Because I'm petty, I'm going to gather you all around and tell you about that time JK Rowling was extremely wrong about something and, by being wrong about it, poisoned Google search results for it for years afterwards and generally made the world ignorant about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The spell "alohamora" appeared in the first book meaning Jo came up with it in the 90s before Google was invented and before she even had internet access (being the internet was new and she was on welfare). Any info she got wouldve been from books in a library. Logic. Damn.
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You do not have to have a PhD in anthropology not to fuck this one up You just have to be able to understand what you're reading when you read a table of signs and it says one of the signs is "favorable to thieves"
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Like, "It's a description, it means the sign IS favorable to thieves, it doesn't mean the definition of the word is 'favorable to thieves'" isn't an education thing, it's a reading comprehension thing
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It's not me complaining about her lack of access to sources - it's complaining that whatever source she looked at (probably just some big book of New Age "signs and symbols used in witchcraft", since I doubt she was researching Madagascar specifically) she didn't understand
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Izze1122
Man if you're like, 12, and you don't realize how incredibly lazy HP is that's fine. But at a certain point, you broaden your horizons and read fiction that's actually good - and then you realize that harry potter is at best a stepping stone
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okay dont know how i ended up here, but would love some book recs as a not-12 former hp fan who still needs to broaden those horizons
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@nkjemisin has won a record number of Hugos and has a really fascinatingly varied bibliography
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