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“He’ll wake up, he always does.” - Snape has an unfortunate habit of passing out after arriving home from a DE meeting and ensuring Potter was safe.

The cruciatus curse doesn’t leave physical marks. A mouth filled with blood from biting his tongue was always a tell tale sign to Harry that Snape was gonna be on the floor for awhile and would have shaky hands for a few days to come.

-holds out my mug to collect tears-

they go to the gym together idfk

TRUCY AND JINXIE?????? OMG THEY ARE SO UNDERRATED

day 2: please be gentle ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

I was reading the Wizarding World article about the Patronus Charm, and found a couple of interesting things…

It’s described as “a pure, protective magical concentration of happiness and hope“ and that producing a Patronus is “generally considered a mark of superior magical ability“.

“In some cases a witch or wizard may choose to produce an incorporeal Patronus deliberately, if he or she wishes to disguise the form it generally takes.”

This is something that I can absolutely imagine Snape doing. We only see him using his Patronus twice, and these two times the appearance of his doe was needed, first to guide Harry to the sword and then to Dumbledore. But what about in POA, when Dementors were roaming the school grounds, and Lupin, who may have known the origins of his Patronus was around? I can see him using the less efficient version of his Patronus, both in case someone may have recognized it (or just because Snape and a doe, doesn’t really fit with his wannabe vampire reputation), or to even save himself from the pain of having to see Lily fly off to save him against the darkness of the Dementors.

“It may be that a true and confident belief in the rightness of one’s actions can supply the necessary happiness. However, most such men and women, who become desensitised to the effects of the Dark creatures with whom they may ally themselves, regard the Patronus as an unnecessary spell to have in their arsenal.”

Rowling uses here the example of Umbridge, who can obviously procude a Patronus while not being a “pure of heart” person, to show that people who “questionable morals” are also able to use this charm. But what I find the most interesting is the second part, about Dark Wizards being desensitised to the Dementors. Does this mean that they barely feel the cold and depression that the Dementors bring with them? Maybe because they don’t have as many pure happy memories to feed from? And what does it mean for Snape? He is a practitioner of Dark Magic, thus is a Dark Wizard, maybe not to the extent that Bellatrix is for example, but still. Does that make him less affected by Dark Creatures, so Dementors?

“The Patronus represents that which is hidden, unknown but necessary within the personality.”

“For it is evident […] that a human confronted with inhuman evil, such as the Dementor, must draw upon resources he or she may never have needed, and the Patronus is the awakened secret self that lies dormant until needed, but which must now be brought to light…”

Isn’t this a perfect metaphor of Snape’s use of his Patronus? Of his secret, the biggest of the whole series, slowly cultivated for seven books? In the end, it was his love for Lily, symbolized by his doe Patronus, that was brought to light exactly when needed, and that enabled another (Harry) to fight off the darkness (Dementors/Voldemort).

And lastly, there’s this:

“The form of a Patronus may changed during the course of a witch or wizard’s life. Instances have been known of the form of the Patronus transforming due to bereavement, falling in love or profound shifts in a person’s character.”

I kept that last part in the quote because I think that all three examples here can apply to Snape, which I find very interesting. But what intrigues me the most, is what the article isn’t saying. After this quote, Rowling uses Tonks’s Patronus as an illustration, and not Snape’s. Of course Tonks’s Patronus is the most explicit one to have changed, or in fact the only one we know of for sure.

Other Patronuses are mentioned throughout the article, Umbridge’s, Remus’s, and there’s mentions of cats, horses and dogs as corporeal Patronuses. But nothing about the most important Patronus in the story, Snape’s doe.

My theory has always been that Snape’s Patronus was simply always a doe. Two people can have similar Patronuses, it’s both written in the article again, and we have the example of McGonagall and Umbridge (I always found it amusing that McGonagall’s “biggest rival” shares the same Patronus, at least same species).

“However, every Patronus is as unique as its creator and even identical twins have been known to produce very different Patronuses.”

Meaning that Snape’s doe would have differed from Lily’s. In what way, we don’t know, but it wouldn’t have been a perfect copy. A doe Patronus uniquely belonging to Snape, that would represent him, and not her. And this, I love.

