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Dudley not showing up in the epilogue with a kid going to Hogwarts is just a huge mistake.
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dudley was born with incurable toryism, very sad
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Nettle Soup posted:Kinda wanna read a fanfic now where Dudley also gets a letter and everyone is like "Well you're brothers, you get to do everything together, good luck" There's almost certainly a fanfic for that. I mean, gently caress it, there's an entire pseudo-canon for the Marauders which is surprisingly consistent. Including the fact they're called the Marauders, weirdly enough.
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HP fans long ago embarked on the project of creating a world based on jo's that doesn't suck rear end and sometimes it comes together (in 1% of 1% of fanfics)
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Regalingualius posted:And he didn’t stop and reevaluate until it personally affected him, by way of getting in a fight with his anti fascist brother and accidentally killing their sister. People focus too much on the wrong Dumbledore. Aberforth's the good one, just a grouchy old bastard who wants nothing to do with anything but running his dive bar for people the rest of the magical world fucks with constantly. ... you know, anti-fascist Aberforth's a solid idea, and explains a lot of his attitude towards, you know, everything in Jo's world.
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Jazerus posted:sir, we've finally captured the demonic pit of despair and killed ezkridis, are we going to destroy it and rid the world of his evil forever? "Will we at least make it so that the wardens doesn't risk to be eaten alive?" "We're wizards lad, EHS is for the muggles."
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GodFish posted:That's where their run ends, unable to outrun the pheasant. Oh god that segment. The character (Oliander, I think) straight up lies to you and says you have to quietly sneak up on it which isn't true at all. You really just have to be sprinting towards it at all times and hope that the birds RNG will make it go in a direction such that you'll cross paths.
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muscles like this! posted:Dudley not showing up in the epilogue with a kid going to Hogwarts is just a huge mistake. Yeah it's like the simplest trick and even for Rowling it's really surprising she missed it. Especially since for all her loving abysmal characterization of Dudley, she actually wrote him as trying to be better towards Harry after he saves him in OoTP and even has them outright reconcile - albeit somewhat awkwardly - before their final parting in DH. Also would have added nicely to the petty drama in Cursed Child if, after Harry's kid gets sorted into Slytherin, Dudley's kid gets sorted into Gryffindor.
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JKR' posted:Harry and Dudley: Future Hope? Having Dudley there would have been the right choice. Edgar Allen Ho posted:The lego potter ones are genuinely the best if you want the children's story about the boy wizard to make you soothed instead of annoyed. Yeah they've got a pretty good version of Hogwarts too.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Having Dudley there would have been the right choice. how the gently caress she gonna sit there and say "yeah the magical nazi's were right, the moral failings of some people is totally genetic and their descendants will carry it and be completely inferior"
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Liquid Communism posted:People focus too much on the wrong Dumbledore. Aberforth's the good one, just a grouchy old bastard who wants nothing to do with anything but running his dive bar for people the rest of the magical world fucks with constantly. he fucks goats dude
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"I almost did a good thing that is reflective of the values my book is purported to be about, but after a period of reflection, I remembered I am the absolute worst person and made my decision based on that."
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Liquid Communism posted:People focus too much on the wrong Dumbledore. Aberforth's the good one, just a grouchy old bastard who wants nothing to do with anything but running his dive bar for people the rest of the magical world fucks with constantly. Aberforth verbally demolishing Harry about how he sent him on a suicide mission he's completely unprepared for and with no resources to drawn on, all while Harry just stammers about The Plan, remains the highlight of DH. Sydin posted:Yeah it's like the simplest trick and even for Rowling it's really surprising she missed it. Especially since for all her loving abysmal characterization of Dudley, she actually wrote him as trying to be better towards Harry after he saves him in OoTP and even has them outright reconcile - albeit somewhat awkwardly - before their final parting in DH. An incel ex-nazi who bullies his students mercilessly and hates the guts of his dead crush's kid just because he looked like hsi dad? Totally deserves a second chance. A bully of a cousin who was the golden child in an abusive household and had a moment of realization that made him rethink everything he knew in life and with his cousin? His genes are so terrible that he'll never have magical children.
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exmarx posted:he fucks goats dude That's what Rowling likes to imply, but yet it leaves him as the brother with the less sketchy partner.
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I kinda liked the shrieking shack headcanon that Albus invented the goat thing as a response to Aberforth outing him. It's a very lovely thing for Albus to do, demonstrates his being a manipulative schemer, but also is really understandable for someone getting outed as a young man in the victorian era to react poorly. As a certified bi I'd really like if they did something interesting with Albus' sexuality but, ya know, Joanne.
