how did the absurdity of the quidditch rules get past her editor?
It was meant to not make sense. iirc Rowling made the sport up because she was angry at her boyfriend at the time for watching too much football and quidditch is her attempt at making fun of sports and sports fans. You can argue that the rules of quidditch are still somewhat lore or world accurate, since wizards don't place too much emphasis on logic, because they are ofc time and space bending entities who can manipulate matter so nothing really matters to them ultimately.
So in the third one - when they play Quidditch in a massive thunderstorm they say something like “Quidditch games were not called off for mere thunderstorms” but why not? Why not just schedule it the next day or weekend? It’s not a real league there’s like 12 games a term max. Instead Harry nearly gets killed
Honestly an understandable opinion. It's probably the best children's books series ever written, and I don't think anything else quite takes its place in those terms.
Ed says your opinion is shit and that you're an uneducated troglodyte because you haven't read books about Medra or Tenar (I don't know who those are either). What is your response?
no
she turned deranged after becoming famous and made shit up
To be fair to Rowling, she's writing a children's story in 1997. It would have been extremely unpopular to right a story about witchcraft and have a gay wizard leading the school. She went with the old school method of plausibility by making Dumbledore a "confirmed bachelor". And giving him and Grindelwald a sob story but deciding not to lean into sexual undertones. Dumbledore never having dated a woman is a clear indication that he's gay for people of older generations. Late Millennials and Zoomers grew up in a world where homosexuality was not hidden and involuntary celibacy and social withdrawal are normal, so they think Rowling just pulled the Dumbledore is gay statement out of her ass.
she complained that gay children are being transgendered, so i guess she's aware of the connection between homosexuality and transgenderism.
but she views everything through the lens of radical feminism, and only transgenderism interferes with that worldview.
As far as I know, and I don't check her twitter often, she's not a radical feminist at all. She just doesn't like trannies (now that people have harassed her about them). Rad feminists actually want to commit acts of terror against men. Rowling is perfectly content with living with, working with, and having relationships with men.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Dumbledore never having dated a woman is a clear indication that he's gay
but it doesn't say in the books that Dumbledore had never dated a woman.
2 months ago
Anonymous
He's the most famous wizard in existence and he's got no b***hes, anon.
2 months ago
Anonymous
he was like 150 and there are many normal/straight people that don't start families for various reasons.
mcgonagall wasn't married either and nobody thinks she's lesbian.
2 months ago
Anonymous
McGonagall is literally a crazy cat lady
>that happens to publicly not like trans-women encroaching on cis-women's spaces.
yeah but that's what terf feminism officially is
Not liking trans-women is not the only criterion to being a terf. You can't ignore the last two letters. She's not a radical feminist in any form.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Not liking trans-women is not the only criterion to being a terf. You can't ignore the last two letters. She's not a radical feminist in any form.
yeah but the only requirement for being called a terf is not affirming trans women, so that's what she is
2 months ago
Anonymous
mad-eye moody didn't have a family either and nobody thinks that he's gay because of this.
dumbledore isn't gay
2 months ago
Anonymous
Mad-Eye Moody has a a face that resembles a block of wood. A magical bug-eye that won't stay put, a prosthetic wooden leg, half his nose is missing, and he's infamously gruff, obsessed with his job as an aurora, and is extremely paranoid. Gotta be a bit difficult for him to find a woman that's not as insane as Bellatrix to settle down with.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Bill also became disfigured and he still had Fleur
also moody was normal for a very long time before becoming paranoid
+ Snape wasn't married
+ slughorn
+ lockhart
are they all gay?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Anon you're missing the point either because you're a moron or moronic autist. The author has confirmed Dumbledore is gay. Period.
Not to mention in the newest Fantastic Beasts, there's a key scene between Dumbledore and Grindelwald played by Mads Mikkelsen where they quite clearly talk about their previous romantic relationship through obvious subtext.
