HARRY POTTER

Who agrees that an intelligent, strong-willed character such as Hermione Granger would've naturally gravitated towards the alpha male of the series, Harry, and would never have had time for an awkward, shambolic character such as Ron Weasley? To me, the romantic element of the series has never"rung true" : Harry and Hermione by nature should've been destined for eachother, with Ron and perhaps one of the other female characters (Fleur Delacours, Luna Lovegood) becoming romantically involved. I'd be interested to hear what other fans' opinions are on this.

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Sound's like you took JK Rowling's purpose in the books seriously. Not understanding that she was attempting to debase the LGBTQ+ community purposely.

Especially the plus part.

Segregate the girls from the boys all the way through, from start to finish. No Inclusion. That was her purpose in those books.

Yeah she was sort of a odd ball feminist. Yet far more misandristic than what you like.

Do you now understand why she had both the straight and LGBTQ+ communities all in a uproar? 🙃

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Notice the first book both male and female dorms. Yet with a common space.

If she wanted Inclusion the rooms would have been separate, yet not the dorms.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer Really? That is no conspiracy. That is common of all boarding schools that have gone co-ed.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow you're not getting my point.

Coed is mixed rooms within one dorm. Not two.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer This makes zero sense.

No co educational institution has separate common areas and men and women sleeping together. That is not a thing.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow again you are getting it wrong. Separate rooms yet within ONE dorm.

Not mixed rooms.

The left wing if I remember correctly was the boys. That's one dorm. The right wing if I remember correctly was the girls. That's a second dorm.

Rowling was forcing the separation.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer

Mixed sleeping quarters have never been a thing even with separate rooms because doors open....and hormones.

That would be a disaster.

It also doesn't fit the social norms of when private schools like the setting even was a thing. Hogwarts was very obviously modeled after Victorian boarding schools so it is a trope not some terf conspiracy.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Then it's not coed.

I've been in college dorms BTW. Though I never was apart of that.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer Why do you have the fixation that people of both genders have to sleep in the same dorm?

And yes it is. No co educational facility anywhere would function like that.

That is only a good idea if you are looking to increase birthrates in a very irresponsible way.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow WHY ARE YOU MAKING THE ASSUMPTION THAT I AM SAYING MIXED ROOMS?

I specifically said separate rooms. Within ONE DORM.

And yes there are such dorms in California.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer You do realize people can open doors right? That is why this is not a thing.

1 inch of wood is not going to change much.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Please believe me there are such COED dorms in California. And the pregnancy rate is no different.

There are monitors in such dorms.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer With middle school and high schoolers? I doubt that.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Guy you talking to a guy that changed his street clothes for a band uniform, in front of other girls, who were doing the same in junior high. On a school bus behind Angle stadium.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer Well I can tell you that is definitely not the norm in the rest of the world. 😂

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow And you were never never in California in the early 1970s, while the hippy movement was still going on.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer Like I said. That was definitely not the norm.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Maybe where you are. Yet I have been to Germany on my own with several female cousins before. My male cousins, their brothers, were the monitors.

Strictsir · 26-30, M

@DeWayfarer We're going deep now! 😁 Good debate, though.At least it's got people talking.