The Lethifold Witch

Potterverse Headcanons of varying length, on varying topics.

[thelethifoldwitch]

Hi! I was talking with a co-worker about traveling and suddenly become aware of the blatantly use of climate magic at Lima, Peru. The city is by the sea, always cloudyand never rains more than a light drizzle. ; ) Do you think that the climate was caused by wix or mer magic?

Climate is a consequence of an awful lot of factors. Meterology is something people study for years and still get wrong on a pretty regular basis. I'm pretty sure Lima's weather is the way it is due to the landscape and geology as much as location.

If you really want to look at weird, possibly magical weather patterns, go and look up the Catatumbo Lightning.

[thelethifoldwitch]

I saw an post about Fae food and your name was on it as reference. What comprises Fae food? I understand that their food is not too dissimilar to Irish food before the potato: Every form of Milk product like cheese and cream, honey, fruits and barriers, oats, coat cakes and bread, mushrooms, lamp, beef and Honey?

I know the post you’re talking about - you’re in the notes for it and I run both this blog and @themonsterblogofmonsters. Further, both of these blogs are, I will say here and now Harry Potter Headcanon Blogs, that is to say, though I draw from existing folklore and stories for a lot of things, I am seeking to find ways to incorporate these into the magical systems of HP and so there will be variance. 

In a traditional sense, yes, perhaps those would be the accurate read on likely Fae foods (... except coat cakes and lamp. I suspect you mean oatcakes and lamb?). In the post, however, I’m referring to magically enhanced food. Adjusting for a world where a) it’s modern day, and so those things are far more accessible and b) where there’s magic in place already and which can be used on food. If you’re going from a folkloric basis solely what you’re saying is fine, but what I was going for, with the HP setting as baseline, was magically enhanced food - which is why it’s effects are so much more absolute.

It’s one thing to have a plate of really really well-made curry, it’s another thing to have a meal enchanted to ensnare the senses so thoroughly you believe thereafter that nothing else could ever taste as good.

[thelethifoldwitch]

hi! i'm new here and i don't know if you'll come back? i'll ask anyway... i hope you don't mind. how many school years do beauxbatons' students have? fleur in GoF had to be +17 and in her last year. they have an exam in their 6th year. real french schools - 7 years and then the bac. would the 6th year exam be equivalent to the bac? do they start school at 12-13, then?

It’s not a matter of coming back, dear, nor a matter of minding! The blog is on hiatus, but I am still more than happy to answer asks and to accept submitted posts.

I do not know how many years students of Beauxbatons attend, simply because we don’t get told in canon at any stage. However I would imagine that they start attendance at the same time other French students begin their secondary education - age eleven - if only to help the transition for muggle-borns. Thing is, whether purebloods like it or not, if they wish to remain hidden from muggles then it’s essential to make it easier for muggle-born students to have an excuse for their absences to the magical world. 

The French sixth-year exam is said to be equivalent to the OWLs, which I’ve kind of always taken as, hmm. Preliminary GCSEs, basically, with NEWTs (where subjects become optional) being equivalent to A Levels - these are of course all shunted down a year or so compared to the actual exam times for British students.

Thus, I think you could have a few of interpretations for how Beauxbatons works depending on your preference - we don’t know enough to say specifically how it works. Options include:

One: They start age eleven, same as Hogwarts, do the BAC/OWL-equivalent exam a year after Hogwarts (sixth year) and then spend the seventh year refining their studies towards whatever vocation they wish to do, ending with either entering the profession or some kind of an apprenticeship.

Two: They start age eleven, and the OWL-equivalent exam is also a partial-NEWT equivalent as well, with the last year dedicated solely to specific subjects they want or dropped entirely for some, as a sped-up NEWT course (which doesn’t entirely make sense with them giving an extra year for the OWLs).

Three: They start age eleven, study through to the OWL-equivalent exam and then spend several further years in education at Beauxbatons. (Does make sense with the extra year for OWLs, does kind of make sense with France’s schooling system except that usually it’d be two separate schools, does not make sense with the fact that seventh years were the eldest we know to be at Hogwarts for the Triwizard... unless older students were disqualified for some reason or opting out due to greater exam stress. Who knows.)

