do you guys remember that one text post about pyjamas the terror being an anagram for harry james potter?
so initially I was going to draw only harry wearing a pyjamas the terror t-shirt, but then I googled online anagram generator and had so much fun with it that ended up drawing the entire gang
the silver trio
Go on and light a cigarette, set a fire in my head.
Set a fire in my head, tonight.
i’m like eight years late to be this obsessed with hp but whatever i guess
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if you say your heart didn’t break for him in this scene then you are lying
He’d been 16 exactly 25 days. He was a fucking child, terrified and manipulated and absolutely, perfectly fucking logically CERTAIN of his own (and quite probably his family’s) murders if he failed to kill Dumbledore in cold blood.
Is that a doubting face? There’s no ‘Or he’ll probably kill me’ in those eyes—he is certain.
And he still can’t do it. Even after the way he’s been raised, with his neck on the line, likely his mother and father’s necks right there alongside him, he can’t do it.
Draco Malfoy is a right royal twat on a regular basis in the books. He’s not a hero, but let’s be honest, nor fucking well should he be.
He’s been 16 for 25 days. He is a child. He’s supposed to be fucking selfish, he’s a teenager—his concerns should extend to his homework, end of year exams and figuring out who in the hell he actually is as a person.
Because he’s been raised to be his father. There’s no arguing it—he’s been brought up to be a carbon copy of Lucius, and he’s barely sixteen and he’s too young to know better. He’s not meant to have worked out who he is on his own yet, and he sure as fuck isn’t supposed to be a hero.
Neither is Harry. Neither is Ron, or Hermione, or Ginny or Neville.
Every single one of the teens in the series is forced to be an adult so far before they are even vaguely capable of being so. The difference is in how what they’re being asked to do ties into their natures.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna—all of our boys and girls who fight on the side of the Order are fucking good people who have to do things they shouldn’t have to do. But they are things they believe in. They are fighting for good, they wish none of it had to happen, but since it is happening, they are right where they’d want to be. Good people fighting for the triumph of good over evil.
It’s too soon for them, too young, but it’s in their natures.
But Draco Malfoy?
This scene just proves how far from his nature he’s been forced, as does his failure to sell the trio out to Bellatrix at the Manor.
Even though he’s been raised to think he’s doing the right thing, even though everything he’s ever been taught by his family says that Voldemort is right and Muggleborns are scum, that Dumbledore is a mad old man and the worst thing to happen to the school. Even though all this is true, when it comes down to the moment of choice, he just can not do it. He can’t send people to their deaths, can’t take a life.
The man he’s been raised to become just isn’t the boy he was meant to be.
And that’s such a different challenge than the ones our less problematic faves face—not more, but so different as to be incomparable.
He’d been sixteen for twenty-five days, he was facing his own death or Dumbledore’s, and he didn’t cast that spell.
He is a character moulded and eventually forced to do evil things despite not being inherently evil as a person.
Harry Potter + Minimalist
Harry Potter Characters as Foils for the Marauders’ Generation
I have this theory that Neville is supposed to represent everything that Peter could have been. You know, both of them were the weak link in the friend group, the guy easily influenced. But instead, Rowling made Neville weak to prove the two paths an individual could take. How each of our weaknesses manifest in different ways. Peter’s weakness made him a villain, ultimately worse than Voldemort because he betrayed his friends, while Neville’s weakness made him work harder and in the end made him Harry’s strongest ally.
Harry = James, Ron = Sirius, Hermione = Remus, Neville = Peter, Ginny = Lily, Luna = Snape.
You will notice that none of the six from the old generation survived. The kids each have traits from the old generation but they’re here to fix the past, and thus must survive the series to metaphorically right the past. Some may raise their eyebrows at Luna as Snape, but just as Harry represents James (the popular kid who was good at quidditch, but didn’t become arrogant like his father) or like Peter and Neville (two people who could have been cowards, but Neville rises to life’s challenges) Luna mirrors Snape in being mocked, a pariah, Looney Lovegood and Snivellus. Instead of being resentful, she rose above it, and loved herself regardless.
If you went with Harry to the Ministry of Magic in book 5, you mattered beyond just backing him up against Voldemort. This core six represented the loss and failure of the Marauders generation, and the hopes of a post-Voldemort future.
Holy shit
The Golden Trio // The Silver Trio