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Marauders looking like a bunch of little shits kek, love it. Really missed this thread.
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>>259302Thread #1: >>>/m/156424
Use the search functionThread #2:
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Hogwarts Legacy; Divination class
Post your predictions for the upcoming game regarding the game it self, audience or others
>An attempt of boycotting the game will arise. However, it will be disregarded by the masses in favour of entertainment and nostalgia.
>Boycotters of said game, will turn their noses up at the patrons who have it while waiting to buy the game second-hand or get it through piracy as not to support tyrannical author that did them wrong
No. 262999
>>262644Here are my predictions:
Maybe I'm biased because I follow a bunch of woke game journalists, but I think initially there is going to be some boycotting by journalists. They're going to write "why we're not playing/covering hogwarts legacy" and then when they realize the traction it gets they'll switch to "we played it so you don't have to, JKR is a
terf so this game is bad" articles. The lesser woke ones will pander by making proper game articles but still include a little "JKR is
terf" section so wokies won't call them out (they will anyway).
I think it will do nothing but backfire on them and make more people get curious and interested in this "dark, edgy, forbidden game" kek Hopefully a few people will look up what JKR actually said and realize she has been very reasonable all along.
I also think some streamers will be scared of streaming it and ones that do will get called out for promoting transphobia since terminally online gamer autists are a large part of the trans community.
But still, the overwhelming majority of people will love and hype up the game and places like twitter and reddit will have an outcry of sad troons who are crying over their friends being terfs for playing the game, and how seeing the game
triggers their dysphoria.
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>>262999Totally agree with all of this.
There is no way this boycotting will be successful, talking about it won't do them any good but give the game free advertisement, and most of it will be pretty much preaching to the coir; and not talking will have no effect either as hp is still very popular despite what the TRAs like to claim. No winning here, I guess they really shoot themselves in the foot when they made an enemy of jkr.
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>>262644I think a lot of casual supporters of the trans ideology who parrot all the virtue signalling like "JKR is a
terf" will eventually succumb and buy the game by justifying it with "well JKR wasn't actually involved with the game…"
I have a lot of TRA mutuals on my fandom/art accounts but I follow enough people on social media that so far I've been able to pretend not to see those posts by them without a problem. I plan to make some innocent HP related posts when the game comes out and to play dumb if anyone tries to call me out. I plan to use the same "JKR wasn't even involved" excuse and if they push it they will have to present me with evidence, which I know doesn't exist so good luck kek
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nonnies, can you recommend any good, long gen fics? i'm specifically NOT looking for "all the marauders and snape are gay" fics, and more like "what if" scenarios that someone took the time to explore. like "what if harry had grown up among wizards" or stuff like that. i remember back when i was a teenager people actually took years to rewrite the entire series to show how harry being a girl would change the entire story, or something like that.
basically fics that aren't horny fujo material.
No. 264508
>>264486Can't help you but I'd be interested in recs too. I actually stopped following these threads because they went from hp general to focusing on sexualizing the characters.
>people actually took years to rewrite the entire series to show how harry being a girl would change the entire storyThat's really interesting - do you have any examples of such fics or what changes they made?
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>>264508unfortunately not, since the fics were in my mother language and it seems most authors have deleted their fics when they dropped out of fandom activities… i'm really sad that i didn't save any of them - or at least appreciated them back in the day!
anyways, i did some digging on reddit (ugh) and found some fics that i'm going to give a shot! if any of you are curious:
>Antithesis"Revenge is the misguided attempt to transform shame and pain into pride. Being forsaken and neglected, ignored and forgotten, revenge seems a fairly competent obligation. Good thing he's going to make his brother pay. Dark!Harry! Slytherin!Harry! WrongBoyWhoLived."
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12021325/1/Antithesis
>Applied Cultural Anthropology, or"… How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruciatus. Albus Dumbledore always worried about the parallels between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle. But let's be honest, Harry never really had the drive to be the next dark lord. Of course, things may have turned out quite differently if one of the other muggle-raised Gryffindors wound up in Slytherin instead."
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9238861/1/Applied-Cultural-Anthropology-or
>Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin"Harry Potter was Sorted into Slytherin after a crappy childhood. His brother Jim is believed to be the BWL. Think you know this story? Think again. Year Four starts on 9/1/20. NO romantic pairings prior to Fourth Year. Basically good Dumbledore and Weasleys. Limited bashing (mainly of James)."
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11191235/1/
>Hermione Granger, Demonologist"Hermione was eight when she summoned her first demon. She was lonely. He asked what she wanted, and she said a friend to have tea parties with. It confused him a lot. But that wasn't going to stop him from striking a promising deal with the young witch. Dark!Hermione, Slytherin!Hermione, occult theme. Complete."
>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12614436/1/
>i won't just survive (no you will see me thrive) "In which James Potter isn't as dead as everyone thought and Harry has a strong mistrust of all adults.
Reconnecting with his son isn't going to be easy, not just because Harry's in Slytherin."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/9555569/chapters/21605777
>The Art of Self-Fashioning "In a world where Neville is the Boy-Who-Lived, Harry still grows up with the Dursleys, but he learns to be more private about what matters to him. When McGonagall comes to give him his letter, she also unwittingly gives Harry both a new quest and a new passion: Transfiguration. But while Harry deliberately hides his growing skills, Minerva worries more and more about the mysterious, brilliant student writing to her who may be venturing into dangerous magical territory."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/5103614
>The Heir of the House of Black "It was the year 1998 and Wizarding Britain was finally starting to heal from the wounds of the Second Wizarding War. 18-year-old Auror trainee Harry Potter was leading his first field operation when he was struck by a Killing Curse that led to an encounter with Death, who then revealed to Harry that he could turn back time and remedy his deepest regrets…
Unbeknownst to Harry, Dark wizarding activities were erupting across Britain and threatening to destroy the fragile society once and for all. But who was the enemy? What were they trying to accomplish? Was it too late to stop them?
Perhaps all the answers lie where Harry was headed…
This is a journey of family, of friendship, of self-discovery, and, as always with Harry Potter, a healthy dose of world-saving."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20459714/chapters/48570425
>The Mystery Under the Trapdoor "A prophecy named one-year-old Hermione as the Chosen One, and when Voldemort came knocking, Hermione's mother tried to hit him with a table lamp. He laughed at her, killed her, and then he tried to kill her daughter. But she didn't die.
Ten years later, Hermione Granger received a letter."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/10529982
>The Best Revenge"AU. Yes, the old Snape retrieves Harry from the Dursleys formula. I just had to write one. Everything changes, because the best revenge is living well. T for Mentor Snape's occasional naughty language. Supportive Minerva. Over three million hits!"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4912291/1/
>The Changeling"Ginny is sorted into Slytherin. It takes her seven years to figure out why."
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6919395/1/
>The odds were never in my favour"Ten years of life at the Dursleys have healed Alexandra Potter of any good feelings she might have towards her aunt, uncle and cousin, leaving her friendless and sarcastic about life. On her eleventh birthday, a letter sent by a school of magic may give her a providential escape. Except, of course, things may not be that simple for a girl fan of the Lord of the Rings…"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11517506/1/
>The Strange Disappearance of SallyAnne Perks"Harry recalls that a pale little girl called Sally-Anne was sorted into Hufflepuff during his first year, but no one else remembers her. Was there really a Sally-Anne? Harry and Hermione set out to solve the chilling mystery of the lost Hogwarts student."
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6243892/11/The-Strange-Disappearance-of-SallyAnne-Perks
>Weasley Girl "AU: The first friend Harry Potter made on the Hogwarts express wasn't Ronald "Ron" Weasley; it was Veronica "Ronnie" Weasley, first-born daughter of the Weasley clan. And all of a sudden, the future looked very different.
Join the newly-formed "Potter's Gang" (consisting of Harry, Ronnie, Hermione and Neville) in their first year at Hogwarts as they get into all kinds of misadventures, and maybe have to face a certain Dark Lord before they're ready for it.
First novel in the "Weasley Girl" trilogy. Fem!Ron, but not a romance, and not a canon rehash."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/3721921, sequel:
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the new game looks amazing! ig it's too late for predictions considering i just watched a long gameplay video but i'm definitely going to play it (can't lie, i'll probably pirate it asap but i'll buy it later when money isn't so tight). i was already sold when they showed me the decoration mechanics but also you get to collect magical animals????? trying not to be over the top about it but it looks cool and i'm very excited.
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Do you guys think rat Peter would be able to get into the girls dorms or would he just slide off?
Say, if he slides off, would he be able to circumvent this by having a girl carry him up there? Or would the girl slide off with him?
No. 265122
>>265092are you genuinely retarded?
>>265119the marauders map was able to detect rat!peter was a person right?
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>>265122Yes, that was part of what got me thinking the stairs might eject peter as soon as he tries to go up, but then what if ron carries him up there? I think it would be funny if girl ron just slide off with him and she has no idea why, but then again, just carrying him up might work? I guess peter would be able to get into the girls dorms if the house elves apparate him there along with the rest of the students stuff but he probably wouldn't be able to go back if he goes down. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem before the third year? Ron did say in the books that scabbers pratically just eat and sleep.
Honestly I just wanted to know what you guys think about it but I guess my post would get more answers if it had fujo shit in it.
No. 265143
>>265129mc gonagall is pribably a huge
terf lol. I'm sure the stairs' enchantments are foolproof. no XYs in there
>>265129 some magic is able to distinguish transfigured people from regular animals. see also: crookshanks himself (being part magical creature) being able to detect animagi>>264486 i think i posted this one before but it's very good gen longfic although incomplete:
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7031677/1/ No. 268737
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What is your favourite or most memorable crossover fanfic that you read? I only managed to find one of the fics that stood out which surprised me honestly. I think that authors from when the books were still being published have deleted their work or are on another site that is not fanfiction.net, I'll try to find them to make sure
>To The WindReincarnated!Ron. Ron lives. He dies. And somehow, he lives again. Only it's not him this time, it's not the Wizarding World, it's not magic, and he wishes things weren't this complicated.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9249261/1/To-the-WindWhile abandoned I find it does give a somewhat satisfying regarding Ron displacement and I like how he had to figure things out like the naming convention, culture and a bit of himself. I remember waiting for it to be updated or for the rewrite, but I quite like how it is and it is one of my favourites.
Will admit that at the time I never even heard about Naruto. However after reading the manga up to a certain point I went back and still liked it very muchThe crossover with the Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who, mistaken for Barty Crouch Jr. and another fic that crossovers with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Faith and Ron go back in time to stop an Apocalypse from happening, not on fanfiction.net, I don't really remember what site it was on.
Ended up sadly with only one fanfic recommendation in the end. However these are what stood out to me through the years and I hope that the rest of them haven't deleted their works. Please share with me, your favourite even obscure ones are welcome.
No. 268809
>>268737I haven't read many crossovers so I don't have any recs, I read some hp/doctor who, because that's a crossover I'm really interested in, but they were confusing multi fandom stuff or the type of stuff that hardly explores doctor who setting and magic together (might be just ao3 though, ff.net is hard to navigate so I haven't done any big search), and I'd like to see these two stories actually mixing up and not just the Doctor making everyone's life magically better because time travel, come on, it's the Doctor, not Mary Poppings! That guy is expert in endangering his companions, not fixing their lives, that's the fun of it. I wish there were interesting long hp/doctor who fics. I wonder how come Doctor and the marauders stuff aren't more popular when marauders era seem to be a popular setting for time travel fics, and they seem perfect for long fics because characters like James and Lily just don't have enough characterization, and I'd love to see them and the other marauders explored without the heavy focus on shipping most stories go about. There is so much in these two stories that you could do anything with it, and I think the most interesting thing of doctor who are the villains, so I'd love to see a story that uses them. I'm honestly tired of the many ways time travelling hp characters could end Voldemort, would be nice to see them expelliarmusing some Cybermen or something.
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maybe we could create a farmers’ hp discord server where we can all discuss the game and share spells etc without getting bashed by wokies? and just talk abt everything hp, i think it could be fun
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My TRA friends/mutuals are raging about the hogwarts legacy game so hard right now. I hope this will finally lead to mass peaking, troons could not have picked a worse enemy: a beloved children's book author who stands up for female rights (somehow without being labelled a man-hating femnazi), has fuck-you-money and puts her money were her mouth is, opens a rape crisis centre, is one of the few celebs with a spine and refuses to back down on her views, is quite attractive, intelligent and well-spoken and is all around just wholesome.
No. 270781
>>270764>without being labelled a man-hating femnaziBeing called a
terf is the exact same thing nowadays.
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>>270781Sort of, but not really. When troons use it it's to insult and discredit women the same way they used femnazi. But terfs aren't mainstream the way a regular "angry feminist" is/was. My older colleagues still don't know what a
terf is and when I explain it they think it's silly and dismiss it, but they know exactly what someone means when they talk about an "angry feminist" and assume it's an unjustified screeching man-hating woman who wants all men to die. That's what I meant, I haven't seen any normies who think JKR is the stereotypical "angry feminist" who wants all men to die.
>>270892>what do you do when hp and jkr come up in conversation and they start reeeing?I ignore everything they say and don't engage at all with anything jkr/HP related. I literally act as if I haven't seen any of it ever. If it comes up in more direct ways I play dumb and innocently change the subject. If they say "jkr is a
terf" I'm just like "huh I don't really keep up with online drama and celebrities at all, oh by the way have you seen this Other Thing (some cherry picked mutual interest, so I know they'll take the bait) what do you think of it?? Isn't This Thing cool??".
If they're still reeeing I ignore it and go on about the topic I brought up. I try to give them 0 satisfaction for bringing it up, they only parrot these things for social points so if it doesn't go according to their subconscious plan (i say thing, you agree, now you say same thing, and i agree = social bonding, i did good) it doesn't give them "i did the socially right thing"-dopamine and they'll stop bringing it up.
If needed I plan to use the excuse: "negative topics like that are really
triggering for me right now so can we pretty please talk about something else". If REALLY pressed on something like "twaw right? you agree RIGHT??" I again keep it as short as possible and then change the subject like "yeah of course, anyway Other Thing…" just so they drop it and lower their guard.
I can play these people all day, they're all brainwashed and use the same tactics and arguments without thinking for themselves when it comes to troon topics kek
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>>259302I haven't been into HP since I was a kid, but I've somehow gotten really excited about this game. It looks beautiful and comfy. Hope there's lots to explore in Hogwarts.
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>>271425ravenclaw looks elegant but like you'd get shouted at for not using a coaster.
>>271448agreed, slytherin is what I'll be playing and their aesthetic is the most interesting. I hope the game lets us discover some spooky mysteries and dark magic
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>>270764Have you guys noticed the attitude shifted a bit? TRAs used to say you're not allowed to play or promote the game, or to read or promote the books or movies at all because doing so is supporting
terf queen JKR (which should be punishable with death!).
Now I see a lot of them instead trying to distance HP things from JKR, such as them saying the movies were made by other people and not her so it's ok to watch them, and covering/removing her name from the book covers while still keeping the books. It's like they noticed normal people have no interest in cancelling HP for some unspecified reason for trans people, so they pretend that people still care about trans rights by saying consuming HP is fine as long as you still agree JKR is evil.
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>>271720Oh yeah. I see it in groups that have normies mixed with gendies and it's mostly the gendies and handmaidens doing this to justify their contributions to fandom or why they're still consuming HP stuff without feeling guilty. I think thats dumb. You either stop consuming something by the author you disagree with entirely or you aknowledge their work is theirs. To me this is very hypocritical to keep consuming something by an author you don't want give money to when even producing art or fanfiction is a way to keep their legacy alive, so it makes no sense to me these people keep creating stuff while claiming the author won't get anything out of it and their legacy is dead. Would be better if they had the spine to just stop consuming anything by JKR and stand by their choices and beliefs.
It's not even that hard, JKR is one of the most famous authors but there are lots of other childrens books. The TRAs could easily start promoting other childrens book authors with the large platform they have, but you only see them using it to try dragging JKR or silencing and persecuting other women for wrongthink or to promote harmful shit to kids. None of the books they try promoting come close to HP, because it is always trans shit with pedo messages.
It's funny they think they will be on the "right side of history" while acting like freaking Umbridge or Voldy. Can't wait for the day this all will come crashing down on them.
Also a bit ot but the group I'm in always have someone saying shit about JKR, sometimes they don't even refer to her by name, still they all love Lovecraft's work. I read some of it and was so uncomfortable by the amount of racist shit in his stories that I couldn't read anymore. I find extremely weird these people have the gall to talk about Harry Potter being racist while expressing no problem with Lovecraft's stories, which I always see people talking about but rarely goes into debate about the shitty stuff unlike Harry Potter. People also comment on another author (don't remember his name but I think his book got 1 movie and it's about war and some ant like aliens? I only watched the movie but can't recall the name or much of it) And these same people are always so respectful about this author and the way they talk about his work while still aknowledging he is
problematic because of his views. It just makes me feel like I'm going insane, these different expectations for female authors, how people can easily ignore the shit like racism that is in stories of the types of Lovecraft but whoa, a woman dared call her asian character Cho Chang and defend women's rights. Makes me want to cry of frustration.
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I just got Hogwarts Legacy. It is pricey as hell but I think it was worth my hard earned money. Back in the 2010's, I used to play Harry Potter RPGs like picrel on Habbo Hotel, sooo HL feels like a dream come true!
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>>271952Oh and I forgot to add, a very close friend of mine won't stop calling JKR an asshole and a transphobe while also being a huge Nicki Minaj fangirl. She had no clue what Jews were until very recently because of where she's from and was saying just a few years ago similar thing to what Whoppi Goldberg said not that long ago, and just a few months ago she told me in private that JKR is antisemitic because of the goblins. Another very close friend of ours is Jewish and in a very separate conversation she said that JKR is
problematic but you'd have to be stupid or paranoid to call her an antisemite, also in private. I wonder how a conversation between these two would go kek. The first friend was also giving us side eyes when we planned a trip to go to that HP movie set place you can visit for a few hours but I don't give a fuck. I pretend I don't know and don't care.
No. 271963
>>271952Funny enough, one of the Warrior Cats authors was a
TERF/GC, like supporting JKR and all. These women-hating idiots really are braindead and don’t know what they’re talking about.
No. 271998
>>271952It always comes down to women doing all the work, lmao. You never see a TIM promoting anything that isn't their own work, God forbid they think of other people.
I wonder what they mean by "more mature"? I keep seeing people saying the same stuff, but HP have themes that might go flying straight over the kids heads if they're too young to understand, because it simply isn't too on the nose the way TRAs like. You see that a lot in fanfics, they always write preachy shit and there is no nuance at all. It's like we regressed to that childish belief that if an author writes about a "
problematic" society and these problems are not solved as soon as they're brought to light, then it means the author endorse these things. Drives me nuts!
Ramblings about fanfics and prechy authors:
The other day I read a fic where Lupin helps Lily bring awareness to the whole menstruation thing and honestly, I can't really remember how they did that because as I read that shit all I could think is "why the hell a boy in the 70s would care about something won't ever affect him" (and a spineless boy like Lupin, no less!) and kinda blocked most of it but I knew as soon menstruation was brought up that the author would be using THAT phrase.. yes we are talking about "people who menstruate". Just imagine hating women that much that you're proud of it.
and don't get me started on the oc that appears in the first chapters, who is obviously a woman but calls herself something stupid and later when she gets out of Hogwarts she is able to live her truth… as a feminine, stupidly named, woman. Can't imagine having actual problems as a woman in the 70s Another story which I already knew it was going to be a trainwreck but read it anyway because curiosity got the best of me was one where the author made Snape some sort of black haired Draco Malfoy and completely disregarded his backstory so they could justify James bullying him instead of giving James an actual personality to make us care for him despite him being a dumb bully. It is easier to just have James be a perfect person and Snape be the designated bad guy than addressing stuff, typical "this character is bad, so he deserves it, thus this is not a bad thing". It is all black and white. There is no grey, no flaws, and no chance for these characters to grow, and this, funnily enough, makes these stories come across as very immature, like a teen wanting to change the world but not really dealing with actual hardships, the consequences and results of change, and growing up and realizing people are more complicated than being just good or evil, which even Harry Potter himself came to realize.
I think the irony about that last story was that the author wanted to make a commentary on classism and poverty that she felt JKR was unable to do, all while ignoring the actual canon poor character and making him a Draco clone. (And fucking tagging it as canon compliant!)
Sorry about this wall of text about fics but I get so frustrated wih this fandom completely disregarding the characters backstories and stuff from canon and then claiming they are exploring "themes JKR was too much of a coward to explore"!!!! Like, dude have you read the fucking books. Why do they need more mature if they can't grasp half of the messages HP is trying to convey…
>>271963Lmao that is even better.
I also remember some people promoting Mortal Instruments as an alternative to HP, but the story was initially HP fanfic and that will never cease to be funny.
No. 272491
>>271890based
terf mom, she was before her time kek
>>271954>she told me in private that JKR is antisemitic because of the goblinsPlease if anyone says this tell them they are the antisemitic one for insisting classic goblin characters that have existed for literal centuries are in any way representing jews. Do they also think curious George is racist because it has a monkey in it?
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Will this have an effect on your preorder?
No. 273878
>>273869>antisemitic goblins, supporting of slavery bc house elves, Cho Chang's racist nameIncredible dumb question but could someone spoonfeed me on why this is offensive like if I were to check any fantasy novel there is always something by someone's standard offensive, racist, sexist and more, like the book series after GRRM but people just gobble that up without any problem. Is it because of the setting of the Harry Potter books is in the 20 century "modern age" and not in the year of our bumfuck lord of the greatest invention the wheel.
I remember faintly of the Harry Potter discourse on tumblr but that I think was before
everyone hated the
problematic JK for not supporting trannies.
>>273870Mostly a PR move to appease the you know who crowd, I just hope we don't have to interact with her much and if not she just got an unfortunate cold.
No. 273905
>>273878Yes, you are correct. Fantasy races (goblins, dwarves, etc), discrimination, slavery, and sexism are known tropes of the fantasy genre that many authors, old and new, still implement in their stories today. Some definitely worse than others and some not. I'm reading a popular fantasy series now that features slavery of both humans and a made up race and no one is offended by it in discussions ever. In fact, no one says any of this stuff is offensive in other books (YA community aside). So why does JKR get shit for it? Even back before she was labeled trannyphobic and hated for wrong think? I always saw discourse pop up on my dashboard about those things and I didn't even use tumblr for HP fandom or social justice. I remember seeing some Asian girl's slam poetry about being offended over the name Cho Chang. The argument is that it's two last names from two different cultures. I remember posts of people saying it's bad that the dwarves didn't want to be freed. Also that Hermione was white savior-ing them. The goblins as Jewish caricatures take might be a more recent thing as white nationalists online started to hit major news and freak people out? Not sure, but the rest was all before idiots crowned her as the new Hitler so the discourse was never flat out attacks on her as a person like it is today. Just braindead takes. But also many people standing up against these braindead takes, which now gets you labeled as a
terf, dogpiled, and excommunicated so no one wants to stand up anymore. I think all the nitpicking is because Harry Potter might be the only book series these people read that wasn't homework/required reading so that's their only point of reference. And because she's a female author and women are always over-criticized for any creative work they put out in the world.
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Steam allows preload now. I'm loading it to have it ready tomorrow when I come from work. Sucks that PC deluxe players have to wait extra long.
>>273869I'm seeing the same thing, a lot of woke millenials who used to be huge HP fans are clearly trying to convince themselves and police each other to not play the game. I bet most of them cave in and end up secretly playing it. I hope the game gets a fandom and starts a HP renaissance so all those annoying people will have their heads explode.
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I don't game at all so I was never planning on buying it but the insane amount of seething is actually managing to surprise me a bit. They really outdid themselves with the malding this time huh?
No. 273941
>>273905Name of the Wind for example. Male fantasy writers just fucking write whatever and no one cares. It’s somewhat because retarded sjw children can’t read anything that’s above 6th grade reading level and they know they’d get shit on by scrotes in those other fandoms.
>>273919>most of them cave in and end up secretly playing itOh absolutely. They admit just as much. The sales are insane, it’s not right wing WASP boomers and shitty imageboard users making up the majority of the sales.
No. 273942
>>273919>>273869many wokies absolutely DESPISE women that don't contort themselves into self-sacrificing pretzels for the sake of appearing 'nice'. It's absolutely misogyny - the kind that the terminally online will never acknowledge they perpetrate because she has the 'wrong' opinions, being a woman in white middle/upper middle class circles. There absolutely IS an orthodoxy other 'enlightened' women in my class will hold their peers to. It's the reason women in my office feel peer-pressured to post their very obvious pronouns in their email signatures - where I have seen exactly zero of my male colleagues do the same. My white female peers seem to believe functionally in two groups: white cismen (the ideological bad guy) and everyone else.
This is all anecdata of course.
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>>243942Let’s see some more for the hype train!
Show w
nds and patrons
No. 274068
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>>274059Is the Wizarding World webpage breaking down because of the traffic? lmao
Hufflepuff here, reporting for duty!
(Wand is Sycamore wood with a unicorn core 12 ¼" and slightly springy flexibility)
No. 274114
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A comment on a video of a youtuber playing Hogwarts Legacy, I'm laughing but it was the only negative comment I found, all the other comments were excited about the game. The video in question is by callmekevin, who is easily one of the most unproblematic people I've ever seen, I was wondering if he maybe wouldn't play it even tho he's such a fan of HP. I'm using him as a reference because he's not at all controversial or dramatic. I guess that now that it's released, the tra cries will be drown out by people enjoying the game.
No. 274125
>>273878>could someone spoonfeed me on why this is offensiveIt isn't actually offensive, but that tumblr era was OBSESSED with calling out people to cancel them, especially celebrities. Before this era of trans being the single topic sjw cares about it was a little bit more broad. There were entire blogs dedicated to listing every teeny tiny little wrongdoing every famous/semi-famous person had done. They wore makeup slightly too dark for their skin? Blackface. Wore fake fur? Supporting animal cruelty by making fur seem glam. Cosplaying anime characters who don't even have their race stated? Racist yellowface.
Not a single one of those are exaggerations, I saw all of that happen.
>>273905>I remember seeing some Asian girl's slam poetry about being offended over the name Cho Chang. The argument is that it's two last names from two different cultures.I remember this too, she called JKR racist for not using proper Korean names and saying Cho is a last and not a first name etc… and then a Chinese girl commented on it correcting it that the name was a
valid Chiense name. The name doesn't look Korean to begin with so idk what that poety girl was on about but the video of it got big.
Personally I see the Hermione-slave elf thing as a sort of commentary on the trope in fantasy content, because they ARE so common and no one usually bats an eyelid about it. It's a funny unusual take on it.
The goblin thing is… interesting. I honestly think some sort of 4chan level trolls started the rumor to make people associate jews with goblins under the guise of "social justice". But there is some kind of history to it as well. The traits European folklore give to evil creatures like goblins, trolls, imps, fairies etc are very similar, they're just the "evil" traits: ugly, too small or too big, greedy, evil, dirty, hairy, big noses and ears, evil pointy eyes, sharp teeth, they use dirty tricks. And so on.
And what do you call your enemies? Bad things! You insult them by making them out to be like these ungodly trolls and goblins. If you look up old steretypes about whatever group that culture considers an enemy you get the same traits as I listed before. So while the goblin stereotype has been used for jews on occasion to insult them, they've also been used for countless other groups of people and weren't a "jew" thing. It's like how the Brits used to portray the Irish as monekys and apes. Doesn't mean monekeys and apes are bad or that Curious George or Tarzan is meant to represent Irish people.
