Jay 37,378 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Book 1 is set in the 91/92 school year through Book 7 set in the 97/98 school year.This was known when Book 2 came out and Nearly Headless Nick's Death Day party was taking place on the 500th Anniversary of his death, which was Halloween 1492 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I had no idea. It this the case in the films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Yep. Look at the gravestones of Potter's parents in Film 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Wait, thats not possible.The Millennium Bridge is featured in the 6th film.It would not have been built then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Films productions make mistakes all the time, such as Breaking Bad referring to Osama Bin Laden's death when it shouldn't have happened yet in their timeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Sssstttt!!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Wait, thats not possible.The Millennium Bridge is featured in the 6th film.It would not have been built thenThe book names the Brockdale Bridge, which doesn't exist in real life. The movie did use the real Millennium Bridge to represent itself,which is an incongruity in real life, but at least it's recognizable. That's what they were going for over accuracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Yup Rowling made a few mistakes in the timeline as well, such as mentioning a Playstation before it would have existed. But they are just small mistakes. The story is set in the 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,298 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Yeah, I think the 90s timeline was just because that's when she started writing it and the main conceit was that wizards secretly live parallel to us today. Also the first book was published in 1997 so you could imagine this was something that happened recently, but at the same time, the exact period isn't really that important since the wizarding world is so archaic. It's really the Muggle stuff that dates it, but aside from rare specific cultural references and dates on gravestones and things, she's pretty ambiguous. It'll probably continue to read as a contemporary story for awhile...theoretically, I feel like the story fits anytime after WWII (or whatever vaguely passes for modern England.)And while the movies stuck to the books' timeline in terms of when they would show actual dates, they never went out of their way to make it look like the 90s. Especially whenever they show the Muggle world, I'm sure there are anachronisms in every movie if you bothered to look for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Oh yea. The characters all dress in 00s clothes and not 90s clothes, for example. They didn't bother to make sure to strictly adhere to every aspect of the 90s when showing the real world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,298 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Right. Although even with the clothes, the stuff they wear has been around for awhile...jeans, hoodies, sweaters, T-shirts. Just not specifically 90s style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 J.K. Rowling Apologizes for killing FredAn author apologizing for killing a fictional character? Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Imagine GMM doing that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Or Tolkien! Naïve Old Fart and Incanus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 She should apologize for Half-Blood Prince.Or for giving the OK on David Yates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 J.K. Rowling Reveals New Harry Potter Backstory on Pottermore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 J.K. Rowling has written a new story about the history of Harry Potter’s family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 J.K. Rowling releasing “Magic in North America” in four pieces over four days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted August 17, 2016 Author Share Posted August 17, 2016 New Potter short stories coming out http://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-harry-potter-e-books-listed-amazon-380811 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,556 Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Fuck's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 This is getting ridiculous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,298 Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 So, they're pretty much just repackaging and selling all the stuff she's been posting on Pottermore for free? I'm wary of her continuing the actual stories, especially with Cursed Child being a disappointment, but i don't really mind her putting out all her old notes and backstories. That was something she always said she would do and there was a big demand for it, though I kinda wish she had just made it a one-and-done encyclopedia like her original plan. I might have been more interested in skimming through this stuff but Pottermore is a nuisance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 Well, I've never once visited Pottermore, so it'll at least all be new to me. My ignorance of Pottermore might also have something to do with me seeming to harbor less resentment/impatience toward Rowling than others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 JK Rowling has been cancelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Again? Lol, what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 The funny thing is, most people really don't give a fuck about shit like this, and just want to live their lives, but the social media generation gives a disproportionately loud voice to a mental minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,352 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Wait, what was cancelled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 2,835 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: Wait, what was cancelled? JK has been cancelled because she’s been tweeting a lot of anti-Trans stuff which has rubbed people up the wrong way. People have then been calling her out for some of the problematic stuff in the HP books. The only Asian character being called “Cho Chang”, only deciding Dumbledore was gay after all the books had been released etc bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,352 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Urgh, why are people still bothering to listen to her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 I believe she pointed out something biologically factual. That women menstruate. Of course, in this time of neurotic overreaction dissection and people slinging shit at one another, she's being called a bigot. Meanwhile, Mrs. Doubtfire's little girl and Deanna Troi are in a Tweeter war over the Native Americans. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Alex 2,835 Posted June 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2020 Because of all the nonsense she’s tweeting, people are forgetting the bigger issue here: Crimes of Grindelwald was absolute shite. Molly Weasley, bollemanneke, TSMefford and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Craps of Grindelwald alone is reason enough to cancel her! bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chen G. 3,953 Posted June 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2020 41 minutes ago, Edmilson said: Craps of Grindelwald alone is reason enough to cancel her! Ah, Fandom, the place where if you write one bad movie you're suddenly a bad writer and should be shamed and exiled in perpetuity. TSMefford, Arpy, bollemanneke and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Unless you're George Lucas and you keep making movies the way you want them to be and care fuckall what the nerds think while shining them on with endless Greedo changes even after you've sold the franchise for 4 billion dollars. I think J.K. is kind of a bimbo but the reactions to her all Tweets are obviously absurd. Even Dumbledore being gay has been criticized by people who would have been all for it simply because it was revealed after the fact? Eh? If anything, it's secretly brilliant because it just goes to show how sexual preference is such a non-issue and it wouldn't have mattered. Some of these people can't be reasoned with. It's like a bunch of SJW Twitter Terminators. Are they just bitter they're not getting more books or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 55 minutes ago, Chen G. said: Ah, Fandom, the place where if you write one bad movie you're suddenly a bad writer and should be shamed and exiled in perpetuity. I was just kidding, This is the problem with messageboards, people don't know when you're serious and when you're not. I'm personally against cancel culture, it has done more harm than good. That said, the main flaws of Crimes of Grindelwald were Rowling's fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 5 hours ago, Alex said: JK has been cancelled because she’s been tweeting a lot of anti-Trans stuff which has rubbed people up the wrong way. Was it really "anti-trans" or was she simply taking issue with the pedantic progrethive terminology like "people who menstrate"? I bet that would annoy any woman. Arpy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Weasley 100 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 34 minutes ago, PuhgreÞiviÞm said: Was it really "anti-trans" or was she simply taking issue with the pedantic progrethive terminology like "people who menstrate"? I bet that would annoy any woman. It wouldn't. But ultimately her tweet was so unnecessary. Just like all her other ones. Cancel culture's the worst but man, I stopped listening to her a long time ago - HP's in the hands of the fandom now Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Bunch of loons Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 2,835 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 The top comment on this Reddit post sums it up the best I think. It’s a pretty unbiased view of the situation. Personally, I find her tweets about trans people eyeroll-worthy rather than egregiously offensive. But, then again, I’m not trans and have no idea what it’s like. I guess it might be hurtful for a trans person to see someone as influential as her tweeting stuff that can be perceived as attacking them. She does have a history of tweeting stuff that’s clumsily worded at best, and outright transphobic at worst. She did kind of suggest in a tweet than trans people weren’t oppressed, which to me is pretty ignorant. Molly Weasley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 That's the thing though, these weirdos are so neurotic and pedantic about the use of sexual language, they perceive even the most minute misspeak as a premeditated violent attack on their very essence and identity. They're mad bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 6 hours ago, Alex said: JK has been cancelled because she’s been tweeting a lot of anti-Trans stuff which has rubbed people up the wrong way. People have then been calling her out for some of the problematic stuff in the HP books. The only Asian character being called “Cho Chang”, only deciding Dumbledore was gay after all the books had been released etc Yep, and they're all reactionary outrage mongers who have taken ownership of a franchise that was never theirs. The simple fact is, fans, readers, viewers - whatever you want to call them - are attached to a piece of creative writing that they have fostered in their own minds and imaginations as belonging to them. We can all agree that's how we follow franchises, become invested in them etc. These twitter nuts, however, have claimed complete and total ownership of the series, discarding the author and her contributions and fitting a faux-progressive worldview on the writings retroactively as if Rowling was racist, transphophic, non-inclusive, anti-diverse etc. The poison of this online outrage mob is that they feel as if they're owed something, that Rowling must bend to their will lest she face a pitchfork, torch-wielding mob. It's a violent fear fest of intimidation from those who claim to be progressive, left-leaning, inclusive etc. etc. Creative writing has always been a representation of freedom to write whatever you want, however you want. Rowling can't pander to every single nuanced individual out there. Imagine if she gave Cho Chang a western name and the outrage mob who would still be there to say Asian names deserve representation... Star Wars, Star Trek and now Harry Potter are becoming ever more toxic for me to want to be associated with their fanbases. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Harry Potter Disenchantment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Please God no. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, Arpy said: Star Wars, Star Trek and now Harry Potter are becoming ever more toxic for me to want to be associated with their fanbases. Next they'll demand the John Williams-scored entries to be re-scored by some oppressed minority composer. To be streamed on HBO Max. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Complete score releases right off the bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Alex 2,835 Posted June 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2020 35 minutes ago, Arpy said: Imagine if she gave Cho Chang a western name and the outrage mob who would still be there to say Asian names deserve representation... I think an Asian person pointed out that Cho Chang is meant to be of Chinese origin, but both those names are Korean surnames. Also the only Asian character was sorted into Ravenclaw... the nerdy house haha. To be fair, I think that’s a valid complaint, although I’m sure it’s just down to JK just simply not knowing much about Asian names, rather than any deliberate racism. Also, I realise JK can write and do what she wants - it’s her creation. But the books meant something to me, they were my childhood. Her constant retconning and rewriting of her own stuff and adding little bits to it every now and then bother me. Molly Weasley, TSMefford and Arpy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 JK Rowling wishes she only had Kathleen Kennedy's problems right now. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Arpy 4,145 Posted June 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2020 @Alex What retconning? I think I said something a few pages back that none of her amendments and twitter trivia affect the story as written. Dumbledore's sexual orientation has little to no bearing on the story just as it should as one's sexuality doesn't necessarily have to define their character... Bilbo, Docteur Qui and TSMefford 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,532 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 3 hours ago, Alex said: To be fair, I think that’s a valid complaint, although I’m sure it’s just down to JK just simply not knowing much about Asian names, rather than any deliberate racism. Also it's a world where "Harry Potter"s and "Dean Thomas"es coexist with "Horace Slughorn"s, "Severus Snape"s and "Bellatrix Lestrange"s. I don't see anyone outraging over nobody in England having those latter names. And Cho's not the only named Asian character, there's the Patil twins too. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,352 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 5 hours ago, PuhgreÞiviÞm said: Next they'll demand the John Williams-scored entries to be re-scored by some oppressed minority composer. To be streamed on HBO Max. Lorne Balfe, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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