headcanon that since the slytherin common room is under the lake there’s a room where the walls and ceiling are glass and you can just see into the lake like an aquarium
headcanon that when this was first done the mermaids got really aggressive and hateful about it and started ramming the glass but since it was magic this just caused them injuries
until a deaf/hoh slytherin started to teach them sign language and it took a long time bit by the time they left hogwarts they and the rest of the house were communicating with the mermaids and on good terms
eventually it becomes a part of slytherin house culture you’re a slytherin you know sign language because if you don’t chat with the mermaids they get grumpy
this helps a lot of deaf/hoh students
this also gives slytherin the best grades of any house on all aquatic magical studies
the mermaids give terrible dating advice do not trust them
The most common mermaid dating advice, of course, being “Drown him”
(DROWN HIM <3)
((HE’S SURVIVED THAT ALREADY))
I love this because it’s such a completely Slytherin thing to do. Not just learning to communicate with another species living next-door because it’s the polite thing to do, but they also most likely made full use of that skill – I betcha Slytherins would all make use of signing outside of the aquarium as well, to use in class when the teacher has their back turned, or to sign stuff across long corridors or when the Great Hall is too loud to be heard through.
And it becomes a tradition in Slytherin to teach first years signing. It’s only polite to the neighbours after all. Not to mention to all the deaf/hoh students. None of the other Houses catch on, and neither does the teachers, but the Sorting Hat makes a point out of always sorting deaf/hoh children into Slytherin, where they will never have a problem fitting in. (Well, no more than any other teenager anyway.)
Because of signing, Slytherin students are uniformly good at charms and spells that demand delicate wand movements. It also works the other way around; as post-Voldemort discrimination against Slytherins is being dealt with, and amongst other things result the ostracized former Slytherins becoming less guarded, people realise how close wandmovement is to signing. In the end, former Slytherin students have made a big enough impression on society that using signing becomes a norm to the magical community, who are so used to hand movements being important to spellwork anyway and adapts to this easily.
Wingardium Leviosa Potter, you were named so that every time a teacher yells at you they’re going to make stuff fly around the room. Your mother wanted to call you Fred, but I thought this would be more true to his memory.
I think even though it had happened to him quite a few times, being locked in the cupboard so many times really fueled this, too. In conclusion: I realized this and then proceeded to cry
remember that time in harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 when voldemort dropped dead?
me neither
remember that time Harry was clever and fixed his wand with the elder wand /before/ breaking it and throwing it off a cliff?
me neither
remember that time when wormtail strangled himself to death in the deathly hallows part 1 because he was indebted to harry?
me neither.
remember that time when lupin wanted to go horcrux hunting with the trio because tonks was pregnant and he was scared shitless?
me neither
remember that time when luna and harry went to the ravenclaw tower in search of the lost diadem and nearly got caught by the carrows but then mcgonagall showed up and saved their arses?
me neither
remember when peeves –
right
remember how harry looked just like his dad and his mum’s eyes?
lol jk pretty sure he was adopted
Remember that crucially informative flashback to when James and Snape had a hex-slinging fight and then Snape called Lily a Mudblood and it was like the defining moment of his life and also the whole reason why anything happened ever?
Oh right no James just like hexed him for no reason and then I guess there were tears or something I dunno.
Remember when Dobby did more than almost kill Harry during 2nd year and then proceeded to help him and Winky during the next 5 years so that his death actually meant something?
Sirius: Merlin, Moony. How much chocolate do you have with you? It’s all I can bloody smell.
Remus: Me? I can’t smell a damned thing over the scent of all those damn cigarettes you’ve been smoking!
Peter: …Think we should tell them?
James: Nah, it’s way more fun this way
I just want to remind everyone that it’s more likely than not that rita skeeter and bellatrix black were in the same year at school and since I’m pretty confident that rita skeeter was a slytherin, this means they were roommates
for seven years
screw a marauders prequel please write me these assholes mean girlsing each other back and forth for their entire hogwarts careers
can we just talk about the time that Lupin was recovering from a full moon and Snape taught the DADA class and made all the students write essays on how to kill werewolves for Lupin to read when he got back I hate Snape so much it’s not funny
Lupin gets back and he feels like crap and suddenly his best friend’s son is writing an essay about how to kill him like that is so fucked up
Bear in mind that an ex-Death Eater does this tosomeone who was in the Order, risked his life fighting against said Death Eaters and lost his best friends to the Death Eater’s genocidal leader, for the sole purpose of screwing him over, and as far as we know he experiences no consequences whatsoever for doing so.
And if that wasn’t enough, he made them write those essays hoping some of them would realize Lupin’s a werewolf. And one did, but Hermione is a fucking DECENT HUMAN BEING and said nothing. Apparently the ‘insufferable know-it-all’ can keep her mouth closed, when it’s for something important. Just like Snape didn’t do at the end of the book.
I’m getting mad, so here’s something I’ve realized while reading The Order of the Phoenix again. (Please keep in mind that my books are in Italian and some concepts might be hard to explain, I apologize for my English mistakes)
In chapter 14, when The Trio talked with Sirius, he said that two years before Dolores Umbridge had written a law against werewolves that made it almost impossible for Lupin to find a job.
Now ask yourself this question. Why two years?
What had happened two years before? During Harry’s third year? Oh, right. The Magical World had discovered that one of Hogwarts’ teachers (someone who was in constant conctat with their children) was a werewolf. Does that ring any bell?
But that’s not all! If we take a look at chapter 15, in the Daily Prophet article we can see a familiar name: Remus Lupin.
In a newspaper. Where everyone can read it. “The werewolf Remus Lupin”. No wonder he couldn’t find a job! And it’s not the first time the Daily Prophet has written about him, as it’s stated in the article itself. There must have been a huge scandal when it had all come out.
So basically, when Snape decided he couldn’t bear not having what he wanted (for example, SIRIUS BLACK GETTING KISSED BY A DEMENTOR) and spilled the secret, he didn’t only tell the whole school. He didn’t only tell the kids’ parents. The told the whole Magical World.
He told the whole Magical World that a man who had kept his condition secret all his life was a werewolf.
And the Magical World responded with a law against werewolves.
So, basically, Snape didn’t only ruin Remus Lupin’s life. He ruined the life of every single werewolf in the UK.
a muggleborn student coming to hogwarts with a thermos flask and filling it with tea in the morning so it stays hot all day and their pureblood friends are like “whoa what spell did you use for that” and they’re like “?????? it’s just a thermos???” and all the pureblood students start pointing their wands at cups and saying “THERMOS”
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