Dan Radcliffe addresses ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Johnny Depp controversy: ‘Harry Potter’ kicked someone out for weed

Harry Potter star Dan Radcliffe has issued some criticisms against Warner Brothers and the film’s production team for continuing to employ Johnny Depp despite the allegations made against the Grindelwald actor.

“I suppose the thing I was struck by was, we did have a guy who was reprimanded for weed on the [original Potter] film, essentially, so obviously what Johnny has been accused of is much greater than that.”

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I appreciate that he’s just very “you fired a teenager for smoking weed but you’re going to defend a wife beater? Thanks for the job and everything but fuck all of you.” 

nothing but love and respect for MY Harry Potter

What if instead of gilly weed Harry had showed up to the black lake challenge in muggle scuba gear like “like where’s your advanced magic now bitches? Got me a free fishing knife with this thing”

Honestly I just want an AU where Harry approached all his magical problems with muggle solutions. Nobody knows how to handle it because he’s supposed to be there learning magic but you know what, it fucking works.

Give me Harry Potter who is like fucking MacGuyver up in this shit, creating his own non-magical solutions to magical problems.

“Potter how did you get past the enchanted keys to the Sorcerer’s Stone?”

“I used a fucking net.”

“How did you get past the dragon?”

Harry shines a little red light on the wall “works on cats, why not a dragon”

“How did you get through the hedge maze?”

“Weed-b-gone, it’s like a pound. Nothing will ever grow there again”

“How did you kill He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named?”

“Shotgun.”

I’m crying

Hermione Granger SNAPPED (x)

I will never, ever, get over this video. By far my favorite video ever. The movement, the execution, the strikes to every beat were… unbelievably beautiful.

WHY WAS THIS DELETED

THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

WHY THE FLYING FUCK WOULD YOU DELETE THIS

they also deleted Dudley saying that Harry isn’t a waste of space.

WHY NO

because they thought a creepy-ass scene where harry does up ginny’s dress was more worth the screentime

i’m still PISSED about harry potter leaving draco to die because “oh boo hoo there aren’t enough seats in this minivan someone has to stay behind” like you fool. you fucking fool. i’ve ridden to walmart and back in an 11-person shuttle seating 17 people just bc i didn’t wanna wait to get some skim milk. are you really telling me that you couldn’t put a dude in the trunk for the sake of getting away from a collapsing island? you worried about not having enough seat belts??? people died bc of your poor minivan management skills, harry

i drafted this in a blind rage immediately upon waking up today and i may have misremembered some plot points of the Harry Potter series

Draco Malfoy in the books

If you didn’t read the books you wouldn’t know…

If you didn’t read the books you wouldn’t know that Draco is the most annoyingly smart and artistic little shit you’ve ever heard of. 

you also wouldn’t know that Harry was the only seeker who could beat him. That he suffered from quite severe depression in book five. Quit Quidditch, stopped seeing his friends. He was depressed to the point of looking physically sick. That when he confronted Dumbledore he said he had to kill Dumbledore because Voldemort had his family. Not because he was concerned for himself. You wouldn’t know that he was the only person able to find a way into Hogwarts passed Dumbledores protection spells.

you guys also miss out on the fact that Draco brilliantly sneaks some polyjuice potion from a potions lesson so that he can transform Crabbe and Goyle into different girls all the time so that no one suspected they were up to anything while the two of them guarded the area outside of the room of requirement for Draco.

you guys don’t get to see how his “big bad slytherin buddies” actually tried to calm him down on the train when he was obviously anxious about the whole Voldemort thing. he even calmly laid in Pansy’s lap while she played with his hair.

you guys don’t know about Draco going to visit moaning Myrtle in her bathroom and how she admits that he opens up to her and how he’s sensitive and cries pretty often. and the whole fact that they’re friends.

you guys even miss out on the fact that Draco and Harry meet before they introduce themselves in the handshake scene while they’re being fitted for school robes in Diagon Alley, and Draco has a full conversation with Harry without even knowing who he is.

i don’t think you even get a glimpse of the fact that Draco always receives letters and packages of sweets and stuff from home while he’s away at school.

i also can’t stand the fact that they removed THIS SCENE and basically added the total opposite. how are you going to delete the best character development for Draco, and just make him weak? standing next to his fellow classmates and refusing to cross the courtyard when his family calls him, yelling “Potter!” when he realizes that Harry is actually alive and running towards him and throwing him a wand!! it’s the strongest, ballsiest, audience-mind-changingly scene possible, and they just throw it all away.

