The fact that the wizarding world is able to be this aloof about 99% of the population they live amongst is incredible. In a real world that would be due to a tireless cadre of extremely knowledgable and capable wizards working to keep them separate. Unfortunately the fact that some hack like Voldie could make such a mess of things so easily kinda disproves that. Therefore the wizarding world is the luckiest bunch of idiots ever.
You should read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I don’t want to spoil anything but it is so good. Honestly, book stores should stop selling the official Harry Potter books and just stock HPMOR.
I actually did forever ago. It was pretty good. Harry is too smart and way too smug for me but I did really like voldie’s plan and how they dealt with him. I wonder if that would work in the actual books. It kinda seems like it from book 2.
To be fair, I think most people would be insufferably smug if they could blow everyone’s minds with some basic physics and creative thinking.
Muggle: this is a standard Blu-ray optical disc. It is capable of storing up to 100gb of information, which [according to Google] roughly translates into one or more movies (depending on the video quality), 28,000 songs, 30,000 photos, or 67.8 million pages of text.
Wizard: all of that in this tiny disc!? What is this? Magic?
Muggle: nah bitch, that’s physics.
Wizard: gasp physics! What a strange name for muggle-magic.
No that’s pretty much it, there’s even a subplot where Muggle Studies is an elective at Hogwarts, but only Hermonie wants to take it… and it’s solely so she can dunk on Wizards not knowing shit about Muggles while getting an Easy A
This is why I only liked the earlier Harry Potter books, the setting is clearly just not built to be taken seriously… so Goblet of Fire and onward demanding as such just fails.
The fact that the wizarding world is able to be this aloof about 99% of the population they live amongst is incredible. In a real world that would be due to a tireless cadre of extremely knowledgable and capable wizards working to keep them separate. Unfortunately the fact that some hack like Voldie could make such a mess of things so easily kinda disproves that. Therefore the wizarding world is the luckiest bunch of idiots ever.
You should read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I don’t want to spoil anything but it is so good. Honestly, book stores should stop selling the official Harry Potter books and just stock HPMOR.
I actually did forever ago. It was pretty good. Harry is too smart and way too smug for me but I did really like voldie’s plan and how they dealt with him. I wonder if that would work in the actual books. It kinda seems like it from book 2.
To be fair, I think most people would be insufferably smug if they could blow everyone’s minds with some basic physics and creative thinking.
Muggle: this is a standard Blu-ray optical disc. It is capable of storing up to 100gb of information, which [according to Google] roughly translates into one or more movies (depending on the video quality), 28,000 songs, 30,000 photos, or 67.8 million pages of text.
Wizard: all of that in this tiny disc!? What is this? Magic?
Muggle: nah bitch, that’s physics.
Wizard: gasp physics! What a strange name for muggle-magic.
Or they see themselves as a superpower that is above needing to learn about others, perhaps?
(I didn’t read the books so if this is obviously wrong I’m sorry)
No that’s pretty much it, there’s even a subplot where Muggle Studies is an elective at Hogwarts, but only Hermonie wants to take it… and it’s solely so she can dunk on Wizards not knowing shit about Muggles while getting an Easy A
This is why I only liked the earlier Harry Potter books, the setting is clearly just not built to be taken seriously… so Goblet of Fire and onward demanding as such just fails.
Yeah. The series loses a lot when whimsy isn’t the driving theme.