[ SECRET POST #2802 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2802 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Warriors]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Sweet Fuse: At Your Side]


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[Stargate Atlantis]


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[Black M]


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[The Lyon's Den]


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[Hannah Simone]


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[Bouletcorp]


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Comments

[sarillia]

The electricity thing always bugs me too.

Also, not related to your comment, a lot of people here are reading way more judgement toward the non-muggleborns in those posts than I am. Where do these posts imply that they're assholes who deserve to be left out of the loop?

[ketita]

eh, I've seen a bunch of these posts going around and see, I'm super into worldbuilding and culture shock and all that jazz, but these posts don't read like that. They read as "lolol we're so cool with our in-jokes", when in reality a lot of the things mentioned would be obnoxious if done even in a regular school. Most of the ones I've seen, at least, do have that 'neener neener' thing going on.

I mean and from a realistic point of view, in the wizarding world we saw it wouldn't work anyway. I believe the muggleborns are a minority, and the pressure on them to acclimate/accept the wizarding world would be big. If anything, I suspect some of them would become dramatically 'muggle? ew' in a way to "prove" that they're truly wizards now. At least, it would be interesting to see that pull, as well as the difference in generation as they move into the digital age but the wizarding world is just not there. If anything, that could boost the muggleborns' sense of confidence in their own culture, because there are things that they really don't want to leave behind and which the wizarding world can't replace. Would be an interesting shift.

[sarillia]

I can agree with the attitude being annoying and so teenagery but I just don't read so much contempt for the other Hogwarts students that some of the others here do. I will admit that my friends and I did that sort of thing when we were in high school and yeah we were brats and I cringe now, but there was way more fun in the attitude than superiority.

Maybe I've just seen different posts. I don't care about some of the ones I've seen, but some of them are funny to me because of the visual and some of them are cute because of the students bonding over little things. I just haven't seen so much laughing at the purebloods who don't get the joke.

I agree with your second paragraph. I'd be fascinated by a serious look at what it's like to be muggleborn at Hogwarts.

[ketita]

Hmm... maybe it's the tone of some of the ones I've seen? I mean there's a bit of the 'nerds are soooo much better' vibe. I recognize it because hay, I was a bit of a brat like that in high school too, only it was with anime.
I think it does depend on the post.
Most of the ones I've seen didn't ping me as funny, tbh, just tossing in cultural references and going lolol. The ones I find interesting or clever are few and far between, but that could also just depend on what gets reblogged, since I don't actually see that many.

I actually kind of want to write a fic now about the first muggleborn who wants to quit Hogwarts (or maybe they aren't the first?). Or maybe them trying to get the internet to work.
Getting wizards onto mixed forums with muggles would be interesting too, especially if they knew little about the muggle world and were the minority - they wouldn't be able to curse people directly, which would get rid of a lot of their superiority, and they'd find themselves at a cultural disadvantage, which I imagine would be a bit shocking for some of them.

[sarillia]

I've often wondered about the interaction of magical and muggle culture. I would think that the muggle stuff would get spread since people knowledgeable about that world come into the wizarding world all the time but magical stuff must be kept secret from muggles. You do see a bit of that in how the kids often wear muggle clothes outside of school but there's no way muggles will start wearing robes. But then if that was the case you would think there would be more muggle influence on wizarding culture than there is, even with the arrogance of purebloods who are sure that their ways are best. Instead, it seems like muggleborn students are encouraged to completely give up their background and go along with the magical ways.

[ketita]

Which, to be fair, does kind of fit with an insular society. I do think that the wizarding world in general feels, and has felt, superiority over muggles for a long time, so it's probably a kind of unspoken accepted thing that muggleborns will set their muggle ways aside.
I mean even Arthur Weasley who's fascinated by the stuff, tends to be fascinated in a very patronizing sort of way. Overall, the wizarding world doesn't believe that there's much to be learned from the muggle world.
Though I always wondered if guns wouldn't be quite functional against wizards. Bullets are fast, you know? If you pulled the trigger before they had a chance to respond/think of a spell, it might work pretty decently.