remember when dumbledore first told harry how much his parents loved him and how their love was still protecting him from harm even then… that though they’d been gone for almost his whole life they were still w him… and then he had to wipe his eyes on the bed sheet while dumbledore looked away…
my favorite bit in harry potter is when a gangly freckled ginger child with an old pet rat and patched jeans and dirt on his nose awkwardly sits down across from a scrawny underfed lil kid with baggy clothes and broken glasses and lightning carved onto his face and they both think ‘i must protect this boy’
fantastic beasts being like ‘we’ve heard your complaints about our all-white cast and we raise u one additional white cast member who also beats women’ is a twist even i did not anticipate
The mere fact that [Ron and Hermione] were still there on either side of him, speaking bracing words of comfort, not shrinking from him as though he were contaminated or dangerous, was worth more than he could ever tell them.
