#muggle

Disclaimer: This is a Poly!Marauders x Muggle!Reader fic concept, but it is mostly focused on Padfoot and the reader. {Divider Credit}

Summary: Long hours, late nights, and dark alleyways. Good thing you have a guardian angel looking out for you. {Aka: Padfoot protects a muggle reader on her walk home}

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What really amuses me is how this lines up perfectly with how little understanding Rowling has of real political issues. Because if Muggle-borns actually have magical ancestry, that means they come from magical families. Maybe many generations back, sure, but they still come from magical families. So you can’t compare that to racism, for example. Racialized people have never, at any point in history, belonged to a dominant elite; they have always been subjected to the forces of imperialism and colonialism. In the same way, when people say, “Death Eaters are Nazis”—well, no, they’re not. Because if you’re saying Death Eaters are Nazis and Muggle-borns are Jews, then what sense does it make that Muggle-borns have magical ancestry? That would imply that Jewish people were once Aryan at some point, which makes no sense at all. So the whole supposed political comparison Rowling is trying to make—which already falls apart on its own—even more so collapses completely because of this. It just doesn’t hold up at all.

To begin with, I don’t even buy the idea that Muggle-borns are some kind of marginalized minority that is excluded from society and discriminated against, because that’s simply not true. They have access—economically, socially, and politically—to the exact same things as pure-blood wizards, half-bloods, or any kind of wizard. As magical humans, they have the same rights and opportunities as any other magical human. The groups that are actually marginalized—and could be compared to real-world minorities—are non-human magical beings, because they don’t have the same rights or access as humans. And also humans like werewolves or half-giants, those can actually be considered marginalized minorities pushed to the edges of society.

But Muggle-borns, simply for being Muggle-born? No. You’re a Muggle-born, and from the moment you’re born, you have the right to access the same education as pure-bloods. By following that education, you can access the same institutions. The only thing you can’t become is part of the pure-blood magical aristocracy. But that means Muggles aren’t racialized. They’re not comparable to ethnic or religious minorities. They’re more comparable to a kind of bourgeois class trying to climb socially, facing an aristocracy that tells them: “I don’t care how rich or how smart you are, you’ll never be one of us.” And that’s not an identity issue, it’s a class issue within a hierarchical European-style society based on aristocratic structures.

That said, the fact that Muggle-borns ultimately descend from magical lines completely undermines everything. A Muggle-born could theoretically be descended from the Black family. If a Squib from the Black or Malfoy family kept passing down the surname through generations, eventually you could end up with someone considered Muggle-born who is still a Black or a Malfoy and still has magic from that same lineage. So what’s the point? Where is the marginalization? Where is the lack of rights? Because that would mean a Muggle with absolutely no magical ancestry whatsoever could never develop magic. So there is a clear separation between Muggles and wizards. But being Muggle-born doesn’t make you a minority, because it means there is magic somewhere in your bloodline, it just hadn’t manifested until you.

So you’re not the same as other Muggles. And your parents aren’t entirely the same either—at least the one you inherited magic from—because there is magic in that bloodline. In other words, there is never a real separation. It’s absurd. It makes no sense. Politically and sociologically, it just doesn’t hold up. It’s honestly insulting to the intelligence of anyone who has even a basic understanding of these issues.

THEODORE NOTT:

༯ obviously teasing you about how overdecorated is London, but secretly he loves every moment of it. he loves the city lights and the couples walking around at the Christmas market.

MATTHEO RIDDLE:

༯ he thinks the lights are magical but he’s too introverted for the crowd. he always tries to be next to you close as possible, because he doesn’t want to lose you in the people sea.

LORENZO BERKSHIRE:

༯ he loves the happy people around him, also the shining decorating too. his fav thing is the huge christmas tree at the Christmas market and he loves yapping about which type of tree is that.

BLAISE ZABINI:

༯ maybe the lights are too much for him, but he’s okay with that if he can see your smile and loves watching your little happy dances after you bought a snack. he’s holding your hand while you’re walking around, checking every handmade gifts for your friends and family.

DRACO MALFOY:

༯ he’s grumpy because you “forced” him to go with you out to the Christmas market. the muggle decorated london is out of his comfort zone, but he’s trying to be okay with all of the blinking lights, loud music and the people. only because he loves you.

TOM RIDDLE:

༯ he hates the muggle decorated london, it’s obvious. but deep in his heart he really loves the Christmas market except the people who are accidentally bumping into you. he’s trying to keep you close as possible to him. his love for you is stronger than the disgust towards the people.

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!She waits at the Burrow while the battle rages, replaying the kiss he left her with that morning and the promise that he’d be back before dark. But when the Weasleys return and one pair of footsteps is missing, she realizes some promises don’t survive war.

Session: Some form of peace

Therapist: "Professor Snape, how do you feel about Harry now?"

Snape: "...He is... less intolerable than expected."

Harry: "That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me."

Snape: "That...explains a lot."

Therapist: "You seem to enjoy sparring."

Snape: "It’s less painful than vulnerability."