I often see people posting about the problems Wizarding Society would have, and usually I agree with the OP, but I feel like in many cases, the OP is condemning Rowling for writing the system this way (ex: house elfs, treatment of werewolves and other minorities, flaws in the Sorting system, Azkaban, and so on…)
In most cases, Rowling wrote these incredible flaws into the series intentionally. She is fully aware that the system is flawed, that’s the point of the books! A writer doesn’t have to explicitly state “___ is bad, ___ is good”, and I think that Rowling trusts her readers to be discerning enough to not be coddled and handed her opinions so blatantly.
Anonymous asked: do you think that natasha has fantasized about have bruce inside her as the hulk? is that why she likes him? because she wants to ride his big green mean machine?
-The snowbanks are melting, revealing what has been sleeping beneath them all winter. They are hungry.
-Western Mass is a myth, they laugh. Their eyes are wide. Western Mass is a myth, they repeat. You cannot go there. No one can.
-Why is that field red? The children ask. It’s a cranberry bog, the adults repeat. Just a cranberry bog. The eyes in the bog do not blink.
-The screaming at night is the fisher cats, we promise.
-The beaches are rocky. They are pointed, and jagged. They have teeth. Do not go swimming alone.
-”They’re not safe to eat unless you boil them alive.” The old fisherman tells you. You think, you hope, he means the lobster. But he never specifies, and you never ask.
At my school we have to do something called an ALICE drill. Basically the idea is that if an intruder comes in with a gun it is better to try and escape or barricade your classroom door than just sit and wait for a the guy to come in and kill you. So this is the practice barricade we build in my class to fall on the intruder if he opened the door.
okay, seriously. What person is going to fall for a ton of kids hiding in the corner of the room when all their shit is on their desks, the comptuers are on. It’s in the middle of school hours. What. Fucking. Person. Would. Fall. For. That. This is an amazing idea and should be done in all school instead of having us hide in the fucking corner in a dark room.
They just implemented this into my school, and they said that if the barricades don’t work we get to throw stuff at them or go out the window onto the next buildings roof
Man, i’ve been saying stuff like this would be a good idea for years! I want this at my school!
Okay but can we pause for a second to recognize how seriously fucked up it is that this has become nessecary in American schools? Because it is absolutely 100% fucked up.
Could other countries please send representatives here and have them literally knock some sense into our board of education please thank you.
