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Honestly, what’s the betting on how popular this will turn out to be? What are the benchmarks these days for recently released...

I think using warlock as the male term for witch (traditionally, there is no male term for witch, the term is non-gendered) comes from...

Nah, literally everyone on the show speaks with a broad accent to indicate their cultural origin. Annoyingly, you can’t tell whether...

As I recall, even before Rowling became super-toxic (or at least before the public was aware of her toxicity) she was very protective of...

Big fan of Riordan's work. Still haven't read the Egypt one yet.

I remember becoming dimly aware of HP when a friend enthused about the “accessible fantasy” and “grownup storytelling” from the first...

Sadly I think the original 2016 writings by the author are even worse (and the basis for the stuff in the films).

I’m not complaining, I’m suggesting stuff writers of future media could do with this. If Beauxbatons doesn’t have an excess of...

Indeed. AD&D's Unearthed Arcana had taught me what the Philosopher's Stone was... didn't everyone in the US get the memo? ;)

Yes, exactly, this is interesting. We know there’s a wile global WW out there but the author doesn’t know or care how it works, there’s...

I personally think that it’s all part of how effed up, poorly organised, precarious, and yet entitled and overconfident the WW is, and...

Arthur is a good illustration - he’s a muggle expert and genuinely curious but he basically knows and understands nothing, and he’s seen...

I think it would be more accurate to say that the WW as presented in the books is condescending, arrogant, and profoundly ignorant (not...

My search for books by Jane Jacobs in the library because of this thread led me to A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska, which are the memoirs...

Oh, it’s because he’s black. Right, gotcha, just some common or garden racists. Plenty of those in the HP fandom.