ITT: Nepotism examples

Are you implying Susan Bones got into Hogwarts because her mother/aunt or whatever is Director of Defense in the Ministry of Magic or something like that?

Reminder that canon Hogwarts is supposed to have ALL magical kids of Magical Britain, nevermind the population numbers that would imply.

>>80674322

the more you think about Rowling's world, the less it makes sense

>>80674367
Yes, her world-building is lovely and comfy but extremely shallow and badly thought-out.

Not only it makes no sense to have only ~40 kids per year (10 in each house) but the actual staff isn't even enough to teach them all. Let's take Flitwick for example, he teaches the most important class: Charms. Assuming all classes are shared by two Houses, and assuming he gives as much attention to all years, assuming he works about 40 hours a week (huge for a teacher), he would only have enough time to teach 40 / 7 / 2 = ~3 hours a week to each double-house-year group.

There's only 7 classes in Hogwarts, assuming all of them take as much time as humanly possible, that's only 21 hours a week for students. That's only 4 hours a day. Not mentioning that some of these classes are much less recurrent than Charms.

So your teachers work to the bone to teach all classes, and your students end up with so much free time and pretty much no one to supervise them.

>>80674973
can't you guys just switch your brain off and enjoy the movie?

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It's an example of one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy Arnold having to be all like "damn, Jamie Curtis, you fuckin' fine, all sexy with your tight body and horrific androgynous monster face. I would totally have sex with you, both my character and the real me." when all he really wants to do is fuck another 16 year old in his dressing room. Like seriously imagine having to be Arnold and not only sit in that chair while Jamie Lee Curtis flaunts her disgusting body in front of you, the favorable lighting barely concealing her stretchmarks and leathery skin, and just sit there, take after take, hour after hour, while she perfected that dance.

Not only having to tolerate her monstrous fucking visage but her haughty attitude as everyone on set tells her she's STILL GOT IT and DAMN, JAMIE LEE CURTIS LOOKS LIKE THAT?? because they're not the ones who have to sit there and watch her mannish fucking gremlin face contort into types of grimaces you didn't even know existed before that day. You've been fucking nothing but a healthy diet of blondes and supermodels and later alleged rape victims for your ENTIRE CAREER coming straight out of the boonies in Austria. You've never even seen anything this fucking disgusting before.

>a-and now you swear you can taste the sweat
"No!"
That's breaking out on her dimpled stomach as she sucks it in to writhe it suggestively at you.

Smugly assured that you are enjoying the opportunity to get paid to sit there and revel in her "statuesque (for that is what she calls herself)" beauty. The beauty she worked so hard for with personal trainers in the previous months. And then the director calls for another take, and you know you could kill every single person in this room before the studio security could put you down, but you sit there and endure, because you're fucking Arnold. You're not going to lose your future political career over this. Just bear it. Hide your face and bear it.

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enjoy

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>>80675126
u blew my mind

>>80675029
but they're books first and foremost, so, no. Turning off your brain is bad reading.

>>80674973
my man, I would slay so much ravenclaw pucci if I had only 4 hours a day in hogwarts

oh hell

What's the point of complaining about nepotism when actors are generally handed high-paying for being good looking anyway? If anything, getting a job through nepotism is more deserved than getting one for being attractive. At least someone in your family achieved something through their own volition.

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that girl from twilight

>>80675304
Nepotism leads to complacency. And if the attractive guy fucks up, you can just fire them. If it's a relative of someone you actually do need, you risk losing them by firing the incompetent worker.

>>80675418

dont post pictures of my gf pls

>>80674179
Wouldnt all magical kids in England end up in Hogwarts? How mant kids is that? Why didn't the "wizards" just cast themselves out of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises? Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though

"No!" The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>80675304
at least attractive people are pleasant to look at and something an audience wants to see, no one wants to see someone's homely kid who can't act

>>80675450

here's a picture of your >no gf
can you see it
oh you can't because it's nothing

>>80675463
talking about like tori spelling, not an extra in harry potter

>>80675498

shut the fuck up

>>80675463
the irony of casting lots of attractive people is that it looks average

>>80675574

no

>>80674179
Nepotism is fine and is the genetically sane to do for your family.

