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It just occurred to me, the "the entire world plays this one game" probably only seems improbable to Americans who are the only holdouts on this whole 'football' thing.
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reignofevil posted:rear end in a top hat wizards I'm guessing. Its pretty clear that rear end in a top hat wizards were the norm for most of wizarding history.
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Apr 9, 2020 15:08
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reignofevil posted:Yes. Also I think Ron's brothers, Fred and George, also invented some spells in their time. So occasionally wizards do invent new spells they just are an incredibly self satisfied bunch and so for the most part they never try to push the limits of their already incredible magical repertoire. Admit it, would you be so different?
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Apr 12, 2020 17:39
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I re-read the whole series a couple years ago when my roommate at the time had all the books lying around (he borrowed them as, despite being a big fan of the movies, he had never read the books). Its kind of shocking how little there is in the first book, you can tell Rowling was learning how to write as she was writing them. You can also tell she bit off way more than she could chew saying there would be 7 books from the start. After re-reading them though, my opinion on 6 and 7 changed from 'bad' to 'utterly forgettable'.
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Apr 23, 2020 00:00
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SolarFire2 posted:So what's the difference between the Deathly Hallow invisiblity cloak and the more common off the shelf variety? One's magic, the other is more magic.
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Apr 23, 2020 01:08
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josh04 posted:House Protagonist, House Antagonist, House Not Appearing In This Story. FTFY JethroMcB posted:pretty funny that Hufflepuff is canonically the unexceptional house of leftovers and people gleefully embrace that, "I'm SUCH a Hufflepuff, I define myself by having no true personality and only really existing to serve the Alphas in the story of my life!" Yes, but you've met potterheads, can you really say they're wrong?
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Apr 24, 2020 15:43
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Man with Hat posted:This is actually explicitly stated to not be possible. Food is one of the fundamental unmakeable things. I don't remember the exact wording but there's a law (like a law of physics not like a law of you shall not steal) that says you can't summon food out of nothing. The food at the feasts in Hogwarts is made by house elves in the basement right under the great hall and Dumbledore just teleports it. A massive endowment from all of the richest wizards in England.
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Apr 25, 2020 20:45
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Aglet56 posted:There's definitely a horror movie scenario in the Dursleys' situation, though. They spend years abusing this kid due to hosed up family dynamics and then they find out he's capable of unknown but clearly lethal power; 9 months or so after they find this out, he comes back from his crazy magic school having learned god knows what and maybe he killed a teacher? and they gotta live with him and they know he's not happy with em They spend years abusing him because they know he's a wizard, and they don't like wizards / want to beat the magic out of him.
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May 4, 2020 14:40
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Sleeveless posted:It's a decent attempt at trying to reconcile how problematic Chosen One narratives are by making it so that there was nothing intrinsically special about Harry. Aside from his family's wealth and privelege of course, but even then Neville covercomes all that to basically be Harry's equal and carrying on his work at Hogwarts in the final book. Did the books ever say where all the money came from? Were the Potters just rich as gently caress and Harry's the last of them? I don't remember them ever talking about James's family.
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May 15, 2020 04:26
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I demand more verisimilitude from my Children's / Young Adult books by a novice writer!
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May 30, 2020 04:21
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They vary in quality substantially from one to another.
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Jun 5, 2020 01:55
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Dumbledore was a bit deluded, he even says 'its all my fault, I hosed up" (I think, that might have been a different book). One of his primary character traits is being an old and powerful wizard that hasn't completely lost touch with reality as opposed to, as far as it seems, all the other ones.
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Jun 5, 2020 04:28
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galagazombie posted:a turn based RPG on the GBC Two apparently. I only played the first but it was solid enough for a licensed game, I hear the second is better.
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[Interior: The Great Hall] The Great Hall is lavishly decorated with British and/or Magical Halloween decorations. The tables are piled high with British and/or Magical foods, and all the students are present, chattering unintelligibly Ron: Where's Hermione? Harry: Some crap I'm not transcribing for a very dumb joke *Ron looks ashamed* Professor Qrrbrbirlbel burst in, shouting wordlessly. Everyone stands up in alarm. He reaches the center of the room and stops. Professor Qrrbrbirlbel: Zeeky Boogy Doog A bomb explodes.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:07
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Voldemort had a chip on his shoulder and the talent to do something about it (Rowling's Twitter nonwithstanding). Harry, it turns out, was only ever important because he had Voldemort's soul in him, and was otherwise an above average wizard who was good at flying.
