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bobjr posted:Voldemort also cursed the Sex Ed class along with the DADA position. Pretty sure he’d have to know that existed to do that, which the illegitimate child he had argues against. Although maybe it was cursed previously, earlier Slytherens had to do something naughty to fit their quota for bad deeds besides just the bigotry.
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MadDogMike posted:Pretty sure he’d have to know that existed to do that, which the illegitimate child he had argues against. Although maybe it was cursed previously, earlier Slytherens had to do something naughty to fit their quota for bad deeds besides just the bigotry. :puts on my "Voldemort was spermjacked!" t-shirt:
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Magical sex ed class just consists of them saying that women using love potions on men doesn't count as rape. Seriously, it's wild how Dumbledore tries so hard to make Harry feel sympathetic to Voldemort's mom because she loved Riddle Sr. so much, and Riddle Sr. was a dick for kicking her out and going back to his parents unable to explain why the gently caress he did what he did.
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feedmegin posted:Still used for buying racehorses and paying lawyers, I think (decimalised, so it's £1.05) Lawyers get paid in pounds, I believe, but racehorse auctions still do the "buyer pays in guineas, seller receives in pounds" system.
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chaleski posted:The scene where Harry hands Fred and George a bag of 1,000 Galleons would probably look a bit different Just because it's amusing to me: The British £1 gold Sovereign the Galleon was based on is 8G of 22k gold. So that bag was likely 8kg of metal even if the coins were reasonably sized. 
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it was described as a sack so he was lugging it around. Harry isn't generous or guilty, he's just skinny and tired
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Harry gave them the money because he was tired of carrying it around and the concept of money has no meaning to him.
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I mean, makes sense, he's a teenager who gets to go shopping one day a year.
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Liquid Communism posted:I mean, makes sense, he's a teenager who gets to go shopping one day a year. The monkey paw grants you the wish of massive wealth but you can only spend that wealth in one street that sells school books and novelty candy.
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Jun 21, 2024 19:08
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And date rape potions
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Feldegast42 posted:And date rape potions Sold in the novelty candy shop.
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Alhazred posted:Sold in the novelty candy shop. To schoolchildren!
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amigolupus posted:It's almost amazing how much Harry regressed as he got older, from being less curious about magic to being less empathetic to others around him. A good writer might have made that a deliberate point about Harry losing the perspective of being raised in a non-magical environment, but we all know that's not the case with Rowling. Boy raised in a toxic environment becomes a toxic rear end in a top hat. Again, Rowling created a world class masterpiece entirely by accident.
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josh04 posted:To schoolchildren! The most charitable assumption would be that they're scamming the kids, but nope! Actual functioning Love Potions. Ron eats some of the spiked chocolates.
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Runcible Cat posted::puts on my "Voldemort was spermjacked!" t-shirt:
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just letting you all know that JK Rowling has endorsed one of the uk communist parties because one of their candidates is transphobic I could give more context but do you really want that
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Comrade Rowling, welcome to the revolution.
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finally the day of prophecy has arrived... https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9655837/1/Harry-Potter-Becomes-A-Communist
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Angepain posted:just letting you all know that JK Rowling has endorsed one of the uk communist parties because one of their candidates is transphobic Sure, I could use the brain damage.
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she should prove her endorsement by getting rid of her loving money
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Mx. posted:she should prove her endorsement by getting rid of her loving money Have you not been reading her tweets? She’s working on it.
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https://x.com/leftoutside/status/1805229559672947010?s=46&t=CBKJcBX0BD3U5HgUdsqBtw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM
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therobit posted:Have you not been reading her tweets? why would anyone
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Turns out the vast majority of the UK want politicians to shut the gently caress up about trans people. https://x.com/NeilMackay/status/1806707823323038114 quote:More in Common’s UK director Luke Tryl said: “Interestingly debates about transgender people were the only issue where more said it was talked about too much than too little.” Apparently the most voters care more about cost of living, healthcare, immigration, taxes, pensions and literally anything else than they do about who uses which bathroom. quote:The poll listed ‘other issues’ as scoring 4%, and at the bottom of the list came ‘the debate about transgender people’ on 2%. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Jun 29, 2024 |
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Air Skwirl posted:Turns out the vast majority of the UK want politicians to shut the gently caress up about trans people. This will just make her post about it even more. (She was always going to post about it even more, because she sucks poo poo and is an awful person)
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Wingnut Ninja posted:This will just make her post about it even more. I just looked and her pinned tweet is saying she's too busy writing transphobic screeds to finish up the next Strike book. Did find out David Tennant loving rocks from another tweet of hers.  Edited to take out her hateful words, she's complaining about this quote in the tweet.
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I read all her tweets religiously
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yeah she's unironically using the phrase "gender taliban" wow what a great writer, truly a mind genius
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To get this back to making GBS threads on the Harry Potter books and not just reposting transphobia, I'm reading Strange Academy, a Marvel comic about a magic school started by Dr Strange and follows the students, and they have a class list at the end of the first issue, and holy poo poo, it includes classes you would want young people to take if they were meant to become functional adults. P.E. Actual math and history, microeconomics, anatomy, home economics. I mean, they often have a spooky twist, but they do include poo poo that you would expect students to learn.
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In Harry Potter they have people who invent spells but it seems 95% of the time they blow up eventually.
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is 'inventing spells' just coming up with new cod-latin that might describe the effect you're after?
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I just love that there's a phys ed class. Does anyone at Hogwarts do any physical activity after they are allowed to teleport?
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Air Skwirl posted:I just love that there's a phys ed class. Does anyone at Hogwarts do any physical activity after they are allowed to teleport? Quidditch.
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NikkolasKing posted:Quidditch. The sport you play entirely while sitting down.
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Rowling has bad views on rape, exhibit #94:  https://x.com/soozuk/status/1806735717118177703?s=46 I saw a brilliant tweet in someone else’s replies saying “calling Lolita a romance novel is like calling It a dinner menu”. Because, yeah, from Pennywise’s perspective it is but that’s not the takeaway you should be taking!
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TinTower posted:Rowling has bad views on rape, exhibit #94: Even loving Humbert knows Lolita hates him. He tries to write it as a tragic love story to exonerate himself but tells on himself all the time. It's an absolutely phenomenal piece of writing, and it doesn't surprise me in the least that JK reads it entirely on the surface and gets herself conned by a fictional paedophile.
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Well, I remember there being a time when I didn't actually think further on what a story told beyond how it was presented by the P.O.V. person... ...but that was when I was a very young teenager, and hadn't understood the implication of the ending of to Kill a Mockingbird until it was distinctly spelled out to me.
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Well that puts all the age gap romances in Harry Potter in an interesting context
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Pththya-lyi posted:Well that puts all the age gap romances in Harry Potter in an interesting context Is there much age gap romance in Harry Potter outside of Tonks and Lupin who are early 20s/mid 30s? Fleur and Bill are about 5 years apart and are a bit sketchy since they start dating at 18/23ish and I think literally every other couple we see are within 3 years. Even outside the main story I think the only real age gap is McGonagall's insane backstory on Pottermore. Rowling's relationships are usually problematic for a whole host of other reasons. But people are usually marrying and dating people of roughly their age.
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