REMEMBER WHEN RON WEASLEY STAYED AT SCHOOL FOR CHRISTMAS BECAUSE HE KNEW HARRY DIDNT HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO SO HE STAYED WITH HIM EVEN THOUGH HE LITERALLY ONLY KNEW HARRY FOR 3 MONTHS
REMEMBER WHEN RON WEASLEY TOOK A FLYING CAR WHILE HE WAS 12 AND TOOK IT TO A MUGGLE AREA JUST BECAUSE HARRY DIDNT RESPOND TO HIS LETTERS AND HE KNEW ABOUT THE DURSLEYS
REMEMBER WHEN RON WEASLEY STOOD UP ON HIS BROKEN LEG AND TOLD WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS A DEATH EATER AND MASS MURDERER THAT HE’D HAVE TO KILL HIM BEFORE HE COULD TOUCH HARRY
REMEMBER WHEN RON WEASLEY KNEW ABOUT THE DRAGONS IN TRI WIZARD TOURNAMENT AND GOT HAGRID TO TELL HIM EVEN THOUGH HE WAS REALLY MAD AT HIM BECAUSE HE STILL CARED ABOUT HARRYS SAFETY
REMEMBER HOW RON WAS THE THING HARRY WOULD MISS MOST
REMEMBER HOW RON STAYED QUIET EVERY TIME HARRY YELLED AT HIM AND DIDNT EVEN ARGUE BACK EVEN THOUGH HARRY WAS BEING REALLY MEAN AND UNREASONABLE
REMEMBER HOW RON GOT A LETTER FROM HIS OWN BROTHER TELLING HIM TO NOT TALK TO HARRY AND HE WAS DISGUSTED AND CHOSE HARRY OVER PERCY
REMEMBER HOW RON SUPPORTED HARRY WHEN ALMOST NO ONE ELSE DID
REMEMBER HOW RON TOLD HERMIONE TO LEAVE HARRY ALONE WHEN HE WAS MAD BECAUSE HE UNDERSTOOD HOW HARRY FELT SO HE TOOK EVERY SHIT THING HARRY SAID TO HIM IN SILENCE
REMEMBER HOW RON WENT WITH HARRY TO THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR BECAUSE HARRY HAD AN INKLING SIRIUS WAS IN TROUBLE
REMEMBER HOW RON FOUGHT DEATH EATERS AND HARRY SUGGESTED TAKING THE LIQUID LUCK BECAUSE EVEN HARRY KNEW HOW DANGEROUS THEY WERE AND HOW RISKY THIS WAS OF RON
REMEMBER HOW RON DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL AFTER GOING FOR 6 YEARS SO HE COULD CAMP OUT IN THE FREEZING COLD TO FIND THE DARKEST OBJECTS IN EXISTENCE
REMEMBER HOW RON PARTICIPATED IN A WAR ALONGSIDE HARRY AND HIS BROTHER DIED AND HE STILL SUPPORTED HARRY
REMEMBER HOW RON WEASLEY IS AN AMAZING FRIEND
SO GO ON, SAY HES A TERRIBLE FRIEND I DARE YOU. RON WEASLEY IS AN IDEAL FRIEND AND HARRY WAS REALLY LUCKY TO HAVE MET HIM.
Dean is a witch, Cas is his familiar. They get bullied a lot. (Based off of this.)
Dean is used to idiots making fun of them: ever since he and Cas found each other, he’s been called everything from impotent to fairy princess. This is probably because Dean wears a leather jacket and jokes about his perky nipples… and his familiar is a delicate-looking, pretty blue swallow.
Cas, in his bird form, is fluffy and adorable. When he’s disgruntled, he puffs up to like twice his regular size, when he’s happy, he chitters and sings and flaps around like a goddamn rocket. He pecks people when he’s pissed.
He’s also ridiculously powerful.
Which, honestly, goes a long way to showing up and flipping off any and all assholes, but Dean’s favourite part of the whole process is this, right here: the moment when Dean raises a brow and goes “I’d quit if I were you, man. Cas ain’t a fan of bullies.”
The other dude sneers in his face, pushing at Dean’s shoulders. “What’s the little birdie gonna do, huh? Bitch slap me?”
It takes all Dean’s self-control to stay put, but he does. Because this has happened a million times before and will continue to happen. Because people are dicks, and the look on their faces after being dealt with are ten times better than after any fist fight Dean starts.
Sure enough, as the asshole moves in to shove Dean a second time, Cas flits off his leather-clad shoulder and lands smoothly on the concrete with human feet. Or, well, boots. Heavy leather work boots, topped with ripped blue jeans and wearing an AC/DC t-shirt. He’s got one of Dean’s flannel’s on top of that, and finishing the ensemble is an over-sized denim jacket covered in anarchist patches and buttons. A handful of leather bracelets adorn his left wrist, and there’s a bandana wrapped around the ankle of his right boot because the lace is broken. Ink peeks out from his sleeves. Castiel Novak is a grumpy, sweet, tattooed six-foot tall dude with a perpetual bedhead and day-old stubble, and his feathers match the blue of his human eyes.
The asshole bully’s own eyes widen at this new development, taking a step back as Cas steps forward, hands curling in the other’s loose shirt. “The little birdie,” Castiel says in his deep, gravel-rough voice. “Will indeed bitchslap you. Before cracking your skull and divesting you of all your pathetic, small-minded ideas about masculinity.” Cas smirks when the guy basically gulps. “Unless,” he says good-naturedly. “You have something to tell us? Us being, of course, myself and my boyfriend.”
“Wait a sec, you two are—”
“Cracked skull, wastoid.” Cas shakes him a little to scare him, and Dean can tell the mouth breather almost pisses himself. His heart swells with pride.
“I’m sorry!” the other guy blurts out. “I’m really sorry! You guys aren’t fairies, o-or anything! You’re–You’re—”
“More powerful than you,” Cas helpfully supplies.
“Yeah, that! A-And—”
“Ruggedly handsome.”
“Uh huh!”
“And better than you in literally every possible way.”
“Yes, okay?! Yes: you’re better than me in every way. I’m sorry! Just leave me the fuck alone!”
“Gladly.” Castiel then pushes the asshole so that he ends up flat on his ass, palms scraped up on the pavement as he turns to Dean with a quirk of his mouth. “You ready to go?”
“Yeah,” Dean grins back. He moves up to press a quick kiss to his mouth, and Cas, adorably, blushes. “Careful on the turns, though.”
“M’always careful,” Castiel grumps. Still, he laces their fingers together as they walk towards his ‘66 Triumph Bonneville, tossing Dean a helmet as he slides his own over his head. Cas straddles the bike and grins when Dean presses himself behind him and holds on tight. He revs the engine and they take off.
The guy, sitting dumbly on the ground, stares after them.
thinking about how in gof, sirius says “ever since i found out snape was teaching here, i’ve wondered why dumbledore hired him” and goes onto explain how snape was famous for the dark arts at school and part of a slytherin gang that all turned out to be death eaters (who we later find out were attacking students with dark magic). so he’s one of the only people to immediately be like “why the fuck is dumbledore letting snape teach children”. then says that as far he knows snape was never even accused of being a death eater but many of them were never caught. but when ron keeps insisting that snape must be a death eater, sirius disagrees and reasons it out, because he doesn’t think it makes sense based on the facts, and also because: “there’s still the fact that dumbledore trusts snape, and i know dumbledore trusts where a lot of other people wouldn’t, but i just can’t see him letting snape teach at hogwarts if he’d ever worked for voldemort.” (so even while questioning dumbles, sirius clearly still has way too much faith in him. which makes everything in ootp extra infuriating). anyways, sirius was willing to give snape the benefit of the doubt on being a death eater, like, he’s perfectly capable of being rational about snape and not jumping to conclusions despite his hatred of him!
