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ZZZorcerer posted:People playing quidditch in real life will never cease to amaze me (it's beyond dumb) Quidditch is one of those weird things where everyone took it seriously when in the first book it is just a joke about how everyone other than Seeker is just wasting time.
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Its pretty hosed up that all wizards are apparently okay with just erasing muggle memories because they don't feel like sharing magic with the rest of the world.
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Sep 1, 2020 21:53
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So does every single wizard in the UK go to Hogwarts? Because it definitely doesn't seem like a big enough school for an entire country.
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Sep 11, 2020 15:30
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GodFish posted:No one has casual sex in harry potter world, they just marry their highschool sweetheart at 17 and pop out babies like god and their biological imperative demands. So does that mean Snape was volcel?
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Sep 11, 2020 21:40
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Funny how Twitter had to actually clarify that #ripjkrowling did not mean she was actually dead.
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New Harry Potter game got officially announced at the Sony PS5 event going on right now. https://twitter.com/HogwartsLegacy/status/1306326061131522048 Since it is set in the 1800s sounds like they're trying to sidestep any direct HP connection.
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Sep 16, 2020 20:27
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Can't find a bigger version but this is all I think of when people talk about wizards not understanding bathrooms.
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Sep 16, 2020 21:25
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Harry, the two places you are safe from Voldemort are Hogwarts and your abusive Aunt and Uncle's house. So I guess you're heading back to the abusive family members instead of just staying at Hogwarts year round even though other people live there year round too.
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Sep 25, 2020 02:47
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Don't forget he lets Harry's godfather go to wizard prison where your soul is slowly murdered by evil ghosts. Because the good guys are definitely the side with evil ghosts that are so evil there's a special spell just to keep them away.
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Oct 8, 2020 03:07
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Speaking of Quirrell, I really love the part of Wizard People, Dear Reader where the narrator gets to the face reveal and just freaks out.
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Oct 9, 2020 14:04
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You know, Snape is a pretty bad potions teacher if he has all this tips and tricks to make better potions and then just straight up doesn't share them with his students.
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Oct 12, 2020 01:48
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Definitely more Time Traveler's Wife. Arrival's thing was that you could experience time non-linearly but you weren't physically time travelling.
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Oct 18, 2020 21:51
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Tulip posted:I just learned that Voldemort is going to be in Space Jam 2. For those wondering Space Jam 2 is supposed to be doing a meta thing involving Warner Bros properties.
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Sydin posted:A story about a squib character who actually manages to function in the magical world by obtaining mastery of potions, magical plants and creatures, and other stuff that on paper does not seem to require personal magic like floo powder, invisibility cloaks, and what not would could actually be really interesting. There's a character like that in the manga/anime Jujutsu Kaisen which is a world where people use "curse magic" to fight monsters. One of the side characters comes from a prestigious sorcerer family but can't use magic at all so instead they train themselves to be a strong fighter and use special magic weapons instead.
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Nov 2, 2020 22:23
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Depp has announced he won't be coming back for any more Fantastic Beast movies.
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Nov 6, 2020 17:44
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In the second book what's his name screws up a spell and removes some of Harry's bones, leaving a flesh sack. So imagine doing that on purpose.
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Nov 6, 2020 19:12
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They're definitely not poor poor seeing as they own a big rear end house on a parcel of land.
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Nov 6, 2020 22:59
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While the movie is still probably going to be terrible one bright spot could be that they're thinking of replacing Depp with Mads Mikkelsen. Now there's a Grizzlebazzle that Dumbledore could be gay for.
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Nov 11, 2020 04:35
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My favorite parts are when Brad Neeley gets bored of what's happening in the movie so he has the characters go on bizarre flights of fancy, like Dumbledore as a rotten cake or Harry flying across America.
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Dec 1, 2020 18:12
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There used to be on Youtube a thing where someone dubbed over the first movie with Wizard People but most of it got pulled.
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Dec 1, 2020 20:58
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To be honest I never heard it as "Queerman" but more "Quirmin" just turning it into a nonsense word. Also watching that linked one I completely forgot that he rewrote the story so that Voldemort was Harry's dad.
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Dec 4, 2020 01:48
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Also my understanding of the situation is that she used it because it is the name of a breed of horse (which people are trying to get changed.)
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Dec 4, 2020 14:56
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Did Rowling ever explain what was going on with ghosts? Because that whole situation sure seemed hosed up.
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Dec 17, 2020 13:10
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Like maybe Hogwarts should have done something about the Nazi house in the first place. Like maybe disband it after Voldemort's defeat instead of just leaving it around for more kids to become radicalized.
