Re: The Rant Thread

[Kaiden Poliakoff]

I can't deal with people anymore, I honestly think I've become a bitter old lady at the age of nineteen.

[Maura Goldstein]

It should be illegal for you to take a hundred if it's lower then $50, would save so much time!  Had a customer challenge me telling me that I short changed them, I counted it out right in front of you!  Then tell me I short changed them $20! I'm not falling for that and having my drawer short nope, so my managers counted my drawer and was even,  dang lady tried to scheme me!

[Selwyn Thorfinn]

When they do that, you should be like "let me get my manager" and go find your manager as s....l....o....w....l......y..............a.......s........p.....o......s....s......i.....b......l.....e...............

[Avery Bishop]

SOMEONE CLARIFY THIS FOR ME PLS:

I am irked because I just saw a tumblr post of people arguing about whether or not Phoenix tears could've saved the Horcrux inside of Harry after the Basilisk fang jabbed him and it's like 2:30 am but now I'm super conflicted. Obviously the horcrux should've fought back, and the plot hole is going to drive me nuts XD Surely that's what this is, right? If I'm 17 years into Harry Potter books and missed something that big, imma be pissed.

[Charlotte Waldorf]

I think that is possible but this is the first time I am thinking about it
I mean, that Horcrux was part of him, you could kill that part and we know you can do that with Basilisk fang so that part should be dead after attack but it wasn't so only logical explaination is that Phoenix tears saved it from dying

[Avery Bishop]

Right, but the Horcrux didn't react like it should have, and he didn't do that weird dissolving thing Voldy did, even in part. My best bet is that she hadn't thought of it yet, but I wish she had explained that away.

[Charlotte Waldorf]

Yeah that's really confusing
Now I have need to read that part again lol

[Simon Gnimagnon]

I had the same crisis over this! Luckily she's clarified it a few times, including this one interview:

Q: When Harry was stabbed by a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, since he was a Horcrux shouldn’t it have been destroyed then?

JKR: I have been asked that a lot. Harry was exceptionally fortunate in that he had Fawkes. So before he could be destroyed without repair, which is what is necessary to destroy a horcrux, he was mended. However, I made sure that Fawkes wasn’t around the second time a Horcrux got stabbed by a basilisk fang, so the poison did its work and it was irreparable within a short period of time…. I established early in the book, Hermione says that you destroy a Horcrux by using something so powerful that there’s no remedy. But she does say there is a remedy for basilisk poison but of course it has to be administered immediately and when they stab the cup later – boy I’m really blowing this for anyone who hasn’t finished the book – there’s Fawkes, is my answer. And thank you for giving me a chance to say that because people have argued that quite a lot.

Basically, he didn't die so the Horcrux didn't, is my understanding. Crisis averted? xP

[Charlotte Waldorf]

BUT second time he didn't die either but Horcrux did
xD
So I think it's matter of time, like J.K. say, first time Phoenix helped him immediately

[Jaquellene Jack Dyllan]

My cat died