Why is Quidditch the only sport in the wizard world?
They could be doing so many cool things yet decide to fly on broomsticks and play gaelic football
Why is this allowed?
but this usually isn't? https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/lqytfXcWnFHKM5TsE8wnKw/
its not football
they are playing air ball like avatar but with brooms instead of air bending
>>67685167
good argument
well played
>>67684704
It's the only sport that JK Rowling could be bothered to make up rules for and integrate into the story.
Has anyone ever thought about how dumb quiddich actually is? I mean the game ends when somebody catches the golden snitch which makes everything else is completely irrelevant. DOesn't anybody else realize this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.?
>>67684704
Why are they even going to work, if they can create anything with magic? Food, furniture, glasses, etc.
>>67685366
i think the games go on as long as no one had caught the snitch so it could go on a really long time and point would build up
the snitch itself counts as alot but it would only guarantee victory if the other side had less points before the game ended
>>67685366
In the NHL playoffs if the final score is a draw teams are playing until someone scores once.
Probably because Harry Potter was easily one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. 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 seriesüf 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 itüfs 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 are g-g-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
>>67685474
>comparing child literature to great gatsby or the miserables
>>67685421
You can't create food with magic, you can only summon it from somewhere else.
>>67685727
but there was literally a scene in the book when ketchup started to flow out of mrs weasleys wand
or olivander created wine with krums wand
Did they summon it from a store or from where?
>>67685793
Taken straight from the wiki page on magic:
>The Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration are mentioned by Ronald Weasley in 1997 and by Hermione in Transfiguration class. Food is one of these: witches or wizards can cook and prepare food using magic, but not create it from nothing. Out of the five exceptions, only food is mentioned explicitly, although speculation has proposed many other possibilities. There is a strong possibility that money is another exception, since if wizards could simply materialise money out of thin air the economic system of the wizarding world would be seriously disrupted. While the Philosopher's Stone does permit alchemy (including, presumably, turning base metals into gold), the Stone is an extremely rare, even unique, object, whose owner does not exploit its powers.
>There are numerous examples of food appearing to have been conjured from nothing, such as the sudden materialisation of ingredients in the pots of Molly Weasley's kitchen and when Professor McGonagall creates a self-refilling plate of sandwiches for Harry and Ron. In all cases, these events can be reasonably explained as food either being multiplied — which is allowable under Gamp's Law, according to Hermione — or transported from elsewhere. One example of this is banqueting in Hogwarts — the food is prepared by elves in the kitchens and laid onto four replica tables, directly below the actual house tables in the Great Hall. The food is then magically transported to the tables.
Why does NOTHING about the game make sense?
Quidditch doesn't seem to have any penalties, or a referee or anything. The kids are beating eachother senseless with bats and balls and they don't even wear helmets.
Think about how many news stories you see about highschool kids breaking their necks during football practice. Now imagine you have kids flying 100 feet in the air with no protection throwing projectiles at one another.
And now you have college kids getting together to play in real life Quidditch matches. Seems like it's perfectly legal to me to take a bat, break another players legs, and stomp on his head.
>>67685677
>taking the bait
the same dumb pasta has been around for years.
>>67684704
Quidditch is the weirdest sport.
I have a theory that Harry Potter was supposed to be surreal and not make sense, but then it became successful and JK had to pretend she had a lore-based universe.
I mean if the scores are in the single or double digits, literally every player on every team should be trying to obstruct the other team's Seeker. Anything else is a waste of time.
>>67685997
What the fuck is that movie list.
>>67686014
Why is it wrong?
>>67685727
>You can't create food with magic
Chamber of Secrets, McGonagall makes a magic plate of sandwiches that automatically refills itself after they are eaten.
>>67685997
>Blackhat
>Masterpiece
hmmmm
>>67685997
>Korinefan81
>Any fan of Harmony Korine telling anyone else not to watch bad films
>>67686057
Its an inside joke among the patricians of the board
don't worry about it until you gain more cinema IQ
>>67685997
That not the Citizen Bane version. ..
>>67686058
>ayn rand and Fitzgerald God-tier
>Ulysses mid-tier
>hamlet low-tier
either you're the tumblrite-tier poser this bait is parodying or you don't read.
>>67685474
my favorite pasta
>>67685474
If Spielberg had directed it people would have known Harry Potter as "The Spielberg movies" not the "JK Rowling adaptations"
>>67685474
ok you are right about harry potter. jk rowling cant write for shit. you can literally tell when she has learned a new word. 'earshot' doesnt appear once until like book 5 and then its on every other page. also all the characters speak the same. dumbledore, ron and draco will all say 'git' all the time. this isnt realistic. do you speak like people your grandfathers age? or like your worst enemy? no.
But that image you have included is absolute and utter bullshit. the count of monte cristo in god-tier? please, dumas wrote good stories badly, alot like rowling.
atlas shrugged god tier? its self serving shit and not even close to 1984 on any level at all. writing style, message, impact, none.
i can only assume putting hamlet in low tier is a troll, or you an uneducated 14 year old, which is probably more likely.
the bell jar, low tier? dont make me laugh.
you clearly have no taste and i hope for everyone elses sake they dont listen to you.
also the stranger is overrated.
pic related, it might appeal to you. faggot.
