Couple of new blog posts:

* xkcd-for-my-daughter: a list of XKCD strips, which were the
  most relevant for me.
* enemies-to-friends: most “Enemies to friends” stories are just
  incredibly stupid.
* hinny_dump: just a disorganized dump of Hinny stories
* huna_drinny: one of plot bunnies, which I would like to read
  fulfilled, but I certainly cannot do so myself.
* james-potter-werewolf-incident: it is just impossible of events
  happened how they are described in canon, JKR had to make a
  mistake in ordering those two sub-stories, otherwise James
  Potter would be quite a monster.
* lords-supper-and-magic: I have never understood why the idea of
  magic should be against the Christian faith.

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+Enemies to Friends … girls object! 
+##################################
+
+:date: 2021-10-31T01:11:25
+:category: literature
+:tags: storyPrompt, review, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+(my post_ on the topic on Reddit)
+
+I have just re-read Tangerine-Alert trilogy on Harry avoiding his
+participation in the Triwizard Tournament (volumes one_, two_,
+and three_), and although I generally liked the stories and some
+of the ideas are really good, there was one overwhelming feeling
+which made me almost puke: the ease with which Harry collaborated
+with Lucius Malfoy. I understand that enemy to friends is a
+lovely trope and gives it a good dramatic tension, but if you
+want to really span the dramatic arch, then you have to span it
+and not ignore it. All these stories are from the GoF time-frame,
+so it is just not possible to get over the fact that Lucius
+Malfoy intentionally tried to hurt Harry's best friend's sister
+(if not more, we all know, that according to the fairy-tale rules
+the knight slaying the dragon and saving the princess has to
+get her hand in a marriage and half of her father's kingdom …
+OK, the latter wouldn't be too much, true), also intentionally
+(he knew the beast will go after muggleborns) tried to kill his
+other best friend, tortured Dobby, etc. Draco was not a sweet
+boy but aside from bullying Hermione he tried to kill Buckbeak
+just because he was not willing to admit his mistake. It is not
+possible for Harry to just skip over this with “Oh well, we
+have different opinions on how to lead magical society and it
+is probably my fault because I am not educated enough about the
+magical culture.” No, Malfoys (and Snape) are horrible human
+trash, and if they want to turn to the Light, they have plenty of
+turning to do.
+
+So, the story I would love to be able to read would be something
+like one of these stories, where Harry decides that Lucius Malfoy
+is the ally he needs (BTW, truly, Harry didn’t know about anybody
+else who could help him after going for three years to one class
+with Susan Bones?), and when the information leaks out, Ginny and
+Hermione go ballistic, because Harry betrayed them. Dobby just
+cannot take to his big heart that The Good Harry Potter allied
+himself with his Bad Former Master and commits suicide.
+
+.. _post:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/qjo8df/enemies_to_friends_girls_object/
+
+.. _one:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11642540
+
+.. _two:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11936172/1/
+
+.. _three:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13277595/1/
diff --git a/literature/hinny_dump.rst b/literature/hinny_dump.rst
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+Dump of my hinny/ folder
+########################
+
+:date: 2024-05-13T22:27:03
+:category: literature
+:tags: harryPotter, fromReddit
+
+Originally comment on “`Hinny Fics?`_” on Reddit.
