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captainsophiestark · 2 years

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Ekel Tricity

Percy Weasley x Reader

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Written for Fictober 2022!

Fandom: Harry Potter

Prompt: “You’re making my head hurt”

Summary: Percy and Y/N have been dating for a while, and Percy's finally made the "acceptable guests for a family vacation" list. However, since he's dating a muggle whose family doesn't know about magic, he's going to have to live like a muggle for a week. Despite his best efforts to prepare, he's certainly still got a lot to learn.

Word Count: 1,674

Category: Fluff

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"Percy!" I cried as I flung the door open to find my boyfriend on the other side, looking a little tired but smiling nonetheless. I wasted no time wrapping him in a tight hug, burying my head in his chest as he hugged me back.

"Hello, Y/N. It's good to see you," he said, kissing my hair before we pulled apart. "To be quite honest, I'm just relieved I actually made it."

I shot a grin at him as I led him inside, grabbing his suitcase before closing the door behind him.

"It wasn't that bad, was it?"

"Honestly, I don't know how you muggles do it," he sighed, flopping down in the nearest chair without even taking off his coat. "I spoke to at least three men who just glared at me when I asked for directions, and when someone finally gave me answer, they gave me directions to the wrong place!"

I hid a laugh in my hand as I wrapped my arms around Percy's shoulders from behind, leaning my head against his.

"I'm sorry it was such an ordeal," I said. "But if you want, I could try to teach you how to use a thing muggles use to get around... it's called Google Maps-"

"Y/N, we're back! Is Percy here yet?"

I stopped short, kissing Percy's cheek before pulling away. I shot him a wink, then turned towards the doorway my family was coming through. They'd gone out for brunch earlier, but I'd decided not to go with them so I could be here whenever Percy finally arrived.

My family and I took a vacation together every year, and this time, I'd invited Percy. We'd been together for more than a year, and he'd finally told me he was a wizard a few months ago. Although my family didn't know that particular secret, he'd definitely reached family-vacation status.

"He just got here," I said, smiling as my family made their way in. They'd all met Percy before, and despite his exhaustion, he seemed genuinely happy to see everyone. We all chatted and exchanged pleasantries for a few minutes, but I could see how badly it was wearing on my already-exhausted boyfriend.

"So, Percy, tell us about your trip here," started my mom, leaning forward across the counter like she was readying for a long, in-depth story. I jumped in before either of them could get rolling.

"Actually, mom, Percy's pretty wiped out from the trip. I think we might just go upstairs and watch a movie, or else take a nap," I said. Her eyes widened and she leaned back with a nod.

"Of course! Get some rest. We've got all kinds of fun planned for the week, so you'll need all the energy you can muster."

Percy smiled and nodded, then grabbed his bag as I led him out of the room. We headed upstairs to our shared room, and Percy was clearly dragging as we went.

"Is it pathetic that I'm already missing my wand?" he sighed, dropping his bag at the foot of the bed before plopping down on the soft mattress. I smiled as I moved to sit next to him.

"Maybe a little," I teased, leaning into him. "But considering how immediately weakened I am without my phone... I can't judge you too hard."

Percy nodded. "Yes, I know how important those are to muggles."

I raised an eyebrow. Despite our relationship coming up on the year and a half mark, Percy had learned almost nothing about muggle technology.

"The ekel tricity that buzzes in your hand is clearly necessary, although I must admit I still don't quite get the appeal of it."

I stared at him, honestly too stunned to speak. Before I could figure out how to phrase any of the questions his statement left, he stood with a huff and walked across the room to the tv.

"Well, shall we stare at the telly vision while one of your muggle stories is acted out?" he asked, turning back to me with his hands on his hips and all the confidence in the world. "Or would you rather listen to a music box with ekel tricity instead? A radio, I believe?"

Percy waited for my response expectantly, a proud expression on his face. I gaped back at him. I honestly had no idea where to even start responding to all that.

"I... Perce... what are you saying?" I asked, unable to help a slight laugh in my voice. He frowned, but it was quickly replaced with the same confident expression he'd had before.

"Impressed, right? I may have finally sat down with my father for a few lessons on all your muggle techy nology in order to prepare for my week living as a muggle," he said, giving me a smug grin. I hid my smile behind my hand. I didn't want to hurt his feelings, but the past three minutes of his speech had been utter nonsense.