((sorry i’m just really salty about how he was portrayed in the movies ok))

I’m internally screaming because this is everything that needs to be known by all of those haven’t read the books and have the bALLS TO SAY THE MOVIES ARE BETTER

Hufflebuff (via thisguy1036)

every harry potter post on here thats not a super tenuous and ill-advised political metaphor is some exhausting 3-part affair where the first part is the op being like “can you summon a patronus specifically to suck your dick lol” and then some rando comes along and adds onto it like “no this is a very beautiful idea. imagine students in dumbledores army learning to summon customized fleshlight patronuses… imagine summoning a human shaped patronus you could date….. what if hogwarts professors knew fun pop culture references and said them to each other” and then the third part is someone posting an 80k word essay-fanfiction about their heroic slytherin OC being the first wizard ever to pioneer the Dickius Suckicus enchantment and starting the first sex positive wizard kink shoppe that ends up defeating voldemort or whatever the fuck

combining two of our favorite things, Harry Potter and Psychology!

“listen… harry’s in trouble, and we could tell mum and dad, but I reckon we should just steal the flying car and go kidnap him in his muggle neighborhood, even though I’m 12 and you’re both 14 and this is a crime and the three of us cant drive”

“excellent”

Hogwarts Houses for Gay Rights

Please reblog if you use! Thanks!

Was she going to slap you because you never in any way made him gay in the actual books, taking zero risks/doing absolutely nothing for gay characters in literature, and only announcing your “authorial intent” afterwards for a cheap shot at looking like an ~ally~

^^^

Gay people are just normal people. We are not told about any of the Hogwarts professors love lives, other than Snape, and it would be completely out of character for Dumbledore to walk around telling everyone about his sexuality.

Did you want her to make him dress in glittery platform boots, a crop top, and decorate his office in rainbow flags to make it more obvious for you? Would that be enough of a stereotype to appease you people? Or what? Please tell me. I’d like to know how you think a gay character is supposed to be portrayed.

And did you miss the Grindelwald chapters in the ‘actual books’? Or was that also not obvious enough for you? Did Dumbledore need to whisper “always” wistfully in order for you to connect that he had romantic feelings for Grindelwald? Maybe you are American and need them to gaze longingly into each others eyes with awkward close ups of their fingers almost grazing each other that Hollywood thinks means ‘true love’. 

It didn’t fit into his relationship to Harry to ever say “I’m gay”, and so it was not stated explicitly (you might have noticed the book was told from Harry Potter’s perspective).

The point is though, that he is a homosexual, well respected, powerful, and very loved wizard- and his sexuality doesn’t matter because no one else thinks it matters. a.k.a. no one care that he loves men, and that is wonderful. 

reblogging for the comments

YASSSS

I don't know the validity of this but apparently there was a law for some time in the UK that publishers couldn't have anything about homosexuality in children's books or it couldn't be published. So if JK Rowling outright said he was gay, according to whatever now outdated laws, we would have never found about her Wizarding World and this amazing franchise.

Fact: Everyone who ‘works with dragons’ in the Harry Potter universe is asexual – Newt, Charlie, Luna it’s a pattern 

Headcanon: It’s a common thing among wizards that those with little to no interest in sex seem to have a talent for dealing dragons and other magical creatures. So much so that it eventually turns into a euphemism.

“Hello darling! My, how you’ve grown. I dare say you’ll settle down and have a family of your own soon?”

“I don’t think so, auntie Beryl. I work with dragons, you see.”

