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I’ve gotta say something about gay Dumbledore or I’m gonna explode

Of course the story’s not about Dumbledore’s love life and focussing on his sexuality would probably be weird and besides the point, plus we don’t know anything about the movie yet so it’s too early to judge, but this is a prime example of why JK confirming Dumbledore as gay in an interview doesn’t count as representation. Even worse, it’s also mocking queer fanculture in its core, and that’s not okay.

Unless Yates is talking ao3 ratings, which we all know he isn’t, the statement means that Dumbledore and Grindelwald will be dudebros and the audience will have to read between the lines to see the gay.

Which is exactly what we’ve been doing for ages, with different movies and shows and characters. And every time we picked up on the clues and pointed them out, asked the creators about them, we’ve been brushed off and/or belittled. It’s happened everywhere, including the Harry Potter franchise. Sirius and Remus are best buddies, totally platonic, just like Albus and Scorpius, am I right?

Rowling has been queerbaiting just like Moffat, and Kripke, and countless others. That’s old news.

What’s new though is that now the character //actually is gay//. Dumbledore is a homosexual. That’s been confirmed since 2007. So what the fuck is keeping them from giving us the representation we need??

I know, Dumbledore’s love life isn’t the focus of the story. Actually, I’d love to see a movie that doesn’t focus on anyone’s love life.

But that’s not the point. The point is that queer people have been longing for representation for ages. And every time we complained about the lack of characters like us in the magical world of Harry Potter we’ve been told: “well, Dumbledore’s gay. There you go. Important character, homosexual.”

And every time we pointed out that there’s a difference between knowing that a character is gay and actually seeing it in the story, every time we complained about the lack of gayness in the story, we’ve been told: “it just wasn’t important for Harry’s journey.”

And yes, we KNOW that. We even understand. It still hurts to not see ourselves portrayed in the world we love, but we can deal with that reasoning.

And now we have a story about a man who is canonically gay and has to face the man he loves in a fight to stop said love interest from taking over the world. We have the story of Albus Dumbledore, the very homosexual we’ve been pointed to every time we asked for representation.

And what do we get?

The exact same fucking excuses as always.

Let me rephrase that last part again, just so we’re clear:

We asked about representation.

We were told Dumbledore’s gay but it’s never mentioned because it wasn’t important for Harry.

Now we get Dumbledore’s story.

Without any on screen confirmation of his gayness. Again.

Do you now see why we’re pissed?

And frankly, the people who are trying to explain away the lack of representation and the entire problematic behind it are the ones who see themselves in every fucking movie ever. Rowling, my mum, my straight best friend.

Is it really too much to ask for representation? Is it really too much to ask for on screen representation? Is it really too much to ask for on screen representation in a mainstream franchise?

Honestly, representation means normal characters in normal movies, that happen to be queer.

I’m tired of this. I’m upset. I’m also a huge fanperson so I’m going to see The Crimes Of Grindelwald in theatre anyways. But I’m so disheartened by the interview that I can already feel the disappointment that I know it will be. The disappointment of a great chance for queer representation that passes by unused because it just doesn’t matter to the people in charge.

What’s in your bag beard - Albus Dumbledore Edition

Dumbledore: I heard there was this new trend at my school, that everyone shows what they’re carrying around every day. Since I am the headmaster, I thought I should join in.

Dumbledore: They taste like liquid Sugar.

Dumbledore: Let’s go on.

Dumbledore: Another thing that’s very important to me:

Dumbledore: Music can be quite useful to ease up a tense situation. I want to introduce you to someone.

Dumbledore: Obviously, a school as big as Hogwarts needs a lot of money, so it’s always good to have a Niffler or two with you. Let me look for more.

Dumbledore: What the fuck is this?

Dumbledore: How could I forget about this?!

 Bonus:

Dumbledore: Baby shoes. Not at all for nostalgic reasons

Dumbledore: Look how tiny they are!

