#slytherin personality

[managone16]

Barty: Oi Potter! I have a brilliant plan. James: By all means, Crouch, go ahead. Barty: So you know how Regulus is your boyfriend? James: I think I'm aware, yeah. Barty: So um, I have permission to kiss you. James: Er-what? Barty: I want to kiss you. James: Why? Barty: To fuck with Reg. James: You are NOT fucking Reg- Barty: Not like that! Salazar! *Grabs James' face and kisses him* Barty: YOU OWE ME 100 GALLEONS EVAN!! AND A TATTOO ON YOU WITH MY NAME!! James: *Staring at Reg dumfounded* Regulus and Evan: *Glaring daggers at James*

[apicelladonna]

in another universe, Dumbledore sat timetravelling Harry down in his office and said "I'm a bad example so it's perfectly fine if you're confused about this, but just because I have a bad relationship with a mentally unstable gay cult leader I pretend to still hate but actually love and raw nasty, doesn't mean you have to."

[shakespearean-simp]

mattheo, high as a kite, after he unsuccessfully flirts with reader

[they've been dating for a few years now]

m: hey gorgeous, wanna come home with me tonight? promise i'll treat you well...you coming over isn't gonna be the only thing coming tonight...

r: *confused/judgmental/something stare*

[awkward silence]

r: matty...we've been dating for over a year...

m: ...

[st4rboyloser]

Regulus who’s afraid of people leaving like Sirius did so he pushes them away first

Barty and Evan who are stubborn as hell and would not leave him the hell alone

James who got him to lower his guard, only to let Regulus push him away after he got the dark mark

Barty and Evan being with him still and joining the death eaters too, not letting him go through it alone

[norry-yippee]

mlm ships are not to blame for misogyny in the fandom, it you who only sees purpose in Lily as a character when she is with a man, it’s you who won’t read wlw ships even though they are just as complex and well written.

[moonyswarmsweaters]

Obsessed with the idea of Slytherin Skittles true crime podcast that is just them reading over real crimes and pointing out each of the criminal’s mistakes.

once, someone repeatedly sent them hate comments saying they could never do better causing Batshit Barty and the gang to go “Bet”

A week later, A newly freed child abuser who didn’t serve his time was found dead with the exact same MO they said in the latest episode of the podcast with none of the mistakes they pointed out. No one could prove they did it yet everyone knew.

The podcast continued as usual.

[suugarbabe]

“Is this for me?”

“Well it is your birthday, that’s what you deserve”

POV:

Mattheo knows you don’t think about your birthday much, always more focused on making sure everyone else is celebrated on theirs. This year he wanted to return the favor and show you just how much he really cares about (and pays attention) to you.

[g3othermal3scapism]

THE PANTHEON!!! my loves

[ultravioletbrit]

“loud” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 442 words

 

Regulus is sitting in the library with his friends who have been teasing him for about half an hour about his supposed crush on James. Regulus is, in fact, in love with James, but they don’t have to know that, and they certainly don’t have to tease him about it. So Regulus is a bit fed up at this point.

“I do not have a crush on him.” Regulus tells them firmly.

“Regulus…” Pandora tries to interrupt.

“He’s a loud, obnoxious, arrogant prat.” But Regulus ignores her.  

“Regulus…” This time Dorcas tries to cut him off.  

“He’s always doing too many stupid, random things for me. He won’t leave me alone and it’s annoying.” Regulus just keeps going.

“Regulus.” Barty says more adamantly than the girls.  

“No, I’m sick of everyone telling me I have a crush on him.” Regulus finishes.   

“Regulus?” Regulus hears a smaller voice from behind him. He doesn’t turn, he just stares wide eyed at his friends until James walks up beside them.  

“I um… I saw you leave dinner before dessert, so I went to the kitchens and got you some truffles… Sorry.” James says with a sad smile and glassy eyes. He places the truffles on the table and walks quickly out of the library. 

“James, wait!” Regulus tries, but he’s already gone so Regulus turns back to his friends.

