Harry Potter Thread: Warner Brothers and the Cash Grab Series

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  1. skrouse

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    Sometimes it gives me goosebumps, other times I'm smh, lol
     
  2. SugarShaun

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    I didn’t mean in a bad way. Sometimes she loses it too easily but that episode it was goosebumps but also just gut wrenching and hard to continue. Too many feels
     
  3. Nostradumass

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    Been reading HP aloud to my oldest son. We've been at it for two years now, taking our time, stopping for a few weeks in between each one, etc.

    We're in the home stretch of HBP. My favorite book. Those last ten or so chapters were a marathon; I couldn't stop reading. He's convinced Snape is evil so the ending is going to crush him and anger him all at once (the perfect reaction).
     
  4. CoastalOrange

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    Finally signed up for Pottermore and was sorted into Hufflepuff. Not sure how to feel about it.
     
  5. skrouse

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    I did that not too long ago, did my best to be 100% honest and landed in Gryffindor.
     
  6. NCHusker

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    GOAT Hogwarts student was a Hufflepuff so it's all good
     
  7. prerecordedlive

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    Newt, not Cedric hopefully. One of those got got for wanting to call it a draw.
     
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  8. SugarShaun

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    ?

    Cedric?
     
  9. SugarShaun

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    Ahhh didn’t remember him being Hufflepuff
     
  10. NCHusker

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    Forgot about Newt. Meant Cedric.

    Smart, athletic, cool as fuck, has girls fawning over him. Also none of it ever goes to his head.
     
  11. Nostradumass

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    She wrote him like a Gryffindor that whole book until the end of the maze when he chose to call it a draw. Typical Hufflepuff right there.
     
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  12. PeterGriffin

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    Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!
     
  13. CF3234

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    Also when he tried to call off the dementor quidditch game. But that was poa
     
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  14. NCHusker

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    I think there's a decent amount of fluidity to the houses. Hermione is a clear Ravenclaw most of the time. Neville isn't brave at all at the start of the series and is in Gryffindor. Fucking Lockhart was in Ravenclaw and he could barely do anything.

    Also you'd think with Ravenclaw being the smartest house they'd dominate the House Cup. But I guess with Snape and McGonagall blatantly cooking the books there's an explanation for that.
     
  15. VaxRule

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    Flitwick too nice
     
  16. Goose

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    Slytherin :smug:
     
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  17. SugarShaun

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    Same
     
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  18. Teflon Queen

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    Of course a godless Asian heathen would be slytherin smdh
     
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  19. Teflon Queen

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    The rules of the house cup and the rules of quidditch are the only things that trigger me in HP
     
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  20. IrishLAX2

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    Quidditch is way too snitch-oriented. World Cup final being a perfect example.
     
  21. PeterGriffin

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    And that they are tied together, right? I know Hermione probably racked up some points in class, but Harry catching the Snitch three times = 450 house points. Am I remembering this correctly?
     
  22. skrouse

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    Yeah Quidditch sans snitch would be just fine. Or timed with snitch awarding like 50 points a catch or something. A myriad of ways to fix it
     
  23. IrishLAX2

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    Krum being lauded for losing but “ending the match on his own terms” was absolutely ridiculous.

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  24. Spontaneous Cumbustion

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    I think even JK has admitted she way overemphasized Harry’s position in quidditch.
     
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  25. NCHusker

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    The quidditch rules were a convenient narrative tool but it's a shit sport
     
  26. Teflon Queen

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    She could’ve easily made much more sensible rules and lost none of the narrative tools, but it’s not a big deal anyways
     
  27. IanBoyd

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    With the revelation in Book 7 that the Ravenclaw dorm room has no password but a different question each time I'm not sure how Lockhart got through all 7 years without sleeping on the floor for 6.98 of those years.
     
  28. DelapThrows

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    He was incredibly talented at charms and memory spells. He wasn't an idiot... just a fraud/huckster.
     
  29. jrmy

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    And a coward. You can be an intelligent coward.
     
  30. DelapThrows

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    Also, I'm a Ravenclaw.
     
  31. CF3234

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    She’s said numerous times that she isn’t into sports so inventing one wasn’t easy for her.
     
  32. NCHusker

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    He was definitely an idiot
     
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  33. Nostradumass

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    I've been reading Harry Potter to my son, a chapter or so a night, a few nights a week, taking some time off between each one, going back to 2015.

    Almost four years with this series. We started when he was 8 years old.

    I made him vow to remain spoiler free and by some miracle he has (apart from a few minor things here and there).

    Tonight we read The Lightning Struck Tower.

    I choked up reading it, then cried when I saw him crying.
     
  34. Hank Scorpio

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    Final Crimes of Grindelwald trailer just dropped. I am excite!

     
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    Nagini being a human is really interesting.
     
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  36. It'sAlwaysSunnyInAthens

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    That looks amazing. Can't wait.
     
  37. Wu

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    I love how weird it looks, even by that universe’s standards
     
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  38. Nostradumass

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    Looks awesome. The only weakness for me is Depp, who doesn't look or sound the part as I pictured him in my head. I picture someone much more European, who pronounces his name "Grindelvald"

    Personally I would have kept Colin Farrell and not done the twist ending in the first one.

    But JKR does love her twist endings.
     
