as small as a world and as large as alone

3:44am August 10, 2014

saxifraga-x-urbium:

chronicles-of-tedium:

isabelthespy:

spitefulbitch:

the stupidest thing in the entire harry potter series was when they go down to the slytherin dormitory and it’s all dark and slimy and freezing and shit. as if lucius malfoy would let his son live in squalor like that. the house with the highest concentration of spoiled purebloods are happy to live under the goddamn lake? no.

wow this is the #1 best harry potter criticism i have ever read

This actually always bothered me. 

someone clearly does not know anything about british independent schools

the running gag in this country for decades is that aristos and the landed gentry send their kids to school in conditions “mere tradesmen” would not tolerate to “toughen them up”, which is why the food is revolting, the teachers are psychopaths & paedophiles, and there is no heating.

the slytherins living under the lake makes perfect sense if you have that piece of information

There’s a similar tradition in the USA, although I’m not sure if it has died out yet.  Teddy Roosevelt’s whole way of looking at the world was a good example of it though.

But I thought the Slytherins living under the lake was perfect for other reasons.  And that they had the second-best common room (next to Hufflepuff, of course….)

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