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Marauders bedroom

Sirius: Prongs, what's got you in a mood?

James: Snape put veritaserum in my tea this morning

Sirius: I think that this is an opportunity

Remus: Sirius DON'T

Sirius: c'mone Moonyyy, don't you see the fun of the situation?

Sirius: Prongs, are you really in love with Lily?

James: No, i'm in love with your brother.

Sirius: WHAT!!!

Peter: I'm gonna go...

Sirius: MOONY, YOU GOTTA BACK ME UP HERE!! HE'S IN LOVE WITH MY BROTHER! THAT'S AGAINST THE CODE!

Remus: What code?

James: Don't act like you're so innocent

Sirius: Oh yeah? What's my big secret?

James: You're desperately in love with Moony

Sirius: PRONGS WHAT THE FUCK?!!

James: You asked!!

Remus: Did- did he tell you that?

James: Yeah, he's been obsessed with you since like fifth year, he wouldn't stop talking about y-

Sirius: *tries to kill James*

Remus: *Looks at Sirius and smiles*

regulus at an award show: and shoutout to my brother, sirius black for custom making this outfit for me and shoutout, shoutout to james potter because he’s gonna be taking it off of me tonight

everybody at the award show:

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@faerieroyal thought you’d like to see this!

Not to stir the wind in the direction of my ship, but there are so few thoughts floating around RE the Unbreakable Vow and how JKR has structured the dynamic that leads to Severus and Draco’s interactions in HBP that I need to gush about it for a few moments. 

Warning: I love these two bastards more than language has words to express.

Most of the opinions I’ve seen on Tumblr seemed to play around the edges of the idea that Snape favoured Draco in order to maintain his Death Eating mask and prevent Draco from going to Lucius crying treason! betrayal! – and, in turn, that Severus’ relationship with the Malfoys was more of a façade it was better to maintain in order not to incur in the dark side’s displeasure than a genuine bond. But then we have scenes such as the one above.

The brevity of their interaction in this paragraph in no way hinders my singling it out as the best example from which to draw a few conclusions regarding the relations between Draco and Severus pre-HBP. Draco’s barging in to say they’ve found Montague jammed inside a toilet on the fourth floor: he’s in some hurry, has no ulterior motive other than conveying this piece of information, and is surprised at what he finds. Severus is focused on Potter and his attempts at Occlumency; he has no clue as to what Montague has done with himself, and certainly doesn’t expect Draco to barge inside his office in such a manner. This is Severus and Draco at their most unprepared, unsophisticated and unrehearsed.

Draco “speeds” inside Snape’s office, banging the door open without knocking (isn’t it odd how this doesn’t seem to faze Severus in the least — and, in fact, to Draco’s “Oh – Sorry,” Severus replies, “It’s all right, Draco,” which is probably the most pleasant we’ve seen him so far?) and the first words Draco utters, even before assessing the situation, are Professor, Sir. 

At this point, Draco has no reason to show more respect than he usually would – to, as Potter would put it, ‘suck it up to Snape’; he hasn’t even realised that Potter is in the room. Not only does the easy way with which Draco piles up his Sirs and Professors and Sorrys seem like something for which Severus would have an obvious appreciation, but it also contrasts so nicely with Potter’s grudging acknowledgement of Snape’s authority (“Yes,” said Harry stiffly. “Yes, sir”) and with the way Dumbledore has to correct Harry’s omission of the word Professor when talking about Snape, that I struggle to believe JKR didn’t put it there intentionally.

Later, in the same book, when Umbridge requests Veritaserum, Draco is sent to fetch Severus; when he returns, he ’holds the door open for Snape’. Again, I have no doubt Potter would see this as an instance of Draco’s eagerness to harm Potter and suck it up to Snape, but it is such a precise, deliberate detail, that I have a hard time believing JKR didn’t put it in order to show that different people bring out different sides in each person, and just as Potter is a different boy with those he likes than he is with Snape, so is Draco. How many people in Severus’ life have held a door open for him so readily and easily? It seems such a natural result of this sort of behaviours for him to take a liking to Draco.

I suppose it would be fair to argue (though you wouldn’t catch me doing so) that one could attribute Draco’s familiarity with Snape and his office to a normal student/Head of House dynamic. Comparing their interactions with Potter and McGonagall’s doesn’t lend much support to the idea: we don’t see Potter barging inside McGonagall’s office without knocking nor do we see McGonagall calling Potter anything other than Potter – though we do see her addressing a greater number of people by their first names than we ever see Severus do. Severus addresses very few people by their first names – certainly no student amongst them – but he consistently calls Draco Draco. 

