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here’s another detail for the brain rot: lilies are herbaceous. this means that they have medicinal qualities. daffodils do not. not only was she incredible at potions, it was lily’s advanced blood magic wards that saved harry from death. narcissa is not known to possess or have done anything similar but it’s her love that saved harry at the end. oh my god!!!!

okay literally everyone knows this but the fact that harry was saved by a mother’s love twice and both those women were names after flowers?! lily and narcissa…. full circle moment it makes me scream every time i remember it

regulus: Unfortunately, due to several experiences in my youth, I cannot just 'walk up and join a circle of people talking', but it does sound lovely, thank you.

okay literally everyone knows this but the fact that harry was saved by a mother’s love twice and both those women were named after flowers?! lily and narcissa…. full circle moment it makes me scream every time i remember it

I absolutely love this artist’s styling. All art by Irenhorrors on deviant art featuring the Blacks, the Lestrange clan and the Malfoys

the noble and most ancient house of black is literally my version of the roman empire

Georg Dionysius Ehret

you want me to drink water? the thing that killed my comfort character. no thanks.

hello hi love your blog but just curious, what do you have against molly weasley?

Well..... most things lmao. I think she’s a terrible parent to her own children, behaves in very unhealthy ways with other people’s children including Harry which actively harms them, and treats several other characters awfully too.

She's verbally abusive, and I think Molly's temper largely goes over fandom's head because it's treated flippantly / as comic relief by JKR, but she screams and snaps at her children (and others) and takes her temper out on them regularly and publicly: the howler in CoS, yelling at the twins and Ron for rescuing Harry from the Dursleys and then at Arthur too, in OOTP she’s repeatedly screaming at Fred and George in caps lock in front of the whole Order (this is compared to Sirius’s abusive mother’s portrait multiple times in the text), the twins say things like "[wrt the fight with Percy] I’ve never seen Dad row with anyone like that, it’s normally Mum who shouts" "I love hearing Mum shouting at someone else, it makes such a nice change" "The idiots are letting her get into her stride, you’ve got to head her off early, otherwise she builds up a head of steam and goes on for hours", she screams at Arthur in public in the hospital (her kids, Harry, and Hermione sprint out of the room to avoid witnessing this), in HBP her children can’t make jokes because she snaps at them about it, in DH they hear Molly shouting from four floors up and Ron is just like “Ginny’s probably left a speck of dust on a poxy napkin ring” again establishing Molly losing her temper with them over stupid shit as normal in their household, Hermione also flinches away from Molly’s anger repeatedly. And there are many little throwaway lines in Harry’s POV that make it clear that he’s afraid of her temper and associates her with it. i.e. in HBP Harry chooses to confide in Arthur partially because he thinks Molly will "explode in anger" if she finds out he snuck off on his own, his first thought when Umbridge catches the DA is "Mrs. Weasley would kill [Ron]”, etc. All this alone puts her very firmly into Terrible Parent category. And naturally I don’t think being around a parent who constantly blows up at her children and publicly humiliates them is a healthy environment for Harry, who had a volatile childhood full of yelling, and doesn't react well to conflict like this (i.e. even Ron and Hermione's arguing stresses him out)

She believes Rita Skeeter’s ridiculous article about Hermione cheating on Harry with Krum (and Ron learned the word “scarlet woman” from her and presumably that’s how she sees Hermione), despite knowing that Skeeter lied about Arthur (Molly even calls out someone else for believing Skeeter’s articles); and aside from the absurdity of her believing it - instead of maybe trying to contact Harry and see how he’s feeling if she really thinks he’s going through stuff in his love life, her response is to.... send a fifteen year old Hermione a passive aggressive Easter present? Which forces Harry into an uncomfortable position, and when Harry is forced to call her on it because she’s continuing to be cold to Hermione, doesn’t apologize and simply pretends she never believed the article. She also believes Rita Skeeter’s initial article about Harry and how he weeps over his dead parents etc., which shows that Molly just doesn’t know who Harry is as a person at all.

Her treatment of Sirius and the effect of this on Harry. When she’s rightfully told that it’s not her place to make decisions for Harry, she accuses Sirius of being reckless and irresponsible and of not being able tell the difference between his godson and his dead best friend to discredit him, which, she obviously wasn’t right, but even if she was, it would be unacceptable to say it in front of Harry, and in that scenario is absolutely being used as an attempt to get control over the situation and get Harry / the Order members to agree with her. When they don’t, throws Sirius’s Azkaban imprisonment in his face (people call her out a lot for that one line but I think everything else she does in that book wrt their relationship is.... just as bad).

