Diseased Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

[FinnSven]

2) a House like Hufflepuff, that prides itself on teaching everyone ("I'll teach the lot and treat them just the same"), having more students than the others.

So the bulk of wizards are not brave, evil or smart?

 

[Waffle Iron]

Bit of drop off after OWLs in line with the real world, probs not much since there arent any wizarding plumbers or bricklayers.

Again this is in the vein of a ritzy boarding school so this all sounds fairly reasonable.

There is just one wizarding school for the british isles, right? So hogwarts would have to take both working class wizards and the elite. With the OWLs and electives separating the students. So the earlier years should have quite some students, or a lot of wizards would not have to bother with schooling past elementary school

Somehow the later books still ended up being several hundred pages long

Either the editor afraid to mess with the golden goose, or a cynical editor leaving in unnecessary content as hooks for future material.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Either the editor afraid to mess with the golden goose, or a cynical editor leaving in unnecessary content as hooks for future material.

I'm rereading the series, and its really noticeable how sloppy the editing becomes once you hit Order of the Phoenix. Literally nothing happens in the first two hundred pages of that book.

 

[FinnSven]

There is just one wizarding school for the british isles, right? So hogwarts would have to take both working class wizards and the elite. With the OWLs and electives separating the students. So the earlier years should have quite some students, or a lot of wizards would not have to bother with schooling past elementary school

I think part of the point is that most “working class” wizards and witches were killed off in the witch hunting era and what’s left are basically wizard nobility (Malfoys, Blacks, Potters), wizard bureaucratic class (Weasleys, any who work at the ministry of magic), academic class (Dumbledore and the career teachers), skilled tradesmen and landlords (the guy who makes wands, Lovegood with his mental paper, Dumbledore’s brother, most people with shops in Diagon alley), a few criminals (Mundungus and other scoundrels) and then drifters, crossbreeds and outcasts(Remus Lupin, the other werewolves and hagrid had he not been given a job as a groundskeeper).

They lack a financial class as the goblins control the wizard currency holding, but the goblins are basically subservient to wizards.

They have house elves to work in domestic service but that’s all house elves really do.
It’s not like there are house elf manned cotton mills or manufacturing plants.

If anyone is a “working class” it’s the muggles as it doesn’t appear that wizards have food or raw material production.

While there is horseshit with the great hall and the wizard mothers making food with magic, it is still made clear you need some ingredients to begin with.

Anyway, the point is is that pretty much all the wizards will probably have to complete Hogwarts program of Owls and Newts to become a skilled magic stuff maker or to work in the administration and bureaucracy.
Unless they either are from the wealthy families or get bankrolled by one of the wealthy.

So again, this is very much elite boarding school world as that’s close to the reality of kids who attend these schools.
The only “working class” students are Hermione and Shamus, and it’s clear Hermione is the equivalent of a scholarship kid who is a super genius, and Shamus will make connections so will be able to either find a role in the administration or just embrace his natural Irishness and become a lovable rogue, scoundrel and drunkard in the criminal/outcast class.

 

[Candidate No 7]

It is possible to overthink those things, you know?

 

[teriyakiburns]

It is possible to overthink those things, you know?

That's half the fun.

 

[holyhandgrenade]

That's half the fun.

However this isn't the overanalyze literature meant for preteens thread

 

[teriyakiburns]

However this isn't the overanalyze literature meant for preteens thread

 

[Argos]

That's half the fun.

Do it in the YA thread in Arts and Literature, it needs some love.

 

[CryoRevival #SJ-112]

Do it in the YA thread in Arts and Literature, it needs some love.

Very fair.

I heard a rumour that rowling forced the new kiddies to sign 'dont speak out against me and dont support trannies ever ever' pledges to get on the project. I figured if it was real I would have seen the resultant meltdown here, but has anyone seen anything in line with this?

 

[FinnSven]

Very fair.

I heard a rumour that rowling forced the new kiddies to sign 'dont speak out against me and dont support trannies ever ever' pledges to get on the project. I figured if it was real I would have seen the resultant meltdown here, but has anyone seen anything in line with this?

I doubt that’s true.

Sounds like something Troons would claim about her though, it fits with her being a controlling fascist.

 

[Greedy Fly]

wizards and witches were killed off in the witch hunting era

Not the witch hunting era (canonically the muggles couldn't do shit to them) but from the nearly back-to-back reigns of terror from Grindewald and Voldemort I think.

Sorry, sorry, have some Grammar Lessons with Acclaimed Author JK Rowling as tax


And another tranny spamming AI diatribes about the hypermasculinity of Voldemort

 

[Feels Badman]

Not the witch hunting era (canonically the muggles couldn't do shit to them) but from the nearly back-to-back reigns of terror from Grindewald and Voldemort I think.

