Plants and Animals and Magic

That's a pretty flower. Are you sure that's a flower? Look again. Look with me.

[slytherinnpride]

[outlanderalien]

This game is literally asking me if i want to be murdered.

[prokopetz]

Random Headcanon: The reason the Wizarding World in Harry Potter uses such arse-backwards technology isn’t cultural elitism. (Well, not entirely.) Rather, it’s because if you enchant anything more complicated than a screwdriver, it tends to become sentient over time. Devices that use electricity are particularly bad for this, and almost always “wake up” eventually. Arthur Weasley’s car going rogue and running off to live in a forest is actually a fairly favourable outcome; the students still tell horror stories about what happened to the guy who smuggled in (and subsequently enchanted) a digital wristwatch.

[herbomagizoologist]

Even screwdrivers are too complicated to enchant. Just look at The Doctor.

[msh30]

team i can’t do math for shit but i can write a 3 page english paper in less than an hour 

[burn-it-down-28]

team I can do math for hours but I can’t write an english paper for shit

[irlkenku]

team i cant do either but i have to do both by next monday

[herbomagizoologist]

Team I've done the math now I have to write about my findings by next Monday

[taliasburns]

[herbomagizoologist]

I get that the Hamilton poster is meant to represent him being all confident and Not Gonna Throw Away His Shot™

But it could also represent Hamilton aiming to the sky and for once throwing away his shot

[marlavonduta]

Hogwarts Uniforms - House Hufflepuff

1910-1950

more to come, stay tuned!!

[literall-satan]

Fawkes

I have this headcanon that Newt Scamander just one day pays a visit to Hogsmeade, finds professor Dumbledore sitting in Three Broomsticks with a glass of butterbeer or gigglewater or whatever, and just goes to sit with him. Newt then gets something out of his suitcase, saying: “Professor, I remember you saying you didn’t have a pet after your owl died, but I do remember you saying how you loved phoenixes. I was wondering, if you’d like to give this fellow a home.” Newt is holding a tiny little bird in his hands, merely a new-born - but it’s feathers are read and orange and there’s cinder pouring through them. Albus gives out his hands, and gently takes the little bird in his own hands. For a moment the man and the bird just stare at each other; then the little phoenix lets out a happy little hiccup, and makes Albus smile. “Thank you, Newt”, he says. The magizoologist smiles back, and gets up. Before he leaves, he turns around and says: “Oh, and by the way, his name is Fawkes.”

[herbomagizoologist]

Fawkes' tail feather is in Tom Riddle's wand

Tom started Hogwarts in 1937

Tom was born in 1926 (the year the first Fantastic Beasts movie was set in)

PETITION FOR THIS EXCHANGE TO HAPPEN IN THE MOVIES

[herbomagizoologist]

Do you ever wonder about the man who wed Rowena Ravenclaw, and whether Helena had brothers and sisters

Or the woman who became Salazar Slytherin’s wife and started the lineage that would end up at Tom Riddle Jr.

Or Helga Hufflepuff’s husband, and the lineage that would include Hepzibah Smith

Or Godric’s Gryffindor’s wife, because if the other Founders had families who’s to say he didn’t?

[magicfolk]

[herbomagizoologist]

Arthur Weasley named his kids after British royalty because he read the legend of King Arthur and fanboyed so hard that he went yep if I'm a king in Muggle history then my kids have to be kings and queens too

[herbomagizoologist]

Quick reminder that the Weasley family now has three Hogwarts Quidditch captains and one professional Quidditch athlete.

[herbomagizoologist]

I burst out laughing when I was buying tickets to watch Fantastic Beasts because the movie theaters in my town has this character limit for displaying movie playing times and they wrote Fantastic Beasts as FANTASTIC BEASTS A W T F which I read as FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHAT THE FCK which in my opinion sums up the entire storyline.

[herbomagizoologist]

If you needed any more proof that the Marauders were some of the cleverest students ever, just remember that they made an enchanted map that could show people who were under Ignotus Peverell's impenetrable Invisibility Cloak.

[herbomagizoologist]

So Voldemort attacked the potters on the night of October 31st. Philosopher’s Stone started on the morning of November 1st, following Vernon as he went to work and got annoyed by the people in cloaks. Hagrid arrived at Privet Drive with baby Harry on the night of November 1st.

So what happened in between? Where did Harry and Hagrid go after Hagrid rescued him? Surely a ride on a flying motorbike between Godric’s Hollow (West Country) and Privet Drive (Surrey) wouldn’t have taken 1 whole day. It’s been 19 years, I need answers.

[literarystarbucks]

Wizarding World: 90s Kids

Hermione Granger goes up to the counter. “Is this coffee fair trade or were house elves involved in the making?” she asks. After being reassured that no house-elves ever touched the coffee beans, she orders an espresso. She takes it over to a corner table covered in books and papers, settling in for a long study session.

Luna Lovegood tries to order off of a non-existent “secret menu.”

