harry and ginny being a quidditch power couple

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long time no see, tumblr ;) guess what i just reread

I miss him.

“I had a crush on Harry Potter”

“I had a crush on Draco malfoy”

“I had a crush on Ron weasley”

Yeah well I had one on Oliver Wood and he’s only in like the first three books

nicolas flamel has undoubtedly the best walk

i mean look at him go

GO LITTLE ROCKSTAR!

the man

the myth

the legend

The Secret Files of Dr. Drew: The Philosopher's Stone

by Jerry Grandenetti & Will Eisner ? (art) / Marilyn Mercer (story) / Abe Kanegson (letterer)

from Rangers Comics #48, August 1949

source

Imagine Ron accidentally drinking Amortentia and falling head over heels in love with you

Masterlist

I can’t help but giggle at this….

Ron you’ll be thankful for this later.

“I can tell you this much: you are aware that in the official science of today the role of the observer becomes more and more important. Relativity, the principle of indeterminacy, show the extent to which the observer today intervenes in all these phenomena. The secret of alchemy is: there is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call ‘a field of force’. This field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-a-vis the Universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call “The Great Work’.”

“But what about the philosopher’s stone? The fabrication of gold?”

“These are only applications, particular cases. The essential thing is not the transmutation of metals, but that of the experimenter himself. It’s an ancient secret that a few men rediscover once in a century.””

― The People of the Secret by Ernest Scott

(Artwork + Gandalf in the Library of Gondor)

"The Philosopher’s Stone" by Agostino Arrivabene :: [Guillaume Gris]

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« Before this is all over. Before they close the house and sell the furniture and give away the books. Before the cosmetics and shoes are handed out. Before they throw the pans in the trash. Before they empty the cupboards, before they take away the spices, the noodles. Before the happy days and Sunday afternoons end. Before the last of the mornings. Before the end of the anguish. Before sex without love and love without sex are over.

Before the clothes rot in the closets. Before they take down the paintings and cover the armchairs with canvases and close the windows forever. Before they burn the photos. Before the doormats dry out, before the curtains rust on their tracks. Before curiosity is over, the bones, the liver and the corneas. Before all the plants on the balcony dry out. Before there is no more snow, no colors, no tropics. Before the end of all the jungles, of all the seas, of all the reflections in the water. Before the last poem. From the end of the sidewalks and streets. The end of all walks. Before goodbye to all the airports and all the planes, all the cities and all the cafes with steamed up windows. Before the cancellation of all the discussions, of all the arguments, of all the fury, of all the contempt. Of all the metallic anxieties.

Before the end of the screams, the desolation and the guilt. Before the last agenda, the last Friday, the last bar, the last dance. Before all the domes and all the screens go out. Before the moths eat the remains of the wool and the pillow. Before the end of pets.

Before, much before: you have to live. But how? As? “How admirable / he who does not think “life flees” / when he sees lightning,” Basho wrote. Admirable those who are in time without thinking about it. »

— Leila Guerriero, Theory of Gravity

[thanks to exhaled-spirals]

Harry Potter Rewatch | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

i'm sorry there is just something so fun-knee about the end of the 'philosopher's stone'. when harry finds out snape was trying to save him and he looks at snape in the great hall to see if anything has changed between them and snape is just mean mugging him across the hall like:

this man really had beef with a 12 year old how can you not laugh.

also when harry told quirrell he thought snape was the real big bad and quirrell replied that that's just his aesthetic

Happy birthday. You are missed.

Ron's view of Hermione

"When in the midst of transformation, where absolute change is necessary, you must keep looking forward and don't look back on what used to be; as the experiences of our yesterday have ran their course to present us with the truths residing in today. Acknowledge that fate has granted you the tools needed to fulfill the situation you are now facing with faith. When in the midst of confrontation, accept that none other can be avoided; as confrontation is the ultimate test of might for the lessons one faces to grow as an individual. Stand up to the challenges you are facing, lest one shall have these challenges repeated until their destiny is completed."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Knight Standing On The Double Fountain' (Splendor Solis) —Salomon Trismosin, 1582

After finishing the first book and starting the second, there is something I can’t understand about the Dursleys

It’s established very early in the books how the Dursley family feels about the Potters, the wizarding world or magic in general. They don’t believe, or rather don’t want to believe that something exists out of the ordinary. They (Petunia and Vernon) define what’s “normal” in their own way and life which they try to force on Harry and Dudley. Everything that falls out of their definition of normal is considered abnormal. Therefore they feel deeply ashamed about having the Potters as family members.  Thus they hate harry for who he is and always try to get rid of him or leaving him behind - for example leaving him with their neighbour while they go to the zoo or other places -, or treating him terrible. Locking Harry in the cupboard, making him do difficult chores, verbally threatening him, talking to him as he is something way below them. 

In the view of these that’s why I don’t understand why Vernon willingly goes through all that trouble in the first book, when Harry starts getting letters.  Leaving their comfortable home, travelling a whole day just to move to an old, cold, dusty lighthouse-y building on the ocean.  As Petunia and Lily are sisters, Petunia should know well that Hogwarts students stay in the school all year. They come home only during the summer and leave in September. Don’t they want to get rid of Harry? 

This locking up Harry comes back at the beginning of the second book too. They don’t let him to send letters with Hedwig, which is a bit weird, if she flies during the night no one would see her. But since Ron invited Harry to stay in the burrow it would mean even less Harry time for the Dursleys.  so why don’t they let him go?