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I wanna see a movie set the audience up for that “character falls over the edge of something to make us think they fell but actually managed to hold on” cliche, but then when the other characters are like OH NO and run to look over the edge, have that character actually not be there.
You were hoping to find them holding on or see them climb back up like some kind of miracle? Well too bad, the character actually fell this time. They’re actually dead. Now that would be a real plot twist.
In the Harry Potter series we have brilliant genius shit like “I open at the close” which we’re still finding new coincidental significance over, and then we have dumb shit like “you have to say spells out loud but only sometimes because nonverbal spells apparently work.”
We love this series, but for every stroke of genius in the writing, there’s a major loophole or plot oversight that makes it really stupid lol
Like, some of it is planned out by JK like 10 years in advance (like the Snape and Lily thing) while some of it seems to be made up as it goes along, like how wands can just change their allegiance to wizards.
We’re told in the first movie that the wand chooses the wizard, but we don’t find out till the last movie that wands can apparently just change their damn minds?
...and WAIT, Ollivander sensed Draco’s wand’s allegiance has changed and said it might not be Draco’s wand anymore if Harry won it from him, but Harry didn’t win it from him, he literally just ran up to Draco and snatched it out of his hand.
A wand is really gonna change its mind that easily? It’s going to be loyal to the wizard who stole it from its owner? Is that, like, stockholm syndrome only for an inanimate magical object?
In the Harry Potter series we have brilliant genius shit like “I open at the close” which we’re still finding new coincidental significance over, and then we have dumb shit like “you have to say spells out loud but only sometimes because nonverbal spells apparently work.”
We love this series, but for every stroke of genius in the writing, there’s a major loophole or plot oversight that makes it really stupid lol
Like, some of it is planned out by JK like 10 years in advance (like the Snape and Lily thing) while some of it seems to be made up as it goes along, like how wands can just change their allegiance to wizards.
We’re told in the first movie that the wand chooses the wizard, but we don’t find out till the last movie that wands can apparently just change their damn minds?
