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Do real english boarding school dorms declare themselves to have one certain special random trait? Do they have 3 different ones that declare themselves to be the evil dorm?
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Sep 1, 2020 19:16
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reignofevil posted:I'm gonna write a fanfic where space aliens try to reveal to the muggles that wizards exist and then the wizards have to fight the aliens. I'm gonna write one where the aliens show up to send their children to Hogwarts because it's the best wizarding school in the galaxy. it's going to follow the adventures of Gixnod, who is three blorths old (roughly 11 in muggle years)
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Sep 1, 2020 19:25
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Its pretty hosed up that all wizards are apparently okay with just erasing muggle memories because they don't feel like sharing magic with the rest of the world.
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Sep 1, 2020 21:53
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SlothfulCobra posted:Do real english boarding school dorms declare themselves to have one certain special random trait? Kinda but they're all just the evil ones. The fiction is that there would be Hufflepuffs at Eton. Half of them think they're Gryffendor but just in the obstinate rear end in a top hat sense. Basically, think about what house Boris Johnson thinks he would be in compared to what he would actually be in. Both are Slytherin, but one is less honest. \/\/\/ this is a good post. You can possibly tell I once boarded with rich kids and am too close to the source material jojoinnit fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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Sep 1, 2020 22:02
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SlothfulCobra posted:Do real english boarding school dorms declare themselves to have one certain special random trait? House Churchill, with the power of stiff upper lip House Mountbatten, with the power of imperialism House Grant, with the power of bumbling politeness House Nigelthornberry, with the power of blargh By your powers combined, I am Eton College!
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Sep 1, 2020 22:07
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Eton's Houses are (cf wikipedia), College, Godolphin, Jourdelay's, Hawtrey, Durnford, The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans's, Keate, Warre, Villiers, Common Lane, Penn, Walpole, Cotton Hall, Wotton, Holland, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor, Farrer, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury. There are 25 of them and I'm sure each has it's own uniquely boring history.
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Sep 1, 2020 22:16
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josh04 posted:Eton's Houses are (cf wikipedia), College, Godolphin, Jourdelay's, Hawtrey, Durnford, The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans's, Keate, Warre, Villiers, Common Lane, Penn, Walpole, Cotton Hall, Wotton, Holland, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor, Farrer, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury. There are 25 of them and I'm sure each has it's own uniquely boring history. They don’t even follow the same naming scheme? Jesus Christ upper class British stuff is the worst
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Sep 1, 2020 22:27
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:They don’t even follow the same naming scheme? Jesus Christ upper class British stuff is the worst I don't think anyone would disagree with this. In any context.
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Sep 1, 2020 22:53
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I went to a school with Houses and there was some sort of History to them but thanks to the House I was assigned not having won the House challenge since before I was born we believed we were Loser House and put absolutely 0 effort into winning anything.
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Sep 2, 2020 00:17
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SlothfulCobra posted:Do real english boarding school dorms declare themselves to have one certain special random trait? I mean America did that too until a couple decades ago and even now we just use the figleaf of it supposedly being based on individual choice and achievement that everyone winds up separated into the AP kids, the standard kids, and the remedial kids.
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Sep 2, 2020 01:20
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Zore posted:It seems to roughly balance them, but assuming we get everyone in Harry's year is named there are definitely discrepancies between house size. Would not be surprised if there was some significant disparities between house populations, Slytherin probably having the least and Hufflepuff the most. My school had houses, which we literally only remembered for Sports Day. TheAardvark posted:I'm gonna write one where the aliens show up to send their children to Hogwarts because it's the best wizarding school in the galaxy. it's going to follow the adventures of Gixnod, who is three blorths old (roughly 11 in muggle years) This is actually kinda what happens with The Owl House except it's a human going to a witch school of various weird magical creatures but mostly vaguely pointy-eared humanoids.
