Potter Ramble :P
Tilly here!
okay so this post isn't undertale based but its still a babble and its our blog so whatever! Imma gonna post it here because I made it for rambling and im in a Harry Potter mood
because I was reading through my Harry Potter book I got from the studio tour, would 100% recommend getting for any die hard potterhead!
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Okay so we know that Caput Draconis is the first Gryffindor password, as shown in Philosophers (or sorcerers I believe if your American) Stone, the very first movie, as well as book.
'Caput Draconis' specifically means 'dragons head' in Latin and is the Gryffindor password used at the start of each year- I assume. It just makes sense in my mind to always have the same password at the start of the year as the students haven't had a chance to see the new password posted in the common room before actually entering said room.
And the its been shown that while prefects are to let the first years into the common room, older students are on their own.
And that lead me to wondering how such an importAant password was picked out... At first I was wondering if it had something to do with the schools motto of "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus" which of course translates to 'never tickle a sleeping dragon'
…but then wouldn't it make sense for the other common rooms to have starting passwords of the same sort...?
And so I, like the good person I am, looked it up, and while it may be from hogwarts legacy, im not entirely sure as I haven't personally played a Hufflepuff and it was a passing g though train so I wasn't too thorough in my research so I will bow my head if im wrong and get corrected by an educated individual, but it seem to already disprove my original theory.
[Meagre Research: ]
The Hufflepuff common room was the common room for Hufflepuff House located in Hufflepuff Basement. In general, it sported several motifs, s
and honestly it makes sense as the traits of hufflepuff are hard working, loyal, friendly, honest, and impartial. Though officially it's trustworthy, hardworking, loyal and kind I suppose if we're to be finicky. They'd be trusted with an unchanging password. Gryffindors are brave to the point of reckless and I think can be easily manipulated to let others in, and Slytherins are cunning and would do anything to achieve their goals, while Ravenclaws enjoy a good riddle and like to exercise the mind so their one makes sense too.
[I would like to point out google provided a different answer to Hufflepuffs password and really I need people too tell me which is true because my second result is: "Hufflepuff's Common Room PasswordTo enter their common room, one must provide the password "Nebulous Min Balto Nia." This unique password ensures that only Hufflepuff students and authorised individuals can enter, maintaining the security and privacy of the Hufflepuff common room."
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SO going off the fact that im assuming there's another reasoning behind the Gryffindor common room password "Caput Draconis," which I did in fact triple check meant "dragon's head" just incase, I found it's associated with an auspicious divination symbol of the same name. The geomantic figure "Caput Draconis" is "fortunate with starting or beginning new things." So that gives us a new one to go off- Maybe its the fat lady herself who chose it after some thought, or Godrick Gryffindor thought it up himself, though it matters not to me really, as I was long past curious about that particular point by now. At the beginning of the 1890–1891 school year, the Slytherin common room's entry password was "Aspiration". - according to Google, as always~
So I suppose it has to do with granting luck for the new year while still keeping reference to each housed traits in order to appeal to the students sorted into the house itself. Aspiration is in fact fitting for Slytherin. And it could be seen as a way of telling them to aspire for greatness in the coming year.
And now that I think about it Ravenclaws from what I can tell are a fairly neutral house in the ongoing house wars and rivalries, which makes sense why the way to enter Ravenclaw Tower is to answer a question and give your reasoning… I believe that Rowena Ravenclaw would have welcomed anyone with the wit, as knowledge it to be shared and passed around and that is essentially the point of Ravenclaw, for those who thirst for knowledge.
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if you read this all the way- consider me impressed, I didn't exactly format it to be comfortable for reading, and it may in fact be entirely illegible, but I got excited and this is what this blog is for.... so BYE LOVELIES! If you like it- though I doubt you will, I have a bunch more rambles of the most random things if you want hear it!