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#How I hate movie!Hermione and movie!Snape
enigmaticemperor · 1 year
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I'm scared of a Marauders movie/trilogy. There I said it. Don't get me wrong, as a hardcore Marauder and Jily fan, I really, really want a trilogy, but I'm scared that they'll get the characterizations all wrong and portray James and Sirius as reckless bullies, Remus as a super calm and collected student at the top of his class, lecturing James and Siruis while they plot mischief with Peter, Snape as a misunderstood kid who did no wrong, was relentlessly bullied by big bad James and Sirius, was misguided, hence he joined the Death Eaters, how Lily was "there for Remus during a time when no one ever was" (WTF movies??!!), how James "stole" Lily from Snape (she's not a prize to win, you dumbasses), and all that.
Considering the mistakes they made in the past (looking at you movie!Hermione and movie!Snape), despite me really wanting a Marauders series (how about a Netflix series with like 3 seasons, 10 episodes each?), I don't exactly want it at the same time, if that makes any sense.
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I'm so glad I found a person who has Harry James Potter as a favourite character, he's my favourite character too and inspiration
Glad you enjoyed!
Harry has always been my favorite character in the books he's so special to me, and I hate the movies for doing him dirty.
He's sarcastic, clever, stubborn, resilient and an actually amazing wizard. He's a better strategist than Hermione but no one talks about it (I love Hermione, but she's good at memorizing books and solving riddles, not making battle plans). And he is so funny, in a more sassy way than Ron but their sense of humor really matches in the books and you see why they are such great friends (and I love their friendship).
Harry isn't some sweet hero or a paragon of any kind, he's angry, like, really angry, and I love that about him. He has every right to have a bad temper because his life sucks. By the final books he casts Unforgivables out easily, Snape is surprised he managed to cast Sectumsempra, but it really isn't surprising when it comes to Harry "hatred such as he had never known before was coursing through him like poison" Potter (a paraphrased quote from POA!)
But with how truly awful his life is he pushes forward with way less angsting than he could have pulled (like he has his angsty moments, and I love them too! I wouldn't have loved him as much without his angst, yes, even in OOTP). I find his mind so fun to be in and love the fact he is the narrator for the majority of the books. He's the kind of brave where he's scared but fear never stops him because whatever you threaten him with, he's had worse. I just really love Harry and whenever I try to read fics it's just not his character there...
One time, an irl colleague told me that out of the Golden Trio my personality reminded them most of Harry, and it made my week.
My love for Harry James Potter's character is a foaming-at-the-mouth sort of love where I want to dissect his brain but also cover him in a blanket and give him hot chocolate milk while whisking him away from all the adults who failed him.
I'm so glad to find more people who love him too.
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lunar-years · 1 year
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I am nearly done with my slowest Prisoner of Azkaban reread in the world and I am, once again, upset at how many people in the fandom don’t like (or worse, fully hate on) Ron Weasley. He is SO GOOD. And he genuinely does the absolute most in the shrieking shack scene, holy shit. I’m talking falling down strategically on Sirius’ wand arm, “if you want to kill Harry you’ll have to kill us first” then DOUBLING DOWN “Did you hear what I said?” (Don’t even get me STARTED on how they tossed this line away to Hermione in the movie I am absolutely fuming), hexing Snape, volunteering IMMEDIATELY to CHAIN himself to a MASS MURDERER because he takes it as a personal affront that the pet rat he’s loved and cared for his entire childhood turned out to be a hideously evil human being. Did I mention he does all that with a severely broken leg?? Like he is white as a sheet, gripping Harry painfully just to stay upright, about to pass out at times and he STILL does everything in his power to protect his people. He is so so good I love him so much.
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lxvxadrusxlla · 1 month
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Why are all Slytherins "evil"?
I was re-reading Harry Potter in the last period. Awesome experience, as always. I mean, HP is literally my favourite book series: it helped me to grow up and find my own identity, it made me feel less alone, it taught me how to dream and it introduced me to the world of fandoms in the internet.
Despite many problems of the series (narrative and ideological), I love Harry Potter with all my heart and I will never stop to recommend it to young readers.
But, you know, there's always something that really, really bothers me with Harry Potter. Well, yes, we could discuss about the problematic aparth- uhm, separation between Wizards and Muggles, or about the fact that Elves slavery is pratically... justified (?), and there's no solution for the Elves question in the final book.
But these topics are too much complicated for a random tumblr post, and we are on the internet, I don't want to start a war about politics, etc. :)
No, I want to complain about a certain thing that I really can't understand and it bothers me everytime that I read the books or watch the movies.
WHY ARE ALL SLYTHERINS EVIL? JOANNE, I NEED AN ANSWER, BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Why they have to be so mean everytime? Being ambitious and shrewd doesn't mean "bad person".
Also, why are they all racist? And why it seems that all of them are sons or daughters of Death Eaters, or in any case their parents share Voldemort's ideology?
Are you saying that ALL SLYTHERINS are pureblood and racist? ALL OF THEM came from a family of Death Eaters? So there are not cunning, ambitious and shrewd people between halfbloods, Muggle-Borns and healthy pureblood families. That's weird.
Oh, yes, and in the first book Slytherins are described as all ugly. Literally.
So, yes, Slytherins are evil and ALSO ugly. Again... why?
Yes, there are some exceptions.
The first one is Severus Snape: now, I love Snape, he's such an interesting character and I feel sorry for his past; the scene in which he gets bullied is so hurting to me (I was bullied myself so I can understand the anger and that feeling of weakness), but... he was not a good person. He has been dominated by hate for his entire life and he never overcomed his past. He was a Death Eater for a period. He bullied Harry, Hermione and Neville for no reason. And sometimes he was so cruel that I think his behaviour is a part of the "All Slytherins are evil" mentality.
Like, Snape has deceived the Dark Lord for years, he is a genius in Potions, DADA and Occlumancy, he's supposed to be one of the smartest characters in the series. So... why has he never understand that Harry is not like James?
"Because he was blinded by hate", you can say.
Ok, but when he saw Harry's memories in the fifth book, why didn't he change his mind?
