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cassandraclare:

dadblackthorn said: What made you decide that Emma would be the one to 

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liver-spleen-brainstem-lungs:

• Give me a James Potter with skin of mahogany and eyes so dark that only when standing in sunlight one is able to see where the pupil stops and the iris starts
  
• Give me a James Potter with curly african hair, so thick he can put his wand through it without problem
• Give me a James Potter with a strong jaw, wearing it like an heirloom from his ethiopian roots
• Give me a James Potter who swears in Amharic, a language he picked up from his grandather
• Give me a James Potter who’s skin colour is the main reason Vernon Dursley doesn’t like him
• James Potter who agrees to meet his sisters brother in law, and arrives with beaded necklaces and a tribal mask from his parents home 
• Give me a James Potter who lets Lily and Sirius braid his hair in hundreds of small braids
• James Potter who have the largest stash of hair products that you’ve ever seen
• James Potter who swear when humidity makes his hair go twice as frizzy 
• Give me a James Potter who falls in love with the way Lily’s red hair look when draped over his own skin
• Falling in love in the breaking point between the dark red and the dark brown 
• Give me a James Potter whos palms, and the inside of his arms change to a lighter shade, still able to spot the veins that crawl under his skin 
• Give me a James Potter whos lips are soft and full, slowly turning pink the further into his mouth you look
• Give me a James Potter who is proud of his heritage 
• A James Potter who openly flaunts his skin and his hair and his language and the way his skin look in the sunlight
• A James Potter who has a wide smile, openly showing the tooth he cracked in his second year
• A James Potter that is loud and ecstatic over life, a James Potter who laughs so hard he almost always tears up, a James Potter who isn’t white washed 
• A James Potter that is black, a James Potter who swears in his mother tongue and is unapologetic about it. 
• James Potter who’s character doesn’t change because of his skin, but rather  adds character

xxdrarryrebellexx:

i hate when fics try to make Hermione perfect and make it seem like she would obviously know everything, because it’s not fucking accurate. i just- i think that like most smart people, she has a lot of book sense, but not a lot of common sense.

gimme Hermione who:

- can name all the ingredients in polyjuice potion or pepper up, but always forgets where she puts her quills (in her hair).

- knows the most basic ways of performing spells and charms, but can’t for the life of her figure out how the talking portraits work.

- always forgets to cut her lamp off before she goes to sleep so her dormmates always have to nox it in the middle of the night.

- knows all her roommates names, but always gets them mixed up cause she’s never paying attention when she starts talking to them, cause she’s reading and talks without looking up from the page.

like i get it, she’s a Gryffindor and that’s supposed to be the perfect, great, good guy house, but she also could have been sorted into ravenclaw and people seem to ignore that part of her character.

ravenclaw is wisdom and creativity and knowledge for the sake of knowledge and this girl is not perfect, she is a goofball of random facts no one cares about and she trips over her own damn sentences sometimes because she isn’t good with social cues because she’s more comfortable with a book than with people. i also get that she will have grown out of some of this, but as someone who has been reading their entire life even when i take breaks from books i am more comfortable in a library alone than in a cafeteria or a club full of people.

literally fight me if you think i’m wrong

kedavranox:

Isn’t poc HP just great? Isn’t it just so progressive? Won’t poc HP characters change the world?

That’s what everyone says, right? Honestly, it’s a lot more complicated than that.

The typical “poc” Hermione’s only evidence of black culture is her ‘brown skin’ and ‘curly hair’. These two phrases, in various combinations, seem to be the epitome of poc!Hermione in almost every poc!Hermione fic I’ve encountered as of yet.

I call this “hp blackface”.

It’s as if people believe changing the colour of Hermione’s skin and mentioning it once or twice in fic, will suddenly make her a black woman. As if giving her brown skin and curly hair could suddenly create a Hermione that is a reflection of me.

When authors do this, it feels like they’re giving me the scraps off the table and telling me to eat. They’re pandering to me, and to people like me, and I know it.

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