Harry Potter

Based on a story seen on !technology@lemmy.zip : "Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ " (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html), I thought it would be interesting to imagine what type of questions people could use.

Hopefully people will avoid using bedroom nicknames as Arthur did with Molly

https://evergreenqveen.tumblr.com/post/621832932754096128/hogwarts-common-rooms

I hope in this case it's okay to use that art as an icon, it's not like we are making any profit from it or anything. I'm not that well-verse in copyright questions, though, so if anyone knows better, please comment!

https://dylanpierpont.artstation.com/projects/VaV0R?album_id=62053

Hello everyone,

As the previous mod seems to be away, I requested to get moderation rights on this community.

First of all, would anyone like to join me as a moderator? I always prefer to have a few other people in charge. The activity is quite slow at the moment, but I'm planning to post to !harrypotter@lemmy.world in the coming days, and we might have to face a few more aggressive people as this community has much more subscribers.

Second, I updated the description of the community, are you happy with it? Is there anything else you would like to add?

Third, if you have any comment or suggestion, feel free!

Repeatedly bouncing snowballs against the most powerful dark wizard of the century doesn't seem the best idea

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uaTXjiObcA

Source: https://twitter.com/helenjeeeee/status/1752167944799351105/photo/1

Always seems funny to use spoilers for a book released almost 20 years ago. Which makes me thing, does the Star Wars fandom still practice spoilers for events that happened in the 80s original trilogy? Anyway

Interesting fact about that name origin

“Merope is the faintest of the stars because she was the only of the Pleiades to have married a mortal. Her sisters had relations with gods and bore them sons, but Merope married Sisyphus and lived on the island Chios. Merope gave birth to Ornytion (Porphyrion[6]), Glaukos, Thersander and Almus. The star Merope is often called the "lost Pleiad" because she was at first not seen by astronomers or charted like her sisters. One myth[7] says that she hid her face in shame because she had an affair with a mortal man.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merope_(Pleiad)

Definitely makes sense as she married a Muggle.

And yes, Sisyphus is the guy with that big rock.

Post: https://floccinaucinihilipilificationa.tumblr.com/post/674015995103510528

Basically, title.

I'm curious to see if the universe could be transmitted to the next generation, or if will stay a 90s-00s thing.

Hello everyone,

I saw recently another post on Lemmy which was fairly negative towards fans of the HP universe (some people announcing that they would block other people because those are HP fans)

I guess we can all agree by now that JKR's transphobia is bigotry and should be condemned.

However, that still does not say what do to with that universe that we love.

I found an interesting article on that topic: https://www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/harry-potter-fans-jk-rowling-transphobia-essay-49214964

I guess the most important part is

Still, there may be a way to enjoy Harry Potter as a trans person or ally. Over the years, many fans have found creative ways to engage with the series's magic while also acknowledging its creator's bigotry. In her paper "Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling," Jennifer Duggan, an associate professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway — says that it's possible to interpret the text of Harry Potter itself in ways that would certainly horrify its writer. "My central thesis—one which has also been argued by other academics like Thomas Pugh and David Wallace — is that the Harry Potter novels are deeply queer," she tells POPSUGAR. "I mean this in both senses of the term: they champion nonnormativity through the contrast of the 'perfectly normal' Dursleys and Harry, and they are, at their heart, a story about a boy with an 'abnormality' (as the Dursleys call his magic) who comes out of his cupboard under the stairs and discovers and finds and affinity for a hidden, colourful, queer world. I take this argument further to argue that the novels are easily read through a trans lens, since there is a focus in many of the books on shapeshifting, including several cross-gendered transformations."

Fandom, she adds, can provide spaces where Harry Potter fans can explore the series's queer undercurrents while celebrating their own sexualities. "From what I have observed, I have concluded that for the most part, the Harry Potter fandom continues to offer queer and trans fans a positive space," she tells POPSUGAR. "The two main trends I have seen in fan works are an 'answer hate with love' reaction, in which fans focus on trans positivity, and so-called 'spitefic,' which are works that are framed as revenge on Rowling for the hurt she has caused. These works are usually trans-positive, too. That said, I fully understand why some fans feel they can no longer engage with the texts in any way."

Link to the research paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-021-09446-9

Seems an interesting way for me to re-appropriate the universe, what do you think?

There was a post earlier about recommendations for books for a Harry Potter fan (which since then since then been removed), so I open this one instead

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/illustoryart/art/Welcome-to-Hogwarts-479802474

Let's see how discussions go in this community

Basically, title.

As always with a well-known universe, the scope is quite large: discussions, fan arts, pictures, crafts, essays...

What would you prefer?

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