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I ban you for not saying that on the right thread! https://scioly.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... start=1960
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randomdogonapc wrote: March 20th, 2023, 2:20 pm I ban you for implying that I’m not!
I ban you for implying that I'm wrong by implying that you're not!
onshape wrote: March 20th, 2023, 2:33 pm I ban you for not saying that on the right thread! https://scioly.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... start=1960
I ban you for implying that I'm using this thread incorrectly!
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Does anyone here do Envirothon by any chance? I'm thinking about it with the prospect of Forestry getting replaced by Ento.
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Ways to see how unreliable ChatGPT can be: ask it questions about any novel you know well (and was included in its training). It spits out so much incorrect information to Harry Potter questions.
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Schrodingerscat I need someone to agree with me that the 2nd book is the worst book.
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I find it hard to call any of the books bad, but I guess there is an argument that it is a rather awkward genre/style transition between the first and subsequent books.
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Worst book for what reasons?

There's a good case for 3 being the worst book (it introduces time turners, before promptly forgetting about them for the rest of the books because they'd be far too overpowered when used in exactly the same way as in the third book.)

I could agree that there was a clunky style transition between 1 and 2, but that's sort of appropriate - kids tend to be clunky and awkward at that age. I'd actually say that Deathly Hallows was the worst book - our fearless heroes randomly jump around in forests for most of the year hoping to find Voldemort's horcrux under a nearby rock, before neatly solving all the mysteries in a series of improbable events in the last few days.

(I assume nobody's counting Cursed Child as anything other than an attempt at writing a farce set in the HP universe.)
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2 is not de facto terrible, but it's definitely not the best because it goes waaaayyy too fast and skips over things you're normally supposed to see.
There's a reason that the books get spaced out more afterwards, though some people complain about the length.
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onshape wrote: March 24th, 2023, 6:09 am 2 is not de facto terrible, but it's definitely not the best because it goes waaaayyy too fast and skips over things you're normally supposed to see.
There's a reason that the books get spaced out more afterwards, though some people complain about the length.
I have the impression that the author intended that the readers of each book would be roughly the age of the main characters in each book. The early books are light-hearted and very much in the traditional children's mystery story mold. As the characters get older, the themes get darker and more mature, the books get longer, and I think the target audience gets older.
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