Apothecary

If you know what you'd have to do to solve a problem, but you just don't want to do it, your main problem isn't the problem itself. Your problem is figuring out how to get yourself to do the solution.

If your problem is not eating enough vegetables, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make vegetables stop being yucky". If your problem is not getting enough exercise, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make exercise stop sucking ass". You're not supposed to just be doing things that are awful and suck all the time forever, you're supposed to figure out how to make it stop being so awful all the time.

I used to hate wearing sunscreen because it's sticky and slimy and disgusting and it feels bad and it smells bad, so I neglected to wear it even if I needed to. Then I found one that isn't like that, and doesn't smell and feel gross. Problem solved.

Rowling has been transparent about her desire to keep assisting people in their efforts to rob transgender people of their dignity and human rights. That seems very much to be the entire point of The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund — an organization Rowling launched in 2025 that claims to be “fighting to retain women’s and girls’ sex-based rights in all aspects of life.” The Fund offers financial support provided by Rowling to cisgender women who are looking to file lawsuits. The Fund’s website makes no mention of gender as a concept, but it explicitly points to the For Women Scotland case as the kind of “victory” that it wants to see more of in the world.

Rowling has been rich enough to pour cash into organizations like this for some time now because she continues to hold primary intellectual property rights to the entire Harry Potter franchise. Every Harry Potter book, movie, video game, stage show ticket, theme park pass, and piece of merchandise that’s sold puts money into Rowling’s pocket, which she can use to keep her crusade against trans people going. Given the property’s lasting popularity, Rowling, who is currently worth about $1.2 billion, could probably do all of this even if HBO wasn’t producing a new Harry Potter series. But because the network is and it wants to keep the show going for at least a decade, Rowling will have even more capital at her disposal to impose her retrograde views onto others.

Wendy Klemperer

Howling Naildog

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It's one of those things that pops up in fanart and fanfiction that pulls me right out of it lol Unless there's a good reason a wizard is smoking a factory-produced muggle cigarette... its just so jarring

How did they get it? How did they learn about it? Why did they start? Why do they continue to do it when they have a world of magical recreational drugs and effects? How do others react to this strange habit? Do they get currency exchanged from Galleons to Pounds to buy it? Is there a Wizarding store that imports them? Why would they be popular enough to sell to wizards who have more exciting and less harmful drugs growing in their left shoe?

For a famous place, it was very dark and shabby. A few old women were sitting in a corner, drinking tiny glasses of sherry. One of them was smoking a long pipe.

(Leaky Cauldran, PS)

Most of the light was coming from a large fire at the far end of the room. A haze of pipe smoke hung in the air like battle fumes

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Mundungus fumbled nervously in his pockets, still staring at Harry, and pulled out a grimy black pipe.

He stuck it in his mouth, ignited the end of it with his wand, and took a deep pull on it. Great billowing clouds of greenish smoke obscured him in seconds.

(Basement kitchen at Grimmauld, OotP)

Professor Grubbly-Plank appeared at Professor McGonagall’s shoulder, smoking a pipe and holding a copy of the Daily Prophet

(OotP)

a haze of pipe smoke hung over several elderly warlocks deep in conversation

(Slughorn's party, HBP)

and all of these wizards were currently sitting a short distance away under a tree; Harry could see a blue haze of pipe smoke issuing from the spot.

(The wedding, DH)

Clearly, wizards smoke and use pipes pretty regularly and its common to see among older wizards spesificly. And as Harry describes blue and green pipe smoke, @dufferpuffer is correct in wizards smoking plants that aren't just tobacco.

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