Hey! Here is a big master list of all my favorite Harry Potter character analyses and Metas! I had so many saved and I didn’t know how I should organize them so I figured I put them in a post. I’ll be adding more when I find new metas and will be posting them here.
I DID NOT write these! Please do yourself a favor and check out some of the wonderful and intelligent writers of these metas as they deserve all the praise for their hard and impressive work!
If anyone of the writers for whatever reason wants me to remove their meta from this list just tell me and it will be done!
Some of these may be contradictory to each other but that is because I like to hear other interpretations. These may not line up exactly with your view of the characters (not all of them line up with mine) but please try to be respectful.
*Almost all of these are from Tumblr except one from reddit and one from a outside blog.
Remus Lupin: in depth analysis
Gentleman Monster: How Remus’s Marginalization and Comparative Privilege Made Who He Is
The Marauders Map scene in POA: Verbal Fencing Between Snape and Lupin
Lupin and his use of pauses and “ers”
Neither Likes Not Dislikes Severus…
Remus And His Use of Language + Sirius’ Dark Humor
Fanon vs. Canon: Remus Lupin Edition (reddit)
Lupin is a gold standard for for the male manipulator trope
Lupin and how he presents in front of others
Remus would rather categorize himself with his oppressor than validate his own experiences.
Lupin and how he views himself
Prisoner of Azkaban: When Hostility Meets Passive Aggression
Remus’ “unmistakable signs of trying to live among wizards”
Remus lupin: Repentance vs Regret
Lupin lying to himself and others
Remus did a lot of “growing up” during the lost years
If Lupin and Tonks had survived the battle?
Lupin and the boggart lesson
Nearly Always Right: Remus and Harry
Remus with his own special brand of comforting logic
Remus Lupin at his most dangerous
Remus Lupin is so detached from things
Fanon vs Canon: “Remus is always sweet and kindly.”
Fanon vs Canon: “Remus is always sweet and kindly.” pt. 2
Snape and Lupin parallels
Lupin isn’t the middle ground in Mrs Weasley vs Sirius argument
Remus and what his friendships represent
Power game that goes on between Lupin and Snape in POA
Shame of My Flesh: Reading into Sirius’ Thoughts on Crouch Family
The Hogwarts Express scene in Prince’s Tale: A Sirius and Snape analysis
Sirius and Molly Argument in OOTP
Someone Like A Parent: The Beginning of Bond in POA
Snape, Sirius, and revenge Arrested Development – Sirius, Snape, Obsessions and Blind Spots
Why Sirius hated Snape so much
Padfoot and Prongs: an analysis of the friendship
Sirius and Walburga: the passive-aggressive Sticking Charm
Sirius and Walburga’s similarities
Regulus and Sirius’s relationship
Sirius Black and Complex trauma
Grimmauld Place: Azkaban by a different name
The worse thing Sirius Black has ever done || The ‘Prank’
Sirius Black, Mental Health and Masculinity
Padfoot and the Liminal Space
Sirius was not an immature man -child
Sirius is both emotionally and academically intelligent
Sirius Black and Acts of Service
Part one: Sirius and the shadow of being a Black.
Part two: Sirius Black: the victim of the system he was born to rule
Sirius and Snape both want to be part of a world that they will never truly understand.
Fanon vs canon: James and Sirius are either very saintly or very evil.” pt 2
Sirius’s views on Death-Eaters: The world isn’t split into good people and Death-eaters.
James, Sirius and Snape: privilege and intelligence
Sirius and Regulus’s relationship is Kreacher
Sirius is not as explosive as he is often characterized.
James and Sirius had the best friendship in the story
“the marauders’ is essentially just three people wanting to be james’ best friend but only one of them actually achieving it”
How does growing up with elderly parents affect James’s personality?
Fanon vs canon: James became a reformed character for Lily’s sake
Fanon vs canon: James and Sirius are either very saintly or very evil.” pt 1
James Didn’t Suspect Remus - First War edition
James inner sense of nobility prevents him from killing
Peter Pettigrew is emotionally intelligent and uses it in a strategic manner.
Peter is a Beautiful Scum Bag
Peter Pettigrew and the Werewolf Incident (Not as Much of a Key Event for Him)
Reading Marauders Dynamics in SWM
J/S vs F/G: different types of troublemakers
The rifts that made it possible for the Marauders to fall apart were evident even as far back as Hogwarts.
An Analysis of the Snape’s Worst Memory Pensieve scene
The marauders recklessness
The marauders individual relationships
Lily’s weakness is her fondness for being the exception
Slughorn’s favorite student
Lily Evans is attracted to James Potter in Snape’s Worst Memory.
Interpretation of Lily’s blush
Lily and internalized misogyny
Fanon vs canon: Lily is either very saintly or very evil.”
