J.K. Rowling needs to stop messing with Harry Potter - A general STFU J.K. Rowling MegaThread <3

Tasty Tatty said:
I like Harry Potter, actually. If I had the time, I'd start some sort of #ReclaimHP tag in twitter by taking the points that support conservatism, traditionalism, patriotism, nationalism, and even religion. SJWs and tumblerites are in the "omg, the books were bad all along" phase right now, so this would actually drive them into burning them all along with all their merchandise.

They we would have gone full circle indeed.
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I miss the days when it could just be a kids' book about shooting lights out of pointy sticks.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Do I feel sorry about JK getting a taste of her own PC medicine?
Hell no.
Play woke games, get woke rewards. She is doing a lot of trans dick sucking to get back on their good side because she aint ever going back to ours after constantly treating us like crap.
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I haven't seen Rowling pandering to troons since she terfed out.
 
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The talk about HP magic in other parts of the world made me realize something kinda obvious: The magic in HP is rather shitty. Now I might be remembering it wrong, but it always felt like the magic is static, there is no variants on spells that can be used, there is no structure to the magic, you either do it right or fail.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
The talk about HP magic in other parts of the world made me realize something kinda obvious: The magic in HP is rather shitty. Now I might be remembering it wrong, but it always felt like the magic is static, there is no variants on spells that can be used, there is no structure to the magic, you either do it right or fail.
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There's like a tiny fragment of changeup shown hilariously with Snape and potioneering; he found different approaches that actually improved a potions' effects and qualities as a teenager just by experimenting with it.

But yeah, the books don't show a load of creativity when it comes to what you do, just how to get said results.
 
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Adamska said:
There's like a tiny fragment of changeup shown hilariously with Snape and potioneering; he found different approaches that actually improved a potions' effects and qualities as a teenager just by experimenting with it.

But yeah, the books don't show a load of creativity when it comes to what you do, just how to get said results.
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In that same book, we found out Snape created many spells on his own just experimenting alone. Technically, you can just say anything in Latin, move the wand properly, and create new magic. But, it's dangerous. IICR, Luna's mother died because of this so I guess that's why the Ministry is very careful on illegal types of magic.

Of course, these are the limitations normal wizards have. More powerful wizards are probably capable of doing different types of magic that the rest can't.
 
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Tasty Tatty said:
In that same book, we found out Snape created many spells on his own just experimenting alone. Technically, you can just say anything in Latin, move the wand properly, and create new magic. But, it's dangerous. IICR, Luna's mother died because of this so I guess that's why the Ministry is very careful on illegal types of magic.

Of course, these are the limitations normal wizards have. More powerful wizards are probably capable of doing different types of magic that the rest can't.
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That just raises questions on whether latin has to be used regardless of the culture, how do the combination of words work and how does the pronunciation affect the result.
 
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That just raises questions on whether latin has to be used regardless of the culture, how do the combination of words work and how does the pronunciation affect the result.
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My guess is not. Just like wands, it's a way to channel the magic properly and focus on something specific while you cast the spell. It's not just the word, but, I guess, the feeling of the moment. Many english-speaking wizards suck hard at pronouncing latin words so the intention also has to count. And, of course, many wizards of the Americas were never exposed to Latin until 1492.
 
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Tasty Tatty said:
My guess is not. Just like wands, it's a way to channel the magic properly and focus on something specific while you cast the spell. It's not just the word, but, I guess, the feeling of the moment. Many english-speaking wizards suck hard at pronouncing latin words so the intention also has to count. And, of course, many wizards of the Americas were never exposed to Latin until 1492.
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That doesn't really seem right though since I doubt children like Harry or Ron speak fluent Latin well enough to focus the magic based on its meaning, and we have infamous moments like this where the exact pronounciation makes the spell fail regardless of the mental image.

I think I once read somwhere that magic systems in fiction depend on the creator's technical skills. Like, a person who can program will make magic systems very technical and logical, while a person without skills will make the magic abstract and inconsistent. HP is definitely the latter category.
 
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Tasty Tatty said:
My guess is not. Just like wands, it's a way to channel the magic properly and focus on something specific while you cast the spell. It's not just the word, but, I guess, the feeling of the moment. Many english-speaking wizards suck hard at pronouncing latin words so the intention also has to count. And, of course, many wizards of the Americas were never exposed to Latin until 1492.
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First book has a throwaway line on pronunciation; Flitwick warns about it since if you fuck it up, you might get a different result that may kill you. Never forget the wizard Baruffio, who managed to summon a buffalo by fucking up his s' in an incantation he tried.

But none of them ever had such a problem beyond Harry fucking up saying Diagon Alley when he used Floo for the first time.

Honestly, Neville or Ron should've had something like that happen, but then Rowling didn't think.
 
Tasty Tatty said:
Especially because the guy had no issue with the husband and child of the woman he loved being killed. He was like "ok, save them too, fine, whatever".

That's why I never liked the final book that much. Harry named his son after the man who shrugged at the idea of his father being murdered.
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Well, in a way, that makes Harry look like the bigger person.

Harry was treated like shit by Snape. Snape was a known collaborator with the people who offed his parents, and even though Snape backed away from that particular moral cliff, it's just by the bare minimum and he was still an asshole for the rest of his life no matter if he was working for the devils or the angels.

Harry decided instead of resenting the now late Snape, he'd instead name his son after the man to remind himself to not pass that hatred on to the following generation.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Here's a question.

How come Harry never used the invisibility cloak to spy in the girls' locker room/showers?
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We know that if a boy tries to climb the stairs to the Gryffindor girls’ dorm, the stairs will turn into a slide and he won’t be able to climb up. I’m sure this works whether you’re visible or not.
 
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Free the Pedos said:
We know that if a boy tries to climb the stairs to the Gryffindor girls’ dorm, the stairs will turn into a slide and he won’t be able to climb up. I’m sure this works whether you’re visible or not.
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Yeah, but I imagine he could sneak from 4th year onward into the Prefect's bathrooms since he knows they have big swimming pool tubs if you really wanted to have him be a creeper.
 
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