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  • Yeah i’ve always felt that the castle is basically stuck on pre industrial revolution technology (the plumbing might be an exception). The rest of the wizard world seems to be stuck in late medieval period stylistically, or otherwise 1810’s. Clearly wizards are always a century or so behind on Muggle tech - fantastic beasts movies kind of ruined this but i did think that american wizards being into muggle tech and machinery was a nice touch and thematically congruent both with our own world and the HP world.


  • Dumbledore is gay for wizard Hitler

    I still don’t get why the fuck she would put this 😭😭😭 she dabbled into Yaoi I guess.

    Wizards didn’t need bathrooms and would just magic away their shit, except wizard bathrooms are a central plot point for the second book.

    I don’t remember this ever being a thing, magicking away your excrement. Bathrooms are a plot in the first book too.


  • Hope you guys have all read the book JK lifted from most heavily: Groosham Grange.

    Groosham Grange is basically a short story with a surprisingly captivating worldbuilding, but suffering from being very unserious. It is also mocking of conservatives and christians in a way. I can therefore see why she would be like “i need to make a full series of books like this, but taking themselves seriously” but i wish she’d planned out the magic system a bit beforehand.








  • Swaus01@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldZombie Zoo
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    17 days ago

    This is such remarkable logic lol. I guess the other benefit is that lions are more informative, but i bet they’re more traumatising for kids since they’re closer to human physiology. That said - not a big deal. Face your fears and all that.

    I (UK) did sheep eyeballs and must have missed the frog lesson, or maybe it was reserved for A-level students.

    A medical student i lived with said she had human disecction within the first month of her undergraduate degree. Like the first two weeks. I guess it helps weed people out / lure them in.








  • Swaus01@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldWelcome to Heaven by Bogleech
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    1 month ago

    it makes sense that the copies of the original are the fake ones.

    Maybe that makes the most sense to you, but if that was bulletproof logic then Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism wouldn’t even exist, since they all directly reference older faiths which they “improve upon.”

    To put it more clearly - their followers wouldn’t follow a “re-hash” religion if they believed in the rule of O.G.

    But if there’s a ‘true way’ in religion at all, then who’s to say the God wouldn’t wait until later on before revealing their faith? If humans have free will maybe the God waited to see how they would fare under their own judgement before delivering the message.

    And on Christianity-Judaism connection

    Christianity considers itself the true ‘continuation’ of the faith developed by the Hebrews, and a great deal of jews (maybe even the majority) around at the time agreed with this and got baptised.

    The Jews then faced persecution for rebelling against the roman empire, and were scattered and had their religious community sabotaged (i.e writings destroyed and centre of worship destroyed).

    So to compensate for this some rabbis introduced a new book, the Talmud, which basically lead the jewish faith in a divergent direction from where it was. Modern jews are almost as distinct from Historical Jews (~ 30AD or earlier), as modern christians are.