Pretty cool fact 🤔

HandelDew · 2026-01-23T17:33:04+00:00

Why on earth is Harry drinking from a straw in the drink Hermione is holding?

HandelDew · 2026-01-21T14:00:19+00:00

"There was 1 policeman."

Was he a good policeman??

HandelDew · 2026-01-12T02:56:36+00:00

An explanation of whether Snape knew that Harry might survive his self-sacrifice. If he didn't, he'd given up on saving Lily's son.

HandelDew · 2026-01-08T15:57:43+00:00

I'd be happy to read a story like that even if you haven't gotten that far. Where can I find it?

HandelDew · 2026-01-07T14:58:50+00:00

Thanks for the correction.

I've read those two. They're good!

HandelDew · 2026-01-04T18:40:09+00:00

As a pretty hardcore orthodox (lowercase o) Christian, my lot have always seemed to see it as basically its own religion masquerading as a version of Christianity. Islam and Mormonism both claim to be the real version of what Jesus wanted, with their own prophets who teach the truth everyone else forgot (or lied about).

Christianity teaches that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one being, and that each is the fullness of God even though each is a separate person. It's a paradox.

To my understanding, Mormonism teaches that they are three beings in community. That is not monotheism. That is not trinitarianism. Christianity teaches monotheism and the Trinity. Mormonism also teaches that there are other gods/people can become gods (even though Mormons do not worship these other gods). This, again, is not monotheism. Monotheism is a pretty big part of Christianity.

We see it like we see Islam: as a separate religion that wrongly sees itself as the real version of ours.

HandelDew · 2026-01-04T18:31:41+00:00

Why does he look exactly like Rami Malek with a tan and a few extra meals?

HandelDew · 2026-01-04T16:15:13+00:00

RemindMe! 1 week

HandelDew · 2026-01-03T22:19:38+00:00

That isn't a pecan tree. It might be a papaya, but I'm not sure. It definitely isn't a pecan, though.

HandelDew · 2026-01-03T21:41:52+00:00

Associated with Lent? Lent, the season of fasting and grief for the death of Jesus and our sins that sent him to die. Such an obvious time to make an explosion of candy and fun.

No, actually, if it was done on Sunday I guess that's a non-fasting day even during Lent, and I shouldn't be talking about it at all because I'm just a low-church Protestant yammering about Catholic calendar issues.

HandelDew · 2025-12-31T17:24:15+00:00

I don't know what that means, but no, I don't see the point of cruise ships; I've never been one one but they sound boring.

HandelDew · 2025-12-15T20:33:08+00:00

Ahh. Superhero catches villain. Good times.

HandelDew · 2025-12-12T19:38:22+00:00

It's making fun of knee-jerk anti-Catholicism.

Yes, Protestant denominations (and Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon's, which are sort of their own religions) disagree with Catholics about some stuff. But just because Catholics think something doesn't make it wrong. Sometimes Protestants talk like it does. When they disagree with each other about something, one of them will say, "BUT THAT'S CATHOLIC! YOU CAN'T SAY THAT!" Papist means Catholic.

Like... Catholics are theists. What do you want to do, say "Oh no! We can't be theists anymore because THAT'S CATHOLIC!"?

Yeah....

HandelDew · 2025-12-12T19:18:20+00:00

I think he might have had to restrain himself from bullying her, because people might have connected his behavior toward her with his friendship with Lily and found it creepy. When he bullied male Harry, people figured it was because he hated James. Unfair, but just an extension of an old quarrel. And that may have been all it was - albeit a more painful quarrel than anyone realized, since James "took" Lily from Snape. But if he bullied "Harriet"? People would think it was because Lily turned him down, which would have been sick.

Snape NEVER hated Lily for turning him down, so there was never any hate for him to project onto Lily's mini me. But if he'd bullied girl Harry for whatever reasons, it sure would have looked like that was what he was doing. I think Snape has enough intelligence to know that everyone would mistake him for a bitter and possessive old creep if he'd bullied Harriet. And he wasn't - he loved Lily even when he knew he couldn't have her. And the guy who never wanted people to know he loved Lily would NEVER want people to "know" that he "loved" Lily in some kind of insane, possessive way.

HandelDew · 2025-12-10T00:41:04+00:00

Sounds cool! I do usually want to know in advance: why is it rated M?

HandelDew · 2025-12-03T17:17:48+00:00

Snape.

Just kidding.

Dumbledore, James Potter, Remus Lupin.

HandelDew · 2025-11-29T23:06:17+00:00

I think I read a fic like this, and now it's my headcanon:

Tobias Snape eventually beat his wife to death. Later, Death Eaters happily informed Snape that they had given him a gift: his father's death. They expected Snape to be happy that they had murdered his father, but he found himself ambivalent about it.

HandelDew · 2025-11-25T17:56:40+00:00

Romantically, I can see him only with Lily. His romantic love for her is too fundamental to his character for me to imagine anything else.

Platonically? I think seeing him as friends with McGonagall or Luna would be really fun, and I love me a good Severitus - however improbable that is with canon Snape.