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We could have gotten a genuinely heartfelt demonstration of Harry reconciling with Dudley by bonding over their kids. Instead we got something just short of “Adolf Mengele Potter, let me tell you about the great men you’re named after”
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Liquid Communism posted:That's what Rowling likes to imply, but yet it leaves him as the brother with the less sketchy partner. The alternative is that his wildly more successful and beloved brother just goes around telling people he fucks goats. So it’s almost better if he did so that Dumbledore’s whole thing is “hey it’s okay bro, just a charming anecdote” and not “lol my loser brother likes goats so much he probably fucks them! oh gosh I’m dead inside”
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It is the funniest of all the whimsical things Rowling refused to turn back on as the story became more 'adult'. No, Aberforth is Dumbledore's semi-estranged secret brother who he broke with over his fascist boyfriend and the accidental death of their sister AND he fucks goats.
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She even had the perfect out when some kid asked about it, but she tried to have her cake and eat it by saying that for that kid specifically, it meant that he was hexing goats.
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Maybe he's an animagi and turns into a goat and likes to get busy
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Maybe he's an animagi and turns into a goat and likes to get busy who amongst us
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albus spread lovely rumors about his brother because he feels that everyone involved in their sister's death should be punished. grindelwald by locking him up in his own wizard hitler prison, aberforth by being condemned by society as a stupid goatfucker bartender, and albus by becoming leader of the wizard UN and a beloved public figure
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Also because his brother and Grindlewald's aunt are the only ones still alive who could give firsthand memories of what the two of them were actually like, so it was vital he be discredited.
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i dont like the gross sex poo poo in hardy pooper
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Did we ever get a good reason why Wizard Hitler wasn't just killed after being defeated by Dumbledore? I know the story reason is so that Voldemort had to waste the entire year tracking down the previous users of the Elder Wand, and probably-maybe Dumbledore still had a thing for his fascist ex and wanted to spare him, but those are the reasons for those characters. Wizard Hitler's supposed to have terrorized a huge portion of Europe so you'd think people would've clamored for his execution. Especially since there are people like Krum, who came from a family affected by Grindelwald's reign and has no problem punching people who wear his symbol.
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Beartaco posted:Xenia, I didn't know it existed either until the other month. It works drat near flawlessly near as I can tell. It's very good but finicky. Might take a bit of graphical adjustment for some games to not stutter. Be sure save often because there are random crashes in my experience. Sometimes it can run for hours no problem, other times it will crash on loading a save.
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amigolupus posted:Did we ever get a good reason why Wizard Hitler wasn't just killed after being defeated by Dumbledore? I know the story reason is so that Voldemort had to waste the entire year tracking down the previous users of the Elder Wand, and probably-maybe Dumbledore still had a thing for his fascist ex and wanted to spare him, but those are the reasons for those characters. Wizard Hitler's supposed to have terrorized a huge portion of Europe so you'd think people would've clamored for his execution. Especially since there are people like Krum, who came from a family affected by Grindelwald's reign and has no problem punching people who wear his symbol. 1. JK's personal morality is that death is worse than a lifetime of psychological soul torture 2. JK's turned on by yaoi
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amigolupus posted:Did we ever get a good reason why Wizard Hitler wasn't just killed after being defeated by Dumbledore? I know the story reason is so that Voldemort had to waste the entire year tracking down the previous users of the Elder Wand, and probably-maybe Dumbledore still had a thing for his fascist ex and wanted to spare him, but those are the reasons for those characters. Wizard Hitler's supposed to have terrorized a huge portion of Europe so you'd think people would've clamored for his execution. Especially since there are people like Krum, who came from a family affected by Grindelwald's reign and has no problem punching people who wear his symbol. I forgot about that scene of kooky old man wearing a magic swastika getting punched out by violent antifa Krum who doesn't understand it's not really a magic nazi symbol. As for why Grindelwald wasn't killed, it's especially weird because his prison, Nurmengard, seems to me like it was named in reference to the Nuremberg Trials, which did sentence a dozen nazi leaders to death. Best guess? Dumbledore kept him alive because of some "well, I was able to change, so maybe Sexy Hitler can change as well" (which is also my best guess for why Dumbledore let Draco Malfoy keep just-barely-not-killing other students in book 6), and nobody else could actually defeat Dumbledore or break into Nurmengard to override his unilateral decision?
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I was reminiscing about an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billly and Mandy where they parody Harry Potter and the characters meet people such as Lord Moldybutt and Herfefine Herfefer. When I googled to find the episode I discovered that there are like six people who have written 30-part fanfiction crossovers of Harry Potter and Billy and Mandy.
