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From what I remember, the sorting hat will also just give you the house you want to go to.
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Tulip posted:I remember a person on Twitter being like "I used to think it was so crazy that Rowling built this whole world with like split schools and long term stays and turns out the creative parts are just normal British society" Early Harry Potter's thing of satirizing British culture and history was really good, like the wizard money being complicated and arbitrary like pre-decimalization British pounds were or how the rules of Quidditch are as impenetrable and chaotic as cricket.
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pretty funny that Hufflepuff is canonically the unexceptional house of leftovers and people gleefully embrace that, "I'm SUCH a Hufflepuff, I define myself by having no true personality and only really existing to serve the Alphas in the story of my life!"
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Apr 24, 2020 15:38
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josh04 posted:House Protagonist, House Antagonist, House Not Appearing In This Story. FTFY JethroMcB posted:pretty funny that Hufflepuff is canonically the unexceptional house of leftovers and people gleefully embrace that, "I'm SUCH a Hufflepuff, I define myself by having no true personality and only really existing to serve the Alphas in the story of my life!" Yes, but you've met potterheads, can you really say they're wrong?
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JethroMcB posted:pretty funny that Hufflepuff is canonically the unexceptional house of leftovers and people gleefully embrace that, "I'm SUCH a Hufflepuff, I define myself by having no true personality and only really existing to serve the Alphas in the story of my life!" I always forget Tonks was a Hufflepuff. She seemed too... effective. (Until she died off-camera, but not before doing her biological duty and giving birth.)
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JethroMcB posted:pretty funny that Hufflepuff is canonically the unexceptional house of leftovers and people gleefully embrace that, "I'm SUCH a Hufflepuff, I define myself by having no true personality and only really existing to serve the Alphas in the story of my life!" You have it wrong. Hufflepuffs are high all of the time. They are the stoner house.
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House Hufflepuff is right next to the secret house-elf kitchens that provide all of the meals in the great hall which means you can grab a snack pretty much any time you've got a gap between classes it kicks rear end.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:57
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House Hufflepuff: You're almost the help.
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Apr 24, 2020 16:05
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jocks, evils, fats, nerds
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Apr 24, 2020 16:08
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Hufflepuff is relatable to anyone who is competent but unexceptional and largely views school/work as an obligation you have to fulfill to support the rest of your life that you actually care about. They're only lazy and stupid in the way that you're not a team player for not going to TGIFridays on your own dime with your co-workers as part of your office's mandatory fun program.
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FunkyAl posted:You have it wrong. Hufflepuffs are high all of the time. They are the stoner house. It's right there in the name!
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Apr 24, 2020 16:42
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A very good friend of mine is a potterhead, and when the sorting quiz came out she eagerly took it in front of her Husband to prove what a total Gryffindor she was. Result: Hufflepuff. She was so angry she put in a different email address and took the test over. And got Hufflepuff again. Needless to say even her daughter bullies her relentlessly about this.
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SolarFire2 posted:A very good friend of mine is a potterhead, and when the sorting quiz came out she eagerly took it in front of her Husband to prove what a total Gryffindor she was. Result: Hufflepuff. Incredible
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Especially because quizzes are super obvious? You see a rabbit in the middle of the field in a hawk is coming. What do you do? 1. I bravely rush in and save the rabbit, with courage 2. I ran over and I kick the rabbit because I'm evil and then I punch the hawk also and steal it's wallet 3. I observe nature and make notes in my smart person journal about knowing things 4. Find a big stupid dumb dumb and I roll around in the grass like a fool (loyally)
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Apr 24, 2020 18:26
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I always wondered why the american exchange student wizard didn't solve the wizard hitler problem by going and getting a gun
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Apr 24, 2020 18:32
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Yeah all the questions were like Question 7: What is most important to you? A. Bravery B. Knowledge C. Ambition D. Being in Hufflepuff
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RBA Starblade posted:I always wondered why the american exchange student wizard didn't solve the wizard hitler problem by going and getting a gun Fantastic Beasts solves this riddle: every American wizard is a fascist.
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josh04 posted:Fantastic Beasts solves this riddle: every American wizard is a fascist. Even Brockway Weasley???
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Harry Potter is a total Tremere.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Yeah all the questions were like When asked which Muggle you most respect, you would say: A. Winston Churchill, who courageously stewarded the United Kingdom in its darkest hour B. Richard Dawkins, who puts matters of the mind above all else C. None of them, ever; though the ones involved with genocide had some good ideas D. 
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Would you prefer: A. Being loved by your parents unconditionally, assuming you aren't a bastard (dictionary meaning) B. Being loved by your parents because it's the right thing to do C. Being loved by your parents logically D. Being loved by your parents by default.
