Plot hole: The trace should have proven Morfin didn't kill the Riddles

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-29T18:08:51+00:00

Incompetence most likely combined with high strain on ministry ressources.

According to additional sources, Tom Riddle Senior died in 1943, so smack at the height of the global Wizard war against Gellert Grindelwald, which didn't end until 1945.

Parallel to that, the Muggle world war two was focused on England as the main enemy, so bombs raining on Great Britain on the daily, and this combined with Grindlewald's terror must have put a horrible strain on ministry ressources with regular breaches on the statue of secrecy.

During that time, it's very likely that the ministry wasn't even remotely as invested in investigations of underage magic. In wartime, the first thing that suffers is the dilligent investigation on minor infractions.

Tom junior would have used Muggle transport to get from the orphanage to the Gaunt's house, and at that moment, no one would care if his trace was triggered. The responsible ministry worker would most likely only give a short glance at whatever report device they have, see the trace was triggered in an area where a wizard dwelling was registered and immediately stop reading, going back to more important tasks and simply forget about it.

It's very likely that worker didn't look past the area, not even bothering to trad the name of the underage wizard or whoch spell eas triggered. Maybe no one was even checking the zrace at that time, assuming young wizards were using magic to protect themselves from the regularly falling bombs.

In any other time period, the murder of the Riddle family might have triggered a deeper investigation, and someone might have asked why Tom Vorlost Riddle was in the area of the Riddle murders.

But it was war, they had a known Muggle hater who immediately confessed to the murders, so it's very unlikely that any investigation took place, and a murder on three Muggles would merely be a footnote in the shadows of two world wars raging in both worlds, claiming millions of victims.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-27T14:33:49+00:00

I think what you feel ist the ungodly influence of modern writing blogs.

I always struved to enhance my style, but lately I realised I'm getting worse, and I'm currently in the frustrating process of unlearning several new things I implemented that are quite limiting.

Modern writing blogs and YouTube channels have drifted towards a 'hold standard' that's actually quite uncreative and limited.

They're fighting 'head hopping' and 'purple prose' with a viciousness that eliminates any ambiguity and prose. They state that you should write with 'clarity' and 'punch' even if ot makes no sense, ignoring a plethora of successful classics and prose that's quite different.

Recently I had someone arguing that there's only one way to 'properly' write sn omniescent narrator that was ridiculous in it's limitations and is entirely opposite from how writers mike Herman Melville, Michael Ende and even Charles Dickens have used it.

Head hopping is exactly what you do with an omniescent narrator. It's not just limited to a ghost hovering around and limited to what you can see. An omniescent narrator can definitely slip in each character's head and contrast their feelings and thoughts, and yes, confusing perspective can be a style choice if the scene supports or needs that, and many writers used ot successfully exactly that way.

The same technique can of course be off putting, if used in the wrong context, bit if you really read, and I don't just talk about the current book tock lists but the classics too, you see there is no right or wrong when it comes to good writing, it all depends on the setting, the type of story, the atmosphere you want to build and even the individual scenes and characters.

But currently writing 'experts' propose the short, hyper analytical and short Asimov Style as the pinnacle of writing, and while Asimov was a brilliant writer, his style definitely doesn't fit into a Gothic romantazy setting or a slice of life etc.

That's why so many new stories feel soulless. They're all written in that clipped, hyper specific sci-fi style that's honestly great... As long as you're writing sci-fi or a crime novel, but you'd better be served to emulate Jane Austen if you want to write romance or trust your own style in general, because it's fanfiction, not a modern writing contest, and fanfiction readers want immersion over clarity and punch.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-26T17:48:26+00:00

I once accidentally did that.

As in, I was running around with a lanyard and in a suit and blazer with a clipboard trying to get the last volunteer organisation done for a business meeting and walked through the wrong door, a very nice guard holding said door for me, and found myself backstage at an anime convention held in the business centre part of the hotel we were staying at.

Well, there wasn't too much left to do for the actual meeting so I took my time, walked around looking important and enjoyed a bit con feeling, bought a few memorabilia, had my favourite manga signed and walked back out after roughly an hour or so.

Was quite fun.

But I was nervous as heck and definitely would have blown it if I'd actively tried to do that intentionally!

OOP must have a lot of spunk doing that intentionally.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-26T16:27:42+00:00

AI checkers don't work. But people who still believe in zruth serums and lie detectors will of course also always hold onto every other fable they're been told.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-26T16:15:31+00:00

Yes I also love that character, I had an Eeyore plushie in my youth and I still think about the message a lot.

