• big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space
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      4 days ago

      It’s a metaphor for the intellect. A hundred competing thoughts, like writhing snakes. You are frozen by indecision.

      But that’s mythology for you. Literalised metaphors and vice versa.

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      5 days ago

      Voldemort seems to be doing exactly that in this comic, with no ill effects. I wonder if he has some sort of immunity due to being a parselmouth…

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        Likely the horcruxes. Or, getting turned to stone is a euphemism and voldemort is impotent due to his experiments, which we do have some evidence for.