Her surname is also the name of a Thai beer.
And there goes pretty much all I learnt about Thailand in the three weeks I spent there.
So Hufflepuff is CLEARLY the best house...
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Her surname is also the name of a Thai beer.
Probably rob Muggles. Imperius Curse and a mindwipe does wonders.
SliceSabre
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I always thought it was pureblood influence but hell Ron's family was pureblood and they were clearly a working class family.
Potters are old money. Probably slayed Potter-Smaug a thousand years ago and are still swimming in his dosh.
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Hufflepuff is the house of the normal folks. Not the self-righteous, who believe their house makes them great. They're the humble. Hufflepuff isn't house Yamcha or Krillin, it's house Tien. Krillin is just Longbottom and he was Gryffindor.
Although I probably wouldn't have said that if I wasn't sorted into Hufflepuff five minutes ago in response to this thread.
Although I probably wouldn't have said that if I wasn't sorted into Hufflepuff five minutes ago in response to this thread.
Yeah, it's forged by goblins so it can't be tampered with or duplicated.
Which, again, brings up the question of who the fuck is controlling all this industry because it sure as hell isn't manned by wizards.
Wait, I always thought she was the token Asian. She's got a Korean surname for her first name and a Taiwanese last name (clearly Taiwanese too because if she was a mainlander she'd spell it Zhang). Although it could also be a bad Romanization of the Korean name Jang too.
Man, discussing the economy of the magic world is fun 
I assume she was in the books too and people were just stupid and racist in the internet.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You would have assume Luna would have stopped believing her father's horseshit given that she lived outside of his direct influence 7/8 of the year from age 10-17.
The goblins are the true puppetmasters in Wizarding society.
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Speaking of the Potters, are we just supposed to assume that James' parents are dead? Because like why the fuck does he never speak to them?
I'll buy that they hid harry with Lilly's sister because it kept him out of the Wizarding world and "safe" from underground Voldemort supporters.
But where the hell are his grandparents? Honestly where the hell are Lilly's parents? Where the hell is the rest of the Potter family? Does James not have a brother or a cousin?
There are so many possible relatives Harry could have and I don't think a single one of them is remotely addressed.
Goblins.
Who hate wizards.
When you think about it, the wizarding world isn't very bright.
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You just answered your own question. Goblins were the real rulers of the wizarding world this whole time.
Neville was concidered a whimp all thru the books, faced dangers and enemies that outclassed him constantly and by the end of the series is a bonafide badass even if his close friend, Potter, gets all the glory.
Him as Krillin is accurate actually.
Centuries of inbreeding will do that.
Why, Goblins do, of course! For the most part they chill amongst themselves. Just don't dick with their cash or you're interrupting a very, very long party whose invitees don't like to stop dancing.
They all died in a tragic "accident" leaving James Potter the sole heir of the family fortune.
I believe JK mentioned she eventually did.
It's true that they don't mention them, but sending Harry to the Dursleys was a calculated move, supposedly, wanted him as far away as possible from the magical world and, as hagrid put it, that place was with the "world's biggest muggles".
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The wizard world deals with a lot of races that seem to have every reason to hate them.
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Fuck that. What about Lilly's parents? They're dead too I figure, but goddamn Harry has to have more family than just the Dursleys.
That must have been one hell of an accident.
Every single facet of the Potterverse falls apart when you think about for more than a second. But we're not supposed to care because MAGIC and "its for kids!" aka the George Lucas Defense.
Well according to the wiki they just died of old age. James was an only child so Harry doesn't have any cousins or whatever.
Other than the Weaselys who breed like rats, the other Wizarding families seem much more smaller.
The only non-wizards who don't hate wizards are the house elves who enjoy being slaves and the muggles who don't know they exist.
Everyone else? Hates them with good reason. If the muggles knew about the wizarding world and all the dangerous shit that was kept secret from them, they'd probably also hate wizards.
Yes, yes as I said...accident. Although some question the peculiar timing of the deaths of James' family and Lily's parents, how they both ended up dying in traveling related accidents on the same day is something we'll never truly know. Luckily, James was unable to attend the family gathering as he and Lily had decided to take the evening to go shopping.
I think it's pretty laughable that wizards have such a sour relationship with the people who control their money.
Their society literally can't function without untamperable currency and the minting of such is knowledge is exclusive to the goblins. I wonder what the hell the goblins are getting paid with if they're willing to put up with human blowhards.
Their society literally can't function without untamperable currency and the minting of such is knowledge is exclusive to the goblins. I wonder what the hell the goblins are getting paid with if they're willing to put up with human blowhards.
You know, it blows me away no dark wizards ever thought to start their world domination plans with the muggles first -- as no wizards would really be watching, -- subtly indoctrinating them into the evil forces, and then attacking the wizarding world all at once with a magically triggered-and-brainwashed army one billion strong.
There just aren't enough wizards to fend that off, you'd think.
So you're saying James killed his parents so he could inherit the money?
Snape did say he was an asshole.
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Remember adults aren't smart because of poor education. Though no excuse to Tom Riddle I guess
Doesn't even take much thinking, really.
Rowling has kinda hinted that World War 2 was tied to Grindelwald so it's possible dark wizards have tried.
I can see the headlines already.
"Popular children's book author claims Hitler was controlled by dark wizards and is not to blame for the holocaust."
That's probably why she hasn't elaborated on it any more than that.
"Hitler did nothing wrong" -Dumbledore
Probably just arrogance. Dark wizards seem universally to be the blood purity types. They probably saw muggles as useless.
Or they were smart enough to realize that even without magic, muggles would be very dangerous to them if they were discovered. A bullet will kill a wizard like it will anyone else and the wizarding world doesn't have atomic bombs.
That excuse doesn't really work over a multi-thousand year span of magic, though, does it?
Not enough wizards playing Plague Inc
Which excuse?
I'm afraid I don't understand that reference, sorry! Would you mind elaborating?
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In a scenario where wizards and Muggles went to war, all I can see is the Shinsekai Yori world resulting. There's no way the Muggles would win, they could try using atomic bombs but all they would do is wipe themselves out.
Studying isn't hard work for Hermione. It's fun. That'd be like saying me being able to make long winded Harry Potter posts is due to laborious hours reading the books.
The second one. In older times, no nukes, further back not even guns, but muggles are always just as ignorant and prone to super subtle magic.
I have implied no such thing, good sir. Furthermore, I will not have James Potter's good name besmirched by such baseline slander. You would do well to guard that tongue of yours when speaking about your superiors.
True, I was just thinking about the most recent dark wizard uprising.
I could see a loose connection between dark wizards and some of the most cult oriented parts of the Nazis. They'd probably make some backdoor deals with each other, but writing that the entire Nazi regime was just Grindelwald would be immensely silly.
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