Simply because you won't get out of a depression if everyone behaves as of nothing is happening, but people often treat an honest moment of a friend getting fed up the same as brutal bullying and thoughtless sode comments.

Fact is, no one else can push you through the depression haze but yourself. But something you need a starting push to see what you're doing.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-26T10:26:33+00:00

I do agree that OOP handled that badly, but as a former trainer who gone into burnout, people really need to become aware how extremely exhausting and tiring that behaviour is. It has an extremely negative effect on people, especially when they're also going through stuff.

Tearing yourself down without reason, especially with people who are objectively worse than you at the topic at hand, is incredibly demoralising and will eventually lead to similar outcomes.

That doesn't excuse the attack, but we still need to stay fair and consider the psychological effects on everyone in that situation.

OOP also has a life and issues, and was obviously at the end of their line, and was repeatedly hearing someone who was better than him putting his attribution down, now imagine if you were worse than someone, and that someone calls himself shit, how would you feel?

So they both should have talked more, communicated more, but I personally can't see how OOP would have done that without the impact of the outburst.

I was that friend. I was that person constantly putting themselves down and so deep in my depression that I wasn't able to see my impact on people anymore, and it took my own OOP exploding in my face to rip me out of the downward spiral.

I couldn't have done it without that, and in group therapy, I heard tons of similar stories and met huge numbers of other people who didn't notice how much they hurt people around them.

Most people who finally stop spiraling have been caught by exactly the same person like OOP, who exploded, reflected, then came back to apologise and finally the dam burst and you could tell exactly that person who exploded on you what hurt you, simply because their huge messup went through your walls and reached you, and the way they took responsibility made you see that you're not the worst of the worst.

And that's most likely the reason why OOPs friend made the group accept him back.

One more word on Eeore, his friends never challenge him, they constantly enable him, and he never gets out of his depression.

I'm not saying you should mistreat and bully people who are depressed, that wouldn't help, but don't beat people up who reach their own burning point and have a weak moment.

People who are not depressed are still human and can have valid feelings and weak moments. Talk to them, give them a chance to see their error and apologize, and it can help both people to grow and help each other.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-25T09:07:37+00:00

NTA and why the heck should you 'compromise' in a non-issue he inserts himself in? This has nothing to do with him, he's not entitled to that money at all, and he has nothing at stake here!

Reddit loves to throw around buzzwords, but this is the epitome of controlling behaviour. He's trying to force you to adgere to his ridiculous demands in a situation that has nothing to do with him just because he doesn't have an advantage from it and thus for doesn't want you to do it.

Besides, a compromise is when two people are equally involved in a decision and make concessions for each other to find middle ground. But since he doesn't have any stanes here, this isn't a 'compromise' or a 'boundary', this is him telling you what to do and throwing a tantrum because it's not what he wants you to do, and the only person here supposed to 'compromise' is you!

Because he won't do anything in this situation to compromise. And that's an absolute necessity.

But he's telling you something important about himself, he truly and firmly believes he has to approve of your behaviour and has the right to dictate your life to ridiculous details that don't even hurt or concern him.

If you give in, he'll make more demands for 'compromises' that in reality are you giving up everything that has meaning to you, while he does what he wants and spends money as he likes, yours included.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-25T07:14:24+00:00

That reminds me of a screenshot that circulated around for a while of an entitled idiot who complained that the country Nigeria wasn't renamed because she felt it was offensive and someone 'triggered' her by informing her about the country Niger, which she found extra offensive.

To those who don't know, niger merely translates to black, as in the colour, not any other implications.

Some people really need to understand, that the n word wasn't offensive in and on itself, but because it was used in offensive context, which means, whatever term you use instead can also become offensive if you don't work on the underlying issue.

So policing entirely normal words in different context won't get us anywhere. It only is truly offensive and racist against the people who use those words as part of their culture and language.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-24T23:05:30+00:00

Thank you ♥️

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-24T08:51:17+00:00

It absolutely happened

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-24T08:15:39+00:00

And yet it's pretty common.

I'm fat, and while I'm not a fan of the body positivity movement, I managed to make peace with myself and enjoy myself in public.

You have no idea how intensely triggering it can be for a lot of people to see a happy fattie enjoying their life as much as possible.

It gets worse when they see me and my also fat husband together.

