Someone in the Black Twitterverse started #IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU and the results are incredible. Because if you didn’t read Harry Potter, did you even have a childhood? Read below to imagine how glorious this would have been.

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and so it begun…

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU The Order of the Phoenix would all be ex Panthers turned teachers. Death Eaters would be Black Republicans.

— Indominous Flex (@thirdeyesquints) August 1, 2015

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the character casting….

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Founder of Huffle Puff #IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU pic.twitter.com/qVbPgIricI

— ♦️JA❌SUN🏴❤️🖤💚✊🏿 (@Epic_Smite) August 3, 2015

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— ⚡Billy Batson⚡ (@JuugmanThaGawd) August 3, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU Financial Aid would be the Chamber of Secrets because no one knows what goes on there

— Sosa (@_EddySosa) August 2, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU willow would be Luna and Amandla would be Hermione pic.twitter.com/P1GpIpnCmt

— M🐉 (@makeenz) August 3, 2015

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#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU there would be a spell for instant twist outs for those days when your twist outs come out a mess. "wingardium afrosa"

— 3rd-World-Problems 🇯🇲 (@Dawchelley) August 2, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU Dementors would wear white, not black. pic.twitter.com/RAN41G0CIn

— reg (@kidnoble) August 3, 2015

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#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU the prisoner of Azkaban would be Assata Shakur

— I got that water, remember? (@layjwest) August 2, 2015

Instead of saying "lumos" to get our wands to light up, we'd say "it's lit." #IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU

— CANDACE SINCLAIRE (@delafro_) August 3, 2015

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#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU Students would be living in the woods with Hagrid's half-brother because they didn't get housing.

— EVE JANE CLAIR (@EveJaneClair) August 3, 2015

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#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU 'Nuf Said ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/GrkJKHOZCq

— 𝐃 ✨ (@itsbaejahjanae) August 2, 2015

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#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU We would discuss how people who dress like Muggles are engaging in respectability politics #FactsOnly

— Intersectional Papi (PILAR Out Now!!) (@JulianThePoet) August 3, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU howard would be Hogwarts, Spellman would be beauxbatons, and Morehouse would be Durmstrang. pic.twitter.com/XSEJsmW8cx

— 3rd-World-Problems 🇯🇲 (@Dawchelley) August 2, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU
Catching the snitch would get you permanent 24 hour visitation pic.twitter.com/v3m4IBo6D4

— Simply TC (@BienSur_JeTaime) August 1, 2015

#IfHogWartsWasAnHBCU all the black portraits at yo grandma house would be walking

— Pla Ket Ket Ket Ket (@_xoxbritt) August 2, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU this summer we would have seen the hashtag #HBCUmeninCloaks

— I got that water, remember? (@layjwest) August 2, 2015

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#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU meet your herbology instructor, Professor Badu. pic.twitter.com/aPQuhGTZdc

— 🍯 (@lilreddrae) August 3, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU "Fuck you mean the second trial is in the lake?!"

— Intersectional Papi (PILAR Out Now!!) (@JulianThePoet) August 3, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU the Tri Wizard Tournament would be the Honda Battle of the Bands

— jimmi neutron 🏳️‍🌈 (@IAmDaCloud) August 3, 2015

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#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU Moaning Myrtle would play Drake in the bathrooms

— JΛΥLΝ 🌊 (@JaylnOfficial) August 3, 2015

#NigeriansAtHogwarts your whole family be at platform nine and three-quarters on your first year like.. pic.twitter.com/zZxqCVNBn7

— Sir Booze (@BoozeBumps) August 1, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU They'd play Back That A** Up at the Yule Ball and the houses would start strolling

— Simply TC (@BienSur_JeTaime) August 1, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU There'd be panels about pure-blood, half-blood and muggle unity because we're all witches & warlocks to everybody else.

— EVE JANE CLAIR (@EveJaneClair) August 3, 2015

#IfHogwartsWasAnHBCU everyone's bogart would be a police officer

— I got that water, remember? (@layjwest) August 2, 2015

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