"Perce..." I started, trying to be as gentle as possible. "It is so, so sweet that you wanted to learn about muggle stuff for me and my family. Really, that's wonderful. I appreciate it."

Percy's smiled widened, and he gave me a pleased nod.

"I really hate to tell you this, after all of that, but... almost nothing you said made any sense."

Percy's expression changed to one of shock as he processed my words, then his face fell.

"What? Are you sure?" I nodded, and a fierce blush quickly rose up his neck and across his face, all the way to the tips of his ears. "Oh. Well, that's... hm."

"Oh, babe," I stood and crossed the room to where Percy stood, floundering and clearly embarrassed. "It's okay. It's not your fault that wizards rarely bother to learn things about muggles. You had no reliable source material to draw on, no matter how well-meaning your father is."

Percy sighed. "I suppose. I just... I wanted to impress you."

"You already have," I said, giving him a soft smile and an equally soft kiss. I rested my hands on his shoulder, and I could feel his muscles relax as I moved to kiss his cheek, and then the tip of his nose. "The fact that you tried at all means the world to me. But... if you really want to learn, I could certainly teach you what things actually do here, and how they work."

Percy took a deep breath and let it out slowly, collecting himself and shifting his mindset. He'd come a long, long way from where he used to be, even when I'd first met him, and it made me so proud to see him doing so well.

"I would love that, Y/N," he said, closing his eyes and leaning down to kiss my forehead. "Thank you."

"Anytime. Anything, for you."

He hummed and smiled against my skin, wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me tighter to him as he did.

"So... if you want to start, this is called a 'tv'. A bunch of tiny particles get sent from a place far away to here, through the air, and the tv picks them up and interprets them. Then we get a visual version of those particles that ends up looking kind of like a moving portrait, but it tells stories that already exist and that don't change and that you can't talk to."

"You're making my head hurt."

"Sorry," I grimaced. "There's definitely a better way for me to explain this... Let me see if I can find something that might be easier to understand-"

I turned to grab my phone, but Percy stopped me with a light squeeze to my waist and I looked back up at him.

"Before we do that... any chance we could take that nap you mentioned to your parents? I think I might need full use of my mental faculties to understand whatever it is you're about to explain to me."

"Not a bad idea," I agreed. I started walking backwards towards the bed, and Percy moved with me. "Thankfully, beds and naps work the same in the muggle world and the wizarding world."

"Thank God for that," he sighed dramatically. I laughed as we fell into the bed together, then shuffled around until we were under the covers. We didn't even bother to change out of our jeans, and Percy only shrugged off his coat as an afterthought.

"I'm going to set an alarm for an hour and a half," I told him, rolling over to grab my phone. He hummed his agreement, and when I turned back to lay my head on his chest, I found him staring at me through tired, squinted eyes. "You okay?"

"I'm debating asking you about that thing you just did with your... telly phone..."

"Later," I decided for him. "After sleep."

"Hmm. I agree."

With that, he pulled me closer to him and closed his eyes. I snuggled up against his chest, closing my eyes as well, even though I wasn't really all that tired. Percy fell asleep in minutes, and I was surprised to find myself not far behind him. The warmth of the room combined with the soft sound of his heartbeat and the safe embrace of his arms was overpowering, and I quickly drifted off next to my boyfriend.

He still had a thousand things to learn about the muggle world, and I was in about the same boat with the wizarding world. But in the end, it didn't matter. We were meant for each other, and figuring out new things along the way would only make us better, together.

I couldn't wait for where our lives of different worlds lead us next. Other than to the tv, and an education of all the best muggle movies that Percy had to see, that is.

Although undeniably, that part would be incredibly fun too.

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mystickitten42 · 2 years

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Fic Rec — Super Rich Kids

Author: trishjames / @thusspoketrish

Pairing(s): Drarry, Draco/Others

@gameofdrarry Trope: 2 Swords ⚔️ — Angst

Rating: E

Word Count: 81k

Tags: Angst, Slow Burn, Thriller, Mystery, Theft, Drugs, Pureblood Culture, Muggle Culture, Fashion, Drama, Slytherins being Slytherins, Questionable Decisions, Vigilantism, Angst with a Happy Ending, many more tags…

Summary:

Draco Malfoy has become disillusioned by the glitz and glamour of the scandalous lives of the Post-Second Wizarding War Pureblood Elite. Enter: one existential crisis, one group of thieving cynical friends, and several terrible, terrible decisions.

