I get so angry that they deleted this because it’s such an important part of Dudley’s character - while he was jerk, the reason he was jerk wasn’t because he was simply a jerk, it was because of his upbringing and never learning what he was doing was wrong. He was a good person who didn’t know how to be good because he’d been spoilt and friends with the bullies all his life. He never saw the point in being nice because that was seen as being “weak”.

But then the dementors came, and he saw the worst thing, the thing that scared him more than anything: His true self. He saw what a bully he was and how pathetic he was, and how he didn’t have any true friends. And worse yet, Harry saved him - that surely would have made him feel worse. He’s seeing all the terrible things he’s done to Harry, and yet Harry still cares for him and he wishes he could be as good and as brave and decent and humble as Harry - but he didn’t know how.

He doesn’t know how to change, because he’s never been a “good guy” in his whole life. He’s always been tough and abusive and gets whatever he wants without having to think of other people because he didn’t realise how much he hurt them. But now he does, and he wants to change and make up for what he’s done to Harry, but he didn’t know how, so he left him a cup of tea outside his bedroom. Because he’s not good with words and feelings, and that was his way of saying he’s sorry for what he put Harry through.

And then here, it doesn’t seem like much to someone who hasn’t read the books - but all Harry’s life with the Dursleys as a waste of space - as less than nothing. Dudley used to treat everyone not in his gang as less than nothing, and for Dudley to say this - for him to acknowledge that Harry is a person - show’s that he has come so far. He still has a long way to go, but the fact he is trying to make up for what he’s done shows that he’s developed and that his adulthood won’t be a guy who probably would have ended up in jail before he was twenty, but a guy who’ll perhaps become a champion boxer with a spouse and kids.

And then I think about how they managed to find time for Harry and Hermione dancing and not this and I want to set a lethifold on Yates.

I always feel so strange watching Half Blood Prince and seeing the scenes with Belby. You can see him here in the background. I know it sounds silly, but it’s like… Rob existed and he’s smiling and he was happy. Where we can see Belby talking talking to Dean it’s probably really Rob talking to Alfie, seeing as the films are really bad at showing house-unity. And Alfie’s smiling and they’re being cool, and I find it so surreal. It’s different than watching Richard Harris, because he was old and had been sick for a while.

But Robert was murdered trying to protect his younger brother. He was eighteen and he was stabbed to death. He had so much to do - he could have become such a famous actor considering he’d been in the Harry Potter films. He was young and so alive, and so full of potential. He’d even signed on to do Deathly Hallows.

And it’s like, he’s alive on my screen, when I watch that film, and I can see him laughing, but he’s not really here anymore. I can see him like he’s here but he’s not. It’s just a ghost of him. It’s eerie and sad and I don’t know how to feel it.

He never even got to watch his own movie.

pagesofharrypotter:

[NB: There is text between these extracts in this scene, but I have removed them as they are not relevant to this discussion.]

This is one of my favourite Harry/Ginny moments in the books, which sounds odd because it’s before Haryr even realises he has feelings for her. But this scene shows so perfectly why they end up together.

Harry has been freaking out. He’s terrified of who he is and what he’s doing and thing have gotten so bad he attempted to go and live at Privet Drive. Upon being told to stay at Grimmauld place by Dumbledore, Harry retreats to Buckbeaks room at the top of the house.

Angsty and alone, his friends come up to try and talk sense into him and comfort him. While Hermione becomes impatient, and Ron becomes nervous, Ginny [being the sassy bamf she is] talks back at Harry. When he argues back, accusing them of talking about him behind his back, Ginny is the only one who answers. She tells him how they have been trying to talk to him.

Ginny is the only one of his friends who can get through to Harry in times of personal crisis like this. When Harry becomes angry or upset, he always feels as though it’s something he needs to deal with himself [such as when everyone thinks he’s Slytherin’s heir, and when he gets put into the Triwizard Tournement]. He rejects help from other people, and offended by his aggresiveness they usually back down.