You're a fricking moronic autist. Denial discarded.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Bill met and became engaged to Fleur before he became disfigured.
Snape was still in love with Lily, and too broken over causing her death to ever love again.
Slughorn, honestly I would peg him as being gay but no fans have asked Rowling about his sexuality.
Lockhart is the definition of narcissistic, literally in love with himself. But iirc he made a few comments about young witches, so not gay.
2 months ago
Anonymous
That's not an indication he's gay. He's literally 150 years old. It's completely reasonable to assume his partner long dead.
2 months ago
Anonymous
he can't be gay because he's normal and not mentally ill enough in the books
2 months ago
Anonymous
and he doesn't have aids
2 months ago
Anonymous
>she's not a radical feminist
with radical feminism i meant TERF feminism, as opposed to mainstream feminism.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Technically she's not a terf because she's not a radical feminist. Have you ever heard terfs speak or read their writings? Rowling is just a normal second wave feminist, that happens to publicly not like trans-women encroaching on cis-women's spaces.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>that happens to publicly not like trans-women encroaching on cis-women's spaces.
yeah but that's what terf feminism officially is
I can see this tbdesu; they're both powerful guide characters but Gandalf's power comes from being a qualitatively different species (I don't remember the specifics), while Dumbledore is written as a hypercompetent human whose power mostly comes from talent and skill (before the Elder Wand), as well as as a war hero.
>I really liked Harry Potter >It's my favourite fantasy book behind LOTR, Silmarillion and the Hobbit >It's also what got me reading in French
???
What the frick? Draw a line between Harry Potter and the French language for me, anon.
The first books I read in French were translations of Harry Potter into French
They helped me get comfortable with reading French because they were written in a simple way and I was already familiar with the story
What is/are you first language(s)?
Did you learn any more languages after French?
Should I attempt French through Harry Potter? I've thought about French, but I'm currently learning Japanese. Do you think a translation of Harry Potter would be good for learning Japanese?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Novels can be brutal because of the constant descriptions you need to read and understand
If I were starting Japanese I think manga would be a far better starting point but then I've never tried learning Japanese
2 months ago
Anonymous
What is/are you first language(s)?
Did you learn any more languages after French?
Should I attempt French through Harry Potter? I've thought about French, but I'm currently learning Japanese. Do you think a translation of Harry Potter would be good for learning Japanese?
The holy trinity of starting to read in JP via media starter pack:
Dragon Quest.
Cartoons.
Gag manga.
If you're at it for 3 months and DQ games are giving you trouble even while speaking the words aloud: Sorry bud. You're moronic.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Dragon Quest.
Should I start with NES, SNES or Gameboy/Color/Advanced?
2 months ago
Anonymous
nta, but I thought DQIII (SNES) was a great game, although I've never attempted learning Japanese through it. I think it has the most iconic soundtrack, too.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I've been at it for a year but I haven't tried with any media
I only ever re-read the first three. same with watching the movies. I just lose interest when they start getting edgy and killing people off and leaving the school and stuff.
You know what's strange? Just a few years ago I would've thought this is sad, but recently hating on HP has become so popular and mainstream that being in complete and unironic love with it is almost a daring opinion again.
On a similar note Bieber is significantly better than Sam Smith.
But Maroon 5 and Coldplay are much better than Bieber.
This doesn't mean that any of them are good, though, but when I listen to shitty music at work, it was funny to think that Bieber was somehow less shitty than all this.
It's strange to have arrived at a point in life where I haven't cared to hate Justin Bieber in a long time and also realize that the hate for him back then was just part of a thoughtless mainstream train I jumped on, just like the hate for Twilight, Transformers etc. I guess people who are currently still doing this and haven't had this kind of reflection yet are the "current thing" people of today.
It's clearly a parody on the absurdities of cricket and rugby union, cricket in particular has a lot of stuff that would look moronic to someone outside the sport. It's mainly there to fill the role that rugby often does in British school novels but with added eccentricity.