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Aug 26, 2020 00:59
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DrBouvenstein posted:And another thing, just how many drat forms of travel do wizards NEED? It seems that once you learn how to apparate, why do you need anything else? You get cut in half or enwalled if you gently caress up. Somehow this doesn't lead to long term damage, but must be unpleasant.
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Aug 28, 2020 17:10
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:They don’t even follow the same naming scheme? Jesus Christ upper class British stuff is the worst I don't think anyone would disagree with this. In any context.
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Sep 1, 2020 23:53
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The thing about wizards is they all have robes and hats, ergo they all gently caress.
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Sep 12, 2020 00:06
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Atrocious Joe posted:is the wizarding world just a cult. Yeah but the magic powers are real so, you win some, you lose some.
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Sep 14, 2020 07:26
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"Dumbledore, these traps are so simple an 11 year old could get past them." "Good point, add a troll, kids won't be able to do poo poo against a troll."
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Sep 14, 2020 20:36
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They're pretty clearly the work of a novice author, especially if you read them back to back. The early ones a very rough around the edges and the later could stand some substantial editing / trimming. Still, both for first books and pulling off a 7 book series with no experience I have to give her props, most people couldn't have pulled it off.
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Sep 22, 2020 17:12
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Dumbledore's plan
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Oct 9, 2020 03:01
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Iirc he's much more helpful to those who are good at potions. Maybe not a good quality in a teacher, but he's not just keeping it all to himself.
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Oct 12, 2020 03:59
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That sounds way better Until you realize most of those books consist of " "Aaaaaaaa(extend for 300 pages)aah!" said Harry, as he charged his aura."
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Oct 12, 2020 13:19
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E: wrongus threadus
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Oct 14, 2020 03:00
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Proud wizard voice: I did that by hand I'll have you know, and on a phone at that. Just a little bit of magic for the copy and paste, but that don't really count does it gov'na?
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Oct 14, 2020 03:13
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:And then the real one dies. Sad. He get his soul eaten before he can say anything that might be politically damaging.
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Oct 30, 2020 20:19
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Smoking wizard salvia cuz I pissed off house huff'n'puff.
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Friend posted:That doesn't change the fact that she shouldn't be able to work a human body as a puppet as a snake A wizard did it.
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Barudak posted:Rowling is going to reveal that wizards are all very stupid and racist and they all think asian people are snakes. I think that's just in the text (the stupid and racist part). They're noted to be stupid repeatedly, and their interactions with foreigners range from patronizing to hostile.
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Nov 6, 2020 15:30
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No american would name their kid Newt. Brits though, Brits would.
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Nov 6, 2020 19:53
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If Arthur ever left his job his replacement would be at his doorstep the next day. He needs to keep that job to keep himself safe. And while Ron has to deal with crappy hand me downs and arthur is going to rely on his ministry pension, I don't think it's suggested they ever failed to have food on the table or the like.
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Nov 6, 2020 23:30
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muscles like this! posted:They're definitely not poor poor seeing as they own a big rear end house on a parcel of land. The house is a magic togethered piece of patchwork, and I don't think wizards need to do anything for land thats not in a high-demand wizard area. Just throw some magic on a plot of dirt no other wizard is using so muggles can't see it and boom, free land.
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It's foreign microbes in your blood that make you a wizard.
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Nov 11, 2020 20:23
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Good/talented wizard. Terrible student.
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Nov 20, 2020 20:26
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That takes time, I need gravy now! 
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Nov 20, 2020 20:57
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Given the choice between technology and not having to get up to get things I'd choose the later, though it would markedly cut down on the things what I'd have been getting up to get.
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Guy A. Person posted:Auror is not really a one-to-one with real world cops tbf, in the world of the books there are actually evil wizards who can do gnarly stuff with their power like control minds. In the real world the cops work for and are the people who use their power to hurt powerless people. If you think about it, all wizards are constantly armed... (This isnt where I intended to go with this reply, but it's the logical end to all individual wizards being roughly equally potent / dangerous, barring exceptions like dumbledore. Wizard fights, and by extension the ministry's power are just a numbers game.)
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The initial characterization wasn't that all slytherins were evil, but that all evil people were slytherin, but this got lost over the course of the septilogy.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Though it's made into a complete joke given a pretty simple spell renders a wizard immune to fire. Not being good at killing you doesn't mean they aren't trying to kill you.
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