleys.

But then proceeds to move right in next door with her wife because Albus never said that she couldn’t.

So Harry grows up with two grandmalike aunties next door, who basically finnagle him into living with them in all but name. It’s great, until he gets to Hogwarts because he keeps accidentally calling McGonagall Aunt Min instead of Professor.

The more I think about this the better it gets because suddenly a small biracial orphan appearing on the Dursley’s doorstep is less scandalous and gossip worthy in the
pasty ass white suburbia of Privet Drive, when it’s compared to the elderly lesbian interracial couple who moved in next door.