Because HP is a role model for poor children, and poor children shouldn’t have the expectation of getting a feast ever. They should see the bare minimum school lunch and think it looks like a horn of plenty because US schools have been shutting down and reducing school meal programs. Real students don’t get anything.
What just normal drinking glasses? In whimsical magic castle?
Lmao I want nothing to do with that series anymore for a variety of reasons but if this is actually a screenshot of the utterly unnecessary remakes then that is pathetic. I’m pretty sure the source material said goblets. Most meals were described as tables full of food such as the left. Not a cafeteria plate that wouldn’t look out of place in a modern school. Soulless remake cashgrab I hope it flops so hard it just basically marks the end of HP in the mainstream. Nobody asked for this.
The movie producers suck so bad they can’t be bothered, or don’t trust themselves, to find new movies, despite more good ideas than you can shake a stick at, and instead remake already popular movies again paying obsceme amounts of money to big name actors and using flashy new computer graphics.
Hollywood has sucked my entire life, I understand many of you don’t realize how true that is, but they have gotten a lot worse with consolidation, It’s down to 3 or 4 studios now, 3 with each around 25%, including Paramount now. It’s going to get a lot worse.
It used to be that remakes would be taking advantage of new technology. Like silent films remade with sound or black and white redone in color.
Now, advancements are incremental and often look worse than what we used to have. All these remakes are just studios trying to monetize their existing IP.
Not just movies. I recently noticed that a lot of games are getting remasters for a quick buck. I intended to play the whole Atelier Ryza series after I got the first one pretty cheap, but they delisted the original series (2019, 2020, and 2023) to sell the remaster at a higher price. I don’t know how old I want something to be before it’s redone, but it’s got to be longer than that.
Austerity Potter
I has to check for myself that this is real. It is.
Isn’t one a feast and one a breakfast?
Yes, but do you remember the breakfast in the first movie?
No, but if it’s not the one in the meme that sort of defeats the point of the comparison.
Same as if you compared the breakfast in this meme to a scene where he’s just eating the banana.
I think what people miss here is that this is Americanisation that is the norm in most US movies. While the original movies were distributed by Warner Brothers, the producers were largely British, so were many other important people in the making of that movie. So they apparently stayed their ground in staying closer to the British source material.
In the remake those safeguards are gone. People just realise it because they see the contrast to the original. But look at other US movies, so much of it has fantasy scenarios that are still very “USified”, to not confuse the US audience too much. This is the most obvious when Hollywood takes up a successful foreign movie and makes a complete US “remake”.
Temu Potter
The one on the left is when they arrive and the one on right might just be a typical day at the school
Yeah, no. All throughout the year in the original movies even the normal meals were much more extravagant.
It’s not like they’re paying minimum wage cooks to microwave frozen foods. They’ve got a staff of magic slaves cooking away in the basement!
I think the most offensive detail is the tray. In the books the meals are teleported directly onto the tables so you can stay put with your plate and just get whatever you like. No need for a tray to carry your food to your seat at the table
“This year’s feast has been graciously provided by our sister school across the pond, the Gun Violence School of Magic! Their funding was cut again this year, so please be polite.”
Transphobes starving misfit children is nothing new.
Iirc this is from regular breakfast in the trailer, not the huge start of the year feast
Harry Potter joins the navy.
Is this real? I thought it was a joke. Is it because they don’t want school kids knowing what a big school meal looks like?
I don’t think any Harry Potter came out this year? So AI slop?
I looked up “new Harry Potter” and found that there’s a TV series releasing on HBO later this year. I’m assuming this image references a trailer for the show.
This was not in any way difficult.
Do the wizards also gas their bananas? The choice of fruit here implies that wizards are bound to the limitations of modern farming and container shipping. The common prevalence of bananas in the real world boils down to a pile of technical limitations on growing and importing fruit.
- Unlike most other common grocery store fruits they are tropical. Which means that they can be grown under normal conditions year round. It also means they need to be imported which would normally make them expensive
- Bannanas can be picked green, shipped refrigerated, and ripened under ethylene gas (tomatoes and apples might also be in this category). This enables bannanas to be transported by ordinary container ships rather than needing to be done by air. This also enables some amount of stockpiling. This cuts costs a lot such that bannanas can be cheaper than local produce unlike most other imported produce that needs to be flown in.
So, wisards shit in the corner of the room they’re in and then magically teleport their shit somewhere. The place they teleport it to is now full of potent wisard shit chemicals. That’s where they grow their banana trees.
Probably the same place the servants sleep.
start of term feast vs regular morning breakfast?
but also why does the newer one look like actual school meals lol😭
but also why does the newer one look like actual school meals lol😭
It doesn’t. There were always multiple choices of hot food and a well sorted salads buffe at school. This screenshot looks like something you’d get served on an Aeroflot plane 🤮
Man growing up in the US whatever you just described sounds magical. The meal on the right in this pic is better than what I got at school and there were no choices
Toast, sausage, AND an egg? Orange juice that’s not in a carton with an expiration date of two months ago? An egg and a sausage that don’t look like they came out of a box? This is practically paradisical compared to half the shit a lot of US public schools do.
but also why does the newer one look like actual school meals lol😭
Because it’s on a tray, which makes no sense.
Makes it easier for the slaves to carry, i guess
In the books, the slaves set the meal on “dummy” tables and the food gets teleported to the true tables
Why did they need slaves then? Couldn’t they just teleport it all in the first place?
To make the food in the first place. Magic cannot make or transform food. But you can move it with magic, store it in magic containers, or add magical properties to food.
Slight correction:
Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfigura[tion]… It’s impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if you’ve already got some…"
(Note, as a trans person I hate that I know this)
J.K. Rowling is such an arse that she willingly decided that food scarcity should still be a thing in her fictional magical universe.
She also decided that in her fictional magical world, magic would not be a rare occurrence, skill thing, or even a spiritual thing, but strictly racial.
Wizards are born from other wizards. Period. Even muggle-born wizards like Hermione are actually descendants of squibs (wizard-born wizards that have no magic abilities) who left the wizarding world and went on to live as muggles.
I learned that recently and I was so weirded out. Why would you have that? Is it just to crush the children’s hope?
No you see, its a sentient race that likes to be slaves so you need something to do for your slave race
