Albus Potter - Blog Posts

doing a couple of these cause im bored :) idk if anyones gonna see this but pls provide a trope that you really really love OR hate with your whole heart. i'll try reply to all but preferable cherik jily scorbus and zukka :)

albus severus potter doesnt exist. HOWEVER arthur l. rubeus potter does exist and he goes by al and idk what the l stands for but it is important to me that harry didnt name his son after dumbledore and snape and completely disregarded ginny's father and BASICALLY HIS OWN FATHER LIKE CMON HARRY DID YOU SERIOUSLY FORGET ABOUT HAGRID

i live and breathe secret genius albus because you KNOW that he hates living in the shadow of his dad and what better way to be differenr? study his fucking ass off. albus is secretly hermione granger but differenr - he does the homework, just doesn't submit it. he intentionally flunks quizzes and unimportant tests but he ACES the important ones. no one (not even scorpius) has ever caught him studying. oh also hes really good at quidditch but has no house spirit/pride and would like to not be compared to his father mother brother and sister thank you very much. in my head (cause the curse child doesnt exist) albus is the very definition of 'would be the best at everythijg if they actually tried'

Scorpius and Albus caught on their first date to Hogsmeade

March 2023

harry: i'm gonna teach my first kid how to avoid being a protagonist so he has an easier life than me

[later]

harry: ALBUS was the protagonist? shit

HPCC Hamburg

The following are some of the little things the actors incorporated that really stuck with me:

Albus was very teenagey, like the perfect depiction of this awkward teen phase of struggling with your own emotions about yourself, about your parents, about school. Just feeling such big emotions but not knowing how to properly process or constructively communicate them. Very relatable!

I personally also always liked how Harry is portrayed in hpcc because I really get losing some of your youthful sparks of rebellion and adventure, when you become an adult, need to follow all these rules. It isn't always easy to keep that spark inside you alive when (corporate) life, all these responsibilites etc. restrict you. Harry also (imo) still is a very traumatized man and hasn't processed and/or healed the plethora of trauma he has experienced.

The German Harry actor did a great job. I completely understood where he was coming from and that his actions were justified in his mind, even if I disagree. He perfectly "balanced" harsh, overbearing father but also just being a traumatised child himself.

Act 1 Scorbus was the depiction of a true and beautiful and close friendship with starting hints of "more" through lingering touches and soft gazes. E.g. the library scene where Albus hugs Scorpius after they say the "Friends?" "Always" line. (Fun fact: that line translates to "Friends?" "Always" but can also mean "for forever" in german, which adds a layer of emotion to it.) Cedric (German actor playing) Albus was always very soft with Scorpius in a physical touch way. Very small touches or soft gazes that were so meaningful and held so much emotion!

A fun mishap that also happened: at the start of the moaning myrtle scene where albus usually hexes the soap bigger. Today the soap was nowhere to be found. And albus asked scorpius for the soap two times while scorpius answered no soap two times. So albus dropped his wand, the albus actor stood there for like 2 seconds contemplating which lines to drop and where to start again with the dialogue. ;) live theater I don't think someone who has never seen the play would have noticed.

Act 2 Scorbus scenes had a lot more emotional weight to it but in a good sense. You could definitely tell their friendship now had a much deeper emotion behind it and that their relationship needed to change and grow with them and their own personal growth. It felt like a very natural evolution of realizing your deeper feelings. The actors beautifully toed the line of true, deep friendship that is on the cusp of developing into something more in a very slow and meaningful way! I love that what they have is so pure and sweet that it doesn't really need a label because they both know they love each other but are also just figuring themselves out and who they are, let alone, what they are to each other. (I swear to God puberty and growing up is already hard enough as a muggle. ;) )

Act 2 details: in the owlery where scorpius tells albus that he fought for him and albus answers "Oh? Good!". You could tell that albus knew what that implies and the way he responded "good" was like elated and relieved that scorpius has the same feelings towards him, almost like glad that his feelings are reciprocated. In the church in godrics hollow albus sits down on the bench next to scorpius while explaining sth about the plot but the coy gaze when he sat down next to him was so meaningful and held so much emotion! I also just wanna add of all the hpcc boots I have watched I feel like the Hamburg one, where I was today, was the one that was the most obvious about the blooming romantic connection between them! It's subtext in all the other ones too but the body language and gazes between them in Act 2 today?! It feels wrong even calling it subtext. It was so painfully clear!

