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What's the average percentage of students that survive a full stint at Hogwarts? Like 70% maybe? They basically give 11 year olds handguns, I would have died or killed someone about 4 or 5 times a year. also to add to the "wizards are assholes" pile; was everyone just OK with the tortured dragon in the bank? Oh yeah muggles are the threat? Last time I checked they didn't have bear baiting at my local Barclays (They also don't require you to be a certain race to work there)
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Yeah I don't think the goblins are intentionally meant to represent Jews but I can see how people see it like that. More likely it's just a bit of poorly thought out trope mixing on JKs part, definitely could have done something a bit more sensitive. However you view it though, the Idea of only one race doing a certain job says a lot about the wizarding world. Goblins are only represented in wizarding society via the Department for regulation and control of magical creatures. As far as wizards are concerned they're basically animals same goes for house elves and I presume giants which explains a lot about the discrimination Hagrid is subjected too and maybe the reason he's so fond of other magical creatures. The wizarding world is already a xenophobic authoritarian nightmare, Voldemort etc. just want to take it to its logical conclusion.
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May 13, 2020 22:38
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I always got that the prophecy was a kind of self fulfilling thing. If Voldemort just ignored it then he would have been fine but he's a big bitch who's too scared of dying to leave it alone.
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May 14, 2020 22:36
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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.
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May 15, 2020 23:54
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Zore posted:The painting of Dumbledore says it's its own entity that has some, but not all of Dumbledore's memories and experiences. Maybe it comes down to the skill of the painter. Like if the Van Gogh of the wizarding world does your portrait then it acts and sounds just like you and has most of your memories. But if you're finger painted by a hufflepuff then it probably just screams all the time and begs for death.
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May 16, 2020 04:32
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it's actually canon that harry turns his magic body cam off before avada kedavaring unarmed goblins. Just so he doesn't lose a fight of course.
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May 17, 2020 02:37
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ungulateman posted:as extremely not funny as 'harry potter, cop who kills minorities' is, It's actually called "harry potter and the quill that definitely looked like a wand from a distance."
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May 17, 2020 05:56
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In the human wizard war that Voldemort imagined how was he planning on dealing with all the crazy non magic weapons? Does an ICBM give you enough warning to disapparate away? does St. Mungo's know how to deal with Nerve gas injuries? Can you Avada Kedavra someone through 2 inch thick steel tank armour? the death eaters would 100% get crushed by the muggle military industrial complex.
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May 21, 2020 12:38
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Always felt like part of the joke was the Death Eaters espouse pureblood supremacy but spent most of their time wiping out so many pureblood families that there's even fewer ways they can keep going without having kids with muggles. I think it's mentioned that some of them aren't even pureblood themselves and they get fake documents to state otherwise.
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May 22, 2020 05:26
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Hermione is the only sane character. Like imagine you find out magic is real, how is your first instinct not to learn everything you can do with it. Harry and ron are just like yeah cool we can do these 5 spells that'll do potions class sucks, who needs to know how to make a potion that gives you a huge dick or wings or w/e guess I'll just expelliarmus.
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May 22, 2020 13:26
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I think in the cursed child Hermione becomes Minister for magic so she's probably the one pushing the button.
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May 22, 2020 13:59
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TheAardvark posted:this reminds me, Harry and Cedric should have lost the tri-wizard cup for colluding when Cedric helped him solve the egg Yeah but who's gonna tell the judges? They don't call it Hogwarts school for snitchcraft and bitchery
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May 22, 2020 19:06
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There's one thing that's never mentioned in the books but I think is one of the most interesting questions about the wizarding world: Moving anime body pillows.
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May 23, 2020 03:43
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Exactly, Voldemort is powerful sure but what's more dangerous is how many people he got to go along with his fascist death cult. I mean who would follow a leader that racist and incompetent ??? can't even kill a baby!
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Jun 1, 2020 22:22
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The books skipped a bunch of stuff with the students starting a resistance when Hogwarts gets taken over by nazis. That is like 10 times more interesting than harry ron and hermione farting about in the woods. Show me some magic guerrilla warfare. I want to see Neville firing spells at death eaters from the back of a flying toyota hilux show me the Hogwarts peoples liberation front.
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Jun 3, 2020 23:34
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Can wizards homeschool? what if you live in Mumbai and you don't want to send your kid to Beijing for school? from what we get in the books if you don't want your kid to go to Hogwarts the MoM probably just takes them away and sends you to azkaban for 50 years
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Jun 6, 2020 23:18
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So there's 1000 students at Hogwarts, assuming all British children ages 11-17 go to Hogwarts and wizards have the same population spread as the rest of the UK that means there's ~ 10000 wizards in the UK. So ~ 0.15% of the population are Wizards. The catchment area for "school 10" includes about 3.254 Billion people. If 0.15% of them are wizards that means there's 4.881 million wizards. If 11-17 year olds make up 10% of them (and it's probably a lot more in a lot of those countries) then School 10 must teach ~ 500,000 students. The biggest school in the muggle world has about 40,000 students... Why didn't we get a story about the wizarding school with a population larger than Iceland?
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Jun 7, 2020 08:05
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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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Dec 7, 2020 23:29
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If harry ever trips over in his life then the wand belongs to the floor. The next guy who punches the floor gets the wand. This is wand magic.
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Dec 9, 2020 19:41
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Wizards are so rare because they're all armed with automatic rifles and they don't get a proper education and when they do they get taught at a prison camp where half of them are accidentally killed every year.
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Dec 14, 2020 20:11
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How many of his former classmates do you think harry personally executed for not fighting during the childrens massacre of 1998?
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Dec 14, 2020 20:35
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NikkolasKing posted:Seriously, this is what really bugs me about the whole thing. I can't think of a more unsexual character than Tom Riddle. He had no interest in companionship of any kind and was equally dismissive of seduction once he was old and strong enough to do things by brute force. There are other reasons to have sex other than horniness (or so I've heard). Maybe he just wanted an heir or a trustworthy henchman. And who needs to actually get turned on when you have magic. "CIALIS ERECTUS!"
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Dec 10, 2021 10:49
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Turns out, the most dangerous beasts were us all along. Oh and also the goblins, they're definitely beasts and should not be allowed to have wands, or freedom for that matter.
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Mar 28, 2022 15:36
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Excuse you, Viktor Krum may go to bad guy school but he's the only character in the series who openly says it's ok to use violence on nazis. Yes but this makes him a bad guy in the books. Because you see, he's foreign and the nazis weren't.
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Mar 30, 2022 12:06
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I will play it but I won't be buying it.
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Mar 30, 2022 19:41
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Books 4-7 should actually be classed as a manifesto.
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Being a wizard cop is a rough gig, every time they arrest a goblin for possession of two ounces of spleenwort it splits your soul.
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