Hufflepuff (but I'd beg the Sorting Hat to put me in Gryffindor because I'm just a piece of trash) / INFJ / Trying to get over Harry Potter, failing a little more every day.
Severus Snape reminds me that doing the right thing is a choice we are repeatedly presented with, and that, no matter what we’ve done in the past, we’re always capable of making a positive difference.
Doing something good, regardless of your reasons for it, makes the world a better place. As someone who constantly feels like my thoughts are not kind enough or pure enough or whatever enough, and who worries that whenever I do the right thing it doesn’t “count” because it was motivated by guilt rather than altruism, I find it very empowering to see a character who is full of angry, bitter, perhaps mean-spirited thoughts, who nevertheless chooses, over and over again, to do the right thing, and whose actions bring about quantifiable positive change.
“You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses… I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death — if you aren’t as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.”
In CoS when they try to sneak into Myrtle’s bathroom to ask her about her death, McGonagall catches them and Harry makes up the excuse that they wanted to see Hermione in the hospital wing and Minnie doesn’t give them detention and then comes this and since we all know Harry’s dumbest excuse, here’s the official suggestion to rate all of Harry’s excuses on a scale from
