Harry Potter Hogwarts: A Reimagining
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I'll make sure to never ever read your fics, then.
Or in other words, it's not Hogwarts. So why, exactly, are you going on about it in a thread about Hogwarts?
I don't care about what you wrote in your fics. Hogwarts is the most prestigious school of witchcraft and wizardry in the United Kingdom. In such a pureblood-dominant society, there is no way in hell they would let anti-purebloods run about naming shit after prominent Muggles. Even ignoring the fact that you've basically flat-out admitted that this isn't even Hogwarts to begin with, there's no way the school would be as widely respected as it is if that happened. At best, it would merely be eclipsed by other, more politically correct schools. At worst, the purebloods would figure out a way to get it shut down or overhaul to their liking.
The Crown doesn't work like that, Tentrees.
Somebody can't deal with honest feedback. This is a thread for the Hogwarts curriculum, and with any luck, possible reinterpretations, expansions, and elaborations of Hogwarts Castle itself. What you've presented is, by your own admission, in no way, shape, or form Hogwarts, to the extent that the only thing the two places have in common is location.
Kindly take your completely off-topic dissertations elsewhere, either to a relevant thread or to a thread of your own creation to discuss this.
Or in other words, it's not Hogwarts. So why, exactly, are you going on about it in a thread about Hogwarts?
I don't care about what you wrote in your fics. Hogwarts is the most prestigious school of witchcraft and wizardry in the United Kingdom. In such a pureblood-dominant society, there is no way in hell they would let anti-purebloods run about naming shit after prominent Muggles. Even ignoring the fact that you've basically flat-out admitted that this isn't even Hogwarts to begin with, there's no way the school would be as widely respected as it is if that happened. At best, it would merely be eclipsed by other, more politically correct schools. At worst, the purebloods would figure out a way to get it shut down or overhaul to their liking.
The Crown doesn't work like that, Tentrees.
Somebody can't deal with honest feedback. This is a thread for the Hogwarts curriculum, and with any luck, possible reinterpretations, expansions, and elaborations of Hogwarts Castle itself. What you've presented is, by your own admission, in no way, shape, or form Hogwarts, to the extent that the only thing the two places have in common is location.
Kindly take your completely off-topic dissertations elsewhere, either to a relevant thread or to a thread of your own creation to discuss this.
I've been wondering about the DADA in Hogwarts. If the position was truly cursed, then couldn't they just rename the class and move the classroom location or something? Change it from Defense against Dark Arts to Protection against Dark Magic. If that doesn't work, then split the components of DADA into different classes. Get new classes like: "Dealing with Dark Creatures", "Jinxes and anti-Jinxes", "Dueling", "Curses and Hexes" and other courses. It's better than getting a new teacher every year IMO.
here's an idea for a class (from a story idea i had that was cast aside when it became clear that it was more or less a "new school that is better then hogwarts appears" fic.
Focus Creation
This course offered only to 7th years who have the recommendations of no less then 4 professors teaches the few students that are allowed in the class how to create their own magical focus 3/4ths of year involves learning about the various components involved in focus making (Metals,Woods, Gems, components from magical creatures, how the form of the focus affects its ability to be used and warnings about which components react badly to one another. the last 4th of the year is dedicated to the creation of these focuses. The class is pass/fail. If your focus works (a battery of test are given to test its basic abilities) you pass. If it A. isn't completed by the end of the course. B. fails to past the test. or C. blows up on you. you fail. Consequently the class has a 50 percent fail rate. Those who pass are given a license to carry their focus.
That being said Tentrees while i don't think it would work well in a Harry Potter story In its own universe with its own characters (done correctly of course.) it looks like something i might like to read.
Focus Creation
This course offered only to 7th years who have the recommendations of no less then 4 professors teaches the few students that are allowed in the class how to create their own magical focus 3/4ths of year involves learning about the various components involved in focus making (Metals,Woods, Gems, components from magical creatures, how the form of the focus affects its ability to be used and warnings about which components react badly to one another. the last 4th of the year is dedicated to the creation of these focuses. The class is pass/fail. If your focus works (a battery of test are given to test its basic abilities) you pass. If it A. isn't completed by the end of the course. B. fails to past the test. or C. blows up on you. you fail. Consequently the class has a 50 percent fail rate. Those who pass are given a license to carry their focus.
