Do you ever wonder how Hogwarts would travel to another school for the Triwizard Tournament cause I think about it all the time
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“Fred Potter, I actually let your mother name you after the bravest man she knew, instead of making it all about me. Now promise me that you’ll take a picture of McGonagall’s face when she realises the prankster legacy you and James plan to live up to. Awesome. High five.”
Sirius Black high-fiving Lily Evans every time she raises her hand in class.
Sirius asking James to high five her when he is too sick to come to class.
Remus Lupin doing it with a sigh and an immediate apology when neither Sirius or James is available.
Peter being overly enthusiastic about being asked to do it, and slapping Lily in the face by accident.
#lily starts raising her left hand while simulataneously giving each of the boys a high-five with her right to same time #the teachers always know when lily has the answer because of the four rapid-succession slaps over on her side of the room #sirius thinks it’s hilarious#james thinks lily is so fucking smart gosh #remus thinks it’s silly but at least lily doesn’t seem to mind it #peter is just really happy to get high-fived several times per class period#harry potter #gimme all the marauders headcanons (via wallmakerrelict)
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Harry Potter characters as Disney characters by Makani.
THESE ARE THE PERFECTEST VERSIONS OF THE HP CHARACTERS I HAVE EVER SEEN.
These are beauitful
We get a fair amount of questions about illness and disability in the wizarding world, so let’s let Jo explain.
This doesn’t explain any of the plot-holes about wizarding medicine to me - rather it makes them worse.
First of all, I’m bothered by the idea of mundane versus magical. They must mix. It’s not like devil’s snare only exists in greenhouses in Hogwarts. There aren’t special wizard forests where only wizards go. So how come Muggles don’t end up encountering them? Well, perhaps the Ministry goes around getting rid of them, and Muggles who are injured by them are taken to St Mungo’s, but JKR makes it sound like that kind of thing doesn’t happen. Equally, with diseases, how come Muggles don’t catch things like dragon pox? There is only one all-magical village in all of Britain. Wizarding London is slap-bang in the middle of the Muggle capital. In places like Godric’s Hollow, wizards and muggles live side by side. Even wizarding families that live fairly secluded (like the Weasleys) are quite close to Muggle villages. Surely Muggles do run the risk of catching magical illnesses. You might catch something in the pub, or from your neighbour, or from your friend. What about Muggles who are married to a magic person? And surely sometimes wizards must end up in Muggle hospitals? Not just if a confused wizard steps into the street when coming out of the Leaky Cauldron. What if a witch or wizard has a magical illness and collapses in a Muggle neighbourhood? And a passer-by calls an ambulance, and there they are, with spattergroit in Muggle A&E? (I suppose, again, that if that happens, the Ministry will intervene, so I will take this opportunity to point out that the way that the Ministry of Magic treats Muggles and to some extent magic people to keep the Statute of Secrecy unviolated is scary.)
As for curing ‘mundane’ illnesses - I don’t buy it. Part of this is just the fact that I’ve always found that curing things quickly and painlessly has always seemed like a way of chickening out in writing (and that might just be that I like to make characters suffer). But putting that aside, it raises some massive problems, particularly ethical ones. What is a mundane illness? Diabetes? Cancer? AIDS? If wizards can cure those, then why are they not helping out? Hagrid says in the first book that the reason why wizards keep to themselves is because everyone would want a magical solution to their problems. Wanting a solution, magical or not, to your problem if that problem is a chronic or fatal illness, then that is perfectly legitimate. So really, wizards are worse than they ever seemed.
I also really don’t like the question of what might kill a wizard and what kind of illnesses they might catch. Surely wizards are the same species as Muggles! They’re both human. This is the main point of the books and JKR seems to forget it all the time.
Also, I want to know more about wizards and disability.The way society treats disabled veterans, which is basically what Moody is, is not the same as how it treats and views other people with disability. Also, what about other kinds of disability? Hogwarts seems pretty inaccessible with all those stairs - can you enchant a wheelchair to fly up stairs? Can you put a spell on a book so it reads it to you? Or are there spells that basically subtitles conversations for you?
(Oh, also, the whole blood-borne disease thing. Deep sigh. This blog post has some good things to say about that.)
Oh, and mental health? Not a thing here about mental health. All there is mentioned in the books is that there are shock-spells in St Mungo’s. Don’t they have any kind of psychiatry? Therapists? Counsellors? This is a society that has been through two civil wars in less than twenty years, and even disregarding the massive trauma the wizarding community has been through, people are going to have mental health problems, because that happens.
My conclusion, as so often, is that the wizarding world is normative and fairly unpleasant.
(A sidenote: I’m getting increasingly frustrated that there is no useful gender non-specific term for 'person who can do magic’ in HP. I’ve sometimes sloppily gone for 'wizard’ here, but I’m not really happy with that.)
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