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YaketySass posted:I agree but then that also seems to describe the rest of the staff. Lockhart for sure fucks
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Guy A. Person posted:Lockhart for sure fucks Given that he was a famous celebrity and chose to make the professional move to hang around a high school full of teenage girls that all adore him, I feel that if he hadn't been put on medical leave for accidentally scrambling his own brain, it was only a matter of time before he got MeToo'd. Oh who am I kidding, Dumbledore would have covered it all up 
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Asterite34 posted:Given that he was a famous celebrity and chose to make the professional move to hang around a high school full of teenage girls that all adore him, I feel that if he hadn't been put on medical leave for accidentally scrambling his own brain, it was only a matter of time before he got MeToo'd. Dumbledore was apparently friends with a lot of the wizards Lockhart mind wiped and took credit for, and his revenge was to give him employment and hope that a student would work things out by the end of the year.
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I bet they never took out any of the lead plumbing in wizard society, that would explain like 90% of the series.
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bobjr posted:Dumbledore was apparently friends with a lot of the wizards Lockhart mind wiped and took credit for, and his revenge was to give him employment and hope that a student would work things out by the end of the year. Dumbledore gave him a job that was literally cursed.
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Alhazred posted:Dumbledore gave him a job that was literally cursed. Dumbledore Rube Goldberging away every problem, even and especially if endangering children is a key component, up to and including child sacrifices. With the amount of Operation Paperclip death eaters running around at the time, it's not like Dumbledore couldn't beat a murder rap if he had to. Solve your own problems, buddy.
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"This Harry, is Mr Blerner Brown, the ministry's long-range magic expert." Dumbledore paused as Harry took in the appearance of the man, who seemed to have more snake tattoos than bare skin. "He invented 'Blerner Braun's Wizards Blast-offs', Harry."
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Asterite34 posted:Given that he was a famous celebrity and chose to make the professional move to hang around a high school full of teenage girls that all adore him, I feel that if he hadn't been put on medical leave for accidentally scrambling his own brain, it was only a matter of time before he got MeToo'd. This is Rowling, so it's a 50/50 shot whether she'd do the Merope Thing again where the Lockhart's sexual assault gets glossed over in favor of making him sympathetic because his victim was sooooo mean to him. Or the Tonks/Fleur/McGonagall Thing where the younger woman's the one who pushes herself onto the older man. lol now I just remembered the Valentines fiasco and how Lockhart told the girls during the feast that they should go to Snape and have him brew them magical roofies.
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https://twitter.com/bradneely/status/1698795590455636122 Brad Neely's new book is applying the Wizard People style to the life of Ulysses S Grant.
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Dear wizard people, just stop it.
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muscles like this! posted:https://twitter.com/bradneely/status/1698795590455636122 I know what Wizard People is but I can't parse what the gently caress this is supposed to be
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Grant Wizard sounded better in my head
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Name Change posted:Dumbledore Rube Goldberging away every problem, even and especially if endangering children is a key component, up to and including child sacrifices. I wondered at one point if the goal there wasn't to make Snape snap and murder him in hopes it would get him to stop being so repressed.
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Harry potter sucks poo poo. if you want to read a good YA fantasy book thats old but actually holds up and the author isnt a chud, read the last unicorn. its not super long and its mostly lots of characters talking and good writing, it is melancholy as gently caress throughout though.
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Or the Bartimaeus triology, which has a much better idea of how a society of imperialistic British wizards would go, and what an rear end in a top hat a teenage boy would be if he had that kinda power.
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Kojiro posted:Or the Bartimaeus triology, which has a much better idea of how a society of imperialistic British wizards would go, and what an rear end in a top hat a teenage boy would be if he had that kinda power. Cool. Thanks for suggesting.
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Kojiro posted:Or the Bartimaeus triology, which has a much better idea of how a society of imperialistic British wizards would go, and what an rear end in a top hat a teenage boy would be if he had that kinda power. Seconding these. Loved them as kid, I should revisit them sometime.
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Kojiro posted:Or the Bartimaeus triology, which has a much better idea of how a society of imperialistic British wizards would go, and what an rear end in a top hat a teenage boy would be if he had that kinda power. Yeah can't stan the Bartimaeus Trilogy enough. It's a very different story than HP but it does so many of the same themes and ideas in a much more interesting and fleshed out manner. Really the only part of the whole trilogy I'd say drags is the first half of book 2 where two of the main characters are kinda aimlessly farting around Prague and the third main character's been just introduced and their arc hasn't really gotten off the ground yet.
