btw if anybody puts gifs of the just announced hbo p*tter series on my dash it's block on sight

With the announcement of the Harry Potter TV series, you will be made aware of the people in your social circle who are excited about it.

Now is a good time to stop knowing them.

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The Golden Trio!

In Defense of the Indian Harry Potter

Before I tell my story, I want to examine the arguments and questions commonly used against the idea of an Indian Harry Potter. They are as follows:

1. The Potter family is a descendant of Ignotus Peverell, and the Peverell family is an English Pureblood family, and thus the Potters cannot be Indian.

2. James Potter is heavily speculated to be the son of Charlus Potter and Dorea Black. The Blacks are one of the most ancient Pureblood families of England, and thus the Potters cannot be Indian. 

3. How could James Potter’s father be in Gryffindor if he was from India?

Now let me tell you a story. 

In 1998, Hermione Granger bites her lip as she reads ‘Nature’s Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy, to Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley. She reports that the Peverell name was among the first to “become extinct in the male line,” meaning that although the name had died out among wizarding families, the Peverell line had continued through its female descendants. 

Hermione’s hunch is correct. Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus are the English brothers who worked to create three powerful magical artifacts now referred to as ‘The Deathly Hallows.’ As time went on, the golden reign of the three brothers slowly came to an end. Antioch’s throat is slit in the middle of the night. Completely obsessed with his creation, he had been too consumed with power to ever pay attention to finding a companion. He leaves no descendant. Cadmus’s wife meets an untimely death as she gasps for her last breath while giving birth to their daughter. Consumed with grief, Cadmus joins her in death soon after. Ignotus lives a quiet life and leaves his creation to his son before he meets death as an old friend. Generations later, the last male Peverell gives his daughter the invisibility cloak his father had given him and advises her to use it wisely. 

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Viatrix Peverell is the last of her name. Cadmus’s daughter had married into the Gaunt family generations before, taking with her the ring engraved with her father’s creation. The once wealthy Peverell finances have dwindled down to a few family heirlooms, and Viatrix desperately looks for a job to support herself. There are no opportunities for a young woman without a guardian in medieval England and Viatrix joins a caravan traveling East to take advantage of the thriving Eurasian trade. After months of selling across North Africa and the Middle East, Viatrix’s herself in Thanjavur, India where she is awed by the magnificence of the thriving South Indian wizarding economy. Clutching her last heirloom, she makes her way to the marketplace where she meets a wealthy young man who is very interested in the invisibility cloak she is clutching with her shaking fingers. It is the last piece that connects her to her father. The man is offering to pay such a high price that she will never have to sell anything again in her life. Viatrix agrees to his offer. When she tries to give him the cloak, he smiles and shakes his head. He offers his hand instead. 

Twelve years later, Viatrix Peverell Potter gifts her father’s cloak to her son.

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Centuries pass. It is 1919, and there is growing unrest in the Indian wizarding community due to the British control of the subcontinent. Jacob and Abhilasha Potter decide to migrate to England for a new start for their growing family. They move into Godric’s Hollow, a small village with several wizarding families. Their only son, Charlus Jacob Potter is born several months later. At 11, he enters Hogwarts and is immediately sorted into Gryffindor. As Charlus is the first Potter to attend a magical school outside of India, his experiences at Hogwarts have a huge impact on how he sees and understand the British wizarding world. As a Gryffindor, he is brave, loyal, and extremely tolerant of those from different magical backgrounds. Despite not being from the country he now resides in, he is treated as an equal, makes long-lasting friendships, and grows up to have a strong love for his house. During this time, he also falls in love with Dorea Black, a Slytherin English girl who comes from one of the most ancient Pure-Blood families in England. The natural rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin turns to active dislike for the latter when Dorea’s family and friends exclude his non-Pureblood friends and talk about those of non-magical backgrounds as if they are sub-human. Charlus’s dislike for Slytherins and their support of purist ideals grows.

After graduating from Hogwarts, Charlus asks Dorea’s father for her hand in marriage. Cygnus Black I does not have any legitimate reason to deny the young man. Charlus is an extremely wealthy pure-blood from an old Indian wizarding family. There is only one problem. Charlus is not English. Cygnus privately attempts to talk Dorea out of continuing her relationship with Charlus, but she refuses. The Black patriarch grudgingly agrees.

