Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Being an american kid circa 2000 and arguing about how to pronounce Hermione was a real blast.

Angepain posted:

Section 28 (basically the UK's school "don't say gay" law for those outside terf island) was still around until after book 3 in Scotland and after book 5 in the rest of the UK. Imagine her actually using her power and influence to put even the slightest mention of gay people in her books before then. I mean it's not like she had much of an editor by that point

Boba Pearl posted:

Wait, I thought there was a secrecy thing that if you use magic in a muggle village the govt. gets a warning, wasn't that the whole reason Harry had to go to wizarding court?

Zoran posted:

What was the excuse?

Sydin posted:

The now-deleted Pottermore article about how Hermione is wrong for seeking a systemic change to slavery addresses this by saying "yeah well Dobby's a weirdo, all races have their weirdos."

Robot Style posted:

So according to Wikipedia, the plot of the new movie revolves around Grindelwald running for International Magic President, and getting his people to assassinate the other candidates so he wins by default. And it's not even an election that people vote in - some random magic animal that can tell if people are "pure of heart" decides who wins the election. You'd think that assassinating his competition would kind of preclude him from having a pure heart, but apparently he just uses necromancy on a dead animal to make it choose him anyway.

It's not surprising that the Wizard world is so hosed up if this is their electoral process.

Feldegast42 posted:

Also what was Dumbledore's secret in the end?

Rotten Red Rod posted:

The script was leaked a while ago and it proved to be totally real. So yeah, that's what happens. Dumbledore's big plan is to bring the one remaining live magic deer to the magic president crowning ceremony so he can prove Grindlewald's one is a fake (it's a zombie controlled by Grindlewald). They do this by having groups of the protagonists carry identical briefcases, only one of which has the deer, to misdirect Grindlewald's minions. So once again it's barely about Newt at all.

Also the blood bond that keeps Grindlewald and Dumbledore from fighting gets broken at some point, so they can totally have their duel now. It's all just setup for later movies once again.

josh04 posted:

Would people be broadly in favour of this thread being a spoiler-allowed zone? The title would be "Harry Potter and the Spoilers of Dumbledore".

Grundulum posted:

Tbf doesn’t this also apply to virtually every character in the original books who is old enough to have a job? Assuming they didn’t whole-heartedly side with Voldemort in the first place.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Fantastic Beasts getting its rear end kicked by Sonic 2 in the box office would just make my year

Piell posted:

there are exactly 6 gay seconds in this movie
https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1513904775905124357

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Lol and everyone expected there to be a kiss in the movie, but instead they just mention it once

Is the movie even going to get released in China? Hasn't China essentially closed itself off from everything but Chinese releases for the last few years, or did that stop?

Edit: oh it looks like they only get 34 foreign movies a year, and WB gets more of those slots than anyone else (6 in 2021). And Chinese entities get the lion's share of the profit.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Apparently what happened is someone had the idea to make a documentary-style movie about Newt, and JK Rowling stepped in and totally overhauled the whole project. What's unsaid is she clearly has no interest in the Fantastic Beasts part (or at least lost interest after movie 1) and viewed it as vehicle to tell the Dumbledore story she's clearly much more interested in.

I Love Loosies posted:

lol no even if you can get the actors back and why should they, the adventures of middle age Dad Harry Potter would be very different than lonley orphan discovers he is magic.

Also everybody saying they should have just made a doc about magical animals and it would have made bank is kidding themselve. Maybe as a limited streaming show but never a tentpole international Blockbuster. Those need some real stake

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

It's anyone, not just women. Her ire is most pronounced against women, because Rowling is a misogynist, but it's really a universal rule. The Shrieking Shack bring it up; if you're anything more than a 6 or less than a 4 you're evil.

Barudak posted:

NEWT SCAMANDER is a stuffy british conservationist wizard sent to assignment to AMERICA to help retrieve a UNICORN. While there he meets LOCAL AMERICAN SIDEKICK (Im gonna call him LIBERTY UNIDOS) who is WILD and PROVINCIAL. While working together they find out that the villain SLAVERY FOREVER, a former Confederate, has stolen the UNICORN and is planning to sell it to a higher bidder. After many tribulations they learn SLAVERY FOREVER has been supplying NEWT SCAMANDERS conservatory with illegally taken and poorly treated animals so they vow to stop him and return the UNICORN to its rightful home. During a KICKASS TRAIN SCENE, our heroes are split up. LIBERTY UNIDOS defeats his opponent a notorious mercenary HESSIAN PRIDE by doing a callback to being told to shut up a lot by casting a silent, no wand EXPELIRAMUS to knock him off the train so he can appear in THE SEQUEL. At the same time, NEWT SCAMANDER defeats SLAVERY FOREVER with the help of the UNICORN after which he decides to write his own zoological guide with the help of LIBERTY UNIDOS that he plans to call FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM.

Runcible Cat posted:

You'd think wizard child protective services would be an essential and well-funded part of wizard government just to avoid poo poo like this, but apparently all the funding goes to Aurors.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Gotta admit it's definitely the funniest option to end up 'China made them cut the gay bits out of the movie, all six seconds of them!'

Mx. posted:

how dare you say hitler was evil, all we can say is he was complicated

nashona posted:

he's gotta be kicked from any other sequels yeah?

Ezra Miller arrested again on Hawaii Island

no deets as to why yet

Mx. posted:

BigglesSWE posted:

Yeah Mads carries around a stupendous amount of sexy energy and Hannibal showed that he can employ that very well for people who wants to see gay characters who aren’t explicitly gay, I.e. JK Rowling.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Honestly Colin Farrell did a good job too.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Yeah, Johnny Depp used to be one of my favorite actors but his schtick hasn't been appealing since maybe the 3rd Pirates movie. He really only has one mode and it's just not appealing anymore. I'll literally write off movies that have Johnny Depp in them entirely based on his presence.

Mads Mikkelsen steals the show in anything he's in, by contrast.

Feldegast42 posted:

Did you guys ever think that the true Fantastic Beast




































Was man

Boba Pearl posted:

But where can I find such a lad.

BigglesSWE posted:

The dumbest thing about Quidditch is that the game only ends once the snitch is caught. Which is a fun little detail in a children’s adventure book but when brought into a big serious pondering world it falls apart completely.

BigglesSWE posted:

Sounds like baseball is pretty stupid then. I wouldn’t know, I’ve only been to one game back in 2002 and I had no idea what was happening.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Pretty sure it's literally based on cricket, not baseball.

Liquid Communism posted:

The twins were selling them out of their shop later on too, now that I do a bit of googling. Which is again, some side-eye at Rowling, having your good guys casually selling essentially magical roofies.

Half Blood Prince, Chapter 6

Mx. posted:

One of my nieces loves Harry Potter

I buy her other books for gifts