Sorry for sperging
No. 274133
>>274114I just watched the vid and it's his usual goofy nerd humor and making funny references to the other hp games he played. No random gender politics in the video, really nice.. I'm always afraid of wasting my time on any HP related video only to get a "fuck JKR" message or something similar by the end. I hate when people do that, like, just don't fucking play the game, don't make content about it, stop being so stupid! Anyway I hope he plays more of it and ignore the dumbasses in the comments.
Hopefully a random celebrity will say something unforgivable soon and the troons will move to a different target so the female youtubers will be able to play this game without the drama too. I think all the ones I'm subscribed are too woke to play it or smart enough that they know they shouldn't play it right now.
No. 274134
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>>274108Same. Weird. Also, my pc doesn't have enough ram to play Hogwarts Legacy on steam. I'm so salty! I don't have a PS5. Only a PS4. I guess I'm waiting until April… Feels bad.
No. 274136
>>273932Adorable Sirius! My love.
>>273919Happy for you, anon! My PC doesnt have enough RAM, but I'm going to try to play it or watch a friend play it since they have PS5. I want to play so bad.
>>273870Did they add this last minute? Only makes me upset because it feels like a 'gotcha' at JKR when she never even said she hates trans people… She just acknowledges women's biology and how being a woman how shaped us differently from men.
No. 274164
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KEK apparently there was even a website set up over this shit?? these retards have no life
No. 274166
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>>274164They don’t even need this, there’s a function right on twitch to tell you kek
No. 274167
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>>274059Was luckily able to do mine this morning after multiple attempts, just played the game with the Nigel for about 4 hours. It’s pretty fun and I’m definitely making my own save to explore everywhere.
No. 274172
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>>274059i don't like my patronus but w/e
No. 274176
>>274163RT's not gonna play it? Oh man, did he make a statement or something? I don't keep up with streamers outside of youtube.
The Spiffin Brit might play it judging by his comment in the trailer vid, but I dunno if he's gonna do some retarded disclaimer. Men are such cowards, it's funny cus most they get is a slap on the wrist "apologize and don't do it again." And at worst "diSaPOiNtEd!!! uNfOlloEd!!!1!".
No. 274182
>>274176Yes! I happened to catch him say it on a recent stream because someone asked in chat if he was going to play it. After he said he wasn't, he went into a short "I don't approve of JK Rowling or HP as a series anymore" speech.
Kind of retarded how their audience is though. Someone also asked Ludwig once and he said he wouldn't play it, and also said "yeah… when it comes out I'm going to tweet out "fuck HP/JKR" and farm those sweet sweet likes" and his chat ate it up. Like you retards don't even get that he's obviously gaming all of you for some twitter likes despite his obvious tone that he's doing it specifically because he knows how to cater to his braindead audience kek. Absolute retards.
No. 274264
>>274234Thanks nona! I think the angry handmaidens I follow would consider that giving the troon-murder game too much attention so I think I'm safe lol
A lot of studies show you enjoy things MORE if you know plot spoilers so maybe it will bite them in the ass and make more people buy it.
>>274176I hate that they're cowards, but I'm sure they see their massive troon following and are afraid to lose their streaming jobs that pays their bills so I'm not too judgemental tbh. They have to either be a nobody or fuck-you rich to be able to pull it off without getting financially harmed.
No. 274294
>>274234So playing the game is murder and violence but spoiling it isn't?
How do you spoil the game if not by playing it
No. 274350
>>274336Nonnie, how could you! You monster!
jk ilySage for blogposting but I remember re-reading Half Blood Prince on the bus to school a few years after its release and a scrote smugly telling me that Dumbledore dies at the end. It was so satisfying to see his face fall when I told him I obviously already knew that and that he was years late. But it’s still so annoying that a random moid I had never spoken to tried to embarrass me like that publicly.
Anyways, hearing how they’re reverting back to their grade school spoiler tactics made me laugh. Truly pathetic kek. JKR stays winning.
Can’t wait to play Hogwarts Legacy though, hope it makes the haters seethe!
No. 274435
>>274415Yeah, it's childish as hell, kek. Spoilers don't usually bother me, in fact, they even make me more curious to know how and why THAT happened.
I'm very glad trannies are shooting themselves in the foot, I wish everyone collectively peaked from this, god.
No. 274445
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I want to be his guide dog
No. 274485
>>274407They are spamming spoilers everywhere. Several subreddits like r/gaming (36m users) have banned all discussion of the game (their pinned post is sitting at zero upvotes). r/HobbyDrama had a containment thread but deleted it and now bans all discussion. Official discord channel is flooded with mad trannies posting spoilers and spam and Twitch streamers are getting harassed etc. Tumblr tag is literally nothing but seething trannies.
And all this before the game has even been properly released! Trannies are absolute lunatics and I pray that more normies now realize that. I've never seen this level of insanity and harassment stemming from any entertainment.
No. 274488
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Today I made myself smile a little imaginging
terf ally Remus Lupin. He's friends (or more?) with gay people like Sirius and respects their "genital preferences" and thinks dressing boggart Snape up as a woman is funny. David Thewlis himself has been silent about JKR afaik which I take as a good sign.
>>274445I didn't know Lip Gallagher was a wizard
No. 274493
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Am I the only one a bit disappointed that we never got to see the actual robes like in the books in either the films or games? Picrel is what JK drew but I seen some cool renditions of the robes from the fans and I was a bit sad that they only wore basic brit school uniforms instead.
I remember a titbit where Snape got pushed over or something from the marauders which ended up with his pants being exposed which wouldn't have happen if he wore the film uniforms.
No. 274503
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Tras are harassing people on twitch. I hope they face massive backlash. This is disgusting
https://gamerant.com/hogwarts-legacy-girlfriend-reviews-twitch-video-clip/ No. 274508
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>>274493I guess the kids would find it too weird? I think 10 year old me would at first, and uniforms have this private school feel a lot more which is what I imagine they were going for? The first movie had the little pointy hats at some point but we don't see them anymore in the second I believe.
Speaking of that Snape scene, I noticed some people headcanon he started wearing pants under his robes after the event, so this doesn't happen again kekk, guess it's my headcanon too. I really like canon Snape but I also love what movie Snape wears so I like when people mix it.
I think my biggest disappointment when it comes to clothes in the movies was Dumbledore's clothes… dude looks so boring. Big missed opportunity, movie Dumbledore would be young me fav character if he dressed like he does in the books. I definitely like him a lot more in the books, and I don't have anything against the actor.. he looks… Dumbledorish, but man, were is his sense of style?
>>274445I love these ridiculous names..
>>274488Dumbledore would be too. Remember when he gave Snape a hat similar to what Neville gave the boggart? And then he wore it when Snape rejected! I guess the entire wizarding world wouldn't subscribe to this muggle madness.. except maybe Hermione because she tries to understand every side and is too empathetic and young, like many of us when we were sympahetic to trans bullshit. Hopefully a female teacher would throw her some sense. Women are women, muggle or witch, the struggles of our sex are the same.
No. 274522
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>>274508Agreed on Dumbledore. In the books He was always in loud and flamboyant clothing and was often described what he was wearing in the parts he's in. FLim!dore is unstylish compared to the book!dore.
No. 274536
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The game is crashing hardcore for me. Won't even start at this point. Seriously just considering refunding it now I'm fucking pissed kek
No. 274551
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>>274445Him and Sebastian
No. 274553
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>>274488His refusal to comment weighs in our favor. TRA and handmaidens are purely performative and think barfing out their propaganda is the only correct and righteous thing to do. If he was in the cult he would be chanting "twaw", calling JKRs views
problematic and controversial. Instead he memed and says HP will be in his life forever. Our wolfboy is a secret
terf.
I think the characters actors we know who have either supported or "refused to comment" on Rowling (which make them probable terfs) are:
Remus Lupin
Voldemort
Hagrid
Lucius Malfoy
Draco Malfoy
Bellatrix Lestrange
I honestly think many of the actors who haven't said a single word about it are pro-JKR. There is no excuse for a handmaiden to stay silent and we know rabid troons have been asking them for comments.
No. 274575
>>274554Iirc Robbie (Hagrid) was the only one to directly say what Rowling said wasn't bad and people are just looking to be offended. That's why troons literally celebrated his death, because he agreed and stood up for women's rights. He died a legend.
There's something so sweet about Hagrid being the one to truly stand up for what is right, and then we have the marauder making a meme when mocking it, splendid casting. I wonder if the fact that actors who play evil characters are used to unfairly getting shit (because people can't separate the role from the actor) has a part in why a lot of them played villains. Or maybe it's because people who play villains are often quirky and used to being "outcasts", not afraid to not blindly follow the norm.
No. 274648
>>274614I personally don't need him to be a radfem ally, I see Robbie as a normal average guy who stood up for what should be normal beliefs like "women deserve single sex spaces away from males" and the rest doesn't matter in this context. It's not a right/left thing, it's just an obvious fact that everyone should support but the rest are too cowardly to even say.
Nonas who are playing the game, what house did you go with/plan to go with? Thinking ravenclaw or slytherin for myself
No. 274681
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I wasn't on board with the "goblins antisemitic waah" thing but this seems kinda weird? Like surely they would avoid any references like this knowing chronically online people call them antisemitic?
No. 274691
>>274681This is dumb.
Horns have been used in all sorts of cultures all over the world.
No. 274711
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>>274706She said it in the vid where she was unboxing HL collectors edition lmao. 26 seconds in, first thing she says. Quite sad when women do that but strangely funny when they do that all while there is a massive collection of HP merch right behind them.
Youtube is being a big disappointment, I knew it would come the day when I'd be unsubbing gaming channels but I have almost no one anymore saving for the ones that still haven't said anything yet. There is almost nowhere left the tras haven't conquered, so I'm glad LC is still here, don't need to pretend to be a male to speak my mind and don't have to watch my tone either and most I get is people saying I'm a retard or cringe. I'm good being a cringe retard, no one can bullshit me anymore.
No. 274719
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>>274717on his subreddit. I wished he just played the game without caring since his hp videos were always fun. But he was always a sensitive prick and I'm not really surprised about it.
No. 274757
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Steam says I've played 90 minutes but I haven't even got to Hogwarts yet kek
Game keeps crashing and freezing wtf do I do. I've tried different fixes but nothing works. At least other people on steam are having the same problem so I know it's not just me
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>>274553based hottie lucius malfoy. different fandom but a few years ago nikolaj coster waldau (game of thrones incest man) had a few people crying at him for liking picrel tweet, he still follows jkr too. in the end tras who didn't want to stop liking him because they thought he was hot started claiming he liked the tweet by accident and wasn't aware of jkr drama even though there was no evidence of that. i bet there are a lot of actors/whatever who feel a similar way and not just limited to the hp franchise. being silent might not be ideal especially if it's men who can get away with more but i also can't really blame them, at least they're not writing long apologies or parroting twaw. this game came out just as tra debate is heating up in bongland too (scottish gender bill), it's the perfect storm to peak people in a way
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>>274553>>274772Slytherin turned out to be the ride or die house. More reason to play them kek. Gryffindor are totally the type of popular kids who go along with every trend and cut off any friends who get dogpiled because they are terrified of losing their own popularity.
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i find it so funny how obsessed percy jackson fans are with constantly posting about harry potter and genuinely believe those books have overall better storytelling and writing when it’s just americanized garbage.
No. 274788
>>274114he had to turn off comments because of those fuckers. for real though kevin is the least
problematic youtuber and his gmod harrypotter videos forever have me losing my shit
No. 274790
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Fuck/marry/kill:
>Daniel
>Rupert
>Tom
No. 274847
>>274782Really tho nonna? All my retarded woke friends are in Slytherin and one of them are seeing me (am Gryffindor) as the literal devil for not going with the boycott train kek
Tho I do like Sebastian. Pretty good friend to have in the game
No. 274849
>>274847and one of them is seeing me*
(Double post because I'm retarded and didn't spellcheck)
No. 274885
>>274719>>274745I used to watch his streams, his audience (at least on twitch) seems to have a lot of underage soft boy uWu type TiFs. One time someone subbed and their message was "I just came out as a trans man today" and he said something like "wow, I can't even imagine how hard that would be, congrats" or some sympathetic sentence, and the way he said that made it clear that he wasn't familiar with the topic.
I think he decided to appease troons because he knows which side his bread is buttered on AKA he's a cuck like other anons said.
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>>274908dropped pic. Leslie’s twitter didn’t say anything about it and I haven’t been able to check her past streams directly
No. 274981
>>274909Good for her, she obviously knows the possibility of shitfits and did it any way. Makes her more ballsy than several men already. Best thing is ignoring them and having a blast so they look hysterical and insane lol
speaking of which I am having fun about 6 hours in, I haven’t run into any bugs or crashes thus far
No. 275040
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Fuck/marry/kill older man edition:
>Gary Oldman
>David Thewlis
>Alan Rickman (RIP)
No. 275064
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>>274445why is him being blind makes him more attractive, im so
No. 275146
>>275141it's been like this for years. Everything that is made in English or gets localized for English speakers will have dialogue optimized for "inclusivity" to not aggravate angry trans activists. If you expected anything less from a HP game, you've had a case of naivete, sorry.
just as
>>275144 said, about localisations. Anything potentially
problematic will be scrubbed.
If we recall, Animal Crossing for the switch famously had the "choose your style" option for girl/boy options.
No. 275193
>>275180I name all of my game characters Liora.
It's super fun and well-made so far! Some scenes are really gorgeous. I laugh at everyone massively coping by saying it's a shit game.
No. 275218
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>>275194I would say yes, it is! Picrel is the entire map and red circle is Hogwarts, so you can get an idea of how huge the rest of the world is. There's so much to explore out there, seems like aside from side quests there are also puzzles scatared around the map, though I haven't been able to complete them. I guess I need to learn more spells.
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>>275040I just want to cuddle with them all
No. 275235
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>>275215I like Thewlis as Lupin, I think he was perfect for that part but yeah, they're all too old and it shows. Sirius, Snape, Lupin and Pettigrew were supposed to be in their 30s. I do hope they get that right if they do a remake one day, and no fuglies Chalamet-looking guys for Sirius, I'd vomit. I'm so tired of these young popular actors of nowadays, they all look the same and all the fancasts on the internet have everyone looking so fucking boring when the books have these really colorful descriptions..
No. 275240
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The sound engineering in this game is weird at times. Sounds kinda static and echo-y at some times
Also r8 my qt
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Kek
No. 275391
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What predictions has come true regarding the game and audience? I don't have the game yet and I haven't checked reviews of either.
>trannies and handmaidens cry abuse/whine about the game to normies, who don't give single shit about it
Although some normie youtubers and other has given the classic I don't support/or hate Jk, sowy speech
What I was surprised about the most is that people are peaking with the game due to the whiners and when I took a second look at Sirona, which at the time I thought every man and women looked kinda ugly at the game but nope it was just Sirona who looked haggard and ugly looking like most trannies
No. 275406
>>275391My s/o is playing it and I am watching because I am too busy working on my own stuff, and gosh, this game is amazing. I am seriously impressed, i have never thought that it would be that good. I know people keep asking for co-op or multiplayer but this game feels like a pure single-player RPG, i am deeply in love with the buildings.
Also, the 'tranny' character that the devs put in the game makes me laugh a lot. Even in the wizard world, trannies will always be the most obvious men in skirts, kek. The name too, ~Sir~ona Rayan. I am glad they kept some realism. It's a male character's face with a female hairstyle and chest, while still having a male voice, and doesn't seem annoying at all. An extremely self-aware one too. But this tranny is literally a small npc that you shouldn't care about, after all it's just a npc.
No. 275419
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Sorry for low quality phone pic of my tv but the art in this game is so sick. I can’t get anything done because in every corner there’s something interesting to look at. Truly beyond my expectations
No. 275430
>>274681That doesn't even add up
>the goblins are jews according (only) to trans people>the goblins used the horn in 1612, so they're saying jews used the horn in 1612>the 1612 uprising mentioned was an anti-semitic uprising, meaning not-jews being against jews>not-jews did NOT use a horn in 1612, the horn is thus fully irrelevant to the 1612 uprisingLet's be real, no one knew about that one specific uprising anyway (well unless you're a hardcore neo-nazi maybe… what's that about nazi-to-trans pipeline again, the memes transwomen make about themselves becaue it's so common? hmmm) a quick wikipedia check will tell you there was also notable jewish persecution in: 1600, 1603, 1608, 1614, 1615, 1616, 1618, 1619, 1622…
No. 275502
>>275491Yes, it made me unreasonably happy! I’m an artfag so I’ve been sperging hard over all of it.
>>275496And no, I didn’t. I’m honestly not super knowledgeable about history, but I went to Hebrew school for years and they don’t teach things like that. My guess is some twitter user saw that text and googled “Jews 1612” and were so proud of themselves to find a Wikipedia article to support the antisemitism thing. Like another anon showed, we get persecuted somewhere in the world every few years so it’s just a lucky coincidence imo.
No. 275514
>>275430>the goblins are jews according (only) to trans peopleImagine a chronic online loser saying this out loud to some normie Jewish people, they'd sound completely antisemitic
Goblins, trolls, any ugly creature etc, is seen as nefarious. It's literally fantasy shorthand to separate good and bad creatures, that's why the bankers are goblins. You'd think that the screeching communists of twitter would praise JK for portraying the symbols of capitalism in her world as inherently bad creatures but male troon feelings trump all kek
No. 275516
Hope I'm not being too annoying but I'm copy-pasting this from 2X to give advice on what to do if you have friends who are mad at you for playing the game.
Just a tip for if/when your friends attack you over it, saying something along the lines of
>but it hurts trans people and JKR is transphobic
Ask how many games they've played that have sexist depictions of women. And violence towards women. Many games have literal acutal, brutal violence depicted. Plenty of women have been begging you to not play these sexist violent games, for years. If you didn't see it it's only because you give 0 shit about women and didn't listen, because it's not hard to find. Does that mean you hate women and want this violence to be real? Does it mean you support sexist violent treatment of women? And the age old question: did these violent games turn you and other people violent? Or was it… just a game?
This game doesn't actually depict or promote any anti-trans rhetoric. (If they say goblins are jews call them out on the fact that they're wrong and that's a retarded myth made by antisemitic people)
And taking away the fantasy aspect, how many shitty sexist and abusive game devs haven't been revealed? Why aren't you protesting against them like you've done for HL? Is this literal sexual abuse of real women (meaning they exist and it happens, not "cis") not as bad as trans people having their feelings hurt that a millionaire who wasn't involved in the game got richer? Does it mean everyone playing the game is in 100% support of that sexist game dev? Or did they perhaps just want to play an exciting game they've been waiting for for years?
To not be accused of being a terf add in something like:
You know I'm not against trans people, I don't think the staff is against trans people either, I just want to enjoy this game with my friends so I will do so.
If they STILL disagree and think you're a bad person take note and in the future every time they mention a game google to see if it has ANY sexist depictions of women, violence, controversies surrounding staff members etc and ask why the support that. Every time.
If you lose a friend over THIS, they weren't worth keeping around. Go make better friends.
No. 275538
>>275427Literally me after retweeting JKR’s “Merry terfmas” on main.
>>275474Wendelin is a /g/irlie obsessively posting about her tickle fetish.
No. 275548
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Building on the earlier actor topic, do you have an actor/famous person you think would have been the perfect HP character?
Ignore their current age or acting skills if you want (like for example picking a dead singer in his young prime or something)
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what are your thoughts concerning Ron?
imo, he was a bit neglected by jkr. while Hermione stood by herself his role (and little characterization) ended up overshadowed by his family (specially the twins).
he is a petty little bitch that at least once a book has a big fight with H&H over the dumbest shit. even if annoying, i kinda of understood why he was an envious asshole, and when he wasn't throwing a fit he was a pretty loyal friend.
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>>275559Ron was my favorite character when I was a kid and I related to him the most, the movies really didn't do him good. Guess neither Hermione, she is a lot more interesting in the books. I really like the Weasleys even though I find them all pretty retarded most times, but whats up with all the Molly bashing in fanfics?
No. 275609
>>275604she's a matronly adult woman instead of a milf. that's reason enough for a lot of people to hate her.
and hot take but some of the hatred towards the weasley family paired in conjunction with love and devotion towards the malfoys seemed like veiled/subconscious classism to me.
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please spread this shitty collage (or make your own better version) because im tired of the nonsense debate about a generic fantasy hunting horn
No. 275634
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>>275548Young Gemma Ward as Fleur
No. 275644
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>>274681>>275430the only piece of evidence is that a horn and the year. Not only that, the Fettmilch REbellion was AGAINST jews, meanwhile the Goblins (who are supposed to be jews according to wokeoids) are the ones doing the rebellion
and let's say hypothetically all of this was intentional. What the fuck is the message? "lol when there was a jewish revoult in real life, jews in Harry Potter also did a revoult", and they referenced cheese? Even if we accept this is true, what does this say? It says literally nothing. It'll be like if the Shinra Inc. in Final Fantasy lead a revoult that was similar to some obscure anti-Chinese revoult: the races aren't even the same, the similaries of theming is not there, and at best you can say that they used an extremly weird basis.
No. 275646
>>274234Some fucking ugly troon spoiled it for me first. it was just a random fucking comment in a stupid twitter thread that wasn't even about anything related… and then I saw the same spoiler again as a pinned post on a subreddit. Also completely unrelated.
At least it's only one spoiler, but still. Fuck trannies. I've added a browser extension too hide any shit I want to.
This really is just alienating everyone who could be an ally, but just wants to play a fucking game.
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>>275668Tbh one good thing about the hp books is that the adult characters are well developed too. i never cared about the golden trio but there's still plenty of interesting characters beside them imho
No. 275692
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>>275548River Phoenix as young/teenage Sirius imho. I remember back in 00s fandom when people would fancast Johnny Depp as Sirius. Ahh how times change
No. 275703
>>275702There's no way you're complaining about an anon being into yaoi on /m/ of all places.
>>275689I need to see her. Need a 24/7 good charlotte world tour at hogsmeade too
No. 275711
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>>275548this probably doesn’t even count since i wouldn’t consider her famous really but the model Imogen Watt as Luna Lovegood since i once came across her photos years ago and she has always looked so much of how i pictured what Luna looks like in the books.
No. 275724
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>>275702I don't give a fuck about your opinion. Here's some Grindeldore kabedon, happy Valentine's day.
No. 275739
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>>275733>apparently she slut shamed hermioneIt's stretched WAY out of proportion and the women who wrote things like this have clear personal issues to work through
No. 275740
>>275729Anon they're fully covered, where's the porn in that picture?
>>275736I'm at my office, still seething because I can't buy the first volume of HP without the giant 25TH ANNIVERSARY logo on the cover.
No. 275862
>>275760LOL
Nonnie you're literally me, I've lost so much sleep rereading old fics. Unfortunately a lot of slytherin!harry fics are voldemort/harry which I used to tolerate as a teen, but as an adult I can't unsee the no nose thing. There is a drarry one but would that be your cup of tea?
No. 275873
>>275609I think this was discussed on an earlier thread, the reasons why people hate the Weasley parents:
>Having a bunch of children while aware that they can't afford it. >Ron mentions that his father could have had a higher paying job but that he didn't because he loved muggle shit, thus prioritizing his retarded hobbies over the wellbeing of his children. Though Arthur seems to eventually change his mind and accepts a promotion later in the series, it seems he did so reluctantly, as there's this quote in the book when he's promoted: ""So you see, it’s a very important job, and I tell him it’s just silly to miss dealing with spark plugs and toasters and all the rest of that Muggle rubbish.” Mrs. Weasley ended her speech with a stern look, as if it had been Harry suggesting that it was natural to miss spark plugs."
>The whole reason why they have so many children is because they wanted a daughter, but once Ginny is born they ignore her and allow her siblings to mistreat her. So what was even the point? For example Quidditch was one of Ginny's biggest passions but her siblings didn't even let her play to the point she had to secretly steal their brooms and play by herself. No. 275887
>>275874Oh yeah, the way he treats girls, especially Lavender and Hermione, I think I said it somewhere in the old threads this is pretty much what I hate about him even though I like Ron.
This whole discussion plus someone mentioning slytherin Harry reminds me of a fic I read once where Ron is sorted into slytherin… the fic is not even about him but I liked the idea and I wish there were more fics about it that actually focus on him and his family without going "dark Ron" or whatever and that also changes a bit his dynamic with Harry and Hermione. I also wish there were more fics about the siblings dynamics outside Hogwarts. Ginny is my least favorite Weasley but she was interesting during the chamber of secrets with the diary (lmao that valentine she sent Harry), so I'd really like to see more about that but it always comes down to romance in these fics and I just want to read the siblings interacting!!!! I guess people just hate the Weasleys too much to write a long fic about them kek
No. 275907
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>>275702DA but what if I told you I want to see three different old men having sex instead, ideally while the bespectacled ghost of a fourth "old" man watches?
No. 275977
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how do we feel about memes in this thread?
No. 276100
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channels energy into the HL fandom
No. 276116
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>>275907You have my approval. Snily will be forever my otp, but my fujo side awakes for Sirius/Snape (because drama), and Snupin is always good too. I just hate that fanon makes Lupin way too nice. He's a freaking marauder and a spineless prick, guy definitely thought Snape in a dress was hilarious and might've find it funny when Snape tried to open the map and it insulted him kek, besides lying to his face about it. People make him way too soft but overdo Sirius' aggressiveness and jest.
No. 276326
>>276268lupin in hbp
>I am too old, too poor, and too dangerouslupin in dh
>jkjk rainbow werewolf baby whenlike ???
No. 276328
>>276116AYRT mte fanon Remus feels like he's been uwu pure soft boy forever. I used to read Sirius/Regulus fic and in it Sirius and Remus would usually be a couple, Sirius would be the most insane
abusive brother of all time and Remus would be the smol gay bean at home doing chores for his bf. They often seemed to make Sirius worse than James even though they're both vile gays in the books. If I ever get into fic again I want to explore Snape ships more, the gayrauders were so obsessed with him it's comical in a way. Also Snack is a great ship name kek
>filename from tumblrI haven't posted on tumblr in a few years, basically since the brainrot got really unbearable on there, but I wish there was some kind of based rad leaning fandom section I could join in with sometimes. I miss being even semi active in my old fandoms
No. 276340
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>>276328Tumblr really sucks now, I only go there to get some nice HP fanart but now with the HL ordeal might not be a good idea… plus all the good artists that are still there are some flavor of gender special because fujos are LiTerAllY oppressing the gays uwu~ aka self hating straight women, so you have to be a non-woman to be openly fujo, pretty pathetic and sad.
I saw so much weird discourse last time I went there, bizarre shit like how Snape is a tots queer icon and JKR totally did him dirty and that is proof she is homophobic. Backwards explanation to why (something about looks, bad at sports, something something about brewing potions being like cooking = woman role = queer?) crazy ass shit and that was enough to make me drop any hopes of ever going back to tumblr. I miss so much when people would share their headcanons and they had nothing to do with politics and retarded gender roles and thats all they'd be, headcanons, not a rule you can't deviate from. Lets hope HL makes this fandom less annoying.
>snack Kek. Perfect. I'll be using that from now on. Wish this ship was more popular.
