Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m sure Hogwarts also covered general education stuff but that would be boring to us so they focused on the magic stuff. That’s my theory though.
Boring? This is the same universe where wizards canonically defecated in the streets and used fecal vanishing spells.
However, when Hogwarts’ plumbing became more elaborate in the eighteenth century (this was a rare instance of wizards copying Muggles, because hitherto they simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence), the entrance to the Chamber was threatened, being located on the site of a proposed bathroom.
Hogwarts was in India all along and we just didn’t know it.
Im surprised that’s so controversial. I would expect wizards to do exactly that if it wasn’t for modern plumbing, I mean, people used to shit in pots and dump it out their window into the street in the morning. Or crap in a cold and smelly hole inside a basic wooden shed out in their yard. If you have magic at that point why would you not instead delete it afterwards, considering the alternatives?
Does vanishing feces mean is deleted though or is it going to end up in the walls of buildings like Arby’s wrappers left behind by construction workers?
I think there’s a throwaway line in a book that a wizard discovered vanishing things sent them to another dimension.
chaogomu@kbin.social 11 months ago
They literally go through the class schedule in each book. General studies are not in it.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Can you imagine how absolutely ignorant the average Hogwarts student must be then?
skulblaka@startrek.website 11 months ago
Wizards are, as a whole, pretty damn stupid in that universe to be fair
KillerTofu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What is the purpose of a rubber duck?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, none of them seem to be aware of guns. You now how often dark wizards do spells in the books to protect themselves against projectiles? Never. They never do a spell like that, so far as I know.
gmtom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No they don’t?