Headcanon that of fucking course Mcgonagall was invited to Ron and Hermione’s wedding and that during the reception Ron approached her at her table and held out his hand and asked her to dance, “you know, for old times’ sake.”
contexts in which jkr introduces her readers to remus:
book 3: in his first scene he conjures a patronus and passes around chocolate
book 3: in his second scene he teaches them all a spell focused in overcoming fears with laughter
book 5: in his first scene he rescues harry from an abusive household, and smiles widely at harry while he does it
book 6: in his first scene he is handed a large slice of cake
book 6: in his second scene everyone is sitting around a fire at christmas drinking eggnog
book 7: when he rolls up to The Squad in grimmauld place he passes around butterbeers and hermione lights a fire in the fireplace
rowling does this thing where even if remus is having The Literal Worst Time he is almost always introduced in the context of warmth and light and comfort, which he more often than not is directly providing to others
The best DADA teacher, one of my three favorite characters. And I will always crave AU in which he can be happy.
What if at the end of Harry Potter instead of EVERYTHING being real and have happened…the books end with Trelawney waking up in her tower room at Hogwarts, holding a prophecy orb, and what we all experienced was actually Her making the prophecy of what is to come. And since no one believes her, she has to carry this dark secret alone with her, watching unable to change anything as it unfolds, knowing Harry’s parents are about to die, knowing Harry is about to enter her classroom, knowing he will not take her warning seriously, knowing he will suffer and die, and that’s why she is always drinking…to cope with knowing all that will unfold and being unable to stop it.
Sometimes I remember Ron called The Dursleys house and Vernon answered to Ron screaming into the phone and I wonder why the movie directors hated us so much that they deprived us of seeing that masterpiece on screen.
Gryffindors don’t give a shit about rules. The most hardline of them don’t even care about people. They care about justice. Right or wrong, black or white, there are no shades of grey. If it’s just, it’s always just; if it’s unjust, it’s always wrong. Hermione’s ruthlessness makes her a Gryffindor. She is absolutely sure that she is on the side of justice in everything that she does, and it’s such a Gryffindor trait.
Because Slytherins are ruthless, but they care about rules. Their own rules, usually, but rules nonetheless. They will impose parameters and limitations on themselves just so they have a framework to operate within. If doing something means violating their own internal code, then they’re not gonna do it. Even fucking Voldemort is like that. He broke every single fucking rule the Wizarding World ever put in place, but damn if he’d break his own.
Gryffindors don’t give a shit about rules. The most hardline of them don’t even care about people. They care about justice. Right or wrong, black or white, there are no shades of grey. If it’s just, it’s always just; if it’s unjust, it’s always wrong. Hermione’s ruthlessness makes her a Gryffindor. She is absolutely sure that she is on the side of justice in everything that she does, and it’s such a Gryffindor trait.
Because Slytherins are ruthless, but they care about rules. Their own rules, usually, but rules nonetheless. They will impose parameters and limitations on themselves just so they have a framework to operate within. If doing something means violating their own internal code, then they’re not gonna do it. Even fucking Voldemort is like that. He broke every single fucking rule the Wizarding World ever put in place, but damn if he’d break his own.
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