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[–] 90 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Wands don't kill people, wizards kill people

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Voldemort almost killed Ginny with a book.

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  • [–] 66 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    doesn't count, it wasn't by a trans student or they were "gang violence"

    *gets shot in neck*

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Didn't Voldemort, like, grow an entirely new body after his previous one was obliterated? That's gotta count as some form of trans- prefixed thing, right? Like transubstantiation?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think cloning is a trans thing

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    He did change the appearance of his original body pretty drastically, though. Maybe horcruxes are just how JKR views transition.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Every time you factcheck a transphobe your gender fragments and becomes harder to destroy

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Year one: threat averted, most students unaffected

    Year two: several students attacked but no deaths

    Year three: alleged killer on the loose but nobody gets hurt

    Year four: two students are kidnapped from athletic competition, one killed and the other almost killed

    Year five: strangely, no attacks on the school

    Year six: student attempts to kill principal twice, injuring two other students in the process, then lets in an army of known killers to attack the school, principal is killed

    Year seven: big battle, several people killed on both sides

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    Year three: alleged killer on the loose but nobody gets hurt

    I mean, several students get attacked by a werewolf and 100 dementors in the same night, nearly resulting in 3 people (2 of them students) losing their very souls. And of course, poor Draco maimed by Buckb- uh... I mean, Witherwings.

    Year five: strangely, no attacks on the school

    That's a very diplomatic way to skirt around the governmental coup of the school implementing totalitarian control by a racist megalomaniac, restricting basic rights, turning students into secret police, and punishing discent with literal fucking torture.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Books or movies? Book year 5

    just in case anyone still interested

    had Umbridge/minstery of magic come in to get rid of Hagrid. McGonagall I think even got injured fighting back.

    As I'm typing this out, I'm suddenly remembered of Um, Actually, and how this could have been a good question for the show

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago (25 children)

    That story isn't worth thinking about in any shower.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 10 months ago* (23 children)

    True... What actually inspired that thought, indirectly, was thinking about how the anime I was watching (seven spellblades) felt like a more interesting wizarding universe than HP. Also fuck JKR.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    You should check out Mashle, it's basically a parody of your typical "magic school" anime where the main character can't use magic and literally just out muscles everyone.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Has season 2 been dubbed already?

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  • [+] -12 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    Also fuck JKR

    Meanwhile Hogwarts Legacy sold like 40mln copies? Most people don't care about dumb politics

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I doubt you would call it β€œdumb politics” if she was relentlessly campaigning against your right to exist in society as a person.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    People also still use Meta products, Apple products, Amazon and their products, and so on, even though all of these companies directly support the budding fascist empire in the USA.

    Likely, you too buy/use products by a corporation that supports the pumpkin dictator, and that has much more real-world effect (on trans people and on all other minorities too) than the ramblings of a mad old TERF.

    At least Rowling isn't directly stoking the genocide in Gaza or rounding up and deporting people to prison camps in other countries.

    (I'm not defending Rowling. I'm just saying at a certain point most people, likely including you, value the convenience of next-day-shipping over the life of some people we don't know.)

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Rowling has spent tons of money petitioning the UK Supreme Court to basically make existing as a trans person in public illegal. She’s got more money than some cities do.

    Like, legally, there is no where a trans man can piss in the UK. Not allowed in the women’s, not allowed in the men’s. Just got piss yourself.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Do you think Trump is better for Trans rights than Rowling? I don't think so.

    Yes, Rowling spends money petitioning the government and courts, but Trump is the government and controls the courts.

    Don't lose sight of the bigger enemy just because a smaller enemy is a woman.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Well I own it and I do, and most of my friends do as well (some of whom are trans)

    But yeah, fuck JKR.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I mean I was conflicted about buying a copy and did not until (a) my wife wanted one and (b) I saw our trans sister had a copy.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I got the first and the second book from my mom when they came out. While i didn't love them per se, i liked them enough that they peaked my interest in becoming a reader, and i started to read more books, and i'm thankful for that.

    Since then i had a few girlfriends who were super into HP and they made me watch the movies, and i have to say, these stories are not thought out at all, and are often dumb as hell. I don't really remember much, but just the fact that quidditch doesn't make a lick of sense is really telling. Or goblet of fire, they were okay to let them play with dragons. Everyone shrugged and told HP that well, he might die. Someone would've drowned if he didn't break the rules and people were pretty upset about the rule breaking. And at the end, Cedric died and everyone was absolutely shocked and devastated that someone died at the murder tournament.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Most American take on the story ever!

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    The events at Hogwarts fund hate.

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