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Sep 2, 2020 06:19
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If anything it seems like Slytherin would have the most kids. It becomes pretty obvious in the later books that while those who support Voldy's flat out genocide are a minority, there's a significant chunk of wizards who thinks muggles, muggle-borns, and even just non-purebloods are inferiors. The wizarding world is small and insular and I'd bet a plurality of people raised in the wizarding world would say of Slytherin "well you know he made some good points." Then again the Sorting Hat is a lazy prick and just puts people into houses because of bloodlines half the time even if it makes no sense. Slytherin is supposed to be the house of ambition and yet somehow Percy ends up in Griffindor just because he's a Weasley, despite being an avaricious little toady who fails to display an ounce of the courage his house is supposed to be known for until the very end of Book 7. Hermione is textbook Ravenclaw,
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Sep 2, 2020 06:28
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The sorting hat is a producer for a reality tv show and sorts the children accordingly
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Sep 2, 2020 06:48
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Zore posted:It seems to roughly balance them, but assuming we get everyone in Harry's year is named there are definitely discrepancies between house size. Wasn't one of the retcon declarations that ended up making some kind of sense was that Harry's year and the one before it were super-small by comparison to most because people stopped having children at the height of the war? It's basically like this graph and WW1.  Two years down from Harry there's probably a year with a hundred kids and half of them were born nine months after the day Voldemort died. Sydin posted:Then again the Sorting Hat is a lazy prick and just puts people into houses because of bloodlines half the time even if it makes no sense. Slytherin is supposed to be the house of ambition and yet somehow Percy ends up in Griffindor just because he's a Weasley, despite being an avaricious little toady who fails to display an ounce of the courage his house is supposed to be known for until the very end of Book 7. Hermione is textbook Ravenclaw, Yeah but it was explicitly said that if you have strong wishes it'll just follow them for you, which explains Percy (who would've been afraid of being the single non-Gryffindor) and Crabbe and Goyle and honestly probably most of the wizard world kids, who probably go in hoping for one in particular. In terms of a better system it's pretty obvious that just putting kids in houses randomly would have way better social effects for the wizarding community. One of the big points of a school house system is to force you to team up with and work together on non-scholarly activities with people who might not be your personal circle of friends . MikeJF fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Sep 2, 2020 08:28
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Sydin posted:If anything it seems like Slytherin would have the most kids. It becomes pretty obvious in the later books that while those who support Voldy's flat out genocide are a minority, there's a significant chunk of wizards who thinks muggles, muggle-borns, and even just non-purebloods are inferiors. The wizarding world is small and insular and I'd bet a plurality of people raised in the wizarding world would say of Slytherin "well you know he made some good points." The attitude is kinda funny cause where did these genius wizards come up with the idea of you know school buildings, or enchanted pens, and poo poo like that? The didn't loving invent everything out of whole cloth. Their whole world is based on muggle inventions that they adopted for their own use. It's just at some point they decided to stop adopting them and live in 18th century squalor and somehow still believe they're superior.
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Sep 2, 2020 14:14
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reignofevil posted:I'm gonna write a fanfic where space aliens try to reveal to the muggles that wizards exist and then the wizards have to fight the aliens. i'm pretty sure this was a russell t. davies show
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Sep 2, 2020 18:08
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I'm getting through the HP books in a sorta disjointed way. My wife's a school librarian and read them in her 20's when they first came out. I watched the movies with her when they came out with polite interest. We started reading our daughter the books when she was 3 and she's now 7 and we recently finished OotP. I do enjoy the books more than I thought, despite missing chapters at a time when my wife does the bedtime reading and I'm not around. It fills in the blanks in places I wasn't paying attention in the movies and points out the glaring holes when stuff from the book is omitted. It really ramps up in goblet when they skip the Ministry not believing Voldy's back, Rita's animagus-ness, and kind of gloss over the backlash Harry gets for being in the contest.
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Sep 2, 2020 18:58
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About that point in the movies they stopped really being coherent stories and are basically a highlight reel of the books.
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Sep 3, 2020 01:09
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i don't remember much about the movies other than the third one, because it was the only one directed by a human instead of a computer algorithm, and the fourth one because it was a hosed up fever dream that just threw in scenes i vaguely recognised from the book at random. They couldn't take 5 minutes to explain who the gently caress David Tennant was playing but they absolutely could take 10 minutes to show a bunch of 30 year old Polish dudes spinning sticks around while some girls sighed dramatically and blew kisses at everything. Absolutely incredible film.
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Sep 3, 2020 07:10
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KDdidit posted:I'm getting through the HP books in a sorta disjointed way. My wife's a school librarian and read them in her 20's when they first came out. I watched the movies with her when they came out with polite interest. We started reading our daughter the books when she was 3 and she's now 7 and we recently finished OotP. I do enjoy the books more than I thought, despite missing chapters at a time when my wife does the bedtime reading and I'm not around. It fills in the blanks in places I wasn't paying attention in the movies and points out the glaring holes when stuff from the book is omitted. It really ramps up in goblet when they skip the Ministry not believing Voldy's back, Rita's animagus-ness, and kind of gloss over the backlash Harry gets for being in the contest. When Hermione tried to awkwardly explain to Harry that the reason Ron stopped speaking to him was because Ron was jealous that Harry was under the spotlight again, I loved that Harry's response was pretty much, "He should know better! He knows that this is yet another plot to kill me, right?!" 
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Sep 3, 2020 10:06
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:The attitude is kinda funny cause where did these genius wizards come up with the idea of you know school buildings, or enchanted pens, and poo poo like that? The didn't loving invent everything out of whole cloth. Their whole world is based on muggle inventions that they adopted for their own use. It's just at some point they decided to stop adopting them and live in 18th century squalor and somehow still believe they're superior. You have described the English to a loving T.
