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Post by Kitty279 on Feb 11, 2016 2:20:44 GMT -5
And everyone who doesn't know for certain that they don't exist any longer would assume they still exist, as Lottie said. Makes sense. Who knows, even JKR might have thought they still exist? She wasn't too good at checking facts; case in point, the date/day of the week relation.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Feb 21, 2016 18:58:38 GMT -5
On the subject of unknown unknowns (that is, things we don't know we don't know) I'm going to add to my strange pet peeves eloping in the muggle world.
Unlike America you cannot get married with no notice in England. Currently you have to give 28 days notice at a registry office but pre-1999 it was 21 days as per the original 1949 marriage act (and, to further confuse things, between 1999 and 2015 it was only 15 days notice)
And in Scotland (ahh the Gretna Green trope) you still have to give notice of marriage and it's actually longer than the English waiting period.
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Post by Kitty279 on Feb 29, 2016 1:37:28 GMT -5
There I suspect one used that Gretna Green idea without doing their homework, and others picked the idea up and used it. When people have GB use dollars instead of pounds, I'm not too surprised they don't bother to check even less obvious facts. They just assume it's so here in America, so it has to be the same way everywhere.
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Post by physicssquid on Mar 23, 2016 17:58:55 GMT -5
New Peeve, and this one's a doozy.
Using should of, could of, would of etc instead of should have/should've, could have/could've, would have/would've.
It really drives me up the wall to see that, even though, when spoken, could've etc do sound a bit like could of etc.
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Post by 8lottie8 on Mar 24, 2016 10:44:57 GMT -5
I think that the only possible time for that to be acceptable is when it's someone who doesn't know better doing it in-universe (i.e. an 8-year-old)
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Post by Kitty279 on Apr 13, 2016 5:22:11 GMT -5
Once again, I have to agree here. That one annoys the heck out of me, too. Sure, accustically, it may be explainable, but it still leaves me wondering what is taught nowadays in school and why no teacher tells them it's wrong. Sometimes it is really irritating when I keep wanting to correct native speakers, considering English isn't even my first language. Edit: This is my 4.444th post - nice number  |
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Post by stelladelnordxd on Apr 17, 2016 1:25:49 GMT -5
As a native english speaker, should have/could have/would have is extremely hard because of the contraction. We soften the 'ha' and only really use the 've' so when we write it in it's proper form, our brains, I assume, tend to go straight to should of/could of/would of.
A new pet peeve of mine is using 'mundane' for muggle. It's actually really annoying me, because it brings together two completely different fandoms without the proper universe guidelines of Shadowhunters being brought into HP and vice versa.
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Post by physicssquid on Apr 17, 2016 9:44:24 GMT -5
I don't know about anyone else, but I use the word mundane instead of muggle because it doesn't seem quite as insulting.
There's also the fact that I've never heard of this Shadowhunters thing, so that had nothing to do with why I chose to use the word, and I can't be the only one.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Apr 17, 2016 12:24:52 GMT -5
A new pet peeve of mine is using 'mundane' for muggle. It's actually really annoying me, because it brings together two completely different fandoms without the proper universe guidelines of Shadowhunters being brought into HP and vice versa. I'm literally crying with laughter. Somebody help. |
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Post by Kitty279 on Apr 18, 2016 5:30:42 GMT -5
When I consider the meaning, mundane could be considered insulting, too, so I don't care much one way or another, save that I've got enough PC in RL already. I really don't know how that ties into another fandom; it doesn't sound very special, either. Besides, what's Shadowhunters, precious?
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Post by RandomPasserby on Apr 18, 2016 7:47:33 GMT -5
My diaphragm has stopped spasming so I'll explain why I found that hilarious.
Shadowhunters is a spin off TV show based on Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instrument's series
Large parts of the first Mortal Instruments book were lifted from Cassandra Clare's fanfic series
Cassandra Clare's fanfic series (wildly popular 10-15 years ago) was written in the ......*drumroll please*..... Harry Potter fandom
See also the reason I will not now, nor will I ever, touch anything Cassie Clare has written or had anything to do with and am exceptionally amused that Sherrilyn Kenyon is attempting to sue her.
Also, I'm like 95% sure that even when Cassie Clare was writing fanfic, people were still calling muggles a different name. 'Mundane' for muggle has certainly been going on for years before Shadowhunters were even a thing.
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Post by Kitty279 on Apr 18, 2016 8:03:22 GMT -5
LOL, I can see why you find that so funny  Cassandra Clare? I know she did write HP stories that were rather popular, but I don't think I ever saw them; the one thing I did read from her were the "Very Secret Diaries" in the LotR fandom about 12 years or so ago. And I had nearly forgotten they even existed. |
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Post by melodypottersnape on May 9, 2016 8:20:10 GMT -5
To me muggle isn't insulting but mundane is. The word muggle is just a species separation name it is not an insult. Just because it's an odd word does not mean it is rude. Let's take the word witch for example. In the muggle world it is an insult, but no one ever writes of muggleborns demanding to be called Magi instead. The word mundane though means lacking or that they are not 'special'. To me being called mundane would be insulting because the very word would be them telling me that they think my kind is less. While muggle is just an odd sounding species name.
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Post by RandomPasserby on May 11, 2016 11:21:36 GMT -5
Here's a pet peeve. People saying that Sirius tried to kill Snape during the Werewolf Incident.
Was what he did dangerous? Yes
Was what he did a giant dick move? Yes
Does what he did count as attempted murder? Probably no.
We find out from Snape's own memories that he suspected Remus was a werewolf before the Incident and was trying to convince Lily - she refers to the theory he has, which he's obvious discussed with her a number of times before.
Then Sirius tells him how to get to Shack.
Snape has no reason to trust Sirius. In fact, Snape has a number of really good reasons to not trust Sirius. Especially when the outcome either way is Snape is in the very isolated Shack at a very specific time. If Remus wasn't a werewolf, then Snape's in an isolated room-house-thing with four known pranksters who hate him.
But putting that aside. Whether he was right or not, Snape believed there was a werewolf at the end of the tunnel. And believing that, he decided to go to the Shack on a full moon to confront or at least attempt to see an angry werewolf with a communicable disease.
None of that was Sirius' doing. Snape chose to do all of that of his own accord. Sirius wasn't forcing him to go to the Shack on a full moon night.
That's nowhere near attempted murder. You'd have a hell of a job even proving accessory before the fact. It wasn't a great thing to do by any means but it also makes no sense for Snape to accept Sirius' word and head to a location where - at best - there are four students who hate him and at worst there's a near-adult werewolf who wants to kill him. Especially believing it was the latter.
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 21, 2018 7:04:06 GMT -5
Oh, for some reason I totally missed this post, and for over two years at that! And that despite the fact that it says what I always felt - Sirius was an idiot with that action, but it's not the criminal act so many make of it, particularly the Snape fans. It never made much sense that, after he told Snape, the greasy git went to the shack, believing he could deal with a werewolf.
You know, sometimes I think it could be rather the other way around - did Snape really want to just have a look, or did he have a more sinister plan, like hoping to kill Remus? He'd have gotten one over the hated Marauders, and very likely gotten away with it, too, as in the wizarding world, werewolves are just beasts. Plus, Dumbledore would have gotten into trouble, and possibly the other Marauders for knowing it. What do you think? Admittedly it may be a bit far-fetched, but seeing how he hated the Marauders and keeps taking that out on Harry even two decades later, I can't help but wonder sometimes.
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