No. 276341
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>>276264>>276340I'm seeing less tranny seethe and more real
fandom on Twitter and even Tumblr, but that may be because I've blocked so many of the retards. Twitter is your best bet for fanart since it's where the nonwestern fans are.
No. 276366
>>276344Yes, I think HP is a good comforting book series to read.
>I keep seeing so many memes about JK Rowling's writingIt amazes me that adults who read a book series aimed at kids(/young adults) as kids and loved it, are now as grown ass adults saying the writing was "actually bad all along". No they were just written on a not-too-complex level because they were for kids, and as a kid you proved that it hit the target. You as an adult now thinking it's not adult enough is not a flaw of the books. What's next, super mario isn't an accurate enough representation of a plumber for you?
Oh she used harmless, fun, silly, "stereotypical" names in a fantasy book? Boohoo what bad writing.
Oh as a child you didn't notice that the old man who preaches love, dresses in flamboyant clothes, has a calm sweet disposition, and had a close "complex" relationship with another young man - was gay all along? Must be Rowling retconning him to be gay to seem woke.
Oh she used an "evil" folklore creature as it's been described in fairy tales for centuries? No, she must have invented it herself to represent an oppressed minority group that she hates.
No. 276391
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>>276371That's a 13 year old difference. Sure it's a big gap, but not super unreasonable. They would have been 23 and 36.
No. 276739
>>276586what
>>276647 said. just because there are easier fixes for certain things (like regrowing broken bones) doesn't mean that there are absolutely no illnesses and disabilities in the magic world. additionally, sebastian says in a convo that ominis was born blind and no spell could reverse it, so yes, they did try to cure him. professor sharp walks with a limp btw.
No. 276781
>>276609Offtopic I know, but that book enraged me, and that ugly old man being crippled and suddenly crying in Jane's arms just made me even madder. He's just going to be a horrible person who tortured his wife in an attic for years and then falls in love with a 16 year old as a 50+ year old man, telling her a weird story that I think was about him fucking prostitutes in France; and then he's going to start sobbing and boo-hoo I love you Jane please don't leave me I can't see anymore. She should've just fucked her cousin, Sinjin.
No, I think it's more like the Jayfeather effect; he's blind but capable, and also mean. If you know you know.
No. 276820
>>276340Are there any areas of fandom or ships in particular that seem to attract gendies or is it more of a general HP fandom thing atm? When I last used dumblr I remember some people (iirc mostly Remus/Sirius shippers) trying to push FTM!Remus but they'd make up all sorts of shit like James is south asian, Sirius is hypersexual (more like hypergay), all the recent kueer discourse stuff comes off like people are trying very hard to compensate for liking a series written by an evil
terf who literally murders trans folx. One of the funniest things though is when people act like they never enjoyed JKR's writing and that HP is really mediocre when it's so clear they spent their whole childhood/adolescence/maybe early adulthood completely obsessed with it.
No. 276924
>>276820Never seen troon Remus thankfully but I had the displeasure of seeing ftm Snape in fanart, makes me so mad! Just draw/write him as a girl! Also mtf!Harry, ftm!Hermione and the worst imo ftm!Ginny in fics.
I noticed the fandom nowadays seems really young, and some people seem to have only read HP and fanfiction, so the wokeness comes from there I suppose, they're stuck in a bubble where everyone has the exact same opinions.
In my experience, Remus specifically and wolfstar are gendie magnets. I'd rather read Remadora than wolfstar because I know there won't be any bullshit unless they make Tonks kweer [insert 500 labels]. I think this might be due to Remus being The ultimate softboi.. these people might've not really read the books because Remus doesn't resemble canon one bit. I don't wanna go "it's probably tiktok's fault" but it's probably tiktok's fault kek, I have no idea where this stuff is coming from but I heard HP is pretty popular on tiktok. Besides, I keep seeing characters that appear in the books in name only becoming these huge characters in fics, like Dorcas/Marlene ship, I had no idea who these two were.. imagine my susprise when reading the books again to find out they're just names. Dorcas/Marlene fics where they're not the main pairing are performative as hell, you just can tell they're there so the writer doesn't get accused of fetishizing The Poor Gay Men.
Also Regulus seems to attract weirdos too, I just found that "jegulus" is a thing and I hate it. Sirius would never allow this.
I have a really hard time liking Regulus because people always write him as some soft misunderstood little boy who never really believed any shit his family taught him… I don't understand how people can write Snape as a honest to God psychopath serial killer and in the same story make Regulus a poor boy that had no idea what he was getting into lol.
I noticed f/m content have less woke crap but it's bleeding into it recently too with nonbinarism, cus wearing pants and cutting your hair short actually makes you less of a woman lmao. Snape and Lily are almost a queer couple if you ask me, she only needs a pixie cut, since he is already pretty femme with his cooking skills, long hair and testerics.
No. 276929
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The next cancellation target of trannies: Taiwan.
No. 276997
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I'm really impressed with the quality of this game. Just when I thought Hogwarts and Hogsmeade was all there is in the game, I just unlocked the whole ass world map that you can explore??? The amount of details put into the environment is really fucking amazing. You can tell the devs poured A LOT of love into it. It's only the start of the year but it's already becoming GOTY.
No. 277046
>>273908Just like with the goblin “controversy”, absolutely no one thought like this until JKR did a terfy thoughtcrime, now everything about Harry Potter is suddenly racist.
The white characters are named ridiculous made up shit like Draco and Snape and Dumbledore, but apparently “Cho Chang” not being a technically accurate enough name IRL according to terminally online retards is where we must draw the line.
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the seasons changed in my game! so pretty.
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I've been wasting all my free time on this game. It's very addictive, even if there's shitload of boring collectibles like every other openworld. And I don't know what difficulty level to stick to because easy is boring but I get wrecked on normal, especially by bosses. I'm impressed by how many random details there are, especially in Hogwarts there's always students doing something. Even if you can't interact with them, it's fun to watch.
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>>277178I need more Sebastian fanart. Maybe it's the cockiness and being introduced as your "rival" but I really want him to fuck me.
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>>277178Same! I'm about 10 hours in (going at a very leisurely pace) and I'm having so much fun just exploring and looking at all the details. Everything is gorgeous, I picked Hufflepuff just because I figured their common room would be the coziest and it exceeded my expectations, pic related. I haven't fast travelled once outside of the times the game forces you to, just because walking around the castle is so nice. I also don't mind the boring collectibles since it gives you more incentive to explore, and if you were going to spend a ton of time exploring anyway you just kinda naturally come across them without having to search. Difficulty wise I play on normal but I'm definitely not great at the combat yet, I barely get by while chugging health potions and panic-mashing the dodge button. I think that's just because it's been a while since I last played a game with real time combat as opposed to turn based, and I'm prone to panicking when reaction speed is important. It'll get better with some practice.
It's a great game overall but if I had to give one point of critique I do feel a bit disappointed with the lack of interaction with npcs. The students in the castle are fun to watch, but the fact that they don't react to your character at all regardless of what you do makes it feel a bit hollow sometimes, like you're a ghost unless there's specific quest-related dialogue. I understand that giving every random npc voice lines and dialogue options would be unrealistically ambitious, but I wish I could at least talk to professors without having to wait for them to talk to me. It also would be cool to have a bunch of random students and hogsmeade npcs that you could have short interactions with, even just simple dialogue options that aren't relevant to the plot but offer some immersion.
No. 277436
>>276924I've seen jily where it's FTM!James and MTF!Lily fucking kek, J/L has always been a terrible ship (JKR has terrible taste in pairings most of the time) so I guess some people cope extra hard. Also wolfstar has always been boring with a lot of entitled fans. When HP fandom was mostly based on livejournal
i might be an oldfag Regulus was written as a soft twink then, too. Shipping him with Gaymes Poppers didn't used to be popular but there was a lot of him with Sirius or Remus, usually a uwu bottom with a dark side so maybe he's even more of an OC now? People think he's cute and looks like Timmy Chalamet or something. Pretty sure JKR specified he was uglier than Sirius and definitely died a virgin. I like the idea of him but it's more fun when he's a loser.
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>>277550Good for you. Now give it a break already.
No. 277675
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>>277541I don't game but I was listening to the
Blocked and Reported podcast episode about HL and some of the video games "journalism" coverage they were talking about was so funny. Pic related but also (I forgot who said it sorry) there was an article mentioned that said something like "32 hours into playing and it's pretty good but I'm haunted by the reminder of JK Rowling" top kek like she's some ghost who writes YWNBAW on the bathroom mirror. Picrel is even funnier when you learn that the they/them who wrote it used to be a big name HP fan (
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Aja) involved in ancient milk
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Jesus, it's like someone is putting a gun to his head.
>Yes… trans women are women, trans men are men…>>277704Unironically it made me respect her more. Caring more about standing up for the rights of women in the present than some materialist legacy that won't matter to her when she's gone. Even listening to her podcast, she seems to be a very humble and wise woman too.
No. 277813
Sage for blogpost. I just have nowhere else to speak so freely.
I'm just so over of the level of cope fucking everywhere. "HP isn't even good! It's mid! I never REALLY liked it" Shut the fuck up, you loved it. You know you did. Everyone did. I saw you at the fucking midnight premier party for book Deathly Hallows at Barnes and Noble.
I don't care that others claim they don't like it, but it's so silly to see so many people I personally know just blatantly lying and expecting everyone else to just jump on the bandwagon. I'm not saying shit. Radio silence from me on all fronts.
They know their boycott has failed miserably and they're just grasping at fucking anything at this point.
I'll get shit on here for admitting it, but I consider myself an ally, to a very specific & small degree.. I want the people who are truly suffering to be able to do what they need to in order to stay alive and be safe, but they need to leave others the fuck alone & not be fucking pedos. I guess I'm only an ally to a smaller percentage… but now even that is dwindling. My patience is wearing so thin. There's so few "good ones". I have trans friends playing the game too, staying just as silent as I am. TiF's only, of course lol.
I dunno. My eyes are just sore from rolling so many times every fucking day. It's taking a small degree of effort to not just reply "COPE." On every stupid post. Today it was the joke, "HP fans used to have one lightning bolt on their heads, now they have two!"
Like okay. Fucker. Push your more normal allies further and further away. See if I'll show up for the fight when shit that actually matters goes down. Why don't they use the energy to fight where it actually makes a difference?? Legislature in the US is being pushed every fucking day, but you ask any of these screechy dipshit troons and handmaids about it and they have no idea what you're talking about because they're too preoccupied harassing internet strangers about the video games they play in private. It's pathetic.
Anyway. I'm having a blast with Legacy and I hope we get DLC. Quidditch is obvious and the groundwork for Triwizard Tournament is already laid out so perfectly.
No. 277839
>>277704Makes me laugh that trannies think their little tweets are being read by anyone else in the world. I keep seeing americans act confused about HP popularity outside of their backyard. “HP popular in China? In Thailand? Fuckin Kenya?”. Harry Potter is literally one of the most culturally significant, beloved, profitable media franchise worldwide, up there with Disney shit. It’s not just a silly little tumblr girl phenomenon.
>>277708>standing up for the rights of women in the present than some materialist legacyExactly! Even if she was the worlds shittiest writer, it doesn’t invalidates her humanitarian efforts and values. As we clearly see, literally-who retard junior columnists are the quickest to join a lynch mob for one single modicum of clout.
No. 277884
>>277857Troons are legit brain dead to think people would totally ignore a game that is everything fans dreamed of. They're so used of getting their own opinions repeated back to them that they forget the rest of the world don't think the same and won't bend to their wishes without some good reason.
And WB being WB, it was kinda obvious they would milk this game as much as they possibly can. Can't wait to see what they have in store.
>>277708>there is no LGB without the TPathetic. The T would be nowhere without the LGB and any other group they desperately latch themselves onto. The LGB is the only reason they're still standing.
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Nonnies any specific builds you are running? I’m unsure if I should be a nerd and follow a guide or just freestyle it. Is there an option to respec?
No. 277919
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My laptop can just about run the game on the lowest settings, but even so I'm in love. Fast-paced spell casting is probably never going to work with how laggy everything is, but I'm having a blast just running around the castle and getting lost
10/10 would consider buying a new pc for
No. 277922
>>277813I've been getting more Harry Potter reels on Instagram for cookware and legos and it's great. It's mostly filled with positive comments, but every now and again you get people shouting rubbish about how JKR is anti trans and anti abortion. Where the hell did the anti abortion rhetoric come from? They are just making shit up about her now, hoping it sticks to people stupid enough not to do their research and feel sorry for the 'poor trannies.' I hate it! I am becoming even more of a
TERF because now it feels so personal. They compared the death eaters to nazis when George Lucas did the exact same thing with Sith and Republic in Star Wars. Why doesn't anyone talk about that?
They're only attacking her because she's a woman speaking out. I will defend JKR. So many idiots who obviously loved Harry Potter growing up are saying she's a shit writer and Harry Potter is childish, etc. Then why is it such a generational series??
No. 277924
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Not sure if this is the best place to post this but the game has been cracked. However, the cracker, EMPRESS, has posted a JKR-supporting message alongside it calling out troons as the sissies and faggots they are.
No. 277930
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>>277924Not really that based, you can tell this person is on some trad shit and WRITES like a BOOMER. "ewww men in dress acting feminine gross! that's why tranny bad" fucking yawn. These are the people that will set us back even further once trans shit ends.
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I legit thought this was satire at first because the amount of reaching is hilarious.
No. 278006
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>>278005Thank god there was someone with critical thinking skills in the comment section
No. 278023
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slight in game spoiler but obligatory ominis is so cute!!!
No. 278191
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>>278023>>278072Ominis is cute indeed. But browsing the HL wiki and spotting this pic made me kek. Why does he look so derpy here??
No. 278214
>>278191the 3d models looked fucked up sometimes but handsome in others, it's very funny.
Also to whoever rec'd the hooker AU fic in the last thread, I thought the concept was stupid as fuck but after reading it I cried. thanks
nonnie No. 278217
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i just finished the natty quest where you rescue highwing and i cried at the end when they return to hogwarts. the music, the scenery, it was all just so beautiful and reminded me so much of the magic of seeing a new hp movie at the theater for the first time. i feel like movies 3 and 4 really were peak hp hype, but also the end of innocence in hp what with how dark book 5 was and how the series ended. jkr very expertly progressed from a detective/mystery story with magic elements to a war time story.
picrel, minalima is releasing poa later this year! i already preordered my copy.
(sorry this post is all over the place kek i'm so emotional)
No. 278433
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I want to buy these so bad for my nendoroids
No. 278559
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>>278402The mental image of that is hilarious and now I wish that was in the game.
I just know when this game gets a sequel it's gonna to have like double the fucking puzzles but like some caveat where you only need to complete 60 out of 200 or something. The puzzles themselves aren't hard at all they're just distracting and low-key an eyesore both in-game and on the minimap. Like I wanna walk ten feet without seeing Merlin's fucked up little artifacts everywhere.
No. 278754
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>>274553Luna Lovegood is terfing out now
No. 278759
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>>278740I was searching for the mod and saw this picrel and saw that many normies were talking about how they disliked sirona and wanted her to have a normal voice and how pandering the us/uk was to the woke crowd. There was a few twans wahights commenters but they got dismissed or ignored. I hope this continues.
No. 278771
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>>278754Luna is too much herself to submit to your bullshit
No. 278869
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>>278740>>278759Thank god, I just cannot take Sirona seriously without thinking of picrel and bursting out laughing
No. 278899
>>278881being a bookish nerd is masculine now?>>278754
very glad to see one fo teb younger actor taking a stand. the others are so spineless eve though they owe jkr their entire career
No. 278929
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>>278914And just like that, the troons are now saying Luna was never a good character to begin with. (Even though a lot of them based the idea of being a girl on her, some even named themselves after her.)
No. 278934
>>278929This school shooter argument makes no sense, it's a school of magic in europe.. not muggle bullshit in america.
>>278930Right? I'm yet to see a female school shooter, doesn't happen even in fiction kek
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bump
No. 278981
>>278954Oh yeah, you're probably right, I think I remember at least one case now, posted in a thread somewhere either in ot or snow. Still, 2 cases of females being unhinged in the middle of a sea of males doing it. And I'm sure they all have misogyny in common as the reason for these attacks.
Luna would never, she is a sweet girl and I don't understand how these people read HP and think JKR would have written anything like this. They completely missed the messages the book tried to convey and vengeance was definitely not one of them, this is JKR, not Stephen King (who actually has a book about a school shooter and is a doormat)
No. 278982
>>278981> And I'm sure they all have misogyny in common as the reason for these attacks. Yeah, that's why I mentioned they're both TIFs, because it's actually relevant and a good way to show that they're exceptions and why they're exceptions.
>I don't understand how these people read HP and think JKR would have written anything like this.At first I thought these people were just stupid and had no reading comprehension but it's been so long since they started twisting her words that I think it's done on purpose to make her seem like a bigot and a retarded, incompetent writer. They're just seething that hard. They're the same people who started the whole "Harry Potter is a rich white guy with famous parents who marries his high school sweetheart and becomes a cop!!1!" like yeah but that's a very surafce level interpretation and his story is more similar to, idk Cinderella because of all the crazy hardships he has to overcome to not have a shit life anymore with his
abusive family and his crazy stalker who murdered his parents and ruined his life. They know all that but don't care. Same thing with "JKR said Hermione was always meant to be black but she's just deflecting to hie her transphobia" when all she said was that Hermione can be interpreted as a black british girl if you want and that you should stop being racist towards her actress in the Cursed Child (or whatever it's called).
No. 278991
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Why are slytherin boys so superior to every other house?
>>278929HP are the only books they've ever read and it shows.
No. 279004
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Anons which house did you choose? I can’t decide because I love both Slytherin’s and Gryffindor’s common rooms
No. 279037
>>278754>>278759People are peaking! Yesss
>>278951Queen.
No. 279140
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Someone modded replacing Sirona's voice with AI generated J.K. Rowling's.
No. 279236
Question: Why is Ravenclaw the only common room with bathroom? I'm pretty sure I've explored all 4 common rooms throughroughly.
>>279140OMG. Her speech about not tolerating bullies really fits here.
No. 279618
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>>279607I don't understand it myself, the marauders were just a group of teenage boys who hung out and played pranks. so I don't get where Wolfstar, Jegulus, and making them woke
POC LGBTQ right activists comes from, it's essentially all OC content with only having similar names
No. 279697
>>279659New fans are retarded and I just ignore them.
>>279688I'm so hyped to play, anon! And thank you for not having spoilers. I'm still waiting for April's release.
No. 279738
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Kind of a late tweet, but at this point why am I even surprised this shit take was able to get over 35k likes on twitter.
No. 279749
>>279738>The terven foundations The fact females need protection from males even so early in life.
Ah yes, JKR, you terrible, terrible woman.
>Lily Lmao you will never be a witch
No. 279843
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No. 279992
>>279843Alternative list of HP things trans ideology has taught me that I didn't know before trans people said it:
>"jews are goblins" is a given that everyone must agree with, becuase jews are in fact literal greedy ugly goblins and this was totally not made up by literal trans nazis>a character can't be gay unless they're explicitly performing gay steretypes every scene they're in because being gay is a key personality trait>it's racist to make up funny, cute or interesting names for all races, you must make exceptions for all non-white characters and treat them differently by giving them the boring names they deserve>Having the unquestionably bad and evil villain be partly based on hitler somehow means everyone fighting against him is pro-nazi rather than anti-nazi>Slaves of any kind existing in a fantasy setting means you are pro-slavery in real life>Magical stairs that only exclude boys would also definitely exclude transwomen according to themselves>Luna was the most perfect enby character to ever exist, until the actress sided with JKR and now she's one of the worst written characters in the books>fantasy books can not portray anything problematic or unrealistic or they are badly written and support those bad things in real life>celebrating Robbie Coltranes death publicly is normal and endorsed, because he showed support for JKR once>Sending rape and death threats to women who are abuse victims is promoted as something good and brave to do if you're transYou know what's funny is in the future when this has all passed there are going to be fantasy books written where the bad guys are literally based on the trans movement. There will be stories where the bad guys are an evil cult that says they cure children by mutilating them. Where the evil oppressors pretend to be the oppressed. Where the bad guys erase and ban all language to describe an oppressed minority group so they no longer have words to describe themselves. And just like how we look at Voldemort and see clear parallels to Hitler, we'll all see clear parallels to all the things the trans ideology did. That will be their only legacy.
No. 280031
>>279738God the thread makes me want to a log. Men in dresses whining about "misandry"
Even when you present the statistics and real lived experiences of women to them, they refuse to believe it or pretend it doesn't matter because "I was a guy and I got raped in high school!!!"
No. 280131
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>>279992Its genuinely bizarre(and kinda frightening) that they've twisted HP a magical light hearted series about overcoming adversity into some right wing borderline fascist text on par with Starship troopers
No. 280137
>>280131One of these days, saying a book is "white" is not gonna be an insult and I cant wait for this ridiculous weapon to be taken away from these people. There is nothing wrong with having mostly white fairytales. Non of that bullshit helps "
poc" in any way.
No. 280212
i just found the book of admittance in the game and i'm fascinated by it, especially since the wiki states:
>the Book's sternness had a purpose: its track record in keeping Squibs out of Hogwarts was perfect. Non-magic children born to witches and wizards occasionally had some small, residual aura of magic about them due to their parents, but once their parents' magic had worn off them, it became clear that they would never have the ability to perform spells. The Quill's sensitivity, coupled with the Book's implacability, never made a mistake.
i'm so curious about what it's like to be a squib in a magical family. i think it would make a good story for a next game, like some acceptance movement for non-magical children. i always wonder which school they attend, since, even if they are non-magical, they should still be able to know about history of magic, muggle studies, herbology, care for magical creatures… there are many subjects they can study at hogwarts, even without the ability to use magic. they could also work as special messengers (the people who hand over the hogwarts letters and explain the wizarding world to muggleborn witches and wizards) or specifically work in muggle institutions that need to know about the existence of magic.
No. 280293
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keep seeing this video on my timeline
is it any good?
No. 280381
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>40k likes
fucking end me
No. 280621
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>>278754JK also basically helped save Evanna’s life when she was dying in the hospital from an eating disorder when she was just a child by sending letters encouraging her to get better. trannies and their supporters are all so retarded to think she’d ever turn on her for them.
No. 280649
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I still haven't progressed much along the storyline because I keep getting distracted by the world around me. At this point the game is more a like a walking simulator for me, and I'm fully enjoying that experience
>>279140Bloody amazing. Now somebody just needs to use the power of deepfakes for good and replace the character with the face of JK herself
No. 280718
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>>280293>why does slytherin still exist?Because Severus Snape is sexy, that's why. Next question.
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Now edgy twitter racists use harry potter terms as dog whistles and it's all the cause of TRA and libfems because I know these guys were the same ones who made fun of HP a full decade before
It's not even tongue-in-cheek, it's just antisemitism but instead of saying Jews they say Goblins
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No. 280962
>>280621I had no idea! I'm so glad she was able to overcome her ED.
>>280648Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix are my top 3. Half blood prince is easily the worst.
No. 281544
>>281242I thought his trait was being selfless, which IS a hufflepuff trait. They are loyal and selfless characters.
I think JKR should have separated more characters into different houses, because it does feel lazy all the 'good guys' were in Gryffindor and all the 'bad ones' were in Slytherin.
No. 281840
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>>281715>Luna LiftgoodKEK
No. 281866
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>>281715This is fucking great
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>>278754>>278929This is extra enjoyable cause Luna and Tonks were the most frequently troon hc'd characters, so It must hurt troons extra knowing their idealized waifus see them as disgusting men
No. 282137
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Nonnas I'm in love
No. 282138
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Nonnas I'm in love
No. 284313
>>282572I love that creativity nona
>>284301i won't be able to play HL until i'm free after summer this year, sad to have missed the big troon rage period but i hope i can upset at least one TRA by playing it
No. 284611
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I wish graphorns were real. I bet they purr like cats.
No. 286315
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help me nonnies i thought all the HL characters were fucking ugly but now im balls deep into sebastian. how is everyone else holding up 1month post release?
No. 286340
>>286315Sebastian and Ominis has the best writing/arc but I got so fucking tired of those samey ugly dungeons during their quest line. Poppy has the most fun variety quests. Natty is good but weirdly written, I expected the cop lady to be corrupt/working with the poachers but it didn't happen. Main quest was annoying as hell except for the third and fourth trials.
Hopefully the sequel will have better writing overall.
No. 286346
>>282572Is this for HL!? Omg
nonnie, I fully plan to keep a journal of my goings on in HL and about the characters once I can afford the game. I’m super excited, I’m torn between making a notebook or purchasing one specifically for it (maybe to cut cost I’ll just repurpose a lightly used one).
No. 286357
>>286345course
nonnie @Krabat__
>>286343same though, my autism has made me so distracted. it's kind of nice actually I haven't had a game that could take 100% of my attention in a long time
No. 287320
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why.
No. 287332
>>287320I always knew that they would remake the movies. The og movies where made before all the books where written so it was hard to judge what information they should put in them. But I do love the two first HP movies so much they are so comfy. They have a very intriguing ams inviting atmosphere and I always yearn to step into the movies whenever I watch them. The stellar soundtrack and set design and color choice helps. I don't think a remake will be able to feel so magical.
Tbh I'm sureprised that they are not attempting to make it into an cartoon or anime. Harry Potter is popular in Asia and anime has become mainstream in the west so they could easily collab with some big anime studio. And if they don't want to do that I'm still sureprised that they haven't attempted to make a 3d Harey Potter cartoon
No. 287340
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>>287320i think this is an april fool's joke but just out of curiosity, who would you nonas like to see cast as which characters if there was a reboot? i'm already picturing paul dano as remus lupin
No. 287357
>>287353https://archiveofourown.org/works/40116972?view_full_work=trueHere's a fic focusing on Petunia's perspective on her sister getting to become a witch and not her. It also a AU where she meets a monster in the woods which I won't spoiler and focuses on magical beasts, being the less loved daughter and older sister to a more talented sister
which is more relatable regarding siblings then the both of them making up and being bffs because their sisters as some fix-it fics do and a magical OC love interest instead of Vernon. I feel like this is the most believable Petunia fic where her personality doesn't get a complete overhaul into a super nice, done nothing wrong and everyone likes me fics. My explaination does not give the story justice, so please read the first chapter before dropping it.
No. 287365
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>>287356if this actually happens I wouldn't be surprised if they haphazardly shove in random fucking transgender/nb characters including retconning existing characters in order to overcompensate for JKR's ~twansphobia~ but seeing that she's actively participating as a producer I have hope
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>>287320Prediction, they will cast a biracial actor for Harry or Hermione. I don't think I would mind if Hermione was played by a black or mixed girl. I know there is a lot of discourse around it but I don't mind much. I just hope they keep her big curly hair and don't give up at like the third movie with Emma Watson.
>>287340I think it would be funny if Ben Barnes would be played by sirius since the fandom always casted him as young sirius. Maybe he is to old now tho, but i think he's still handsome.
