+helen. prev. jingleblack. "what really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. that doesn't happen."
Okay, so a fic where Harry finds out that his animagus is a tiny little black kitten, and he’s all like, ‘shit son, this is my chance to stay out after curfew’ but then he’s out one night, and McGonagall finds him and immediately knows it’s him, and just picks him up by the scruff of his neck to deliver his naughty ass back to G Tower while Harry meows at her in indignation.
Some racist hooligan assaulted a black couple who just came to Italy from Nigeria as war refugees. He killed the husband,
Emmanuel Chidi Namdi
, who was defending his wife,
Chimiary, after that man started calling her racial slurs out of nowhere. He is dead, the hooligan killed him WITH A ROAD SIGN. He hit him again and again, in front of his wife.
This happened in Fermo, Italy, twenty minutes away from where I live. This has shocked me so much. Racism is a serious problem in Italy, fascism and intolerance are escalating, horrible politicians like Salvini (the Italian equivalent of Donald Trump) are encouraging racism and are actively trying to block the refugees from entering out country.
Please don’t let this go unnoticed: tumblr is pretty US-centric, but people need to know the names of all the victims of hate, from all over the world. Emmanuel needs to be remembered and mourned. Please, don’t let racism win. I’m still shocked, this happened so close to my hometown. Don’t let them win. Fight this horrible hate.
Say what you will about how Harry Potter increases in complexity and darkness as it progresses but I think JKR sets the tone of the series pretty well when she has Dumbledore play ding-dong-ditch with a baby in the first chapter
All while the Hufflepuffs provided the Gryffindors with the explosives (who are confused because these little puffballs have explosives? But also very impressed because these little puffballs HAVE EXPLOSIVES), along with cookies and words of encouragement for every house. And the Ravenclaws are munching cookies in the Puff common room while they work with the Slytherins to write a strongly worded letter to the head master.
and all the while everyone is getting along. Is happy and there is no prejudice. It’s actually the opposite. And the Gryffindor’s finally getting the door down at two in the morning. But the Slytherin’s wanting to stay with the Puff’s. So they all have a Sleepover. And Professor’s walking into the Slytherin common room in the morning finding it deserted. Then looking in the other houses to find them all sleeping in the common rooms. All of them. (Alright next person :3)
And then this becomes a regular thing, not just between Slytherin and Hufflepuff but the other houses get involved too, and each weekend it’s at a different house
And they invite professors and everyone having a blast+McGonagall sharing embarrassing stories for past eras
And after the trio graduates she goes to the sleepovers once a month and asks what story everyone wants to hear. She tells them the incredible tale of three Misfit Gryffindors, the brightest witch of her age, the king, and the boy who lived, who saved the entire wizarding world and defeated Voldemort. She has other stories but this one is everyone’s favorite so every mo the she sits in the chosen common room and everyone sits in a circle around her before she begins.
The room is absolutely silent as she starts the story, “ Mr and Mrs. Dursley of number 4 Privit Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much…”
The room is in tears as she finishes, “All was well.”