• big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space
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      3 months 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.

    • threelonmusketeers
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      3 months 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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        3 months ago

        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.

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          Or maybe turning to stone is a euphemism and he’s bricked the fuck up, but just out of frame.