Four: Insert your own interpretation here.

Tagging @tobermoriansass @cosmonauthill and @notyourexrotic in case any of them have ideas to add.

[snakesenpai]

[themonsterblogofmonsters]

It wasn’t as if Eloise was just going to leave Amanda in a terrarium now was it? No she got her very own Barbie Dollhouse.

[themonsterblogofmonsters]

Other Sites

So, as we all know, the deadline date for the tumblr fuckery approaches. I’ve appealed all I can for the flagged posts, but that doesn’t help the fact that for some fucking reason Tumblr has flagged The Monster Blog of Monsters as explicit - didn’t see fit to tell me, either, just went ahead and did so. I’ve appealed that too, but I’ve heard nothing back and, in the expectation that all I’ve worked for for almost five years is soon to vanish forever (depending on what “revert to default settings” means) I’ve backed up the blog as much as I can and have been looking into alternatives. 

As it stands, I do have a Pillowfort - both a personal and one for this blog. I’ve not fully started posting yet, but, if it comes to it and this blog vanishes thanks to tumblr’s incompetence, you can find me over Here - https://www.pillowfort.io/themonsterblogofmonsters

I’ve also set up a comm for the blog, where posts will be reblogged and discussion can be had, for those of you into that. It can be found over Here - https://www.pillowfort.io/community/themonsterblogofmonsters

I also have an AO3 Pseud for the blog, though I’ve not started posting anything because, well, AO3 isn’t great for the image-and-text format. I’ll be looking into porting over the magizoology posts this weekend, however, and you can find it over Here - https://archiveofourown.org/users/EssayOfThoughts/pseuds/themonsterblogofmonsters

In the meantime… if any of you spot any flagged posts on the blog, please do alert me to them so I can appeal them. If you’re willing and able to help me with archiving as much of this blog as I can on the wayback machine, that would also be appreciated. If any of you can suggest alternative platforms to transfer to with tumblr-like functionality… well that’d be appreciated. And if any of you have a direct pipeline to tumblr staff and can get them to leave my blog the hell alone, that’d be super appreciated and I’d owe you for ages.

[thosebizzareserpents]

This series of books pre-dates the Blood Directory known as the Sacred Twenty-Eight.

Each manuscript is remarkable large in size, the Holy Thirty measures at 570 x 350 mm (making it the size of a small child).

The Ancient Fifty which include the Bones, Borgins, Ferspnai, and Khayyam families boasts 600 pages.

The Order of Seven was made in England before 1055. Several original copies still survive. Author Vesta Sterling has restored a considerable amount of this manuscript.

The Thirteen Houses manuscript is known for its illuminating illustrations. Decendants of the families are seer Sybil Trelawney, international quidditch player Oliver Wood, renowned aurors Alastor Moody, and Alice Longbottom (née Higgs).

major inspo and thanks @thelethifoldwitch

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[thelethifoldwitch]

I absolutely LOVE all your blogs, especially this one. Last summer, my friend and I started to create our own headcanons about Ireland's magical community/culture/government/school. I know Ireland already features in your list of magical schools from around the world but, by any chance, would you be open to reading about and maybe even adding other people's ideas for magical schools from a country you've already added? I'd love to discuss wizarding Ireland after I've fully thought everything!

I absolutely LOVE all your blogs, especially this one. Last summer, my friend and I started to create our own headcanons about Ireland’s magical community/culture/government/school. 

Aw thanks! Glad you like them. And ah that sounds great! My friend @cosmonauthill briefly did something similar, but ended up hiatus-ing it.

I know Ireland already features in your list of magical schools from around the world but, by any chance, would you be open to reading about and maybe even adding other people’s ideas for magical schools from a country you’ve already added? 

I’m not gonna make any promises about adding them to my list. I’ll certainly read them, and I may incorporate some if they fit with my own headcanons but I make no promises - it depends too much. If you have a blog for these headcanons and a promo post for it, however, I can and will happily promo it on @themonsterblogofmonsters, which is my most active blog.

I’d love to discuss wizarding Ireland after I’ve fully thought everything!

