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This just seems like typical wizard behavior, to me.
Wizards used to shit where they stood and make it vanish before muggle toilets - Hogwarts is one massive outhouse.
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I read the OP and I'd just like to add something.
The world of that series is honestly depressing to read, because it's magical Idiocracy without the irony.
In fact, let me cover most of the highlights of peak stupid:
Medicine is utterly atrocious in that series, and while on paper they can heal some otherwise mortal or permanent injuries, a lot of shit they are stuck with what amounts to jack shit. Their resident magical Johns Hopkins was even shown basically as gigantic hospice for over half the crap they had to deal with because they hadn't the slightest clue how to treat the conditions even with exact knowledge of their causes. Worse, because Rowling had the characters pull new shit out of thin air, like that custom spell Hermione came up with in Book 5 to out squealers, some of this stuff is effectively uncurable and even if Hermione was forced to divulge how she created the spell, their own medical system would likely have no counterspell.
The fact wizards are utter fucking morons about modern society is absurd as hell. The Nasuverse (Fate/Stay Night to be exact) mentioned wizards aren't the best at using technology, but they are smart enough to at least keep somewhat current, even if their ability to make sense of it is poor. Hell, vampires in Old/New World of Darkness had the brains to keep track of human advancement and realized some tech advances make their bloodsucking super powers a joke and that not attracting attention to themselves to prevent modern tech from being used to destroy them was saner when they analyzed the implications of a world where non vampires had access to nuclear bombs and flamethrowers.
By contrast, aside from Arthur Weasely, who is out of his depth but attempts to give a shit, the entirety of the wizarding world is utterly out of touch with the parallel society they apparently take pains not to adapt to, even though Rowling admitted in a fight between a wand and gun, the gun user would usually win.
If a guy with a pistol could kick wizard ass 9 times out of ten, then you'd expect them to give the slightest shit about knowing just what the non wizards can do, just to make sure you don't lose your edge if nothing else.
The worst part of all is that when we are shown late in the series Rowling's belated attempts to show how wizarding society tries to at least cover the highlights of their world with the non-magical half, if only to maintain the peace, this just creates more questions than it solves when the final book has the magical half of England under magical Hitler imposed martial law, meaning all diplomatic contact just became hostile and non magical people now hadn't even the slightest hint or illusion the magical half of their country wouldn't consider open season on them.
I could write a book about how piss poor diplomatic relations in general were thought out in that series, especially when Dumbledore is one of the few people who advises (rather sensibly) for wizards to make friends with species that their enemies might try to court, and despite the shitloads of evidence this was a VERY GOOD IDEA as well as tons of precedent to take said warnings seriously, it went in one ear and out the other, and because Rowling was a hack who didn't follow up on the implications of ignoring this, it was a huge nonfactor in the finale.
tl;dr: The more of that series world is explained, the bigger the already massive plot holes and logic breaks become.
The world of that series is honestly depressing to read, because it's magical Idiocracy without the irony.
In fact, let me cover most of the highlights of peak stupid:
Medicine is utterly atrocious in that series, and while on paper they can heal some otherwise mortal or permanent injuries, a lot of shit they are stuck with what amounts to jack shit. Their resident magical Johns Hopkins was even shown basically as gigantic hospice for over half the crap they had to deal with because they hadn't the slightest clue how to treat the conditions even with exact knowledge of their causes. Worse, because Rowling had the characters pull new shit out of thin air, like that custom spell Hermione came up with in Book 5 to out squealers, some of this stuff is effectively uncurable and even if Hermione was forced to divulge how she created the spell, their own medical system would likely have no counterspell.
The fact wizards are utter fucking morons about modern society is absurd as hell. The Nasuverse (Fate/Stay Night to be exact) mentioned wizards aren't the best at using technology, but they are smart enough to at least keep somewhat current, even if their ability to make sense of it is poor. Hell, vampires in Old/New World of Darkness had the brains to keep track of human advancement and realized some tech advances make their bloodsucking super powers a joke and that not attracting attention to themselves to prevent modern tech from being used to destroy them was saner when they analyzed the implications of a world where non vampires had access to nuclear bombs and flamethrowers.
By contrast, aside from Arthur Weasely, who is out of his depth but attempts to give a shit, the entirety of the wizarding world is utterly out of touch with the parallel society they apparently take pains not to adapt to, even though Rowling admitted in a fight between a wand and gun, the gun user would usually win.
If a guy with a pistol could kick wizard ass 9 times out of ten, then you'd expect them to give the slightest shit about knowing just what the non wizards can do, just to make sure you don't lose your edge if nothing else.
The worst part of all is that when we are shown late in the series Rowling's belated attempts to show how wizarding society tries to at least cover the highlights of their world with the non-magical half, if only to maintain the peace, this just creates more questions than it solves when the final book has the magical half of England under magical Hitler imposed martial law, meaning all diplomatic contact just became hostile and non magical people now hadn't even the slightest hint or illusion the magical half of their country wouldn't consider open season on them.
I could write a book about how piss poor diplomatic relations in general were thought out in that series, especially when Dumbledore is one of the few people who advises (rather sensibly) for wizards to make friends with species that their enemies might try to court, and despite the shitloads of evidence this was a VERY GOOD IDEA as well as tons of precedent to take said warnings seriously, it went in one ear and out the other, and because Rowling was a hack who didn't follow up on the implications of ignoring this, it was a huge nonfactor in the finale.
tl;dr: The more of that series world is explained, the bigger the already massive plot holes and logic breaks become.
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"Squibs" sounds like a name you'd give a mentally-retarded wizard. Shocked Hogwarts didn't have their own special-ed class for squibs if Dumbledore was so progressive about treating people and species.
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Hahaah! This is amazing!
Slight powerlevel here, which is irrelevant because this happened years ago: I used to be into HP pretty much and roleplayed HP with a bunch of other kids. Our OCs just did the usual Hogwarts stuff, but at some point my OC visited the muggle world with her muggle born classmate and she was blown away. She realized how utterly fucking stupid everything in the wizard world was. How insanely cruel wizards were, and how backwards. She played vidya, watched tv and had muggle pizza, and she never wanted to return to the wizard world after that. Because honestly, that's probably what would happen. Nobody would want to live in Rowling's world if they had a choice.
Slight powerlevel here, which is irrelevant because this happened years ago: I used to be into HP pretty much and roleplayed HP with a bunch of other kids. Our OCs just did the usual Hogwarts stuff, but at some point my OC visited the muggle world with her muggle born classmate and she was blown away. She realized how utterly fucking stupid everything in the wizard world was. How insanely cruel wizards were, and how backwards. She played vidya, watched tv and had muggle pizza, and she never wanted to return to the wizard world after that. Because honestly, that's probably what would happen. Nobody would want to live in Rowling's world if they had a choice.
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That would be a far better story to tell than HP overall.
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I’m starting to thank the Gods that Stephanie Meyer at least had the decency to shut up about Twilight for the most part (aside from releasing a gender bent version of the first book, mentioning Midnight Sun and her occasional disdain for Fifty Shades of Grey) and moved on to other projects.
What has Rowling done since Harry Potter ended, aside from some unsuccessful crime novels?
What has Rowling done since Harry Potter ended, aside from some unsuccessful crime novels?
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Virtue signaled and talked shit about Orange Man.
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She hooked up on sniffing her own farts