>>287365I really hope they wont pander to the troons
No. 287411
>>287365I highly suspect they are going to pander to trans people but tbh it would be so stupid if they do. TRA have already decided that Harry Potter is a modern Mein Kampf so they are not going to watch it anyway. Besides Harry Potter is big on an international scale so people from all over the world are going to watch this and there are countries where people aren't so familiar with trans politics so they are going to get confused by a trans or enby character. If they add one the character will probably be showed in the back and have a minor role, but that wont satisfy the few trans potterheads that are left because it's not proper ~representation~. It would be better to not add a trans character at all because there is no way they can win if they do
>>287399>they will cast a biracial actor for Harry or Hermionetbh I'm open to this
>Ben Barnes would be played by siriusok Im really obsessed with this now. I hope this is the case
No. 287463
>>287320I wish I could be excited for this since the movies gloss over so much of the books but my expectations are on the floor tbh. I agree with
>>287332 that they won't be able to top the atmosphere of the og movies, the new cast won't compare to the originals either. I think the series will probably be pandering in stupid ways too. It would be more interesting to see a show of either Harry's parents or Voldemort's time at Hogwarts, rather than rebooting the main series when the movies concluded just over 10 years ago. Just let it rest kek
No. 287468
>>287357Oh my god
nonnie, thank you so much. This fic was an amazing and wholesome yet weirdly somber read! I really love the concept of it all and giving minor characters a backstory that explains "why" without changing how they are. I could really sympathize with both Petunia and Lily's perspectives after reading this and something about their relationship as sisters is so sweet to read. Again, thank you!!! Spent my whole day binging and still have a bit to go.
No. 287478
>>287356I dont want this. Unless it's a different time period, there's no reason to reboot the movies when it's only been 11 years. No one can compare to the old cast, especially for Hagrid's role.
>HBOArent they known for violence and soft core porn like GOT??
No. 287577
>>287356My absolute nightmare scenario for this is if they make it "edgier" by doing the typical shit like amping up sexual relations. I also don't want them to only hire the typical hot super model actors for constant eye candy for average characters, that's a massive pet peeve of mine. It makes sense for characters who are meant to be hot/beautiful like Fleur (although the movies really failed on that casting in particular) or maybe even Sirius who is supposed to look a bit like a rock star. I really do not want a foxy Molly Weasley played by a 28 year old, or for a roided up Voldemort to suddenly be built like he injects steroids directly into his blood steam on the daily.
But on the other hand I also really don't want them to go the winx remake route where the cast completely missed the mark on every level just so they could look "inclusive" by having "ugly" and chubby girls in the main cast.
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>>287577i fear that it's gonna look like shadowhunters aka incredibly cheap and vaguely like a porn dupe of the original.
ironically, shadowhunters is a hp knockoff and picrel shows slutty hermione, draco in leatherpants, mary sue self insert ginny and bitchy gay harry No. 287710
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>>28757710-15 years ago if you asked most HP fans on dumblr they'd have probably sacrificed their unborn firstborn children for an HBO remake that was kinda edgy and adult like Skins AKA prehistoric Coomphoria. I honestly don't hate the idea if it was for my area of fandom (marauders era kek) but JKR doesn't seem to care about those characters much. You have to admit the milk/drama/troon crying likely to come from it would be pretty funny
>>287344I disagree. Imagine Paul Dano and James Norton reuniting on screen as Remus and Sirius and having to act out whatever gay bait was in the script
No. 287964
>>287710I ain't saying no for gay baiting but all I can see with that pic of yours is Peter planting the seeds of doubt into Sirius when they talk about Remus. Then this
>>287340 is the face of all according to keikaku once Remus and Sirius start pointing fingers at each other. Dano was made to bring Voldemort back.
No. 288198
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>>287964"Sexy Peter Pettigrew" isn't something I'd have ever dreamed up on my own but hey, I'll take it if we get Dano. James Norton was in a Tragic Bad Boy role in Happy Valley (bong police drama) recently as well so he's perfect. Now all we need is a Remus and James to make our fantastic foursome complete. As long as gay bait is happening I wanna suggest Matthew Macfadyen as someone even if he's a bit older than the other two. Any Succession actor would be fun though
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>>289162JK's comment sounds promising.
No. 289479
>>289162The most important thing to me is that they take the time to explore the intricate worldbuilding and fun little details, because that aspect of the series was what attracted me to the books as a kid and it's woefully missing in the movies imo.
Other than that, I'm hoping for:
>a more fiery outgoing Ginny>a less Mary Sue-ish Hermione>more Hogwarts daily life and classes>characters actually wearing robes and wizard hats all the time and many being clueless about muggle fashion>Peeves>Ron playing a bigger role and having best friend chemistry with Harry>actual colors instead of dreary blue and green light filters on everything No. 290070
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>>289534I like him but it's better when they keep him true to his character. Even if they go through the route of woobiefying him a bit, I do hope to see all that bitterness. It also makes Harry's character and his decision to forgive Snape (and give that awful name to his kid) stand a lot more. Like, they both have a lot of similarities and I think even Harry and another character say it at some point but the huge difference between them is how Harry in the end was able to forgive and move on, while Snape isn't, and that, to me, is actually very realistic portrayal of a person who was bullied and is very messed up, I think the way he treats the kids is very consistent to this portrayal, he is stuck in the past but now he is in a position of power he didn't have before.. and you know what happens when you put the loser up there while giving him free rein. It also contrasts with the other teachers just how immature and young he is. I just didn't feel any of this in the movies, movie Snape looks more like a stern teacher, someone who will give you a bad grade because you are lazy and wasting his time, very different from the guy who broke Harry's potion on purpose after the occlumency lessons fiasco and insulted Hermione for no reason some time before that. I think changing Snape this much changed the other characters for the worse too, not even the marauders vs Snape felt as good and compelling as in the books. Also Draco & Snape too, didn't feel like Draco trusted Snape that much as he did in the books.
Also I just remembered the duelling club with Lockhart and I wish the movies made him as ridiculous as he was in the books, dropping his wand and all while trying to teach Harry a spell.
"Just do what I did, Harry."
"What? Drop my wand?" Kek.
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>>290160It always seemed weird of her to do that tbh. If someone was torture-bullying my homie I wouldn't want to be anywhere near them much less marry them. I think Rowling made it this way on purpose though. Harry has to deal with the revelations that his parents were, well, just not that great lmao
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>>290160I don't think she was wrong. I think their friendship might've already been dissolving but he put the last nail on the coffin.
In the books she says she has been making excuses for him for years, and doesn't believe he is actually sorry because he calls every muggleborn 'mudblood', she is aware of the people he is associating with, of the things his friends have been doing.
There is a scene where he tells her he wants her to see the marauders are not "wonderful as everyone seems to think". I guess James is supposed to be a very charismatic and charming kind of guy + bullying not being taken seriously, maybe Lily didn't see how bad that was, maybe sometimes she thought it could be justified since Snape also put up a fight? And to be fair, I think he would attack them if he thought he might have the upper hand and as biased as Sirius sounds, maybe Snape was indeed really good with dark magic so young and that simply doesn't paint him as a
victim.
Snape seems completely unable to tell her exactly what is his problem with the marauders. From his frustration with her saving him during that scene Harry sees, I guess he just doesn't want to be seen as weak. Can't really blame Lily when this guy is so difficult.
No. 290274
>>290203I agree with this. It's sort of the equivalent of your childhood best friend growing into a nazi, when you're part Jewish yourself. I think people ostracizing and bullying a person with death eater/nazi views probably wasn't seen as THAT bad by the onlookers. On the contrary James and co. who stood up against it became seen as heroic and brave for being against the dark arts.
I've personally had male classmates who were truly rude, bully-ish assholes, who did a 180 in maturity in the spam of the 3 years I knew them and they grew up to be genuinely nice at the end of it. It's honestly realistic growth for them to turn out decent once they've grown and matured a bit.
No. 290467
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If the HBO show was going to be released exactly how you wanted it but on the one condition an additional well known character (or more than one character) other than Dumbledore would be shown as gay or bi, who would you pick and why?
No. 290469
>>290467Probably Remus or Sirius like your pic. It wouldn't change much and the Marauder shippers would be happy.
Alternatively Albus Severus or Scorpio if the show goes into Cursed Child.
No. 291282
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They see her Rowlin…they hatin…
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oh nonas I made it late to the Howarts Legacy convo but I am living my childhood dream and I am beyond ecstatic, the game is amazing. I was always sorted in Slytherin which I used to hate but this game made me have a deep appreciation for them. With that said I just wish we could have made deeper connections with the companions, I would kill for Poppy and Sebastian and Ominis are my boys. I wish we could have been another golden trio.
No. 291785
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I love these
No. 291786
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A dialogue wheel would have been great
No. 294377
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Hogwarts Legacy got a big patch today with a tonne of bugfixes, but no new content. They've also started a twitch drops campaign, in case anyone is interested.
No. 295951
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i didn't know these were a thing! i wonder if they'll be released in europe as well?
No. 300952
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Does Rowling-sperging belong here?
No. 300962
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>>300952Yes. That was posted in the Pride thread but JKR sperging belongs here too.
She is wonderful and the people trying to smear her are retarded.
No. 300977
>>264486>My heart is a fist of barbed wire"Her door clicks open and nearly clips her in the face. It could be a sudden draft, but Amy is doubtful. Her fist clenches shut around the marble. It is pretty. She could look at it for hours, the way it catches the light. It’s almost like a sweet. Want curls up in her chest like a cat. She thinks she’ll keep it. A gift from the big grey orphanage, just to her.
“That’s mine,” comes a thin, cold voice, and she sees the boy across the hall for the first time. His room is directly across from hers. He is pretty, she thinks, like a drawing from a book. The lines of his face are smooth and pale. His hair is dark and neatly parted. He holds himself very rigidly, like a miniature soldier or a wind-up toy. “That’s mine,” he repeats, sharply.
(In which Tom Riddle is not the only strange child to come out of Wool's.)"
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18224369
>In the language of flowers"(I am the one who says 'fuck you') - Benjamin Garcia, 'Ode to the Corpse Flower'.
Petunia drips magic the way she drips anger. Sparingly. Subtly. Nothing overt or obnoxious. Nothing that attracts the stares of other children or the suspicion of adults. Just things that help her. Her dolls line back up after the football Lily was kicking about ruins their perfect symmetry. Her bed makes itself while she brushes her teeth meticulously. Tea that is slightly too hot or too cold settles to the perfect temperature. Magic maintains the realm of order she has built around herself.
(A witch!Petunia and muggle!Lily AU, covering the Marauders' years at Hogwarts and the First Wizarding War)."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14074770 No. 300984
>>300982She is!
I had to explain to two of my friends IRL that she isn't some hateful bigot. I showed them her gender essay and they got really confused because there was literally nothing hateful in there. They had believed the lies TRAs spread.
No. 300985
>>300984They keep lying and saying she's anti-gay when she's been a really big supporter of gay rights all along as well. I've been meaning to show woke people her essay without saying that's what it is beforehand (we know none of them have actually read it) and only revealing it's hers afterwards, and that it's literally THE text trans people call her Hitler over. And if they agreed with anything in her text, or even acknowledge that same-sex rights are important then they're literally equally as
terf as JKR because that's all she's been saying.
No. 301018
>>300982luckily most people who aren't already caught up in online TRA bullshit hear about JKR being a bigot/
terf/conservative/etc and they actually go and read her essays or tweets because they don't want to believe the accusations. feminists couldn't have created a better normie-peaking machine than the JKR hate brigade if we tried.
No. 301137
>>301018The story made it to BBC:
>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65831823Keep on shitting on your donorbase, Oxfam.
No. 301368
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No. 306156
>>305359I started playing Magic Awakening and so far I like it! The art style is super cute, the in-game lore is post-canon compliant and it feels true to the spirit of the books. (I love going to Weasley's Whizzes and seeing George there.) There's a lot of canon scene cameos in the cards we duel with. The storyline is pretty basic and I rolled my eyes quite a bit, but it's whatever and skippable at worst, the characters are all kids after all.
The gameplay is easy to understand, and the PvP introduces the "hard to master" type thing, if you want to grind through the ranks. The gacha feels pretty generous for a gacha, and altho there's quite some microtransactions already, it feels very F2P - many purchases are cosmetics related. There's so many cute ways you can dress up your character with the free items. There's even a small rhythm game portion (Dancing Club) and it's pretty alright!
Some complaints are:
- basic, kiddie storyline
- very wifi dependent - Hogwarts feels pretty lived in bc you see other players running around the castle, can take classes together, duel together, etc
- the files are big and my phone heats up quite a lot, though its kinda old-ish (samsung s9) so ymmv
- i want more song variety in the rhythm game - rn its all waltzes and tangos
- you cant actually brew potions, it's less like Cooking Mama and more like 'press X to doubt'. I was so so sad to find this out
- you cant do a ton of exploring yet - part of the gradual feature rollout, I hope. e.g cant buy stuff from George's shop, there's no Knockturn Alley, etc
They're introducing more features over time so the players can get used to them all instead of getting 50 things dumped at once, I'm really excited!! Gooooo Ravenclaw!
No. 306852
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i cant believe this game has been out in china for years and i cant find spoilers for shit! like there's promo art of older draco but what is going on with his life??
No. 308397
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What the fuck does this mean, Chinese reading nonnies please
No. 311635
>>311588Love playing it, though I’m worried that they might shut it down due to lack of players. I’m top 1% and that’s a bad sign, cus I know for sure I’m not a “good gamer”.
I love, love Cassandra but the best support cards now are Ron/Mcgon/Hermione.
Be careful about pulling though, since the new update they sneakily changed the gold key pulling system. Even if you have 0 in your inventory the button makes it seem like you have some - but it’ll pull from your orange gems automatically. Not a good gem->key conversion
No. 311665
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>>311087>>311067One of the few cases when replacing the actor improved the final product.
>>>>>/m/298643 No. 316567
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I came a cross this cute blanket that I'd really like to buy, but the only seller appears to be a chinese company shipping to the US. Does anyone know if there is an European shop that sells it?
No. 321420
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can any sisters explain the cult following for the marauders? they were such a small part of the series so it shocks me that current fandom is largely about them.
Also whats with the Regulus obsession and pairing him with James? I can't recall them ever interacting, is this a fairly new thing? i don't hate it but i just want to know where it's coming from.
No. 321448
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>>321420Regardless of JKR's intention, many fans think the marauders era is the gayest part of the HP universe
and they're right. Marauders fandom has been fujo paradise since livejournal was big and even way back around the time OOTP was released. Regulus/James is pretty new though, doesn't really come from anywhere people just like two "hot" (they're not hot) men (posh boys). In livejournal days the most popular Regulus pairing was Sirius/Regulus kek and I can also remember there being Remus/Regulus and the inevitable threesome fics.
No. 321449
>>321420as far as i can tell it's for shipping reasons mostly, also they're supoosed to be these briliant rich handsome people who nonetheless all died young and had tragic stories rife with betrayal and drama.
tbh i like the adult characters over the kids but i'm more interested in the baddies
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>>321449Me too nonna. I do think regulus sound like an interesting character, but these people write him like a total softie that never wanted to be a death eater and solely did it because of his family pressuring him. They can't with some balance, it's always black or white, and that makes for a very boring story.
Anyway, I see regulus/james I instant nope out of the story.
No. 321459
>>321420I figured its the combo of a relatively unknown cast/generation of characters + the hogwarts lifestyle template they neatly fit into + characters that don't have much "faceclaims" and so fans can mentally photoshop their features into literally whatever
and/or, the war started earlier for that generation which inherently heightens any stakes and adds more opportunities for drama and characterization than peacetime - bonus points for many families getting weakened or wiped out in the first round of the war. more pickings to choose from
No. 321464
>>321450fellow lucius enjoyer??agreed. a lot of the marauders fics are very back/white. i like older gen stuff but i'd rather read about the slytherin crew or the hogwarts professors. the characterisations in marauders stuff tend to be very simplistc because it's focused on the ship.
i don't get regulus/james. they enver even interact in canon. and tbh i don't get the james appeal. sirius is more interesting imo but most fics ignore his canon characterisation anyway
i find older gen stuff fascinating because there's shades of this ww1-style doomed generation you know? but it's hard to find good character studies.
No. 321485
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I just ordered some official butter beer chocolate and I'm excited to try it! Jellies too. Has anyone else tried them?
No. 322137
>>321517>>321678It's very good! It's tasty milk chocolate with a filling that has a warm taste kind of like toffee, almost a trace of alcohol, but there is none in it.
The jelly beans are well, just jelly beans. I didn't want to waste money on the ones with gross flavours. I wouldn't buy those again but I can recommend the butterbeer choc!
No. 324538
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RIP
No. 326548
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Happy Harry Potter bookday! I'm rereading Order of the Phoenix.
No. 326773
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Just realized to my horror that I think Umbridge's taste is pretty nice. I like her office, it's cute. I mean, aside from the child torture that occurs in there.
No. 326776
>>326773I love pink and I love cats lmao so I agree
But I was a total tomboy as a child and I hated pink, so it was really nice to see a villain who had pink as her main color
No. 326777
>>326776She even has a cat as her patronus! Very good taste.
Her liking cutesy pink stuff just makes her more effective as a villain, especially in the movies where she looks nice and normal and not like a toad. It shows kids how evil can hide behind sweetness.
No. 326807
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>>326777I loved Imelda Staunton as Umbridge, which sounds so rude because she's supposed to ugly and toad-like but she just had the perfect aura
No. 326838
>>326807She was amazing. I can't read the books anymore without imagining her as Umbridge.
I wonder what actress they'd get to be Umbridge if they make a remake?
>>326777Totally agree. She makes a more scary villain too, she could be anyone's grandma.
No. 326988
>>326838Speaking of how we see the characters while reading the books, I always imagine Mc Gonagall as younger because she has black hair, but I always hear her voice as the iconic Maggie Smith. Like,
>Have a biscuit, Potter. kekAlso movie Hagrid is just perfect to me. As someone wrote earlier, Dumbledore's actor sadly didn't really fit him in later movies and hopefully we will get a more calm and fabulous Dumledore in the new adaption.
>>326838>>326914It's so exciting that there will be a TV-series, can't wait for cast announcements and the opportunity for all the scenes that couldn't fit into the movie to be included! Mc G didn't tolerate Umbridge's shit one bit, we gotta see that in all the full glory.
No. 327038
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>>326838>I can't read the books anymore without imagining her as Umbridge.I love movie Umbridge, but I see book Umbridge as uglier, fatter and more like a toad. Almost like a cartoon version.
>>326988>Also movie Hagrid is just perfect to me. Me too! Perfect casting!
I'm one of the movie Fleur Delacour haters lol
I just think she was the least pretty actress on set and having boys swoon over her looked… like a parody at best. Fleur was supposed to literally be otherwordly levels of pretty because she's half-veela. I feel a bit mean saying it but it's truly not coming from hate, the actress just happens to have the most unfeminine face of the cast so the casting in this one role didn't suit her at all. It's not an attack on her as a person or her acting skills.
I genuinely think they just casted Clémence Poésy because she's French and had done model work and people just think "model = most pretty" when in reality most models have "odd" features that make them stand out because that's more interesting in photos.
No. 327049
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>>327038>Fleur was supposed to literally be otherwordly levels of pretty because she's half-veelaI think Evanna Lynch and Clémence Poésy could possibly have switched roles. Evanna has a mysterious prettiness to her that I could see as "otherworldy beauty", and Luna was supposed to be/look a bit strange I think(?) so Clémence could have played Luna.
(But I love Evanna as Luna so I would never actually allow it kek)
No. 327065
>>327049Nooo I really don't think their roles should have been swapped.
Evanna's Luna is so precious. I just want to protect her from all evil.
>>327060Kek I just knew someone would say that.
No. 327067
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Well speaking of women we fancy…I wouldn't kick adult Luna out of bed.
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>>327038i think movie fleur looks alright, although underwhelming/boring compared to her description in the books. her actress does look spooky nowadays though.
No. 327192
>>324538>>324868No one could replace Harris. He was the perfect Dumbledor imo, but Gambon gave us such iconic lines in Goblet of Fire. RIP to Dumbledore!
>>327038I feel bad because I also thought she was not ethereal or other worldly looking enough for Fleur. She wasnt ugly, just extremely plain looking for me.
No. 327257
>>327180Maybe if you pretended you were trans and it was like a degradation kink to write about terfs you could get away with it? Or if you promise in the end the fic will turn around and punish the terfs and they'll learn and become good little allies - but it never actually happens and they just stay terfs kek
I'm not into fics or fic writing but if I could support terfs I'd read it kek
No. 327262
>>327067Maybe I should take it to /g/ but I seriously have such a crush on Evanna Lynch, she seems lovely inside out. She also stood up for Rowling when the other ex-child actors didn't.
>>327180Is terfery really banned on fanfic sites? Lame.
No. 327266
>>327180>a TERF crackfic but I know for a fact that it'd be taken down in minutes by AO3 jannies…Would it? So much for their 'no censorship stance'!
>>327193Some changes in the films are grating, like what you mentioned and students ditching robes in the third one.
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>>327266>students ditching robes in the third oneYeah, we need more silly hats and full wizard and witch glam robes in the TV-series. Hermione should wear a pretty witch robe at the yule ball too and not an ugly muggle dress.
No. 327284
>>327279The movies lost some of the magic after they ditched the robes. I know the movies were still massively successful but I really feel like it damaged their legacy a bit. Ain't no one cosplaying hogwarts students by wearing casual muggle clothes, it's always the robes.
I think overall the movies went the wrong direction of trying to make them appeal to more people by making it all LESS magic and more "relatable", instead of taking us further in and giving us more silly magic stuff. But in reality the silly and iconic magic stuff is what people love and remember. I would have loved if they kept the magic worlds fashion as its own cultural thing.
I actually think that's one thing people get wrong with JKR's work. She wrote the books like kid's books. I've seen the meme trends saying she gave people dumb stereotypical names, and I'm just here like… well duh, of course she did it's a whimsical kids book series??? People grew up and then expect them to be sophisticated adult books all of a sudden just because they're adutls now.
People should try to look at the world through a "kids eyes" and visualize it as a cartoon. The wizards have silly robes and pointy hats, the bully cousin is a round spoiled fat kid, the villain looks like a snake etc.
No. 327286
>>327262>She also stood up for Rowling when the other ex-child actors didn't. I'm still longing for the day Daniel and Emma realize their mistakes and start walking it back. I think it won't happen until the troon tides have mostly turned already but especially Daniel who has supported transitioning of kids openly will have a lot of explaining to do once it's public knowledge that it was all just a massive medical scandal that ruined kids lives.
I think because JKR was made villain no.1 by trans people and they're both tied to her they'll have no choice but to eventually make statements about it.
Side note, I fucking love JKR so much. She's a shining beacon of light.
No. 327314
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I don't want this.
No. 327323
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>>327314I would like if the new series takes place in the books original time, however i don't want it to be a 90s nostalgia bait. The main appeal of Harry Potter is the wizarding world so I don't want to see the characters fawn over muggle devices, just so the 90s kids watching it can feel nostalgic.
I just want the characters to wear casual clothes that people wore back in the 90s when they are in the muggle world, and not wear the "ideal" stereotypical 90s fashion like picrel. I also dont want to see the characters use smartphones and make references to social media when they are in the muggle world lol. When they have to use electronics it has to be electronics from the 90s, but they should not empathise on the branding or try to make it nostalgic by highlighting stuff like VHS players, CDs etc. and implying that that stuff was much better than the modern stuff. The muggleworld should look as average as possible, just with 90s stuff instead of modern stuff. Hogwarts is suppose to be the whimsical place in Harry Potter and if they try to make some whimsical 90s nostalgiabait in the Dursleys home then it defeats the whole purpose of Harry Potter.
I also do not want any pop culture references whatsoever. I don't want Harry or Hermione to mention Spice Girls. I don't want to see some random background muggleborn Hogwarts student walk around with a gameboy.
The books didn't make pop culture references because that's not what Harry Potter is about.
But nostalgiabait and stupid pop culture references is unfortunately the trend right now so the hacks at Hollywood are going to lean into it when making the HBO series
No. 327325
>>327284>the bully cousin is a round spoiled fat kidFatphobia! Can you imagine if the first book came out in 2020?
>>327286>I'm still longing for the day Daniel and Emma realize their mistakes and start walking it back.Won't happen. They won't endanger their precious careers. They are both thankless cunts.
No. 327352
>>327284>that's one thing people get wrong with JKR's work. She wrote the books like kid's books. I've seen the meme trends saying she gave people dumb stereotypical names, and I'm just here like… well duh, of course she did it's a whimsical kids book seriesThis is a big reason why I have never been in the Harry Potter fandom or befriended hardcore potterheads despite being a fan myself. Many fans gets really defensive/angry when you call it a children's book. I love Harry Potter
because it's whimsical and I want to enjoy it for what it is. I love the quirky alliteration names. Its charming.
There is also those type of fans who constantly complain about the lore and that the books are badly written because the lore isnt presented like a game manual. I think many
insecurepeople are ashamed of being fans of children's books so they either try to deny it or they nitpick and overanalyse everything so they can prove that their image of Harry Potter is better. People just needs to get over themselves and admit that they like something where they arent the targeted demographic lol its fine to acknowledge the faults but also dont look too deep into it and expect it to be like a book written for adults.
No. 327356
>>327325>Won't happen. They won't endanger their precious careers. They are both thankless cunts.If there's one thing we know it's that the "social justice warriors" will live on. Remember how the tolerant people used to be the ones to say "I don't see color" to mean "I'm not a racist, I treat people like people" but the SJW decided that actually the phrase now means "I intentionally ignore your black/minory background because I'm a raging racist who erases people's identities". They'll switch on people to fit their narrative.
I think once trans ideology becomes synonymous with "supporting unscientific mutilation of children, mostly for an adult fetish reasons" people will label some central celebrity troon supporters as the New Evil Bigots. People will @ them on social media and make call out posts and videos etc
They'll either how to live with the title of child mutilation supporter, or they'll have to come around and speak against it. The internet doesn't forget.
I fully think Emma is a "true believer" who would change her mind if she was presented with all the evience. When a troon said he just waned to pee, she thought he meant it.She's like a tumblrina handmaiden who thinks she's got the full picture already but gets a rude awakening once reality hits her. Daniel on the other hand seems more like he's just performative and does what the bigger mass thinks is good, because he doesn't think much himself.
No. 327357
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>>327352>Many fans gets really defensive/angry when you call it a children's book. Ahahaha why? What about HP makes them think it's a book series for adults? Maybe it's covers like this one? Kek
I too avoid HP fandom because it seems to mostly retarded shippers and whiners, so I have never seen that attitude. Love you my fellow Hp terve nonas, though.
No. 327359
>>327323>I also do not want any pop culture references whatsoever. I don't want Harry or Hermione to mention Spice Girls. I don't want to see some random background muggleborn Hogwarts student walk around with a gameboy.Same! I really hope they don't do it but like you said it's trendy right now so I doubt they won't sneak some stuff in.
>>327352>Many fans gets really defensive/angry when you call it a children's book.>I think many insecurepeople are ashamed of being fans of children's books so they either try to deny it or they nitpick and overanalyse everything so they can prove that their image of Harry Potter is better. People just needs to get over themselves and admit that they like something where they arent the targeted demographic lol its fine to acknowledge the faults but also dont look too deep into it and expect it to be like a book written for adults.I know I'm a minority, but even as an older teen and adult I've always HATED that books targeted to me would force in sex and relationships at every opportunity. I have zero interest in other people's sex lives, I even find it gross and off-putting. Light romance is fine if it's not the focus, but I swear every adult book tries too hard to be adult by putting in as much sex, violence, drugs, abuse and shit as possible to not come off as "childish". I fucking cherish that Harry Potter is a kids book without his uncle being a raging alcoholic who's sexually abusing his aunt or some shit because that's "realistic". Why can't I as an adult just enjoy books about friendships, overcoming struggles and maturing?
