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The story takes place in Britain and the vast majority of the characters barely, if at all, know what Football(aka Soccer) is. Mr. Weasley the muggle "expert" doesn't know what a rubber duck is for. They're not gonna know shit about some American muggle sport.
The fact that the wizarding world is able to be this aloof about 99% of the population they live amongst is incredible. In a real world that would be due to a tireless cadre of extremely knowledgable and capable wizards working to keep them separate. Unfortunately the fact that some hack like Voldie could make such a mess of things so easily kinda disproves that. Therefore the wizarding world is the luckiest bunch of idiots ever.
The story takes place in Britain. What the fuck even is a chicago bull?!
You should read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I don't want to spoil anything but it is so good. Honestly, book stores should stop selling the official Harry Potter books and just stock HPMOR.
I actually did forever ago. It was pretty good. Harry is too smart and way too smug for me but I did really like voldie's plan and how they dealt with him. I wonder if that would work in the actual books. It kinda seems like it from book 2.
If you like HPMOR and you're a D&D player, you should read Harry Potter and the Natural 20.
Second the recommendation for HPMOR. It does so much more service to the Wizarding World setting than JK Rowling ever did. It is outright one of my favorite pieces of literature just on its own merits.
Or they see themselves as a superpower that is above needing to learn about others, perhaps?
(I didn't read the books so if this is obviously wrong I'm sorry)
It's....it's a joke
I'm aware.
An extremely american centric joke
The Statute of Secrecy people might've been tasked to investigate one "Magic Johnson."
And the Chicago Bulls are a basketball team... so there's no chance they'd know what that is, despite Quidditch being essentially soccer + basketball...
Yup.
The Bulls aren't a Quidditch team.
Side note, i really hate the whole soccer/football thing. It's so confusing because sometimes people accommodate me and mean American football but just say football. But then I have to ask what they mean anyway because not everyone accommodates me that way (and why should they?). It's just so many extra steps.
The "design" of Quidditch is proof Rowling didn't know anything about sports.
I thought Quidditch was her attempt at satirizing how arbitrary she thought real-world sports are, but maybe that's giving her too much credit
Giving her too much credit.
lmao instawin snitch
It's not instawin, you can catch it and still lose
Can you though? Like the rules as presented in the books are just:
Snitch caught > get 1000pts > game ends
The only other way to get points is in intervals of what? 10? 25 maybe? Let's assume it's 25 because I can't remember. That means you need to be up 40 fucking goals in order to tie if the other team gets the snitch. And that's assuming your entire team doesn't die from exhaustion seeing as the game doesn't end until the snitch is caught lol
I don’t know why I remember that, but i think catching snitch was 150 points
Catching the snitch gets you 150 points, scoring with the quaffle gets you ten points. So you have to score 15 times to match one snitch catch. And the game doesn't end until the snitch is caught.
Fun fact, in one of the pro quidditch matches in the fourth book, the snitch-catching-team actually loses the match. They built their team around their seeker, and basically just banked on him immediately locating and catching the snitch every game, which backfires in the final match of the Quidditch World Cup or whatever, when the opposing team had really good chasers that ran up the score really fast just by scoring with the quaffle.
mf show me one game where that happens
Yeah, yeah, sports, cell phones, computers, etc. But I still cannot believe that none of the muggleborns brought a damn ballpoint pen to Hogwarts. It would blow the mind of those crazy wizards still using quills. "Weasley Wizard's Wheezes proudly presents the new quill that writes without an inkwell!"
The wizarding world seems really conservative. They might know of them but just scoff at such modern ridiculousness.
A truly amazing sight: an average Twitter resident discovers that countries outside of the US exist
A truly amazing sight: An average Lemmy user discovers that they can't tell when someone on Twitter is making an obvious joke
Its just a bad joke since HP is not set in america so the joke doesnt even make sense
I think that's part of the joke
The joke would only hit with Americans because of it.
It's two jokes. The one abut not knowing about current events of the time and the one about making the first joke in a silly way. Could've made it clearer with using a sillier example.
Or they're just oblivious. But I think it was intentional.
That’s what makes it funnier, at least to me. 🤷♀️
I guess an average Lemmy user can't tell when someone on Lemmy is making an obvious joke either
Too many of them are not joking though
Harry Potter is based in Britain, so it's an absolute travesty that no one is singing Three Lions, or talking about the absolute dicking that Gazza gave the Scots.
Also no mention of Bucky. It's almost as if they're not really in Scotland, and that it's all fictional.
brits don't care about nba
Man, the Chudley Cannons are terrible this decade.
It’s a bunch of nerds and magic geeks. They would think about sports about as much as I did in the 90s, and if anyone asked me whether the Chicago Bulls had an epic run I’d say uh… what? I don’t know.