Lancelot:[in a crowd and can’t find Merlin] well this calls for drastic measures
Lancelot:[uses hands as a microphone] ARTHUR PENDRAGON IS A PRAT
Merlin:[across the room] WELL YOU’RE NOT WRONG
Lancelot: Ah, there he is.
do you ever wonder what would have happened if the dursleys had actually managed to hide harryâs identity from him until he turned 17
like dumbledore somehow lost track of them when vernon changed jobs or when they moved houses, and for some reason he just couldnât find them again
and harry potter the boy who lived grew up attending typical schools and his friends knew that sometimes weird shit would happen around him, but they just thought it was a coincidence or that they were imagining it but slowly they all left him and he grew up even more isolated and angry and so he runs away at 16
and meanwhile voldemort knows harry ran away and that he is out there somewhere, vulnerable, but heâs not in the wizarding world, so his death eaters are wreaking havoc trying to find him
and harry obviously has magical talent but he doesnât know that, but every child in hogwarts does and theyâve learned about him and now know that heâs just out there somewhere, completely unaware of whatâs going to happen to him
and some kids it doesnât bother, but for others like neville and hermione and luna and ron, itâs horrifying to think that this innocent person who should be in their year is going to be hunted down like this
so they decide to go find him before voldemort or the death eaters can
and harry is in a train station on his way to work and is converged upon by about six people who are trying their hardest to not freak out and tell him that heâs a wizard in grave danger, but they know they have such little time
so instead of the wizarding world finding harry at 12, it finds him at 16 and a half when itâs in a much darker, desperate place
i donât know i just really like the idea of harry potter joining the wizarding world through a bunch of rebellious hogwarts dropouts hiding throughout england and running from enemies he didnât know he had and learning magic along the way in dark alleys and through street fights
reblogging my own post bc these tags are PHENOMENAL and i canât stop thinking about the ollivander question and what other witches and wizards would step in to help harry and his would-be classmates throughout london
owls keep coming through the alleys theyâre hiding in, dropping off poorly wrapped candy and letters of encouragement. streetlamps have small lightning bolts etched into them with âpotter livesâ scrawled below. sirius made a quick exit from azkaban when the rest of the death eaters escaped two years past, but everyone just assumed he was rejoining voldemort and paid no attention; now a large black dog has been spotted in london, ruthlessly attacking some of voldemortâs strongest supporters.
a hot meal is always left outside the leaky cauldron. sometimes the plates are empty and a few knuts are left, and sometimes itâs still there in the morning, cold and untouched, because itâs an unspoken rule that the food is only for potter and his friends. the children pulled from hogwarts by their parents out of fear leave their schoolbooks on street corners and hermione grabs as many as she can, teaching the rest of their group spells they hadnât covered yet and better techniques for defense against the dark arts. one day a broomstick shows up, and ron swears the owl is from hogwarts. ginny teaches harry how to fly in empty underground stations.Â
the summer of his 17th birthday, surrounded by the friends he never thought he could have, harry produces his first corporeal patronus. itâs a stag, and sirius, who has at this point joined them, wells up and explains why.
Rest stops on highways are liminal spaces where the veil is thin and nobody can tell me differently
Explain
The explanation is that liminal spaces are in between places that bridge Here with There, so in fairy tales we often have the Fairy Ring, the Forest Clearing, the Sudden Misty Foggy Forest, the Bridge, the River, graveyards, in some cases
We also have a ton of american urban mythology around famous roadways and sites off the sides of roads
Archetypes like these occur to mark the places in the world where the veil goes thin and humans can have extra-worldly experiences, out of the ordinary way of living
So why wouldnât transient spaces like rest stops where everyone is just passing through from one place to the next, never stopping for too long, not be a liminal space where spirits frequent, too
Especially since nobody would know if they were real or not
ThisâŚexplains the feeling I get at rest stops really wellâŚ
i have to reblog this because this perfectly describes the way i feel about airports and hotel lobbies, and i know that a lot of people feel this way about airports, that theyâre these surreal edge-of-reality transitional spaces, but iâve never thought about them as liminal spaces connected to folklore and mythology, and that makes so much sense, in terms of why we subconsciously react to them the way we do, and i just love this a lot
also, the idea that liminal spaces have a mystic power to lie between two dimensions also really makes me think this is probably why airports and hotel lobbies play such a huge role both in inception the film and inception fanfic.
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