>The aim of the game is to move the ball towards the opponents' end of the playing area. In those last few yards of the field is an area called the "calx". In this area a player can earn a "shy" (worth one point) by lifting the ball against the wall with his foot. A teammate then touches the ball with his hand and shouts "Got it!" These two plays must happen within the calx. After this, if the umpire says "Given", the scoring team can attempt a goal (worth a further nine points) by throwing the ball at a designated target (a garden door at one end of the field and a tree at the other end). A player can also score a kicked goal, worth five points, if he kicks the ball out and it hits a goal during the normal course of play
Read it years ago, from that time I read like 500-600 other books and the only one that got me as much fun was Moby Dick, other than that it never got even close
Am I supposed to feel sorry for these literal deranged child-sexualizers? Do you know where you are, homosexual? I don't even like Harry Potter or Rowling, but what I like most about her is that she continually attacks the troony community.
The first hunger games book had me staying up late way past my bedtime reading. Refusing to blink, absolutely caught up in the book. The world just sucked me in.
No other series has really made me feel like that since. Only a few, but nothing that intense. Beowulf got close (the burton raffel translation). Also the hunger games books fell off hard. At least harry potter fans don’t really argue about the later books being shitty
(complaining about J.K. Rowling doesn’t count)
I remember being quite invested at Hunger Games at the time even though I don't think it it's very good, I agree they also drop off badly as well whereas Harry Potter is pretty much great all the way through (although I think the sixth book is a little lacking in some areas)
In the past if I haven't read for a few months I'll usually pick up Harry Potter books and speedrun the series, which gives me enough hunger to read something else.
They are supremely comfy and are the perfect books to re-read.
The locations are part of what makes it so comfy. The juxtaposition of the cupboard under the stairs with the magical world is 100/10.
I wish she'd expanded on this. Shell Cottage was a good idea, wizards next to the sea, but wasn't as good as the Burrow. Any anons have ideas she could have done? Places you'd have liked to see? Diagon Alley/Hogsmeade were great ideas, could have done more there.
Shell Cottage fits in with a supremely English sense of holidaying in kind of shitty overcast coastal areas, it exemplifies what Harry Potter wizards are really, some kind of niche eccentric English semi-elite with stupendous power and possibility and yet live within this contained universe of English institutional power.
Harry potter was so fricking based for children's media. We will never see the likes of it ever again. >no gays >no trannies >all white cast >no subversive elements >just a simple heroic story with themes strength, honor and goodness
that's kind of sad
i just don't enjoy anythiug else
other things are either boring or depressing
Try The King Killer Chronicle
It was meant to not make sense. iirc Rowling made the sport up because she was angry at her boyfriend at the time for watching too much football and quidditch is her attempt at making fun of sports and sports fans. You can argue that the rules of quidditch are still somewhat lore or world accurate, since wizards don't place too much emphasis on logic, because they are ofc time and space bending entities who can manipulate matter so nothing really matters to them ultimately.
You really don't like any other books? anon asked calmly
Congratulations! It's over!
So in the third one - when they play Quidditch in a massive thunderstorm they say something like “Quidditch games were not called off for mere thunderstorms” but why not? Why not just schedule it the next day or weekend? It’s not a real league there’s like 12 games a term max. Instead Harry nearly gets killed
but didn't he get nearly killed bc of dementors?
not bc of thunderstorm
Well yeah kind of but it was still needlessly dickish
yea they acted like the game must be super tough all the time, then someone falls down and doubledoor shits his skirt
Builds character. If you let kids skip on playing in a severe thunderstorm they'll grow up to be pussies.
true
Bros I'm re reading POA and the book is great but the Quidditch shit is so boring. Can I skip it? I'm on the Gryffindor Vs. Slytherin chapter.
everything quidditch related is filler aside from harry's very first match
Honestly an understandable opinion. It's probably the best children's books series ever written, and I don't think anything else quite takes its place in those terms.
