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I’m honestly surprised they went through the efforts to distance themselves from her for the special as they did, unless a lot of the actors themselves spoke up against it. I’ve seen a lot of outspoken HP fans just have no idea about what JK Rowling as said the past few years.
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Wizards apparently have no idea what guns or electricity are and need it explained to them, I’m sure a trade could be made.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The real problem with time turners/oops they're all smashed is a problem I haven't really thought of till now: It confirms that either wizarding Britain is a pariah state or that only british wizards could make them. I vaguely remember over a decade ago people joking that wizard Britain is the country all other wizards avoided unless they had to, even not counting anything Voldemort related.
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I do like how the main series ends with Harry telling his son it doesn’t matter what house he’s in, only for Cursed Child to show it actually does matter and he gets shunned for it.
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Feb 9, 2022 15:51
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Theres also random diseases only wizards seem to get and die of like dragon pox. Unless regular people can get it to and don’t know, and die from something they’re unaware of and have no idea how to cure.
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Feb 9, 2022 20:09
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I forgot that camp director is basically brain damaged the last time we see him.
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Feb 10, 2022 14:24
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Fleur is supposed to be the best in her school and gets chumped immediately in 2 out of 3 challenges. I don’t remember how she does with the dragon.
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Mar 4, 2022 13:14
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Quidditch also has the deal where its a wacky sport with weird rules, so if you have a POV of the Seeker you can only write so many variations of the game before you’re just pressing the win button that gives you all the points. Though apparently Ireland has chasers so good who can score so fast Krum would just rather end the game.
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Mar 7, 2022 12:15
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Dobby and house elves in general could have easily been a smaller case where it’s only old families like the Malfoys who had them, and it’s treated as a dying thing where it’s seen as distasteful at best among most other wizards, instead of it being accepted by everyone but Hermione.
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Mar 9, 2022 17:39
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With how many elves there were and how they armed themselves with knives and other kitchen utensils, surely some stuff on Voldemort’s side just got plain stabbed to death.
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Mar 15, 2022 17:50
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There will be a Goblin character who is on the wizard's side and talk about how they've gone to far and need to be stopped for the good of society, to balance things out.
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Mar 18, 2022 01:02
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It turns out you get to go to Hogwarts only because it’s been a few years since a negligent child death so your parents finally agree you can go.
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Mar 18, 2022 12:41
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I think book 4 he stops the Death Eaters from dealing with Harry easily so he can get a dramatic kill in.
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Mar 18, 2022 18:22
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Draco does have to live an adult life of everyone telling him Voldemort hosed his wife, on top of whatever PTSD he got after the series.
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Mar 20, 2022 01:56
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A story about a regular person perspective trying to date a wizard from Hogwarts with their weird rear end beliefs and ignorance might be pretty good.
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Mar 25, 2022 14:12
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I remember someone saying the Cursed Child should be about Hermione and Harry having an affair as adults before it came out and thinking that would be a terrible idea, but after what we got maybe it would have been done better than what we got.
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Considering wizard society I wouldn’t be surprised if the wizards didn’t know there was a World War 1. Harry Potter has one of the easier ways to write around “why didn’t wizards stop Hitler?” questions, but it also potentially makes wizards look bad for not really doing anything.
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Mar 27, 2022 16:03
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I saw a commercial for the movie during March Madness and it was all quick cuts and Dumbledore. No magical beast at all.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:According to the leaked script (which was pretty much 100% confirmed real by the trailer) there is a magical beast that is a pivotal maguffin to the plot, but it's still a plot VERY firmly focused on stopping Grindelwald using a superbrain 4D chess scheme cooked up by Dumbledore. Even more than the previous movie honestly. Dumbledore sends Newt to die against Grindelwald, which was the final piece of the puzzle to stop his evil plan.