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GodFish posted:Seconding these. Loved them as kid, I should revisit them sometime. Sydin posted:Yeah can't stan the Bartimaeus Trilogy enough. It's a very different story than HP but it does so many of the same themes and ideas in a much more interesting and fleshed out manner. Really the only part of the whole trilogy I'd say drags is the first half of book 2 where two of the main characters are kinda aimlessly farting around Prague and the third main character's been just introduced and their arc hasn't really gotten off the ground yet. nice. ill have to try it on audible sometime. id still stan for last unicorn. made me feel poo poo. probably should have read it during a depression episode lol. its one of those books that works way way more when your older.
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Let's all talk about Charlie Bone I have not read Charlie Bone
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I liked Artemis Fowl but I don’t remember anything except the dwarf making GBS threads dirt
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I liked Artemis Fowl but I don’t remember anything except the dwarf making GBS threads dirt isn;t the kid actually decently evil until like book 12 or something?
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Bartimaeus also addresses the issue of humans using magic to control sentient beings and force them into slavery, and concludes that it’s bad actually. Unambiguously so. All excuses to the contrary (in this case “They’re all just soulless demons so the horrible things we do to them are morally justified” as opposed to Rowling’s “They just enjoy being enslaved, mkay”) are treated as nothing more than self-serving lies the wizards convince themselves of in order to ease their own consciences.
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I did send a family down the Rowling-to-Riordan pipeline recently. I even got them to branch out into Riordan's imprint for under-represented authors. I haven't had a chance to read any yet but I plan to rectify that soon. I can say that the covers are bitchin'   
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Harry potter sucks poo poo. if you want to read a good YA fantasy book thats old but actually holds up and the author isnt a chud, read the last unicorn. its not super long and its mostly lots of characters talking and good writing, it is melancholy as gently caress throughout though. Try separating the art from the artist? 
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Someone should have separated the art from the artist when she turned in the first draft of that loving doorstopper book four
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Dapper_Swindler posted:isn;t the kid actually decently evil until like book 12 or something? My memory is hazy but IIRC he's pretty much become a good guy by the end of book 2, but then gets his memory wiped and goes back to being a shitter until the next book when the fairies need him again for some reason and un-mind wipe him, after which he's pretty unambiguously a good guy if still prone to bouts of smarmy self-interest. I never read all the books though so that might have changed again at some point. Asgerd posted:Bartimaeus also addresses the issue of humans using magic to control sentient beings and force them into slavery, and concludes that it’s bad actually. Unambiguously so. All excuses to the contrary (in this case “They’re all just soulless demons so the horrible things we do to them are morally justified” as opposed to Rowling’s “They just enjoy being enslaved, mkay”) are treated as nothing more than self-serving lies the wizards convince themselves of in order to ease their own consciences. Also helps that one of the main characters is himself an enslaved magical creature who's been press-ganged into on and off slavery since the dawn of civilization and has some very well developed opinions on the matter.
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Vim Fuego posted:Try separating the art from the artist? Some people prefer to keep their money separated from the artist.
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Vim Fuego posted:Try separating the art from the artist? Okay but the art kinda sucks too though?
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Vim Fuego posted:Try separating the art from the artist? Also: Asterite34 posted:Okay but the art kinda sucks too though?
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Hatsune Miku is the true author of the book about how slavery is good and we should all become cops, and of the movies about how the holocaust is necessary.
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Hatsune Miku ftw. JKR ftl.
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Vim Fuego posted:Try separating the art from the artist? ? Peter beagle is fine. I was just saying the book is melancholy as gently caress. Rowling sucks and went full super terf and probably way worse now.
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Pththya-lyi posted:I did send a family down the Rowling-to-Riordan pipeline recently. I even got them to branch out into Riordan's imprint for under-represented authors. I haven't had a chance to read any yet but I plan to rectify that soon. I can say that the covers are bitchin' They're all good covers but I'm absolutely in love with the cover/title on this one.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Hatsune Miku is the true author of the book about how slavery is good and we should all become cops, and of the movies about how the holocaust is necessary. That sucks. I'm gonna pretend someone else wrote her books, as a bit.
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I'm going to pretend it was Tobias Animorphs, and not Hatsune Miku, who wrote the scene where Dumbledore turns to the camera and says, "If your parents didn't love each other, you're fundamentally a monster and should probably have been drowned at birth"
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Harry Potter is good. Just finished the second book and it's a delightful magical journey into a world of whimsy and wizardry. It's no wonder the series captured the hearts of millions worldwide!
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