christmas at hogwarts 🎄

she literally stood up to lord voldemort and lied that harry potter was dead and i don’t know about you but if i were an evil ruler i would probably want to triple-check that my nemesis was, you know, actually deceased

voldemort had actual doubts about snape

narcissa malfoy understood those rules, and she layered her mind with them. 

look pretty. wear the most expensive robes. grandmother’s pearls. curl your hair every night. think only of clothes and dimples and the way your hair falls when you flutters you eyelashes at a boy. 

say nothing. don’t speak when mother and father are screaming at each other. demurely look down as another boy asks you to dance. retreat into the reading room when your family friends, known death eaters and criminals, pay your parents a visit and speak in hushed voices over tea. think of pretty things. 

marry well. marry into a family of your parents’ friends. bear children. wear pearls and look demure and think of nothing but pretty, pretty things, like the way your husband’s hair gleams in candlelight. 

masters must learn the rules before they can break them. narcissa learned the rules so well that they wrapped around her; sank into her skin and her mind. they protect her from enemies. they conceal the quick, strategic plots ticking her brain into gear every moment of every day. they hide the calculation of each smile, each movement. 

narcissa is so good, so perfect, that no one will ever know.  

#voldy was shocked when he found out his mom was the witch #he assumed his father would be magical

Daniel Radcliffe: Actually,

(An interpretation of this excerpt from Order of the Phoenix.)

follower celebration → @quidditchc asked: marauders era or lightning era?

She felt undeserving when she was appointed as UN Women goodwill ambassador and sought out Gloria Steinem to learn about feminist activism.

She thinks the criticism she received for being a white feminist was useful because it made her educate herself.

She says there’s a desperate need to reform the education system in the UK to change the way they are taught the history of how Britain has been involved in foreign affairs and how they profited from slavery.

She felt anxious about approaching 30 because there’s a lot of pressure to have a husband and a baby by then and she’s still figuring her life out.

She was so young when she was casted in Harry Potter that she doesn’t remember much of her life before it and she went to therapy to deal with her issues with fame. She used to feel very guilty for being unhappy because she thought she should enjoy fame more.

The interviewer is a transgender woman and they discuss transgender issues for a while. Emma is in regular contact with a trans child which makes the topic of trans rights emotional for her because she’s very anxious for this kid’s safety.

She talks about her role as Meg March in the new Little Women movie and defends that unlike what many people say choosing to be a wife and a mother doesn’t make Meg a less feminist character and quotes a line from the movie, “Just because my dreams are different than yours it doesn’t mean they are unimportant.”  

She wishes more people would realize she’s not Hermione Granger but also understands why they want to see that in her because Hermione is a symbol for her too.

She used to think she could never be happy without a partner and now that she has learnt to navigate that better and is genuinely happy single she’s started to think of herself as self - partnered in contrast to the time when she thought of herself as single = lonely.

one of the reasons why is, even years later, i still can’t get over how freaking…….. NICE this kid is. like yeah yeah you hear about his (ptsd-and-also-being-completely-locked-out-of-the-loop-for-no-good-reason induced) outbursts in OOTP, and his occasional moments of being an insensitive dipshit (as teenagers are wont to do), but seriously, here is an abridged list of the things the absurdly nice harry james potter has done:

gave cedric (his competition) a heads-up about the dragons because he knew everyone else had been clued in and it wasn’t fair to leave cedric in the dark

gave ginny the free books lockhart gave him, since he could buy his own easily

wished he could share his fortune with the weasleys, and only didn’t offer because he knew they’d never accept it

upon realizing ron was embarrassed about being poor, immediately opened up about his own crappy background to cheer ron up a bit

told neville he was worth 12 of malfoy

went the extra mile to rescue gabrielle, a girl he didn’t even know, after ensuring that ron and hermione were safe

bought a bunch of candy to share with ron, and thinks about how nice it is to have someone to share things with

he freed dobby

and, later, gave him a real burial (oh, this? this is sand in my eyes)

reprimanded himself for being jealous over ron being made prefect, and instead chose to be happy for him

he wanted to share the triwizard cup with cedric

when romilda vane implied that his friends aren’t cool, he basically told her to shut the fuck up

pretty much immediately forgave ron after their fight in GOF, after ron realized he was wrong

and also forgave him in DH after ron saves his life

gave the triwizard winnings to fred and george so they could fund their dream project

and before that, trying to give them to cedric’s family

forgave ernie for suspecting him of being the heir of slytherin, even though ernie had been being a real dick about it

brought luna with him to slughorn’s party as a friend

sort of reconciled with dudley (at least, it was a good start) 

crucio-ing carrow’s ass for spitting at mcgonagall

the fact that, in spite of everything, he tried to get voldemort to feel just a pang of remorse so he wouldn’t face the terrible fate awaiting him after death. granted, it was never gonna happen – this is voldemort we’re talking about – but still, he tried.