How did hagrid's dad managed to frick hagrid's mom? He was living the dream?
engorgio
Canonically he entered whole in her cavernous c**t and started rubbing his dick directly into her cervix till cumming
It's peak fantasy most definitely. Stuff like LOTR is loftier but I need whimsy in my fiction too, you know? Also Dumbledore is cooler than Gandalf.
true
Based. Gandalf is the most overrated character in all of fiction. Or at least fantasy fiction.
Ed says your opinion is shit and that you're an uneducated troglodyte because you haven't read books about Medra or Tenar (I don't know who those are either). What is your response?
>I need whimsy in my fiction too
isn't dumbledong gay?
rowling stated it after the fact. there's no real indication that he's gay in the books.
To be fair to Rowling, she's writing a children's story in 1997. It would have been extremely unpopular to right a story about witchcraft and have a gay wizard leading the school. She went with the old school method of plausibility by making Dumbledore a "confirmed bachelor". And giving him and Grindelwald a sob story but deciding not to lean into sexual undertones. Dumbledore never having dated a woman is a clear indication that he's gay for people of older generations. Late Millennials and Zoomers grew up in a world where homosexuality was not hidden and involuntary celibacy and social withdrawal are normal, so they think Rowling just pulled the Dumbledore is gay statement out of her ass.
As far as I know, and I don't check her twitter often, she's not a radical feminist at all. She just doesn't like trannies (now that people have harassed her about them). Rad feminists actually want to commit acts of terror against men. Rowling is perfectly content with living with, working with, and having relationships with men.
>Dumbledore never having dated a woman is a clear indication that he's gay
but it doesn't say in the books that Dumbledore had never dated a woman.
He's the most famous wizard in existence and he's got no b***hes, anon.
he was like 150 and there are many normal/straight people that don't start families for various reasons.
mcgonagall wasn't married either and nobody thinks she's lesbian.
McGonagall is literally a crazy cat lady
Not liking trans-women is not the only criterion to being a terf. You can't ignore the last two letters. She's not a radical feminist in any form.
>Not liking trans-women is not the only criterion to being a terf. You can't ignore the last two letters. She's not a radical feminist in any form.
yeah but the only requirement for being called a terf is not affirming trans women, so that's what she is
mad-eye moody didn't have a family either and nobody thinks that he's gay because of this.
dumbledore isn't gay
Mad-Eye Moody has a a face that resembles a block of wood. A magical bug-eye that won't stay put, a prosthetic wooden leg, half his nose is missing, and he's infamously gruff, obsessed with his job as an aurora, and is extremely paranoid. Gotta be a bit difficult for him to find a woman that's not as insane as Bellatrix to settle down with.
Bill also became disfigured and he still had Fleur
also moody was normal for a very long time before becoming paranoid
+ Snape wasn't married
+ slughorn
+ lockhart
are they all gay?
Anon you're missing the point either because you're a moron or moronic autist. The author has confirmed Dumbledore is gay. Period.
Not to mention in the newest Fantastic Beasts, there's a key scene between Dumbledore and Grindelwald played by Mads Mikkelsen where they quite clearly talk about their previous romantic relationship through obvious subtext.
You're a fricking moronic autist. Denial discarded.
Bill met and became engaged to Fleur before he became disfigured.
Snape was still in love with Lily, and too broken over causing her death to ever love again.
Slughorn, honestly I would peg him as being gay but no fans have asked Rowling about his sexuality.
Lockhart is the definition of narcissistic, literally in love with himself. But iirc he made a few comments about young witches, so not gay.
That's not an indication he's gay. He's literally 150 years old. It's completely reasonable to assume his partner long dead.
he can't be gay because he's normal and not mentally ill enough in the books
and he doesn't have aids
>she's not a radical feminist
with radical feminism i meant TERF feminism, as opposed to mainstream feminism.
