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** If you will allow some speculation, I'd wager the founder was ''called'' "Obscurus" and it's just a really unfortunate last name. The word does mean something in Latin, so it's not impossible, nor even improbable, for a wizarding family to come to be named that before the term was even widely applied to the magical disease.
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** The term "Muggle" is not a slur, since it's not offensive in and of itself. There is no other official way to differentiate between wizards and Muggles, other than calling them "non-magical people," which just takes time and sounds clunky. "Mudblood" is a slur, since it carries that implication that non-magical blood is inherently dirty, i.e., wrong. "Muggle" is just a word that's used to differentiate between the two groups.
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*** I think you all are missing something very important. Tina tried bringing Newt in once when she first met him, and he was let go after the reveal that his luggage got swapped. What's important, though, is that even after they find his suitcase, along with an injured No-Maj and the revelation that several beasts have escaped, she doesn't try bringing him back in to the officials. And if you watch closely, even after she's caught Newt and Jacob inside the case in Central Park, it appears that she was ''still'' planning on just taking them back to her apartment, and only changed tactics and brought them in to MACUSA when she noticed the Obscurus passing by. ''That's'' what President Picquery meant when she was criticizing Tina's actions - because Tina knew and had evidence that dangerous beasts were loose in the city, and yet she didn't come forward with it until after they'd (supposedly) already killed someone.
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** Maybe in-universe it's to raise awareness of Obscurials and the consequences of child abuse? Or the term itself has fallen out of use to the point where no one really knows what it means - we've never heard it mentioned in the ''Hary Potter'' books, and even in the 1920s, MACUSA tried dismissing it as possible that there were any of them still in America.
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* Are we just going to totally gloss over the fact that the Wizarding publishing house that published Newt's book is '''''Obscurus''''' Books? In a series written by a person who has only ever had ''one'' coincidence in her massive book series (that being Mark ''Evans'', whose common last name is the same as Lily's maiden name)? We are? Okay, let's.
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** Concealment was definitely an issue. Remember that even Voldemort made a point to keep a low public profile and avoid the many people hunting him except when a high-stakes matter obliged him to act openly. Grindelwald was being hunted by wizarding authorities throughout Europe, a point which is mentioned in the film. Taking a break and hiding out in the U.S. gave him some breathing room to work on his plans. As for the Obscurus, it proved capable of withstanding a considerable amount of firepower from trained Aurors when it was trashing Manhattan. It's potential use as a weapon was obvious. Like Voldemort, Grindelwald was quietly gathering his forces behind the scenes in preparation for eventual war. This little trip to America allowed him to accomplish both that and keep people guessing as to where he was.
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** Maybe he wanted to use the Obscurus as a sort of cover for his plans. We already know that he was quite well-known in Europe, but America is shown to be much more strict when it comes to keeping magic a secret. So it was a lot safer for him to infiltrate MACUSA to keep himself hidden and then sic his new Obscurus on people in order to anonymously incite tension between the groups. It helps that MACUSA was at first unwilling to admit that there were any Obscurials still in America, which could've served to keep them from confronting the issue until it was too late.
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* [[FridgeBrilliance We're seeing a facsimile of the textbook published to Muggles. The Ministry probably insisted that the precise details be edited out for the Statute of Secrecy's sake.]]
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*** Even so, Harry doesn't know he's doing magic nor Vernon and Petunio told him, so he has no reason to repressed magic, he nor even believes magic is real. The obscurial is formed when a person that knows is a wizard represses his/hers magic knowingly.
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** Funnily enough, America never had a 47 star flag. It jumped from 46 to 48 in 1912, since New Mexico and Arizona were both ratified that year.
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*** That may be the case in the films, but the books are far less ambiguous. They mention several instances of Harry using magic unconsciously, and generally getting punished for it. Vernon and Petunia knew exactly what was going on, and were actively trying to stamp out his magic. When the letter from Hogwarts comes, their reaction is basically "Oh God, the moment we've been dreading for ten years has finally happened."
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** Worth noting is, President Picquery apparently revoked the 18th Amendment's influence over the wizarding community - her reason given was something like "Wizards in America live hard enough lives already."
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****If such things happen to you, would you thing you're a wizard and that magic exists in the world or would you rationalize it as something else?
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*** Also, Harry lives in a country, the U.K., which does not have cultural paranoia about the supernatural in the modern day. It is notable that Newt discovered an Obscurial in Africa, which still sees violent hysteria over alleged witchcraft in some places even in the present. As poorly as the Dursleys treated Harry, there is no indication that he feared for his life in their home.
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** It's also possible that there were witches and wizards who just ignored the laws and had relationships anyway. This was the time of prohibition, and how well did that keep people who wanted to drink from drinking?
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*** Also note that while Harry definitely knew that weird stuff happened around him, he didn't realize that ''he'' was actively causing it; he just seems to have believed himself to be a powerful WeirdnessMagnet. Unlike Tom Riddle, who didn't know that he was a wizard specifically but had figured out he had some sort of power, Harry was clearly surprised when Hagrid told him what he was, and didn't make the connection to prior strange happenings until it was explicitly pointed out. The Dursleys, of course, would have discouraged that line of thought as well.
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*** **Sigh** Riight. He teleported to the school roof, shrank his sweater and regrew his hair, all while being completely oblivious to it.
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*** **Sigh** Riight. Right. He teleported to the school roof, shrank his sweater and regrew his hair, all while being completely oblivious to it.
**** Harry's never been good at noticing the obvious. He explained away those things as weird or had some weird explanation for it.
**** Harry's never been good at noticing the obvious. He explained away those things as weird or had some weird explanation for it.
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** His reaction struck me more as him knowing they would ask for collateral and just hoping that they wouldn't bring it up. He probably drafted up the business plan and brought in pastries in the hope that it would either distract them from the fact that he had no collateral to offer or just ignore it and go on without it. So not really ignorance on his part, just wistful desperation.
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** Jacob could always just show them the note that was left inside the case - there's no evidence of any wrongdoing on his part, so the bank has no reason not to accept it. As for your second question, I don''t think they'd care. If Jacob wants to open a bakery and he has collateral to cover the bank, they have neither the right nor any reason to question him on his choices.
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** According to Pottermore's article on "Technology" (and contrary to what this troper had previously believed), Accio can actually be used to summon animals. And humans are really just extremely evolved animals, so it would probably work on them to.
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*So when Jacob returns to the bank with the eggshells, how come nobody questions how a simple factory worker got his hands on a bag full of pure silver that looks like eggshells? Or why someone that rich would need a business anyway?
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* Kowalski is clearly not stupid, so why in the world would he fall victim to that tired "a dumbass goes for a loan but has no idea a collateral will be required" cliche? He brings a business plan, for crying out loud, but that questions is what baffles him?! What did he expect was going to happen?
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* Kowalski is clearly not stupid, so why in the world would he fall victim to that tired "a dumbass goes for a loan but has no idea a collateral will be required" cliche? He brings a business plan, for crying out loud, but that questions is what baffles him?! What did he expect was going to happen?
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** Could be because "Muggle" is clearly a slur, and after a decade somebody finaly realised it and decided to at least partially remedy it.
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*** **Sigh** Riight. He teleported to the school roof, shrank his sweater and regrew his hair, all while being completely oblivious to it.