+
+-  “`Accidents Happen <https://fanfiction.net/s/13349488>`__”
+-  “`A Desperate Apology <https://fanfiction.net/s/11917963>`__”
+-  “`A Dream
+   Deferred <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/4433>`__”
+-  “`After the Die is
+   Cast <https://www.mugglenetfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?sid=30857>`__”
+-  “`Ages <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=127979>`__”
+-  “`A Godfather’s Love <https://archiveofourown.org/works/18216887>`__”
+-  “`A Locket through the
+   Years <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=127956>`__”
+-  “`A Long Overdue
+   Confession <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129317>`__”
+-  “`A New Life <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24474001>`__”
+-  “`A New Life <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/6416>`__”
+-  “`A Night at the Burrow\_ A Fan
+   Short <https://fanfiction.net/s/4019762>`__”
+-  “`A Toad of a
+   Hero <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/5132>`__”
+-  “`A True Slytherin <https://fanfiction.net/s/2211595>`__”
+-  “`Babies and Polyjuice <https://fanfiction.net/s/13330433>`__”
+-  “`Black & Red <https://fanfiction.net/s/13571603>`__”
+-  “`Blueberry Scones <https://fanfiction.net/s/7270795>`__”
+-  “`Clever <https://fanfiction.net/s/13160285>`__”
+-  “`Closet Bohemia <https://fanfiction.net/s/2507843>`__”
+-  “`Contractual Obligation <https://fanfiction.net/s/14143530>`__”
+-  “`Cotton Candy <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=2818>`__”
+-  “`Disrespect
+   Authority <https://archiveofourown.org/works/44950582>`__”
+-  “`Dumbledore’s Biggest Mistake <https://fanfiction.net/s/3871987>`__”
+-  “`Eloped <https://fanfiction.net/s/13722227>`__”
+-  “`Escape from Brextwistle
+   Hall <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/6603>`__”
+-  “`Exploding Snap <https://fanfiction.net/s/12083774>`__”
+-  “`Exploding Snap <https://fanfiction.net/s/12133483>`__”
+-  “`Exploding Snap <https://fanfiction.net/s/13158731>`__”
+-  “`Fair Fortune’s
+   Flowers <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=128445>`__”
+-  “`Falling For
+   Her <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=127932>`__”
+-  “`Fate’s Mistake <https://fanfiction.net/s/4084005>`__”
+-  “`Finding Hedwig <https://fanfiction.net/s/12721724>`__”
+-  “`Finding Us <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=128444>`__”
+-  “`Focused <https://fanfiction.net/s/13789522>`__”
+-  “`Follow the Phoenix <https://fanfiction.net/s/5069455>`__”
+-  “`Foolish <https://fanfiction.net/s/7181871>`__”
+-  “`for a pessimist\_ i’m pretty
+   optimistic <https://archiveofourown.org/works/11291784>`__”
+-  “`Forgetting <https://archiveofourown.org/works/13803561>`__”
+-  “`Form 2B <https://fanfiction.net/s/9933535>`__”
+-  “`Fortnight <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/6080>`__”
+-  “`Friends\_ At
+   Least\_ <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=12508>`__”
+-  “`G for Ginevra <https://fanfiction.net/s/10213764>`__”
+-  “`Ginger Snaps <https://archiveofourown.org/works/49959433>`__”
+-  “`Ginny Weasley and the Half Blood
+   Prince <https://fanfiction.net/s/5677867>`__”
+-  “`Growing Up
+   Kneazle <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129206>`__”
+-  “`Harry Loves Ginny and Ginny Loves
+   Harry <https://fanfiction.net/s/7055185>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter and the Butterfly
+   Effect <https://fanfiction.net/s/9065880>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter and the Heart of the
+   Hero <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129685>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter and the Summer of
+   Flight <https://archiveofourown.org/works/14020692>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter and the Veil of
+   Death <https://fanfiction.net/s/12120193>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter and the Veil of
+   Mystery <https://fanfiction.net/s/5386877>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter and the War Against
+   Voldemort <https://fanfiction.net/s/4709859>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter\_ Choices <https://fanfiction.net/s/8820097>`__”
