• GreenShimada@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      The kind of sad part is that it means that all the parents of Hogwarts kids he DID kill - NONE of them loved their children.

      Only Lilly Potter loved her kid. …OR… The true nature of Gingers was the real evil-killer. And the deaths of Fred and George were done with guns, and the Prewetts (Molly Weasley nee Prewett) were not gingers and Molly got the recessive gene.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        3 days ago

        I always liked the idea the it was actually just blood/death magic and everyone was just too ideologically blinded to see that sacrificial magic was used for good. It makes sense that Voldemort would be blindsided that one of Dumbledores followers used a bit of dark magic, imagine fighting someone who refused to use chemical weapons only for them to decide to use a nuclear landmine on you in particular.

        • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Sure, but ideological blindness shouldn’t equate to other parents not saving their children the same way. Lily Potter didn’t plan to use sacrificial magic, she jumped in front of a bullet. It’s rare, but it happens IRL once in a while. It seems odd that a Wizarding World under siege would not see more noble sacrifices purely as a matter of statistics. (yes, I realize this would make the books a moot point and be no fun and it’s fiction so just ignore it.)

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            6 hours ago

            Hence why Lilly triggering some time of ancient ritual or creating a new ritual to counter the killing curse makes sense to me. Mind you Rowling is shit when it comes to in depth world building, but what she does set up even unintentionally is that the wizarding world is on decline possibly in a 40k type way where they are simply losing more and more knowledge after each generation. Having Lilly create or activate an old ritual either intentionally or not doesn’t remove the sacrifice it simply remove Rowlings stupid power of love trite. The power of love is still present but more symbolic in Lilly using her and possibly James as a catalyst to protect Harry.

            Also I have accidentally pointed out the flaws of Rowling writing just to nerd out about magic systems. I don’t even dislike soft magic it’s just Rowling did it badly, aight gonna go read Yojou Senki.

  • RedFrank24@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    Technically Vader never once destroyed a planet. Tarkin gave the order to destroy Alderaan, no planet was destroyed until Force Awakens, by which point Vader was already dead.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    45·
    4 days ago

    LinkedIn is like a tenth as bad as others. At least it is (still, somewhat) marginally useful.

    Well the ads percentage in the feed keeps going up. And more AI generated crap. But show me a social network (that isn’t Lemmy) where that isn’t true.