"Having siblings can be fine if they're more like Fred and George and not like Percy."
I was dying to ask them to justify this statement, but one of my other rules of discourse is that I do not discuss Harry Potter with total strangers, only with people I know. So I didn't. There was no way that would end well.
But seriously, who the heck holds that opinion!? Okay, I'm sure JKR does, but I thought we all agreed that this woman holds a large number of dangerously wrong opinions. All the more reason to take the other approach, if you ask me.
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I was dying to ask them to justify this statement, but one of my other rules of discourse is that I do not discuss Harry Potter with total strangers, only with people I know. So I didn't. There was no way that would end well.
But seriously, who the heck holds that opinion!? Okay, I'm sure JKR does, but I thought we all agreed that this woman holds a large number of dangerously wrong opinions. All the more reason to take the other approach, if you ask me.
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The world's oldest shoes? Sandals found in bat cave are thousands of years old, study finds
Blacklight Studies Reveal That Most Mammals Secretly Glow
Ringling Circus is back—but this time, without animals
Basil the Opossum Has One Eye, a Big Heart, and a Job to Do
How a Radio Station Is Empowering Women in a Rural Heartland
The surprising history of America’s ‘pick-your-own’ farms
The ‘science of reading’ swept reforms into classrooms nationwide. What about math?
SNAP recipients are not allowed to purchase hot food. These Penn grads found a hack with a new kind of corner store.
What’s in a domain name?
Why the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ Never Won a Nobel Prize
95-year-old painter threatened with eviction from Cape Cod dune shack wins five-year reprieve
It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs
A Patois Revival: Jamaica Weighs Language Change as Ties to Britain Fray
How a lonely mountain lion led to the creation of the world’s largest wildlife overpass
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations
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