You all owe an apology to his children, Lily Rose and Jack, then-minors who were relentlessly bullied online for years and sent death threats when they defended their father. All the while, Amber was the abuser.

You owe an apology to his exes, who stood by him from the beginning and were ignored: Vanessa Paradis, Winona Rider, Sherilynn Fenn, Lori Anne Allison. All the while, Amber was the abuser.

You owe an apology to his friends and coworkers who sided with him, enduring years of online abuse: JK Rowling, Paul McCartney, Marylin Manson, Paul Bettany, Jude Law, Orlando Bloom, and Zoe Kravitz to name a few. All the while, Amber was the abuser.

Johnny Depp deserves better than for his story to be ignored because he is a man.

If you truly care about domestic violence and abuse, now would be a pretty fucking good time to show it.

Ron: Well, Rosie; when a mummy and a daddy love each-other very much, they give each other a big special hug, which makes the baby.

Rose: Okay! *walks out of earshot*

Hermione, under her breath: And -in our case- it was MANY rounds of special hugs throughout the night because my redheaded hunk of a husband has the stamina of a thousand men-

hey my country is in flames, i have family stranded on beaches having lost everything, i have a chest infection from the smoke, i’ve been evacuated from different places 3 times in the last 4 days. i’m a literal kid, i don’t know what to do, i’m scared, i’m separated from family, and i’m one of the lucky ones so i’m gonna do what i can to help and try to sell some art and donate to our fireies. please help. we’ve lost like 5 million hectares and i don’t know what to do. here’s a link to help donate, i’ll try get some art to sell done soon https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/technology/environment/bushfire-relief-how-you-can-help-those-in-need/news-story/a0476ac3538b8c373f281ea6be204421

Snape: Yeah but ur dif

Lily:

but Hermione is compassionate. She doesn’t always Catch On that she needs to be in a situation. The Lavender’s dead bunny debacle happens because Hermione is trying to solve another problem…is Divination legit? And that provokes an emotional blind spot for her: Hermione gets tunnel vision when she’s hung up on something. But that’s the exception that proves the rule—Hermione generally notices when someone is hurting. And she cares, and everyone around her knows it.

Kreacher is awful to her. Just awful. She’s kind to him anyway, because she recognizes she has power over him, whatever his bigoted opinions might be. He’s just an old house elf who has had little choice in what he’s been exposed to, and she has the clarity of mind to realize that and treat him accordingly.

Why does Hermione hit Draco? Because he was mocking Hagrid. If I remember correctly, Umbridge’s taunts of Hagrid bring her to tears in class. She gets emotional when Remus has his breakdown in DH: she hears what’s being communicated in a way Harry doesn’t. She has such a profound sense of other people’s marginalization and how it’s enacted, and it hurts her deeply. Sometimes she cries, sometimes she gets angry, sometimes she throws herself into helping someone who needs it. But other people’s pain matters to her. Especially when it’s been provoked by injustice.

lily evans

likes buying random foods at the grocery store for dinners

loves road trips and drags her friends on one every year

drive-in movies

likes white chocolate best

everybody tells her their secrets

likes sleeping in but is most productive in the morning

has different lists of songs to listen to depending on her mood

known for her witty comebacks and intolerance of meanness

marlene mckinnon

very rarely found sitting in chairs—prefers countertops, tables, laps, and the floor

loves lying on the floor next to friends and cracking up over the most random things

tries to take ugly photos but never looks ugly in them

doc martens and red lipstick

checkered diner floors

neat freak

the queen of random-and-unexpected-but-actually-fantastic food combinations

still appreciates ring pops

can’t keep a straight face when she tries to

dorcas meadowes

best singer in the group but can’t dance to save her life

feels like she’s procrastinating if she doesn’t finish her work right away

“i love my sibling” and two minutes later “i hate my sibling”

can make a compelling argument for anything

uses “frickity frack” and other non-curse curses

can either be incredibly poetic or speaks in phrases that don’t even remotely make sense

mary macdonald

queen of sarcasm

wakes up an hour before actually getting up

the craziest and yet somehow, most comfortable, reading positions

owns more cozy socks than shirts, probably

says “is that a challenge?” at least twice a day

really clumsy but always has the best intentions

doesn’t study but always aces her tests

alice fortescue

has a “to read” list, and loves muggle books

loves the coffee aesthetic but can’t stand the actual coffee so she just gets hot chocolate

cute clothing

gets flustered easily, but confident when she’s doing something on behalf of her friends

mom friend even though she’s actually the youngest

bearer of snacks during study sessions

remus spends the whole series speaking so cautiously, hesitating before he talks, choosing his words so carefully; something i think about a lot is the rarity with which he uses contractions in his speech, i.e. its always “he will” instead of he’ll,” etc. what that says to me is that he speaks slowly, he thinks before he talks, he is measured and careful in his speech. everything he says out loud he has already gone through in his head.

and there’s a reason for that, yeah? he does this on purpose, he does it because he has to maintain this exacted control or else people are going to be afraid. if he loses it, it is going to scare people. anger from remus – a raised voice, an aggressive movement, anything – is going to be perceived as corroboration of every stereotype and prejudice that he encourages people to resist with his constructed performance as a Good Werewolf. he can’t afford to trust that he can drop that emotional wall, because the reality of it is, maybe he can’t. maybe he drops it and people say “here it is, here is the proof that he is a monster, and now we must do what has to be done to monsters.” and so through the entire series, remus is characterized largely by his restraint: what he does not say, what he does not show, what he does not let himself feel.

twice harry (and the reader) sees remus lose control: when dumbledore dies (triggered by grief) and during their fight in grimmauld during deathly hallows (triggered by shame, fear, anger, self-loathing – a lot of things). extreme situations and emotions are the only things that shake him, right, thats when he breaks, that’s when he drops that shield: when he himself is so broken that he does not have the strength to keep it up any longer.

but here is the point in the long-winded rant where i wrap myself back around to the point:

whensirius says ‘you should hear remus talk about her,” there is (to me, anyway) a clear implication that when remus talks about umbridge, he’s pissed. he’s angry. he gives himself permission to be angry around sirius and that is important to me because it means that he trusts sirius. he trusts that sirius knows who he is, and he trusts that around sirius he does not have to maintain this constant charade of being a Good Werewolf. he can be angry, and sirius will think no less of him.  

there is trust there, and that’s important to me, to know that remus does trust sirius again. it’s not a shipping thing or whatever, it’s just, the fact of the matter is that remus does not perform this self-protective act around sirius. that means there is one person who remus trusts himself with, and he needs that, and he deserves that. and i’m glad that it was sirius, for a very short period of time. i’m glad that they had one another back again, that they both had somebody who understood them fully again.