So maybe Snape really does like Draco – not only as Lucius’ son, but as a student, as a wizard (in CoS “Snape moved closer to Malfoy, bent down, and whispered something in his ear. Malfoy smirked, too,” which seems to me a clear hint at some sort of private tutoring happening between Snape and Draco, if not in the form of official private lessons, then at the very least in the shape of informal demonstrations) and as a boy whose personality he does not find wholly intolerable. 

And, indeed, it turns out that he likes the Malfoys at least enough to be concerned about them when Voldemort returns:

‘“I saw the Death Eaters! I can give you their names! Lucius Malfoy – “ Snape made a sudden movement…’ 

This is a wonderful detail from GoF. Made a sudden movement is too clumsy and awkward and distracting a phrase for a writer to interrupt a dialogue with if she didn’t want her readers to take away something from it. Snape’s timing is too precise for it to be have been a careless mention: it’s not concern about Voldemort’s return or about Potter naming names that causes him to move - his sudden movement happens exactly after Potter mentions Lucius. Whatever he was thinking about – whether he was worried about Lucius himself or worried about Lucius returning to kneel at Voldemort’s feet, thus condemning a student – a Slytherin, in fact – as well as his whole family to Voldemort’s whims — the timing of it at the very least seems to be a clear hint to the fact that it’s related to the Malfoys.

So it wouldn’t be completely out of character for Severus, whose every display of emotion – both negative and positive – seems to be amplified to an almost unbearable extent, to grow to like and care for someone to such a degree as to agree to go the way of all flesh should he fail to protect him. Of course, when he agrees to take the Unbreakable Vow, he probably wasn’t expecting Narcissa’s wording to be so vague. Narcissa, in a frenzy of cunning and terror begotten of desperation, gets him to agree to three requests:

1. “Watch over my son, Draco, as he attempts to fulfil the Dark Lord’s wishes.” There’s no mention of a specific task or of Dumbledore’s demise, here: Severus is agreeing to protect Draco for as long as he is a follower of the Dark Lord — whether or not he manages to kill Dumbledore, whether or not Voldemort ever gives him another task afterwards.

2. “To the best of [Severus’s] ability, protect him from harm.” Even more vague. There isn’t even a single mention of Voldemort. Take it literally, and Severus is basically agreeing to protect Draco for as long as they’re both are alive.

3. “Should it prove necessary, if it seems Draco will fail, carry out the deed that the Dark Lord has ordered Draco to perform.” This is what I assume Snape thought would be the only clause of the contract –  to Narcissa apparently the last and least important.

Canon isn’t very explicit about what happens afterwards. Has the vow been lifted? If it has, shouldn’t Severus have concerns far greater than Draco while fleeing Hogwarts? And yet, in The Flight of the Prince, when the Unbreakable Vow is supposed to have been lifted and Potter is trying and failing to aim a Stupefy at them — with Dumbledore’s murder still fresh in his mind and self-loathing distorting his face, Severus still takes the time to turn and make sure to tell Draco to run away before fighting Potter and eventually dashing towards the gates. What happens afterwards, what physical repercussion the Vow has when one is in mortal danger (how else was Severus able to get to the bathroom so quickly when Draco lay bleeding on the floor?) and what their interactions were like during DH, is, of course, the stuff of fanfiction. But oh, of how many meaningless details is a good story made of.

showing you pictures of the canon young marauders to prove how delulu we actually all are.

okay so first we have the marauders themselfs (looking like a bunch of high school kids on some serious drugs):

next up, one of the most popular ships in this fandom, we have marlene and dorcas (this is the youngest picture of them i could find, so i apologize for the two of them looking like two coffee sipping grandmas):

here we have lily, who is the only one who actually looks kinda cute

canon snape (WHY IS HE CUTE TOO HELP):

and lets not forget the canon jily (again, james looks like a random teenager who likes magic mushrooms a lil too much):

then here we have james, lily, pete, remus (why does his hair look lowkey emo help) and sirius (why is his hair shorter than its supposed to be help again):

canon alice and frank (why does he look like he doesnt know where he is):

the canon emmeline (shes kinda cute ngl):

okay this one needs a trigger warning so i think yall know whats coming...YOU GUESSED IT. the canon reggie (not even commenting on this one):

well, there u go.

dm me if u want me to pay for ur therapy.