Lily intended to break off her friendship with Severus before SWM
Harry’s relationship to the Prince as a blueprint for Lily’s friendship with Snape
What’s Up with Petunia’s Resentment of Lily?
Lily is blind to the flaws of people she admires/loves unless it explodes in her face.
Lily’s feelings for Snape are more complex than fandom gives them credit for.
How Dumbledore’s death speaks to Snape’s moral evolution
Feminist reading of lily/James/snape
James and Snape were rivals? Nah.
Snape was really traumatized by SWM
The extremely dysfunctional friendship of Snape and Lily
Trolly problem: Snape and Lupin
Snape and the Order confrontation of the Dursley’s
Severus Snape or the Importance of Body Language
Snape and the prince nickname
Snape was not upset over the lost of the order of merlin
Snape had to practice being a person
Spinner’s End (white hound)
Dumbledoor, Snape and the werewolf incident.
Snape, Sirius, and revenge
Snape doesn’t want revenge
Snape and lily’s shared spirit
Why does Spinners End matter?
Hermione and Ron don’t blindly trust harry
Hermione “character growth” with SPEW
Hermione wouldn’t like fiction
Harry and Hermione understand each other
Hermione can be very ruthless
Hermione and internalized misogyny
Cool Hermione Things: Magic Under Pressure
Hermione was born a leader and diplomat
Harry is in awe of Hermione
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins: A Closer Look into Hermione’s Modification of Her Parents’ Memories
Fanon vs Canon: “Hermione is always sweet and kindly.”
Deconstructing Harry: The boy we meet in Philosopher’s Stone to the man in Deathly Hallows
Harry And Personal Conflict: A Meta On Evolving Dynamic With Ron and Hermione
The Resurrection Stone Scene: Culmination Of Harry’s Emotional Arc
The Resurrection Stone Scene: Culmination Of Harry’s Emotional Arc
The Dementors and Harry’s Complex grief
Harry’s intuitive, empathy related approach to morality
Harry identified with and reluctantly admired Snape even before ‘The Prince’s Tale’
Harry and Hermione in The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
Harry and The Dursleys: Examining His Response to his Abusers
The Mirthless Laugh: Sirius and Harry
Harry and intellectual curiosity
Harry-Hermione Friendship
On Harry and the adults in his life
Ron and the Horcrux: An Alternate Reading
Ron isn’t a strategist, he’s the heart
Gender Dynamics in the Trio, Part One: Gender and Subordination
Percy fell through a big crack
Is Ginny Upset That None of Her Family Noticed Her Disappearances/Serious Health Problems/Posession in her First Year? (If She is, They Still Don’t Seem to Notice)
Molly Weasley is a Misogynist
That Time Fleur Exploded at Molly and Became a Member of the Family
The Weasleys Aren’t Evil, Or Anything, But They’re Not Saints Either
Ginny, the diary, and her family’s reaction
Does gender plays a role in Harry and Ginny’s respective interactions with Voldemort?
Percy and Arthur were close without actually knowing each other’s true selves,
Ginny and writing failures
fred and george could be weirdly brutal towards ron
Weasley siblings reacting to the expectations put upon them
Bellatrix: Mental health and the feminist lens
“all draco wanted was to be loved” debunked
Walburga Black: the madwoman in the attic
General Thoughts on the Black Family
Fanon vs canon: “The Evans family treated young Snape very warmly.”
Albus Dumbledore Has Done Great, Generous, Things for People (Though He Also Uses These People as Pawns Later)
Albus Dumbledore is not only respected and feared, but also loved
Trevor and Neville’s Boggart
The Abandoned Boy And His Problematic Fathers: Snape with Voldemort & Dumbledore
The Blacks are a family in decline
Why the Wizarding World Didn’t Oppose Voldemort
The Blitz Paved the Road to Voldemort
Hogwarts Houses by Muffin
How Old is the Bias Against Slytherin?
No, Really, the Hogwarts Houses Are Awful
A History of Magic Brought to You By The Carnivorous Muffin
Light and Dark Magic is Stupid: Here’s Why
The Wizarding World Lacks a Key Understanding of Magic
The Wizarding World and Its Profound Ignorance of Muggles
The Slug Club is Actually Very Necessary
The Order of the Phoenix is a Useless Joke
Harry Potter as a colonial fantasy
Death as one of HP’s themes
The “not like other girls” syndrome in the Harry Potter books.
HP series being ‘ethically mean spirited’
Marauders era and the 70s aesthetic?
Harry potter series and how american readers can understand classism a little better
Slytherin and Eton: A Primer on the British School System.
JKR’s absolutist way of seeing the world: gryffindor and slytherin
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