• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I mean I’m somewhat interested in how the Wizarding world manages to keep hidden despite all the kids from the muggleworld supposedly having friends and connections and things before Hogwarts.

    I mean, which 11-year old wouldn’t want to tell their friends they’re special? Hmm… perhaps ones which fear some sort of “witch-hunt” if they out themselves as being different?

    How about why don’t muggles just address the weird looking wizards who they see on the streets (at least in book 1 chapter 1) and on King’s Cross station. I mean, I can always spot a wizard.

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      2 days ago

      I mean I’m somewhat interested in how the Wizarding world manages to keep hidden despite all the kids from the muggleworld supposedly having friends and connections and things before Hogwarts.

      I imagine the kindest answer to that involves magical law enforcement obliviating and confounding any witnesses, akin to how Gilderoy Lockhart had a career but perpetrated at scale on a large populous of second-class citizens (aka Muggles). Which is horrifying, but any other answer I can think of is somehow worse than wizard cops mind raping anyone who saw anything.

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        2 days ago

        but perpetrated at scale on a large populous of second-class citizens (aka Muggles).

        What do you mean?

        But yeah, the obliviators have definitely been mindraping people, but even with that, they couldn’t possibly track and trace all the people getting in on the secret.

        Maths study shows conspiracies 'prone to unravelling

        “Maths. A magic beyond all we do here at Hogwarts.”

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          2 days ago

          gotta know how shitty your opinions are outside of one thread, how am i suppose to deliver personal attacks if i don’t have a properly documented structure of your behaviors?

          Not that i would, because i’m too fucking lazy.

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            1 day ago

            Ooh, I’m so flattered. You took it so personally, I became your life’s focus.

            Thank you. <3

            Doesn’t still excuse you denying Israeli war crimes though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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              14 hours ago

              I became your life’s focus.

              nah, about 30 minutes a day. I spend the rest of the day building a 500 SPM factorio megabase because it’s more productive :)

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                3 hours ago

                “I devote half an hour of my life to you every day

                What can I say, I make people who defend child slaughter really into following me. :) Thank you for your time, fan!