Elizabeth Crouch

Am I the only one who feels that lily wasn't as close to the marauders as the fandom makes her out to be?

Now before u jump at me, it's obviously fun to explore the dynamics btw different characters thru hcs and fanfics. However, i m only considering canon facts in this post.

First off, we never hear sirius or remus speak about lily when james isn't involved in the conversation. James was obviously a close friend, more lyk a brother, so its only natural that they reminisce him often. Both of them remark on harry's resemblance to james pretty often. It's literally the first thing sirius mentions when he sees harry for the first time in poa, saying james would have taken risks for him the same way harry came for ron. Remus compares harry's humor and unflinching belief in his friends to james aswell. There are constant little mentions post gof of james by both of them.

But lily? Absolutely nothing. We obviously can't expect her to be mentioned as many times as james coz she wasn't in their original friend group, but she isn't mentioned at all. The only time she's spoken about is post swm, and that's still in relation to her getting together with james. We learn more about lily from snape, someone she cut ties with when she was 15, than from her supposed besties. Heck, we learn more about her from Slughorn, her school teacher, than we ever did from sirius and remus.

Ik lily addresses sirius and peter by their nicknames in that letter, but i honestly always saw it as a casual thing, obvs in a fond way but not an indicator of their relationship.

There is obviously potential for a close friendship, there's often potential for a lot of things in fiction, but that doesn't make it canon. Apart from fighting the same war these characters don't seem to have anything in common. Yeah, both lily and sirius have complicated relationships with their siblings, but I would hardly compare a failed relation to having your sibling be brainwashed by your abusive family into following a cult that's trying to get u and ur friends killed.... Besides, lily is portrayed as this pure, perfect mother in canon while sirius and remus are both massively flawed characters, and that leaves little room for understanding between these characters.

No. Ginny hated her. Molly clashed with her a bit and mistook her for a shallow person but got along as best she could with her for the holidays (and in fairness, Fleur was not always nice either) and later, owns her attitude, making up with Fleur. Hermione was rude in book 4 because Fleur had been rude first about Hogwarts. I don't find that unreasonable. I would have been angry, too. After that, she barely thinks of Fleur at all. I'm confused where the "Hermione hated Fleur" take has any evidence. (Perhaps people are confusing Hermione's dislike of Lavender and Pansy since they're also feminine girls?)

Those two may not have cared for her personality, but they did not hate her. Ginny? Ginny bad-mouthed her future sister-in-law every chance she got, calling her a gross name and even going so far as to suggest Bill was only with her for an, uh, "adventure". She really, honestly suggests a girl like Fleur is good for nothing but a tumble. Wow.

Okay, Ginny fans look away! This is just my personal opinion so hopefully it doesn’t offend anyone. You’re all free to bash Bellatrix whenever you want :P 

It’s several reasons really. First of all, she’s a poorly written character IMO especially in book six and seven. It’s like JKR wanted us to think she’s awesome but without actually giving her anything useful to do. It seems like everyone participated in the war except her. She’s supposed to be this kick-ass witch but she’s always rescued by someone (in OotP, Luna lasts much longer than her at the DoM). She doesn’t do much in DH except hang around and throw jealousy fits. Oh until her mom has to rescue her. 

Second, I don’t like people like her in real life. I’ve dealt with people who went on and on about how great they are at something and clamored to be given things to do only to mess it all up when they were finally included. Fiesty people are not my cup of tea. Just shut up and do your job is what I say. Her sense of humor isn’t for me either. I rolled my eyes at everything she said or did in HBP that was supposed to be funny. “Phlegm” is not funny. It’s not witty. 

Third, and this is what really gets my goat: people who consider her a role model for girls or a feminist character! Are-you-kidding-me? Based on what? Again, she does nothing of importance, she pines after a guy for years but doesn’t have the guts to ask him out, doesn’t challenge him when he tells her to stay put in the RoR, she’s good at Quidditch but lest we forget JKR tells us Harry is better, and is the modern version of a damsel in distress. 

So yeah, off the top of my head these would be my reasons.  

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No not really, she's kinda like a wasted character for me. JK turned her into such a pick- me type of character that it's really hard to like her. There's many more things i don't like about her, you can read more on this post, this, this, and this.

Now this might seem like I absolutely despise her, but I don't. I looked at by a perspective in the sea of hp characters, i don't give a shit about her. She's just a badly written character and it's weird to see her idolized and called badass for degrading another woman for literally just being feminine.

Anon is referring to this post. The ask being what would happen if one of the golden trio's kids was sorted into Slytherin and how Harry, Hermione, and Ron deal with that. The answer is not well.

With that, let's get the extended family.

George Weasley

Well, I imagine George is still a mess over Fred's death. True, he's married now, he owns the shop but that was the business he started with his brother, his brother was his best friend, and his entire identity revolved around being Fred's twin George.

This is a George, who as an adult outside of the school environment, has to find out who he is and how to navigate this world without Fred at his side.

I imagine that's a hugely daunting task for him. He didn't just lose a brother and a friend, he lost himself.

Ron's kid got sorted into Slytherin? That blows, but George has a business to run and memories to not think about. He probably pats the kid on the shoulder, says something like "You're a good kid" and continues to be the dazed, somewhat sad, and kind of stand-offish Uncle George he's always known.

