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Taylor Swift Songs That Perfectly Describe James Potter’s Undying Love for Lily Evans Part 2
You didn’t really think that seven songs would be enough to describe James’ undying love for Lily, now, did you? This adorable prat’s absolutely insane for Lily Evans, and we’re pretty sure that the Marauders – Sirius in particular – are so, so close to shoving James’ head up his arse (Sirius is already grinning maniacally at the thought while planning out the most ridiculous pranks). And, while this is definitely a royal pain for James’ best mates, there is one way to make this all the more bearable for the Marauders: describing Potter’s mooning with more Taylor Swift songs.
8. Superstar
Though James is the definition of “popular jock” at Hogwarts – and the fact that practically everyone knows him, be it for his mischief, his lineage, or his Quidditch – Lily’s the Superstar that James constantly wishes that he can get close to. This song is perfect for James’ pining because, like how we Swifties desperately want to get close to Taylor Swift, nothing, nothing at all, will stop this. And, quite frankly, it shouldn’t be stopped because just how adorable is it that James bloody Potter thinks of Lily Evans, the first muggleborn witch of her family, as a Superstar when she won’t even spare him a glance aside from the moments she snarks at him?
9. Sparks Fly
If this isn’t one of the most relatable songs when it comes to James’ love for Lily, then Voldemort’s got a nose. Really, how can sparks not fly whenever Lily Evans smiles at James? Whenever her beautiful emerald eyes meet his hazel ones? And, yes, that’s also probably one of James’ recurring thoughts about Lily – thoughts that Sirius absolutely loves to bring up – and they’re only going to be meeting some other lovestruck thoughts the moment that the silly git manages to get his head together and finally date Lily.
10. Enchanted
The number of times that Sirius, Remus, and Peter have had to silencio James and magically shut his curtains at 2 am is hilarious, and we’re pretty sure that the poor sods just want a single night without having to deal with James mooning about Lily being so bloody enchanting, and him being completely and irrevocably in love with her. Not really surprising since Lily might as well be the most enchanting person in James’ eyes (something that won’t ever change), and it’s probably to be expected since James is too bewitched and enchanted to notice how much of a lovesick puppy he is, but, still, the Marauders just want to get some sleep.
11. Today Was a Fairytale
Time does slow down for James whenever Lily’s around; in fact, it slows down so much that Remus has to constantly step into the “dad” shoes and remind him to stop ogling Lily like she’s the finest racing broom on the market. Really – at this point, Sirius can practically see his best mate’s eyes turn into pupils as James imagines romantic fairytales where he’s the prince charming, and Sirius is both grossed out and amused by the drool dripping down his chin. And what makes this even better? The fact that James most definitely continues to be awestruck – so awestruck that he feels like time has bloody stopped – whenever Lily spares him any affection even when they’re dating. Honestly, this adorable git’s falling in love with Lily over and over again, and it even happens whenever something as simple as a kiss happens.
12. Speak Now
Ah, yes – another episode of “watch Sirius, Remus, and Peter suffer as James daydreams about his and Lily’s wedding even though she still thinks he’s a slimy prat: with not-so-special guest, Snivellus Snape”. Honestly, you’d think him constantly pestering Sirius about how brilliant the Evans/Potter wedding will be is enough, but now you’ve got the happy-to-sad-to-downright- furious-and-jealous mood swings because James is, not-so-secretly, terrified that Lily goes out with Snape. Really, James needs to speak now – wait, actually, no, he’s been speaking about (well, more like proclaiming) his love for Evans forever, so he actually needs to act now, and deflate his head – otherwise, Lily might just end up going out with someone else. At this point, he really just does need to act now and speak now because James might just combust if another go at asking Lily out fails.
Sirius deserves an award for putting up with this silly git for as long as he has.
We never thought it would come to this, but Sirius is no longer the biggest diva in the wizarding world. That title belongs to James now. Or, you know, they could share – at least until Sirius hexes him off the spot and right into Lily’s arms. Don’t forget to tell us about your imaginings of James’ swooning in the comments!
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Hi everyone!
So mugglebornheadcanon is back, and once again recruiting for mods. I know, I’m as excited as you hopefully are.
If you’d like to be a mod, please send in an application - no more than two hundred words, telling me why you want the position, what skills you would bring to the position, and an estimation of the time commitment you could provide, as well as any ideas for the future of the blog you might have. I know that this might seem too intense, but I’m really looking for people who are committed to this - last time, we got about three hundred applications, but don’t let that put you off!! I would definitely urge you to apply, but bear in mind that there will probably be quite a lot of competition for the positions, so make your applications as good as you can :)
It doesn’t matter if you’re inexperienced, as the key thing I’m looking for here is enthusiasm.
