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Sorry but I had to

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here-is-the-place:

When people say these books are children’s books, as if to demean them, I balk. These books dealt with themes that adults do not fully understand or wish to. It dealt with racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, prejudice, and general ignorance. These books taught us that it doesn’t matter how you were raised, but that you get to choose to be kind, loyal, brave, and true. They taught us to be strong under the pressures of this world and to hold fast to what we know to be right. These books taught me so much, they changed me as a person. So just because they’re set against a fantastical backdrop with young protagonists does not mean that their value is any less real.

This.

First book: Starts with the double murder of a pair of twenty-one year olds who were much missed and leaving their baby son a war orphan. A child growing up in abusive conditions that would give Cinderella the horrors. Dealing with peers and teachers who are bullies. The fickleness of fame (from the darling of Gryffindor to the outcast.) The idea that there are things worth fighting and dying for, spoken by the child protagonist. Three children promptly acting on that willingness to sacrifice their lives, and two of them getting injured doing so.

Second book: The equivalent of racism with the pro-pureblood attitude. Plot driven by an eleven year old girl being groomed and then used by a charming, handsome older male. The imbalance of power and resultant abuse inherent in slavery. Fraud perpetuated by stealing something very intimate.

Third book: The equivalent of ableism with a decent, kind and competant adult being considered less than human because he has an illness that adversely affects his behaviour at certain times. A justice system that is the opposite of just. Promises of removing an abused child from the abusive environment can’t always be kept. The innocent suffer while the guilty thrive.

Fouth book: More fickleness of fame. The privileged mistreating and undermining the underprivileged because they can. A master punishing a slave for his own misjudgment, and the slave blaming herself. A sports tournament which involves mortal risk being cheered by spectators. A wonderful young man being murdered simply because he was in the way. A young boy being tortured, humilated and nearly murdered.

Fifth book: PTSD in the teenage protagonist. Severe depression in the protagonist’s godfather, triggered by inherited mental health issues and being forced to stay in a house where abuse occured. A bigoted tyrant who lives to crush everyone under her heel, torturing a teenager for telling the truth in the name of the government (and trying to suck his soul out too). The discovery that your idols can have feet of clay after all. An effort to save the life of someone dear and precious actually costing that very same life. The loss of a father-figure and the resultant guilt.

Sixth book: The idea that a soul can be broken beyond repair. Drugs with the potential for date rape are shown as having achieved exactly that in at least one case, resulting in a pregnancy. Well-meaning chauvinism trying to control the love life of a young woman. Internalised prejuidce resulting in refusing the one you love, not out of lack of love but out of fear of tainting them. The mortality of those that seem powerful and larger than life.

Seventh book: Bad situations can get worse, to the point where even the privileged end up suffering and afraid. More internalised prejudice and fear hysterical terror of tainting those you love. Self-sacrifice and the loss of loved ones, EVERYWHERE. Those who are bitter are often so with a reason. The necessity of defeating your inner demons, even though it’s never as cool as it sounds. Don’t underestimate those that are enslaved. Other people’s culture isn’t always like your own. Things often come full circle (war ending with the death of a dearly-loved pair of new parents and their orphaned baby son living with his dead mother’s blood relative instead of his young godfather). Even if ‘all is well’ the world is still imperfect, because it’s full of us brilliant imperfect humans.

 
So… still think that Harry Potter is a kid’s series with no depth?

Note to self: Print this off, give to English teacher.

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ispyafamousface:

Aha! We’ve (well, Rebecca has) been waiting for someone to submit this one! Alan Rickman, best known for being awesome (and also for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series) and Norman Reedus, who is currently fighting walkers as redneck badass Daryl Dixon on AMC’s The Walking Dead appeared together in the 1998 film Dark Harbor, where yes, as seen in the bottom picture, they made out. Awesome.

Great find, at0ne!

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I need to watch this movie.

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David Yates’s most vivid memory of Emma is watching her suddenly let go of her steely professionalism and for once just be young and free. They were filming a death scene from Hallows Part 2 on a freezing-cold beach in Wales. The actors were miserable, especially Emma, who hates the cold and dislikes getting wet even more. But out of nowhere, he recalls, “She ran into the icy water and stood there, holding herself against the waves with her arms outstretched, just laughing.” In that brief moment he got a sense of what it must be like to have a multibillion-dollar industry dependent on your every move and be only nineteen years old.

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thequartermoonstillshines:

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megsokay:

The greatest part of this Imelda Staunton interview isn’t the revelation that she plants sweet peas every October. It’s the reveal that Professor Umbridge is married to Carson the Butler in real life.

Guardian, you’re burying the lead!

Reblog if you’ve actually read every single page of all seven Harry Potter books; from The Boy Who Lived to Nineteen Years Later.

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ispyafamousface:

Here we have Natalia Tena, alias “don’t call me Nymphadora” Tonks in Harry Potter, in Game of Thrones as a captured Wildling woman living amongst the members of House Stark.

Excellent find, untitledoddsandends!

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Looks like someone ran out of Sleakeazy’s Hair Potion. 

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I wrote this episode of Movie Trivia for all of you Merlin and Harry Potter fans out there. Let it never be said that I don’t find ways to make my interests relevant to my job.

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nom-chompsky:

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bebinn:

Uh, Neville? Did this girl finish the series?

Also, if Merope Gaunt had had an abortion, Voldemort wouldn’t exist.

Why am I refuting this sign? This is an embarrassment.

Oh jeebus, shit like this bugs the hell out of me. Lily and James didn’t get an abortion because they wanted a damn baby. The wanted to be pregnant. Not every pro-choice person wants to abort every pregnancy. How many times do you have to tell these numbskulls that??? 

this girl perping in gryffindor gear…you aren’t welcome.

This is riddikulus. 

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