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  1. Ninclow
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    No, what I meant is that if you think about it, it's completely in character for Dumbledore to want to teach DADA, and the blood pact makes perfect sense. The blood pact, for example - I for one think the conditions of the blood pact was subtly twisted in Grindelwald's favor. The pact was, in crude terms, "not to fight each other", but I get the sense that that was more of a crude summary. I think it was more along the lines of "not to stand in the way of the Greater Good". Like,...
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 28, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  2. Ninclow
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    Am I the only one who think Dumbledore teaching DADA prior to going after Grindelwald and the blood pact makes perfect sense?
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 27, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  3. Ninclow
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    I don't know why, but Torquil Travers supposedly having the authority to tell Dumbledore he couldn't teach DADA is one of the things that ticked me off the most. :P
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 17, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
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    [SPOILER]
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 17, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  5. Ninclow
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    I so looked forward to this movie... And Rowling bloody HAD to reduce Grindelwald from being a charismatic revolutionary who truly believed what he did was for the Greater Good to becoming Voldemort before Voldemort, with his motto being a manipulative lie and the plan to "destroy Muggles" as opposed to rule over them being something he and his followers shouldn't say out loud... What a elfin' joke...
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 15, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  6. Ninclow
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    "I am Head of Magical Law Enforcement, I can do what I want!" Yeah - when Rowling promised an explanation as to how Ministry officials could apparate at Hogwarts despite Pottermore saying that's always been impossible on school grounds, (unless they are temporarily lifted by the head of the school), I'd expect it'd be a good one. Like - the Headmaster complying to a demand to temporarily undoing the anti-apparition spell so they could arrive at the school to question Dumbledore. And since...
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 15, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  7. Ninclow
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    I did no such thing. I only pointed out that someone posted the quote I'd need to provide as a source prior to the our discussion and the subsequent necessity of me using it as a source. What did you expect me to do, post it again? Also - you're just trolling me now, right?
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 29, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  8. Ninclow
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    If you look above your attempt at shifting the burden of proof over on me there for a moment, I believe you will see that Sorrow saved me the trouble. According to the quote from Rowling, Grindelwald admired Dumbledore as an equal, but he was not romantically interested in Dumbledore.
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 25, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  9. Ninclow
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    There's much more to Dumbledore than his sexual orientation, though... I never saw Dumbledore being homosexual as any significantly more of a big deal than Pottermore's revelation that McGonagall was heterosexual.
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 25, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  10. Ninclow
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    Rowling said it's one-sided, so there's that...
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 24, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  11. Ninclow
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    The burden of proof is on you, mate. What's the source for this assertion?
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 23, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  12. Ninclow
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    First off, nowhere in Canon was it ever even remotely implied that Dumbledore and Grindelwald ever was in any sort of romantic relationship. From the books and from Rowling herself we know that they were friends, Albus fell for Gellert, the latter recognized this and used it to ensure and maintain Dumbledore's support, then their friendship came to an end and we all know how. So we should not expect what was never there to be acknowledged. That'd just be stupid. That being said, secondly,...
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 23, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  13. Ninclow
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    So you don't think my reasoning for Dumbledore's initial decision to teach DADA seem plausible?
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 22, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  14. Ninclow
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    What do you mean "Transfiguration or gtfo"? Given Dumbledore's explanation of the events leading to the death of Ariana and Grindelwald's departure from Godric's Hollow in the seventh book, it would be perfectly in character for Dumbledore to pursue a career as DADA teacher. He knew of Grindelwald's plans and could predict the upcoming conflict. I'd say it'd be very odd indeed if Dumbledore's secret knowledge of these things, toppled with his fear of facing Grindelwald due to the demise of...
    Post by: Ninclow, Jul 22, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  15. Ninclow
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    I haven't really watched many trailer deconstructions, but I can't say I'm all that surprised that I'm not the only one to have reached that conclusion. By the way, why do you think it's from Dover to France?
