FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE (2022) Directed by David Yates
Magical Creatures — THE QILIN
The qilin is an extremely rare part dragon-part horse creature with the ability to look into a person’s soul. During the walk of the qilin, the creature determines the new leader of the magical community.
Doodle || Harry (+ Hedwig) 💞
Had to draw my bb. Struggled a bit with Hedwig, at least when it came to finding good enough (for me) ref pics but I just had to include her as well. Forever soulmates, these two 🥹
What month do we think Sebastian and Anne were born in?
do y'all also have mutuals whom you’re actually a fan of? like everytime u see them on your dash u just,,,,, “u go mutual that’s my mutual!!!!! i love u mutual!!!! i can’t even believe we’re mutuals i don’t deserve u!!!! keep being u mutual!!!”
Been thinking about the Shrieking Shack scenes a lot this week and have decided to keep making it everyone else's problem too so here you go.
The word choice at play between these two moments is... interesting:
This scene between Snape and Harry:
“I told you to shut up about my dad!’ Harry yelled. ‘I know the truth, all right? He saved your life! Dumbledore told me! You wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for my dad!’ Snape’s sallow skin had gone the colour of sour milk. ‘And did the Headmaster tell you the circumstances in which your father saved my life?’ he whispered. ‘Or did he consider the details too unpleasant for precious Potter’s delicate ears?’ Harry bit his lip. He didn’t know what had happened and didn’t want to admit it - but Snape seemed to have guessed the truth. ‘I would hate you to run away with a false idea of your father, Potter,’ he said, a terrible grin twisting his face. ‘Have you been imagining some act of glorious heroism? Then let me correct you - your saintly father and his friends played a highly amusing joke on me that would have resulted in my death if your father hadn’t got cold feet at the last moment. There was nothing brave about what he did. He was saving his own skin as much as mine. Had their joke succeeded, he would have been expelled from Hogwarts.”
And Lupin's assessment of the same:
“Snape glimpsed me, though, at the end of the tunnel.”
You... you don't "glimpse" a fully transformed werewolf. Lupin wasn't sitting there at the end of the tunnel drinking tea and going, 'why hello there!' No one would be framing the event as James saving Snape's life if he had just "glimpsed" Lupin.
And that's the one point that Snape, Dumbledore, and the Marauders all agree on, even though they have different perspectives on the implications. That Snape nearly died and James intervened. There's no threat of death in a "glimpse." There's a threat of death in a fully transformed werewolf - the kind that rips chunks out of chairs, as we're told.
I can only imagine James would have had some experience with what holds Lupin off when he's transformed, because he wouldn't have been able to transform into a stag in the cramped tunnel leading to and from the Shrieking Shack. As we're told in PoA, Harry had to crouch as a 13 year old, and by the time he was 17 in DH he had to crawl. I don't know what Rowling was imagining when she wrote this, or if Lupin is trying to downplay what happened for the sake of his own conscience (and that's probably what's going on). But if Snape saw Lupin fully transformed, he and James would have had to crawl and crouch-run their way all the way back to the Whomping Willow and hope Lupin was too big to make it through the tunnel after them.
The more I think about the "prank" the more horrifying it seems. A word like "glimpse" feels extremely out of place. Anyway new HC is that Snape is also potentially claustrophobic as a result.
Good meta! Glimpse also seems to convey that Snape was being a busybody or what the whole thing was an accident, both of which aren't true and obscure the fact that he was baited.
Yeah, I think a lot of the language Lupin uses around it is meant to downplay the event, both for his own peace of mind and to avoid having to deal with the implications of his friend essentially weaponizing him without his consent. I think Lupin is a character who means well and, on his own, is a relatively decent person, but he has his own trauma that's constantly unloading with each month's transformation, and he doesn't deal with it.
Of all the Marauders I like him best because he's the most complex and gray - he seems to have taken the most lessons away from Snape's bullying and the only one who seems to have stopped actively participating, but he also contributed to it as a bystander. At the same time, I can imagine him also feeling unsafe around his friends after the prank and not wanting to turn them against him.
So using language like "glimpse" might be a form of self-soothing for him, but it also conveys a deeply biased and subjective perspective.
I like to theorize that the werewolf side of him affects his personality the rest of the time too, if not in some direct magical way, then in the sense that you can't become something else every month without this changing your perspective, and ofc he has been raised to lie and hide since he's been bitten so defaulting to these mechanisms instead of the more difficult confrontation with what Sirius did to him makes a lot of sense to me.
I disagree with you about how he had learned the most, though - as an adult he (without any peer pressure) encourages Neville to publicly mock Snape, and still chooses his friends over his duty even while believing Sirius to be the killer. I think the closest he comes to learning anything is in HBP when he talks to Harry at the Burrow. Incidentally it's also where he's most sympathetic to me because his body language reveals his traumatic past.
I think one of the reasons why Severus is so hard on Harry because he knows EXACTLY what kind of stupid shit is going through his teenage brain, and not because of legilimency, but because Severus was also a big dummy when it came to personal safety at that age.
Harry: incredibly nosey, cannot mind his own business, likes to solve mysteries that may or may not cause direct bodily harm.
Who else does that sound like?
If Teenage Snape – the boy who came up with a theory that Lupin was a werewolf and then went to the Shrieking Shack because Sirius Black of all people told him to – were to meet Harry, Sev would immediately be like “Oh, you’re hunting a basilisk? Count me in. We can try out this new spell I just invented.”
“Enemies of the Heir, beware! You’ll be next, Mudbloods!”
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS 2002 | Chris Columbus
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