“You guys could have said something!” He scolds his friends, grabs the truffles and leaves the library.

“Yeah, we…” He hears Barty start but Regulus is already gone.

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Regulus eventually finds James sitting down by the Black Lake throwing rocks into the water. He walks over and sits down beside him.

“Want to share some truffles?” Regulus asks him after a moment of silence.

“You don’t have to do this.” James says sadly.  

“I’m so sorry James.” Regulus tells him as sincerely as he can.

“It’s okay. I know I can be too much.” He throws another rock into the lake.   

“I never said you were too much. I said you do too many things for me.” Regulus corrects him.  

“Same thing.” James shrugs.  

“It’s not. You are not too much, James. You do too many things, because… because you don’t have to do anything at all, and… and I’d still like you.” Regulus works up the courage to tell him.  

“You just told your friends repeatedly that you don’t like me.” James huffs.

“Have you ever heard the phrase ‘thou doth protest too much’?” Regulus asks him with the tiniest smile.

“Yeah, but I never really knew what it meant.” James admits to him.  

“Maybe I’ll explain it to you someday.” Regulus tells him and passes him a truffle.

[ditchesanddunes]

I need an unhinged Barty

Give me a Barty who will hunt down hurt and kill for the people he loves

Give me a Barty who gets unhealthily obsessed with people

A Barty who, after Regulus died, cracked and used even more unforgivables, killed for fun, and tortured for sport

A Barty who heard Dorcas was killed and made it his personal mission to avenge her by any cruel means necessary

But when Evan died, a Barty who doesn’t even have rails to fly off of anymore. He kills anyone in his way, including death eaters, and he enjoys it. He is hardly on the death eaters side anymore but stays with them because of the pain they cause

And when he heard Pandora died, the sweet gentle soul of Pandora, he crumbled.

[snetofed]

Baby, the Riddle effect… is the effect of wanting to be hit, getting pregnant and wanting to ask for forgiveness…

[managone16]

During the day, Regulus would usually refrain from having contact with people. He usually doesn't like others touching him, except for a few people under given circumstances. He would try and avoid it as much as possible. However, at night, his inner touch-starved-Regulus would come out. That man would be unable to leave James' side, cuddling him the whole fucking time. If James gets up during the night, Regulus would follow him and nuzzle his nose on James' chest or back, hugging him. James would always have to end up picking Regulus up and placing him down in the bed so they could sleep again.

[theinsomniacindian]

Indian Chaotic Academia

Wanting to wear jumpers and hoodies but changing your mind after looking at the daily temperature

Scoring 97% in English in your board exams but your spoken English makes you sound like you've never studied it in your life

Messy yet (somewhat) intelligible handwriting

A weak spot for old Bollywood songs regardless of your personal taste in music

Chipped nail polish and lots of bracelets

Wanting to study in a park or a cafe but you can't as they're too loud and busy

Adrak chaha is the solution to everything

Muting the class WhatsApp group so you can read angsty fanfiction at 3 a.m. without alerting your parents

Vada pav and samosa>>>>

Buying several highlighters but still end up using blunt pencils to mark important study material

At some point, a B is the best grade you'll ever find in your report card

Reading the Mahabharata at the back of the class in the same way you would read a modern novel ("Nooo, why did he have to die 😭")

Coming up with ideas for study charts but never actually making them

Getting a lot of holidays and vacations thanks to the amount of festivals celebrated throughout the year

"Sir that's my emotional support gel pen brand that I've been using since fifth grade"

The poem you have to learn in your regional language class is actually your favourite childhood song

Rickshaw rides are better than any other mode of transport, change my mind (you can't)

Getting the 'Slytherin house' that always comes last in every school event

Buying books from the second-hand book stalls because they have all the good ones

Waking up at 4 a.m. for last minute revision and getting disturbed every five minutes by trucks blasting out entire songs through their horns