Although Dorea is not blasted off the family tree for marrying Charlus, her fate is much worse. It starts with little things. Her sister stops inviting her for tea. brother doesn’t bring his children to her home. She learns about her father’s death months after the funeral. The Ancient and Most Noble House of Black cuts Dorea Black Potter off little by little until she is treated like a complete stranger. She never finds out which houses her nephews and niece are sorted into. She never learns that her only niece gets married and has a son only months older than her son. 

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James Potter is born when Charlus and Dorea  have given up hope for a child to ever enter their lives. He is the apple of his mother’s eye and his father’s pride and joy. Charlus shares the wonder of Hogwarts with his son and the open arms with which the Gryffindor house had welcomed him. James listens to the hushed conversations about his mother’s family and learns that the family that hurt her so much were Slytherins. 

James Potter enters the Hogwarts Express only knowing that Gryffindor is the house that had welcomed his wonderful Indian father, and Slytherin is the house that rejected him. 

(See this post for more Indian!Harry headcanons and explanations.)

maybe this got away from the original request a little bit, but i just couldn’t fight the idea. sorry anon i just feel that cormac so WOULD

continued for otterandterrier​ who asked for ron posing like cormac for hermione. so here’s that lmao

Oh my gosh I love the fact that in the final panel she’s just staring at his butt 🤣 Amazing

A little late night study sesh featuring BlackHermione!  Thanks, Sarah for the idea/marching orders :-P Who else is excited for HP and the Cursed Child???

We all know Hermiones Black and Harrys Indian but uhhhhh

Okay so the Count, the Swedish Chef, and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker are all very good contenders for Potions Professor in a Muppet adaptation of Harry Potter, but my brother and I have concluded that the best, the absolute best version of this is to have Snape be one of the human characters. So we can have him standing there attempting to look dignified while surrounded by rambunctious muppet students, and having serious conversations with Professor McGonagall (who is a muppet cat in a witch’s hat and glasses who sometimes turns into a real cat). There might be multiple Potions Professors but Snape is human.

And he’s played by Daniel Radcliffe.

Black History Month EXCLUSIVE: Dark Chocolate Frogs!

You’ve had our famous CHOCOLATE FROGS in original and white chocolate variety but for this Black Wizard History Month you can now enjoy DARK CHOCOLATE FROGS complete with Famous witch and wizard cards celebrating great Black witches and wizards and their contributions to the Wizarding World.

Here are a few examples of cards available for you to collect this February!

Samson Senkebejje - Headmaster at Ougadou School of Magic, who infamously argued for the recognition of wandless magic as a superior to wandcraft in front of the International Confederation of Wizards by summoning the wands of all the European members at the same time.

Abiola Adams - The inventor of the spells included in Gilderoy Lockhart’s Guide to Household Pests. After her papers were discovered in Lockhart’s possession upon his admittance to St Mungo’s, her family sued Lockhart’s publishers and the Ministry of Magic when they realized Lockhart had used a Memory Charm against her immediate family to ensure no one would claim the credit. 

Shadrias Hudson - One of the richest wizards in the world and the richest Black person in Britain, Hudson made his fortune by introducing ballpoint pens and parchment charmed into a notebook. Hudson, a Muggle-born, started his importing empire when he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and realized that everyone was using quills and loose parchment.

Raylan Hayes - The inventor of the Baccio spell, which is the reversal of the Summoning spell. A half-blood wizard, Hayes realized the spell’s vital need after his mother kept yelling at him to put stuff back where he found it.

Da’quintin Davies - A famous American wizarding music producer who sampled popular forms of Black Muggle music and translated it for the wizarding world. He produced the famous cover “Before I Accio,” Celestina Warbeck’s version of the Maze classic that introduced her to a new generation of wizards and BBQs.

Earnest Singleton - Chef and owner of the Wizarding World’s first global franchise restaurant Cauldron Fried Chicken (or CFC). Singleton is known for also launching festival style CFC Cookouts across the diaspora, introducing new young cooks, musicians, and artists to Black wizards everywhere.

Clarice Caldwell - Editor-in-Chief of Black Witches Weekly, a culture and lifestyle magazine for Black witches across the diaspora. In response to a scathing gossip column speculating on the nature of the friendship between Caldwell and socialite Nicola Zabini by Rita Skeeter, Caldwell let her know publicly at a Ministry gala that she would embarrass her in front of her ‘lil’ friends.’

Dazzaline Draper - Draper established the first spoken word poetry slam in the history of Ilvermorny School of Magic and went on to become an executive producer of Def Wizards Jam, a long-running series on MBO (Magic Box Office).

Y’know, house elves could’ve been so much better if they’d stuck just a little bit closer to the standard “magical being that cleans your house” folklore.