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Dec 17, 2020 19:13
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Really all the House stuff was pretty bad. The series would have been much stronger if Hermione was Ravenclaw and Ron was Hufflepuff but Harry was friends with them anyway because he realizes that grouping people by broad personality types is dumb. Then you could do a thing where Harry thinks all Slytherin are bad because of Snape and Draco but then some random side Slytherin shows up and saves the day in like year 3 or something and joins the main crew.
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Dec 18, 2020 01:39
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Didn't that movie The Brother's Grimsby have a subplot about Daniel Radcliffe getting AIDS?
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Dec 22, 2020 19:42
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TheAardvark posted:There are spells for both enlarging food and duplicating it.. some of the more egregious bits of "keeping this from the muggles is evil" magic. Don't forget stuff like healing magic.
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Jan 21, 2021 19:34
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Chamber has exposition about everyone being sick with cold/flu and getting a potion to cure it right before a scene where Filch is grumpy bc he has the flu. They won’t even share with him. Chambers has that they can just use spells to fix broken bones and potions that can regrow bones.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTMidTLO60 Video is more on general transphobia in media but does have some focus on Rowling and her anti-trans book. Also Rowling adds in a bunch of unnecessary fat shaming as well.
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Feb 22, 2021 19:27
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She has a fat character in a scene where ever time it mentions the character it specifies that said character is grabbing another cookie from a tray.
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Feb 22, 2021 22:15
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https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1366743065663266828 Sounds like good news but there's always the chance that Rowling could get them to walk it back.
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Mar 2, 2021 23:32
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Good news about the Harry Potter game, the Gamergate dev is quitting after all the backlash.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Nearly-headless Nick: yeah nobody knows what happens after death, that's why I became a ghost, moving on was too scary In the videogame Trover Saves the Universe multiple times throughout the game you're given the option of killing or sparing people to complete your objectives. At the end of the game you blow up the universe and it turns out that people just go to heaven regardless of how they acted in life. If you chose to kill anyone earlier in the game they're fine with it because they got to go to heaven where everything's great.
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NikkolasKing posted:So in the first book, Harry mentions having a go on Dudley's computer, right? England had quite a few varieties home computers throughout the 80s and 90s so it isn't that weird. Also the Dursley's were definitely well off as Vernon is described as the CEO of a company.
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JethroMcB posted:Did you try searching "Harry Potter fanfic writer who started a cult" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btp7oPP2AwI Atrocity Guide did a pretty good video going over what happened with this guy.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's still standing, all exploded up (which raises even more questions about what the gently caress the killing curse actually does because fake Moody definitely didn't explode that spider). They visit it in Deathly Hallows. There's also a big "Here lie Lily and James Potter, parents to our beloved wizard messiah Harry" memorial that only wizards can see. Muggles see it as a World War 2 memorial to, presumably, people from their village that either died in battle or got killed in the Blitz. Pretty hosed up of the wizards. Wizards basically don't see muggles as human. What with the special name for them and all the racist stuff about not being a "pureblood." Also how wizards are just allowed to erase muggle memories whenever they feel like it.
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It sounds kind of similar to the Russian novel The Last Ringbearer which gets talked up as "Lord of the Rings but from Mordor's perspective" but its really just a rewrite of the story with Elves and Wizards as explicitly evil. So it actually doesn't bring any kind of actual commentary to the premise.
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amigolupus posted:The biggest unanswered mystery in HP is why the gently caress did Lily choose to end up with James Potter anyway? She's spent six years at Hogwarts watching James and his little cronies strut around terrorizing people, including her best friend for the high crime of "existing". I know Sirius mentioned that James eased up on pranking people in their seventh year and only cursed Snape while Lily wasn't around to witness it, but that's still six years of Lily knowing James as a bullying rear end in a top hat and creeps who keeps asking her out. He was handsome and rich and it turns out Lily was super shallow.
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I am kind of surprised that Rowling hasn't just gone all prequel series with James and his crew during his time at Hogwarts. That seems like a really easy moneymaking move. Like she could even do the standard prequel thing where all those instances you saw of James being a shithead to Snape turned out to have a different context where he had his reason for doing it.
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Ror posted:I...worked on this cursed horcrux ring for a year...and...Dumbledore just...he put it on. I've been working my way through the Shrieking Shack podcast from the beginning and there's a really funny line early on where they talk about how Dumbledore just woke Harry up in the middle of the night one time to make him watch as Dumbledore drank some poison. Regalingualius posted:This post got me to thinking: it’s kind of amazing that J.K. never explored the obvious idea of a magic university at all, as far as I remember. Just spitballing here, but I could see it as something like this: That's kind of just The Magicians which is about a college where people go to learn real magic. Unlike the Wizarding World magic is extremely difficult to do because you need to know and involves a lot of math and knowledge of the position of heavenly bodies at all times.
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