People who are excluded are not worth wasting resources on.

>>80674322
>Reminder that canon Hogwarts is supposed to have ALL magical kids of Magical Britain, nevermind the population numbers that would imply.
There's only supposed to be like 10-20 thousand Wizards in Britai, they're very low population.

>>80675418
guy*

>>80675795

just imagine the amount of incest

I love both Stephen King and Rowling. They're great writers.

>>80675126
Why didn't they use the flying car to destroy the horocruxes?

>>80675828
i wanna eat her (male) vagina

>>80675835
Actually yeah that is a plot point that wizard families obsessed with purity resorted to incest a lot of times. That's why Voldemort's mother's family were all insane.

>>80675894
it's an axe wound

>>80675953
sounds good to me

>>80674973
Shouldn't the kids get taught fucking math?
I mean it's a book for little kids so having math would be retarded
But how can they make potions without knowing math? Are all wizards in the Harry Potter universe as dumb as a ten year old?
Who builds the fucking castles? Who handles lawsuits? Who does all the non magic jobs? How come kids only get taught magic related shit

>>80675304
I really don't give a shit.

I just get mildly annoyed when they think their opinion matters more than average people in political issues. They are just glorified mimes and clowns, stop trying to tell me what to think and juggle those balls for me, monkey.

>>80676001
what "non-magic" jobs?

>>80675126
Horrible pasta. Incredibly unimaginative. Pushed by one idiot whenever he sees anything Potter-related as opposed to others, actually good pastas that are posted about more specific topics or pictures.

>>80675233
Books for kids, you muppet
Why do autistics always have to ruin everything

>>80675126
>"No!"

>>80676118
Looks like Cloister is reeing

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>>80674179
Kevin Smith's whole filmography

>>80676118
I'm more disturbed by the fact that it's posted round the clock, which means that one guy is just on /tv/ all day in the hopes of spamming his copypasta everyone has already seen a thousand times

>>80675795
Doesn't fit. Assuming wizards reproduce the same way humans do (nevermind that they live twice longer and thus should make more kids) 10k to 20k wizards would mean 200 to 400 kids a year. There's only 40 in Hogwarts.

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>>80676501
>There's only 40 in Hogwarts.
I think your math is off a little

>>80676001
They get taught basic math at pre-Hogwarts schooling. Then, in later years, they have Arithmancy which is some kind of magical math.

Let's be honest, very few people, even in the real world, NEED to know trigonometry or anything more advanced to do their job. I don't think wizards would give a heck except scholars.

>>80676598
Those are cannon numbers. About 10 new student in each House every year.

Gryffindor, 1991:
- harry potter
- ron weasley
- seamus finnigan
- dean thomas
- neville longbottom
- hermione granger
- lavender brown

Not even 10. And no, it's never implied anywhere in the book that there are a bunch of un-mentioned ones.

>>80676501
actually it's been mentioned their birth rate is low
It's rare for families to have a lot of kids like the Weasleys do

>>80676352
his daughter sates my daughter complex tho

>>80674973
>So your teachers work to the bone to teach all classes

And now you know why they're all so damaged. No sane person would sign up for that. I mean I'm prety sure I remember from the books that McGonagall is a high-functioning alcoholic. Snape is....yeah. Dumbledore is taking something, god knows what. And the rest doesn't get enough development but god knows that they do in their spare time.

>>80677030
>The Face Goes South

>>80676846
My numbers are taken off the average birthrate of britain, which is like 2-3 kids or something. With other factors taken in, it comes of as 20 kids per year in a population of 1000. I can't tell you how I got there exactly, it's stuff I've done a long time ago.

