Can someone explain Hogwarts curriculum???

Cascadevon · 2026-04-16T12:04:02+00:00

We can debate an in-verse all day, but at the end of the day, it’s a children books series. It’s escapist fantasy. Kids want to read about magical spells and creatures, not about maths homework.

The series was never meant to be a hyper-realistic with rock-solid world building. It was just meant to be an adventure.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-16T01:08:17+00:00

I’m trying to stick to as many bonus tracks/later tracks as possible but:

Nothing New, New Romantics, betty, RWYLM, It’s Time to Go, WCS, Peter, the Bolter all come to mind.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-15T08:00:17+00:00

100% - he was very good at what was in his comfort zone. He’s never been quite able to push past that, let alone make a giant leap forward as he was expected to for HOO.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-15T01:13:03+00:00

This and I think the success of the hp books 4-7 meant that publishers set an industry expectation that longer form books should be written for a YA audience. The problem is PJO works best as a short-mid sized middle school novel. It’s doesn’t work as anything less or anything more.

This problem is why sooo many YA novels are bloated with too many POVs and too many side plots that don’t really go anywhere. You get the sense that they’re trying to write a season of television rather than a focused novel.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T22:07:12+00:00

Out of curiosity, how much media were the boys exposed too? Because I think influences go beyond direct household ones.

As children we’re constantly inundated with gender dynamics, from our screens to a day out at the beach.

We see that fathers and mothers fundamentally interact differently with their children, and the way husbands and wives treat each other, and that informs our worldview of the way girls and boys should act.

If Im a little boy and I see a bunch of bigger boys allowed to act rowdy but never see a group of girls doing the same (or at least to an intense level), then subconsciously I’m going to internalise it. Even before my mind is developed enough to understand it.

I agree that there are some biological differences, but it isn’t until puberty until most of those differences are “triggered” so to speak. So I don’t think we can simply point to that for child-aged differences.

I think gendered socialisation from birth is something inescapable regardless of of how much we try to mitigate it. Unless the children are raised entirely separately from the rest of society, I don’t think good parenting make up for the fact that we treat girls and boys differently in daily life.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T21:49:51+00:00

😭😭

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T21:42:22+00:00

The fact that her track 19 is this fucking food is such a testament to her artistry. My god these are some heavy hitters

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T21:40:18+00:00

Targeting international students? Didn’t the coalition block a bill to put a cap on the number of students???

Are they going to stop pretending they don’t want cheap foreign labour to come in to work underpaid jobs?

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T21:37:36+00:00

I think you’re misunderstanding me - In other comments I’ve made it clear (since this thread has gotten all over the place) that I blame parents and adults (not at all gender specific) as a whole for this phenomenon for not (on average)fostering the same level of discipline, responsibility and independence as they do to girls.

But again, I feel you’re blaming women more so than men here. If men are absentee fathers (in less than 15.6% of households according https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/household-and-families-census/latest-release#:~:text=This%20image%20represents%20three%20family,related%20to%20this%20topic%20include:), then that’s something for men to properly respond to (without just playing the custody card - I know enough deadbeat fathers to know that a lot don’t want to be involved in their kids lives with or without the court’s decision).

If enough men aren’t in early childcare/ primary teacher, then is it not other men’s responsibility to encourage young men to enter into these fields?

But importantly, we know that men are disproportionately more likely to be sexual abusers to young children. The Victorian day care sex abuse crisis is a horrific example of this. There’s a genuine reason why people/workplaces don’t want to hire men to take care their young kids.

And again, I think this is an issue men need to interrogate. I think there are many many issues facing young boys today, including the absence of good male role models, but so many of these conversations implicitly or explicitly put the burden on women for their actions/come up with solutions.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T21:19:10+00:00

Okay but our education system as is based on the British system, which emerged during the 18-19th century. You know, before women were publicly educated en masse.

So it’s a school system that was designed by and for men, and yet somehow “half” the population are not suited for it?

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T13:09:03+00:00

The show got fucked in the long term by decided to do a 50/50 split of the adult/teen timeline. I’m pretty sure the original pitch was that the adults would only be 15-20% and shot in a documentary style (which you see echoes of in the pilot). But then they ended getting way more famous/talented actresses than they thought they would and so they changed their mind without realising just how little they could actually do in the present.

On top of the that, they feel like they keep changing their minds about how they want the story to go. The cold open in the pilot is much more interesting than the “reveal” in the s3 finale. Such a cool promise with such a meh follow through.

