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« 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. »

« 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

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

i also think the united states is too big but the problem is that most of the people who have wanted to break it up have been racists

maybe then i could actually learn something on this webbed site

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just post the literal things, there’s a ton and you don’t need to fake them

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sometimes i don’t understand bots, like, why would you markov that, the source is way more interesting

this is right up with there with “hope i haven’t used gosh or jeez” because there isn’t christianity in pokémon

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i can’t ⁜really⁜ get mad at Galar fics given its treatment in the anime but even so, sometimes repeated overt americanisms just get grating

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i generally don’t worry too much about dialect because mine is strange in any environment, but there are some words which just seem out‐of‐place imo

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you ever have those moments of like ‘oh no, i sure hope i haven’t used the word “mad” in my fanfiction with the american meaning; it should be “angry” or “upset” ’

“see, what i think you need to do is uhhhhh read some books”

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“actually if you analyse the relevant historical factors at play there is a reason things are like that”

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sometimes people say things like it is supposed to be baffling but i am not at all baffled

otherwise most of these are unfamiliar names to me; i should poke around and give them a listen

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glad to see Wolf Alice was on the shortlist and didn’t win; Blue Weekend is good but it isn’t ⁜that⁜ good

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glad to see Nubya Garcia was on the shortlist; great album

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