Yes please do! If you wanna chat in private there’s an email address you can contact me via on the about page for monsterblog!

[thelethifoldwitch]

I don’t know if this has been asked before but is there an Australian wizarding school? and if there is what would it be like?

I do not believe this has been asked before of this blog. So far as I know canon says nothing with regards to Australian wizarding education so its basically free-for-all headcanon space. My personal belief is that, as a result of the history of Australia, as well as where is easily habitable, Australian wixes are largely educated in small local schools - the country is too large and the population too spread out around the edges to really host a singular large school that wouldn’t require truly ludicrous travelling requirements. Then again, I guess JKR went and pulled Ilvermorny and Koldovstoretz (for America/Canada and Russia respectively) out of her arse, even given their insane cachement areas so…

There could, by JKR logic, be a single Australian wizarding school. Going by JKR logic its probably located at Uluru/Ayers Rock or some equally culturally appropriative place. But if you want my ideas…

I think that magical Australia is… complicated. Australian Aborigines have been there for years upon years and they have concrete oral records very nearly all the way back. The oral records are so precise and so well-maintained that archaeologists have used them for reference, I say this knowing this because I studied archaeology at uni and Aboriginal knowledge came up during the ethnoarchaeolgy section - you should never underestimate the knowledge of native groups, nor dismiss their knowledge, because if you try to interpret their archaeological history without it my darling you are screwed.

… Sidetracked. Apologies. I have strong feelings about archaeology. Back on topic.

I think that Aboriginal Australian wixes 100% exist. I’ve also headcanoned over on @themonsterblogofmonsters about Aboriginal Australian vampires… sort of. See, all Aboriginal Australian groups are closed cultures, so its generally a bad idea to take anything from their culture for fic purposes. So… I don’t. 

Aboriginal Australian groups have been in Australia for, as I said, years uncounted. Or, to be specific, years counted and so many years it will blow your mind to consider that they have constant and reliable records of it all. Years that, in most western cultures are uncounted. You get me? With that kind of a basis there is literally no way I can conceive of that Aboriginal Australians didn’t have a huge and complex magical culture of their own unless you want to make the hella racist assumption that for some reason they just didn’t have magic or were all killed off. However, HP’verse mirrors our own. Australia is part of the British Commonwealth. And that means one of two things.

Option the first: UK wixes struck some kind of deal with Aboriginal wixes.

I don’t think this is likely. Or well… if it happened, it didn’t last. Native groups are rarely well treated when conquered and what happened to Aboriginal Australian groups was genuinely horrifying - still is, if you look at what Australia’s government is up to. And I don’t think a long established wixen culture would just let their non-magical kin be hurt like that. They’d fight back. They’d help their kith and kin get out, get to safety, set up protections for them and fight back the fuckers who hurt them. The only way we’d get to the Australia we have in our world (remembering that because HP’verse mirrors ours, it has to) is if these groups were utterly utterly wiped out… and I don’t think that matches up well with the narratives that JKR gives us about bigotry being wrong and something to fight back against.

Which leads us to Option Two.

This is what I think is most likely. I think that the Aboriginal Australian wixes took as many of their non-magical kin as they could and went into hiding. We know that magic can fold space, make locations Unplottable, hide things in plain sight with the Fidelius - and these are all Latinate magics, from cultures far younger than that of Aboriginal Australian groups. If they didn’t have their own ways of doing these things then I will punch JKR in the face.

They couldn’t take everyone. Colonisation split up and separated groups, mixed them in disparate groups and divvied them up - there’s no way they could have found where everyone was taken, especially if the magical government was also helping with this, which it well may have. But they would have taken everyone that they could, and hid. 

And when the new western government doesn’t know the magic you’re using, they’re going to have one hell of a hard time finding you. 

I also think that this is what happened with a number of Native American groups. I also don’t believe it is utterly uniform in either case. Some groups kept some tentative contact back - a way to return to help out those of their own that they could, to fight back if they needed to, to maybe emerge again if there was some hope for peace and reconciliation.