IS THIS ABOUT ME CUS I THINK IT’S ME

When will we stop giving authors with zero intention of actually doing that credit for providing imaginary headcanon representation for marginalized people and instead actually support those authors who do tho

Umm… Where is credit given to the author here? This is a headcanon. Nothing to do with the author.  Headcanons are IDEAS readers have while reading, being their own INTERPRETATION of someone else’s world. That is why they are called HEADcanons. They evolve in the reader’s MIND.

A little fun fact about Harry Potter, and any children’s book released up until 2003. In the UK, there was a Local Government Act of 1986. In 1988, section 28 was added which stated:  ‘… shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality.’  This meant that anything AIMED AT CHILDREN could not EXPLICITLY state anything LGBT+, and this included publishing books. So Harry Potter COULD NEVER HAVE HAD representation explicitly stated within the book, as it was published in 1997, in the UK, with this horrible law hanging over it. 

 So, HEADCANONS is all people have, and can have, for the Harry Potter universe. Yes Rowling can state things after but then she cannot win either as the response is ‘oh didn’t mean it else she would have had it in the book.’ She couldn’t, because if it was the books WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED AT ALL. 

So no, credit is not given to the author here. But let people have their headcanons without shitting on them, because for books before 2003, published in the UK, aimed at children AND TEENS, that was all that was allowed.

Fact: Everyone who ‘works with dragons’ in the Harry Potter universe is asexual – Newt, Charlie, Luna it’s a pattern 

Headcanon: It’s a common thing among wizards that those with little to no interest in sex seem to have a talent for dealing dragons and other magical creatures. So much so that it eventually turns into a euphemism.

“Hello darling! My, how you’ve grown. I dare say you’ll settle down and have a family of your own soon?”

“I don’t think so, auntie Beryl. I work with dragons, you see.”

IS THIS ABOUT ME CUS I THINK IT’S ME

When will we stop giving authors with zero intention of actually doing that credit for providing imaginary headcanon representation for marginalized people and instead actually support those authors who do tho

Umm… Where is credit given to the author here? This is a headcanon. Nothing to do with the author.  Headcanons are IDEAS readers have while reading, being their own INTERPRETATION of someone else’s world. That is why they are called HEADcanons. They evolve in the reader’s MIND.

A little fun fact about Harry Potter, and any children’s book released up until 2003. In the UK, there was a Local Government Act of 1986. In 1988, section 28 was added which stated:  ‘… shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality.’  This meant that anything AIMED AT CHILDREN could not EXPLICITLY state anything LGBT+, and this included publishing books. So Harry Potter COULD NEVER HAVE HAD representation explicitly stated within the book, as it was published in 1997, in the UK, with this horrible law hanging over it. 

 So, HEADCANONS is all people have, and can have, for the Harry Potter universe. Yes Rowling can state things after but then she cannot win either as the response is ‘oh didn’t mean it else she would have had it in the book.’ She couldn’t, because if it was the books WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED AT ALL. 

So no, credit is not given to the author here. But let people have their headcanons without shitting on them, because for books before 2003, published in the UK, aimed at children AND TEENS, that was all that was allowed.

in books 1-5 literally harry ron and hermione were constantly like ‘it is either malfoy or snape’ every time anything bad happened and they finally gave it up by book six because they were wrong every time but by book six it actually was both malfoy AND snape who were responsible for the Antics 

remember kids, just because you’ve dismissed your middle school bullies as not worth your time doesn’t mean you should drop your guard and allow them to dabble in some emotionally traumatizing Wizard Fascism behind your back 

fred and george weasley on the top floor in hogwarts trying to get slinkies all the way down by predicting the pattern the stairs are gonna shift in

they actually figure it out, they calculate the exact pattern, and start distributing it

suddenly, students are barely ever late to classes any more and there are significantly fewer incidents of getting lost around the castle

everything goes wonderfully for a week, all the professors are baffled but pleased

until the end of the week when the true purpose for the pattern’s distribution becomes clear. schoolwide slinky race. a thousand conjured slinkies all let loose at the same time. the rustling of the swarm of springs echoes through the halls of hogwarts. the house elves refer to the dreaded Slinky Sunday for centuries