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

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.
They don't even have pens or pencils. They're still using one of the most archaic version of writing ever; the quill. You can't go on about the whole enchanting muggle things either; Arthur took a car apart, enchanted each piece and then put it back together to make it fly.

Also what exactly is the wizarding worlds job market like? There's like three big schools to go and learn magic at and then after completion where do you go next? There's the Ministry of Magic, St. Mungo's, Diagon Alley and becoming a teacher; as far as the series goes the job market looks sparce as fuck. Seeing as how everyone lives long as fuck it's almost like you spend half your life waiting for an actual position to open.
 
It's a post scarcity economy. Why work unless you want to?

Always had that issue with Star trek too.
 
I wish Rowling would shut the fuck up and stop trying to make the world of HP more "real". I never gave a shit why wizards lived like in the 19th century because it was irrelevant and added to the charm/aesthetic. But whenever she needs to say dumb fuckery like this, it's like she's forcing us to take her series more seriously than it ever needed to.
Also what exactly is the wizarding worlds job market like? There's like three big schools to go and learn magic at and then after completion where do you go next? There's the Ministry of Magic, St. Mungo's, Diagon Alley and becoming a teacher; as far as the series goes the job market looks sparce as fuck. Seeing as how everyone lives long as fuck it's almost like you spend half your life waiting for an actual position to open.
They did have wizarding bands and musicians, so I'm presuming they did have a version of pop-culture, which opens up at least some job positions. Granted, they only listened to the radio so there's that. Also shit like professional sportsmen (not only Quiddtich), something to do with runes and shit (I'll put this under the historian tag), basically zookeeping for magical creatures (dragons and all the other deadly beings) and journalists. I'll presume there are more "normal" jobs (that could've had offices in Diagon Alley, sure) like real-estate agents, regular agents for the sportsmen/pop culture figures, architects and so on. That does raise questions on where they get educated to perform those jobs, but you could argue they get their training under the guide of whoever works at whichever job they want to get into. I dunno. Presumably, Rowling will pull a dumber answer out of her ass if you really wanted to know.
 
I want a Harry Potter book based in a thousand years when muggle tech is so advanced that magic is actually more limiting and wizards lock away their children to try to shield them from the temptations of the modern world.

"We can throw fireballs!"

"Cool, but the muggles are in space. They've colonized planets and mastered aspects of the universe we didn't even consider. They've spread out into the stars, advancing human knowledge in leaps and bounds. The other day I saw an old muggle die on the street and then be brought back to life within minutes. No catches, costs, or curses. He was dead and then he was well again. What are WE doing?"

"I made a jellybean taste like a dead cat!"
 
"Cool, but the muggles are in space. They've colonized planets and mastered aspects of the universe we didn't even consider. They've spread out into the stars, advancing human knowledge in leaps and bounds. The other day I saw an old muggle die on the street and then be brought back to life within minutes. No catches, costs, or curses. He was dead and then he was well again. What are WE doing?"
When you consider how ridiculously OP magic in the HP universe is the wizards could already do those things if they wanted to: attach a portkey to a broom and enchant it so it flies out the atmosphere to Mars or whatever, then use the magic spell that creates an air bubble around your head and warp to it.
And wizards can extend their lives with unicorn blood, which they would set up farms for if they weren't retarded (they also have magic that can fix pretty much any physical injury, and they can change their physical appearance easily, too).

Wizards can also duplicate any object as many times as they want, so they could cure world hunger (and any other kind of problem caused by not having enough of any non-magical object).

They can also create sentient paintings that can think for themselves and have memories, which makes them superior to any muggle computer AI.

A group of schoolchildren manage to create a map that automatically names and tracks all people within a given area, so presumably even more expansive versions should be easily possible by experienced wizards (which would be far more advanced than even GPS microchips in terms of how it would allow you to track people).

Hermione manages to create magical coins that instantly react to a predetermined condition, changing their form - which means that instantaneous passing of information is possible (and building computers using magical objects that change state would also be possible).

Broomsticks don't require fuel (nor does any other kind of magic, including apparition which is just teleportation). Portkeys don't either. Wizards can travel anywhere instantly for no money or expenditure of resources.

There is literally a "luck" potion that you can drink that makes everything around you work in your favour.

Literal fucking time travel is possible and so mundane that children are trusted with it.

Rowling didn't restrict her magical system enough and it makes wizarding society look inept in how little they've achieved with such incredible abilities.
And it creates a ton of plotholes in the stories: why were the Gaunts so poor when they could easily duplicate food and cloth and anything else? Why didn't either side of the wizarding war use time travel? Why not create immortal versions of anyone you like by just making a magical image of them? How could a wizarding economy work when you can duplicate most objects and render their monetary value as nothing? Why are there not a bunch of kids dying every single day at Hogwarts given the incredible dangerous magic they have access to and how relaxed supervision is?
 
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Obviously Rowling didn't put much thought into her books, as they were written from an emotional mindset and not an intellectual one. The contradictions are a result of her envy of what wizards represent.

The books were a way to sublimate the angst of her very British elitism clashing with the reality in which she perceives herself as a loser. Her failure as a working class mudblood to get into Oxford must have been the work of hateful upperclass purebloods and such.

Her books have always been repugnant, because she doesn't hate elites ruling on high deciding the fates of their lessers she only hates not being one of the elites.
 
Why can't they vanish the shit before it leaves their body. Like, you feel like you gotta go, so you just point the wand at your ass and make the contents disappear. Saves one a lot of squatting and wiping.

