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Paragon8 posted:I know it's super spergy but I get annoyed by when Rowling tried to really expand the Wizarding world with the Quidditch World cup. It'd be fine if she wasn't as specific as she was with the 100,000 spectators. From that you can extrapolate that the wizarding world must be much larger than previously hinted at. Romania and Ireland at least must have comparable magic populations to England. But yeah, given the size of the Quidditch league, St Mungos, the Ministry of Magic etc, there must be a lot of homeschooling going on.
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John Major was put under the Imperious Curse so handguns would be banned.
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Shyrka posted:I'll always maintain that Hazel Blears is the perfect Umbridge. Ann Widdecombe. Or would that be too scary for a 12a classification?
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Aug 18, 2010 20:47
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Zarfol posted:Someone brought it up earlier, but it just seems like Voldemort and his bad bros are a recast of Skeletor and co. from He man and the masters of the universe. In book 5, we have the "Oh poo poo! wands are loving up, welp Harry just ran away, oh well, good thing one of the other big bad guys didn't get in the way. quote:When Voldemort and Dumbledore were dueling it out, I think 'ole Voldy possesses Harry or some poo poo, why not just blow him up there and fly away on his broomstick like a champ? quote:The whole time Harry is looking for the Horcruxes and poo poo, Voldemort leaves HIS SNAKE at that old ladies house for an ambush. Well, why didn't he just camp out in the house until Harry showed up? What the hell else is he doing? quote:Was Dumbledore that badass that Voldemort was scared to attack him in Hogwarts?
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Sep 19, 2010 11:27
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When Mrs Weasley asks Moody to check a wardrobe for Bogarts he just uses his eye to see right through the wood, so would that mean he saw the Bogart's 'true' form, or would it know it was being watched and turn into something he was scared of? Also When Moody saw the socks Dobby gave Harry, why exactly was he using his eye to see through Harry's robes? 
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Sep 23, 2010 10:28
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Harry's friends and the whole magical world only existed in his head as an escapist fantasy brought on by his abusive upbringing. Rowling is writing an eighth book where he gets the help he needs and starts to rehabilitate into society.
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Oct 1, 2010 14:45
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IRQ posted:Nah, that's a fairly common notion. Harry's world is very hard to justify past the 1700s or so considering they routinely take muggle-born students. Even then it's sketchy at best. You muggles and your guns. Accio G36. 
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Nov 21, 2010 17:46
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Harry Potter and the Oldham East By-Election, by J. K. Rowling. With the Coalition Ministry making savage cuts to St Mungos, privatising the Hogwarts express and tripling wizard tuition fees, there are fears that working class pureblood wizards could flock to Lord Griffin's banner. As the Dark Lord's minions seek to capitalise on the slump in Libdem popularity and take third place for the first time in this constituency, Ron tries to convince Hermione that UKIP are nothing like the BNP. Meanwhile, Harry's friendship with Hermione is sorely tested when he claims there is no point voting in a first past the post system.
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Mar 21, 2011 09:34
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Crisco Kid posted:Original fiction isn't inherently better, we just never have to see the thousand godawful rejected manuscripts, only the professionally-edited winners. If you took a random sampling of unpublished stories you found on the internet, I suspect the average quality of original works would be significantly higher than the fanfics. Fanfiction is bad because it's so easy to write. Someone else has already created the universe and most of the characters, so all that's left is to decide who your Mary Sue saves the Enterprise crew from and who has sex with whom. This is why it appeals to beginners, children, people with no creative talent and people who like raunchy tales starring Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Apr 9, 2011 14:07
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The wizard money thing is a joke about the old British money system. Before decimalization in the 1970s, the UK had pounds, shillings and pence. Twelve pennies to a shilling, twenty shillings to a pound. 2 shillings and sixpence was a half-crown, one pound and a shilling was a guinea. A sixpence is worth two and a half new pennies.
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Jun 26, 2011 11:57
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Presto posted:At least the old English system was mostly based on sixes and twelves, not seventeens and twenty-threes. Well yes, she made it up in the first book when Harry Potter was a light-hearted world of magic and whimsy. It was supposed to be a bit silly as well as old fashioned, and ramping up the old-fashionedness of the wizarding world was generally how she emphasised it was different from ours. It was also before anyone could have known the series would be an international hit, so it was fine to include a joke that only British children (or at least their parents) would get.
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Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
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