and then at the end of gof he finds out that snape WAS in fact a death eater, and sirius has no proof or reason to believe that snape has actually changed, all he has to work off of is that Dumbledore Trusts Snape, even though all sirius knows is that snape literally tried to hand him (and remus) to the fucking dementors and outed remus, and witnessed snape going unhinged at his godson and two other teenagers in the same scene.
and now he has to work alongside snape knowing that he apparently paid no consequences for his death eater past, wasn’t even so much as accused of being one (not unlike lucius malfoy and karkaroff and the others who did deals with the ministry and clearly haven’t changed their ways, who sirius shows bitterness towards in gof) while sirius was branded as one by the ministry and the whole wizarding world and unjustly imprisoned for it for 12 years without even getting a trial.
and snape is constantly taunting him about the fact that he can’t leave the house and help the order because of the world STILL thinking that sirius is a death eater and murderer because of that very same unjust imprisonment that the fascist hate group snape joined directly fucking caused, and snape the actual former death eater is able to do these things and live freely because he got away with it all. and he might complain about it but sirius still puts up with all of that for months along with all the other shit he has to deal with in ootp.
then he’s told that snape has to teach harry occlumency, and makes sure to sit with harry rather than letting snape talk to him alone, and is apparently the ONLY one to question this clearly terrible stupid ass decision and ask why dumbledore can’t teach him instead. yeah sirius starts off with a petty comment or two but harry even looks to sirius to intervene on his behalf, and sirius does. sirius calmly and firmly warns snape not to use occlumency lessons to give harry a hard time, to which snape responds by insulting not only his fifteen year old godson but his dead best friend, that voldemort, who snape WORKED FOR, literally murdered, to sirius’s face. OF COURSE SIRIUS IS GONNA LOSE IT. ANYONE WOULD. and the first thing sirius says is “i don’t care if dumbledore thinks you’ve reformed, i know better” and refers to snape being lucius malfoy’s lapdog bc he knows they were fellow death eater buddies at hogwarts and during the war, like wow i wonder why sirius would have doubts about snape’s loyalties, especially after what he just said??!? this is not an example of sirius’s supposed ~crazy uncontrollable temper~, any normal person would want to throw down at something like that, personally i think sirius showed an impressive amount of self control for managing to wait that long to try to hex snape. AND he makes sure to give harry the mirrors specifically so harry can contact him if snape treats him badly, because that’s all sirius can do at that point when he’s powerless and his input is being completely ignored.
anyways it’s truly a tragedy that sirius never even got to find out that snape was the death eater who told voldemort about the prophecy, i think sirius deserved to know and go completely unhinged at snape!!! as was his right!!!!!
Fantastic post.
Sirius was one of the smartest, wisest, most caring characters in the HP series and literally everybody but James did him wrong. Everybody goes on about how he never grew up, how he was petty and immature, when really all he did was just not sit down and take all the shit that was being thrown at him - especially compared to people like Snape who were handed everything on a silver platter without deserving half of it. He was the best father figure Harry could ask for, even at his most reckless, because guess what - Harry was meant to be a hero, everybody knew it, and somehow they all still tried to protect him (or pretended to, coughDumbledorecough). But Sirius knew what being meant to fight was like, and he knew when to tell him to be careful and when to tell him to go ahead and show a bitch who’s who.
So does the Roald abuse ever stop ? I thought it would stop when Devon left, and even though he isn’t getting yelled at as much as he did, he still gets kicked around a lot and I don’t like it because Roald is like a puppy to me and I have the odd need to protect him.
Does it help to know that he gets off on it?
We’re all in agreement that Stewart is a little bit queer for Wayne, right? Like starting from that one scene in the first episode, all the way to the Valentine’s Day episode and more… definitely a little queer
I see it more as Stewart wants Wayne to be his older brother but also hates that he wants it.
remember when ginny weasley turned down the offer of going to the dance with harry (the boy she’d been crushing on for years) so that she could stay loyal to her date with neville and then completely called ron and harry out on their shit when they started making fun of neville good times good times
Neville is 100% the godfather of one of Harry and Ginny’s kids
