That phrase gets memed to hell and back despite barely being used.
Anyone who has read these books should be able to tell you that the single number one linguistic crime is her incessant overuse of Tag questions.
Every single fricking time someone explains or asks something in these books, they always end it with a "doesn't it/he/she?" or some variation of it.
Here are a few examples from The Philosophers Stone >“What’s his name again? Howard, isn’t it?” >“Daddy’s gone mad, hasn’t he? >Oak, sixteen inches, rather bendy, wasn’t it?” >“Great food, isn’t it?” >that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?” >“The Sorting Hat chose you for Gryffindor, didn’t it? >He’s a sort of servant, isn’t he?”
In the first few books its not that noticeable, it happens "only" 16 times in the first one, and in CoS, only 10. PoA, 13. Even if those books are rather short, not that egregious right?
Well hold on to your wands, weve just begun. >Goblet of Fire, FIFTYFIVE counts of sentences ending with "n't he/she/it" >Order of the Phoenix, SEVENTYFOUR >Half Blood Prince, SIXTY >Deathly Hallows, FIFTYEIGHT
Thats not even counting all the variations of it, like "would we? for example
That equals out to 286 over 7 books. Thats a lot, isn't it?
Yet somehow, the "Stretch his legs" occurs ONCE at the start of the first book and is now a signifier of Rowlings shitty writing. Pathetic.
>>Go back in time and save Buckbeak and Sirius
Because you can't change the past in this universe, Buckbeak was always going to be saved no matter what.
>What's going on? >You can't handle it >YES I CAN TELL ME >It's bad, I really don't want you to know >JUST FRICKING TELL ME >lol ok >AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH
Fricking moron
If I was in his position, I could have gotten sued to her if she had just not tried to approach me for a little bit. I mean, there's nothing CRAZY frightening about how she looks.
>there's nothing CRAZY frightening about how she looks.
It's a giant space monster spider, you've been wasting away for Lord knows how many years and you're all alone with it, in the farthest reach of space where you will certainly die
The realization that breaks him isn't just the fact that he was mind sexing a horrific mosnter, but all those other things mentioned above with that
If Dobby hadn't stopped Harry from getting on the train, Him and Ron would never have used the flying car and they would have been gruesomely devoured here.
>Hogwarts has a Giant Spider living at the grounds, and its millions of kids >Hogwarts has a Giant Snake living in the pipes >Hogwarts has a deadly man killing tree at the grounds >Hogwarts has a creepy forest with monsters at the grounds >Hogwarts has werewolves as teachers >Hogwarts has sentient ghost that could kill you at the grounds
Why isn't this place shut down? >Oh also Hogwarts has a Giant child killer Troll at the grounds
>DO I LOOK LIKE I GIVE A FRICK ABOUT HAGRID? >DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IVE LIVED? 40 YEARS. >EONS IN SPIDER-TIME. >I'VE DEVOURED MORE HUMANS THAN YOU'VE MET. >ONLY REASON I HAVEN'T DEVOURED HAGRID IS FRANKLY HE STINKS. >PLUS... *sucks air and gurgles* HE DELIVERS ME FOOLS LIKE YOU. >FRICK YOU. DIE.
Damn, what got this spider so worked up? Only time recall swearing in these movies other than Hermoine saying ass a couple times (imagine Hermione's ass).
lol they tried to give it two big eyes to make it sympathetic, nice try spider bros but I will kill everyone of you I see on sight for the rest of my pathetic life
Idiot. Spiders are the guardians of your home. They keep all manner of insects and other vile shit out. I like to feed the ones that live with me because i want them to know that i am grateful to have them watching over my home.
Yes, giant spiders immediately elevate the source material.
>and then he stretched his 8 legs before scurrying to his burrow
That phrase gets memed to hell and back despite barely being used.
Anyone who has read these books should be able to tell you that the single number one linguistic crime is her incessant overuse of Tag questions.
Every single fricking time someone explains or asks something in these books, they always end it with a "doesn't it/he/she?" or some variation of it.
Here are a few examples from The Philosophers Stone
>“What’s his name again? Howard, isn’t it?”
>“Daddy’s gone mad, hasn’t he?
>Oak, sixteen inches, rather bendy, wasn’t it?”
>“Great food, isn’t it?”
>that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?”
>“The Sorting Hat chose you for Gryffindor, didn’t it?
>He’s a sort of servant, isn’t he?”
In the first few books its not that noticeable, it happens "only" 16 times in the first one, and in CoS, only 10. PoA, 13. Even if those books are rather short, not that egregious right?
Well hold on to your wands, weve just begun.
>Goblet of Fire, FIFTYFIVE counts of sentences ending with "n't he/she/it"
>Order of the Phoenix, SEVENTYFOUR
>Half Blood Prince, SIXTY
>Deathly Hallows, FIFTYEIGHT
Thats not even counting all the variations of it, like "would we? for example
That equals out to 286 over 7 books. Thats a lot, isn't it?
