some headcanons about the golden era slytherins as adults: part three!
okay, so (i think i might have said this before) i have a really specific idea of the living arrangement of the slytherins and what their house looks like (literally what every room looks like and stuff, i’ve thought about this a lot) but to keep it short: they all live together (because pansy, tori, and theo have money problems) in a house that is (very much purposely) not decorated like their fancy mansion childhood homes, because bleugh.
so anyway, they all play that game where whenever someone falls asleep on the couch/on a living room chair, the rest of them pile random stuff on them until they wake up, and here’s how i think each of them would react to it.
astoria:
it wouldn’t take a super long time for her to wake up, but long enough that it would be funny.
she also moves a little bit in her sleep, so sometimes she’ll roll over on someone’s hand, and that’ll get tricky
if she fell asleep with shoes on, the others would put literally every single pair of shoes they could find in the house on her because you don’t wear shoes in the house!!
it usually takes anywhere between 3-10 minutes for her to wake up
daphne:
sleeps like a rock
literally, how does she sleep like that?
they could pile every single moveable object on her while laughing their asses off and she would sleep through it.
she could sleep through the apocalypse or world war III or anything. you get the picture.
if she falls asleep with makeup on, draco will put skincare products on her because he’s a petty little shit who cares too much about his friends’ faces
daphne doesn’t usually wake up until someone puts scorpius’s cats (whose names are obi-wan catnobi and cleocatra because puns) on her and they start moving around
(she is never happy to wake up to this)
“if you little bitches keep putting your random shit on me, i will rip your eyes out and eat them in front of you.” “how would we know that you were eating them if we didn’t have our eyes? we wouldn’t be able to see.” “get the fuck away from me.” “got it.”
usually takes somewhere between 12-45 minutes to wake her up. depends on how long it takes for obi-wan catnobi and cleocatra to be brought in
theo:
usually wakes up pretty quickly.
slowly enough that the others can get a few things on him, but quickly enough that it’s not that funny.
usually takes him about two-four minutes to wake up, sometimes less
draco:
either sleeps like an absolute rock, or a gust of wind would wake him up
like, sometimes, the second someone gets near him, he shoots awake and tells whoever was trying to put something on him off because “if you try to put anything on me, you’re homophobic.” “draco, everyone who lives in this house is queer. also that doesn’t make sense.” “go away.”
but then other times they could put obi-wan, cleo, every moveable object in the room, he’ll still be asleep. they could literally be sitting on top of him, and he wouldn’t even notice.
OH MY GOD, ALSO draco has the weirdest dreams ever, and he doesn’t move in his sleep, but he talks.
and that makes everything SO MUCH FUNNIER.
like, right as someone is piling random stuff on him he’ll be like, “square up, motherfucker. possums don’t scare me.” or something like that, and everyone will burst out laughing
can take anywhere between one second and multiple hours to wake him up (because sometimes they just give up)
blaise:
sleeps soundly, but not as rock-like as draco or daphne
occasionally moves a little bit
often wakes up because everyone else is laughing too loud, not because he notices the stuff on him
usually takes about 5-15 minutes to wake him up
pansy:
sleeps soundly, but is impossible to put stuff on because she moves so much
pansy is beautiful, but she is NOT a pretty sleeper.
her hair gets frizzy and messed up, her makeup smudges and she drools and moves and flails around, usually while making weird grunty-sleepy sounds
she’s the only one of them who will always sleep through the game because everyone gives up before they can put a single thing on her
scorpius (because i feel like he should be included):
doesn’t fall asleep in the living room often, but usually everyone else just lets him sleep, because, honestly, the sleep schedule of scorpius malfoy is so messed up???? like he’ll stay up all hours of the night to write a musical or learn about the invention of socks or the evolution of the candle industry or whatever
he also usually falls asleep on someone, like with his head on someone’s shoulder
sometimes they’ll try to put things on him, but usually he wakes up, notices, then goes back to sleep
and everyone is like, “😐”
“i guess he won???”
“but don’t you have to sleep until everyone gives up to win?”
“i don’t know. whatever. i feel defeated.”
usually takes him about four minutes to wake up (then, like, a second to fall back asleep)
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A Cursed Child Theory: Albus was sorted into Slytherin because Scorpius was.
HEAR ME OUT OKAY!!
The facts:
The sorting hat will take your wishes into account if you feel strongly enough
Albus felt very strongly about not wanting to be in Slytherin
The hat wasn't sure at first: "He puts his hat on ALBUS’s head – and this time he seems to take longer – almost like he too is confused."
So why was he sorted into Slytherin?
Because Scorpius was sorted into Slytherin, and Scorpius asked him if he wanted to be called Al or Albus.
We know our boy hates people calling him Al.
We know he feels an intense pressure to be who his family wants him to be.
Scorpius' first instinct was to ask him what he wanted to be called. In Albus' eyes, Scorpius was the first person in his life to put his wishes first. PLUS, we can only assume that after the scene cuts the two had the time of their little lives chatting on that train journey.
So when Scorpius was sorted into Slytherin, a little subconscious part of Albus' brain went "if he's in Slytherin, it's okay if I am too" and that's why the hat decided Slytherin.
In the first alternate universe (in the original script) he's in Gryffindor. Why? There's no Rose to force him to try and make a friend on the train, therefore no meeting with Scorpius, therefore he gets put in Gryffindor because Slytherin now has no redeeming qualities to him.
Scorpius' kind lil soul is the reason Albus Potter was put in Slytherin.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.
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i need to write a fic where albus and scorpius start dating but albus hasn’t told his family yet and they end up spending some of summer together and james proposes a scheme to do together because he feels guilty about not being a better brother to albus.
and james, being slightly oblivious, thinks albus sees scorpius as a brother and out of guilt and his desire to prove that he really does care about his little brother he keeps pushing to spend more time with him but it just comes across like he doesn’t like scorpius.
and albus, thinking that james hates scorpius, is super nervous to tell his family about them dating because he thinks james will be mad.
rose and lily know exactly what’s going on on both sides but neither with intervene because; rose doesn’t think it’s right to meddle in their relationships and thinks they should sort it out and; lily sees this as an opportunity to cause chaos.
hugo’s vaguely aware of what’s going on but is mostly interested in helping lily cause problems.
teddy is the only one who knows about albus and scorpius dating and james’ fears from the people themselves and is the person they defer to for advice. unfortunately for them, teddy has decided to play the role of “older sibling that encourages your worse impulses”
harry: the children are getting along really well actually :)
teddy, staring out the window at the children recreating lord of the flies in real time: yeah they’re getting along so well :)
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