a really ugly canary. the headmaster then profusely apologizes and asks if anybody wants a canary as a pet.
Following groups of bigots drink nothing while they are there, which turns out badly for them, as Sage Canyon Academy is in the middle of a desert and they are wearing full robes.
but they never seem to give up. Even the bigoted teacher crochets some tanks to fight them (@Bel Capricorn does this work?)
they're her babies no matter how "wrong" they are and NOBODY HURTS HER BABIES. i'm tempted to make the bigoted teacher actually a non bigoted mystical entity who took on this personality as a joke and it stuck.
The day after shit goes down she just gets everyone she can together and gives them sweaters and cocoa and little cross necklaces. Or it was originally just a bigoted old lady, but she got fused with some mystical entity and they can't really tell themselves apart anymore.
My reason for Eliott changing schools was in part Hogwarts teachers being no use at all when her gender questioning caused the gender spells to lock her out of both dorms.
I remember that, should haven mentioned. My idea here is that their* gender identity was confused to the point of fouling up the spell at the time, because they were only just realizing that they were trans, therefore making the spell not work as intended. And no need to apologize, perfectly legit point. *I keep using she because I didn´t know Eliott was trans when I made them. Trying to break the habit.
I was thinking intruder yes. Basically spell still thinks students only come in two genders, because it was made way before even todays beginning acceptance of transpeople, and therefore someone of unclear gender must be an intruder of some sort.
Shush. For one, I´m not that easily offended, and for another discovering a character involves both stuff like gender identity and what they eat for breakfast. I don´t think acknowledging that is trivilizing anything.
Guh. tumblr - or certain sections of it - has probably led to more trauma than it's helped with. (vaguely reminding me of S.P.E.W. I bet there's a group like that for werewolves in America. Hah, and probably muggles too) I much prefer the older lady teacher as a total granny bigot, where she's vaguely condescending and horrifically racist, sexist, and ___phobic. But this is likely because witches & wizards live for a very long time, and she was born in like 1900 or 1890 or something. Her main fault is in being unbending.
Okay, so are we missing on anything else for a beginning? You get the letter, the bus picks you up, you are unconscious until you get there, you wake up on the bus (because i'd rather not wake up in a different place than i went to sleep in), everyone gets off the bus, headmaster or teacher tells you where to go to put your stuff, assigns a mentor...maybe a day or two before classes? a week? Some people get there earlier, some later? Maybe around this time you get a wand from a store, which can be accessed from a floo point somewhere on the campus. At some point your mentor explains "ok magic is real, you're a wizzerd 'arry, here's the tag board, don't piss off the teacher, quodpot practice is at 5 if you're interested, we get a break in the middle of the day because cooling spells only do so much, check here to see if there's an extradimensional rift in your classroom and it's moved for the day, your class list is here, and your phone stays in this room. if you use magic in the tech room, the entire student body will feed you to something unpleasant. do not use magic in the tech room." (the tech room is in a magical faraday cage, if i'm using science right) "Learn how to use magical memos, or get an animal that'll deliver it for you. some people have familiars, some people rent from the tower. Cheers, don't stare too long at the thing in the lake, i'll check up on you by thursday if you don't find me first."
