The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (a thread for Potterheads)

I've always been in the "she was with the weasleys" bucket, yeah.

On that note, this essay posits that virtually all of the major male characters are related. Pretty interesting tbh.

 

haven't read the essay fully yet but omfg i recognize that site
when i was a kid (and not actually in fandom, per se, strangely enough), i used to read it and mugglenet quite a bit
and i have no idea how i even found it and mugglenet
and it had nothing to do with how i even initially entered fandom, haha

 

Movies are... not the same but I am planning a Harry Potter marathon with some friends for winter break.

Also I have bought some ingredients to make Butterbeer scented bath bombs. I might do them in house colours. Yellow by itself for bathwater can have unfortunate connotations, idk.
I don't know if I can make them before the marathon, but it'd be cool to give one to everyone that comes. Except I want to make little polymer clay charms to go inside the bath bombs. Woe is me. (but omg the badger is gonna be hella cute. I CAN SEE IT ALREADY.)
I want to do treats and maybe crafts too, because I can be fidgety during movies sometimes. I'm thinking about making little pumpkin pasties and maybe treacle tarts and of course butterbeer.


Also Also.
WHO SAW THE NEW TRAILER FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS?

 

MARATHONS. Once a year my quidditch team held HP movie marathons. IT IS GREAT. Have fun :)

I will go search this trailer now.

Also, has anybody else heard of Mugglenet Academia? It's a neat podcast that I've been listening to and I am dying of people to discuss this with. I dunno - would a "study group" of sorts around the subjects it studies be fun? I know some people don't do well with podcasts so we might not need to actually listen to the podcasts, just go over the themes brought up.

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153788890339313

Is the trailer I saw.
I think it's new, I just saw it on facebook today

Also @Raire speaking of quidditch, I'm not looking into setting up a formal team but I've made inquiries into muggle quidditch for my church's activities committee and they think it sounds fun. So that might be a thing in my future as well.

 

@Soul oohhhh my god OHHHH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE.............

@Raire ive been needing a new podcast so bad so ill get back to you on the mugglenet academia thing, thanks for the rec!!!

 

I am also really, really excited for the fantastic beasts movie! :D :D

 

@Soul
Woo! If you can find any nearby teams that are already set up, perhaps they can help with supplies for an event. The hoops are really the hardest thing.
Also: do not use metal brooms. Or like, swiffers. It is dangerous and does not work :X

@rats
I'm glad! I hope you like it! :D

 

@Raire I don't know how to locate any local teams, and I'm pretty sure none of them are too local, since I live out in the sticks. I was thinking of just using cut PVC pipe for the brooms, as that would be cheap, easy, and standard for both teams.

 

Read the best what if fic I've read in a while.
http://soulanome.tumblr.com/post/136288261460/what-if-harry-potter-the-chosen-one-had-turned
very well thought out, great discourse on disability, plus all the potter feels.

 

@Soul

Spoiler: squib fic

i love the line “What you can do is not less.” so much. just... feels... so many feels.

 

That person has done a bunch of good what-if AUs, I'm pretty sure they're the ones behind the Actual Chosen One Neville and the Petunia Actually Gives A Fuck AUs as well.

 

So a few terms back I had a professor who I called Umbridge behind her back and I just discovered her office has cat plates in it too DX

 

Pottermore has been revamped, and if you had an account with the old one, you can keep the old sorting or redo it.

I chose to redo, and got Slytherin. I wish it showed percentages for each of the houses, because that's a somewhat surprising result for me. I'm wondering whether I've changed, or the quiz did.

 

I can't believe JK Rowling named the North American wizarding school ILVERMORNY.

 

Yes i redid and now am disappoint because Ravenclaw. I know I'm a Slytherclaw but am usually predominantly Slytherin.

Yeeeeeahhhhh I'll just kind of stick with "Sage Canyon Academy"

 

I still think 11 is a ridiculously small number, even for just the "great" wizarding schools. Like, if we assume that Hogwarts a) only takes students from the UK and Ireland and b) takes all the magical students from those countries, that's about 1k students for 68.5 million- which really doesn't seem like much (and I am assuming this number wasn't hugely skewed by the war) but Africa has a population of about 1.111 billion. By my admittedly-probably-shitty-math, that means that there are about 16k magical students across Africa. Even if half of them go to the smaller, more transitory, less well regulated and implied less quality schools, that means that Uagadou has about 8k students. This is obviously not impossible, but these students are taken from all around Africa, regardless of cultural and linguistic differences, and it's definitely a far cry from Hogwarts's fairly small and intensive staff and students. Again, if we take Great Britian's proportions as holding true for the world population there are 102k wizarding students worldwide- and if Hogwarts enrollment was skewed by the war then that number is even higher. That is an average of over 9k students per great school. If you gave the definition of a "great school" as "boarding school registered with the International Confederation of Wizards with an approved curriculum and at or around 1k students" and then said there were 30 I would still think that we could maybe do with a couple more- that is only 5 schools per continent. Maybe the ICW's standards are super high, maybe they are more critical of non-European styles of magic, but in the canon of the Harry Potter world the wizarding world is framed as being far less racially intolerant than muggles, with the major biases being against muggles and magical non-human creatures. It just really annoys me :/

 

I don't get how having ONE school, located in one part of the continent, would even work socially, letting aside number issues! Looking at, ugh, Ilvermorny - it would need to take in every student from Mexico, Canada, America, and probably various islands. There would be so much controversy about sending your kid to study in a different country, and that being the only option, and the specific location would have to have an influence on the school's philosophies and such and just.

Yeah, I think I'll stick with the multiple schools theory.