Black Twitter got together on Thursday to populate the hashtag #BlackHogwarts by imagining what Hogwarts would have been like if it had been a blacker place.
The results were simply magical.
Users first set up rules for the world, getting everyone on the same page. For instance, the sorting hat became the sorting doorag:
The Sorting Durag. Somebody called it the damn Sorting Durag. I’m in tears. I really do love black people, man. #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/HM7cXDtguO
— MISS HONEY 🍑 (@eaudebrixx) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/notorious_JOY/status/951436970802188288
https://twitter.com/miss_shrleen/status/951539148736909313
The portraits in Hogwarts be like #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/08qNAC6UY7
— plastic off the sofa (@jai_sade) January 11, 2018
Biggie, Pac, Aaliyah, Left Eye & Bob Marley Are The Coolest Ghosts To Roam The Halls. Don't @ Me.#BlackHogwarts
— Illumi Zoldyck (@NIPTVCK_) January 11, 2018
From Weasley to Wayans #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/D7jCmAoKJx
— Yep… (@Artxcii) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/notorious_JOY/status/951413117807972352
When Dementors waiting on the block for you #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/kJFTBvseUu
— NYTBK (@nytbk) January 11, 2018
When you find the real reason why the Forbidden Forest is off limits to students
#BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/VcEBjcnSZe— *。*Mocha Lai Lani*。* (@MochaLani) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/Johnlloyd_IV/status/951539484318937088
The four houses students were sorted into transformed as well:
When the sorting durag puts me in Cripindor #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/WLjipcJwVJ
— Tez💜 (@JoeSweatpants) January 11, 2018
Sorting durag: "you bougie, ignorant, and pettty……. SLYTHERIN" #BlackHogwarts
Me: pic.twitter.com/iTUQ3keRCt
— Maddy Perez Fan Club (@JbooggyJosiah) January 11, 2018
When you Hufflepuff but got invited to a Ravenclaw kickback and Gryffindor smoke out pic.twitter.com/yvrmIVXnXh
— Tanjiro Minaj (@ALittle_Early) January 11, 2018
Them Slytherin girls✨ #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/7AaSv0InKW
— Tzena (@Tzenaaa) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/ANSTYLEdotCOM/status/951416895743328256
#BlackHogwarts Me watching all my “dawgs” get sorted into slytherin pic.twitter.com/0msbLLvjFh
— Good Boy, Legend of the Fall 🅴 (@jordancarnette) January 11, 2018
The Sorting Hat said it best about my Ravenclaw house:
"…in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind."Yup, smart, witty, and always down to learn. #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/81gDjJE6jP
— Eileen James 🧐 (@eileenmjames1) January 11, 2018
Although it could sometimes be easy to forget with all the fighting, Voldemort, Quidditch and teen romance, Hogwarts was — at the end of the day — a school. So Twitter imagined would classes be like at a Black Hogwarts:
https://twitter.com/fantasticboyage/status/951539645535408130
When professor Snape tries to skip over slavery in your history of Muggles class #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/JszU1mMHrd
— Jamarcus Turner (@MrMarcus260) January 11, 2018
Me messing up in potions class #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/bWbCsEAYED
— Stephen Thomas (@stevetoosmoov) January 11, 2018
Me: "I thought this was Defense Against The Dark Arts.."
Prof. Prince: Throwing shade IS the Dark Art#BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/fqhlYSde3B
— Zatara? Sounds Fearsome… (@RaizenMSU) January 11, 2018
In herbology like #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/fVVcyGuS5S
— All$In No$Out (@bekazau) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/OnionsAndWine/status/951543883833294850
Future has to be the Potions teacher, teaching us how to make Dirty Sprite. #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/ZOhXandD2d
— 21 Migz△⃒⃘ (@FezInRealLife) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/Negreauxdamus/status/951504093314461698
Dueling classes looking alot like this…#BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/q6igCRfCVK
— Indominous Flex (@thirdeyesquints) January 11, 2018
Users also reminded us that you can always count on Black Twitter to keep a fantasy world real:
Draco: Mudbloods shouldn't be here at Hogwarts.
Hermione:#BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/qmYMryt4Gz— Kareem Reynolds (@generalsz21) January 11, 2018
First Day out of Azkaban #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/2SJtZzDsLh
— Rock Lee-Roy (@jimward3000) January 11, 2018
Me: Can I go to Hogsmeade?
Mom: You got Hogsmeade money? Me:#BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/XGeIVWmXnN— Kelli (@gaymerchik) January 11, 2018
When anyone calls you a mudblood #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/BrSXS7mBjc
— Meron (@M_3rcy) January 11, 2018
My patronus is these hands #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/E53fPbWAse
— Cozy and Thique (@KingAl3xandria) January 11, 2018
All the girls be doing Weave spells #BlackHogwarts
— ✨Ari the Artist 🖼✨ (@auraambitions) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/Tinytay19/status/951465203811667968
When you fail your spells exam even after you used a cheating spell to pass #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/ar9TZ9Zr8K
— Free Brittney Griner (@BruhvaRice) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/20lbBallz/status/951561355135475712
No part of life at Black Hogwarts went unexplored, and that includes love and dating:
Me when a regular Hogwarts man tries to speak to me knowing I only mess with Durmstrang men #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/kqdmgXQP4V
— Professional Lurker (@shaffiec) January 11, 2018
“Girl, I know the real reason they call her Moaning Myrtle” #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/IfmbshRdyI
— JP “TooMuch” Saint Louis 🇭🇹 (@jp_toomuch) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/Ciarra_Milan/status/951579635183116288
Even death was addressed:
https://twitter.com/IheartgrafDrew/status/951530129028722688
We made sure Dumbledore went out in style #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/JHCAwz2XKg
— 🍫👸🏾❤️ (@theesierradenae) January 11, 2018
And at least one user hoped that J.K. Rowling was paying attention:
J.k. Rowlings scrolling tru #blackhogwarts pic.twitter.com/OkFRhc3GC1
— Ramon (@GH4Z1) January 11, 2018
That Lupita-Rihanna Black Twitter movie is happening. So who knows? A Black Hogwarts series could be in bookstores before you know it.
