I told them of the places in the [Harry Potter] books where it is NOT fiction - but actual spells, actual book titles, actual people that had been steeped in the occult. They sat there with their mouths hanging open, because they had had no idea.
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Yeah, my daughter is a huge HP fan, and she's always casting real spells, and she flies to school on a broom.
She turned me into a newt!
Darwin - I assume you got bettah?
Yes, there are mentions of real people in HP (Nicholas Flamel from the first book, historically a noted alchemist). Whoop-de-effing-do. Show me one spell from Harry Potter that's real. I challenge you. Seriously. Because if there is, I'm just going to be sitting around my house like a load saying stuff like Accio Beer! and never work another day in my life.
-pb
"They sat there with their mouths hanging open, because they had had no idea."
...that anyone could be so jaw-droppingly stupid.
"..how stupid I was."
FIX'D
Actual book titles, yes, actual people, yes.
There are no actual spells or occult to be steeped in, however. It's all imaginary, fairy tales, like that Bible of yours.
Harry Dresden , the wizard, lives (fictionally) in Chicago. Does Chicago exist ? (yes)
An author trying to make a fictional sory more beliveable will add real book titles, songs , events that help people to believe the purely fictional story.
You may scream leviosa wingardium at me all you want, I will not float away.
No, their mouths were hanging open because you are so stupid.
Harry Potter is fiction. Just like the Wholly Babble.
“I told them of the places in the [Harry Potter] books where it is NOT fiction - but actual spells,”
Pretty sure if Rowling knew any ‘actual’ spells, she’d have cast them on her dtractors by now.
“actual book titles,”
Such as?
“actual people that had been steeped in the occult.”
Did you read the books? Rowling just made a long series of puns and piss-poor Latin to flesh out a pretty basic ‘hero saves the world’ story.
"They sat there with their mouths hanging open, because they had had no idea.”
Yeah, sure. The people telling a room of nerds that the spells in D&D are real get it packed up their ass, too.
Similar to the one time someone tried to tell me that Crimson Tide really happened and the government covered it up. And the details they ‘quoted’ didn’t match any submarine class I’ve ever been on.
You can only convince the ignorant, and not even them all the time.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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