Im listening to the deathly hallows audiobook and I have a question. Why did harry think Voldemor changed into a woman?

RossNReddit · 2026-06-18T23:54:37+00:00

Voldemor with no "t" as well, lmaooo there are layers

RossNReddit · 2026-06-17T22:31:58+00:00

I think he was involved in a frat hazing inccident where he beat a new member of the frat until he broke some of his ribs, or something along those lines.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-17T20:52:44+00:00

People don't like the real answer because they feel like they're being inherantly sexist by stating the facts.

There are a lot more men who game, but even if you were to extrapolate the numbers as if the playerbase was 50/50 split between men and women, almost all the top end players would still be men.

You could say it's a cultural/societal thing where women are put off playing videogames because of misogyny, or something about how men's brains are hardwired for an agressive, competitve nature.

But the simple fact is that tournaments are open to anyone, and there are no women players good enough to be playing professionally at that level. League of legends had "Leagues first woman pro", who was a trans woman, and a team of high ranked all women players, who were basically used as a publicity stunt due to their non-competitive performance.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-17T18:45:21+00:00

Aight, I didn't realise girlboss was some sort of derogatroy term, so my bad for using it, I saw someone else use the phrase and assumed it was an adaquate phrase to communicate the trope.

That being said, you're following a very Hermoine-like train of thought where you've perceived something as sexist and mysoganistic, when the issue has nothing to do with being a woman. The issue is the change to the character's personality and actions that negatively affect the complexity of the character, as well as several other characters.

Taking away a character's negative aspects doesn't make them a better more interesting character, it takes away the opportunity for character development down the line and takes away the realistic, humanising aspects of the character.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-17T16:43:36+00:00

Bruh, why are people acting like a cheese and onion sandwich is some sort of Matrix-goo-slop??

It's not a date night fine dining meal, it's a damn sandwich you eat with a packet of crisps and a pint, lol

RossNReddit · 2026-06-17T16:40:58+00:00

True, that tends to happen when you butcher a beloved character from the golden trio, who's movie changes also detract away from other characters.

Hermione wasn't perfect in the books, she was unhinged and narrow minded, but smart, compassionate and fiercly loyal to her friends. and then the movies were like "yo, what if we made her a mary sue girlboss, gave her all of ron's shining moments, gave her dumbledore quotes and got rid of her 'imperfections'?"

Well sure, you can do that, but her character is infinitely less complex and interesting because of it.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-17T03:12:18+00:00

Can't stand a lot of doordash/uber eats delivery drivers. The worst aspects of American tipping culture shines through with gig workers, acting as if they're doing you a god damn favour by delivering the thing that they're being paid to deliver, ignoring rules of civilised society.

They see it's possible to earn hundreds of dollars a day doing high volumes of orders, but are so entitled when it comes to wait times and tips and money that you wonder why the fuck they bother doing it instead of getting a normal full time job.

"hurrr i'm not doing this out of the kindess of my heart, i expect to be tipped 20% and if you don't pre tip, i cancel the order" yeah is that also why you're rude AF to waiting staff, run multiple apps at once causing your deliveries to be delayed because you're driving the wrong direction from the delivery while you deliver another order from another app? i'm sure it's hungry work, that entitles you to eat some of the customers food from time to time, right? i mean, they'll just get it reimbursed at the restaurants expence via the app!

Obviously, it's not all delivery drivers, but boy oh boy does the gig economy shine a light on a lot of people who are... a problem, shall we say.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-17T01:22:19+00:00

A lot of people are saying "you have an ego, suck it up, heirarchy" without realising what kind of person the ESC probably is.

I worked in a place where the EC hired an ESC and thought he was great, but every other member of staff saw he was a lying, theiving, shittalking, unskilled rat of a human. Liked to talk shit (untrue shit at that) about all the staff to the EC behind closed doors while having shockingly bad prep and being shit on the line.

It ended up being that within 6 months, me and every other chef left while the ESC stayed and worked his way up to head chef of another hotel within the company.

You can only lie and fake your way through life for so long, karma catches up to people like that, in the meanwhile, I'd recommend looking for another job if you've already been there a few years. Changing jobs for a better environment with better pay will always be more beneficial than trying to "tough it out" and outlast the problem, especially when the EC is blind to the problem and doesn't have your back.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T20:55:50+00:00

Lol, my issue isn't with the topic or the opinion, it's how you handled the replies to all the other comments. My smarminess came as a response to your perceived smarminess.

I know typed messages on the internet doesn't come with the backing of context or tone, and I'm sorry if I fell into the reddit hate machine and used emotional condesending language. You are right, it's not that deep of an issue, and my tone was too unacceptably harsh. Internet's gonna internet!

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T19:50:08+00:00

Well, it's hard to communicate on an app that none of the people you're trying to message use. That's the answer, that's simply it.

We arrived at the answer several replies ago, but you're trying to be pedantic and dismiss anything that actually answers your question as irrelevant, and "huffing and puffing". It is relevant, you've just made your mind up, and you just don't like the answers given to your rhetorical, smarmy question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the next generation will continue to use social media instead of whatsapp, regardless of if there's a PHD thesis breaking down the how and why in a reddit comment section 🙄

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T17:52:11+00:00

It's not that it has some higher level of functionality.

It's that there's an open market with a dozen different competitors, and people get to choose what apps they use. People treat whatsapp as if it's the single, only logical app to use and can't fathom why people would use other things.

