Arthur Is Such A Tragic Character And At The Same Time The Most Optimistic Fiction Podcast Protagonist

is THIS your man? [shows an image of a malnourished injured exhausted man with big sad eyes looking up at the camera with blood smeared all over his face and mouth. and he is visibly trembling]

the fact they released a “clean” version of noel’s lament is SO funny to me. the song is about being a slut in postwar france and having sex with a different guy EVERY NIGHT and they think that taking out “fuck” is going to make it family friendly? yeah this song is very explicitly about sex and death but nobody cusses so here let your children listen :)

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Severus getting a prep cook job in Cokeworth one summer and picking up solid mf knife skills. Like those culinary school chopping videos. Just fast asf precise knife work and handling.

He gets back to Hogwarts and it’s just business as usual until he’s DEAD tired one day and is prepping ingredients in Slughorn’s class. He gets to something that needs to be sliced uniformly and is similar in shape/size to food he prepped at the restaurant and muscle memory just kicks into overdrive.

The whole classroom freezes and looks at him because idk if y’all know this but that shit is LOUD compared to hesitant knife work. It smacks the cutting board and has a way different rhythm than normal kitchen noise.

Yeah it’s a skill no one has encountered unless they have been back of house at a restaurant.

Severus is too exhausted to process that anyone is paying attention to him so he just keeps going. Ingredients? Prepped? Potion? Brewed with gusto, like he was born to do it. His brain isn’t online so he’s acting like it’s a dream and adds in some flourish and flair, a trick to catch a knife, a fancy stir to help aerate the brew, a crazy amount of multitasking just because he can.

Jaw dropping behavior.

Slughorn doesn’t know how to react honestly, and is spared needing to praise him considering Severus is half awake when he hands his potion to his head of house.

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF ARTHUR LESTER

the isolation of still being in christian spaces (without a choice) and knowing you do not believe is... insane, honestly, something i wish more people knew about. because its not just being in church that feels isolating, it extends to the outside world.

anyone you talk to in your church obviously doesnt understand you. you constantly need to police your words around them to avoid saying something "sinful" or anything that can be read as liberal in any way. the mask must stay on at all times, and then when you're away from that space, you need to slowly adjust and become yourself again, somehow.

and in secular spaces, people just dont get it. which isnt always their fault! its just hard to explain to people who mean well, why "ill pray for you" sets you off and makes your heart race and makes you shudder. "why dont you love your family?? not even your sibling? damn." you see a coworker wearing a shirt with a bible verse on it, and run through several calculations in your head, none of them ending up anywhere because you distance yourself from said coworker, even though you know you should be talking to them before coming to conclusions. "hey, please stop talking about (criticizing) religion, its a bit of a controversial topic here. hope all that church stuff gets better soon though!" your friends do not understand what you are venting about, though they try their hardest.

you try so hard to find people who have left religions and/or cults in the real world. all you seem to be finding are people who are still in them, or people who have never come close to having an experience you have.

not to mention this all becomes approximately 100 times worse if you're queer.

shin soukoku but akutagawa is always persuaded when atsushi's says "if you do ____, i'll let you pet my ears" akutagawa would literally die to feel atsushi's ears im afraid, even if he just doesn't show it outwardly

I swear Percy wears masks like no one else. Hes always been different and laughed at and put down at every turn but he’ll love his family no matter what

So, that scene where Harry retrieves Ron from the bottom of the lake and Percy loses his mind? Let’s look at that.

“Percy, who looked very white and somehow much younger than usual, came splashing out to meet them.”

“Percy seized Ron and was dragging him back to the bank (’Geroff, Percy, I”m all right!’)”

And three pages later: “Madame Pomfrey had gone to rescue Ron from Percy’s clutches.”

But you know, as Ron’s always telling us, Percy only cares about his career.

There is a very popular reading of this character that holds that he really is defined by his ambition and self-importance, and that he never does anything to show that he values his family until DH.  It’s a reading that most likely comes from taking Ron and the twins estimation of Percy as fact and it completely ignores scenes like this one.

What Rowling does here is a brilliant example of showing instead of telling.  When not in crisis mode, Percy is very verbal; he’s always talking about his accomplishments or work business that no one finds interesting but him.  Here, he’s all action.  He completely fails to act the part of a cool, impartial judge because his little brother appears to be in distress, and his affectation disappears.  What remains is a very Molly Weasley-esque kind of concern: You’re alright? Ha! I don’t believe you.  Let me smother you with affection until I’m satisfied that you are correct.

As funny as the image of Percy checking over Ron like an agitated mother cat is, my favorite part of this scene is Harry’s amazement that Percy looks young.  He’s eighteen, only four years older than Harry himself. He IS too young to be taking his boss’s place in this capacity, but Harry has bought into the affectation too. I think people sometimes forget how unreliable Harry’s point of view is.

There is no lack of evidence showing that Percy is quite different from what he pretends to be and how his siblings see him; you just have to tune out all the noise they all make about him to see it.

Okay, i’m actually awake now so lets list some more things that happened and include the later books!!!!