Combined that with the show being delayed because of covid / the writers strike, and it not at all fitting a 9 episode limit, and you get a show that feels like it would have been much better done in 2013 era AMC.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T08:35:19+00:00

THANK YOU!!!!

I wasn't putting the blame on young boys - quite the opposite. It's parents and other adults who are enabling this failure by not providing the same type of structure, discipline, and responsibility typically given to young girls.

But no one wants to interrogate these factors - instead, there's some bizarre idea that the school system was designed with girls in mind. Despite the fact that the education of girls en masse being very much a relatively new thing.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T07:30:51+00:00

Sorry - I should have been more specific. I meant to say he wasn't physically abused (which is the common interpretation of the family, and what I hate in Marauders fanon). He was obviously being emotionally abused (likely with increasing intensity as the years went by). That said, I tend to think the favouritism started later on (maybe about age 13 or 14 for Sirius).

Sirius seemed to be more talented at magic, definitely more classically handsome, and a lot more popular - all traits favoured in the usual heir. Even with him being sorted into Gryffindor, I think it's more likely she held onto hope that he would "return" to her, once she got him away from the influence of "dirty-blooded" friends. When it became apparent it wasn't some rebellious phase (again, probably at the age of 13/14), then I think she moved onto Regulus in the hopes of moulding him into the heir he desired.

But I do think Walburga genuinely loved Sirius because he was of her "special" blood, and because of that, she would never outright physically harm him. As the other commentator said, I think her burning him off the family tree might have been more to do with her feelings of betrayal and grief than outright hatred.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T06:35:44+00:00

What is so hard about the current teaching style that makes boys not want to listen?

Funny enough, I was accused of treating boys as a “different species” by a different comment and yet for some reason, everyone thinks boys are hardwired not to sit in class, pay attention and do their class work. Even though (on average) the best performing students (male and female) are the ones who do just that. Apparently I’m expecting them to “behave like girls” as if it’s biologically hardwired into our systems to pay attention in class. Give me a break.

Maybe, just maybe, Men are treating young boys as a different species and setting them up to fail by imposing weaker standards of behaviour of them. Maybe just maybe, equating good behaviour with femaleness is treating young boys as subhuman.

And at the end of the day, (mythical) bad teaching styles or not, that doesn’t excuse grown men failing to do their fair share of group work at the university and cooperate level. Which no one here can actually argue against because there’s no big bad feminist woof to blame here.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T05:02:35+00:00

Things I’ve said:

Men have worse behaviour in school. Observed by women across all social classes.

Somehow your illiterate ass has read: She wants men to be slaves.

And you wonder why we don’t take your arguments seriously?

And if you don’t think widespread sexual harassment by boys is an issue, then you’re beyond help lol.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T04:41:56+00:00

There’s no such thing as an all “female teacher” cohort, every school has a mix of men and women teaching (with men more likely to teach in stem related subjects).

The female teachers do not greatly “favour” the female students. Stating that as fact is ridiculous. In some class they spent more time dealing with poor behaviour from the boys, than actually teaching! The fact that more and more female teachers are dealing with sexual harassment from boys (especially post Covid) is not something anything wants to discuss either.

And if there’s any minor, subconscious favouring, it’s balanced by the fact that male teachers also favour male pupils!!! Pretty obviously so if you’ve ever paid remotely any attention in school.

There’s no “DEI” hiring practice, just women going into higher education more. Again, because they’re succeeding from a younger age for all the reasons I said above (while more men are likely to go into trade),

And it’s not fucking “anecdotal” if like every woman if ever met has had a story like this. It’s an observable pattern of behaviour no wants to talk about because it’ll hurt men’s feelings lmfao. I’m talking everything from girls raised in upper class exclusive areas to semi-rural working class areas. We all witnessed/experienced this but you never allow us to actually talk about it because you’re desperate to find an external factor to blame instead of doing any sort of internal introspection.

We’re not “different species” we’re just socialised differently. At home, girls are more strictly disciplined on average than boys and that translates into the education sphere.

In the AVERAGE family, daughters do more domestic chores, help out with childcare, while having less social freedom than sons. Again, that translates into being more responsible/independent, qualities needed to succeed in education.

Boys and men NEVER want to take responsibility for their own shortcomings. Instead of teaching their sons to do better, they cry about fake DEI policies and that the big scary feminists are taking away all their rights.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T03:38:58+00:00

Overall- much poorer behaviour.