+-  “`Harry Potter\_ To Love Is To
+   Live <https://fanfiction.net/s/3480843>`__”
+-  “`Hermione’s advice <https://fanfiction.net/s/14187347>`__”
+-  “`Hex the Nargles Off of the
+   Mistletoe <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=4672>`__”
+-  “`Home <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130489>`__”
+-  “`Hope for the Best\_ Plan for the
+   Worst <https://archiveofourown.org/works/20352643>`__”
+-  “`Chamber Girl <https://fanfiction.net/s/13561400>`__”
+-  “`Chamber of Changes <https://archiveofourown.org/works/35043637>`__”
+-  “`Changes <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24024865>`__”
+-  “`Changes <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/4214>`__”
+-  “`Charming
+   Ginny <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130311>`__”
+-  “`Chasing Gnats <https://fanfiction.net/s/12721563>`__”
+-  “`I’d Rather Fall in
+   Chocolate <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129310>`__”
+-  “`If Harry Potter Had
+   Game <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130607>`__”
+-  “`In Every Universe\_ All in One
+   Piece <https://archiveofourown.org/works/11787858>`__”
+-  “`in my head we do everything
+   right <https://fanfiction.net/s/13143812>`__”
+-  “`Intervention <https://fanfiction.net/s/14243300>`__”
+-  “`In the Heat of the Night <https://fanfiction.net/s/11367427>`__”
+-  “`In the Words of Ginevra Molly
+   Potter <https://fanfiction.net/s/3728284>`__”
+-  “`In You I
+   Trust <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=127862>`__”
+-  “`i still believe in heroes <https://fanfiction.net/s/8395381>`__”
+-  “`It Sneaks Up On
+   You <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=1133>`__”
+-  “`Learning to Dance <https://fanfiction.net/s/2844583>`__”
+-  “`Leave Me Alone <https://fanfiction.net/s/3793722>`__”
+-  “`Love Is Like A Rose <https://fanfiction.net/s/2870133>`__”
+-  “`Magic Within\_ Magic
+   Without <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=4384>`__”
+-  “`Marriage and
+   Inheritance <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=2299>`__”
+-  “`Meaning of One
+   Outtake <https://-%20Mission_%20Impossiblewww.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=127653>`__”
+-  “`Memories & The Secret of
+   Hogwarts <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130341>`__”
+-  “`Miss the Most <https://archiveofourown.org/works/35207926>`__”
+-  “`Miss the Most <https://fanfiction.net/s/13808081>`__”
+-  “`Monster <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=7818>`__”
+-  “`Months <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=128065>`__”
+-  “`My Slytherin Harry <https://fanfiction.net/s/6160345>`__”
+-  “`New Heights <https://fanfiction.net/s/12085475>`__”
+-  “`New Year\_ New
+   Hope <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=4696>`__”
+-  “`No Matter How
+   Improbable <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=128266>`__”
+-  “`Normal as a
+   Wedding <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24007870>`__”
+-  “`Normal as a
+   Wedding <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=7995>`__”
+-  “`Normalcy <https://harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?psid=204407>`__”
+-  “`Noticing <https://archiveofourown.org/works/15936890>`__”
+-  “`Odyssey to the
+   Orient <https://archiveofourown.org/works/13832529>`__”
+-  “`One Traffic Light <https://fanfiction.net/s/7058158>`__”
+-  “`Open at the
+   Close <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=127050>`__”
+-  “`Orange Crush Drabbles
+   (Harry_Ginny) <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24948679>`__”
+-  “`Orchards <https://archiveofourown.org/works/44061048>`__”
+-  “`Overprotective <https://archiveofourown.org/works/28056225>`__”
+-  “`Owl Post <https://fanfiction.net/s/10502383>`__”
+-  “`Passing <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/3724>`__”
+-  “`Perilous
+   Journey <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129590>`__”
+-  “`Phoenix <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/4480>`__”
