I get so angry that they deleted this because it’s such an important part of Dudley’s character - while he was jerk, the reason he was jerk wasn’t because he was simply a jerk, it was because of his upbringing and never learning what he was doing was wrong. He was a good person who didn’t know how to be good because he’d been spoilt and friends with the bullies all his life. He never saw the point in being nice because that was seen as being “weak”.
But then the dementors came, and he saw the worst thing, the thing that scared him more than anything: His true self. He saw what a bully he was and how pathetic he was, and how he didn’t have any true friends. And worse yet, Harry saved him - that surely would have made him feel worse. He’s seeing all the terrible things he’s done to Harry, and yet Harry still cares for him and he wishes he could be as good and as brave and decent and humble as Harry - but he didn’t know how.
He doesn’t know how to change, because he’s never been a “good guy” in his whole life. He’s always been tough and abusive and gets whatever he wants without having to think of other people because he didn’t realise how much he hurt them. But now he does, and he wants to change and make up for what he’s done to Harry, but he didn’t know how, so he left him a cup of tea outside his bedroom. Because he’s not good with words and feelings, and that was his way of saying he’s sorry for what he put Harry through.
And then here, it doesn’t seem like much to someone who hasn’t read the books - but all Harry’s life with the Dursleys as a waste of space - as less than nothing. Dudley used to treat everyone not in his gang as less than nothing, and for Dudley to say this - for him to acknowledge that Harry is a person - show’s that he has come so far. He still has a long way to go, but the fact he is trying to make up for what he’s done shows that he’s developed and that his adulthood won’t be a guy who probably would have ended up in jail before he was twenty, but a guy who’ll perhaps become a champion boxer with a spouse and kids.
And then I think about how they managed to find time for Harry and Hermione dancing and not this and I want to set a lethifold on Yates.
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do you think when johnny depp agrees to be in a movie with a different director he goes home at night and tim burton is just there with his face pressed against the window and johnny has to close the curtains to avoid feeling guilty
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honestly
i didn’t think it was possible for one person to be so fucking selfish. yeah niamh, we get it. you’re in love with your manipulative girlfriend but you’re still only fifteen and if our mother says we’re moving back to dublin, we’re moving. there’s four other people in this family and we’re not putting our lives on hold for a teenage relationship that probably won’t last. plus, it’s not like you’ll never see the stupid bitch again.
why exactly did you think our mother would let you stay here with your girlfriend and her crazy, alcoholic mother? are you stupid? and writing an emotionally blackmailing letter saying you’re mature enough to move out at fifteen wasn’t the best way to get your point across. you’re obviously not mature enough if you’re too much of a coward to say these things to her face.
you’re a selfish, cowardly, immature little cunt and you’re breaking our mother’s heart. you better stay with your peadophile girlfriend tonight because if you come home i’m honestly going to break your fucking face.
some of the shadowhunter families
Morgenstern -> family ring: a star
Fairchild -> family ring: faeries
Lightwood -> family ring: a torch
Herondale -> family ring: herons
Carstairs TID/TDA -> family ring: a pattern of castles or crenellations
Blackthorn TDA -> family ring:a pattern of thorns
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