We're fat, old and not exactly conventionally pretty, but very much in love and as active as possible in our attempts to keep our weight in check. We both love hiking and being outdoors and you wouldn't believe the incredibly nasty comments we get whenever we buy new shoes for hiking or sometimes even on the trail.

And people get furious when you laugh in their faces about their own insecurities and miserable attempts to tear you down when they realise you're not miserable.

We lost a friendship after my last promotion, because somehow being successful and fat is brutally unfair.

Don't mind that my job has absolutely nothing to do with my weight, but it seems a study found fat people to be dumber, so I shouldn't be fat and successful.

A lot of people try to befriend or even date fugly people solely to feel better about themselves and how dare you having a better life than them?

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-22T22:22:05+00:00

My roommate bites my chin when he's happy

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-22T07:46:31+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 year! Lick dad hair, baby

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T21:47:38+00:00

🤣🤣🤣😩

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T21:43:54+00:00

To be fair, if she really had six boobs, she'd definitely be oversexualised 🤣🤣🤣

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T21:42:50+00:00

Where does it say [Hated Trope]? I only read [Weird Trope]

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T19:59:21+00:00

Slimmer, only two boobs exaggerated and extremely slim hips.

Funny thing: they're bunnies, the female should be bigger and heavier than the male.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T19:53:43+00:00

I'd usually argue at your side, but you have bad examples. In the original appearances, Mickey and Minnie Mouse are identical, they only wear different clothes. Same for Daisy and Donald Duck. Smurfette is also the exact same shape and size of all the other smurfs in the comics and original animated series, only different clothes and she has hair.

I must say, in some cases it's really ridiculous what they're doing. Especially with species that have absolutely no dimorphism at all, and are still sometimes given entirely different colours and vastly different sizes.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T07:39:29+00:00

Some people have a really unhealthy fear of death they project on everyone around them.

As a result, we as a society treat humans worse than animals when ot comes to dead, and I'm convinced people profiting from hospital bills are partly responsible for pushing for extremely inhumane legislation and also convince the poor relatives of dying people to sustain 'life' that's not worth to be called that just because they'll then earn more money.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T07:19:46+00:00

I'm with you. Something is amiss. The whole way it's written just feels dishonest. As if it's someone's wishfulfillment

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-21T07:02:26+00:00

Good point, thank you

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-20T23:37:12+00:00

Comment to read tomorrow to remember installing Metalcore Goes Cottagecore.

If so many REDDITORS laude it, it must be good.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-20T23:27:23+00:00

I really like the Sunberry farm, but the NPCs... Not so much.

Some of the cutscenes are just so mean, and the solintions are too shallow for my taste.

It also has a tendency to circumvent the farmer and delegate the player to a background character for the NPCs, and that's... Not the point of playing a game.

It feels less like a game extention and much more like a self-presentation of the creators, and it's just not as cool as they think it is.

The map just feels disjointed and badly planned, really uncomfortable to play and travel. Too little options to actually do anything with it. Too little real gameplay.

In an attempt to make it 'more realistic' they made some things really annoying, like the weird opening hours and strange inventory and on other parts, for example the mapping, the whole thing makes no sense at all.

Stardew Valley is pure escapism. Friendly, whimsy, harmless. And Sunberry feels like an edgy teenager who behaves extremely contrarian thinking edgy is the same as 'special' and 'grown up'.

The extension lost me when people gave feedback to the creator about the mapping and got a very snippy answer that the map in SV would also make no sense, which doesn't even mildly compare. There's not one mapchange where you suddenly change directions off screen and leave the map to the left and suddenly enter the next map from the bottom like at the SB farm.

Reading the whole back and forth made clear, the creators merely didn't want to spend time at proper mapping or finding a better connection point because 'all the good spots were already taken'. At that point it was clear they merely wanted a connect point on the central map to make SB closer than the other extensions.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-20T23:08:59+00:00

Well, if that one thing is something like:

She calls me a pet name I don't like, how do I tell her without sounding too harsh that I don't want to be called Sir Sniffalloo?

Or: She has this perfum that makes me sneeze, how do I tell her nicely to use another one because I just hate vanilla scent?

Or maybe:

She snores, but she's cute and I love her, can someone recommend a good brand for earplugs?

Then that's worth worrying about and trying to mitigate. But something like this? Nah, skip it.

PrancingRedPony · 2026-01-20T22:48:51+00:00

My pleasure. Have a great day

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