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Bendigeidfran
Dec 17, 2013

Wait a minute...

Well most of his levels must have been in Fighter then, since he did beat a Balrog Balorsome kind of Demonic Bull-man on his lonesome.

On-topic I have to say that Harry Potter is a rather odd choice of franchise to get so angrily rationalist about. Like I get that it's because it's popular and exists concurrently with 20th century science. But the magic in HP is already so codified and consistent; say the right words and you'll get the same effects without any mess. Most of the strange and unpredictable creatures of the world are some flavor of tamed, enslaved, or documented by wizard magic. It's like King Kong captured by Carl Denham, a wonder of the world chained down for elementary school students to gawk at.

Obviously I'm exaggerating some things. But Harry Potter's magic definitely evokes science more than like, occultism or shamanism or the more metaphorical stuff that authors like Tolkien wrote. There's a standard curriculum for God's sake!

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