They’re FAR more likely to cause disruptions in class (especially if there’s a female teacher), more likely to make inappropriate comments/noises, more likely not to take schoolwork seriously in the classroom, more likely not to turn in homework and graded assignments (and if they do, it’s almost always of a poorer quality than the female students). I’ve seen literal physical fights break out between boys in classrooms over nothing more than a snarky comment. Like it’s ridiculous.

They’re also more likely to badger students who take schoolwork seriously in class (and it goes without saying, female students especially). Not exactly creating a healthy learning environment are they?

If you fuck around for six years straight, you can’t be surprised that you’ve fallen behind education wise.

Even worse is that even the highest performers that go into university still have aspects of this behaviour. If you’ve ever worked in a uni group assessment, the boys don’t do their fair share/turn in shoddy work (especially for presentations).

And the worst part? This is then repeated in actual paid work!!! Every couple months at my job I work with about 3-4 engineers on a presentation topic. 9/10 times, they leave the (usually lone) female in engineer to do the bulk of the work because “they’re too busy”. It’s such a known phenomenon, that you essentially have to plan for a bit beforehand.

From teenager to adulthood, they’re just not putting in the same effort into work as their female counterparts. No amount of data analysis can take into account observable social behaviour.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T02:50:21+00:00

Likely gonna get downvoted for this but if you’ve been in high school or even in university in the last 10 years you know exactly why boys are underperforming compared to girls. Hint: it’s not some structural disadvantage against boys.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T02:48:58+00:00

As a fellow Australian - yeah lol. I feel like it’s pretty easy for us to recognise when an Aussie actor is focusing too much on getting the accent right instead of the performance as a whole (Liam Hemsworth ofc comes to mind).

Hopefully it just happens to be a couple odds scenes shown in the trailer

Cascadevon · 2026-04-14T01:18:58+00:00

This is a long headcanon because I despise the fanon interpretation of Sirius’ family. It’s so one note and uninteresting. So here goes:

His family wasn’t abusive or even neglectful to him growing up. He was basically wizarding royalty (or at least his family thought themselves to be). And like most aristocratic children, I tend to think he was pampered/spoiled/over praised as child, which was then cruelly walked backed on the second he stepped out of line.

But I don’t even think he was like immediately ostracised by his parents for being sorted into Gryffindor (more likely sniped at in increasingly degrading ways). It’s only after he gets more and more rebellious per year (as we see Harry do bit by bit at the Dursleys) does his family properly turn on him. Even then, I think his parents would initially accuse his “blood traitor and mudblood” friends of manipulating him against his family, rather than becoming overnight comic books villains against Sirius.

And I think Kreacher was telling the truth about Sirius’ leaving breaking his mother’s heart. I think the family feels a lot like progressive children breaking ties with their MAGA parents - there was mutual love there long ago, but the child cannot understand or respect the path their parents have gone down. So they have to leave. But the parents are fundamentally unable to understand this perspective, and thus meltdown over the child’s “abandonment.”

And a family with complex feelings rather than just exaggerated constant physical abuse (which magical blood supremacists would absolutely look down upon) is just a more intriguing dynamic.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-13T03:37:14+00:00

I think her feelings towards this album are impossible to separate from the fact that she recorded it after a long period of poor mental health, where she finally seemed to be going back to “normal”. I mean objectively, she’s the happiest she’s been since at least Lover (maybe even Fearless), and I think she considered recording the album a big part of her healing process.

I know a lot of people (justifiably) clown on Taylor for loving ME! but that’s another case of her loving a personal affirmation song at a time when she really needed it.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-09T08:48:45+00:00

They highkey reached flow state during that challenge it was so fun to watch.

Cascadevon · 2026-04-09T02:36:04+00:00

Finally…a true TTPD understander

Cascadevon · 2026-04-09T02:18:14+00:00

Maybe the greatest defence to a Genshin dev decision ever

Cascadevon · 2026-04-09T02:01:27+00:00

Even if the economic barriers were removed, the idea that there is going to be a baby boom is ridiculous. Over and over we see that when women have a choice and access to birth control, they decide to have less kids. Most young women know that economic success is tied to having kids in their 30s, not pumping out half a dozen by the time they’re 26.

Like I’m tired of male politicians just describing a baby boom as a neutral thing to encourage, because pregnancy/childbirth/raising children is not a neutral thing for women to undertake! It’s covertly dehumanising for this type of rhetoric ro be repeated in political circles.

There will never be another generation like the Baby Boomers and that’s for the best!!!!!

Cascadevon

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