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Downvote me all you want, but I have to complain. Most bad things in the series would never happen— especially to Harry— if people just talked, explained, or defended themselves like human beings. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And it really irks me a lot.

Update: Man, I have gotten tons of great responses here and a lot of activity. The comments section turned out way better than Reddit. Thank you all! <3

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I felt the same way by the end of the series.

What bothered me even more was the number of situations that could have been solved with a cell phone or computer.

Like the world-building is absolutely busted. They even have these big-ass libraries and put all this emphasis on learning, but they haven't even started to digitize.

Never once saw a middle-school or teenaged student in a standard math or science class. Weasley's dad was the only one that even thought "muggle stuff" was interesting, but he understood about as well as Ariel understood forks.

Bunch of illiterate magic-dependent isolationists that can't do math or use Google Search. Dumbledore would shit a brick if he found out Hogwarts was on Google Earth that whole time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The books are set between 1980 and 1998.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder how old Mr Poopy is? lol.

I see the joke, but honestly I could only tell be rereading the third paragraph. The rest sounds authentic.

It's one way to increase engagement on Lemmy lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Harry Potter happened before Google even existed. Google Earth would probably just look like a mundane splotch and people would look at it and suddenly remember they left the oven on. They learn their basic studies before they turn 11 and go to Hogwarts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have to be joking, right?

I'm not a fan of the series, and I haven't even read or watched it.

I do remember some "flying car" scene, which I'm guessing was flying by magic. But the model looked like from the 1950's.

So if the series happened in that era, there was no "digitizing books" happening anywhere.

Edit: I just read your whole comment. Yeah, you're joking. Funny!