midnightlupus:

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

honeysquid:

inner-muse:

harryjamesheadcanons:

When Ron, frustrated with studying for NEWTs and with Hermione’s anxious sixth-year nagging, explains to her what reading is like for him, Hermione’s breath catches. “Ron, you’re dyslexic,” she says, softly, and instantly regrets every snide comment she’s ever made towards his study habits. 

Soon, by asking around, Hermione amasses a list of spells for Ron to try – some stilling the page, some changing the font of books for easy reading, some going after Ron’s temporal lobe directly. 

These help, a little, but not as much as knowing there’s a word for why reading is so hard for him. That it’s normal, that he’s not stupid, and that Hermione suddenly helps instead of criticizes, looks for solutions rather than complains, praises instead of gloats. 

!!! Oh

#listen tho what if #muggles are terrible about disabilities#but wizards are even worse#they don’t even have the terminology that muggles do#it’s all ‘kinda loony’ or “just dim’ or (most often) ‘not a talented witch/wizard’#and ofc ~everyone knows~ that all illnesses can be cured with magic#(except for some magical illnesses that can’t be cured at all)#but as ron talks more with hermione and other muggleborns#and researches the spells hermione gets him#and realizes that most of the spell creators probably also had dyslexia but had no word for it#he realizes that what ‘everyone knows’ isn’t true at all#after abt a year of this he talks to mcgonagall abt changing his career goals#goes into healing with a concentration on research#and a secret concentration on finding out what muggles know and bringing it into the wizarding world#(his dad is so proud of him and prolly helps out a lot too)

this paragraph is better than anything jk ever wrote about grown ron

Hang on, what if this has something to do with squibs as well? What if Filch and the others weren’t bad at magic….they just couldn’t read the spells? What if some of them had speech impediments and couldn’t say the words accurately? Can you imagine what a difference stuff like that would make? Like imagine Ron finding this out and then really cautiously going back to Hogwarts and finding Filch who is now ancient and asking him about it. Then imagine that he uses one of those spells that Hermione taught him to help, and suddenly Filch can read the words. It took almost his whole life, and it almost kills him to ask, but imagine him finally taking out the wand that he kept from his parents and asking Ron to help him do just one thing. Imagine Filch tottering up to McGonagall and beckoning her to follow him to the supply room and proudly waving his wand and saying “Wingardium Leviosa” and slowly. SLOWLY. That package of rust proofing rags for the suits of armor from the top shelf that is always murder to get down, that Filch has to get a ladder and balance precariously to reach, floats down to the ground where he can reach down and pick it up. 

The students that are new to Hogwarts that next year are confused when the older kids say how different Filch is from when they first came to the school. They can’t imagine the old man as anything but the smiling, cheerful custodian that greets them in the halls while that feather duster gently brushes along the tops of the tall windows with not a ladder in sight.