I don't believe there's one instance of divorce ever mentioned in the Potter canon. Tom Riddle's Muggle father abandons her mother, that's pretty much it.

One of the things I've enjoyed as I grow older is watching that acronym grow along with me. I don't know what the + means but it makes me happy that it's in there. I think we need to figure out a way to get some Cyrillic letters in there, or some of those symbols that they use for swear words in the comics.

Everything I've read about the play makes it sound like absolute shit. Which makes pieces like this so silly, authors getting tied up in knots about whether or not a particular work meets the gay quota, when, you know, it's shit.

See also the annoying jargon term "bromance", which has replaced the word "friendship."

Point of debate:

Jesus Christ, anyone who calls themselves a "shipper" doesn't merit listening to.

It's in response to a question, but it's something like "'I polish my wand every day', Cedric grinned", and it's pretty obviously an under-the-radar joke.

Indeed. There's Hermione's "white face" as mentioned above, and there are all the cover illustrations, and I'm gonna guess some chapter illustrations as well.

Is a black person going to go white in the face?

Ha, well spotted. Missed that little gem of bad writing.

Fanfic is garbage.

Beats me. Do the books ever say if Pansy Parkinson is a lesbian? Inquiring minds want to know.

Cedric makes a comment about polishing his wand in Prisoner of Azkaban. And there's a cryptic comment about "stolen moments" or something with Ginny in one of the later books IIRC.

Yeah, Voldemort having a kid is a terrible decision.

That's actually a myth.

I wonder what it's like to judge every work of fiction by how many gay people are in it.

$30 decides whether or not you eat, and you use a fancy-dancy cell phone?

Also came up with his own proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. It was in my high school geometry book.

I'm pleased to say that a large portion of that article was written by me. Or at least it used to be written by me. For a long time I used to edit Wikipedia articles under the name of Vidor. Added quite a bit of stuff from Allan Peskin's bio "Garfield" and some from Sarah Vowell's book, this being some time before…

Good old Frank Pierce. Raging alcoholic. Pretty much precipitated the Civil War by backing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Denied renomination by his own party at the 1856 convention because he was so terrible. Died of cirrhosis. On a shortlist along with Dubya and James Buchanan for "worst president ever".