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  • You’re right, that was hyperbole. What I should’ve written is “every character that expresses traditionally feminine interests”, save for of course, the tradwife, like Molly Weasley whose entire character is just being a mother. Does she have interests beyond being a mother? No, with seven children who has time to be a person?

    Hermione doesn’t engage with anything traditionally feminine, she’s a “not-like-other-girls” type character, hell she doesn’t really have any friends that aren’t boys. Even so, she’s often not taken seriously. She’s mocked for studying hard, and she’s mocked for her anti-slavery coalition, which people only really join half-heartedly in order to placate her.

    There’s obviously Dolores Umbridge. She’s into cute, frilly, fluffy, pink things. She’s also a sadist. Her punishment for being bad is to be carried off by centaurs to get raped in a forest.

    Luna Lovegood was introduced as another character to be bullied, and she remains on the outskirts throughout the book, but Rowling softened up on her once she got extremely popular with the fans of the series.

    Just a couple of years ago “people with massive noses” having kahoots with Hitler would be oxymoron.But now, after genocide of Palestinians…

    Ah right, the massive genocide of Jews, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, and other minorities back in the mid 1900s was okay because the Israeli state is now running a genocide of their own. Rowling was correct to be antisemitic actually!


  • I enjoyed it as a kid. As an adult, the flaws are really hard to look past. From the goblins with massive noses that run the wizarding worlds economy, and is in kahoots with wizard Hitler, to the eugenics related hereditarianism views, etc. etc.

    Every single woman character in her books are ridiculed, or plain evil, if they take up space at all. There are like three non-white women, two are basically clones. And every single character is good or evil based on genes. Harry is a mix of both his parents, having personality traits from both, despite never having met them. That’s not how things work.

    It perfectly explains why Rowling pushes the politics she does. Her ideology is based on the long since discredited sciences of the early to mid 1900s, the stuff the Nazis were basing their ubermensch stuff on. Also explains why they so readily go hand in hand with neo-Nazis.










  • Depends on the kind of watch. Like you said, smartwatches aren’t necessarily going to be reliable. Most analogue watches don’t keep date. Those that do, might be affected by the stasis between floors. It doesn’t seem like most people wait until last minute to cross to different floors. Watches could also break, there’s lots of fighting, so I think people have more important things to focus on, other than dates.

    Small spoiler regarding timekeeping

    There is a segment in one of the books, not entirely sure, where they’re trying to figure out what date it is.




  • First thing that comes to mind to me is the whole stasis thing that can happen if you cross the stairs too early. There are also a lot of crawlers from across the world, so if we go by regular Earth timekeeping standards, time zones throw a wrench in the spokes.

    Then there’s the overall stress and trauma of it all. By the time someone felt stable enough to start keeping time, they may have already forgotten what time it was when it all started. Likely, there’d be many different accounts of what the time actually is, so the “real” date is probably not fully known to the crawlers.