Real Talk If Tom Riddle/Voldemort Had A Patronus What Would It Be? And Any Kind Of Serpent Is The Cop-out

real talk if Tom Riddle/Voldemort had a Patronus what would it be? And any kind of serpent is the cop-out answer btw.

on dursley revisionism

Random people with wrong opinions: "Harry wasn't abused by the Dursleys" (bonus points for 'just neglected', which is a type of child abuse btw or 'that's all fanon')

Things that the Dursleys canonically did that are abuse just off the top of my head:

Swung a frying pan at his head (at the age of 12)

Grabbed him by the neck and basically tried to strangle him (even light pressure to the neck can cause internal damage)

Starved him

Verbally abused him

Locked him alone in a small cramped space as punishment (which can cause permanent psychological damage btw, and that's in adults. It is literally a type of torture.)

Made him sleep in that same small cramped unhealthy space when they had an extra bedroom

Encouraged their son to bully him and beat him up

Left him to be possibly attacked by a vicious dog

Bonus: Hid the evidence of his existence to outsiders and didn't speak about him to others (a typical thing for abusers to do)

And more. That boy is unrealistically well-adjusted.

I know the shitty guardian trope is so common in British children's lit (think Roald Dahl) that it became normalized, but it's not. It's abuse. I am worried for the children in your lives tbh.

Does Hogwarts have a sex ed class? Who teaches it? And why is it Snape?

lost tomerva outtake that didn't make it into PRQ (was supposed to be in Ch 27: a rook parliament)

Tom Riddle wasn't sure how the owl had found him.

The same way they always did, he supposed.

Yet, it seemed downright unnatural; a magical owl belonging to a witch in a Muggle orphanage, only repaired enough to continue barely functioning since the bomb hit it. There were more important things to do.

"I don't have anything to feed you," he told Minerva's owl, yet again, as it skittered around the dusty windowsill and pecked at his hands. When was the stupid animal going to learn?

On the back of Minerva's letter (he didn't have paper to spare and couldn't explain to Mrs. Cole what he needed it for), Tom wrote a quick reply: he was fine, sorry to hear that her brother was drafted, wasn't the war a pain and didn't it look like it was going to drag on forever and was the weather in Scotland as miserable as it was here?

I AM ALL ABOUT THAT YOUNG MINERVA MCGONAGALL/TOM RIDDLE HOGWARTS ROMANCE LISTEN 

both half bloods

gryffindor/slytherin romance oooh

both brilliant minds

IMAGINE! THE! INTELLECTUAL! CONVERSATIONS!

doing prefect rounds together

head boy/head girl!AUs

TOM BROKE HER HEART WHEN HE FULLY TURNED TOWARDS THE DARK ARTS

minerva has been heartbroken ever since

she refuses to speak of it 

OR tom wiped her memory!AU

there are SO MANY POSSIBILITIES FOR THIS SHIP WHY HAVE WE NEVER BROACHED THIS

even tho the timeline doesn’t match up exactly

so. much. potential.

just mcgonagall/tom riddle au

Lily isn't just the female love interest of James. If anything, James is just the male love interest of Lily goddamn Evans.