Sorry, sorry, have some Grammar Lessons with Acclaimed Author JK Rowling as tax
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Whether or not HP discussion belongs in this thread, I'm grateful that Kiwis like calculating wizard population metrics, rather than debating whether Voldemort or Dumbledore is more traditionally masculine. These people are so unimaginably tedious. Their college essays must have driven their English professors to drink.

 

[Surfin Terf]

Not the witch hunting era (canonically the muggles couldn't do shit to them) but from the nearly back-to-back reigns of terror from Grindewald and Voldemort I think.

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I genuinely thought that that dsshake guy was pointing out the absurdity of trans arguments. I hate and/or love that tranny arguments are indistinguishable from parody

 

[hind matches ltd]

I heard a rumour that rowling forced the new kiddies to sign 'dont speak out against me and dont support trannies ever ever' pledges to get on the project. I figured if it was real I would have seen the resultant meltdown here, but has anyone seen anything in line with this?

When the new Snape actor signed that open letter or whatever it was against the UK's Supreme Court decision regarding women's rights, she explicitly stated that she both can't and wouldn't fire someone because of their beliefs. I'm not surprised they're making shit up after that: they wanted so badly to accuse her of this, they must have felt blue-balled when she proved, once again, to be a classy lady.

And speaking about child actors: Tom Felton is back as Draco Malfoy in the Cursed Child musical. I love that the kids who didn't burn all their bridges are still getting work related to Potter (Luna's actress is an embassador for Lumos, the Weasley twins are in that baking show, etc.)

 

[teriyakiburns]

And speaking about child actors: Tom Felton is back as Draco Malfoy in the Cursed Child musical. I love that the kids who didn't burn all their bridges are still getting work related to Potter (Luna's actress is an embassador for Lumos, the Weasley twins are in that baking show, etc.)

I've always thought the only reason Rupert Grint got involved was for money. He refused to be drawn into any drama about Rowling prior to 2020 (and there was plenty, even before her support for Maya Forstater*) and only seems to have got involved after HMRC dinged him with a huge tax bill, which came right before he joined the pile-on against Rowling. His participation was only half-hearted and seems to have ended when he realised he couldn't make money from it. He's been silent ever since.

* Blackhermionegate, Radcliffe falling out with her for dumb reasons, anti-semitic goblins, cho chang, general accusations of racism, anti-feminism (???) and so on.

Regarding Forstater, this is the image currently used on her wikipedia page.



It looks innocuous if you examine it in detail, but it's an attempt to inject a subconscious association with nazi imagery. Just glancing at it, or having it floating in your peripheral vision while you read the page, or having it appear at the top of a search result:



... puts the image of her with her arm raised into the back of your mind. It's a basic propaganda technique, relying on unconscious associations that people reliably make when presented with visually similar things, with a whole pre-formed set of arguments for why you're paranoid to see something like that in such a clearly innocent image.

 

[Timothy Troon]

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One of the things that stands out to me when paying attention to Rowling's hatedom is that she's just kind of boring, normalish person most of the time so they get really fixated on the most anodyne things she says because there isn't really much to latch onto when she's not retweeting TERF stuff. At least if you are doing this to Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones or Elon Musk they are such fucking weird, pathetic people constantly stumbling into ridiculous situations that you always have something absurd to point and laugh at. With Rowling, they basically have to construct an entirely new person to get mad about, its like the whole mould thing they essentially conjured up from out of focus wallpaper patterns.

Irrational rancour?

 

[Silence of the Troons]

>Hey ROWLING, who do you consider is the most and the least male out of these four equally male men?
>Everyone you mentioned is a man
>NO! She has to decide who's the malest male based on my retarded made up gender spectrum of maleness!

 

[RonRiot]

>Hey ROWLING, who do you consider is the most and the least male out of these four equally male men?
>Everyone you mentioned is a man
>NO! She has to decide who's the malest male based on my retarded made up gender spectrum of maleness!

Twenty years ago saying that the less faggy you acted the more of a real man you were was the rightwing chud position. In clown world, every dogma reverses opinions when the mood strikes them and pretends it was Always This Way.

 

[Feels Badman]

Twenty years ago saying that the less faggy you acted the more of a real man you were was the rightwing chud position. In clown world, every dogma reverses opinions when the mood strikes them and pretends it was Always This Way.

They want to act like maleness is a social construct, but if so, they're the ones constructing it. Nobody even thinks about this stuff except them. We aren't all subconsciously ranking other people on a scale of most to least male. We're just living life, and when we see a man in nail polish on the train, we think to ourselves "great, another attention-seeking weirdo" and move on with our day.