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"Huntlow is canon!" Okay but here's the thing: I know that and you know that and Willow knows that but does Hunter know that?!

My boy is giving off the vibes of someone who would sincerely ask, "Wait, you had a crush on me?" to the witch to whom he is married.

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i know ive got some extra veins and extra nerves, im hoping one day acting cool will make me feel self assured

(if i had a nickel for every time ive drawn transgender vent art using gwen as a vehicle id have two nickels which isnt a lot but its weird i did it twice)

I will never stop thinking about Scorpius Malfoy wanting to prove to the world that he isn't a bad person like everyone thinks his parents were, and I can't stop thinking about Albus Severus Potter wanting to prove to the world that he doesn't have to be a hero like his dad was.

And I can't stop thinking about them both finding one another and connecting over the shared experience of trying to prove to the world that they are their own people, trying to prove to the world that they're more than who their parents are.

Albus and Scorpius needed to meet because they needed each other.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison. (CoS, ch. 13)

Honestly, this seems like an appropriate facial expression to have after your colleague announces to a whole room of minors that you're the person to go to for learning how to make consent-impairing drugs as part of "the spirit of the occasion" of Valentine's Day. Props to Snape for being ahead of his society on the whole Love Potion issue (I don't think Lockhart thought the implications through, but Snape definitely did). We don't learn until Skeeter's article in GoF that Love Potions are banned at Hogwarts, and no one brings that up here, despite the teacher-wide dislike of Lockhart — I think there might be room for a headcanon that Snape was behind the ban...

I love how harry felt the need to point out that sirius was wayyyy hotter than regulus. very straight of him tbh. also good material for afterlife bickering.

The news about Papaa Essiedu playing Snape has been a "mask off" moment for many people, and I'm really disappointed. I've seen bad takes from both sides, Snape fans and haters. Does it always have to be like that? Why can't people leave black actors alone? I don't even want to watch the show, because I don't want to support JKR, but this is disrespectful to the actor who just wants to do his job.

It’s interesting to me because I’m not going to watch that show—I just have no interest in a new version of Harry Potter. It’s not even about not wanting to give Rowling money, because that’s an easy fix (just pirate it), it’s simply that I don’t care for it and I don’t think it’s necessary. But okay.

My issue here is that, look, I can understand fans being super hesitant because they have a very clear image of Severus in their heads. I get it because, in my head, Severus looks a certain way too, and I would like him to be represented like that, but honestly, I don’t care that much. At this point, book-to-screen adaptations take more and more liberties, and I’ve just gotten used to it.

What does bother me is how everyone—literally everyone—tries to act all progressive while making up excuses that do nothing but mask their racism. I’ve seen people say they’re so worried about the hate the actor will receive, and that’s why they think this casting isn’t right. As if the actor isn’t a grown, autonomous man who’s fully aware of the consequences of taking on a role like this. They treat him like a clueless child who doesn’t know what he’s doing, being unbearably paternalistic, because they think this fake concern will somehow cover up the stench of racism coming off their words.

Then there are people who simply complain that he doesn’t look like their Snape. Okay, whatever, at least they’re being honest.

But the ones who piss me off the most are the ones crafting these elaborate arguments about how problematic it is for a black man to play Snape (as if people of color don’t have the right to play whatever character they want, even the controversial ones). They spew nonsense, calling him an incel (false), a Nazi (false), and throwing around all the utterly untrue, completely fanon bullshit people say about Snape—just to mask what really bothers them: that their favorites are going to look like the abusers they actually were.

Severus is a character shaped by poverty, abuse, and social exclusion, and it’s because of these things that he ends up following the people who provide him with a sense of safety and belonging—people who give him a space where he can have ambition and not feel like an outcast. It’s literally the same story as many kids from disadvantaged backgrounds who end up in gangs. He’s a working-class character who was systematically bullied and assaulted by a group of four people—none of whom were poor. (Because Lupin wasn’t poor as a teenager, sorry. His father worked for the Ministry—deal with it.) The ringleaders of that group were two white, cishet boys from obscenely wealthy families with bloodline statuses equivalent to the Muggle aristocracy. It was the upper class teaming up to humiliate and marginalize the lower class.

And the thing about Severus’s haters and Marauders apologists is that they constantly use every rhetorical trick in the book to minimize this dynamic, justify it, and even suggest that Severus deserved it. The problem with this casting is that it’s going to make it impossible to deny that there was a major social component to that abuse. They simply won’t be able to ignore it. And that’s what’s pissing them off—it has them shaking because they won’t be able to keep excusing the sexual harassment, the attempted murder, the constant bullying, etc. They just won’t.

And I think it’s disgusting to use race as a shield, to pretend to care about racism when the only thing you actually care about is defending characters who represent the privileged, oppressive social elite—just because they’re your favorites. It’s repulsive.

The problem with these people isn’t that they have some incredible social awareness and genuinely care about the representation of Black men in fiction or about racism. No. What they really care about is how this might affect their attempts to seem progressive online.

What actually worries them is that the abusers they constantly defend—whose classism, social prejudices, and repeated abuses of power they refuse to acknowledge—can no longer be hidden behind excuses. That now, they won’t be able to defend them without looking like complete idiots.

But here’s a spoiler: they already are. They don’t need Snape to be Black for that. They’re already defending and justifying abuse, violence, and sexual assault. The only difference is that right now, they can deny it more easily. But that doesn’t erase the sin.

This scene is so romantic in my eyes. Hear me out: "Kacchan" was a nickname given to Katsuki by Izuku before either of them got their quirks, before the bullying. "Kacchan" was just a nickname given to him by his close friend, and that's probably why he never asked Izuku to stop calling him that, even during middle school. Katsuki still cherished that name. It's special (at least, that's what I like to delude myself into believing). What's so special to me in this panel is how Katsuki doesn't call himself by his hero name, but the name Izuku gave him. It's like Katsuki has finally let go of his past self, his need to present himself as superior to Izuku, because deep down, he always felt inferior to him, ever since they were kids. You could argue that he let that go during the apology, and you're right, but I believe he fully let it go here. Katsuki does love Izuku, and that's why he's so proud to call himself "Kacchan" in this panel. If this isn't peak romance I don't know what is.