The palace of harmony scene: on the stairs albus and scorpius were so physically close with each other that really exceeds platonic closeness. To me it seemed like Albus was very clear about his feelings and that he knows that he likes him in a romantic way. Like trying small steps to test out the waters to see how scorpius would respond. Like when asking if it's really rose he wants in his palace albus gazes into scorpius eyes, hand on shoulder, faces like 10 cm apart from each other, knowing how he feels but also knowing how scorpius feels about him. It was a really beautiful thing to see. Albus so secure in himself and the way he perceives their relationship and its developing nature. Very cathartic, as the entire play he is always confused how to behave with his father, at school, fixing the time lines, he is never in a comfortable headspace, it's always in chaos. But the play ends with such clarity and security and safety of this bond he has with Scorpius!!!!! At the bottom of the stairs when scorpius hugs albus the albus actor played and said the line like "why are YOU hugging me?" as in usually it's him hugging scorpius and he wants to hear scorpius say what has changed in their dynamic. The see you at dinner line was very flirty while still being very innocent. In this version of the play physical touch and soft, meaningful gazes really is their love language!

The ending dialogue between harry and albus is so healing and cathartic, resolving what was at the core of the entire play their struggling father-son-relationship. They both are so vulnerable with each other, talking about their deepest emotions and opening themselves up. I love how the lines about his relationship with scorpius read like a coming out talk, while it never explicitely is stated.

I think I got the most important parts and want to really recommend the play to everyone! Watch it for the superb emotional storytelling!!!

Scorbus headcannons again because YOU ALL LOVE IT AND I SAID YES 😋 (Modern-setting ish)

Albus' and Scorpius' amortentia DEFINITELY smelled like sweets. Yes, both of them smell sweets in their amortentia. Don't argue. (Duh the time where Albus stayed for Scorpius' sweets. 😋🫶)

Once Scorpius thought his amortentia smell was out of friendship, but sometime later he realized that he had never shared his sweets with anyone else except for Albus ☹️

Let's be so real here, Albus and Scorpius are SO BAD at giving dating/relationship advice.

LIKE- These two never had any exes, situationships, or anything like that. They just WENT STRAIGHT (pun? I guess) to crushing on eachother AND THINGS WORKED OUT FOR THEM 😭😭😭🙏

Like literally- their relationship would be one of the healthiest relationship ever- like I genuinely BELIEVE that they couldn't even fight for MORE than 10 minutes without flopping back to eachother ☹️🫶

(At some point) they probably think that if someone likes their friend, their friend WILL like them back because they are so in love and so lucky and so in love 😭😭😭🙏

Someone: "So, now that you two are together, what is your go-to dating advice?"

Albus, all confused: "...Well, I just stuck him for like 5 years and keep being secretly in love with him until he likes me back."

Scorpius: "Well yeah that's what I did! All we did was hang out together, hold hands, cuddle, share a bed, and then one day we just confessed! :D"

Someone: "...You know relationships doesn't always work that way."

Scorpius, also confused: "...What do you mean you don't just follow your bestfriend around for years until he likes you back??"

Albus: "Yeah..I mean you just choose them over and over again they'll like you back, right??"

Someone: 🤦

Albus get TONS OF OWLS and LETTERS (From Scorpius ofc) every HOLIDAY. Like, genuinely.

He has letters upon letters PILING in his room (from Scorpius ofc) ☹️☹️☹️ even Harry himself probably confronted him on the amount of letters Albus received

LIKE SERIOUSLY, Harry seeing the piles of letters ONLY FOR ALBUS probably reminded him of that time in the Dursleys with the Hogwarts letters ☹️☹️☹️🫶

And of course, Like any other lovesick teenager, Albus spends ALL HIS DAY on his room writing to Scoprius while almost always late for lunch and dinner ☹️🫶

Yes, he'll REPLY TO EVERY LETTER even as stupid as "Albus I found this cat!" with attachment of the photo of the orange cat

"OMG he's so cute ☹️☹️☹️, what should we name him?? I'll buy him some cat food and cardboard boxes and some fluffy blankets, yeah??? Do you want me to go to floo to your house??? ☹️☹️☹️🫶 Love youu"

Scorpius??? NOT ANY BETTER. He spends ALL HIS DAY in the holidays writing to Albus and practically making the family owl going back and forth to their houses 😭🙏

I feel like Draco DEFINITELY had nobody he was writing letters to so he KNEW that tye letters were for Scorpius ☹️

Scorpius and Albus visiting Astoria's grave one day, one person with a flower bouquet each, with Scorpius murmuring, "Mum, I found someone who stayed for my sweets." And Albus cried right then and there ☹️

Perhaps there are days when Scorpius just misses his mother and Albus lends him his shoulder to cry on ☹️

Ugh I have more to come stay tuned y'all I love you guys so much ☹️🫶

Only thing I had to do before I start pretending this misunderstanding has never happened

history always repeating itself