So. I think there’s clusters of very small Western-based magical schools in Australia, and I think there are whole settlements of Aboriginal groups hidden in folded space that take in and teach Aboriginal Australian muggle-borns whenever they can. I think there is some very slow re-integration going on, but that it fluctuates with a government that is a piece of shit towards the native groups. 

But I think that a large number - maybe even a growing number - of native wixes hide in folded space, along with any native vampires, who only emerge to help their own and fight off those who might find and attack them. Who’ve made their own space and their own safety and reinforce it as much as they can - and that’d mean that sites sacred to them, such as Uluru, would be rigorously protected from any attempt by colonising wixes to turn it into something so crass and appropriative as a school.

Which thus forces Australian wixes to either have local schools, or a large magical school at a location which isn’t sacred to Aboriginal groups. 

… That was a lot more than I expected to write.

Anyway. I hope this helps? It probably doesn’t have as many answers as you’d like, however. So, if any Australian followers - especially Aboriginal Australian followers - would like to pitch in with ideas, feel free to reblog or reply with ideas of your own. It’d be appreciated.

[thelethifoldwitch]

Hi! Do you have any headcanons for Russia and the counties that were in it sphere of influence? I'm specially curious about how the wixen world was affected by the Russian Revolution. I even read a fic in which Rasputin was a real wizard.

I’m afraid that I do not! However, if you want some fun stuff then I advise you go and check out the hiatus’d blog @thepostmodernpottercompendium, which has some very fun and interesting headcanons regarding magical Russia, which play into some of the old Russian folklore and fairytales.

[thelethifoldwitch]

So like how wix/wixen is the gender neutral and large group of magical beings, yeah? And a lot of blogs headcanon its use in the US, is there another term for muggle/no-maj and muggle-born/half-blood that isnt reliant on blood status? More along the lines of exposure to magic? Or something?

Wix/Wixes/Wixen is a gender-neutral term for witches and wizards - humans with magic if you wanna go full gender neutral even in descriptives. I explain this one my Glossary Page on @themonsterblogofmonsters. It originally came from the now-an-archive @magicqueers, where the prevailing headcanon was that it was invented by Luna. It’s prevalence in US HP Headcanon is due to the large proportion of the fanbase which is US-based and who thus headcanon primarily about their home country.

Wix is the individual, Wixes is the plural, Wixen is the descriptor, e.g. Wixen World. It doesn’t rely on blood status at all, so... I’m really not entirely sure what you’re asking about nonny. If you mean is there a term for Muggle-Borns which is different and doesn’t have the same connotations of “lesser” as perceived by some in the magical world then I’d suggest you read This Fic, which uses the term Newbloods.

If you mean is there an alternative term for muggles which isn’t used so patronisingly I’m afraid I have none to suggest. I did once upon a time participate in discussion regarding this over at the currently-on-severe-hiatus blog for @thepostmodernpottercompendium but in the end we had no singular consensus of what was likely. You can find the links to some of the main points of that discussion Here, Here and Here.

[church-of-darkness-deactivated2]

Marogród Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry

(FC: Concept art for Cair Paravel castle from Narnia movies by Henrik Tamm)

Location: Marogród Castle, Giant Mountains, Lower Silesia, Poland

Established: 1017

Founder: Marzanna

Motto: “Knowledge and Reverence”

Crest: A red tree on white-black background

School Colors: White, Red and Black

Interesting Facts:

Founded in 1017 by a slavic witch Marzanna in Giant Mountains in Poland, then known as the Kingdom of Poland.

Located in Giant Mountains in a enchanted valley cloaked by magic.

Due to the original plans intending to place the school entirely underground, some of the most exquisite chambers and halls are suited below ground level, such as The Lunar Archive.

Subjects in which students of this school excel are herbology, healing arts, divination and wandless magic (part of Spellcraft curriculum since third year). 

There is no house division, students are only divided accordingly to their gender, therefore there are only two dormitories, one for girls and one for boys.

Known to possess one of the greatest magical archives in all of Europe - The Lunar Archive. It contains some of the oldest and most dangerous spellbooks and grimoires, and also many magical artifacts. The door to the Archives is enchanted to only open for everyone on full moon, otherwise you need a special talisman to open the door. 

