#physically disabled headcanons

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Godric and Salazar, for all their brilliance, were blinded by blood purity and magical ability.

All witches and wizards were equal, but they were not identical.

And so it was Rowena who perfected the charm which allowed staff and students to communicate in the same tongue while on Hogwarts grounds.

It was Rowena that charmed the books in the library to reveal their knowledge to any worthy student, whether through Braille, audio, large text or more readable fonts.

It was Rowena who charmed the portraits to move, so that they could guide students with visual impairments throughout the castle. It is because of Ravenclaw that the knights of armor spring to life to assist students with disabilities who are prone to falls or seizures. She ensured that the stairs transform to ramps or escalators for those who are struggling to climb. If a staircase changes while a student with a disability is climbing, it is because they are finding the shortest route to class.

It was Helga who instilled in her House Elves the importance of ensuring that no child go hungry at Hogwarts. Naturally, as school population diversified,Halal, Kosher, vegetarian and vegan options were available upon request. Those fasting or abstaining for religious reasons were also catered for.

It was Helga that created the Room of Requirement. It was a sanctuary for kids who were uncomfortable sharing a sex-segregated dorm. It was a place that kids of the same faith would come together to worship. It was a place for kids with sensory disabilities or mental health issues to find peace and quiet. It was a place where kids can celebrate their culture through dance, music and games.

Thanks to these wonderful women, generations of children have happily called Hogwarts home.

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I’ve written a fic featuring a disabled character:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22402561

Submission by sazzy-hp-dw

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Students with Crohn’s disease finding out potions that ease their symptoms even better than Muggle medicine even could

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i just thought of something

like all these headcanons are amazing and all

but what if the wizarding world was even more backwards than the muggle world on disability stuff? the eugenics movement only ended something in the 1950s, if i’m not wrong, and in the books, it seems that they chuck anyone who has an obvious mental disability into a specialised ward ((e.g. the longbottoms and lockhart)), or they’re like moody, who just uses a wooden leg. but i honestly don’t see hogwarts having all those accessibility features when even the muggle world is barely getting started on them.

especially not under dumbledore, who literally resents having to take care of his sister, who seems to be autistic-coded.

so what if all those features only start with hermione and harry and the muggleborns in their year? what if they see the progress the muggle world has made for accessibility and go back and improve on them? idk man, it just makes me really happy to think of these two characters especially making their friends’ ((and their own)) lives better, since i highly doubt the wizarding world would have heard of things like dyslexia, autism, adhd, ocd, and everything else.

- @socionatural

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Teddy Lupin Lycanthropy Headcanons:

He gets a little sick with flu-like symptoms around the full moon. Often, Victoire brings him warm blankets, sweet notes and essential oils when Teddy has to spend the night in the hospital wing, and his friends secretly pass him pieces of chocolate and packets of tissues in class.

Albus Severus is excellent at potions, and worked with Teddy to create a modified version of Wolfsbane that helps to relieve Teddy’s symptoms. During the full moon, Teddy carries a hip flask containing the potion, and swigs it regularly. He likes to troll his friends and family by telling them that the flask is full of whiskey. 

On blue moons, supermoons, blood moons and solar eclipses Teddy’s symptoms get much worse, yet he does not transform. On a supermoon in the beginning of sixth year, Teddy fell into a coma and had to be taken to St Mungos. He was unconscious for a full week, and suffered painful skin rashes, lanugo (growth of fine hair in unexpected places), and joint swelling. Harry did not leave Teddy’s bedside the whole time, and Victoire practically had to be dragged away by Fleur so she could go back to school. When Teddy woke up, he was greeted by the entire Potter-Weasley gang at his bed, with a mountain of chocolate frogs. Teddy took some time to recover from the episode, so had to wear supports on his joints and apply medicinal skin creams for months afterwards. However, he recovered soon enough, and when there was a Solar Eclipse in the summer term, Teddy made sure to take as many potions as he can and to check himself into the Hospital Wing on the day of the eclipse.

When Teddy leaves Hogwarts, he begins to campaign for more awareness of werewolf rights, and runs a column in the Quibbler about it.

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Autistic/ chronically ill students getting a lesser work load because they don’t have the energy for a full day of work

- @doctorginsberg

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Hogwarts has adopted groundbreaking Chinese assistive magical technology for mobility-impaired magical folk: the library is equipped with a spiral ramp enabling wheelchair and walker users to reach every shelf, books and scrolls can be enchanted to hover like computer windows, and magical leg braces are available from Saint Mungo's. (This inspired by the wonderful Chinese wuxia superhero police procedural film trilogy "The Four.")

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Students with non Coeliac gluten intolerance giving people who say “it’s not a real thing” a taste of what they go through every day by inventing a potion that makes the drinker temporarily gluten intolerant because even in the wizarding world, some people are downright jerks