According to the wiki, the Board of Governors is mentioned in the third and sixth books, but yeah, it does seem odd how little effect they have on anything after the second book, even when Fudge and Umbridge are radically meddling with the headmaster position.
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
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I'm guessing Fudge has the power to overrule the Board of Governors if need be?
Of course, that's blatantly unfair, but considering all the crap the Ministry pulled in Book 5...
edited 5th Aug '14 1:04:15 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
This is a title.
Random aside
. Thought that was pretty nifty. Thoughts?
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Not sure it's all that specific to Harry, given that I've read that novel-reading in general is positively correlated with empathy.
Depends on the novels - I don't suppose reading Game of Thrones books would increase anyone's sense of empathy.
depends on the attitude you go into it with. A Song Of Ice And Fire differs from the TV show in that its format gives you a limited focus on all sorts of people in very different situations (unless they're peasants). it's not quite as boobs-and-gore as the tv show is, more...the ugliness of life.
on that note anyone else ever read livesandliesofwizards?
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First two I actually believed. The rest... 
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I started following it about when it stopped updating.
it was pretty cool, but there are a lot of other ones out there too. i have a weakness for expanding the HP universe.
I lolled at the Himione Granger one in that funny or die article. I wonder if he's still with Ron, though.
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Looks like we have a real life Beatrix Bloxam.note
edited 25th Sep '14 12:47:07 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
I could have sworn that there was already a Moral Substitute to Harry Potter...
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Wow, is the fanfic author really taking this seriously?
edited 25th Sep '14 3:19:42 AM by Nouct
Why not? Some more evangelical Americans take this kind of thing very seriously. And Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement stops me going any further with this post. 
Would that it were so simple.
Her username is "proudhousewife". :D
This has to be a troll.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
"But seven chapters deep with a 7,600 word count, thatβs quite the dedicated parody."
That's, like, two hours. Maybe three.
Especially when one is working with a pre-existing framework.
And I'm taking into account both writers' (Writer's? I'm not sure what the possessive refers to, the writing community or an individual writer) block and procrastination.
So, something just occurred to me. Where exactly is the Wizarding world when it comes to documenting mental health and the like? Especially regarding children?
I mean, there's tons of neglect by our standards—Neville's nuncle testing him for magic the Jackson way, Harry's everything—but we're, you know. Modern. And magic-users (Sorcerers? Warlocks? Magic-users? Thaumaturgically-gifted individuals? Bah!) most certainly aren't.note
This is a bad sign, is what I'm getting at.
edited 25th Sep '14 9:47:21 PM by Rem
Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.
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might just be a Britain thing.or UK.dunno whats the proper term,sorry.
most of mainland Europe probably is the same.
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Would that it were so simple.
I doubt Rowling took any of that into consideration.
edited 26th Sep '14 6:44:03 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
St. Mungo's does have a department for the mentally affected, though.
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I think that's obviously a parody. "He has science and socialism and birthdays!"
Seriously?
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Random person writes something ridiculous on Fan Fiction.Net.
...why is this newsworthy?
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Because Christians.
It's not over. Not yet.
not convinced this isn't a troll, but like...because American Christians gave Harry Potter a lot of crap for magic and witchcraft?
...I know people who didn't let their kids read Tolkien.
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Or he could have simply filled the Board of Governors with Yes Men.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."