[ SECRET POST #3592 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3592 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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OP

[(Anonymous)]

Ignore the N!S tags, this is pretty much all S!.

(That's all I had to add. Carry on.)

[vethica]

Why doesn't Al in Slytherin make sense?

[sarillia]

Why doesn't it make sense? That conversation started because James was telling Albus he might be in Slytherin. Presumably he has some Slytherin traits. Or maybe James was just messing with him. I could see arguing that we don't know that he would fit in Slytherin, but I don't see how you can say definitively that he wouldn't.

[(Anonymous)]

I think they meant it doesn't make sense to ASSUME he'd be in Slytherin based only on that conversation. Like to think that conversation makes it a fact.

[sarillia]

I can agree with that.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

For reference, that is exactly what I meant, thank you for wording it better.

[(Anonymous)]

Simple. He befriends someone he likes on the train who ends up in slytherin thus he wants to be in slytherin to be with that person. Maybe the sorting hat convinces him he can do some good in slytherin.

I really dont see how this is so impossible.

[(Anonymous)]

This brings me back to when DH first came out and on the night it was released, the epilogue thread on potterdammerung had someone pointing out that with initials like 'A.S.P', that kid was bound for Slytherin. And I have been sold on the idea ever since. Sorry dude :P

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, his initials spelling 'A.S.P' is what did it for me too.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like it either, OP. Mostly because I like the family tradition of them being in Gryffindor...

[(Anonymous)]

This headcanon pisses me off too >:(

[(Anonymous)]

I understand how you feel. That conversation alone isn't enough to say he HAS to be a Slytherin. I always thought it was a nice way of showing how attitudes may have changed and matured since the War, how people may have realized those House feuds could lead to bad things especially if entire families traditionally wind up going to the same one. So I honestly expected to see the weirdest names in the weirdest houses, but from what I hear except for Albus Potter everyone is pretty much where their parents were? A Slytherin Potter is alright, but it would have been cooler when combined with a Hufflepuff Malfoy for example.

[tree_and_leaf]

I could totally buy a Hufflepuff Malfoy. Family loyalty is a big driver for Draco and Narcissa (no, she's not a Malfoy by birth, but Draco's kid would be descended from her and probably influenced by her), and even for Lucius, in a way. If they toned down the ambition...

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think he was sorted into Slytherin because of that one conversation. I think that one conversation happened because Al always knew there was something different about him. I can appreciate the angst in that.

[iggy]

OP, I disagree that only one wizarding school in the US makes no sense.* It's actually quite plausible with what we know about the wizarding world.

If we go by how many kids there likely are at Hogwarts and use that to determine, by ratio of population, how many kids there likely are at Ilvermorny, Ilvermorny would have under two thousand students (and this uses both the population of the US and Canada). That’s smaller than my highschool.

*which it have only one anyway because JKR has outright said that there’s a number of smaller schools in countries but these are just the flagship schools.

Even CHINA could handle one wizarding school. I do think people really underestimate how small the wizarding world is? It’s very small. Rowling said somewhere at some point that there are 'a few thousand' wizards in the UK. Harry's year only has forty kids in it. I believe the movies make it look larger, but it essentially consists, in the UK, of a selection of small villages and I assume it’s the same elsewhere in the world.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the logistics of travel and the geographic size of the United States is what trips some people up, me included. Europeans usually don't think about just how big the US is.

[tree_and_leaf]

They're wizards.

[iggy]

The wizarding world regularly uses magical methods of transportation that allow them to poof from place to place in seconds.

[(Anonymous)]

Magic does have rules and limitations in Harry Potter. Apparation (which I might be spelling wrong) is difficult, advanced magic that can usually only be done by children in their older teens. An 11 year old in Washington state couldn't just teleport themselves to where ever the wizarding school is without leaving some of their parts along the way. Some wizards never even bother to learn how to apperate. The Flow Network might exist in America, but that would take a lot to maintain especially for long distances. So would any sort of magic train or bus to take a large number of students to a school. Would it start in LA, stop in Chicago and finish on the east coast where I assume the wizarding school is? It all seems way more complicated than it needs to be from a story telling point of view verse just having 3 to 5 wizarding schools in America.

[iggy]

Of course they would not apparate. I was thinking of portkeys, actually. A network of portkeys set up to get kids to school ala what was set up for the quidditch world cup seems like the most logical and simple explanation for getting kids to school. It doesn't have to be that elaborate.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, if Harry could have made it into Slytherin then why not?

Nah, but I blame Rowling for treating Slytherin like the bad house until the very end.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering Harry almost got sorted into Slytherin himself, and the only reason he didn't was because he made the choice that he wanted anywhere but there (because, by the way, of a conversation he had since otherwise he knew nothing about the houses and their characteristics), I don't think it's that big of a stretch that Albus Severus would be sorted into Slytherin after one conversation convinced him that it'd be ok so he'd have no reason to tell the hat "Please no" if it suggested it, especially because times had changed and there doesn't seem to be as much of a stigma against the house as there once was.