>Smashing the other team by 100 points
>Some tard catches the golden snitch
>+150 points
>also ends the game
what kind of uckign SPORT Is this
Women CANNOT invent a sport oh my lord
>Smashing the other team by 100 points
>Some tard catches the golden snitch
>+150 points
>also ends the game
what kind of uckign SPORT Is this
Women CANNOT invent a sport oh my lord
It should just be a double multipler of your current points.
So if the opponents are more than 2x in the lead, you still lose.
No seriously, why do Americans worship black people?
Callings nigs criminals isn't worshipping them.
IIRC Rowling wrote the rules to quidditch with the explicit intent to annoy dudes because her ex was a big divegrass fan.
>it's nonsensical on purpose!
The classic cope
It definitely sounds like an excuse some fan came up with and got accepted, so unless someone has a source I'm inclined to agree.
Same thing happened with the supposed quote that a muggle with a gun would beat a wand, which turned out to have never existed but is still accepted as fact.
>LITERALLY haha I was just pretending to be moronic
>Dean had tacked up a poster of Viktor Krum over his bedside table. His old poster of the West Ham football team was pinned right next to it.
>“Mental,” Ron sighed, shaking his head at the completely stationary soccer players.
So this is why there are all those derisive comments about football in the books...
And you can be sure she added a transvestite in her last novel because trannies pissed her online.
>instead of writing something cohesive to the world I'm creating, I'm gonna create something spitiful to real life people and inject it in the fantasy world
Seems womanly enough
iirc Rowling has done this a lot. There's at least one character modeled after some girl who was mean to her in middle- or high school
yes, the pajeet twins
Snape was inspired by her chemistry teacher
>being this salty about your ex
I don't think I would write a book a dedicate half the book to trashing Say Yes to the Dress. Why do women hold grudges?
>divegrass
Is that supposed to be football or rugby?
Neither, soccer.
Divegrass = soccer
Buttfondle = rugby
Luckswing = baseball
N*****crash = football
Apehoop = basketball
Snowsoccer = hockey
>Apehoop
what the frick is wrong with this board
>babboon bounce
>monkey dunk
>Black personball
all in circulation for years
Rowling is a salty resentful c**t so am pretty sure this could be true.
Fake
Interesting that the game ended up being a metaphor for the rest of the story then
>I’ll ruin my own book to show my ex
Woman logic so plausible.
>nuuuu buh buh Hawwy potta is supposed to be the chosen one that has skills far beyond most professionals.
>proceeds to accident his way through every game.
Is he? I never got that
>nuuuu buh buh Hawwy potta is supposed to be the chosen one that has skills far beyond most professionals.
He's not
He's just the kid Noseless Chose
But flying on brooms is priceless.
It should just end the game, or give like 20 points and end the game, no reason for it to be worth so much, makes the entire game pointless when in 90% of cases it's actually just down to 2 players
>Lots of people show up excited for the match
>Catches the snitch in one minute
>Sorry folks, it's over, no refunds!
Or worse, expelled!
its part of their game and they fully expect it, troony sodomite.
>buttmad harry potter fan
>calling someone else a troony sodomite
Isn't the snitch Released later on in the game?
I haven't read the books in ages but I swear it was stated somewhere.
No but it fricks off and hides for most of the early game.
No, but most snitches are much, much faster than school issue ones
you are thinking of how somewhere in the middle of matches they start shouting that the snitch has been "spotted". not released. it gets released at the start with all the other balls.
It's a world with instantaneous travel. It's like it's that big a time commitment to go to the stadium.
That could happen in any fighting match as well, see Snatch
did you ever watch boxing?
its almost like MMA!
Are you stupid or something OP? It’s hard as frick to catch the golden sneed. You have to have eyes to see it and then arms to grab it! I bet you think every one is just so lucky to have both. What a racist incel. Jannies clean this shit up
What's more impressive, catching a snitch or a hole in one?
A hole in one
Even if it is, the game only ends if you catch it. It's not a rare event, it has to happen once per match.
Then why not just train your whole team to chase the snitch?
Cause only one player is allowed to.
then you get donkey dicked in points and it doesn't matter if you catch the snitch because when you catch it you will be 400 points down
Id love to be the guy whose role is to beat the shit out of the adversaries. What the frick was Rowling thinking?
The Snitch should be worth 150 points, but also end the game.