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  39. It'sAlwaysSunnyInAthens

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    Why Casting Nagini as an Asian Woman in 'Fantastic Beasts' Is So Offensive

    The decision has spurred more conversations about J.K. Rowling’s proclivity for retroactively introducing diversity.
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    • didnot want. It turns out Voldemort’s snake Nagini— the vessel of one of his final horcruxes—was an Asian woman all along. On Twitter, J.K. Rowling claimed to have been holding onto this secret for 20 years, and exclaimed that Nagini was not an Animagus but a Maledictus. In muggle-speak, an Animagus is a witch or wizard who can choose to take animal form by will. For example, Sirius Black as a black dog or Peter Pettigrew as Ron Weasley’s pet rat, Scabbers. A Maledictus is a woman who is cursed to permanently become an animal—meaning the Asian woman Nagini is effectively trapped inside the snake.

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      There is no way to anticipate the plot of a movie that has been kept so tightly under wraps, but the trailer itself already perpetuates a number of harmful stereotypes about Asian women. Nagini, played by Claudia Kim, is in a cage while an audience watches her transform into a snake, echoing historical strains of the sexy, dangerous "dragon lady.” She also quite literally houses a piece of Voldemort’s soul, acting as a guarantor of his immortality, thus reifying the trope of Asian women as submissive. It is doubly hurtful because Nagini will be the second character of significance in the Harry Potter universe to be of East Asian heritage, following Cho Chang as Harry’s early love interest.

      Rowling is no stranger to revising her old works to the tune of inclusivity (to the point where it has been satirized onClickhole). A genuine desire to diversify and feature the marginalized is a good goal, and some of Rowling’s attempts have been nominally positive, like casting Noma Dumezweni as Hermione in the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Childand saying that she “loves black Hermione.” While insisting that Hermione isn’t white is incredibly dubious—especially after casting Emma Watson for an eight-movie run and writing passages that include phrases like, “Hermione’s white face”—the decision to recast Hermione as a black woman in the play, and defending her from racist attacks, is a step in the right direction.

      But Rowling’s attempts at diversifying via revisionism are ultimately both stressful and painful, because she cannot literally rewrite the books and films to include scenes, dialogue, and exposition that would whisper these nods into concrete reality. Just because something is plausible does not mean it happened. If Dumbledore was truly gay, then he spent the entire seven books in the closet. There were no solid markers to confirm a lived experience of homosexuality, no representation that might suggest to young, gay readers that they too could grow up to be the world’s most powerful wizard. To claim that kind of power in retrospect is not only goofy, but deeply disrespectful.

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      By the same token, it is no small tragedy to have to reimagine so many pivotal moments of the original books and films with Kim’s Nagini in its place. Nagini winding through the dead and dying during the incredible battle of Hogwarts. Nagini being stroked under Voldemort’s cold hands. Nagini biting Snape to death, preceding the film’s most emotional, heart-wrenching reveal of Snape as one of the series’ true heroes. Nagini being repeatedly “milked” by Voldemort in the books. Perhaps the film will attempt to dull these facts through some narrative trick, or by breaking Asian-woman-Nagini free of her shackles? Voldemort was notorious for enslaving his Death Eaters by threatening them with death—but perhaps Nagini is just a slave to her snake body and not to Voldemort himself? This casting is anathema.

      Many of us will still watch this film out of reverence for the series that defined our childhoods. I loved, and still love, the original Harry Potter—a series of tomes and a cinematic universe that touched every element of my young life, and became a shared language between me and my friends. So much of fantasy’s origins are eurocentric, following shock white characters as they solve some of the world’s most complex dilemmas. We cannot change that past, and that does not rob our favorites of their greatest qualities. Harry Potter will always stand as one of the most resilient masterpieces in childhood literature. But the constant desire to revise its cast into 2018’s rightful expectations of inclusivity diminish from the very real need to center diverse voices completely. And reimagining Nagini as an Asian woman is, frankly, an incredible insult.

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  40. Spontaneous Cumbustion

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    God some people just live to be miserable
     
  41. VaxRule

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    The "why wasn't Dumbledore gay through the the series?" people annoy me. Snape is the only professor that is presented as having a sexual interest and that only happens because it is critical to Harry's story. Why wasn't Dumbledore gay through the series? Why not ask why wasn't he straight?

    /rant
     
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  42. Illinihockey

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    I can't believe we didn't get a 30 minute Dumbledore sex scene in a kids movie.
     
  43. VaxRule

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    Harry Potter and the Mess He Swallows
     
  44. Illinihockey

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    My kid has been reading the books, is getting close to the end of Order of the Phoenix now. Shit is about to get real and a ton of high profile characters start dying. I recorded all of the movies so every time he finishes a book we then watch the movie.
     
  45. Spontaneous Cumbustion

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    Recorded? Why do you not own them?
     
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  46. Illinihockey

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    I saw them all in the theaters, not a big movie collector.
     
  47. SugarShaun

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    Do you at least own the books or did you make photocopies?
     
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  48. IrishLAX2

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    Nagini being a person makes zero sense to me for a few reasons, but these are not any of them.
     
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  49. Hank Scorpio

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    I don't even want to read that article because the headline is so ridiculous and a microcosm of today's journalism of being mad about everything.
     
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  50. CF3234

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    Or know how to stream HBOgo
     
  51. prerecordedlive

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    Guys



    Leaked from someone that claimed to be in a focus group for upcoming games (obviously violating the NDA :laugh:).
    Rumor is the game would be a full-scale RPG set in 19th century.
    Most sources seem to think its Avalanche Software, who just got acquired by WB not too long ago. They previously did Disney Infinity and a bunch of other random shit.

    Please be real. Please be real.