This is so sad and completely heartbreaking. Her family put her in the casket with her hair cut off and in a suit, and on her online obituary they refered to her by the name that was given to her as a child not by her actual name also they used “he/his” pronouns while refering to her life.. They erased her identity!
In my head, somewhere, there’s this muggleborn Ravenclaw at Hogwarts, who loves history. And she’s so excited about History of Magic, she reads all the books she can find, she looks for how it fits in with muggle history…
And then she gets to Hogwarts and realizes that wizards don’t care about history. At all. Class is taught by a ghost who doesn’t care about anything modern and seems surprised when he realizes students actually exist, no one cares if they fall asleep in class, everyone has been assigned the same essay topics every year for the last five hundred years. It’s all about rebellions and wars and treaties, and there’s no social history at all.
And her first couple years she just deals with it, because, hey, new fascinating world she’s learning all about, she can deal with one poorly taught class.
But what made me think about this was the title of Harry’s essay in third year. “Witch-Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless - discuss.” Because look at that from the point of view of someone who knows something about the motives behind witch-hunts.
So that’s when she loses it and spends the whole summer researching and writing an essay on the historical effects of magical existence on muggles. How wizards let people scapegoat other muggles and especially women for things muggles wouldn’t believe in if there weren’t real wizards everywhere. How pureblood wizards were happy to screw up the lives of the muggles living near them and then avoided all consequences because hey, they had Flame-Freezing Charms if the worst happened, what did they care if someone else was caught and died horribly instead of them. How even today muggles were falsely diagnosed with mental illnesses because wizards weren’t careful enough with their Disillusionment Charms, or because wizards thought Memory Charms were the solution to everything no matter how they affected the victim.
And she hands it in at the start of the year and a week later she gets summoned to the Headmistress’s office.
And Professor McGonagall smiles at her and says “This is a bit unusual, but would you be interested in a TA position?”
I accidentally made eye contact with a mall booth salesperson and barely escaped a 25 minute long skin care demonstration where she tried to trap me in a sale no less than 4 times
The rules of engagement for mall kiosk owners and pokemon trainers are exactly the same
Sirius: Left handed. Graceful. Only one who can beat James at chess. Terrible poker face. Wears his heart on his sleeve. Half-smirks. Never has to study. Sings a lot. Always goes off on a tangent. Very tidy. Has a lot of nightmares. Likes to steal Remus’ jumpers. Best at transfiguration. Milky coffee. Night owl. Fidgets a lot. Enjoy’s reading fiction. Confides in James. Has an infectious laugh.
James: A bit clumsy. Always grinning. Takes cups of tea up to Remus in the dorm after full moon in between classes. Early riser. Has a running gobstones score going with Peter. Can beat Remus at chess. Hopeless romantic. Has to study occasionally to remain top of the class. Disorganised. Likes to borrow Remus’ jumpers. Two sugars in his tea. Best at arithmancy. Very tactile. Enjoys reading non-fiction. Can’t hold his liquor.
Remus: Dry sense of humour. Very good at puns. Great poker face. Studies in the library with Lily and Marlene. Takes long walks with James. Drinks excessive amounts of tea. Organised but messy. Owns an ever decreasing amount of jumpers. Beatles fan. Best at defence against the dark arts. Heavy sleeper. Loves reading fiction. Baths over showers. Sarcastic. Hums when concentrating. Likes winter.
Always sleeps in.
Peter: Laughs a lot. Meticulously tidy. Better than James at gobstones. Best at herbology. Very milky tea. Whistles. Light sleeper. Cat person. Loves gardening. Reads a lot of Agatha Christie. Unexpectedly mischievous. Swaps books with Remus. Tries to return Remus’ jumpers. Good dancer. Dog ear marks books.
Lily: Snorts when she laughs. One sugar and milk in her tea. Sings a lot. Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasty novels. Made Remus read Lord of the Rings. Not a morning person. Wicked sense of humour.
Shows James muggle magic tricks. Best at charms. Loves the rain. Terrible dancer. Doesn’t mind being called Evans by the boys. Has dimples. Duets with Sirius. Nabs Remus’ jumpers sometimes. Owns a lot of scarves.
