JK doesn't do it so here I am

I make headcanons for Ilvermorny and other things! I'm inspired by others I've seen but I try to put my own spin on things

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #25

Many people change drastically as they age, and young witches and wizards start early on in the process of being sorted into houses. People often change as they grow, so the house they're in may not reflect who they are anymore. Fortunately Ilvermorny has a solution for this since it had the benefit of looking at Hogwarts and improving on it.

At the beginning of their fourth year, a student may go after the first years' sorting ceremony. They step into the circle of statues, and wait for the statues to choose.

Most of the time, the house statue they're already in will choose them and one other will choose them. It is completely possible for only one statue to choose them (whether it is their own house or another) or to be chosen by more than two statues.

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #24

Everyone knows that no-majes are not meant to make it to or even see the Ilvermorny School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. This is true even though one of the founders, James Steward, was a no-maj. However, there is one no-maj who managed to reach the school.

He was named Chad, no last name given, who worked as a pizza delivery guy in the nearest town. Some extremely high Wampus students thought it would be a good idea to order a pizza in the school. The one thing that could be said of Chad is that he was a very determined individual. He managed to somehow avoid the Treants and the Pukwudgies in the surrounding forest, get through the protective barriers to the beffudlement of the charms professor, get all the way up to the front gates and hand off the pizza to the students, and then leave without a single teacher noticing.

Chad has not been located for obliviation and no one has been able to ascertain if he was a no-maj to begin with.

The students, meanwhile, got to eat their pizza in detention

[ilvermornyboi]

So is there a Pride festival at Ilvermorny?

Holy shit now there is

Ilvermorny Headcanon #23

Every year during Pride month there is a huge celebration for all the students to enjoy, spanning all of the grounds of the school. As you might imagine, it gets a little crazy when magic is involved with the usual festivities involved with a Pride Festival.

First of all, the Great Hall is transformed into a stage and the tables are moved aside to allow for the students to enjoy those playing. One notable band that comes almost every year is the Weird Sisters, since the lead singer (Myron Wagtail) is pansexual and brings the rest of his band to play for the school. Other bands also choose to play there, as it is a very popular event.

Meanwhile, all classes are cancelled for the day, and students flood the hallways and dormitories to enjoy each-other's company and the festivities coming with the day. Ethereal pride flags hang from every rafter and colored rainbow smoke is constantly summoned by young witches and wizards, forming the smoke into shapes and words, just generally having genuine fun.

Thanks for the idea my guy lol

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #22

As any fan of the Harry Potter series would know, magic and muggle technology does not mix very well. However, anyone knowledgeable on the human conscience would also know North Americans are extremely stubborn. This has resulted in the fact that Ilvermorny completely breaths tech.

Everyone uses computers to research and type for papers, teachers will show documentaries with strange 3D effects with really old graphics, and people will use it for multiple different types of entertainment purposes.

As previously mentioned, magic and muggle tech doesn't mesh very well, and by not very well I mean almost always terribly. At one point recently, a Wampus student accidentily charmed their Apple watch instead of the item they were holding. What resulted was the entire Wampus house having to sleep in the Great Hall as the Apple watch rampaged within the common room. Headmaster Fontaine wasn't in the school and none of the teachers wanted to deal with it, so the two enchanted armor sets rushed in and eventually held it down long enough to smash it.

[yayroos]

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #17

The Thunderbird dorms are actually located outside if the main building, located in treehouses to the west of the entrance, but that is not where the entrance for the treehouses is, if you want to be boring about it. Sure you can get up and down by ladder, but where’s the adventure? the intrigue? Another way of doing it is just setting off down a hall and looking for something new.

As previously established, the school has much more room in it than it would outwardly appear, and with a little willpower, it can be expanded to create new areas and rooms that move and shift if not locked down with the correct enchantments. This resulted in a weird mixed up area students and staff call “The Kaleidoscope” and that’s where the Thunderbirds go to find their special room.

