brightowl:

accio-shitpost:

i just can’t get over how perfect the weasley family’s presents were to harry and ron on their seventeenth birthdays, even though superficially they’re the same thing

ron, who grew up poor and often got hand-me-downs from his brothers, got a brand new watch – he probably wasn’t that used to getting new things

whereas harry, who never really had much of a family history to connect to, got molly’s brother fabian’s watch, something with a lot of history and personal connection behind it that linked him to and made him a part of the weasley family

This is not a shitpost. This is beautiful and necessary meta.