Riley

@rileyalbarn.bsky.social wisster bescheid

@Janelle90390576 @aureabore Yup. And just about every other fantasy series does have that societal change happen. But Harry Potter doesn't. Which is so stupid.

@RileyAlbarn @aureabore Which is funny cause you would think things would change after such a big war to ensure it wouldn't happen again

@Janelle90390576 @aureabore Yup, I also think nothing really changes after the war. Not just with Slytherin, but in General.

@RileyAlbarn @aureabore Very true I don't think anything really changed all that much after Voldemort in terms of Slytherin still being seen as the evil house considering at least in the movies idk about in the books but Harry's son asks about what if I get into Slytherin? As if that's still a bad thing

@queerthecloset @LauraRbnsn If people outside of hogwarts thought the position was cursed, Snape definitely knew the risk. I mean, he was there to see the DADA teachers come and go for a decade or so.

@queerthecloset @LauraRbnsn Yup But that is also the whole extent of what Dumbledore seems to know about it. Since he turned Riddle down, no teacher lasted longer than a year. It's a school wide rumour that the position is cursed. By book four, Dumbledore runs out of people willing to do the job.

Dumbledore did Snape so dirty, man. He wanted that job for like 10 years and Dumbledore only hired him for it, knowing it was a cursed position, when Dumbledore had wizard cancer and Snape was emotionally blackmailed into killing him. "Yeah, I'm not gonna survive this, but you

@Janelle90390576 @aureabore That's a really good question tbh, that could be asked for a lot of the Slytherin kids. But that kinda taps into the broken world building where the good guys are out to re-establish the status quo that drove so many groups to support Voldemort in the first place.

@RileyAlbarn @aureabore Fair! It would have been interesting to have seen how they got together ik I need to read the books but how much of Snape doing DA was his own interest vs not being given an opportunity to be "good" cause he's a Slytherin people eg James would have just seen him as evil anyways?

@queerthecloset @LauraRbnsn Since the thing about the position being cursed was school wide rumour, and even known outside of school (which why by year four it got real hard for Dumbledore to come up with people who wanted to do the job) I think Snape knew.

@LauraRbnsn I don’t think its addressed but did Snape know the job was cursed? Like its not even confirmed I think, just speculation on Dumbledore’s part, although statistics would support his position. Also did the curse last after Voldy’s death?

@Janelle90390576 @aureabore in the order of the phoenix and that James had become serious until then and wasn't such an asshole anymore.

@Janelle90390576 @aureabore I mean, it's presented as Snape being bullied BECAUSE he turns to those dark arts people and hangs with the death eater crowd, but yeah. Like, that's not defending the bullying, it's abhorrent either way. My headcannon is that James and Lily met again when they were both

@Janelle90390576 @aureabore Yeah, I honestly don't understand that part either.

@RileyAlbarn @aureabore Thanks for telling me its still werid to me that Lily would get together with James even if she didn't want anything to do with Snape James was a bully doesn't sound like all that good of a person I've dealt with similar people who use pranks as a excuse to get away with bullying

@EDAboii @Lady_Meansie @flowermast are resentful for being outcasts because of a sickness (valid), who prey on others to spread the disease (this is where it turns horrifying).

@EDAboii @Lady_Meansie @flowermast Like. This was one of those offhand explanations she gave after books were done. She just basically said "Yeah, lycanthropy is a metaphor for HIV/Aids", no further explanation. And then you read the parts about lycanthropy in the books and it's a whole group of people who

politely. is the character with the uncontrollably violent/AIDS metaphor/unintentional(?) pedophilia analogy disease the best choice

@maxtmcc @AlaricTsoni Maybe the British wizards did their own Brexit and the world wizarding government just ignores them because of it. "Let them live with the consequences of their Brexit stupidity"

@AlaricTsoni it is extremely funny that the Fantastic Beasts movies reveal that there is an elected world government (!!) for wizards that apparently does not see fit whatsoever to intervene against Voldemort either time

The Harry Potter economy seems to have basically no private sector? Everyone either works for the Ministry or something probably funded by the Ministry (healthcare) or is some kind of small business owner. Education is almost nonexistent. There’s some entertainment jobs ig

@Lady_Meansie @flowermast At the end of book three, when it becomes common knowledge that Lupin is affected by lycanthropy, he throws his teaching job because he knows it's only a matter of time until parents will accuse him of preying on the students, even though there were no incidents at all.

@Lady_Meansie @flowermast Fenrir Greyback especially is known to target children to spread Lycanthropy. Lupin was one of his victims as a child.

@IMDBorg @axavier0402 @unculture_d @aureabore At some point, Dumbledore is like "Man, you're STILL obsessed with the woman?" And all people remember from that scene is that stupid "Always" thing.

@axavier0402 @unculture_d @aureabore It’s been a while since I read the books, but doesn’t Dumbledore explicitly call him out on that?

@lilgeenbean @aureabore she told off Snape's bullies because Snape was hurt in his ego because a girl stepped in and defended him. He might believe that she just picked James over him, but the reality is that he fucked up his chances with Lily all by himself.

@lilgeenbean @aureabore pretty good chances at scoring Lily, because during her time at school she was annoyed by James's antics and didn't actually like James at all. Snape fucked it up completely by himself by buddying up with people who wanted muggleborns dead. And calling Lily a slur when