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Sure. But seeing as an 'official' arm of her world-building went with they poo poo on the floor I, personally, find it a lot funnier to go with they poo poo on the floor.
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To be specific, it isnt actually clear whether they poo poo on the floor or just poo poo their the original tweet posted:Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms. Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence. #NationalTriviaDay
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"Witches poo poo wherever they are, therefore the entire world is a women's bathroom, therefore we must eject trans women from the entire world" --jkr probably
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Lottery of Babylon posted:"Witches poo poo wherever they are, therefore the entire world is a women's bathroom, therefore we must eject trans women from the entire world" --jkr probably Genital inspector at each toilet entrance to the ministry
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There must be a sentient part buried deep within her rotten core of a mind that really wishes she hadn’t dropped that lore nugget to the world. It feels like it was a watershed moment for her online persona, one she never recovered from. It was her ”slaughtering the Tusken Raiders” moment.
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BigglesSWE posted:There must be a sentient part buried deep within her rotten core of a mind that really wishes she hadn’t dropped that lore nugget to the world. It feels like it was a watershed moment for her online persona, one she never recovered from. i think she was already well on her way towards being the bigot she is today but it definitely had a catalyzing effect. she was getting dragged over the coals for the stupid postmortem lore updates and then started getting a ton of positive reinforcement when she began liking/retweeting/posting outright terf poo poo, and it just created a feedback loop
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Oct 6, 2025 01:47
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I think they changed the bathrooms so installing bathrooms in Hogwarts were a dastardly Gaunt plot to activate the Basilisk, it just didn't work out.
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Piell posted:To be specific, it isnt actually clear whether they poo poo on the floor or just poo poo their some say she thought a lot about wizards making GBS threads their pants leading up to and ever since this tweet
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Oct 6, 2025 05:50
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Man, her having a background in Greco-Roman history makes her poo poo - no pun intended - even more loving baffling. So, yeah, I guess she genuinely intends us to think that it's not a case of Wizards having never had access to indoor plumbing, but rather that they either forgot about it or simply consciously chose to deny it until they suddenly remembered that, actually, you don't have to poo poo on the floor like a goddamn animal.
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Oct 6, 2025 10:32
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making GBS threads my robes to own the muggles.
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checkmate dumbledailures
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My Immortal once called him "Dumblydumb" which is legit fantastic.
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Oct 6, 2025 12:10
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Besides cooking I forget, are there any examples of House Elves doing skilled labor? Like I'm wondering who all the wizard plumbers and other skilled laborers are. I'd say squibs but I don't think there are nearly enough even with how tiny the Wizard population is. I forget if muggle parents of muggleborns are ever permitted to interact with the wizarding world. Were Hermione's parents unable or unwilling to ever pay a visit? Like basically who is building homes and installing plumbing?
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Besides cooking I forget, are there any examples of House Elves doing skilled labor? Like I'm wondering who all the wizard plumbers and other skilled laborers are. I'd say squibs but I don't think there are nearly enough even with how tiny the Wizard population is. I forget if muggle parents of muggleborns are ever permitted to interact with the wizarding world. Were Hermione's parents unable or unwilling to ever pay a visit? Presumably to complement the House Elves there are as-yet-unseen Trades Elves who are absolutely rancid Polish stereotypes.
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Polish immigrants are stereotypically associated with housecleaning here in Sweden, and that’s kind of what house elves seem to be doing in the books so….
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I don't think Hermione's parents matter ever beyond putting Hermione on the train to Hogwarts. Must have been weird for her to return to her dentist parents with perfect teeth all of a sudden when they never even thought to give her braces.
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An insane mind posted:I don't think Hermione's parents matter ever beyond putting Hermione on the train to Hogwarts. Must have been weird for her to return to her dentist parents with perfect teeth all of a sudden when they never even thought to give her braces. Didn't they relocate to Australia? Does she visit there in school holidays?
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Runcible Cat posted:Didn't they relocate to Australia? Does she visit there in school holidays? Hermione cast a spell to mindwipe them into thinking they never had a daughter, so probably not
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At one point her parents exchange like 20 bucks for a galleon and Mr. Weasley harasses them about how refrigerators work
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Piell posted:Hermione cast a spell to mindwipe them into thinking they never had a daughter, so probably not Wait, seriously? Jesus that's dark. I realize there's so much in those books I've forgotten.