"He had to act cold because he was pretending to be still loyal to Voldemort."
OK, but there's a difference between being cold to someone and being openly cruel. Snape's behaviours are often illogical and contradictory with the idea of his character, and I can only think that the author depicted him in that way not only to write a "grey character", but also to be loyal to the tradition of "Slytherins are evil".
Next? Oh, Regulus Arcturus Black, one of my favourites. Yes, he was a Slytherin, he was a hero who betrayed the Dark Lord for the sake of Wizarding World. However, his character still has many negative traits: he was a Death Eater, and he shared the racist ideology of his family for years. Again, not bad, but not a good example.
Narcissa Black. She saved Harry, but she is still a racist woman who is married to a Death Eater, and she failed complitely to educate her son.
Her sister, Andromeda Black. Yes, she is the only example of "good Slyhterins" who is not racist or who has not connections with Death Eaters. So, yes, she is good, but there's another problem in this case: she appears once in the whole series, she is barely a character!
Horace Slughorn, my love, he is good, yes. BUT the main trait of his character is negative: he loves to collect the best students like they were trophies.
Draco Malfoy. He is a useless bully for five books, then he changes but even when his character became deeper and more interesting he remains a coward.
Sorry Draco's fans: I like Draco too, but it's true.
I often see people talk about "Draco's redemption", but honestly I don't see this redeption. Simply he became a decent person, but he is not go through an actual process of change. He is mean, but he never wanted to kill, he never wanted war, so he tries to not get in the way of Harry and his allies, that's it. This is not a redeption, this is an awareness.
There are also Albus Severus, Scorpius and Leta, but they are not characters from the original series, and they were created AFTER all the criticism about the fact that all Slytherins are depicted as bad, so I won't consider them.
It's a shame, you know? Because one of the most important themes in HP is supposed to be INCLUSION. So, why, WHY, nobody, even the "good characters", try to understand or socialize with Slytherins?
Why, in the SIXTH BOOK, I have to read about Harry and Neville who don't greet their Slytherin schoolmates beacuse "Gryffindors and Slytherins don't talk, that's it." Yes, Harry says that.
This is the reason why I love those fanfiction in which we can see Harry and other characters interact with Slytherins. Because this is what I want to see at Hogwarts: inclusion, no prejudice, brotherhood between the four Houses.
I don't know why, but nowdays I still see some "fans" of HP criticize or have prejudice about Slytherin house and I'm like: "After all this time?"
Don't answer "Always" this time, Slytherism (?) has to finish, once and for all.
So... Yes, peace and love between the Houses, thay are all great in their own way!
[I also hope that my English was comprehensible, I'm not that good, but I'm trying my best.]
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Huh, I think you might be a bit hard on Hermione. Generally speaking I mean.
1. Is it really that surprising that Hermione had kids young, so much that it needs to be addressed in this TV show? In wizarding world it's very common to marry and have kids young, since they finish all their school duties at 18/19 and get a job after. So she would have had about 8 years of work experience before she became pregnant. And the whole "she's not family oriented" is also exaggerated and not really true. She clearly enjoys the Burrow chaos just as Harry since she's always there and she obviously loves her parents, even with the questionable Obliviate thing. You're acting like Hermione is some kind of robot. If your personal headcanon is that she's not family oriented..well that's another thing.
2. The canaries thing is obviously not good. Great! Meaning Hermione has flaws, she's not perfect and the readers/audience know this. But ..haha why do Harry and Ginny need to TALK about it so obviously as if the audience are some idiots who can't figure it out on their own.? That's a very beloved rule in movie making - you don't TELL something obvious to audience, let them think for themselves. And it's not like what Hermione did here was something horrible (and I say this as a Ron defender lol). It's pretty vanilla compared to some other weird stuff in HP (the exposing of Snape's underwear and possibly genitals, Harry's crucio, Fred and George's love potion.... So many weirdness) PS. It's not like Ginny would actually care about Ron here to be angry at Hermione. This the book where Ron and Ginny didn't get along and realistically speaking Ginny would've probably snorted or laughed if she heard that Hermione set the canaries on Ron. (Isn't that Ginny's thing - she appreciates dark humor or something like that..?)
So yeah, I think what's really going on here is that Hermione gets on your nerves and maybe that's why you exaggerate her flaws and have sceptical (almost negative) thoughts about her. Which is fine, but it's weird that these 'problems' that you have with Hermione... weirdly enough Ginny is guilty of having them too and yet you never mention these problems with Ginny. What was it that you criticized Hermione for? - being unrealistically capable and not showing flaws towards the end of the series? Not showing enough development? Having kids young? Having a mean streak and being too harsh sometimes and the fans still love you? That's BOTH Hermione and Ginny, my friend xD
Oh, God.
Thinking that not being family oriented means hating your family or being a robot might be a you problem. More and more people nowadays are not family oriented, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Hermione repetedely chooses to not spend time with her parents. Her liking going to the Burrow simply means she likes spending time with Ron, generally likes the Weasleys and it's not uncomfortable around a lot of people. And, I absolutely do not care if there are eight years between the end of the war and when she starts having children. She is not a real person, she is a character. What you put in the Epilogue needs to be coherent with what you have told until that point.
Hermione having flaws is not a problem, it's a great thing. Those flaws never being addressed narratevely is the problem. If in no way you adress the fact that what Hermione did is wrong, you are sending the message that what she did was right. If you as the reader percive it as wrong, that's good because critical thinking requires you while reading a book that you absorb the facts but question the interpretation of the author and see if the two things are coherent. Since the fourth book, with Hermione's character there's a divergence between how the narrative wants you to percive her and how she actually behaves, and it progressively gets worse. She never pays the consequences of her own wrongdoing. Which is why after your first reading of HBP you probably are going to think Hermione was competely right and Ron was a jerk, especially if you are a child. It's about the message that it's being sent. And yes, Ginny has flaws too, and that's great, and those are very much adressed. She hexes Smith, she calls Slughorn mad for not putting her in detention. She attacks Smith after the match, and it's hilarious, objectively speaking, but McGonagall still very much yells at her. She mocks Fleur, she admits she was wrong about her by the end of the book. It's not about characters having flaws, characters need to have flaws, it's about the message the story is sending. And, about Ginny not being angry at the canaries, I'm gonna guess you don't have siblings. One of the main rules of having siblings is that you can destroy them but if anyone else dares looking at them the wrong way, that person will die.
