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But because of the fact that it’s entire premise starts with the murder of a baby’s parents by a psychotic wizard, it’s bound to have some dark things. And I mean things like bestiality, slavery, and capitalism run amuck. Odds are, you didn’t consider them until they were pointed it out to you. I don’t blame you, they took me by surprise too!
The Dursleys force Harry to live in a cupboard and work as a servant int heir home, and make a big show of spoiling their own son while depriving Harry. But Harry was a horcrux that whole time – meaning he had a portion of Voldemort’s soul in him. Brief periods of horcrux exposure were enough to corrupt Ginny and Ron Weasley. What if the Dursleys were nice people who were corrupted over time by the evil in Harry?
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The Imperus Curse. We know that the Death Eaters were deeply horrible people..and this spell grants them total control over your actions. Let’s make that mother smother her children to death…and then remove the curse so she can snap back into awareness and scream as she stared down at her blue faced child she has just strangled to death. Only the tips of the horrible things you can make people do with that spell. Unwilling suicide bombers? Destroy somebody’s reputation by having them do some deeply horrible stuff in public?
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Getting expelled from school, like Hagrid was, is basically dooming the entire rest of the child’s life. At least in the muggle world, if you get expelled, nothing stops you from continuing to pursue an education. It’s not like it’s illegal for you to read a book or do algebra or learn a trade.
But they don’t just stop learning magic, they’re BARRED from using it. In a world where literally everything is done with magic. What are they supposed to do with the rest of their lives? Even unskilled or manual labor isn’t worth hiring them for, considering there’s nothing they could do that couldn’t be done more quickly and efficiently with magic. And they can’t even make it by just going into the muggle world, because they have no normal education or social skills.
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Polyjuice potion lets wizards perfectly impersonate another person for a limited period of time. The effect is so complete that it allowed a Death Eater to impersonate a Hogwarts professor for a whole year. This means that any person, at any given time, could be somebody else in disguise. And the potion can be brewed by children…
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Source: Cracked
Dumbledore allowed Snape to teach kids. Yeah, I understand Snape has his uses as a spy, but couldn’t Dumbledore think of any random position to stick Snape in? As written, Dumbledore has a teacher who is known to be extremely biased in his grading. He plays favorites. He verbally abuses 11 year old kids DAILY. For years. And you literally have no choice but to take his class every single year until your sixth year.
It says a lot about Snape’s character when you consider that Neville’s Boggart was Snape. Think about that. Snape is the one thing Neville feared the most. Not death eaters, not the Cruciatus Curse, not dementors. But Snape. A man he had to see several times a week for five years.
It’s a wonder Neville didn’t go the way of his parents.
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How has Hogwarts remained a secret? Students are transferred at age 11, and before that they attend regular, non-magical schools. During the summers they’re home, often in non-magical communities. How has no 11-year-old given away the existence of Hogwarts?
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Wizards live in a perpetual dark ages. Any technology necessary to do any significant job, they use magic, and it’s done. Need to lift stones? Get your wand and lift them. Ropes and pulleys? Not necessary. Steam engines? Not necessary. Hydraulics? Not necessary. Technology improves when people need to solve problems. The magic world, Magic is used to solve problems, so there is no need to advance. It is only the Muggle World that is vibrant and progressing. The Wizarding world has been pulled into the middle ages, but are falling further and further behind.
Throw in that any technology, significantly advanced will look like magic to the primitive observer. As the Muggle world advances, they will start to produce things, that appear to wizards, as magical. The wizard world is on the brink of extinction…
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As soon as you go to school you are sorted into four houses that will more or less define who you are or how you have to act .. and you are 11… and from then you have to follow the guidelines, habits, and traditions of that house. Of course SOME characters in the Harry Potter series manage to break these rigid categories and show qualities that aren’t exactly the ones their house emphasizes. But they are shown as exceptions — Cedric is very courageous Hufflepuff, Hermione a very clever Gryffindor, Snape a wonderful Slytherin etc…
But if you focus on the majority of people there, it’s just telling a 11 year old: “Well, you are a good guy but not good enough to go to Gryffindor, but you’re not evil so let’s put you in Hufflepuff….” or worse, saying to a kid, “Well, you’ve got anger issues and your family has a tradition of violence or racism or whatever, so let’s put you in Slytherin so you have no chance to make yourself better”. All in all the whole sorting thing is really wrong and divides kids in rigid casts that they are unlikely to leave.
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Cessation of existence. The Ministry of Magic can sentence someone to the Dementor’s Kiss, whereby a person will have their soul sucked out of them by a Dementor. Since the afterlife is explicitly stated to exist in this universe, and one needs their soul to enter the afterlife, this means the Ministry of Magic can sentence someone to utter oblivion.
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Think about how many students go to Hogwarts.
Now think about how many of the classes there are at all applicable outside of the wizarding world. Now think about how many of them will have to live among muggles for most of their lives.
That’s right. Hundreds of people are going into the adult muggle world without any knowledge needed to function in society.
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The punishments for criminal behavior in the wizarding world are way over the top. Prisoners in Azkaban are tortured. Having your soul slurped out by a zombie makes standing in front of a firing squad seem like walk in the park.
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Sirius Black was imprisoned in Azkaban for a murder committed by Peter Pettigrew. But there are at least three tools in the wizarding world that would have proven his innocence: Priori Incantato would have revealed the most recent spell cast by his wand, Legilimency would have revealed his secrets, and Veritaserum is a truth serum. Come on!