[limonnitsa]

this is so them help

[moonstruckme]

hi! could you be able to please write a one shot with James Potter where he lets everyone know that he has a girlfriend and he's taken but nobody knows who is his girlfriend. And after he falls off his broom during a quidditch match turns out that his girlfriend its the slytherin captain, who is like the complete opposite of James lol

Hi lovely, thanks for your request! I hope you like it <3

Cw: mention of injury, no details/description

James Potter x slytherin!reader ♡ 740 words

James Potter is well aware that, considering his usual tendency to showboat, it's suspicious that his dating life has suddenly become the best-kept secret at Hogwarts. It's obvious he is dating someone. He hasn't exactly been inconspicuous with the notes he sends flying down the halls several times a day (though it's a small miracle no one has been able to chase them all the way to the recipient) and when he wouldn't tell Sirius who it was, his friend let slip to half of Gryffindor house that he'd caught James sneaking out of their dorm room three times in the past week. Soon, it seemed like all James' classmates did was buzz with speculation about his mysterious partner.

James is trying to ignore that speculation now, the chatter in the crowded stands somehow reaching him even far above the quidditch pitch, distracting him from looking out for the snitch.

"Hardly at the top of our game today, are we, Potter?" A snide voice calls, a blur of green blazing past him to lob the quaffle towards the center goalpost.

James perks up, brought back to the game by the familiarity of a good bickering. "Wishful thinking," he calls back, just as the Gryffindor keeper blocks your attempt at a goal. James meets your fierce stare with his most winning smile. "Maybe if I wasn't, you'd have a half-decent chance of beating us for the first time in three years."

Three years, he wants to add, since both of you had been made captain of your respective teams. James certainly isn't going to lose that winning streak because of any gossip. He redoubles his focus, waiting for a telling glint of light or the light buzzing of wings, and keeping an eye on the Slytherin seeker to make sure she hasn't spotted it either.

There's a flicker of movement to his right, and James is off, the ruckus of the crowd drowned out by the wind rushing past his ears as he races towards the snitch. His vision seems to narrow as it grows closer, all his attention on the tiny golden ball, and he can almost touch it when pain shoots through his side.

James tries to grab at his broom, but he's too slow, his hand wrapping around only air. He's on solid ground before he knows what's happened, splayed on his back with a view of the other players high above him, almost all shock-still. Almost, except for the Slytherin chaser in a dangerously fast nose-dive towards him. You hardly take the time to level out your broom before you're hopping off and crouching beside him.

"Potter—shit, Potter, are you okay?" Your hands tremble as they run over his arms, his torso, as if wanting to make sure he's still whole but afraid he'll shatter at anything more than your gentlest touch.

"I think so." James groans, sitting up. "A couple broken ribs, maybe."

"Shit," you pant, your hands moving to his face. "Are you sure?"

"Well, I'm a bit rattled at the moment," he says, beginning to snark, but he softens when he sees you're blinking back tears. "It's not bad, sweetheart. I'm alright."

You shake your head, somewhere between frustrated and fond, and press your lips to James' abruptly. He's so shocked it takes him a second to kiss you back, doing his best to soothe the desperation he can feel in your touch.

You pull back just as quickly, leaving James so dazed he's caught entirely off guard by the light smack you deliver to the back of his head.

"You idiot. You should have seen that bludger coming from a mile away."

James searches for a witty rebuttal, but comes up empty. He can't decide whether to be offended or charmed by you right now, and it's stolen the gall from him. It's also possible that he's concussed. "Yeah," he says dumbly.

You huff, but still squeeze his shoulder as you stand, letting Madam Hooch move in to take your place. "Idiot," you mumble again, stalking towards your broom. "Come see me later."

James watches you go with something akin to awe. Only after you've rejoined your teammates does he notice the hush that's fallen over the crowd, and Sirius, standing well within hearing distance and looking like he's been stupefied, his eyes wide with horror.

But even if James looks as whipped as he feels, he doesn't really care.