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RBA Starblade posted:I always wondered why the american exchange student wizard didn't solve the wizard hitler problem by going and getting a gun We know that wizards and witches still use regular weapons because things like Godrick Gryffindor's sword exist, so there's no reason to think that they wouldn't also use guns. It's just that using a gun is the Harry Potter version of being a white dude with a mall katana and nobody wants to be around that guy.
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The two FB movies have the most hilariously hard turn character assassination I've ever seen with the character of Queenie. It's really quite remarkable.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxvFGc_kCE
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Hogwarts is incredibly lucky wizards are very unimaginative because normal kids are horribly sadistic crazed animals. If you went into a regular school and thought kids how to levitate things it would be less than an hour before some kid would be flinging their poo poo at people in the hallways
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Hufflepuff is the best house though because the rest are elitist fucks, there's that poem or song or whatever about the founders that's all "I'm gryffindor and I'll only teach brave kids, I'm slytherin and I'll only teach little nazis, I'm ravenclaw and I'll only teach self declared geniuses" and then hufflepuff is like "I'll take anyone" which to me seems like the only acceptable attitude for an educator
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Breakfast Burrito posted:Hufflepuff is the best house though because the rest are elitist fucks, there's that poem or song or whatever about the founders that's all "I'm gryffindor and I'll only teach brave kids, I'm slytherin and I'll only teach little nazis, I'm ravenclaw and I'll only teach self declared geniuses" and then hufflepuff is like "I'll take anyone" which to me seems like the only acceptable attitude for an educator
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Breakfast Burrito posted:Hufflepuff is the best house though because the rest are elitist fucks, there's that poem or song or whatever about the founders that's all "I'm gryffindor and I'll only teach brave kids, I'm slytherin and I'll only teach little nazis, I'm ravenclaw and I'll only teach self declared geniuses" and then hufflepuff is like "I'll take anyone" which to me seems like the only acceptable attitude for an educator that poem basically ends with "slytherin left the school because nobody wanted to join in his nonstop calls for race war and, without that albatross around our necks, everything was pretty okay. then the other founders created me, the sorting hat, basically to explicitly identify the racist children; I'm starting to think cordoning them off by themselves for 7 years at a time isn't doing a good job of making them less racist and belligerent" should've listened to the funny magic talking hat a few centuries earlier, I guess
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basically all the attempts to make Slytherins not evil remind me of mark rosewater saying 'black isn't the color of evil in magic the gathering; capitalism is a black ideology!' 
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Apr 25, 2020 09:11
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Black is the best color in mtg.
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ungulateman posted:basically all the attempts to make Slytherins not evil remind me of mark rosewater saying 'black isn't the color of evil in magic the gathering; capitalism is a black ideology!' You could do a fun story about 'ambition for good' but that would need somebody not Just Kidding to to write it.
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My ambition would be to make all the witches and wizards have to get jobs that loving help people
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Apr 25, 2020 18:04
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They can literally summit up food out of nothing, even ignoring that some people still live with food insecurity, you could suddenly have cruelty free meat.
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Just loving higher some sort of jack rear end to summon hams, that's like a pretty easy spell, you can just teach them ham summoning, they will summer bunch of hams, you can give them away. Yes it will have some economic impacts, but people could have lots of ham and no pigs would even be hurt
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The philosophical implications of turning a teacup into a mouse are stunning.
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Pick posted:They can literally summit up food out of nothing, even ignoring that some people still live with food insecurity, you could suddenly have cruelty free meat. Let me tell you about how in Fantastic Beasts they decide what Wizard Hitler really wants to do is stop Actual Hitler.
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Pick posted:They can literally summit up food out of nothing, even ignoring that some people still live with food insecurity, you could suddenly have cruelty free meat. I assumed the magic was just summoning existing food because otherwise why would the school need a huge kitchen and staff of slaves to make food for everyone. reignofevil posted:The philosophical implications of turning a teacup into a mouse are stunning. For me the biggest existential nightmare of the books is how casually mind control and memory erasing is used on muggles by the wizarding world. Like the fundamental concept of consent and individuality just holds no weight on their leaders and they regularly casually just mind wipe people "for their own good". Like they put it on par with torture and murder when it's done to other wizards but blasting a campground owner into a shell of a person over the course of a weekend because they can't be assed to stay hidden.
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Apr 25, 2020 18:30
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Trap sprung but they can only move food, not create it from nothing.
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Sleeveless posted:I assumed the magic was just summoning existing food because otherwise why would the school need a huge kitchen and staff of slaves to make food for everyone. cuz tthey're loving assholes
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