Examples of wizard families:
Malfoy = 1 kid
Potter = 1 kid
Black = about 4-5 kids at various levels
Weasleys = 7 kids or so
Patil = 2 kids
Delacour = 2 kids

It's generally accepted that it's very inconsistent and more likely most kids in Hogwarts don't have a bro around because Rowling didn't bother thinking about that. It's not that likely that Wizards in general have less kids. Even if they did, let's say, have half as much kids as muggles, they would need to be about 4 000 to have only 40 in Hogwarts every year.

>>80674973
Teachers,on average, work about 60 hrs a week bro

>>80677139
Where I come from, and I assumed in Britain too, nobody works more than 40 hours a week. Especially not teachers.

were the weasleys rich before? if not, why would you have so many fucking kids?
fucking scum

>>80675126
why is this being posted in a non-JLC/true lies thread

>>80677030
Damn, I had no idea she's David Chase's own spawn.

>>80676118
>Horrible pasta. Incredibly unimaginative. Pushed by one idiot whenever he sees anything Potter-related as opposed to others, actually good pastas that are posted about more specific topics or pictures.
Noice, new pasta

>>80677264
Magic, bruv. You barely need money to survive. I think it's fanon that you can't just conjure food and water, can't remember a lecture about it or something.

>>80676118
>>80676442
>people actually believe its the same anon that posts the HP pasta every time

>>80675915
Doesn't he have a muggle parent though?

>>80674973
>there's only 7 classes in hogwarts

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hogwarts_subjects

also where was it stated that there are only 40 new kids per year

>>80675835
That's why there are so many half-blood wizards. Incest leads to shit like Malfoys.

>>80677481
He does, that's why I said his mother, who was a pureblood from an incestuous crazy family descended from Slytherin. His father was a muggle she drugged with a love potion.

>>80677533
Oh right I cant read
durrurrjkefseggs

>>80677519
Did you read your own link?
>Astronomy (once in the week if even)
>Charms
>DADA
>Herbology
>History
>Potions
>Transfiguration

7 Classes. The electives are so rarely mentioned and apparently attended by *no one* that it'd be complicated to take them in account.

And like every HP wiki, these places are often riddled with accidental fanon so you shouldn't trust them blindly when talking canon.

>>80675844
Dan Brown blows both of them out of the water

>>80677663

Your money well spent, parents.

Fucking hell, what a shithole.

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>>80674179

>>80677663
>they don't learn Maths, English, Accounting, Foreign Languages or Hard Sciences
what a shit school

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>>80674179
Do you mean the fact that she's Christopher Columbus' daughter?

>>80677663
I'll correct myself here, it is true that Divination and Magical Creature thingy are both mentioned and used for plot quite a lot, so it counts.

Still, that doesn't change much to the overall point.

>>80677799

But anon magic soup is so much more important

>>80677726
Is that the kid that has a whole book about how he's going to rape another student and fall to the dark side, but the reader gets blue balled at the end?

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What was their tax policy?

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IndEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>80677726
AL BASH YE FOOKIN ED IN M8

all of bollywood

>>80677663
6th and 7th years don't take all subjects unless going for NEWTs.

>>80677375
pretty sure Hermione pulls that shit out somewhere along the line and Ron later parrots her (I think when they cmplain about the RoR not conjuring food up in DH) to seem smart

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>>80677891
Zett Jukassa?
(Jet Lucas)

>>80678132
Where did you see that?

>>80678248
he reddit :^)

>>80676658
It seems like Wizards have next to no need to improve technology at all. Magic cleans for them, cooks for them, writes, power clocks that don't tell time, heal wounds, they only need math to count money or do muggle shit just to blend in.

>I'm a haif an haif

Even before the mudblood thing came up in the films, that line always struck me as something you wouldn't say so openly and happily.

>>80674179
Everybody that works in Hollywood.

