Malfoid

[Mr. Racewar1488]

I compiled my own thoughts on the books here.

I read everything you wrote and it sounds better than what I've seen of the plot of Harry Potter. In regards to the wizarding world's understanding of Muggles and their technology the wizards should be shitting their pants. We can level entire cities in milliseconds through creating miniature suns (thermonuclear weapons) and we have thousands of them across the planet. Our technology is progressing faster than any other time in history and within a few decades to a century we will surpass the wizards. If there were to be a sequel to the HP series this should be addressed and be a part of the plot where wizards and Muggles must work together to save each other.

 

[regalterry]

Our technology is progressing faster than any other time in history and within a few decades to a century we will surpass the wizards.

While that's true, wizards can teleport at will, modify/erase memories, mind control individuals, read minds, compel you to tell the truth, impersonate anyone they want, violate multiple laws of physics with ease etc.

And there doesn't seem to be any sort of balancing or scale, even dullards like Crabbe and Goyle can cast spells like fiendfyre, that can burn whole city blocks with ease. There's no mana, wizards can just keep spamming their spells indefinitely.

Then there's potions, charms, magical items etc.

Nukes are going to be useless against an individual that can teleport at will across vast distances, infiltrate any location with ease and cast massively destructive spells with a stick of wood. Remember, wizards are the dominant force in the magical world - vampires, werewolves, goblins, centaurs, giants, even spookies like dementors have been subjugated.

There's probably a few spells out there that would trivialize firearms and the threat bullets pose, so the only real way of killing one is to catch him unaware, or put faith in the bullet being faster than he can react.

I recall Rowling saying that a drunk, fat farmer with a shotgun could take down Voldemort, but that doesn't really jive with how they're depicted in later books. I guess she realized that Voldemort and his goons wouldn't make for good villains if they could so easily be defeated. And it certainly doesn't jive with what they're capable of doing, even though we never got a complete list of all the spells, or the hard rules, or how they even create new spells (because they do invent new ones from time to time).

The one crippling weakness wizards have is that they are utterly incapable of pretending to be muggles. Even the likes of Arthur Weasley, that actively studies non-wizarding technology and customs has an incredibly warped view of muggle customs and the modern world.

That, the fact most wizards seem to be complete buffoons, and that numbers are in our favor. There's, what, less than 5000 wizards in the whole of the UK?

 

[I will change it later]

And it certainly doesn't jive with what they're capable of doing, even though we never got a complete list of all the spells

Why are they hiding then? If humans are a threat to them in any capacity, wouldn't it be wise to do a Voldemort to muggles then?

Tax:

 

[WhatIsThePunchline]

The one crippling weakness wizards have is that they are utterly incapable of pretending to be muggles. Even the likes of Arthur Weasley, that actively studies non-wizarding technology and customs has an incredibly warped view of muggle customs and the modern world.

That and the fact most wizards seem to be complete buffoons.

They're depicted as everyman people and magic is depicted as a normal skill. It's oddly realistic, wizards in Harry Potter very much aren't supermen.

Like... Turning objects into other objects, think it's transfiguration. Harry Potter doesn't spend a semester learning transfiguration, he spends one practicing to turn like a pot to a slightly more catlike pot, or similar small object alterations, most of which he doesn't get right..

That's an oddly grounded take on a skill. In the real world you don't learn skill x, you practice a subset of a subset of skill x, then another then another in a grind that takes months or years. And then you become... adequate at it. That depiction of becoming better at something is extremely rare in fiction.

Wizards can do some insane stuff, but so can muggles. But that's on the whole, most people on the street won't be able to build or fly a plane or transplant a heart or whatnot

But a lot of what wizards are very good at on the whole is things that let's them avoid a conflict completely

 

[Absolutego]

Okay, I'm a tourist and don't actually know that much about Harry Potter. What's the deal with "yearn"? Is that something from the books?

This is the image that kicked the whole thing off. The artist got some harassment in response to it (I forget if it's b/c she's the one who coined the term "Malfoid" and women screeched at her for using -foid, or if it was related trannies directing their ire at her for kicking off the trend that's blowing up in their face), and her response to everyone asking "why did you draw this?!?!" amid all the hubbub was "I drew it to make men yearn again"

Yearning immediately became a shibboleth for fans of the idea/trend.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

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This is the image that kicked the whole thing off. The artist got some harassment in response to it (I forget if it's b/c she's the one who coined the term "Malfoid" and women screeched at her for using -foid, or if it was related trannies directing their ire at her for kicking off the trend that's blowing up in their face), and her response to everyone asking "why did you draw this?!?!" amid all the hubbub was "I drew it to make men yearn again"

Yearning immediately became a shibboleth for fans of the idea/trend.