((OOC: Dumbledore out. In the usual Sami-style I’m late to the party. But you know? Save the best for last ;) Luckily my thread will probably not be the last of this series Anyway special thanks to @kapitan5o​ for having this amazing idea! And my admiration to everyone who did this so far, y’all were incredibly creative! Now I’ll shut up))

A comprehensive compilation of why Severus Snape is an awful person that doesn’t deserve redemption, pity, or any kindness ever (not in any particular order):

- He is obsessed with the Marauders when they are younger, and tries to compare their antics to the actions of very real, blood supremacist, dark magic-using bullies that Snape was hanging out with and found amusing. (Edit: I’m adding that I’m not saying James and Sirius were right in their actions, I’m simply pointing that Snape wasn’t either. This post isn’t about the marauders, this is about Snape)

(DH, The Prince’s Tale, p673-674, Arthur A. Levine Books edition)

“‘They sneak out at night. There’s something weird about that Lupin. Where does he keep going?’ ‘He’s ill,’ said Lily. “They said he’s ill—’ “Every month at the full moon?’ said Snape. ‘I know your theory,’ said Lily and she sounded cold. ‘Why are you so obsessed with them anyway? Why do you care what they’re doing at night?’”

- Snape was very clearly trying to out Remus and actively trying to prove his case about knowing Remus was a werewolf. (More on this later)

-Calls Lily a mudblood, and then tries to excuse his actions. Then Lily says “...you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?” Snape says absolutely nothing to defend himself on this statement, so we can only assume that it is accurate and he commonly uses a slur to describe other students around him.

-We know Snape invented Levicorpus, which we later see James use. How do you think James learned it if not because Severus had used it on him or another student before? We even see Snape use Sectumsempra on James. Sectumsempra, aka the spell capable of cutting someone open and leaving them to bleed to death. This is the kind of experimentation Snape did with Dark Magic.

-Snape was willing to sacrifice the life of a BABY without a second thought until he discovered that the child was Lily’s. Even after this, he prioritizes Lily’s life and isn’t concerned whatsoever about the life of Harry, who at this time is less than a year old.

-If Voldemort had decided that Neville was the Chosen One instead of Harry, Severus Snape would still be a death eater. He didn’t think being a Death Eater was wrong in any way- it wasn’t until he was directly affected by a childhood crush did he reconsider. James and Lily Potter fought for the light because they believed in the light. Severus Snape fought against the dark because the dark had offended him. Had Voldemort gone after the Longbottoms instead, Snape would have lived and died as the most loyal Death Eater in history. Edit: I understand that we can say ‘if’ all day long. The point here I’m trying to make is that Severus Snape is only supporting the light side because it benefits him in this situation. I’m simply pointing out that he’s selfish by nature.

-The prophecy states that the child will be born to parents that have thrice defied the Dark Lord. So therefore Lily in some way defied Voldemort 3 other times. And only now Snape wants to save her? No. It has more to do with the guilt he’s feeling for telling Voldemort about the prophecy. It wasn’t her death that phased him as much as how he’d feel if he caused her death.

-Snape hates Harry simply for the fact that Harry looks like his father. Have you ever considered how Harry would’ve been treated if he’d been a girl that looked like Lily? Edit: I AM NOT INSINUATING ANYTHING PEDOPHILIC. I am making the point that when Harry come to school, Snape saw him and recognized his childhood bully, and instead of making the mature decision and not making judgments about Harry beforehand, he just assumes that Harry will be like his father was in school. If Harry had looked like Lily, Snape would’ve been more inclined to favor him the way he did Draco or Pansy. Not in a creepy way, just in a confirmation-bias kind of way.

-Severus snape once intended to publicly kill a student’s pet as punishment for getting a potion wrong. This pet was also a gift to Neville from his Uncle for getting into Hogwarts- something that his family didn’t think would happen because he wasn’t “magic enough”. So to him- Trevor is a reminder that he is a wizard and that his family is proud of him. Then Snape wants to kill him because Neville got a potion wrong, reinforcing the idea that Neville isn’t “magic enough”.