Excerpt:

Draco relishes in the fact that these insipid Purebloods are finally being exposed for what they are: overconfident zealots who are about to get their comeuppance. No one has a clue it’s them, and they’ve all promised not to tell Blaise. He can be such a spoilsport sometimes.

Rec Notes:

I have wanted to read this fic for a long time now and I’m so glad I finally did — it’s unlike any other Drarry fic I’ve ever read. I loved the Slytherin friendships and the up close and personal account of Draco’s life post-war, which proved to be deliciously angsty between heartbreak, ennui, Draco’s self-loathing and his determination to undermine any good thing in his life because he staunchly believes he’s undeserving of a second chance.

Harry was a ray of sunlight in this fic, perfectly imperfect, but so patient and loving with Draco. I loved the slow burn development of their relationship.

There were so many twists and turns, this fic kept me on the edge of my seat. This is one of those stories that stays with you a long time — I highly recommend.

~Read on AO3~

#drarry #angst #pureblood culture #fashion #muggle culture #mystery #theft #slytherins #wizard hearts 2022 #2 swords ⚔️#game of drarry

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captorsakura · 10 months

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A Draco Malfoy x Muggle OC

The heart wants what it wants

An interesting take on a nearly impossible pairing

How a blood purist comes to see a different way

#Harry Potter ao3 #harry potter #harry potter fanfiction #draco malfoy #draco malfoy x oc #muggle oc #pureblood society #muggle culture #muggle x pureblood #ao3

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pooks · 7 months

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George: I'm tellin' you, this is a whole new world for us. New stuff, new era; it's a fresh start. Percy: Then why the fuck are we having the same stupid conversations? George: Just think, you know how people say, "If I knew then what I knew now?" Well, that person is you, and you already know it. And the "then" is right now. Percy: (soft amusement) What?

(AN: this is their dynamic post-DH, lmao. all they do is to stand around and talk. XD)

#incorrect hp quotes #source: red vs blue #percy weasley #george weasley #lets face it #their dynamic is very grif and simmons #except it's the brother version of it #percy is the smart one and george is the funny one #all they did for the whole “year after the war” was to stand around and talk #sometimes deep stuff but mostly idiotic stuff #percy introduced george to modern muggle things like movies and the internet #the weasleys has never known peace since then #percy helps george coming back to himself...with muggle pop culture

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damn-it-a-hogwarts-legacy-blog · 1 month

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Introductions

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Isabel knew her first day at Hogwarts would likely be a flurry of emotions—she just never anticipated these emotions

Ominis x Isabel (my MC!)

SFW

Victorian era Hogwarts meet cute, that's it, that's the post lol

Word count: 775

A/N: while playing with the lighting in Ominis' intro scene, I kept having bits of a story pop into my head. So I wrote it down lol.

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Isabel had blushed her way through enough stolen etiquette books for both wizards and muggles to recognize the situation—but to be confronted by these feelings firsthand was another matter altogether.

For the entirety of her life, Isabel would never be sure what it was that lit the inexplicable spark that day. All she knew was that her heart had raced the moment she began speaking with her new classmate. Her palms had become embarrassingly sweaty, and she had been thankful that he presumably could not see the smitten expression plastered across her face.

Ominis… Had he said he was a Gaunt? Perhaps she had not heard him correctly over the madly-pattering pulse in her ears, but his unusual given name would certainly be explained by it. Having grown up overhearing hushed cautionary tales of the old and insular pureblood houses, she had never expected anyone in the British Empire’s most infamous wizarding family to be so gentle… or so handsome.

Isabel only realized how precariously she had built her bravado when it crumbled in the span of a single breath; all he had done as he had introduced himself was bow and politely kiss her hand in old pureblood fashion, yet her brain ground to a screeching halt. When it sputtered back to life a second after, she stumbled her way through a customary pureblood witch’s response in a flailing attempt to impress him. His head tilted almost imperceptibly, and the corner of his mouth hooked upwards as he took a moment to commit her name and her hereditary house to memory. In that moment, Isabel wondered with dread if he recognized and disdained her family name as one of the many considered to be blood traitors for daring to extend kindness and brotherhood to muggles.

“Enchanted, truly,” he finally responded without effort, kissing her hand again in a show of honesty before gracefully releasing it. She heaved a sigh of relief.

