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Iβve never liked Harry Potter. I didnβt even finish the first book. Potter is an English schoolboy genius living in a largely male, white fairytale land that looks like Oxbridge (for the elite). Heβs a little patriarch that resorts to magic & violence to rule.
— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) March 2, 2023
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Da frick is she talking about? Potter is a basic C student b-word who barely scraps by in school
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It's the glasses π€
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He is, however, ludicrously rich.
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That's the part that makes the least sense, like the goblins just hold your money for you and don't charge anything? they can't even lend it out cause it's piles of coins.
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They probably charge small service fees.
They used to lend it but they were buck-broken into no longer using fractional banking after the goblin wars, as documented in hogwarts legacy
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In Hogwarts legacy the vault has nothing in it, who's paying that fee?
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Eh, I assumed you paid some amount to them, either on installments or simply a large lump sum (like buying an annuity).
But wouldn't wizards be able to pretty trivially create counterfeit coins? I mean they can literally turn everyday objects into literal living flying butterflies so presumably alchemy is also real and they can trivially create as much gold or whatever as they want, and magically forge it into whatever shape they want.
Like literally everything about fantasy you need to ignore all the massive glaring holes in world building. Harry Potter is worse than most here but all fantasy suffers from it, which is why it's ultimately a fairly dumb genre.
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Sir let me introduce you to Swiss Banks where you pay to store your money.
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the best part about
is that she tricked thousands of chuds into acting like hp was ever anything other than bottom of the barrel trash.
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I don't think anybody is pretending that it's good literature, they're just thoroughly enjoying the giga-autism mass sneeding
firestorm she's caused. As am I.
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Unironically more well thought out reasonibg than transphobia or anti-semitism
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Completely ignoring that hermionie was probably the smartest character in the entire series lmao
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Every time I get summoned here, I have a quick look around and find that this place gets worse and worse, it's like a black hole which mangles everything that gets sucked into it.
Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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