That being said Tentrees while i don't think it would work well in a Harry Potter story In its own universe with its own characters (done correctly of course.) it looks like something i might like to read.
Add a brief seminar/introduction to the magic world, culture and political system for all new students. Include comparisons to other political systems and cultures both muggle and magical and also include some interesting motivational speakers. To be done in sessions no longer than an hour over a period of a week so 11 year old students don't get too unable to stay still.
Mostly it is just to give the non magic students an idea of what to expect in the magic world so they don't remain ignorant as a result of a sheltered boarding school life where the only other areas of the magic world they see are Diagon Alley and Hogsmede. Hopefully it will also give the current magic students an idea that there is more in the world than simply their isolated magic communities.
Mostly it is just to give the non magic students an idea of what to expect in the magic world so they don't remain ignorant as a result of a sheltered boarding school life where the only other areas of the magic world they see are Diagon Alley and Hogsmede. Hopefully it will also give the current magic students an idea that there is more in the world than simply their isolated magic communities.
Presumably Dumbledore embezzles the funds to the running of the Order of the Phoenix. Or to his bank account...
if not Binns gets a token payment and the rest is kept in the school purse.
Stereotypical Manipulative!Dumbledore seems to be a Kleptocrat (assuming all funds he controls[Hogwarts, OotP, Ministry, Potter, other wards and Personal] are his money)
and for Binns his funds go to his descendants or are just donated to the school/Dumbledore
if not Binns gets a token payment and the rest is kept in the school purse.
Stereotypical Manipulative!Dumbledore seems to be a Kleptocrat (assuming all funds he controls[Hogwarts, OotP, Ministry, Potter, other wards and Personal] are his money)
and for Binns his funds go to his descendants or are just donated to the school/Dumbledore
And the evidence you have that Dumbledore embezzles is. . . ?
He's a ghost. Ghosts can't interact with the physical world, with the exception of things closely related to their deaths (like how Myrtle can make water in the toilets splash). Of course he's not paid. What the hell would he do with it?
Binns is a convenience for the school. He was some old-as-dirt Hogwarts professor who up and died mid-semester and kept on teaching anyway because it was that routine for him. A distinguished alumni that works for free, forever. They probably can't replace him even if they wanted to, because he'd keep showing up and lecturing anyway regardless of whether or not there was another teacher trying to teach in the room, and they've got no reason to want to do it, because he works for free, requires no resources, and will keep doing his job essentially forever.
He's a ghost. Ghosts can't interact with the physical world, with the exception of things closely related to their deaths (like how Myrtle can make water in the toilets splash). Of course he's not paid. What the hell would he do with it?
Binns is a convenience for the school. He was some old-as-dirt Hogwarts professor who up and died mid-semester and kept on teaching anyway because it was that routine for him. A distinguished alumni that works for free, forever. They probably can't replace him even if they wanted to, because he'd keep showing up and lecturing anyway regardless of whether or not there was another teacher trying to teach in the room, and they've got no reason to want to do it, because he works for free, requires no resources, and will keep doing his job essentially forever.
With regards to Binns, something I thought of while reading this topic. Is there anything stated that Hogwarts is home to purely interactive ghosts? Reason I ask is because what we get from the text is that Binns died in his sleep and for what the viewpoints can actually figure out, he focuses on the Goblin Wars only. It's possible he's not actually an active ghost like the Baron, Nick, Friar, Grey Lady or Murtle, but more the type that's 'common' around 'haunted sites' where after certain amounts of time or highly energetic events you get a replay of something that happened, not interactive but just like getting a 3D video, maybe with some things cut out. The amount of energy around Hogwarts from the spells being used, it might be enough to keep him almost permanently manifested and the magicals, not knowing about 're-enactment ghosts', assume he's still teaching the students.