The Academy is often looked upon with suspicion by other European wizarding schools and governments as they put an eminent emphasis on teaching wandless magic in their Spellcraft classes (equivalent to British Charms). It is because Polish wizarding society has a long history of wizards and witches being kidnapped with their wands being snapped which very often rendered them defenceless. 

Due to the above, the Academy is collaborating with Uagadou School of Magic since 2004. The professors exchange their knowledge of wandless magic and the Polish students have a chance to swap places with African students. 

Syllabus: 

Core Subjects:

Spellcraft

Herbology

Potions

Healing Arts

Transfiguration

Divination

Defence Against the Dark Arts

History of Magic

Astronomy

Elective Courses:

Arithmancy

Advanced Wandless Magic

Care of Magical Creatures

Elemental Magic

Jewish Mysticism

Martial Magic Arts

Muggle Studies

Study of Ancient Runes

Magical Musical Compositions

Alchemy

More on the history of Marogród Academy coming soon…

[thelethifoldwitch]

In the grand scheme of things, Albus Dumbledore was not, strictly speaking, a good man. He was vicious sometimes. Cruel. He manipulated and played his games of chess with real and living people. Some might say he cared. Some might say he didn’t. What is known is what he did.

What he did, when he was young, was this: left his family - his brother and his disabled sister - to survive on their own when he put his learning above them. Participated in the death of his sister, along with his then-best friend and brother. Let his love for his once-best friend make him postpone actions, despite all the harm and hate he did and caused.

What he did, when he was older, was this: spoke for the muggles and muggleborns, who would be harmed by laws the ministry could pass without their knowledge. Allowed a werewolf to school, when others would not. Made accommodations for the werewolf, so he could live as close to a “normal” life as possible.

What he did, even then, was this: let the werewolf’s friends get away with almost killing another student. Manipulated someone into turning spy on someone who would kill him if they learned. Made a useful ally in a war, that he might save lives.

Those last two are the same.

What he did, later even than then, was this: ignored the treatment of students under his spy’s care. Ignored the treatment of his students under a ministry-sent employee. Claimed the actions of students as his, that they might not be hurt more.

What he did, further on than that, was this: taught someone what they would need, to end a war. Trusted the safety of his organisation to a man gone mad from isolation and despair. Entrusted key items to strangers, because they were beloved of the one who was to end it all.

What he did was this: wrongs, that might one day produce a right. Rights, that might help some few.

What he did, in the end, was not good or bad alone. They were both, intermingled, comingled, and depending on what you count, and what you consider he could be hero or villain, but in the end, he was neither. He was a man. He made bad decisions, he made good ones. He made cruel decisions, and he made kind.

And ever, oh, ever was he an enigma, to those who thought they knew him.

Albus Dumbledore by daPatches

[thesmugslytherin]

Dumbledore also raised Harry like a pig for slaughter and ignored the Dursleys abuse of Harry. Why is that not on the list?

[thelethifoldwitch]

Because the whole point of this post is to look at the nuances of a character rather than absolutely praising or absolutely hating them? This isnt for antis or stans its for people who care about nuance.

[mahoutokoro-at-nagumo]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Big project I mentioned a few days ago has begun! No turning back now. I always planned on writing ficlets or short stories to accompany certain headcanons to flesh them out. This is the result of @themonsterblogofmonsters being incredibly patient in helping me flesh out this verse and motivating me to start writing this fic.

The first chapter is a table of contents explaining the purpose and scope of the project while the second chapter is about the lives of two sisters, both born with magic, in a muggle fishing village during the Heian period (794-1185).

[thelethifoldwitch]

If you want an excellent story (soon to be series) developing the Potterverse in Japan that is very well researched and very clever in it’s storytelling, then let me recommend to you the wonderful works of @mahoutokoro-at-nagumo. There’s only one part to the story at present, but as a taster it’s intriguing and a good one to get going with.

[thelethifoldwitch]

I have a headcanon that the Dark Lord makes his followers brand themselves, instead of him actually doing it. Thoughts?

