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punkfaery:

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punkfaery:

i’ve put on the first harry potter movie to keep me company while i draw, and can i just say: the way that harry+co immediately jump to suspecting snape of Nefarious Evildoings simply because he’s kind of a dick will never not be funny to me. they don’t even know he used to be a death eater at this point. they know literally NOTHING about him they’re just like “well he was mean to me in class the other day, so he’s probably a spy for voldemort” “yeah that seems legit. let’s set him on fire” 

my other take-away from this rewatch is that hogwarts library apparently has a restricted section to ~Protect The Children~ and it’s full of like, all the books that are too edgy or too crammed with Arcane Knowledge and you need a fucking permission slip to go in there? what the fuck. i tell you if i went to wizard school i would be in the restricted section every fucking night and if they punished me i simply would not care. expulsion for a good cause

while i’m at it: do we ever get any explanation for why the staircases move, or is it purely to create an atmosphere of irrational, random terror?

you know what, i’m on a roll now, and i’m going to address the elephant in the room: the entire plot of the first book was clearly a calculated ploy by dumbledore, designed to test harry’s suitability as future Saviour of the Wizarding World. like… we all know this, right? i’m not going out on a limb here, am i? let’s look at the facts.

step one: bring an artefact capable of bestowing immortality to school, fully aware that this artefact is being coveted by an evil wizard

step two: hire shady guy to work at school, who may or may not be concealing said evil wizard underneath his turban

step three: set up series of puzzles with a difficulty level appropriate to, say, three eleven-year-old students, and put the artefact right in the middle. sit back. twiddle thumbs. get out popcorn.

step four: when all’s said and done, destroy artefact as planned and use this sequence of events as an excuse to award many, many points to own house, thereby winning House Cup and pulling a “haha gotcha!” on all the other houses, which you don’t particularly care about

step five: profit

i’d also like to point out that quidditch is the most ridiculous game ever invented and makes absolutely no sense. harry potter: a fun series, and a great example of how not to do worldbuilding.

HOW COULD I FORGET TO MENTION the immortal moment of

quirrell: troll! troll in the dungeons!

dumbledore: this is a very serious matter. all students must return to their dormitories at once

slytherins: but professor…. our dormitories are in the dungeons

dumbledore:

Why do I understand this