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Mar 28, 2022 15:08
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The video game will reveal we’re Dumbledore’s ancestor, because it can’t not involve him
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I used to think it was less about what you are and more what you admire and inspire to be the most, because people like Neville and Peter Pettigrew would likely be in other houses based on their initial assessment vs who they initially admire and want to be. Though if that’s true the poor Ravenclaw who gets stuck outside their bedroom because they suck at riddles
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Sydin posted:My favorite part about the house elves is that the whole systemic slavery angle was completely unnecessary to the plot and could have been excised entirely. It could have just been a one off oddity of the Malfoys that is never brought up again after Dobby is freed. Or it could have been something of an artifact of less-enlightened times that only a handful of very old and powerful wizarding families still engaged in to the general distaste of the rest of the wizarding world. So yeah the Malfoy and Black families still had slaves hanging around but that was because they were insanely out of touch old pureblood families obsessed with their long-begotten prestige. We really, absolutely did not need the Hogwarts slave kitchens because they add absolutely nothing and would have still actively dragged the setting down even if a systemic solution had been enacted within the text, but there they are still. We even had a decent explanation of “this is an ancient magic castle with secrets not even the most knowledgeable and powerful wizards can figure out”, so it’s a little weird they needed hard explanations for why things get cleaned
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I like how Bellatrix has a husband who almost immediately becomes a non-character too
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Give it time and it’ll turn out that will have been the case, only for time-turners to have gone back and changed history because wizard kings destroyed the world.
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Wizard society could have been so ignorant about WW2 I could imagine a bunch of muggle born kids just being in disbelief when they show up and everyone at school is having a good time completely unaware of the outside world.
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Apr 5, 2022 03:59
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We don’t actually see a lot of examples of kids with one wizard and one muggle parent either, despite it being hinted that’s a large portion of kids if not the majority.
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Skwirl posted:I think you have to get caught or something? And there was a rule against younger kids using magic during the summer break? This could have changed but the original idea was kids in non magic homes were tracked and punished if they used magic, and in wizard homes since everyone is using magic and it can’t be tracked as well they just basically put it on the parents to punish the kid.
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Apr 5, 2022 11:20
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“Harry if we give these people bread they’ll want a solution to every problem. Plus look at their dumb axe chairs”
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Dobby is the only house elf that seems happy once he’s freed too.
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Apr 7, 2022 18:19
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I kind of wonder how the books would have changed if Mr. Weasly was killed instead of Sirius
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Apr 9, 2022 17:56
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If Voldemort came back and wanted to gently caress Draco’s wife Lucius would immediately help him.
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Apr 10, 2022 15:45
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I think it is said that Hogwarts is mandatory and presumably there’s worse punishment for not sending them, but I don’t think that’s something followed up on a lot
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Harry being the best against Defense against the Dark Arts sometimes feels like he knows one spell that's first introduced as hard to do before everyone can do it, and is good at ducking and weaving so spells miss him.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Harry's one spell is doubly lmfao because he learns it from the nazi triple agent who hates him, and the guy whose entire character is being a hack fraud who cannot defend against any dark arts. I was thinking it was mostly the patronus in the first place, because it was introduced as this thing even well trained wizards can't do well, let along form an animal. Cut to a few books later and nearly every main good guy has one.
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Muggles aren’t allowed to be competent, only the butt of jokes.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Every time someone mentions Newt (I don't know who this is) I think of the girl from Aliens and then I picture xenomorphs rampaging through Hogwarts. I’m kind of surprised wizards haven’t cross bred or created some horrible monster that gets loose and threatens society
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Actually was there any real follow up on that plot? Hagrid has his students work with dangerous and unpredictable new crossbreeds, which there were established laws against.
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Was there anything that bad about Dean Thomas? He was just kind of there more than anything else.
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Harry doesn’t work on friendships and relationships and instead just kind of hopes things will work out on their own.
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We do never see a lot of together wizard/muggle couples on screen. Apparently Cho marries one but it’s weirdly said like a consolation prize
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