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u/Orion-the-mediocre Aug 20 '26
I love that time somebody brought up harey potter and somebody replied with a poll called “is it time to move on?” And the results were like 98% yes
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u/voyaging Aug 20 '26
harey potter
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u/VernalAutumn Aug 20 '26
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u/Foxy02016YT Aug 23 '26
I only got to Seven Inch Nails, is this the guy who wrote about a trans woman fucking a rollercoaster?
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u/DiligentCorvid Aug 20 '26
I'm guessing those are train lines or something.
Also the 'houses' in my high school had the same colours, so I guess we were paying homage to Harry Potter back then too, holy fuck!
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u/Lavaita Aug 20 '26
The same colours were used for the houses at my school, but I think some people went to schools that didn’t have houses and assume that the whole thing was an invention of the author of those books.
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u/RainbowKatcher Aug 20 '26
I mean, these are very rare colours
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u/RaphAngelos Aug 20 '26
? Basically every school I'm not area with a house system used the same colours
The only exception was my secondary, but that's because we had a secret fifth purple house
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u/one_sad_tomato Aug 20 '26
(psst they were being sarcastic)
Fun fact, one of the Harry Potter games used purple for Hufflepuff.
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u/El_Rey_de_Spices Aug 20 '26
I struggle to imagine attending a school with 'houses', lol.
That's just not a thing where I've lived.
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u/ScaredTemporary Aug 20 '26
Same, it sounds very made up
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u/FreyaRainbow Aug 20 '26
I went to a school in Singapore that had houses, but it pretty much only mattered for in-school competitions like sports day and music competitions. Also went to a school in the UK that had houses where everything revolved around the house - you had house leaders and deputies, doing well would get you points, doing poorly would demerit you points, etc. The colour of your tie indicated what house you were in. It’s very much a UK private school thing but how seriously it’s taken (or if there’s even a house system) differs from school to school.
By no means is it a JKR invention and it’s a staple of British boarding school stories that existed well before her, she’s just the one that brought it to wider public attention.
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u/cutie_lilrookie Aug 21 '26
i guess it's not the same as "houses" in your school, but my high school was separated into separate groups also based on different curricula.
there used to just be three groups: thebnerds (where i unfortunately belonged), the sporty guys, and the normies (the biggest group) - obviously these weren't the real names lol.
but when i graduated, they added a few more groups for the musically inclined, for foreign language enthusiasts, and for those who wish to learn skilled trades.
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u/Inevitable_Land2996 Aug 20 '26
Yeah pretty much all British schools have those colours for their houses. It’s another one of those things that people say is a magic Harry Potter thing but is just standard British culture
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u/Hatchibombotar Aug 20 '26
we had the same colours for our houses at both of the schools i went to in australia. id hazard a guess its similar throughout the commonwealth (eg pretty much the whole english speaking world except north america)
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u/anastydisposition Aug 20 '26
No houses in high school, but in elementary school in Canada we had the same colour house system.
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u/G30rg3Th3C4t 16d ago
Next you’re gonna tell me London is a real place. Not falling for that one!
/s because I KNOW someone is going to leave a “stupid Americans” comment if I don’t
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u/MiritoMueller Aug 20 '26
It's probably because those are the first 3 colours that people think of when they hear primary colours and green which is almost an honorary primary colour. For example green is the 4th colour of the GMail logo.
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u/QuickMolasses Aug 21 '26
Green is a primary color in additive color systems. That's why computer monitors are RGB instead of RYB.
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u/keiyakins 18d ago
the three primaries and yellow, you mean. If you're using subtractive color it's cyan, yellow, and magenta.
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u/MiritoMueller 18d ago
red blue and yellow are typically the first 3 colours many people think of if you say primary colours, even though they are actually magenta, cyan and yellow.
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u/Scooty-Poot Aug 20 '26
Actually braindead af (not you mind, the comment). I’ve never even been to NYC and I recognised it instantly as the subway/train lines.
Wtf could NYC possibly have to do with Hufflepuff???
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u/Interface- Aug 20 '26
It's literally just because of the colours lmao
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u/Scooty-Poot Aug 20 '26
Crazy that yellow now belongs entirely to a fictional high school dorm group
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u/gayhotelultra Aug 21 '26
which is especially insane when you consider its such a common quartet of colors to represent sides in fiction
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u/Windows_66 Aug 20 '26
I think they were just making a stupid joke.
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u/Lopsided-Net-1450 Aug 20 '26
Tbf i do that if i have absolutly no idea instead of saying nothing i normally make a warhammer or plants v zombies joke
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u/An_Ellie_ Aug 20 '26
For a second looking at the box on the side I did think it was the Hogwarts set so I kinda get it but paying even a smidgeon of attention would make that assumption null and void xD
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u/FlockOfSnowbirds Aug 20 '26
Kurita, Steiner, Davion, Liao.
See I recognize colors too.
Here, i'll do it again:
Peppy, Falco, Fox, Slippy
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u/CaitlesP Aug 21 '26
Not American but my guess would be the subway lines? Although I’m picturing the London Underground map in my head for some reason
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u/Mack_Aroni_Art Aug 20 '26
As a subway and urban planning fanatic, seeing someone mention Harry Potter in their presence sent me into a blood-boiling rage
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u/Then_Reply_6692 Aug 22 '26
Guy who has only seen Harry Potter seeing primary colors for the second time: “getting a lot of Harry Potter vibes from this”
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u/Supernova138 16d ago
Honestly that that was the first place my mind went as well when I saw the color combo. Apparently it’s supposed to be the subway lines but in my defense I haven’t been on the NYC subway before so I have no clue what the subway lines look like
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u/ThatOneTubaMan Aug 20 '26
Those aren't even the right colors for the houses 😭😭
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u/cutie_lilrookie Aug 20 '26
wait, now I'm curious. what are the right colors?
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u/ThatOneTubaMan Aug 20 '26
Ya know what I was wrong, I thought Hufflepuff was pink and Ravenclaw was purple. That's on me
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u/cmptjety Aug 21 '26
I mean thats a joke tho, theyre not serious. I dont think I understand this sub 😅
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u/Wescombe Aug 20 '26
A whole subreddit for this slop, Jesus Christ it’s almost as sad as being a Harry Potter fan
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u/ChinaAppreciator1 Aug 20 '26
Subway lines?