Her memories had been well and truly branded with the brushing of his warm, slightly chapped lips against her knuckles. As he had let her go, his fingertips had lingered under hers just slightly longer than what was appropriate, and she nearly smiled ear to ear. The sensation Isabel felt in her heart as she caught the sparkle of his strange eyes was less of a flutter and more of an ungraceful tumble. His melodic laugh as he answered her question about mermaids was neither condescending nor impatient; he seemed quite happy to simply talk to someone about his mischief.

When the conversation turned to his family, Isabel’s heart ached as Ominis’ voice became hushed and his brow knitted together. We could run away, her imagination had proposed before she could catch herself. She had known this boy for all of ten minutes—what on earth was happening to her?

Did Ominis feel the same way? Had he also let his imagination run indulgently wild, wondering what their wedding might be like, how many little children they might someday have, or what it could be like to blissfully fall asleep in each other’s arms while nestled together on a cold winter’s night?

If he did, neither his lovely face nor his angelic voice had betrayed it.

She watched him intently as he explained the intricacies of Slytherin’s social hierarchy, but her eyes wandered to his lips. He lingered close enough for her to catch a subtle cologne: soft and woody like a misty dawn breaking over a spring forest. For the briefest of moments, Isabel pondered the sweet pressure of his lips on hers as the scent of his cologne would inevitably swirl in her head—how his warm chest might swell beneath her fingertips as he gently pushed her against the stone alcove, his right hand enveloping hers while his left cupped her jaw… she shook her head and blushed a deep crimson, struggling to bring her unscrupulously adolescent mind back to his warning about Leighton Lawley.

When a student’s calls for Isabel to meet the deputy headmistress pulled her from her stupor, Ominis smiled disarmingly and ushered her off, suggesting she ought not invoke the staff’s ire, and promising they would speak more later. She looked back over her shoulder as her legs reluctantly carried her away from him, feeling as if a part of her heart was still bathed in the cerulean light of the common room windows next to him.

As Ominis reclined back against the alcove, Isabel caught him blushing and smiling to himself. She had little idea what might come of it, but something deep in her mind told her she could not let this opportunity pass her by.

#kissing a lady’s hand was largely out of vogue with muggles at this point so I’m saying it’s a wizard thing lol #pureblood wizards def had their own weird insular culture that even normal wizards didn’t know #nobody can convince me otherwise teehee #hogwarts legacy #ominis gaunt #ominis x mc #isabel greymoore #hogwarts legacy fanfic #flash fiction

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fanfic-lover-girl · 7 months

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Pureblood Purists Actually Have Valid Concerns

Disclaimers

Before I start my post let me make 2 disclaimers since some people have a tendency to twist words on Tumblr:

Not all blood purists were death eaters. I am not condoning DE terrorism here. I am referring to people who held pureblood beliefs but never fought in a war to oppress people.

Harry Potter is a fictional world. My arguments are not meant to be extended to the real world.

Assumption about Magic

JKR does not specify the origin of magic. Is it like ATLA where it's a spiritual kind of thing and people are blessed by Lady Magic? Or is it a gene thing and wizards are a subspecies of human? For me, I am going to go with magic being a gene thing. If magic was like bending in ATLA then wizards should not be such a tiny minority.

Missed Potential of Umbridge Interrogation Scene

This post was inspired by Book 7, Chapter 13 – The Muggle-born Registration Commission. Specifically, the part where Umbridge is interrogating this poor muggle-borne woman named Mrs Cattermole.

‘Could you please tell us from which witch or wizard you took that wand?’

Umbridge's line of questioning is so ridiculous and JKR missed a golden opportunity to introduce some nuance here. She paints all purebloods who are not blood traitors as evil/bigoted. Just because this is a kid's book it does not mean she has to treat kids like idiots. Instead of painting purebloods as bigoted fools who believe magic can be stolen or sadists making up crack in this sham kangaroo court, she could have used this dialogue to present valid and ignored concerns of purebloods. Instead of crap like this, the Voldemort regime could be jailing purebloods who married muggles or mugglebornes on the count of them diluting their race. Or maybe firing half-bloods and mugglebornes and giving those jobs to purebloods. These actions are still wrong but at least they would be rational and add some depth. And purebloods have serious cause for concern. Let me point out 5.

Concern 1 - Existence of Squibs

In the books, we don't know the blood status of the parents of prominent squibs like Filch. But I bet the likelihood of your kid being a squib increases dramatically if one of the parents is muggleborne.