The canaries were just an example of one of the many very ugly things Hermione does and that are never addressed as such. What makes that specific episode particulary ugly is that she does it against someone she is supposed to love.
Ginny is not unrealistically capable. She is a powerful witch, that's a natural thing, it doesn't need development, and it's shown since the second book. It's also shown she takes her studies seriously by the way. If you are referring to Quidditch, she trains herself since she is six, what's unrealistic about her being good at it? It's also shown she is not as good of a seeker as she is a chaser. Also, I never said Hermione is unrealistically capable (are you referring to me saying she gets jobs she shouldn't be good at according to the books? That's just an objective thing). I mean, in DH she does things that she shouldn't be able to do out of nowhere, but in general, there's nothing particulary impressive in Hermione's abilities. The narrative desperately tries to make you think she is a genius by making everyone call her that but she just reads a lot of academic material and she is a bit smarter than average, there's nothing weird about that.
Ginny having kids young is extremely realistic??? She is very attached to her family, she is impulsive, and she grew up in a family of seven siblings, I'm surprised none of the Weasleys siblings had seven children of their own.
How can Ginny lack development? She is a character built on progression. She has the most structured development along with Harry. Her whole story is this progressive climb out of the shadow. She becomes the person she needed as a little girl, her helping the injured girl on the grounds is a parallel to her being the girl on the ground in the Chamber. She frees herself of her family need to protect her but still reconciles with her mother. If you are talking about her being well-rounded, Ginny checks out all the boxes in Karen S. Wiesner scheme which is the most detailed one for controlling the development of a character.
If you think I've never said Ginny can be mean or harsh, you have never read this blog. But it's adressed already by the story. There's a whole arc about it in HBP.
If I want to spend my days praising Ginny, I can. This blog is not a democracy. It's very much a dictatorship.
Ginny is loved since when?
I am not your friend :)
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xixiao-yankai · 1 year
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Unpopular opinion time. HP ships that I can't stand.
Draco x Harry
Draco is obsessed with Harry because he is an entitled little twit who is jealous of Harry's popularity outshining him. Harry only saved Draco's life because that was the righteous thing to do. Heck, Harry even offered Voldemort one final chance at remorse. Do we hear Draco say thanks to Harry even once? And yes, I also think the Scorpius x Albus ship is basically another LOL attempt at shipping "Drarry".
Draco x Hermione
Is it only because Draco's and Hermione's movie actors were good-looking? Draco had pathetic emotional intelligence. No wisdom. No compassion. And still doesn't forget to call Hermione a Mudblood even on the Astronomy Tower. How much do people have to hate Hermione to think that she deserves a laughing stock of a character such as Malfoy?
Harry x Hermione
Their personalities are both too fiery. Both are headstrong and opinionated and if they were to live together in marriage, they'd blow the roof off the house.
Remus x Sirius
Sirius saying that he was bored and wished it was the full moon, and sending Snape down the tunnel when Remus was transformed... don't exactly scream "I love Remus more than anyone". It's just that with James gone, Sirius and Remus only had each other left. Doesn't mean anything beyond friendship. Highlighted by how Remus embraced Sirius "like a brother" in the Shrieking Shack.
Snape x Lily
Every meeting with Lily in Snape's memories ended badly. I really cannot fathom how Lily managed to put up with a dementor like Snape for seven years. I respect Snape, don't get me wrong, but respect is not mutually exclusive with dislike. Snape saw Lily as the only light in his cold, dark existence, but Lily is a person. Not an object for Snape to draw warmth from. I don't deny that Snape loved Lily, but that love is not love that Lily would appreciate. And the thing that disgusts me the most is how Snape grieved Lily's death as if it were his loss, and not hers.
Snape x Harry
Snape never cared about Harry. NEVER. What do you think he would have done to Harry if Harry were not Lily's son and only James's son? Wouldn't be surprised if he treated Harry like he treated Wormtail. Or like how Marvolo and Morfin treated Merope. And even if Harry didn't hate Snape anymore, he probably still intensely disliked him for all the bullying he endured.
Snape x Narcissa
Please! Why would anyone ruin their characters like this? The scene at Spinner's End shows the true extent of Snape's intelligence and capability as a double agent, and shows how Narcissa was willing to kneel down in front of a half-blood to beg for her son's safety. Nothing. Else. Don't. Extrapolate.
James x Regulus
What? Where did this even come from? If anything, Regulus probably hated James for stealing Sirius away from him and his family. And James despised pure-blood supremacy and the Dark Arts, and would likely only be cordial to Regulus, if they crossed paths, out of respect for Sirius. On a side note, now I'm wondering... if Sirius had to choose between saving James's or Regulus's life, how would he have chosen?
I guess Sirius would have sacrificed himself to save both his brothers, of course.
EDIT: removed "pro" tags and added "anti-" tags. Thanks to everyone who either politely or rudely pointed out a new Tumblr's mistake!
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roses-red-and-pink · 7 months
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I just finished rewatching the order of the phoenix with my aunt and uncle and here are some thoughts
Ron.Weasley.Supremacy. I know the movies really water him down and take away some of his core traits and give them to hermione, but I think this movie is the best for showing his true character. He stands up to everyone for Harry, he attacks grawp for hermione, he’s always looking out for Harry. when Harry says they need to go get Sirius, hermione tells him it might be a trap and Harry’s like “idc! I can’t let him die!” And Ron just immediately says “ok what do we need to do.” Gets them away from the inquisitorial squad, and Insists that Harry doesn’t need to go to the ministry alone. I love him with my whole heart! I think this movie is the best at doing him justice.
On a related note: Ron and hermione as tired parents. Harry is being angsty and angry and sad and Ron and hermione share sooo many little concerned eye glances with each other. Making sure he’s ok, setting him up with his crush, getting him to bed. They really are Mom and dad.
