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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2014, 08:57:47 pm »
It's a Poe.  It's got to be.  For the sake of my sanity and my hope in humanity's future.

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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2014, 07:59:41 pm »
Yeah, the more I look at it, the more it looks like someone's pulling a Beatrix. I mean.. dear gods, the tone alone...


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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2014, 12:39:22 am »
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Thank you very much for your concern, sir, but he does not need your religion, he has science and socialism and birthdays.

This can't be real.

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Aunt Petunia smacked her hands over Harry’s young ears; and her voice was sickly sweet when she said, “Thank you very much for your concern, sir, but he does not need your religion, he has science and socialism and birthdays. Haven’t you heard of Evolution? I have a very good textbook on Evolution that I could give you on it if you would like to learn things.”

Hagrid laughed wisely. “Evolution is a fairytale. You don’t really believe that, do you?”

“Yes, I do!” Aunt Petunia screeched.

“Well then prove it!”

She's comparing her religion to imaginary witches. Amazing.


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“Birthdays are not of God,”

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Harry gasped in horror as he bit into more bacon. “Of course I only pray to God! Who else would I pray to?”

“What about Mary?” Ronald posited angrily around a mouthful of oatmeal. “You have to at least worship to her!”

“You mean the mommy of Our Lord?” Harry demanded in scandal; and he chewed his bacon. “I don’t worship her?”

“Well, then, God hates you!” Ron stated simply; and pieces of bacon flew out of his mouth as he did so.

Fundies in a nutshell.

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“Please, ignore this fool,” Draco drawled smugly. “Luna here thinks she can have a career even though she’s a woman; and women are stupid.”

Harry gaped at this horrible person. What a mean thing to say!

“Women shouldn’t not have careers because women are stupid!” Harry shouted indignantly. “Women are not stupid at all! Women should not have careers because women are nurturing and loving and their gifts serve them best in the home!”

Draco gasped tentatively. “You are diluting the truth! Women are beneath men!”

“No, I’m not!” Harry fired back bravely. “You are twisting the truth so you can be mean with it! Women are not beneath men! Men and women are just different!”

Luna smiled at him gratefully.

THEY'RE LITERALLY FIGHTING OVER WHOSE THE BIGGEST MISGONYST!

This... This is too surreal. I need to lie down.


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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2014, 12:44:49 am »
If it's Harry's first year at Howarts (or Jesuswarts or whatever the fuck it is in this version), then what the hell is Luna doing there? She's supposed to a year younger than Harry.

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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2014, 12:48:11 am »
If it's Harry's first year at Howarts (or Jesuswarts or whatever the fuck it is in this version), then what the hell is Luna doing there? She's supposed to a year younger than Harry.

You expect consistency with the original material here?
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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2014, 01:41:04 am »
I was afraid to take a closer look for the sake of my sanity but at least the Snopes article confirmed that not all of the books have been rewritten and it is just portions of it that she did.

So it is more like fanfiction short story (or stories) based on Potter.

Because the thought of someone spending enough time and energy to rewrite ALL the books would have meant that it could only be real. (Or the work of a troll so dedicated that they should be locked away in a mental institution.)

Now it is much easier to believe that this is the work of a troll.
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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2014, 05:17:14 pm »
If it's Harry's first year at Howarts (or Jesuswarts or whatever the fuck it is in this version), then what the hell is Luna doing there? She's supposed to a year younger than Harry.

Presumably they wanted a recognizable Hufflepuff (and fuck Cedric Diggory, nobody likes him).

Then again, Draco is a Ravenclaw and the Weasleys are Slytherins, so who cares.

EDIT: Wait, Luna was a Ravenclaw in the books, not a Hufflepuff. My bad. I still maintain that nobody likes Cedric.

Also: new chapter!

Continuing the trend of pointless House swaps, Snape is a Gryffindor and helpfully tells us that only Gryffindors are true Christians. Everyone else is a puppet of the dark forces of secularism.

Apparently the Pope or Pope-equivalent is in league with "Voldemort", who I'm guessing is either Obama or the Antichrist. Or both. He wants to take your freedoms. No word yet on whether he is a Muslim.
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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2014, 05:33:50 pm »
If this is a troll, it's a good one. my jimmies are so rustled they vibrated in perfect harmony with the universe and opened a gateway to the Shadow Dimensions.