It makes sense to me that mugglebornes could be descendants of squibs. Making mugglebornes basically muggles who won the genetic lottery. In book 2 I think, Arthur claimed Granger was a historical wizard figure and asked Hermione if she bore a relation to him. She denies this but what if someone in the Granger family was a squib in the past and years later she got lucky?? So basically if you mate with a muggleborne, you are basically reproducing with a muggle. Which in turn increases the chances of a squib kid. Squibs can't function in the magic world properly.

Concern 2 - Wizards are a minority

Wizards are a minority in a muggle majority. It's a fact that minorities are wiped out when they reproduce with the majority.

Hagrid says this in book 2:

“Dirty blood, see. Common blood. It’s mad. Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out.”

If Hagrid is right and most wizards are half-blood, how is this a good thing? Given enough time, if wizards keep diluting their race like this by reproducing with muggles, the wizard minority will slowly be erased which leads to...

Concern 3 - Cultural Erasure

It's more than just blood dilution but loss of tradition. Even if a muggleborne like Hermione integrates into the wizarding world, she will never truly grasp certain customs and traditions that pureblood families like the Weasleys and Malfoys will. For example, I came to the US for college. Even though I have been here for half a decade now, I will never understand what it is like to grow up as a kid in the US. I don't appreciate US holidays like Thanksgiving and Memorial Day. My kid likely will but they will have to learn those customs from an external source or maybe my future husband's family. Someone like Hermione may even see some pureblood/wizarding traditions as archaic and unnecessary. Over time, wizards will lose their culture and practically become muggles with magic. Which is why Hermione being minister of magic sometimes leaves a sour taste in my mouth. There's a reason why only born citizens can become president/prime minister for countries like the US (I would like to believe there is a reason anyway).

Concern 4 - Reproductive Issues?

Also, why did wizards need muggles to survive in the first place? Were the women/men having fertility issues? Was the wizarding population so minuscule that they were inbreeding? Or were they simply just horny for muggles? If small native/African tribes are/were able to survive without reproducing with white invaders or other outsiders why is it different for wizards??

Concern 5 - Lack of New Blood

Still focusing on Hagrid's quote. Let's say every pureblood family started with a muggleborne wizard/witch. Therefore given enough generations, Granger could theoretically become a pureblood name like Malfoy or Weasley. But there's a problem: there aren't enough mugglebornes!

Read Hagrid's quote carefully. He said wizards would have died out if they did not intermarry with muggles. Not that wizards would have died out without mugglebornes adding to the population!

This further adds to my blood dilution argument. Basically, we have a fixed magical gene pool which is being stretched every generation with more and more half-bloods being popped out.

Conclusion

Pureblood purists have rational reasons to favour blood purity and to be frustrated with "blood traitors". As more pureblood families like the Weasleys intermarry with muggles/mugglebornes, there is an ever-smaller marriage pool for purebloods. Throw in cultural dilution too.

If JKR wanted to add depth to the muggleborne discrimination, she should have shown how mugglebornes are critical to the survival of wizarding kind and how much purebloods actually need them. Maybe show them using their muggle knowledge to improve wizarding society while she's at it too? But it's like muggebornes like Lily and Hermione have amnesia and forget all about their muggle background! At least make wizards reap the benefit of magic and technology to balance out the issues of reproducing with mugglebornes and muggles.

I just wish JKR could have given purebloods more of a voice. Not all purebloods are crazy, bloodthirsty DEs or Dumbledore bootlickers. And oftentimes, there are reasons behind discrimination that should be examined and explored, instead of just demonized. Harry Potter is seven books worth of wasted potential. I don't know how anyone can say JKR was excellent at world building when the wizarding world feels so tiny and incomplete.

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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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splendidissimus · 7 months

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okay but do you think that wizard kids from centuries-old Pureblood families with house elves and magic parents actually realise everyday things like "You use water to clean"? Or are they just so used to messes being Vanished that they don't make the connection?

Imagine in first year when they got detention instead of being sent into the Forbidden Forest they were sent to scrub some graffiti by hand and little Draco sneers like "Yeah right, like that's even possible" and Harry just stares at him.

Bonus: Pureblood kids with their "I was today years old when I learned that fire isn't actually magic" memes because they've only ever seen it made by wands so they thought it was a magical effect and Muggles didn't have it.

