I Found Your Blog Through A Few Of These Hashtags And I Think It's Crazy That You're Losing Followers

I found your blog through a few of these hashtags and I think it's crazy that you're losing followers over a Snape post. Now as far as Lily goes, she seems to be someone who not only overlooks the nastiness/ prejudice in people she likes and are mutually beneficial for her, but also someone who is loose with breaking rules, black and white thinking, and someone who clings to societal status subconsciously.

To start off with Snape, she clings onto him because he is her first childhood friend who is magical and that she is very whimsical with. However, we see this friendship fall apart even before SWM where she says they're "best friends" but also fails to ask him about the werewolf incident and says "my friends don't understand why I hang out with you." It's curious to me that she doesn't say "other friends," so I feel like she confirmed Snape's "best friends" question as a way to placate him. Nonetheless, she doesn't formally sever ties until SWM.

Next, with James she she regards him as an "arrogant toerag" to Snape, but in SWM when her attention is fixed on James she notes that he "messes up his hair" and "shows off with the snitch." Those are two observations from someone who has been closely watching him. As some others have said before, I'm pretty sure she was also attracted to the security James offered in terms of social hierarchy as well as related to his black and white thinking and blind loyalty to those he considered friends. As far as Lily goes with rule-breaking, she isn't hung up on it--case in point with two instances: her jumping off swings even when told not to and her letter to Sirius in which she laments that "there is no chance for excursions because Dumbledore took James's invisibility cloak." James would've been fine without the cloak since he could transform, but she couldn't.

Aside from the aforementioned points, I doubt she challenged Slughorn's views on the Slug Club and his covert prejudice in general--pointing out her subconscious desire for a higher social status. This is something that is contrasted when Harry meets Slughorn and immediately catches onto and turns him off.

it’s funny that i’m losing followers over a snape post in 2022 of all things bc i’ve never cared about snape, i’m neutral on snape, have never even really talked about snape but he’s important for perspective on the marauders & lily, and is in my opinion under-consulted in what we can understand about lily’s character. 

i do have an appreciation for how snape fans can be objective and neutral and don’t whitewash the marauders and see them in a more human and recognisable way than marauders fans. james and sirius, and lily, were flawed and biased people and i don’t care to whitewash that, it’s actually very boring to whitewash that and i also think snape fans have remus pinned down brilliantly

snape was also obviously morally grey and i don’t whitewash that but i also never talk about snape so that’s sort of that 

different perspectives are interesting and the “how did they go from swm to married” is one of the only aspects of jily that is remotely interesting. did james and lily get married bc james got nice or was lily not actually necessarily super nice?

Cacio e Pepe but make it Accio Pepe (dropping the e in between). I wonder what that would summon me in the HPVerse.

How fucked up can one be? I just read a news article about a man in Arizona trying to set up an estate for his ex-wife's aborted fetus--a procedure performed three years ago. In addition to this he filed a suit against the clinic who performed the abortion claiming they didn't provide disclosures on the risks of an abortion. (This is something she has denied).

The overturning of Roe v. Wade is a domino effect and there is nothing "pro-life" about any of this--it has and will be a tool to control women.

End rant. Please vote and contact legislators--here is a link with updated laws in the states

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Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now Banned

The New York Times is tracking the status of abortion laws in each state following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Unpopular opinion: There should've been more Voldy POV chapters in HP. The arrogance, fears about death, and sheer rage makes for a captivating read.

On a side note: It is boring when all the chapters are from one POV or even a whole book if it were a different character-- mix up the POVs.

It has always been interesting to me that Remus defaults to the people who have first shown him radical acceptance even as an adult. I definitely think he confided in Sirius precisely because of the familiarity he doesn't quite have with other members of the Order.

I also think it is interesting to note how the dynamics between Remus and Sirius changed as adults. In SWM we see Sirius declining Remus's attempt to abate his bordem, but in OOTP he does listen to Remus when he tells him to sit down during Harry's first night and again when Harry confronts them in the fireplace.

Why do you think Remus confided to Sirius about Umbridge despite him being burned by him once before and how do you imagine the discussion went?

Great question anon. I'm actually in the process of writing this scene for my fic. Personally I lean towards the HC that Lupin decided the prank was water under the bridge by then. I think the hurt of losing James and being betrayed by Peter overcame any past grudges that they had as schoolboys. I won't say that Lupin didn't feel a great hurt when the prank did take place, and I explored this quite a bit in my one fic Home for Christmas. It happened many years ago, and I think both Lupin and Sirius are just happy to have found their friendship again. As for confiding about Umbridge, I think Lupin trusts Sirius very much and feels comfortable enough to show that anger and resentment to him with the confidence that Sirius won't pass judgment (and will even insult her along with him). They've seen each other's 'ugly' side and offer that space for both of them to show it. There's no reason, for Lupin especially, to keep up a pretense of the polite werewolf around his friend. As for how it came about, I think Sirius is very clever, observant and knows how to antagonise his friend. In Ootp, Sirius probably sees the barrier Lupin has built, by asking hard questions and making harsh remarks, he probably gets him to drop the mask. To get Lupin to show his ugly side, Sirius has to as well. But I don't think it took much vexing honestly, Lupin had probably bottled a lot of this anger inside for only himself to see all those years, it must have been an easy relief to confide in Sirius.

I’m both intrigued and exasperated by this.

For example, payroll taxes have been deducted in huge amounts from me but there is always the possibility of a refund from the IRS if you’ve overpaid them.

Carbon: More of a “punishment tax,” I can get on board with this.

Pro tip for dating: ask them their favorite tax

Corporate income, wealth taxes? Dump her immediately

VAT, cashflow, payroll? I’m interested. Room for improvement though

LVT, Carbon? She’s a keeper.