Based and disturbingly relatable.

 

[Chuckwagon]

I read everything you wrote and it sounds better than what I've seen of the plot of Harry Potter. In regards to the wizarding world's understanding of Muggles and their technology the wizards should be shitting their pants. We can level entire cities in milliseconds through creating miniature suns (thermonuclear weapons) and we have thousands of them across the planet. Our technology is progressing faster than any other time in history and within a few decades to a century we will surpass the wizards. If there were to be a sequel to the HP series this should be addressed and be a part of the plot where wizards and Muggles must work together to save each other.

They're depicted as everyman people and magic is depicted as a normal skill. It's oddly realistic, wizards in Harry Potter very much aren't supermen.

Like... Turning objects into other objects, think it's transfiguration. Harry Potter doesn't spend a semester learning transfiguration, he spends one practicing to turn like a pot to a slightly more catlike pot, or similar small object alterations, most of which he doesn't get right..

That's an oddly grounded take on a skill. In the real world you don't learn skill x, you practice a subset of a subset of skill x, then another then another in a grind that takes months or years. And then you become... adequate at it. That depiction of becoming better at something is extremely rare in fiction.

Wizards can do some insane stuff, but so can muggles. But that's on the whole, most people on the street won't be able to build or fly a plane or transplant a heart or whatnot

But a lot of what wizards are very good at on the whole is things that let's them avoid a conflict completely

Wizardkind's isolationism is more than a bit schizophrenic, on the whole it seems that their governing authorities (the Ministry for British wizards) generally do have direct lines at the highest level to the Muggle governments - Cornelius Fudge & Rufus Scrimgeour are both mentioned as having conversations with the British PM in the 1990s, his name's never given but I think it was probably John Major since these conversations were in 1996/Half-Blood Prince IIRC - and they do try to enforce wizard-Muggle segregation by way of the International Statute of Secrecy.

But reading through the HP Wiki, it seems wizards also canonically independently chose to involve themselves in Muggle conflicts like the world wars by the thousands even in spite of their governments passing laws banning doing so, and some even became war heroes. Wizards from the other Entente/Allied and Central Power/Axis nations most likely did the same outside of Britain & America too. This would imply quite a few of them did actually have a considerable awareness of & connection to the Muggle world, more than we're shown in the main series, and especially a sense of nationalism that transcended national & international wizarding laws forbidding them from acting on such sentiment.

Anyone who was so involved as to be hailed as a war hero like Theseus Scamander couldn't have missed the technological developments of these wars like mustard gas or long-range artillery capable of indirect fire. British wizards were said to have developed an Owl Airforce that 'contributed a great deal' in WW1 (though it's not clear what they actually did, I would assume that at minimum they were used to facilitate discreet communications along & beyond the trenches, since that's what owls are usually shown being used for canonically), and the Entente-aligned wizards also tried to create another magical air force out of Ukrainian Ironbelly dragons. That project failed, but if it hadn't - I have no idea how the Ministry of the time could've possibly covered up the Imperial Russian Air Force suddenly being supported by a horde of literal dragons.

So there is some precedent for the magical & mundane worlds intersecting or at least being aware of one another on a bigger level than they did in the main 7 books. It's not what Harry Potter is about so it makes sense that Rowling never focused on it or gave it much thought, but wartime collaboration between the Muggles & wizards of each involved country does seem to have been a thing. And wizard special forces working toward the end of helping their country win has already happened, although it seems to have been mostly trying to give their side a plausibly deniable & easy to overlook magical advantage like the owl support rather than 'Hellfire McGonagall goes over the top with the boys at the Somme and helps burn the Germans in their trenches'.

Idk, a story of the Muggle SAS (or any other special forces unit) and a specially assembled Wizarding task force working together to fend off a common threat in the modern day, with both already starting with a limited but functional understanding of the other's abilities, doesn't feel as far-fetched as it might originally seem.

 

[somercet]

No. Fanfiction is (pejoratively) gay and a major factor in why all modern media is poorly written.

But good fanfics do exist. The question is, how do we hold these up as exemplars, and should we?

Fanfics are perfectly fine when written for fun or as a way of practicing your writing... The only issue is when writers arrest their development at that point.

There's a reason why ficcers described some of their own works as "crackfic" and PWP (plot? what plot?). I don't object to any of these works existing, I object to movie studios not understanding what makes a good, free fanfic versus what makes a screenplay worth sinking millions of dollars into, then expecting me to pay for it.

without having to take the time to plan out your world in advance

World-building is a two-edged sword. Yes, Tolkien did it first and best (not without some errors at the edges of story, his map of Middle Earth has terrible geography) but frankly, when I sit down to read a story, do I really want or need 200 pages of background before I start reading your actual story? Are the skills necessary for a storyteller always consistent with a world-builder?