>>80674322
implying the storytelling is good enough to warrant an extended universe with canon
it's like arguing about canon things in the fast and the furious universe

He also means the actress that plays susan bones is the directors daughter

>>80678210
>>80677726
is he one of Lucas adopted kids or his real kid>>??? Lucas fucked up

>>80677972
I mean, she still worked hard for her part
it was just on the couch

>>80677935
why would the principal decide the tax policy?

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>>80674973
>pretty much no one to supervise them
underrating Mrs Norris as a character & as a student minder
wtf kid

>>80676786
you forgot the pajeet

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>>80678416
Adopted

>>80675304
Go see Godfather 3 and still see if you think nepotism is better than being cast for looking good. It's far more likely an attractive person can act than some relative. It happens all the time, the ones who can act get more roles while the relatives eventually fail. Like Will Smith's kid, you don't see that kid anymore.

>>80677811
What is she 500 years old?

>>80677089
it's heavily implied Dumbledore molests kids in his special room.

The Harry Potter books read like a horror anthology with the right frame of reference. Voldemort wants to destroy Hogwarts (it's a brainwashing facility) besides that his motivations are never explained, he is just the evil guy, this is basically propaganda- it's obvious he, just like Grindelwald before him, wanted to reveal the nature of magic to the muggles, and liberate humanity from slavery and ignorance.

Ministry of Magic - giant socialist bureaucracy, kangaroo courts, cruel and unusual punishment with prisons worse than hell, massive media spin and constant lieing and covering up of the truth.

The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - divide and conquer, set the children against each other based on some fickle 15 second hat quiz (this is obviously bullshit, there is no 'mind reading' magic displayed in the series ever again). Constantly have them compete and fight amongst themselves to prepare them as adults to never cooperate or unite and always obey authority which hands down REWARDS and PUNISHMENTS in the form of point deductions. Isn't the point of going to school to get an education and not score points?

Gringotts Bank - a bank ruled by neutral if not outright hostile goblins who keep everyone's gold locked away.

The BAD GUYS - political prisoners, freedom fighters, anarchists, revolutionaries. anyone who disagrees with the status quo.


The more you look into it, the more you see what a misunderstood genius JK Rowling really is. Harry Potter might be the greatest satire of our modern era, but people are so stupid they took it literally and she probably just said fuck it, might as well go along.

>>80678812

Basically this. Wizards are awful people and their whole system is hellish.

Even as a teen when I read the books, something didn't sit right with me. Being a wizard is pretty shitty.

>>80678812
>he BAD GUYS - political prisoners, freedom fighters, anarchists, revolutionaries. anyone who disagrees with the status quo.
you mean like the Order of Phoenix in OOF? who are clearly shown to be falsely criticised by the government?

numale media please stay on /co/

>>80678922
it got nuanced towards the end, the fight was between:
>violent revolution (Voldemort)
>soft coup with nothing changing (Potter and co.)

The books were used to send a message to the collapsing world order now, explaining to them, you can take the easy way or the hard way out.

>>80675716
This. Even in less lucrative fields knowing somebody can jumpstart a career. Besides, nepotism only gets your foot in the door 9/10 times. You need to be a competent worker to keep your job, and a talented one to rise through the ranks. I don't believe there's anything wrong in having connections who can bring your resume to the top of the stack. In the entertainment industry especially you need to know somebody to get an audition most of the time as well. There are hundreds of people competing for every role you audition for, and the faces eventually start blending to the casting directors. Having a friend or relative who can help you stick out is almost necessary if you aren't a Marlon Brando tier actor.

>>80677663
What if a wizard wanted to become a lawyer or accountant? Is there higher education after Hogwarts, or do these people have no understanding of subjects that you average Brit needs to learn?

>>80679158

NO SON OF MINE

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>no one fucking posted him yet

>>80679158
Are you a fucking idiot? Why would a wizard would want to be an accountant? Goblins own everything. Why would they want to be a lawyer? Wizarding courts don't include the notion of lawyers.