George isn't all that bad about it but he's not much of a pillar of support either.

Ginny Weasley

Ginny's a lot like Ron. Everyone in the family's always been Gryffindor and she takes the sorting hat very seriously. Slytherin's the place for the likes of Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and Tom Riddle. Good kids don't prize cunning and ambition above everything else.

I imagine she tries to do an intervention on the kid. Too late to get them sent to a different house, but Ron, we need to talk about your kid here. I imagine she rallies the family to do an intervention for the poor eleven-year-old where they try to get the kid to admit he has severe psychological issues and he's very sorry and won't do it again.

That's not really good enough though and Ginny side-eyes the kid for the rest of their lives. Ron doesn't blame her, he really wishes it wasn't his kid.

Molly and Arthur Weasley

They wonder where they went wrong.

Everyone in the family's always been a Gryffindor on both sides. Their family values are strongly in support of Gryffindor and always have been. Gryffindor traits are what they, as a family, prize above all others. Even Percy, bless his heart, while ambitious is not a Slytherin.

They're all Gryffindors to their core.

What went wrong with this one?

It's the subject of many late night discussions between the pair, wondering why they didn't see the signs, if it's already too late or if they can't intervene on the poor kid.

I imagine Molly calls up Harry/Ginny and or Ron/Hermione to lecture them on their parenting skills. Clearly, they're instilling the wrong values in their children and they need to know how to do it right.

Bill and Fleur Weasley

Fleur doesn't get the point of this. This all seems very dramatic and silly over a hat. At Beauxbatons, their houses are picked at random, like sane people. And they certainly don't have this obsession years after the fact, for the rest of their lives, over whether they're a mole or a wombat or whatever the hell it even is.

Fleur goes out of her way to be extra nice to the kid to a) piss off Molly b) because this family's insane and what they're doing is terrible.

Bill is aghast and tries to correct Fleur's understanding of why this is a big deal. He can't articulate it, but trust him, Fleur, this is a very big deal!

How INTJs respond to a crush largely depends on their level of emotional maturity because Fi is in the tertiary position and this makes them quite sensitive to the emotional aspects of a relationship. Crushes do not tend to happen easily to INTJs, so mature INTJs will probably treat a crush seriously by systematically learning about the person and analyzing the level of compatibility, with an eye on the long term prospects of the relationship. INTJs who are in touch with Te-Se will be more proactive to pursue a crush. Less mature INTJs may react more defensively, usually feeling blindsided and perhaps view the crush as intrusive or disruptive. However, with Ni-Fi, they will probably find it difficult to eliminate those feelings and struggle internally with unwanted emotions and visualizations. Like INFJs, INTJs often spend too long analyzing a crush and, by the time they feel ready to pursue it, the opportunity has already passed them by. Less mature INTJs are (unconsciously) seeking deep companionship but have a hard time finding it due to placing unrealistic standards/expectations on people, inability to handle emotions, or inability to take action (due to rationalizing too much).

From the other person’s perspective: It can be hard to tell if an INTJ likes you, so you would have to be observant and perceptive. Mature INTJs may: pay more attention to you, be more willing to engage you in conversation, observe you more closely (try to figure you out), listen to you even if it’s a topic they are not really interested in, make time for you even though it doesn’t fit into their original plan, show physical affection or be more forthcoming about their private life, compliment your abilities or skills, and so on. However, immature INTJs might find themselves unable to handle their own emotions and overcompensate for that by inadvertently paying negative attention to you. Compared to how they treat other people, they may be more inclined to give you unsolicited advice, pick apart your mistakes, go out of their way to ignore or avoid you, etc.

Maybe this is just me, but I don’t like it when people automatically blame Tobirama for causing all of the world’s problems because he killed Izuna. I can accept that Tobirama played a key role in many things that happened later, but not that he is the reason for everything bad without considering things.

Did Izuna’s death lead to a lot of problems later on? Undoubtedly, because Madara didn’t know how to properly process his emotions. Hashirama’s insistence on keeping his best friend alive didn’t help either because that just hit Madara as pity which as a prideful man, he hated.

Essentially, every time that Izuna and Tobirama fought, they were in a true life or death battle. A battle that had generations of blood and hatred behind it without a belief that they could just stop for peace. It was a true coin flip on who would die and who would survive, and the one that surprised the other first enough to delay reactions would win.

In addition the thought that Tobirama caused everything disregards other character’s actions. Danzo caused the Uchiha massacre by making the village suspicious of them following the Kyuubi’s attack. Uzushio was razed because other villages feared their power. The Shinobi wars were started because other leaders wanted more power.

Tobirama wasn’t perfect but he was a product of his upbringing that he changed. The Uchiha police force was meant to help integrate the Uchiha into Konoha. He worked to bring the clans together in Konoha and was a key factor in setting it up.

Hashirama flat colored~

I want to draw a background for him btw, so it’s kinda work in progress

Hashirama and Madara met there. They created it. Hashirama killed Madara there. Their statues were there. 

Then some 12 year old stinky gremlins come, have some parody of a fight and claim it for themselves, like wtf.