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teacup-gathering-itself · 8 months

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I just KNOW Severus’ snakes slipped up and called him ‘dad’ at some point.

He definitely received gifts with “#1 dad” on them.

A coffee cup. A leather bound journal. A wand holster. A small cauldron. Potion making implements with subtle engravings.

The consequence of teaching children who come from well off families is when they give you gifts, they’re nice gifts, so when they add a joke in, you still don’t really want to throw out the present.

The only question is how many years into being head of slytherin house did it happen. Was 21yo Snape dealing with 11yo kids slipping up on his title, or did it gradually become a problem as he entered his 30s?

#harry potter imagine #harry potter thoughts #pro severus #severitus #severus snape #young severus #hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry #slytherin problems #slytherpride #hp imagine

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victoriacrownedpigeon · 11 months

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Wizarding Blood-Purity is a Sham

I think that a lot of people forget that Salazar Slytherin wasn't racist.

And no, before you go all crazy on me just remember in the second book, when fear and anger and all kinds of emotions were running wild and everyone distrusted Slytherin House, students asked a teacher about what happened. And that teacher, a ghost who for all we know could have been there when it actually happened, gave an honest answer.

"Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed that magical learning should be kept within all-magic families. He disliked taking students of Muggle parentage, believing them to be untrustworthy."

Look at the language. Look at it, and understand that Salazar didn't see Muggle-borns as inferior, as worse. He saw them as untrustworthy.

Why, you ask? Well Professor Binns answers that as well!

"[The founders] built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizard suffered much persecution."

Salazar didn't like Muggles because they were hunting his family, his people, and persecuting them with horrific violence. He didn't trust Muggle-borns because how could he know that they wouldn't betray the magical world and tell their families that the kid two villages over practices magic with him on Tuesdays?

And yes, witches and wizards had ways to make it look like they burned at the stake when they actually survived, such as the Flame-Freezing Charm. But young children, with little control over their magic? If they were caught or exposed, well, it probably wouldn't end well for them.

Plus, wizardkind is outnumbered by Muggles, by a huge amount. If a village of Muggles who hated and feared magic discovered that a family of wizards and witches was among them, the parents would be burdened with trying to flee from a few hundred people while protecting their kids (who can't control their magic).

Salazar Slytherin didn't like Muggles or Muggle-borns. He hated them and feared them, not because they were inferior, but because they were dangerous. And while murdering children with a giant snake is not a good way to solve this danger to his family, people, and culture, it HAS to be seen that his actions were born not from arrogance, but from fear.

And there were Slytherins who knew this, long before Muggles had become so othered from wizarding society that some families started to believe that Muggles were inferior to those with "pure blood." Like Merlin, Prince of Enchanters, arguably the greatest wizard of all time, who founded the Order of Merlin to protect and aid Muggles, whose name has become synonymous with Muggle rights activisim. Merlin, a Slytherin.

If Salazar Slytherin was alive in the 20th century, he would laugh at the idea that Muggles were inferior. He would be the first to point out that Lily Evans and Hermione Granger, the brightest witches of their age, were Muggle-born. He would scorn the idea that pure-bloods were better, saying if that's true, why is Draco Malfoy, a pure-blood, second to a Muggle-born?

Salazar had questionable morals, to be sure (anyone who doesn't think so can re-read the Chamber of Secrets, where he hid a giant snake in a school full of children to murder the ones he deemed dangerous). But he never, never once thought that Muggles were inferior to wizards.

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black-cherry28 · 2 years

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Harry: exists

Draco: are you always so stupid or is today a special occasion, Potter?!

#harry potter #draco malfoy #slytherin #hogwarts #harry potter fandom #harry potter ask blog #hogwarts aesthetic #harry potter imagine #slytherin pride #hogwarts houses #gryffindor #drarry #harry potter fanfiction #hogwarts pride #slytherin problems #harry potter problems

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awkwardbasilisk · 2 years

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*Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw group studying*

Sly: I can't even...last time I got hurt, was because a pocket knife tried to slice my finger in two. Now...a freaking sword beats me in the eye during fencing practice. Couldn't I, idk, have a paper cut for once?

Hufflepuff: if I have ever had a doubt...now I'm 101% sure of the hat's choice with you. That's totally a Slytherin thing. Me? won't be caught being hurt by a brownie or a cozy knit scarf.

Slytherin: yah! and what about the burnt curtains?

Hufflepuff: was I hurt? I think not.

Ravenclaw: guys...you shouldn't be going around and getting hurt...do you need help?

#harry potter #slytherin #aesthetic #harry potter houses #slytherin pride #harry potter quotes #slytherin funny #slytherin problems #huffleproud #hufflepuff funny #hufflepunk #incorrect ravenclaw quotes #ravenclaw

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thirdspeakerdebater · 10 months

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being in slytherin is doing shit just because someone else told you that you can’t

and i’m really proud of that

#slytherin #hogwarts #harry potter #draco malfoy #slytherin problems

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alaskianjosie · 11 months

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So I was playing Hogwarts Legacy and I was at a point (no spoilers included) where I kinda had to decide if I want to be evil and very powerful or good and less powerful and I called my friend and she said "haha well you're a Slytherin, you're evil, that's what you dudes do" and it kinda got me thinking about how being in Slytherin doesn't at all equal being evil.

Evil loses a lot, and being in Slytherin isn't about losing.

We might use unethical methods and a more calculated approach from time to time, but we would never endanger our goals simply to be able to call ourselves 'evil'.

#slytherin #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts houses #hogwarts house pride #hufflepuff #ravenclaw #gryffindor #slytherin problems

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slytherinqueen123 · 10 months

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i don’t care who you are or you what you do - if you call slytherin evil i will get my army of nice slytherins on you and we will beat you to the death with sarcasm and smart compliments that are so dumb it’ll make you want to surrender.

#slytherin problems

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team-bella · 11 months

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It is a legitimate crime that almost every Slytherin Lockscreen has Death Eaters in them. ITS NOT EVERYONE!!

#slytherin problems #harry potter

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i-need-of-a-hobby · 4 months

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"HE WAS A CHILD. HE WAS ONLY 17. YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HIM." in the afterlife, sirius black screamed at dumbledore, 1998, after harry sacrificed himself

"HE WAS A CHILD. HE WAS ONLY 17. YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HIM." sirius black, age 19, screamed at dumbledore, 1979, after learning of his brother's death

#im sad so now that's your problem #harry potter #marauders era #marauders #regulus black #slytherin skittles #the marauders #sirius black #albus dumbledore

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musingsofahufflepuff · 2 months

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yeah, mattheo might beat a guy’s face in for upsetting you

but you’d cast an unforgivable curse to protect him, no hesitation

#that’s it that’s the dynamic #he needs protecting too okay #using violence to solve our problems 💕#mattheo riddle x reader #mattheo riddle #mattheo #mattheo x you #slytherin boys

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teacup-gathering-itself · 7 months

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The Sorting Hat listened to Harry’s pleas to be in Gryffindor because it realized putting Harry “Himbo” Potter into the snake pit would fundamentally change everything bc those heirs don’t know how to act with someone who’s so transparent and emotional, let alone so viciously fruity. He’d have been a house mascot and the Hat would have to listen to all of Albus’ rants from inside his office.

Truly the prophesy only came true bc the Sorting Hat didn’t want to have to listen to all that.

#harry potter thoughts #harry potter imagine #hp imagine #harry potter #harry potter rant #harry potter fandom #harry potter meta #harry potter drabble #hp drabble #hp thoughts #hp #hp fandom #slytherin problems #sorting hat

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risafeywritesdrarry · 3 months

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