"brain and nerve and bounding heart"

nothing is funnier to me than mcgonagall looking out her window, seeing harry involved in some definitely illegal flying, and her first thought being ‘holy shit we should get him on the team’

This is our #1 early indication that yes, McGonagall is a Gryffindor, too.

[id: a two-panel black and white comic of a cat stretching backward, then forward again, facing to the right.]

Also, Snape would have remained a death eater if Neville became the chosen one

Either propose to me in a fog-covered field at dawn after your most disagreeable aunt has barged into my family’s estate in the middle of the night to very loudly express her poor opinion of me, and to put to rest the wild rumors of our engagement or dont even bother

I wanna be in love but also yikes

#every time I see this picture I am briefly overwhelmed#this piece of art outlived its context and milieu#but. but. in reality there is no such thing#because art is made anew with every glance. it comes to life. awakens laughing#and time compresses. softens. the past is not so much a mystery if we remember we weren’t the first to dance.#this is what art is for#this is what it can do#it doesn’t only speak to us of our own humanity#it reminds us that humanity is shared. this girl isn’t dancing in a mirror. she is dancing with a friend.#paintings don’t simply show us the world. they help teach us how to live in it. (via @robotmango)