Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 26 days agoI think it's because the author is an assholehexbear.netimagemessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up1226arrow-down10
arrow-up1226arrow-down1imageI think it's because the author is an assholehexbear.netYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square128linkfedilink
minus-squareBolshechick [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·26 days agoAnd like, even the houses are terrible and an even worse way of categorizing personality than like zodiac or Miggs Bryers. The houses are literally main characters, losers, evil people, and smart people (except the smartest person is in the main character house).
minus-squarechgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·26 days agoThe houses are the sort of thing where I’m not sure how much of it is bad world building and how much of it is just British.
minus-squareJohnny_Arson [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·26 days agoDefinitely both. I never want to read the words “head boy” again in my entire life.
minus-squareFumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·26 days agoSuch a missed opportunity to position the houses as related to aptitude in a particular type of magic. That would give them an actual character.
minus-squareDasRav [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·26 days agoThen Rowling woulda needed to think about her magic system a little more then not at all. She just made up whatever spell would suit the situation and then she mostly forgets about them. The fucking candy is more clearly defined then the spells.
minus-squareKuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·26 days agoThe spells start off as ‘here’s a quirky spell to make your enemy’s snot turn into bats’ and end up as ‘here’s the fiftieth version of ‘gun spell’’
minus-squarecorvidenjoyer [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·26 days agoI just realized the houses never specilized in anything other then the personality type you need to join depsite being fucking wizards. What an awful writer lol.
And like, even the houses are terrible and an even worse way of categorizing personality than like zodiac or Miggs Bryers.
The houses are literally main characters, losers, evil people, and smart people (except the smartest person is in the main character house).
The houses are the sort of thing where I’m not sure how much of it is bad world building and how much of it is just British.
Definitely both. I never want to read the words “head boy” again in my entire life.
Such a missed opportunity to position the houses as related to aptitude in a particular type of magic. That would give them an actual character.
Then Rowling woulda needed to think about her magic system a little more then not at all. She just made up whatever spell would suit the situation and then she mostly forgets about them. The fucking candy is more clearly defined then the spells.
The spells start off as ‘here’s a quirky spell to make your enemy’s snot turn into bats’ and end up as ‘here’s the fiftieth version of ‘gun spell’’
I just realized the houses never specilized in anything other then the personality type you need to join depsite being fucking wizards.
What an awful writer lol.