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I don't think anything is "undefined" about Hermione or Ron. Even Harry gets more of a character as the series matures and becomes much less blatantly childish wish fulfillment. I've always related very strongly to Ron. I'm also an extremely insecure poor person who is jealous of my brother.
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Ron's the handsome one.
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Nov 30, 2020 09:21
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Shine posted:Ron's the handsome one. Handsome Ron was my favourite character in The Gringotts Job.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Probably still the idea that the main protagonists have to be boring so the audience can more easily self-insert into them, while peripheral characters are allowed to have quirks and problems and arcs. (the funny thing is that it never works, audiences usually identify more with a more defined character or just create their own self-inserts) Hermione thinks slavery is horrendously inhumane. Ron doesn't give no fucks. Harry, your surrogate, has no real opinions on the matter except that Hermione is annoying. Centrism.
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I was watching the Crimes of Grindegoober for the first time last night. Early on there was a moment when it was "You're either with the Nazis or against the Nazis" and the main character was all "I don't pick sides." I could not help myself from saying "gently caress you JK Rowling." At least he realized the Nazis are kind of bad at the end.
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Harry just kinda feels in his bones that Hermione is going about it the wrong way, and also that David Kelly killed himself for unrelated reasons.
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Zesty posted:I was watching the Crimes of Grindegoober for the first time last night. Early on there was a moment when it was "You're either with the Nazis or against the Nazis" and the main character was all "I don't pick sides." I could not help myself from saying "gently caress you JK Rowling." At least he realized the Nazis are kind of bad at the end. "Main character is wrong and has to learn a lesson" isn't a huge sin, especially compared with <the entire loving film>.
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Shine posted:Ron's the handsome one. Ron's Ron shirt was almost as bad as Ron himself.
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NikkolasKing posted:I don't think anything is "undefined" about Hermione or Ron. Even Harry gets more of a character as the series matures and becomes much less blatantly childish wish fulfillment. The trio are great in book one but their characters kinda go all over the place as the series goes on. Hermione and Harry have multiple personalities and Ron becomes a prick. Harry in particular feels like a different dude from chapter to chapter in 5-7.
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the problem is that ron becomes a teenager after being a Dahl-esque sociopath in the first half and a Small Noble Adult Man in the second half of book 1 and most of 2 speaking from experience, nice and pleasant pre-teens can and will turn into loving moronic jerks during puberty, but the pleasantness of those pre-teens is not anything like how the characters act in the early books either
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The best version of Harry Potter is Wizard People, Dear Reader. I dont think this is arguable.
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ungulateman posted:the problem is that ron becomes a teenager after being a Dahl-esque sociopath in the first half and a Small Noble Adult Man in the second half of book 1 and most of 2 Ron is a bit of a mess. He's super poor, except he gets 1%er vacations, has his own room, and is only affected by it a couple times (broken wand, bad sandwiches). He goes from a good chess player to magical world historian/cultural expert (but fails these classes because he's a worse student than Harry). Book 5-6 his character basically exists so Harry has someone to talk to and his response is 'whoah harry, that's cool you're the greatest'. The only story-arch that flows is his alcoholism, he asks for a drink in book 1 and is downing bottles of fire whiskey by the end.
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CptAwesome posted:The best version of Harry Potter is Wizard People, Dear Reader. I dont think this is arguable. absolutely. rag time roast beefy ftmfw
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CptAwesome posted:The best version of Harry Potter is Wizard People, Dear Reader. I dont think this is arguable. 💯 the best version
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My favorite parts are when Brad Neeley gets bored of what's happening in the movie so he has the characters go on bizarre flights of fancy, like Dumbledore as a rotten cake or Harry flying across America.
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I like when Neeley can't get over how Professor Flitwick looks, turning the whole charms class scene into a bit about the characters being equally terrified of and confused by their teacher's appearance
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvpPxjCKTqc
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Shine posted:I am the pig of Hufflepuff.  ProZD reading silly Harry Potter stuff is my favorite thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJmt_LVc_no&list=PLilPt0QyIEg52Co4p0y9wFNs1Q4Py5RyI
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There used to be on Youtube a thing where someone dubbed over the first movie with Wizard People but most of it got pulled.