Please send in your applications by Friday 7th November to [email protected] , and if you have any questions feel free to message me either here or on my individual blog, @somewhatsapphic.
To all those who apply, I look forward to reading your applications, and to those who don’t, my very sincere thanks for sticking with both me and the blog over the past few months.
Thanks,
~Alex
2101. A special class for Muggleborns, to help them adjust to the wizarding world and learn stuff that is considered general knowledge to witches/wizards, so that they can fit in better and not feel left out.
2100. Muggleborns who have the HIV virus that are disappointed with having a new reason to hate when people ask what their blood status is.
2099. Muslim muggleborns creating a spell to find out if something contains pork or not.
2098. Muggleborns who miss their dogs get stuffed dog animals, then use engorgio to make them bigger and animate them to play with them.
2099. Slytherin muggleborns starting a trend of rejecting people with the first lines of Anaconda.
2097. Muggleborns who have a love for Marine Biology frequent the Black lake to study the lifeforms that grow there.
2096. Muggleborns bringing their pureblood friends to concerts in the muggle world but them being bored because ‘That dragon isn’t real. The Weird Sisters would’ve had a real dragon.’
2095. Muggleborns handing out Smarties to all the students who are stressed about their exams telling them it’ll make them smarter.
2094. Muggleborns showing up late to class and telling the professor a wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
2119. Fat muggleborns get tired of shops having such a limited selection of clothing in bigger sizes, and create a spell that will make any item of clothing fit you perfectly. Not only does this make shopping a much less arduous experience, it means there’s no need to replace clothes if you grow out of them.
2118. Muggleborn alumni becoming ER nurses, confusing doctors by healing trauma wounds while no one is looking.
[An uninvited and ridiculously lengthy interjection from Alex:
This whole topic upsets me so much. St Mungo’s has five departments (not including the visitors’ tearoom and hospital shop. All of these departments deal with magic-related injuries, such as ‘Spell Damage’ and ‘ Magical Bugs and Diseases’, but there’s ostensibly no department to heal injuries which also infect muggles, such as a broken leg or heart disease.
This leaves us with one of two conclusions:
Firstly, it is possible that wizards (including witches – honestly I think using just the term wizards is somewhat sexist but…. It’s shorter) use the muggle services provided for these injuries. But this seems unlikely, given their complete inability to function within the muggle world – for example, we see at the quidditch world cup that many can’t even wear clothing which doesn’t stand out, and they have no understanding of the muggle currency. So it’s difficult to believe that families like the Malfoys and Weasleys are able to utilize these services without raising some serious questions.
Secondly, it’s possible that fixing these problems is really easy for wizards, through the use of potions like Skele-gro, that these problems present so little an issue that there’s no need for a department to cure them. (Caveat: it seems likely that St Mungo’s is the only wizarding hospital, while it is possible that there’s another building which heals these problems it’s never mentioned so seems quite improbable.) For context, this means that *everything the NHS deals with* (or whatever the equivalent healthcare system is in the rest of the world), from terminal illnesses like cancer to the aftermath of severe car accidents, is so easy for Healers to fix that it never gets to them because it can be fixed at home.
And why does this upset me so much? Because it seems likely that wizards can quickly and effortlessly fix the issues which plague (no pun intended) muggles. It would be so easy to help so many people! On an egalitarian basis, that’s clearly the right thing to do – forget working for the ministry like 80% of wizards seem to do, why isn’t there a group working healing people at a ridiculously fast rate?
But this is an issue which doesn’t just apply to healing. I want to know why wizards don’t spend their time helping Muggles in general. While I was happy to accept, as the seven-year old I was when I first read ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’, that it would cause too much fuss to show muggles magic, Hogwarts alumni could be apparating to the refugee camps crowded across Greece and Turkey and filling bottles with clean water in *literally seconds*. For *free*. This wouldn’t even require revealing magic! While many of the problems facing the world are complex matters, many more are as simple as requiring water, shelter, or access to basic hygiene. It requires selfishness to an extreme degree to refuse this, both in our own non-magical society but especially within the wizarding world.
I’m very interested to hear what everyone else thinks about this, so please do reply with your own opinion.
PS I’m very sorry to the person whose submission I hijacked. This wasn’t addressed at your headcanon, more at the absence of this in canon. You’re great, I hope you have a lovely day!]
