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— bre (@chefboyarbre) January 11, 2018
WHO FILLED THE GOBLET OF FIRE UP WITH HENNESSEY, AGAIN?!#BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/Y0ZpggY3yU— lipstick & heels (@JazzyJnycFinest) January 11, 2018
When you on scholarship so you can't afford an owl #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/ne16gsS8iL— Sherlyne (@miss_shrleen) January 11, 2018
The portraits in Hogwarts be like #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/08qNAC6UY7— Brianna E. Tyson (@PUSHABRI) January 11, 2018
Biggie, Pac, Aaliyah, Left Eye & Bob Marley Are The Coolest Ghosts To Roam The Halls. Don't @ Me.#BlackHogwarts
— Bitch, I Got Beef Wit Being Broke. (@_gyptianking) January 11, 2018
From Weasley to Wayans #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/D7jCmAoKJx— Keith R. (@RecklessRespect) January 11, 2018
The half blood prince #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/wNf5v3vDNz— lipstick & heels (@JazzyJnycFinest) January 11, 2018
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
One of the seven hocruxes #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/rGxgK8RGCJ— Six Gun Underwood (@Johnlloyd_IV) January 11, 2018
The four houses students were sorted into transformed as well:
When the sorting durag puts me in Cripindor #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/WLjipcJwVJ— Barson Wentz (@iamTruSpeech) January 11, 2018
Sorting durag: "you bougie, ignorant, and pettty……. SLYTHERIN" #BlackHogwarts
Me: pic.twitter.com/iTUQ3keRCt
— Jill from HR (@JbooggyJosiah) January 11, 2018
When you Hufflepuff but got invited to a Ravenclaw kickback and Gryffindor smoke out pic.twitter.com/yvrmIVXnXh
— Mr.Miyagi (@ALittle_Early) January 11, 2018
Them Slytherin girls✨ #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/7AaSv0InKW— Tzena (@Tzenaaa) January 11, 2018
How girls be showing up to the first day of class after being sorted into Gryffindor #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/8rCBd0AqIr— AshanteNicoleStyle (@ANSTYLEdotCOM) January 11, 2018
#BlackHogwarts Me watching all my “dawgs” get sorted into slytherin pic.twitter.com/0msbLLvjFh
— The Good Boy. (@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:
Welcome to Advanced Transfiguration, second years. #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/5Wj875l9VV— RAAVA (@fantasticboyage) January 11, 2018
When professor Snape tries to skip over slavery in your history of Muggles class #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/JszU1mMHrd— Tyrion Lannister (@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— NThenTheresThisAsshole… (@RaizenMSU) January 11, 2018
In herbology like #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/fVVcyGuS5S— Young Solar System (@bekazau) January 11, 2018
Professor Snoop, Herbology #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/7RZyxPDMIs— Kiki Roché (@OnionsAndWine) January 11, 2018
Future has to be the Potions teacher, teaching us how to make Dirty Sprite. #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/ZOhXandD2d— 21 Sandwich△⃒⃘ (@TheSwagChamp) January 11, 2018
Hello, I'm Professor Annalise Keating. This is Auror Law 101 or as I prefer to call it "How to Get Away With Magic" #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/rKtLwacFw1— Kεnføʀɗ Sтᴀrɢαʀуєɴ???????? (@Negreauxdamus) January 11, 2018
Dueling classes looking alot like this…#BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/q6igCRfCVK— The Weekdae. (@TChalla_Fett) 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— Cobra Bubbles (@jimward3000) January 11, 2018
Me: Can I go to Hogsmeade?
Mom: You got Hogsmeade money? Me:#BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/XGeIVWmXnN— xmas bae (@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— King Alexandria. (@KingAl3xandria) January 11, 2018
All the girls be doing Weave spells #BlackHogwarts
— AwesomeAura????????✨???????????? (@auraambitions) January 11, 2018
#BlackHogwarts
“Girl what you wearing to the Yule Ball?”Me a hufflepuff: Oh nothing too fancy.
*At the Yule Ball* pic.twitter.com/xqobSQ0aTP
— YeAr oF ThE HoE????????♀️ (@Tinytay19) January 11, 2018
When you fail your spells exam even after you used a cheating spell to pass #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/ar9TZ9Zr8K— #JamieOverstreet (@BruhvaRice) January 11, 2018
#BlackHogwarts
Dumbledore: What happened to my phoenix?
Me: pic.twitter.com/5CCWCj2PvO— Nunya (@20lbBallz) January 11, 2018
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— Shafel ???????? (@shaffiec) January 11, 2018
“Girl, I know the real reason they call her Moaning Myrtle” #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/IfmbshRdyI— JP (@Jaypee_Toomuch) January 11, 2018
Viktor Krum showing up to take Hermoine to the ball. #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/kIXKPmOT64— Ciarra Jones (@Ciarra_Milan) January 11, 2018
Even death was addressed:
Pouring some out for Cedrick Diggory pic.twitter.com/rNEdDoMd09
— Iheartgraff (@IheartgrafDrew) January 11, 2018
We made sure Dumbledore went out in style #BlackHogwarts
pic.twitter.com/JHCAwz2XKg— ????????????❤️ (@SierraDenae_) 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— menaskom ???????????? (@RahmanSoyan) 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.