I finally submitted my Masters thesis!!! I’m freeee (almost - I still have final presentation) but that means I can unban myself from fandom creativity, anime and games :D
Thus, here is an @inazuma-hpau Hufflepuff quidditch captain, Keeper Endou Mamoru to end this drought.
I haven’t been able to be active the last few weeks due to school, but I want to acknowledge the situation within the HP fandom that happened earlier this week. JK’s transphobic comments are very damaging, hurtful and toxic.
To all our transgender and non-binary Inazuma and Inazuma Harry Potter AU friends out there - I love you, I see you, I support you. Trans lives matter.
One thing that has helped a lot of people in this situation Daniel Radcliff’s and Bonnie Wright’s responses to the situation:
To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you. I really hope that you don’t entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you. If these books taught you that love is the strongest force in the universe, capable of overcoming anything; if they taught you that strength is found in diversity, and that dogmatic ideas of pureness lead to the oppression of vulnerable groups; if you believe that a particular character is trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid, or that they are gay or bisexual; if you found anything in these stories that resonated with you and helped you at any time in your life — then that is between you and the book that you read, and it is sacred. And in my opinion nobody can touch that. It means to you what it means to you and I hope that these comments will not taint that too much.
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While this blog will continue to create Inazuma HPAUs in the future (it’s been a big part of my creative outlet and the HP series continues to be a big inspiration to my creativity), II along with Inazuma HPAU does not support the opinions of JK Rowling.
Inazuma HPAU continues to be an ally supporting LGBTQ+ people and it’s community.
★ The Inazuma Sorting Hat ★
→ How we sort Inazuma characters into their houses
Sorting Inazuma characters into their Hogwarts house is a little more complex than just their anime personality and more than just “because this happened in the anime, this means they are sorted here”. There are several factors and criteria which are considered that add up to the decision:
Primary criteria:
Qualities they valued or admired
The Sorting Hat tends to place students based on qualities they value and not necessarily qualities they personify. This could may also link to values and qualities they admire on another person (e.g admiration, inspiration or having a person that the student looks up to / want to be like).
Qualities they exhibited or sensed the capability to demonstrate later on
The Sorting Hat can detect nascent qualities in a student and place them in the House that will challenge them the most and put their character to the test. Qualities they already exhibit is also taken into consideration.
The student’s choice of house
The Hat has been known to take student's wishes into account. However, the Hat may go against this wish if it thinks the student is best suited / has potential for a specific house. Just because someone is placed in a certain House does not mean that they can not possess characteristics of other Houses.
Secondary criteria:
Events within the anime that has directly impacted them as a character.
The characters character development within the series
Relationships between characters they have canon-ly interacted within Inazuma media
Potential relationships between characters that have either minimal or no interaction canon-ly Inazuma media
Overall sorting between all characters
Note: Characters that have been met in any International Football Frontier from outside Japan do not get sorted as they are considered students from other global wizarding schools.
Anonymous said to inazuma-hpau: I was wondering whether Nagumo Haruya / Burn was best fitted in Gryffindor or Syltherin? I can see him doing really well in both, but I was curious about your opinion!
Sorry this is a super late reply from months ago! But I was asked a couple of times on twitter about this so thought I would answer it!
Short answer, I see him in both. While I lean slightly towards Gryffindor as my main headcanon sorting for him, I actually have two different headcanon situations where he’s either in Gryffindor or is in Slytherin. Nagumo would be one of the hatstall in his year with the Hat unable to decide whether he would be in Gryffindor or Slytherin.
Aliea Academia kids have always been the hardest to sort as they have always been equally Slytherin as they are with a second house. Primarily the reason that sorts them into Slytherin is the event that they played the role of aliens (in which they played the role of a different persona) in the Aliea Academy arc in original Inazuma Eleven. However, we do not want to base their house sorting solely on their actions from those events alone - esp as those events only lasted a few months (with probably a few more months prep time for them train as Aliea Academy).
