Why doesn’t this weird ass muggle weeb just hang out with muggles if he likes them so much? He fricking works in London. He could even use Polyjuice potion to disguise himself as some kind of feckless third world tourist in order to ask questions about innocuous topics. He could just be like, “aaaaaaaay what a di purpose of a rubber duck-a, yes? I’m a just some funny a guy widda mustache, ye? Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyhyyy”. It’s not illegal.
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Woman writer.
And furthermore, if Hogsmeade is the only all-wizard village in the UK, why don’t wizards know how muggles dress? They live amongst them.
well they all dress like muggles in the movies
First movie they definitely didn’t. They had an almost pre-industrial 1820s or 30s looks from some scenes which actually makes a lot of sense, bravo Columbus
90% of the shit in the series don't hold up to scrutiny and the author knows she did a poor job of worldbuilding. She had to deus ex machina key story elements in the FINAL BOOK for her hero to win.
it’s a whimsical story for children of course it isn’t totally logical, if it were it would be complete shit. see: that one autistic fanfic where harry kills people with a gun and talks like reddit atheist circa 2012, which is basically what u guys want
I don't think it's too much to ask that the story have internal consistency. Hell, most of these problems are self inflicted by adding details that are okay on paper but fall apart if you think about them for more than two seconds
No wonder why rabid fans of this series love radlib politics so much
>No wonder why rabid fans of this series love radlib politics so much
Didn't they turn on the series because Rowling wasn't pro trans enough or something?
Yep, and they somehow have to rationalize how their idol became le ebil nazi. In reality, she's as big of a lib as she ever was, they've just gone off the deep end
It's honestly not inconceivable that they simply are not that creative.
why are you pretending like this is some vague thing you heard some day in passing when you browse Cinemaphile and saw the same thread about it for months
>that are okay on paper but fall apart if you think about them for more than two seconds
how does that work?
how do you write it on paper without thinking about it for 2 seconds?
>of course it isn’t totally logical
I really hate this disingenuous defense. The first 4 were whimsical children's books. 5 and onward were super serious and about war, depression, media smearing, social justice and politics, etc. The final book opens with a pair of epigraphs, which is the most pretentious thing ever. This isn't even a meme criticism like "why didn't Harry just shoot Voldemort". You have things so important as "wands switch allegiances" and "ackshually Harry's Invisibility Cloak was extra special" being introduced out of nowhere in the last book that contradict everything that has been shown in the series prior.
What do those things contradict?
>people disarm/beat each other all the time in duels throughout the series
>wands never stop working for their disarmed owners or you don't have wizards dual wielding wands like a badass
>dude this cloak is so special it can hide you from ANYTHING, even death
>cats can see through it
>Moody's magic eye can see through it
>people with the cloak still appear on the Marauder's Map
Just off the top of my head
You forgot Homenum Revelio
4 ends on a pretty brutal moment with Cedric dying. I'd say it's more like the first three are children's books and at 4 onward they deal with more mature stuff.
Cedric's death is the moment the mood changes, like a loss of innocence sorta thing. It's pretty whimsical up to that point
Yeah true that's definitely the "shit just got real" moment of the story. Every book afterward has at least one heavy downer moment.
she would have gotten away with it if she just kept harry dead after defeating voldemort. a kind of a sacrificial death.
You talking about a world in which their version of hitler felt the need to use magic to murder an infant. Clearly magic has stunted their cognitive abilities through intense decadence. No wonder why snape is so autistic about potions, as it seems to be the only thing these idiots learn that requires any degree of rigor.
I mean, that stupid b***h Hermione is supposed to be a prodigy but all that entails is the rote memorization of facts and pronouncing words right. Clearly a society of smooth brains.
Yeah by book like 4 or 5 voldemurt and friends know where harry spends his summers but don't do anything because their spells won't work. But the most evil powerful wizard in the world doesn't think to mind control some normie trucker with a tanker of gas and plough it through the house.
>You talking about a world in which their version of hitler felt the need to use magic to murder an infant.
1. Why would Voldemort not use a spell that worked 100% of the time before that incident? He had no way of knowing that it would backfire.
2. Why would he use muggle methods of killing people? He wouldn’t stoop so low.
>2. Why would he use muggle methods of killing people? He wouldn’t stoop so low.
for sure. you just know Voldy thought the defense spell harry mom used was badass and he got off trying to find a magical way around it because magic is dopeness
>Why would Voldemort not use a spell that worked 100% of the time before that incident?
My point isn't that it was illogical to use a spell, my point is that it's strange he felt the need to. Again, it's a literal infant. It's like using an AR to shoot a baby. Sure, it's practical but reflects a severe over reliance on magic that you see all over the story (to the extent where I feel it's an intentional theme)
>Why would he use muggle methods of killing people?