No. 327360
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>>327357I'm so sorry, I love HP, but the original covers are hideous to me. I'm a swedefag so my childhood HP books looked like picrel
No. 327364
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>>327360I'm actually also a Swede, high five! Our covers are amazing.
And I laugh every time I see the German ones.
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>>327365Gotta love all the serious dark academia characters in HP like…Peeves the Poltergeist.
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>>326991>Umbridgecoreyou know japan is already on that shit lol
>>327028in magicawakened you come across her as a cat often lol, canon for sure
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>>327364POV we're looking down on you because you're not the superior swedish HP book covers
No. 327443
>>327357>>327360>>327364I love seeing the different covers in every country! In general Scandinavia seems to take fairytales more seriously and treat kids books with more respect in terms of cover art on books, and I respect that.
The german ones are… tragic lol I think they probably assumed it would be a one off cover that didn't matter for a silly kids book, and once it turned out to be a massive hit they were already locked into a shitty artist because they didn't want to change style midway through. Sorry to the artist for calling them shitty, but the glasses do fuck all to his eyesight when they're at his freaking cheekbones and the single raised eyebrow on EVERY cover is sending me KEK
No. 327449
>>327414Holy shit this is amazing and slightly disturbing kek. Please tell me they have HP cafes and you can go have superpink afternoon tea there? God it would be the dream. Maybe the UK has things like that? Any UK anons among us who knows?
>>327443>In general Scandinavia seems to take fairytales more seriously and treat kids books with more respect in terms of cover art on booksI think it's because we have a history of beloved children's book authors like Astrid Lindgren who did take her young audience seriously. And so does Rowling, she doesn't shy away from difficult feelings and happenings in life.
>the single raised eyebrow on EVERY cover is sending me KEKThey are so bad that they are good, he looks like he is taking selfies on each cover pretending to be cool and edgy and above it all.
No. 327452
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>>327443I unironically like the Finnish covers, but I may be biased bc of childhood nostalgia. But what I absolutely adore about publishers here taking children's literature more seriously is the quality of the translation. They always hire actual translators and not just some rando who happens to know the language. The Finnish translator of HP made up so much terminology for the books and put real effort into it, they're perfect. The names she used are still "the true ones" to me. I know some peope whine about Finnish sounding "dumb" but then again, it's a children's book, do you expect Finnish children to understand English names based on a pun or rare word most ESL adults don't even know?
No. 327460
>>327452I'd love to hear some of the Finnish names nona! I'm one of the swedeanons, our names were 90% English, but a few names had some tweaks. For example:
>Fenrir Greyback is Fenrir Grårygg = literally "grey back". >Tom Riddle is Tom Dolder = dolder roughly meaning "hidden one"Making the full name anagram of Tom Marvolo Riddle ("I am lord voldemort") not work anymore, so they made his full name Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder and changed it to latin ("ego sum lord voldemort"). So his middle name is Gus here lmao
>Buckbeak the hippogriff is Vingfåle = vingfåle is roughly "winged horse" but using an uncommon word so it's not as literal.>Kreacher the house elf is Krake = krake literally means "creature", usually in a pitiful sense.(fun fact kraken, as in the giant mythical octopus, is literally just called "the creature" but other languages just assume it's a proper name. Makes it really funny to hear people say "THE kraken" because it literally means "the the creature" lol)
No. 327470
>>327460What I don't understand in the Swedish translation is why the titles mr and mrs aren't translated. Why aren't the Weasleys called herr och fru?
Otherwise yes it's random if names got translated or not. I like how blast-ended skrewts were translated to sprängstjärtskrabba. (Explode butt crab kek)
Also some puns didn't occur to me until I read the english version. Like Rita Skeeter = Writer Skeeter with english accent…
Are there some puns you nonas didn't get until later too?
No. 327474
>>327470>What I don't understand in the Swedish translation is why the titles mr and mrs aren't translated. Why aren't the Weasleys called herr och fru?This is my personal opinion of course, but we know the books are set in England, and we are culturally aware of using mr/mrs and it's commonly done this way in other works as well (and so is using madam/monsieur for a french setting, or writing out -san in a japanese setting). But when it comes to herr/fru we haven't actually used them here since… shit I don't know? 60s? Neither me nor my parents grew up with it at least.
Basically mr/mrs just adds regional flavour, while herr/fru would date the book at least 60 years back in time. Using no title at all would make the book lack a lot of nuance and charm. So keeping the original titles was the best option in this case I think.
No. 327477
>>327474True, that makes a lot of sense anon. It would be too old-fashioned for the time period.
>>327452They're charmingly unpretty, but everyone is wearing scarves in the Swedish/Ukrainian colours instead of the Gryffindor colours, weird.
No. 327484
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>>327452>>327477>but everyone is wearing scarves in the Swedish/Ukrainian colours instead of the Gryffindor colours, weirdPersonally I'm more focused on the massive tits on the trans chess piece queen
Finn-nona pls come back and explain your country lol
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>>327484I remember someone posting this cover in the previous thread and everyone being confused as to who all the characters were. But apparantly the dog-eared person is Sirius kek.
No. 327524
>>327521>she actually goes to events because she cares about womenntayrt but i feel like many public figures likes to call themselves feminist but then they never do anything to help women beyond stating that girls can do anything in interviews. It's like they actually dont care about women's rights and only use it for publicity.
Rowling actually attends feminist conferences and uses her money amd influence to help domestic violence
victims and women escaping Afghanistan. I don't doubt she genuinely wants to help women and she sees feminism as a human rights movement rather than a quirky identity that makes you popular on twitter
No. 327535
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Love how active this thread is right now, nonnies.
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I want robes in the remake.
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As much as I love Maggie and I truely do I wish we'll get a McGonagall that's a bit more like in the books.
No. 327559
>>327535me too! is it the halloween spirit that makes people remember the magic wizarding world?
>>327537I really hope the remakes take the opportunity to redesign the outfits to match the books while also having some more fun flares like
>>327541 No. 327681
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Which marauders era moid is the most terven and why is it Remus Lupin?
No. 327698
>>327681moids can't be terfs
>>327541>>326988honestly i could never get behinf maggie slith as McG, she played the character completely dofferent from what i'd'pictured from her book descriptions. she's way less badass and i hate how every fanwork portrays her like in the films.
maybe that's bc i read the first 4 books before i saw the films but i really don't care for them. the only good thing the movies gave us was long haired lucius.
>>327060based based based
No. 327700
>>327696Even Hogwarts itself wouldn't let troons into the female dorms, the whole wizarding world is terfy.
I really love how troons stupidly made one of the most loved, wholesome and popular franchises in the entire world their biggest enemy because it makes it so easy to interact with anti-troon/
terf content… but it's really just a fun innocent time reading a book or playing a game. And when it came to it, people preferred Hogwarts Legacy over troons feelings kek
>>327698>moids can't be terfsnona
terf isn't "real", troons literally call Trump a
terf it's just a word they use to describe anyone they hate because they see feminists as the lowest of the low (because they're real women) there's no reason to gatekeep it from fictional characters
No. 327712
>>327698>long haired luciusAt first, movie Lucius was going to look like a boring muggle in a suit and short hair, but his actor protested and said his character was all about rich wizard pride and hating muggles so he should look more wizardlike and fancy. So we can thank him for the final design.
>>327559Yeah this is the season for HP, I like to reread the books in autumn not just because of Halloween but also because the Hogwarts school year starts in september.
No. 327730
>>327712I love that he implies blonde hair is somehow "more wizard" and brown hair is "muggle" lmao
He was absolutely right though, why would a muggle hating wizard have a modern muggle haircut and wear muggle fashion?
No. 327751
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So, I didn't read the whole thread but am I the only one who really ship ron and Harry? Their relationship grow very naturally in the first book, and since then, they're clearly each other's favorite person. Harry canonically prefer to hang out with Ron rather than Hermione and the way ron adore Harry but also feel insecure towards him create some interesting tension imo. Not like I don't like their relationship with Hermione but I think they make a better potential couple.
Also, I love this bit from the second book. It's adorable in a "puppy love" sort of way.
No. 327764
>>327756I'd usually agree, but I hated Ginny x Harry so much that I'd be fine with contrived fujo route.
By the way, Ron is underrated
No. 327790
>>327763>What are some things that bother you about the HP universe?Harry shouldn't have named his son after Snape, he was a fucking creep who wanted to bang his mom and held a grudge againt her innocent son because she turned him down over a decade ago for being a wizard-nazi who hated muggles. Snape is a well written interesting character, but no one can convince me he was actually a good person on any level.
>>327786>I kind of want a sequel with new students taking place in our era because of how technology advanced since the 90sI don't think they even have electricity at hogwarts, so unless they can charge stuff with magic they still wouldn't be able to use phones or playstations etc. Even if they could charge them, I doubt hogwarts has wifi or cellular networks set up
No. 327792
>>327790Hermoine says several times that anything electric wouldn't work at Hogwarts because there's too much magic in the air, but I think
>>327786 meant the culture students were raised in? It would be funny to see a first year clutching a broken Nintendo Switch with absolutely no idea why it wasn't working tho
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>>327764>>327766no offence, but this is as retarded as troons and TRA's who hc'd harry as a "trans-girl"
No. 327800
>>327791He probably has a reputation for being eccentric in town because of his comments and questions. I like to think few of the townspeople end up giving him an encyclopedia to stop him. I think the Weasley are the one most likely to blend in with the muggle when needed compared to other magical families, wish we got more wizards trying to go incognito only to show up in a frilly nightgown and cap.
>both married muggle girlsWould have been a dream come true for Arthur, so he can ask about the 'muggle world' and Molly would just be happy that there is someone else to rein them in.
No. 327831
>>327751I really like Ron and Harry's dynamic, the movie does not do them justice. It's a cute ship anon.
>>327797It's really not, Harry is canonically in love with Ginny but I still ship him with Luna anyway. Is that the same as having troon hc? Shipping and hc are in a total different category imo
No. 327856
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JKR's twitter always delivers.
No. 327875
>>327850you do realise that epole can also write about aged up characters right?
>>327851yeah yhat's right, headcanon is basically para-canon, things that aren't mentioned in canon but don't contradict it. for example if you believe tonks is bisexual that's headcanon. otoh writing a fic where sirius is a slytherin is not headcanon as it directly contradicts canon.
>>327763i think the clothing thing was meant to show that the weasleys are a tolerant family who live close to muggles. and the kids are allowed to wear practical clothing while on holidays, otoh all working adult wizards are seen with robes. so maybe it's seen as a professional/casual clothign type of deal
we also don't know much about how purbloods live but it's likely they wear more traditional wizard clothing all the time. it's pretry clear from the books that the weasley are seen as way pro-muggle by most of wizarding society, it's even what stalled arthur's career. they don't necessarily reflect the average wizard.
No. 327880
>>327846>It's probably just the resident anti-fujoOh nona there are plenty of us here who are made uncomfortable with other anons openly displaying their gay male fetish. Still wouldn't tell you to stop doing what you want and I normally just ignore it, but pushing sexual stuff is off-putting to many people, especially to women and you're on a female only site. Like
>>327850 many people don't like shipping in general even if it's straight or even canon.
>>327856This thread should keep up with JKR more, every time I see something she's posted my spirits are lifted. She is the perfect gryffindor (gryffindorian? gryffindorer?)
And on that note, in what ways do you nonas match your assigned house?
Are you brave, creative, cunning, loyal etc? Do you think you were sorted into the right house or would another have matched you better?
I got slytherin, I'm pretty ambitious, and being a
terf I'm sure most TRA would agree being in the "evil" house is perfect for me kek I also think snakes are little cuties so I'm happy with my house even though realistically ravenclaw traits generally match me better
No. 327892
>>327537I've always wondered how wizarding fashion changed throughout the years. The Yule Ball and Ron's hand-me-down situation was cool to think about, but Rowling didn't spend much time describing garment cuts or popular colors. I'm sure wizarding fashion isn't as static as the books may have made it out to be! It's just that for one, Harry is a guy and for another, he spends most of his time in a boarding school with required uniforms. Do anynonnies have headcanons or fanart about wizarding fashion?
>>327540 and
>>327539 were cool, but they're specific to a character and perhaps not indicative of general trends.
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>>327892samefag. Rowling, for all her talents is not a fashion girlie. I can't believe she described wizarding robes in the Wizarding World website as "frozen in time, harking back to the seventeenth century." Ahem. My love. My queen. This is 13th century at the very latest. Bless her, but she needs to hire a costume designer to flesh out wizarding fashion influences.
No. 327900
>>327880oh my god quit sperging abour fujos. one offhand mention of a m/m ship is set you people off. no one here is pushing sexual stuff.
i'm not much of a shipper personally but it's a fact that most fandoms focus on shipping and they always have.
it isn't a fujo exclusive thing either, historically the hp fandom has had major drama over hetero ships.
and i'd still rather hear about ships than about yourself and your assigned house. i guarantee your personality isn't that interesting.
>>327892i really wish we'd got more details yeah. we don't know much besides tidbits about whether wizards liked to wear trousers under robes or whatever.
my hc is that their fashion is fairly modest and conservative with very little skin showing for both sexes. and pureblood wizards are especially careful wrt grooming because they hold onto old fashioned aristocratic values about presenting according to your rank.
I'd imagine wizarding fashion moves slowly because wizards live much longer. And there's both a tendency to hold onto the grand old times and a will to differentiate themsleces from muggle. so i suppose their vlothing would mostly be reminiscent of victorian/edwardian fashions but with magical elements. colour changing fabric, magical jewellery, patterns and decorations with magucal motifs like stars and animals and shit. maybe incantations embroidered or written inside for protection.
>>327896i yhink themeatically it would maje sense for wozarding fashions to have veen stuck in the 17th century since taht is precisely when they split apart from muggles. iirc rhe statute of secrecy is from the mid 1600s. but nothing in the films or books matches 1600s fashions so i guess they dressed differently even before the muggle and magical worlds separated.
No. 327916
>>327896Snape got flashed everyone his pants while he was a student at Hogwarts, which is in the Scottish Highlands and the lowest tempeture it's reached was −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F). Making it so that school robes is supposedly enough to ward of cold weather without any trousers on.
>>327900>wizarding fashion moves slowly because wizards live much longerI also like to think that fast fashion like we have or any department store for clothing does not exist in the wizarding world as they all have to go to a tailor for any robes with intricate embroidery, durable fabric and etc… As any stains can just be magicked away. This also could explain why Ron wore hand-me-downs school robes along with the fact I doubt parents would buy exact fitting robes for children and would much rather buy one that's a bit bigger and the hems can be lowered as they grow.
No. 327917
>>327892Yesssss I love to think about how wizarding fashion works. It seems that most robes that aren't second hand are tailored (iirc Ron is also shopping at Madame Malkins during the Draco/Harry confrontation so it can be inferred that it's not terribly expensive to get that done) which is interesting. I bet a lot of people who buy their robes second hand alter them magically so they're fitted better, too. What do you think makes robes womens' dress robes vs mens' dress robes? The cuts? That same scene has Madame Malkin accidentally try to sell Hermione men's dress robes and like… Is it not all just vague flowy fabric?
I also find it funny that Luna & Xenophilius are framed as weird for wearing a yellow dress to a wedding, but the literal Minister for Magic wears a lime green bowler hat 24/7 and no one says shit about that being odd. But tbf the Lovegoods are weird in many other ways too.
No. 327962
>>327917my hypothesis is that they don't use elasticised fabrics. in the days before these you had to get shuff tailored or altered by a seamstress mich more frequently.
it also seems their society isn't industrialsed so there are probably too few wizards in britain to mass produce clothing. there seem to be about two or three tailor shops total.
their clothing is probably very durable since it's somewhat of an expense and they'd probably use spells to make the fabric extra string, better thermoregulation etc.
as for the cuts, even vague flowy fabric usually has different cuts for men and women. if you shop in the moid section even a plain ol t shirt might be too tight in the chest and hips and too big in the sleeves. truly unisex fashion is very rare because almsot all cuts account for differences in build between the sexes. it's also possible women's stuff come indifferent colours or maybe it's designed to accentuate the waist etc.
>>327916i bet their robes are magicked to help control temperature so you can just wear a pair of ribes over your bare legs at all times. that also means they wear a lot of long-sleeved floor lengjt stuff at all times. We've seen them wear capes in the summer.
they pribbly also have more elaborate stuff with a lot of buttons etc that muggles would find hard to get in/out of. since they have spells for that.
>>327944lamo i know right? i doubt any of the marauders are
terf adjacent at all, they'd porbbably just make lad jokes about "blokes in a dress". but if any if them is terfy is sure as hell isn't lupin, the spineless follower
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>>327793You don't need Zelda and Pokemon anymore when you got a real magic forest to explore and real magical creatures to take care of!
>>327880>She is the perfect gryffindorYes, she truly embodies the Gryffindor spirit. It also incredibly heartening just how many likes her tweets are getting.
>pushing sexual stuff is off-putting to many peopleAgree, I wish shippers got their own thread because what appeals to many of us is the magical childhood aspect of HP, so it's an uneasy mix.
>in what ways do you nonas match your assigned house?I got Ravenclaw when I last did the sorting test and it fits, I love learning and reading. For superficial reason, being in Gryffindor would be nice, because their common room is so damn cozy. Hufflepuff also seems cozy. No thanks to Slytherin, don't want to live without a sunlight view.
>>327896This is how she draws their robes. Not a fashion girlie kek. But that's fine, leave that to illustrators and costume designers. Has everyone seen her own illustrations? It's cool that she does have some drawing talent as well.
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Kek at how truly ugly she imagined Snape vs the movie version.
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For all of you nonas talking about wizard clothes, link to JKRs words about it
https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/clothing>Day to day, however, even those who detest Muggles wear a version of Muggle clothing, which is undeniably practical compared with robes. Anti-Muggles will often attempt to demonstrate their superiority by adopting a deliberately flamboyant, out-of-date or dandyish style in public.There are some fun details in there. I don't like that they seem to ditch wizard clothes for muggle clothes, unless they're aggressively anti-muggle "racists" that just makes me sad because I love old fashion clothes and don't it to be the evil option.
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>>327856Her "no" tweet has over 300000 likes now. This TRA reaction was pretty funny. Love and understanding!
>>327973>A fringe movement calling itself Fresh Air Refreshes Totally (F.A.R.T.)* insists that Muggle trousers ‘stem the magical flow at source’ and insist on wearing robes in public, in spite of repeated warnings and finesThis is great, thanks for the link
>>327974It's lucky that Hogwarts has such high ceilings.
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Speaking of houses and wizard fashion, do you think HP as influenced your own aesthetics in some way? As in clothes and home decoration? I love big cluttered gallery walls and I think all the portraits in Hogwarts influenced that.
No. 327981
>>327972alan rickman was good but he wasn't true to the character. snape is supposed to be repulsive with a deeply unpleasant personality.
tbh the movies remived so much complexity from the characters. look at the malfoys, they totally changed their actions in book 7
No. 327982
>>327978It's so weird how literally all JKR said was "love and support trans people, but also protect female sex based rights" and they took it as "brutally murder all trans people". Trans people are some of the most intolerant people on earth, and that's not an exaggeration. They don't even tolerate the mildest form of disagreement, and want to make "misgendering" illegal.
It's so ironic how the trans movement is like Voldemort - they do not understand love at all. They think "love" means obey everything they say without question. That love means to be a yes-man even when your groups actions harm already vulnerable people. That love means holding your tongue over what you say in fear of offending someone and being labelled as a "wrong-thinker", to attack others who wrong-think to free yourself from blame. Trans people attack female, gay and children's rights for their own gain and feel no remorse at all despite them clearly belonging to the stronger class (most trans people in power are literally just straight white men). Just like voldemort attacks defenceless muggles. They cut up children because they were "born wrong" and need to be "fixed" from their own healthy bodies. Trans people do not know love, all they know is a contorted mix of extreme narcissism and self-hate.
No. 327998
>>327980>I love big cluttered gallery walls and I think all the portraits in Hogwarts influenced that.cluttered galleries do look cool! Good taste nona.
I was not influenced by the books but the movies. School uniforms aren't a thing in my country but I really liked the uniforms in the movies as a kid. I lost my mind when I found out that the uniforms (minus the robes) where standard in Britain. I used to wish my family would move to Britain just so I could wear a school uniform kek.
I was a teaboo as a kid and it's definitely because of Harry Potter and it did influence my fashion. As soon as I was allowed to dress how I wanted I started leaning towards a preppy style with some antique/vintage inspired elements. I think that style is called dark academia today? but that term is cringey kek and I did dress like that long before the term was coined and I never participated in aesthetic-blogging on tumblr but I do remember when tumblrinas first started using that term but I digress.
I have always been into old castles, fairytales and medivaltimes for as long as I can remember which was what drove me to Harry Potter in the first place so it didn't affect my tastes in home decor much.
Harry Potter did affect how I view wizards and witches though. I think it was the first time I ever heard a story with young wizards and witches as the main characters
Though as much as I liked the uniforms as a kid I still want the characters to wear more whimsical clothes in the HBO series.
No. 328038
>>328020>"very online discussion"That is such a good phrase honestly. Most people are still against troon ideology, as proven by how everyone on social media was spamming that even thinking about playing Hogwarts Legacy made you a nazi
terf. If I had just gone by twitter at the time I would have assumed the game would have tanked, yet in reality the game was a massive success because people don't care about troons screeching online lol
No. 328212
>>328111book 7 in general made it clear that the mamfoys were regretting siding with voldemort, even if it was for slefish reasons. there were two significant malfoy moments in the books:
>when harry & co are captured by death eaters, harry has been temporarily disfigured by a spell so they're not sure it's him. they bring in draco to identify them and draco tries to buy time by pretending he doesn't recognise them. >in the final battle, both lucius and narcissa take huge risks just so they can find draco. lucius pleads with voldemort directly and narcissa saves harry's life (in exchange for confirmation that draco is alive) by lying directly to voldemort's face that he has been killed. then they both rush into the battle (lucius without a wand) without even trying to fight, just looking for their son. and they stick around in hogwarts after volemort has been defeated. by contrast in the films they just turn tails once they see the battle is going badly and that's it. it's way less interesting.
and you know jkr was tryibg to make a poibt that ultimately the malfoys' love for each other won over their loyalty to voldemort. and ofc it ties into the "love saves the day" general message of the series.
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>>328282ayrt and yeah it was based. i liked that the malfoys were among those who ultimately did the right thing for purely selfish reasons. imho it's great that rowling chose to have some people on both sides with a variety of mottives. like you can say that the malfoys and snape ended up switching sides for selfish reasons ratther than moral ones; but it's realistic and more interesting than just "everyone on the side of the good guys is morally pure". you see way too much of that in kids' and ya fiction.
it's a shame th movies simplifioed the characters so much. i do't think it would have extended runtime that much to have the malfoys act like in the books, for example. they could have cut the dumb unneccesary cgi combat or the bizarre voldemort hug scene.
i don't think the movies are bad, they really made the wizarding world come to life, but ultimately the characterisation in the books is far more interesting.
No. 328615
>>328588>like you can say that the malfoys and snape ended up switching sides for selfish reasons ratther than moral ones; but it's realistic and more interesting than just "everyone on the side of the good guys is morally pure"I also like the discussion that arise with it, like is it really "selfish" to want to protect your family in a war? Is it unreasoable and cowardly to refuse to partake in the battles of a war? To no longer fight for a side you no longer care about?
>>328588>they could have cut the dumb unneccesary cgi combat or the bizarre voldemort hug scene.god that hug was so fucking stupid and out of character, voldemort would never do that. You think he's trying to bond with a random teenage boy all of a sudden? The fuck would he do that for???
I'm not blaming the actor for doing it, as a gag/experiment when filming the same scene over and over it's perfectly reasonable to try it out. But then actually cutting it into the movie? Nah leave that shit in "behind the scenes and outtakes" where it belongs.
No. 328669
>>328636It kinda was all of those things absurd, funny… and bleak and unnerving but not for the reasons it should be lol
Are there any other fun HP facts in his book?
No. 328852
>>328703>knowing shipping has existed this whole time using their underage images to draw and write explicit sexual contentI don't mind shipping underaged characters but making sexual fanworks of underaged characters from live-action media will always be gross.
If you are going to make sexual fanart and/or fics of HP characters then at least base their appearence on what's written in the books and not on the actors. Only a pedo will look at a character played by a child actor and wanting to make sexual content of them.
Emma Watson had a bunch of pedophile fans. Possible an unpopular opinion but while I do have some criticism towards her (which has been discussed in other lw threads) I tend to cut her some slack because of what she had to deal with growing up. I'm honestly just glad that she seems well-adjusted all things considered.
I'm looking forward to the upcoming HBO series but I'm worry about the child cast. I hope that their time in the spotlight will be kept to a minimum and they will get as little media attention as possible. So they wont be using social media, wont be participating in interviews and promo material etc. but I doubt it. A HP series is a long commitment so it's going to be children of insane stage parents who will audition
No. 328924
>>328680Finally someone else who’s read it! I mean I heard it on an audiobook but likewise it was very interesting. I do feel bad for Tom though, like it did seem he tried so hard to be an actor afterwards but his face just wasn’t what studios wanted.
The current HP fandom seems very mixed on him, they either love him or actively hate/cringe on him. I’m neither, just feels sad whenever people bring up he’s pathetic for holding onto HP for any shred of relevency.
No. 328938
>>328615The hug was so fucking ridic. what was the point? the whole thing with voldemort is that he's incapable of treating even his followers well. that's why he loses. especially at this piint in the series, he has dropped all pretence and is just forcing everyone to join him or be killed. he doesn't reward anyone for joining him.
maybe the hug was meant to be bizarre and humiliating on voldy's part but it just ended up looking completely absurd.
>>328703in the aughts, the biggest ships in the ho fandom were straight. harry/hermione, ron/hermione, draco/hermione, harry/luna etc. there absolutely was some insane drama and degenerate ass content but it's disingenuous to act like it's a fujo exclusive problem. If anything i'm sure the prn en made of emma wastin was considerably worse than any drarry fic. but then again some of you seem obessessed with bringing everything back to antifujo sperging.
>>328670the switch version was officially announced for 14 november here in yurp but maybe it's regional? idk
No. 328944
>>328938There's the fujo sperg out after all kek jk I don't think the post was even trying to say it was gay ships that caused it, just that sexual fanmade content in general of kids is sick and harmful. Doesn't matter if it's "aged up" if the actor is still a child imo. (Although now that I think about it personally I've never actually seen any sexual fanmade HP content that wasn't a gay ship, but I've never looked for it and it was more commonly adult charas)
>>328924>The current HP fandom seems very mixed on him, they either love him or actively hate/cringe on him.Wasn't he one of the people to defend JKR? Doesn't surprise me the trans cult fans hate him for being an evil bigoted
terf then, or the normal people loving him for it.
