I block all politics.

Lemmy.zip has implemented Default Blocks so that new joiners have politics communities hidden from their All feed: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677

Plenty of investigation going on !nicole@feddit.org

instead focuses attention toward, for each topic, “the one big community” and its contingent idiosyncrasies.

!politics@lemmy.world, !usa@lemmy.ml and !politics@hexbear.net being all active in parallel seems to shows that the model is working

https://lemmy.world/post/24545370

Nice meme.

However, couldn't also Eärendil be considered?

Edit: found another possibility:

Legolas is the geographically-closest “elf-prince” to Erebor, where the coat was found. But it’s made of mithril, and that can’t be found in Erebor.

So it was probably forged in Moria. The mithril was definitely mined there. We don’t know exactly when, but we know Moria bordered not one, but two elf-kingdoms (Lorien and Eregion).

Elrond was Gil-galad’s right hand elf, and probably could have claimed the title of high king after the Last Alliance, although he didn’t. He also lived in Eregion for a while, and met his wife in Lorien. He had two sons, both born well before Moria fell to the balrog.

Conclusion: it was forged either for Elladan or Elrohir. They wore it, outgrew it, and gave it back to Durin’s folk, who then brought it with them into exile.

I do think it would be nice if there was a way for community mods to choose to combine two communities across instances,

If they are willing to cooperate that far, they could as well merge the communities

man in authority exercising his lawful power over his own domain

Well, he literally gave his life to prevent society to fall under a full bigot dictator. As I said earlier, he had a bigger threat to deal with, and made the biggest sacrifice possible about it.

nothing fundamentally changes in the systems responsible for all these problems.

The series is about the high school years of a kid who has to deal with a bigot dictator who wants to kill him. And actually, things change: Fudge has been sacked, Scrimgeour killed, Kingsley as the new Minister of Magic is hinted to be more progressive as he belonged to the Order of the Phoenix. Powerful families like Malfoys have been sent to Azkaban during the war. If you even take into account information provided outside of the book, Hermione, a Muggleborn, reaches the rank of Head of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

Of course Harry Potter is not about systemic change and complete overhaul of society. But are other successful fantasy series about this? LotR and a Song of Ice and Fire happen in different world, but Westeros presents much more blatant societal issues than the HP world: classism, racism, misogyny, slavery, etc. Are there critics against GRRM because Jon Snow does not push for global societal change?

Actually, it's interesting, because a lot of fanfiction written about the time period following the last book tackles those issues: how political struggles across the Wizengamot prevent systemic change of wizard society, and how much Hermione, Harry and others have to play political games to actually implement progress. Those stories can be interesting, but they are not as thrilling as the main series.

And finally, if you don't like the series, why even bother commenting here? You don't like it, it's fine, there are other works to talk about.

Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML

Different technologies. Rust is a more niche language, which is sometimes used to explain why there aren't that many contributors to Lemmy

If you hate the quality of Rowling’s writing so much that you’d prefer to rewrite your perceptions of it

I never said so.I think her style is pretty good, it's one of the things I appreciate the most about the series. Discarding a few pages out of a seven books saga seems reasonable, it is done in a lot of other fandoms. Star Wars fans recently had to discard a whole trilogy, it does not mean that they don't appreciate the original material.

I recommend The Owl House,

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a try.

is that Rowling fundamentally believes disrupting the social order is bad.

That's an interpretation of the series, but then why are the following characters presented as social progress from the statu quo?

• Remus Lupin, first werewolf allowed to attend Hogwarts (they had to plant the Whomping Willow for him) and even teach there
• Hagrid, a half-giant, allowed to work at Hogwarts and teach
• Dobby, free Elf, allowed to work and live at Hogwarts

Following the magical world conventions, those people should be ostracized, and kept away from society. Dumbledore fought to give them rights, as a way to show that change was possible. Indeed, he didn't completely change the society, but he was also busy fighting another threat, the comeback from a political leader who would completely destroy the rights of the minorities.

About the Elves, Hermione is making fun of because she's trying to get a bunch of teenagers to care about social issues. However, at the end of the series, Ron say that they should warn the elves in the kitchen to prevent them from being harmed.

Yes, and that is indeed to show how the magic government is corrupt.

They should have addressed those issues at the end of the series, and it would be fine if there was no epilogue, so that every reader could imagine what would happen. Personally, I don't consider the epilogue to be canon.

Do you have more details about the animal licence leading to Azkaban? Doesn't ring a bell, is it in reference to Hagrid having illegal animals? I had a look at the list of knows Prisoners of Azkaban, and didn't find any on this list

HP world during the series is not a satire of fascism, but it shows what happen when the government gets complacent instead of addressing the core issues. That is mostly visible with the sack of Fudge, and then Scrimgeour desperately trying to correct the course.

The plot isn't the best, the list of issues is so long it's almost embarrassing, but the world is whimsical and comfortable, especially in the first few books. Characters description is well done, their behaviour is believable there is some moral ambiguity for some of them (Dumbledore and Snape, among others). There is a reason the series was so successful, and its popularity was never reached by similar series.

The later books are quite disappointing, especially by not addressing the underlying issues of the magical society, as you said.