
Guys, house pride days are coming up! I’m prepared, are you?

Guys, house pride days are coming up! I’m prepared, are you?
Okay, so we know that whenever someone was sorted into Slytherin at the beginning of the series they were booed, which first of all, dick move guys, some of you are like 17 and you are literally jeering at terrified 11 year olds. Come on douchebags, that is the worst way to treat them.
I like to think that after the war the booing stopped, but nobody cheered. While every other student would walk to their house table with pride and applause, young Slytherins walked to their future in silence. And maybe there was a few years in which they thought they didn’t deserve the applause, because we have to remember that during the final battle there was call to lock the Slytherins in their common room. Personally I think some totally snuck out to help, I refuse to actually believe that the most cunning, dedicated and savvy kids in that school stayed where they were told and let the people that they cared about get hurt without doing a damn thing. Just no. But anyway, I think there was a time when the kids of the Slytherin walked to their table without the cheers that everyone else heard.
But Slytherin is a proud house, and they always will be. So they sat through a few years without clapping at all because even the snake can pay penance when they believe it is due. Until one year the last witnesses of the Battle of Hogwarts are in their final year, this is their last sorting and whatever they leave is their legacy. And that year, when the first new Slytherin is sorted they cheer, as loudly and proudly as they can, and nobody else claps but they don’t need to because that year every Slytherin gets the loudest congratulations the Great Hall has heard in a long time.
And it continues like that for a while, the other houses don’t cheer for each new snake but Slytherin cheers for every single new student, regardless of their house. But then one year, like happens oh so often, two first years make friends on the train only to be sorted into different houses, the first one a Hufflepuff, and they watch their new friend be sorted into Slytherin and and cheer as loudly as they can because Hufflepuff loyalty right there. They cheer for their friend who whispered the secret of not wanting to be a Slytherin because even after all these years stereotypes are a bitch to kick, especially from the house who suffered under them the most. And slowly everyone joins in, just like they’ve always done for each student who wasn’t a Slytherin and by the end of that sorting every single student is applauded by everyone, no matter their house. The war is long over, and the Slytherin’s final battle is done.
gettin real tired of the fact that slytherin is almost always tied to the villain of the book/movie/tv show when doing character sortings.
ambitious and cunning does not automatically equal bad. heros of the story can fall into slytherin deal with it
Slytherin girls who offer to wing each other’s eyeliner. Slytherin girls who stay up late in quiet groups in the common room and everyone thinks they’re plotting something but really they’re just studying because Ravenclaws aren’t the only ones with good grades. Slytherin girls who complete mock unbreakable vows that they’ll never share each other’s deepest darkest secrets. Slytherin girls who always have each other’s backs and aren’t afraid to go after anyone who disrespects them. Slytherin girls who act dark and mysterious but have lip synching battles in their underwear late at night.
Gryffindor girls who climb the trees on the edge of the forbidden forest and just talk for hours. Gryffindor girls who can and will take down the boys who sit in the common room and make sexist remarks. Gryffindor girls who all wear bright red lipstick and always braid their hair when there’s a Quidditch game. Gryffindor girls who don’t understand what’s up with all the attention Harry and his friends always get because any of them would be just as willing to stand up to Voldemort. Gryffindor girls who stay up all night, drinking smuggled fire whiskey and ranting in drunken slurs about how much they hate Slytherin house.
Ravenclaw girls who have struck fear into their enemies’ hearts because no one should be that intelligent. Ravenclaw girls who paint each other’s nails while discussing the new book they’ve all been reading. Ravenclaw girls who cover for each other when one of them forgot to do homework because they were too busy working on a brilliant idea they had for a new piece of music they were composing the night before. Ravenclaw girls who never go to the bathrooms alone because they’ve figured out that bad things happen. Ravenclaw girls who lay on each others’ beds and play with their hair while having deep 3am conversations on a school night.
Hufflepuff girls who vow to remain friends even after they’ve all graduated and gone their separate ways. Hufflepuff girls leaving random inspirational notes in each others’ school books. Hufflepuff girls who are usually well-tempered until someone from another house makes fun of them, then all hell breaks loose. Hufflepuff girls who come up with secret languages so that they can pass notes during potions class and giggle when Snape tries to decipher a note about how terrible his teaching is. Hufflepuff girls who always make plans of growing a giant garden full of magical plants together, but just end up eating their body weight in desserts they’ve swiped from the kitchen.
Sometimes I imagine little baby Slytherins being led down to their dorms on their first night at Hogwarts after the sorting ceremony. Eleven year olds clinging to each other as they traverse the damp, cold stone steps into the dungeons and their minds are racing with things like mum wanted me to be in Ravenclaw, she’s going to disown me, and I’m afraid of snakes and Billy Cavendish told me Slytherin first years get fed to the giant squid if they misbehave, and what happens when my head of house finds out I’m muggleborn?and I don’t want to turn into a dark wizard! They’re all terrified and thinking that there must have been some mistake made with the sorting, but then the student who’s been guiding them starts talking about what it means to be a Slytherin. About how darkness isn’t inherently evil, and how being able to survive against all odds is strength, not cowardice, and how those with the most power have the greatest ability to do the most good. They assure the first years that from now on, they have a family that will do everything to defend and support them them and that they are now beloved children will full rights to the inheritance of Slytherin, and then gradually, the lights go up in the common room and this soothing green glow is cast on everything and it’s so, so beautiful. The little baby Slytherins start exploring all the treasures and artifacts and fine things Slytherin house has hoarded over the years, and there’s no torture devices or human bones or poison chalices at all. There’s books and leather divans and silver tea sets and a handful of upperclassmen who don’t look like they want to feed them to anything. They can see shadowy outlines of merpeople in the lake outside the windows and suddenly they feel inexplicably at home, inexplicably safe, and they realize that no mistake has been made after all.
this is actually super fucking smartass of them
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