We also need to consider:
Them being sorted at the age of 10
Their potential of them into their later teens which are not showcased in the anime
Their relationship with other characters including those that they have not canonly interacted with in the anime.
The hat sorts a student based on 3 things - it isn’t clear which in particular as it could be different for all students:
Qualities they valued or admired
Qualities they exhibited or sensed the capability to demonstrate later on
The student’s choice of house
Because of Aliea Academy Nagumo is shown to be (in particular events):
Deceptive: Pretending to be the Flame Striker to infiltrate Inazuma Caravan and deceiving people with his persona as Burn.
Ambitious / Power: For Prominence and then later Chaos to become the “strongest” Aliea team
These are particularly Slytherin traits we learn about him during his time as Burn and very briefly as a member of Fire Dragon.
However, if you can look at him as a character as a whole, personality and qualities-wise, he is:
Fiery: Self explanatory, not just in his hissatsus, but also personality
Slytherin is often associated with the element of Water, while Gryffindor with fire.
Daring / Brash: I can see him being impulsive and aggressive, especially in his first 2 years, but even developing further into teenagehood - often rushes into things and act without thinking first and what the consequences. Slytherins tend to hesitate before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding exactly what should be done. It has been said that with Nagumo, “he is not afraid to face all kinds of challenges.”
Blunt and bold: He has have a quick and rash temper, but I can see him often bluntly saying things with no regard. In SD he is described as “He's hot-blooded and has an aggressive personality."
Nerve: He’d be the type that often deals situation directly, even with situations that could be have been completely avoided. e.g if he saw someone bullying a friend from Sun Garden (regardless of what house they ended up in), he’d confront the bully up front no matter where they were the moment he knew about it (even if it was publicly in the hallways and Great Hall and even if he’d end up in detention because of it). Slytherin students would be a bit more discreet and cunning, often planning revenge in a way that would leave no evidence that it was them.
Arrogance (however can also be a bit of Slytherin trait as well) and overconfident: Nagumo can come off quite overconfident in his soccer skills saying he wouldn’t be confident about them if he didn’t have good soccer skills. I can see him being the same about his quidditch skills. Slytherin arrogance can often be seen from Blood Purity, but also in the ‘Slytherin is more superior than Gryffindor’ mindset in the rivalry between the two houses.
The Nagumo I see when I see him within Fire Dragon and Ares, I can see him being against blood supremacy, but seeing him as Burn, I can see him standing by it.
Independent: Nagumo doesn’t like people to walk all over him nor being ordered or told to do / act a certain way (e.g Gran). He is rebellious and I can see him wanting to do his own thing (he has said before in the anime “I’ll do what I like” and warns for no one to get in his way) have his own fun rather to follow any rules (while Dumbledore says that Slytherin has a certain disregard for the rules, Serverus Snape considers Gryffindors to have no regard for rule either).
However Slytherin is a political house who values pureblood traditional social customs as well as reputation. Their house is filled with many pureblood families of which most have a large expectation to assure their children act a certain way and to not to dishonour their families. This often impact culture inside of Slytherin itself and quite influences the way Slytherins as a whole should act whole inside of Hogwarts (often leading to a form of peer pressure, unspoken rules on how a Slytherin should act and high standards - wether they come from one the traditionalist families or not).
I don’t see Nagumo wanting to go along with these formal rules and acting like a proper pureblood (in the way that Sirius Black would march to the beat of his own drum and be sorted away from Slytherin). As the Sun Garden kids were brought up in an orphanage where pureblood rules were no taught and knocked into him and having to learn that within Slytherin house would irritate him “I don’t see the point in learning this”.
Finally I think as a whole, the Aliea kids being sorted into different houses which best fit their personality, than what happened to them solely in the Aliea Academy and FFI arcs are much more interesting in the context of writing and head canons as a whole. There’s more room for development both in their characters as well as relationships with other Aliea kids and other Inazuma Characters.
Not to mention that the house with the largest amount of Inazuma members sorted into it is Slytherin. This means there will be a lot more competition to find a place on the 7 member quidditch team (14 if you’re willing to expand to a First team and Second Team).