2117. Muggleborns using magic to restore and repair dirty/scratched vinyl records to mint condition (and sometimes then selling them on Ebay for amazing prices).
2116. A muggleborn is sorted into Slytherin and is distraught because they think that there’s been a mistake, because of all the stereotypes they’ve heard since getting their letter saying that Slytherin is the ‘pureblood supremacist house’. They think they’ll never be accepted, but are shocked to discover the most welcoming group of people, and the strongest friendships, imaginable.
2115. Two muggleborns being severely disappointed by the lack of late-night food available while studying, and so post-graduation they open a pizza place in Hogsmeade that delivers by owl.
2114. Two muggleborns naming their owl Owlexander Hamilton and their cat John Rawrens, and teaching the story of the revolutionary war to raptured pureblood/wizard-raised halfblood friends
2113. Adventure time loving muggleborns enchanting tin foil crowns and tiaras to give them POWERS OF ICE AND SNOW! (At least temporarily).
2112. A muggleborn student is overjoyed when their patronus turns out to be their old pet who passed away.
2111. A metamorphmagus muggleborn having a conversation with a misogynist fuckboy and when he says girls shouldn’t have any body hair, she grows hair on her legs, arms, and face.
2110. Muggleborns enchanting red ruby heels to take them home whenever they click the shoes together.
2109. Muggleborns who have a hard time making the team because so many of the other students grew up playing quidditch, but still love broomsticks, start creating and playing cool new flying versions of muggle sports like basketball and volleyball, and then muggleborns have a team to join if they don’t/cant make the quidditch team.
2108. In order to try to increase unity, an exchange program is offered where muggleborns and purebloods have an opportunity to stay with each other’s families over a week in the holidays.
2107. Muggleborns enchanting their own ceilings at home to mimic the ceiling in the Great Hall, and looking at it when they miss school and their friends.
2106. Hijabi muggleborns finding spells to charm their hijab so that it isn’t blown up by the wind or pulled off by people, and they put an extra spell on it to hex anyone who tries to pull off their hijab. No one is stupid enough to try after the first few people get ‘rude’ burnt into their arm and are given a lizard-like appearance.
2105. Muggleborns realising that love potions are horribly non-consensual in every way, and instead start selling potions that supposedly make you attractive to the person you want to love you, but actually just makes people more confident in themselves.
2104. A pureblood seriously asking what nine plus ten is (not knowing math) and a muggleborn answering “twenty-one.” The pureblood actually believes them until a sympathetic half-blood intervenes.
2103. Muggleborns introduce their friends to the Lord of the Rings books, and tell them that the series is a history of the wizarding community in New Zealand,
2102. A muggleborn student creates a spell which prevents people from using the wrong name or pronouns for trans people, and uses it during the holidays to avoid being misgendered.
Please tell me that there was at least one asshole Muggleborn kid who refused to call teachers professor
“Mr. Snape?”
“It’s professor Snape”
“Do you have a doctorate degree?”
“… no”
“Okay then Mr. Snape”
Honestly if Hermione went darkside no one would have a fucking chance.
So I know it’s usually assumed by the fandom that you’re automatically enrolled in whatever wizarding school is closest to you, but I don’t think this holds up.
Draco Malfoy at one point mentions that his parents had discussed which school to send him to, which confirms that the parents of students do have a choice.
I won’t go into authorial intent, but with only 40 students a year Hogwarts can’t even be the only British option.
The acceptance letter Harry received requires a response to let them know you’ll be attending, which implies you can turn down your acceptance.
Normal students also have a descion making window between receiving their Hogwarts letter and the reply deadline, which wouldn’t be necessary if there are no options to discuss.
Harry’s lack of options is an exception. Why exactly this is remains up for debate- it seems to be implied throughout the books that the Dursleys aren’t Harry’s full legal gaurdians, and their input doesn’t seem to be required for major decisions.
I also think it’s relevant that Harry is supposed to know about the wizarding world- Hagrid is shocked to learn that Harry doesn’t, and calls it a “scandal”. It stands to reason that because of this Harry missed out on any introduction that muggle raised students would normally receive, and we can only speculate how that’s done.
I think what is likely under normal circumstances is the local wizarding government informs muggleborn families of the child’s magic and explains their education options, and then the families apply to various schools and choose from one that accepts the child.
My guess would be that muggle born students are introduced early enough to accommodate for the speed of muggle post and travel at least as far back as when the ministry of magic was created (1707) but probably even earlier.