Romione moments in this film are subtle, but there. Hermione telling Ron he’s clever, Ron trying to save her from grawp, their mutual concern over Harry, the way she stands closer to him than Harry.
My shipper heart noticed all the subtle Hinny moments. Harry’s overjoyed and proud face when ginny used the reducto curse, the way her face fell whenever cho was mentioned. How she hung back and looked at Harry when he went to go talk to cho before their kiss. My pining girl, pretending she isn’t pining. Also hi Michael corner! He was there lol.
Big thing for me was HUGE appreciation for Harry as a character. This boy, this 15 year old boy is going through SO much. His anger and fear that it is all his fault and he is a bad person is so relatable to me right now. But when Voldemort possesses him, he can’t stay because Harry has friendship and love, and can even find it in himself to feel sorry for Voldemort. Yes Harry has deep trauma and wounds, but he also has light, and joy! He is so GOOD. He’s not perfect as we see many times. But he is at his core a good good person. And that goodness and that light carry him through these amazingly difficult things. I am just so proud of him :,)
Cho and Harry… it was so awkward hahaha. That kiss was just so stilted, the way they stayed like 10 inches apart while they kissed, I love it. It really speaks to how awkward their relationship was. Also how when hagrid came back he immediately left her to go see him. I can’t help but compare to (book, obviously) ginny and Harry’s relationship where their first kiss was 100%- no half hearted stilted kissing here! Although maybe David Yates just hates Harry having fun kisses because in HBP movie his kiss with ginny is pretty subpar too…
Umbridge was terrible as always. Also I loved Alan Rickman as snape particularly in the occulmency lessons.
Ok one more thing about Harry: he is really good at magic. In the hogs head when they keep bringing up stuff he’s done and he’s like “but I had help! It wasn’t me!” But my boy, you DID cast a patronus at 13, and you DID kill a basilisk, and you DID survive Voldemort. Sure you had help, but you’re also a pretty darn powerful wizard.
In conclusion, I love Harry. He’s amazing. Also Ron is the best friend ever.
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hp-debates-ramblings · 6 months
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I don't like Lily:
#1 Because of this Godess like personality she has. It's lile Hermione but more, more, more. And in your face.
#2 Because I really think she wasn't a good friend to Severus.
#3 Because I hate how 'James changed for Lily' even though there are a billion more reasons for James to change. That. Are. Canon. And. Fit. Better.
#4 How hypocritical she is. In Canon. Maybe in Fanon (dk, don't really see read fics with her).
#5 'You're mother was there for me when no one else was,' -Movie Remus Lupin (This is more than enough to make me hate Remus and Lily and to believe in Prongsfoot and to make me like James)
#6 James following her like a lost puppy (Fanon perception. HATE IT).
#7 She was not a good influence on James.
#8 She was not a good influence on Snape.
#9 'You're mother risked her life for you'
#10 She is so insignificant and uncraved (books) but ofc the movies hate James and ruin him and makes her the most imp character.
#11 She has no enemies.
#12 She is shown in perfect light. Even though she has flaws. Like flaws are right there popping at you. Read b/w the lines, make a timeline chart. Hear what she says. There jumping at your throat waiting for your attention
#13 Snapes' obsession.
#14 'James didn't deserve Lily' Fans when in reality Lily deserved neither Snape nor James.
#15 'James must he changed, and become good bc Lily married him' Fans as if she was some almighty power judge.
#16 'Arrogant, bullying toerag.. Durprised the broom can lift of the ground' When I look at Lily, I see a self-centred woman who is hypocritical.
#16 Hate how Jily is the himbo jock James and Intelligent Lily who deserved better.
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dramionediscussion · 1 year
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I would give anything to watch/read/head a comprehensive analysis of the dramione fandom. Like how/if famous fics influenced the fics that came after them. Trends through the years. The main differences between fics written before the HP books were completed and after the fact. Character arcs and how commenters reacted to them. Some other aspect I wouldn't even think to note... It would be so interesting!
I can't give you a proper analysis but I can't try to answer your questions.
Many authors will tell you if another fic specifically inspired them. There were a few that were inspired by "Manacled" by SenLinYu. A few people wrote sequels to "Master" by Akashathekitty, with her permission.
With regards to trends, whenever a new trope pops up, many people write about it. Marriage Law started in the Hermione/Snape fandom in the mid-00s, but somehow came across here and has been a very popular trope in the fandom since. In the early 00s, when Harry Potter fanfiction started, many Dramione fics were very OOC. They didn't include Voldemort. They had the Malfoys not being involved in the war. A lot of the stories were based in Hogwarts and were very "high school drama teen romance" types. You also have a lot of very AU fics popping up in the late 00s/early 10s. Like fics, where authors include their own magical systems, their own magic theory, and wandlore.
As the books and movies came out, authors started to change their themes to reflect canon. So you started to see more war Era fics, more darker themes, and what we will call true to character fics. Fics with Draco being a death eater, fics with Hermione being on the run, fics showing the war and battles and strategies and the horrors of war.
By the time the movies were completed, there were still a lot of war fics, but you started to see more post-war fics. Fics of what happens now. Year 8 fics, head boy and head girl fics, the character being working adults, Draco getting his redemption, etc. Of course, all these tropes mentioned were being written about since the beginning, but to me this is what I saw more of as time when on.
As for feedback/comments, I think as time went on, people got nicer in their comments and remarks to authors. If you look back at older stories, people didn't hold back when it came to the comment section. They were mean and insulting. As time went on, people became nicer and more careful with what they said. Also, more people were giving constructive criticism rather than "i love this!! <3".
Another thing that changed over the 2 decades of dramione is the quality of the stories in terms of planning, writing, spelling and grammar, and length. Before no one had a beta, now it is seen as a requirement. Some even have multiple betas. People will definitely call you out if you have plot holes, if something doesn't make sense, etc. Authors put in a lot of work into writing their fics, planning in advance about what is happening in their stories and their characters. Some even take weeks of planning before even writing something.
