periodic reminder that Harry Potter is the story of a war between the members of a secret ruling class who heroically believe that anybody born with the right genes to enter it belongs in it and the members who believe you need the right genes *and* a pedigreed source for them
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they have all the magical power in the world and they used it to spend centuries literally shitting themselves
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god i'm so mad now. i hate wizards so much
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i can't believe jk rowling found the need to explain that toilets are the only modern technology that wizards will accept and that before that they just shat themselves and vanished the shit. that is canon. she decided to explain that. to the world. where people will read it
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some people really suffer out in RL where they don't have their editors with them
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it could be worse, i guess, she did explain it in just one sentence on pottermore. stephenson would've had 15 pages on the history of wizard shit in the middle of book 2
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heinlein would have explained plumbing
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at least if it's actually in the book we're spared having plumbing explained in the form of an anecdote about Doc Smith
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otoh 200 pages later there would be a callback from a young genius girl who is contemptuous of our hero's primitive understanding of plumbing but pity-fucks him anyway
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Lmao, they were helping out muggles until muggles started burning them at the stake.
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