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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2014, 05:39:17 pm »
Yeah we're gonna have to ask you to stop vibrating at that frequency.

Ironbite-the Shadowlings are getting nervous about your butt.

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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2014, 06:21:18 am »
This is behind a spoiler because it is a) long and b) inappropriate, but damn it's funny.

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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2014, 08:01:54 am »
This is behind a spoiler because it is a) long and b) inappropriate, but damn it's funny.

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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2014, 04:36:53 pm »
Well, the polyjuice might be a bit more in reach; all you'd need is a talented student or two sneaking the ingredients in and paying their dorm mates off to keep quiet.  Don't forget, you don't need to add the hair in the beginning, and it has a seemingly indefinite shelf life, so you could probably have a secret cabal of two or three students selling pre-brewed polyjuice potion right under the professor's noses, and all the customers would need to do would be to get the hairs of whomever they want to transform into.  Granted, it'd be difficult, but not impossible; and you can't tell me that something like that wouldn't make a fucking mint in a place chock-full of people on the cusp of adolescence when the fuck-drive is at its most absurdly high peak.

Hell, felix felicis would work, too, and be even less of a problem since that, apparently, isn't banned, even though there are apparently some side-effects if you use it too often.  Again, all you'd need is one enterprising, talented student willing and able to make the potion and sell it to anyone with the coin, and they'd walk out of Hogwarts with enough money to buy half of Diagon Alley.
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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2014, 06:42:21 pm »
Hell, felix felicis would work, too, and be even less of a problem since that, apparently, isn't banned, even though there are apparently some side-effects if you use it too often.  Again, all you'd need is one enterprising, talented student willing and able to make the potion and sell it to anyone with the coin, and they'd walk out of Hogwarts with enough money to buy half of Diagon Alley.

It's not clear any student has the ability to brew Felix Felicis. We only ever see the one bottle, presumably brewed by Slughorn, which suggests you really need to be on the level of a Potions master to do it right (and can you imagine the potential side-effects of getting it wrong?).

I would also imagine the magical world has some form of super strict control on the potion that can literally make you good at everything and has serious side effects if you take it with any regularity (because let's face it, if the side effects alone were enough to dissuade people, we would not live in a world with drug addicts).
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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #28 on: September 26, 2014, 07:33:14 pm »
Well, the polyjuice might be a bit more in reach; all you'd need is a talented student or two sneaking the ingredients in and paying their dorm mates off to keep quiet.  Don't forget, you don't need to add the hair in the beginning, and it has a seemingly indefinite shelf life, so you could probably have a secret cabal of two or three students selling pre-brewed polyjuice potion right under the professor's noses, and all the customers would need to do would be to get the hairs of whomever they want to transform into.  Granted, it'd be difficult, but not impossible; and you can't tell me that something like that wouldn't make a fucking mint in a place chock-full of people on the cusp of adolescence when the fuck-drive is at its most absurdly high peak.
The ingredients wouldn't be quite that easy. This is stuff that Harry and friends had to filch from Snape's personal stash, so it's probably safe to assume they're quite expensive and difficult to find. To get it, you'd have to be rich and know someone who's able and willing to buy and send it to you somehow. If you have the means to do that, great, but the vast majority of the students probably don't. Paying off your dorm mates would also be far from a sure thing. No doubt most would be willing to take your money and promise to shut up, but would you really trust a bunch of gossip-happy teenagers to actually keep it to themselves for a month, or for at least one of them to not try to blackmail you for every cent you're worth a week or so into things? If you sort all that out, I hope for your sake that you're either a prodigy like Hermione, or you've aced 6th year potions, because if even one of your customers ends up in the hospital wing, or hell, dead, because you ballsed it up, you're fucked. In this universe of legilimency and veritaserum, there's no way in hell you're not getting caught and expelled at the very least and sent to Azkaban at worst. Hell, even if you do it right, you'd better pray that no one actually gets caught using it. Once you've sold to someone, it only takes a small slip-up from that person to ruin not only your months of hard work on your little side venture, but quite possibly your entire magical education or perhaps even your life itself.

All in all, if a student could actually pull that off without ever getting caught, well, let's just say the marauders have nothing on that magnificent bastard.
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Re: Oh, for the love of Hogwarts...
« Reply #29 on: September 26, 2014, 07:51:56 pm »
You guys are talking about illicit wizard sex through various magical means and artefacts. Really?!?
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