Yes, Taylor, It Is Exhausting Always Rooting For The Anti-hero. You Get Into A Lot Of Stupid Internet

Yes, Taylor, it is exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero. You get into a lot of stupid internet arguments.

The Forest Again 💔

“Does it hurt?” The childish question had escaped Harry’s lips before he could stop it. “Dying? Not at all,” said Sirius. “Quicker and easier than falling asleep.”   

Amazing. Another way Harry and Voldemort are foils for each other is by looking at their wand woods: Holly and Yew respectively. Holly is considered to be a symbol of protection and prosperity, Jesus’s sacrifice, and has symbolism connected to Christ’s Crown of Thorns.

Yew, on the other hand, is a tree known for its ability to regenerate once it’s branches touch the ground. Its berries and wood are also known for their poison: in fact it was planted in churchyards to ward off animals from grazing there and has been used in literature to represent darkness.

The symbolism of the wand woods tie themselves back into the different methods of resurrection Harry and Voldemort undergo in the series, with Voldemort’s representing a darkness devoid of “willing submission and sacrifice” much like the symbolism of the Yew.

Yew Trees: https://www.ancient-yew.org/mi.php/trees-in-mythology/79

Holly Trees: https://www.flowerkingdom.com/blog/the-symbolic-significance-of-holly/amp/

“The Death Eaters" is not a lame name for a villainous group

I don’t think the name was supposed to inspire fear. While it did have that effect, its purpose was to inspire its members, and for the inner circle who truly aligned with Voldemort, it was the name for their purpose. Of course, I think few were ever as obsessed with defying death as Voldemort was, but I do think there’s something delightfully taboo about it. Eating death…we usually don’t care about what we eat–it sustains us, it’s beneath us, its only purpose is to fulfill our will. We bend it to our use. There are things we treat with respect for their strength exceeds ours, Death foremost. To bend Death to our will, to have no fear at all, to eat it–this is powerful in a way that breaks all taboos, just as Voldemort did in creating horcruxes.

Then there’s the irreverent context–the Death Eaters eat death for immortality, but in a perverse way, not as a religious or pious symbol. Or they are religious, but worship the works of their own hands. So to me it’s quite effective and perfectly capable of inducing fear, for those who bear the title of Death Eater do not play by our rules and care nothing for our laws. They are strange and fearless of the things we treat with reverence.

Then there’s the metatextual layer from the Christian undertones of the book, particularly sacrificial love unto death enabling rebirth. Harry and Voldemort are foils for each other (Snape as well, but I’ll save that for another day). Voldemort’s actions are the artificial or perverted inverse of the things Harry does: He survives by fleeing from death, not embracing it. He resurrects himself through a ritual based on mastering others, rather than being resurrected because of willing submissiveness and enabling sacrifice. Communion, one of the most important Christian rituals, involves eating and drinking in remembrance of Christ, the savior who willingly embraced death for the world to live and be free from spiritual chains. Death Eaters and Voldemort in particular are characterized by ignorance:

“That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.”

I wonder if wizards ever realized they indulge in entertainment ft. Muggle instruments like guitars and cellos in addition to some transport?

This gives Paris Geller as the editor of the Yale Daily News vibes

At some point in his life Snape decided that anyone too dumb to solve his puzzle is out and he's not stopped being relatable since

Second Albus is my favorite one XD

“Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is to perfect map of the London Underground.”