But not Ginny. Ginny knows Harry. After growing up with six older brothers, Ginny’s had to learn how to stand up for herself, and how to know when people need a good talking too. She’s funny, and sweet, and kind, and understanding enough to make him happy, and to enjoy happy times with him, just like all his friends. But unlike all his friends, in times of dark and despair, Ginny is the only one who can get through to him.

Unlike Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, Draco, or anyone else people may think would be a good romantic interest for Harry, Ginny is the only person who could be Harry’s love for the long term. While they all have connections with Harry, it takes a very special kind of bond to be able to live with someone for your whole life without becoming angry, bored, frustrated, or weary of them.

Ginny is the only one who is fiery and determined enough to get through to Harry when he most needs it. Ginny is the only one who could live with Harry without getting angry or annoyed at his moodswings and sulks. Ginny is the only one who is passionate enough to provide the emotional closeness that Harry so desperately craves. She is the only one patient enough to deal with Harry’s long spurs of self-hate. She is the only one for Harry, who knows him and understands him and can really see him underneath the front he puts up. She is so perfect for him, and he proves that himself. By falling in with her.

How come I can write a page long thesis on Hinny so easily but it takes me weeks to put together 100 words on the Civil War.

I love the way Harry says “But Nicolas Flamel… He’ll die won’t he?” in the film after he finds out the Stone has been destroyed.

He just sounds so… confused, and innocent, and sad. He can’t grasp why Flamel is letting himself die to protect the Stone, and why Dumbledore is so calm about it all. He doesn’t understand how someone could do something so noble and beautiful as to let themselves die for the greater good with no struggle.

And then, seven years later, he does the same thing. After going through struggles, and fighting, and exhaustion, he realises how there are more important things than surviving. Like protecting the ones you love from harm.

He’s come so far.

My baby ;-;

amour-watson:

The boy that made up my childhood is the same boy that didn’t have one.

I’ve reblogged this numerous times before, but everytime I see it I just get all these feelings because to me that is such a powerful quote.

I can’t even really explain why. It’s like while Harry has brought us all so much enjoyment in our childhoods [and afterwards], his was not as happy as he made ours. While he was making our happy and full and making us laugh he was running from bullies at school, he was crying alone in a classroom hiding, he was being abused by his Uncle, he was lying awake at night because he was too hungry and afraid of what the next day would bring to sleep.

He spent his whole childhood thinking he was stupid and worthless and that his life would always be the way it was then, and I wish that I could just go and tell him how amazing he is and that everything is going to be okay and hold him, because he must have been so scared and lost all the time, and he had no-one. And he’s made me feel the opposite of that. And I want to return the favour but I can’t, and it hurts.

Um just a reminder, JK Rowling doesn’t owe you anything.

Her characters can be whatever the fuck sexuality she wants, and whether or not she puts that in the books in completely up to her. Dumbledore’s sexuality wouldn’t have been mentioned at all if it wasn’t for the fact that someone asked. So please stop acting as though she’s done this terrible thing by mentioning his sexuality after the books.

I keep seeing shit on my dash about how she “wanted the credit for righting a gay character but without the stigma of it while she was righting the actual books.”

No.

She didn’t give a shit whether people knew Dumbledore was gay or not, she didn’t give a shit about recieving praise or homophobia, she only mentioned it afterwards because she was asked. If someone had of asked about Dumbledore’s sexuality before book seven and it hadn’t have been a spoiler, I have complete confidence she would have said he was gay then as well. There are a billion other details that never made it into the books because they weren’t relevent to the plot, and that she only ever mentioned in interviews when she was asked.

JK Rowling does not owe you anything, she writes for herself and she can write whatever the fuck she wants and can say whatever the fuck she wants in interviews and it’s canon. She doesn’t owe you a “gay postitive message” in the books just because they became famous.

