(hey tumblr please don’t delete the previous people’s comments like you did the last time i added someone’s tags to a post mmkay)
No but that’s actually so clever okay like the people who live in the castle would get a general idea of the patterns and how to move around efficiently but like for anyone planning on attacking it would be impossible to infiltrate like how the hell do I attack the headmaster when I can’t even find the bathroom why the fuck am I in a chemistry supply closet okay these stairs went to the main hall but now I’m on my way to the broom closets holy fucking shit fuck leonard SAID the dorm was on the left of the three headed hippogriff but I’m here and it’s just a painting of a man with a donkey face is this a fucikgin joke leonard do you think this is funny because it’snot. its not okay siri how the hell do i get to the nearest anything “here is: the nearest painting” like fuck you siri
actually considering all this, the changing floorplan probably worked exactly as designed when it came to the battle of hogwarts in the late 90′s. the invasion was towards the end of the term, so the students, especially the renegade students in hiding, had the full term to master getting around the school quickly, quietly, and efficiently. the invading deatheaters were generally their parents’s ages, and hadn’t been back to hogwarts in several decades, if they’d even attended at all. so, while the adult invaders easily outmatched the adolescent defenders in strength and skill, hogwarts was a lethal maze to the deatheaters, while it was home to the kids.
So at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, Sirius says to Hermione, “You really are the brightest witch of your age,” with an emphasis on the “are,” implying that someone previously had told him that Hermione was super fucking smart and he was just then affirming it
But like, who told him that? He didn’t really get a chance to talk to Harry or Ron or Lupin between “I didn’t kill your parents” and “oh shit werewolf” and “I’m about to get the dementor’s kiss.”
So I like to think that it was Crookshanks who told him, coz Crookshanks and Padfoot were friends, right? I can imagine Crookshanks just going on and on about Hermione, like “My human is the best human, she’s so smart and lovely and perfect, just wait till you meet her, I love her so much”
Regulus: Mary, come here. I want to show you something in the bathroom
Mary: Oh, Reg, grow up!
Sirius: Hey, what’s behind your back?
Regulus: Nothing. Just something I want to get Mary’s opinion on for Valentine’s Day
Sirius: You don’t want my opinion?
Regulus: Not really
Sirius: Come on, I’m your older brother, ask me!
Regulus: All right, big brother *holds up two lingeries* Which of these do you think would make your little brother look hotter, so your best friend would want to do him?
Draco: Pansy, so you know how Potter is always avoiding me?
Pansy: Because you’re in love with him, yeah
Draco: I’m not in love with—anyway, I’ve thought of a new way to get his attention
Pansy: Boy, this should be fun. What is it?
Draco: I’m going to climb on a tree!
Pansy: What? Are you crazy? Getting on a tree for him, that’s actually worse than when you folded that paper-bird and sent it to him from across the classroom. If that doesn’t say desperate I don’t know what is!
Draco: So you’re saying I shouldn’t do that?
Pansy: Oh, no, I’m just saying you’re crazy, I definitely want to see how it’s gonna go though
