the first book has a child casually murdering a sentient being
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Replying to @jtempacct13 @nberlat
the troll. Quirrell was less deliberate and less casual whereas it's clearly viewed as totally okay to murder a troll because it's a "lesser" race
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Well, that's just par for the course for the fantasy genre, Legolas and Gimli having their orc killing contest But I'm pretty sure the troll in the first book isn't killed, just knocked unconscious
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Calling it "murder" is a bit of a hot take, it's self-defense, Harry and Ron found it when it was about to kill Hermione in the girls' bathroom ...The girls' bathroom is kind of a predilection of hers isn't it
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I mean everybody knows I'm very pro-murder and the operative word in my hot take was actually "casually"
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I looked up the scene in the movie and they actually clarified this so the movie could keep its PG rating -- Hermione asks "Is it... dead?" and Harry says "I don't think so, just knocked out" and then it snorts and grunts as Harry pulls the wand out of its nose
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
You'd think the fact that it was alive meant they could interrogate it as to who let it out and sent it to the girls' bathroom in the first place, but I guess it's actually true that most wizards can only communicate with trolls by pointing and grunting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(Yeah, this is actually in the book too, I'd just forgotten about it And the book keeps Quirrell's death offscreen too, Harry isn't conscious to see it, he passes out and then finds out in the hospital Quirrell died of his wounds)
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to be clear, the exchange is still in the book but there's no description of any behavior which would imply being alivepic.twitter.com/hHt1jyy36r
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Well, trolls are supposed to be tough, that's the whole point of wizards <s>enslaving</s> "hiring" them to guard stuff
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