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troythecatfish · 13 days
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Sirius: Hey, guys, you remember that annoying queerphobic girl in school, Joanne? The one that asked questions when James offered to be Lilly and Mary's donor? Yeah. She wrote some weird book about son of James and Lilly? And everyone is straight and cis? Weird, right?
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my-castles-crumbling · 3 months
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My new favorite thing is misgendering JK Rowling on purpose because like even if I wasn't just some random on the internet, what's he gonna do? Get mad and say gender is important?
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kalkaros-is-the-boss · 3 months
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So I made recently a post on my main (hannaxjo) about the ages of the marauders era characters in the movies, which led to me creating this side account. But I should’ve known better than to think about their canon ages in the books, because I noticed something that doesn’t make sense to me, and I can’t stop thinking about it. That is the timeline between Severus hearing the prophecy and Voldemort killing James and Lily. What the fuck happened between that?
So, in the prophecy is this line: the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies. Meaning, that at that time, Harry has not been born yet. Which means, at the very least over a year is going to play out before that Halloween.
And that does not make sense to me. How can it take over a year, after this? In that (unspecific) time, the following things happen; Voldemort decides that the prophecy is talking about the Potter’s baby. Severus deflects, and begins spying on Voldemort. Due to Severus’ warning, Potter’s go into hiding. Dumbledore suggests a fidelius charm. Instead of Sirius, Peter is made into the secret keeper. Peter reveals the location to Voldemort and Voldemort kills Lily and James.
These things happen like a domino. There cannot be that much time between each of these actions. Severus isn’t going to wait around to defect once he knows Voldemort is targeting the Potter, because Voldemort is definitely not going to wait around to kill them. And I don’t think it took over a year for Voldemort to decide who the prophecy was talking about. Isn’t he supposed to be smart? Like I can buy him only deciding after Harry’d been born, but it still takes over a year after that for him to kill James and Lily.
But okay, let's say Voldemort was just really slow, and couldn’t make his mind. That would make the time between Severus’ deflection and the death of Lily and James incredibly short, and that makes no sense either. Because I don’t see Dumbledore trusting Severus after such a short while. And when would he then have had the time to spy on Voldemort? In the Goblet of Fire, when Harry goes into the pencieve he sees the trial of Karkaroff. And he lists the names of Death Eaters, one of those names being Severus Snape. Dumbledore then says, that he himself has witnessed for Severus’, and he tells that Snape joined them prior to Voldemorts downfall and that he risked his life spying on him. That means that Severus had to be a spy for at least a while.
So what the hell was happening while Severus was spying? Did they not use the fidelius as fast as possible? How did Voldemort not find them? See it would make sense if Sirius was the secret keeper for a while, and then they switched it, but Sirius was never the secret keeper. So did Peter actually keep the secret for months? Because that also seems unlikely. Then, there’s the letter Lily wrote to Sirius that Harry finds in Deathly Hallows. In that letter Lily mentions that ‘James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here’, so they must be already hiding. And they must be already under the fidelius because they must be in Godric’s Hollow because why else would Bathilda have visited. She also mentions that Wormy had seemed down, which I assumed was actually because he is going to/has betrayed them. That letter was about Harry’s one-year birthday! It was written in July/beginning of August. Voldemort didn’t attack until Halloween. What happened? Did Peter not betray them until October? Or had he already told Voldemort and Voldy just wasn’t feeling it. Was he waiting until Halloween for aesthetics?
Honestly, I have no point here, except that I don’t understand the timeline. Did I miss something? If you know how this timeline goes, please tell me, because I think about this too much. Istg if I’m gonna end up re-reading the books again just because this bothers me...
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sjbattleangel · 2 months
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Reblog your fellow mutuals to throw pies at Lady Moldy-Butt and her fellow white supremacist handmaidens.
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PASS IT ON TO YOUR MUTUALS.
RIP BRIANNA GHEY.