Why would you kill someone with a rock instead of a mortal disease you CRISPR synthesized in a lab? We are in the current year, after all. Why not use all the technology at our disposal? Such barbaric means as ROCK is beneath us
This is fricking dumb, sorry. If you're walking around all day with a magical swiss army knife that can do literally anything you want for you, why the frick would you use anything else? Your logic is fricking backwards
>He wouldn’t stoop so low.
How many years did he spend stapled to the back of a homosexual's head?
I mean if I was in Voldemort's shoes I'd much rather wave my wand and say a word to kill baby Harry then do it physically, which is much more unpleasant.
Yeah but presumably you're not evil. I get why he did it, I just think it reflect that these people rely on magic so much that every problem looks like a magical nail to them
I like to think I'm a decent enough guy but I also think there's more to killing a baby with your bare hands or a blunt object being a rather unpleasant experience than just your moral compass. That said I agree with the overall point you're making. Ron's dad kinda has a point with the muggle fascination since combining magic and tech somehow is clearly the optimal way forward.
>Wizards integrate technology and magic
>End up ensnaring the conscious souls of dead people (like with the paintings) to eternally crunch numbers in a processor with zero thermal exhaust
And thats just the first idea that popped in my head. Maybe they're right to ignore technology
Gotta break a few eggs, am I right?
>Wizard-made horrors beyond your comprehension
>Dumbledore dies and would never become a ghost
>lul doesn't matter he has a painting
I hate those talking portraits like a motherfricker
It make perfect sense for Voldemort because he's a wizard supremacist. It would be out of character for him to strangle somebody, that's muggle shit.
It's actually more fun because the bones break so easily in your hands and there's this glorious moment when the incessant crying cuts into silence and all you can hear is the body cracking and squishing.
he does not wear shoes
Magic is a corrupting force that drives its users to only think in terms of magic. This is why they don't shoot Voldemort and why they retreat from the non-magic muggle world.
It also makes them moronic.
You're welcome JK.
He can't stop dropping the M word
>The third thing hagrid ever said to harry potter was a slur
Breddy based
>mfw I just learned about this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Granger
>Described as "The Dean of Harry Potter Scholars"[1] his specialization is iconological literary criticism, reading at four layers: the surface, moral, allegorical, and sublime (anagogical). Writing about Harry Potter from this perspective, he introduced the 'Eliade thesis' to suggest a textual cause for Potter mania[2] explaining Rowling's use of Christian Symbolism and Rowling's use of literary alchemy.[3] Granger has demonstrated Rowling's use of 'ring composition' or chiasmus story scaffolding[4] and eye symbolism[5] in the Harry Potter novels, and argued that her eye symbolism in Deathly Hallows and the King's Cross scene Rowling describes as "the key" to the seven novels suggests her baseline theme is "transformed vision".[6]
>Granger brings the same literary criticism model to the allegorical and anagogical aspects of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga,[7] Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy[8] and C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia.[9]
>He has been a featured speaker at Harry Potter conferences
There are people who make entire careers out of this shit
Jesus Christ what a cretin. The Harry Potter books worked because each book is essentially a mystery book and kids love mystery books.
That doesn't explain the mania. It wasn't the only such series on the market.
I'm guessing most magical folk avoid muggles for fear of exposure, to purebloods doing magic is second nature, they do it without thinking, it's different for muggleborns because they grew up without the commodity of magic so to them it's actually the other way around, they keep doing stuff th muggle way even when they could just magic it.
Wands don't stop working for the owner if they get disarmed, they just lose some allegiance and might not work as well if they don't "respect" their owner. This was much more pronounced for the Elder wand, since it was the most powerful one.
The only special thing about Harry's cloak was that it never stopped working, unlike regular ones that lose their magic with time.
Rowling does make obvious retcons, but I think these were fairly well explained in the books. Dobby suddenly being weird for wanting to be free and Harry's crazy neighbour getting revealed to be from the magical world were worse I think.
Meant for
I'm pretty sure only the Elder Wand has allegiance which can switch because it's special. It's meant to be treacherous because that's its thing. Every other wand just picks a person (as established in book 1) and stays with them.
I'm pretty sure it technically applies to all wands, it's just much harder to lose the allegiance of a regular wand. They beat you over the head with the fact that wands are basically alive and choose their owners, so it makes sense they can also abandon their owner. But the Elder Wand is much more fickle because of its power and changes allegiance by a single disarming.
>changes allegiance by a single disarming
Which has to be by snatching it out of their hand becasue the Elder wand can't be beaten in magic vs magic combat.
He doesn't want to be a muggle, he just finds them interesting.
the point was simply to emphasize the fact that wizards are very disconnected from muggles
Perhaps whisking kids out of school when they're 8 or whatever so they can go learn about mystical grubbins from Mimsy Frickelbreasts isn't a good way to develop an educated adult population
Why do they have to walk to a public toilet and get flushed down. Why not just use the toilet in their own homes? The director and the author are stupid.
Why didnt harry potter just fly rhe eagle to mordor lmao