desidere:

the thing that fucks me up most with harry potter headcanon as a mixed chicana w/ native+”mestiza” roots is that “purebloods” already wiped us the fuck out. you can play harry potter and pureblood as a metaphor for british classism all you want but don’t tell me that the Salem Witches academy wasn’t built on the site of native americans lands, don’t tell me that european wizards and witches didn’t come to the americas and slaughter those who weren’t secretive about their magic, who didn’t have muggles, don’t tell me they didn’t slaughter us/the american magical peoples, they didn’t convert as many of our ancestors to god-fearing religions as possible because then our brothers and sisters would fear the witches and force magic back into secrecy and out of the hands of our kings and queens, our chiefs, our sages, shamans, healers, don’t tell me that spanish and british and french wizards didn’t come to the americas and round us up, ripping the magic users away from their families to be schooled in proper wand-using magics instead of wandless or wordless or magic by other means in boarding schools which humiliated us, which stole our native tongues and obliterated our heritage and our native power and then mocked us for when we continued to strive to fit our own cultures into their tiny tiny molds

don’t tell me that abuelas and abuelos don’t whisper to their grandchildren the old spells they still know, that in secret, we still cling to magic that they could never understand 

voldemort as a singular villain isn’t so scary when your people were raped, enslaved, and slaughtered across two continents for hundreds of years 

imagine the bitter laughter of the elderly curandera — ay, now they’re worried about who is being killed 

imagine the blood your headcanon is built upon