listen,, this is way overdue, but i just gotta say, Albus is not a slytherin. I love him, and i think it’s cool that a potter was put into the slytherin house, but he’s not a slytherin. He does things because theyre right, not out of the fierce loyalty and selfish ambition of a slytherin, and the way he accomplishes his goals is very gryffindor, not slytherin: he comes at situations head-on; he doesn’t try to manipulate and lie his way through them. Literally every action and thought screams gryffindor, not slytherin. love him, but the kid is a total gryffindor.
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I feel like rey could definitely be a slytherpuff. But with more puff
i guess i don’t get a slytherin vibe from her at all. not that i’m against it, but i don’t see where you’re getting it. would you be willing to share your thoughts? :D
Which ASOIAF characters would be Hogwarts professors of?
this is a fascinating ask and i’ve been chewing on it a lot and am not sure my answer is the best answer but here we are.
i’m going to focus on each class–rather than character–and give an explanation for who i think would be best suited. i’m going to stick to major characters (not nec. pov characters, but characters who figure importantly) and see how that works for me. i grabbed the classes from the hp wikia. i’m also throwing in some short descriptors where i feel like the subject is less examined bc it doesn’t happen in harry’s perspective in the books.
Alchemy (Sixth and seventh years, if demand is sufficient) - “the study of the four basic elements, as well as the study of the transmutation of substances.” - dany - i feel like dany’s story thematically speaking is so much about the transmogrification of elements (and yes i do think that extends to her political actions as well). the fact of the birth of dragons is alchemical to some extent (esp if you’re talking about petrified dragon eggs).
Arithmancy - “predicting the future using numbers,” with “bit of numerology” as well. - sam - i kind of want sam to be a bunch of all of these, but i think that this is the most sam of them all, largely because of this:“Who cares how much pickled cod they ate six hundred years ago?” Jon wondered.“I would.” Sam carefully replaced the scroll in the bin from which Jon had plucked it. “You can learn so much from ledgers like that, truly you can. It can tell you how many men were in the Night’s Watch then, how they lived, what they ate…”“They ate food,” said Jon, “and they lived as we live.”a part of me wants to say that this is simply history, and i think that it in the context of asoiaf it definitely is. you’re looking at the past to take stock of what might be in the future (*coughs loudly at binns for sucking at being a history of magic professor*). but i think that there is a predictive nature to a lot of sam’s research, whether or not sam is aware of it, and i’m inclined to see this cross from history into speculation on sam’s part.
Astronomy - “Astronomy is a branch of magic that studies stars and the movement of planets. It is a subject where the use of practical magic during lessons isn’t necessary.” - sansa - i wish we had a better sense of what astronomy was like, tbh, but given that “Astronomy is one of the only fields of study at Hogwarts which has a direct equivalent in the Muggle world,” i’m going to kind of wing it here based on my own imagination. the main reason this strikes me as a sansa subject is that it seems to me one of the few subjects that carries the weight of songs. since so many constellations have stories that go along with them, that, to me, is crucial to sansa’s way of viewing the world and the influences on the world. (not sure how this fits, but the fact that it doesn’t involve the practical use of magic is one that ties in to the symbolism of lady’s death and the fact that sansa’s capacity to skinchange seems to not have grown beyond her direwolf).
Care of Magical Creatures - brienne - i’m not even going to pretend that this isn’t shaped by my brienne//keladry of mindelan parallels feels here. it’s entirely about “protector of the small” and if there’s anyone in asoiaf who is patient and gentle enough to protect all sorts of animals–even the dangerous ones–, as well as to teach how to do that, it’s brienne.
Charms - theon - i keep thinking back to augusta longbottom thinking that charms is a “soft option”, and the fact of “cheering charms” and i just keep getting hit by a truck with my theon feels. the fact that it’s seen as (and is?) a less powerful form of magic than transfiguration unless it’s in the right hands (see: prof flitwick) and the fact that there’s magic to make you smile and put on a happy face even when you’re the most down and out...idk that strikes me a lot of how theon spent his youth (before even touching his post-torture state). i don’t actually think he’d be a very good charms prof. but i think he’d be the charms prof.
Defense Against the Dark Arts - arya - i was tempted to try and put this with someone else but tbh it’s arya just straight up. honestly it was a crime that jkr didn’t make harry a defense against the dark arts teacher. even putting aside my own harry//arya parallels feels i feel like arya’s the best suited to it by virtue of the way she’s currently training. while i think jon and dany both have the “heroism to combat evil” thing going down, arya is learning an artistry to her own “heroism to combat evil.” yeah–these are dark arts (different poisons and magics and whatnot). but i also don’t for a second think that arya’s going to end up an assassin, or that she’s not going to be guided by her own ridiculously strong moral compass, and that’s where i see her turning all the resources presented her over the course of the series into a mechanism to defeat evil. there’s a breadth to her creativity that i think prepares her for this one.
Divination - melisandre - melisandre is someone who is a seer of some sort, and who is trying to teach others the way of her religion, so i feel like this one is fairly straightforward.
Herbology - davos - i was going to make a joke about “onion” knight or how he’s down to earth, but in reality i think that davos is sharp and observant and i feel like both of those are required for taking care of magical plants. i also think he’s patient and steady and wouldn’t mind waiting months on end for mandrakes to grow so that they could be used in potions. it’s not as flashy as doing some of the other kinds of magic out there, but it’s necessary, and that’s what davos does well: the necessary hard work to make the magic function.
History of Magic - tyrion - tyrion’s kind of like sam in that i think he could easily cover a whole bunch of these subjects, but the reason i pick history of magic is that many of the ways that tyrion manages to intellectually outflank people is having a good understanding of context, historical or otherwise, and using that to his advantage. he would be very different from binns (in a good way) as a teacher, but i think this would ultimately be his subject.
Muggle Studies - jon - i feel like jon would be the muggle studies professor who keeps bringing up muggle technology that would be so much more efficient than magic and people wouldn’t understand where he was coming from because he didn’t communicate his thought process effectively and everyone would give him a lot of side-eye, but he’d be definitely right because muggle technology and innovation has def outstripped magical technology and innovation at this point.
Potions - oberyn - i mean the bro makes his own venoms and poisons i feel like i don’t even need to explain this one.
Study of Ancient Runes - “the study of runic scriptures, or Runology. Ancient Runes is a mostly theoretical subject that studies the ancient runic scripts of magic.” - marwyn - feels like a bit of a cheap shot since this is basically what he does in canon. runner up is missandei.
Transfiguration - bran - i feel like bran takes it to the next level with his skinchanging capacity and since that strikes me as the most like animagic (is that the word for it?) then i feel like bran would be a master at transfiguration. (throw in the fact that dumbledore was a transfiguration professor, and he was one of the strongest wizards ever and i feel like that maps to bran as the most wizardly main character of the series)
There are millions of reason to know what houses are these dorks and the funny thing is that always the best buddies are those who are so different to eachother, in this case: Toothless as Gryffindor and Hiccup as Ravenclaw, because no matter how much the movies or books made us believe the opposited are Gryffindor-Slytherin, in fact they're Gryffindor-Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff-Slytherin.
BTW, Toothless has seen that spell thousand of times but He still get so impress. And Hiccup, well He still forgetting his scarf.
And yes, Hiccup is reading one of the most basic book of spells.