Interesting! But no, I don’t think it’d necessarily work? It has a direct connection to him, which I don’t think is a magic he’d put in the hands of people who weren’t bound to him lest they use it against him, and while having people brand themselves would really show the Death Eaters to be nothing more than absolute monstrous murderers, I think that would take away in some aspects from things like Draco, being forced into it all. Arguably, of course, it could also add to this, with him being forced into marking himself, while Narcissa had the canny to keep from being marked/marking herself. But still, I think we come back to the root problem that I don’t think Voldemort would put the ability forge a connection to him into the hands of people not already bound to him - and that’s assuming they could Mark themselves in that way. For all we know for the connection to him to be formed, he has to do it himself. Otherwise, how would it connect if it is only a spell? And if it is more than a spell, if it’s something requires, let’s say, his blood, then, again, why would he put it into the hands of others? It’s a part of his power, and he holds tight to it.

That all said, if you want to talk about your theory more extensively and argue for how you think it could work, I’d be interested to hear it! If you can bypass Voldemort’s power issue with giving another the power to forge a connection to him, I think the idea of him convincing, arguing, cajoling or forcing people into taking the mark and marking themselves could add a wonderfully awful horrorful aspect to the whole thing.

[thelethifoldwitch]

In the Departments of Mysteries are children who are not precisely children.

The world is not and has never been kind to squibs. Blamed for misfortune, charged with ill-luck, barred from the family and driven into a world about which they know even less then the magical they were born from.

They are made easy targets.

The children watch nothingness with blank silver eyes. Sit and eat the food pressed on them, drink the drinks they are given, and sink themselves into silvered baths when told.

They are always added to.

Where werewolves might be simply collected through those arrested simply under suspicion, Squibs could be convinced into service, asked for one thing in exchange for what they so often wanted: a place in the magical world. Some families willingly gave their children, glad to be rid of their stain, and passed their poor magicless offspring into the cruel hands of the Department of Mysteries.

The experiments they were subjected to varied. Werewolves were usually tested for resistance to things, time after time used to try to prove that they were not human even when the moon was not full.

Squibs were studied to try to explain why magic did not touch some who by all rights it should have. Some were dissected, some were simply poked and prodded. Some were vivisected and some… some were surplus to requirements.

(What happened to them was worst)

What, asked some members of the Department of Mysteries, happens if you feed them to Dementors - are they less satisfying for their lack of magic?

Excerpt from File 415:

Children 3 through 13 were exposed to Dementors today, in Room 25. In Room 24 an equal number of Dementors were presented with 5 werewolves, and in Room 23 an equal number of Dementors were presented with 5 magical prisoners, in various states of health.

In Room 22 triple the number of Dementors were presented with 3 Squib children, 5 werewolves and 5 magical prisoners.

Question: Do Dementors prefer magical prey over mundane?

Answer: All Subjects successfully Kissed. Dementors in Room 22 expressed no preference over prey.

(Answer: No.)

What, asked some members of the Department of Mysteries, happens if you use their limbs to replace lost ones of our own? Can they channel magic?

Excerpt from File 129-2:

Child 129 (Alfred Burke) has had to have arm prosthetic refitted. Previous one destroyed with Fiendfyre during Experiment 217. Original arm still functioning perfectly well as wand arm replacement for Unspeakable I. Dyll.

(Answer: Yes.)

What, asked some members of the Department of Mysteries, happens if you take a young enough mind, and fill it with memories not it’s own?

(That… That is this story.)

They could not precisely do it. Memory could not be so easily transferred back into a mind, it was a shape of the past, a series of moments fossilized in the amber of magic, anchored into place and reality by the focus of the mind that was present. But all the same, the Unspeakables, the Langues-du-plomb, the Mugon-sha, all those from all the Mysterious places, they wondered.

No one recorded who the first was, who drowned a Squib girl - not quite five years old - in a vat of memories that had yet to be sorted.

When she rose out of it, pulled by a disgusted intern, her eyes glowed silver rather than the brown and blue hazel they had been. Her face showed none of the pain-dulled boredom. Her face… it showed nothing at all.

“Celia?” Asked the intern who pulled her out.