There, fixed the game.
it already does that
That defeat made him rethink his life choices and improve. Thank you, Harry Potter!
I prefer the seeker before Malfoy. That kid was a cutie
>closed smile in the second pic
>England vs Great Britain
>game ends immediately after the snitch is caught
yeah awesome i love coming down to the quidditch grounds to watch a 3 minute game
i feel like anyone looking at the game for more than 5 mins would change their team structure like so. teams would be more restructured into goalie formations and snitch chasing formations. since catching the snitch is both the buzzer and gives so many points that regular goals dont matter, snitch chasing should be the priority. defense would triple up to defend the goal and once they do get the ball, theyll just fricking run with it in circles to waste time.
Good point, why cant the goalie catch the snitch if it comes near him? If he let's a goal in who cares
its actually in the rules that only seekers can touch the snitch, but the point of snitch chasing formations is more to defend the seeker from attackers during their chase
>since catching the snitch is both the buzzer and gives so many points that regular goals dont matter
When games can canonically last days (as moronic as that is) I can easily see someone falling behind by 150 points if you're sending your Chasers off looking for the snitch
According to Rowling you only hate the rules because you're a man.
Ah, the Ghostbusters 2016 defence.
It symbolizes how pointless and petty competitive sport looks like to average woman.
>how pointless and petty competitive sport looks like to average woman
As it should be. Women shouldn't be seriously invested in sports and the ones who do have something wrong with them.
Women don't like sports they only pretend to be into it to either impress their bf/dad or fantasize about the players
>they only pretend to be into it
Yeah, you are right. They pretend to be in a lot of stuff because of male attention or because they like a guy.
Women play sports. A woman is better at sports than you are.
Why do women get BTFO by trannies?
cause trannies are male athletes unlike you
>cause trannies are male athletes unlike you
Wow. Reported to the twitter police. Have fun getting fired and ostracized for your clever little retort, hope it was worth it.
wow I can be as based as Rowling herself?
Rowling avoided the axe because she has a horde of fans behind her, you aren't that lucky. We already found your social media accounts and through it your parents address, we will hound your parents and relatives until they completely disown you, everyone you know will know how much of a bigot PoS you are. Your life is over, chud.
She deserved it all and more just for writing Harry Potter
Dishwashing is a sport?
*Nobody should be seriously invested in sports and the people that are have something wrong with them
ftfy
homosexual, you shouldn't be invested in movies made for children, or movies at all
How fricking hard is it to write a game that makes sense? Even if you're not a sportsball fan, all you really need is common sense. Quidditch seems almost intentionally bad. Anyone with any common sense should understand that TEAM sports need to be about competing TEAMS. Or else why would it be a team sport? Quidditch would be exactly the same game if it was just two seekers looking for the snitch.
I think one way these rules could make sense is if in professional quidditch you normally see big swings in the score multiple times in a game. This is hinted at in the video game Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, where you can score multiple times in one possession. I imagine a normal chaser formation would be to have two chasers attacking the goal rings and the third chaser floating behind the goal rings ready to catch the quaffle as it flies through and either throw it back to their teammate in front of the goals or fly around themselves to score again. The problem is that in all cases but one we read about amateur quidditch played by children between 10 and 17 years of age, and in the one professional game we read about there is much more scoring than occurs at Hogwarts.
Remember Harry also has a super expensive professional quality broom.
Wasnt there some rule about not bringing your own broom but somehow Harry is allowed to circumvent it?
no, malfoys parents bought him and his whole team nimbus 2001's
So did the Slytherin team
So did the pros
The explanation I heard is that Quidditch games used to last weeks, with scores going easily into the thousand. So the snitch +150 points was just a nice bonus but nowhere as determinant. But then brooms improved a lot and catching the snitch became easier and easier with game becoming shorter, and they never updated the rules to account for it.
It's obviously a tentative to justify the nonsensical rules, but it makes a certain amount of sense.
Read the same in a fanfiction, so I made it my headcannon. Better than "it's moronic on purpose!"
JK rowling really think men just play sports forever until someone wins, somehow
Cricket matches last 3 to 5 days with about 6 hours played per day
>JK rowling really think men just play sports forever until someone wins, somehow
occasionally happens in baseball
The fanfic I read says that the sneed was obviously invented for some prince or other spoiled brat in the past who must've sucked at the game but wanted to be the winner
I think the quiddich apologists are even more moronic than Rowling
She simply made it that way because she thought it made good twist in her story
Basically the entire point of the sport is something the gary stu main character could be instantly good at and basically win the entire game by himself.
