“Well, have you ever fixed a nose before? “ “No, but I’ve done several toes, and how different are they, really?”
mmkay but also can we talk about how Luna said he looked ordinary? Harry James Potter has never looked ordinary in his life, because he has always been at the epicenter of the wizarding war, even before his parents were killed, because they were such well known activists. Thrice defying Voldecunt, right? Well anyway, that’s the magic of Luna really, is that she sees Harry as Harry and not as Harry Potter and that’s fucking cool. And the magic of their friendship is that that is mutual. Harry sees Luna as Luna and not as Looney. So Harry saying brilliant here? I don’t think it’s even sassy. Looking ordinary, being assured he can enter the castle and blend in with the crowd, that’s what he needs. That’s what he craves. And Luna knows this. ANyway I’m emotional
if u say u wouldnt fuck a werewolf first of all ur lying and second ur a coward
Everytime I see this post I just imagine him loudly proclaiming this in the middle of a family dinner. No context. No lead-in. Narcissa hands him the mashed potatoes and he helps himself to a spoonful before casually saying this as Regulus buries his face in his hands.
not to be harry potter on main but i honestly think the fantastic beasts series would have been so much more interesting if it was just about the beasts. i don’t give a fuck about grindelwald, just give me a movie about an eccentric wizard travelling the world looking for magical animals and teaching us the power of friendship
newt’s character should have been like the crocodile hunter but in a wizard hat send tweet
okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and
i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. the new york times had to create a separate bestseller’s list for children’s lit just because harry potter existed. harry potter changed reading.
so many people on tumblr were born in the ‘90s. when the first book came out, most of us couldn’t read. but we grew up in a world where everyone, everyone, everyone was reading harry potter, no matter how old they were; we grew up in a world where the most popular story in the entire world was a fantasy children’s book.
it’s sort of difficult to grasp, sometimes, the extent to which harry potter is not just a book. the extent to which what is basically a series of fun, interesting, and fairly good novels is such an enormous, enormous part of our lives, a cultural touchstone, a truly universal reference point, something so many people have shaped their lives around, a foundation for all of the stories we would read and watch for the rest of our lives– for so many of us, the first books we ever loved
the extent to which so many of us can’t call ourselves “fans” of harry potter, because it would like being a “fan” of, like, having lungs.
it’s not even about liking it or disliking it. it’s just a part of us.
This reminds me an awful lot about Starbucks.
No, seriously. Before Starbucks, America was a coffee wasteland. Coffee was a thing you got at diners and drivethroughs. It was a cheap hot thing you put made palatable with tons of cream and sugar, and most people (but waning!) had a coffee machine at home.
Starbucks told us that we could like coffee. That coffee could be an enjoyable thing, that it could be a status symbol and a ritual. That there could be a place where you go for coffee, and you enjoy it.
As a coffee snob, I think Starbucks’ coffee is awful. But Starbucks is why we have better coffee. Starbucks created the market space for third wave coffee shops and artisanal roasters. They reintroduced “espresso”, “latte” and “cappuccino” to the American lexicon.
We need stuff that’s heinously popular. That’s how culture works.
Harry Potter, Hogwarts flying instructor & Draco Malfoy, Hogwarts Transfigurations professor
continuing my obsession with this podfic and all things Drarry, as well as thinking a lot about wizard fashion in general re: Fantastic Beasts (oh my god, I’m SO EXCITED), here are my two favorite wizards. There are rumors amongst the Hogwarts student body that professors Potter and Malfoy don’t get on, since they were enemies in their teens. Little do they know these two are thick as thieves and both love a good prank (and a good cup of tea).
(p.s. I will be at RIPExpo in Providence, RI this weekend!! I’ll have this print and others for sale along with my Poe zine!!)
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