• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    I like the comparison of Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings that points out Harry Potter was a very special, perhaps ethnically special boy, who deserved his powers because he was naturally good, while Frodo Baggins was a dude who got saddled with an absurd level of responsibility, which he never could have handled without a long list of friends and randos who found it amusing to help him.

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      If it was just Harry, it would just be an over used clique, but ethnic or birth traits kept coming up. Hagrid is naturally angry. Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby. House Elves are natural slavesservants. The Weasley will always be poor(even when Harry should be paying rent or at least buying them a new car).

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        Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby.

        As a sorta half blood rape baby, this has always driven me mad. I am not evil because my conception was.

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        2 hours ago

        well that is more Harry Potter information than I previously had, but I’ll just move on and pretend to be dumber than I am, which is already pretty bad. when I was kid I gathered an embarassing amount of knowledge on Stephen King novels. I didn’t really expect him to be one of the good guys in 2025, but there he is.