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Vire posted:Also their selection of what mundane things where normal and what was weird never really made sense to me either. Like radios are OK but no phones or internet. Owl communication is such a pain in the rear end you would think they would pick up some of this stuff considering a lot of young wizards and witches at Hogwarts come from Muggle families. I'm pretty sure this was explained away in the sense that magic and electricity always acted a little dicky around each other. In the sense that electricity just stops working. Which makes no sense but then again "a kids book" and "a wizard did it"
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Soy Sauce Beast posted:That's why I like the blog so much too. It's almost like reading the entire series again for the first time. It's even got all the humor stylings that I had as a 12 year old to round it off!
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THE HORSES rear end posted:Dean Fogg was right. Magic is not science. It is a craft. Well seeing as how Magic is basically the rewriting of physics and science in general because you feel like it (oh hey this broom can ~FLY~ because I said so, this magic wand can instantly combust air and shoot out the hottest of flames because it has part of a feather of a bird that's magic in it, etc) I really don't get how people ever try and wonder how magic fits into science, or even better try and argue that it can't possibly and that's why JK Rowling is literally wrong by writing Harry Potter.
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ShardPhoenix posted:edit: I guess if it helps you understand, MoR is for people who are more concerned about what's true than what's cool. So yes, Honestly, I can kind of understand this. But the point of reading a children's book about magic isn't to try and implant the magic into real science, but instead to entertain. If you needed that from your reading material and you found it, good for you, but I really think that you're looking for the wrong thing from the series to be criticizing it.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Exactly, and besides, anything can become mundane if you're around it long enough. I would've thought Harry would enjoy it at least through second or third year though. For everyone else it's just learning to do all the boring poo poo that everyone's parents/older siblings already know, but for Harry he's dropped into a world where magic loving exists and by... third year(?) he's complaining about how uggghhghghggg he has to write papers about werewolves this poo poo is so boring.
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Paragon8 posted:Magical education at Hogwarts sucks anyway. The best magicians are heavily motivated self starters like Hermionie and the Weasley twins. I mean, that's pretty much the whole point. It's wizarding elementary, middle, and high school, but unlike the real world where studying a bit of history concepts or reading up on game theory in your spare time doesn't really get you ahead in life without a bit of being clever, someone who's actually trying to bone down on magic can learn all kinds of things that are just direct changes to the physical world. Not knowing the Patronus is like me not knowing how to care for an Elephant. I really don't have to do that at all so why would I give a poo poo?
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Olanphonia posted:I think it's probably more weird that so many people in the other houses stayed to fight. The reasoning for leaving is a pretty strong. Voldemort shows up with an army of adults, giants, giant spiders, and all sorts of other things. It doesn't seem particularly crazy to think that most of the kids would get right the gently caress out of there when confronted with the literal boogeyman they've grown up fearing their entire lives. For the Slytherins, whom are characterized as interested mostly in their own welfare, it isn't exactly out of character. Honestly it makes sense that kids from the house based around greatest personal gain would, in the heat of the moment, decide to leave.
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LaughMyselfTo posted:Uh, isn't this pretty much Matilda? It's been said before, but I thought it before I heard anyone else say it. And the weird thing to me is that, without any weirdness, there can't really be a happy ending because we already have the beginning of part 2 which is incredibly unhappy. It's also going to be extremely weird because either there's accidental magic in the play that is never explained which is going to be extremely weird OR there isn't any, at which point what even would the story be? 
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The whole plot would probably be fine if there was a "meet in the middle" kind of resolution. Hermione could find out that most of the House Elves are mostly fine with their situation and would just like a little recognition and respect. It would actually lead to an interesting plot where the lesson isn't "no no no, the working class actually DOES like working!"
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