hermionegrangcr:

“ ❄️ W i n t e r  ❄️ is a season of recovery and  ☃️ p r e p a r a t i o n  ☃️.” — Paul Theroux

meraudurs:

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

sirxusblack:

                      You’ll stay with me? Until the very end.

ginevvra:

“Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in seventh year, and he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out to be Death Eaters.”

　　Sirius held up his fingers and began ticking off names.

　　”Rosier and Wilkes - they were both killed by Aurors the year before Voldemort fell. The Lestranges - they’re a married couple - they’re in Azkaban. Avery - from what I’ve heard he wormed his way out of trouble by saying he’d been acting under the Imperius Curse -he’s still at large.” 

(ch 27, gof)

And Severus Snape moved off to the other side of the Hall, away from Lily, to where the Slytherins were cheering him, to where Lucius Malfoy, a prefect badge gleaming upon his chest, patted Snape on the back as he sat down beside him…

(ch 33, dh)

“We are, Sev, but I don’t like some of the people you’re hanging round with! I’m sorry, but I detest Avery and Mulciber!”

(ch 33, dh)

so far be it that snape was an outcast amongst slytherins, or that lily was his only friend (notions that i’ve personally never prescribed to but nonetheless seem to be the general consensus amongst fans). he was a member of a large gang of slytherins who would later turn out to be some of the most notorious death-eaters in the first and second wizarding wars:

  • wilkes
  • avery
  • mulciber
  • evan rosier
  • the lestranges (bellatrix and rodolphus, possibly rabastan)
  • he’s on friendly terms with prefect lucius malfoy (sirius calls snape “lucius malfoy’s lapdog” in ootp)

i would love to see more of this relationship explored in depth tbh. the limelight is mostly focused on lily/snape and sometimes (but rarely) snape/mulciber/avery, but never snape and the entire gang or at least anyone other than mulciber and avery. it’s not even acknowledged that anyone besides those two were part of his gang. it makes his relationship with them as an adult doubly more interesting knowing that they weren’t just at hogwarts together, but they were also part of the same ring of friends who undoubtedly knew about lily and his tension with the marauders (and who likely had their fair share of confrontation with them too). 

romiones: “an alignment chart of harry james potter’s iconic lines (happy birthday lad) ”

romiones:

an alignment chart of harry james potter’s iconic lines (happy birthday lad)

stars-bean:

“Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow.”

herhmione:

do you ever just cry because… like…. here is luna lovegood, social outcast, no friends, and throughout the course of the 5th/6th books she finds friends so loving and caring that she paints them on her ceiling….. she painted them….. i’m not crying you are

notfrayclary:

Hey, little train, wait for me, I once was blind but now I see
And have you left a seat for me? Is that such a stretch of the imagination?

padfootd:

hp rewatch: philosopher’s stone

“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

romiones:

snape: i found this…‘marauders map’ in potter’s possession. do you know anything about this?

remus ‘moony’ lupin, marauder and prankster extraordinaire, one of the only four people to have successfully mapped hogwarts, knows full well that snape is vaguely aware of his childhood nickname, currently having flashbacks to bewitching this thing to insult everyone but snape in particular: no

nessannehudgens:

You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

tired-n-trash:

couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name:

I like how the only reason Harry is able to fight the imperious curse so easily is because it hits him and he’s like “Ah I feel calm and relaxed and happy…this is wrong.”

harry: serotonin? in this economy?

marauders4evr:

Do you know who doesn’t get enough love from the Harry Potter fandom?

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Madam Poppy BAMF Poppy

  • Escorted a teenage werewolf to a deadly tree each month.
  • Took care of that teenage werewolf after every full moon and you know that she probably fussed over him and mothered him and gave him a bunch of chocolate.
  • Literally didn’t question things.
    • This boy has a bite that’s turning green and he says is from a dog? Okay.
    • This girl is half-cat? Alright
  • Had to put up with Harry’s excessive injuries each year.
  • Took care of and cured a bunch of petrified students.
  • Didn’t put up with Malfoy’s crap.
  • LITERALLY YELLED AT DUMBLEDORE!
  • YELLED AT THE MINISTER OF MAGIC!
  • KICKED DUMBLEDORE AND THE MINISTER OF MAGIC OUT!!!
  • Was the one who took care of Cedric Diggory’s corpse.
  • Refused to resign under Umbridge’s regime because she was afraid of what would happen to the students.
  • Took care of everyone during the battle in HBP.
  • Fought in the Battle of Hogwarts and tended to the wounded/dead.
  • Probably had to deal with hundreds of students who misused the Engorgio Charm.

Madam Pomfrey deserves your love and respect.

siriusly-mooned-off:

alrightevans:

’He kept messing up his hair,’ said Harry in a pained voice.’ is maybe one of my fav lines jkr has ever written like Harry actually cannot deal with what a complete moron his father is 

I’m just glad that, even dead, James Potter got to be the Embarrassing Parent.

dicaprios:

hermione granger is beautiful [7/?]