Slytherin: *writing a letter to Santa in crayon* I just want you to know that all of the awful things you think I did were actually done by Gryffindor. Please switch our spots on the naughty and nice list accordingly.

@disnerdmon

((Calling all SEATTLE POTTERHEADS! If you havent been to the Harry Potter House yet, you NEED to go at least once! Its amazing! @disnerdmon, @asktheboywhohadnochoice and I went on December 13th. It was a lot of fun! I want to go back <3 Here are a few photos taken by myself and @asktheboywhohadnochoice. These are just some of my favorites that we took on my “Fancy Camera” There are more photos on our Instagrams. I definitely want to take at least one more character down there before the whole set moves in 2018. This guy built a replica of Diagon Alley in his back yard. If you want more info go to DiagonAlleyProject.com ))

Have I mentioned how much I love these dorks? @asktheboywhohadnochoice @disnerdmon

We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe. 

that’s much more interesting and substantive than “brave, smart, evil, miscellaneous”

Ezra Miller photographed by Mikael Jansson for Interview Magazine (2017)

I LOVE

Betty Boop was black anyway so it lit

Ellarie!

#what i really like about Helga are her proportions 

#she’s thin but muscular and has some curves

#but she’s also tall which is unusual for an animated woman 

#and her eyes don’t take up half her face 

#and she has broad shoulders which i like

Thank you, creators of Atlantis.

Helga deserved more

Basically my thoughts on the “Millennials are Killing X” trend.

I’m going to fucking lose my mind this is peak political cartoon art

You do have friends Luna!! :(

Always loved this scene from the Half Blood Prince, and wanted to start off with some Luna goodness for Obliviate Vol. 2!  (More HP comics here!)

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✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* If you’d like a copy of my first HP Comic Zine: Obliviate Vol. 1, I’ve got physical copies back in my Etsy!   ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

I went out with @disnerdmon yesterday as Damien and Robert. He promised me a graveyard date but that didn’t work out as planned. It was still s really find day though and I’m super proud of how this cosplay looks.

18 year old Regulus Black willingly drinks a torture potion and dies alone in a cave so that some day, someone will be able to defeat Voldemort.

Horace Slughorn (albeit reluctantly) shows Harry a part of his past he’s kept hidden for years, even from himself, which is a key part of defeating Voldemort.

Narcissa Malfoy looks Voldemort, a man who is not only notoriously evil but also has the ability to READ MINDS, right in the eye and lies to him for the chance to save her son.

Andromeda Tonks’ entire family is killed at the hand of her own sister and some other death eaters and she still finds the strength to go on and be a guardian to her orphaned grandchild.

But Severus Friendzone Snape, that’s the “brave Slytherin” Harry chooses to name his kid after. Ok, sure.

Raise a glass for Slytherin heroes