McGonnagal is very very biased and consistently takes more points and gives more detentions than Snape. Dumbledore is also biased and shows Harry so. much. favoritism.

I’m going to rehash this because there needs to be more emphasis on the fact that THEY LEFT A 16 YEAR OLD TO WRITE HIS PARENTS ABOUT THE FACT THAT HIS SISTER WAS MOST LIKELY DEAD AND THAT THE SCHOOL HAD BEEN HIDING THE FACT THAT STUDENTS WERE BEING PETRIFIED!!!!! and all this after he had been worrying about her all year and his girlfriend was attacked!!! Do you know how much guilt that boy must’ve felt? how do you even write a letter like that? The teachers weren't even going to floo call???

Remus Lupin, the man who never told the authorities that Sirius was an Animagus bc he didn’t want to face his mistakes. Remus Lupin, the man who brushed off his and his friends consistent bullying, torture, sexual assault, and almost murder of a fellow student as “a joke gone a bit too far” Remus Lupin, a man who forgets his medicine for a condition he hates and has dealt with his whole life and thus puts a castle full of unaware students are risk How is this man an authority figure?

Lets also reinstate a tournament that was disbanded for its high death toll!!!! And lets also let the entire student body shun and hex a CHILD for getting entered in against his will and do nothing to stop it!!!! And lets reinstate this tournament after obvious death eater attacks and an (alleged) serial killer breaks out of Azkaban and tries to (allegedly) kill a student residing at said school!!!! The ministry doesn't know that Sirius wont come for Harry again, they don't know that those death eaters wont attack again!!! But no! Lets host it here instead of going to France or Scandinavia!

Also, lets appoint a man to DADA teacher who is borderline insane and recently attacked his trashcans because he though they were Dark Wizards!!! let this man of all men teach students!!! Don't really reprimand him when he transfigures a student who he then shoves down another students pants!!! Like that isn't traumatizing!!! Lets give this man permission you use the unforgivable curses in front of students!!! Again, War Generation Students!!! The Longbottoms were in the order, you know what happened!!! “Lets show Neville exactly what happened to his parents and broke their minds so much how own mother doesn't recognize him! That’ll be great for his mental health.” “Lets also show Harry how his parents died for him in great detail and then immediately afterward draw the whole class’ attention to him!” Yes the man was a death eater but Dumbledore gave special dispensation for the curses to be demonstrated!!!!

Yes, once a younger student gets put in the tournament we aren't going to make the challenges easier!!! That wouldn't be fair!!! We are going to have a 14 YEAR OLD face a dragon and chain his friend to the bottom of the lake!!!

ALSO THEY CHAINED AN 8 YEAR OLD GIRL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BLACK LAKE SURROUNDD BY MERPEOPLE AND GRINDYLOWS!!!! ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED!!!

Hagrid: *breeds a new creature for COMC class even though breeding new creatures is illegal* Hagrid: *has 14 year olds take care of said creature with unknown powers who cannibalized the other creatures* Amos Diggory: *works for the department of regulation and control of magical creatures and definitely heard about them from his son* Amos Diggory: *does nothing about said creatures* Hogwarts Staff: *does not report Hagrid for illegal breeding or stop the dangerous lessons that gave children burns and stings even though Hagrid definitely didn't know the effects the stinger venom could have had on students*

Lets give the most dangerous dragon to a 14 year old and not have him switch or assign the dragons in the first place.

Lets give the champions a difficult clue and not tell them what they need to do to prepare even though said 14 year old probably does not have the knowledge needed to decipher said clue.

Lets have no protection against falling in the broom sport where iron balls are enchanted to knock people off their brooms and grievously injure them often breaking bones and causing concussions!

Lets fill a maze with dangerous spells and creatures and have no way of seeing the competitors. How is one to send off red sparks when incapacitated because of an Acromantula, Blast-Ended Skrewt, Sphinx, or deadly spell??? Lets also not spell the cup against tampering!

Its totally normal for reporters known for slander to drag a teenager into a broom closet with that blasted quill. And then do nothing about the article. Why are they letting the worst reporter into the school at all!!!!

Lets do nothing about the crowds of students harassing and stalking the foreign celebrity! Or the students harassing and stalking the girl(s?) with veela blood!

Yes we teacher gladly ignore the slanderous bullying buttons that most of the student body is wearing.

We also ignore that Rita Skeeter is harassing minors is the gossip columns with unfounded romantic insinuations and making them appear in a horrid light.

No counseling once again after a dead student appears on school grounds, no Harry is totally fine after witnessing that, lets just ship him home! And the other students are totally not traumatized by seeing a dead schoolmate!! it’s fine.

Lets immediately give the death eater with information the kiss! Lets also not look for what happened to Barty Crouch Sr.’s body and blame everything on the new hire because he is poor and new and easy to blame!!! And then lets have a full inquiry for said 18 year old and then give him a high end job at your (Fudge’s) side so he feels indebted to you for this chance of redemption so that you and your associates can manipulate him further!!!

