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Harry Potter and the Military Industrial Complex

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you don't enjoy a little decorating decapitated slave heads for some wholesome Christmas joy?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's in the book. Grimmauld Place has the preserved heads of all the Black family elves hanging by the door. During book 7 when Harry and gang are hiding there, they put Santa hats and beards on the heads for Christmas.

These are supposed to be the good guys.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, there are parts of HP that are deeply fucked up, come to think of it. Thanks!

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Shaun has a takedown of the entire series on his channel, and this is one of my favorite parts:

so our heroes decide to decorate their decapitated slave heads with little Christmas hats...

now I'm gonna need to hit pause here, next to the Christmas slave heads, and ask: what is happening right now... why are the Harry Potter books like this

not my absolute favorite quote either. long video but definitely recommend; even Shaun's extremely dry delivery breaks at a couple points: https://youtu.be/-1iaJWSwUZs