[regheart]

there's something i find particularly annoying in this fandom and it's the way purebloods are written as highly sophisticated extremely rich and straight up a rip off of regency period novels

i understand the choice of this specific portrayal, i can see it as an approximation to historical drama, where the social restrictions are compelling and are relevant to the story, and a good writer can make any concept believable and good

HOWEVER as much as the worldbuilding on wizarding costumes (and a lot of other things) is extremely inconsistent and gets progressively worse towards the later three books, the implications that i see don't point towards this version of a sophisticated performatic elite who interacts only with itself

while i tend to see the blood status in the harry potter universe as a distinction of class and not at all a distinction of race, i don't think the difference is, in practice, as marked as it is in real world contexts, mostly because of how numerically small and insulated the wizarding community is

this post is part of my personal vendetta against purebloods as charming aristocrats & what appears to be the necessity of writing each and all of them as so very well spoken and politically savvy and never-caught-dead-speaking-to-a-half-blood

for once, the sacred twenty-eight is extra canon information and is disputed IN UNIVERSE, because it was anonymously published and received backlash for the inclusion (weasley, ollivander) and exclusion (crabbe, goyle, potter) of certain names

the malfoys are the only extremely rich family we see in canon. extra canon information tells us they made money before the statute of secrecy by trading with muggles

compare that to the potters who are also very rich (there's no scale to tell us who is the richer family), but made most of their money from the invention of sleakezy in the 20th century

the blacks are also implied to be wealthy: sirius manages to live off his inheritance after buying harry an expensive broom, and he says his grandfather likely paid for an order of merlin

there's a lot to be said about the blacks (e.g. they should have at least a couple more properties other than grimmauld place), but the big picture and the similarity with the gaunts (not about the incest, stop fixating on that) suggest they were a family in decadence by the time sirius was growing up

i believe that the implication is that neither of them had a proper job, which creates a similarity with gentry, but gentry lived off rentals and while it is possible they had a country state i don't think grimmauld place was making a lot of money

lucius malfoy also didn't work and spent a portion of his time being a school counselor (and obviously not being paid for it, as it was a way to exercise his political power over the main learning institution in his community)

it's also extra canon that the nott family had equal footing with the malfoys, so we can assume that crabbe, goyle, parkinson and bulstrode were slightly beneath them, either in social standing or money, despite the later two being part of the sacred twenty-eight (or it could appear to be so because pansy and milicent are girls)

the weasleys are obviously the main example of a poor sacred twenty-eight family, as were the gaunts

the crouch family was most like rich (they could afford a house elf), but it's likely that most of that money came from mr. crouch having a high level ministry job. his family and connections were probably an advantage to getting the job, but it's possible he wouldn't be able to maintain the lifestyle without work

longbottom, prewett and macmillan are families that appear to be very traditional, but not remarkably wealthy

other working members of the sacred twenty-eight are: horace slughorn (school teacher, but it can be argued that teaching hogwarts is a prestigious position), garrick ollivander (wand maker and shop owner, but, again, the only wand maker, which holds a certain prestige in itself), mr. burke (shop owner), arthur weasley (ministry employee), frank longbottom and kingsley shacklebolt (both aurors). amycus and alecto carrow are also temporary hogwarts teachers

the blacks married out of the sacred twenty-eight many times (max, gamp, crabbe, potter)

all of these people and every single muggleborn goes to the same school, buys magical supplies at the same place, drinks from the same pubs, etc. that alone should serve as evidence that there aren't many exclusive pureblood hangouts around

the only place that seems to attract the malfoys (arguably the richest and most important pureblood family in the 90s) and not most other people, is the knockturn alley, which is hardly a high brow sophisticated spot

except for malfoy and flint, no slytherin quidditch player during the 90s is in the sacred twenty-eight, so that's hardly a criterion for making it into the team

mulciber is not a sacred twenty-eight name, they could very well be half-bloods

tom riddle and severus snape were half-blood students who formed ties with purebloods while in school and held blood supremacist views, assimilation to a certain level was possible