Like, it isn’t servitude. They move in of their own accord, and if they don’t get any recompense or appreciation, they’ll move out again within a couple of days and knock over your umbrella stand on the way out. You can keep them around by leaving out gifts for them - bowls of cream, thimbles of whiskey, shiny odds and ends - but if you ever pay them in coin, the contract is broken and they’re gone for good. Depending on how shitty you were, you may never get another house elf again (word spreads fast). But if you never pay them in money, they can’t leave; once it’s formed, breaking the contract only works one way, for whatever reason.

So you have these great old families who’ve had a house elf or elves for generations, have skimped on gifts and generally been horrible people, but who are canny enough and quick enough to make sure their house elves never get any coin. It’s part of the contract that the elves are not to be seen or heard unless called for; therefore they must bear witness silently to any atrocities committed in these horrible old places, and are forbidden from negotiating their pay or release. The house elves have tried every trick they know to get paid in coin, but the old families have exactly the same number of tricks to make sure they don’t - because they’re well aware that if this extremely powerful magical being is no longer bound by the contract, their house is going to burn to the ground.

And then there’s Hogwarts, which accumulates a massive number of house elves simply because of its size and the fact that it’s a very interesting place and house elves are curious by nature. They’re recompensed fairly, for the most part, and generally enjoy the work. Students are warned: absolutely do not tip the house elves, you may leave out small gifts but do not give them any money. They are paid in food and drink and shelter. They do not take money.

Enter Hermione, who doesn’t quite grasp how all this works, and she is furious. These poor creatures are indentured servants at best, slaves at worst, and Something Must Be Done. She launches on her righteous campaign to get the house elves paid fairly, in coin, like everybody else, and is so caught up in the perceived correctness of this that she fails to listen when people try to explain that the way it works is already fair and agreed upon. It becomes a story about misguided activism and the fact that you must listen to the people you’re campaigning for before you begin campaigning.

Eventually she does listen, and the house elves tell her that here, for the most part, things are okay; it’s the elves trapped with the rich old skinflints who need help. There are a few house elves at Hogwarts who don’t want to be there anymore, and who have been unable to negotiate a fair release, and so once a month Hermione puts a coin on her bedside table with a very clearly written note that says TIP, with an arrow, and any house elf who wants out contrives to get to that room before their shift is over.

The freeing of Dobby goes about the same, except it’s a coin Harry slips into the book instead of a sock. Dobby then joins Hermione’s activism from a place of intimate knowledge of where the system is most broken; he is of the opinion that the contract should be breakable both ways - it isn’t fair that only the masters can break it, house elves should be able to leave any time, for any reason, even if they’re being paid correctly. Most house elves think he’s nuts for trying to break with tradition like this but… something something metaphor for unionization, something something.

I think that could’ve been neat.

trans!albus potter headcanon: when albus is like five or so, he comes up to harry and says, timidly, ‘daddy, i think i’m a boy’ and harry goes into supportive parent mode and just automatically says ‘that’s great son’ and they hug and then albus asks, ‘can you give me a new name, daddy?’ because albus knows all of their names come from his father and mother’s loved ones and he thinks it’s important to keep that going.

but harry’s just freaking out mentally because damn, he wasted sirius by using it as a middle name for james but he doesn’t want to tell his son to wait until he’s slept on it for his name so he just blurts out ‘albus severus’ and for a second, he’s mentally cursing because that is a terrible name but albus loves it! he kisses harry on the cheek and immediately tells everyone his great new name so it just sticks.

This explains everything about why Albus’s middle name is Severus. 

This is the ACTUAL. BEST. HEADCANON! 

#B E A U T I F U L #nitwit; blubber; oddment; tweak #later ginny says ‘harry what were you thinking’ #’I PANICKED I COULDN’T THINK OF ANY MORE DEAD PEOPLE’ #’remus; harry. why didn’t you choose remus.’ #’oh yeah.’ (tags via skulliotss)

I PANICKED I COULDN’T THINK OF ANY MORE DEAD PEOPLE

Reblobbing this cause the I couldn’t think of any more dead people made me spew my drink.

“Pluvias  Parmularum”

You ever have that feel where you don’t even ship it, but you see some art that’s SO GORGEOUS that your brain just goes, “Aw hell yeah, that’s the stuff!” regardless? This is one of those moments.

Dear sweet Dumbledore’s beard this is amazing

the fact that so many people in the notes thought the same and never questioned an adult straight up drop kicking students across a swamp just said what a train wreck this school is