High end wizarding jobs are Necromancers, Curse Breakers and Planeswalkers. Why the fuck do you want to crunch numbers?

>>80679262

Maybe you have a passion for it?

>>80679326
fkin gay

>>80679419

Lucius, go home.

>>80679262
But what were the Ministry of Magic's tax policies?

>>80677136
>weasleys are 10% of gryffindor

>>80677136

>claims to cite official figures
>2-3 kids or something
>or something

You can do better.

>>80680087
The figure it boiled down is 20 kids a year for 1000 people, as said in the post quoted.

>>80675126
>Camus and Sartre
>No Proust, no Céline, no Rebatet
This list is shit.

>>80676001
The funniest part is that the muggles will probably eventually discover magic, but since it will be discovered scientifically and analyzed thoroughly with all the understanding of math and physics behind it, the wizards will be totally BTFO having basically lucked into it with no clue how it works.

>>80680295
>since it will be discovered scientifically and analyzed thoroughly with all the understanding of math and physics behind it
no you utter plen, magic breaks science when it gets near

>>80680295
Not really. Almost everything about magic breaks all the laws of physics as we know them. It would take fucking centuries for muggles to figure out that they can't figure it out because: it's just magic.

>>80677670

>Dan Brown blows both of them out of the water
>The Da Vinci Code

heh

>>80680332
>>80680350
The epitome of shitty writing.

How?

Why doesn't magic break gravity?

>no effect

So Muggles can launch an electronic missile onto Hogwarts.

>nope because Electricity

>but what about the Hogwarts express?
>The flying car?

>>80679854
Why would you need taxes when you can literally poof shit into existence?

>>80680569
magic train and a muggle car with magic cast onto it
>doesn't break gravity
Wingguardium Leviosa ;)

>>80680569
What are you trying to say?

>>80680148

No, you were talking about the birthrate in Britain.

>My numbers are taken off the average birthrate of britain, which is like 2-3 kids or something.

>>80680648
But that's what I'm saying. 2-3 kids is per couple. You can't just use that, with people getting older and breaking up and people not having kids and whatever. My point is, for a population of 1000 people, including grandpas and babies, about 20 babies are born. Thus, for 40 kids to be born each year, it would be around 2 000 people at the moment.

>>80680605
Why is Luscious Malfoy rich?

Who funds the train?
Who maintains the railways?

>>80680902
>Who funds the train?
>Who maintains the railways?
the statists would claim the government does

>>80680902
His house is ancient and pureblood, so they have accumulated a lot of magical gold over time.

For the latter two, the people who pay train fare.

>>80680737

Anon, calm down.

I don't care about all that other nonsense you're sperging.

Official figures never end up with "or something" at the end.

Also, in 2015 women in Britain, at the age of 45, have had on average 1.9 children

>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11806379/End-of-2.4-children-as-Britain-has-biggest-families-in-Europe.html

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>>80680569
>but what about the Hogwarts express?
>The flying car
>mfw post-millenials don't even know how steam trains or combustion engines work

>>80681007
Who financed the tracks? Was it the government or private corporate investors who need educated wizards?

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>>80674322
>>80674973
Look at this. This is meant to be the entire student body and all teachers.

There's maybe, MAYBE 300 people in the room.

>>80676786

It's literally implied there are many more students.

That doesn't mean that the implied amount is realistic but your 10 amount is stupid.

>>80681566
10 * 4 * 7 = 280

>>80681566

Yeah those are the movies they are rough interpretations of the books.

Nothing in the movies is canon even if their book equivalent is.

The movies were nice to have but ultimately flawed.

>>80681627
Nope, only one or two unnamed students are ever spotted, people did the research. Specifically in the bogart scene in 3rd year.