>>67686351
When did pasta start referring to images? I thought your post was about the text
And if we go based on your "tumblrite-tier" part then Harry Potter is pure tumblr garbage
>>67684704
its the only one rowling extensively wrote about and it makes sense bc broomsticks. but yea its their football
>>67686033
>Harry Potter was supposed to be surreal and not make sense, but then it became successful and JK had to pretend she had a lore-based universe
Yeah, this is pretty obvious
The wizarding world described in the first book is very different from the one that came after, it's clear that she changed her mind somewhere in between
I don't mind tho, the way she had to make crazy (and not always succesful) leaps to explain all the wacky stuff she introduced in the beginning made things way more interesting and funny
Why didn't Harry just send Dobby to stab Voldemort in the neck?
>>67686652
Because of the horcruxes you daft cunt. Also he'd presumably need to know where Voldemort was at the time, so he'd only be able to it at certain times.
>>67684704
IIRC the tie-in Quidditch book mentions the USA never really picked up Quidditch and they play some other convoluted sport featuring loads of explosions instead
See, this is one of the reasons JK rowling is a hack
If I was in the harry potter universe, i'd make my own business, since you know the only job prospects are
>teaching at hogwarts
>death eater
>shop owner
>ministry
Thats it. What i'd do is buy a bunch of house elves, since they're literally slaves, and i'd own a brothel. I'd build a monopoly on polyjuice potion and mass brew it, then my whorehouse would cater to every single taste you could ever want.
Hate umbridge? Steal her hair and hatefuck her.
Cute girl at your job? Steal one of the thousands of hairs she drops per day, and fuck the shit out of her.
Hell, I could probably replicate popular hairs like luna and hermione and charge whatever the fuck i'd like.
This is assuming you know, wizards wouldnt just use their magic love potions, or use a literal date rape spell that erases peoples memory.
What about the villages where wizards live around muggles? Does every wizarding village have the town rapist? Like oh yeah, thats Gregg. He steals off to london and rapes the shit out of any muggle he feels like and then just erases their memory.
Good ol' Weird Wizard Rapey Greg.
>>67686860
definitely. and why the hell dont they use electricity? i dont care how much magic you got everyone wants to look at porn on a computer or play skyrim or watch x men or some shit. so many mudbloods you think one of them would have started selling all the hot shit we got in our world to the wizards
>>67686960
you must be 18 or older to use 4chan
>>67686471
wellllllllll?
>>67685975
Well yes since they can cure everything so easy, did you see the movie when harry breaks its arm?
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>>67686860
you could even make furry animal things like what happened to Hermione for the degenerate customers
>>67687476
>>67685474
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>>67687476
You mean catgirls? Of course, we cater to all kinds of weirdos
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>>67687363
Yeah but do they have a cure for DEATH?
Just last year in my town some weird cultish church had an unlicensed boxing match. This guy, 6 foot 4 black dude, gets hit in the head and dies right fucking there in the ring before anyone knew what was happening.
So how are kids not dropping off left and right playing quidditch? Sure, maybe a paralyzed spine could be mended, but not a broken skull from falling hundreds of feet to the ground. You're fucked. I just don't understand how such an important aspect of HP's story is based on this fucking game and Rowling never wrote something about penalties or roughing up other players? The Slytherin players seem to actively try to cheat, but there is no one to call them out?
Just seems odd to me.
>>67686796
>Like Basketball, but flying and with explosions
AMERICA FUCK YEAH
>>67685961
>Cant create food from nothing but you can just multiply it infinitely lol
Jesus christ what shitty lore
>>67688111
>this wizard fantasy just dont seem natural to me
first game the ref says she wants a clean match from both teams so there are penalties i assume for cheating
>>67686796
I used to have that book, and I vaguely remember something being mentioned like that.
Fuck, I really want a Quidditch movie, but in the same vein as The Mighty Ducks. That would be so cool.
>>67685474
Why the fuck is Tolkien on Shit-tier ?
>>67688844
why is anything on anything tier
>>67688844
Because this is a bait chart
Books that everyone reads in high school are not even close to being as good as shit like Ulysses or The Brothers Karamazov
>>67688844
Its a bait image from /lit/ that's been around for years.
Atlas Shrugged being above shit tier should've tipped you off alone.
>>67686860
There are plenty of other jobs you sperg, it was even mentioned when they were choosing courses for their final years. Some are:
>doctor at the massive fucking magical hospital
>reporter at a newspaper
>dragontrainer or whatever Ron's brother did
>quidditch player
>ministry isn't just politician positions, plenty of normal jobs like policeman, judge, event creator etc are there
>author
>a billion unmentioned, surely someone create new spells for example
>>67689173
>Rand in god tier
>Gatsby in god tier
>some book with Kanye West being listed at all
>How to Read film included on a literature tier list
Honestly its exceptionally crafted with just enough trolling and just enough plausible opinions.
