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Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math?
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Most of us only know 5th grade math
I think you're right. They probably don't know math. I mean, what would they need it for? They probably don't have to follow the laws of physics for the most part. If math is done it's probably 100% recreational.
Something like increasing quantites for lake more potions .
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YEAH! Where's the book where he just does algebra and other boring shit for 300 pages.
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Small promotion for !harrypotter@literature.cafe
Please stop.
JK sees the continued support of her work as proof that her views are supported. She is doing active harm to people lives. I know it's common to say seperate the art from the artist, but that only applies to the dead. Rowling is alive and using her profits to write hateful proganda and restrict healthcare from an already marginalized group. I'm not ever going to tell someone what they can and can't read, just please recognize the harm it does by promoting her. It's the same as promoting the works of David Duke.
Thank you.
Hello,
Thank you for your comment. That's one of our main threads, "On the sensitive topic of being a Harry Potter fan while acknowledging JKR's transphobia" https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/9633657, quoting https://www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/harry-potter-fans-jk-rowling-transphobia-essay-49214964
Still, there may be a way to enjoy Harry Potter as a trans person or ally. Over the years, many fans have found creative ways to engage with the series's magic while also acknowledging its creator's bigotry. In her paper "Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling," Jennifer Duggan, an associate professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway — says that it's possible to interpret the text of Harry Potter itself in ways that would certainly horrify its writer. "My central thesis—one which has also been argued by other academics like Thomas Pugh and David Wallace — is that the Harry Potter novels are deeply queer," she tells POPSUGAR. "I mean this in both senses of the term: they champion nonnormativity through the contrast of the 'perfectly normal' Dursleys and Harry, and they are, at their heart, a story about a boy with an 'abnormality' (as the Dursleys call his magic) who comes out of his cupboard under the stairs and discovers and finds and affinity for a hidden, colourful, queer world. I take this argument further to argue that the novels are easily read through a trans lens, since there is a focus in many of the books on shapeshifting, including several cross-gendered transformations."
Fandom, she adds, can provide spaces where Harry Potter fans can explore the series's queer undercurrents while celebrating their own sexualities. "From what I have observed, I have concluded that for the most part, the Harry Potter fandom continues to offer queer and trans fans a positive space," she tells POPSUGAR. "The two main trends I have seen in fan works are an 'answer hate with love' reaction, in which fans focus on trans positivity, and so-called 'spitefic,' which are works that are framed as revenge on Rowling for the hurt she has caused. These works are usually trans-positive, too. That said, I fully understand why some fans feel they can no longer engage with the texts in any way."
Link to the research paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-021-09446-9
Thank you for the reply, but I don't see how that is relevant, you didn't link to a queer fan fiction community.
Linking to a cis author who said that some fan fiction theoritcally helps some queer folk instead of listening to the trans community that is actively being hurt in substative ways by the celebration of Rowlings current work, not fan fictions, is sort of indicative of how much you actually care about this topic. Your link is filled promotion for her shows, art and discussion of Rowlings work. I'm sure you have been criticized before, but I feel like you are using an one-size-fits-all copy/paste as cover instead of actually engaging with what I, and the trans community, are saying.
I'm not going to argue, this isn't how I wish to spend my time. All I can do is please ask you to stop and hope one day you will rethink what you're doing.
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I would trade maths knowledge for actual magic every single time. Maths basically was invented because of money & land, and that’s basically irrelevant with magic. Don’t need acres of land if you can have multiple wildlife reservations inside of a suitcase.
It’s honestly one of the best things about Harry Potter series: it leaves as much muggle crap out of it as possible.
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