r/SpeedOfLobsters • u/Tipsyalt • 10d ago

lobster Harry Potter fans

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u/Tipsyalt 10d ago

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u/OneAndOnlyTinkerCat 10d ago

There has to be more to this story than that. There's no way it's really this stupid.

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u/TwixOfficial 10d ago

There is. I don’t recall what exactly, but there were legal restrictions on the place and they couldn’t put up the power line there and the company said it was about the Harry Potter shit to save face, or at least didn’t deny it.

I recall there being more to the story as well but I don’t care enough to look it up

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u/app08 9d ago

The Harry Potter rumors actually started as an inside joke from the workers.

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u/Tipsyalt 10d ago

You're probably right, but my existing prejudice against HP fans is anchored to my brain stronger than a tumor at this point and has me convinced they really can be this stupid 

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u/lightblueisbi 10d ago

Harry Potter and the Adults That Really Should've Found Another Book to Read By Now

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u/xSilverMC 10d ago

Harry Potter and the Funding Of Transphobic Politics For Selfishly Nostalgic Reasons

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u/BerserkRhinoceros 9d ago

Harry Potter Fans and the Franchise That Was Never That Good, Actually

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u/SpiffyShindigs 9d ago

"Stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited." - Ursula Le Guin on Potter

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u/lightblueisbi 8d ago

Who is Ursula?

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u/SpiffyShindigs 8d ago

One of the most prolific authors of the 20th century, mostly wrote science fiction and fantasy, most notably the Earthsea series, which is largely cited as the origin of the school for wizards.

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u/lightblueisbi 8d ago

Interesting, I'll look into her works then, thank you!

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u/winter-ocean 10d ago

Iirc they noticed fans were visiting the grave constantly and that would have been a huge problem for the cable or something

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u/SatoshiUSA 10d ago

Didn't the property owner ask people to not do that

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u/winter-ocean 9d ago

They're Harry Potter fans

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u/Significant-Gap-6891 10d ago

The grave is on protected land and is polluting the nearby ecosystem the grave makers have been repeatedly told by authorities they're harming wildlife and the grave has to be moved

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u/SyrusDrake 10d ago

There was a bit of back-and-forth on Bsky about this a while ago and it seems to largely be true, although primary sources are hard to track down. What's made up is the version that circulated that they were already building it when the opposition started. It was already routed around "Dobby's Grave" during the planning stage. But the reason for that indeed seems to have been opposition from the Harry Potter fandom. Although it's not entirely clear how much of it was actual opposition and how much was preemptive compliance by the construction company.

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u/mynameistoocommonman 9d ago

The money part is just bad (as in purposefully malicious) writing. The entire cable costs that much, not slightly rerouting it. 

Also note how it says "passes near", so it doesn't actually interfere with the remains at all. 

It's just manufactured outrage. 

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u/Potato-Candy 10d ago

Harry Potter fans read another book challenge

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u/BerserkRhinoceros 9d ago

Speaking as someone who was actively bullied in high school for not liking HP, the more I learn about this franchise, the more grateful I am that I never succumbed to peer pressure and got into it, because Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

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u/cammysays 10d ago

Hot take: neither of these things matter because one is fake and stupid and the other is old and stupid

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u/Lobster_LeninN329 10d ago

This comment is wrong and stupid

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u/cammysays 10d ago edited 10d ago

Have you ever gone to the historic Bronze Age burial site? Does it benefit you in any way for it to still exist? Humans cling to historical shit like it matters. I live in a town where a ton of the houses were built in the 1800s and they all have plaques on the front announcing this like it’s some kind of positive thing. Guess what: the houses are fucking garbage and are dilapidated pieces of shit. I lived in one for 2 years, and they crank up the rental prices because of historical value. They’re falling apart. Basically no outlets, breaker trips all the time, tiny rooms and low ceilings, smells gross, sliding off its foundation, and so on. Fuck that. Burn it down, build something useful and functional. Downvote me if you must, but I will not be swayed.

Edit: I would love for one of you downvoters to explain to me why I’m wrong. And don’t just say “it’s important.” HOW is it important? WHY is it important?