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If you can think of a thing that existed between 1997 and 2015 it has Harry Potter crossover fanfics. The fanfics are probably uncomfortably horny.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:When I googled to find the episode I discovered that there are like six people who have written 30-part fanfiction crossovers of Harry Potter and Billy and Mandy. buddy, wait until you find out about the ed edd n eddy community
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Ah, the fanfic author's urge to smash two unrelated properties together for no other reason than that you like them both  I still have a weird fondness for one I discovered many moons ago where Harry is a sassy, amnesiac high class hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold -- I'm sorry, I mean "oiran" -- who somehow gets transported into the Star Wars universe and provides solace to Darth Vader's heart by being really good at power-bottoming. It would have been perfectly serviceable smut if it had been about a generic sassy space escort and a generic scarred space commander in a generic sci-fi universe, but making it Harry Potter and Darth Vader just adds a layer of silliness. 
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amigolupus posted:Did we ever get a good reason why Wizard Hitler wasn't just killed after being defeated by Dumbledore? I know the story reason is so that Voldemort had to waste the entire year tracking down the previous users of the Elder Wand, and probably-maybe Dumbledore still had a thing for his fascist ex and wanted to spare him, but those are the reasons for those characters. Wizard Hitler's supposed to have terrorized a huge portion of Europe so you'd think people would've clamored for his execution. Especially since there are people like Krum, who came from a family affected by Grindelwald's reign and has no problem punching people who wear his symbol. Someone in this thread posted a theory that if Grindelwald had made a secret horcrux, then it's better to keep him locked up until all his subordinates had given up on him, rather than have him pop back up just as strong in 5 or 10 years.
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amigolupus posted:Did we ever get a good reason why Wizard Hitler wasn't just killed after being defeated by Dumbledore? I know the story reason is so that Voldemort had to waste the entire year tracking down the previous users of the Elder Wand, and probably-maybe Dumbledore still had a thing for his fascist ex and wanted to spare him, but those are the reasons for those characters. Wizard Hitler's supposed to have terrorized a huge portion of Europe so you'd think people would've clamored for his execution. Especially since there are people like Krum, who came from a family affected by Grindelwald's reign and has no problem punching people who wear his symbol. Note Wizard Hitler also didn't get put in the soul-devouring hell-prison either, just a normal cell run by the Wizarding UN. As opposed to the wizard UK that throws random people in with dementors to be seen to be doing something.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Ah, the fanfic author's urge to smash two unrelated properties together for no other reason than that you like them both I remember seeing that on whatever blog did Fanfiction Friday-- or were there multiple such fics?
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ScienceSeagull posted:I remember seeing that on whatever blog did Fanfiction Friday-- or were there multiple such fics? That was the one! I think the title was borrowed from a Muse song, too.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:2. JK's turned on by yaoi Nah. If she were, then Fantastic Beasts would've just been a bunch of coffee shop movies where Dumbledore works as a barista and wants to smooch Grindelwald. Would've been better than what we got, that's for sure.  Lottery of Babylon posted:I forgot about that scene of kooky old man wearing a magic swastika getting punched out by violent antifa Krum who doesn't understand it's not really a magic nazi symbol. You can't even blame Krum for his reaction; Grindelwald happened in his grandfather's time so it's not even ancient history. Xenophilius was the one who sucked because he's a grown-rear end man who should've known better than to wear the symbol that got co-opted by Wizard Hitler. Being a kooky guy is no defense. Speleothing posted:Someone in this thread posted a theory that if Grindelwald had made a secret horcrux, then it's better to keep him locked up until all his subordinates had given up on him, rather than have him pop back up just as strong in 5 or 10 years. My thing with that theory is that Horcruxes and how to make them aren't things most wizards know about, so I doubt the people who decided to imprison him thought about that angle. Even Dumbledore didn't really seem to know what precisely Horcruxes were until HBP, and the one book in the library that mentioned it only said the name, not about what it was. I guess the decision to keep Wizard Hitler alive is just weird to me because he had tons of followers who would've wanted to break him out of prison to continue his reign of terror.
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so do they make a big joke of history class at hogwarts so dumbledore can stop all the jewish students from learning about him stopping the man who wanted to stop the holocaust (who was also hitler 2.0 but it's ok there was no need to kill him)
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amigolupus posted:I guess the decision to keep Wizard Hitler alive is just weird to me because he had tons of followers who would've wanted to break him out of prison to continue his reign of terror. If Rowling was a more competent writer, it could’ve been part of a whole subplot about victors’ justice and how Dumbledore’s role in the conflict (both his early support and his later inaction) was laundered away because he beat the magic Nazis in the end. But this is the same woman who called the only Chinese character in the canon for twenty years “Cho Chang”.
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