No. 329036
>>328669not rly in his book, but i rmmbr reading a behind-the-scenes HP book where it said Emma Watson loved the scene where Hermione punches Draco in the face and breaks his nose. when the director yelled "Cut!" she'd smile and ask to do it again lol
Also apparantly Daniel Radcliffe had to tone down his grieving screams when Sirius died bc it kept making Helena Carter and Emma Watson cry
No. 329087
>>329083>>329036>behind-the-scenes HP book where it said Emma Watson loved the scene where Hermione punches Draco in the face and breaks his nosenta but I think I have read the same book too! it's a pretty badass scene so no wonder she enjoyed filming it lol
>>328944>>I've never actually seen any sexual fanmade HP content that wasn't a gay shipunfortunately I have seen porn fanart made by moids. while it didn't look exactly like the actors
you could easily tell that they tried to make them resemble the female actors (when they where teens) as much as possible without getting in trouble for it. I haven't seen it myself but I dont doubt that porn art that straight up references the teen actors faces exists. never underestimate how disturbed men are No. 329171
Do you think they might end up casting Ben Barnes as Sirius? There's no way Warner hasn't noticed how people have been fancasting him for like a decade, and it might be an easy way to pander to fans.
I mean, if they want to pander to fans without crossing JKR, especially to marauder fans, they could look into fancasts and fancanons. Half-indian Harry is a popular fancanon for example. And black Hermione is basically canon at this point.
Ngl the marauder fandom has grown on me, I know it's super cringe and full of TIFs but I can still appreciate the brainrot, it's endearing in a way.
No. 329177
>>329171It's such a "it depends" moment. Because while black Hermione is fine, we all know she was intended to be white so it's less accurate to the character. Of course Hollywood keeps outwoking itself by casting
poc to play white people all the time no matter the context, so they could do it. But then again you had the comment about how jkr stuff is an "online conversation" so maybe they're not trying to be woke this time?
Personally I'm for accuracy in this case. I think shoehorning in
poc just to be woke is stupid, and frankly more disrespectful to the actors and
poc. I'd however love to see spin-offs where you have pocs be the main characters on their own instead. Imagine they did something like a hufflepuff centered series following a black witch who struggles with fitting in because she expected to be in ravenclaw. The ravenclaws instead look down on her for being in the "stupid" house, and her fellow hufflepuffs don't like her because she clearly looks down on them for not being smart enough like her desired house. You could come up with so many fun dynamics and plots for original
poc characters, there's no need to give them sloppy seconds by insisting they have the role of established white characters.
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Nonas if you created a fanmade "hogwarts" but with different houses, what animals (or other thing) would you pick?
I always thought it was "unfair" that gryffindor gets the strongest biggest predator of a lion as a symbol, when lions don't even live in the UK. I think it would make more sense to have fairytale creatures like dragons and griffins etc. Not sure exactly what though!
Imagine a lolcow hogwarts with Cowindor, Farmenclaw, Haypuff and Milkerin kek
No. 329767
>>329765>when lions don't even live in the UK.Lions did live in the UK before going extinct along with lions having a large part in the English monarchy
and in other countries in europe, symbolism and biblical stories
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>>329765>Nonas if you created a fanmade "hogwarts" but with different houses, what animals (or other thing) would you pick? Ironbirch, an ancient witchcraft school. Originally was a wandering school, nomad style teaching. Eventually settled in a castle on a mountain in the wilderness. Still has month long outings in nature. They focus on ancient magic, creatures and nature, muggle knowledge is very low and the school uniform evokes a "wandering wizard" aesthetic (as opposed to a preppy school uniform).
To get sorted you walk into a circle of fire, the flames light up in the house colors (purple, green, dark red, teal) and the student in question sees the house mascot appear in front of them (onlookers don't see it). It's said the founder was travelling with all 4 creatures on his adventures and named the houses in their honor. Feel free to sort yourself nonas.
No. 330307
>>330306it's expected to air 2025/26 so not any time soon I'm afraid. I think by then the world will have peaked enough that most people celebrate JKR instead of shun her kek
I guess she should get little tidbits of info before it airs, like finding out when actors get hired? Unless they're keeping it a secret?
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>>330307I hope we get news about actors soon, I'm so ready for a tv-series that is true to the books.
Pic unrelated
No. 330944
>>329765i'd make one based on my country (germany).
>St. Walpurgis
>Hare (introverted, diplomatic, headstrong)a cross between hufflepuffs and gryffindors, i guess. students in this house enjoy their alone time and generally try and avoid unnecessary drama. they are neither doormats, nor necessarily shy. they can and will stick up for themselves and for others, and stand in for their ideals.
>Fox (intelligent, competitive, adaptable)a cross between ravenclaws and slytherins. students are very clever, though not necessarily restricted to having good grades. this also includes street smarts or being good at games. they are highly competitive and strive for greatness. they get along great with many different people and know how to read the room and act accordingly. unfortunately this adaptability makes people often assume that fox students are two-faced.
>Boar (protective, resilient, curious)students of this house are fiercely protective of each other and do not shy away from confrontation should the need arise. they tend to become stronger through adversity and can handle pushbacks and disappointments very well. they are very interested in new things and tend to be adventurous, even if it breaks the rules.
>Pheasant (creative, extroverted, passionate)i guess this would be the theater kid house. members of it are unabashedly themselves and do not care what others think. they dedicate themselves to their hobbies and talents and love hanging out with likeminded individuals. their passionate personalities often lead to heated discussions and fights with others.
fox and pheasant bring forth the most famous quidditch players. boar has the most troublemakers and rulebreakers. pheasants and hares often don't like each other because of their clashing personalities. foxes love gambling and run illegal gambling competitions, including bets on quidditch matches.
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>>330306idk but i hope the casting directors do a good job. i dont trust fancasts they rely on too attractive people.
btw i hope they cast this dude from jury duty for pettigrew. his worminess is what i always imagined
No. 331759
>>329171I don't mind raceswaps in fanwork (I actually like Indian Harry fanart sometimes), but I hope they don't do anything like that in the HBO series. Even if JKR said Hermione could be interpreted as any race, it's obvious she was meant to be white; JKR makes it pretty clear when she intends for a character to be nonwhite through descriptions. It would just come off as a cringe virtue-signalling thing to me. Imo HP already had a sizeable amount of nonwhite characters for its time, the only "issue" was that none of them were major characters.
>Ngl the marauder fandom has grown on me, I know it's super cringe and full of TIFs but I can still appreciate the brainrot, it's endearing in a way.How do you manage to tolerate it? I made a Twitter to interact with Drarry fans (anti-fujo nonnas look away) and lasted maybe a month before deactivating. Marauders fans are 100x worse from what I've seen and they start shit with everyone over anything so I'd sooner off myself than be involved with that part of fandom.
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>>331759I'll make my case for diversity in the HP adaptation:
>1. I think JK Rowling just imagined them all white by default and not because it's important for the plot. Seems she's fine with characters being more diverse. >2. Times have changed since the movies first aired. One Piece recently surpassed Harry Potter with the highest recorded sales for a fiction story series in human history, and its live action adaptation was a massive success. I wasn't even interested in one piece at first but I'm a sucker for the chosen family trope and their friend group looked so fun and welcoming that I ended up watching it too. In comparison, an all-white friend group looks a bit uncanny and it's difficult for teens to relate to. Same thing when you compare modern fanon to Harry's all-white friend group. >3. It wouldn't be some forced inclusivity shit being pushed onto fans, because it's actually the opposite: It's fans who have been pushing diverse headcanons for like a decade now. >4. We're presented with this magical world and this whimsical society that is supposed to be so peculiar and so different from muggles. So there's really no reason why wizarding society can't be diverse, even if the story is set in 1990's Britain. >5. Poc Harry is also a good way to visually convey that he doesn't fit in with the Dursleys, without having to resort to much exposure, just letting him look out of place in the uncanny, sterile, homogenous suburb that is Privet Drive. And then he later finds himself in this eclectic whimsical place where he finally belongs. It's perfect. I will be watching the series regardless, I just think it'd be nicer if they were more like the fanon.
>lasted maybe a month before deactivatingThat's because you use twitter, twitter is unbearable in general. Use tiktok and instagram instead. Twitter is a text app, so it focusses on opinions and rants. But apps for visual media focus more on actually making actual content, be it memes or edits or fanart, or cringe yet funny POVs, or fic reviews.
It's usually teens who partake in the brainrot, which in itself is funny as hell. But the actual source media, like fics and the like, are mostly written by adults and they're actually pretty good.
No. 334349
>>334303ntayrt but I'm here to debate your arguements.
>One Piece recently surpassed Harry Potter with the highest recorded sales for a fiction story series in human history, and its live action adaptation was a massive successThe vast majority of recent live action adaptations have been massive failures though, and often a key complaint is that the main characters have been race-swapped and/or don't look how the character is supposed to look. People are currently incredibly sick of race-swapping in live action (plus we all know it's the redheads that get race swapped so it'll be the Weasley family and not Harry kek) right now would be a terrible time to do it.
>In comparison, an all-white friend group looks a bit uncanny and it's difficult for teens to relate toWhat are you even talking about, this is obviously not true for the vast majority of the western/English speaking world? Like what race theory did you get shoved down your throat from social media to come to this deluded of a conclusion? Actually curious because you have such a strange skewed worldview.
>It's fans who have been pushing diverse headcanons for like a decade now.A very small minority of fans have had headcanons and made fun race swapped fanart, but not all who made those even wanted it in canon. A big portion of that group is now also in the trans/TRA crowd - they now hate anything Harry Potter related and won't touch the new series with a ten foot pole anyway.
>there's really no reason why wizarding society can't be diverse, even if the story is set in 1990's Britain. Correct, and the books ARE already diverse. Just not the main cast.
>It wouldn't be some forced inclusivity shit being pushed onto fans>Poc Harry is also a good way to visually convey that he doesn't fit in with the DursleysThis is literlly just pushing the narrative that "
poc are DIFFERENT and DON't BELONG with white people". It's actually a pretty fucked up message. It also does send a message of racism whether you intend it or not, and since the books don't touch on Harry being a
victim of his racist white family it will all just never get explored in any meaningful way.
>Use tiktok Ok that answers where your weird worldview is from. Tiktok memes/grooms people into literally having mental disorders and into chopping of healthy bodyparts just to "be their true selves". And the rest cheers them on. Be careful on there nona you're already got fucked ideas like "an all white friend group looks uncanny". The fact you write that like it's a normal thought is frankly scary. Please get off the app and go into the real world more.
No. 334533
>>334349It's not hard to tell when diversity is done for brownie points and when it's genuine. The characters from one piece were light skinned in the anime, but the change was done right:
>They changed the characters that felt natural to change, not random ones they wished to self-insert into. Notice how the redheads stayed redheads. >The diverse cast isn't nepo baby americans of varying skin tones, but actually people from different countries. >Not all white people were American, the guy who plays Sanji is hispanic, the real deal, not a larping no sabo kid. Showing that it's not a skintone competition but a genuine effort to create a multi-cultural cast.Not saying it should be done the same way, just that it's not fair to compare it to shitty stuff like snow white and the little mermaid, because it's not the same.
The rest depends on your definition of western world, if you mean western countries or just the white ones, if you mean people who speak English and consume English media and products, or just the ones from white countries. I'm
from Latin America, though my parents are from Portugal and I've never been in a friend group where everyone is all the same skintone. That looks cultish and uncanny irl, makes it look like you only hang out with your cousins or something, like you don't leave your house. I know American series are all like that, but they're very, well, American. Nobody here looks at a gringo series and actually relates, I think it only looks normal to people in all-white countries.
Harry's friend group in that picture is alienating to many people. Not a big deal, just not really posible to relate to. Teenage me would have never fit in with that group, would stand out like a sore thumb.
Again, not a big deal, I'm gonna watch it anyway, but I do think they have a lot to gain by paying attention to the fanon. One piece did it right and that gave it an international appeal. Lots of people who can relate to it, because it's a friend group where they would blend in.
But if they only want to appeal to the "english speaking world", which I guess would consist of USA and Britain lol, then by all means I guess.
>"poc are DIFFERENT and DON't BELONG with white people"What even is this level of reaching, Privet Drive isn't exactly a normal neighborhood where white people happen to live, it's described as some creepy suburb where all houses are the same and no one steps out of line. It's not normal white people who live there, it's stepford wives' kinda people.
And the Dursleys are prejudiced against magic, they display similar behaviors towards Harry as racist people would. In fact I think it's a nice plot twist to make you think they're racist when in reality they just hate magic. Not all white people have to be racist just because they're white imo, not even the Dursleys.
No. 334609
>>334533i still think durleys as classism allegory makes most sense even if it wasn't intentional at all, there is lot about classism in the books in general but when you take petunia's background into accord as well.
she and lily knew snape as a child, so they had to live close by and snape's neighborhood was described as typical uk working class neighborhood with mill towers and so on so it could be speculated that petunia and lily didn't come from a rich family even if they were better off than snape. petunia could be seen as this kind of hyacinth bucket type of character who is obsessed with her appearances not just because she wants to appear "normal" but because she wants to be seen as classy and richer than she originally is. vernon probably comes from well off family and he did look down on james because he did think james lived on unemployment benefits when they met first time, so petunia probably married vernon also as a way to socially climb up, maybe to feel as good as/better than lily who just married some freak magician she met in school while she became a proper classy lady.
No. 334621
>>334533>It's not hard to tell when diversity is done for brownie points and when it's genuine.It literally wouldn't be genuine for the HP series, it would 100% be to pander to woke fans. As anons have already said, we know what the characters look like and we've known it since 1997 when the first book came out. It's not even about what comparison is "fair", both snow white and the little mermaid are from disney, they're both frankly a lot bigger and more famous than one piece and those ARE the movies people have watched and are sick of.
>I'm from Latin AmericaThat doesn't excuse your frankly racist view that friend groups can't be all white. I'm a eurofag from a non-Egnlish speaking country and despite that never in my life has anyone here ever said anything like "it's so uncanny and cultish when a whole friend group is latin american, surely no one can relate to that".
>Nobody here looks at a gringo series and actually relates, I think it only looks normal to people in all-white countries. Then maybe Harry Potter isn't for YOU. Maybe it's not about YOUR culture this time, and if you can't handle different cultures being different than yours then don't watch it. I assume you also dislike most anime given that they're generally all japanese, a very homogenous culture typically without any non-japanese people in them. Or perhaps you only dislike it when it's white people? Something to think about.
>What even is this level of reaching>In fact I think it's a nice plot twist to make you think they're racist when in reality they just hate magic.See you're again changing the plot to involve racism because you also realize people WILL see it as racism. You call it reaching yet then confirm exactly what was said. It's pointless and forces a different narrative that was never part of the story. And you're wrong about privet drive, it's described as almost painfully average and normal - something the Dursley's took pride in. But that's not your culture and you seem to think white people are creepy by default, so you just read it as creepy. It's just supposed to be dull and boring as a contrast to the magical world, not creepy.
No. 334685
>>334621>"it's so uncanny and cultish when a whole friend group is latin american, surely no one can relate to that".Lol why are you twisting this though? I said that where I am it looks cultish and uncanny if an entire friend group is all the same skintone, didn't even say white, it can be any skintone, because it happens here too and it just looks like you're part of some church or that you only hang out with your family, because that type of race segregation is not normal here (keyword: here). Because how is it possible (here in a multicultural country) that you haven't run into people who don't look exactly like you, and if you have then it gets suspicious that you have never made friends with anyone like that.
And yes if an entire friend group is the same skintone and same culture and it's not your own, then most people can't relate. You can like them, but you can't really picture yourself being a part of that world, because you don't belong to that clique. How exactly does that make me a racist lol?
You know what's actually a bit of a skewed world view? To believe that the things white people do are universally accepted worldwide just because they have been doing them for decades, or to believe that what looks normal to white people looks normal to every other culture. Or to immediately assume that someone with a different opinion must be like that because they were brainwashed by tiktok, and not because they just have a different life experience.
>Then maybe Harry Potter isn't for YOU. Maybe it's not about YOUR culture this time, and if you can't handle different cultures being different than yours then don't watch it. Well that's the thing, I don't know JK Rowling expected it to become the massive international phenomenon that it became, hence the latter addition of black Hermione. Times have changed, and many companies have gone from:
>This was made by white people for white people, it's not for you. To:
>Actually we have realized that there's a shit ton of non-white people in the world and that it's in fact a huge market, and that we do want your money and apparently in order to get it we kinda need to acknowledge the fact that you guys exist?? So like, let's try to be diverse and stuff.Back then Harry Potter didn't have to compete with diverse media because there wasn't much of it, but it's different now. Britain isn't really what you would call a multicultural thing, but the wizarding world can be, if they want. And I'm just saying, if they want to do it it'd be a bit of a waste to ingnore a decade's worth of mass brainstorming and trial and error done by fans.
Btw I'm not fighting with you
nonnie lol, please breathe, no need to call people racist out of the blue in two different posts now like wtf, this is an HP thread it's not even that serious?
No. 334686
>>334303Unrelated to all of this raceswap sperging but
>That's because you use twitter, twitter is unbearable in general. Use tiktok and instagram insteadI can see how Instagram is better but is Tiktok really that good? HP Tiktok just seems like it's filled with a bunch of annoying zoomers, not to mention the whole SJWy TIF-infested part of the Marauders fandom spawned from a Wolfstar fanfic blowing up on there. Maybe other sides of it are better but I'd rather ignore Tiktok all together, plus there's not much back and forth interaction to be had there it's basically just watching videos. So far Tumblr seems like the best since the age skews higher but sadly most of the good and active artists are on Twitter.
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also dean thomas was actually supposed to have lot bigger role in the books originally, and even if the tv series is going to be more true to the original story changes are always going to happen, so why not give an existing black character a bigger role, based on rowling's original ideas? and for example keep lavender brown as a black girl as she originally was in the movie version
No. 335038
>>334974>>334994god can you tards shut up about race already
>>334869McGonagall is a
terf, Umbridge is a TRA. you can't change my mind
No. 335062
>And is there something wrong with those…? I don't get it.Like I already said, that a homogeneous friend group, be it all white, all senegalese, all quechua, or whatever, is not exactly the best choice if they're going for an international audience. It was a good choice when the books were first published and the intended audience was british children. It was still good when there were fewer precedents of diverse media and they were actually a big example of it, with background kids of all skintones walking around Hogwarts, or with their choice of a half hispanic actress to play Tonks (video related). Their goals seem to be a bit different now, and international audiences' expectations nowadays are different as well.
>>335038Sorry nona I find this convo genuinely interesting I swear I'm not intending to sperg lol. I'll shut up now, btw agree on Umbridge being a TRA.
No. 335183
>>335102Anime has a local target audience, they see international licensing as something "extra" that may or may not happen. Their culture is very peculiar too, if anything when watching anime you pick up on these differences, like their unique character archetypes (yamato nadeshiko, tsundere, dojikko, etc), their culture of "blood type=personality", and other concepts like "moe", "white day", "unsold christmas cake", "hafu", etc. I don't think any westerner watching an anime seriously considers themselves as belonging to that world, unless it's a deluded weeb or something.
Tbh one piece is the first one I've seen cater to an international audience successfully, and they raceswapped the cast and changed up cultural nuances. For example Sanji originally was depicted as the staple pervert anime archetype, but they changed that in the live action, because while in japanese culture that archetype is extremely common and it's seen as harmless, to us international audiences it's
problematic.
(derailing) No. 335326
>>334685>is not normal here (keyword: here)In conclusion you want everyone to change their own "uncanny" and "cultish" cultures to better match your own because you think others are weird and must conform to your standards. You do realize you're the only one here made uncomfortable because of skin tones. Everyone else simply wants character accuracy. We all want Dean and Angelina to be black, Cho to be asian etc.
>>334685>I said that where I am it looks cultish and uncanny if an entire friend group is all the same skintone, didn't even say whiteSo this wasn't all you in
>>334303 saying
>I think JK Rowling just imagined them all white>In comparison, an all-white friend group looks a bit uncanny and it's difficult for teens to relate to>Harry's all-white friend groupSorry to break this to you but both the books and the movies where an all white cast plays the all white characters… are in fact some of the most popular and relatable pieces of media around the whole world. Your argument didn't make sense from the start.
No. 335327
>>334915>The only character I can kind of see as being a radfem is Hermione but she wouldn't be a full on troon hating TERF, either a "TIRF" or TERF that's sympathetic to HSTS troon types.I think she'd be a basic
terf, not a full on actual radfem if that makes sense. She wouldn't accept the unscientific bs that some men are/can become women, but she's not burning her bra so to speak. I think she absolutely would hate troons, I mean she could barely even stand Luna's unscientific views kek
>I think James would be the type to intentionally provoke TIMsAbsolutely, I fully agree kek
>Ron would find troons weird at first especially the AGP ones but he is easily influenced and backs Hermione's views so he adopts her mindset later but still "misgenders" them in his head.I agree about the first part. He'd find them gross, but that he'd adopt Hermione's terfy troon-hating views. So would Harry from the three of them hanging out. Hermione wouldn't be rude to troons faces but she'd vent to Harry and Ron about how gross they are.
I also fully agree about Luna, canon Luna would be so odd she's not even aware of troon stuff and accidentally misgenders troons unknowingly, unaware that they're even trying to pass despite being in full woman-face. The troons would bully her over it though.
>In general, Gryffindors would likely be supportive or TRAsI don't agree, I think they'd be the ones "brave" enough to tell the truth (like JKR herself). The other houses I agree with. Ravenclaw would be full of conflict because of the 2 opposite camps.
I would honestly love it if JKR wrote actual statements about how transphobic each house is lmao
No. 335413
>>335326>Sorry to break this to you but both the books and the movies where an all white cast plays the all white characters… are in fact some of the most popular and relatable pieces of media around the whole world.Yeah I'm sure that's why the fans have been racebending them for over a decade to the point certain fancanons have become a staple and all. In fact I don't think I've ever seem this much consistent racebending in any other fandom ever, it sure makes a case for relatability.
Can you guys agree to disagree already?
No. 335430
>>335326Also lol, sorry but if you're straight out living together with people of all races, it's fucking weird to cherrypick only white kids as your entire friend group. Ig it'd be normal if you're living in a highly segregated or monocultural environment, but not when you literally share dorms with them. Racial segregation is not a "cultural quirk", no matter how much closeted racists try to pretend that it is. HP was made that way because Rowling did live in a monocultural environment and because that was also their market back then, the original audience was british, and that's okay, anyone can love a foreign film, but the whole point of diverse media is that it shouldn't feel so much like a foreign film.
And HP is a business that pushes for consumers to be a part of the Harry Potter universe, to see what's your hogwarts house and your patronus, to walk around the wizarding world virtually or at universal studios. They promote house merch for you to wear, not with the strict purpose of cosplaying a certain character, but as just yourself wearing your house colors. They even created new canon with the whole MACUSA stuff to try to pander to the USA, which was the wrong move because nobody wants new random lore, but it shows an intention nonetheless.
The whole "
poc relegated to extras in the background while the main characters are all white" that worked for them a decade ago is not enough for international audiences anymore.
In any case, they don't need to convince
me to watch Harry Potter. I'm already a fan, tbh I don't think you need to convince any die hard fans to watch it. Just pointing out what's best to appeal to an international market, if that's what they want. And it's okay if you don't like it, people can agree to disagree, idk what the big deal is.
No. 335488
>>335430As multiple anons have said now, the books/movies/series are not about
your culture. If you cannot handle
other cultures then simply don't comsume said media. Stop trying to call British culture racist just because you don't get your way with it. And that's all I have to say on it.
No. 335490
>>335413>Yeah I'm sure that's why the fans have been racebending them for over a decadeEh to be fair, this is like saying every fujo headcanon should now be gay in canon because fans have been doing that for waaaay longer and with way more content than any racebending. Maybe I'm not the most fandom savy person but I've honestly only ever seen the "Harry as
poc" headcanon back on tumblr and once I left that site I haven't seen it since then, until it was brought up here
No. 335540
>>335430If Harry and/or Hermione get raceswapped if's gonna be PJO 2.0 with people calling you racist if you ever portray them as white even if JKR says it's up to interpretation so no thanks. People are already annoying about Hermione and that was only for a play so I don't want these retards to be given any more ammunition. Nor do I want HBO to appeal to the bottom 1% of fans when majority of people don't care about whether or not the main cast is white people (even non-fans are used to the main trio being white already). Like
>>334349 and
>>335490 mentioned, racebenders and anyone who thinks Harry's friend group being mostly white is a genuine complaint are tumblrites/hyperwoke fans who consider the series anti-semitic and racist for inane reasons anyway. HP has been out for two decades and new people are still getting into it, no one cares about the racial demographics of the cast besides crazies on Twitter.
No. 335593
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>>334887Kek I wonder why that is happening
Why the gingers, what did they do? Please God don't let anything happen to the Weasleys
No. 335614
>>335488Racial segregation =/= culture lol. Nothing about british culture says that
poc characters (that they chose to include in the first place) must be strictly relegated to npcs in the background.
You can like a piece of media and not be completely blind to its flaws you know.
No. 335801
>>335593This image is cursed kek
Do you guys have any movie pet peeves? My child-self at the time thought the weasley twin actors weren't good looking enough (i loved them in the books) so in the back of my head I still hold a tiny grudge against them lmao
No. 336857
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>lolcow.farm wizarding school
>female students only, obviously
>4 houses are Keekweeklaw, Hellflepuff (Hellweek), Staminaryn (Stamina Rose) and Gryffinotsuba
>the aesthetic of each dorm matches the board style it's based on
>sorting hat is that chibi cow you see when you scroll all the way down
>Headmistress Elsie Dumbledore
>farmer hats as wizarding hats, mini-pitchforks as wands
>newfag is the equivalent of muggles
>classes are based off the boards
>OT is divination class since it's for random discussions, with the Sanic totem and all
>G is potion class, for cosmetics or to poison scrotes
>M is history of magic and studying ancient runes, because it's all about geeking out
>Snow is is that class with Hagrid where you take care of magical beasts, except the beasts are snowflakes
>Pt is defense against the dark arts where we learn to defend ourselves against lolcows
>W is transfiguration class given it's mostly style-oriented vloggers
>Meta is homework help
>2X is quidditch, since not everyone is in it. One of the balls is a moid's head kept alive/conscious by magic
>manure is the chamber of secrets
>shayboard is that one Umbrige supporter group thing from the 5th movie
>a bunch of ghosts of old cows roam the dining hall as ghosts and scream the site's rules as they fly about
>instead of patronuses we have tulpas of our husbandos and waifus we summon to defend us
>anachan dementors
>"T-t-there's a.. t-there's a… a TROON IN THE DUNGEON!"
>the servant elves are cc refugees
>council of magic are jannies
>death-eaters are raiding channers, soycucks and kiwifarm users
>invisibility cloak is the equivalent of ban-evasion
>she-who-shall-not-be-named is a certain banned user… her nickname rhymes with "lance-hag", if you know you know
I wanted to end it off with horcruxes but I'm out of ideas
No. 336861
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This is the funniest thing I've seen all week.
No. 336885
>>334887>>335593I have also noticed that redheads are usually the ones replaced in movies and tv shows with black characters. My assumptions for why this happens:
Redheads are often pale, so they're seen as the "whitest" aside from blondes with blue eyes. Because of being seen as the whitest, they're seen as the least oppressed or the most "bland" by people who race swap.
Redheads are rare. They're probably more rare than black people. So they used to hold the place of familiar, but also a little exotic, beauty. That spot is being replaced by black people. Also, the fact that they're rare means they're unlikely to complain or their complains will not be heard. Plus, redheads are not the main characters but the friends or love interests or background characters, so not many people will complain if theyre swapped because most people don't care about these characters anyway.
Redheads were discriminated and are still being discriminated even nowadays. A lot of people making raceswaps are racist themselves so they don't notice this prejudice or ignore it. It's like replacing one "token" character with another.
