#hp hat

[itsokaytobegaydontbesad]

I thought what if Tom and Harry grew up together and were inseparable. So that Tom did anything to bring Harry to Slytherin.

I find it funny how the Hat just sends Harry to Gryffindor just because he has already seen Tom’s thoughts and like “Nope, that pure boy has to run away from that son of the devil”

[basiatlu]

Drawtober Day 1: Hat

“It’s all right here, inside your head..”

[chiocchi]

Back to the castle

[horrorsboyfrie]

☆ lazy mornings with shigaraki tomura

gods, if there's one thing that this man hated more than self-proclaimed heroes, it would be the realization at 7-8 in the morning of having forgotten to close the blinds from the night before, the rays of the sun glazing across his face.

he'd groan, pulling your body closer to his. he was at least a little glad that you hadn't moved away from him, still cuddled up against him. his head buried in your hair, eyes shut closed as he did his best to avoid the light going directly into his eyes.

he didn't want to get up to close up the blinds. too comfortable in his current position. you were keeping him warm, shielding him from the morning rays.

when you eventually got up and out of his arms, equally as grumpy as he, for the same reason, he was more than disappointed to be deprived of your touch, even if just momentarily. you stumbled twice on your way to the window, practically falling to the bed as you got back; but on the bright side, the room was pitch black.

he wasted no moment pulling you back into his body, pinching your side, a silent way of telling you that you shouldn't have left his embrace. and to that, you bumped your head into his chest, as if shutting him up.

he whined, resisting the urge to bite your arm for the "attitude problem" that he liked to point out on you. he couldn't be bothered, he was too engaged in the way your body fit perfectly around his, as if you were made to be his personal body pillow, who just happened to piss him off in a mildly endearing way at times.

[the-phoenix-heart]

Sorting Hat Chats - The Malfoys

Since the Malfoys have been a bit of a hot topic lately, I decided to give them their sorting post similar to what I did with the Weasleys...3 years ago??? Where does the time go??

Anyway, this is an explanation of the system I am using by @wisteria-lodge.

LUCIUS MALFOY is blatantly a Badger secondary. His methods are to make donations to people, goad Arthur Weasley into a fight so he can slip Ginny the diary, he uses blackmail against the other members of the Board of Governors, calling in favors, and when in the hall of prophecies with Harry and his gang his strategy is to talk him into giving the prophecy over. It's what makes him so effective in the first five books, but is also why once everyone knows the truth about him he is in a constant state of free fall.

As for his primary, I think it's fairly obvious that he's a Snake. He can look like a Badger, dehumanizing muggleborns and joining the Death Eaters, but that's a performance. When the chips are down, what Lucius really cares about himself, his wife, and his son. Snake Lucius is willing to get rid of every association to the Death Eaters he had, and in the Second Wizarding War is not enjoying himself at ALL. He's also clearly got that Snake hedonism to him.

NARCISSA MALFOY née BLACK is an equally blatant Snake primary, although she doesn't appear to even play the part of a Badger. Everything to her is her son and her husband (and her husband takes a backseat to her son usually). Narcissa doesn't even appear to like Bellatrix all that much anymore since Bella is a threat to her family. Down to the end her motivation is always to keep Draco safe, damn the consequences.

As for her secondary, since she's such a minor character you can probably make an argument for any of them. But I personally think she's a Snake secondary, making her a Double Snake. This is a woman who lies to Voldemort's face and doesn't get caught. Who is willing to go behind his back and make back-alley deals with someone like Snape.

I've sorted DRACO MALFOY once before with @awinterrain which you can read right here, but I would like to reiterate it and expand on it.

Draco may be the epitome of Slytherin in the books, and he may hate Hufflepuffs and think of them as "duffers," but this boy is Double Badger down to his bones. This is a boy who cares deeply about communities. He defines himself by them, first as a Malfoy, then as a Slytherin, then as a Seeker on the quidditch team, then as part of the Inquisitorial Squad, then as a death eater (which he doesn't care for). I think at the beginning of the series he's a good case for an Immature Badger primary, where he just IS the group he's into and nothing outside of this.