#harry potter headcanon #pureblood culture #this kind of worldbuilding could be so interesting #like could a family that hasn't interacted with Muggles since the Statue of Secrecy was passed #actually have any basis for common understanding of the world with them

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teledild0nix · 1 month

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so i'm writing an 8th year fic and h&d are taking a muggle studies class together in which they read one of shakespeare's plays, and i'm trying to write a final project (for which they are partners) but like. hogwarts academics don't seem all that uhhhhh rigorous to me (like we see the students complaining about having to write a foot of parchment which is essentially ONE PAGE HANDWRITTEN) and i'm a little worried that my assignment is too rigorous.

it involves a lot of like. thinking analytically and using your imagination wrt the motivations of people unlike yourself, and that's not rlly something they do much at hogwarts as far as i can see. BUT it is muggle studies, and like. they could definitely all use some practice at those skills, following the recent implosion of their society.

#i showed it to my spouse who is a hs teacher #'where are they getting the books for this research? are there wizarding books about macbeth?' no there are not #the professor chose macbeth bc it has these concepts that will be familiar to them like witchcraft and prophesy #but presented from a muggle perspective #and also bc shakespeare is foundational to english literature and culture and it's good to be familiar with his work #and also bc they don't have a lot of experience with art esp language arts which is so so so sad and this will broaden their world #and ALSO bc shakespeare wrote before the statute of secrecy was signed which hopefully sparks their imaginations #to what extent might shakespeare's work have been impacted by ambient magic? or rumors of magic?#and if they had like a regular english literature education #they could talk about like the role of outcasts in shakespeare's work and whether magical people fit into that role #but they do not so we have to be a bit more literal #for the students that are prepared to like dig into this stuff it could be a very engaging experience #but most of them will prob be a bit lazy with it right? and maybe just resent the assignment and not get much out of it #and like!!!!#this assignment is literally just an excuse to have H&D putting their heads together in the library #and bring their relationship/the fact that they've been warming up to each other and spending time together out into the open #in a plausible deniability sort of way #a friendship soft launch if you will #i get a little carried away about these details sometimes #like if i mention the characters getting sandwiches i will look up menus for places they could plausibly have gotten sandwiches in that are #to make sure the sandwiches i mention are reasonable sandwiches #i heard some dumb story about meghan markle freaking out about not being able to get avocado when she was in the uk #and i remembered a fic i had written where aziraphale and crowley eat egg and avocado sandwiches #and i felt ashamed #an implausible sandwich!!!!

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whorecrux-of-slytherin · 1 month

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Drastoria headcanon (halloween edition)

SUMMARY - Astoria convinces Draco to dress up as a couple.

(this can also be read as a y/n or oc pureblood but muggle tolerant reader x Draco if you don't like drastoria. Can also be read as a dramione headcanon but I've mentioned a small part about Astoria's family being pureblood and her fascination towards muggle traditions but you can ignore that)

I just feel that wizards wouldn't celebrate Halloween the muggle way. They might have a different sort of tradition. Draco coming from an especially pureblood supremacist family, would find muggle traditions foolish

He thinks it's foolish how muggles think of how a witch or wizard would dress or live. That their idea of a witch is either someone who is an introverted creepy / gothic person who lives alone in an abandoned house with a garden with overgrown grass or a person who has mythical ideas & collects stones, crystals and whatnot to make potions using dried flowers and spices and live in the woods. This perception of wizards angers Draco and is one of the reasons for his resentment towards them.

Astoria on the other hand is rather muggle friendly in spite of being brought up by a pureblood supremacist of a family. She finds it rather amusing of how muggles celebrate the same holiday but follow different traditions than the wizarding community.

Astoria is fascinated by the muggle idea of dressing up as characters or concepts for Halloween. So obviously when she learns that couples dress up together, she convinces Draco that they must dress up for Halloween that year (which was coming up soon).

Astoria plans a couple's costume idea that would suit both their personalities and their relationship. She decided on the theme of the Devil and Angel (Draco obviously being the devil and herself as the angel). She decided she'd wear a white dress & Draco could wear his signature black suit (because that way he'd complain less about participating in 'a stupid muggle tradition') and she'd charm a halo & wings for herself and set of horns for him to sell the look.

On the day of halloween, Draco keeps throwing a tantrum every few minutes about having participated in a muggle tradition; but doesn't complain much about his costume since he got to stay in his comfort zone- his signature all black suit apart from the horns that Astoria charmed for the evening. But he would constantly keep complimenting Astoria for her choice of dress and how beautiful & charming she looks in it; because to him, she's no less than a real life angel.