For me the factors that have separated the two different scenarios of which house Nagumo would have ended up in is:
His relationship with Suzuno Fuusuke
Suzuno is a friend that he’s grown up with at Sun Garden, but depending on how much of a rival Nagumo views him and what is the nature of that rivalry. Depending if the rivalry exists before Hogwarts or just after if they are sorted away from each other, if there is even the beginning of a positive or negative tension based rivalry between each other. Regardless, rivalry would always be initiated by Nagumo while Suzuno would be on the more indifferent end to begin with and later getting into the rivalry as much as Nagumo. Their rivalry would grow throughout Hogwarts, but I’d see them becoming more mature and not a childish rivalry the older they become. They
However, if both Nagumo and Suzuno were both in Slytherin, I would kill to see them as a ‘chaotic’ beater duo.
Ares Nagumo and Suzuno were more on friendlier terms than in the original and yet he was also less of the personality traits listed above, so I wouldn’t have mind him in Slytherin either.
The relationship he has with the other Sun Garden kids
Depending on how close the Sun Garden kids are they may hope to be in the same house (especially with poor scared Midorikawa not wanting to be by himself), or be eagerly debating which house they’d be sorted in on the train towards Hogwarts - which regardless of house, I still see Nagumo teasing Midorikawa that he’ll end up alone in Hufflepuff.
What house Kira Hiroto is sorted into
This is only a minor one and one which is mostly here for ‘writing’ purposes I guess. Both Ares Kira Hiroto and Original Nagumo Haruya are both hatstalls for both Gryffindor and Slytherin and have similarities in personality - and I can see them in situations when sorted in both houses. I have a preference not to put them in the same house because of these similarities - I just think it would be more interesting story wise and let Nagumo stand out a bit more from the rest of the Sun Garden kids (as in Slytherin, often the others may take the spotlight).
Today, I decided to draw Lilly as a Hufflepuff, heheh. ^^
I cannot deny how much I love Harry Potter’s Universe. I might only have seen the movies (shame on me. ^^") but the universe makes me feel so nostalgic whenever I hear about it. ^^ So when I discovered @inazuma-hpau’s blog and some other blogs with Inazuma Eleven x Harry Potter AU contents, as well as @raspberrysflavour’s headcanons I became kind of hyped to make my Inazuma Eleven OCs as Hogwarts students. ^^ But I only had the courage to draw Lilly. ^^" Maybe someday I will draw Loki as well, especially since I already know which house she belongs to. I even wrote my headcanons about Lilly and Loki’s Patronuses, their favorite subjects, their strength, weaknesses, their pets, their alternate stories as Witches, their daily lives with the other characters of Inazuma Eleven who also became Hogwarts Students... Okay, I went way too far. 😂 But that was fun. ^^
Thank you infinitely for taking the time to take a look at this post, everyone. ^^
I was so excited when you started doing Inazuma Eleven Harry Potter AU posts regularly again on Twitter! Are you by any chance going to post them here on tumblr too?
Ahh thank you for following me for so long! Most definitely will be posting the new ones here on tumblr as well. Tumblr gives me a lot more space to write headcanons, so I’ll probably take more time writing headcanons about each character before I post.
He’s both popular and talented student at Hogwarts often scoring top in academics, becoming quidditch captain & prefect then Head Boy by 7th year.
Being the foodaholic that he is, he’s always at meals early. He often heads down to the school’s kitchens during his free time or when he’s bored solely to badger the school’s house elves cooking Hogwart’s meals out of excitement and facination.
He gets along really well with Slytherin’s Ichihoshi Hikaru and they often study together in the library especially in classes that are shared between Ravenclaw and Slytherin
He was recruited to play for the U17 youth quidditch league before graduating and eventually goes on to play professionally for the Falmouth Falcons
Hi! Do you have a character profile for Kirina Hiura?