+-  “`Rebuilding the World <https://fanfiction.net/s/3872862>`__”
+-  “`Reign O’er Me <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=3555>`__”
+-  “`Remember <https://archiveofourown.org/works/13244409>`__”
+-  “`Resonance <https://archiveofourown.org/works/4210032>`__”
+-  “`Revenge is Sweet <https://fanfiction.net/s/12539370>`__”
+-  “`Rows <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24024646>`__”
+-  “`Rows <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/3693>`__”
+-  “`Rusalka\_ Red Silk <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24327295>`__”
+-  “`Rusalka\_ Red
+   Silk <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/3723>`__”
+-  “`Saving the Saviour <https://fanfiction.net/s/11833745>`__”
+-  “`Seasons of Change\_ Year
+   1 <https://archiveofourown.org/works/16125011>`__”
+-  “`Seasons of Change\_ Year
+   2 <https://archiveofourown.org/works/16182386>`__”
+-  “`Seasons of Change\_ Year
+   3 <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24989500>`__”
+-  “`Secret Love <https://fanfiction.net/s/12773559>`__”
+-  “`Seventeen <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/5284>`__”
+-  “`show me heart <https://archiveofourown.org/works/25402456>`__”
+-  “`Summer’s Breeze <https://fanfiction.net/s/7103775>`__”
+-  “`Summer Story <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=126984>`__”
+-  “`Teenage Mutant Ninja
+   Kneazles <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129618>`__”
+-  “`That red
+   dress <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130456>`__”
+-  “`the Ambush Harry
+   Conspiracy <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=5406>`__”
+-  “`The Bargain <https://fanfiction.net/s/2160456>`__”
+-  “`The Bargain\_ Side Effects <https://fanfiction.net/s/2435010>`__”
+-  “`The Beast Within <https://fanfiction.net/s/9527368>`__”
+-  “`The Best Ship of All <https://fanfiction.net/s/2554764>`__”
+-  “`The Commoner Queen <https://fanfiction.net/s/7009713>`__”
+-  “`The Department of
+   Mysteries <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129738>`__”
+-  “`The Changeling <https://archiveofourown.org/works/189189>`__”
+-  “`The Insurance Policy <https://fanfiction.net/s/13385871>`__”
+-  “`The Legacy of Regulus
+   Black <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130255>`__”
+-  “`The Legacy of Regulus Black\_ the Story
+   Continues <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130301>`__”
+-  “`The Lost Year <https://fanfiction.net/s/13815274>`__”
+-  “`The Natural Animagus <https://fanfiction.net/s/4183350>`__”
+-  “`The Night <https://archiveofourown.org/works/23771665>`__”
+-  “`The One with the
+   Photograph <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24423739>`__”
+-  “`The Perfect Fit <https://fanfiction.net/s/1964257>`__”
+-  “`The Pick Up <https://fanfiction.net/s/13389006>`__”
+-  “`The Power He Knows Not <https://fanfiction.net/s/13166044>`__”
+-  “`The Ritual <https://fanfiction.net/s/12654097>`__”
+-  “`The Road Not Taken <https://archiveofourown.org/works/13107957>`__”
+-  “`The Room of Lost Things <https://fanfiction.net/s/13113518>`__”
+-  “`The Sins of the
+   Fathers <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/5750>`__”
+-  “`The Slimmest\_ Wildest
+   Chances <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=1981>`__”
+-  “`The Thorny Rose <https://fanfiction.net/s/9631998>`__”
+-  “`The Thorny Rose 2\_ A Bustle In Your
+   Hedgerow <https://fanfiction.net/s/9969456>`__”
+-  “`The Thorny Rose 3\_ A Spring Clean for the May
+   Queen <https://fanfiction.net/s/10288020>`__”
+-  “`the train station <https://archiveofourown.org/works/6997183>`__”
+-  “`The Unknown Light <https://archiveofourown.org/works/6242449>`__”
+-  “`The Weasleys and the Potters <https://fanfiction.net/s/9195660>`__”
+-  “`The World As We Knew It <https://fanfiction.net/s/3571753>`__”
+-  “`The World I Leave
+   Behind <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=128358>`__”
+-  “`To become a Muggle <https://fanfiction.net/s/5866364>`__”
+-  “`Trophy Boyfriend\_ Harry Potter and the Winning of his
+   Wand <https://archiveofourown.org/works/24139939>`__”
