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Draco: Harry Potter saw me crying. This is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me. I want to die!

*30 seconds later*

Draco: I take it back! I take it back!

#Draco Malfoy #harry potter and the half blood prince #humor #Harry Potter #drarry #random musings

[iamnmbr3]

can u imagine if harry had been sorted into slytherin

6th year would've been insane

Draco: *gets up in the night for a drink of water*

Harry: oh. fancy meeting you here by the water jug at 2 o'clock in the morning. :)

Draco would've cracked after a month and been like 'FINE. FINE! Want to see my Dark Mark? HERE! Happy? Can I take a shower by myself in peace now?'

#now i want the crackfic #Harry Potter #Draco Malfoy #harry potter and the half blood prince #drarry #hpdom #random musings #harry/draco #h/d #hpdm #harco

[iamnmbr3]

Walburga: If you could kiss anyone in the world who would it be? 😉😘

Orion: You know who. 😘 😘

Alphard: You can't. He's mine.

Orion: What? Who is?

Alphard: You Know Who.

Orion: Huh?

#tom riddle/alphard black #Harry Potter #humor #crack #incorrect harry potter quotes #alphard black/tom riddle #Alphard Black #Tom Riddle #Walburga Black #Orion Black #orion black/walburga black #Alphalord #Voldemort

[iamnmbr3]

i like the idea of draco, for all his pompousness and uptightness and proper-ness, has just a touch of the Black family madness in him that needs the right catalyst to break free

anyways au where draco hears from voldy that harry's dead and he just :] snaps :] pulls an achilles even :]

#oh #i like this #bonus points if harry actually isn't dead. or isn't dead permanently and comes back in the end #drarry #Harry Potter #Draco Malfoy

[iamnmbr3]

Harry shares only one class with Draco in book 1 but he knows all about the exaggerated stories Draco apparently frequently tells about his broomstick exploits.

Bet Draco probably told them loudly for Harry to hear. Bet as soon as Harry walks into a room he starts showing off.

And Harry's apparently paying attention bc he remembers the stories. And also knows what kind of owl Draco has and what it brings him from home. Even though they sit on opposite ends of the hall.

#drarry #Harry Potter #hpdm #harry/draco

[iamnmbr3]

Harry when bad things happen to Death Eaters who are chasing him: unfortunate but they brought it on themselves

Harry when there are casualties during the Gringotts break in: I wish it didn't have to be this way but the mission comes first

Harry when Draco is in danger: HORCRUX WHOM?? THIS IS A RESCUE MISSION NOW.

#Harry Potter #drarry #hpdm #Draco Malfoy #harry x draco #harry potter x draco malfoy #h/d #random musings

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Andromeda: I need to tell you something. I've fallen in love with someone and his identity will shock you.

Alphard: You're talking to the man who dated Tom Riddle. Nothing can shock me at this point.

Andromeda: I have no idea who that is but ok.

#Alphard: You wouldn't believe me if I told you. #crack #Tom Riddle/Alphard Black #humor #Harry Potter #andromeda black #Alphard Black #Tom Riddle #alphard black/tom riddle #Alphalord #andromeda black/ted tonks #Andromeda Tonks #random musings

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I don’t think it’s mentioned enough when criticizing Dumbles that he’s awfully arrogant. He covers it up with courteous modesty, but he thinks he’s the best in the room, and he lets people think that. In his adulthood he never once considered anyone his equal, and he actively tears Tom Riddle down because he refuses to view Tom as so. He needs to have others believe he knows more than Voldemort. He always has to emphasize Voldemort’s weak points, and never acknowledges his own. And he uses this horrible demoralizing tactic of acting like he’s perfectly calm and above it all. He pretends to be humble but he isn’t. He really isn’t.

#albus dumbledore #Harry Potter

[iamnmbr3]

Not to mention he presumably got an O in potions and was able to conjure a serpent on his first try in second year. And he was able to block a non verbal Levicorpus from Harry in 6th year.

it's actually mad impressive that draco's ‘potter stinks’ badges still worked years later. most charms that we see like that in the books wear off after a few hours or a few days at most.

#Draco Malfoy #Harry Potter

[iamnmbr3]

Tom Riddle's upbringing means that he must've been constantly surrounded by the ever-present fear of death from a very young age. He was born in an orphanage in 1926. He must've grown up surrounded by illness and disease. Sickness must've frequently swept the orphanage and he probably saw other children dying all the time. Of course, these Muggle disease couldn't have killed him but he didn't know that. He would've spent a lot of time wondering if he might be next.

And then came World War II and the bombings. How many summers did he spend wondering if at any moment his life might be snuffed out in an instant? I wonder if that's partly why he made his first Horcrux so young rather than waiting and researching it further - because he thought there was a real risk that he could be killed in an attack.

Not to mention that he had hardly endeared himself to the other people at his orphanage. And once he started at school he was no longer allowed to use magic out in the Muggle world as he had been doing so he would've been virtually defenseless if anyone chose to exact revenge or harm him for any other reason unless he wanted to risk expulsion or jail.

#throwback

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#Draco Malfoy #Harry Potter #Draco art

[iamnmbr3]

When Harry witnesses Draco being forced to torture Rowle, he is extremely upset. Much more so than he typically is about these visions. There are a lot of very drarry implications. Let's break it down.

"Malfoy’s gaunt, petrified face seemed branded on the inside of his eyes. Harry felt sickened by what he had seen, by the use to which Draco was now being put by Voldemort.”

