#fagging

Do you think the purebloods in Slytherin House partook in 'fagging'? (Seniors using younger years to run errands/chores/other such things) I've seen a few posts about it and I kinda just thought it was odd it was only ever Slytherin mentioned, as I can imagine the other houses also having it (mostly Gryffindors as i can see some of them using the firsties to brush their egos) It's not common practice anymore but it was very popular in Britain and Boarding schools and only really died down in the 20th century, so I always just assumed Hogwarts students would've practiced it as well since the wizarding world is rather stuck in the past. I just think it's interesting, and considering Snape was a halfblood in Slytherin I'd imagine he was a victim of it for some time. I'd also assume you wouldn't only use students in your own house, I think Hufflepuff first years would've been alot of people's gofers because its the "nice house"

That's all! Just wondering your opinions on the matter if you have any ❤️ sorry for any grammar mistakes or if I worded confusing!

To be honest, I’ve never given much thought to “fagging” at Hogwarts—it’s such a narrowly British boarding‐school tradition that I tend not to think about it unless it comes up explicitly. But you’re right: the wizarding world is famously stuck in the past, and Slytherin certainly leans on old customs.

Years ago, perusing a book that mentioned about Hinduism I encountered that swastika was not exactly the Nazis’ invention. (I know, it took me so long.) Finally understanding that the European bigots found their way to make the symbol theirs, it is of course disheartening that this symbol of good luck became notorious for anything evil. (There is an emerging racist/Islamophobic problem in India, but I digress.)

Which reminds me of this post yesterday. “Fag” and “fagging” are terms originated in England and never meant to be a slur like we all know in the US context.

Fag masters or prefects choose their fags according to their beauty.

Fagging is a very old, old tradition where the elder boys select a younger boy who does chores for you, and you pay him every week. The pay is normally between £5 to £10 a week. You can get him to go shopping for you or to clean your shoes, or you text him to get him to get you some food if you've been out late. If you'd been out on a Saturday night on "restaurant leave" to have a couple of pints and a curry in the local town, you could text him at 12 o'clock at night and just say, "Look, I'm quite pissed, I need you to go make me a coffee and some baked beans on toast so that I can look sober for my house master so I don't look like a moron." If you didn't wake up or didn't answer, that's when the repercussions could occur. There was some real bullying sometimes. You don't want to risk getting a bad name with the other boys because then everyone is out to get you. The social hierarchy is kept in place. ( x )

Eton College, which obviously was Yana Toboso’s model for Weston College, stopped practicing fagging in the ‘80s.

However, the term “fag,” a shortened form for “faggot,” is confined to the United States, that may or may not have been related to the English definition.

The British continued to use the words fag and faggot as nouns, verbs and adjectives right through the early 20th century, never applying it to homosexuals at any time. To fag or to be a fag was a common term in British schools from the late 1700s and referred to a lower classman who performed chores for upperclassmen. While this term was also in vogue at Harvard in the first half of the 19th century, it died out by the mid-1800s in the U.S., leaving it in use only in England. Nineteenth century Britons also heard "faggot" used in reference to an ill-tempered woman, i.e., a ball-buster, a battleaxe, a shrew. That meaning of the term continued into the early 20th century, and the usage was gradually applied to children as well as women. The relationship, if any, between faggot-as-bundle-of-sticks and faggot-as-shrewish-woman is unknown.

I haven’t read John Peel’s autobiography, but it highlighted the problems in the UK public schools where bullying and sexual harassment are rampant. He admitted that he was raped. The practise is very controversial and I don’t think that it hasn’t stopped until this day.

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