How a person advertises their stories have also changed. With social media being very prominent in our society, a lot of authors use it to promote their stories, give readers sneak peaks of new chapters, make moodboards to give readers a better idea of their characters, the moods, the setting. They commission artwork for their stories, and someone might even do it for free. They are able to reach out to their fans and directly talk to them. Before, you just posted a story online, and that was it.
The hate and negativity of the fandom have also changed. Before, no one cared for fanfiction in general. People thought it was weird, and those who read or wrote it were also weird. But as time we on, nerd/geek culture became more popular, and people expressed it more. People got a better idea of what fanfiction actually is and started to get into it. So, more people were exposed to non-canon ships, which led to people not liking it and more hate to anyone who did.
Social media also allowed fans to have a community where they can talk about fics, critique it, and help each other out. But of course, this led to bullying someone for liking one fic over another. It led to insulting authors for writing about a particular topic, and it led to people getting together to make sure someone who they didn't like didn't get readers. It led to people just up and leaving the fandom because people just constantly picked on them.
For the character of Draco, as time went in, his characterization went from "normal" school bully to indoctrinated racist young boy. Authors gave a better background to his character, which explained why he did what he did. They humanized him and started to write realistic ways in which a person like him can change. Also, as people in the fandom grew up, people started to understand the themes and characters of the original books better, so we too saw that it's not black and white when it comes to Draco. So we have a lot of support to authors who wrote a Draco the we saw him, which led to newer tropes in the fandom popping up, like Draco going to Azkaban for a few years, Draco becoming an Auror, Draco being involved in chariry work.
That characterization of Hermione to me hasn't really changed. She was always a fan favourite. Older stories were a bit of a self-insert. They also had her character being very "Mary Sue" like. You still see that now sometimes. I think authors have also done a good job in keeping her very much like her character in canon.
Of course, this is just what I observed over the years. I started to read Dramione fanfiction around 2008-2009, so we'll over a decade in the fandom, I've seen a lot. But this is just my experience and my POV.
- Lisa
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annabellelupin · 10 months
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thoughts I've had while re reading poa as a marauders fan, part 2 (chapters 5)
chapter 5
- girlfriend???? girlfriend???? Percy doesn't have a girlfriend Penelope and him are just very gay friends, his boyfriend is oliver
- everytime it's mentioned Percy has a girlfriend I want to die (I have nothing against Penelope at all but they're both very very gay whyyy are they together)
- Remus jdjdjdnd
- did Ron just say a murder wouldn't mess with harry if him and hermione were there wow the audacity
- the way Remus casually has a bunch of chocolate with him
- wonder what memories could possibly help Remus cast a patronus since most of his better ones probably cause more pain than everything
- also Remus saying sirius' name i am not ok you know that's gotta hurt him
- idk why the fact remus knew harrys name is pointed out cause he's famous and basically everyone knows him just by his looks
- also who in hell was like yep let the soul sucking demons around the little teen wizards uwu
- I think chocolate is really associated with like dementor trauma recovery since sweets often act as like dopamine or whoever you spell it for some people
- I forgot McGonagall had glasses
- did she in the movies? if she did I can't remember
- what's up with the glasses erasure in the movies 😒 /jk
- Pomfrey and McGonagall are married prove me wrong
- also literally the adults in this book have no logic yes let's give a 14 year old a magical item that allows you to go back in time so she can take more classes but not use it and go back before mold voldy was born and make sure he never is born cause he was basically a product of,,,,, forced love to put it nicely,,,, anyways and shouldn't exist
- Dumbledore, "It was just Harry's canon event, his parents had to die or he would never become the chosen one"
- Miguel ohara shit going on fr here
- Spiderman harry confirmed?????
- oh no Dumbledore was subjected to glasses erasure too
- and percy
- literally trusting Dumbledore is ur worse decision every harry like dude literally pulls you out of class 6th year to go on some dangerous quests of death during school time he's like fuck ur education harry less go die
- im quickly realizing no one in the movies look how they do in the books like
- also it's super unrealistic that all the "better" wizards come from Gryffindor like yk ravenclaw probably has more people that are successful (ok look biased opinion but it's true)
- snape if ur homophobic just say that
- we all know ur wolfstars number one hater but for fucks sake man
- just say it
- why else would you hate remus sm for Sirius and James are ur enemies man
- it'd make sense if Neville was forgetful do to trauma yk
- but ok look Dumbledore stop fucking hiring mentally unstable teachers I mean for ffs old man
- hagrids a good guy but he should've never been a teacher
- and remus is very questionable
- love the man but questionable
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Why I Don't Acknowledge Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Okay, let's get this clear. Dumbledore and Grindelwald being lovers is more canon than that mistake of a book.
I did not devote my childhood to seven books for the eighth one to be more terrible than ketchup on maggi.
I did not obsess over the fact that there is one book for every horcrux mah man voldy made for the eighth book to strut in and avada kedavra me.
I did not obsess over Vernon and his terrible parenthood to see Harry become him.
And so, I welcome you to the first ever Harry Potter rant on this blog.
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Albus Severus Potter
So I opened the cursed child book and saw the most cursed thing of all- that name. Why I hate severus snape is a whole other rant for another day, but I understand why the series ended with Harry fangirling around him.
Nevertheless, that potions professor was the dude who low key simped for Harry's mom. He was the guy who mocked Hermione for knowing answers to questions. The dude bullied a boy who had parents admitted in the hospital, and the side that he supported was the very reason they were in that state. So ye, Snape was great and all but I feel like adult Harry would not have named a kid after him.
I'm not exactly anti-Dumbledore and he was a father figure for Harry, so imma leave that alone, but I'm pretty sure naming a kid Albus Severus Potter borders on child abuse.
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Harry's Parenting
Another thing I refuse to believe is that Harry James Potter, the spokesperson of childhood trauma, would allow himself to have a poor relationship with his child. I cannot allow that kind of thing in my Harry Potter memories.
Somehow, from what I read, I also got the feeling that harry becomes a grumpy middle aged man, and seeing my favourite character, the Mirror of Erised to my childhood become whatever ungodly persona the book resembled is heartbreaking.
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The thing that made us all like Harry was how teenager-like he was. He went through some terrible stuff, but yet we had happy moments, where Harry was just a 14 year old with his friends. I mean- Harry did, after all, teach a class the ministry was against in a secret society he was the head of to defy an institution (very gen Z) and kiss a girl all in one chapter.
