What does it take to please You? Break Your rules, and you fall. Follow them, and you still lose! Doesn’t matter whether you’re a sinner! Doesn’t matter whether you’re a saint. Nobody can win, so what’s the point? What’s the bloody point?

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  • Gabe Bell@lemmy.worldtoHarry Potter@lemmy.worldHPVP
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    11 months ago

    No – that makes no sense.

    If you don’t know something is there, how would you know you have to cast a spell to reveal it?

    Surely you can only cast a spell on something you know is there to make it visible, not on something you don’t know is there.

    Because if you don’t know it is there, how would you know it is there to cast a spell on it?

















  • Your argument about calling someone from your stove is entirely pointless, because you can’t use your hard-drive as a network card. But that doesn’t make it any less useful as a network card. You also can’t cook tea on your laptop (I am guessing) but that doesn’t make it any less useful as a laptop.

    The laptop is still a collection of functioning devices that make up a larger whole. You can take one out and put it in another device, and both devices (both laptops) will still function just as well.

    The internet is made up of lots of little functioning devices, all of which are interchangeable, but it can still be viewed as one large thing.

    And hey – the wider the internet becomes, the harder it is to destroy Horcrux Number 3, so you don’t see me complaining.


  • See, I was just going to let this go, but you’ve annoyed me now so I am going to argue this until you give in.

    Your laptop is made up of dozens of sub devices – a hard drive (solid state or scsi, I don’t know and I don’t care), a video card, a mother board, a network card, a keyboard with around 92 keys on it, a membrane to interface to all of those keys to the motherboard, a bios chip and a boatload of other things.

    And yet you treat it as a single device because they all fit together to work together as one device.

    Now – if I were to make your laptop my horcrux then, okay, that would be weird, because I would be giving you complete control over a part of my soul. But lets set that aside and focus on the real issue.

    I would be planting my horcrux in the laptop which is made up of dozens of subdevices and yet most people consider a laptop to be a single device.

    Same with a TV, or a mobile phone, or a computer monitor, or a mouse, or a living being.

    We saw Slytherin’s Locket – that was clearly two bits of metal attached by a hinge. Three separate bits of metal attached together. On a chain. Which was made up of dozens of sublinks. How is that different from the internet, really?

    The Diadem of Ravenclaw was even more ornate and complicated, from what I recall.

    The internet, as a concept, is a single entity. Just because it has a lot of working parts, doesn’t mean you can’t view it as a single entity

    That’s my argument and I am sticking to it.