The Marauders fan life is screaming HOW DARE YOU every five minutes rewatching Prisoner of Azkaban
On the other hand trust Remus John Lupin to sleep half way through a Dementor attack bless him, conjuring up a patronus like ‘here’s a happy memory from the dream you just woke me up from you raggy little shit, I was having a lovely fucking nap until you turned up’
“My dear, you have……………. the Grim” no the fuck he doesn’t he’s got a dogfather friend just waiting to be made, Padfoot is not a Grim he is a Good Boy and my son so you better fucking watch yourself Sybil
Oh okay Remus Lily Evans “was there for you at a time when no-one else was” was she? Was that when the boys who risked expulsion, Azkaban, and death so they didn’t have to leave you alone for the literal one night a month they couldn’t initially be stuck to your side were in detention or…? They spent three years perfecting literally death defying magic so they could be there for you but yeah sure Lily was your sole friend in the dark days and the other Marauders just had a “talent for trouble” fucking sure, Jan.
Bad move, Cuarón. Bad move.
No you know what and another fucking thing she could see “the beauty in others even, or perhaps most especially, when that person could not see it in themselves”? You know what, fair enough: I can buy that about Lily Evans. But don’t you dare pull that line as a contrast to James Potter when at age eleven he found an outwardly feeble and talentless, rodenty-looking kid; a rebellious pureblood from an abusive home, first non-Slytherin of his name; and a poor, scrawny, beaten-up looking werewolf and thought “You’re my new brothers, I’m gonna love you forever now”. This kid picked up probably the three most self-loathing kids he could find, the three who—under other circumstances—probably wouldn’t have had any friends at all, and not only offered them friendship: he variously offered them unconditional support, offered love, offered companionship, protection, a home, a family. He found the three trickiest people to look after and thought “I’m gonna take care of you, no matter what”.
So excuse you script writers but James Potter rocked up on his first day of Hogwarts and immediately formed bonds of friendship and unshakable trust with the three people least capable of seeing their own inner beauty, and maintained that trust literally to his death.
That was exactly what was exceptional about both Lily and James: maybe they saw it in different people, but they both saw light in those who didn’t think, or others didn’t think, they had any light to offer.
This is hands down the best thing on Tumblr today
The only acceptable part of that movie is Snape telling Sirius and Remus that they fight like a married couple. 🤷🏻♀️
^seconded, and I’ll also give Cuarón credit for reading “embraced Black like a brother” and going “… nah, that’s not what’s gonna happen here at all, they’re gonna grapple”
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