+-  “`Twelve Hours <https://fanfiction.net/s/13562088>`__”
+-  “`Twenty <https://-Two%20Daysarchiveofourown.org/works/8191594>`__”
+-  “`Two
+   Conversations <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130055>`__”
+-  “`Uncertainty in Grimmauld
+   Place <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=6540>`__”
+-  “`we can still be\_ who we said we
+   were <https://fanfiction.net/s/12713008>`__”
+-  “`What If <https://fanfiction.net/s/9879046>`__”
+-  “`What If Snape Died <https://fanfiction.net/s/2968636>`__”
+-  “`When Harry Missed the Trick
+   Step <https://fanfiction.net/s/12092024>`__”
+-  “`Who Is Ginny Weasley
+   Dating\_ <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=130574>`__”
+-  “`Without A Trace <https://archiveofourown.org/works/14101779>`__”
+-  “`Words from the past <https://fanfiction.net/s/7320306>`__”
+-  “`Yarn Shop <https://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/1842>`__”
+-  “`Years <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=129085>`__”
+-  “`You’re Still
+   You <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=3153>`__”
+-  “`Dragons\_ Diaries\_ and Diagon
+   Alley <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=2601>`__”
+-  “`Leaving Privet
+   Drive <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=5789>`__”
+-  “`Lucky Me <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=2658>`__”
+-  “`Red Is The
+   Heart <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=2902>`__”
+-  “`These Three Words (Wallpaper Moments
+   II) <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=12382>`__”
+-  “`Wallpaper
+   Moments <https://www.siye.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=2036>`__”
+
+.. _`Hinny Fics?`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/1cr7i17/hinny_fics/
diff --git a/literature/huna_drinny.rst b/literature/huna_drinny.rst
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+Huna leading to Drinny
+######################
+
+:date: 2024-05-14T23:32:57
+:category: literature
+:tags: storyPrompt, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit
+
+Originally published as “`Ginny-centered Huna and what next …`_”
+on Reddit.
+
+.. _`Ginny-centered Huna and what next …`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/o40sus/ginnycentered_huna_and_what_next/
+
+Imagine a classical Huna story (Harry takes Luna to the
+Slughorn’s party and they hit it off), but seen from the eyes of
+Ginny. She has to finally fight the final loss of her hope that
+she would get together with Harry ever. She doesn’t get crazily
+jealous, because who could blame Luna for anything, and besides
+Luna is her friend and friends don’t steal boyfriends from other
+friends, but it is hard and she is moping around the castle
+in not very good mental state. While going through the second
+floor she finds Draco in the Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom breaking
+down because he just cannot carry on in his attempt to deliver
+poisoned mead to Dumbledore. They manage to talk and she gets
+through to him and persuades him to go to Snape and Dumbledore
+for help. While working on his double-agent story, they get
+together.
+
+There is an alternative to this pre-Christmas Drinny, with them
+getting together only after Ron’s poisoning (Ginny spends a month
+or so moping around). How to make it possible for Ginny to get
+involved with possible murderer of her brother? That wouldn’t
+work, so how to do it?
+
+One thing about those first two attacks (the cursed necklace and
+Katie Bell, and the poisoned mead and Ron) is that they can be
+fully orchestrated from outside Hogwarts. Actually, they feel
+weird exactly because they are too complicated for somebody who
+is inside the castle. That’s right, the true perpetrator of these
+two crimes was not Draco, but Narcissa Malfoy, who was still
+trying to save him by making him succeed, because she suspects
+Draco was not able to accomplish the intended assassination of
+Dumbledore.
+
+And when Draco sees somebody actually fighting for his life (more
+Ron than Katie who was unconveniently shipped to St. Mango),
+he might finally realized what does it actually mean to kill
+somebody.