She probably didnt know she was gonna have to keep writing about it.
It also makes a lot more sense if you assume fouling is a much, much bigger part of a professional game that just isn't allowed at Hogwarts.
The game stops for a free throw every time there's a foul, and you can use this to stop someone from chasing the snitch, because that happens in one of the matches in the books. So if you view it more as chasing the snitch=forcing a foul most of the time then the game becomes about the fitness and endurance of your players, the ability for players to keep an eye on the seeker and be prepared to foul when they go into a chase, and the seeker position is about baiting fouls by pretending to spot the snitch and being very sneaky about actually catching it.
I've heard that it was written to take the piss out of over sensationalised sports, but that could be apocryphal
This is JK we're talking about here. There's no way she's that "clever". I bet she thought it would genuinely be a fun concept when she came up with the rules.
Its the kind of game that sounds clever until you look at how it works. Like its a game that only ends when someone does something to make it end, so theoretically it gets dramatic because one team could try and keep the game going until they've dug themselves out of a hole, pointwise. It just doesn't work that way because either the game ends super fricking quick like a shitty MMA fight, or some fricks just keep running up the score because the game never ends.
So there's no fixed match time? You MUST catch the snitch to end the game? If so, that's even more moronic than the point system itself.
iirc harry does do that, he has to wait until they've scored enough before he catches it
one of the books mentions a game going on for about a month
given the quality of the writing overall and just how much of it is derivative *without* any hint of satire or self-awareness, I think you're giving her an awful lot of credit.
on a scale of 1-10, how cringe is this?
?t=257
Even more cringe since they got cucked into changing the name, and now look like absolute morons without even having the IP to leech off
Let me guess, they changed the name not because of copyright reasons (since it only happened fairly recently and irl quidditch has been a thing for like 20 years now) but because they hate Rowling now?
Bingo
They should re-tool the sport to be less cringe now that they're not piggybacking off the HP franchise. Make it more dangerous and get rid of the snitch. Just turn it into cycle polo with lacrosse sticks or whatever.
the sticks make it cringe
10. it's like the worst possible intersection between the intramural ultimate frisbee gays and harry potter fans.
Are they required to have a certain number of girls to compete?
Even if its a dumb sport men would dominate women in it
they changed their name from quidditch to quadball because JK didnt love troons enough.
take a wild guess as so whether or not holes are required on teams
In the early books, the entire wizarding world is portrayed as a whimsical goofy place where the rules and culture are supposed to seem "off" by normal standards. And the characters have names like Borkfaffer Mollycrimbles. Why do people single out quidditch? It's like complaining that Willy Wonka's factory doesn't make sense.
Millennials are incapable of not taking their childhood media seriously
Because the silliness of most other shit gets toned down, but quidditch remains unchanged and relevant right up until book 6
The whimsical goofyness gets progressively more explained, but quidditch was so set in stone in book 1 that she couldn't backpedal and remained goofy even when the world was structured later on
>the equivalent of quidditch in a shitty russian PARODY series is better, more interesting, more fun, actually has coherent rules, takes a much bigger part of the story, very often story relevant, is exciting and tense, and gets more variety with every entry
How would JK ever cope if she found out?
>Tana Grotter and the magic contrabass
How have I never heard of this?
Only 1,000 copies were translated from Russian and published in Europe due to copyright issues.
how about you post them then you drunken rape monkey?
The best part is Russia is FULL of these HP knockoffs (Tanya Grotter is just the most popular) and every single one of them is better than HP.
>try to slam your balls into 3 different holes but who gets the snatch wins
good writing kojima
>do a nice deed
>1000 pts to GRYFFINDOOOOOOOOOOR!
WINS HOUSE CUP AFTER RIDING ROUGHSHOD OVER THE PRIOR SEMESTERS WORTH OF DEEDS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND EDUCATIONAL TRIUMPS
>Catch a Golden Orb
>150pts
WINS THE QUIDDITCH GAME AFTER RIDING ROUGHSHOD OVER THE PRIOR 59MINS OF SCORING AND ATHLETICISM
Im sensing a pattern in how JKR writes
Remember that points in Quidditch matches gets directly translated into house cups points, so nothing stops two squads from agreeing to not end the game untill they are 10k to 10k remove the other two from House Cup competition
It's all arbitrary anyway. If they abused it too much the teachers of the other houses could just hand out a million points for a correct answer in their class or something.
