It was a small gathering by Weasley standards. Arthur had been simply delighted by the Muggle barbecue gifted to him by Harry and Ginny as a late birthday present and had immediately sought to try it out.
Molly, possessing years of experience with Arthur’s experiments had insisted on forgoing the invitations to the rest of the family until she could be certain he knew how to work the contraption now taking pride of place in The Burrow’s back garden.
Harry had offered to take the kids home for dinner, but Arthur had been adamant that he, Ginny and the kids stay and appreciate the gift they had given him.
“I think dinner’s going to be a while,” Harry muttered to Al as he settled beside him on the picnic blanket Ginny had laid on the ground only a few minutes ago.
The news didn’t seem to concern Al who was much too busy picking up sticks and twigs from the grass beside them and comparing them before throwing away the ones which, Harry assumed, had been deemed unworthy.
A bottle of butterbeer floated across the garden, coming to a stop in front of Harry’s face. “Thanks, Molly,” he called, plucking the bottle from the air and tilting it in the direction of his mother-in-law who was standing by the back door, holding a cauldron cake just out of James’ reach.
Harry took a long pull from the bottle, closing his eyes for a second and appreciating the crisp spring breeze upon his face and the aroma of newly-bloomed snapdragons drifting to him from the flowerbeds.
His peaceful reprieve did not last long. The sound of Ginny’s exasperated voice drifted to him much as his butterbeer had done.
“Dad, it’ll be so much quicker to use your wand."
"It’s a Muggle barbecue!” Arthur cried. “We must use matches, Ginny!"
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The Fandom Effect: a piece of information about Harry Potter that everyone thinks it’s canon after tons of fanfictions/fanarts but when they read the books again it’s actually not.
What are the best examples?
I would love to lose focus and have a consensual workplace relationship with hugh grant
The Falling In Love Montage - Ciara Smyth
Not My Problem - Ciara Smyth
Here The Whole Time - Vitor Martins
Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas
Some Girls Do - Jennifer Dugan
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
Gender Queer: A Memoir - Maia Kobabe (graphic novel)
The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang (graphic novel)
On A Sunbeam - Tillie Walden (graphic novel)
The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta
Only On The Weekends - Dean Atta
Nimona - ND Stevenson (graphic novel)
If You Still Recognise Me - Cynthia So
Sasha Masha - Agnes Borinsky
The Tea Dragon Society - Katie O'Neill (graphic novel)
Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram
Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston
The Passing Playbook - Isaac Fitzgerald
The Prom - Saundra Mitchell (watch the musical first!!)
I Think I Love You - Auriane Desombre
The Song Of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Felix Ever After - Kacen Callendar
I Was Born For This - Alice Oseman
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
Solitaire - Alice Oseman
Heartstopper - Alice Oseman (graphic novel)
Loveless - Alice Oseman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
They Both Die At The End - Adam Silvera
History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera
Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker (graphic novel)
Simon Vs The Homosapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli
The Avant-Guards - Carly Usdin (graphic novel)
Fence - C.S. Pacat (graphic novel)
The Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater (book 3&4)
Feel free to add your own recommendations! I'll update the list as I read more LGBTQ+ books!!!
The Weasley’s are a ridiculously powerful family. Let me explain.
Arthur is the Head of an ancient House and also a Ministry department where he is pretty much unquestioned. (Bc the purists are ignoring him. Likely because they cannot actually, politically, magically, nor physically remove him if he does not wish to go.) He is a damn genius for enchantments and charms, constantly undoing the spellwork of others as his day job. And his hobbies involve placing incredibly complex magic on incredibly complex muggle contraptions. He learned to charm the Ford Angela without the help of muggles. I think he may have been on the verge of an epiphany with his collection of batteries. Storing energy? To make up for the lack of an ability to conduct magic at a whim? Genius. The man meets a kid raised as a muggle and immediately asks him to clarify the purpose of an item he didn’t understand. He never dismisses children as not smart. And that’s just the father, who has served in two domestic wars and survived.
Molly is an unsung war hero herself. Which is buried by the fandom. She herself wields charms and enchantments like a proper story time witch. Disney’s version of Merlin had less skill, honestly. She survived two wars and seven pregnancies. She has, seemingly, lost her entire family. Only her brothers are mentioned and that’s because they themselves died taking out death eaters. She is, to our knowledge, the only surviving Prewitt. Molly has fed an underground resistance movement. She has clothed and cared for them and provided a solid sense of stability. And that’s just the second war, where she was constantly reminded of all she lost in the first one. God only knows how much she fought and helped in the first war. Judging by how fucking deadly she was in the last battle and how capable she is before and how capable her children were, I’m willing to be she wrecked shop every time she entered the scene.
Bill is a prodigy of ward magic, which I logically assume is connected to charms and enchantments. He’s so good that goblins, who have been shown to be reclusive and secretive at best, trust him to go into ancient tombs and bust them open without dying. Then he survives a werewolf attack with only a few side effects and scars. He’s probably also immune to veela charms? I’d believe it.
Charlie literally raises and cares after dragons. _DRAGONS_ The big ancient bitey fucks that fairy tales and table top games are made of. What little he’s shown, he’s incredibly competent and confident and that’s all the shit I expect of a man that became a dragon veterinarian.
Percy is a book smart tactical genius. He’s got some character flaws that are enhanced by Harry’s perspective, but he’s every bit his parents’ son and it shows in the end.
The twins are fucking lethal. Like, had they not been raised by Molly and Arthur, they would have been off the charts in terms of sheer damage. They are, individually, more Slytherin than Harry ever could have been. They were making weapons and tools for the resistance while they were still in school. You can’t tell me that the boys named after their heroic uncles didn’t have that in the back of their minds. “If everything goes to shit like it did back then, we’ll be ready.” Ready with tools for escape, magic to entangle and distract, spy gear the likes of which James Bond would die for.
Ron. Brave, intelligent, stalwart, headstrong Ronald. The first friend Harry ever had and it wasn’t because of timing or being in the right place or even Harry. Ron saw a kid worse off than him, lost and scrawny, and was like “Someone needs to help him.” And he fucking did. He, like every brother before him, found his calling. Fourth year showed us exactly what he could have been doing instead of risking his life all the time. He could have been a bro with Seamus and Dean and just been a background character. He was not required to risk his life time after time. He has a family that he was loyal to, even when they made him feel like he wasn’t enough. But he actively chose to be loyal to Harry, again and again. No matter the cost. And every time he left, he came back further convinced that being beside Harry was the right and good thing. But even outside of Harry, he’s so fucking smart. Unmotivated sometimes. Frank to the point of offense other times. But intelligent. It wasn’t just chess or playing Keeper. He made damn good grades and became a prefect and it wasn’t just for shits and giggles. He was damn good.
And Ginny. The best of the fucking best. Cream of the crop. The Phoenix herself. Sneakier than the twins, sharper than Percy, bold face braver than Charlie or Ron, more magically gifted than Bill, and confident in herself in all that she did. A resistance fighter before she even left school. A friend to the lost just like Ron, but even less of an occasional asshole. We didn’t deserve her, but no one (except maybe Luna) ever could.
I don’t understand how people keep understating the Weasley’s. They are so well connected through the Order. They’re an entire family of warriors. A family of knights. Every last one of them is a one person army on their own, but they’re so fucking united and loyal that it should terrify any that dare oppose them.
I barely have followers here, but here we go:
The Amazon Rainforest has been burning for the last 16 days straight. The Brazilian government says the wildfire is caused by the winter itself, since it doesn't rain a lot there... in a rainforest. It is actually, partially true. Winter is indeed a dry season and wildfires may happen, specially close to the Cerrado (a brazilian biome similar to the african Savanna), but what they're not telling us is that:
The deforestation has increased 80% since last year
The native peoples and animals are being slaughtered for their lands (legally protected green areas)
The government is hiding and lying about scientific data, saying that environmentalists and NGOs are communists trying to destroy the nation. They are brainwashing people to think that sustainability is terrible for the economy
Our Minister of Environment is couldn't care less about the environment and is only there to support the livestock producers and give them what they want. The President and his Minister won't put a single dollar on environmental safety
The wildfires are just so huge that its black smoke and ashes reached the skies of São Paulo, a state over 2.000 kilometers away from the Amazon.
I could just keep going all night about how our environment is being threatened by this new government. We need every single help we can possibly can.
Please don't let this go unseen. Search for yourself, talk to people about it, make noise, be angry and be scared. Let the world know about it and demand action. This is not about Brazil, is about the planet. The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most important biomes in the world, being responsible for the climate, rains, biodiversity, carbon sequestration and life itself.
Those in the common room:
Ron:
Hermione:
Dean:
Romilda:
Seamus: (he likes dean ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶n̶’̶t̶ ̶o̶b̶v̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ )
Neville:
Luna: (Ik she’s ravenclaw but I imagined she was there too *-*)
Lee:
The rest of the gryffindors:
Outside the common room:
Fred and Geroge:
Molly:
Arthur:
Bill:
Charlie:
Cho:
Lupin and Tonks:
McGonagall:
Dumbledore:
Hagrid:
Professor Slughorn:
In heaven:
Lily, James and Sirius:
Hellooo just wondering if you could write something about James babysitting Dora. I can only imagine that being the cutest thing ever 😍
After seemingly chasing her around the entirety of Grimmauld Place, James had finally focused his goddaughter’s attention on the dress-up box, hoping to at least keep her confined to her room. He’d thought he was physically fit, given his job, but apparently small children fuelled themselves on the sheer exhaustion of whoever was looking after them.
‘What about this, Dora?’ he asked her, pulling out a sequined little dress. ‘Want to be a fairy?’
She scowled. ‘No.’
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