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February 23, 2016 2:32 PM Subscribe
The Setup Wizard, a blog about being the Hogwarts IT Guy. Relatively recent, and yet fairly brilliant blog about what it's like to be the muggle IT guy for a bunch of wizards and witches. Nice shoutout to Bowie in there too.
pretty sure you'd be stealing arthur weasley's dream job.
posted by koroshiya at 2:45 PM on February 23, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by koroshiya at 2:45 PM on February 23, 2016 [4 favorites]
Brilliant.
I'm not all that big on Potter, but this blog is pure gold.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:01 PM on February 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
I'm not all that big on Potter, but this blog is pure gold.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:01 PM on February 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
It's like The IT Crowd, plus magic! This is brilliant.
posted by a halcyon day at 3:07 PM on February 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by a halcyon day at 3:07 PM on February 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
Huh. They still make iPod Nanos.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 3:08 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 3:08 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is delightful. Thanks for posting it.
posted by dersins at 3:15 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by dersins at 3:15 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Password: Alohomora Alohomora1!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 3:45 PM on February 23, 2016 [18 favorites]
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 3:45 PM on February 23, 2016 [18 favorites]
Even speaking as a non-Potter person, this is great work.
posted by thomas j wise at 4:17 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by thomas j wise at 4:17 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Hysterical. Great find.
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 4:37 PM on February 23, 2016
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 4:37 PM on February 23, 2016
The Potter fandom doesn't really tickle my fancy either, but this is great. Thanks for sharing it!
posted by schmod at 4:56 PM on February 23, 2016
posted by schmod at 4:56 PM on February 23, 2016
This is brilliant. I'd watch this movie.
posted by humanfont at 5:00 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by humanfont at 5:00 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Hee, this one amused me:
How are they deciding where to draw the line on which animals the muggles can know about and which are to be kept secret? Who decided that jackalopes are off limits but platypuses are a-ok?
posted by tavella at 5:44 PM on February 23, 2016 [6 favorites]
How are they deciding where to draw the line on which animals the muggles can know about and which are to be kept secret? Who decided that jackalopes are off limits but platypuses are a-ok?
posted by tavella at 5:44 PM on February 23, 2016 [6 favorites]
Okay, so I'm obtuse. Where's the Bowie reference?
posted by schmod at 6:24 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by schmod at 6:24 PM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
"Please. If you need something fixed send me a text, not a bird."
Funny and practical!
posted by greenland at 7:59 PM on February 23, 2016
Funny and practical!
posted by greenland at 7:59 PM on February 23, 2016
I stumbled upon this earlier today via Twitter (via @nanowrimo) and I was positively charmed. This kind of thing is absolutely my preferred kind of fanfiction.
posted by sleeping bear at 9:04 PM on February 23, 2016
posted by sleeping bear at 9:04 PM on February 23, 2016
Bastard Operator From Hogwards.
posted by MartinWisse at 10:28 PM on February 23, 2016 [11 favorites]
posted by MartinWisse at 10:28 PM on February 23, 2016 [11 favorites]
fantabulous timewaster: "schmod"
derp. thanks.
posted by schmod at 5:38 AM on February 24, 2016 [1 favorite]
derp. thanks.
posted by schmod at 5:38 AM on February 24, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is charming except as we all know, No-Maj is a terrible word that actual people do not use. You're in Hogwarts! Call them muggles.
posted by jeather at 6:11 AM on February 24, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by jeather at 6:11 AM on February 24, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is charming except as we all know, No-Maj is a terrible word that actual people do not use. You're in Hogwarts! Call them muggles.
Except that the character is explicitly stated to be an American witch, so it's not surprising that she uses American slang.
posted by NoxAeternum at 6:55 AM on February 24, 2016 [4 favorites]
Except that the character is explicitly stated to be an American witch, so it's not surprising that she uses American slang.
posted by NoxAeternum at 6:55 AM on February 24, 2016 [4 favorites]
Except that jeather is right and no-maj is stupid, canon be damned. How do you even make it plural? Ugh.
I continue to assume that "no-maj" is a term some snooty Frances Trollope-type wrote was the slang in a magical travel guide to the Americas because some Americans were annoyed with her and made up nonsense 'slang" to make her look dumb.
posted by Wretch729 at 10:22 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
I continue to assume that "no-maj" is a term some snooty Frances Trollope-type wrote was the slang in a magical travel guide to the Americas because some Americans were annoyed with her and made up nonsense 'slang" to make her look dumb.
posted by Wretch729 at 10:22 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
And then the Americans actually adopted to stick it to the idiots who insist on swish and flicking with their pinky fingers out for no good reason.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:18 PM on February 24, 2016
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:18 PM on February 24, 2016
Clearly "no-maj" originates from British magical 4chan:
> my face when the English call no-maj "muggles"posted by Rangi at 2:59 PM on February 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
> my face when the English call duelsticks "wands"
> my face when the English call freedom horses "hippogriffs"
If no-maj were the actual American term, sure, she would use it. But it is not. JKR is many wonderful things, but she isn't American and can't do American slang, even magical.
posted by jeather at 4:46 PM on February 26, 2016
posted by jeather at 4:46 PM on February 26, 2016
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