I think we're mistaking building your story's setting for world-building.

Ever heard the term "low fantasy"? High fantasy, so they say, takes place in a world with no connection to ours, while low fantasy is our world plus magic, somehow. Raymond E. Feist's Magician, by this metric, is high fantasy, a world with magic that is not Earth. Margaret St. Clair's The Shadow People, Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, John Crowley's Little, Big are all "low" fantasy, all based on our world. But all three of these books put maximum effort into their settings. You can't really mistake any scenes from one of these books for the others.

Cynics say the ancient Greeks used mythological settings to avoid libeling anyone still walking around, and that is somewhat true. As Cabell said, another reason to use the misty past is the license to embroider freely, even as your audience already knows shares the ancient world, so you can skip all that with a short prologue. Alfred Hitchcock cast big stars because once the audience sees, say, Jimmy Stewart, it builds the character background in their heads.

World-building is optional. If you can do it, and if your world impresses the hell out of people, by all means, do it. But building your setting is not optional at all, unless you're writing Waiting For Godot.

 

[The Lawgiver]

DISCLAIMER: Auto-draft saved the accidental weird audo-merging of my quotes and I'm too lazy to fix it right now but this was a reply to like two or three images that had a side by side with the OG malfoy scene from the movie so i deleted the fucked up merged quote instead of tracking down every post from days ago this was going to be a reply to. The actual drawing I did was just now as opposed to earlier when i had set up the OG reply I forgot to hit send on.

What bugs me about these and a few others of these anime-ified versions of scenes is the OG image they're based on has a very goofy exaggerated expression while the anime version's just like neutral faced or neutral happy looking. like he's clearly going "WOOO AAAAHOH" kinda face cause spooky fucking creature imitation. Are people like afraid of actually doing silly faces anymore? Does it like negatively affect twitter/bluesky updoots enought hat they don't wanna?

I meant to draw these earlier but shit's been rough for me the last few days. I'm too tired to draw a full body to put these on right now but I could think of like five to six different kinds of variations of goofy face you could do for the goofy scene that'd actually make use of the anime style while being true to the OG vibe.

I recall Rowling saying that a drunk, fat farmer with a shotgun could take down Voldemort, but that doesn't really jive with how they're depicted in later books. I guess she realized that Voldemort and his goons wouldn't make for good villains if they could so easily be defeated. And it certainly doesn't jive with what they're capable of doing, even though we never got a complete list of all the spells, or the hard rules, or how they even create new spells (because they do invent new ones from time to time).

Just because a drunk farmer with a shotgun can kill someone doesn't really make them being a threat any less credible. Physically getting killed is also kinda established as early as the first book to be more or less of a slight obstacle for the guy.

Spoiler: Boldemort

He was "killed" when his death curse backfired thanks to harry's mom but then was not only suspected but then revealed to have returned, albeit as a half-existence parasitizing quirrel and drinking from dead unicorns in the woods to avoid fading away. The second book's big twist is that he's got basically a backup of his soul in his old diary that was manipulating shit behind the scenes. There's more and more layers to it that get built up as stuff goes on but it's really fucking clear right off the bat this guy though being just a normal dude on the surface isn't quite a "yeah he's dead that's it" kind of guy. You CAN kill him with a gun and that would 100% put a damper on his plans but like his whole thing is finding ways to cheat death. It's why his fucking mob is called the "death eaters". He ate death and kept going. His followers though I don't think ever were stated to have set up as much deathcheats as he did so theoretically they're a possible guarantee perma kill if you shoot em.

Also I find it kinda wacked out and absurd that "oh well muggles have nukes so" is a thing because like it's supposed to be a secret society of magic users, not like some other species or foreign nation. "some wizards being possible cia or ex military" thing makes more sense in terms of a hypothetical than viewing it as an arms race situation.


ARE YOU LOOKING AT THIS!?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
STOP TELLING ME TO DO THINGS!

I swear these politispergs and youtube commentary content farms are trying to kill me finding this thing as funny as I do. I keep getting reccomended 30 to 50 minute long videos either pro or anti malfoid with it being framed on both sides as some "weaponized" thing tied to left/right shit when the initial thing was literally j just "Yeah I drew r63 malfoy no it's not trans it's just r63 malfoy". I will not cease to find it funny and I will not cease to call out the malfoy simps as much as they try framing me as hating things lmao.

I think this is the first year in a while target hasn't removed their halloween section at the start of october in a while, and It's significant IMO because it's harry potter related shit that has a designated little area.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

I swear these politispergs and youtube commentary content farms are trying to kill me finding this thing as funny as I do

You posted on kiwifarms

 

[somercet]

The other negative outcome of writers starting with fanfiction is the unnecessary lionization of worldbuilding. It’s intellectual masturbation: an effort to have everything surrounding a story without actually writing the story itself.