Sorry for the late reply! Not a full one quite yet. I currently waiting to rewatch all of original Inazuma, Ares and Orion before I can fully do Ares / Orion character profiles :)
We've been debating where best to sort Kiyama Hiroto (original) / Kiyama Tatsuya (Ares). A toss up between Ravenclaw and Slytherin?
What do you guys think?
Some Eisei sortings:
Saginuma (Slytherin - maybe even a bit of a puff)
Midorikawa (Hufflepuff)
Reina (Slytherin or Ravenclaw, but more likely Slytherin. She portrays a great pureblood princess)
Nagumo (Gryffindor)
Suzuno (Slytherin or Ravenclaw, more likely Slytherin. It would make a great headcanon to have the Gryffindor/Slytherin rivalry between him and Nagumo)
First fresh @inazuma-hpau analysis I’ve started on with a character I haven’t yet touched in like 2 years - nor have I done many Ravenclaws yet!
Still a WIP:
He’s actually an Ilvermorny student who transferred to Hogwarts for his 3-5th years and was sorted into Ravenclaw. D
He’s already been recruited for the American youth quidditch team
The core in his wand is a phoenix feather
His favourite subject is Astronomy and he can spend hours talking about stars and planets. He tends to overwhelm is friends with his astronomy talk, particularly Dylan who gets a headache after 10 minutes non stop.
He’s also quite talented at Charms and Transfiguration
He can solve riddles to get into the Ravenclaw common room fairly easy and rarely gets stuck
Was disappointed to be sorted away from Aki (Hufflepuff) and Domon (Slytherin) but still tries to spend as much time with them when he can
When he goes back to Ilvermorny, Domon follows him. He continues to owl Aki on a weekly basis.
His roomates at Ilvermorny are Domon, Mark and Dylan. Mark is the tidy one while Dylan never cleans his side of the dorms. He also snores incredibly loud and sometimes forgets to put silencing charms on his bed.
He was believe to had died in a quidditch accident as a child and was still recovering from his injuries.
He ends up playing professional qudditch after school and is very highly sought out for. He played in the American league for Canadian team Moose Jaw Meteorites.
For one season he decided to play for the British and Irish Quidditch League under the Tutshill Tornados
He retires early due to the injuries that had never fully recovered, however continues to work as a chaser coach.
More lazy @inazuma-hpau hufflepuff!tachimukai sketches.
Headcanon in which cutiepuff Tachimukai always wears and extremely long scarf that he either keeps stepping on or getting caught by something so he always keeps falling on his face or almost accidentally choked by his scarf because it got stuck in the door on the way to class.
IE HPAU: Rebel and Metamorphagus - submitted by Noel (no account)
-Sakuma Rena is a metamorphagus. Jirou is too, but his eyes change color, not his hair (maybe)
-She was sorted into Gryffindor and in an instant (this was during her first year) she was bullied because of her hair. Each emotion she expresses, there’s a change of hair color (red=angry, blue=sad, peach=embarrassed).
-By second year Rena managed to be emotionless, but even doing that became worse for her. During third year, even the other houses would make fun of her. Others just stared and whispered as she passed by. Eventually Rena had enough of it and used a binding spell on Atsuya, earning a detention.
-Rena had met Haizaki during the first day of her detention with Professor Hibiki. Haizaki was only a year younger than her but he was much more rebellious than anyone else. His stubbornness matched with Kira Hiroto and possibly Fudou.
-Haizaki’s only passing subjects were DADA and Potions. When Rena asked why, Haizaki only scoffed at her and said, “Its none of your business”.
-The two met again during a Quidditch match. Rena only studied about it, whilst Haizaki was a player. Rena then only found out he was a Slytherin, because of the announcer’s loud and annoying voice.
-Rena once saw Haizaki in Potions past curfew, making a potion that wasn’t familiar to her. She overheard him saying, “Once I graduate, I’m going to get you out of St. Mungo’s,”
-After hearing that she asked her brother Jirou about this and asked who was in St. Mungo’s. Jirou said that Haizaki’s childhood friend had gotten into an accident at a young age due to a mishap in potions, so Haizaki tries his best to pass at least two subjects.
