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Werewolf McWerewolf

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miraniel:

So I know we’re always complaining about Lupin and how it’s ridikulus for someone not born a werewolf to be named freaking “Guy-raised-by-wolf John Wolf-like” but, like, there’s a simple explanation no one ever talks about. 

It’s a freaking assumed name.

Think about it. Remus was a little kid when he got attacked. It would have been all over the papers at the time. It’s in the papers later when another kid gets attacked by Greyback in HBP. So it would ruin everything if Lupin turned up at Hogwarts his first year only to have some wizard-born prat (*cough cough Snape*) say “Lupin? I know that name from somewhere” and go looking through old Daily Prophets. 

Dumbledore was probably like “Why don’t you pick a new name?” and this little shit future Marauder went “Hmm, I’ll go for something subtle.”

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#Harry Potter #… #headcanon accepted

Reblog if your tumblr url is the same one you started with.

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thegeek531:

This is a serious thing. Im curious how many people over the course of year(s) kept the same tumblr handle. A ton of the people I follow have changed their over time.

As far as I know Im one of the few who havent. Few being relative as there are millions of tumblr users. But yeah.

Social experiment.

If you HAVE changed your URL Click Here

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#reblog if #I’ve considered removing the hyphen so I wouldn’t have to deal with Tumblr’s hyphenated tag issues #but I don’t want to break links #and I certainly wouldn’t change the name completely

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give us five random things about yourself & pass it on to ten of your followers. repost, don’t reblog.

1. I love Daily Planet with a burning and occasionally evangelical passion. (Go watch it. You don’t even need to pirate it, though you will need a better version of Flash than Linux is capable of, and maybe a Canadian proxy, I’m not sure.) Daily Planet always makes me feel better about things. It’s a great antidote during those times when you’re surrounded by pessimism.

2. I have a supernumerary nipple just below my right breast, which we suspect I inherited from my mother’s side of the family (her brother has one too, in the same spot). I also have a mole on my right lower leg, which we are confident I inherited from my father’s side of the family (his aunt has one too, in the same spot, and I think there were other relatives with them as well). I like that I have a mark from each side, as if a tangible reflection of my hyphenated surname.

3. Oh, right, I have a hyphenated surname. (Something that caused a bit of an uproar amongst the more…firmly patrilineal members of the family, I’m told.) I wonder how old I’ll be the first time someone assumes the other half is from my spouse rather than my dad. It hasn’t happened yet, at least as far as I’m aware, but it’s probably inevitable.

4. I have never left the Eastern time zone.

5. I have sworn an oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II.

It says followers, not people I follow, so picking from that list: shayvaalski, cakehorse, somethingshortandsnappy, kerkevik, thisprettywren, slepaulica, nenya-kanadka (if she sees this when she next comes back from her limited-Internet hiatus), michaelemerhouse, depizan, and luvtheheaven.

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#meme #oh look an original post #Brin talks about herself for a *reason* this time #yes I really did do fact 5 #try Googling ‘canadian oath of citizenship’ if you don’t believe me