>HOWEVER
All fun and games until Dumbledore comes along to give Gryffindor 10K points, or subtract 10K points from the houses gaming Quidditch for cup points.
Yes but at that point the House Cup becomes so evidently arbitrary even 11 years old will just stop caring.
If your team is behind you don't catch the snitch and instead try to stop the other seeker from catching, duh.
Good game tho
how did the game handle the broken snitch mechanics?
Was a long time since I played it so might not remember correctly. Scoring for goals and the snitch are the same but scoring goals fills a meter that when they connect the snitch chase starts. The meter represents how much of a speed boost each seeker has in the chase. Snitch is still mostly the determining factor but scoring goals does have a purpose. If both fail to catch the snitch the game resumes.
oh, so the team in the lead has a much better chance to catch the snitch so there won't be any upsets?
Yes. It's still 150 points but it's very hard to catch it without having the lead
DUDE i Used to play the frick out of this game when I was a kid!!!!
>Game on a time limit
>Snitch worth 50 points
>if caught the timer gets cut in half
there fixed the game
>catch snitch
>MULTIBALL MULTIBALL MULTIBALL!
>BLEEEEEERRRRRRN
I remember reading it at the time and doing the math in my head over and over because I couldn't make it make sense.
They were fun to read at the time though. If you read them at the time you have to admit that.
What are some good fictional sports?
Podracing
Yeah, that's a good one.
Kohlii
Based
Turd mass competitions
Every man on the planet has had a turd he was proud of
pretty true NGL
I made one last month and had to stand and admire it for few seconds
That one from the fricking bionicle movie.
*destroys the Cinemaphile argument*
It was supposed to be a parody. Rowling didn't expect morons to take quidditch seriously
>puts something in a book
>readers point out how stupid it is
>lololol it's not meant to be taken seriously
When authors do shit like that it completely undermines their entire story. What should be taken seriously then?
Rowling (and likewise many other people) doesn't take sports seriously.
I mean think about it. Grown ass men running up and down the court to throw ball in a basket. Fricking moronic.
Yet it still has a set of rules that when explained don't immediately bring up a glaring problem about game play.
Quidditch was supposed to be a parody of real life sports. It's also a book for children.
>it's a book for children
Nice cop-out.
keep seething over children's book
I remember identifying the flaw in Quidditch when I was a child reading the books as they came out.
it's almost as if it was explained in the book as well.
It's a kids' book and I loved watching the broomstick riding scenes as a kid.
i knew you gays were watching harry potter. hahah
The golden snitch thing is only there so harry can be the most important guy on his team
I fricking hate every single sport that takes longer than 10 minutes for a match to conclude
I mean why the frick do so many people sit 90 minutes in front of a TV watching dudes kicking a ball?
unless it's a long race to test people's endurance no sport should go for 90 minutes
>I fricking hate every single sport that takes longer than 10 minutes for a match to conclude
I bet your woman has the same opinion
not really, most women I know pretend to like sport because it gets them attention, one even once told me I am not masculine because I do not like football, yet it didn't even sting, I cannot think of anything more masculine than acknowledging I do not like homosexual sports, I will not pretend to enjoy something just to fit in, I can watch an entire kino in the span of one match.
whenever anyone tries to talk about football to me I just come out clean and say I don't give a shit about it, it's like blasphemy to say this in my europoor shithole but whatever
Indifference is fine. You can give zero fricks about it and still "get it". The issue here, that makes you womanly, is that you don't seem to be able to "get it". Might as well be a castrated male.
How to fix Quidditch
>Snitch is worth 50 points
>Game is over after the Snitch is caught 3 times (any combination so could be 1 team getting it all 3 times or 2-1 split) or after 60 minutes of playing time, whichever comes first
>Snitch is in play as soon as the game starts; after the Snitch is caught it's not released for another 10 minutes to prevent tunneling and force teams to try to score/prevent goals; while the Snitch is out of play Seekers can play any position they want
How to fix Quidditch I
>Chasers don't exist
>Keepers don't exist
>Quaffle don't exist
>Scoring don't exist
>There are six Beaters
>Beaters can hit other beaters and the seeker
Done.
the adults watch the sport to see kids injure themselves, a favorite passtime for wizards
>Snitch is woth no points but Ends the game
>the entire role of the seeker is to end the game when their team is winning/stop the rival seeker from catching it while behind.