Yet somehow, the "Stretch his legs" occurs ONCE at the start of the first book and is now a signifier of Rowlings shitty writing. Pathetic.
based moron
>That equals out to 286 over 7 books. Thats a lot, isn't it?
The 7 books have over a million word count so it really isn’t a lot.
If it's the same characters asking these questions and saying these phrases, that would make it in character - wouldn't it?
Thats how brits are innit
That's just how British people talk.
This anon is seething, isn't he?
The average number of words in a sentence is between 15 and 20. Call it 20 for your benefit.
1,007,029 words in HP series.
1,007,029 / 20 = 50,321 sentences.
286 / 50,321 = 0.00057
This "overuse" that you are alleging occurs in only 0.57% of sentences in the entire series.
It would be 0.057% of sentences though, wouldn't it?
it would be but I added an extra zero.
286 / 50,321 = 0.0057 (not 0.0057) = 0.57%
Based turbo autist
You're Rowling, aren't you?
I've always liked that he has middle-aged man hair.
Hagrid's so moronic he sends Harry and Ron into certain death instead of just telling them Aragog's not the monster.
Every adult in those movies is needlessly cryptic half the time.
In Prisoner of Azkaban, why can't Dumbledore just flatly say
>Go back in time and save Buckbeak and Sirius
>>Go back in time and save Buckbeak and Sirius
Because you can't change the past in this universe, Buckbeak was always going to be saved no matter what.
Because the timeline only happened the way it did by him saying that, if he said something else then it wouldn't happen that way.
Was this?
greta is sweetie pie who just wants to let you at least have cool dreams while you waste away
what's this from, please I've been trying to remember what this is for a long time
Beyond the Aquila Rift.
thank you so much bro
>What's going on?
>You can't handle it
>YES I CAN TELL ME
>It's bad, I really don't want you to know
>JUST FRICKING TELL ME
>lol ok
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH
Fricking moron
Oh like anyone would ever actually just accept it and give up when someone tells them something secret is going on but they're better off not knowing.
If I was in his position, I could have gotten sued to her if she had just not tried to approach me for a little bit. I mean, there's nothing CRAZY frightening about how she looks.
>there's nothing CRAZY frightening about how she looks.
It's a giant space monster spider, you've been wasting away for Lord knows how many years and you're all alone with it, in the farthest reach of space where you will certainly die
The realization that breaks him isn't just the fact that he was mind sexing a horrific mosnter, but all those other things mentioned above with that
Why is the human cgi. It looks awful like a cutscene from a ps2 game.
The whole episode is CGI.
This resident evil 4 for GameCube?
>shots are bright as frick with the monster's head up front and center
>cut constantly
The audacity of these moronic filmmakers
Hey attercop! Hey attercop! You can't catch anybody
>cant even turn into a beautiful goth woman like Tolkien's big spider
Rowling more like Hackling
Give it a few more retcons
>If you're born a spider, you will always be a spider. You can't turn into a woman no matter how hard you try.
-JK Rowling
Holy based
I get the aversion to hairless spiders, but I don't get why anyone would scream when they see a jumping spider or tarantula. Those guys are cute.
If Dobby hadn't stopped Harry from getting on the train, Him and Ron would never have used the flying car and they would have been gruesomely devoured here.
>Hogwarts has a Giant Spider living at the grounds, and its millions of kids
>Hogwarts has a Giant Snake living in the pipes
>Hogwarts has a deadly man killing tree at the grounds
>Hogwarts has a creepy forest with monsters at the grounds
>Hogwarts has werewolves as teachers
>Hogwarts has sentient ghost that could kill you at the grounds
Why isn't this place shut down?
>Oh also Hogwarts has a Giant child killer Troll at the grounds
Wizards have no sense of right and wrong.
I understand but Voldemort was literally living in the Forbidden Forest waiting. Wizards are morons in this universe.
>DO I LOOK LIKE I GIVE A FRICK ABOUT HAGRID?
>DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IVE LIVED? 40 YEARS.
>EONS IN SPIDER-TIME.
>I'VE DEVOURED MORE HUMANS THAN YOU'VE MET.
>ONLY REASON I HAVEN'T DEVOURED HAGRID IS FRANKLY HE STINKS.
>PLUS... *sucks air and gurgles* HE DELIVERS ME FOOLS LIKE YOU.
>FRICK YOU. DIE.
Damn, what got this spider so worked up? Only time recall swearing in these movies other than Hermoine saying ass a couple times (imagine Hermione's ass).
Spiders are disgusting. It's time to put you down.
troony representation
Late 90s/early 2000s was that period where if you wanted a scary monster just throw in a giant spider
So uninspired.
stop watching Barneyshit
lol they tried to give it two big eyes to make it sympathetic, nice try spider bros but I will kill everyone of you I see on sight for the rest of my pathetic life
Idiot. Spiders are the guardians of your home. They keep all manner of insects and other vile shit out. I like to feed the ones that live with me because i want them to know that i am grateful to have them watching over my home.
i want to feed a big booty spiderbawd my cummies.