It’s been a while since I updated this AU - I wrote these down a while ago but kept forgetting to put it up orz. The descriptions for the wood types come directly from the Harry Potter Wiki, with the exception of the native Japanese species and the paulownia (descriptions from a variety of sources including Wikipedia.)
Under the cut are explanations for the core types; yeah, I know, it’s probably easier to give them all dragon heartstring/unicorn tail hair/phoenix feather, but I wanted to have a little fun lol. Quotation marks (””) indicate direct quotes from the wiki.
Big Three
Dragon heartstring: “Powerful, easy to learn spells though can easily be committed to another owner.”
Unicorn tail hair: “Consistent magic, bonds strongly to first user.”
Phoenix feather: “Learns most varied magic, hard to be chosen.”
Uncommon Types
Thestral tail hair: described as an unstable and difficult substance to utilize as a wand core, as well as making the wand have an unique and dispassionate personality. My train of thought was less trying to channel the elder wand (as it’s the only wand in canon to contain a thestral tail hair core) but more of the ‘invisibility’ part - this is vague for now but I feel like in this AU Kuroko would’ve seen some shit as a kid, and I think he’d be the kind of person to be really friendly with great creepy beasts nobody else can see, so.
Veela hair: temperamental, also more unstable and less easy to control than the “big three”, but has been utilized more broadly than thestral tail hairs.
Salamander scale: salamanders are small fire-dwelling lizards in the Wizarding world. I felt like Wakamatsu needed something ~fiery~ like his personality which is why I chose this, but then again I guess a dragon heartstring would’ve worked as well lol.
Demiguise hair: if y’all have seen Fantastic Beasts, you will know the demiguise is a creature that can a) tell the future and b) make itself invisible at will. In canon it is said that demiguise hair can be made into invisibility cloaks, but they will eventually turn opaque. So...I think this fits Mayuzumi pretty well. :’D
Re’em hair: the re’em is native to North America and the Far East, and its blood gives the drinker immense strength. I don’t think blood can be a core (?) and that also sounds like of gruesome, so I opted for hair...
Griffin feather: griffins are fucking awesome, okay. Fierce creatures with a diet of raw meat, but can be befriended by wizards. In ancient Egyptian mythology they were regarded as symbols of divinity.
Leprechaun hair: look, I know leprechauns aren’t associated with puns necessarily, but just. Imagine. I think the point here anyway is the mischievous nature of the magic.
Jobberknoll feather: “the jobberknoll is a small, blue speckled bird that never makes any noise until the moment before it dies. It then lets out a long scream, which consists of every sound it ever heard backwards.” Considering Mitobe never fucking talks, I feel like this is appropriate...also, their feathers are used in truth serums and memory potions, so I guess that makes for interesting symbolism (re: never talking but having a good eye and memory.)
Acromantula hair: it’s the spiders. That’s it. Considering acromantulas are actually sentient and capable of forming emotional bonds with other human beings, I’d imagine the hair probably came from a pet...
Knarl quill: you know what. I don’t remember why I put this here. Knarls are cute??? Knarls are hedgehog-like creatures with magical uses for their spines, although the wiki doesn’t tell us what those uses are...
Ramora scale: “the Ramora is a silver fish native to the Indian Ocean that has strong magical power to anchor ships in place. It is an immensely powerful magical fish in the world of magic, and is a guardian of the seafarers.” Just continuing the association between Kaijou and the sea...
Hippogriff feather: hippogriffs are proud and fiercely loyal creatures who require maintaining a proper etiquette to befriend. Sounds like someone we know, huh?
Shrake spine: I...don’t remember why this is here, either. Shrakes are magical fish that seek out and destroy fishing nets.
re-posting here bc i wanted to keep things all in one place / i made some slight edits to the lineup (no personnel changes just position changes...?)
i can’t believe i spent so much time on this rip; explanations/some basic headcanons under the cut
all of them have the same age gap (2 years at most) i.e. when kuroko’s generation are 4th years kasamatsu’s generation are 6th years. i refuse to make the gap bigger lmao sorry
blood status, prefect status etc isn’t reflected here bc i don’t have enough COLORS or SYMBOLS that might be in a later table those tables are done i just need to post them separately bc this is a giant textpost ALREADY
some more notes n explanations for my choices;
i don’t believe in putting all the villains in slytherin…hanamiya was 100% a hatstall btwn slytherin and ravenclaw imo and being in ravenclaw probably made him seem less nefarious. the perfect cover for his uh, track record lmao?
yep all the professors were quidditch players at some point, what did you expect from me lmao
furi is a gryffindor FIGHT ME (actually dont fight me i am small and weak)
i know…i know…80% of rakuzan and shuutoku are in the same house respectively but…listen…
idc how much ppl dislike haizaki but im not putting him in slytherin just because of that (not saying to NEVER put him in there; go ahead! but i rly dislike using ‘he’s a villain in canon, so…’ as the only reason…sry). he’s a reckless asshole gryffindor to me
aomine is a ravenclaw idc how much his grades suck have you listened to him analyze basketball?
(everything below is less explanations and more headcanons for THINGS THAT HAPPEN)
hufflepuff probably makes the captaincy transition smoothly - i don’t think the slytherin 2nd years will be particularly happy but they’ll come around in time, and i can see some grumbles from gryffindor but it’s Akashi so.
ravenclaw probably has some kind of weird captain succession crisis? i can see izuki and momoi having a friendly rivalry about it (izuki conceding in the end) but hanamiya has to be placated by…uh…well. it wasn’t very pretty.
third succession for hufflepuff and slytherin is probably liu–>ogiwara and riko–>takao
sometimes gryffindor loses their seeker right before games
AND their seeker substitute
it’s kind of a mess (akashi is always the one who ends up finding them)
riko as a beater is terrifying do not let her tiny size imply otherwise
kagami and haizaki probably have gotten into fights on the field before when both akashi and nijimura aren’t present. actually scratch that they HAVE 100% DONE THAT
hyuuga yells at them but it doesn’t work lmao
why is gryffindor so overpowered idk please do not ask me this is just how it turned out (you don’t want to see what this chart looked like initially trust me)
hufflepuff has emergency meetings to pool resources to get midorima’s lucky item before every game
kise and takao become best friends and (lovingly) annoy the SHIT out of midorima.
i want himuro and mibuchi to become friends too? they probably talk about skinny jeans. not that they wear those at school. what do you mean the pile of pants you saw peeking out from under the bed
mitobe hangs out with the gryffindors a lot. koga used to go to him all the time instead but some of the ravenclaws freak him out, so.
mayuzumi probably knows all the hidden staircases and rooms and everything inside the castle bc Honestly (he uses the room of requirement as a quiet place to read where NOBODY CAN COME IN except akashi does)
midorima and takao probably met each other once or twice as children and although they’re in diff houses, takao keeps coming to find him n they start developing that weird lovable friendship
otsubo knits scarves for EVERYONE in hufflepuff for christmas. also takao, bc takao keeps coming over he might as well do that.
himuro and nijimura are both prefects and that’s how they get to know each other better. they become good friends and probably do terrifying adrenaline-filled activities during summer vacations
there’s a rumor that the gryffindor and slytherin heads of houses are dating. it has yet to be substantiated
?? more to come
while i def think many characters can fit more than one house, this is just my preference for now! like 95% of people in this fandom probably has their own knb au so yeah
idk if anyone’s actually reading this or if i’m just screaming into the void but i do welcome questions about my choices etc. _(:’3
