A Pirate is Me

when Harry first comes to Spinner’s End, he curls up as tight as he can on his bed. He’s used to having to squeeze into a tiny cupboard or protect himself even while asleep.

as the weeks go on, Harry uncurls just a little bit more. Each time Snape proves to him that he is safe.

by the end of the summer, he starfishes across his bed, blankets thrown around and messy, showing that he’s never been more comfortable in his life

I think about that a lot, but I haven’t the art skills to draw it

What do you think?

You may crucify me for not drawing this until now

Albus : * tried to save a Hufflepuff student’s life*

Slughorn : * still gets emotional about Lily’s death*

Snape : * worked as a double agent for years risking his life *

R.A.B : * died while he was trying to destroy a horcrux *

Then there's Draco not giving Harry's identity away when it was obvious he recognized him.

And don't even get me started on Severus, oh my GOD. "He bullied children!!" I'm going to tell you something. My mother is a bully to me, and a cunt. She is responsible for my psychological and emotional trauma. I hold her accountable for that. But you know what else? She saved my life. She feeds, protects, shelters me, and once in a while, is actually helpful. She strongly values my physical safety and wellbeing when i am ill or she thinks there is danger. This can be problematic at times too, but what i'm getting at is Severus was emotionally unavailable while being the most safety-obsessed nerd in the castle, possibly of all time. He was protecting children, protecting staff, saving random victims of the second war-- SOMETHING HE DID OF HIS OWN FREE WILL, protecting Harry, i mean the list just goes on and on and on.

And yeah we don't know much about Regulus, but he chose to be self-sacrificing in the end and attempted to spare his house elf the fate he received.

The thing about the Houses is at the end of the day, they don't fucking matter and it frustrates me to no end that JKR decided to NOT make that the end staple of the story. Albus whining about the possibility of being put in Slytherin, 19 YEARS AFTER THE WAR, pisses me off because despite him having never been to Hogwarts, he was already dreading the House that "evil wizards come from." You're telling me Harry himself did NO PR against that?? No one asked questions or made assumptions or said terrible things about Slytherins and he, a young man capable of understanding his abusive teacher (Severus)'s pain and trauma and standing up to Remus and Sirius about it, at the age of FIFTEEN, didn't have any hand in turning some of that tide? As for his son James perpetuating stereotypes and anxieties to Albus... again, Harry never gently mitigated this?

Messy hair little Sev

...And sleepy Sev.

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you.

But first they must catch you—"