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griffin · 01-16-2021, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by astrocat

"Yeah. Like, I guess I'm smart, but I'm also loyal and reckless, so make of that what you will. I pretty much act like a stereotypical gryffindor, but wearing blue and being smart or whatever. I don't like how houses have all these negative connotations. Like, hufflepuffs are pushovers, ravenclaws are snobs, slytherins are evil, and gryffindors are dumb. It doesn't list that as a requirement to get in, so..." Ash was unimpressed with Hogwarts. She was pulled away from her old life to go to a boarding school where she was constantly in danger. It was dumb.

”I consider myself to be family-oriented, considerate, and trustworthy. I’m not sure that those traits would be super stereotypical for any house.” None of those traits really had a particularly strong association with any one house as far as he knew. He nodded in agreement about how dumb the stereotypes were. ”And that thing about Slytherins being purebloods. Maybe that was true in Salazar Slytherin’s lifetime but it’s certainly not true today.” Having one house that was originally centered around blood ‘purity’ was dumb anyway, epecially when the other founders had chosen other methods of pupil selection. The original Hogwarts students could have been both pure-blooded and intelligent, and they probably didn’t even have the sorting hat yet for that inaugural class to make the decision for them so maybe the founders would have had to duel over a student that two of them really wanted in their house. ”I don’t believe muggleborns are any different than the rest of us. The idea of blood purity is so dumb. It’s our talents and unique abilities that bring us here to study magic together, not our heritage. Besides, you probably had a magical ancestor somewhere way back in your family tree and I’ve got muggles mixed into mine. There’s no such thing as being a true pure-blood these days really. Pretty much every witch and wizard has muggles in their family line somewhere, even if you have to go several generations back to find them. So, in addition to the obvious injustices it’s just dumb to hate muggles because they’re just as important to our community as other witches and wizards. You know, people’s mums or dads or aunts and uncles or grandparents or great-grandparents or friends, and hurting those people who we love hurts us too.” Merlin, he was going to get killed for saying that, wasn’t he?

01-16-2021, 01:23 AM	#27 (permalink)
griffin DMAC & DERP Snidget Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 2,710 Hogwarts RPG Name: Devin James Horton Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Deanna Joyce Horton Gryffindor Second Year x1	Teapot Occamy\| gryphons&giraffes&goats,OH MY \| chaser of the truth \| flutiful❧ Quote: Originally Posted by astrocat "Yeah. Like, I guess I'm smart, but I'm also loyal and reckless, so make of that what you will. I pretty much act like a stereotypical gryffindor, but wearing blue and being smart or whatever. I don't like how houses have all these negative connotations. Like, hufflepuffs are pushovers, ravenclaws are snobs, slytherins are evil, and gryffindors are dumb. It doesn't list that as a requirement to get in, so..." Ash was unimpressed with Hogwarts. She was pulled away from her old life to go to a boarding school where she was constantly in danger. It was dumb. ”I consider myself to be family-oriented, considerate, and trustworthy. I’m not sure that those traits would be super stereotypical for any house.” None of those traits really had a particularly strong association with any one house as far as he knew. He nodded in agreement about how dumb the stereotypes were. ”And that thing about Slytherins being purebloods. Maybe that was true in Salazar Slytherin’s lifetime but it’s certainly not true today.” Having one house that was originally centered around blood ‘purity’ was dumb anyway, epecially when the other founders had chosen other methods of pupil selection. The original Hogwarts students could have been both pure-blooded and intelligent, and they probably didn’t even have the sorting hat yet for that inaugural class to make the decision for them so maybe the founders would have had to duel over a student that two of them really wanted in their house. ”I don’t believe muggleborns are any different than the rest of us. The idea of blood purity is so dumb. It’s our talents and unique abilities that bring us here to study magic together, not our heritage. Besides, you probably had a magical ancestor somewhere way back in your family tree and I’ve got muggles mixed into mine. There’s no such thing as being a true pure-blood these days really. Pretty much every witch and wizard has muggles in their family line somewhere, even if you have to go several generations back to find them. So, in addition to the obvious injustices it’s just dumb to hate muggles because they’re just as important to our community as other witches and wizards. You know, people’s mums or dads or aunts and uncles or grandparents or great-grandparents or friends, and hurting those people who we love hurts us too.” Merlin, he was going to get killed for saying that, wasn’t he? __________________