-When Snape covers for Lupin's class (told you we’d be back here), Snape taught the DADA class and made all the students write essays on how to kill werewolves so that Lupin would have to read these when he came back from going through an incredibly painful time.

-Snape did everything in his power to get Remus fired despite the fact that Remus had spent 16+ years pretty much homeless and without a job.

(OotP, Percy and Padfoot, p302, Arthur A Levine Books edition)

“‘I know she’s a nasty piece of work, though—you should hear Remus talk about her.’ ‘Does Lupin know her?’ asked Harry quickly, remembering Umbridge’s comments about dangerous half-breeds during her first lesson. ‘No,’ said Sirius, ‘but she drafted up a bit of anti-werewolf legislation two years ago that makes it almost impossible for him to get a job.’”

Edit: So let’s do some basic math here. This happens in Order of the Phoenix. The anti-werewolf legislation was written two years prior. This would’ve been during or around The Prisoner of Azkaban. Why would somebody randomly write a piece of legislation like this? Let’s just say that there was a teacher that was outed as a werewolf and people were not happy about it. That would give pretty good reason for someone to write a piece of legislation that would make it hard for a werewolf to get a job. Not just Remus. Every werewolf. Who outed Remus to the wizarding world at large? Severus Snape. So for anyone suggesting that what I wrote below is as good as fanfiction, maybe actually read the books and pay attention to smaller plot lines.

-When Snape tells everyone that Remus is a werewolf, he’s not just telling students or their parents. He’s telling the wizarding world. Because of this, Dolores Umbridge wrote a law that made it almost impossible for Remus to find a job. So not only did he ruin Remus’s life. He ruined the life of Every. Single. Werewolf. in the UK.

-Neville Longbottom’s greatest fear is Severus Snape. Not the woman who tortured his parents into insanity, not the worst wizard of all time, not even any of his other followers. His TEACHER. And this is at an age where Neville doesn’t know everything about Snape and all he’s done. That speaks VOLUMES.

-Condones and takes part in bullying a CHILD when Hermione had enormous teeth EXTENDING PAST HER CHIN growing because of a hex, Snape says, “I see no difference.” After this, Hermione permanently modifies her teeth.

(HBP, Snape Victorious, p160, Arthur A Levine Books edition)

“‘I was interested to see your Patronus.’ He shut the gates in her face with a loud clang and tapped the chains with his wand again, so that they slithered, clinking, back into place. ‘I think you were better off with the old one,’ said Snape, the malice in his voice unmistakable. ‘The new one looks weak.’”

-Mocks Tonks when her Patronus changed when she fell in love with Remus despite the fact that his changed to match Lily’s.

-“Snape took the page bearing Lily’s signature, and her love, and tucked it inside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was holding, so that he kept the part from which Lily laughed, throwing the portion showing James and Harry back on the floor, under the chest of drawers…” She was laughing at her husband and son. People she loved dearly enough to give up her life and Snape took that and cut them out of it so he could pretend she was laughing for him. Her love in the letter was for Sirius who was the best man at her wedding and her good friend in the order. Snape took that so he could pretend her love was for him. This isn’t romantic. It’s creepy. Snape feels entitled to Lily’s love even though he’s done nothing to deserve it.

-The ONLY reason Snape protects Harry is that he’s under an obligation to by Dumbledore (who is blackmailing him, so Snape doesn’t have a choice). Snape isn’t doing it because he wants to. He’s doing it because if he doesn’t, Dumbledore could sell him out to Voldemort and he’d be killed.

-Again, when he kills Dumbledore, it’s not out of the kindness of his heart or his care for Dumbledore. It’s because he’ll be killed or severely punished if he doesn’t.

-Snape may have done good things, but it isn’t because he wants to. It’s because he doesn’t have a choice.

Essentially, at his roots, Snape is a self-centered blood supremacist who bullies people and only does good things when being threatened and emotionally abuses children because he can’t get over somebody he was attracted to in middle school and is perfectly fine killing adults and infants alike when it’s in his best interest.