    Post by: Ninclow, Apr 9, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
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    Sorry for double post, but... Newt Scamander had his traveler's permit rejected by the Ministry of Magic for being uncooperative and reluctant to share details about the reason behind his last excursion overseas - as we can see from props photos on Pottermore (easier to find on the harrypotter wikia). Yet, Newt goes to France. I think I know how: Do you remember Newt riding on the back of a grindelyow (sure I misspelled that) or whatever that creature was underwater in the trailer? I think...
    Post by: Ninclow, Apr 9, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
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    I figured, it's just that I, being an Asperger, was interested to know whether that was a kind of slur or just a matter of shortening down the name of my diagnosis. Not to seem completely prone to preconception of anything or about anyone, but I've experienced being judged and labeled because of the diagnosis, so I react a bit spontaneously when I see or hear things that might indicate someone have a low opinion on people like me just for having Asperger's. Sorry if I ought to have made...
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 30, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  18. Ninclow
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    ... A sperg?
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 30, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
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    That's like saying a morbidly obese man who sit still and eats a lot should be fighting fit because he carried heavy bags of junk food home from the super market on a regular basis... Why makes you say that?
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 30, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  20. Ninclow
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    Good point. Lockhart's skills, "once rather good" was "blunted nearly beyond repair" by "years of neglect and misuse". That pretty much confirms it.
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 29, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  21. Ninclow
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    Hear, hear! No magical core, or it will make me rather sore!
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 28, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  22. Ninclow
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    I often thought Dumbledore's wand was almost certainly made of acacia wood, since it "withholds its best effects from all but the most gifted", and who's more gifted than Dumbledore? But now that you mention it, in retrospect - ebony is a good pick.
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 28, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  23. Ninclow
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    Okay, zoom in on the second picture. They're clearly not the same stick.
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 28, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  24. Ninclow
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    Did anyone notice that Dumbledore is shown to have two completely different wands on two different promotional appearances? His wand was lying on the desk in the DADA classroom in the trailer, but I couldn't for the life of me determine which one of them it was. (I hope it is the one on the second image. Having Dumbledore having owned a near-copy of the Elder Wand before ever seeing it with his own eyes seems kind of unimaginative. Better he had a wand distinctive to Albus Dumbledore pre- 1945.
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 28, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  25. Ninclow
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    I am aware. But if Professor Merrythought had that big office on the sixth floor, she could have had another classroom as well. The question was more that if what in the HP movies were used for DADA was used for Transfiguration, would you say the look and feel of the classroom sort of fits Dumbledore?
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 28, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  26. Ninclow
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    I feel that we kind of sidetracked here, guys... Anyone else agreeing the DADA classroom is a good fit for Dumbledore as a teacher?
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 28, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  27. Ninclow
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    Actually no, I am repeating what Dumbledore said at the end of the fifth book.
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 27, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  28. Ninclow
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    I thought it would be given that magic were quantifiable in some way. Otherwise, how do you explain wizards like Dumbledore and Voldemort? But I don't think it is measurable in the sense that water is measurable, that you can exhaust it like Naruto can exhaust chakra, for example. To me, it always appeared as if there are certain environmental and individual factors playing part. Dumbledore being such a naturally gifted wizard seem no stranger to me than Stephen Hawking (R.I.P. :'-( ) being...
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 27, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  29. Ninclow
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    That might only mean that wizards are more durable. But - it has been said in the books that Muggles are people without one drop of magical blood, so maybe the magic is in their blood? Also, who had a problem with Obscurials?
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 27, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  30. Ninclow
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    Yeah, but Michael Gambon's speech pattern in for example the Half-Blood Prince is much, much closer to book-Dumbledore than what little we'd saw of Jude Law in the trailer. Overusing contractions is kind of a problem, 'cause it makes Dumbledore sound like Mundungus Fletcher.
