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I wonder if there will be a bunch kids named Hermione and Draco being born soon. It's only a matter of time

itll let me easily know who is not getting playdates with my kids, so bring it on

There are kids named khaleesi and that fact fills me with unending fury. That's not the characters name you fucking retards.

They need to let everyone know about their little shit is a queen though

I know it won't happen, but I wish all the foreshadowing that she was eventually gonna snap and go all Mad Queen on everyone would turn out to be right, so suddenly those parents have the embarrassing realization of the gravity of their mistake.

all the foreshadowing that she was eventually gonna snap and go all Mad Queen on everyone

this is what would happen if the show wasn't utterly milquetoast

I'm holding out hope that it's what happens in the books (in the fantasy world where we get a book ending, of course), especially since George is visibly butthurt about them changing plotlines in the show and I can totally see him having a radically different ending to stick it to D&D.

They should've realized the gravity of their mistake when they saw what an absolute embarrassing shitshow season 8 was.

I named my daughter Reek

You're giving people who care about HP or Rowling way too much credit if you think they'll reproduce. Or have functioning sperm. Or even get to fuck their GF's instead of getting pegged.

GFs

Most of these people are women foids anyway. They're very close to being wine moms

They'll be the ones doing the pegging then. Doesn't change the situation really, no kids popping out either way.

people

Based

He says, in /r/Drama...

Fair point

One of my classmates had a sister named Hermine (Hermione in my language). To their defense it was allegedly my classmate herself who picked the name, but then again having a little kid pick a name for your daughter is retarded in itself.

Wtf who lets a child name their sibling? That is mega retarded. It's not like you're letting a kid name a dog, that sibling has to live with whatever stupid name a child gives them.

Cute name though.

I feel like if there were we would know by now, right? Kids born when the last book were released are turning 12 this year, and kids born when the last movie released are turning 8

About time? They should be older than the kids named after Twilight and Hunger Games.

Seriously reading into the subtext of a children's book is higher on the retard list than being a member of ghazi

BUT EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL

Notice how 99% of people making the "all art is political" argument never bother to properly define "political".

Video games, movies, and books ARE politics, sweaty. Please take my childrens' media seriously.

sweaty.

It's like the catch-all word "super".

I see it, and know that I can stop reading immediately and losing absolutely nothing.

Sounds super gay

Did someone say something?

Ur super gay

Hello??

:^(

These people are too stupid to open up and issue of the Financial Times, let alone read political or economic theory in basic academic terms, but they want to seem important, so they turn their easily consumed media into long winded rants

somewhere out there is a critique of how all the redwall books are a criticism of communism due to the copious amount of feasting on scones.

1. Everything can be art.
   
2. All art is political
   
3. Therefore, everything is political
   
4. If it's not with me, it's against me
   
5. Purge everyone who doesn't agree with me on everything.

There’s always the bigger fish

Winnie the Pooh Was a Fascist: My Column

I'm pretty sure he's a commie.

Don't you remember the story where they go on the expedition to the North Pole? Winnie-the-Pooh encourages children to engage in imperialism and colonialism.

Commies are imperialist/colonialistic too tbh

Yes, but they dress it up in ideological and dogmatic clothing. Pooh Bear is driven by nothing but the white man's desire for conquest.

did someone say imperialist Winnie the Pooh

No, he is a Daoist.

The Tao of Pooh: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Pooh

He believes in Winnie the Pooh Thought

This actually gets to the core of American politics. Conservatards misguidedly care about big issues, and liberals jerk off to the nuances of diversity in underwater basketweaving.

You’re describing a perfect circle of a venn diagram mate.

Fucked some hipster chick that kept trying to tell me how Snape was actually trans, and all the evidence was in the books. Hit it twice, and left because I didn't know who Snape is, but was pretty sure she was insane.

I think that it is necessary to kill your heros in a metaphorical sense, to grow as a human you gotta critically examine works that you enjoyed as a child.

to grow as a human you gotta

ghazis are uneducated swines, who pretend to be woke?

Well, colour me surprised

Any commentary on the books beyond either "I didn't really care for them" or "they did well at satisfying their purpose of making young people want to be wizards" is a bad take.

They were better than the movies.

P R O B L E M A T I C

That should be even more reason to challenge the system and to integrate.

The frustrating thing is that I was certain that this was going to be the direction the series headed in

lol. I mean, there's more than enough non-fictional literature about this, why do you expect a children's book to go into this? Why do people like this always want everything their way.

Not fair that you get to use any left leaning retards as an excuse to comment, it's too easy for you these days 😕

We need a REASON_AOC_WILL_WIN up in here for the right leaning retards.

Just make a keyword bot like snappy

LEARN TO CODE

why do you always leave blank comments?

Lurk more

I guess when u think about it, any story that suggests that someone can be special is yikes, gross, and problematic. Can't have any message which disrupts our identification with the mass of hujanity

Broke: acknowledging that the character is white in the books but declaring that race was never a defining characteristic and casting a black actress in the play isn't any different than casting a blonde to play a character described as being a brunette.

Woke: SHE WAS BLACK THE HOLE TIME YOU RACISTS.

