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heynowayimgay:

straight-outta-halloweentown:

As someone who headcanons Harry Potter to be of Indian descent it pleases me to think that his name is actually Hari, and that Aunt Petunia just Anglicized it because foreigners.

According to the interwebs, ‘Hari’ is a Sanskrit name meaning… Lion.

So yeah. Hari the mixed race savior of the Wizarding World.

Brown Hindu person here:

Hari is actually another name for Vishnu one of the three main gods in Hinduism. His job is protection. And he often comes down to Earth in different forms to save the world when the balance of good and evil is slipping.

Hari Puther, incarnation of Vishnu, protector of fucking everyone.

This is beautiful, and gives the whole thing new context. I love it.

and their relationship isn’t perfect.

wolfstsr:

it isn’t at all.

because the two boys grew up being disgusted with themselves, and who they are, and who their family is, and who they love, and like, and hate, and that kind of repulsion doesn’t just go away. it doesn’t.

because when sirius finds out that regulus died (he found out through the prophet, like he was a common onlooker and not the boy who would lay down his life for his brother), and he blames himself for it and for letting his baby brother get that awful mark on his wrist and for letting him give into his parents and for letting him become an enemy, and he goes into his room and shuts the door and locks it with powerful anger-filled magic and he doesn’t eat or sleep for two days, and he can’t even look at the boy he loves or james or peter because the marauders always made him forget, and regulus didn’t deserve to be forgot, and so sirius put himself through the worst pain he could.

(it took days for him to be able to eat, weeks for him to stop crying, months for him to have a fit-less sleep, and he never, ever forgot the slightly smaller, younger boy with the same, but softer, gray eyes and the same, but shorter and tamer, black hair and the same, but less defiant smile. his brother.)

because when remus begins receiving encrypted messages from voldemort himself offering a freedom and a cure to lycanthropy if he, remus, joined voldemort’s ranks, he refuses to tell the boy he loves because sirius would hate him for even considering it, for thinking blissfully of scars finally allowed to fade and of life free from the werewolf anger boiling inside of him (and of the fear badly hidden by sirius when he sees the fire behind remus’ eyes). instead, he lies awake at nights with the letters burning a hole through his mattress and threatening to swallow him whole.

(when sirius does find out, he is angry, he shakes remus and yells till he’s hoarse until he breaks down crying and whispers, “i know you want it so bad, remus. i want it too. but, oh my god, if he took you i couldn’t live without you and i couldn’t be alone. he took my brother and he can’t take you. i know you want it, remus” and they cry together.

because two troubled boys who love each other are still troubled. because they take on each other’s burdens until it’s too much for the both of them. because it’s so hard to be in love during a war.

but they’re in love anyway. through death and tears and blood, they stand united in defiance and love because no way in hell is anyone taking what they have. because sirius and remus are not they sort of people who give up and give in.

imagine

( btw, voldemort does not exist in this universe bc fuck that guy, right? )

  • after hogwarts, remus is determined to get a job
  • he knows it will be tough, he knows he’ll be treated like garbage, but he had to rely on other people’s charity for too long and he just wants to prove himself
  • lily, peter, james and remus all pretty much immediatly find jobs they love
  • but remus is struggling to even be allowed to be a waiter
  • wizarding jobs immediatly reject him : even with the registry being kept secret, they look at his frequent sick leaves and immediatly make the connection
  • muggle jobs are no easier : people are put off by the thick scars on his face and his mysterious chronic illness
  • and everytime remus sees his boyfriend coming home happy from work, he feels a little lower
  • everytime he cant pay his half of the rant or his part of the grocery shopping, shame creeps up on him
  • james insists on supporting him, claiming that’s it’s just temporary, but it had last for two years now and there is no evidence it’s about to stop
  • it all escalates until he gets a new rejection letter filled with insults and threats and he just breaks down
  • he refuses to get back at home for three entire days, sirius is loosing his shit
  • finally, him and sirius meet to really talk
  • and sirius all but begs him to take a break with the work search and to stop accepting every slur and threat just to get underpaid short stints in terrible conditions
  • remus comes home, and for 6 months he just stays there
  • he’s being the nice stay-at-home husband : cooking and cleaning and gardening and taking care of harry when needed
  • after that, he is hesitant to try to work again, but he is feeling useless just staying at home ( even when sirius reassures him that he is being plenty useful )
  • so he tries volunteering for charities
  • and people are a bit hesitant to take him in, sure, but they need the help
  • he gets to work in charity shops and kitchens, and with kids
  • he loves it, obviously
  • its not perfect : he is still relying on james and sirius’ money, but at least he is doing something
  • he feels so much better, strangely, after an unpaid shift at the charity shop than an underpaid one at a grocery store
  • and eventually, he figures out that he really loves working with kids
  • so harry and a few friends’ kids become the first students of his small unofficial school for magical kids
  • he only has 5 or 6 students, but he is having fun and he is actually getting paid and it’s amazing
  • he still doesnt make much, but he is paying his entire part of the bills for the first time
  • and he can even occasionally get sirius or his friends a present and hes so proud everytime and I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THIS OKAY