Hamilton HP crossover brain begins now.
Just finished listening to the full Hamilton soundtrack. Two orphans obsessed with legacy, and the last thing Eliza sings about? I’m so glad I don’t write fic, or I would be kissing bye-bye to all my free time for the next several months.
sorry no offense but sherlock is a ravenclaw i don’t make the rules
sherlock is a ravenclaw and john is a gryffindor and mycroft is a slytherin and lestrade is a hufflepuff and that’s how it goes
MYCROFT ISN’T A SLYTHERIN HE IS A RAVENCLAW AS WELL MORIARTY IS A SLYTHERIN
mycroft is my favorite character and i love him dearly and he is a slytherin
NOOOO I LOVE HIM THE MOST SO NOOOOO
slytherin =/= bad. mycroft is a slytherin.
okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and
i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. the new york times had to create a separate bestseller’s list for children’s lit just because harry potter existed. harry potter changed reading.
so many people on tumblr were born in the ‘90s. when the first book came out, most of us couldn’t read. but we grew up in a world where everyone, everyone, everyone was reading harry potter, no matter how old they were; we grew up in a world where the most popular story in the entire world was a fantasy children’s book.
it’s sort of difficult to grasp, sometimes, the extent to which harry potter is not just a book. the extent to which what is basically a series of fun, interesting, and fairly good novels is such an enormous, enormous part of our lives, a cultural touchstone, a truly universal reference point, something so many people have shaped their lives around, a foundation for all of the stories we would read and watch for the rest of our lives– for so many of us, the first books we ever loved
the extent to which so many of us can’t call ourselves “fans” of harry potter, because it would like being a “fan” of, like, having lungs.
it’s not even about liking it or disliking it. it’s just a part of us.
Ok but someone tell me why Harry didn’t grow up to be the best Defense Against Dark Arts professor Hogwarts has ever known
RIGHT??? what is up with this he becomes an auror crap?? Harry would have loved being a teacher and watching his students improve throughout the years. Revamping the curriculum because if he could teach kids as a child himself how to cast a patronus, perhaps everything they think of as only NEWTs levels and beyond really just weren’t taught well before.
Making him become an auror just makes him continue the fight he was forced into as a child and didn’t enjoy, Harry enjoyed teaching the DA. Why wouldn’t he chase after doing something he loves with his life????? And then he’d be able to train the next generation to make sure that they can protect the world, too.
Two words: grading hell.
Ummm how about because Hogwarts is his second career? He’d be an even BETTER teacher with years of field experience under his belt.
OOoooohhh like that better–Harry, retired for a year or two, driving his family up the walls because he’s bored and not doing well sitting at home with no evil to fight, at which point Ginny is like, “talk to Neville.” For an entire month. Every weird project, every half-finished balled-up page of his memoirs, “WEll have you talked to Neville yet?”
“No”
“talk to neville”
The next July they movie to Hogsmeade. It is an excellent year and Harry is still frequently late with his grading and at least once accidentally-on-purpose misplaces an entire stack of essays (it’s in his office; he finds it after end-of-term) and does a field trip into the forbidden forest instead.
The slytherins are all very surprised when Harry is a challenging but fair teacher who doesn’t pick on his students even when they’re brats
