She spat out years for people’s birthdays without doing the math, and now Bellatrix’s dad is only 13 years older than her.
Birthdays and death days are wild. Wizards either live to be 150 or they die at 40.
Obviously Cursed Child is garbage, but if we were to accept it as canon, either Bellatrix was sooo old when Delphi was born or Andromeda was sooo young when Tonks was born.
In fact, everyone seems to have their kids stupid young, despite the fact that wizards have longer lifespans and therefore presumably have proportionally longer fertile years, which again makes me think she spat out birth years without really thinking it through.
Allegedly there are 1000 students at Hogwarts at any given time, but there were only about 40 kids in Harry’s year, which would be more like 280 total students (and even if the birth rate HALVED during the war, it’s still nowhere near 1000).
I have lost years of my life trying to figure out how Euphemia Potter could be fertile and healthy enough to have a baby and then die at an “advanced age” less than 20 years later.
I have offered similar numbers of years in return for understanding Fenrir Greyback’s age, but the Devil insists I’m still lowballing him. (How old was he when he bit Remus? To be so established in the werewolf community, he must have been an adult, right? Maybe early 30s? But that would make him in his 60s, minimum, during the second war. He certainly wasn’t portrayed as that old in the movies, although I can’t concern myself too much with the sins of the movies. How long do werewolves usually live?)
Sirius specifically said that Snape used to hang out with Bellatrix at Hogwarts, but Bellatrix would have been loooong graduated by the time Snape started.
Dumbledore claimed to enjoy Bernie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans as a boy, but he was solidly an adult when they were invented.
I would respect JK Rowling so much more if she just came out and said yeah the Harry Potter books don’t have enough representation, thats a problem and I’ll do better in future rather than being like oh actually Voldemort’s mum’s cat was gay.
One of the notes to the theater owners in Phantom of the Opera says “My salary has not been paid”. Why is the Phantom asking for a salary. What is he gonna do with it? How much is he asking for? Is he paying for a tuner for his organ down in the underground lake? Does he walk out with his mask and big ass cloak to buy more candles from the corner store down the street? Is there some poor clerk who just has to sell groceries to a weird guy in a half-mask who makes vague death threats at him and then leaves once a month? These are questions that need satisfactory answers
Okay but there are answers and they’re probably more absurd than you think. He asks for 20,000 francs per month which is, I believe, about 136,000 dollars in US currency today. So that’s what he wanted every month from the managers. In the book, he actually does make trips shopping in Paris, but the mask described for shopping seems like a sort of false nose situation- think Groucho Marx glasses. His deformity is different in the book- one of the main focuses of it is that he has no nose, which makes him look like a skull/corpse. So he is extorting money, and spending at least some of it, but I have no idea what he spends SO MUCH money on. In the book, he has a pretty regular house in the cellars, other than his bedroom, which is an angst cave with a coffin as a bed. My theory is that he just enjoys being a massive inconvenience, and really only spends a fraction of what he demands. It’s not clear in ALW’s version how he gets out and goes shopping, but the salary thing is definitely taken from the original novel. Basically, the Phantom is the embodiment of the “for $8000 a month I will Stop” meme, except it’s $20k.
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