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Why weren't Fred and George Weasley sentenced to Azkaban for their rape potions?
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:08 pm
Well, it's the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter, and there is just so much fricked up about the Harry Potter universe when you really think about the ramifications of such a universe within ours.
Credit to Cracked (a formerly good site) here, but I'll post the first: Dark implications of the Harry Potter world
Credit to Cracked (a formerly good site) here, but I'll post the first: Dark implications of the Harry Potter world
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Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:14 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:16 pm to OMLandshark
Because everyone took a look at that red hair and knew they weren't getting laid without it. So basically, it was out of pity.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:24 pm to OMLandshark
They were basically big pharma
Who knows who they paid off with Harry's money. Not to mention their dad has political connections that would sink their teeth into those poor Irishmen
Who knows who they paid off with Harry's money. Not to mention their dad has political connections that would sink their teeth into those poor Irishmen
This post was edited on 6/26/17 at 7:25 pm
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:33 pm to OMLandshark
I agree. I've always felt those love potions were, for lack of a better term, problematic at best and a little frightening in how they would be applied to the real world. It seems like JK did not really think things through when she included them as a way to make love sick teen jokes.
This post was edited on 6/26/17 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:50 pm to Dr RC
To be fair, there are a lot of things in Harry Potter that would be problematic in the real world.
I mean these are four of the most used/mentioned spells:
Alohamora: unlock someone's door
Expelliarmus: disarm
Stupefy: knock unconscious
And then
Obliviate: erase victims memory
I mean these are four of the most used/mentioned spells:
Alohamora: unlock someone's door
Expelliarmus: disarm
Stupefy: knock unconscious
And then
Obliviate: erase victims memory
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:51 pm to OMLandshark
And then there's the notion that they pretty exclusively took magical based courses at Hogwarts. No need for any of that basic math, science, or reading.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:52 pm to SLafourche07
True but it just seems like love potions should be considered the same kind of dark magic that gets you tossed into Azkaban. Is there really much of a difference between the love potions and the imperius curse?
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:53 pm to BluegrassBelle
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No need for any of that basic math, science, or reading
You didn't master all of those subjects before you turned 11?
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:56 pm to Dr RC
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Is there really much of a difference between the love potions and the imperius curse?
You can blame that on the lobbying and marketing arms of Big Magic.
One is a "love" potion. The other is called a curse.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:11 pm to SLafourche07
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To be fair, there are a lot of things in Harry Potter that would be problematic in the real world.
Well, there are some logical problems in the Harry Potter universe, but this is just all together morally wrong. Like what were Fred and George thinking, "Oh hey, lets give some drug to a 14 year old to rape his hot classmate who wants nothing to do with him"? Using love potions should be on the level of Unforgivable Curses. Rick and Morty goes into this: LINK
Also apparently I found out that Ron gave Harry's son a love potion when he was 11. Like what in the shite? Why isn't he in jail as well?
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Alohamora: unlock someone's door
Curses can counter it that make it useless.
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Expelliarmus: disarm
Stupefy: knock unconscious
Those should be legal in proper circumstances. It's like saying it's illegal to teach someone Kung Fu. It's really just self defense when used properly.
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Obliviate: erase victims memory
That should be illegal as well.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:29 pm to OMLandshark
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Curses can counter it that make it useless.
Not if said wizard rapist wants to get his Muggle freak on.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:29 pm to SLafourche07
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Not if said wizard rapist wants to get his Muggle freak on.
Well in that case, sure, but it's not using the curse that's the problem. It's that he raped someone.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:49 pm to OMLandshark
In all honesty, the idea of memory charms in general is just OP (and scary) as hell. That magic needed to be reserved for only the most surgically precise wizards (such as Snape), rather than something that anyone could fire off with a decent bit of practice.
Otherwise, what's stopping some sadistic wizard from stealing, raping, or murdering any muggle they wanted and then memory charming them and perhaps another unwitting victim into forgetting or claiming guilt for said act? The magical tracer spell wouldn't be working once the wizard was of age, so I doubt the MoM would ever be the wiser.
Otherwise, what's stopping some sadistic wizard from stealing, raping, or murdering any muggle they wanted and then memory charming them and perhaps another unwitting victim into forgetting or claiming guilt for said act? The magical tracer spell wouldn't be working once the wizard was of age, so I doubt the MoM would ever be the wiser.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 10:50 pm to OMLandshark
Didn't one of them die?
Posted on 6/26/17 at 10:53 pm to LSUlefty
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Didn't one of them die?
You make a good point. If they were instead arrested in Book VI they would still be alive.
This post was edited on 6/26/17 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 6/27/17 at 7:28 am to OMLandshark
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Also apparently I found out that Ron gave Harry's son a love potion when he was 11. Like what in the shite?
Well...just think of all the masturbatory magic there must be. Like witches don't have spells that provide clitoral or vaginal stimulation involving their wand they first receive at age 11.
Then the little warlocks learn those spells as well to help woo their classmates.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 7:51 am to OMLandshark
I never thought about this but yea wtf
Also I haven't read HP and the Cursed Child but wtf I can't believe she brings Time Turners back and makes them MORE powerful
Also I haven't read HP and the Cursed Child but wtf I can't believe she brings Time Turners back and makes them MORE powerful
Posted on 6/27/17 at 8:09 am to Tiger1242
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Also I haven't read HP and the Cursed Child but wtf I can't believe she brings Time Turners back and makes them MORE powerful
She wasn't the main writer of that one. She should of nixed that whole shite story.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 11:57 am to Tiger1242
Sirius was the best character IMO.
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