I also find it disturbing how many times Molly defends Dumbledore's actions wrt Harry in that fight. Obviously this is a narrative flaw, all the adults are responsible for deferring to Dumbledore and sending Harry back to the Dursleys, but only the Weasleys know that the Dursleys are starving Harry and put bars on his window, and no one else in that scene is as vehemently parroting Dumbledore’s orders to try to control how much Harry can know (even Remus is more reasonable and quietly speaks up for Harry’s right to decide for himself, which is saying something considering his own idolization of Dumbledore); a couple lines after Sirius explicitly brings up that Harry’s been locked up at Privet Drive, she says “Dumbledore must have had his reasons for not wanting Harry to know too much” (the way Dumbledore made sure Harry didn’t know too much, was, of course, locking him up in an abusive home right after he’s been through severe trauma and trying to limit his communication with people who care about him), and considering Molly goes to great lengths herself to try to isolate Harry and block his access to information / interactions with other people even while he’s IN Grimmauld Place to “protect” him (elaborated on below) or just because she’s being territorial, and she seems capable of ignoring Dumbledore’s plans when it suits her own wishes (i.e. in DH when she tries to keep the trio from going on Dumbledore’s mission), it’s much harder to see Molly doing so as simply part of said narrative flaw. Particularly as that fight isn’t an isolated incident, it seems clear from how the scene is written that Molly and Sirius have argued about Dumbledore’s orders regarding Harry before.

Then she actively tries to prevent Sirius and Harry from speaking to each other - interrupting them in the tapestry scene, when Harry starts to ask Sirius if he'll be able to accompany him to the trial Molly doesn't even let Harry open his mouth before speaking over him, pushing Harry away when Sirius tries to give Harry a goodbye hug as a dog at King's Cross. Molly goes "who else has he got" to Harry’s actual godfather and then tries to further isolate Harry from the only family of his own he has left, at a time when he needs him the most. Harry makes it very clear during that argument 1. who he feels has authority over him and he chooses Sirius’s side there 2. that he wants information about the man literally trying to murder him and the war he’s at the center of. Molly ignores his wishes in order to adamantly try to control Harry’s free time and who he can interact with as he’s in his godfather’s house and access to important information that is his right. She also repeatedly throws Sirius dirty looks for no reason (one of which Harry describes as “Petunia-ish”), she gives Sirius a passive aggressive message to send to the trio for her about how she knows she doesn’t Technically have any authority over Harry and Hermione but that they should listen to her instead because she has their best interests at heart (a blatant reference to the earlier fight), and Sirius tells the kids to let Molly know because he thinks Molly doesn’t trust him to convey it, further indicating that she’s continuing to be hostile to him. She gets along with him for five seconds and then is back to complaining about him having “fits of the sullens” where everyone else can hear. And I think this absolutely comes from Molly being possessive and territorial over Harry and also disagreeing with Sirius’s parenting methods of, idk, respecting Harry’s autonomy and actually listening to him. I don’t think Molly respects Harry’s actual feelings or needs or autonomy at any point so her claiming that she’s “as good as” a mother to him or “has his best interests at heart” is.... untrue to say the least. And again, Harry has had people try to take away his autonomy all his life!

Molly’s continuous hostility towards Sirius and her interfering in his and Harry’s relationship gets to the point where Harry doesn't want to leave Sirius alone for Christmas but doesn’t feel comfortable bringing this up to Molly: “He wondered whether he could possibly persuade Mrs. Weasley  to invite his godfather for the festivities too, but apart from the fact that he doubted whether Dumbledore would permit Sirius to leave   Grimmauld Place, he could not help but feel that Mrs. Weasley might not want him." And while giving Harry the mirror, Sirius tells Harry not to open it there because Molly might disapprove, like, Sirius now feels like he’s not allowed to give a literal valuable communication device to his own godson in his own house?? 

(Sirius, of course, tries to stay calm and polite in their initial fight even while Molly throws low blows, and afterward only ever responds to  her behavior with mild annoyance and makes an effort to be courteous to her, even tries to comfort her about Percy in the Boggart scene, is extremely nice and welcomes her to stay for Christmas when Arthur is attacked)

Just like she tries to keep Harry and Sirius apart, she also spends the rest of the summer holiday in OOTP making her kids, Harry, and Hermione clean Grimmauld Place, doing this deliberately so she can keep a close watch on them and prevent them from talking to each other about the war. (She tells them they’re not allowed to talk after the first meeting, listens at their bedroom door to make certain they aren’t, interrupts them, hounds them and controls their movements around the house to make sure they’re not listening to Order members simply going in and out). This controlling behavior doesn’t protect them, it puts them in more danger, especially Harry, and it’s terrible enough with her own kids but she’s doing this with other people’s children she has no parental authority over. (Also, none of the adults in the Order want the kids to be a part of it, and they’re all following Dumbledore’s orders and keeping Harry in the dark about the prophecy at his expense; and yet none of them go as far as to pull the kind of shit Molly does)

She does the same thing in DH by forcing the trio help with the wedding by guilt tripping them, then when they sneak off to make plans, slams the door open with her “face contorted with rage” and scolds them for not helping when they “agreed” to and Hermione is literally terrified of her and runs out of the room?? (she’s also constantly slamming things around her kids when she’s angry) I... guess I’ll give her some credit to for questioning Dumbledore’s decision to let three kids go on an unspecified mission alone, while Remus and Arthur’s response is mostly to be like “k have fun” because Dumbledore Said So, but not allowing them to plan does NOT make them safe, Molly’s actions achieve nothing other than further endangering children who are already endangered and could’ve gotten them killed, and doing this by scaring and controlling and isolating them.