There I fixed the game.
this is a pretty shitty addition, the snitch is very hard to catch, there's no way you can catch it all while keeping track of your team points so you don't end up catching it at the wrong moment, that constant hesitation makes this pointless
>there's no way you can catch it all while keeping track of your team points so you don't end up catching it at the wrong moment
They have an announcer that shouts out the score regularly to the entire stadium, It would be very easy to keep track of the score.
And that would be part of the excitement, do you risk trying to catch the snitch while only a few goals up and loosing or wait for a bigger lead (and the chance that the opposition turns it around and starts winning instead).
This applies equally to the rules as they are currently.
You guys are missing the point.
The whole point of Quidditch is that it's stupid and has stupid rules because wizards are stupid. Not to defend Rowling because she's a hack but it's all about wizards being silly, nothing else.
>it's stupid and has stupid rules because wizards are stupid
true. this is why I want a wizard/muggle war.
Quidditch?
MORE LIKE QUITBITCH!
If you think that's cringe, you should see the Quidditch chants from the books.
You can just feel how embarrassed Stephen Fry is reading them in the audio books
Post em
In Goblet of Fire why did the seeker of the losing team grab the snitch, ending the game and securing his team's loss?
It was explained. He knew his team was out-fricking-skilled, so it made sense for him to end the game quickly before they got crushed even more.
There's like a million things wrong with the Potter franchise. Everything is so inconsistent.
If there's million things wrong, you won't have a problem naming seven of them, right?
I'm not disagreeing, just curious which ones grind your gears the most
something as powerful as time travel being used only to attend classes
How can be closed loop time travel utilised better than that?
Like saving buckbeak but not harrys parents. You could turn back time with 100 wizards to ambush voldemort outside harrys house but it's pointless to discus because closed loop time travel is paradoxical.
You can't change the past.
Dumbledore with a time turner could have.
He couldn't.
The fact it's explained as a closed loop it's a hack move. What's the fricking point of them existing, then?
Voldemort killing Harry but still not becoming the owner of the Elder Wand
That just made me think about the deathly hallows in general, and it occurred to me that Dumbledore could easily have reunited all 3 of them in book 6
>has the Elder Wand because it's his wand
>has the Resurrection Stone because it was in the ring that turned his hand black
>Harry has the Invisibility Cloak which Dumbledore gave him back in book 1
Literally could have finished the series there and then.
The Weasley being poor as frick and needing hand me downs in a setting where people can conjure stuff by moving a stick
The Weasley’s were a pure blooded, centuries old wizarding dynasty who, despite dozens (if not hundreds) of members receiving the exact same elite private school education as every other witch and wizard in Britain, FOR FREE: had accumulated nothing and achieved nothing.
Arthur also worked at an analogue to a government department of funko pops and was a joke even among his bureaucrat peers. Meanwhile Lucius "Chad-Blooded" Malfoy worked at a private firm and lived fabulously.
how the frick can their be poor wizards when you can literally transmute poop into a tuxedo? what does it really mean to be "poor" in the wizarding world? apparently you can transmute food, so that has to be provided for on your own or traded for, but surely there is magic to assist in growing food? living in a dingy, rickety house and wearing ugly garments that were knitted two generations ago is a choice in that world.
>can transmute food
can't*
You explicitly can trasmute food. The rule is that you can't create food from nothing. You can still do a Jesus and multiply what you have, or turn a log into a full course meal. Yes it's absolutely arbitrary and dumb as frick.
can you think of an example? my personal expert in HP pilpul has assured me multiple times food is off limits, or that it turns back into whatever it was in your body or something. I don't know either way, I've just been trolled over it.
>"It's impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if you've already got some."
It's literally a quote from Hermione.
interesting. I appreciate HP as fun books for kids in a wacky setting, so I don't get butthurt about the inconsistencies, but it's weird that Rowling would go to so much effort to get real world dates and historical weather correct, but not really write in more ways in which the wizarding world would be significantly different from the normal one. it just makes wizards all seem very stupid, backwards and lazy.