>>80681091
I explained that I don't remember the source math exactly.
>Also, in 2015 women in Britain, at the age of 45, have had on average 1.9 children
HP is set closer to 1995 than 2015. Also, ok, now what do you do with that 1.9 children figure? How do you work with that?

>>80681763

Spotted your problem senpai. You're equating the movies to the books which you should never do.

>>80681566
aren't they separated by years? As in each year has a different dinner time?

>>80681907
I'm literally talking about the books. I haven't seen the movies, senpai.

>>80681684
>>80681910
No, the students walking down the middle are all of the incoming first years.

That's literally everyone.

>>80681108
Neither does my grandma but I get your point.

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>>80681910
>
>>80681954
>That's literally everyone.
>can see the top of the heads of students out of shot
means there could be loads more

>>80682029
You can see the door in the shot, as well as the two walls on either side of the room. There's maybe six or seven feet of unaccounted for room.

>>80681763

>now what do you do with that 1.9 children figure?

You use it. If you want you can round it up to 2.0 as long as you work a 5% tolerance into the resulting figures and make allowances that this is all fucking meaningless because we're talking about logical stats in a magical environment. How about that?

>>80676501
That would mean there's only 280 kids in the entire school, you blathering retard. There are single shots in the movies with more students than that. The campus would be desolate for how enormous it is and how few students there are.

>>80682090
the door is open, m8, there are plenty of students who might still be outside the hall walking towards your magical but alas open door

>>80682158
But there isn't, the new first years are the last to arrive and we later see them all at once in the very next scene.

>>80682113
Ok, so where's the correlation between population count and babies made per year? That's what I mean. That's why I work off the 20 per 1000 per year figure.

>>80682143
>movies
The books imply these numbers. I don't really care what the movies did with it. Also I doubt there really are shots with more than 280 students at once.

>>80681948

I'm not trying to defend Rowling and any inconsistencies she may have created but if you can't presume that a castle sized school doesn't have multiple groups of kids rotating between courses then your autism can't be satisfied.

The only thing that i personally noticed was that the amount of teachers don't add up especially because she never even alluded to specialized courses not all students have as they get older. (AP or Honors equivalent courses).

Tl;dr just don't sperg out and fill in the holes that Rowling made with reasonable explanations

>>80682329
I don't understand what you mean, with all due respect. You yourself even admit the teacher count couldn't possibly handle more than my numbers.

>>80677139
I didn't believe this bullshit when I was in school and I don't believe it now.
I'm sure that when marking exams and big assignments they need to put an extra 5 or 6 hours in at home, but there's no way any of the teachers I had spent 4 hours every night meticulously planning what page to get their students to take notes from.

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>>80682379
Watch it numbers

>>80682379

Yeah I'm saying that nobody is arguing that Rowling didn't fuck up multiple times but you should basically mentally fix the holes with reasonable expectations in your head. Basically use your head canon to make a better and more complete story.

I think it also helps to think that back in the good ol days of witchcraft and wizardry Hogwarts was filled to the brim but since they are "a dying breed" there aren't as many students or teachers. It also explains why there are lots of abandoned classrooms and hallways, floors.

>>80682212

Don't care about that. All I was doing was pointing out some sloppy practice when dealing with official figures.

Do you think Dick Feynman would be impressed? Neither do I.

Me

>>80682640
>back in the good ol days of witchcraft and wizardry Hogwarts was filled to the brim
That's usually the implied background when trying to stick to canon. Most of the time people ignore canon and just fill Hogwarts with 2000 students and as many teachers as necessary, which is fine. But it's important to see the hard limits of canon, and such they are. Rowling never implied number any bigger than 10 a house, a year. That's all I'm saying.

I'm perfectly aware of the numerous way fanon filled the gaps in believe-able ways.

>>80680236
It's a troll list from /lit/ you retard.

>>80679015
Even if you are a Marlon Brando tier actor you probably won't ever be discovered.

