I think I’ve only ever drawn Lucius Malfoy young so here’s a drawing of him in his prime. I tried a few new brushes in Procreate. Not completely satisfied with this. 🥲

I dunno why I did this xD

The idea got me in the morning and I couldn't stopped till I finished.

And I know the blind joke is old news, but oh well, (Konstantin in his mole form can't see either)

The gif alone for you ppl

This is such a Snape-like way to operate in. He complains, he is pissed that no one had listened to him before, he is being mildly insulting, but when the matters are serious – he defends the kids. He clearly states that they weren't responsible for physical assault, for trying to prevent him from getting to – as he wholeheartedly believes – a dangerous terrorist murderer, and he makes sure serious charges won't be pressed against them. What he accuses the Golden Trio – mainly Harry – of is compromising their safety: "And any other student would be suspended – at the very least – for leading his friends into such danger. Consider, Minister: against all school rules – after all the precautions put in place for his protection – out of bounds, at night, consorting with a werewolf and a murderer – and I have reason to believe he has been visiting Hogsmeade illegally, too –". His concern is that because of what they were allowed to do by the administration, they *put themselves in danger*, which is totally true and factually correct btw, objectively and especially so from Severus' subjective perspective. Despite those teens (only in this instance, not even counting the previous ones) knocking him down and giving him a head trauma, calling him pathetic, victimblaming him and overall just being there antagonistically while he relives his near death expierince and CPTSD, he insists they can't be held responsible for anything more serious then violating school rules, and places blame even for that on other adults who let Harry get away with things (like Albus) rather than on Harry himself.

okay so this brahms was actually locked tf in cause he went OUTSIDE and barricade the front door what they helly...

ALSO HIS WEAPON CHOICES ARE SO FUCKING BRITISH

A KNIFE AND A CRICKET BAT????

"oi bruv empty the compartments of your pantaloons" aah

also the "she's mine" BRO WHAT TYPE OF ALPHA BS IS THIS

oh hes a fucked up freaky freak...

okay so yeah there were more caretakers before greta..

OKAY IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY- I THINK THEY WERE GONNA HAVE A SCENE WHERE BRAHMS DID SEXUALLY ASSAULT GRETA IN THE ATTIC WHILE SHE WAS KNOCKED OUT SO YIKES

kinda glad they removed EVERYTHING pointing to that cause what the helly

yeah he was definitely locked tf in to booby-trap the house

OKAY OKAY HEAR ME OUT- THEY SHOULD'VE KEPT THIS SCENE

im a sucker for villains taunting the mcs AND THE WAY THEY ADDED BRAHMS CHILDISH NATURE HERE IS SO GOOD

hes so manipulative...

AND ALSO GAVE THE AUDIENCE THE REASON TO UNDERSTAND WHY GRETA WENT BACK UNLIKE THE ORIGINAL SCENE

yeah.

im crine...

GRETA WANTED HIS ASS DEAD

she did a double take cause if bro was able to survive multiple stab wounds to the stomach, HE WAS GOING TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF LATER

FINAL THOUGHTS:

"Murder is bad. In the time period discussed, people sometimes committed murders (2 citations). And most people agreed that murder was bad, but it was widely known that murders still happened."

And your advisor goes, "Did most people agree, though? Was it widely known?"

And you go (sigh.). Okay. And do twelve hours of going back through your readings. And rewrite.

"Murder is bad (4 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations)."

And you look at your draft. And you go. But. But we all — I mean, the archival sources from the time are in fact QUITE CLEAR about how widely known it was! Like–! I've read hundreds of letters and a third of them mention murder! I've talked to so many historians of this time and place and we ALL talk about the murder thing!

And you look at the twelve goddamned hours of searching you did. And you write several increadingly desperate emails to colleagues. And after another few days, you come to the agonizing realization that, in fact, there are no citations of published work establishing that people knew murders occurred despite them being bad and against the law. And then you spend another week looking up those archival sources. And you rewrite again.