There is a room within The Kaleidoscope that is very large, with a tall and vaulted ceiling. This room contains a huge tree, with very large roots spreading out above and below the ground, surrounded by a shallow river. The tree contains a tree house that has a door that magically links to a door in a central tree house in the Thunderbird dorms. So if one stepped through the door in the tree room, they would step out of the door in the dorms outside of the main building.

This room can only be found by Thunderbird students, who also seem to be the only ones who can navigate the Kaleidoscope to some degree of success.

[professorwerewolfmcwerewolf]

this strangely reminds me of Monster Inc when they’re running from Randal and going through all those doors. 

[ilvermornyboi]

You've got a point there my friend! When I wrote this one I had been inspired by that optical illusion with the stairs.

It doesn't get that ridiculous tho lol

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #21

In Hogwarts, Christmas is the most celebrated holiday, with a special feast and and many decorations. However, in Ilvermorny the most celebrated is a tie between Thanksgiving and Halloween. Holidays like Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah are seen as more personal endeavors (although students are allowed to go home are stay at the school as they wish).

For Thanksgiving, a huge feast is prepared and all students are welcome into the kitchens to make something of their own for the feast. Lots of the food are created by the school, but it's still seen as a potluck dinner by the students and staff.

During Halloween, the houses engage in a prank battle that may or may not be allowed, but most teachers don't bother trying to stop the students. Some notable pranks were the giant pumpkin grown in front of the Wampus entrance by the Pukwudgies, all the food being replaced by candied versions by the Thunderbirds, a Ghoul led into the Pukwudgie common room by the Wampuses (Its still unknown how they got past Midget), and "Nightmare Before Christmas" music playing randomly in different places caused by the Horned Serpents.

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #20

Not previously mentioned in #17, there is a thunderbird that resides in the very top of the trees above the Thunderbird dorms. Named Sunny, he just showed up one night after a particularly heavy storm. His nest in the trees is very large, and of course the Thunderbird students have marked up multiple ways to climb to the nest. Sunny has been observed and studied by many students and allows it gladly for food.

He is very similar to the Thunderbird seen in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but with a blueish tint instead of orange-yellow.

Sunny also acts as a weather deterrent, as he isn't very fond of rain, but if asked nicely he'll let in the snow for the students. It's mostly the reason he was allowed to stay on the premises, that and his very calm nature.

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #19

Small post, but here at Ilvermorny we don't waste your time with questions about cheese in Wisconsin or Bottlenose dolphins. Our exams actually are helpful in some way, shape, or form.

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #18

The Pukwudgie dormitories are located near the kitchens, and at first it seems like there is no protection for the Pukwudgie house, a simple arched open door that goes straight into the Pukwudgie common room. That is until you remember that they have a guard animal, a small adorable elf owl.

Yes, it certainly seems the Pukwudgie dorms are almost completely unguarded with only a small animal that hangs around the entrance of the rooms, but what a common onlooker may not realize is the actual type of animal the owl is. This is a Teller Bird, which can sense anyone's emotions and intentions just by looking at them. When it does this, the usual yellow eyes of the small elf owl like creature flash purple for a split second.

So the owl can sense someone's emotions, so what? What is it going to do about it? A lesser known attribute of a Teller Bird is that their screech is extremely loud and alarming, so if the bird senses someone with evil intentions it begins screeching like hell, alerting anyone nearby and harassing the person it suspects, pecking at their eyes.

The owl is taken care of by anyone in the Pukwudgie house and is affectionally called "Midget"

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #17

The Thunderbird dorms are actually located outside if the main building, located in treehouses to the west of the entrance, but that is not where the entrance for the treehouses is, if you want to be boring about it. Sure you can get up and down by ladder, but where's the adventure? the intrigue? Another way of doing it is just setting off down a hall and looking for something new.

As previously established, the school has much more room in it than it would outwardly appear, and with a little willpower, it can be expanded to create new areas and rooms that move and shift if not locked down with the correct enchantments. This resulted in a weird mixed up area students and staff call "The Kaleidoscope" and that's where the Thunderbirds go to find their special room.

