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svedone: “ thedizzywolf: “ blazepress: “ If the Titanic sunk today. ” Whoever made this must be so boring at parties ” if the titanic sunk today you can bet your ass that almost everybody would’ve lived because there’d be enough life boats for...

svedone:

thedizzywolf:

blazepress:

If the Titanic sunk today.

Whoever made this must be so boring at parties

if the titanic sunk today you can bet your ass that almost everybody would’ve lived because there’d be enough life boats for everyone and the third class passengers wouldn’t be forced to stay in their rooms. also, with today’s technology, they most likely would’ve known about the iceberg and they wouldn’t have hit it–not to mention that the boat would’ve been able to move away from the icebergs because ships aren’t built the same way anymore.

in fact, most of these people would’ve been on a plane.

All right, not that you didn’t make some really great points there, but I’d like to point out ONE OTHER THING about this concept, the idea of the Titanic going down today.

If the Titanic sank today, and let’s suppose for the sake of argument that it went down much like it did in 1912 (crashed into an iceberg, insufficient lifeboats, many dead and dying as the ship went down, for whatever reason help can’t be reached), you know what would be different?

There wouldn’t be any confusion about who lived and who didn’t, no families desperately waiting for news, because people would be saying goodbye.  They would be pulling out their phones and their tablets and they would call or message their families or friends.  And they would say “the ship is going down, we’re going to die, and I wanted to make sure you knew.”

Can you imagine those messages?

“I gave up my seat for a young woman and her baby.”

“I don’t want you to be scared for me.”

“I’m sitting with a friend I made last week–her whole family is on board.”

“I just wanted to hear your voice.”

“I didn’t want you to be left wondering.”

“I’ll miss you.”

“I love you.”

So I sort of doubt that’s what this person was trying to get at (although can you imagine the murder that a historian would do to have concrete knowledge of how something like this happened rather than theorizing from evidence and scattered accounts), but like listen to me for one second: people would fucking know what happened to their loved ones.  They would be able to say goodbye.

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prongsmydeer:

Dead characters who would’ve left a better legacy for the younger Albus to live up to than the person he actually got his middle name from

  • Cedric Diggory
  • Alastor Moody
  • Dobby
  • Hedwig
  • Regulus Black 
  • Colin Creevey
  • Florean Fortescue
  • Rufus Scrimegour
  • Lavender Brown’s rabbit Binky
  • Hagrid’s flobberworms 
  • the lacewing flies they used to brew polyjuice in second year

Albus Lacewing Fly Potter

now fucking watch THIS and see how you think about Snape now

I read the books, so I don’t really need a recap, but just for fun let’s do a little adaption comparison.

Things that are conveniently left out of that scene compilation:

  • That time when Snape was hiding out of sight in the bushes to spy on Lily and Petunia instead of happening to be nearby
  • That time when Snape dropped a tree branch on Lily’s sister
  • That time when Snape defended the use of Dark Magic as a laugh and redirected the conversation to someone else’s actions
  • That time Snape responded to humiliating and awful but non-violent hexes by giving his opponent a bloody gash to the face
  • That time when Snape called Lily a Mudblood
  • That time when Snape threatened to sleep outside Lily’s place of dwelling in the castle in spite of knowing she did not want to speak with him
  • That time when Lily pointed out that Snape called people Mudblood all the time
  • That time when Snape was the one who conveyed the prophecy to Voldemort that put Lily in danger in the first place
  • That time when Snape’s only moral objection to endangering a baby came from his attachment to the mother
  • That time when Snape didn’t say ‘hide them all’ initially but told Voldemort to kill the father and infant son but spare the mother -and only asked to hide them all after Dumbledore told him he was disgusting
  • That time when it was Sirius who discovered the Potters and rescued Harry from the ruin of Godric’s Hollow
  • That time when Snape singled Harry out in a room full of people on the first day of class for not having extensive knowledge not required of them at that point - even deducting points for Harry not monitoring someone else’s potion
  • Those times when Snape lashed out at Harry for a grudge against his father who had died ten (to sixteen, in HBP) years prior - who Harry couldn’t even remember  
  • All those times when Snape responded to seeing Neville Longbottom struggle in his class by calling him names like ‘idiot boy’, demeaning him, and deducting points when Hermione helped him 
  • That time Snape screamed at a 13-year-old Hermione and called her ‘STUPID GIRL’
  • That time when Snape was unconscious for Lupin’s transformation and it was Sirius actively forcing the children away from Lupin
  • That time when Snape lied to the Minister about Sirius confunding the trio - or else lied about being able to recognize it
  • That time when Snape burst into hysterics after Sirius (rightfully) escaped death
  • That time when Snape outed Remus as a werewolf (having been attempting to do so for quite some time) and caused him to resign from the only employment that would accept him 
  • That time when Snape made a teenage girl feel even more insecure about her appearance in the face of her being attacked
  • That time when Snape frequently goaded Sirius for being unable to be useful to the Order in spite of actively contributing to besmirching Sirius’s name so he could not be cleared
  • That time when Snape didn’t just tell Harry to get out when he was embarrassed, he also told him to never visit his office again in spite of Harry needing Occlumency lessons for his own safety
  • That time when Snape gave Harry detention every Saturday for the rest of term because he wouldn’t show him his potions book
  • That time when Snape broke into Harry’s dead godfather’s house to rip apart a picture from Harry’s first and only birthday with his parents

Albus Hagrid’s Flobberworms Potter: Still a better name than the one he had. 

That time when 13 year old Neville feared Snape, a fucking teacher, who should have fucking nurtured him like good teachers do, when 13 year old Neville feared Snape more than the fucking woman who literally tortured his parents into insanity.

And he grew up in the magical community, remember, so he’d fucking know what Lestrange looked like, what her name was, before he could wipe his own arse.

Also, remember the time when Snape to time in class to read out a slut-shaming article in a gossip magazine to embarrass two of his students? Yeeaaah…

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Tags: i kind of hate snape just a little sort of like mount everest is just a hill i've been on the receiving end of teachers who hate you it's not fun fuck him snape might have died well but i will never call him a good man and i will never like him okay? i'm within my rights to say so harry potter