idfollowthespiders:

the-power-of-potter:

funnification-is-not-a-word:

She didn’t mean James Potter.

She meant Severus Snape.

(first quote: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter Two: A Peck of Owls; second quote: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter Thirty-Three: The Prince’s Tale)

Holy crap. I didn’t even realize this. Brava for J.K. Rowling’s perfect continuity.

And all this time I was assuming ‘that awful boy’ was James. I owe him an apology.

“That’s what always kept Hagrid safe. Because Hagrid actually would’ve been a natural to kill in some ways. But because I always cleaved to this mental image of Hagrid being the one carrying Harry out and that was so perfect for me because it was Hagrid who came and took him into the world and then Hagrid who would bring him back.”