Not to Harry Potter on main (I don’t have a side blog, so I have nowhere else to go), but I was thinking about the three Black sisters—Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa.
I’m sure we all remember “The Tale of Three Brothers” from The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Three brothers manage to cheat Death and ask for three gifts. The eldest seeks power, and asks for an unbeatable wand, the Elder Wand. The middle yearns for his loved ones, and receives the Resurrection Stone. And the youngest, the wisest(?), asks for a way to hide from Death and receives the Invisibiltiy Cloak.
Death comes for the two oldest brothers in the end, but cannot find the youngest, who eventually meets Death as a friend.
Anyway, this story parallels eerily with the Three Black Sisters.
Bellatrix, the eldest, craves power beyond anything else. She joins Voldemort, and the Elder Wand, and is ultimately killed.
Andromeda, the middle, wants to love who she wants and have a family of her own, much like the Resurrection Stone. She gets it, but at the cost of death and destruction.
Narcissa, the youngest, desires anonymity in Voldemort’s army. Her husband and son are ambitious, but she wants to protect, shield, and hide her family from the dangers of the war. Sounds like the Invisibility Cloak. She and her family all survive.
I’m sure others have already noticed this, but this parallelism is low-key astounding, whether it was intentional or not.
Don’t forget that Cedrella Weasley (nee Black), middle sister of Callidora Longbottom and Charis Crouch, who married blood-traitor Septimus Weasley, raised Gryffindors Arthur Weasley, Bilius Weasley,
and Lionel Weasley the grandmother of the siblings children, was a Slytherin.
Don’t forget that Lucretia Prewett (nee Black), older sister of Orion Black, who was the father of Sirius and Regulus Black, married Ignatius Prewett was the aunt of Molly, Gideon and Fabian Prewett, was a Slytherin.
Yeah the Rudolph elf meme is funny, but are we really forgetting about all the other great and bizarre Christmas specials moments, like when Rankin/Bass beat DreamWorks to the idea of “Hot Jack Frost” by more than 30 years?
How about when they made a Nativity fanfic with a misfit donkey and a baby angel?
That Santa Claus started off giving toys exclusively to depressed World War I-era German children? (Did I mention he was a ginger)
We also shouldn’t gloss over the time when Rudolph teamed up with a caveman, a knight and goddamn Benjamin Franklin not to walk into a bar but to save the Baby New Year.
Really, Rudolph could fill up this entire list all by himself, considering that he also teamed up with Frosty the Snowman one time to fight thiswintery motherfucker
WHO HAS GIANT ICE DRAGONS TAKE THAT NIGHT KING
And is one of the five or six clowns who are supposed to be running winter in this universe (they were not very creative when it came to making up bad guys apparently)
And later dies in the most HORRIFYING WAY POSSIBLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT SHOW THIS MOVIE TO CHILDREN AGE FIVE AND UNDER
Oh, and by the way, Rudolph is also Reindeer Jesus. Look it up.
Confirmed: God is a woman.
When I was in college, my friends and I had a private joke about The Year Without A Santa Claus.
The plot, to wit, goes something like this:
Santa just Isn’t Feeling It this year because he has a cold, so he decides not to deliver any presents. So Mrs. Claus teams up with a couple of elves and a bunch of pagan deities (no really Mother Fucking Nature is in this show), to prove people still believe in Santa, because one of the reindeer has been sent to the dog pound.
The way they choose to accomplish all of this is by making it snow somewhere in the southern US. Somehow, this leads to the release of the reindeer, Santa agreeing to deliver presents, and everybody believing in Santa Claus.
“But I don’t care either, I don’t care!” said Tonks, seizing the front of Lupin’s robes and shaking them. “I’ve told you a million times….” And the meaning of Tonk’s Patronus and her mouse-colored hair, and the reason she had come running to find Dumbledore when she had heard a rumor someone had been attacked by Greyback, all suddenly became clear to Harry; it had not been Sirius that Tonks had fallen in love with after all. “And I’ve told you a million times,” said Lupin, refusing to meet her eyes, staring at the floor, “that I am too old for you, too poor….too dangerous….”
(Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
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Sooooo, it is useless to deny it, but the love story between Tonks and Lupin will always remain one of my favorites.
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