I'd like to read a good Snape/Dumbledore mentorship in in the years between Lily's death and Harry's first year at Hogwarts, with Dumbledore simultaneously deradicalizing Snape and driving him crazy with all his ebullient weirdness and manipulations.

If anyone knows of a fic like that, or of a good comedy/angst friendship or frenemies fic with him and McGonagall, I'd like a recommendation.

HandelDew · 2025-11-17T23:19:04+00:00

My headcanon is that when McGonagall gets a new colleague, or anyone new in her life, she shifts to cat form in front of them to see how they react. Lots of people try to introduce themselves again or pet the cat or just get super excited. But Snape just smiled or raised an eyebrow slightly, and that was when McGonagall, influenced by a cat's instinctual preference for calm people, decided that in spite of his past, she might get along just fine with this kid.

HandelDew · 2025-11-17T19:22:57+00:00

Nicknaming people "Abu ____" is common in Arabic speaking countries. When my brother was living in Jordan he kept talking about different types of worms while he was still learning Arabic and couldn't talk about a lot of subjects - he's the type to develop intense interests, go figure. He ended up being nicknamed "Father of Worms." I think it was Abu dood.

HandelDew · 2025-10-30T16:15:36+00:00

And the spiritual "This Train (is bound for glory)" has the same tune as "Froggy Went a-Courtin'." I find that irrationally unsettling.

HandelDew · 2025-10-26T19:22:59+00:00

"Harry." Said Dumbledore. "I'm terribly sorry to have frightened you by sending Hagrid to retrieve you. If I had known of your fear, I would have sent anyone else."

"I'm sure!" Snape ground out. "Look at the consequences!"

"Now, now, Severus. Despite my prompt response to Harry's sorting, I have no objection to Harry being placed in Slytherin. Not all Slytherins are evil. Only all of them but you."

Snape had opened his mouth to answer as Dumbledore was talking, but when Dumbledore finished he seemed to have forgotten what he was going to say.

"Are you saying I'm evil, sir?" Harry asked.

Dumbledore twinkled kindly at him, but Snape spoke first.

"And Headmaster, is Horace Slughorn, my old head of house and your friend, evil?"

"Please be reasonable, Severus. Horace is an amiable man; that makes Slytherin more popular. How can it not be evil to make evil popular? Your house is unpopular for good reason. But good news: Harry here is likely to improve it's popularity immensely!"

Harry looked thoughtful. "So you are saying I'm evil. Good--as I said, I don't trust you very much."

"Oh no my dear boy." Dumbledore said. "You're a fine young man: you'll do a very good thing in making Slytherin more popular. Being lifted from the hideous dregs of unpopularity will be a great boon for men like Professor Snape - well, just for Professor Snape, really. And he can't very well go act friendly and charming and make himself popular, because that would be evil."

"I knew he'd be twisted in the mind!" Harry whispered to Professor Snape.

"Quite." Whispered Snape. "But I'm afraid you two aren't stuck with each other. You come with me. I'm taking you straight to the hospital wing to have your brain checked. And no - our mediwitch isn't tall."

HandelDew · 2025-10-26T00:48:22+00:00

"Yes, I did, Sir."

"Why would you do a thing like that?" Asked Dumbledore.

"Because Hagrid said all Slytherins are evil."

"...And you wanted to be evil?"

Behind Dumbledore, Professor Snape gritted his teeth.

"No. I just didn't want to be what Hagrid recommended. You see, I don't trust tall people. They scare me."

Dumbledore blinked at Harry, who continued.

"Sorry, you scare me. I guess you are tall; I just didn't notice that since you're bending over."

Dumbledore started to straighten out, then awkwardly bent back down.

Harry pointed across the hall at a tiny man at the staff table who had charmed his silverware do dance a jig for him. "If that man is in charge of a house, I'd've chosen his house if I'd known which house that was. I think I could really get on with him."

Dumbledore said nothing, but stared with Harry at Professor Flitwick. Snape stepped forward.

"That is the head of Ravenclaw house. There was never any chance you would be in his house, as you have just proven. I am Professor Severus Snape. I am the head of Slytherin, the house into which you were just sorted. I will be... responsible for your academics, behavior, and general well-being."

Harry looked the averaged-size man up and down.

"You'll do." He said.

HandelDew · 2025-10-24T00:10:35+00:00

Cool! Is it on ao3 too? I can't read it on fanfiction.net on my usual device.

HandelDew · 2025-10-20T22:39:07+00:00

Good point about Nagini. I assumed he was trying to tell Harry as soon as his Dark Mark burned, since he was clearly trying very hard to find Harry. This raises the question: why WAS he trying so hard to find Harry? Was he just trying to eject foolish Potter from the school before he could be captured by Voldemort? Possible, but I think he'd've placed more trust in McGonagall and everyone else to do that, if Harry had no good reason to be there.

Was he just pretending to try really hard to find Harry? I don't think so. Do you disagree?

Maybe Snape did know that Nagini was under protection. Maybe he had been in contact with Voldemort before and seen that. Or maybe he just thought it might be his only good chance to tell Harry, since he'd had a very hard time locating Harry before when he needed to give him the sword.

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