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The Potter Household
I feel like Ginny, who was the youngest of 7 kids would want an only child.
Harry, who grew up all alone, would want more kids.
So the best that they would settle for would be 2 children. That's it. For some reason I find the idea of 3 kids in the potter household unsettling.
It is horrifying to see Ginny, a smart, athletic, brave girl have the most successful quidditch career and retire at 22 to become a reporter. It is (apart from the entire book) the most disappointing thing JK made canon. Somehow Cursed child was able to condense all the things wrong about movie!Ginny into one book.
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The household is also extremely Harry-centric. We've got James Sirius Potter, and Albus Severus Potter, and Lilly Luna Potter. It somehow feels like Ginny had no role whatsoever in naming the children. I would have loved to see a Fred Potter in place of the sinful Albus Severus. Bonus points for a Lilly Minerva Potter.
Harry spent his entire life being 'The Harry Potter' and the Weasleys were his forever family. I feel like after their marriage, he would have changed his surname instead. A Weasley-Potter household is the one thing we all asked for.
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All I ever wanted was a Harry Weasley married to star quidditch player Ginny Weasley, with James Sirius Weasley, Fred Weasley, and Lilly Minerva Weasley, a happy family without communication issues.
Is that too much to ask for?
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carphoegras · 11 months
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I don’t ship most of these myself , but your rant/ramble posts on Les Mis ships are funny so I genuinely wanted your opinion on these 👁
1. Enjoltaire
2. Valvert
3. Enjonine
4. Marisette (or whatever Marius x Cosette was called)
5. Javonine (Javert and…Eponine 😭)
6. Marionine (A name a just guessed for Marius x Eponine because I wasn’t bothered to look it up)
7. and uhhh.. Granjonine (I think that was the name)
well hello darling! i live to entertain lol lets get into it i might have to put this under a cut because i think its obvious i have a rambling issue
Enjoltaire : a classic for good reason. they seemed really base level to me at first because i watched the movie first, but once i read the brick and really saw their dynamic i fell for them HARD. for me the beauty of this pairing is really rooted in the substance of their individual characters as opposed to like a romantic relationship. idk its so difficult for me to verbalize why i love them so much i think i just love the idea of finding common ground despite difficulties. enjolras and grantaire mirror each other in such a beautiful way that i feel the musical/movie couldn't really capture without demoting it to a puppy love grantaire/mean enjolras dynamic idk i have such an issue with some portrayals of them because i feel like they create a victim/abuser situation where there wasn't one but that's like a whole post within itself anyway i feel like im getting incoherent i love exr with every fiber of my fucking being just read the brick if you don't get it ok the movie and musical just dont do it justice and for the love of god avoid the fics written in 2012/2013 after the movie hype its all wRONGGGG (i love you george blagden but you created a twink grantaire movement) (they pull each others pigtails okay its a mutual obsession) (enjolras why don't you just ignore him baby? glutton for punishment my dear we all know if you hated him you wouldn't let him hang around) (anyway) i should make a seperate post about my exr feelings bc i could talk ab them for hours
2. Valvert: okay this is where i feel like i can be unpopular with the fandom. i fucking hate this ship. like physically, spiritually, all that. its one of those that i kinda lose respect for the person bc its literally a cop/prisoner thing. its not enemies to lovers. its not a hate love thing. javert's a fucking cop. valjean is his victim. the whole idea of people romanticizing this makes me feel so insanely icky and i think the point of the story has just gone RIGHT over some folks' heads please take a step back and think about it. neolib behavior sorry not sorry
3. Enjonine: enjolras is gay. just like, straight up in the brick enjolras is a gay man. this ship is spawned from straight girls who saw aaron tveit and use eponine as their not like other girls posterchild. just a whole bunch of hetero nonsense. same behavior as the joseph quinn enj x reader bs. honey thats a homosexual man and can we please stop reducing eponine to needing a boyfriend she needs a stable home and a goddamn therapist fucking hell
4. Marisette: okay. i LOVE THEM. i'm a cosette stan myself, and i'm a huge fan of a gooey love at first sight situation. they contrast my love for exr in the sense that they're a very easy love. their parts in the book literally make me SWOOOOOON i can put aside my beef with marius as a combeferre kin to appreciate how sweet they are
5. Javonine??: im sorry wh aht. did the snape x hermione shippers leak into the lm fandom or am i being fucking punked im not discussing this its obvious why this is wrong please tell me its obvious y'all are NASTY
6. Marionine: eh. eh. i mean, like i said with enjonine eponine's problems are not gonna be solved with a dude. i'm really not opposed to them, persay, its just that eponine's love for marius is so incredibly dependent and rooted more in her personal trauma than actual love, so i feel a little weird with them sometimes. sometimes it just gives anti cosette vibes (cough cough bc of the bullshit love triangle angle that the musical markets cough cough) so i tread very carefully with them
7. Granjonine: again what in the damn hell. i'm not dignifying this shit they could be besties but for the love of god george blagden did a number on the straight girls. STOP PROJECTING ONTO EPONINE IM GONNA LOSE MY FUCKING MIND LEAVE HER ALONE
thanks for the ask lovely, i do love rambling even though these ships are baffling lmaoooo
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Okay, I want to know your opinion on Snape. I feel like anyone who has not read the books likes him because he is portrayed as a nicer person in the movies. I think the movies got a lot of things wrong, but the worst thing they ever did was make Snape protect Ron, Harry and Hermione from werewolf Remus!
Snape was okay with Harry and James dying if he can save Lily, that is disgusting. And than after Harry knows this he names his child after him?!?!
The other thing that annoys me about Snape is that people romanticize the "Always" line. That is not romantic that is creepy.
And than the people who love Snape hate James! We see one scene where James and Sirius are "bullying" Snape. We know that Snape was hanging out with little baby Death Eaters by this time. We know that James hated dark magic and hated blood supremacy. We know that Snape was creating dark spells at this time as well.