-It was then Rena had decided to confront him, and once she did, Kogure, Reina and some others ganged up on her. It was Rena’s first time to punch and kick a lot of people, excluding Haizaki.
-During detention (this time with Professor Kageyama), Haizaki didn’t bother in asking what made Rena go and punch them like a Muggle. Only after an hour Rena had groaned and slammed her head on the desk, obviously pissed.
-When Haizaki was about to ask, he noticed Rena’s hair turning indigo blue: Realization hit him as he now knows why she punched them like that.
-Rena muttered a, “Go ahead, laugh” at him as she looked up from her desk, her eyes filled with tears. Haizaki didn’t say anything and just minded his own business, ignoring an annoying voice in his head that kept saying, “Say something, idiot!”
- Genda is halfway to the Gryffindor common room when he remembers he left his keeper gloves on the bench in the qudditch locker rooms down by the pitch. He tells Kazemaru and the Fubuki twins that he’ll catch up to them in the common room after he’s found his gloves.
- Upon successfully retrieving the gloves, his eye catches a figure catching quaffles in the rain as he passes the stadium.
- Norika has once again stayed behind after the hufflepuff’s weekly qudditch practise to work on her keeper skills a bit more. She charms the quaffles to throw themselves at her while she does her best to stop them.
- She’s become more frustrated than she usually is. The feeling of not improving fast enough and that she’ll never be able to stand in from of hufflepuff’s rings.
- She’s practised to the point where she isn’t fully concentrating and a quaffle catches her off guard hitting her from behind and knocking her off her broom.
- Genda panics seeing her decent from the sky. “ARRESTO MOMENTUM“ he yells as her fall slows down enough for him to catch her smoothly.
- He yells at her telling her that she could have been seriously injured, but softens immediately when he notices tears in his eyes.
- She tells him why she has to do this, to work so hard, to practise till she needs to collapse.
- She loves Tachimukai as one of her best friends, but can’t help but feel a little discouraged seeing his progress develop quickly. He’s even played in games when captain Endou had been too injured to play - but she? Not a real game, only practise ones. So, she had to work as hard as she could to catch up to her fellow keeper rivals.
- Genda listens to her patiently. He understands her and knows the feeling of frustration built inside of her. After all, only a fellow keeper with the desire to be the best keeper they can be while facing fellow rivaling keepers for the one spot in the team could ever understand that.
- He himself having to fight his way to get the starting keeper spot on his team since his 2nd year.
- He also shares the rivalry with Hufflepuff’s captain Endou at being the best keeper in school as a keeper of an opposing team.
- Genda decides to train Norika up as her mentor - to become a better keeper. Norika cries out of happiness and throws herself at Genda into a large hug (Genda feeling a tad awkward as it wasn’t something he was expecting and awkwardly semi-pat-hugs her back)
- They meet every Thursday evening from after dinner till curfew while most other students are busy with homework or spending time in the common room. Norika works hard while Genda drills her with the basics (”the better you are at the basics, the better your overall performance will be”).
- While Genda doesn’t often show it, he is immensely proud of Norika (but often does ruffle her hair when she’s done something well). He often jokes about being a traitor to Gryffindor because he’s training “the enemy”.
Extra:
- They become incredibly good friends and Norika looks up to Genda a lot. They study together and Genda even helps her with her homework as she’s studying for OWLs (which he took the year prior).
- Norika often shares some sweets and cakes her mother sends her every week with him. He doesn’t want to admit it, but Norika knows he’s a big sweet tooth.
- Norika sends Genda his birthday gift by owl so that it arrives the during the breakfast of his birthday. He likes to keep his birthday down-low (which is hard to do because it’s exactly the same day as Kidou’s birthday). For his birthday and also a thank you gift, Norika gives him a new pair of light weight dragon skin keeper gloves along with more sweets and a note. He knows the gloves aren’t cheap as they’re the same used by professional keepers and feels incredibly touched by Norika’s present. She smiles at him from the hufflepuff table and he smiles back.
Headcanon tbc…