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Dumbledore, I’m so sorry, but the clapping of my ass cheeks alerted Voldemort of my presence. It’s okay though because I clapped his cheeks before he could clap mine.

What a great casting choice.

Voldemort is a terrible villain. Terribly written. Tom is a hottie but Voldemort is just straight up ridiculous.

You know who's a good villain? The terrifying type? Albus fucking Dumbledore. He scared me shitless.

You thought Snape was bad? Here's fucking professor Dumbledore to prove you wrong.

I'm so sorry to my dear sweet angel Albus Severus Potter. You didn't deserve this.

So I saw ezra miller live

And let me tell you they're God's finest creation

Can't fucking wait to see Mads Mikkelson caress Jude Law's bloody face and fall off a cliff with him.

Harry : Sup Brian?

Dumbledore:...

Dumbledore: What the fuck?

Dumbledores thoughts about how he could save the sorcerer's stone :

Okay, I'll just have the teachers create obstacles that even a smart first-grader can overcome...

Dumbledores thoughts about how he could save the sorcerer's stone :

Okay, I'll just have the teachers create obstacles that even a smart first-grader can overcome...

No Nuance November-Harry Potter

Despite Harry and Hermione having better chemistry than Hermione and Ron in the the books and movies, they were better as friends

Hermione wasn’t actually worshipped in the movies, they just cut out a lot of scenes where she was made fun of by her classmates

The most underrated friendship in Harry Potter: Hermione and Neville

J.K. Rowling should’ve made Fremione canon like she’d planned to, Ronmione is still a good ship, but shipping guy/girl best friends is overrated

Dramione isn’t enemies-to-lovers despite what most might think, while he was mean to her and prejudiced against her, his actual enemy was Harry, Draco wouldn’t have ever noticed her beyond surface-level recognition if it wasn’t for Harry and Ron

Any ship with Draco is at least a little toxic

Snape didn’t deserve a redemption arc, he should’ve been the traitorous villain everyone thought he was, and made the last minute decision to protect Harry because ~’my god I’m helping a psychopath murder a child’~

Lupin and Tonks shouldn’t have been killed off, at least not both of them, for one; they are restarting a cycle of murdered parents orphaning their child during a war, and two; making Harry the godfather put an immense amount of pressure on a seventeen-year-old boy who’s already dealing with the aftermath of a war

Not a single Weasley should’ve died, #justiseforfred

The movies both pressured the audience to ship Ronmione and made it hard to, the movie did their first kiss dirty, as it did with Hinny

Speaking of Hinny, they should’ve been developed way earlier than they had, it was too sudden and awkward for Harry to just realize his feelings once she gets a boyfriend

You can complain about how the cast didn’t fit the book description all you want, not a single one of you can actually imagine anyone else for any of the roles, except for maybe the Marauders

Angelina doesn’t deserve the hate she gets at all

Dumbledore’s a dick

Sirius should’ve gotten to live with Harry like the family he’d always wanted but never gotten

Harry is a moron for naming his son and daughter after Severus and Luna, I get it, Luna was his friend, but so was Hermione and Ginny didn’t get any say in it, it so appears when it was her family that was most involved in his life (I’d forgotten that Ginny was friends with Luna and I apologize for that one, but the Severus one still stands)

Did Neville and Hannah Abbott actually have any canon interaction, in the books or movies?

Voldemort was a dramatic whore

Narcissa should’ve gotten more praise for being a caring mother and helping save Harry, even if for more selfish reasons

Sirius was a bit of an idiot, who the hell can’t send a letter or message or something explaining what’s going on but can send you expensive gifts?!

Why’d the Marauders look like they were in their forties, they were like 32, tf

✨Fremione and Nuna✨

"When I said I wanted my teachers to be more like Hogwarts Professors, I wanted someone like Prof. McGonagall or Prof. Dumbledore, not a fake like Umbridge."

— Me after finding a teacher particularly annoying and rude