You are Angus Buchanan And Dudley Dursley, and Frank Bryce, and Jake Kowalski, and the Prime Minister, and all the other disposable Muggle characters in this universe who exist only as background noise to the real people
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Clearly, the school must be fed with a regular crop of students, or else they will be released.
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But yeah, honestly, I'd actually argue that a lot of these problems are only a problem bc of the urban fantasy trappings; it reveals the essential dissonance between the real world, the stuff Rowling is *actually* invested in, and all the fairy tale stuff.
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I mean in the early books where they weren't taking themselves too seriously I think this was part of the joke It's a Roald Dahl goofy fairy tale, they're brewing death potions and whatnot and treating it like an ordinary boring school assignment
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Still and all, the Starkid people taking the satire to another level was pretty great "Our records show that this is the 751st student to be killed, petrified, possessed or permanently turned into an animal in the past seven years Hogwarts has finally exceeded the legal limit!"
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possibly the most bonkers part of that issue is that the school didn't close up after a student was killed. Hell, the moment people starting getting petrified in the book the teachers should have sent everyone home and not wait for someone to go missing
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'Look, the Chamber of Secrets killed people last spring, but I think we all need to get back to a New Normal and learn to live with the Chamber. Our kids' education is important, and we can't live in fear.'
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