Would it have really been so hard for Harry and friends to explain that they needed the sword for something and would give it over AFTER?
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Replying to @TheBrianMcNatt @Truxillogical and
Why would the Goblins believe him? Probably the same shit wizards have been telling Goblins since Alfred borrowed the title "the Great" from a tall Goblin.
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Replying to @Teknogrot @TheBrianMcNatt and
Yup the whole story of Goblin/Wizard relations is wizards asking to borrow something because they really needed it just for this one thing they swear and then being like "Nope I touched it it's MINE NOW it's my family's ANCESTRAL HEIRLOOM"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheBrianMcNatt and
You think Godric stuck his own name on there or did the Goblins do it for him? The idea that the Goblins would enchant the sword to let it be pulled out of any rando Gryffindor owned container seems... implausible.
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Replying to @Teknogrot @arthur_affect and
I figured that was something Godric did specifically so he could give it back and then get it again. Like Taako trading Garfield the Deals Warlock the Flaming Raging Poisoning Sword of Doom...but only after he’d enchanted it with a return spell.
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Replying to @Truxillogical @Teknogrot and
Godric Gryffindor using his wizard powers (which they specifically bar goblins from using by preventing them from having wands) to enchant the sword so it will always come back when summoned by a "true Gryffindor" is SUCH A DICK MOVE HOLY SHIT
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Truxillogical and
Wizards constantly just fucking people over and cheating them with shit like this Yeah, sure, I'll sell you my old XBox, then I pocket the money and "Accio XBox!" the moment you go to bed "Oh uh how did that happen, must be destiny and shit"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Truxillogical and
Everything wizards touch ends up with fucking invisible magic strings attached, you let them borrow your pen one time and then for the rest of your life your pen just goes ZIIIIP! flying off your desk whenever someone with the soul of a true bureaucrat needs to sign something
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Truxillogical and
Man this just makes the goblins as bankers thing even more weird now that I really think about it. By the time this stuff happened in the books I was checked out as Rowling's editors were... and maybe she herself was too
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Replying to @the_damn_muteKi @Truxillogical and
It is an explicit thing in-universe that the reason the goblins run the banks (as this "neutral" party like Swiss bankers) is they fucking hate wizard magic and have developed all these antimagic countermeasures
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So they're the only ones wizards can trust to keep their shit safe from other wizards, basically
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Replying to @arthur_affect @the_damn_muteKi and
Which sort of sets up the Goblins for a run at a takeover via wealth and artifact control but... implications.
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