"phoenix's type is accused murderers" "phoenix's type is people he thinks he can fix/save" wrong. phoenix's type is this

Lily & Sev friendship moments ♡

I have a lot of feelings about this scene. Because from Harry's POV at this point obviously Snape is the mean bully who's always picked on him for no reason and it's gratifying to see Sirius standing up to him and putting him in his place. And at this point in the story that's kind of what we as readers see too. BUT with the additional knowledge we gain about Snape throughout the rest of the story this hits so different.

Think about Snape, who spent years being tormented and humiliated by Sirius and who has carefully rebuilt himself from that, but who still has all the open wounds and trauma from it lurking just beneath the surface. Think about how he's so used to Sirius hurting and humiliating him that the second Sirius stands it's a reflex to grab his wand. And he's not just holding it. He's balled his fist around it - an obvious sign of stress from someone who usually masks it so well - because this isn't just another duel. This isn't even like facing Voldemort.

No matter that Snape is much older and more capable and more powerful now. When it's Sirius suddenly Snape is 15 again and all those memories and feelings of powerlessness and humiliation come rushing back.

I drew Franziska again in her outfit from the collaboration cafe at the time of the 20th anniversary…

There is also a time lapse from the middle to the middle. The file size was too large to record all the way through😂

I remember first seeing this around the time it was first being made and can I just say love the art style. Series is a must read for any Alola fans as the development for characters like Guzma and Gladion is so good.

El’s Alolan Adventures MASTERPOST

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SEASON 1

Guzmas Redemption:

Dont get it twisted

An unexpected friend

Hala’s Advice Part 1 |  Part 2

Slice of Life inbetween:

Ten Carat Training

NO SWEARING AROUND HAU

Fishing for Araquanid

El’s Pokemon: An Introduction

Package to Hoenn (tiny teaser)

Back from Hoenn Part 1 |  Part 2 |  BONUS

Dusk - The sassy sword from overseas Part 1 |  Part 2 | Part 3

Introducing: Latias

Someone REALLY wants to battle Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

BONUS (meme)

Rescuing Reskull

Do you have a license for that

A long overdue conversation

Call from Kanto

Call from Kanto: Aftermath

Conversations Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | BONUS

SEASON 2

Wait what do you mean you have a full bug team

Swipe through Memories

Bug Buddies (Illustration)

A new friend Part 1 | Part 2

Returning the Favor | BONUS

Gladion - Aether Foundation’s President

A present absence Part 1 | Part 2

Midnight Chatter Part 1 | Part 2

Aether’s broken Paradise

Mr. Beans Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Mohn - The Bridge

Gladion meets Mohn Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

A Promise

I thought he said he PROMISED Part 1 | Part 2

A Compromise

Calm before the storm

Pastime Games Part 1 | Part 2

Dusk is not happy

Shitposts I don’t know where to put in the timeline yet hdsjdhsdsdh

- It’s a full moon in Alola so yoU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS - Galar? I dont know her - Hau and Guzma go on a quest

Dusk takes over twitter (April Fools 2020)

Tweets Part 1  ->  Jenna Snapshots 

Tweets Part 2 

Tweets Part 3  ->  Kira Snapshots

Tweets Part 4 FINALE

VIDEO: When El isn’t home

VIDEO: Mr Sandman Meme

No but seriously why is Lily’s patronus so unnecessarily gendered?

JKR said this in a interview in 2007:

Question: James patronus is a stag and lilys a doe is that a coincidence? J.K. Rowling: No, the Patronus often mutates to take the image of the love of one's life (because they so often become the 'happy thought' that generates a Patronus).

I’m assuming it was Lily’s patronus that changed not James because he already had a stag animagus at 15 and the only other person we know both their patronus and animagus form is Mcgonagall and they are both cats. So if Lily's patronus changed to be “the image of the love of her life” why is it a doe not a stag? How is a doe the image of James? Snape's patronus is apparently the "image of lily" and it appears as a doe instead of a stag to match his respective gender. What is going on?

(also guys im looking for a watsonian reason. I know the real answer is JKR's adherence to the gender binary)