There is a room within The Kaleidoscope that is very large, with a tall and vaulted ceiling. This room contains a huge tree, with very large roots spreading out above and below the ground, surrounded by a shallow river. The tree contains a tree house that has a door that magically links to a door in a central tree house in the Thunderbird dorms. So if one stepped through the door in the tree room, they would step out of the door in the dorms outside of the main building.

This room can only be found by Thunderbird students, who also seem to be the only ones who can navigate the Kaleidoscope to some degree of success.

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #16

The Horned Serpent entrance is located within the library behind a specific book shelf near the north entrance of the library that has a small carving of a horned servant on the side of the shelf. However, there is a plaque on the librarian's desk with a riddle or quote referring to a certain work. It could be a book, painting, poem, song or even a videogame. If they walk up to the shelf and confidently name the work out loud, it will swing open to allow anyone in for a minute.

The plaque changes whenever it feels like it, it doesn't have much of a pattern to it. Sometimes it will change the very next day, or wait a whole week. It has even waited an entire month once or twice to the frustration of the Horned Serpents, apparently miffed their brain teaser refused to reset, especially since the answer was the song "Hoggy Warty Hogwarts".

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #15

All the students live in fairly large dorms organized by house. Each dormitory is guarded by puzzles/challenges/protections to make sure the students are protected.

To start off, the Wampus house is guarded by two enchanted sets of armor. One is tall and skinny holding a spear and the other is short and fat holding a spiked mace. To get in, a student must do an exercise mandated by the armor, who will, upon completion, touch the blank wall they stand in front of with their weapons, opening a door that is revealed pressed into the wall. An alternate challenge can be given, however, such as casting a spell, usually on the armor. They don't have much of a personality, they speak old English in what could be considered manly, chivalrous voices. At the beginning of the year the challenges are easy, but get harder over the year, but they reset at the beginning of the next year.

People believe the sets of armor once had names, but they have been forgotten. However, the Wampus students have given them very, "endearing" nicknames. Everyone has their own names they use, most of them too vulgar for me to put on this blog. Let's just leave it at the fact that they are disliked.

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #14

Bullying and harassment is not tolerated at Ilvermorny whatsoever and is enforced by every teacher to their own special degree. For example, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher once met Mad-eye Moody and enjoys transfiguration as a punishment from time to time. You might ask, "What would happen if there are no teachers around to stop the bully?" Well, there are multiple groups of Wampus students that will either jinx or simply beat up anyone with ill will towards another student. This is technically not allowed, but many teachers will turn a blind eye to it.

[ilvermorny-school]

Hey Professor, umm... I was wondering if umm... there was a form of school wide PrideFest for LGBT+ students like myself ***Awkwardly shuffles back into the closet***

We have let the students take it upon themselves if they want to organize parades, events, festivals, etc. etc. We just ask that you notify us early and thoroughly. How many people are you expecting? What are some of the things that might be dangerous? Will there be floats and will they actually be floating? You know, the essential information.

- Professor Ottress

p.s. The only living things that belong in closets are Boggarts. Please come on out and join the rest of us. 

[ilvermornyboi]

Why do I feel like you have a bias towards Pukwudgie

Looking through my posts, you are correct, I have done a bit more things involving them than others. Completely my fault, I just get an idea and I write it and starting off I had more ideas for Pukwudgie than others. I'll do my best to make things more even tho lol

[ilvermornyboi]

Ilvermorny Headcanon #13

As Ilvermorny expanded rapidly, the people in charge realized they would either have to start cutting down the forest or find another solution to the increasing amount of students wanting to enroll. The Pukwudgies and Treants that lived in the forest at the time were obviously unhappy about the first choice, so the headmaster had to find a new solution. They hired a famous Mexican enchanter named José Calderon, who had graduated from Ilvermorny previously as a Pukwudgie, to find a solution. He enchanted a large crystal amethyst crystal (7 ft tall) set in the Great Hall's ceiling, which causes the inside of Ilvermorny to be bigger than the outside would normally allow.