>that it turns back into whatever it was in your body
That's just Fanfictions trying to fix plot holes. I think Hardy Potter and the Methods of Rationality did that. There is nothing of the sort in the actual books to my knowledge.
>turns back into whatever it was in your body
Fanfiction and not on the books, by some nerds
>You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if you've already got some.
In the books, by Hermione
I know I am headcanoning but I can only think that "poor" in the wizarding world is an entirely different concept. It doesn't mean not being able to eat or being homeless. Hell, the Weasley's have a big house and ample land, and enough food to feed a large brood of children. What they don't have is lots of guilions/wizard money, and as we see, that is not something that can be replicated with magic and it's even out of the hands of wizards, instead being controlled and regulated by goblins. Perhaps there are things that can simply not be created by magic, or rather can only be created by specialised magic. For example, maybe making a decent broom is difficult, which is why we see that there are shitty pleb brooms and then top tier ones like the firebolt. Sure, anyone can enchant a thing to fly, but it takes a specialist to make the real article, and the specialist will only accept gringots/goblin currency. Basically, expertise/craftmanship regulates the market entirely rather than physical resources and energy being the issue.
I also expect that there is just a lot of class snobbery, with people being born into high class wizard estates compared to those who are lower born. That is a similar thing to how one can win the lottery but never buy themselves into the upper class. It's simply an inherited thing. The Malfoys are nobility, the Weasley's are plebs, and thus even if they are both equally materially well off, the former will regard the latter as poor people.
>anyone can enchant a thing to fly
As proven by Mr Weasley that enchanted the Ford Anglia and made it 10x times better than flying in a broom for long distances
Better for flying long distances because it is a car with a roof and comfy seats, but in terms of speed and agility I think the artisan crafted brooms are still better, or I would guess at least.
Yeah it doesn't really make sense but once again if I had to explain it away I would say that this refers mainly to the school uniforms and if so it is kind of like irl Britain where you can buy a generic uniform for pennies but most schools require you to buy the official/approved uniform for that school, which can be exorbitantly expensive. Maybe Hogwarts robes simply can't be replicated and are expensive so that the Weasleys are forced to make their children wear hand-me-downs.
Ron didn't have the clothes for the Yule ball and had to resort to old as frick hands me down. It's not limited to magic school uniform (and even if it was it would be still dumb, the uniforms are never shown to be magic and Hogwarts has literally hordes of Elves with magic that can make them).
I'm not saying the uniforms have to have magical properties other than being official, I'm just saying that if wizard society is that snobby maybe there is some sort of magic seal of authenticity like how irl official uniforms have the school badge on them, and maybe this cannot be replicated. There might not be any practice or real reason for it, but then neither is there irl.
>Ron didn't have the clothes for the Yule ball and had to resort to old as frick hands me down
But yeah... I can't explain that one. Why they can't just magic up a suit I have no idea. Like I say I've basically been headcanoning explanations to make things less moronic. Once again the only explanation I can give is snobbery and that maybe suits made from magic, or not by specialised magic tailors, are seen as tacky and therefore even a hand-me-down is better? But like you say, there is no indication of the clothes having magical properties so unlike the uniforms maybe required to have a seal of authenticity, I doubt even snobby wizard school would make it law for other clothing to be similarly authentic.
At the end of the day, Rowling is not a good worldbuilder.
How conjuration of items works is mostly unknown, my headcannon is that conjured item will always be like a cheap chinese knockoff.
But the quality of them would depend on wizards skill, like Dumbledore can conjure a full cushioned armchair while ordinary wizard barely manages a regular wooden chair
Weasley still don't have basic clothes
The Weasleys having the Marauder's map and never addressing Peter Pettigrew sleeping with Percy for a couple years (Untill he got an owl), and then in Ron's bed for 3 more years.
Peter just living as a boys rat is a weird thing in itself.
This. There was absolutely no reason for him to do that. Just leave fricking England if he was really scared about getting found.
How did he end up with the Weaslys anyway?
Peter living is a boy's rat.. on Hogwarts that has a fricking OWLERY, and also OWLS ARE OK TO HAVE FOR STUDENTS
And also CATS
Literally 2 of the 3 animals allowed to have on Hogwarts eat rats
it's just a plot device to make mary sue potter look even better
I just watched a Quiddich match from the first movie to refresh my memory and Snitch is far from the most moronic thing about the game, there are pretty much no rules for foul play as Slytherins are literally attempting to murder their opponents and no one says anything, basically you can just focus on physically taking out your opponents until your team is the last one standing.
