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I was super into the first three books but only read the forth once. Then I was like"this sucks". For the rest I just made my mom read them and summarize them for me
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hagrid got in trouble for raising a litter of werewolves under his bed as a student in the HP series, canonically, werewolves are human beings
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Apr 15, 2020 04:09
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Apr 15, 2020 06:56
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Fritzler posted:Honestly the World Cup was confusing to me when I read the books too. They go to find a port key in the area, and are like “are there any other of us wizards around?” “I don’t think so”, but they’re not sure. Like what does the average wizard do when they’re not working (which is either at hogwarts or for the government as far as I see)? They don’t know who wizards who live around them. They obviously don’t converse with nearby muggles either. Do the teleport to daigon alley whenever they want to do anything social? Something else? I have no idea what a wizards personal life is like if they don’t work at hogwarts, and i can’t really guess what they do. Masturbate
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Apr 17, 2020 18:36
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The success of the books was predicated on kids wanting to attend hogwarts. I never did. I thought it sounded loving awful. The teachers all have massive personality disorders and the headmaster is a dipshit who openly plays favorites. Kids die. You learn to lift a feather with your brain? Who cares.
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Apr 17, 2020 18:40
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Play Morrowind and don't have a gruesomely murdered dead girl soul in your toilet Like explicitly electronics didn't work so also you couldn't use Microsoft Encarta or anything just their shitass encyclopedias that burp or whatever They wrote with quills! Get the gently caress out of town
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Apr 17, 2020 22:20
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Dumbledore is not only gay, but he's a terrible person
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Apr 18, 2020 16:50
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I honestly honestly however find extreme interest in harry potter past the age of 16 to be an enormous red flag
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Apr 20, 2020 05:25
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I'm very good at avoiding anime fans so I don't know
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Apr 20, 2020 22:56
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Whats anime
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Apr 21, 2020 03:39
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:anime is blood 
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Apr 21, 2020 07:54
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The main thing I remember is that Harry is a dicknuts who doesn't ask enough questions or care enough about the answers.
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Apr 22, 2020 03:55
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I went to see the movie with my father who had not read the books and he was completely baffled
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Apr 22, 2020 14:55
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VanSandman posted:The problem here is, nobody is posting as a ride-or-die fan of the franchise. I like the seven books for what they are, decent children/teen entertainment, but I'm not a superfan. We need a Potterhead to get in here and start madposting at Pick for this to get real fun. hell yes i would be able to irritate the poo poo out of that person
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Apr 22, 2020 17:00
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tbh I think that they're just fluff at the outset and that's better than trying to be Epic
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Apr 23, 2020 02:51
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Tonks was a Hufflepuff
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Roth posted:I apparently confused her with her mother who was sorted into Slytherin and married a muggle. I guess I'm technically correct? The best kind of correct
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Apr 24, 2020 00:29
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Dawgstar posted:People should be Ravenclaw which is like being Slytherin but without the hate crimes. I don't remember much about them aside from them being too smart to get wrapped up in a lot of the horse poo poo. wise indeed.
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Apr 24, 2020 02:42
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jocks, evils, fats, nerds
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SolarFire2 posted:A very good friend of mine is a potterhead, and when the sorting quiz came out she eagerly took it in front of her Husband to prove what a total Gryffindor she was. Result: Hufflepuff. Incredible
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Apr 24, 2020 18:24
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Especially because quizzes are super obvious? You see a rabbit in the middle of the field in a hawk is coming. What do you do? 1. I bravely rush in and save the rabbit, with courage 2. I ran over and I kick the rabbit because I'm evil and then I punch the hawk also and steal it's wallet 3. I observe nature and make notes in my smart person journal about knowing things 4. Find a big stupid dumb dumb and I roll around in the grass like a fool (loyally)
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Apr 24, 2020 18:26
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Breakfast Burrito posted:Hufflepuff is the best house though because the rest are elitist fucks, there's that poem or song or whatever about the founders that's all "I'm gryffindor and I'll only teach brave kids, I'm slytherin and I'll only teach little nazis, I'm ravenclaw and I'll only teach self declared geniuses" and then hufflepuff is like "I'll take anyone" which to me seems like the only acceptable attitude for an educator
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Apr 25, 2020 05:22
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My ambition would be to make all the witches and wizards have to get jobs that loving help people
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Apr 25, 2020 18:04
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They can literally summit up food out of nothing, even ignoring that some people still live with food insecurity, you could suddenly have cruelty free meat.