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Fred and George saw their brother sleeping with a man named Peter every night and never thought to mention it.
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All the professors at Hogwarts apparently only have 7 years of education, since there’s no wizarding university anywhere…
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How horcruxes might be made. This is truly disturbing, if it’s true.
JKR: “I see it as a series of things you would have to do. So you would have to perform a spell. But you would also– I don’t even know if I want to say it out loud, I know that sounds funny. But I did really think it through. There are two things that I think are too horrible, actually, to go into detail about. One of them is how Pettigrew brought Voldemort back into a rudimentary body. ‘Cause I told my editor what I thought happened there, and she looked as though she was gonna vomit. And then– and the other thing is, how you make a Horcrux. And I don’t even like– I don’t know. Will it be in the Encyclopedia? I don’t know if I can bring myself to, ummm… I don’t know.”
It has been explained in the books how one must kill someone to be able to create a horcrux, but as per Rowling, it doesn’t stop there. The books have depicted murder before, so that’s not the horrible act she is pointing out. One of the most plausible explanations would be that creating a horcrux involves cannibalism. Consuming flesh and blood of fellow humans to gain power has been part of not only fiction, but our history as well. And considering Voldemort went way beyond the norm to gain power and experiment with the Dark Arts, I would not be surprised if this is true.
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Aberforth Dumbledore was prosecuted by the Ministry of Magic for practicing “inappropriate charms” on a goat. When a child asked about the reference, J.K. Rowling laughed and said it meant to he’d tried to make the goat easier to care for. Then she added, “that’s my answer to YOU” as all the adults in attendance laughed.
Source: Cracked
That Aquamenti creates water out of nothing.
Think of all the people dying of thirst in the world are only dying because a wizard can’t be bothered to create some water.
I won’t get into the fact that the wizard could then become a de-facto ruler of said nation by controlling the water source for the country afterward.
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Other than the crippling class system that the wizarding world exists in (not to mention the second class citizens who are the goblins, but are still put in charge of all of the money), there is also the subjugation and slavery of the race of House Elves, and no one seems to care.
Sure, Hermione goes on her crusade about it and starts S.P.E.W, but the rest of the characters give her a condescending attitude and an “atta girl”. Even though S.P.E.W. fails from lack of participation, it illustrates a major issue: No one in the wizarding world really cares about house elves and nobody notices the elves’ existence until services usually taken for granted cease.
People seem to believe that the house elves enjoy what they do. Really?
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The possibility that all mental illnesses in the muggle world could be explained by magic or magical instances and they were improperly diagnosed or treated due to the magical world not wanting to come forth into the real one.
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Wizards don’t interfere in the affairs of non-magical “muggles”, because if they did, muggles would want wizards to solve all of their programs.
But what about problems such as starvation and dwindling resources? Granted, wizards can’t create food out of thin air, but they can conjure up water and they can multiply existing food. For that matter, they could duplicate other essentials like oil, natural gas, medical supplies, and so on.
Source: Cracked
That their world is dying.
Think about it. All of the great magicians are dead and ancient. Time Turners? Nobody knows how to make those anymore. A powerful magic who’s methods have been lost to time. The Deathly Hallows, three items that turn well known laws of even magical physics on their heads, cannot be recreated using modern means. The three brothers were probably intelligent and powerful to create them, yet modern wizards find the idea so outlandish they consider them a fairy tale. There are even old magics, like the The Arch in the ministry, that nobody even knows what they are anymore. What purpose they may have served.
The pure blood lines are crumbling, falling back on old money and old blood to prop up their nobility. The segregation and racism deepen the gulfs and serve only to ensure that their world sinks deeper into disrepair. Wars flicker off and on, magic guarded jealously, and even among magical people there are those born without the spark. Squibs.
Certainly there are powerful wizards. Dumbledore was put forward as an example of such. But bear in mind that he also used the Elder Wand and still was no match for Voldemort. The creator of the Sorcerer’s Stone, Nicolas Flemel, opted to let the secret of its creation die with him. And maybe it’s that mentality of wizards, to jealously guard their secrets, that have led to a world that is slowly dying around them.
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When the Chamber of Secrets was opened the first time they thought that the best place for the students to save them from occasional snake attack was to send them back to London. It was 1942. Mid to late Blitz.
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In the Harry Potter universe, the people in photographs and paintings can move and talk. But it’s not like they’re just video clips of the person — hell, we could do that. You actually see characters interacting with the “people” in the pictures, particularly in the portraits that hang all over Hogwarts School – several major plot points revolve around it. The people in the paintings are able to talk, think and even travel to other paintings. They relay information that no one else has.
And as such, some portrait subjects serve as security guards for locked rooms, while others are used as errand boys to deliver urgent messages (they can travel to any room that also has a painting). They possess all of the personality and (presumably) memories of their living selves.
Apparently, in the wizard world, if you paint a picture of a dead person, presumably with some magic paint or the right enchantment, their memories and the essence of their personality will be on canvas. Forever. For example, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, former Slytherin headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black is forced to take orders from his philosophical enemy and student Hermione Granger ,and he is pissed off about it.
The problem is that not every magical portrait is going to be of a Dumbledore or a comic-relief character like the Fat Lady at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower. What if someone paints a picture of Voldemort? Will it carry all of his evil genius and scheming? Somebody in Potterland didn’t think this through. The guy has already proven he can carry out most of his plans without the benefit of a body — Voldemort didn’t even have one for the first half of the series.
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Source: Ankit Gohel