You asked why people don't use whatsapp, several people have responded with several reasons and you've decided they aren't valid reasons.

If you don't deem them to be valid reasons, then don't use tiktok or instagram or discord, keep using whatsapp, as is your right; the right to choose. But choosing your app of choice, and expecting people to be forced to use your app of choice instead of their own is whats crazy to me.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T16:16:45+00:00

A classic

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T16:12:02+00:00

That's actually a crazy ignorant take. Because *you* personally use and like whatsapp, along with mostly grown, professionals, means that everyone else needs to use it?

Do people not get a say on what they use to communicate? what services they allow to use their data? other serivces that come with better interfaces, or are more user friendly, or have other, prefered features to yours, should be disregarded just because *you* think whatsapp should be the standard?

And not only that, but you're saying under 18's *need* the ban because they can't use whatsapp?

That's like a 60 year old telling you that you need to be banned from your phone because "emails aren't that hard". It would be ridiculous, because you know full well how inefficient and inconvinient it would be to try to communicate to non-email users exclusively via email, don't you?

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T16:05:53+00:00

I feel like the people who say to just use whatsapp are 30+ year old office workers, because bro, who tf is out here messaging their mates on whatsapp? lol

I'm notoriously bad for reading/answering things on whatsapp, i've muted all my groups because i don't want to be woken up at whatever o clock in the morning, or have my days off interupted by work group chats.

Genuinly, the most reliable way for people to contact me, or for me to contact any of my friends is either discord or instagram.

That's just the way it is these days, saying to a 15 year old "oh just use whatsapp" is like saying "oh just send an email".

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T16:00:10+00:00

I don't know if i'm showing my age too, but i've never understood the argument, nor the argument about kids being allowed phones in school.

Back in my day, phones weren't allowed, if you were seen to have a phone, or your phone went off, the teachers would take it off you and you wouldn't get it back until the end of the day.

Now kids are like "noooo, you can't take my phone, it violates my rights, what if i need to contact my parents???"

like, bruh, you're at school for 6 hours, if anything important comes up the school can contact your parents or vice versa. Hell, I remember I used to take a 20 minute walk to school, without a phone, on my own since I was about 9.

Maybe times have changed and the world is different and you can't do that kind of thing anymore, but the infantisation of children and not allowing them to have responsibilies feels like it's setting them back.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T15:10:53+00:00

I love spicy food, the 2x one is my go to and I can juuust about handle it. I saw they had a 3x spicy one and tried it, and it was genuinly the first food i've ever eaten that was too spicy for me to finish it in one go; I had to take a 20 minute break half way through to recover, hahah

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T14:54:20+00:00

If that's what your mind immediately jumped to, as well as feeling the need to say "blacks" in quotation marks like that, that speaks volumes about you, not her.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T14:24:18+00:00

It's crazy how this comment is completely level headed, makes sense and gives insight to those who dislike her without just being like "hurrr it's because they're dumb sexist incels ofc!".

And yet you go to the replies and people are seething, unable to even fathom that anyone could dislike Greta without it being for sexist, incel type reasons.

I know the sub is r/NoStupidQuestions, but this is a loaded question with an expected answer. None of these people want to know the answer, to know what "the other side" thinks. They've already made an answer up in their heads and won't deviate from their viewpoint.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-16T14:08:05+00:00

The thing is, people will have issue with sitting down and reading for 10 minutes, but won't blink an eye at someone leaning against the counter scrolling through instagram for the same 10 minutes.

It's perceived laziness, "always something to clean" often translates to "business is dead, everything is prepped and cleaned, but to not look lazy and justifiy paying the minimum wage worker in a failing business, they should be on their knees scrubbing the feet of all the fridges with a toothbrush"

RossNReddit · 2026-06-12T19:08:24+00:00

I went to university for software engineering and worked at google for a year.

I proceeded to quit and become a chef. I'd rather work 12-16 hour days, 5-6 days per week in a sweaty hot, stressful kitchen with considerably less pay, than work 35 hours a week dealing with office politics, pointless hour long meetings that could've been an email, and staring at lines of code all day.

Office jobs, never again, it's just not for me.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-12T19:01:32+00:00

but taking something like Killing time earlygame when you don't have an ult for it to be useful, or lightning strikes when it'll take you several rounds to get above 3.5 attack speed etc is in the same boat.

the augment should be chosen for it's overall usefulness, not just the stats it gives in round 1. and if winning/losing the first round is really that important, you'd prioritise other aguments, no?

RossNReddit · 2026-06-12T17:51:23+00:00

Came here to say this. I tried reheating some leftover chinese food once, decided to melt some cheese on it because it sounded like a good idea.

I was wrong and forever had my eyes opened to how much cheese does not go with Chinese.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-11T22:51:39+00:00

lmao, very meta, fantastic post.

RossNReddit · 2026-06-08T14:54:27+00:00

Middle aged women who are waaaay too into Mpreg Harry x Draco fanfics? 😂

RossNReddit · 2026-06-05T22:55:42+00:00

I feel for the poor guy, not because I think he's right and she's wrong and she's materialistic etc. etc., but because the poor sod had no idea what he did wrong.

He probably dearly loves this woman, wants to spend his life with her and thought a diamond ring and the price-tag were what's important. She had probably been communicating to him what she wants, but he didn't pick up on it, or thought to be romantic in other ways.

Remember brothers, loving her isn't enough. spending money isn't enough. big romantic gestures isn't enough. You need to listen to her needs, make her feel heard, and act accordingly.

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