We know James was a good person in cannon. He was friends with a werewolf and he an his friends because a Animagus to help him. It is implied that James was very skilled in Transfiguration, so we assume he was probably the one to come up with the idea, and probably did a lot of the work. He also took care of his friends. I know that taking Sirius in was also James' parents doing, but James would have to show concern for his friend for them to accept that Sirius need a home. He was also Head Boy in his seventh year, which he wouldn't have gotten if he was a big Bully. He also married Lily Evens, and I don't think she would have given him the time of day if he was a complete jerk.
I am not saying James Potter was perfect, but that is what makes him a good character.
Anyway, sorry for my rant, but I feel like you also hate Snape. Everyone that I know loves the man, so I had to rant to someone.
I hate Snape.
I think he’s this creepy asshole stalker who bullies children.
I hate the characterization that James is a bully but Snape wasn’t. Uh… Snape was a rude little dick to Petunia as kids (though she’s a bitch but still it probably didn’t help matters between Lily and Petunia). He dropped a tree limb or something on her for “spying” on him and Lily. The kid had problems from the very beginning. You can’t convince me that Snape wasn’t a dick right back to James. I think he gave as much as he got.
In the end, James grew the fuck up. Yeah, he may have been a little spoiled brat as a kid who liked to pull pranks that may or may not have gone too far, but Snape was A GROWN ASS MAN who bullied kids. Not just any kids. Kids he has authority over. In a professional setting. Kids he was responsible for.
Snape, meanwhile, never would have gone to Dumbledore if Harry wasn’t a possibility for the prophecy. Say it was just Neville who qualified under the parameters. Let’s pretend Harry was born on the first of August for a second. SNAPE NEVER WOULD HAVE FLIPPED. He only flipped in a last ditch effort to save Lily. He didn’t give a FUCK about Harry or James. He didn’t give a fuck about an innocent baby. He just wanted Lily.
I read a fanfic AGES ago. I mean, this may have been a good decade ago so I have no idea who it was by or the title. But Voldemort spared Lily. Harry and James died. She went to Snape (I don’t think she knew he sold them out or that he didn’t care about her son and husband) but she asked him to make her forget because it was too painful. He totally took advantage of Lily and it was gross and weird. Sirius tried to save her at one point. She started to suspect that something was wrong but couldn’t remember what. It was a weird ass story, but it perfectly illustrated how fucking creepy Snape was because that was like his boner dream ending.
Anyway, I digress. Snape is an asshole. I don’t understand the love for him. James is a great guy who knew he was going to die but he didn’t care because he was trying to buy his wife and kid some time (I like to headcanon he knew they’d die too so it’s more tragic). I love James. So fucking much.
James grew as a person. Snape did not.
I hate Albus Severus. PETITION FOR HIS NAME TO BE CHANGED TO ALBUS FLEAMONT. Please and thank you.
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casquecest · 24 days
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19 for sirius black (:
19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?
Ooh, that is a great question!
I think I can appreciate nearly all the relationships he has in canon in some form as they do really shape his story and what we know or can glean about him (even the adversarial ones, like that with Snape, are a delight to read), so there aren't really any I don't like, per se, but I suppose I find Molly's behaviour toward him in OotP the most obnoxious (I hate that Hermione seems to go a bit sour on him in that book as well because I think they're both brilliant, curious, passionate people with a keen sense of justice that I think if Sirius had lived, they'd have been great friends as adults (I like to pretend this sourness is because Hermione is jealous Crookshanks seems to like Sirius more than he does her, and not because she's bought into Molly's claptrap)), especially in the first few chapters.
I hate that she oversteps her bounds as Harry's friend's mum, and has known Sirius for all of a month and thinks she knows best with regards to the relationship Sirius and Harry can and should have with one another. Part of it, too, I think, is that I find her to be a bit of a micromanaging, overbearing, gossip-prone busybody, a bit of a bored housewife with petty and catty tendencies, and so I'm not inclined to really like her interacting with my fave, lmao, but I think it's mostly how much she oversteps where Harry is concerned and how that affects Sirius.
And it's Molly's bullshit assertion that Sirius only sees Harry as James that inspired Michael Goldenberg to have Sirius's last line be, 'Nice one, James!' in the OotP movie, which is, of course, completely unforgivable. Never forgive, never forget that transgression.
CHARACTER ASK GAME!
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ssszlami · 1 year
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Harry Potter characters as things my friends have said except there's way too many characters
Yes, we write down funny things we say, no that's not weird
Harry: “I wanna jump out a castle window but like not die” 
Ron: “WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING???”
Hermione: “It’s feminine to write a paragraph”
Neville: “Lore update: I’m confused as hell.”
Luna: “Hey I can’t come to the party on Friday night, I just bought a bunch of cows and I gotta chill with them.”
Ginny: “I feel like you’re only dating me for my brother.”
Draco: “My chat is in it’s gaslight era”
Dean: “This is a lot like a cult for a Christian movie”
Seamus: “Agility: Setting things on fire and watching it explode... but in different directions.”
Dumbledore: “No one here has committed any crimes, and if you have, they were funny crimes, so it’s fine”
McGonagall: “When u get to the exam its not gonna be helpful that you spent your lessons drinking gatorade and eating donuts”
Snape: “If you’re going to traumatise children at least make it aesthetic”
Sirius: “I’m so alpha that the men around me change their sexuality to accomodate for me”
Remus: “I have four lines of self-hate for you”
Lily: “The milfs in my bag”
James: “No beta we die like parental figures”
Molly: “Goodnight offspring.”
Arthur: “How often a day do you reckon your car gets a boner?” 
Fred: “Love. Truth. Bodacious Booty.”
George: "In this world, it's either meme or be memed. In my case it's both."
Percy: “It is boring! But.....we like boring.”
Bill: “Sometimes you gotta ruin the vibe for the greater good”
Charlie: "Close your face nipples and think about dragons" 
Oliver: “I’m a white man, we always win! Except at sports….except at hockey”
Hagrid: “You can't say fuck you to the dog!”
