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la-chica-pelada:

Here’s the video.

I really hope people aren’t taking this seriously.

I am Chinese. I have family and friends, Chinese, with the names Cho and Chang. 

Also, this is nothing like being called Garcia Sanchez. People need to go do a 10-second Google search of these names to find out why.

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fallingivy:

You know what actually this part really pissed me off. Not that people stood behind Harry but because Pansy is being vilified for that totally legitimate action: Voldemort, the terror of their time, the dark wizard of all dark wizards, is going to spare their lives if he’s given this ONE KID. These are all children, she wants her life, she wants her friends to live, she doesn’t want war and fighting and death. She thinks sacrificing that one life is better than causing the deaths of all these other people, including herself. And everyone acts like this is a shameful decision and she’s a horrible person for thinking it, well fuck that. 

And then ALL the Slytherins get locked up in the dungeon as if they’re going to turn traitor on them, completely negating any sense of unity and friendship that the stupid hat was singing about a couple books back. Fuck this scene and the judgey people and couldn’t someone have looked at Pansy sympathetically and said the fighting wouldn’t end with that one sacrifice or that Voldemort was too far gone and too evil to be bargaining with and that this was worth fighting for? Couldn’t they have been given any sympathy or understanding at all?

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I think in terms of just immature reasoning, there’s no reason to demonize her. I think it’s a dumb rationale, seeing as she’s probably not saving that many lives by giving Harry up to Voldemort. Dude’s a psycho. More people would have died. There’s a difference between being able to sympathize with what was going on in her head and pretending like what she did was right. I understand her reasoning. I would have still made the decision to send her away.

Also, in the books, if I remember correctly, the Slytherins weren’t sent away to be punished. For one, they weren’t sent to the dungeons - I think they were sent to Hogsmeade or whatever for safety (with Aberforth, right?). Secondly, the dungeons are where the Slytherin common rooms are, so there’s that. Thirdly, I seem to remember, in the book, McGonnagall also sending away younger students. So it wasn’t just them singled out.

I think that there’s a legitimate concern about the influence that Voldemort and the Death Eaters had on the Slytherin students. Throughout the series, it was clear that many of them were connected to Death Eaters and reacted to different situations in ways that were fairly threatening. (This is especially relevant when you think about all of the 7th year Slytherins that we know.) I believe, were a Slytherin 7th year to have approached McGonnagall and declared his or her desire to support Harry, she would have considered it. In these times, I don’t think it was particularly irrational or wrong for McGonnagall to send the Slytherin 7th years away with all of the students.

That all being said, I can agree that the way this scene played out in the movies really made this look bad. It’s just awkward.

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