What was the whole point of the bond of blood charm if Harry spends 10 months out of the year OUTSIDE of the Dursley home? Correct me if I’m wrong, but that was the entire deal of the charm, which kind of renders the thing pointless because, again, he’s not in that house for the majority of the year. It’s made clear in OotP that the bond of blood prevents harm from coming to Harry as long as he was in his relatives’ home. Key phrase here being “as long as he was in”.
I’m even going to quote from the damn wiki in case I’m wrong:
This charm prevents any harm from coming to the beneficiary from the murderer while they are in a blood-related relative’s home.
There it is in black and white. Written in (coded) stone. Before our very eyes.
And ok I get it, the whole point of this useless charm was to give an excuse for Harry to remain with the Dursleys for the angst™️, but it’s such a glaring problem that is actually kind of stupid. If the whole point of the charm is that it protects Harry from Voldemort’s possible assaults on him as long as he stays with the Dursleys, in their home, then why the hell not keep him there and homeschool him or something, rather than bring him to Hogwarts and risk him being killed every ten months of the year?
It would be really interesting if the blood protection DID prevent Vernon/Petunia/Dudley from harming Harry. Verbal abuse? Tongue-tied. Physical abuse? The same wounds appear on the abusers. Locked in the cupboard? It ejects him.
Teenagers in 1914 and 1940: *sign up to fight for their country on the front lines*
Teenagers in 2018: *cries because they get a bad mark on their test.*
GROW SOME BALLS.
You have a-lot to fucking live up to.
Line One, “Differences of time.”
yes times have changed
deal with it
it’s literally been 100 years this is like comparing 1814 to 1914
Line Two, “Teenagers in 1914… lines*”
this was during the ‘world’ wars
many were pressured by parents & relatives to join (remember this)
there is an age requirement for joining, and it’s usually in the middle of school years (16 or 17)
Line Three, “Teenagers in 2018… test.*”
most are pressured into getting good grades by their parents (sound familiar?)
i’ve had so so many people talk to me about this, usually talking about a friend not themselves, but they know if they get a bad grade then something bad is going to happen to them
this is saying that all we do is cry when something bad happens to us, when in fact we usually get together and try to fix it
Line Four, “GROW SOME BALLS.”
sexist
balls are weak and sensitive
if you wanna say ‘be tough’ then say get a vagina cause those things are fucking insanely tough and so are the people that have them
use “suck it up” or “be tougher” instead
Line Five, “You… to.”
this is suggesting that we want to live up to having violence throughout the world and contribute to that, which would take out the civil of civilizations
***a lot not a-lot
overall 1/10. skewed and misleading information on top of sexist comments and bad grammar
Also, completely ignoring the many people who do join the military and end up with horrible fucking PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, and the dawning realization that the colonizing violence of our damn military takes them in with open arms, then chews them up and spits them out.
They realize they didn’t join a “global force for good” they joined a violent cult, they realize that the people they are fighting are also just kids like themselves. They realize the “war” is just a fucking scrabble and grab for oil, for diamonds, for the war mongering CEOS to line their fucking pockets.
Tell me OP, where did you “serve”? How many people have you seen bleed but keep going because failure was worse than death? How many people have you had call you up, telling you with their dying breath that they just couldn’t take it anymore and that maybe death is the best way out? How many people have you seen decide to cut off a finger, a toe, because day after day after day they just can’t fucking go back to the stifling air.
Tell me OP how much fucking Jet Fuel have you ingested, inhaled? How are your fucking lungs OP?
This isn’t something to fucking aspire to, you little shit. This is something that needs to be dismantled.
And crying because you got bad marks on a test? Fucking understandable, because unlike war, it’s actually about something important. Get fucked.
OP deleted the original post, looks like he couldn’t live up to the pressures of posting a Hot Take on Tumblr.com
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