Wizards used to shit where they stood and make it vanish before muggle toilets - Hogwarts is one massive outhouse.

Enterprise series actually addresses pooping in an episode. And it's not even all that stupid. They recycle as much matter as possible.

Fucking hell JK, all you needed to say is they clean their toilets with magic. It's like she is challenging herself to out dumb every previous dumb statement.
 
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Was Hogwarts runby pajeets or something? You know, I don’t even get why we would even need this kind of information in the first place; it adds nothing to HP aside from making the Wizards look like Neanderthals that shit themselves and then make it disappear.

At least Stephanie Meyer knew when to shut up.
 
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TheGreatCitracett said:
I read the books, for being such a powerful secret society that basically runs everything, wizards are borderline exceptional.

Household electricity and internal combustion engines are like cold fusion to them and wizards like Ron's dad are practically shunned for trying to even understand the basics.

It's no surprise they never even devised an outhouse or latrine.
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They’re like the magic Amish.
 
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Why'd they ever get plumbing to begin with then? I thought wizards didn't like the muggle world. Did you not learn the shit vanishing charm or whatever before Year 3 or something, even though you'd think wizards would be teaching this to their kids as the first spell they ever learned?

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I figured that something like this was the reason starships in Star Trek didn't have restrooms.
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They do, you can see them in like one or two episodes of TNG IIRC. They run all the waste products through the replicator for 100% recycling efficiency.
 
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GarthMarenghisDankplace said:
https://www.clickhole.com/big-step-backward-j-k-rowling-has-revealed-that-demen-1825334988


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Wtf I love Rowling now.
 
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TheGreatCitracett said:
I read the books, for being such a powerful secret society that basically runs everything, wizards are borderline exceptional.

Household electricity and internal combustion engines are like cold fusion to them and wizards like Ron's dad are practically shunned for trying to even understand the basics.

It's no surprise they never even devised an outhouse or latrine.
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This right here is the shit that always never made sense; wizard, despite all their magic power, still rely on candles for light, fireplaces for heat and haven't gotten past the level of radio for entertainment.
 
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MasterDisaster said:
This right here is the shit that always never made sense; wizard, despite all their magic power, still rely on candles for light, fireplaces for heat and haven't gotten past the level of radio for entertainment.
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Also instead of learning magic and curses why not just use a gun to murder your rivals with?
I CAST BULLET *BANG*
 
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MasterDisaster said:
This right here is the shit that always never made sense; wizard, despite all their magic power, still rely on candles for light, fireplaces for heat and haven't gotten past the level of radio for entertainment.
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I also liked how they didn't have normal ways to get the news or entertainment, but pictures moved so it's like "yo fuck your TV muggle, I got a bigass newspaper full of gifs n' shit!"
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And look at the random-ass text capitalization and layouts.

Wizards type like Chris-chan.
 
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RadicalCentrist said:
Weren't they not allowed to do magic outside of school during the holidays?
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At least the ones who were under a certain age or lived around the muggles if I remember right.

I imagine the plumbing situation extended beyond Hogwarts to wherever wizards are, and since there are wizard business districts and wizard villages, then that means there were also designated shitting streets.

Would also explain why wizards all wear long robes and not pants.
 
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MasterDisaster said:
This right here is the shit that always never made sense; wizard, despite all their magic power, still rely on candles for light, fireplaces for heat and haven't gotten past the level of radio for entertainment.
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(I'm not a Potter sperg, I'm answering from a general worldbuilding perspective)

They don't rely on mundane low-tech things, they rely on magical things. It's like a parallel branch of technological development. And for hundreds of years, it promised a better life than real-life contemporary technology and delivered. Real-life healthcare still probably hasn't caught up with Harry Potter's magical healthcare. What else is there? Real estate? Live off the grid wherever, hide from the mundane authorities, teleport for transportation. Food? You have slaves. Everything else is sensory and can be handled with illusions.

Also, this kind of tech makes wizards resistant to democratic change. Real 20th century technology requires the organized, sustained, voluntary effort of a very large group of people. Magic has no such requirement, and as a result, the wizard elite are not beholden to the broader wizard society at all. (Their propaganda probably turns this upside down: "Look, any idiot can buy a gun or a nuke. Magic is personal and responsible and only taught to people with the proper mental discipline".)

Wizards are like Hasidic Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, Hollywood pedos, and British nobles rolled into one. You use the wrong talking fork to eat the mandrake pudding, this offends some senile 92-year-old sandcunt and bam, you're ostracized from society and they cancel your magic license. You have no friends. You have no job skills. Your family has been mindwiped. You can't talk about your life with anyone. Then some noble "prankster" turns your noncaster kid into a toad for wizard likes on wizard youtube. Who you gonna call, the mundane police? "The evil wizard Loganius Paulus turned my daughter into this toad, please disenchant her". Good luck.
 
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MadDamon said:
You should go for My Immortal then.
At least Tara Gilesbie's shit is funny as hell.
Hell, just watch this
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After you've had a go at that, I'm almost positive this internet series inspired by My Immortal in turn "inspired" Harry Potter and The Cursed Child; everything from Black Hermione to
Voldemort's daughter.
 
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