Don’t try and tell me “Dumbledore could have just mentioned something about it” - and yeah, Dean could have “just mentioned something” about his Great Aunt liking peanut butter, but why? Dumbledore is a very personal man, think of all the things we find out in Deathly Hallows that he never told Harry. Dumbledore kept his personal life completely locked away while he was teacher Harry how to be a bamf and destroy the horcruxes, he wasn’t the kind to mention anything about his personal life to Harry at all.

You do not own Harry Potter. Jo does, from start to finish. She made it and it’s hers which she wrote for her own personal enjoyment - and she should not have to change them because of their popularity. Dumbledore’s sexuality is irrelevant to the story and Jo shouldn’t have had to awkwardly force it in there for you.

Jodi Picoult posted a thing about marriage equality on Facebook and some of the comments are awful, people saying that gay people are “messed up” and need to burn and urgh I wish we could all go and start our own planet away from all the heterosexist cissext people.

Like people say how awful gay people just because they like the same gender and it really hurts because I’m not awful. I do nice things, and when people drop things in the street I pick them up for them and I smile at elderly strangers and put money in those little charity boxes they have in shops and I look after my younger siblings and when I get bored with my clothes I donate them to charity and I pick up snails when they’re in the middle of the pathway so they don’t get stepped on, and I don’t go around punching people in the face or burning childrens parks or even laughing at people who spill ketchup on their shirt. But no, apparently none of that matters because regardless of how good a person I am, and the good things I do, millions of people are always going to hate me because of something that doesn’t even affect them in the slightest and doesn’t hurt anyone. They see people as less that human and something to be despised just because they do their own personal things differently.

pagesofharrypotter:

Oh Kreacher. You poor thing.

I know Kreacher is a jerk here, but think of his life. When he was younger he was raised by the Black Family and taught to hate muggle-borns and “blood traitors”. He was told all these reasons about why are to be hated, and although those reasons are rubbish, how was Kreacher to know that? The Black Family installed these beliefs in him and seeing as he had nobody else of course he was going to believe these things. They treated him fairly well [for a house-elf at least] and he knew no better. He loved The Black Family. They were all he had.

So here Kreacher is, believing all these terrible things about muggle-lovers and now they’ve come into his house and he thinks they’re “infecting” it and what do they do? he is scared and confused and hurt because he loves the Black Family and they have died and these blood-traitors come into the Black Family house, and what do they do?

They treat kreacher like crap. They push in further the beliefs he has about familys like the Weasleys. They take the Black Family possesions and throw them away. They treat Kreacher like dirt. Nobody asks his opinions. Nobody cares about his feelings save Hermione, and whenever she tries to show kindness she’s usually told to shut up by Sirius. Nobody even thinks that he could be useful in fighting the Dark Lord, because like 99% of the wizarding population, they see house-elves as sub-human and worthless.

People don’t show love if they don’t recieve it. Kreacher was never shown love by anyone other the The Blacks - and so his actions are entirely expected of him. Later on in the series when the trio talk to him [and even then it’s only for their own gain] he changes, he changes so much just because someone cared and listened to him, and I think that is one of the most beautiful storylines in the whole series.

Sometimes people who seem bad really just need to be shown the light, and then they can shine brighter than us all.

I think a trigger warning is necessary here: I’m discussing in detail the scene in Deathly Hallows: part I where Hermione is tortured by Bellatrix. So torture and bodily harm.

