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  • Gabe Bell@lemmy.worldtoHarry Potter@lemmy.worldHPVP
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    7 months ago

    No – that makes no sense.

    If you don’t know something is there, how would you know you have to cast a spell to reveal it?

    Surely you can only cast a spell on something you know is there to make it visible, not on something you don’t know is there.

    Because if you don’t know it is there, how would you know it is there to cast a spell on it?











  • Yeah, I am not going to “grow the fuck up”

    I have no objection to people who dislike how the tone changed once they have watched the entire series

    But if you bail out before the end – if you bail out before you get a true understanding of what the series is really about (an analogy of World War II in the magical world, where the muggle born witches & wizard are the Jews and the purebloods & Death Eaters are the Nazis) – then I have no sympathy for you at all.

    Also, if you didn’t do at least a little research into the series before you started watching it – if you go into it thinking “this will be a happy, fluffy series about a boy who goes to magical school and nothing bad happens to him” then quite honestly I have very little sympathy for you as well. The entire series is 30 years old – if you don’t know Harry Potter is about a war (a war where people will die and a war where people will suffer) then quite frankly that is on you and really you have no one else to blame.

    My boss, the first time he watched “The Sound of Music” expressed great surprise that there were Nazis in it, which really made my go “what the fuck did you expect – it’s set during the invasion of Austria in World War II”. But apparently he didn’t bother to do any investigation or research, and was quite upset by the Nazis. And I had no sympathy for him either.

    So yeah – really you brought this on yourself.