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muscles like this! posted:I don't know what you're talking about this is a completely different version. cursed
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I wanna know how the TV writers are gonna scramble up a structure for seasons 5 and 6, neither of those books have an actual plot to speak of; well, getting Slughorn's memory I suppose is the main story of Half-Blood Prince but what the hell even is the plot of The Order of the Phoenix? Seriously. Don't tell me it's figuring out the Department of Mysteries because the premise would just be this: Boy has dream
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Jul 17, 2025 16:51
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Getting Slughorn's memory can't be the main plot of book 6 because Harry just sits around doing nothing for months without even thinking about it. It would be like trying to expand the "Harry should be solving the Egg to prepare for the second task" segment of book 4 to fill an entire season. Fake edit: i have a knack for sounding pretentious so i have to clarify this is all just my opinion To me the trouble is that Slughorn's memory is the only thing accelerating the plot; so even if so little time was devoted to it that's SUPPOSED to be the plot of the book*, because while the potions book being Snape's might inform us of his broader character arc, it doesn't inform the plot itself. A lot of the things mentioned happening in 5 and 6 is so disjointed from cohesive story structure that's honestly just stuff happening in succession. Yeah the events in 5 and 6 all pay off by the end of the series, but those two books differ from the rest because books 1 - 4 each have an individual cohesive story structure
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Jul 17, 2025 19:29
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Again, not trying to be pretentious but I feel like it'd be hard to say what 5 or 6 are really about in less than two short sentences, whereas you could easily with 1 - 4. And I'm talking bare bones here, what the A plot of each story is, which again is just easier to identify in 1 -4. Yes all the books tell one longer story but each are obviously meant to have their own self-contained plot. Now I do remember something about JK Rowling firing her editor or something along those lines, because this would explain some things. Previous editors would know how to structure, and they would work with the author to make it stronger and more identifiable. If this theory is true it's likely Bobby G got frustrated with being told what to do and went for an editor who would just let her do what she wants. *when I say it's SUPPOSED to be about that is cuz it seems that's what the story WANTS. It's honestly a lot like going to a comedy open mic, you can hear what a comic is trying to say but they lack the structure to make it obvious to the crowd what the joke is about and what punchline wants to be. I guess my point is Rowling never knew what the gently caress she was doing and this is why we need editors
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Jul 17, 2025 19:29
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stev posted:Eh a lot of HBP's plot revolves around the mystery of the murder attempts and what Malfoy's whole deal is. I think it works fine in that sense and you could probably get an ok season of TV out of it. That's true, Malfoy's thru-line is a pretty significant one. And you and Jethro are right tho, even the chapters are episodic in that way. I expect most episodes will even have the same chapter titles
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Jul 17, 2025 20:40
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JethroMcB posted:From what I can tell after a quick search, she had the same editor throughout the series. I always assumed it was a case of the editor/publisher getting nervous like halfway through the series, "Ah geez, we've got a worldwide publishing phenomenon on our hands, we're making so much god drat money, we gotta keep this lady happy and don't upset the apple cart." The problem with a lot of authors is they stop producing material; in this case their golden goose was turning in doorstop drafts for a kid's book in a timely fashion so their primary concern was probably to just get it out the door ASAP. Jo: Her editor: 
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Jul 17, 2025 23:18
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Only less cocaine (?)
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Jul 18, 2025 14:08
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What is thread's opinion on Jim Dale vs Stephen Fry for audiobooks? Pretty divisive subject I think Dale has more character range but Fry is a more convincing actor, and that with Dale's whimsical and grandfatherly narration he's most appropriate for books 1 to 4 and Fry, with his dark urgency, is best for 5 to 7. Random question i know, but I'm curious
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Jul 18, 2025 14:22
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Buttchocks posted:Both of them spliced together every other word lol
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Jul 18, 2025 18:14
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They cast Shane Gillis as Uncle Vernon?
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Jul 18, 2025 19:26
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JethroMcB posted:I'm excusing the costume department for a lot of things after seeing Dudley's outfit there Given our first look that's a slippery slope my friend, we'll be forgiving everything except for robert herself
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Jul 18, 2025 21:15
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I just realized that's Piers in the wagon with Dudley. drat, they're gonna have fricken everybody including Peeves and Charlie Weasley
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Jul 18, 2025 21:17
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Itd be cool if it were a period piece the way napoleon dynamite was, which evoked the 80s rather than being set in them. Moonboots and glamour shots, sure. Chatting online with babes all day, also sure
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Jul 19, 2025 13:58
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Jazerus posted:a sudden divorce in the weasley family after mr. weasley is discovered browsing for "hot singles" from his shed When I revisit the series and they mention Arthur tinkering in the shed, I always picture him building a sex bot
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Jul 19, 2025 15:00
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Set in the 1930s, adult Harry marries his 13 year old cousin who dies one year later from tuberculosis.