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Sep 3, 2020 10:20
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dordreff posted:i don't remember much about the movies other than the third one, because it was the only one directed by a human instead of a computer algorithm, and the fourth one because it was a hosed up fever dream that just threw in scenes i vaguely recognised from the book at random. They couldn't take 5 minutes to explain who the gently caress David Tennant was playing but they absolutely could take 10 minutes to show a bunch of 30 year old Polish dudes spinning sticks around while some girls sighed dramatically and blew kisses at everything. Absolutely incredible film. Clémence Poésy makes sex noises and then firbending. It was the worst movie
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Sep 3, 2020 11:49
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thread title: literally just the british upper class
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Sep 3, 2020 15:27
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dordreff posted:i don't remember much about the movies other than the third one, because it was the only one directed by a human instead of a computer algorithm, and the fourth one because it was a hosed up fever dream that just threw in scenes i vaguely recognised from the book at random. They couldn't take 5 minutes to explain who the gently caress David Tennant was playing but they absolutely could take 10 minutes to show a bunch of 30 year old Polish dudes spinning sticks around while some girls sighed dramatically and blew kisses at everything. Absolutely incredible film. The third movie is probably the best standalone movie but boy did it gently caress up a ton of stuff down the line because it decided to leave out a ton of stuff that would become important later (like explaining who the gently caress the Marauders were) and started the trend of the movies just being supplemental to the books.
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Sep 3, 2020 16:07
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Zore posted:The third movie is probably the best standalone movie but boy did it gently caress up a ton of stuff down the line because it decided to leave out a ton of stuff that would become important later (like explaining who the gently caress the Marauders were) and started the trend of the movies just being supplemental to the books. Also, uhhh...the weird shrunken head? TF was up with that?
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Sep 3, 2020 17:10
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It's a background detail in the book's Knight Bus sequence that they made more promenent because as written, the scene is a featureless info dump where two men and a child discuss a newspaper.
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Sep 3, 2020 17:56
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Red_King holy poo poo if you thought Potter was bad check out the saga of CHARLIE BONE
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Sep 4, 2020 17:05
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Red_King I remember these books. They were uh pretty generic overall. Also the world was tiny, there were like 20 people that mattered in the entire world and they were divided neatly into 'good people' and 'bad people' who mostly all had to go to school together and act with decorum because????
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Sep 4, 2020 17:18
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Red_King  OC Do Not Steal (also chuckling like a Young Adult reading those Wikipedia plot summaries and repeatedly seeing phrases like "His descendants are endowed," "She discovers she's endowed," "He loses his endowment" etc.)
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Sep 4, 2020 19:35
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Come on now, that's just Benedict Cumberbatch's self-insert OC.
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Sep 4, 2020 19:39
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Bone Appétit.
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Sep 4, 2020 19:49
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JethroMcB posted:
His neck has too many bones. Look at it.
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Sep 5, 2020 00:24
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Hunter Noventa posted:His neck has too many bones. Look at it. Editor's Note: Charlie Bone was raised in one of the Myanmar villages where ceremonial neck rings are normal. Editor's Other Note: Charlie Bone is Endowed; Bone is the Most Endowed person in his world.
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Sep 5, 2020 02:12
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Thinking about it, there was some wasted potential with Dudley. The Dementor attack during OOTP gave him a reality check that he was a massive bully, and during HBP, Dumbledore's comment that the Dursleys also harmed Dudley probably gave him a lot to think about. There was an interesting narrative hook there about the golden child of an abusive family coming to realize what's been done to him, but it all happens offscreen (which makes sense since Harry needs to go to Hogwarts, but it sucks that never got explored). Dudley could have also shown how far he's come by having a wizard child and being a loving dad to them, but nope, Rowling says his genes are evil so no way can he ever have a magical kid.
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Sep 6, 2020 18:52
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With the help of a mysterious man named Mr. Onimous and his magical cats, Charlie returns the photograph of the missing baby to its rightful owner
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Sep 6, 2020 19:07
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IIRC one of Rowling's numerous expanded lore tidbits is that after the events of the story Dudley actually leveled off fairly well and he and Harry are on at least decent terms as adults.
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Sep 6, 2020 19:38
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I like to think Dudley grew up to be a public attorney specializing in cases of child neglect and abuse, but I assume in true Rowling fashion he grew somehow even fatter until he looked like Emperor Atreides.
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Sep 7, 2020 00:08
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Barudak posted:I like to think Dudley grew up to be a public attorney specializing in cases of child neglect and abuse, but I assume in true Rowling fashion he grew somehow even fatter until he looked like Emperor Atreides. He grew up to be a cop They all grew up to be cops. Even the adult characters.
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Sep 7, 2020 00:15
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Blue Lives Matter, said Dursley, fattily.
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Sep 7, 2020 00:19
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Barudak posted:Blue Lives Matter, said Dursley, fattily. Drunk Nerds posted:From the same book in the OP (The Hardy Boys Secret of Pirates' Hill), page 31:
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