Technically she's not a terf because she's not a radical feminist. Have you ever heard terfs speak or read their writings? Rowling is just a normal second wave feminist, that happens to publicly not like trans-women encroaching on cis-women's spaces.
>that happens to publicly not like trans-women encroaching on cis-women's spaces.
yeah but that's what terf feminism officially is
no
she turned deranged after becoming famous and made shit up
Has her encounter with the trans movement made her realize that the gay movement was its precursor?
she complained that gay children are being transgendered, so i guess she's aware of the connection between homosexuality and transgenderism.
but she views everything through the lens of radical feminism, and only transgenderism interferes with that worldview.
>also Dumbledore is cooler than Gandalf
You're probably right. Gandalf throws pinecones at wolves while hiding in trees
I can see this tbdesu; they're both powerful guide characters but Gandalf's power comes from being a qualitatively different species (I don't remember the specifics), while Dumbledore is written as a hypercompetent human whose power mostly comes from talent and skill (before the Elder Wand), as well as as a war hero.
I really liked Harry Potter
It's my favourite fantasy book behind LOTR, Silmarillion and the Hobbit
It's also what got me reading in French
>I really liked Harry Potter
>It's my favourite fantasy book behind LOTR, Silmarillion and the Hobbit
>It's also what got me reading in French
???
What the frick? Draw a line between Harry Potter and the French language for me, anon.
The first books I read in French were translations of Harry Potter into French
They helped me get comfortable with reading French because they were written in a simple way and I was already familiar with the story
What is/are you first language(s)?
Did you learn any more languages after French?
Should I attempt French through Harry Potter? I've thought about French, but I'm currently learning Japanese. Do you think a translation of Harry Potter would be good for learning Japanese?
Novels can be brutal because of the constant descriptions you need to read and understand
If I were starting Japanese I think manga would be a far better starting point but then I've never tried learning Japanese
The holy trinity of starting to read in JP via media starter pack:
Dragon Quest.
Cartoons.
Gag manga.
If you're at it for 3 months and DQ games are giving you trouble even while speaking the words aloud: Sorry bud. You're moronic.
>Dragon Quest.
Should I start with NES, SNES or Gameboy/Color/Advanced?
nta, but I thought DQIII (SNES) was a great game, although I've never attempted learning Japanese through it. I think it has the most iconic soundtrack, too.
I've been at it for a year but I haven't tried with any media
I feel the same way about Gravity's Rainbow
what the HECK is a philosopher? did they mean sorcerer?
No, they meant Hegel.
I've always thought he was stoned.
I only ever re-read the first three. same with watching the movies. I just lose interest when they start getting edgy and killing people off and leaving the school and stuff.
You know what's strange? Just a few years ago I would've thought this is sad, but recently hating on HP has become so popular and mainstream that being in complete and unironic love with it is almost a daring opinion again.
On a similar note Bieber is significantly better than Sam Smith.
But Maroon 5 and Coldplay are much better than Bieber.
This doesn't mean that any of them are good, though, but when I listen to shitty music at work, it was funny to think that Bieber was somehow less shitty than all this.
It's strange to have arrived at a point in life where I haven't cared to hate Justin Bieber in a long time and also realize that the hate for him back then was just part of a thoughtless mainstream train I jumped on, just like the hate for Twilight, Transformers etc. I guess people who are currently still doing this and haven't had this kind of reflection yet are the "current thing" people of today.
>On a similar note Bieber is significantly better than Sam Smith.
Are you dissing my main man, anon? You better not be.
true
how did the absurdity of the quidditch rules get past her editor?
It's clearly a parody on the absurdities of cricket and rugby union, cricket in particular has a lot of stuff that would look moronic to someone outside the sport. It's mainly there to fill the role that rugby often does in British school novels but with added eccentricity.