Because they're rare in live actions it's easier to find a black actor than a ginger actor. Which means they're more likely to have a black character because finding a ginger actor means they will have to pay more. Then hair dye is an option but then the actor has to keep dying in through production so it's avoided. There are wigs but it's not a very good solution because many wigs don't look good.
For Ron and his brothers specifically, it's because a few times he acted like "an asshole". There's an overlap between the people who race swap and the people who complain about morality in fiction. By making these characters black, their actions will be seen as "more acceptable".
No. 336954
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>>336857Kekk great stuff
>>335801The whole Snape memories sequence, I wish it was shown like it was in the books but they really wanted to paint a much better looking picture of Snape even though what happens in the books is way more interesting and makes more sense. Also Harry's parents being around their 40s or something.
I liked the twins, my sister and I were a bit obsessed with them and my sister knew which was which by observing the little things, like, how one of the twins has a bit of a bump on his nose and stuff like that kek we were kids and we've grown out of it now No. 336955
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>>336951Alright, mistress
No. 337171
>>335801i will always be mad at the casting of mcgonagall. book McG isn't some uwu swweet old gran she's a sone cold badass and she's suppsoed to be younger. it sucks because you mostly see movie mcG in fan content
also they oversimpmlified some of the msott important storylines like snape's . i already sperged about the book v movie malfoys too
unfortunately the movies skewed the portrayal of many ccharacters in fandom and you hardly ever see their cooler book versions
No. 338394
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I'm finally playing HL now that it's out on switch. I kept seeing people say it was a mid game so my expectations weren't too high, now I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. It's to the point I don't really get why people called it mid? Does a game have to be a mind-blowing 10/10 to even be considered "good" these days?
No. 338457
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Do you consider the cursed child canon?
Apparently JKR said it should be but fans seem to disagree. I haven't seen it, but I saw a review of it and it seemed pretty bad and like the characters got ruined. Harry said he wished his son wasn't his, Hermione is the minister of magic, Ron is bumbling fool… voldemort has a child.
I can see why she would call it canon, because no matter how you look at it it's still an official part of the HP universe. So there is no way she could say it's not canon. But I refuse to accept it as the continuation of the books because it simply makes no sense and we know none of the play was intended while she wrote them. So at least in my mind while they are "canon", that doesn't mean it's actually how Harry's story continues and the two aren't mutually exclusive concepts. Like how both cartoon cinderella and live action cinderella are both disney canon, despite being different. It's just a different version.
No. 338460
>>338394>>338408While there are people who call HL shit because it's HP and they automatically hate anything related to HP it's not like everyone saying it's mid is bad faith. I follow some normal/moderate gamers who either don't care about the JKR stuff or back her views and some think it's mid. They don't mean mid in the sense that it's not enjoyable but that it's your run of the mill Ubisoft game with basic stuff you'd expect from an RPG and doesn't do anything innovative compared to its competitors. I haven't played it myself so I have no opinion on it but this is just to say that not everyone calling it mid has JKR derangement syndrome.
>>338457It's canon but people can think it's shit and the writing was garbage at the same time. That wouldn't take away from it being canon though. Unless JKR comes up with a new post-epilogue book you just have to take TCC as the official continuation of HP (that most people don't care for).
No. 338476
>>338457it's so terrible. it reads like a bad fanfic with every cliché (tragic ded mom, time travel, vildemort's secret daughter with blue hair). back in the heyday of the hp fandom, that shit would have been ripped to shreds if it had been a fanfic.
i din't consider it canon, the entire premise is so ridiculous. voldemort does NOT fuck
No. 338499
>>338457Iirc she didn't write it, just approved of someone else's script of it?
I don't consider it entirely canon but I like to take the very small moments from the play/script into consideration. For example, the saving grace of the play was Albus/Scorpius' friendship and a few lines of dialogue from characters that deepened their lore. Otherwise it's all very garbage. Like one of my main gripes is that Harry treated Ginny like shit and yelled at McGonnagal. idc for the harry/ginny ship, but even I thought that Ginny deserved so much better. Especially with how her life turned out to be.
As for the play, I think you should see it at least once irl. The effects, music, dances are really well made that a bootleg/slime tutorial can't convey. I watched it since a friend scored cheap tickets and honestly it revived my interest in Harry Potter. Story is still absolutely shit though don't get me wrong.
No. 338518
>>338394i just finished the main quest and while ot was tonnes of fun, one big issue is that the story offers you some choices but they don't matter at all.
the whole thing is scripted to get just one ending and there are no consequences ti choosing ti be good or evil. it' still amazing wrt worldbuilding even if the countryside gets a bit repetitive. and the sidequests are great but not all characters get esual development.
hopefully they iron this out for the sequel. Imo it's a good game, not just mid, but it coudl be much better with a morality system and more choices that affect how the story develops.
big plus for the visuals though. love the castle and my victorian school uniforms
No. 338567
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>>338499>Iirc she didn't write it, just approved of someone else's script of it?Correct, they approached her about making a play and she'd be in on the discussions and would make suggestions, and ultimately she approved of it. So she kinda helped a lot but she's not the "real" writer of it (and it shows).
>>338460>Unless JKR comes up with a new post-epilogue book you just have to take TCC as the official continuation of HPI don't think you "have to" at all, I think it's still correct to say that's the "play canon" and that the "book canon" is different. None of the play script is in the books, hence it is not "book canon". Look at it this way, JKR would never say the movies (HP and FB) aren't canon to the HP universe, yet there are a billion changes like how Peeves doesn't exist in them at all. So is Peeves not existing canon or do the movies simply have their own canon that is connected to but doesn't fully align with the books?
I think it's a disservice to all the works to insist they're always direct continuations to each other, rather than just related works that have their own little canons. It's ok if they contradict each other.
JKR has also never stated what she means by "canon". I honestly think she means "I was personally involved with the process of creating it" as opposed to it being made by fans or other people. All her writings on pottermore/WW aren't openly stated to be canon either, but it directly relates to the book canon and they're officially written and published works by her. Should those all be dismissed, or seen as additional canon content? JKR has never openly stated the books are canon, but she said it about the play… so in canon Hermione is black and not white kek (for racesperg anons this is a joke pls ignore it)
No. 338858
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>>338854Don't know any fics like that but if you find any pls post here. I'm in serious need of new fics and I'm done with all the shipping fics (I like them but I'm tired now), I just want some what ifs that don't go into dumb muggle and fanon wizard politics, why are people in fandom so into politics these days? So annoying, this is HP not GOT, Lord Potter my ass.
I also love time travelling fics but for some reason HP fics always do the same shit over and over again with Harry going to meet his parents or raising kid voldy or worse, seducing him kek
No. 339046
>>338889>I just don’t understand why Harry couldn’t just NOT do the tournament. What was the penalty??Never underestimate teenagers ability to fall for peer pressure lol
It also wouldn't surprise me if the penalty was literally death or unspeakable horrors given how twisted the magic world could be when you looked closer at it
No. 339520
>>339517it's generally based on a very warped of the character. just like some ppl will turn draco from a pointy-faced cowardly bully into a smart sassy sexpot in leather pants, the average snape wofe sees him not as a bitter greasy gir but as a brooding, tragic tall dark and handsome hero
mind you, we do get biased descriptions if them in the books since it's filtered through harry's PoV, but even then fanon interpretations are wack.
it also helps that a lot of people have on'y seen the movies and snape's bad aspects in the films were considerably toned down compared to the books. he was considerably less of a bully and more heroic
No. 339648
>>339520>>339523i heard that JKR handpicked Alan Rickman and I can't see why. I don't hate his portrayal of Snape but I don't think his performance is noteworthy either. He did add some subtle depth into his acting which I liked but I can imagine a bunch of other actors pulling off similar performance. I don't think acting like that is hard to pull off for any experienced actors. Snape in the movies also feels much different than Snape in the early books which just makes it even more confusing that JKR insisted on Rickman.
Slighly unrelated but apparently JKR told Rickman Snape's backstory before it was revealed in the books so he could incorporate it into his acting. I guess that's why so many movie fans found Snape likeable from the beginning
No. 339757
>>339710after the racesperging in this thread i have to say that no they're not ok kek
>>339750Honestly it's best to just block and move on when you see it, those people are mentally unwell and won't stop unless they get better and/or mature and grow up - both options will take at least a few years. The only reason to keep watching them is for milk, which is
valid kek
No. 341309
>>339537kek nona i hope so too, i always hated how dignified they made snape in the movies when he's supposed to be a mental case lit fuse 24/7. he was used for comedic relief especially in the earlier books, and not just bc he was funny but the joke was often on him too. rickman-snape was way too severe and mature. plus i think snape being younger than the other teachers adds something.
i also hope that the snape's worst memory will be portrayed more accurately, not that i want to see his pants but in the movies they toned it down way too much. mainly bc i want to see how
triggered the marauders fandom will be seeing their perfect precious faves being portrayed faithfully to the books instead of insane fanon. i enjoy the marauders as characters but only bc they're horrible people.
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in other news, jkr's rape center is a success and has helped thousands of women!
No. 342626
>>338889we know magical contracts exist bc the unbreakable vow kills you if you break itt and hermione had the kids in their secret defence club sign their name to an enchanted list. and the girl who snitched on them got disfigured.
given that the goblet of fire is supeded to be an ancient powerful magical artifact it can probably do horrible shit to you if you don' play by the rules
the doylist explanation is that she needed something for harry to do for the whole year. imagine how dull it would have been to have harry & co just watch the tournament from the sidelines
No. 343147
>>342917But that's for the student isn't it? What does the actual school benefit from winning? It makes them look good to win the kids-murder-tournament but forcing them to enter in the first place isn't a good look so idk lol
>>342609JKR is doing so much good work and won't back down in the face of danger, she is a shining beacon.
No. 343154
>>342626>can probably do horrible shit to you I know, I just wanted to know what the actual consequences were. It was so quickly glossed over in the book because the adults were like "We should allow him to compete so we can figure out who put his name in the goblet"
I have no imagination nonnies WHAT HORRIBLE THING COULD'VE HAPPENED TO HIM? BRAINSTORM IDEAS NOW AND SAVE ME
No. 344420
>>343154ayrt i guess it could provably do something like hermione's list where if you don't take part in the tournament you get pimples spelling out "WIMP" across your face forever
or idk it could turn you into a duck. or make your dick fall off.
No. 344442
>>343154ok, my imagination is that not participating after your name was pulled could:
- take away/damage one's magic forever until you're as powerless as a squib
- put some (bloodline? lifetime?) curse on you
- put a curse on you specifically that has you deal with the same/similar trials you would've gone through anyway if you participated, but without the relative safety barrier of rules, precautions, set dates/times. Like that movie Final Destination.
e.g a tournament dragon AND its egg got loose, and the dragon is trying to rip off the roof of the Astronomy Tower to make it into a nest. to stop this, HARRY, which you totally could've prevented if you weren't a jackass, you have to steal the dragon's egg right from its talons (instead of the nest that the tournament would've provided) while limiting as much damage to other students, staff, and architecture as you can. nice work, Boy Who Lived at the Expense of Others!
- make dick/clit fall off
- all your magic is completely fucked and your spells and potions are on RNG, with the same consequences of messing them up regularly
e.g The pepper up potion you thought you were making was actually polyjuice, and those crushed fly wings turned the whole mix into uranium
- just immense social shame and a forever tarnished reputation, which is everything to a 14 yr old. The Boy Who Lived to Turn Down a Magical Powerball Lottery
- puts auto aggro on you that makes every house elf in a 200km radius start attacking
No. 344858
>>344410There's other types too. This one is set in Berlin
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Hmm…
No. 346179
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Sebastian from Hogwarts Legacy made it to the Japanese yume top 100! I feel oddly proud of this as a HP fan.
https://note.com/_ui12/n/nd9d2bf752c5e>>345428Right? The "always" gets me each time kek
No. 346192
>>346190No idea.
Their reason for choosing him is also just
>No explanation required! ! OK…
No. 346203
>>346179based. he was such a great characyer. shame ominis didin't make the cut
for the next hogwarts gameni hope we get equally good period clothing and some better female characters, they were kinda boring compared to sebastian
No. 348568
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>>348489Fun question anon! I'm a pokemon autist at heart kek but I can't admit to anyone online that I also love HP or they'd cancel me for being a transphobe so I'll sort some mixed generation pokemon gym leaders here
>GryffindorMisty (tough friendly tomboy)
Bea (brave and likes to fight)
Lt Surge (brave soldier)
Skyla (brave and overconfident)
Korrina (action oriented and tough)
>SlytherinSabrina (is a bit on the evil side)
Iono (ambitious and wants to be the one in focus)
Volkner (powerful loner, loyal only to close friends)
Piers (anti-establishment punk)
Allister (spooky boy)
>HufflepuffBugsy (just a good boy)
Roxanne (wants to teach and help everyone)
Erika (realxing and carefree)
Milo (friendly and loyal)
Viola (friendly and helpful)
>RavenclawOpal (quiz gym, likes to outsmart people)
Tulip (is a business pro so has the brains)
Olympia (intelligent, reads a lot)
Cheren (studious and factual)
Tate/Liza (always at the space center studying)
No. 348737
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>>348733nta
well mainly because they were sorted into slytherin by the official quiz made by the author herself lol but also
>most people (at least older teens and up) understand that Harry's view on slytherin is biased and isn't accurate>lots of people love villains becuase they're fun and it's all fiction>some people had a crush on Malfoy as a kid and wanted to be in his house kek>they're the cool bad boy house but they're not actually evil like voldemort>they're the contrarian house, the ones you'd expect to be punks and push the rules and stand up to authority>some people just love snakes and want to be in the snake house>the actual traits listed for the house are good and some people relate to them more than the traits of other houseI was sorted into slytherin which shocked me at the time (always thought I'd be a ravenclaw since I'm a bit nerdy lol) but after reading that they're ambitious, resourceful, determined and clever I realized it fits me quite well. Especially the "clever" part that was similar to what I admired from ravenclaw (theirs is learning, wisdom, intellect), but unlike ravenclaws who are individualistic and only care for themselves slytherin actually values their friends/group highly and stick together. It also helped that I hold what's seen as "evil" values according to the woke internet/friends that I grew up with, such as being a
terf and thinking sexwork is harmful to women. According to them I truly AM a villain, so that made it's easy to identify with the misunderstood house that gets a bad rep lol
No. 348741
>>348740Not at all. If it's shit, you can just keep watching the old movies, and if it's not shit, you have more content to enjoy. They might improve on some things, you never know.
I would be happy with any additional adaptions, I want every moment of every book on film with nothing cut out and a long TV series would be necessary for that. And I'm sick of some of the movie actors, fuck those traitors who value trannies and virtue signalling over the based woman who made them rich and famous.
No. 348772
>>348740I can see what you mean but I'm really excited for it. There were plently of actors I thought did a character a disservice (dumbledore, snape, tonks, fleur…) and I also want to see the parts they cut out from the books.
The movie actors aren't canon so it doesn't matter how perfect they were - Daniel R still isn't THE Harry Potter. Another actor could do just as good of a job. And Emma W played Hermione really well, but I'm currently slightly upset by her (and Daniel) for being pro-troons so I'm happy for someone else to take her spot. I'm also all for anything that makes troon seethe kek
No. 349122
>>348740I think it's fine. It's not like the child actors were prodigies, I really liked Helena/Evanna's performances though so I'd be surprised if the new actors can top theirs. I'm honestly excited to see what they do with the TV series as they're putting more care into faithfulness. The movies missed out on a lot and kind of fucked with Hermione and Ron's traits, not to mention the later director's Harry/Hermione bias. The only thing that would ruin it for me is if they added pro-troon stuff but since JKR is working on it I'm not that worried.
>>348820I thought WB would hop on the anime train considering how popular the series is in Japan and other Western IPs have gotten anime adaptions, but nope. At least HPMA exists.
No. 349310
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No genderspecials in fandom = no fat / trans / race swapped in the worst way (exaggerated racial features that look like a caricature) fanart.
No. 350408
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>>350396I agree about the tq+ but don't drag the lgb into this.
No. 354725
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Are there any good fics about older characters, like what ifs/canon divergence that make good use of the wizarding world and their books characterization? I am so tired of reading about teens falling in love or the 9999 way they kill voldy (ok, that last one is my fault thanks to all the time travel fics I end up reading), I wouldn't mind aged up characters but I am also tired of adult HP going ooc crybaby because 'muh trauma', and none of these tend to use all the interesting stuff of the HP universe. Really I'd rather see a bit more about how Harry and Ginny deals with that bunch of kids + work + some interesting plot than Horribly Named Potter kissing Scorpius.
No. 354892
>>349310I've heard that it's a rare fandom that isn't overrun with TRA bs. If that's so, I may have to join the HP fandom for the first time in my life.
Although, I had to unsub from someone the other day on AO3 when they tagged their HP meta piece with 'disclaimer: not a
TERF' rme.
>>350408Big agree lol.
No. 361755
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I love how so many normies are genuinely oblivious to the jkr drama/scandal. Everywhere I go people compliment my little Ron Weasley keychain, normal ppl love HP
No. 370510
>>354725i love "the professors' point of view" on ffnet. but it's sadly unfinished.
it covers books 1 o 6 according to the hogwarts profs, it's a welcome change of perspective.
i'm super tired of the time travel/fix-it/ kill voldy fics, so repetitive
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>>354892Extremely late reply lmao but I’m talking Hogwarts Legacy fandom specifically. It’s small but I haven’t seen a single piece of gendershit art or fic and the western and eastern artists are really talented:
It can be weird as fuck but that’s all HP fandom for you. this Japanese fujo with her titties-out JoJo character of an MC cracks me the fuck up. bless her.
No. 371330
>>371283i mean i agree that ship art of a kids with and an adult is gross
>>361755this is so cute! i'm complimenting every HP item I see in the wild in case a wild
terf is around to hear it and get the signal, or a wild troon is around so they get offended
No. 371643
>>371330the player character in hogwarts legacy is supposed to be 15. it's hard to tell with the buff dude but he is wearing one of the slytherin uniforms available in the game
>t. autist hunting down every single clothing variationalso i used to find hp merch meh but once i started working around insufferable megawokes i brought hp stuff around the office (notebook, mug, water bottle etc) just out of principle
No. 371776
>>371770i know right? even when i was a teen i never understood the jegulus hype. i was a huge snapefag as a teen and honestly i still am. not to sound cringe but one of my favorite jeverus tropes is james trying to better himself for snape but most of the time failing miserably at it because snape is put off by his advances, jeverus provides such a good bully x “
victim” dynamic if you will kek
No. 371832
>>371781oh my god i never thought of this but this is such a good concept nona?? i’m actually in love with lilly actually being a representation of james repressed feelings for snape, this is bringing back my jeverus brainrot hard thank you nona
i have such a soft spot for jeverus during their days at hogwarts, being the token unlikely couple but they don’t realize their feelings til after they’ve graduated hogwarts and now james has to fix his broken relationship. ugh. so good
No. 371908
>>371650I love jeverus even though I'm also big snily fan too, wish there was more content but people rather waste their time writing and discussing that crap jegulus, regulus has zero personality so it's up to the writer to make something up and he always come as a quiet and sensitive sirus, so boring, like these people never met a rich boy or are afraid to make him too "
problematic", I guess that's another reason they don't touch snape, seem so many people going as if the guy is a real person and actual nazi kek, the state of the fandom
>>371770My thoughts exactly. I wonder if a new adaptation could make jeverus more popular
>>371832Nta but me too, I love the idea of them getting together later, after they leave hogwarts, saddens me that I've read a ton of long ass snily fics that go exactly like that with them connecting again after being on bad terms but I can never find a good long jeverus fic like that, also hopefully one that don't shit on lily or makes her some annoying faghag (you would't believe the amount of times I've seen this when it comes to snupin)
No. 372381
>>371776Jegulus is popular because of all the drama they have in canon.
James replaced Regulus as Sirius' brother. And when Sirius ran away from home, he sought refuge in James. So Regulus probably blamed James for stealing Sirius away.
Regulus and James were also quidditch rivals, and we know Griffindor won the cup.
So there's these two things that canon Regulus held dear, his family and quidditch, and James canonically defeats him at both, it's like he can't stop offhandedly ruining Regulus' life. I can totally see Regulus being jealous of James, then wanting to be him, and ultimately just wanting him.
But realistically there's no way James would have reciprocated. Perhaps he would have tried to get closer to Regulus to try and save both Black brothers, either for Sirius' sake or his own savior complex. But nothing more than that, James reads as very straight and he was head over heels for Lily. This is what bothers me the most about jegulus. Lily and James can work as this grumpy x sunshine trope just as well, canon Lily is as mean to James as fancanon Regulus is. It's obvious that the main reason why some fans replace Lily is because of a fujo fetish and internalized misogyny.
In that regard, jeverus makes just as little sense as jegulus. Both James and Severus were devoted to Lily, to suggest otherwise is a bit of a disservice. Unrequited jegulus though? Top tier. Almost as delicious as unrequited snily.
>>371908>quiet sensible SiriusIt's been a while since I read these fics, but I starkly remember Sirius raising hell every time, especially in Choices. Keeping the relationship secret is usually a big plot point in jegulus fics, and Sirius is usually the very last one to find out. I think the only big jegulus fic in which he bites his tongue is Crimson Rivers, not because he's trying to be sensible but because he's too busy tying to keep the boys alive.
No. 372401
>>370028The big marauder fics are mostly canon compliant, (except for AUs obviously), they definitely don't strip away canon. I think what she means is that in the marauders era, the kids are just kids. They're not a professor, a traitor, an ex-convict and a dead father, and they have no idea that they will ever be, because right now they're just a group of reckless wondrous idiot children. This is especially true for Peter, because marauder era Pete is lovely and you can't help but like him even though you know what's going to happen. And that makes sense, like that quote that betrayal points to love because you can't betray an acquaintance. Peter's betrayal hurts because it's our Pete.
I will admit though, the marauders fandom is particularly prone to AUs. This is because most of these fics aren't inspired by the Harry Potter series, but by all the young dudes. They're atyd fanfiction. That's why some AUs are so far removed from Harry Potter that they seem to have no relation at all, if it wasn't for the fact that the characters' personalities and relationships come from atyd, which is a proper Harry Potter fic.
So if you want a real 101 just start reading atyd, read a couple chapters and see how you like it. I think any fic reader should check it out anyway, just for the sake that it's the most popular fic on the internet so far.
No. 372414
>>372381NTA but you misread, she said writers characterise Regulus as a quiet sensible Sirius not that Sirius is quiet and sensible.
>Jegulus is popular because of all the drama they have in canonKek Snape and James have like ten times the amount of drama, they were literally enemies and Snape hated James until his dying breath. I will never fall for the Jegulus meme but it is interesting to learn why people like it.
>>372401ATYD is utter slop, the characterisations are completely removed from canon. Normally I would just ignore a bad fic but this interpretation of the Marauders leaks out into the rest of the fandom. I don't typically mind alternate interpretations but it's so pervasive in every corner of the fandom these days.
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>>372401>mfw someone recs atydIt fucking suckssssss but it wouldn't be so bad if people didn't act like any of this shit is canon, seriously, I don't mind AU's at all but people act like fanon is canon and it is everywhere in the fandom now.
Most appalling things of atyd that I remember:
>snape bullying lupin >happens a lot, he seems to be deliberately targetting lupin>boohoo poor half blood, dyslexic (for some reason), lower class, orphaned lupin>snape is basically a dark haired draco>lupin is even more of a spineless retard than canon>you have to actually search for peter because he is basically not there for the most part despite being a marauder>somehow tagged as canon compliant>BONUS obligatory 'I don't support jkr transphobic views' disclaimerAtyd single handedly made me despise wolfstar because everyone is writing them based on that crap, and the constant butchering of snape seems to come from the same source too
No. 372638
>>372414I like reading different fics and AUs (in fact I read all the recs from the last thread) so I'm not pressed about ooc. Still, people reach a bit when criticizing atyd.
The young marauders only appear for like 5 second in canon, so any fic ever written about them has had to make up their personalities one way or another. Unreliable narration is also a thing, Severus' experience is biased and so is Remus', people tend to see their friends through rose coloured glasses and only realize in hindsight.
That being said, the characters are fine? Remus is the most polarizing one ig, canon Remus is a broken man, but people act like he was born broken when he wasn't, life broke him at some point. In canon we only really see him as a teacher, or trying to be the person he needed to be for Harry. It's like people think teachers were never young or something, as if they came out of the womb acting all professional. Atyd Remus is an angry child who acts out sometimes, but his personality mellows with age and his casual self-hate and quiet resignation are consistent both in canon and fanon. Sure he has much more grit in atyd, but people don't act the same way at 15 than 35.
>>372455I agree Severus' representation is biased and unfair, similar to his depiction in canon. He's pretty based though:
>suspects Remus is a werewolf, proceeds to test his theory by "accidentally" stabbing him with a silver pin.>sees Remus limping and in need of a walking stick, proceeds to trip him down the long ass stairs of the quidditch stands.Hilarious shit tbh.
I disagree about the rest though.
You guys hate atyd because of the fandom and its anti-jkr pickeism and I get it, but the fic itself is truly well written, it's not for nothing that it became so popular.
Sure, younger fans ran wild with everything and made up all kinds of headcanons derived from it, but atyd itself is just some fic someone wrote, it was never intended to be the basis of an entire fandom. Atyd Sirius isn't what the fandom turned him into, he's a rich kid who tries to act like a "yob" and tries to go against the dark nature of his blood but ends up being a bit twisted like the rest of his family. There's not even jegulus nor dorlene in atyd, most of the characters are straight, the few gay people that appear are mostly just a couple people Remus fucks throughout his life, and like one lesbian friend. And at least atyd features no troons at all and that's more than I can say about the peace not promised which was recommended here and which snily fans swear by (and which was also a good read despite all btw).
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>>372638AYRT I was the one who rec peace not promised, unfortunately I was too deep in it to drop once the troon appeared. I gave a warning though so you don't get to waste your time if having even 1 troon is a nope for you, would be shitty to rec something like that and not say anything about it.
I loved the little things of that fic, like when snape tried to read the marauders map james handed him and it simply insulted him again. God I wish there were more fics where they interact like that.
Btw I never said atyd was badly written, at least not in terms of ability to put words on a paper and express herself, just that the characterization really sucks and idg why tag it as canon compliant, tag it as AU and I wouldn't care if lupin is dyslexic, I mean, there are AU fics where snape is as wimpy and soft boi as the fadom makes lupin to be, (and I even read a fic where snape was said to be beautiful which just made me close the tab kek), but thank god it's not tagged as canon compliant and the fandom knows that characterization is not canon at all.
>>372676It is a tif slytherin (I think?) oc. Been a long time since I read that but I am certain it's not an actual character from the books, I'd get so mad if it was an important character.
No. 372716
>>372676The troon is one of Severus' dorm mates, it's a made up character but it appears frequently.
>>372682You're one to talk about characterizations then. James, Sirius and Peter are pretty much the same in the peace not promised as in atyd.
In the peace not promised Remus is a slimy hypocrite, a despicable character all around. Was canon Remus supposed to be so slimy? Probably not, but it doesn't mean it's a bad characterization, it's just that the author obviously doesn't like Remus so she gave him that interpretation. It doesn't take away from her work.
You're just mad at atyd because your favorite character was depicted as an incel creep, but the fact that the characterizations are not catered to your tastes doesn't mean that they're shit.
