#badfaiiith

misconceptions. accepting – @badfaiiith

THIS IS MY LEAST FAVORITE MISCONCEPTION IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. IT’S SO WRONG, LEMME TELL YOU WHY!!! so yeah, harry isn’t always the best student as far as always wanting to get his homework done, go to class, excited about double potions, etc etc. but lemme stress this – that doesn’t equal being clever/not clever.

harry is extremely intuitive. he notices things others don’t and, when something is important to him, he sets his mind to it so much. think of draco malfoy during sixth year… like harry is the only one who really thinks draco is up to something and… hey, look at that, he’s right! he’s got these keen sense of knowing.

harry also has an open mind, which is something someone like hermione (brightest witch of their age!) struggles with. it’s mentioned several times, which is why spells like the patronus charm - which are all about feeling and emotion - are hard for her. that, by the way, it something grown ass wizards and witches have trouble with and little thirteen year old harry manages to cast a corporeal one. pretty impressive and not dumb at all! 

anyway, harry’s open mind allows him to think outside the box. he grabs his broom during the first task of the triwizard tournament. he uses expelliarmus in the final battle because he knows he doesn’t have to use the killing curse. he believes in the deathly hallows when everyone else is like we need to focus on the horcruxes!

harry also knows the art of subtly to help him succeed. like this ability to bend things to get the results he needs. calling voldemort “tom” in the battle, pretending to put felix in ron’s pumpkin juice before the quidditch try outs, acting like runcorn in the ministry of magic to bellow out that the muggleborn’s blood is pure and letting them free. he has this sense of just understanding what needs to be done and small little ways to get it done. he doesn’t panic, even when he’s fucking scared (because he’s a teenager and he’s afraid throughout it all, but doesn’t let that control him).

he also knows he needs to sacrifice himself and does it willingly. he realizes the true meaning of the prophecy. that’s not exactly clever, but it’s accepting and incredibly brave.

misconception meme: accepting

oooh man, i thought i was gonna answer these tomorrow but GUESS WHAT! this one gets me SO MAD.

what books?? have these people read?? fine, sure, when we meet ginny properly she can’t put a noun & a verb together in front of harry, but as ron points out, that’s v. unusual for ginny. normally, she’s a spirited, opinionated girl, and as the series progresses ( & as harry grows to appreciate her more and more ) we get to see that!

she cracks jokes abt seeing percy snogging his girlfriend in the immediate aftermath of the chamber! she loves animals and gives them v. thoughtful, enthusastic names! she dates people outside of her house and joins an illegal self-defense group! she demonstrates again and again emotional maturity and a staggering amount of confidence for a girl her age while at the same time being funny and easygoing and passionate and popular! it is canon that she is popular! prob. due in no small part to her charisma, which she puts to good use numerous times ( the garroting gas in the hallway to cover for harry! keeping the gryffindor quidditch team in high spirits! LEADING THE DA ). she screams at her brother for overstepping her boundaries! she holds grudges! she makes out with harry in front of god and everyone with no fucks given re: her brother, dean, possible rejection! she has a knack for mimicry and she holds her own in a family of distinct and forceful personalities! she is friends with everyone from hermione to luna to neville to dean to harry! she straight up calls blaise zabini a poser to his face!   i c o n i c 

And yet.

His hands aren’t shaking, not exactly, but they aren’t quite steady either as they carefully slip into his pockets. His shoulders are hunched in such a way that were his grandmother here, she’d scold him ( “Straighten up, Neville, for heaven’s sake” ), and fine, he’s currently rattled and wishing he were anywhere else, but he can’t help but feel that this is, in many ways, a bit of a relief. It was going to happen sometime, wasn’t it?

He’ll wait to see if she notices him. If she doesn’t, then that’s how it was meant to go. If she does — well, then he’ll deal with it. || starter for @badfaiiith

Idk why I suddenly imagined Luna showing up in the middle of a crowd of press and making her way to the front, and Harry is all irritated at them all asking invasive questions and then she’s like, “What is the Auror department doing about the plague of wrackspurts overtaking our cities?”

Ginny had been tempted to remind Kingsley of the last time the Malfoys were given the benefit of the doubt, but before she could, he’d assigned her to escorting Draco Malfoy to Diagon Alley in a tone that strongly suggested she keep her mouth shut. She’d pointed out that technically, Harry would be in charge of that decision. Kingsley had glared, laughed, and here she is, waiting for Malfoy to put on their shoes.

tumblrbot did tat to me before and it was my sister's post i'd liked. i was just like, gee really you think :|

Being a reporter meant that Romilda was always on the lookout for a story. Being a reporter for Witch Weekly meant that those stories usually involved salacious gossip over hard facts. Readers cared about entertainment, not truth. When at the bar Romilda spotted a blond familiar from her school days she gets the familiar tingle down her back that is a sign of a possible story. She is fairly certain that Malfoy would not remember her so she decides it is safe to approach.