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My aunt’s studio has one, but her apartment is kind of a unicorn.

Oh yes!

Ravenclaw and boar. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

I feel like it means you’re grounded, but don’t back down.

You know if you think about it, rejecting the test and trying to hack the system is a very Slytherin thing to do.

One of my friends really wanted to be a Hufflepuff, but Pottermore put her in Gryffindor and she was like “WTF? With those jocks?”

Eh, some Ravenclaws are ambitious a-holes, others are friendly weirdos like Luna.

I mean... there’s also the wand and patronus quizzes...

During the Olympics one year, one of the commentators for the team synchro events said “Imagine running a 100 meter dash while holding your breath. That is what these women are doing.”

I know this is like a year and a half after the fact, but:

Yup. My grandpa survived polio, and it left him with very visible and lasting effects. Knowing what he went through and just how common it was absolutely informs my support for vaccines.

I think she knows she needs to speak up, she’s just asking how to do it in a way that will get parents to actually listen. People’s brains shut down when they think they’re being judged.

First editions! Working for Bloomsbury while they were still being published sounds insane, I can’t even imagine having that sort of access to the books while they were coming out.

I honestly love the dopey non-Lego Harry Potter games, where you have to play Quidditch by flying through the glowing rings and all that.

My roommate in college was one of those kids! By middle or high school I think she decided to just read them from the school library. Harry Potter was the first (only?) thing she ever mentioned doing against her parents’ wishes.

Omg, it felt like everyone had their own personal pronunciation of Hermione. I was a Herme-own kid, but my brother went with the much more inspired “Harmonica.”

McGonagall is my favorite, and I would be all over transfiguration (or charms) all day, every day. Though astronomy always seemed fun, I wanted to hear more about Professor Sinestra! Dream job would be magical physicist, studying magic at the particle level via the scientific method. Dunno what the bogart would be

Wild boar. I am choosing to focus on the fact that pigs are smart and adorable and occasionally deadly.

Order of the Phoenix was the first book that came out after I started reading (my brother started with #2). There was such a hullaballoo over how long it was, to the point where I remember writing a note commemorating the exact date and time I finished it.

There’s no way in hell I’d give one to a kid, but damn that looks fun.