Notable points from this passage:

1) Harry understands Draco so well that he immediately takes for granted that he doesn't want to be using the Cruciatus curse. It never even crosses his mind to take this as evidence that Draco is now a willing torturer who enjoys cruelty or that he deserves to be in this situation for having chosen the wrong side and for his role in Dumbledore's death.

Nor does Harry think Draco is just scared and upset because he's afraid Voldemort might lash out at him too - which is what Harry would think if he saw any other Death Eater acting afraid around Voldemort. He clearly sees that Draco is horrified by the acts he is being forced to commit. And he also completely accepts that it is Voldemort forcing Draco to commit these acts, thus absolving Draco of responsibility.

2) Harry is DEEPLY upset by seeing Draco in this position. More upset than he ever is about seeing any other Death Eater being terrorized or hurt by Voldemort (Harry doesn't even spare one thought for Rowle for example!) Not only that. He's also more upset than he is about seeing Ollivander tortured. Or about seeing Voldemort murder a woman and her children later on while searching for information about Gregorovitch. He finds those visions alarming but he shakes them off pretty quickly.

The only comparable strong reactions are how he responds to his visions of Arthur Weasley and Sirius in book 5 - i.e. visions of people he knows and cares about in danger and suffering. And it's not even the scene as a whole that upsets him. It's specifically Draco - whose frightened face seems "branded" on the inside of Harry's eyes. Harry can't get the vision out of his head, feels sickened, and fights to keep his voice casual afterward. Even though Draco wasn't even actively being hurt.

So canonically Draco matters to Harry in a way that almost all other people don't. It's not generic nobility that gives Harry sympathy even for an enemy - because he doesn't feel this way about other Death Eaters. And it's not general pity that Harry would feel for any innocent hurt by Voldemort - because he doesn't feel that way about victims like Ollivander or the children Voldemort killed. It's the type of reaction Harry ONLY has to people he deeply cares about suffering or being in danger. Harry may not think of it that way on an intellectual level. But his heart knows it even if his brain doesn't. He cares about Draco Malfoy. A lot. He cares about him more than he cares about almost anyone else.

3) Also notable. Harry starts out referring to him as Malfoy but then switches to thinking of him as Draco as he starts worrying about him. (Yes. The drarry trope of Harry switching from "Malfoy" to "Draco" literally happens. IN CANON.) And he keeps thinking of him as Draco after that point. The next time Draco is referred to is during the whole sequence where the Golden Trio are prisoners at the Manor. Harry refers to Lucius by his full name multiple times, but consistently refers to Draco as "Draco" rather than "Malfoy" in his internal narration.

4) (Also the fact that Draco's face is described as "gaunt" hits me right in the feels. It seems that he's in worse shape even than he was when Harry last saw him at the end of 6th year. Sad but not surprising given the guilt that is probably eating at him over his role in Dumbledore's death, what he is now being forced to do as a Death Eater, and the very tangible dangers and suffering that come with being out of favor with Voldemort while having him in your house.)

Tldr: I don't need my ships to be canon but drarry is. jkr who? ;)

#throwback

[iamnmbr3]

i go feral over the parallel of harry and draco both looking exactly like their fathers and seeming at first to be just like them in personality too but actually turning out to not be very similar at all in temperament or in the choices they make

#drarry #Draco Malfoy #Harry Potter #random musings

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Draco: We're surrounded. What are we going to do?

Harry: Don't worry. I have a plan.

Draco: It better not involve suicidal levels of self sacrifice.

Harry: ... I no longer have a plan.

Harry: Oh well. That's never stopped me before.

Draco: *facepalming* Why did I agree to be your partner?

Harry: You mean as an Auror or at home? ;)

Draco: Both!

#drarry #Harry Potter #Draco Malfoy #drarry crack #humor #established drarry #hpdm

[iamnmbr3]

maybe part of why tom doesn't like his first name even when he's in the orphanage is because he knows he's named after his father, but with such a common first name that's not much help in tracking him down and almost any random man named tom could be his father so every time he comes across one part of him has to wonder if this is the person who abandoned him and his mother to their fate. maybe that's what he means by his look of annoyance and his "there are a lot of toms" comment.

i don't think this was jkr's intent. but i think it's a reading that works well with the text and characterization. i think even before he knew his true identity tom was very curious about his father and also harbored a lot of anger towards him.

#Tom Riddle #Tom Riddle meta #Voldemort #Harry Potter #random musings

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cursed thought: alphalord is an accurate shipname bc if you did that ship as an omegaverse au alphard would absolutely be the world's most overlooked alpha and tom would be the worlds least second gender stereotype conforming angriest omega.

The terrible thought has crossed my mind anon.

It has crossed my mind.

#oh my god it's true #tom riddle/alphard black #Tom Riddle #Alphard Black #Harry Potter #alphalord

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Today in "words mean things"

I know I said I would try to be more positive and concentrate on the meta that matters to me, but I can't with Twitter today when I've had to read from several people that "only one of the Thor films wasn't a flop."

Regardless of your personal feelings, they all made money back and Thor 2011 generally received good reviews, The Dark World was mixed but slightly favouring the positive side even then (guess which character was usually the reason for that!) Even L&T got positive reviews (though I personally haven't watched that one so can't comment further.) So by no measure does any of that equal financial nor critical flop. At worst you can call the critical response to TDW lukewarm. It still made money. It was also made during the worst era for executive meddling at Marvel, which explains the uneven writing. I swear the caping like its your full time job for Ragnarok like it's the only one that counts needs to be studied.

#Thor #TR critical #MArvel #MCU #q