>The aim of the game is to move the ball towards the opponents' end of the playing area. In those last few yards of the field is an area called the "calx". In this area a player can earn a "shy" (worth one point) by lifting the ball against the wall with his foot. A teammate then touches the ball with his hand and shouts "Got it!" These two plays must happen within the calx. After this, if the umpire says "Given", the scoring team can attempt a goal (worth a further nine points) by throwing the ball at a designated target (a garden door at one end of the field and a tree at the other end). A player can also score a kicked goal, worth five points, if he kicks the ball out and it hits a goal during the normal course of play
why are they absurd
Cause you're a jerk-off
Read it years ago, from that time I read like 500-600 other books and the only one that got me as much fun was Moby Dick, other than that it never got even close
Based HP series is legendary, so glad I had them throughout my childhood. Foundational literature. If you know, you know.
I hate you and I hate AI. As if humankind needed a window into your mind...fricking idiot programmer scum.
Well IQfy?
can't tell if this is a parody on lgbt people freaking out about JK or a genuine comic created by an lgbt person to express their frustration about JK
Where's the amogus?
I hate Harry Potter but I hate trannies more.
KEK! Is that guy supposed to be a """woman"""? Why is a guy playing with girls?
Am I supposed to feel sorry for these literal deranged child-sexualizers? Do you know where you are, homosexual? I don't even like Harry Potter or Rowling, but what I like most about her is that she continually attacks the troony community.
where's the punchline
The first hunger games book had me staying up late way past my bedtime reading. Refusing to blink, absolutely caught up in the book. The world just sucked me in.
No other series has really made me feel like that since. Only a few, but nothing that intense. Beowulf got close (the burton raffel translation). Also the hunger games books fell off hard. At least harry potter fans don’t really argue about the later books being shitty
(complaining about J.K. Rowling doesn’t count)
Is this a joke? I read Hunger Games until the Games started and it was a slogfest. The prose is very dull and dry and the characters lack spark.
I went back to rereading harry potter. Night and day difference and HP keeps me up late every night.
I remember being quite invested at Hunger Games at the time even though I don't think it it's very good, I agree they also drop off badly as well whereas Harry Potter is pretty much great all the way through (although I think the sixth book is a little lacking in some areas)
Also to add to this, it's remarkable how good Hallows is even when it's forced to go completely off script by leaving Hogwarts
so. what? i think this is considered a good bookk, and you probably read it when you were young.
Rowling made an incredible world building tool and then assembled it in a way that made no sense whatsoever.
>then assembled it in a way that made no sense whatsoever.
how
It happens.
I've been thinking about getting myself a copy of that edition and buying it if I could find one. Is it worth reading because it's comfy?
have you never read harry potter??
In the past if I haven't read for a few months I'll usually pick up Harry Potter books and speedrun the series, which gives me enough hunger to read something else.
They are supremely comfy and are the perfect books to re-read.
true
Good shit
The locations are part of what makes it so comfy. The juxtaposition of the cupboard under the stairs with the magical world is 100/10.
I wish she'd expanded on this. Shell Cottage was a good idea, wizards next to the sea, but wasn't as good as the Burrow. Any anons have ideas she could have done? Places you'd have liked to see? Diagon Alley/Hogsmeade were great ideas, could have done more there.
what's Shell Cottage
Shell Cottage fits in with a supremely English sense of holidaying in kind of shitty overcast coastal areas, it exemplifies what Harry Potter wizards are really, some kind of niche eccentric English semi-elite with stupendous power and possibility and yet live within this contained universe of English institutional power.
Yeah I think the idea was good. Just wasn't as good as it could have been.
>77
The shack in the first book was done better.
Harry potter was so fricking based for children's media. We will never see the likes of it ever again.
>no gays
>no trannies
>all white cast
>no subversive elements
>just a simple heroic story with themes strength, honor and goodness
she made george race mix though.
and ginny was raped by bbc
pretty horrible
i liked harry potter 2 and 3