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tasangnokun: An emotional reunion between Sherlock & John
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londonphile: Episode 4 d*l (source) - no Angel Islington
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what is dead may never die but rises again harder, better, faster, stronger, work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger
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life is tough when you’re a lazy perfectionist who simultaneously doesn’t give a shit about anything but at the same time cares too much about everything u feel
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thecutteralicia: ivyblossom: “That’s it Sherlock, warm her up,...
“That’s it Sherlock, warm her up, she’s never going to see this coming…”
“That’s my boy! Let’s get down to it now, then, shall we? Yes, he’s a genius, yes, he’s with me, uh huh, that’s my Sherlock.”
“Hold on, what? What the fuck? What the fuck are you doing, Sherlock? THIS IS NOT WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN THE CAR.”
Sherlock might have all the lines, but John’s face conveys all the meaning.
Mark Gatiss said once that Martin asked if he could substitute a certain line in the script with just a facial expression, and it turned out so much better. That was their first lesson in letting Martin “King of the Reaction Shots” do his thing.
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Like, I knew shepherding was a boring job
but these guys really had nothing better to do
some days i really love that humans exist
holy shit
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Alfie Allen for CNN
Alfie Allen for CNN
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Watching an unbearably sad episode of Cold Case, also known as “every episode of Cold Case.”
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CNN actually researched how much it would cost to go to Hogwarts
How exactly did they “research” this? Looks like they just pulled a bunch of random figures out of their butts.
It’s stated in the books that tuition to Hogwarts is “free for all children in Britain”. I don’t know why they thought it wouldn’t be - it’s a British high school, not a college. So there, you just saved yourself $42,024.
In Chamber of Secrets, Mrs. Weasley emptied her entire bank account which contained only two galleons [£10 / US$20] and she managed to buy all five children’s entire set of books and potion ingredients with this, as well as Ginny’s robes, hat, clock, cauldron, and wand!!! And we know she bought all of these as she mentioned having to buy them. The fact that she bought all of these with only £10 pretty much proves how absolutely ridiculous CNNs estimation is.
If you want more proof, the actual cost of Harry’s want is far over estimated here, and the exact price in both pounds as US dollars can easily be found right within the books! Harry’s wand is bought for seven galleons, a galleon being worth about five pounds [mentioned by JK Rowling in an interview and in FBAWTFT/QTTA] means that his wand was £35, or US$53. So there’s some straight-out-of-the-books-and-word-of-god proof that the figures CNN have given are way off the mark. Not to mention the fact that even if you don’t go to Hogwarts, as a magical human you’re gonna have to buy a wand anyway if you want to do magic.
As for the school books, I’ve done an approximation based on various prices given through-out the books and on Pottermore. While these prices involve a substantial amount of guess-work, I think you’ll agree that my calculation is far more accurate than CNNs:
The Standard book of Spells costs one sickle [29p / US59c]. On the back of my comic relief copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them it says it costs fourteen sickles [£4.60 / US$8.26]. One Pottermore, all text books are one galleon [£4.97 / US$10.17] - however Pottermore currency only uses galleons so it’s likely they have rounded off. Lockhart’s books, the most expensive in the series, are five galleons on Pottermore meaning that the exchange rate in the books puts them around two galleons and fourteen sickles [£14.60 / US$20.80]. If we put a high average on this and assume that all textbooks are approximately a galleon [they are likely much less], and that each year has around seven required reading books, the entire price for seven years worth of books would be forty-nine galleons, which equals approximately £243, or US$367 - and remember, this is the maximum estimated price for the textbooks.
For the minimum, we need to consider that the Weasleys get a lot of things second hand, with Ginny’s copy of A Begginers Guide To Transfiguration being described as “a very old, very battered copy” - likely no more than five sickles. If they got all their books around that price, it would cost them no more than £14 / US$21 for the entire seven years worth! So school books, far from being US$516, fall somewhere between US$14 and US$367 for the entire seven years at Hogwarts.
Next we have robe, glove, cloak, and hat prices - these are never mentioned in the books or on Pottermore, so I can’t account for that. However I seriously doubt it’s as a high as they’ve got here. Considering books in the wizarding world are generally much cheaper than in the muggle world, I think it’s fairly safe to assume that clothing is as well. Likely a maximum of a galleon for a single set of robes.
They’ve also forgotten a huge number of things - cauldrons, potion ingredients, scales, and star charts, among others.
So yeah, I really don’t know where they came up with these figures. It looks like some guy just wanted to make a story about how expensive Hogwarts would be and put a bunch of American college figures together and thought “yeah, this looks good.”
Do not fuck with a fandom.
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#wow your face please stop #i can’t take it...
#wow your face please stop #i can’t take it anymore #and you know what I find really evocative in this is’s the wet lapels of his coat #and like where the water stains are #and aren’t #how he was wearing it and just wow wet and jacket and shirt and john #help #you just you love sherlock so much and i just i wish you could understand how much sherlock love you and you love each other and wow i just
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