Even wizards enjoy the subtle art of a good shit.
 
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When you consider how ridiculously OP with magic in the HP universe is the wizards could already do those things if they wanted to: attach a portkey to a broom and enchant it so it flies out the atmosphere to Mars or whatever, then use the magic spell that creates an air bubble around your head and warp to it.
And wizards can extent their lives with unicorn blood, which they would set up farms for if they weren't exceptional (they also have magic that can fix pretty much any physical injury, and they can change their physical appearance easily to).

Wizards can also duplicate any object as many times as they want, so they could cure world hunger (and any other kind of problem caused by not having enough of any non-magical object).

They can also create sentient paintings that can think for themselves and have memories, which makes them superior than any muggle computer AI.

A group of schoolchildren manage to create a map that automatically names and tracks all people within a given area, so presumably even more expansive versions should be easily possible by experienced wizards (which would be far more advanced than even tracked GPS microchips in terms of how it would allow you to track people).

Hermione manages to create magical coins that instantly react to a predetermined condition, changing their form - which means that instantaneous passing of information is possible (and building computers using magical objects that change state would also be possible).

Broomsticks don't require fuel (nor does any other kind of magic, including apparition which is just teleportation). Portkeys don't either. Wizards can travel anywhere instantly foir no money or expenditure of resources.

There is literally a "luck" potion that you can drink that makes everything around you work in your favour.

Literal fucking time travel is possible and so mundane that children are trusted with it.

Rowling didn't restrict her magical system enough and it makes wizarding society look inept in how little they've achieved with such incredible abilities.
And it creates a ton of plotholes in the stories: why were the Gaunts so poor when they could easily duplicate food and cloth and anything else? Why didn't either side of the wizarding war use time travel? Why not create immortal versions of anyone you like by just making a magical image of them? How could a wizarding economy work when you can duplicate most objects and render their monetary value as nothing? Why are there not a bunch of kids dying every single day at Hogwarts given the incredible dangerous magic they have access to and how relaxed supervision is?

All of this could simply be fixed by giving magic a difficulty factor so that most wizards are only capable of minor spells. But no, that wouldn't fit into her Potter power trip would it (but even then, why not just make Potter exceptionally good compared to his peers?).
 
Oh gosh it's almost like Rowling is an inept writer who doesn't think anything through before slapping it on twitter for dat sweet attention. The Harry Potter books are fine if you're a kid but going back as an adult the word is massively flawed and the prose reads like shit.
 
Obviously Rowling didn't put much thought into her books, as they were written from an emotional mindset and not an intellectual one. The contradictions are a result of her envy of what wizards represent.

Exactly. I mean look at Quidditch.

As a sports fan, Quidditch offends me because the sport makes absolutely no sense. If The Snitch is the be-all, end all, then what is the point of the goal posts?

JK wrote it the way she did because she wanted Harry to be the hero of the game his first year and the rules facilitate setting him up as a hero, BUT, it came at the expense of making the main wizarding sport make any kind of sense.

If I were a muggle born wizard and went to Hogwarts, I'd be like "The hell you all doing? American Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Hockey are all way better than this".
 
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Oh gosh it's almost like Rowling is an inept writer who doesn't think anything through before slapping it on twitter for dat sweet attention. The Harry Potter books are fine if you're a kid but going back as an adult the word is massively flawed and the prose reads like shit.

I also remember there being shitloads of spelling errors (at least enough to piss my mom off)
 
Oh gosh it's almost like Rowling is an inept writer who doesn't think anything through before slapping it on twitter for dat sweet attention. The Harry Potter books are fine if you're a kid but going back as an adult the word is massively flawed and the prose reads like shit.
Certainly doesn't sound re-readable.

Yet another reason the most stoned hippie Lord of the Rings fans of the 60s are superior to Harry Potter fans.

That and Led Zeppelin. No song about Harry Potter will rock as hard as Ramble On.
Thank you! Tolkien and Led Zeppelin made better sense than this!

If I were a muggle born wizard and went to Hogwarts, I'd be like "The hell you all doing? American Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Hockey are all way better than this".
I feel like that story would've been a hell lot more interesting to read than this! At least bring the mortal element in there.
 
If The Snitch is the be-all, end all, then what is the point of the goal posts?
In the books, catching the Snitch awarded the seeker's team 150 points and ended the game. A goal through one of the three hoops was worth ten points.

So if the opposing team were ahead by 16 goals or more then catching the Snitch would still result in your team losing. This actually happened in one of the matches in the books: Harry was told not to catch the snitch until his team caught up on points.
 
In the books, catching the Snitch awarded the seeker's team 150 points and ended the game. A goal through one of the three hoops was worth ten points.

So if the opposing team were ahead by 16 goals or more then catching the Snitch would still result in your team losing. This actually happened in one of the matches in the books: Harry was told not to catch the snitch until his team caught up on points.

Oh I get all that. If I recall, in the World Cup there was a situation where Viktor Krum got the Snitch and lost the game for his team because they were so far behind.

But if a team honestly gets 160 pts down, then you just fucking suck. Like Cleaveland Browns at their worst level of suckage. And the fact that if you get 160 pts down and only need two goals and the Snitch to still win it is ridiculous.

Now if the Snitch were worth say 20 or 30 points, and didn't immediately end the game, it'd make more sense. Yeah Wizard folk, have a damn clock for these games! The fact that these games can go on for days is flipping absurd too. I guess technically Baseball can as well, but any game that goes past 11 innings tend to get ridiculed.
 
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