Awoke: the character wasn't black or white because it wasn't a picture book.

SHE WAS BLACK THE HOLE TIME YOU RACISTS.

really puts a new spin on mudblood huh

Holy shit who fucking cares? If you refuse to consume media from people who you disagree with or even downright shitty people then you may as well just seal yourself in a cardboard box because content creators tend to be troubled. Rowling may be obnoxious but she barely even registers on the shitty person scale. Just ignore her tweets goddamn it's not that hard

tweets are violence 😤😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

Snally you are just delightful.

or

I once heard somebody describe Rick Riordan as being JK Rowling, if she was as woke as she thinks she is. He's still very wealthy, but it's annoying that Rowling is an order of magnitude above him, becuase instead of tweeting additions to the canon years after the books were published, he educates himself about racial and LGBTQ issues, talking to people who actually understand these things instead of bigoted weirdos on the Internet, and writes more books using that education. You couldn't really ask for anything better than that.

wow it's like success as a writer isn't directly proportional to how woke you are? Slowly starting to come around regarding what people have been calling 'idpol'

I cant think of a more amusing target for those people to cannibalize than JK Rowling. There might be one, but I cant think of one right now.

I remember in school whenever it was Book Fair season the reps from Scholastic would always come around and take credit for the Harry Potter books inspiring a generation of kids to read in this horrible age of iMacs in classrooms.

It seems most of its fans instead went right back to the screens after finishing the 7th book.

And with the earlier books, there's a diversity in neurological conditions, with a protagonist with ADHD and dyslexia. This was due to his son, who he wrote the original books for and who has both conditions. This is what helps me believe the lack of racial and LGBTQ diversity was due to a self-admitted lack of familiarity with those issues and a reluctance to half-ass their portrayal, he kept to what he understood as a parent with a neurologically atypical child and only took on a subject when he felt he could do it justice. I can admire that kind of rigour.

I think that it is necessary to kill your heros in a metaphorical sense, to grow as a human you gotta critically examine works that you enjoyed as a child.

mfw

The obligatory TLJ mention, bizarre that they're aware of the fact their concept of the world revolves around poorly written fictional entertainment and yet they're okay with it:

I think so, and when you look at how everyone brings up how Luke is out of character you can see why it needed to be addressed. Luke isn’t some perfect person, he saw the good in Vader but in his old age and with a bit of fear he wasn’t sure he could stop another one. He really was thinking about killing Ben just to be safe but decided against it as it’s fucked up to kill a kid because of what you think he might be. He changed his mind but the damage was done and he caused Ben to become Kylo Ren. Making the fans have to accept that Luke is still a person who can make mistakes and die pissed them off a lot more than the 40 minutes of wasted screen time with the Finn side-plot or the odd pacing of the entire film ever could.

I think it is very telling of how people in general think about their childhood heroes. Luke isn’t even real and he became the main complaint of the film for most of the diehards who watched it while there are many actual issues in the movie. The other biggest complaint was that Rey’s parents are just drunk no names who sold their daughter for a pint. They don’t like the idea of what they want Star Wars to be, to not be what Star Wars is. And it comes from a child’s mind of everything that diverts your expectations to not be good or fair. The whole film seems to be him and the writers trying to smack people awake to the reality that not everything goes how you want it to.

Back to star wars:

Also the scene in Jabba's palace is a double whammy of thinly-veiled "sultan and harem girls" orientalism (complete with Jabba smoking a goddamn hookah) and really skeevy objectification.

EDIT: I do like that Leia gets the last laugh, though. Plus the original "Lapti Nek" song is a banger.

When confronted about all their discourse revolving around a children's book:

Children's books have an influence on the views of adults because media has an effect on us? Therefore they should be examined and critiqued as much as adult books.

What if Ghazi read books for adults instead?

They Neve read the book to begin with. They just watched the movie and said they did.

harry potter again seriously?

Good fucking god.

You will never find a more wretched hive of soyboys.

It is the nature of defunct orthodoxies and dead empires to eventually descend into tantrums of denial, when the profits of their cruelty become impossible to launder, screaming their fragile delusion louder and louder, as if that could ever silence the crunch of human bones beneath their feet.

This is about an offhand reference to Native American mythology on a fan website.

Racism, or anti-muggle sentiment was mostly treated as a personal failure perpetuated by purebloods. It was only treated as institutional when they were in power. You can even consider it to be partly legitimized because muggles delude the strength of magic and increases the risk of creating kids without magic ability.

It's a kids' book about wizards you baffling fuckwit.

baffling fuckwit.

cringe

https://imgur.com/wc96ME0.jpg

how could the author who invented an exclusive school for quasi-aristocratic magical Übermensch living off invisible slave labour turn out to be so reactionary?

despite their retardation that's some bantz tbh

There is just a shit ton irony every time these losers complain about white fragility.

Lmao

Did y'all forget these are children's books?

Did you forget that children's books are media like all others? Or that children's media can influence how children see the world?

Adult YA fans take YA lit very seriously. They really think a child's life absolutely hinges on the subtle nuances of dumb shit they read.

what is it with faggots and Harry Potter?

The article is so retarded it made /r/drama defend magicshit