Stealing them was a stupid, heartless, cowardly thing to do.

It’s just someone desperate to get home.

It’s not about their environment turning them into savages. By all means, their families have sent them here for school, not for work, which tends to mean they’re wealthy. If they’re lonely they can go the fuck back home.

“I’m sure they suffer loneliness”. Oh, okay. All is forgiven.

They’re a reflection of their culture - punish one, educate one hundred, as Mao said. There’s a reason why teenage suicide, among other issues, is so prevalent in collectivist cultures. These kids aren’t allowed to remain kids for long.

There are days like today where I wish our collective society had a scrotum so I could kick it.

I don’t care how much loneliness they suffer. They are monsters for doing that. They need to be sent home, never to return to the States.

I know you didn’t ask me but I don’t think it’s ever possible to spend too much time thinking about the Wizarding World. Literally how I put myself to sleep at night is thinking about it and thinking about alternate possibilities and writing bad fan fiction in my head.

I really like that idea of things :)

No, type a, driven people like Hermione need to be able to come home and chill and laugh along with a fun crazy partner. Plus, I always saw Ron as as an at best part time auror, and a total house husband SAHD. Hermione would come home to a house where a Molly taught Ron would be cooking and she could sit on the couch…

That’s a really good point that I hadn’t thought of. If she had ended up with someone as intelligent as her and as driven as her, she would have either had to sacrifice her career or they would have had to get a nanny or something.
(I think if I recall in the epilogue of the 7th book they both did end up working (or…

I actually don’t mind Hermione and Ron together, because when you get two smart, powerful, driven people together, then I feel like his career and goals inevitably end up taking precedence over hers. With Ron as her partner, there’s no obstacle to my believing that Hermione’s ambitions would always come first. Ron…

That’s true. And Harry never seemed interested in her, at all.

I was just glad she didn't end up with Harry because main guy dating main female sidekick is so god damn overdone and predictable!

Yeah. I like them both a lot as characters and I would totally chill with them, but Hermione deserves someone on her emotional level. They’re both relatively immature. I think she should have ended up with someone older (and probably more intelligent), although I can’t think of a character who would have fit well.
I…

Hermione could definitely do better than Ron! I’m having a hard time buying that Harry constitutes “better,” though.

I kind of feel like Hermione deserved better than Ron. Probably better than Harry, too. I know they both matured a lot in the later books (okay basically the last book because they were both pretty whiny in the 6th book and Ron was actually pretty whiny in the 1st half of the 7th book too), but I just feel like she…

I’m going to count that “Harry should have married Hermione” interview as Rowling’s Go Set a Watchman.

Because they would fill them up with hardtack crackers and ship them out that way. It was indeed a barrel full of crackers. Food like that would last a long time. So, it was good for long sea trips and across the country journeys. It was explorer food.

Thank you, Ms. Rowling! Also, please do not publish a manuscript thirty years from now, in which we find out Harry has grown old and intolerant of Muggles.