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To the Harry Potter fans...

There are a lot of things in the first 2 books that are never mentioned again, like zombies and vampire. There are also plot holes throughout the story.

I know that the author could not have predicted where the story would go while writing the first book or two.

But, I wonder if anyone would be interested in an update that removes the ideas that abandoned after the first book or should it all be left alone.

I've recently found a lot of joy from #book pairings I stumble on by accident.

I first read "The Terraformers" by Annalee Newitz, which is a wonderful little bit of scifi about people employed in terraforming entire worlds, as paid for by megacorps, to turn them into tourist destinations etc. It gives the usual corps vs enviornmentalist rundown, but in a brilliantly presented way, and is very inspiring.

Shortly thereafter, I read "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which is a very real story about her lived experience blending first nations wisdom with hard sciences of the west, and working to help her botany students, and the whole world realize that nature is not "out there" but that we are an integral part of nature, and that love of our environment, and realization that our environment loves us can prompt a radical shift in how we view the world and what we do with our time here.

This combination was fantastic, and I recommend them in the above order to anyone who is a fan of the #environment #solarpunk or just wants to find ways to make the world a better place.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡: 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝'𝙨 '𝘾𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚'

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