What if instead of gilly weed Harry had showed up to the black lake challenge in muggle scuba gear like “like where’s your advanced magic now bitches? Got me a free fishing knife with this thing”
“So, Harry …
what made you decide to enter the Triwizard Tournament?”
“Er —” said Harry again, but he was distracted by the quill.
Even though he wasn’t speaking, it was dashing across the parchment,
and in its wake he could make out a fresh sentence:
An ugly scar, souvenir of a tragic past, disfigures the
otherwise charming face of Harry Potter, whose eyes —
“Ignore the quill, Harry,” said Rita Skeeter firmly. Reluctantly,
Harry looked up at her instead. “Now — why did you decide to
enter the tournament, Harry?”
Oh god guys. JK Rowling is a genius, and so is this person.
the thing I love about this fandom is that there are 7 books and 8 movies to observe. so every once in a while some blessed soul finds a piece of information that makes all the magic resurface again
Mind. Blown.
Oh Lord…it’s a metaphor too. It’s symbolic of Neville holding on to his past, the horrors of what happened to his parents, of being a passive vessel for that atrocity. As if the terrible thing kept happening and would never stop happening.
When he moves forward and becomes part of his own story instead of the story of his past, his strength surges.
TEAM NEVILLE FOR LIFE
It also shows that if you give a kid the wrong tool, he may be a genius but he’s never going to be able to build something with it.
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