• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Couples were separated, but only for dinner.

    I'm surprised half her wedding guests didn't bail on her as soon as they found out about this. I fucking would have.

      • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        They didn't have people take tests, they spent likely weeks debating over the houses of every guest.

        (Which she won with facts and logic because she's Ravenclaw duh)

        • HectorCotylus [he/him,any]
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          4 years ago

          I've read 6 of the books and I have literally no idea what makes someone a Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff.

          If you try to explain it to me I'll report you.

        • shitshow [any]
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          4 years ago

          After weeks of debating it never came up to maybe sort tables by how they knew each other?

          I don't care if this is a bit or not, because we exist in a world where either scenario is equally likely. Schroedinger's Bit.

        • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          The other magical schools don't share the same houses in the books right?

          It's strange how people only ever treat the Hogwarts houses as the Harry Potter world religion.

          • kilternkafuffle [any]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, the other schools are foreign, so, like all foreigners, they're themselves one note, i.e., the French are girly girls and the Slavs are badass but lowkey evil.

            The only reason Hogwarts has different personality houses is because it had 4 different personality founders. (I'm sorry for knowing this. It lives in my head and I have to get it out.)

    • Abraxiel
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      4 years ago

      So, yeah this is some weird shit and splitting couples is a bad call for something like a wedding, but it's actually a good thing to mix your guests up so they talk to each other and have fun in most contexts.

  • bilb [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I sort wedding guests by the animal kingdom from which their fursona is derived.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The animal phyla are chordates, arthropods, mollusks, and then several kinds of worms and things most people would confuse with plants. If you can classify your friends according to those without everyone ending up at the same table, you've got friends with some very unusual favorite animals.

        You can keep going down the tree losing very few animals people care about at each step all the way down to amniotes.

  • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
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    4 years ago

    Supposedly it's Merlin that got auto-corrected into Lenin. Also Lenin was totally a Ravenclaw.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Holy fuck dude.

    Allow me to step into this fucking book series. I read half of them as a kid.

    At the beginning, I think Dumbledore describes the different houses. He describes Slytherin as like, ambitious.

    HE WAS BLOWING FUCKING SMOKE DIPSHITS

    It's just the bucket for the Nazi faction. It's the Magic Nazi house. They say "ambitious" because the Magic Nazis are established into society - they have their own fucking part of the school. They're not gonna say "oh, Griffyndor is brave, Ravenclaw is nerds, Hufflepuff are bitch boys, and Slytherin are a bunch of scumfuck nazi pigs" when they work at the fucking school.

    But all these dumb fuck lib ultranerds are incapable of reading subtext, on an already lib as fuck book, and come away with "oh this is just a personality test LMAO im an INTJ Hufflepuff SQUEEEE"

    If you're gonna be the most annoying fucking nerd, at least recognize that the pro-genocide, pro-slavery people are evil. Oh wait, they can't even do that in real life.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The Jim Crow and apartheid fans were libs.

  • KEN_ML [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    wtf slytherin is obviously the badguys this is just lying to yourself, sigh

      • KEN_ML [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        noooo, they are just well-rounded grey-area complex characters....

        • kilternkafuffle [any]
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          4 years ago

          Favorite house hobby: bullying. Top parental background: aristocrat with Nazi past. Most common postgraduate occupation: career criminal. Role model: wizard Hitler. Author's note: "Many of them are very fine people, modeled after some of my best friends."

            • Funicio [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Even before the TERF stuff, the fact that the bankers in Harry Potter are a race of ugly, greedy creatures with big noses that are super protective of their secrets was already highkey sus.

      • HKBFG [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        To be fair, there's only like four slytherins going to the whole school.

    • bimbusbumbus [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Flashbacks to when I was talking to a dude on okcupid that self indentified as an empath and tried to explain to me why them being in Slytherin wasn't a bad thing.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        wtf is an empath? there has been a lot of time since last reading that word

        • JayTwo [any]
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          4 years ago

          Giant red flag (and not a good one like :flag-su: ) for stay the fuck away from them because they're most likely going to tell you what they "know" you're thinking and there's no way you can ever convince them otherwise.

        • HKBFG [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          An empath is someone who can (supposedly) telepathically perceive the emotions of people around them.

        • Randomdog [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's what Peter Petrelli can do in Heroes. It's a superpower that lets you mimic the powers of others around you.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Firstly, Lenin went to Koldovstoretz, the Russian Wizarding School. Second, read literally any other book.

  • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Long shot, but could we get the libs onboard with a revolution by calling it "that which must not be televised"?