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munarlothhp:
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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?”
Head canon accepted.
This is perfect.
OH MY GOD I HAVE A RIDICULOUSLY SIMILAR HEADCANON THAT HAS BEEN BOUNCING AROUND THE NEXTGEN CHARACTERS IN MY HEAD FOR I KID YOU NOT YEARS I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW
I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS BUT I CAN’T FLESH THEM OUT UNTIL AFTER MY EXAM TOMORROW
I had a next gen-ish oc who was basically this. She was the muggle studies teacher and she had A Lot Of Feelings about how wizards have fucked over muggles throughout history.
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munarlothhp:
story-repository:
gothiccharmschool:
lovingmyselfishard:
violsva:
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?”
Head canon accepted.
This is perfect.
OH MY GOD I HAVE A RIDICULOUSLY SIMILAR HEADCANON THAT HAS BEEN BOUNCING AROUND THE NEXTGEN CHARACTERS IN MY HEAD FOR I KID YOU NOT YEARS I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW
I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS BUT I CAN’T FLESH THEM OUT UNTIL AFTER MY EXAM TOMORROW
I had a next gen-ish oc who was basically this. She was the muggle studies teacher and she had A Lot Of Feelings about how wizards have fucked over muggles throughout history.
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