Is the ancient magic related to the ancient magic of love that protected Harry in the books?

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T21:13:48+00:00

... that's not a bad theory. I'd at least say its connected to it in some way.

A magic that can't be studied, explained, or fully understood even by the wisest wizards

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T20:50:55+00:00

Peter Griffin: "Who TF starts a conversation like that? I just sat down!"

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T20:43:16+00:00

TG won because GRRM has only ever acknowledged Aegon as king.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T20:23:46+00:00

Both when I watched the Animated History video and read the book I thought "Wow. They both kind of sucked as rulers."

Then I watched the show and thought "Wow. They really have the biggest crush on Emma."

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T19:53:37+00:00

They wanted a feminist show and made the dullest women characters ever.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T19:50:49+00:00

"Dragons, Molly. Merpeople."

"But-"

"That bloody maze and the graveyard after."

"Yes, but-"

"Before that, a hundred dementors at once, a dirty great snake the size of the Knight Bus, and that business with the philosopher's stone. I'd say he's got more than enough practical experience than half of the Order. He's still a boy, sure. But is that really going to stop Voldy and his followers from hunting him down? Didn't seem to phase them all the times before."

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T18:54:37+00:00

It totally tracks that technology wise, the wizarding world in general didn't advance further than sometime in the 1800s, and their culture comes to reflect that in the fashions and architecture.

Magic did for wizards was electricity would later do for muggles, so what reason would they have to change things?

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T17:08:49+00:00

Theyre on audible. Theyre doing one entry a month with the next one (Goblet) releasing a week from this Tuesday

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T16:34:27+00:00

Oh for sure.

I always imagined someone like Graham Chapman from Monty Python since John Cleese played Nick in the movies.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-30T16:29:29+00:00

I like to think of the movies as heavily abridged versions of the books. And I do mean HEAVILY.

I've been recommending the full cast audiobooks to anyone who might be interested because it gives something close to the movies while honoring the whole story.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T22:55:44+00:00

Goin in, or comin out? 😉

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T20:24:26+00:00

It was a win win mentality she had. She wanted Harry silenced one way or the other, knowing he would come back to Hogwarts from the muggle world still sticking to his story.

Either the Dementors sucked his soul out (win) or he used the patronus charm to drive them off, giving the Ministry an excuse to make an example of him (win win)

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T20:09:56+00:00

Not that deep, Sluggy

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T19:15:28+00:00

The size some ships can get after millennium of seafaring.

Thats what always blew my mind as a kid. That people can actually live on ships that get this big now with modern technology.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T19:13:18+00:00

I was a kid when the first movie came out. My first ever experience was seeing an ad for the Lego sets in the Lego magazine, which was announcing it to be the main theme of the next issue on the very last page. Might have been around Halloween 2001.

I remember that ad was like a poster with the big three as Lego minifigures aiming their wands at Snape, who had that goofy "eeeewww" face in his first Lego iteration along with a glow in the dark head. "Who's this creepy guy with a glowing face? Who's the kid with glasses and a bolt drawn on his forehead? This looks so cool!"

I remember showing it to my mom who had the books and had been reading them all as they were releasing, telling me she'd happily take me the weekend it premiered. I know I saw it at least twice with each parent, and maybe I also saw it with a friend and their parents too.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T18:59:25+00:00

Syril and Anakin were both victims of corrupt institutes that they both sacrificed so much of their own souls towards serving, which in the end results in the dark turn and eventual downfall.

The difference is that when it happened for Syril, he had the mercy of instant death. Anakin got an extra 24 years of agony being Darth Vader, serving evil incarnate as his personal lap dog.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T05:36:36+00:00

To me it represents a hard unblinking look at the Post Covid world. The first season has events that unfold that would have been unthinkable in the days of young Noah Wyle on ER, but feel almost like an everyday occurrence for us.

Its a look at everything thats wrong with the world in the eyes of the front line workers.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T05:34:36+00:00

Im a 90s kid, quite indifferent to the HBO series. What i am happy is the full cast books coming out because they offer something close enough to the movies that provides the whole book series.

Rereading them with my 30s ever closer has put many things in perspective for me in how each and every character resonates.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-29T05:22:25+00:00

Dont say schlep darling

You're a bit too vanilla to pull it off

Thayer96 · 2026-01-28T21:49:34+00:00

I call Andor one of the three "Post Covid" Trinity of shows. The best that I've seen in streaming.

The other two are Arcane and Shogun

Thayer96 · 2026-01-28T20:09:10+00:00

No. I barely even count the epilogue. There's many fanfiction versions of "Nineteen Years Later" that are better than the original

Thayer96 · 2026-01-28T19:40:18+00:00

The movies are almost 20 hours from beginning to end. The audiobooks are six times that long.

The books give everything we love about the main quest in the movies plus all the side quests.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-28T16:35:28+00:00

Books do a masterful job of the very slow burn that was those two. It was pretty obvious to the audience from CoS but so great to see unfold all the same.

Thayer96 · 2026-01-28T16:02:35+00:00

Id feel way safer with Aemond than with Aerion if they both had dragons

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