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”
THERMOS
plot twist: it works, mugs suddenly start keeping tea at the perfect temperature for the caster all day. students in muggle studies start experimenting with other muggle jargon and a new generation of magic spells are born, propelling the stagnated wizard community into the technological age
*points wand at book* KINDLE!!!! *book propels itself into fireplace and bursts into flames* I FUCKED UP I FUCKED UP
I like to think that Rita Skeeter totally lost whatever renown she had after the war and so Harry and Ginny and the others like to pick up her stories for fun without worrying about the effect it’ll have on their image? Like Harry just idly turns a page every morning and goes, “Oh, we’re getting a divorce.”
And Ginny yawns as she fetches two coffee mugs and says, “Is it because I’m snogging Neville?”
“No,” says Harry, “it’s because I’m snogging Neville.”
And Ginny slams down her mug and says, “Goddamnit, Harry, let me have my affair in peace, would you?”
They have this sort of conversation in public, sometimes. Especially in places (the Leaky Cauldron, the Three Broomsticks, etc) where they know that it’ll get back to Skeeter.
I like to imagine that the kids get in on it as well. Like Albus and Scorpius can be over heard in the Great Hall with the latest Potter Family gossip
“Did you hear that your dad is leaving your mum for my father?”
“I thought mum was leaving dad for your mum, Scorp?”
“No that was last week. Your mum is with your aunt Luna right now.”
“This boy will be famous, a legend. I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in future. There will be books written about Harry, every child in our world will know his name.“
they give people the benefit of the doubt and care first, but if you prove to be a dick they will turn on you so fast
sass queens
the best at researching problems and solving them logically
the most respectful kids you could meet
cons:
too willing to give second chances
grudges that last for a thousand years if you cross their friends
self sacrificing
big on the “don’t fight hate with hate” movement
they’re really hard working so if they set their minds to something they might end up running themselves and others to the ground because of their goals
stubborn and opinionated, even if they’re open minded no one will talk the out of their beliefs
least likely out of the houses to understand why someone might want to break ties with others
Slytherin won the house cup 6 years in a row before Harry started Hogwarts and then Gryffindor kept winning after that and I just find it really unrealistic that in 11 years Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw never won it once. If the teachers award house points just for answering questions correctly in class, it seems strange that the house that values intelligence and the house that values hard work above everything else never got enough points to win the cup at least once in all that time
Severus Snape was blatantly biased in favor of Slytherin house when giving and taking away points. We have seen that McGonagall, Sprout, and Flitwick were all relatively impartial in this regard, so the Slytherins had a massive advantage over the other houses for the six years before Harry came along. Of course after Harry arrived, Hogwarts lowkey fell to shambles and the following seven House Cup competitions had weird shit affecting their outcomes- time travel, international wizarding competitions, a literal takeover by Death Eaters, and so on. Additionally, we see point inflation occur over the course of the series- Harry, Ron, and Hermione dealing with the Sorcerer’s Stone earned them 50/60 points each while the very next year their tomfoolery with the Chamber of Secrets earned them 200 points each. The points are completely arbitrary.
The House Cup competition hasn’t been fair for a long, long time, and that’s why it’s been dominated by Slytherin and Gryffindor.
To be fair, the eyes thing has a fully-legitimate answer.
Daniel Radcliffe was allergic to the colored contacts he was supposed to wear, causing dryness and itching after just a few minutes of use, so the film crew decided it wasn’t important enough of a detail to bother with if it was a burden for him to wear..
Huh…
I HAVE LEARNED SOMETHING
WITH THE CGI BUDGET THEY HAD THEY COULD HAVE OR AT LEAST MADE LILLY’S ACTRESS HAVE BLUE EYES *foams at the mouth*
what i do is not up to you 