Avoidance

fairestcharming:

“How come she married him? She hated him!”
“Nah, she didn’t”

snilyingifs

fyeahseventiesharrypotter:

LUCIUS AND NARCISSA

“My sister. If they find her, they’ll kill her. It’s gotten that bad. Hasn’t it?”

“Yes.” 

You’d have thought [they] were brothers! Inseparable!

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. - James Joyce

the story of james potter and lily evans.

(Source: mlightwood)

fapbenders:

MARAUDERS’ ERA DREAM CAST (x)
⌊Rachel Hurd-Wood as Lily Evans⌉

(Source: clawsandfangs)

The Black sisters are to an extent based on Jessica Mitford and her famous, British aristocrat sisters, Unity and Diana.

In her youth Diana was considered one of society’s great beauties … She had many admirers, including Evelyn Waugh (“her beauty ran through the room like a peal of bells”) who dedicated to her his novel ‘Vile Bodies’, inspired by a party [Diana and her then husband Bryan Guinness] had thrown. It all stopped in 1932 when Diana met Oswald Mosley, then the enfant terrible of British politics, later to be the founder of the British Union of Fascists. There is no doubt that she fell in love with him, almost from first sight …

Unity was by far the most controversial sister and her story is tragic and fascinating. … She met the Führer on over 130 occasions between 1935 and 1939, achieving a real friendship. As her obsession grew, the British press and her old friends in England were outraged by her behaviour. The British secret service felt she was ‘more Nazi than the Nazis’.

As a teenager [Jessica] became fascinated by pacifism and left-wing politics, then communism, which led to feuds with her once ‘favourite sisters’, the flagrantly right wing Diana and Unity. Her ‘coming out’ year as a debutante made her more aware of the inequalities in society and she felt out of place in the seemingly endless matchmaking parties. (source)

“You know, the very first time I saw you, Harry, I recognized you immediately. Not by your scar, by your eyes. They’re your mother, Lily’s. Yes, oh yes. I knew her. Your mother was there for me at a time when no one else was. Not only was she a singularly gifted witch, she was also an uncommonly kind woman. She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even and perhaps, most especially when that person couldn’t see it in themselves. Then your father, James, on the other hand. He had a certain, shall we say talent, for trouble. The talent, rumor has it, he passed onto you. You are more like them than you know, Harry. In time you’ll come to see just how much.”

(Source: sallysdraper)