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Apr 25, 2020 18:05
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Just loving higher some sort of jack rear end to summon hams, that's like a pretty easy spell, you can just teach them ham summoning, they will summer bunch of hams, you can give them away. Yes it will have some economic impacts, but people could have lots of ham and no pigs would even be hurt
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Apr 25, 2020 18:06
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Sleeveless posted:I assumed the magic was just summoning existing food because otherwise why would the school need a huge kitchen and staff of slaves to make food for everyone. cuz tthey're loving assholes
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Apr 25, 2020 18:55
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Barudak posted:Regarding being a hufflepuff via online quiz, I remember there was one that seemed normal like the others but no matter what you put in you were put in hufflepuff for exactly that reason That is loving hilarious
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Apr 27, 2020 05:05
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if you're in the vicinity of magic you can't set a bone. magic prevents it. magic's a real fuckin pain in the noots
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May 2, 2020 08:09
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Ugh Voldemort winning is just like the time that german guy took over the chancellorship
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May 13, 2020 20:27
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ungulateman posted:it's insane because there's this huge, detailed paragraph in the order of the pheonix where the ministry of magic has this big dumb statue in the middle of their foyer depicting how wizards think of their relationship with other magical creatures and harry outright thinks 'that's bullshit' and then the rest of the books just completely drops this pretty important idea and it's never addressed again. it might be the third-most written about thing in fanfiction, after harry having gay sex and being a member of the nobility tbh that's the cool part. is the weird animals. like that's the poo poo everybody likes. big snake!! woah!!
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May 14, 2020 02:31
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The series should have stayed whimsical because its core premise is incompatible with serious examination
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May 14, 2020 19:24
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Butternubs posted:Is the sorting hat sentient? does it just sit in a cupboard 364 days a year? is it's life a living hell? going by what we know of the HP universe the answer to all these is probably yes. here's a list of all 578 fanfictions tagged with the character Sorting Hat so if you read all of those you'll probably get a good sense of what it's up to
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Is it ever at any point made clear how many wizards there actually are or the scale of wizard socitey? The only prominent employers ever seen is the ministry of magic amd hogwarts. What level of private imdustry is there amd of theres none how is the ministry funded? Is Wizard society secretly socialist or communist? Yes, and if I recall she said it was like 6000 people in the U.K. , which even as a kid was the moment I realized this was all really dumb. Like imagine the stupidest little town that you drive through in the crappy part of your state, and that's the entire population of wizards in the UK. And that's almost the only people that they gently caress. Worse than Iceland.
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Barudak posted:Fantasy authors, and frankly people in general, are really bad at estimating how large populations need to be to support various institutions and levels of society so Im not blaming her. She also never said hard numbers as I recall in the books so what ever else shes gurgling out from her bowels is even less relevant. I know I just like complaining about it and it's nostalgic because I complained about it even as a precocious little insufferable teen  Scale is something that's just really hard to gauge in abstracts. I just remember laughing at that specifically though because I went and looked up cities in my home state with 6k populations and was like "lmao the wizarding world in the UK is the size of Madras?????" jesus at least they can gently caress their cousins in Culver
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Sydin posted:Bartimaeus is a lot better about it because mages few in number on purpose since they're effectively an aristocracy. Anybody with the knowledge how can summon a spirit and gain access to magic, so the mages in that series are much more about controlling availability of information and intentionally obscuring the source of their magic so non-mages are ignorant and easily cowed into servitude. Also unlike Harry Potter which waffles on whether wizards would be in actual danger if muggles found out about their society at large, Bartimaeus states clearly that mages only keep the rest of society underfoot by means of fear and if they ever did rise up at any significant scale mages would be toast. I thought those books were very good. almost too good for what they were.
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Tulip posted:
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I think JKR is a massive troll and has been before her lovely social takes. I don't know the solution really. She does it for the attention but you do have to point out her views are lovely too.
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Jun 12, 2020 17:43
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Yeah but how progressive is it to have a bisexual character named Slutty Boobs
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Jun 12, 2020 17:52
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SlothfulCobra posted:Honestly, it's kinda generous to assume Rowling gave any thought at all to the background details of the setting, because the whole reason why there are all these horrible implications if you think about anything at length is because you're giving more thought to anything than she did. harrby podder talks to snake , and reporter can become a bug. elfs.
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amigolupus posted:It's interesting to examine the Weasleys in this lens, especially with regard to Percy. He may have been a government stooge, but it really wasn't surprising that Percy would break away from his family in book five. the weasleys are trash
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