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malfqy:

remember in goblet of fire when minerva says ‘potter’s a boy, not a piece of meat!’

imagine harry telling her everything after the battle of hogwarts, telling her about how dumbledore raised him like a pig for slaughter, and how he had to die and mcgonagall gets so goddamned mad

she loses control for the first time that harry’s EVER seen and she’s actually yelling, she’s so pissed that harry was seventeen and he had to accept death and dumbledore KNEW he would have to die and NEVER TOLD HIM

and harry’s about to cry because yeah his friends would be devastated if he was gone but NO ONE got this damn pissed that dumbledore had raised him so that he could die at the right time and mcgonagall’s in the middle of a rant and he just shoots up and hugs her and she’s stunned into silence but after a moment she hugs back and it’s great

and then she goes up to her office and starts screaming at dumbledore’s portrait because ‘i don’t care if it had to happen, albus, he is a CHILD-’

This is the Minerva McGonagall content we deserve, and make no mistake, we were robbed

I still think it is telling that when we first meet Minerva, she:

  1. Was waiting all day out in the cold for the mere chance of knowing Harry might be alive
  2. Has been crying because James and Lily are dead and she loved her students, while the rest of the wizarding world is celebrating. 
  3. Tells Dumbledore not to leave Harry with the Dursleys. in fact she’s even shocked he would suggest it.

So in just a few lines of dialogue we see Dumbledore is eating candy, asking McGonagall why she isn’t celebrating and saying Harry can’t be with another family because the ‘fame’ would get to his head?

while McGonagall is waiting as a cat against a cold wall all day, hoping to get some information that her dead student’s child is ok. she’s going through shock and grief. And Hagrid arrives, sobbing for Harry too. Minerva is actually very emotionally tied to Harry. Which is why she cries when he and Ron visit Hermione in the hospital. She loves her students.

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foundtheaphobe:

(this may not make any sense, so I apologize for rambling)
Because I’ve seen several posts misunderstanding what ‘sexual attraction’ actually is, I thought I might attempt to clear up the confusion.

Let’s say you have never felt a desire to eat an apple. You feel neutral about the whole thing, but sometimes your partner makes apple fritters, and they ask you to try one, so you try one for them. You still don’t have the desire for one.

Or, maybe you don’t desire to eat an apple, but you eat them occasionally because you like the texture, and there’s nothing better to eat. You still don’t desire to actively go out and eat apples.

Or perhaps you don’t like eating apples, no matter what form they’re in, or who serves them to you. It doesn’t matter to you, you just don’t like them.

As you can see, I’m comparing the act of sex to the act of eating an apple. You can still have sex without actually feeling sexual attraction.

Could you folks maybe reblog this version instead, please?

naamahdarling:

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swanjolras:

okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and

i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. the new york times had to create a separate bestseller’s list for children’s lit just because harry potter existed. harry potter changed reading.

so many people on tumblr were born in the ‘90s. when the first book came out, most of us couldn’t read. but we grew up in a world where everyone, everyone, everyone was reading harry potter, no matter how old they were; we grew up in a world where the most popular story in the entire world was a fantasy children’s book.

it’s sort of difficult to grasp, sometimes, the extent to which harry potter is not just a book. the extent to which what is basically a series of fun, interesting, and fairly good novels is such an enormous, enormous part of our lives, a cultural touchstone, a truly universal reference point, something so many people have shaped their lives around, a foundation for all of the stories we would read and watch for the rest of our lives– for so many of us, the first books we ever loved

the extent to which so many of us can’t call ourselves “fans” of harry potter, because it would like being a “fan” of, like, having lungs.

it’s not even about liking it or disliking it. it’s just a part of us.

This reminds me an awful lot about Starbucks.

No, seriously. Before Starbucks, America was a coffee wasteland. Coffee was a thing you got at diners and drivethroughs. It was a cheap hot thing you put made palatable with tons of cream and sugar, and most people (but waning!) had a coffee machine at home.

Starbucks told us that we could like coffee. That coffee could be an enjoyable thing, that it could be a status symbol and a ritual. That there could be a place where you go for coffee, and you enjoy it.

As a coffee snob, I think Starbucks’ coffee is awful. But Starbucks is why we have better coffee. Starbucks created the market space for third wave coffee shops and artisanal roasters. They reintroduced “espresso”, “latte” and “cappuccino” to the American lexicon.

We need stuff that’s heinously popular. That’s how culture works.

The cultural impact of the original 3 Star Wars movies was something literally phenomenal, something absolutely ubiquitous that changed the landscape of entertainment so fundamentally that things haven’t been the same since.

It was very much like Harry Potter. I know JK is le problematique but the books were fun, creative, and exciting, got a LOT of kids into reading in general and fantasy specifically, and gave us all some mew common cultural touchstones.

I feel very fortunate to have lived through both, and I wonder what will be next.

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