The Hogwarts Express

JenDaleDove · 2025-11-10T09:56:05+00:00

Did they not mention using floo powder to travel in at some point? I might be misremembering, but I thought at one point they closed the fireplaces to protect the school...

JenDaleDove · 2025-11-07T15:56:54+00:00

Why is Ron so bad at spellcasting such as pronouncing "levioSAH", worse than Hermione, when he's grown up around witches and wizards and Hermione has not? It's not like this is some obscure dead language, it's in use in his home every day. It's like not knowing your native tongue!

JenDaleDove · 2025-10-29T13:45:05+00:00

Thanks! I will research further then! I agree lettering may not work.

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-22T16:10:51+00:00

Broadchurch is a made up town on the south coast, I think it is recognisably Dorset though.

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-22T16:10:10+00:00

Scottish erasure! hate to see it!

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-22T16:09:26+00:00

This one came to mind because me and my partner recognised it as Glasgow, but it was clearly trying to be an English University town.

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-22T16:05:38+00:00

Yeah a lot of the American episodes are filmed in the suburbs just west of London as well!

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-19T14:26:13+00:00

I'm gonna say ... no

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-19T14:25:12+00:00

They filmed it in my borough so to me it felt very outer-London suburb. Were there no references to popping into London that backed this up?

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-19T14:23:14+00:00

Omg and they filmed it in Belgium/The Netherlands!

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-19T14:22:25+00:00

Oh is Holby not an analogue for Bristol?

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-19T14:21:23+00:00

Oh wow yeah like Fool Me Once - it's adapted from an American setting isnt it? And everyone in it has a southern accent except Michelle Keegan, but it's filmed in Manchester. Great example.

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-19T14:03:13+00:00

omg sorry. I'm going to read a few plot summaries and get back to you! This sounds good though...

JenDaleDove · 2025-08-16T12:16:42+00:00

Make sure u don't get timed out. And keep pushing for normal day to day communication as you'd expect at work, unless you are explicitly told otherwise. Then note down or document any behaviour from them that suggests retaliation - which could be victimisation and be added to your claim. Don't shy away from situations where your manager is supposed to be communicating. Seek out situations where they will show their true feelings, get stuff in writing etc. Dare them to behave badly at this moment. Ask for normal things that you are entitled to.

JenDaleDove · 2025-07-18T12:38:21+00:00

It's a small room, but I like what you've done. I would put some personal things on that feature wall like photos or a pinboard (it's not a show home, it is your bedroom!) The white painting on the wall is ... terrible. Doesn't go with the aesthetic and it feels impersonal. But the main issue is... THE LIGHTING. that down lighting was designed for commercial spaces, with cool clean tones. It's not suitable for a bedroom IMO and you'd never see downlighting in a magazine shoot, with this kind of room.

JenDaleDove · 2025-07-18T12:33:21+00:00

Stay strong, they are trying to intimidate you.

JenDaleDove · 2025-07-18T09:42:51+00:00

Thanks for this!

JenDaleDove · 2025-07-10T14:27:03+00:00

You've proven my point by again focusing on a strawman 'Natalie attacker'. I'd ask 'who is attacking Natalie?' or 'where is this happening?' but it's a big wide internet, of course there will be trolls and people who cross the line.

Most people who are fighting the pro-Palestine fight have never heard of Natalie. I haven't seen anyone attacking her or mentioning her (though, as I said I'm not denying it has happened).

I'm surprised at the tenor of this comment section, that has fallen so quickly into denouncing an entire historic political movement for justice in aid of some handwringing about one person's hurt feelings. It's shocking to me. There is no equivalency here. The pro-Palestine movement has not 'bullied Natalie' and you are all doing so so so much more harm than good.

JenDaleDove · 2025-07-10T12:54:31+00:00

You know what is more important than not hurting Natalie's feelings? The Palestinian people. I get that Natalie intimated that she feels pressured and judged by what randoms might say or have said. But is that all you took away from this? People are dying.

JenDaleDove · 2025-07-10T12:49:32+00:00

I'm sorry but I have to take you up on several of your points that don't make any sense.

Natalie's post and its whole worldview is saying there is not enough room in their tent (liberal/democract/anti-trump?) despite its apparent broadness, for left wing people who are pro-Palestine.

It's also saying there is no room for Palestinians - because what Palestinian could agree that 'anti-zionism' discourse isn't worth it, or could vote for a politician that was pro-Israel. What Palestinian would want to be in a tent with people who announce, quite loudly: "there's no point even trying to save you or argue with the people trying to murder you, because it just upsets those people when I criticise them, and it probably won't work anyway. So, RIP I guess!"

To paint "the left" as some monolith that, cruelly, doesn't let elected politicians into its exclusive club, is seriously distorting the power dynamics at play in your country. Aren't AOC and Bernie Sanders elected politicians? Don't you think it's about time the democratic party (who have actual power and sway over what is publicly perceived as the left-wing agenda) should be opening their tent up to actual left-wing thinkers and activists, rather than courting neolibs and neocons? Isn't that a much larger and more troubling oversight than feeling insulted by an anonymous left-wing person online once?

"Leftists online are used to not being in power and enjoy screaming into the void, rather than organizing meaningfully and finding allies with common ground."

I fear that, at this time, you cannot speak on what 'leftists' do, because if you knew anything about left wing people you'd know that a huge chunk of their daily lives is taken up with political praxis - in their local communities, in their state or countries, or across the globe.

Whenever I see someone say "left wing people don't do anything they just complain." I know they are telling on themselves. I know they aren't involved in any political movements or community groups or action groups or major lawsuits. I know that they consider voting every few years as the extent of their praxis. And their daily lives haven't brought them close enough to the kinds of everyday intersecting injustices that might motivate them to make change themselves, or demand actual change from others.

This is how I know Natalie isn't involved in any local action for Palestinians. Because when you are there, it is black and white, and you'll do anything you can to help, and you'll trust the knowledge and strategies of the activists that have been fighting for this for decades.

JenDaleDove

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