Lets ignore the bullying and students calling Harry crazy for saying he witnessed the rise of the dark lord.

Lets also punish said boy for getting punished by the manipulative ministry official (McGonnagal took points) and ignore him trying to tell you that hes being tortured.

STUDENTS ARE BEING TORTURED AND NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING, SOME OF THE TEACHERS HAD TO’VE FOUND OUT!!!! ESP POPPY POMPHREY WHEN FIRST YEARS WHEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PAIN!!! DO SOMETHING YOU USELESS AUTHORITY FIGURES!!!

Bertha Jorkins goes missing? Oh its normal she’s fine! They say as she was tortured and killed

Fred and George never get punished for basically running human experiments in the common rooms!!!!! And for making money off of it!!!

Also Harry gets ignored by his mentor and basically abandoned and treated like a child bc Dumbles wants to ‘preserve his innocence’ or ‘let him be a child for as long as possible’. That boy was never a child! He had no childhood! He was locked up and starved and forced to do everyone's chores and cook as soon as he could reach the stove. He was thrown into hallways and had his head swung at by a frying pan and was beat up by his cousin and humiliated all his life. He was never innocent, was never a child, i wouldn't be surprised if he had to potty train himself. Dumbledore avoiding him and keeping his from the order and the prophecy was the worst thig he could've done.

Harry never gets counseling for seeing the local warlord murder people and attack arthur weasley with a snake

FRED AND GEORGE SHOVED GRAHAM MONTAGUE INTO THE BROKEN VANISHING CABINET! BEING IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE ALMOST DROVE HIM INSANE BEFORE HE APPARATED (without a license or much practice) AND LODGED HIMSELF IN A TOILET ON THE FOURTH FLOOR. THEY ALMOST MURDERED HIM AND HE WAS IN A FUGE STATE FOR MONTHS. HERMIONE SUGGESTED THEY TELL POMPHREY WHAT HAPPENED BUT HARRY AND RON SAID NO. HE WAS NEVER THE SAME AND JUST BARELY SURVIVED!!! FUCK YOU FRED AND GEORGE, YOU NEVER TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALMOST KILLING SOMEONE!!!

Oh! Percy left this year! The year where the Weasley families horrible treatment of him came to a head and they disregarded his achievements and how amazing it was that at 19 years old he had such a high position after years of being ridiculed and Arthur became the worst father on the planet!!! Percy is my favorite character and he deserved better.

Also Dementors. he had a full criminal hearing like those for genocidal maniacs like Bellatrix Lestrange. Yup that’s normal.

I would list everything the ministry did this year but i’m trying to keep this shorter than it already is so i’m just going to say that they slandered a minor in the largest wizarding newspaper in Britain for a whole summer, taught nothing and focused their energy on taking over Hogwarts rather than the war effort or finding out what really happened. Put the education of the magical children of Britain into the hands of said children because of their incompetency, and had the most dangerous artifacts in wizarding Britain (time sand, evil brains, de-aging bubble, prophecies) and the ministry itself behind such shoddy protections that 6 teenagers could break in easily. All this led to more people dying than necessary in the war.

Harry never gets counseling for watching his godfather get murdered right in front of him they once again ship him off with his grief bc he’s so fine and then wonder why he doesn’t trust adults.

Year 6: AKA the year where a grown man collects teenagers for their connections and teaches them to brew a date rape/obsession drug and then no one ever punishes Romilda Vane for using it on a fellow student. Its almost worse than mind control.

Katie Bell almost gets murdered and there is no investigation of who did it but thank god finally someone goes to St Mungo’s when they need it.

Ron gets poisoned, again no investigation, again no St Mungo’s. This is a school!!!! They deal with spells gone wrong and bumps and bruised and broken bones!!! Not Petrification, attempted murders, soul stealing possession, near death from a broken vanishing cabinet, and the deadliest poison in the world!!!

Also they never closed the school after death eaters broke in and they had to fight for their lives, and bill weasley was permanently disfigured.

Lets give teenagers liquid luck!!! That a great idea even though its illegal in certain circumstances!!!

And then Dumbledore says its a great idea to take Harry on a deadly mission, the same one that has killed in the past!!! Oh jolly itll be an adventure he says as Harry has to watch him be mentally tortured with the Draught of Despair and then almost killed by inferi.

Then he dies.

Only one thing to say about year 7: No one appreciated Regulus Black enough, we get one chapter and that is? Come on his is my second fav character and we only get a short section devoted to his tragedy?

End note: Again, Fred and George almost murdered a student and drove him to temporary insanity, never checking on him until he saved himself which injured him and permanently mentally traumatized him. All this bc he was part of the inquisitorial squad and tried to take points. They were uncaring of the fact that it may take him weeks to reemerge and never once were guilty that they almost killed him.

harry potter and the year a literal teenager was blamed for not noticing his new boss was acting weird and was given loads of shit and was held responsible but staff of the safest place and the best school in wizarding world and the best wizard failed to notice the man they knew very well was actually a death eater in disguise and got away without a single complaint aka the year nobody got a haircut.