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Okay wish granted. The fellowship of the ring is now a longer movie.
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This discussion has convinced me that Tom Bombadil is the best part of Tolkien's whole corpus. 
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So who would be the Tom Bombadil of Harry Potter? I don't mean in the 'doesn't care about the plight of others' way because that'd be all the characters. I mean in the 'you can cut this notable person out and it wouldn't change a single thing about the overarching story' sort of way.
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Mar 25, 2021 11:16
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post-voldemort returning i'm struggling to think of a single hagrid moment that matters in the long term. he also lives in a shed in the woods.
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Mar 25, 2021 11:24
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amigolupus posted:So who would be the Tom Bombadil of Harry Potter? I don't mean in the 'doesn't care about the plight of others' way because that'd be all the characters. I mean in the 'you can cut this notable person out and it wouldn't change a single thing about the overarching story' sort of way. Olivander the wand maker.
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reignofevil posted:Olivander the wand maker. If you're going to have the stupid wand rules you need someone to explain the stupid wand rules.
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Mar 25, 2021 13:23
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gently caress it, pawn that one off onto Dumbledore's ghost like everything else.
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Zesty posted:like Harry Potter Tom never became a cop. Also, I think it has to be Hagrid. I reread Potter with the podcast and fun fact I'm actually rereading LotR right now, but anyway, Hagrid does absolutely nothing of consequence after book 2. He has some great moments though, like when he starts bodily throwing death eaters around to resist arrest or when he gets hauled away by spiders during Harry's Saving Private Ryan moment over the body of Fred. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 13:43
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Hagrid was great. He fulfilled his lifelong dream of having a teaching position so that he could endanger the maximum possible number of children by exposing them to various murder-creatures, he took a cool vacation and probably got laid on it. Okay I think that's actually everything that hasn't already been listed now that I'm thinking about it.
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Yeah, no-ones saying Hagrid isn't cool, or that Tom Bombadil isn't cool, dw.
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josh04 posted:Yeah, no-ones saying Hagrid isn't cool, or that Tom Bombadil isn't cool, dw. Tom Bombadil isn't cool.
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Can somebody with plat start a poll re: Tom Bombadil being cool
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Can somebody with plat start a poll re: Tom Bombadil being cool https://www.strawpoll.me/42853992 No need to use the forums for the poll.
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CainFortea posted:Tom Bombadil isn't cool. Sydin posted:Sounds like a really superfluous character to the LotR plot and excising him from the movies was a good idea! Making a QCS thread to get u banned
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you could probably get rid of the entire breeze of hilarious ghosts, couldn't you?
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amigolupus posted:So who would be the Tom Bombadil of Harry Potter? I don't mean in the 'doesn't care about the plight of others' way because that'd be all the characters. I mean in the 'you can cut this notable person out and it wouldn't change a single thing about the overarching story' sort of way. harry potter
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Aardvark! posted:you could probably get rid of the entire breeze of hilarious ghosts, couldn't you? wild that literally no-one in the entire run of books and movies ever becomes a ghost
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Nearly-headless Nick: yeah nobody knows what happens after death, that's why I became a ghost, moving on was too scary Harry's dead parents a book later: Hey man what's up? Heaven rules! That Nick guy was a loving idiot. Embrace death my man! Dead Lupin: Oh yeah we don't miss our infant son at all, dying for you was the best thing me and Tonks ever did, plus I get to see James again up here in paradise
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actually laughing my rear end off about this now. the earlier books vaguely suggest that the ghosts were pretty stupid to have ended up ghosts, but in total it really is just that there's a whole class of wizards who are too stupid to die
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I imagine (because I don't care enough to look it up) that there were periods of history where becoming a ghost was the fashionable thing to do, and periods when it was considered gauche.
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You know what they say, you go to other people's funerals and they'll go to yours.
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Somebody write me a scene where a ghost gets into a fight with his own magic portrait.
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josh04 posted:actually laughing my rear end off about this now. the earlier books vaguely suggest that the ghosts were pretty stupid to have ended up ghosts, but in total it really is just that there's a whole class of wizards who are too stupid to die This is pretty much all "dark lord" villains in a nutshell.
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why didn't voldemort, whose entire character was refusing to die, come back as a ghost? hassling harry all the way through cursed child or w/e?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Tom Bombadil is apparently from Tolkien's children's stories. He stands out in Middle-Earth because he's from a different genre. Like if Star Wars had a cameo from the Muppets. Star Wars makes use of a number of genres, and puppet hijinks is definitely one of them.
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Is heaven real for everyone or just wizards? I can't remember religion ever coming up in the series, except hearing there was at least one Jewish pupil maybe?
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josh04 posted:why didn't voldemort, whose entire character was refusing to die, come back as a ghost? hassling harry all the way through cursed child or w/e? I think he succeeds at routinely harassing Harry whether or not he achieves technical ghost status, or is just stuck on the back of another wizard's head or whatever.
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josh04 posted:why didn't voldemort, whose entire character was refusing to die, come back as a ghost? hassling harry all the way through cursed child or w/e? He was too stupid to throw a baby out of a window. You think he's smart enough to make himself a ghost?
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josh04 posted:why didn't voldemort, whose entire character was refusing to die, come back as a ghost? hassling harry all the way through cursed child or w/e? My guess is his weird-partial soul situation is the closest thing to a good explanation on that one.
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josh04 posted:why didn't voldemort, whose entire character was refusing to die, come back as a ghost? hassling harry all the way through cursed child or w/e? Something something can't become a ghost if you tear your soul apart with horcruxes
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dobby should have turned in to a ghost and been forced to serve all the moron hogwarts ghosts
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rollick posted:Is heaven real for everyone or just wizards? I can't remember religion ever coming up in the series, except hearing there was at least one Jewish pupil maybe? Dumbledore is god the father, Harry is the son, and snakes are evil. Harry's parents were christian according to their graves. e: ignoring the wizard hitler poo poo, the main dispute between the good guys and bad guys is acceptance of mortality vs flailing against it So why is the Dumbledore cabal named after the phoenix, whose main power is coming back from the dead? Seems like the death eaters would be the ones to adopt the phoenix as their symbol. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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It's almost like not a lot of thought went into the actual symbolism in, except for the sudden appearance of overt Christian symbolism out of nowhere in the final book.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Dumbledore is god the father, Harry is the son, and snakes are evil. Harry's parents were christian according to their graves. The pheonix has to die first. Death eaters dont' want to do that part.
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Ghosts in harry potter aren't dumb they just have a crippling phobia of trains.
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rollick posted:Is heaven real for everyone or just wizards? I can't remember religion ever coming up in the series, except hearing there was at least one Jewish pupil maybe? There's the monk ghost who's the patron ghost of hufflepuff. There's also one mention of a church in the 7th book when the kids visit the graveyard during Christmas.
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Buttchocks posted:There's the monk ghost who's the patron ghost of hufflepuff. There's also one mention of a church in the 7th book when the kids visit the graveyard during Christmas. And they celebrate Christmas at Hogwarts.
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amigolupus posted:So who would be the Tom Bombadil of Harry Potter? I don't mean in the 'doesn't care about the plight of others' way because that'd be all the characters. I mean in the 'you can cut this notable person out and it wouldn't change a single thing about the overarching story' sort of way. Sirius Black
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