Because the MoM has an entire department devoted to making sure no muggles find out about wizardry. As soon as a loose-lipped parent let's slip that little Johnny is a wizard, out come the memory charms.

There’s no evidence that the administration of Hogwarts knew how the Room of Requirement worked. Dumbledore mentioned it once transforming into a bathroom for him, and Trelawney used it to hide sherry bottles, but neither of them seem to have known that it turned into whatever room the user needed. Students seem to…

The Willow wasn't just about keeping students from finding/going down the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack, but also keeping Lupin from coming back out. It was also damn important that nobody know there was a werewolf student. You put a werewolf in the dungeons or an unused classroom, and it's take about 10 minutes for…

There’s no evidence that the administration of Hogwarts knew how the Room of Requirement worked. Dumbledore mentioned it once transforming into a bathroom for him, and Trelawney used it to hide sherry bottles, but neither of them seem to have known that it turned into whatever room the user needed. Students seem to…

For a while now, I’ve thought that years 1-5 of Hogwarts is like our high school, with years 6-7 being more akin to junior college. Students have career counselling in the 5th year, and must have certain grades to get into 6th year classes. We only read about the classes the trio take, but there’s nothing to suggest…

Probably for the same reason that math class always required that you show your work, even if you could get the right answer in your head. There's value in knowing the right way and why the right way works.

To be fair, we know that the Ministry has at least a hand in guiding curriculum. We’re explicitly told that Tom Riddle didn’t really want the job. Inasmuch as he genuinely expected to get the job, it was more to do with how popular he was among the staff (other than Dumbledore) and his tendency to get what he wanted…

We know the Auror program requires multiple years of post-Hogwarts training. We also know that wizarding society on the whole is somewhat medieval, so it follows that most jobs would require/provide apprenticeships.

Race walking is my Olympics nemesis. It’s not as absurd as dressage (kiss my ass, fancy dress horse riding), but it annoys me nonetheless.

The NBC Sports app has all of the completed events in full on demand.

I would watch nothing but pentathlon if the first event was stealing the other teams’ horses.

I’m not a fanboy; I’ve had every Sony system they’ve put to market aside from the Vita. I’m also not blind. There’s a massive double standard when it comes to Sony. You might ask yourself why you’re so emotional about it.

There’s the reports of egregious pop-in, shitty textures, framerate drops to 13fps, crashes, gameplay that is little more than tedious and highly repetitive fetch-quests, and now two people finding the same planet out of the supposed 18 quadrillion planets in the first day.

Wow, so what, at most 17 hours after going live, two people have managed to come across the same planet out of the 18 quadrillion planets in the game. That’s beyond astronomical odds broken in less than a day. Amazing.

It’s not lying because it’s Sony-adjacent.

That doesn’t hold water, since highway driving isn’t a competitive sport.

Yeah, the Warzone REQ pack is $24.99 on its own.

Yeah, the Warzone REQ pack is $24.99 on its own.

Honestly, it’s about damn time these limited editions drop in price alongside the base version of the game. If memory serves, one of our local Gamestops still has a Far Cry 4 LE for over $100.

Honestly, it’s about damn time these limited editions drop in price alongside the base version of the game. If…

If nothing else, this is going to be an interesting social experiment. Given the hype and the way Hello Games has described the core mechanics of the game, it’s going to be interesting to see how expectation meets reality. If the descriptions of the core of the game are legitimate, then nobody will ever come across…

That’s unfortunate for them, but it’s still cheating. It’s an advantage that can not be recreated with a controller. Unsportsmanlike behavior is stealing kills or playing as Oddjob in Goldeneye. This is akin to using macros in MKX online play.

I’ll be clear, I’m not talking about gamers with physical disabilities.…