November 2011
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Nov 26th
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Nov 24th
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Can You Imagine?
zorawitch: Pureblood witches and wizards trying to claim “reverse racism”? I can just imagine Muggle-borns and (some) Half-bloods using a pejorative like “bloodies” (making fun of the blood purity obsession) or “death-sucker” to refer to pure-blood witches and wizards as a form of resistance against pro-pureblood culture and laws (which Kingsley Shacklebolt, a Black wizard, fittingly is working...
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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I think I'm really tired of archetypes in...
zorawitch: ‘Cause I don’t feel it’s very effective as writers think it is. It’s good to think about “what if?”, but channeling issues of social justice through supernatural archetypes doesn’t, I don’t think, make people change. It creates this faux-activist admiration in the mind of the (ignorant) reader, and never really gives them tools on how to deal with social justice in their own lives....
Nov 24th
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Nov 23rd
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BTBI Head Canon
sundayafternoonsocialclub: After Roxanne’s birth, George and Angelina moved to Egypt. George was finally allowing himself to move on from Fred’s death. He wanted to start fresh somewhere, and see the world. He wanted the chance for his family to move past the war, and everything it brought with it. It just so happened that Charlie had taken a post at the Egyptian Department of Dragon...
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 21st
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Pottermore Headcanon
moonmoonstone34: MINOR POTTERMORE SPOILER INVOLVED Okay, so if you read all the wandlore on Pottermore one of the things you find out is that the name of the Japanese magic school is “Mahoutokoro”. This is literally just Japanese for “magic place”. I kind of like that, it’s simple and straightforward.  And I started wondering what the students there would be like, and since the place seems to...
Nov 21st
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“Cherry This very rare wand wood creates a wand of strange power, most highly...”
– JK Rowling (Pottermore), Wand Woods
Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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“Harry dreamed he was back in the DA room. Cho was accusing him of luring her...”
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 21 (The Eye of the Snake)
Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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