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• When I started shipping it: I really can’t remember, I feel like I’ve shipped them forever! GoF has the first hints but I was only seven when that books came out, so probably as soon as I was old enough to figure that out. It was definately before I read HBP though because I remember arguing with a friend who though Harmony would happen in HBP lol.
• My thoughts: I love how they teach each other things. In Philosopher’s Stone Hermione is very bad at friendships and Ron is, well, an insensitive git. They don’t lose these traits, but they become softer as they spend more time with each other. Hermione learns how to show affection and Ron learns empathy. They also teach each other about less important things, like how to do classes and Quidditch which I think is super cute. And at the same time as being so different, they have enough similar interests and values to enjoy each other - such as bravery, the importance of family, caring about the abused, and [lol] Harry.
• What makes me happy about them: Everything! Lot’s of the stuff I mentioned in the above question makes me happy. I also really love how they are great characters all by themselves. Lot’s of times when a romantic relationship is important in fiction, the characters aren’t as well developed as individuals as they are as a couple. With Ron and Hermione this isn’t a problem though. Hermione’s a brilliant girl who is logic and sensible and prepared and most importantly loving and caring. Ron is brave and friendly and funny. They both go through individual trials that help them become better people that don’t have to do with each other [ie. Ron learning that friendship is more important than jealousy in GoF, and Hermione reclaiming the m-word in DH] as well as learning from each other [ie. Ron learning that Hermione was only trying to help when she told McGonagall about Harry’s broom in PoA, and Hermione learning that people often have insecurities they try very hard not to show in OotP] and I think that the fact they were first established as brilliant individuals before they got together is what makes them so great.
• What makes me sad about them: Nothing. I genuinly sat here for a minute or two staring out the window trying to think of something and nothing at all came to mind!
• Things done in fanfic that annoys me: I don’t read fanfic :3

Guys, being a pirate doesn’t mean we ship Kurt with his abuser.

The guy who abused Kurt was a guy who was being tormented by his innerdemons, and was undoubtably mentally ill with anxiety and possibly depression as well. He was scared for his life and he dealt with that the only way he knew how - by taking it out on the guy who seemed to have it all. The guy he could have been if he was only brave enough.

We ship Kurt with Dave. The real Dave, the healthy Dave. Not Dave’s facade. We never saw the real Dave until he showed his vulnerability and came out to Kurt. That is who we ship with Kurt. The vulnerable boy who has human fears and hopes and deep down just wants nothing more than to love and be loved in return.

I can’t speak for all of us, but I would never, ever ship Kurt with the Dave who was abusing him. I always said that if Kurtofsky was to happen then Dave needed to go through a lot of healing and gain self-awareness to become the amazing man he really is. I believe that during the bar scene, Dave proved that he has done that.

Dave is no longer “the abuser”. He has repented and got better and moved past that dark part of his life. Who we saw before was a twisted form of fear and self-loathing controlling Dave. This is the real Dave who we see now - the man Dave is going to be for the rest of his life. A good man.

That is what being a pirate means.

valiantchild:

river song’s true love is the doctor

the doctor’s true love is not river song

omg can I just

This is perfectly how I feel about them. Like, River’s love for The Doctor is my number one favourite storyline in DW but I don’t ship it because I don’t think The Doctor can ever reciprocate properly because he’s to busy saving the world and stuff and if he gets attatched to people shit hits the fan and so he can’t do that. So I love River and her love for the Doctor and I love his cute crush on her and I think it’s all so beauitiful and heartbreaking at the same time - but I don’t ship it. If The Doctor wasn’t busy being The Doctor then yes, but as it is it can never truly be and that’s one of the things I think makes it so beautiful - because River still loves him in spite of that.

1. Why is Harry so far from the Dursleys house? That’s incredibly dangerous.
2. Why is Harry at a muggle café? He doesn’t have any muggle money.
3. Why is Harry flirting with a muggle? He has to go back to Hogwarts soon so that’s totes unfair to her when he’ll just suddenly dissapear.
4. Why is Harry flirting at all? He’s incredibly shy, he’s not the kind of boy who has the ability to just flirt with strangers like that.
5. Why is Harry reading a wizarding newspaper in a muggle café? That’s surely against the Statute of Secrecy.

ALL THESE PROBLEMS WITH ONE FIVE MINUTE SCENE JFC IT DRIVES ME MAD.