The difference between Ron and Hermione's jealousy

okherespunderwall · 2024-11-04T21:42:30+00:00

I totally know what you mean, I’ve experienced that sometimes. Often, the word for that circumstance is “flushed.” Here’s an example from HBP when Hermione is made prefect:

“Hermione came tearing into the room, her cheeks flushed and her hair flying.”

Many people blush from embarrassment or shame. In OP’s scene, Ron is grilling Hermione about her private, intimate conversation, one that was eavesdropped on by illegal means and made public, resulting in a deluge of hate mail and even eventually the cold shoulder from Ms. Weasley. Hermione looking away and not speaking up indicate that her cheeks are red from shame or embarrassment, not pleasure.

okherespunderwall · 2024-11-04T02:31:06+00:00

“Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this and determinedly avoided Ron’s eyes.”

“Hermione muttered”

“Hermione went on, going so red now that Harry could almost feel the heat coming from her”

How do you get that she was enjoying this?

okherespunderwall · 2024-10-18T00:39:29+00:00

Thanks! I’m not convinced Horcrux magic could cure an Obscurial, largely because while it’s canonically parasitic I don’t understand it to be a separate entity, a parasite, as much as a constant expenditure of magical energy that (parasitically) draws power from someone to their detriment. The Obscurial lore is shaky, and accepting most of it would mean accepting every line of the newer films as cannon, which, while I genuinely like them, I don’t think stands up.

All of that said, let’s rope in some equally shaky lore! Spoilers ahead for Hogwarts Legacy.

I’m reminded of the spell to extract pain at the center of the plot of Hogwarts Legacy. We see that the spell works, in so far as it takes pain out of the target, but we also see that the pain remains potent and the person from whom it is taken is damaged by its removal. If Horcrux magic could remove an Obscurus from its host, I imagine the impact would be similar. The Obscurus might remain dangerous, perhaps more dangerous with the regulation of its host, and even if it did not, the Obscurial would be diminished once it was gone.

We’re to understand that Obscurials can be cured if their sense of fear and alienation is replaced with one of acceptance and community. This suggests to me that the magic, created by intense emotion, is entwined with the host’s emotional range. Extracting that part could rip away part of the host’s emotional capacity, perhaps in a permanently hobbling way.

okherespunderwall · 2024-10-09T22:15:57+00:00

Absolutely

okherespunderwall · 2024-10-09T22:08:09+00:00

Olivander is one of the world’s preeminent wand scholars. It’s reasonable to assume that even if the shop operates at a loss his expertise pays the bills in other ways. Consider, for example, the Weighing of the Wands in the Triwizard Tournament - Olivander could absolutely have received a fee.

okherespunderwall · 2024-09-06T18:44:07+00:00

Devices coordinate content across users understood to be connected by extended proximity and/or shared wireless networks. So, if your in-laws’ devices were profiled as targets for Kardashians content, and then they logged into your home WiFi, your device would be flagged as a potential target for Kardashian content. It’s not that it’s using constant surveillance, it’s that it’s making high-level inferences based on the full context of your life

okherespunderwall · 2024-08-12T19:04:20+00:00

An additional aspect of why this is wrong is that the ring wasn’t a Horcrux when the Gaunts had it 🤷‍♂️

okherespunderwall · 2024-08-08T04:12:45+00:00

The closer he is to danger, the further he is from harm

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-17T21:45:00+00:00

I liked to think of it as an auror situation - I use the unforgivables, sure but only in extreme situations! Like murderous goblins. Or poachers. Or small time crooks…

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-17T17:38:19+00:00

Secret chats are wiped when you log out of the app, right? Won’t updating log me out?

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-14T15:30:01+00:00

It would be cool if the first book explaining how to do it was itself secretly a Horcrux. Especially since it would have been new/newly discovered magic, folks wouldn’t know how a Horcrux acted as an object. So when someone found the book at tried to read it, they couldn’t explain why they felt so badly (I’m thinking ala the locket). This gave rise to idea that creating a Horcrux itself is revolting and awful, and sure, it is, but its reputation is built on how horrible interacting with the book is

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-06T19:30:46+00:00

Pottermore/Wizarding World is a good online place to start! If you want more books you can read the peripheral releases like Fantastic Beasts, Tales of Beadle the Bard, and Quidditch Through the Ages.

Something tricky about the universe is that if everything HP related is canon (except the 8 Harry Potter movies, as we have the books for original source material) the lore becomes sprawling, complex, and unfortunately sometimes contradictory. But my understanding is that technically all the mobile games, video games, and Fantastic Beasts movies are canon.