Neville Longbottom meets up with Luna for their usual afternoon coffee date. They get chai tea lattes and sit by the window, chatting about exotic flora and fauna.

Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnegan arrive together. Seamus orders a Fizzing Whizbee latte, which promptly explodes all over him. Dean pays for a round of cappuccinos.

Ginny Weasley goes up to the counter with her broom slung over her shoulder. She orders her butterbeer latte to go; she’s late for practice. She stops to talk to Neville and Luna for a few minutes before leaving.

Crabbe and Goyle arrive to meet Draco there. They are unable to buy drinks for themselves, as counting out change confuses them. They have also arrived three hours earlier than Malfoy plans to arrive, because he prefers them to be there when he wants to meet with him. They bully a first-year into buying them each a scone.

Oliver Wood enters in a huff. He goes up to the counter and asks if the barista has seen any of the Gryffindor Quidditch team there, “because they’re SUPPOSED to be practicing.” Fred and George, who are hiding under a nearby table, know that this is no laughing matter, but struggle to contain their giggles, regardless.

Draco Malfoy runs his index finger across the bar and picks up a thin layer of dust. “Wait til my father hears about this,” he says. The baristas just roll their eyes.

Ernie Macmillan orders a triple shot espresso to go. He’s rushing back to the library to work; he finds Starbucks to be an unhelpful work environment.

Percy Weasley drinks coffee with a napkin in his lap. When he examines his drink more closely, he realizes the name on it has been transfigured to “Big Head Boy.” At this point the twins collapse laughing and are asked to leave the Starbucks.

Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil order tea and drink it slowly, then read each other their tea leaves. Their cups foretell imminent danger, but they’re unfazed. They are Gryffindors, after all.

Colin Creevey takes pictures of his order to put on his Instagram.

Just as evening begins, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley make their way into the Starbucks from the snow outside. They order three butterbeer lattes and join Hermione at her corner table. Harry has to leave early, and the other two join him in solidarity.

[liberty-flight]

I’m reading up on chocolate frog cards in the Harry Potter universe, for reasons, and-

“Came up with the ever changing floor plan.” 

Really, Ravenclaw? Really?

“You know what this school needs? To not make any sense-”

“Rowena, I don’t think-”

“Exactly, you don’t think. I’m brilliant and this is perfect. Moving staircases, walls that think they’re doors-”

“But how will the students get to class?”

“They’ll have to figure it out.”

“…”

“Everyday. They will figure it out everyday. My students will live in a tower and navigate these stairs every time.”

“The stairs move! This doesn’t seem safe…I think I’ll put my common room in the basement, Rowena.”

“Ditto. I think the dungeons would be safer…”

“…My kids will brave these stairs. I’ll take the other tower.”

[into-the-weeds]

#Rowena snipes that ‘cunning’ means Salazar’s students should be able to handle the moving architecture#Salazar snipes back that ‘cunning’ means knowing when and how to avoid unnecessary bullshit#meanwhile Godric is just yelling PARKOUR! and Rowena is all That’s Not What I Meant#Helga would like her students to make it to class on time and without any broken bones#ninety percent of the reliable secret passages were a team effort by Helga and one of the others#to make sure the house elves could get around all right (via @mzminola)

[eugeniedanglars]

#i feel like the collaboration was probably hufflepuff and slytherin#in the only time they ever worked together#helga: students and house elves can move safely!#salazar: more places to hide snakes#salazar is like we should make these accessible to people with no legs#helga is like i mean i agree but why are you being so nice about this#salazar is like no reason hey I’m just gonna make some of these rely on snake language for fun#do you think a fifty foot snake would fit in this passage asking for a friend (via @dinosauriaawesome)

i’m literally crying this is 100% what happened

(hey tumblr please don’t delete the previous people’s comments like you did the last time i added someone’s tags to a post mmkay)

[whoopsrobots]

No but that’s actually so clever okay like the people who live in the castle would get a general idea of the patterns and how to move around efficiently but like for anyone planning on attacking it would be impossible to infiltrate like how the hell do I attack the headmaster when I can’t even find the bathroom why the fuck am I in a chemistry supply closet okay these stairs went to the main hall but now I’m on my way to the broom closets holy fucking shit fuck leonard SAID the dorm was on the left of the three headed hippogriff but I’m here and it’s just a painting of a man with a donkey face is this a fucikgin joke leonard do you think this is funny because it’snot. its not okay siri how the hell do i get to the nearest anything “here is: the nearest painting” like fuck you siri 

[roachpatrol]

actually considering all this, the changing floorplan probably worked exactly as designed when it came to the battle of hogwarts in the late 90′s. the invasion was towards the end of the term, so the students, especially the renegade students in hiding, had the full term to master getting around the school quickly, quietly, and efficiently. the invading deatheaters were generally their parents’s ages, and hadn’t been back to hogwarts in several decades, if they’d even attended at all. so, while the adult invaders easily outmatched the adolescent defenders in strength and skill, hogwarts was a lethal maze to the deatheaters, while it was home to the kids. 

rowena knew what the fuck she was doing.