His Badger primary can look very insular and Snake-like, partially because pureblood culture alienates everyone outside of it, and partially because his family is so Snakey that it colors the look of his Badger primary. Idk if I would even call it a performance or a model, it's more like a flavor.

But he does start to look like a Snake primary in his Sixth Year, where he's single-mindedly focused on saving his family. That's because in Sixth Year he burns after joining the Death Eaters. And it's honestly really sad, but it's because Draco has realized his communities are toxic and not good for him. The Death Eaters aren't good, they're the reason his father is in prison and his mother is in danger. This is the year where he really stops engaging with his peers and is sort of just coasting on his former reputation.

But that Badger shine is still there, and it's in the fact that Draco Malfoy has to kill Dumbledore and cannot do it. A true Snake Draco Malfoy would probably have gone through with it, even if it he felt bad about it. Badger Draco, who spent books 1-5 shit talking Dumbledore at any opportunity, cannot do it. I think it's because 1. He isn't ready for casual murder, and 2. I think Dumbledore for Draco represents one more community that he identifies with-Hogwarts. And clearly he does care about Hogwarts (I don't think the Room of Requirement would reveal itself to him if he did).

As for his secondary, Draco is his father in miniature. Draco is a tattle tail, he has bodyguards that follow him around, he usually goads Harry into confrontations so Harry gets into trouble and Draco can have plausible deniability. What's most interesting to me though is Draco's proclivity for elaborate smear campaigns. The "Potter Stinks" badges are HIS work as is the "Weasley is Our King" song, which is very...mean badgery. Like this is his community building with Slytherin (arguably all of Hogwarts with the badges), and using his powers to bully Harry. It's funny, despite everything. He does perform Snake though, to make everything look quicker or look like his mother.

Even his methods when he has to kill Dumbledore are Badger powered. Working on the Vanishing Cabinet all year, poisoning Professor Slughorn's mead he intended to give Dumbledore, and charming Rosmerta to imperious Katie Bell. But, he still has that influence from his mom where he can lie to someone's face (though not as convincingly).

I think Draco looks at his father's Badger performance, and thus thinks they house match. And it explains why he is so wary of his father after the Death Eater reveal, since Draco has realized he does not enjoy that sort of Badger primary.

As a bonus I decided to sort BELLATRIX LESTRANGE née BLACK as well. Since for some reason the movies always advertised her as part of the Malfoys. No doubt about it she is a Lion secondary. I don't think Bellatrix has every learned the meaning of the word subtle. She never lies in the series, just blasts the truth out whenever, and is always an attack first think never character.

As for her primary, can she be anything other than exploded snake primary? Her everything is Voldemort. She doesn't really care for anyone outside of him, with the exception of Narcissa, who stopped liking Bellatrix when she became a danger to her son. I think at one point she had a Badger performance or model that allowed her to willingly marry someone like Rodolphus who she doesn't appear to like, but by the time she's going to Azkaban she doesn't care. It's honestly such a Black Family sorting. Sirius was a Snake Lion as well, and the culture of the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black" seems to just be Snake coded in general.

So...

Lucius Malfoy - Snake primary, Badger performance/Badger secondary

Narcissa Malfoy nee Black - Snake primary/Snake secondary

Draco Malfoy - Badger primary, Immature at the start, burns in his Sixth Year, has a Snake performance or flavor/Badger secondary, Snake performance

Bonus:

Bellatrix Lestrange nee Black - Exploded Snake primary, Badger performance/model long discarded/Lion secondary

Sirius Black - Snake primary/Lion secondary

[scorbuslove]

"I need to figure out how I can spend the MOST amount of time with the cute boy I met today on the train, Scorpius Malfoy." - Albus Potter's thoughts while being sorted

"SLYTHERIN!!!" - Sorting Hat, the first documented Scorbus shipper

[apicelladonna]

Dumbledore and mooncake!!!

(I worry for the peepaw's teeth!)

