#thelearningcat hp

I don't know how I always missed it. I had always assumed that you stayed in the same place. But nope they move from the hospital wing to the entrance hall, where their doubles end up seconds later.

So do you move where you are in the past?

That seems real risky and like you'd be prone to being seen very often. I guess that's why you have to be so careful with them.

WHERE ARE THE FANTASTIC BEASTS??? GIVE ME MORE FANTASTIC BEASTS AND LESS DRAMATIC INTRIGUE

Why is everyone wearing clothes that can fit into muggle society? J.K. established book 1 that this is not a thing. You can't change your mind now.

A love triangle bullshit really? This is so unnecessary. You have quirky characters already with some established drama (e.g. the inability of muggles and witches to marry and Newts tendency to search for beasts that destroy muggle cities). You don't need this stupidity.

This story would be way more interesting if you just took Grindlewald out of the story. Still have our hurt teenager and Newt antics. That's all you need.

Gratuitous name drops is so boring.

Well, at least that got manipulative Dumbledore down.

Dumbledore's actions would make a lot more sense if they had actually built into the story what J.K. claims- i.e. Dumbledore is a gay boy who loved another gay boy named Grindlewald.

Grindlewalds actions would also be way more compelling if he was openly gay. He not only had reasons to want to let wizards live in the open but to be allowed to live in the open with his love. We don't know how well pure bloods and wizarding society accept homosexuality, but at worst, we can assume that its Loras Tyrell GOT style existence, where pure bloods accept sometimes that some people have "peculiarities" but as long as they produce heirs it's not a big controversy on it's own.

It's been way too long since I've seen fantastic beasts.

Seriously, someone should time the amount of time that fantastic beasts are actually on screen.

I fucking hate the love triangle trope. So dumb. So unnecessary.

My friend just texted me a picture of a post about cats as Hogwarts Houses. I didn’t totally agree with their description so I’m not going to go through the steps to post it on here, but I love this. 

It also made me think about what houses my cats are in. 

Storm (aka Stormageddon) is definitely a Gryffindor. His primary motive is to find new places to adventure. This has included knocking the screen out the window and climbing out onto the balcony and scaling the kitchen cabinets so he can get on top of them. He has a Weasley/Maurader style troublemaking streak and loves to knock things off counters. 

Indy (aka Indiana Jones), despite his name, has turned out to be a total Slytherin. His major motivation is the possibility of food. He has mad jumps but never is interested in climbing heights. He is smart, he watches his brother and follows his lead, and learns how to get food really quickly. But it’s always about food. He’s a cuddle bug up until either Fiancat or I get up to go to the kitchen, then he prepares for the possibility for food and communicates that it’s been more then 10 minutes since he’s consumed food and that we must feed him again (we don’t). 

*checks blog of person*

Oh look a white man.

No wonder you tried to argue exactly what I pointed out in my post about Harry Potter didnt work based on the books' text, using quotes and everything.

The mauraders made a map that could see through the invisibility cloak.

I mean, okay, so if we take all of the things we hear about the hallows, then they are not actually these invincible weapons. In fact, the story of death really seems to be somewhat exaggerated. If the wand was really that powerful, then in a straight on duel, then no other wand should be able to defeat it, and no one else would ever conquer the wand except by sneaky means. If the cloak was that strong, maps made by teenagers should not be able to see through it, or it wouldn't be easy to touched, or the person shouldn't be able to be hit by spells while wearing it. So at best, they are very good at a specific thing, and maybe that's something that in modern wizarding world has been lost in time. Though regardless, they are very strong magical artifacts, but are not actually something that's infallible all put together. Though, the story of the Hallows itself seems to say so much.

However, even with that in mind, this is a strong magical artifact and it would not be easy to spell this map to identify people under it.