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 25, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  31. Ninclow
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    I just love how you take specific sentences/words from what I wrote above and criticize them instead of criticizing what the entire thing: Bottom line is that Jude Law, from what little we saw of him, neither looks, sounds of give any sort of feeling of being the character he is supposed to portray, in my opinion, based on how he looks, sounds and indeed, overall feels like in other medias. Have you for example looked at the Hogwarts Mystery gameplay on youtube? At the end of year one,...
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  32. Ninclow
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    Yeah, we see Dumbledore in different moods, but he still walk and talks like Dumbledore, he don't randomly lean back with his hands in his pocket and take on an accent that sounds like something you would have expected to hear from some random bloke Dumbledore happen to know and greets on the street. Wouldn't it felt more Dumbledory if Jude Law had adorned something at least a tiny bit more wizardry-looking and sat on top of his desk like he does when confronted by Fudge in the fifth movie?
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  33. Ninclow
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    Thank you kindly, The(NotSo)LAzyReader, much appreciated. :-D
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  34. Ninclow
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    Correct, we see Dumbledore in 1937 in a memory in the pensive. And in that memory, Dumbledore's dialogue does not depict his speech pattern to have been any different from his 1996 counterpart. Or you could say that you perceive my opinion is silly, that would work just as well... What does "70 years and momentous experience" have to do with manner of speech? Your accent is more often than not determined by the area in which you grew up, and the tone of voice you usually use is normally a...
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  35. Ninclow
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    It is a combination between the contractions and the whole manner/accent in which he spoke that line, really. Sorry for poor choice of words. Don't know what I think of the spouting profanities east and west while responding to someone with a differing opinion, though...
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  36. Ninclow
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    It wasn't an assumption, it was an observation. You see - I've read the books. And I'm not saying it isn't a sentence Dumbledore wouldn't have used, I expressed the opinion that he wouldn't have phrased it like Jude Law did. Also - no, speech pattern in adults is largely consistent throughout their lives lest they live abroad and speaks another language for decades and return to their home country and start speaking their native language again and has their speech influenced by living...
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 23, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  37. Ninclow
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    Are you familiar with the strawman fallacy? I never said people who uses (contraction, that's the word, thanks! :-D) is 'savages', I simply pointed out that that's not how Dumbledore talks. There's a clear difference there somewhere.
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 23, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  38. Ninclow
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    What do you mean "unique way of speaking"? You mean the fact that he was a well-spoken man with a polite disposition?
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 23, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  39. Ninclow
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    My theory is that Newt travel to France through the Great Lake at Hogwarts. As Rowling once said in an interveiw: "In the original draft of Chamber of Secrets, I had Harry and Ron crash into the lake in Mr Weasley's Ford Anglia, and meet the merpeople there for the first time. At that time I had a vague notion that the lake might lead to other places, and that the merpeople might play a larger role in the later books than they did, so I thought that Harry ought to be introduced to both at...
    Post by: Ninclow, Mar 23, 2018 in forum: General Discussion
  40. Ninclow
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    I wish.
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 18, 2017 in forum: General Discussion
  41. Ninclow
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    I think Dumbledore is going to be real distracting because of how.. NOT Dumbledore he looks like. One, regardless of whatever excuse the film makers can spew our way, there are no excuse with which they can justify grossly misrepresenting a character like that. In the books, and before anyone points it out, yes, I am aware of the concept of creative freedom, but in the books, Dumbledore looks much like himself already when he picks up Tom Riddle in 1937. The Muggle attire aside, he has the...
    Post by: Ninclow, Nov 17, 2017 in forum: General Discussion
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    To be honest, I'd be thrilled had it been the other way around. If Colin Farrell played Grindelwald who transfigured himself to look like Percival Graves (with the face of Johnny Depp). Farrell, in my opinion, acted just like Grindelwald is supposed to. Patronizing, authoritative, charismatic and with an air of mystery. But Jude Law as Dumbledore? Haven't seen much of him, but based on what little I've seen, it struck me as an odd choice for Albus Dumbledore. The first thing I thought...
    Post by: Ninclow, Apr 22, 2017 in forum: General Discussion
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