remember misleading compliments? those were kind of like deceit devolving into patton like ‘i want to run you over’ (a lie from deceit) ‘TOOOOO the store for makeup you beautiful thing’ (a happy ending from patton)
Misleading compliments happen when Patton runs over Deceit with a truck midway through a sentence
excellent addition i love it and accept it as fact
Riddle: How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort’s powers were destroyed?
Riddle: Voldemort is my past, present and future.
Riddle pulls Harry’s want from his pocket and traces it through the air, writing three shimmering words…
Riddle: What?! How dare you laugh at the Dark Lord!
Harry: Now I’m imagining you…Jailhouse Rock…Merlin’s beard!
Harry, giggling slightly under his breath: Elvis…
Holy shit, okay, I’ve been wanting to do this forever because Voldy’s middle name in the French translation is Elvis and I’ve just always found it funny. So this happened in like ten minutes because I have no self control.
This one time I was at a street festival hosted by my Uni and there was a guy doing card tricks. I was watching him when I noticed he dropped a card. (7 of spades) I quickly pu my shoe in it and then bent down to act like I was tying my shoe. He then asks for a volunteer so I raise my hand. He asks me to say the name of a card at random so I say “7 of spades” he does his trick that I guess was supposed to make it come on top. He holds up the Ace of Hearts and says “is this your card?” And I hold up the card and said “no but this is” and the crowd LOST IT. I handed the card back to the magician and walked away. Later he comes up to me and asks me how I did it. I looked him in the eye, smiled and said “magicians never reveal their secrets” and walked away.
There will be a day when I see this and I will scroll past.
Today is not that day
Plus Ron is casting his curse non-verbally. That’s very difficult and it requires training and practice to successfully cast a nonverbal spell. It’s success is determined by the amount of concentration and mental discipline of the witch or wizard. But this is Ron Weasley he likely didn’t put training and practice into casting non-verbal spells, this advanced magic comes to him naturally. The only other time we see him cast a non-verbal spell is when he accidentally made it snow in the great hall, and that was only because Lavender was glaring him down after he said Hermione’s name while he was unconscious in the hospital wing. He felt crappy and his emotions were so intense he unknowingly made it snow. Here he’s trapped in a muggle cafe, with his best friend and the girl he loves. He’s probably scared, and angry but most of all protective. He wants to defeat these Death Eaters without anything happening to his team. His emotions are intense again and that allows him to cast a powerful non-verbal spell. No, not even a spell, a curse. We’ve seen Hermione cast non-verbal spells loads of times but even here she says the curse to ensure it’s potency. Ron is concentrated and disciplined enough in this moment to curse a Death Eater without any words at all.
and isn’t his “eat slugs” curse also non-verbal? because I doubt that “eat slugs” is the actual incantation for that curse and actually if I recall correctly from the book, he says “eat slugs, Malfoy” in an “eff off” sort of way but his wand isn’t even out. then a minute later when Malfoy calls Hermione a Mudblood, he takes out his wand and it backfires on him. and he’s TWELVE when he does this! it’s another moment where his emotions are running high because his friend has just been called the most awful word he’s ever heard.
Ron is a great wizard, so much of his magic is natural and intuitive and he doesn’t have to think about it the way Harry and even Hermione do. it’s just a part of him.
i wonder if magic is real, but only in a really mundane way.
when i was little i could almost inerringly switch back to disney channel right as the ads ended when i was channel surfing.
maybe youve never accidentally crushed a ladybug underfoot. maybe your microwave popcorn never burns. maybe you can spin around lots and lots of times before you get dizzy.
is that magic??
honestly im not sure if these are magic or just small, invisible skills. im not sure which i like better.
My ankles never twist. I’ve always been rather active, I did track for five years (all the running events), and one time while running I stepped in a hole, lost my shoe, and landed sprawling about five feet away. I pulled my shoe on and kept running.
I have a coworker who somehow makes better coffee than everyone else even though the grounds come pre-measured and all you have to do is load them up and push a button. I have a friend who has inch long nails that never break. My brother can copy origami just by looking at the finished product and my mother can do the same with knots. I knew a guy who never made an error when typing.
Maybe we all have little magics, the kind that you don’t realize you have. Just tiny things that make your life slightly better but are completely unnoticed on the outside.
this is the cutest post i have ever read…
I never had a “hot n’ ready” pizza that was not both “hot” and “ready”
I have a perfectly tuned body clock.
If I concentrate on a time to wake up for a few minutes before bed, I can wake up within five minutes of that time in the morning without an alarm clock.
I never spill my tea, even when it’s full to the brim
I have tons of small coincidences happen. I’ll think of something random and then it’s brought up later out of the blue. Like thinking of a song I haven’t heard in years and then hearing it on the radio later that day.
The coincidences relating to Mark are crazy lol and I can’t even remember them all
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