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[Sirus]

Look at the text in the background, Frump.

[kaijyuu]

Look at the text in the background, Frump.

Ah yes, the 42. The answer to life, the universe, and everything.

[Frumple]

Look at the text in the background, Frump.

Explains why the rover is hurtling toward a group of tourists, at least. I wonder if their bones have high material value, or if they're just migrants.

E: Kaij, the other number.

[kaijyuu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

[Pnx]

This psych course has led me to such interesting places, did you know that according to the margin of my textbook, Harry Potter is a good illustration of the nature-nurture interaction, being that he was born to pureblooded parents, but raised by muggles, he had natural magical ability, but it didn't flourish until he went to Hogwarts...

[Sirus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

[Frumple]

This psych course has led me to such interesting places, did you know that according to the margin of my textbook, Harry Potter is a good illustration of the nature-nurture interaction, being that he was born to pureblooded parents, but raised by muggles, he had natural magical ability, but it didn't flourish until he went to Hogwarts...

... he wasn't born to pureblooded parents (Only his father was, Lily was muggleborn), and it's kinda' arguable he flourished at all, from what I recall. Only had one particularly innate magical ability, too (parseltongue, and it's arguable that that was actually natural), if I'm not misremembering -- the rest of it largely required training to be more than random discharges. Critter's a pretty strong case for the majority of nature being bollocks, from what I've seen (great deal of HP's actions can be fairly easily slotted in to the predictable behavioral patterns of someone that's gone through what he has). Plenty of fanfiction makes good (and bad, and mediocre, and ungodly terrible) investigations into the subject.

[Flying Dice]

This psych course has led me to such interesting places, did you know that according to the margin of my textbook, Harry Potter is a good illustration of the nature-nurture interaction, being that he was born to pureblooded parents, but raised by muggles, he had natural magical ability, but it didn't flourish until he went to Hogwarts...

... he wasn't born to pureblooded parents (Only his father was, Lily was muggleborn), and it's kinda' arguable he flourished at all, from what I recall. Only had one particularly innate magical ability, too (parseltongue, and it's arguable that that was actually natural), if I'm not misremembering -- the rest of it largely required training to be more than random discharges. Critter's a pretty strong case for the majority of nature being bollocks, from what I've seen (great deal of HP's actions can be fairly easily slotted in to the predictable behavioral patterns of someone that's gone through what he has). Plenty of fanfiction makes good (and bad, and mediocre, and ungodly terrible) investigations into the subject.

Parseltongue wasn't inborn either, IIRC; it was a side effect of the fragment of Moldievort's soul stuck in his body.

[Frumple]

Yeah, that's what I normally hear, I just wasn't sure if that was actually canon or whatnot. I, uh. I never actually read the last book, and only half paid attention to the penultimate one when I read through it. Picked up the rough path of things via fanfics, over the years, but yeah.

[Sirus]

This psych course has led me to such interesting places, did you know that according to the margin of my textbook, Harry Potter is a good illustration of the nature-nurture interaction, being that he was born to pureblooded parents, but raised by muggles, he had natural magical ability, but it didn't flourish until he went to Hogwarts...

... he wasn't born to pureblooded parents (Only his father was, Lily was muggleborn), and it's kinda' arguable he flourished at all, from what I recall. Only had one particularly innate magical ability, too (parseltongue, and it's arguable that that was actually natural), if I'm not misremembering -- the rest of it largely required training to be more than random discharges. Critter's a pretty strong case for the majority of nature being bollocks, from what I've seen (great deal of HP's actions can be fairly easily slotted in to the predictable behavioral patterns of someone that's gone through what he has). Plenty of fanfiction makes good (and bad, and mediocre, and ungodly terrible) investigations into the subject.

Parseltongue wasn't inborn either, IIRC; it was a side effect of the fragment of Moldievort's soul stuck in his body.

Hmm. Did J.K. Rowling ever address whether he lost his parseltongue ability after Voldemort was defeated?

[Furtuka]

This psych course has led me to such interesting places, did you know that according to the margin of my textbook, Harry Potter is a good illustration of the nature-nurture interaction, being that he was born to pureblooded parents, but raised by muggles, he had natural magical ability, but it didn't flourish until he went to Hogwarts...

... he wasn't born to pureblooded parents (Only his father was, Lily was muggleborn), and it's kinda' arguable he flourished at all, from what I recall. Only had one particularly innate magical ability, too (parseltongue, and it's arguable that that was actually natural), if I'm not misremembering -- the rest of it largely required training to be more than random discharges. Critter's a pretty strong case for the majority of nature being bollocks, from what I've seen (great deal of HP's actions can be fairly easily slotted in to the predictable behavioral patterns of someone that's gone through what he has). Plenty of fanfiction makes good (and bad, and mediocre, and ungodly terrible) investigations into the subject.

Parseltongue wasn't inborn either, IIRC; it was a side effect of the fragment of Moldievort's soul stuck in his body.

Hmm. Did J.K. Rowling ever address whether he lost his parseltongue ability after Voldemort was defeated?

I think she said somewhere that he lost the ability afterwards.

[Descan]

Also, pure-blood depends on how "pureblood" actually works. Is it like the Nazis where you need wizards back to your grandparents? Is it just "two wizards for parents"? *shrug*

[Sirus]

Pretty sure the Nazi definition applied. Most of the purebloods in the series had long histories of pureblood families, though only the Nazi-like families themselves (Malfoys, Blacks, etc) actually really cared.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I can't imagine Voldemort's people would be the kind to believe that halfbloods can produce purebloods. Of course, logically that means almost nobody is actually a pureblood, which is itself kind of a brilliant realization of how crazy such ideas of purity actually are.

[Frumple]

Also, pure-blood depends on how "pureblood" actually works. Is it like the Nazis where you need wizards back to your grandparents? Is it just "two wizards for parents"? *shrug*

*waves vaguely at half-blood prince* Probably at least grandparents, yeah.