Some Difficult Questions for Joanne Rowling

[aussiedave]

Okay, I'm not going to pick on her maths or her timings, because she famously admits to have a cpacity for neither.

1. Why don't wizards own phones? I understand that muggles can't do wizard things; that's inborne. And I also understand why wizards, for the most part, don't bother with muggle things. And I understand that in places of high magic,

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[madcatlady]

This post made me a) think a lot of witches are like some insular ethnic communities, ergo the point of the post was not humourous, then b) made the point about the socks, which made me laugh for a good 5 mins :-)

[rhube]

Ditto :-D

Nooooooo....

[theeighth]

Dave, you have ruined Harry Potter for me.
I will never forgive you.

Re: Nooooooo....

[aussiedave]

No, look it's fun. Find a logical hole - should be a decent one, that you genuinely can't think of a pat answer for - and then exploit it.

Like, while we're looking at the genuine gibbon-buggering insanity of the plot to Goblet of Fire (which I enjoyed enormously, by the way), why does Crouch/Moody teach Harry how to resist the Imperius Curse?

Seriously. I accept that he has a personal hate on for this particular curse, having been its victim for some years, but what he's doing is still training his beloved master's most hated enemy how to resist him!

Seriously, if I were Voldemort, I'd be totally Avada Kedavra-ing the motherfucker.

[aussiedave]

Damn straight. :)

[aussiedave]

I'm still pissed about the giant eagles, for that matter. Also, hobbit/ring time-sharing:

1) Hobbits are resistant to the effects of the Ring.
2) Even the strongest-willed hobbits (presumably including Frodo) can't quite make the whole journey from Hobbiton to Morder without succumbing, albeit not until the very end.
3) You have four hobbits.

How is this even a problem? Just run the Ring between the hobbits relay-style, no problems. You could make the trip twice before running out of hobbits.

If you ever need to run out of hobbits. There's a Shire full of the fuckers.

[aussiedave]

Also, Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace.

So the little blue guy's resistant to Jedi Mind Tricks and can't be persuaded to sell you his components for Republican Daktaris. How is this an issue?

Not everyone on Tattooine is a little blue thing. Having accepted the ethical case for Mind-tricking someone into accepting currency they generally don't use there, why give up on this course of action just because Watto can't be affected?

Oh, yes. "You won't find anyone else around here with the parts you want." So? You will find people with money.

Step 1: Walk outside Watto's shop.
Step 2: Find a reasonably affluent bypasser.
Step 3: Ask him to trade Republican Daktaris for "Real Money" (whatever that is).
Step 4: When he refuses, mind-trick him.
Step 5: Return to the shop, use the "Real Money" you have just attained to buy your components, and everyone's back home by teatime.

[onesti]

Re- pumpkin juice. What about shite tasting sweets? I can understand magic sweets that taste of anything, but really, wouldnt you have limited them to nice tastes.... Plus whats wrong with Cadburys chocolates???

[onesti]

Nah, I was good with that. In Australia we had a type of gobstopper called a Warhead. It was basically a sour sweet (they also released chili and salty), ramped up to the max. Absolutely disgusting. But the point wasn't to taste nice; it was basically a masochistic thing. Like when kids make themselves eat fizzy cola bottles until they can't unpurse their cheeks any more. Bastard things sold like anything.