"unnecessary lionization"? I'm assuming you meant "devaluation" or "unearned theft."

 

[bouquetnine]

In reality Dramione doesn’t work cleanly because he’s a racist thoroughly towards her and there’s never an opportunity to get them together and change that.

Never ask a pureblood supremacist the pedigree of his girlfriend.

 

[WhatIsThePunchline]

Wizardkind's isolationism is more than a bit schizophrenic, on the whole it seems that their governing authorities (the Ministry for British wizards) generally do have direct lines at the highest level to the Muggle governments - Cornelius Fudge & Rufus Scrimgeour are both mentioned as having conversations with the British PM in the 1990s, his name's never given but I think it was probably John Major since these conversations were in 1996/Half-Blood Prince IIRC - and they do try to enforce wizard-Muggle segregation by way of the International Statute of Secre

I like to imagine some really early wizard peasant, like a thousand or more years ago.

The taxman comes around. He doesn't pay and he doesn't start a fight or anything. He just throws a charm up around his house so it's missed.

Some lord wants to draft all your sons to die in some war: not your sons. Some nonsense regulations, or tyrannic king starts to take over, hide or leave.

For the muggles facing oppression their choices are mostly grit their teeth's and survive, or take up some desperate fight they'll probably die in or only succeed a little at Great cost. The wizards can just... not bother. Muggles treat them like shit anyway, let them pay taxes, get drafted, work the fields for someone else.

Then across hundreds of years of that you get the current parallel society of secret wizards. Any official connections to muggle rulers is just for necessary things. Also this does not explain why magical beasts also only live around wizards though.

The real reason is 'the secret world the protagonist gain entrance into' is the entire point of urban fantasy but it's fun to make up reasons for it.

 

[bouquetnine]

My personal headcanon is that Voldemort did not try to kill Harry. He intentionally turned Harry into a horcrux as a way to Xanatos gambit the prophecy and the ritual to do so is what unmade him, as turning a person into a horcrux was extremely experimental magic. Voldemort was no stranger to experimental magic: He made ChatGPT into a journal using a piece of his own soul. He made Nagini into a horcrux. But humans aren't books or snakes so the spell misfired. There were no witnesses to this horcrux ritual so we have to infer it happening from the setup rather than it being explicitly said. This is reinforced mid-way through the saga when Voldemort could have easily killed a young Harry, but held back knowing that Harry was his lifeline.

There was no special power of love that protected Harry.



Naturally, the Xanatos gambit failed because Harry Potter managed to die but resurrect, meaning the prophecy happened anyway. "The boy who lived" takes on a second meaning not because Harry survived Voldemort's attack as an infant, but because he was resurrected.

This makes the resurrection stone the weakest link in the whole story and too much of a deus ex machina. Which it was anyway, but this headcanon crutches even harder on it.

The Malfoid angle: Love is what kills Voldemort. It's not some mystical power that turned Voldemort into a shadow of former self. Instead, it's a real sentiment built over years together at Hogwarts between Harry and Malfoid that combine to kill Voldemort properly.

 

[Professor Donger]

 

[Male Idiot]

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Peak Malfoid.

Malfoid: She-Wolf of the SS.

Read another book?
She has a SSuggestion!

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

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[bouquetnine]

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Voldemort cucked Lucius, which is why he's rooting for Malfoid x Harry.

 

[MIU]

ARE YOU LOOKING AT THIS!?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
STOP TELLING ME TO DO THINGS!

I swear these politispergs and youtube commentary content farms are trying to kill me finding this thing as funny as I do. I keep getting reccomended 30 to 50 minute long videos either pro or anti malfoid with it being framed on both sides as some "weaponized" thing tied to left/right shit when the initial thing was literally j just "Yeah I drew r63 malfoy no it's not trans it's just r63 malfoy". I will not cease to find it funny and I will not cease to call out the malfoy simps as much as they try framing me as hating things lmao.

This shit right here is what will kill normie perception of the right. Politicizing random bullshit that has no political meaning is exactly the shit that people have critiqued troons and leftoids of for years.

There is literally 0 difference between this and "Sonic says trans rights!!!"

 

[bouquetnine]

This shit right here is what will kill normie perception of the right. Politicizing random bullshit that has no political meaning is exactly the shit that people have critiqued troons and leftoids of for years.

There is literally 0 difference between this and "Sonic says trans rights!!!"

I swear "Real Life Fake Wizard" is Critical Drinker but slightly more left. Both encourage hate watching of Modern Media so that the goyim still swallow the poison, even if doing it "ironically".