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sxnshxnxxnddxxsxxs · 1 month
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how poor are the weasley’s?
i think this question really just encapsulates jkr’s shitty world building because there are so many interconnected elements.
oh and as always fuck jkr for the antisemitism, transphobia, racism, holocaust denial, barely veiled misogyny and the rest of her sins.
why is there poverty in the first place?
in a world with magic where you can create practically anything but food out of nothing why are people poor. especially when the you can’t create food rule has the caveat if you already have food you can just duplicate it. moreover in a world where theoretically you can get everything you need with the right spell why do you need money? the answer in all likelihood is probably convenience because most people don’t have time to find the spell for this that and the other. but if you don’t have money theoretically there is still a away to provide for yourself. also i’m pretty sure there’s no lore against just conjuring gold so theoretically there’s no reason to be without money.
the weasleys and mismanaging their money
in harry and ron’s first train ride we get the introduction to the weasleys poverty and the frankly ludicrous mismanagement of their funds. first of all we get that percy got brand new robes not because he had grown out of his old ones but because he was made a prefect and that he also got a new owl. then we get ron who has bill’s old robes, charlie’s old wand and percy’s old rat and no money for the trolley just his least favourite sandwiches. now i’ll come back to my thoughts on the robes in a bit. now charlie’s old wand is a known plot hole but still why did he get a new wand especially considering that charlie graduated from hogwarts in the summer of 1991 if you have money to buy a wand at that point in time surely it should go to the child who needs a wand and doesn’t yet have one. but say charlie just really needed a new wand then use the spare cash you spent on percy’s robes and owl. like it just gives irresponsible to not dedicate money to the kid that needs it the most.
what are the indicators of the weasleys poverty?
i ask this because while poverty certainly manifests differently in different situations i find that the way the weasley finances are described and how they are portrayed to live don’t quite match up. now the big one is when they go to gringotts in CoS when all that’s in the weasley vault is a small pile of sickles and one galleon. but i’d also say that that is the only real indicator of the weasleys being poor because the two main other factors are the hand me down clothes and books. now i personally don’t find this to be an indicator of poverty at all i actually find it entirely normal. as some who had a school uniform (i went to state school in the uk) they are not cheap one full set of my uniform (blazer, jumper, shirt, kilt and socks) cost upwards of £200 and in a pair of shoes that will last at least the year and that’s at least another £50 or so. so it was the unquestionable norm in my school that if you had an older sibling who had spare uniform because they were graduated or had grown out of it then you would wear it (provided it was in good nick) and it was the same with textbooks the syllabus barely changed unless the entire national curriculum was updated so if you could inherit a textbook or set text you would, in fact you were at an advantage if it was for something like english lit because the annotations would already be there. and even if you didn’t have an older sibling in my school we were actively encouraged to buy second hand books. like i’m sorry but i just don’t accept hand me downs especially in this context as being a sign of poverty. now there are very big indicators of poverty that the weasleys don’t have (and obviously irl you can still be poor and not have these apply to you i just think it’s worth mentioning) which are food insecurity and housing insecurity.
now i would like to make it clear that i don’t think that the weasleys are particularly well off i just don’t think that they’re destitute in the way jkr wants the audience to believe (possibly because she’s never interacted with poverty on a significant level) which leads me into my next point.
comparative poverty
most of the times that the weasleys poverty is being examined it’s in the context of a comparison to either harry or the malfoys who are all significantly wealthy (the malfoys more so than harry) which provides a very skewed perspective of how poor the weasleys are because i’d wager that hermione (who is implied to be upper middle class considering her parents are dentists) would look poor certainly next to the malfoys. with harry it’s harder to say just because we really have no clue how rich harry actually is.
class vs money
now this is both related and unrelated but partially because of jkr’s very inconsistent writing of the weasleys being poor and her world building or lack there of but the weasleys very much come off to me like an upper class family. and this is a reminder that in the uk money and class are very different and that one does not inform the other. money can help you present your class but that’s about it. it is more than possible to be upper class and not have a pot to piss in (or in the forever iconic words of beverly: not have a pot in which to piss). and i think that the weasleys being an upper class family that lost their fortune at some point really informs some of their decisions like the fact that they are a single income household when after ginny goes to hogwarts i don’t really see why molly wouldn’t get a job. and the fact that when when arthur and lucius fight it’s generally about money and arthur being jealous of lucius’s fortune which would make even more sense if at one point the pair were equals in the social hierarchy. not to mention that the weasleys are part of the sacred twenty eight and class and blood status are very closely linked in the narrative.
all this to say that when you examine the nature of poverty in the wizarding world especially when your case study is the weasleys it makes very little sense. not only the first question of why is there poverty in the first place (and why the hell is there inflation i could write a whole separate think piece on this tapped fucking money system). but since it does exist how does it manifest itself? like bills aren’t really a thing because houses are powered by magic and rent isn’t really mentioned i don’t think, the weasleys own their house (another class indicator). it just really doesn’t make sense to me. also i haven’t really included ron being bullied for being poor by draco because the majority of people are poor compared to draco and draco is a dickhead eleven year old like i doubt he even knows how money works.
