That's kind of a shit response. It'd be one thing if she wasn't living with him, but she is. The fact that they're living together by definition means there's a minimum of privacy to start with, and that the response was to expect him not to feel comfortable enough to service himself in his own bed. Yes it's her bed,…

The issue is the event doesn't know exactly how many volunteers they'll have until the day of (some people sign up but don't show, others don't sign up but do show), and by then the chief organizers (also unpaid volunteers) has spent $20-60k setting up the event and each team has spent at least $3,000. So there's…

Bof. Et puis après.

That was excellent. I think you've written a very ironclad description of how I relate to the world and why. As an academic exercise, it was outstanding. You've probably nailed me completely. And with that, I am done, and I'm going to go ahead and clear a lot of this out of the comments because we've gotten so far…

You can have formative experiences past childhood and adolescence but I think there are aspects of personality that remain and there are things you learned as a child that will stay with you for the rest of your life unless you actively question those things and for you to say that there is no way your outlook on the…

It would be. I'm willing to overlook it in the main novel series aimed primarily at children and younger teens, that doesn't really explore its own history back more than several decades other than some worldbuilding stories and legends (e.g., the Hogwarts' founders, the original owners of the Deathly Hallows). But it…

That's true, though I think it's pretty common among sci-fi and modern fantasy to gloss over the world-shaking implications of a lot of the fictional elements.

I would enjoy stories that more fully explore how society would be shaped by stuff like that, but I can see why some people also want such stories where you…

Christianity got (completely?) over its objections to banking, presumably because of how incredibly useful it is to loan money for interest.

Given the incredibly utility of magic in Harry Potter, I have no doubt that Christians, Muslims, and Jews would find justifications and rationalizations to reap the enormous…

The Abrahamic religions' opposition to witchcraft is founded on the notion that magic involves pacts with demons, false gods, or otherwise attempts to beseech a power other than God's. As far as I can remember, no wizard or witch in the HP novels, not even the Death Eaters, call upon any outside entity for their…

Citizenship is a matter of law. You don't shed your personal history because you filed some paperwork with some bureaucrats. It's not some light-switch that erases the cultural messages, norms, and customs from the place you were raised and spent formative years in.

Well then, I take you at your word, and I apologise for responding in the tone that I did. I'm not really a superfan, but you sure got the impassioned right! Impassioned about everything. I guess if I wasn't, I probably wouldn't make a very good writer or a good debate partner.

If I have to imagine queer and trans* back-stories for characters that are the equivalent of background tabula rasas, that's probably a good sign that the creator(s) of a work aren't exactly big on representation.

Oh my gosh, please can I read this book? This would be so phenomenal. You should get the rights from JK Rowling, because I don't think she is equipped to write this series (and I assume she'd just hand the HP copyright over, because why not?) and write this series. It would probably be set before HP, and the…

It wasn't an empty joke. It was a joke, but only because sure there was a lot of meaning behind it. I was not expecting that you would feel that compelling need to argue with me about it.

No wonder they don't have enough fries, this guy is just lazying around all day instead of contributing.

You really should finish reading comments before you get all angry and whatnot.

Argentina lost the war.

You know, I watch Top Gear for the cars, not for 60 year old Brits masturbating to a time when Britain meant something. It's been really hard to watch Top Gear for a few years because of this.

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