I love how casually knowledgeable Ronald Weasley is, talking facts, including the year and the venue
like that.
okay but it’s retroactively perfectly sensible that Ron would know random facts pertaining to Dragons and Exactly Why Charlie Can’t Have One he probably overheard that lecture a hundred times in the Burrow.
AU where Minerva McGonagall has a little less faith in Albus Dumbledore so she does agree to leave Harry at the Dursleys.
But then proceeds to move right in next door with her wife because Albus never said that she couldn’t.
So Harry grows up with two grandmalike aunties next door, who basically finnagle him into living with them in all but name. It’s great, until he gets to Hogwarts because he keeps accidentally calling McGonagall Aunt Min instead of Professor.
The more I think about this the better it gets because suddenly a small biracial orphan appearing on the Dursley’s doorstep is less scandalous and gossip worthy in the
pasty ass white suburbia of Privet Drive, when it’s compared to the elderly lesbian interracial couple who moved in next door.
On the subject, I want to share my personal favorite “Tom Riddle is a massive idiot” move. Because oh, it makes me laugh.
See, I do believe that Tom made an earnest effort at protecting the diadem based on his knowledge. It’s just that his knowledge is wrong (and also that he was rushed for time and possibly that the Room of Requirement swallowed whatever protective spells he cast on the diadem).
I don’t think that Tom was arrogant enough to believe that he was the only one who’d found the Room of Requirement, but I do believe that Tom is arrogant enough to believe that the Room of Requirement would somehow ultimately be loyal to him and him alone. The Chamber of Secrets and that no one had discovered his horcruxes primed him to believe that Hogwarts (his birthright, in his mind) would serve his interests above all others and that the diadem would be lost in this labyrinth of hidden things forever.
But, see, not only does Tom not own Hogwarts, but Tom hid the diadem in a room designed to give up whatever any person desires.
Sure, there might have been protections, but Harry Potter walks in and goes, “I want a horcrux.” And the Room of Requirement basically goes, “I have a horcrux!!!” and practically throws it at Harry’s head with no charge.
ngl one of the main reasons i ship romione is because hermione got a cat that is the cat version of ron
…you just blew my entire mind
BIG, GINGER, GRUMPY, AND A LITTLE VIOLENT who am i talking about ron or crookshanks you don’t know
My mind keeps also drawing comparisons between Ron the Consistently Underappreciated with his overachieving brothers, and Crookshanks who languished at the pet store watching the cuter kittens get adopted…
This also makes Ron’s dislike of Crookshanks pretty hilarious
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY THE CRUX OF MY CROOKSHANKS IS THE CAT VERSION OF RON PHILOSOPHY. Fucking of course he hates that cat because he is that cat and he is Ron fucking Weasley. If Ron Weasley had a double that double would be better than him and he’d hate him too.
And of course Hermione has a soft spot for the most disagreeable, underdog cat in the world.
Befrends a lonly black haired dog who had spent years neglected and locked away.
Can we have a Harry Potter AU where Regulus Black is the Death Eater spy turned potions master instead of Snape?
I can’t believe I only JUST realized all the comedy potential that is Sirius showing up to kill Peter 3rd year and finding his supposedly evil brother working at Hogwarts and having civil conversations with Remus about Harry’s grades
Please let this be after a full year of awkwardness of Regulus working with his evil brother’s ex
Sirius and Regulus are both convinced they’re the good brother
friendly reminder that the only reference to non-straight people even existing in the whole of 7 harry potter books was that one time in ootp when dudley made fun of harry saying cedric’s name in his sleep, asking mockingly if that was his boyfriend’s name. that’s it. that one homophobic insult was all that jk rowling ever delivered in canon. whatever she says on twitter or in interviews does not erase the fact that she chose, and still deliberately chooses not to represent us in her works, even though the chance presented itself several times. she just can’t risk the love of all the homophobic white dudes who still idealize snape and lowkey agree with the wizard nazis
Whenever Hagrid finally decides to retire as Care of Magical Creatures professor you can bet your last knut that Charlie Weasley flies back to England the following week excitedly waving his resume and recommendation letters from no less than two Scamanders and the Minister of Magic, Hermione Granger.
I’m pretty sure he would also have recommendation letters from Rubeus Hagrid, the retiring professor, Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived and a very confusing one from Puddlemere United player, Oliver Wood, saying that he was one of the best Seekers he had ever seen.
Not to mention the fact that he flies back to England not on a broomstick or any other normal form of transportation, but landing on the Hogwarts grounds on the back of the largest dragon anyone has ever seen.
Reblogging again for that last addition.
Charlie: *glides in on a dragon* HELLO HIRE ME
Everyone: What the fuck
Ron: (in the background, mortified) this is normal
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