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I've never read a Harry Potter book and I feel this was a good decision albeit one made mostly by accident.
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Air Skwirl posted:Wait, seriously? Jesus that's dark. I realize there's so much in those books I've forgotten. To clarify: she does this in the last book to protect them from Voldemort’s regime, and ambushes Harry with this fact to prove how committed she is about joining him. She also mentions if they win she will undo the charm, but if they lose at least her parents won’t remember they had a daughter to mourn. Like it’s dark but not “Hermione mind wiped her parents at some point and doesn’t visit them on school holidays” like is implied above, it’s very much a temporary thing and would be undone if Hermione actually did return to Hogwarts to redo her seventh year.
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An insane mind posted:I thought Hermione was Rowling's self-insert so she could mary Ron? Wasn't that also why the Weasley's won a lot of money because she realised 'she' couldn't be married to a poor? Even if she's a self-insert, Rowling low-key hates Hermione. Think about how often she's set up to look like a dumbass 'smart kid' who's objectively wrong and won't admit it. Granger's a buck-toothed bushy haired insufferable know-it-all. Her whole plotline for a book is that it's unreasonable that she's upset by what she perceives to be making her complicit in slavery, while none of the wizards ever explain that attitude. I've always assumed the character was a take on some girl she went to school with and despised while playing nice to her face. Much like Alan Rickman completely altered how Snape's viewed, Emma Watson's take on Hermione changed the way readers saw her.
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Liquid Communism posted:Even if she's a self-insert, Rowling low-key hates Hermione. Think about how often she's set up to look like a dumbass 'smart kid' who's objectively wrong and won't admit it. Granger's a buck-toothed bushy haired insufferable know-it-all. Her whole plotline for a book is that it's unreasonable that she's upset by what she perceives to be making her complicit in slavery, while none of the wizards ever explain that attitude. I've always assumed the character was a take on some girl she went to school with and despised while playing nice to her face. Yeah you're right. Although I guess because I was also 'an insufferable know-it-all who likes books more than people' I always like Hermione, bossiness and all. Although in hindsight it is obvious that Rowling is basically going...women right? every time anyone gets set up to put Hermione down.
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It's sorta funny how Rowling doesn't acknowledge how much she owes those kids. Like, yes, she was already rich by the time they were casting those movies, but she wasn't richer than the British monarchy, and if audiences hadn't liked 10 year old Emma Watson and Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe, maybe there's no Chamber of Secrets, let alone the rest of the movies or the loving theme parks and her Cormarand Strike books maybe still get published, but they aren't being turned into a tv series. She owes so much to the fact that those kids remained cute and their parents were capable of keeping them away from the worst things that happen to child actors, and when they publicly disagree with her in the most tepid possible ways, as adults who have lived in the world for quite some time, she's just like "those loving ungrateful idiot children."
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BigglesSWE posted:My Immortal once called him "Dumblydumb" which is legit fantastic. Thanks for reminding me of this gem, I'm only really familiar with chapter 17 because of the famous reading from a guy who sounds like glen beck. I still think about him losing his poo poo reading "He wus werring a blak robe dat sed 'avril lavigne' on da back"
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Liquid Communism posted:Even if she's a self-insert, Rowling low-key hates Hermione. Think about how often she's set up to look like a dumbass 'smart kid' who's objectively wrong and won't admit it. Granger's a buck-toothed bushy haired insufferable know-it-all. Her whole plotline for a book is that it's unreasonable that she's upset by what she perceives to be making her complicit in slavery, while none of the wizards ever explain that attitude. I've always assumed the character was a take on some girl she went to school with and despised while playing nice to her face. I never interpreted her as hating hermione but presenting her in such a way that she's misunderstood; unlikeable yet correct. I feel like JK must have thought of herself that way and used Hermione as a way to show the world how isolated she felt.
