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@witchfynder_finder in their defence this is on the page “Mistakes in the Harry Potter books” pursuant to the goal of demonstrating that JK Rowling just can’t keep her facts straight

« Much is made of Hagrid's innocence of attacking Muggle-borns, both from his time as a student and when he was taken to Azkaban as a precaution, but there were several offences that he should in fact have been charged with and wasn't, such as keeping a dragon as a pet, endangering students with some of the creatures in his class and breeding the Blast-Ended Skrewts. »

@witchfynder_finder @monorail wow you do not want to read the bulbapedia origin section for torchic

« Although there is no exact number it is likely that most of the people in the battle saw someone die. »

« Delphi's is considered a highly controversial addition to the canon by select fans due to a commonly held belief that Voldemort would not have been able to conceive a child due to him possibly being sterile as a result of his soul being split so far » is this a Catholic thing or

@witchfynder_finder i’m not sure, i think it’s literally called unknown but it might be called unknown because they don’t know what it is

JK Rowling invented “runic numbers” (??) based on animals (???) for harry potter and the names of the runes are

0. Demiguise
1. Unicorn
2. Graphorn
3. Runespoor
4. Fwooper
5. Quintaped
6. Salamander
7. Unknown
8. Acromantula
9. Hydra

like half of those are just knockoff pokémon names come on

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there’s a lot we can all agree upon regarding the harry potter franchise but i hope that foremost among them is that the names were bad

@witchfynder_finder @monorail @seventy france is like hogwarts in that it’s kind of fun to read about if you don’t think too hard, and also it doesn’t exist

@seventy @witchfynder_finder @monorail « In an interview with Accio Quote J. K. Rowling stated that she thought Durmstrang was in Scandinavia, in the far north of either Sweden or Norway.[1] It is, however, depicted on maps featured on Pottermore as being in a more southern location (southern most part of Finland and into Russia right above Lake Ladoga, roughly); whether this is a change in canon or an error on the part of the artist of the map is uncertain » third possibility: nobody knows

@witchfynder_finder @monorail i mean technically i think escaping prison is A Crime but

@witchfynder_finder @monorail checking the wiki he didn’t even do anything wrong, he was just framed for opening the chamber of secrets because he was big and liked scary monsters

@witchfynder_finder yeah i think dumbledore was in his “i must Repent for all my Days of being Young and Gay” phase which is unfortunate

@witchfynder_finder i feel like he has a number of good role models to tell him like, harry my boy, don’t be a wizard cop (hagrid, dumbledore, sirius) but they never do and then two of them die

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