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lady-divine69 · 7 months
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JKR’s world building is child’s play building blocks compared to the pillars the fandom has created with their own fan fiction. Have I read the books? No and I do not want to.
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pinewhisky · 2 years
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Dear "allies" who are still into Harry Potter:
stop prioritizing your nostalgia over trans lives.
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whoopsiesnodaisies · 10 months
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From like a canon perspective as I examine plotholes, there is literally no reason for James and Lily to die! Here's why:
Voldemort gives Lily a chance to leave, she would have grabbed her baby and apparated
They had no wands? Why the hell would they not have their wands on them 24/7 if they knew they could be attacked and were targets?? But even if they didn't, you're telling me that Lily could summon ancient magic to save Harry, something only like 5 other wizards did, without a wand but she can't just counter a death spell
Sirius would time turn and kill Pettigrew, that's literally the first thing he would have done in Prisoner of Azkaban, you're telling me Sirius had relatively easy access to a time turner and wouldn't use it to save his best friend regardless of the consequences???
This one isn't a canon issue, but like Remus should have been the obvious choice, he has soooo many secrets like my guys is a secret werewolf, and because of like prejudice and spying and stuff no one would suspect him
James died in a sacrifice of pure love for Lily and Harry, why didn't he get the ancient magic to protect his family?
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nando161mando · 9 months
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troythecatfish · 1 month
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What is your opinion on trans men? Technically, they do nothing to womens rights (not that trans women do either) Bonus question: what are nonbinary people to do if we're afab? Do we go into women's spaces because of that or do we go into the racoon spaces?
Trans is just unnatural! Hmph, honestly these questions are dumb..women can't be men, they just feel too belittled and they become men to fit in since women's rights have been violated too greatly by trans women that actual women have little to nothing to work with.
Especially if you consider the younger generations of women, like they're dummies. Sad, sad dummies. They give in to peer pressure too easily!
Nonbinary? Well, I refuse to see this as human if you're just going to make up things now. >:(
Seriously, raccoon spaces for them. Git!
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my-castles-crumbling · 4 months
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Oh god Harry Potter is trending. What bullshit did JKR say now?
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samijami · 10 months
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pblumpkins · 1 year
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if you, to this day, still believe J.K Rowling can be separated from Harry Potter, or still believe she's a good person, kindly stay the fuck away from me. She's done so much fucking harm to me, my sisters, my siblings, and my brothers. She's done so much harm to the people I love.
She doesn't give a fuck about you. She relishes in the deaths of transgender people. Her and her minions can't go a fucking day without using the suicide or murder of a trans person to spread their agenda.
She can't just leave the dead alone. She pisses on all of our graves. She doesn't care if you get smashed to the curb or have your brains splattered against the motel's bathroom wall.
She doesn't care if you live your life in fear. She doesn't care if you have to bury your child. She doesn't care if everyone you know and love rots in the ground.
She. doesn't. care.
That's what she wants.
She wants trans people gone. She'll use each opportunity to spit poison at us. Our blood staining the sidewalks of New York won't mean a damn thing. As long as she gets a viral headline out of it. If she can find a way to make us a villain or portray our deaths as indictive of our worth, she will never care.
She wants transgender people dead.
Stop buying her shitty products. She sees it as endorsement. Her getting a paycheck says to her that people agree. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with her, a penny in her bank account doesn't say that to her. You can't stamp your payment with your criticism, she doesn't hear your voice. She sees each and every endorsement of her products as an endorsement of her.
Because she doesn't want you to seperate her from the art. she's made it as difficult as possible. she wants to make it clear that she made it.
A woman who uses her platform to portray trans people as monsters, send us hate, make the youth of today hide in their homes under the fear that they'll be gunned down, should not be endorsed.
If you still read or support Harry Potter, fuck you.
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cherrybotv1 · 23 days
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Just your usual reminder that if you make the choice to keep JKR relevant through fan-fiction, buying harry potter merchandise, and talking about harry potter. You suck. Fuck off. You're not an ally.
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