I solemnly swear I'm up to no good

Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great

Ron: I broke the statute of secrecy and almost got my father fired just so I could get Harry out of a bad situation.

Sirius: That’ll be hard to top. Hermione?

A comedian once told a story where his son came into his bedroom at night and said he was scared because he heard a sound outside. The comedian said “Oh shit we better get an adult. Oh no. I’m the adult” and the first time this new role as expected protector of children really became clear for me was when my neighbor’s daughter knocked on my door and asked me to come help her and her friend get a dog back into the house.

Long story short my neighbor was running a small dog recuse for Eastern European street dogs and one got outside while the kids were home alone. They had managed to corner it in the front garden but had been told to never touch it for their own safety. As I followed the girl into the garden I heard her yell to her friend “I got an adult!” and I had the same feeling as the comedian “Oh no. I’m the adult” It turned out to be a midsized dog that could have hurt me but very unlikely to kill me and luckily it wasn’t aggressive at all and the situation was easily solved.

Rangi, glaring: you don’t have a defense, you’re an idiot!

It’s not surprising that Sokka calls her bending ‘magic water’ in the first episode. It might as well have been magic to them at that point; they had never seen it in practice until they meet Aang.

So not only did Katara not have any teachers, she didn’t have any kind of guidance, no visual aids, no idea of how bending is supposed to look or work. The first time she ever sees actual waterbending movements is when she steals the waterbending scroll from the pirates. The first time she meets another waterbender is when she reaches the North Pole, where within weeks she outmasters pretty much everyone and goes on to teach the Avatar.

But my parents were birders, so hiking we did go.

And about a mile up the trail, a woman came rushing up to us, clutching her binoculars to her chest. "Come quickly," she said, with a British accent. "You have to see this!"

This is what birders are like. They are as excited about a life bird as any fan would be spotting their favorite celebrity. You have to see, you have to.

So my parents rushed off with her, and I plodded along behind them.

To find a cluster of Brits huddled in a bird blind, staring at..

A blue jay.

A goddamn blue jay.

And I was a teenager, but I knew better then to mouth off in front of my mom. So I nodded, and smiled, and bit my tongue, until an elderly man looked at me with tears in his eyes, and said, "Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?"

And I stopped. And looked at it. The way they were. As if it were new. And damned if they weren't right.

in gof sirius condemns the way barty crouch ran the aurors and respects moody for the fact that he didn’t “stoop to the level of the death eaters” and brought suspects in alive. which was obviously shaped by sirius’s experiences in azkaban and being imprisoned without a trial despite being innocent. so hypothetically, he would understand where harry’s coming from esp considering stan is innocent, and be less flippant and probably admire harry’s morals to an extent. that being said, sirius is incredibly practical, harry’s literal life was in immediate danger and harry’s life is sirius’s priority, and as we know, when push comes to shove sirius is plenty capable of murder and would’ve killed peter without hesitation.