Celia blinked. “Celia,” She said. “Celia Drummond, born 13th March 1956, in Bulstrode Place, to Cuthbert Bulstrode and Maledisant Bulstrode nee Selwyn-Gaunt, of the Northumbrian Selwyn-Gaunts. Drummond surname given to her on realisation of Squib status. Subject to Experiment 652. Result: Negative. Subject to Experiment 313. Result: Positive. Subject to -”

She continued on, blankly, into space, repeating words from a record seen by an archivist who put her memories into the vat only a week before, as the intern ran to tell the others.

Three more children were submitted to the vats, until the vats were emptied. Keywords were given to them, and the memories recalled, recited perfectly be it of a document, of an event, of an experiment.

Alfred Burke spoke without emotion of when his arm was removed, and when his prosthetic was burned. 

Celia Drummond spoke without emotion of the experiments she was subjected to.

Attis Marchmond spoke without emotion of their sisters death, after being Kissed, when they had screamed at her removal on the day.

They exist, in all Mysteries now. Children which are not children, the eternal, living archives of the worst secrets of the Departments of Mysteries.

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(This is also a notice to say that THIS BLOG IS NOT DEAD. I am presently - when not working on my other blogs - going through the fic recs sent in and sorting them into a coherent system so they are easier to navigate when the link for that goes up.)

[theworldisqueerhere]

That’s so amazing and so much fic inspiration that I’m needing to calm down I’M SO TEMPTED

[thelethifoldwitch]

If you want to use ideas from this feel free! Provided credit is given I am 100% a-ok with people borrowing ideas from this post and others on the blog for fic inspiration.

[hapennydreams]

How do you think the story would be different if Draco Malfoy had been sorted into Gryffindor? Do you think he could have been a parallel of Sirius in this regard?

Not a parallel to Sirius. Interesting sure, and there’d be some mirroring, but I don’t think it’d be a parallel. Sirius was a Gryffindor because of his personality and because he detested his family. Draco seems to have neither of these things, which means if he went to Gryffindor it’d be his choice. Which means he has to think, for some reason, that being Harry’s friend or otherwise Not Slytherin is the best course of action. As for how it’d pan out….

[Read @ AO3]

i.The hall falls silent as Malfoy rises from the stool, sets the hat down, and moves to the Gryffindor table. Even the first years - even the muggle-borns - sense that something in this picture is wrong.

Malfoy tucks himself at the end of the table, not in amongst everyone else. Across the Hall Crabbe and Goyle look half-lost without him.

The sorting continues.

Keep reading

[thelethifoldwitch]

Hi, J.K. Rowling said in an interview that Voldemort affected American wizards during his reign during both wars. I was wondering how much of an influence do you think he had in wizarding america?Do you think that many wizard would follow him? How do you think MACUSA would have reacted? Finally do you think he's influence effected other places as well? Europe? South America? Africa?

Hi, J.K. Rowling said in an interview that Voldemort affected American wizards during his reign during both wars. I was wondering how much of an influence do you think he had in wizarding america?

It’s hard to tell? I imagine it mostly led to an increase of race-politics-problems in America as much as anything, as well as impacting safety of travel and recruiting easily-radicalised purebloods or magic-supremacists. He was across an ocean and focussed on what was going on there, so I can’t imagine it being much of an impact. I imagine Grindelwald had a much bigger impact, given Grindelwald was actual literal wizard Hitler.

Do you think that many wizard would follow him? 

Like I said, the easily radicalised, purebloods, and magic-supremacists. All those who wanted in on the violence and felt they weren’t being treated appropriately.

How do you think MACUSA would have reacted? 

Unhappily. If it was mild enough they might not have really noticed, and they might have passed off American Death Eaters as “the acts of private individuals” which would be accurate. I don’t know if they’d try to step in or not - or how they could step in - and I think they’d have been very careful in communications with the UK.

Finally do you think he's influence effected other places as well? Europe? South America? Africa?

Well we know from canon that Voldemort recruited from Europe - Karkaroff, Dolohov - so I imagine waves were being made there with copycat groups. South America... I don’t know. Africa, ditto.