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Liquid Communism posted:Even if she's a self-insert, Rowling low-key hates Hermione. Think about how often she's set up to look like a dumbass 'smart kid' who's objectively wrong and won't admit it. Granger's a buck-toothed bushy haired insufferable know-it-all. Her whole plotline for a book is that it's unreasonable that she's upset by what she perceives to be making her complicit in slavery, while none of the wizards ever explain that attitude. I've always assumed the character was a take on some girl she went to school with and despised while playing nice to her face. I'm really not sure this is a positive change. It's pretty well documented at this point that they just took all of Ron's good lines or moments and gave them to Hermione in the movie. The movie makers went out of their way to make her right and perfect in every way possible. Yes, Book Hermione is not conventionally attractive and is a know-it-all, but these aren't ever presented as bad traits that make her a bad person. Like, in Book 4 when Snape mocks Hermione for getting hit with a spell that made her teeth grow even larger, that poo poo infuriated me so much growing up. And I like Snape and generally found his bullying extremely amusing. But that was so...so plain mean and "real" that it really pissed me off. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Oct 6, 2025 |
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NikkolasKing posted:I'm really not sure this is a positive change. It's pretty well documented at this point that they just took all of Ron's good lines or moments and gave them to Hermione in the movie. The movie makers went out of their way to make her right and perfect in every way possible. If there's one thing I'll hand to jk, it's her uncanny ability to depict the bullying experience
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caspergers posted:If there's one thing I'll hand to jk, it's her uncanny ability to depict the bullying experience Hm someone should look into this
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caspergers posted:Thanks for reminding me of this gem, I'm only really familiar with chapter 17 because of the famous reading from a guy who sounds like glen beck. I still think about him losing his poo poo reading "He wus werring a blak robe dat sed 'avril lavigne' on da back" My favorite reading of My Immortal appears to have been scrubbed from YouTube, a real shame. The guy added music from the movies and good photo edits of all the cursed language. His delivery of ”Snake and Loopin was in the middle of da Great Hall, doing it, AND DOBBY WAS WATCHING” brought me to actual tears in the middle of a commute.
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NikkolasKing posted:I'm really not sure this is a positive change. It's pretty well documented at this point that they just took all of Ron's good lines or moments and gave them to Hermione in the movie. The movie makers went out of their way to make her right and perfect in every way possible. I'm not sure it's a positive change either, just that it's one that very much happened. Snape's 'redemption' is another thing that's never sat well with me. The man was the caricature of a bully for the first four books, to the point that one of his students' worst fear was seeing him, and an utter bastard to Harry at every turn. Not to mention being in charge of the school while the child torturing terrorists were running it, and going along with it. Even narratively it didn't matter because Rowling botched the landing and made Harry's survival the result of a wildly improbable series of coincidences and wand lore that had never mattered before turning his suicide survivable. Very little if anything Snape did helped.
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The problem with Snape is that she just kept repeating the same plot over and over again. Is Snape evil this time? No. How about now? Still no.
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muscles like this! posted:The problem with Snape is that she just kept repeating the same plot over and over again. Is Snape evil this time? No. How about now? Still no. Eventually: yes (but secretly no)
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muscles like this! posted:The problem with Snape is that she just kept repeating the same plot over and over again. Is Snape evil this time? No. How about now? Still no. I kinda hate how Snape's redemption worked on some people. Yeah yeah sure, he saved the world. But the way he treated Neville is irreconcilable. He's an evil bad person who had a bad crush. The closest you can get to an ethical incel.
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The problem with Snape is that he was in Evil House (tm) so by the rules of the hat that means he could not be good.
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Liquid Communism posted:Even if she's a self-insert, Rowling low-key hates Hermione. Think about how often she's set up to look like a dumbass 'smart kid' who's objectively wrong and won't admit it. Granger's a buck-toothed bushy haired insufferable know-it-all. Her whole plotline for a book is that it's unreasonable that she's upset by what she perceives to be making her complicit in slavery, while none of the wizards ever explain that attitude. I've always assumed the character was a take on some girl she went to school with and despised while playing nice to her face. When she was picking/meeting the movie director, she was so happy his favorite was Hermione, since that's also her favorite. Most people preferred Ron at the time.
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Air Skwirl posted:It's sorta funny how Rowling doesn't acknowledge how much she owes those kids. Like, yes, she was already rich by the time they were casting those movies, but she wasn't richer than the British monarchy, and if audiences hadn't liked 10 year old Emma Watson and Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe, maybe there's no Chamber of Secrets, let alone the rest of the movies or the loving theme parks and her Cormarand Strike books maybe still get published, but they aren't being turned into a tv series. "These kids are too ignorant/ungratefu/brainwashed to make their own decisions, even well into adulthood" tracks for a transphobe.
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An insane mind posted:The problem with Snape is that he was in Evil House (tm) so by the rules of the hat that means he could not be good. When I'm feeling contrarian I bitch about the line "There wasn't a witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin" cuz Sirius Black was in Gryffindor
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