>there are pretty much no rules for foul play as Slytherins are literally attempting to murder their opponents and no one says anything
Wizard world is brutal, brah. Don't forget we are talking about a school that has a tree that flattens kids to death, holds a tournament in which kids are fed to dragons and repeatedly put in life threatening situations, and is bordered by a forest full of deadly creatures that could easily kill any student that wanders into it, with no physical barrier to prevent them doing so. They aren't in the same mind as muggles- mortal threats and injury are not taken as seriously.
Also it's worth remembering that they can literally regrow bones and shit, so anything bar death is on the table for a sports game. I'd also add that irl, rugby is pretty much as brutal as Quidditch and the UK has a long history of extremely violent sports where basically anything goes. I've talked to rugby lads that openly tout how they aim to gouge out the eyes of opposing players.
>Smashing the other player, up a queen, two bishops and a knight
>Some rook moves and checkmates my king
>I lose and the game ends
What kind of game is this where the person with the least numbers of pieces can win?
It's just a mechanic to give the protagonist a special role
To be fair, there's some strategic options added by this. If you end the game early by catching the snitch you can win the game but lose the tournament. So in a way it's not just about getting those points, it's about ending the game at a strategic point in terms of the overall tournament. Yes I know I am clutching at straws
The point is for the 10 year old children who are the target audience and self insert as Harry to feel like they're the center of the universe. And adults too. In fact all of HP makes sense if you're familiar with bongoloid private school culture. It's the only time in bongs' lives when they're remotely relevant or have anything to live for, so they cling to that time in their lives with a pitbull grip.
>It's the only time in bongs' lives
Just to hol you up for a second, it's only a very small minority of rich toffs that go to boarding schools anymore. Most kids here probably don't even know they are a thing outside of Harry Potter.
private=/=boarding muhammed
ok but even so private school is still only for a few rich kids, most kids still cannot relate. You act like this is common to British kids but most British kids go to schools that are more like madhouses.
Those kids are the ones who read HP so they can fantasize about being there
Understanding bongs adds a lot to the overall understanding of Harry Potter
>Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard in the world, works for the government as Headmaster of Hogwarts (it's funded by the Ministry)
>Harry, the most famous wizard in the world who is talented and famous and rich enough to do whatever he wants, chooses to work as a wizard glowie for the wizard FBI despite the Ministry's long history of incompetence and fricking him over
>as an American think it's odd the best and brightest in the wizarding world aspire to government wagecucking because here government work is for lazy incompetent fricks and midwits and worthless diversity hires with a handful of power hungry reptilians and ~~*fellow whites*~~ at the top
>eventually realize it's because the British prison island dream is working a government desk job
I read somewhere that Warner Bros is planning more movies as well as tv shows for HBO max. Rupert Grint said he's been in talks to return in one of them even, perhaps a sequel where the original cast plays their older selves now that they're around the age the characters are in the epilogue.
Do you think there's gonna be an extended universe similar to what's happening with GoT? Would Rowling agree to that? Do they even still need her permission? What would you like to see?
Harry Potter is absolute dross, but quidditch is fricking kino.
The 'one catch and it's yours' rule is what makes it based. It's basically 9-ball pool but for men
>quidditch
>for men
>YOU'RE THE CHOSEN ONE HARRY
>AND THERE ARE FOUR HOUSE FACTIONS YOU GET TO GO TO THE HERO PROTAGONIST HOUSE
>AND YOU GET TO BE THE SPECIAL POSITION ON THE SPORTS TEAM THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE REST OF THE TEAM COMBINED
>AND YOU WON THE BIG GAME AGAINST THE EVIL VILLAIN HOUSE
When you step back it is pretty dumb.
>children's book
>It's okay if the writing is shit, it's a children's book
This argument doesn't work no matter how many times you say it.
Doesn't he lose some years? Get's raped by dementors during a game.
Quidditch may be an unbalanced sport, but you certainly don't need a play-by-play to recognize its precisely balanced teamwork in catching the proverbial snitch, that is, creating the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
I was waiting for this
>Great Gatsby
>God Tier
You are an ignorant and a moron
So. Why isnt Obliviate, the forgetting spell, spammed in everyone? Like,
>forget youre a death eater.