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i will admit i have looked upon men with a lustful gaze in my time

Margarita Calderó

Snazzy parts of the books that weren't in the movies:

Harry reading some notes that Ginny wrote when she was 11. Ready to laugh his ass off, he just failed.

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The thing about Harry Potter as a character is that he is insanely observant when he actually cares enough to pay attention. Meaning 90% of the stuff he deems unimportant flies over his head, but he makes these huge leaps of logic and intuition when he bothers to focus. Like in the books when it comes to anything relating to Voldemort or Death Eaters or People Not To Be Trusted (Draco, Umbridge). Growing up, he had to be able to see when a situation was going south long before the frying pan or Dudley’s fists came his way. But he also had to be able to ignore and tune out the constant flow of shit and neglect he was treated to.

If you think about it, for all the better aspects of Hogwarts, it still followed this same basic pattern. He had to pay close attention to the things trying to kill him (even classes took a back seat to this), but find a way to ignore and not acknowledge all the rumors and staring and people thinking he’s a prat or the heir of slytherin or a liar. I think this is why the arguments that Harry is a mushroom and notices nothing, and the arguments that he is deductively brilliant can exist side by side. He’s both. It’s also why, in my opinion, he tends to be ridiculously observant of Ginny once he starts to notice her as something important. She barely exists in the early narrative other than Someone to Be Saved. It’s also why Ginny can sometimes feel like she ‘comes from nowhere’ in the narrative. As far as Harry is concerned, she did come from nowhere. The switch in Harry’s brain went from Doesn’t Matter–Ignore to Very Important–Pay Close Attention, and BAM, there she was. Everywhere.

Harry: "Okay okay okay I just have to make sure… are you asking me in a platonic or romantic way?"

Cedric: *On one knee, holding an open ring box*

Cedric: "Did you seriously just ask me that"

girls dont want boyfriends, girls want their ships to be endgame and happy (and preferably for one of them to not die)

how hilarious would lee jordan’s comments have been during the gryffindor vs hufflepuff quidditch match if harry and cedric had been publicly dating

Something I love about Harry is that he isn’t superficial. Like, each time he calls Lockhart or Tom Riddle handsome? That whole paragraph after Cho rejects him in which he says Cedric is just a pretty face with no brains? Sirius when he still thought he murdered his parents? He doesn’t even like the dudes. He found a lot of people he hated hot but decided to hate them anyway

Right now I am just caffeine and ideas.

TOUCH OF THE SUN

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City

The soft exhale of April light // Part 30

April 12th, 2022

being a middle school teacher has really changed my perception of middle grade/YA stories...i see my students and they are so Tiny i can't imagine them going on quests to save the world. the characters seemed cool when i was their age but now i just see them as kids and want to protect them :(

the rowling hag killed off cedric because she knew harry’s character would take a life of his own and try to date him in the next book

Anyone who reads the HP series, looks at Harry James Potter, and thinks he’s straight is flat-out trolling.

Roberto Equisoain, Bla Blablabla : blablabla, Belleza Infinita, Bilbo, 2012 [MACBA, Barcelona. © Roberto Equisoain]

i still can’t get over the fact that the way the room of requirement is introduced into the hp narrative is by dumbledore talking about that weird room he found with like a million toilets in it because he needed to piss

"There's no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid."

Rest In Peace Robbie Coltrane, thank you for being part of something so special.