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feelings 🫀🦋

on this day one year ago someone sewed a fried egg to a tshirt

my mum just called "scrolling on Tumblr" "scrumbling"

pt.89

my man just sitting under a tree with a book, keeping an eye on em in case the squid wants to play

cuddling

He sent it to sirius unsigned but sirius knew his hand writing 🥹

Regulus wrote this when Sirius ran away

Voldemort: *enjoying his time shaming Bellatrix and Narcissa that Nymphadora maried Remus*

Narcissa & Draco: *had the time of their lives in that wedding*

Draco always calling the Slytherin's names in French like "Theodoeoe" and they just go along with it, As the whole school questions why he doesn't say "potter" normally, the Slytherins sigh and ignore...

Yww<33

Harry who has a big, fluffy, black dog called Padfoot of course with a red and gold shiny collar, who's loved by almost everyone in the neighbourhood as he's always roaming it due to Harry's lack of free time to be home, meets Draco who just moved in, in his animagus form and chase him up to a dark alley which Draco takes as a chance to get back to human form and make his escape, but the dog seems to like him more than want to eat him and keeps wanting to play and snuggle, and from then on they start being besties and play all the time in either animagus form or human form.

And then one day during Draco's usual morning run he's waiting for Padfoot to join him when he finds him so cheerful running around and wagging his tail as Harry Potter of all people scratches his head, looking so tired and sleepy but so happy to see his dog too, and Draco is so surprised, he doesn't know why he must've though so, who else choses red and gold but a former Gryfindor, who happens to be the savior of the wizarding world.

My therapist asked me to create something “motivating” so I made these.

lol.

Harry going to visit Malfoy Manor

Harry: *knocks*

Kreacher: *open the door*

Harry:

Harry:

Harry: how long have you been here?

Kreacher:

Kreacher: since master told kreacher to take a break

To the most random hogwarts student

- James Potter

everyone points out the similarities between drarry and jegulus

but can we all just agree regulus would fucking destroy draco in a fight?

that guys a wimp

EVERYONE DRINK WATER RIGHT NOW AND REBLOG TO KEEP THE HYDRATION GANG CHAIN GOING

Yes, Ao3 is down because of a cybersecurity attack.

Yes, the group is claiming to be Sudanese Muslims (Sudan Anonymous). No, this is not true.

This group has been identified as a Russian hacker group intent on sowing dissent between the world under the guise of “strengthening Middle East relations”. They targeted Ao3 because of its pro-LGBTQIA+ stories. Again, they are Russians sowing anger.

Do NOT be Islamophobic. Do NOT use this as an opportunity to whine about how you didn’t have time to finish reading a fic.

Ao3 is run by volunteers who are currently under siege by Russian hackers. Take this time to step back from the site, appreciate their work, write your own fics, or read a physical book.

If I see ANY Islamophobic rhetoric by any of my followers, I will pop your dumbass into my shit list and block you into the high heavens.

Do y’all ever look at a post that you’re mildly interested in but then you see a lot of words and go “I’m not reading all of that”

If Tom riddle went to McGonagall instead of slughorn

Tom: you see professor I was in the restricted section-

McGonagall: and why were you in the restricted section ,riddle?

Tom: I was doing a research.

McGonagall: and the whole library wasn't enough for you?

Tom:....

McGonagall: who signed you a form to enter it?

Tom: professor slughorn...

McGonagall: show it to me

Tom: wellll I will go and get it

McGonagall: detention.

Remus: that's a verbal conversation, pads

Remus: you’re kind of toxic

Sirius: you spelled exotic wrong, my love

Yw

Ok, so my head canon is that on the day the marauders are supposed to learn about Amortentia, Remus walks into potions class and just straight up gags, and says "Oh merlin, what are we brewing? It smells like a wet dog and ciggarette smoke! Then James looks super confused and says "Are you sure? I don't smell anythin' like that. Lily sure is using a lot of perfume today though. Are you sure you aren't smelling Padfoot?" And then Sirius gets all offended like "Hey, I showered this morning! And I haven't smoked today, so ha! Besides I don't know how you can smell anything like that over how much chocolate you've clearly got in your pockets!"

And Peter just stares because Merlin these boys are idiots. Then he exchanges a glance with a very confused Slughorn.

I appreciate the existence of this

Ok, so my head canon is that on the day the marauders are supposed to learn about Amortentia, Remus walks into potions class and just straight up gags, and says "Oh merlin, what are we brewing? It smells like a wet dog and ciggarette smoke! Then James looks super confused and says "Are you sure? I don't smell anythin' like that. Lily sure is using a lot of perfume today though. Are you sure you aren't smelling Padfoot?" And then Sirius gets all offended like "Hey, I showered this morning! And I haven't smoked today, so ha! Besides I don't know how you can smell anything like that over how much chocolate you've clearly got in your pockets!"

And Peter just stares because Merlin these boys are idiots. Then he exchanges a glance with a very confused Slughorn.