Lavender: “Not all women want to kiss women. I know, that one was a hard pill for me to swallow”
Parvati: “There is no girl on earth who is so straight she wouldn’t love having another pair of boobs around”
Padma: “Nobody likes princesses!! They’re white bitches who weren’t loved enough as children”
Crabbe: “Pancake....buttplug……pancake…….buttplug”
Goyle: *grunt* “Yes I just farted.”
Cho: “I was like ‘whatever’. Wait no I was really sad”
Cedric: “I just thumbs-upped the roof down”
Krum: “*completely monotone voice* but wait there’s more”
Fleur: “Sexism is bad. Kill everyone.”
Tonks: “Gotta go to the bathroom to change my gender real quick”
Moody: “This is not a time for sassy comebacks, this is a time for SURVIVAL!”
Lockhart: “Because I look cute it’s all my fault. Thats how that works apparently.”
Umbridge: “Oh my god it’s me! Shiny trash!”
Voldemort: “Sorry I’m holding your parents hostage and killing you but your parents can’t hear your screams of terror because they can’t hear you right now”
Bellatrix: “YOU GOTTA KILL SOME CHILDREN TO GET TO YOUR TRUE LOVE”
Lucius: “Have you started another cult?”
Narcissa: “Your son is okay” *sobs and cries*
Kingsley: “I haven’t laughed since 1972.”
Peter: “So, you’re on the floor spooning the rat”
Slughorn: “*loud chewing noises* Wow I hate myself”
Mundungus: “My voice cracked on the crack and im on crack”
Dobby: “I took my ugg boots off for that.”
Winky: “Is she gonna kill me? I’m very excited.”
Kreacher: “It’s just war miss it’s not upsetting at all” 
Myrtle: “I went to the toilet and I see like the toilet seat around her neck”
Trelawney: “Teaching pigeons to be art connoisseurs” 
Filch: “He’s like a really sticky person!”
Dudley: “Screw you I just want stuff”
Petunia: “Is there a reason you’re interrupting me mid-soup?”
Vernon: “So he’s mad” “Yeah he’s cranky” “No like insane”
Pansy: “I don’t hurt them I just legally stab them”
Lee: “Bro that’s rather cringe”
Quirell: “I don’t need an exorcism” “That’s exactly what somebody who needs a exorcism would say”
Amos: “I’m one of the last old white boys”
Karkaroff: “Terrible behaviour…. ur in denial my guy” 
Xenophilius: “EVERY JOB IS A GOVERNMENT JOB, AND I DONT KNOW WHO THE PRIME MINISTER IS”
Greyback: “I… put my hand inside his chest…and ripped out his lungs” 
Cormac: “Closeted homophobic”
Blaise: “He’s more attractive in a suit.” “ALL MEN ARE!”
Regulus: “Lucy it’s my turn to drown!!”
Aberforth: “ME? A member of the TEN COMMANDMENTS??"
Nearly Headless Nick: “Well, if you have to execute me… ok”
Marietta: “You can’t slay if you vape”
Mrs Figg: “Old lady woman man and his dog”
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Part two of me and my “Anakin Skywalker adopts Harry Potter” au
(This would be Clone Wars era Anakin)
- the way voldemort wouldn’t be able to even TOUCH Harry if Anakin were around
- I’m very fond of Eldritch!Anakin ??? Like I feel like his power ended up being super downplayed for being like. The literal child of the force ??? So
Imagine Eldritch!Anakin just absolutely feral over anyone / anything that tries to do Harry harm. He would crush their skull without lifting a pinky finger (it was the will of the force <3)
- I imagine the force can vaguely speak to anakin (in a different way from other Jedi since he’s it’s actual son if that makes sense?) and starts referring to Harry as his grandchild
- the way he’d go OFF on dumbledore for never checking on Harry’s home life ??? Like the kid obviously tried avoiding going home and it never raised any red flags to dumbledore ??? Really ??? Anakins not having it
- Anakin being read as like- a super powerful dark wizard by everyone around him cause the wizards have no idea about the Force and all that ??? Like, ohmygod- he strangled someone with air??? It’s the dark arts !!!
- Anakin kinda enjoys (remember- feral Eldritch being!Anakin) how freaked out the wizards get when he appears he’s like “yeahhhh baby. Don’t touch my kid!”
- Vader!Anakin poppin out for a second and making the death eaters tremble. CAN YOU IMAGINE LUCIUS MEETING HIM ?! HED BE TERRIFIED LMAO
- god, he’d fuck shit up so bad in goblet of fire and well- any movie rlly
- he RLLY hates dumbledore (if he’s well meaning or not, idk but anakin doesn’t think he is) for basically making Harry a child soldier. It all hits kinda close to home cause he’s also the chosen one / poster boy for a war so he’s able to connect to and understand Harry in a way no adult has ever been able to do with him???
- Anakin would need to be held back from killing the Dursley’s
- Fred & George LOVE him, I think sirius would be wary but they’d end up getting along over time and Anakin is fond of Remus because he reminds him of Obi-wan in some ways
- Anakin is the Cool Dad
- if ya’ll wanna be Anti-Dumbledore, consider: Anakin realizing Palpatine isn’t all he seems to be because he’s slowly realizing that dumbledore kinda has the same vibe and now Anakin is like “wait a damn second.”
- Dumbledore & Harry are just Palpatine & Anakin in different fonts
- harry: my dad is totally normal
hermione: sometimes he smiled and he has 3x the normal amount of teeth
- this is crack but anakin sees Snape and then has a vision/dream of Ben that night. He wakes up in a cold sweat and audibly goes “EW” and then goes back to sleep (going off the fact that some ppl fancast Adam driver as young!snape)
- Anakin being here just makes things a huge fix it for both his world and Harry’s world
- imagine smth (it’s the will of the force) drops in [ insert person you ship with Anakin here ] and now Harry has another parent!!!
- I’d probably make it Rex or Padmé personally (or both. They all have two hands. I love Rexanidala)
- idk how exactly this would work? If it’s an alternate dimension because anakin accidentally gets sucked thru like a worm hole / black hole or if like it’s just a very very very far and isolated planet that no one’s ever rlly been to before cause it’s so far out and there’s a hyperspace fuck up??
- idk!! I just think this would be neat!!
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