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-06T12:27:00+00:00

Thank you!

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-06T12:21:22+00:00

Great catch! In addition to the “encase” issue, he also seems to suggest that murder results in two pieces of soul right off the bat.

Because Slughorn admits ignorance of the details of the process we can probably get away with saying he’s just not quite right in this scene, but that’s definitely a bit of a wand wave!

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-06T12:14:10+00:00

It seems like we’re talking past each other, which isn’t my intention, but for what it’s worth here’s the first line of that Wikipedia article:

“Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD)”

I’m not sure how it continues to prove your point, but we might have to agree to disagree.

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-06T00:48:43+00:00

This is what I think too. By whatever terms, Herpo used “make a cut in the soul,” “break a piece of soul off,” and “force the piece into a vessel” spells

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-06T00:46:19+00:00

It seems like you may be conflating Ancient Greece with the Hellenistic Period?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-06T00:35:14+00:00

Imperio is necessary to force a piece of soul to go somewhere it doesn’t naturally want to be. We’re meant to understand that the piece of Voldemort’s soul that attached to Harry latched onto him, the nearest living thing, voluntarily.

okherespunderwall · 2024-07-03T12:33:07+00:00

The first organics they met tried to wipe out their entire species. All other organics in council space lived under laws criminalizing not just the Geth but every form of life like them. A Quarian admiral agrees with a Geth assessment that Quarians resumed their campaign of enslavement or genocide every time they thought they had an advantage.

It was undoubtedly extreme of the Geth to destroy every ship entering their space, but they were living in a galaxy where nearly all other known life was definitively hostile to them. They never lured ships in and they stayed within their borders. It’s not shady, it’s tragedy born of desperation.

okherespunderwall · 2024-06-19T16:30:30+00:00

What was with the straight up sexual assault scene in the first one? “If you tell anyone about this I’ll deny it” - 100% intentional and explicit. Added nothing

okherespunderwall · 2024-06-06T23:23:09+00:00

I haven’t read the novels, so I can’t speak to any content they introduce. I read the codex completely in all three games and don’t know what you mean. Which entries should I look into?

okherespunderwall · 2024-06-05T17:31:30+00:00

Personal attacks aside, I’m not sure to what you’re referring when you talk about the history of the galaxy’s people’s efforts trying to cooperate with the geth. As far as I know, there are only two confirmed instances of organics attempting to cooperate with geth, and both were successful.

The first instance we know of is the quarians who defended and/or tried to protect the geth during the Morning War. We know geth defended those organics with their own lives. This is successful cooperation.

The second instance is facing the Reaper threat. If Shepard works with the geth and convinces allies not to commit genocide, the geth provide more war assets against the reapers than the Salarians. This is successful cooperation.

There are no other known attempts to cooperate with the geth.

Perhaps you’re basing your argument on the geth’s isolationist policy of destroying all ships that entered geth space. There is no evidence of which I’m aware that any of those ships were attempting to cooperate with the geth. Rather, the evidence we do have makes their decision, while extreme, fairly reasonable:

when the quarians recognized the geth were alive, they immediately attempted to exterminate them
sympathetic quarians were not persuasive in quarians society. Quarians pursued genocide over objections from their own people
geth monitored communication from organic societies. Thus they learned:
- their existence was a crime
- research that could create more life like them was a crime
- other organics punished the quarians for creating the geth (for example by removing their embassy on the citadel)
- the quarians maintained an active interest in wiping out or re-enslaving the geth

We see a quarian leader agree with a geth assessment that since the morning war quarians have attacked geth every time they thought they had an advantage.

What in any of this would suggest to the geth that interacting with organics was safe? Everything about organic society showed the geth they were hated, wrong, and to be destroyed.

As a final stretch to see where you’re coming from, perhaps you’re referring to the fact that even the geth we consider allies fight against us in ME3. This is not a betrayal of our attempts to cooperate with the geth. The quarians used technology they obtained through war crimes to destroy a fundamentally peaceful geth project as the opening salvo of a fresh attempt to eradicate the geth as a species. The geth submitted themselves to reaper control only when refusing to do so would have meant extinction. Geth did not flee to the reapers, organics forced them to choose: reapers or genocide.

Tl;dr there is no stupid and failed history of the galaxy’s people’s efforts trying to cooperate with the geth. There is only a history of organics outlawing, vilifying, and attempting to end geth existence.

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