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Jul 19, 2025 16:06
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4 billion BC Hagrid: "You're primordial soup, Harry"
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Jul 19, 2025 16:29
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BigglesSWE posted:Oh god shipping fanfiction with Harry and the Dursleys. Its existence is as assured as it’s depravity. I'm not even betting money it exists because no one will bet that it doesn't
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Jul 19, 2025 23:57
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Wearing nothing but a filthy pillowcase and chastity cage, but you cant be freed until your wife hands you your bull's cumsock (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 20, 2025 16:16
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BigglesSWE posted:she’s so in love with him and his God-esque omnipotency. Rowling announcing on the Today Show that Dumblebore is actually straight and shows a demonstration with her body pillow
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Jul 22, 2025 12:19
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Guy A. Person posted:Dumbledore grabbing Harry and shaking him: "Harry, did you put your name into the goblet 75 times?!?!" lmao
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Jul 22, 2025 21:47
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[Me, bowling] Call me peter pettigrew cuz i just keep on killing spares
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Jul 23, 2025 14:18
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bobjr posted:Peter’s new magic hand should have came with some cool new abilities Comes with hundreds of new features but he only uses it to crank it at lightning speed
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Jul 23, 2025 16:41
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She also flat out forgot that Donna had a sister E: nvm I'm thinking of That 70s Show caspergers fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jul 24, 2025 |
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Jul 24, 2025 00:47
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Zombies magazine posted:pettigrew and lupin are also the last of the marauders, if joanne had a bit of talent those two would have interacted in ANY capacity Another example of why good editors are needed
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Jul 24, 2025 04:48
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Doing a Marauders series would require some effort to come up with new material, whereas rehashing the books requires no new creativity. HBO will order new spinoffs if the reboot is successful
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Jul 24, 2025 12:06
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stev posted:Hey now, Lockhart didn't try to kill Harry. He just tried to delete his brain. That's cuz it's only thing he was good at it, he'd probably butcher the killing curse if he attempted it
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Jul 24, 2025 15:05
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm so glad I never read any Harry Potter. But you're missing out on all the self-loathing
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Jul 25, 2025 15:21
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Hey at least you're not a Percy Jackson adult
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Jul 27, 2025 16:43
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Zombies magazine posted:Yeah now im just a depressed adult
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Jul 27, 2025 17:08
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NikkolasKing posted:Wasn't Rowling okay with Hermione being black or whatever? I don't even remember what this was for, as I've only really read the books. I just remember there was online discourse and the usual manufactured outrage about diversity, yet this was forever ago, I wanna say even before this kind of fake outrage was the norm for everything ever.  There were responses quoting the book where she's descibed as white-faced, blushing or having freckles
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Jul 30, 2025 19:08
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Air Skwirl posted:I'm trying to remember anything Draco did that was worse than just being an rear end in a top hat. There was this kid in my school who said, "i hope all the
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Aug 1, 2025 16:52
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Zombies magazine posted:shocked the goblins havent come up with a magical checking system, just tap a piece of paper saying you're paying 500 galleons to whoever and it just magically appears in someone else's vault at gringotts Yeah this is kinda similar to how house points work, right?
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that makes me wonder, do you have tweakers who steal poo poo like they do copper in the muggle world just so they can buy a vial of magic meth? I mean i gues there's mundugus fletcher e: 
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come to think of it so was filch. hell, lupin was a user for sure. he never tranformed into a wolf, he just went off to the shrieking shack with his little buddies and inhaled a bunch of gas and i don't think peeves was a poltergeist at all, he was just real hosed up all the time
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Aug 7, 2025 00:47
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Khanstant posted:There's gotta be a way to trap a wizard and use them for electricity generation. Oh this is bleak
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Aug 8, 2025 19:20
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Asterite34 posted:I think that happened in one of the Shannara books, some pre-Armageddon AI just hooked up a dude to a Matrix chair and just squeezed fireballs out of him into a capacitor until he was a withered husk Wild, I'm currently reading the final Shannara series. It's better than what he's written since 2003 but not worth reading unless you're a fan. I was obsessed with Terry Brooks in my teens. Also, he picked a successor to keep writing Shannara books after his retirement, but I'm not bothering to look up her name rn
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Aug 9, 2025 20:24
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Khanstant posted:I know I've read some of those and it has been a really long time but I don't remember there being AI or future tech in them at all lol. There are robotic spiders in the very first one, but back then Shannara took place in a future that wasn't Earth. It wasn't until after his Word & Void series that he decided to combine the two franchises and Shannara was future Earth. So after the merge there became more old world tech, but through the natural progression of progress they created their own tech, like flying ships, canons, guns, and in this last series, a giant weather manipulation machine
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Asterite34 posted:Yeah that was my trashy teen fantasy series of choice too after my dad got me the first one (he was a fan back in the 70s). I think Wishsong was the first time I ever stayed up til 4am to finish a book in a transfixed marathon. Oh poo poo read Word & Void, it is pulpy on the surface but it's definitely less vapid than Shannara. Honorable mention to Landover
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Aug 9, 2025 20:31
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muscles like this! posted:I always thought it was weird that when they did a Shannara tv series they didn't start with Word & Void and instead just started with the first book which was much more expensive to make. Eh didnt seem like it enough of a base, also elfstones was one of jon favreau's favorites and that's why he produced. Other than Sword sucking
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Well the trouble with the show was the second season couldn't do Wishsong because the actors had contracts and they had to write new stories for the existing characters. It also makes sense that Sword wasn't adapted first, mostly because a) Eflstones is objectively the best in the series, b) Sword is beat-for-beat LotR, and c) literally one female character and she's doesn't get a lot of page-time I actually appreciate when adaptations diverge, that way I can see like you said, an alternative version. An adaptation could never ruin its basis, because the basis will always exist as it had before.
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