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You can still find it, but theres a couple of chapters I had to use daily motion for. I think my favourite moment is when Voldemort is revealed and the narrator freaks out. https://youtu.be/cDM_ux_w3VY 3m in
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It's from 2004, with the unfortunate baggage that sometimes brings in made-for-internet humor. No defense of that one of course, but I don't think Neely has done anything remotely recent to make it seem.. hateful? I won't fault you for not getting in to it for that though.
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To be honest I never heard it as "Queerman" but more "Quirmin" just turning it into a nonsense word. Also watching that linked one I completely forgot that he rewrote the story so that Voldemort was Harry's dad.
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in the age of the internet, the times and the products thereof are constantly shifting jenny nicholson, a very funny youtuber, was a brony who straight up wrote a song which used the common slur for the Romani in its title and chorus, and the discourse is continuing on tiktok to this day
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Not that it excuses it, but the average american probably doesn’t even realize that word refers to an ethnic group
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Also my understanding of the situation is that she used it because it is the name of a breed of horse (which people are trying to get changed.)
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It was a bunch of Hunchback of Notre Dame jokes as an extension of introducing Fluttershy in the first episode by having her sing Hellfire.
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Why has no one invented an full auto avada kedavra? Maybe like on of those old timey crank handle machine guns but it's just a bunch of wands. The battle of hogwarts would have been over in seconds.
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Avada Kedavra Extravaganza
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The legendary Alakazam?
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This got me thinking, so avada kedavraing someone somehow stores their soul in your wand ready to be played back/summoned by oddly specific circumstances, right? How does that work? Is it the actual soul/ghost or is it a snapshot of the consciousness? Do wands have a bandwidth/storage capacity? Is there a dead ego stack overflow if you murder too much?
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The Force™ handles it. Don’t stress it.
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Your wand retains a memory of everything it does, the fact that it was mainly murdered people in GoF was just because Voldemort had barely been using his wand for much due to being nearly dead so it didn't have much history aside from murdering. If I recall, the echoes it produces from an Avada Kevavra are explicitly stated by Dumbledore out as being very shallow, less than ghosts, definitely not souls or anything.
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"A wizard did it" Your wand just has a browsing history, and if you meet someone with the same wand there's an exploit where your wand can make theirs project all their wizard porn into the air.
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You can do it deliberately with any wand, you just need to know how to cast Prior Incantato. Diggory does it to Harry's wand at the World Cup.
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Yeah, it's just extremely difficult to reconcile the two outside of the basic concept of "your wand remembers a bunch of stuff". You can just about get away with 'related wands won't fight', but 'related wands won't fight and also do this one spell after a little while' is really pushing it.
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There's no way to erase your wand's browsing history, right? I just remembered that during the time Harry had to go to the ministry for his trial, he had to present his wand for inspection to get in. So presumably everyone will find out how much of a kinky fucker you are. It's probably how Dumbledore's brother got arrested in the first place.
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The shadowy form of what was unmistakably a goat unravelled itself from the tip of the outstretched wand...
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Butternubs posted:Why has no one invented an full auto avada kedavra? Maybe like on of those old timey crank handle machine guns but it's just a bunch of wands. The battle of hogwarts would have been over in seconds. i'm never going to get over the fact that ultima from final fantasy happens to have a name that is a single latin word with very ominous interpretations and from the way magic seems to work in harry potter this means that harry is about 40 hours with a Playstation game and the desire to destroy all who oppose him with the ultimate destructive magic from becoming a living nuclear weapon there are some misaligned neurons in my brain that cannot be convinced that this is not, in fact, actually an incredibly clever observation
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Snape used magic to sneak into a muggle latin class and that’s how he invented so many spells. It’s weird that all the muggle borns seem to completely abandon muggle society. You’re telling me Colin Creevey (rip, went offscreen and died) goes home for the summer he doesn’t visit his old pals and realize the wizards don’t have anything as cool as a PlayStation?
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