Astoria really enjoyed dressing up for Halloween that year & over the years they continued to do so and it kind of became their own little tradition much to Draco's dismay. They would have small dress -up parties even after they graduated with just their friends group. Draco would never admit this in his life but he enjoyed dressing up every halloween just because it was for Astoria.

(I used this pic as an inspo for their costumes. Actually this picture is what gave me the idea for this headcanon 😅😂.You can imagine him wearing a suit instead of the leather jacket . It's totally up to you 🤍)

Thanks for reading! 🤍

Also sorry for any grammatical or spelling errors, if there are any . Do comment down below about your thoughts about my headcanon 🤔💭

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soloorganaas · 4 months

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do you think US wizards need health insurance for wizarding hospitals? is there like a separate plan for magical healthcare?

#harry potter #wolfstar #these are the questions that haunt me #but fr if we assume that US wizarding cultural/social norms and functions are similar to US muggles #then there’s no reason why they’d do healthcare differently #come to think of it who funds st mungos #is there a magical nhs #do they pay taxes??#hp

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kurokoisbae · 1 year

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Stop Introducing Science to the Wizarding World

Science is detrimental to magic.

I've read a lot of fanfictions criticizing Hogwarts for not offering muggle subjects, but in my opinion, offering muggle subjects wouldn't really help much. The main subjects taught to kids are science, math, and language.

Witches and wizards could probably benefit from having a class that teaches them new vocabulary and sentence structures, but the amount of essays assigned to the students probably does a well enough job ensuring that the students at least know how to present information by the time they graduate, through sheer trial and error when the teacher returns the essays marked full of red due to grammatical errors, at least. They could offer Latin classes or something similar to help students understand the language they use in spellwork, but that's not really a class regularly offered to children and teenagers in the normal world so it can't really be called a 'muggle' class.

Mathematics is already offered, for those who wants to learn, in arithmancy. It's most likely a required OWL or NEWT for jobs that require a lot of calculations and the little math that is required in normal day to day life are already already taught to muggleborns in their primary classes, and to kids growing up in the magical world by their parents as part of their home schooling.

Science, I believe, is not only unnecessary but detrimental to the magical education process. Magic is something that has a lot to do with belief. Science imposes a lot of rules, laws, and principles that outlines what is possible, impossible, what's supposed to happen in a specific situation, etc. It is rigid. Magic defies the laws of reality. Teaching the students those laws would make them subconsciously believe in them, making them think that even with Magic, it is impossible. More over, they may even try to apply the laws of reality to Magic. I've read a few fanfictions where they applied chemistry to transfiguration. Where they must understand the chemical composition of both the object they are turning and the object they are turning it to. Eleven year olds were able to transfiguration a wooden match to a needle. Wood is an organic substance with carbon and hydrogen atoms while a needle is usually made of steel, which is an alloy of multiple metal atoms. Do you really think children know enough chemistry to be able to manipulate the protons, electrons, and neutrons withing an atom to turn carbon and hydrogen atoms to different metal atoms like iron and nickel? Of course not. But they were all able to do it as a first year, why? Because their teacher said they could and it's the first day of class, so many probably assumed that it's the simplest and easiest thing to do with magic. It's belief that makes it happen. Knowing the actual process that's happening would just overcomplicate things in their mind and make it difficult for them to visualize the bigger picture of what they want to happen. Instead of focusing on the match turning into a needle, they would instead think about the atoms turning into another atom and arranging those atoms so they form the desired shape. That may be somewhat doable with the match to needle transformation, but what about the later classes where they would be asked to change something made with different materials to another object also filled with different materials? Don't even get started with animate to inanimate transfiguration. How would you even explain cells turning into atoms? They don't have the same constituents of protons, electrons, and neutrons like changing between atoms do.

I really don't like that these fanfictions try to make the Wizarding world more like the muggle world. It's a different world with their own abilities. You can't expect them to do things like the muggles would. You can show them what the muggles do, and they can find inspiration to make a Wizarding version of it. Someone has probably already invented a spell that does the same thing a calculator would, a graphing calculator even, with the graph showing in 3D as a hologram. Some of the magical spells we see in the books are more advanced than even the present stage of technological advancement where AIs and robots are becoming more advanced. Especially household spells. They have a spells that makes the dishes wash themselves! A spell that makes a broom clean by itself! Those are imbueing objects with artificial intelligence all with one spell! The objects don't even have to be specially made to do these things, magicals can just buy a regular old broom from a store and wave a wand over it and boom! No more cleaning chores. Magical sensors are also way more advanced than technological sensors. They can detect intent, spells, forgotten thoughts (the remembrall), and likely more.

