#387

I read this a while ago and it made me cry :heart::blush:

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#388

Sorry I didn’t mean to suggest that wasn’t the case!

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#389

No worries, pal :+1:

#390

He is a fucking cunt of a signal booster though.

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#391

Lad in my office has a jumper with the words “happy christmas ya filthy muggles”.

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#392

Why would ruin something so pure (Home Alone) with something so shit (Harry Potter)

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#393

Fuck sake. It’s horrifying how open these people are being with this shit, they do not fear any social stigma for their bigotry.

#394

Yeah, something I find incredible about the whole thing is quite how much time they spend obsessing and posting about trans people.

#395

It’s the constantly hunting for any crimes committed by trans people then posting them with something like ‘so apparently I’m a “bigot” because I don’t want this to happen’ and thinking it makes them awfully clever when, y’know, replace trans people with black people, Jewish people or whoever and they’d see its just transparent bigotry.

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#398

This has probably been covered before, but why don’t the wizards just share their gifts with the mortals? Just being arseholes aren’t they?

Probably should’ve clocked she was a notright when her book was about a private school which could cure the world’s ills but just decided they’d rather not.

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#399
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#400

I believe our pal @Ruffers got you covered right at the beginning of the thread.

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#401

A decade later retcon one of the characters to be cishet to get some of that sweet unwoke dollar

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#403

We finished Order of the Phoenix today (the book).

Was interesting how my memory failed me from the first read in 2003.

Not gonna spoiler tag:
In my head Sirius fell into a as pecial mirror so I didn’t recognise the significance of the arch.

Feel like the Thestrals were a really lame Chekov’s Gun and in fact it would have been far better if the Wesley’s old car had turned up again and they’d gone to the Ministry in that.

Completely forgot cartoon villain Umbridge was the one who sent the Dementors. It felt nonsensical to me. I just assumed Voldemort had sent them as he was in with those guys, but DU sending them just seems weird doesn’t it. I guess Rowling likes to make these quite Agatha Christie with the final reveal of how it all happened…

We then watched the first 100mins of the film and I was pretty disappointed. It’s the shortest and it shows. Felt like even the stuff they adapted they did in a weirdly slapdash way.

I’d guess the finalé should be decent as there’s loads of action, but she watched Azkaban again a couple of days ago and that still seems to be the best one. Maybe the last three films will be a lot better.

#404

Azkaban was the best film by miles. The acting was still shite, but it had the best atmosphere and cinematography. Quite a coup to get Cuarón to do that really.

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#405

Discovered the supposed anniversary of the battle of Hogwarts in book 7 was 4 days ago. Which would place Philosopher’s Stone as being set in 1990/1991. Which just seems really weird. I don’t recall a single date in it and just assumed it was meant to be set when the book came out.

#406

Going to show my fucking arse here but I remember in the second book there’s a birthday party for Nearly Headless Nick which gives a date of 1992 (possibly the only date in the book), everything in the timeline is based on that. Not sure why those dates, presumably that was when she was writing them? Did if take five or six years to get published?

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#407

Yeah that was my thought, that she started book 1 back then (or had the idea) so that was always the date in her head. I had assumed it was 5 years to write book 1 in her spare time and the others were all written once she had a contract but you’re probably right and she wrote the first two at the same time.

I will have to look out for that date next time I read the 2nd book!

#408

Can’t believe she didn’t bother to get all the days right, lazy, lazy Rowling.

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#409

I’ll reluctantly give this one to her as the Internet didn’t exist and fuck that level of research in those days :smiley: