oh man, *of course* you would *of course* it wasn't good enough to just match the house colours even though the correspondence is 1:1 and yeah, people talked about that place as if it's Hogwarts before HP was even written
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Replying to @patiencemosher @arthur_affect and
yeah, there was definitely a very hogwartsy vibe to it a sort of elite club in a weird building where some of the students are training to go there their whole lives, while others kind of discover it right at age 11, the promise of untold power, a meaningless house cup
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Replying to @life_minutiae @patiencemosher and
bizarrely named classes that teach ancient dead languages, weird terms for grades, very few transfer students, a very narrow sense of racial and ethnic diversity
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Replying to @life_minutiae @patiencemosher and
and most of all an environment that builds close lifelong friendships between students by appearing to be a wonderland while casually traumatizing the student body through institutional indifference
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
or intentionally; there were, um, a few Snapes in there and they did not have secrets that redeemed them in retrospect
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Replying to @patiencemosher @arthur_affect and
that's true I wonder if we had the same Snapes
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
I think it's likely as some had a reputation; the one I'm thinking of retired quite recently. The whole redemption arc with Snape is very true to life. Like it's fine he gratuitously bullies and humiliates children like Neville because he has Reasons
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Replying to @patiencemosher @life_minutiae and
and is important to the Powers That Be, the Spirit of the School, the richly textured tapestry of life at Hogwarts etc. So kids like Neville just have to submit to it and get over it
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Replying to @patiencemosher @arthur_affect and
This is more about the school but I realized once I moved to the US I was still silently letting my brain dismiss people based on if they didn't go to Beauxbatons or Durmstrang (some prestigious Ivy League or similar institution to cover legitimacy on them) and that's so toxic
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Replying to @life_minutiae @patiencemosher and
in the absence of a clear way to distinguish muggles from wizards, I tried to unconsciously figure out what the other wizard schools were
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When Rowling tried to get out of the absurdly small number of official wizard schools in the world (11) by handwaving the vast majority of wizards are homeschooled "hedge wizards" I decided there's probably a class divide in their world like in The Magicians
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Almost all actual magic-users are hedgewitches whose culture has nothing to do with the absurdly inbred, insular culture of the Hogwarts elite They rarely interact, the Hogwarts alums pretend the hedgies don't exist and the hedgies dislike and resent the Ivy Leaguers intensely
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
This is my first time ever hearing of hedge wizards and that probably says something profound about the setting
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