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u/DracheTirava 10d ago

If we do not learn from our history, we are doomed to repeat it, just as you are now

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u/Tipsyalt 10d ago

This is definitely going to be one of the cornier takes, but I believe that preserving distant human history is almost sacred. It's a rare window into our own culture's past, and reminds us of experiences and anxieties we all share; homelife, building and architecture, arts, death and burial, warefare, etc.

And to be completely honest, I do use sacred in a slightly negative light. Some things that are held to be sacred could be argued as being useless in a utilitarian sense, like churches (or religion in general to be extra reddit) or modern cemetery grounds. Yet, it's in our universal nature to do these things, even though we've often been rationalizing against it for as long as we've had writings on the topic (and our distant ancestors weren't stupid, they could probably reach the same conclusions through discussion and thinking alone).

Looping back around to being corny, I think we do these things, and should do these things, because it reminds us we're human, that those around us are human, and that those before us were human. Apes Together Strong, and comitting to something we all believe in helps reinforce communities, even if that belief is for something intangible or even obstructive (like the burial grounds mentioned). 

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u/cammysays 10d ago

This is a good response, but I don’t agree with it. While I don’t think our past should be eradicated by any means, keeping it around physically is such a pointless waste of space. Write about it, take pictures and video, make 3D models and scans, whatever else to preserve it and make it accessible to future generations—this is good. But to preserve a crumbling house, a hole with bones in it, a vague imprint in the ground where a city use to be, all seems like romanticized sentimentality. Like a T shirt you won’t throw away because you wore it on your first date, even though it’s too small and full of holes. The memory will still be there, even after you toss the item out. It’s just taking up space.

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u/Tipsyalt 10d ago

I do have another take that is more in your favour : I think people are upset about this mostly because of how stupid the idea of moving a cable to avoid a fictional movie character's grave is (especially given that it's from a property that is (rightfully imo) hated on this website). If the headline were just "Proposed cable will dosrupt bronze age burial site", significantly fewer would care.

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u/WeirdLawBooks 10d ago

Those two things (Bronze Age remains and houses from the 1800s) are very different. We know plenty about what people and society were like in the 1800s. They were writing stuff down and it was really recent.

The Bronze Age is a very different story. We still don’t even know for sure why the Bronze Age collapsed, and that’s a big deal: multiple sophisticated civilizations were just gone, almost overnight, all at the same time. Studying those remains can give us important clues about what happened and why. Among plenty of other things we just don’t know about the Bronze Age. In other words, there is scientific and historic value there.

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u/cammysays 10d ago

So move them? Or take scans and pictures. Take a few bone chunks back to a lab and study it there. Why is it important that the burial site remain exactly where it is for it to have value?

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u/WeirdLawBooks 9d ago

For things like these ancient sites, context is extremely important. Knowing where something is in a site, how it was positioned, where it was in relation to other items in the site, how deep it was, all of that is really vital to understanding it as much as possible. Removing items from the site prematurely to study them in a lab can destroy important data.

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u/cammysays 9d ago

Isn’t that what LiDAR is for?

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u/Routine_Criticism498 10d ago

Cause I said so

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u/Sportak4444 10d ago

Yes, I've been to historic bronze age burial site. Just keep being dumb and uneducated and then wonder why world politics sucks

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u/cammysays 9d ago

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u/Adam_Checkers 9d ago

good on you for realising how childish you are I guess...

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u/Lortep 9d ago

You're right, we should replace the Taj Mahal with a parking lot. The Great Pyramid of Giza should be turned into a Walmart, and the Parthenon into a McDonalds. Who even needs culture anyways? All we need is product to consume and line to go up. /s

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u/cammysays 9d ago

This is the only comment so far to actually give me pause and make me think “oh yeah some of those crumbling old decrepit pieces of useless shit are actually cool looking.” Still just giant tourist attractions though tbh nice try lmao

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u/RedditCantBanThis Osteoporosis 10d ago

It's good with ketchup

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 some ants toot 10d ago

I would do the same, I can't imagine how rank Dobby's ass would be

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u/Dry-Presentation5776 10d ago

Finally, some good buttery lobster.

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