>>80675461
>every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs"
You think that's bad. Want to play a game?
Grab any HP book, find any conversation between two characters, and it will be
>"some shit" x said a-ly
"some more shit", y said b-ly
"some more shitter shit" x said c-ly
And so on.

>>80674973
Is the ministry controlling birthrates China-style?

Bigger question is, what the fuck are all these adult wizards doing all day? I mean, magic takes care of almost all needs, so there needs to be very few craftsmen, no one is creating food, they don't actually "need" anything...hell, how come the weasleys are poor? Why do wizards even have the concept of wealth when you can just wave your faggy wand around and build a new house?

>>80684676
>no one is creating food

That's the one thing they can't magic up, though. They can only transport food from some place they know it exists. From the pot to the plate etc.

The Weasleys are poor because they had like 50 kids, all of who needed clothing and school supplies, with neither parent being good enough at clothes spells, forcing them to buy clothes and robes as well as food.

Same as with us. Most people COULD make their own clothes, but even poor people end up buying clothes because they just don't have the skill with needle and thread.

>>80684676
Because Rowling didn't think it through.

>>80675716
t. juden

only a sociopath or an edgy /tv/fag who makes peanuts at a shit job would say this shit

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>>80675617

>>80685309
I'm sure there is a spell to enchant sewing needles to make clothes for you while you are busy casting the dishwashing spell and the home refurbishing spell while your clothes are being washed by the magic autonomous washboard and rag.

>>80676352
Was going to say pretty much her whole carrier....

>>80684026
How's that? I don't get it

>>80674179
Related to OP's someone post the pic that has an note about gal gadot not doing jack shit before marrying a rich dude and suddenly Fast and Furious.

Related to that, Resident Evil and Underworld.

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>>80674367
That's true of every fictional world. Look how complicated the real world is. It couldn't possibly be reduced to 7 books, even if they were nothing but lists of facts.
>>80674973
>Not only it makes no sense to have only ~40 kids per year (10 in each house)
We know there are more than that in the books though. There are at least twenty named Gryffindors in Harry's year alone and well over 10 named Slytherins in his year as well. Each year is probably closer to 100 students total.
>but the actual staff isn't even enough to teach them all. Let's take Flitwick for example, he teaches the most important class: Charms. Assuming all classes are shared by two Houses,
The classes aren't divided by house. In the movies it seems like only Gryffindors and Slytherins have classes together, but that's just because they don't have the time and resources to make everything exactly like the books.
>and assuming he gives as much attention to all years, assuming he works about 40 hours a week (huge for a teacher), he would only have enough time to teach 40 / 7 / 2 = ~3 hours a week to each double-house-year group.
It would only be 7 classes a day per professor if the class is daily, but many of the classes are only 2 or 3 days a week and some of them are late at night(astrology classes are at midnight, for example). The classes work out in such a way that students can take WAY more than a normal student does in the real world. When Hermione had the time turner she was taking more than 20 classes a week.
>>80681566
That's just the movies though. They had to actually build the set and cast the kids. Expecting them to make the sets bigger than the studio they're inside and cast at least twice as many child extras is a bit silly. Having even a small number of children on a project is a logistical and managerial nightmare. Having ~700 would be fucking impossible.

>>80690572
>There are at least twenty named Gryffindors in Harry's year alone
Your potter-fu is pretty lame anon. Name me 5 or 6 of those that are not the ones here >>80676786
If you can of course, to prove your argument.

>>80677030
It looks like her eyes are about to fall off the side of her face.

>>80681566
>That's all britain and around countrie's childs in magical school age

>>80674973
charms
potions
defence against the dark arts
transfiguration
muggle studies
care of magical creatures
arithmancy
history of magic
astronomy
divination
broomstick riding which she appears to have forgotten about but it's got a dedicated teacher

So at least 11 subjects without any asspulls, but you're right otherwise.

>>80677030
marfan's syndrome