• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I mean, the prose is certainly better. Rowling is unimaginative and repetitive in her use of language. The number of times she reuses phrases (like, “Ron’s untidy scrawl,”) is criminal. She’s a lot like Agatha Christie; great concepts, mundane execution.

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      Really not a high bar, tbh. Just don’t promote slavery along with maintaining the exact status quo that lead to wizard hitler, and you’re miles ahead.

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      HP has the better film franchise though. ASOUE just had the Carrey film, which was alright but did not follow the books and left a LOT of mystery from the books off

      the show was really good…until season 3. my favorite character being reduced to a single laugh and a painting was the nail in the coffin, and the finale was just bad

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      Learnt nothing, in french you would say “Sacre Bleu”, lit. “Blue [the act of consecrating]”.

      Blue was the colour of Saint Martin, so instead of swearing on god, you would swear on the canonisation of st. Martin, in a manner removed from the actual thing. Only English speakers use “sacré bleu” as a vaguely-french sounding thing.

      Saying sacré [person] makes sense somewhat, but you would use it like “there’s my boy, way to go!”, not as a “holy shit” exclamation.