You talk as if atyd was some dyslexia awareness manifesto, dyslexia is mentioned literally only once in a story with 200 chapters, and Remus doesn't even know what it means. They don't even delve on it, he just says he'll look it up later or something. For all purposes the kid is just an illiterate thug and it's interesting to see him struggle to hide the fact that he can't read for shit. Dyslexia is damn common anyway, it's not like she gave him some rare snowflake disorder. For me it just highlights the point that life hates Remus Lupin so much that the only simple pleasure he has, which is reading, he can't even do without magic.
No. 372845
>>372716Girl I am unhappy with lupin's characterization too because I like him too and all the other marauders for that matter, why else I'd even try to read anything with them and even complain peter's presence is minimal if I hated them.
"I am one to talk" lmao, you can hate peace not promised all you want, not like I ever said it's peak characterization but the characterization there is not bleeding in to the fandom like atyd nor is tagged canon compliant, dunno why you acting like I only read and liked one fic or that I'd be pressed if someone didn't like my recs.
The problem with fics with snape's pov is that they don't tend to write the marauders very well, and the same is true for the marauders fics, yes we all know about that, but the problem with atyd is that everyone sucks in that fic, even the main character, lupin is so far removed from canon that if you change his name would you even know that guy is supposed to be him?
>You talk as if atyd was some dyslexia awareness manifestoNowhere in my posts I did even imply that so I dunno where you got that from. I also said he was an orphan and lower class, next you gonna scholar me on how the poor and orphans are also very common.
>Was canon Remus supposed to be slimy? Probably notI don't remember him being "slimy" in that fic so I gotta reread his parts but now I wonder if you even read the books cus he is def not the picture of innocence you think he is, and that's what makes him interesting. Quite sad the fandom forgot all about it to make his drama all about fanon problems.
No. 372882
>>372878Not sure exactly what characters/scenarios you are looking for, but here are some one-shots I like!
where there's a will (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/12391806): canon compliant genfic about Harry dealing with the life or death situations he's put in constantly
The Portrait and The Prisoner (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/30331608): canon compliant Sirius-centric character examination
Portrait of a Sociopath as a Loving Mother (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14408904): pokes fun at how underdeveloped Lily's character was in canon. A fun thought experiment
Playing For Keeps (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/5713): really weird disturbing horror fic about Snape and Eileen. Reccing because it's very well written.
I Know Not, and I Cannot Know; Yet I Live and I Love (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6693841): canon compliant tearjerker about a friendship between Luna and Snape, I can't rec this one highly enough
Imperfection (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/4684): Ginny/Hermione if you like femslash
I also recommend everything by the Ao3 user Delphi if you like rare pairs.
No. 372893
>>372789Just because the marauders' personalities are made more nuanced doesn't mean they're not canon compliant.
Peter had to be likeable at some point, otherwise why would the marauders be friends with him? It's not like he fits in perfectly anyway, he has a lot of friction with Sirius. Atyd James is a good person, but he is in fact an arrogant, spoiled, upper-class pureblood, and Remus dislikes them all at first, but later says something like James' big headedness is well-earned. He's just more similar to the James everyone sings praises to in canon, than to the James that Severus experiences.
Severus is not a pureblood, and though I think it's a pity he wasn't more nuanced, his character is not unrealistic. He's just following the cycle of abuse. Sometimes when a person is abused, they find someone who is below themselves in the perceived hierarchy and replicate the behavior. Colorism is one example of it, some black people who have experienced racism find someone with darker skin and replicate the discrimination. Severus is a half-blood, so he bullies a half-breed (and Harry does mention that Remus looked shabby even as a kid). It's a possible interpretation of Severus' character, after all, in canon he does become a death eater out of his own volition.
Canon compliant means that the shit you write can't contradict anything written in the books (or the canon source you chose), not that you're not allowed to give canon your own interpretation as long as it doesn't contradict it.
>>372845I said the peace not promised was a good read, but by those standards the characterizations are just as "detached from canon" as any other marauders era fic that attempts to give them any nuance.
Atyd Remus is
toxic as hell, but in the peace not promised he's awful. I think in that fic Severus even says that he hates Remus more than the others because at least the others were honest while Remus pretended like he wasn't taking part in the bullying (he was) and instead acted like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. I don't think he ever even apologized (while the others did iirc) not even when Severus was slaving over his wolfsbane for weeks at a time every month.
Again, you guys don't like that a particular interpretation of the marauders became so widespread, that's fine, but that doesn't mean it isn't a reasonable interpretation, it's not like the fic intended to become this huge phenomenon.
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Every so often I go through intense Harry Potter binges of fanfic and fanart (picrel from SinsBibi on twitter). I'm so nostalgic lately for the days when we were looking forward to the new book releases and everyone would cosplay and go to the midnight release parties. It feels like there hasn't been anything like it since then (though maybe the Marvel fans did a bit of that, but on a smaller scale?). I just miss being excited for a series like I was back then and enjoying that excitement with others. Maybe I was just younger then and didn't know as much but it felt like it was genuinely a happier time.
No. 426186
I'm rereading HBP and this passage hits completely differently in 2024:
>“They do not call me Tom’ anymore,” [Voldemort] said. “These days, I am known as — ”
>“I know what you are known as,” said Dumbledore, smiling pleasantly. “But to me, I’m afraid, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.”
>He raised his glass as though toasting Voldemort, whose face remained expressionless. Nevertheless, Harry felt the atmosphere in the room change subtly: Dumbledore’s refusal to use Voldemort’s chosen name was a refusal to allow Voldemort to dictate the terms of the meeting, and Harry could tell that Voldemort took it as such.
Dumbledore is a giant TERF confirmed. Also Voldemort is a groomer who threw a sour grapes magical mantrum when he didn't get the unrestricted access to malleable schoolchildren that he wanted.
Honestly I find young Tom Riddle so much more interesting than Baldymort. I know a big part of his character arc is that his superiority complex and contempt for everyone around him makes it so that in the end he can't even be bothered to charm or persuade his own followers and resorts to pure violence and mind control instead, but I've never been able to find villains like that very compelling. I wonder if the HBO series will expand on his character before the first wizarding war, and events outside of Harry's perspective more generally.
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>>426186OH NNONONONONONONONO. How can based Dumbledore deadname his chuuni student??? 'Voldemort' is a stunning & beautiful first name, just like Athena or Lilith!
No. 426247
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>>426188kek to be fair to volds the name change was probably necessary for his choice of career… I mean you can't rly make it as a dark lord with a name like fucking tom, you need something evil-sounding. "cower before TOM THE MASTER OF DARKNESS" doesn't have the same ring to it
>>426186as a committed dumbledore hater (power-tripping condescending dickhead) i'll admit this is his most based moment. But also if i was in tom's shoes and i'd travelled for an interview for my dream job only to be told "lmao i did u rly think i was gonna give you the job?" i'd probably start a murder campaign.
In general i think voldemort in the books is a really interesting villain, it's unfortunate that the films left the impression of a cackling maniac whereaq he has way more depth in the books. I also hate the way the movies made him look, he looks like some fucked up chemo parient instead of the supernatural snakey creature he should be. in my head he looks like picrel.
I loved the deep dive into his past in HBP and it's pretty interesting to speculate on his personality based on that. I agree that yung tom riddle is super interesting, unfortunate that so much fanfic about tom is just him being a daddy dom to harry for some reason.
also imo his shift in personalitty and goals after his rebirth is bc he no longer trusts his followers after most of them left the cause in 1981 and never tried to find him. we know the man has abandonment issues.
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>>426247>also imo his shift in personalitty and goals after his rebirthHe also split his soul into several parts - is he even the same person when resurrected?
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>>426247It’s suggested that he knew he wasn’t going to get the job and only went to the interview to get access to the school, which for me raises the question of why Dumbledore even allowed this if he suspected that Tomdemort was into some evil shit. Why let a suspected dark wizard roam unaccompanied through a school where hundreds of kids live? Even if they had all gone home for Christmas, it seems irresponsible. Why not meet him in the Hog’s Head like Trelawney? Was he afraid of being outnumbered by Voldemort’s followers?
Anyway I’ve always found it hilarious that he already started going by Lord Voldemort while he was still at school. How did that even come about? Imagine your buddy Tom confiding in you one day that he would like you to call him Lord Voldemort. I’d laugh in his face. And get murdered, probably.
I don’t know if this was a conscious choice on JKR’s part or just something that came about because HP was written for children, but everything around Voldemort, from his own title, to the term ‘Death Eaters’, to his skull and snake emblem, reeks of edgy teenage boy. And then we find out that he came up with everything when he
was an edgy teenage boy. His followers all started as edgy teenage boys, too, and then groomed their sons and grandsons into it until being part of this edgy secret club became a family tradition. The Death Eaters are like a wizard equivalent of Skull and Bones.
No. 426555
>>426186>>426247>>426553>>426507Not gonna lie I've always thought about exploring his origins and rise to power in a fanfic of some sort but I don't know who on earth would want to read it. His character fascinates me, especially as a product of his time in blitzed-out muggle London and the difficulty he would have experienced early on in Hogwarts integrating with the prejudiced monied sort in his house. Would anynonny be interested if I were to pursue it?
>>426188kek
nonnie the dumbledorejak is giving me the same vibes as the hufflepuff tranny greentexts
No. 426580
>>426555i would 10000% be interested in that kind of fic, there are way too few character studies. shipping and time travel and smut is all you ever get, i would kill for more character-centered fic that dig deep into their psyche. I've got half a plan to make a teen voldy story myself (about the summer he kills his dad) but i'm an awfully slow writer.
>>426553honestly voldmort's ridiculous edgy dramatic chuuni side is part of why i like the character. how he sheds his name and face but can never really run away from tom riddle. the fact that voldemort is an anangram of his real name is even funnier, like you know he spent forever trying every possible combination to come up with that one. mf probably does crosswords and scrabble too. too many ppl characterise teenage tom as some dark seductive alpha dom but he's canonically a loser nerd desperately trying to impress, and he can never shed that completely.
>>426507dupbles says in hbp says sth along the lines of "his soul is mutilated but his brain and magical powers remain intact" so i thibk the sould is more of a moral thing? since the only thing that can fix a soul is remorse. i guess it's to interpretation.
No. 426586
>>426553Kek I know people who go by their online handles in certain friendship groups, it certainly reeks of edgy teenage shit that now has that nostalgia factor and is steep in friendship lore. Hell, I’d call him Lord Voldemort just for the lol factor. So long as he called me by my pretentious Slytherin dark witch-sona name.
I get the impression the wizarding world is full of underachievers with a streak of hubris a trip-to-the-sun wide. It’s surprising how few muggle-borns are implied to have Hermione levels of enthusiasm and curiosity… even hermiones curiosity is tempered by her rule following to the point she doesn’t seem to be interested in creating NEW spells/potions. Actually all the wizards/witches I can think of that WERE doing new things were either dark (Severus) or considered weird (Luna). In that context it makes sense that Lord Tom was seen as both a non entity and threat… but given Dumboedore’s superstitious nature (dude let fate play out on a baby because destiny!) it could just be that he crossed paths with a black cat that morning and feared what peril worse than matching socks and a job interview with ole tommy boy awaited him outside the castle.
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>>426586>Actually all the wizards/witches I can think of that WERE doing new things were either dark (Severus) or considered weird (Luna)Arthur Weasley's efforts go underappreciated. The wizarding world scoffs at the flying car!
>>426555>>426580>>426604If you need advice, we also have a
Writing Advice, Tips, and Vent Thread .
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>>426659Forgot to link to the thread:
>>>/ot/231750 No. 426703
>>426586honestly my crackpot conspiracy theory is that dumbles didn't nip tom's dark lord shit in the bud because having a bad guy to fight against was more interesting than just sitting in his office hitting a bong. i mean what does he even do as headmaster? he doesn't teach classes, most students probably never see him, he just spends his time trying to find voldemort's childhood memories and coming up with convoluted strategies to defeat him
which to his credit is probably more interesting than teaching a bunch of little teenage horrors how to turn a rat into a matchbox or whatever.
honestly the whole war seems like a scrote ego war beteen two super powerful wizards obsessed with each other. and as always with moids' ego trips, everyone else pays the price.
>>426604i hate the gradually ooc shit the worst, god. if a fic starts out ooc i just hate the back button immediately, but when something actually starts off well and you get invested and then it gets bogged down as soon as the romance starts… horrible.
>>426553dulbledore says "tom we both know you din't want the job" but hes not infaillible or all-knowing. voldemort gets mega pissed when he finds out the interview was for naught and he actually wants the job badly enough to curse the position (i love how petty he is kek). Imo he really did want the job. i bet this interview is why dumbledore started to interview applicants in hogsmeade, horcrux aside voldy probably couldn't have cursed the job if he hadn't been given access to the school.
>>426555ngl id love more voldemort origin story bc his class background and resentment are fascinating to me. he's an outsider in both magical and muggle words and the fact thta he started out at the very bottom of the social ladder but ended up lording it over a shitload of purebloods while never really being one of them is really inyeresting. and it's a great avenue to eplore the issues of the wizarding world.
also pretty sure he had to make a whole new persona bc no one would have followed ol' tom the shop boy. gotta wonder why dumbledore didn't reveal his deadname to ruin his credibility, im sure he would have had a harder time gathering cultists if everyone knew he was the same bloke from behind the counter at the dark arts pawn shop.
No. 426745
>>426580>>426604>>426703This is heartening to hear! I'm bloody rusty when it comes to creative writing but my lifelong love of the source material and academic background in history will probably do me some good if I decide to pursue it. I'm also a britbong so fellow autists rejoice that I won't include any maddening Americanisms in my prose! Also, would it be against lolcow rules on anonymity to post the link if I end up uploading something?
I also agree with
>>426703 and
>>426604, what gets me the worst when it comes to HP fanfic (aside from "authors" posturing about Rowling's views in every chapter in Author's Notes, I think all of us would prefer if they just disengaged with the evil
terf story if they hate it so much kek) is gradual OOC. I try to make allowances if the authors are just learning how to hone their craft and struggle with consistent characterisation, but it's absolutely maddening to get invested into something only for the quality to decline sharply.
Also, how do you guys feel about sexual themes/content in fics? I'm honestly in two minds about it - on one hand, I find gratuitous smut takes away from overarching plot more often than not (especially poorly written smut kek) but it's also a natural part of growing up and self-discovery. Some poor kid at Hogwarts definitely got teased for popping a random boner in transfiguration at some point in the school's history kek
>>426659>>426661Thank you dearly nona, I'll have a look if/when I come up with a rough draft of something.
No. 426938
>>426890ngl i like putting characters through the wringer over the top whump is annoying when it suspends disbelief. Tomdemort is already a poor orphan in ww2 london, you can get plenty of angst just from his canon background. It's like all these fics where harry gets raped and beaten to death 9000 times a week by the dursleys.
ngl i love me some dark
toxic stuff and ive got some plans to wrote it myselfbut i like my angst and pain to be believeable, damn it.
>>426745I'm super stoked to hear that anon, i would love to see more fic that does voldemort's social/historical background justice.
i'm pretty sure you're not supposed to link your ao3 directly but you could just drop the fic title or the tags you used so ppl can search for it.
i don't personally mind sexual content as long as it doesn't derail the plot. It's very annoying when the while plot turns out to be an excuse to get the characters together and fall by the wayside once they get together and the ship suddenly takes centre stage.
honestly character dtudies are underrated. im trying to write one for voldy atm but i kinda tend to overdo it with the angst ngl
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>>426745>Also, would it be against lolcow rules on anonymity to post the link if I end up uploading something?No, because you're not writing under your own name. I hope.
>I think all of us would prefer if they just disengaged with the evil terf story if they hate it so much kekThey are under her evil spell.
And to provide milk for the Rowling Derangement Syndrome thread on KiwiFarms. No. 427030
>>426990> No, because you're not writing under your own name. I hope.I would rather perish than have Harry Potter fanfiction attached to my real name, even a username that can be traced back to me, so I think I'm in the clear.
>>426938Not going to lie to you nonna I am also a fiend for (believable) angst. If you ever get around to posting your WIP I would love to read it!
>>426890I think part of why the
abusive pasts of canon characters are overplayed so much in fanfiction is that the authors have probably never been exposed to those things, whether that be a realistic media portrayal or real life experiences. I think a lot of them try to imagine the worst possible outcome, more often than not to justify their characters' shitty actions in the story as righteous indignation at the hand they've been dealt in life. Not everyone in custody of the state like young Tom Riddle turns out to be wizard Hitler. He was just a particularly bad egg whose dark tendencies were left to fester deep within and consume him. In my humble opinion, if he had been adopted by a loving family or shown a modicum of care and attention at the orphanage, he would not have turned out so egregiously evil as he did in canon. Probably not a shining beacon of virtue, either, but decidedly not a genocidal maniac either. Now that I think about it, a well-written fix-it fic would definitely be a good read, but it's not something I foresee myself writing in the near future.
Also, nonnas, I've bit the bullet and requested an invite to Ao3 in no small part due to you guys' encouragement. Thank you for giving me the confidence to try!
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>>427222this is a very interesting essay. i've read the whole cormoran strike series and it tracks. hadn't really realised how most of the dads in hp either die or are bad people.
I feel it's very significant that
abusive fathers play a role in several people's going bad too. barty crouch jr joins the death eaters to stick it to his father, snape's
abusive muggle dad (and low social status) clearly plays a role in his radicalisation, merope gaunt's
abusive upbringing leads to her not understanding consent and enchanting tom senior, and to her running away from home and eventual death. and of course voldemorts' father's rejecting him plays a big part in his psyche (he's clearly still smarting about it 50 years later).
i like that rowling always show understanding of how cycles of abuse have a ripple effect, bot jsut in the family circle but in the damage people caught up in the go on to cause. like what we see with the gaunts. i just wish she also examined institutional failures as well.
>>427030I agree with your interpretation of tom, i think making him a classic evil sociopath from borth is super boring and (kinda inaccurate, hes a clearly emotional person) but so is making him a perpetual
victim. It's more interesting imo to look at how a combination of shitty upbringing and his own faults compoubded into something terrible. like he's both a kid that was failed by the system and also someone who made the choice to fuck over everyone else in his quest for revenge and recognition.
ithibk people have this black and white thinking where someone is either a tital unfeeling evil sociopath caricature or a traumatised woobie. what's interetsinf about voldy is that he actually is eveil but he also jas emotional baggage and trauma. Picrel from pottermore explicit some of his motives; it's pretty clear he's lore sentimental than pure socipayhy; he can experience attachment if not empathy.
it's hard to find character studies of him that don't fell into either extreme.
ngl i'd also like to see more fics/meta that take the class aspects of voldemort's trajectory and his resentment into account; i'd try that myself but i'm not a bong and i don't feel im familiar enough with the intricacies if the british class system.
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What job would you want to have if you were in the Harry Potter universe? Would you be a professor, and for which subject? Which department in the Ministry would you want to work in? Would you want to run a shop in Hogsmeade or maybe even work in a profession that isn't mentioned in the books?
(Ministry of Magic cosplay pic from
https://x.com/Sacred_28/status/1840675049864581195/)
No. 431675
The ferret scene in GOF is so much more brutal than I remembered. ‘Moody’ doesn’t just turn Draco into a ferret, he lifts him ten feet into the air and then slams him back onto the stone floor many times, Hogwarts Legacy protagonist ancient magic murder-style, in a way that would absolutely have killed a real ferret and probably a human, too. I actually winced reading it. I don’t remember the exact scene in the movie but I can only imagine they toned it down significantly because doing that even to a fake ferret would have caused an uproar.
>>430927I think I would’ve liked to be an herbologist, or work in an apothecary or even somewhere like Borgin and Burke’s. I’d probably get strangled by an evil monkey paw in my first week but at least it would be interesting.
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>>430927I think it would be fun to be a quidditch announcer or some other sort of employment for a team like marketing and promotions or fan-engagement. I'm certainly not athletic enough to be a player myself, but I do enjoy watching sports IRL. I'd also not want to be doing high-profile things like announcing the world cup or whatever, but maybe just low-key regular employment with the local team. Suppose "local" doesn't really mean much though in-universe thanks to the ease of transportation. Also, like
>>432753 said, I'm not entirely sure how the economy works, so who knows if this would even pay enough to live off of? If I think too much on Harry Potter economy, I start wondering about wizard grocery stores and other mundane things.
No. 433528
>>433518Quidditch refs disappear occasionally so I bet they get danger money
I'm always disappointed Harry wasn't a pro player in the end. It never made sense to me that be wanted to be/became an auror - yes, he always felt a sense of duty and obligation to fight evil, protect people etc but it made him miserable for years. He became good at that stuff because he had to, not because he enjoyed it as a day job. I can imagine him assuming it should be his future role because that's what everyone expects of him, but it would've been nice if he was like fuck everyone else (for once) and just did something he both loves and is good at.
No. 433577
>>431675>The ferret scene in GOF is so much more brutal than I remembered. ‘Moody’ doesn’t just turn Draco into a ferretI think that's the point? That it's not Moody but Crouch, this is a legit evil person who tortures a kid openly, it's a hint that something is very off about him. Yet you get Ron to throw you as the reader off a bit again, that maybe it's not THAT bad since it's happening to bad guy Draco.
>>430927I think I'd be an artist, whatever that means to wizards. Someone has to paint those living portraits!
No. 433616
>>433518i bet they have gricery store, i don't think the malfoys send their house elf down to sainsbury's when they need something. it's pretty clear most wizards never ever interact with muggles so they probably have their own grocers and plumbers and shit.
>>430927ngl voldemort's borgin and burkes job sounds neat, hunting down cursed artifacts and scamming rich idiots.
realistically, maybe a historian or history prof. someone needs to redo the hogwarts history of magic curriculum, binns fucking sucks.
No. 434052
>>434044I kind of wish he would have gone to coach quidditch maybe, especially since he shown that he was a pretty good at teaching others while doing the Dumbledore's Army classes. If it were youth quidditch coaching, he'd get a more quiet life instead of being a big sports star, while still getting to spend time with a sport he loved.
>>433616I love the idea of the Malfoys or some other pureblood family instructing the house elf to go and fetch several various gourmet foods from all over ("Get me grapes from this particular region of France, get me cheese from this other region! Fetch me some sushi from Japan as well!") and thinking the elf was having to teleport to each of these places one by one (which they don't care if it inconveniences the elf), meanwhile the house elfs are just going to Sainsburry's or whatever and grabbing all the items in one go, with the pureblood family being none the wiser.
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I don't understand why so many women ship themselves with Voldemort. He's not even cute unlike some villains from other series.
No. 438402
>>438382this specific autist doesn't ship herself it's supposed a female harry for some reason. it's an even worse pairing than regular voldemort/harry.
i like voldemort but bc he's interesting not bc he's cute. he doesn't even have a nose!
No. 438464
>>438382Saw themselves in Bellatrix
>Omg she's so evil and goth just like meBellatrix and Big V having a kid in the Cursed Child emboldened them even if it's been like ten years since it should've worn off
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Saw this yesterday. The actor hasn't even been offered the role, as far as I can tell he wasn't even seriously considered. They probably have like 100 people they are thinking about it. 32,000 kids are set to audition for Harry. However I know every time I look up Harry Potter for the next six months it's going to be
>Has Harry Potter gone woke?
>DEI infects Hogwarts?
>Why Harry Potter is a far left plot to destroy your children
Jfc give me some news about the sets or something.
No. 438585
>>438582i don't think it's a hoax but just that people act like he's already been cast when he's just one of the prospective actors being considered.
of course there's news outlets tweeting about it bc they're sure to get cluckbait engagement from people seething about muh blackwashing.
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https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/harry-potter-hbo-series-summer-2025-auditions-1236232126/How do you even audition an entire town of kids? Using AI?
>the casting team is currently reviewing between 500 and 1,000 audition tapes per day with the intent to watch every single one. >Gardiner and Mylod also said they will be sticking to correct canonical ages for the characters: Severus Snape (potentially being played by Paapa Essiedu) will be in his 30s, while James and Lily Potter will be younger, as they were only 21 when they died.
>When it comes to the sets, Mylod said they don’t want to “mess with” the Great Hall but he’s looking forward to expanding upon the architecture of Hogwarts and showing how it may have changed over time.I want to see more settings - I hope they won't reuse everything over and over again!
No. 439040
>>439018>(potentially being played by Paapa Essiedu) This parts makes the doubt anything the article is saying.
>How do you even audition an entire town of kids? Using AI? That's lead roleS, so I assume the trio (possibly even including Draco?). So 10-11000 per character. Do one character at a time, give 10 staff members 1000 each to pick out the best 100 = you're now down to 1000 auditions. Make the most important people (head of casting, director etc) go through those and pick the one they like the best.
No. 439083
>>439055They're shown briefly in flashbacks and in photos with Harry as a baby.
While I was a kid it made no difference if someone was 20 or 40, I saw all of them as the same generic kind of "adult" anyway. Frankly under the age of 10 I probably thought a 16 year old was an adult too lmao I remember my entire class being in shock our "normal looking" teacher was actually over 50 which in our mind was super old ancient grandma age lmao
I look forward to accurate ages of Harry's parents, the fact that they died so young is part of what truly makes it so tragic. And Sirius and Lupin also had to deal with their friends deaths at such a young age too.
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>>439106Would he make a good choice?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1631222/-British
-late 30s
-looks the part (meanface)
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>>439112Based purely on that one photo I think he looks alright, though maybe a bit old. I once read that Rowling initially wanted Tim Roth for the role but he declined because he didn’t want his face on lunchboxes, and since then I’ve been imagining Snape as pic related with long greasy black hair.
>>439083>the fact that they died so young is part of what truly makes it so tragicThis, plus it’s a recurring theme throughout the series that Harry is constantly compared to and mistaken for James (and Lily to a lesser extent). He even mistakes
himself for James when he’s just a few months shy of 14. Lily and James died when they were barely out of Hogwarts and that’s how everyone remembers them. It’s why everyone is able to project their memories of them onto teenaged Harry so easily; they barely have memories of Lily and James as adults.
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>>439124His skin is also described as 'sallow', so he can't be black in the book.
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If we're doing controversial representation/diversity casting now, I nominate picrel for Remus (he'll either be de-aged on screen with AI or be an old 30-something because HIV metaphor)
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>>439309Bellatrix Lestrange should by played by Dyldo
>>>/snow/1864330 No. 439358
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>>439357>>439309Ellen Page for Professor Quirrell.
No. 439361
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Kiki Kannibal as Moaning Myrtle
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>>439309ezra miller as fred weasley
rain dove as george weasley
No. 439376
New/old thread:
>>>/m/156424This one should survive for a while though.
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Idris Elba as Sirius Black.
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>>439112Imo he looks too ordinary
>Snape is described as a thin man with sallow skin, a large, hooked nose, and yellow, uneven teeth. He has shoulder-length, greasy black hair which frames his face, and cold, black eyes. He wears black, flowing robes which give him the appearance of "an overgrown bat".Snape was fucking ugly, there's no other way to put it. He should look significantly off-putting. Honestly I think the ideal would be if they really truly uglified him, Snape shouldn't be able to have fangirls he should just be shown as the massive creep he is for maximum impact. Purely based on looks my best pick would have been young Adrien Brody, but he's old now so can't use him anymore kek
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>>439377Big Driis for Dumbledore
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>>43942410/10 I'm crying.