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

hufflepuff has the best colors and the best animal, too.

 

I wanna say slytherin

 

OK but the Hamilton House Debate was a THING. At least on a few tumblrs.

For the record, Lin-Manuel Miranda has said that if JK Rowling ever comes to the show he'll ask her.

 

I went from maple, unicorn, reasonably bendy, 12.5 ish to larch, dragon, brittle flexibility, and 14

....what happened to me

(building off of earlier post re: slytherin to gryffindor )

 

... I got Gryffindor where I got Ravenclaw before.
... No, this is not acceptable, I am a Ravenpuff >:/

 

I hadn't but now I love it

 

Just for fun.

 

the fact that there exists a college course, at princeton university of all places, where my immortal is required reading is delightful and astounding all rolled into one.

 

@Re Allyssa I read through their blog a few months ago, it's a really fascinating system! Maybe because they Sort people based on both motivation and methodology, it's really fun to use for character development purposes - I mean you can Sort an OC based on what you already know about them, and then that Sorting gives you more ideas about what makes them tick.

I'm definitely a Slytherin primary (and so are probably 50% of the characters I write, haha). My secondary is harder for me to figure out but I think it might be the inverse of yours - a Slytherin secondary modeling Ravenclaw. I'm comfortable adapting, but I tend to want to have a plan so I know what it is I'm deviating from, or something.

I visited there recently and saw that they had revised their Sorting of Harry as Gryffindor/Gryffindor to movie!Harry being Gryffindor/Gryffindor and book!Harry being Gryffindor/Slytherin, which is interesting. I can't remember if it's canon that the only reason the Sorting Hat suggested Slytherin to Harry was because of the bit of Voldemort he had on him at the time, though.

 

Honestly I think that the story gets weaker if the only Slytherin part of Harry was from Voldemort.

 

I think secondaries are harder to pinpoint because most people are going to model all of them at some point. I mean, they'll have a preference/natural talent for one, but different situations call for different actions and you can't always rush in/plan first/toil diligently/adapt or whatever.

...Or is that just my probably-Slytherin-secondary projecting? "Of course secondaries are hard, no one sticks to one, they all adapt their methods to whatever suits each particular situation best!"

 

New writings are out! Apparently the term No-Maj is still in use (so our slang has not changed, at all, in 90 years or whatever, sure.) Other than that, well, it's about what you could have predicted. Superstitious people/frauds think wizards are possessed by evil spirits, Native American magic is best at animals, plants, and potions, and all that.

I kind of wish there'd been some acknowledgement that Native American cultures weren't monoliths - like, the skinwalker? I spent like 14 seconds on google and it turns out that specific phrase is Navajo, so you wouldn't get shapeshifters called that outside of that area. Or that the Native Americans had cities and were more or less terraforming a lot of the landscape, that'd be cool if to read about.

 

I feel like before anyone is allowed to use Native American Majiks, they should actually have to name off the major nations of each region and give a rough guess on what they thought the spiritual/cultural foundation of that nation is. I mean, I know the rule is impossible to enforce, but lazy mystic tribal magic is the biggest turnoff in modern fantasy I've run into.

 

"Can you believe this guy said he used Ancient Indian Magics? Ugh."
-Cecil

 

I love this sorting system so much. I adore it to little pieces.
I've no idea what my secondary is, but I used to think I was a Ravenclaw primary until I realised all my ideals just go poof when someone I think of as a friend breaks them. Theoretically I've/used to have relatively strict 'rules' from what made someone a good or bad person but if someone I considered to be a good person did a bad person thing then *shrugs* the ideal's gonna have to chance, I'm not changing my mind about the person. They're my person. So... Slytherin primary it is?

(Anyways hi! First time posting in this thread! Despite the Slytherin primary mentioned above I have always and will always consider myself to be a Ravenclaw! In the HP club I joined/was briefly leader of in High School they sorted me as a Ravenpuff, which we defined as 'basically Slytherin but without the ambition'. I read the books growing up and they've been really important to my childhood & identity. They're also a super handy way to connect to people.)

((i misspelled 'ravenpuff' as 'ravepuff' and now i'm having funny mental images. help))