Did Hogwarts Students Have To Feed Their Owls? Was There A School Rattery? If Not, How Did The Ecosystem

Young Dark Lord

It's a mess

Draco reading in a decidedly casual way. {the most infuriating thing about coloured pencils is the moment you take a picture of the finished piece.}

JASON ISAACS in Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

he’s a fictional character to you, i know him personally

yes i love remus lupin but even more than that i love professor lupin

there is no way some of y’all are this heated about fictional characters. like i refuse to believe that people are getting into fights over characters that don’t. exist. in. real. life.

Danger and the Black Family

"It's ideal for Headquarters, of course. My father put every security measure known to wizardkind on it when he lived here. It's unplottable, so Muggles could never come and call — as if they'd ever have wanted to — and now Dumbledore's added his protection, you'd be hard put to find a safer house anywhere."— Sirius Black regarding 12 Grimmauld Place

It's common in fanfic to see Grimmauld Place as a magical fortress, the ancestral fortress of the Black family, with wards (I know that it's a fanon term, but it's a useful one so don't @ me) as ancient as Hogwarts itself. And that make sense, after all, doesn't Sirius tell us so in the books? Well yes and no. Sirius does say that the house is warded, and heavily so ("every security measure known to wizard kind"). Sirius is exaggerating here, since the house doesn't feature protections like the Fidelius (until Dumbledore added it), but it's meant to show that the House is heavily protected.

The bit I'm interested in is the part I highlighted in the quote above. My father. The protective spells were not modus operandi for the Blacks, they're something new. It isn't him renewing spells his father cast either, since Arcturus dies after Orion. It makes sense that they're not standard procedure, after all they're wealthy and influential in the government. As pure of blood as one can be. They consider themselves wizarding royalty. Why would they take measures to protect themselves from those they consider their inferiors? Now, the question that naturally follows is: What changed? What prompted Orion to feel threatened enough that he felt the Black family residence needed reinforcement? I have my own elaborate headcanon about this, but I'd feel interested in hearing other theories first.

reggie :(

Day 8: Constellation

Narcissa was a dutiful daughter to her parents, her House, her legacy. She never stepped out of line or raised her voice in protest, “As a lady should,” her mother would scathingly remind in inference of her older sisters’ brashness. But Bellatrix’s taunting songs rung in her head, of the field of stars the family cast up into the night sky, and how little Cissa was the only flower stuck on the ground.

regulus had a mullet, a tiny one but a mullet nonetheless you CANNOT convince me otherwise!!!!!