I remember it was surprisingly insightful of the A Very Potter Musical script to point out the House Cup and the Triwizard Tournament are two variations on the same concept and the latter exists because she "wasted" the former
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AugustFresnel and
As in, the big exciting upset of Gryffindor taking the House Cup back from Slytherin had already been done and couldn't really be repeated so she felt the need to escalate it somehow and tie it into the Voldemort plot
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AugustFresnel and
Like, it actively DOES NOT MAKE SENSE that something like the Triwizard Tournament would just let them give Hogwarts two champions and double the chance of winning on a technicality It's EXTREMELY awkward
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AugustFresnel and
There's a bug in how the Goblet is constructed and everyone just goes along with it rather than just... I dunno, collecting names manually and picking out of a hat
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Replying to @LizardOrman @arthur_affect and
To be fair, though, that's completely on-brand for the idiot wizards in HP who would rather stick their heads in a fireplace or send OWLS than just buy goddamn cell phones because EWWWW, MUGGLES
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @LizardOrman and
I have seen the viral Reddit post yelling about the obvious fact that Harry Potter is supposed to be a whimsical world where everything is goofy and ridiculous and trying to CinemaSins it for realism is just missing the whole point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite and
I get this, I agree with it, and I would argue the reason so many Harry Potter fans get annoying about this is that Harry Potter did this to itself when JKR very awkwardly tried to make the transition from goofy Roald Dahl cartoon to dark epic fantasy over time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
YES! The first couple of books were very Roald Dahl whimsical but then the books themselves started to try for something more internally consistent and it DID NOT WORK
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect and
the reason she botches the transition to the adult horror is that she isn't willing to interrogate the real awfulness of that whimsical world like the part where the wizard cops will send you to a torture prison for being an unregistered animagus, to take just one example
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Replying to @perdricof @AmeliaRoseWrite and
I mean yeah the Aberforth thing is this very small example of it Whatever the hell it means for him to be accused of "practicing inappropriate Charms at goats", if he's a real person this actually happened to it's kind of fucked up and it's funny in that cruel dark humor way
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You can just straight up laugh at a joke like that if you're not taking the world seriously and everyone is just a goofball who says funny things If you go Cerebus Syndrome and revisit that and make us meet Aberforth, well... you're gonna mess up that joke one way or another
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