Other things: she forces Charlie to cut his hair at wandpoint, harasses Bill about his hair and tries to involve Harry in this and make him agree with her opinion which makes Harry uncomfortable, claims the twins aren’t really part of the family because they didn’t make Prefect, plays favorites with her children, treats Fleur like shit for a whole year and passive aggressively gives everyone but Fleur a Christmas sweater, pressures Remus about Tonks (regardless of opinions on the ship, it wasn’t Molly’s place to involve herself). We also further see the negative effect of her parenting on her children with the dynamics between the Weasley siblings. I do think there are some very stupid (and misogynistic and classist) criticisms of Molly in fandom, but there are plenty of real reasons to hate her, which I rarely see addressed -- Ron’s insecurities don’t come from Molly not giving him his favorite sandwich or the wrong color sweater, they come from witnessing how Molly treats the kids who don’t meet her approval and how that disapproval manifests.

Molly’s behavior is often dismissed as her being “a good mother with flaws” or just being “a little overbearing and overprotective” and it’s all acceptable because she “loves her children”, but there’s that and there’s uh, being abusive and massively crossing boundaries and being incapable of having an emotionally healthy relationship with any character, child or adult, that she interacts with and this harmful behavior being persistent across all seven books. People constantly have to navigate her temper and moods and walk on eggshells around her and escape her trying to control them. Some of this is due to her grief over her brothers, but Molly isn’t the only one who lost people in the war or is worried about her loved ones, and bad parents often use their love for their children as justifications for their behavior and it... isn’t. (Loving your children and doing good things for them at times and being a terrible / abusive parent also aren’t mutually exclusive categories)

It doesn’t help that JKR views her as an ideal example of motherhood, and on the rare occasion that her flaws are called out, they’re still not treated all that seriously. Obviously the way she’s written is a result of JKR’s misogyny and gender essentialism, and people should feel free to rewrite her, but in canon she is... pretty unquestionably awful.

To Peter, in a once happier time.

okay but do u believe in uwu soft reggie or bamf dark regulus black?

i have um. thoughts on this

ok i used to think so much about how fanon regulus would be written if sirius hadn't called regulus "soft" that one time in ootp. like imagine all we knew about regulus was that he died when he was 18 and the last thing he did was literally tell voldemort that it was regulus who betrayed him.

but then i realise that it's even better like this. because why can't regulus have both sides?

i think it's even better if sirius thought regulus was soft and sweet "this kid must be protected" and all but to most people, he's actually an intimidating... scary person.

like imagine everyone being genuinely terrified of regulus's temper and then imagine first year slytherins only asking regulus for help because he's the kindest?

imagine regulus being sneaky and cunning and manipulative and resourceful and single-minded abt things he cares about. imagine regulus being the one who nobody argues with, whose quiet leadership nobody ever questions.

and then imagine regulus being touchy and sensitive and hurt when he's with sirius and then imagine all this happening at the same time.

basically, anon what i like to think is : regulus black is a bamf powerful proud spiteful haughty shit and he's also miserable insecure little brother house elf champ reggie. he isn't the louder one or the brighter one but that doesn't mean regulus ever lets himself be walked over by anyone. he's insecure in a way that you'll never catch onto. on the outside, he's arrogant and basically the perfect pureblood heir but inside he's maybe just a tiny bit crazy

i was actually writing something yesterday that sort of touches on this, u can read if u want :

"Sirius told me he was young," Harry said, remembering Sirius's words. "Soft. An idiot, really, not truly bad."

"Regulus Black was never soft," the man scoffed, something strange in his eyes. "He just didn't know how to be harsh with Sirius."

Harry stared at him.

"Dark," he clarified. "Powerful. Magic like an ocean wave. Frightening aura. The way he looked at you, the way he flew. You knew what was coming when Regulus Black raised his wand. But Sirius was always there for him, when he was a kid. Sirius raised him, infant to toddler to Hogwarts. If someone's seen you as a vulnerable, crying little child," he laughed, humorless, "You can't possibly be anything but soft with them."

so. yes anon. regulus is uwu soft reggie and bamf r.a.b i love him yeah thanks for the ask <3