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Doesn't really make sense indeed (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In the book universe, Voldemort is the only one who unlocked flying without some kind of vehicle (which a few others learned at some point, like Snape). It was more cinematic to have everybody flying around in the movies, though.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Eliezer yes-that-guy Yudkowsky wrote a whole-ass HP novel, and it is everything you would expect. Good, bad, and ugly. But the good have some genuinely clever details. Voldemort can fly because he went to a shop that makes flying brooms and had his fucking bones enchanted. He gets lifted into midair, from the inside, and it's not pleasant. But it's the sort of flex that a supremacist asshole thinks demonstrates the innate superiority of his entire ingroup... while really only showing that he, individually, had a cool idea, and then killed the guy he hired to do the actual work.

Both points are undercut by the fact his new body also flies. He's got half a broom strapped to either leg. A+ problem solving, C- to all the other wizards for never trying that.