+
+So, it could be possible to have both of my hoped-for pairings
+Draco/Ginny and Ron/Lavender (this time meant seriously after his
+near-death experience). Harry is free to go anywhere or even for
+Harmony or Huna for all I know.
diff --git a/literature/james-potter-werewolf-incident.rst b/literature/james-potter-werewolf-incident.rst
new file mode 100644
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+James Potter and The Werewolf Incident
+######################################
+ 
+:date: 2022-10-31T07:27:12
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, storyPrompt
+ 
+Comment on the Reddit thread “`In which year did the Snape-Werewolf incident happen?`_”
+by `/u/Hoptitu`_)
+
+
+What is even more important question: were the words
+
+> “Well, it’s more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean. …”
+
+said by James Potter after Severus Snape was almost killed by the
+means of a werewolf in his presence (yes, James saved him, but
+was it really from the goodness of his heart or because he was
+smart enough to see what could happen to two of his friends)? And
+was James Potter still the best buddy with a guy who just for fun
+almost killed another (and threatened a life of his best friend)?
+
+If yes, if shows truly the level of arrogance and disrespect for
+human life which makes James Potter a way less nice person than
+he is usually presented to be. Actually, quite disgusting. (Of
+course, the problem is, I suspect, that JKR as usual didn’t check
+her timeline).
+
+
+.. _`In which year did the Snape-Werewolf incident happen?`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/yi01l5/in_which_year_did_the_snapewerewolf_incident/
+
+.. _`/u/Hoptitu`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/user/Hoptitu/
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+Lord’s Supper and Harry Potter
+##############################
+
+:date: 2024-05-17T16:35:58
+:category: literature
+:tags: harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit, theology
+
+(my comment on the reddit thread `The Pope loves magic,
+actually`_ by callmesalticidae_)
+
+Foremost, I don’t want to make it into a Catholic/Protestant
+thing. I know Catholics who agree with me in saying that the
+whole transubstantiation controversy is basically a disaster
+caused by the Scholastic attempt to squeeze everything into a
+rational framework.  Scholasticism was in many aspects an Alpha
+version of the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, and it
+hit the similar problems.
+
+Here they tried to fit the round peg of the God’s mystery to the
+square hole of the Aristotelian logical framework of reason,
+and it really never worked well. Then of course, because the
+Catholic Church never makes a mistake, instead of admitting the
+idea was a bit foolish they doubled down on it and made it into
+`the shibboleth of the true faith`_, which made the whole thing
+even worse. Then the Reformation came and who were just two sides
+in a discussion were now enemies, and so Reformers add `their own
+junk`_.
+
+I do like the formulation of the seventeenth century bishop of
+Czech brethren Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius) from his confession_
+of faith that Jesus told us to meet with him in the bread and
+wine and not to study it or trying to understand it.
+
+Concerning Harry Potter and transfiguration. I really don’t know
+where it came from that the Christian faith could be somehow put
+in jeopardy by the discovery that changing of water into wine
+(which is the best I can understand could transfiguration do) is
+possible by magic. Firstly, it is the Wedding at Cana not the
+Last Supper, and for the second, I don’t think even the most
+strict extreme Roman Catholic would ever argue that even the
+Consecrated Host would be by scientific method distinguishable
+from any other regular bread (not that he would do any scientific
+investigation of the Sacred Host for reverence to it).  Spiritual
+change of bread and wine into The Glorious Presence of the Lord
+Jesus is something which I don’t think even Professor McGonagall
+claim to do (who is in my headcanon a strict Presbyterian and a
+relative of Helen Burns from “Jane Eyre”).
+
+So, yes, after arguing about it for myself, I don’t think
+Transfiguration has any effect on anything, be it the Protestant
+Lord’s Supper or the Catholic Eucharist.
+
+.. _`The Pope loves magic, actually`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/1ctqbkn/the_pope_loves_magic_actually/
+
+.. _callmesalticidae:
+    https://www.reddit.com/user/callmesalticidae
+
+
+.. _`the shibboleth of the true faith`:
+    https://youtu.be/fqkaBEWPH18
+
+.. _`their own junk`:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism#Lord's_Day_30
+
+.. _confession:
+    https://kaplice.evangnet.cz/HTMS/kb.html