In conclusion, adding muggle subjects is not only redundant, but would hamper the progress of magical advancement. Similarly, converting muggle technology and following its progression instead of finding a way to make something like it with Magic would make innovating within the Wizarding world hard. Not to mention, while phones and computers are something that doesn't exist in that Wizarding world, the later technological advancements like AI and robots can already be done using spells, which everyone can do, so following the muggle technology progression can't really be sustainable for long anyway.

Besides, magicals have different needs than muggles. While the muggles' current primary focus is electricity and food, magicals power everything with magic, and while food can't be made out of thin air, it can be doubled from existing food. There's probably even magic that causes plants to grow quicker, and if there isn't, magicals don't have the same problem muggles do with space for their food crops. They can expand a space, plant a lot of crops, cast some spells that would provide all the nutrients and water needed for healthy plants, and they can have food right at their backyard. I've always thought magicals are very independent creatures. With the magic and classes taught at Hogwarts, they can conjure or transfigure everything they need, use charms to make their life easier, defend themselves with magic, brew their own medical potions, and grow their own crops with herbology.

What do we learn in school? How to do math we'll likely never use and science laws most don't even care about.

#harry potter #HP #hogwarts #hogwarts classes #muggle classes #wizarding culture #muggle technology #wizard technology #remembrall #hp thoughts

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i-left-my-room-tidy · 2 years

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in my DR, draco malfoy isn't always like the little shit he's portrayed to be in the media—but in daily life he definitely has his moments

#he's not that bad overall #maybe a bit airy and a tad too impulsive #the blood supremacy thing—however—is very real #and i've actually had trouble in attempting to pull him out of that goddamn indoctrination #out of all my friends lily moon was the easiest to introduce to muggle and halfblood culture #theo was a different story #he doesn't care at all #and by that i mean he's a lot like uncle regulus #as long as they stay comfortable they won't side with anyone #regulus WAS more bigoted however #and—in a way—it makes me relieved(??) that no one knew what voldemort/thomas gaunt's birth name truly was #theo does enjoy some muggle stuff though #his fascination with slap bracelets is pretty funny #shifting #shifting realities #reality shifting #desired reality #shift #shifting shenanigans #shifting to hogwarts #hogwarts #shifting to harry potter #harry potter #draco malfoy #theo nott #lily moon

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addyisbaddie · 2 years

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#mulan #harry potter #muggle au #pureblood culture

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lucasthecoffeshopguy · 2 years

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I've been fucking around with the idea that in the hp universe wizards are just a very self centered society. Because they're isolated, they dont interact with muggles or creatures with any sort of respect, it makes sense that they wouldn't know about actual witches. Cuz like its bothered me that they describe wizards and witches as the same thing but they're just gendered terms for "magical folk" and the most fun explanation is that wizards have no idea abt actual witches. Like us witches who put our spells in jars and protect our bedrooms with rocks and crystals, and occasionally put blood wards on our property. And it just makes me think abt how it would be interesting for the wizards to interact with those actual witches, and for the witches to be vaguely irritated by wizarding society shunning them and deeming them "muggle" bc they're still magical! They just harness a different type of magic. And I have so many ideas and I'm already writing smth abt it involving trelawney and hermione bc they have so much potential as characters....yeah I read a fic a while back of slytherin harry and paganism and dark magic and it was amazing and the only not weird pagan representation in media I have seen and It has inspired me so much

#i literally love this idea so much #it is invading my mind #every shower i think of this little plot bunny #every fic i lead i continue to think abt this #makes me wonder abt pureblood traditions unknowingly following witches traditions #and wizards being traditionally close to witches but bc of the whole shitty governemnt thing for the wizards they grew apart #and eventually wizarding kind forgot about the sister race and witches were left to be distrusting of wizards #and maybe a way to dismantle some of the muggle-hatred in wizard society would be to take inspiration from witches #and that could be beneficial to both societies #because cultural exchanges are amazing #and i also would love to write something in hermione pov bc shes frequently ignored or hated on but i love her dearly #and i think it would be fun to explore her relationship with other characters too #*cough cough* pansy *cough cough*#harry potter as a series is so flawed so its incredibly fun to explore forgotten and ig ored aspects of the story and build off of them #wow the amount of typos in these tags is just

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