Peregrine Vision

Is this the time to mention I’ve fallen back into a very old fandom and this is one of the most beautiful stories in it...?

Hybrid House Aesthetics: S L Y T H E R C L A W Founder: Septimus Slytherclaw Colors: Teal and Obsidian Mascot: Parrotfish Attributes: Calculating | Witty | Fierce | Innovative | Seductive Common Room: Located behind a sliding panel in the potions classroom, Slytherclaws must, using clues, identify and drink the correct potion from a set of seven, which changes every week. This entry technique is where Severus Snape got the idea for his defense of the Philosopher’s Stone.  2015-2016 Prefects: Yuki Ishizuka, Jake Alvarez

Sharp as glass and twice as bright, Slytherclaws are perhaps the fiercest academic competitors in the school, for not only do they have the intelligence to succeed, but the ambition to do whatever it takes. Often excelling at delicate arts such as potions and transfiguration above all, many of the most famous names in the magical sciences are “former” Slytherclaws, but, as any of them will tell you, “Once a Slytherclaw, forever a Slytherclaw.” Their modern common room contains a fountain and a neatly-organized “library” of perfectly-brewed potion bottles arranged by color so that students can compare their own. 

Hermione Granger: *comes from muggle world and discovers magic*

Hermione Granger: *witnesses humans transfigure into animals*

Hermione Granger: *time-travels multiple times per day*

Professor Trelawney: “I can prophesize the future.”

Hermione Granger: “Bullshit. That can’t be possible. Fuck you.”

#you gotta draw the line somewhere #you gotta draw the fucking line in the sand dude #you gotta make a statement #you gotta look inside yourself and say #what am i willing to put up with today #not fucking this    

anyways hermione is a cutthroat bitch and her demonizing divination is due to the fact that she literally #cannot with emotional forms of magic. quidditch? which requires an emotional partnership of trust with the broom? nope. divination? which requires an emotional openness and willingness to forego logical conclusion at the whims of fate? are u fuckin kidding me. patronuses? which require not just technical skill but also a deep connection with your own emotional core? uhhhhh we’ll just let harry handle that one.

movie!hermione, w/ her advanced emotional intelligence and absolute willingness to meet each and every emotional need the boys have, should have of course been good at emotional magics like divination. shes fucking superwoman. but book!hermione? who destroyed a girls face without mercy because she ratted out the DA? who erased her parents memories so she could fight in a war? who solved dumbledores’ mysteries using ancient runes, an art that is practically the math of magic? book!hermione will destroy you and she will do it armed with the cold hard facts and the cold hard facts alone. book!hermione doesn’t give a shit. instead of getting a regular pet, book!hermione was drawn to a magical cat who is self-serving and intellectual and helped her gather clues rather than serving as an emotional companion. i mean fck.

full offense but hermione is so hardcore and logic-driven and she literally could give a SHIT about ur feelings

@lisapanda

In a way, J.K. literally did the opposite of what a lot of male writers do with their female characters. Namely in that she wrote Hermione as a cold stone magician who uses logic to a degree that very, very few authors would afford their female characters.

I think that’s why I like Hermione out of all of the characters in Harry Potter, as she just fits the very role of stone cold logical one without being unlikable, unlike a host of how male writers try to write “logical” girl characters.

ok but i thought of a thing: you know the common fan theory that Slytherin is originally from Ireland bc four founders = four countries and the Sorting Hat’s song and green etc? makes sense. except that Slytherin’s emblem/pet/mascot is a snake. and as we all know, there are no snakes in Ireland. so i posit the theory that St Patrick did exactly fuck all, and that it was all good old Salazar instead. when he heard he had to move to fucking Scotland to help found a wizarding school, he went “okay fine i guess but i’m taking all the snakes with me and you can’t stop me NO SNEK LEFT BEHIND.” hence why ireland doesn’t have any snakes.

#imagine slytherin crossing the irish sea with a FLOTILLA OF BOATS FILLED WITH SNAKES #a snake armada #a snarmada if you will

So if Slytherin is Irish, surely Gryffindor was an Englishman, because lions and St George and pretty much fighting everyone first and thinking later. Hufflepuff is obvs Welsh, which would make Ravenclaw Scottish, which just...amuses me so much for some reason! 

Can you speak Parseltongue with an Irish accent? Has Parseltongue been a brogue all along??? 

This is the cutest!

I have been looking and looking at this and I just can’t stop thinking about how difficult it must be to be Ron Weasley and constantly having to deal with this bullshit, like Hermione SAYS, “Oh, I know,” so sympathetically over lunch but Ron knows she’s sleeping pretty easily at night, tucked up along 200-odd pounds of solidly muscled Victor Krum, so no, it’s really just him that’s the victim here, STRUGGLING, like Harry’s always asking him if he wants to come along and work out and drag chains all over down at the docks and climb up and down ladders until he’s half dead and he doesn’t want to say no because their intramural quidditch league is dead last in the standings, but then by the end they’re hauling themselves up the last ladder and gasping and Harry’s swiping his hair off his face and his shirt is soaked and clinging to his chest and Ron can’t stop laughing because his legs hurt so much and his heart hurts so much and if he kisses Harry he’ll screw everything up, because Harry hates it when people hit on him, complains about it constantly, screws up his face in misery when people ask him out, says, “You know how it is–” to Ron (who doesn’t, THANKS) so Ron makes himself look away.

hp boudoir shoot

the shoot was a collaboration between oklahoma city photographer sarah hester and model zachary howell.

I hope they both get a ton of jobs out of this! It’s stellar <3

Agh, I live in the Kings Cross area and sometimes go into the Platform 9 3/4 shop when coming home tipsy (tmi?) and I can’t tell whether this will enhance my drunk experience or actually kill me.

Now I want a Malfoy version, because actual leather pants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Country Life” (via austinkleon)

I wanted so much Teacher Remus and what did I get...

Every time I see one of those posts where people wonder what Harry Potter would have been like if Sirius hadn’t gone to Azkaban and had raised him instead, I smile a little, like I have a wonderful secret. 

The other day I heard someone say they really NEEDED a fic where Draco got into Hufflepuff. Like, needed it SO BAD.

Me: :D

By Cory Loftis

Awww, this precious darling. 

WIP of the Potters babysitting. i’ve gotta color this…

More adorable than anyone could handle!

irresistible

gingerhaole:

Happy birthday to *koffs* :)

gingerhaole:

Omg NEW SHIP. NEW SHIP

And I thought I was over this fandom!!!!! *dragged back into the darkness*

Also, I am so a Scribblepuff. Perpetual ink and watercolour stains, scurrilous demeanor, smelling like old books and ballpoint pen.

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