[sofiialyt]

I wonder if hp fandom still alive on tumblr, bc I suddenly felt like I want to draw some fanarts for the first time in few years 😮‍💨

[witchthewriter]

[delineate-creates]

The crushing weight of cancelling your fav 😔

[spideriot]

now that misfits and magic has sparked talk abt harry potter i get to talk abt how sick i am of how ANY media with magic gets compared to harry potter. like witch hat atiler.. its magic system is NOTHING like harry potter's, theres no school, no british ppl, NOTHING similar to harry potter and yet ive seen ppl say its lkle studio ghibi meets harry potter. like oh my god can we let hp die im SICK and TIRED

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Joseph Curwen

The Haunted Palace (1963) dir. Roger Corman

[shrimpalbuspotter]

I dont know why but in my head I imagine Albus always wears his slytherin scarf. I think he'd use it as some type of DIY invisibility cloak??? (except, ofcourse, it doesnt turn him invisible). He puts it on and feels like nobody can see him, which makes him feel comfortable! I seriously just began imagining this everytime I think of him. Even in summer, he wears it, but Scorpius casts a cooling charm (Albus is learning it- he only ever really focuses on learning what benefits him- but last time he tried he actually made it disappear and then come out of his mouth. Odd.)

Also. Speaking of Scorpius... it makes for very cute imagines of Scorbus sharing the scarf.

Similarly, I think of Albus wearing beanies sometimes. Anything to make him less recognisable, really. Unlike the scarf though, he only wears this while sitting outside, and never anywhere else. Very strict on that policy. He'd wear the scarf to bed if he could.

[ilikethecolorredsstuff]

Yeah Okey, but i firmly believe that hogwarts founders programed the sorting hat to sort students based on aesthetics or just picks what color suits them best out of the houses colors, but since they died and no one was there to correct the hat when it felt like exaggerating its purpose, we have houses stereotypes 1000 years later.

The hat is just too embarrassed to admit that it caused all the chaos so it just keeps up the act hoping it'll fix itself.

[lesbwinter]

gilmore girls x marauders (luke/lorelai -> wolfstar)

for context, remus is a diner owner and sirius is a customer in this scenario. sirius just got to the diner, sitting on a stool right in front of remus (who's behind the counter) and is just about to order.

remus: i'll get you a burger

sirius: wait. can i see a menu?

remus: you need to see a menu?

sirius: yes.

remus: you come here everyday.

sirius: i know, but i usually order the same thing, and tonight i'm in the mood for something a little different.

remus: a menu?

sirius: piece of paper, list of food offered.

remus: okay, here. *hands sirius a menu*

sirius: *stares at it*

remus: it's not in japanese.

sirius: don't you have any kind of holiday special, something festive?

remus: i just got some grey poupon, it's french.

sirius: *sighs and puts the menu down*

sirius: tonight's my parent's big christmas celebration. there's good food, these amazing apple tarts, big tree. it's the only holiday i actually enjoy going there for, and, this year, i'm uninvited.

remus: why the hell would anyone celebrate christmas two weeks early?

sirius: did you even hear the part about me being uninvited?

remus: to your parent's fake christmas party?

sirius: yes!

remus: i did hear that.

sirius: do you care?

remus: obviously you do.

sirius: yes, i do, and i don't know why.

remus: you liked going,

sirius: i did.

remus: regulus is there without you,

sirius: he is.

remus: you and regulus aren't getting along right now, and you feel bad at being separated at the time you usually share together.

sirius: ... wow.

remus: did i mention you come here every damn day?

sirius: ... i'll have a burger.

remus: coming right up.

[ a few minutes later ]

remus: *comes back with a plate - a santa claus face made with burger ingredients*

sirius: what did you do?

remus: you wanted something festive.

sirius: you made me a santa burger!

remus: it's no big deal.

sirius: he has a hat and everything!

remus: yeah, i just cut a piece of wonder bread, you know, poured on a little ketchup, piped on a little cream cheese...

sirius: no one has ever made me something quite this disgusting before. i thank you!

remus: you're welcome.

[coldemergency]

Harry: You are just terrible today

Tom: Shhhh! D’you hear that? That’s the sound of forgiveness

Harry: That’s the sound of people drowning, Tom

Tom: That is what forgiveness sounds like, screaming and then silence