“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.”
Maybe it’s because so many people in the US and UK, including half of children, are now overweight.
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?
It’s coming out this year, so maybe trailer screenshot
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.
I’m just too tired to look it up myself, sorry
Temu Potter
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.
They need the money to eliminate all the trans people
That’s not magical at all! That’s like normal school😆
It’s because it was offensive to Americans seeing children being fed at school
When I was a kid in a southern US public school back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, I would have killed for a banana. I think peas were an option once.
Not sure if joke or reality.
Or all the boomer brits who think maggie did nothing wrong.
You’ve probably seen what they feed kids in school.
There was an idea to make school lunches “healthier” to push weight loss by dumb politicians and the result was worse than the prison food served before. I’ll take the prison food any day over the “healthy” lunches I had when I worked in education, lunch duty so may as well eat something then since you get maybe 15 minutes to eat on lunch break, I would drink a pot of coffee a day lol.
I really felt bad for the kids, and I can say it probably contributed to behavioral issues. I worked 12 hour+ days some of these kids where there that long for the after school program.
Is it possible that the ‘dumb politicians’ were skill making and the result was malicious compliance and active sabotage?
It’s perfectly possible to make school lunches health and good.
I’d I was ever fed a us school lunch, I’d certainly put the experience down to enemy action.
“It’s perfectly possible to make school lunches health and good.”
It totally is, watching those videos of school lunches in other countries. I can’t say I wasn’t jealous. I think the other aspect is that maybe the intention was “good” but didn’t factor in everything and went of basic statistics. I think I wrote this in another post; when I went to grade school, I would have a breakfast with tea, then in school I would eat two lunches, after school I would eat something, and then I had dinner. Now my situation was different. I had gym in school, track (running), martial arts class after school, and what I would say a modified marines workout daily(insanity if you ask me). I didn’t break over 125 pounds until I was 26. I could eat a whole pizza and still be hungry.
Either/or food in US schools is shite. But for many, sadly, it might be the only meal of their day.
What just normal 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. 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.
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 (2019) 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.
Oh yeah, it’s been a while but I was playing Total War games a lot like a decade back. I had Rome with Barbarian Invasion expansion pack. They released medieval total war after rome at one point, quality as well. Then released an Alexander which was just cheaply ripping rome onto alexander without much detail or effort.
Then Empire total war, which should’ve been the best, and it sucked in some ways, it was clear Sega rushed the developers and forced a product that wasn’t done yet. Then instead of fixing it or continuing on through history as they had done, to WWI I would presume would be next, they remade Rome Total War again.
Maybe that’s not the best example, as Rome could’ve been improved though not sure how the new one was. But the corporate bosses were clearly stepping on their very capable and knowledgeable and witty developers to just rip a few changes to existing games to sell again.
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.
I wonder if they went out of their way to hire kids they “know” won’t grow up to be gay.
Did anyone ask for this to be remade?
Did someone from the original turn out to be anything (oh no, the horror)?
Tbf that pile of chicken legs does not look that appetizing…or maybe just me
It’s traditional British food - chicken leg boiled in unsalted water.
And then dried out.
We call it dry-aged!
Not sure if joking…
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.
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 was waiting for someone to point this out
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😭
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?
No you see, its a sentient race that likes to be slaves so you need something to do for your slave race
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.
But there’s a contradiction even in that bloody ‘explanation.’ What in the hell is transforming it but changing its properties? Uuugh.
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?
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
I’m in the US and went to a pretty rundown school in the Midwest, but yeah lunch was pretty much that (choices + salad bar).
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.
I’d have been so happy if this is what school meals looked like when I was in school. Breakfast was some cheap peanut butter and jelly thing that technically had peanut butter and jelly inside it, and MAYBE a rubbery sausage the size of a crayon.
Lunch was like a red apple and some thinly sliced mystery meat and a slice of cheese
Austerity Potter
