That says she supports Trump physically going to the UK and speaking his mind, not that she supports his policies. Completely different thing. As much as I dislike Trump and everything he stands for, I agree with her that he should have his freedom of speech.

Yep. I’ve spent my most my life in the music world, where we’ve shared 12 little notes to make millions of songs for hundreds of years. From Amadeus to ZZTop and before and beyond, 12 little notes*. Plagarism in the arts exhists to be sure, but many times, it’s simply a coincidence born of the zeitgeist and the…

Maybe she’s just joking? Or, like many celebrities, she’s gonna completely batshit insane because of the money and fame?

“Dumbledore uses roller skates instead of walking. I never mentioned it in the books because it wasn’t relevant to Harry’s journey.”

Gaiman himself disagrees:

Nope. Day still good.

Perhaps it’s depressing that some guy is wasting his time in his parents’ basement coming up with clever theories like this instead of putting his brain to good use.

Tuition and books/supplies are two different things.

But Hogwarts is a public school, I believe Rowling has stated tuition is free. Only things parents would have to pay for are robes, wands, and such, which they’d also have to pay for in a local school if it existed.

Makes sense. I taught at a school in the Dominican Republic about 15 years ago. There was a kindergarten, first, second, fifth, and sixth grade, but something like two fourth grades and three third grades. It turns out about ten years before, some grand reformer president was going to ‘fix’ the economy and it resulted…

I wouldn’t put the Slytherin thing merely into being a Horcrux, tho. Slytherins are known to be brave as Gryffindors, with the addendum of being clever little rats and stopping at nothing to get what they want. Considering the amount of rulebreaking Harry commits for, well, about anything he attains in Hogwarts, it’s…

Tuition is free at Hogwarts:

I think it would be pretty odd that there were that many characters living in close quarters with Harry, Ron, and Hermione that are never even alluded to.

I believe with the fan theory that the reason the Dursleys were such jerks was that they had been living with a Horcrux for 11 years, Rowling said that wasn’t her idea, but she really liked it. Point is, I think she’d admit if she didn’t think of something this good.

I prefer to think that declining enrollment simply meant more families were choosing to send their children to local, public wizard day schools rather than paying all the extra to send them off to a fancy private boarding school.

From the book, there are only 10 Gryffindors in Harry’s class, if memory serves.:

The books only list five or six boys in the Gryffindor dormitory in Harry’s year, and every other dormitory is similarly filled out. There don’t even appear to be unnamed members of Harry’s year, suggesting that there really are only around thirty or forty pupils in the entire year.

I like to think Gryffindor was just the remedial class. Since it’s all told from the perspective of the students themselves (who, let’s face it, with the amount of trouble they regularly get into are probably the magic equivalent of that kid who starts fires randomly) we’re only aware of their successes. I assume…

Here’s my fan theory: big movie sets + more extras = more money.