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She was an OTT panto-villain in the books too, if anything she underplayed the character.

I never thought she was that over-the-top in the books, although my view on her is 100% informed by Jim Dale's reading of her in the audiobooks as very quiet but determined crazy.

Really? I don't recall her being the spastic Helena played her as.

Spastic? Really? That is the most pitiful attempt at trolling I've seen in ages. -10 out of 10 nonny.

Did I offend some social justice code?

Ah, pretending innocence too. Sorry, that still doesn't make you any less failtastic in your trolling.

woah there friend this troll is getting very meta

If you say so.

lol are you serious rn

"Spastic" is not derogatory in every part of the world. It's really not all that strange for someone to have never seen or heard it used as a slur.

... Spastic is derogatory?

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I think it's more of a cultural thing.

Spastic in the US is not offensive of a term as it is over seas.

Spastic in the US = Loud, obnoxious person
Spastic Elsewhere = Someone who has the medical condition cerebral palsy

Like how fanny in the US is a kid term for the butt but in the UK, it is a dirty slang term for the vagina.

Fanny is also an aunt from child investor novels.

Yeah basically. I didn't mean to imply that Bellatrix had cerebral palsy.

Just generally an evil derp.

Huh. I knew "spastic" had a much worse connotation overseas than in the US, but I thought it had to do with epilepsy. Live and learn.

Cerebral palsy and epilepsy are not the same thing.

Tones can come across weird on the internet, so I just want to add that my only intent is to politely inform.

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Late to the thread, but in Canada, it's a bit more nuanced: Spastic, when used in a medical setting, by medical professionals, as medical terminology, or when referring to one's own RL medical condition (i.e., my spastic leg muscle, my spastic body part etc.) that's fine.

Call an able-bodied person (or yourself, if you are able-bodied) a spazz, ehhhh, that's pushing it. In poor taste, maybe, but hardly the OMG!TEH!SOSHUL!INJUSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!!!ELEVENTY!!! the SJWS go on (and on and on and on and on and...you get my point) about.

Call a PWD a spazz here, OTOH, and you're def. looking for war.

Is fanny really a dirty word for vagina in the UK?

It means vagina here in Australia, but it's more childish and kiddy.

Pretty much the same in the UK, Aussie anon. Not that dirty, a bit daft. Basically, in both countries you'll get raised eyebrows if you say, "He has a lovely fanny."

I've heard spastic and spaz used mostly either neutrally or as terms of endearments all my life. I genuinely had no idea that it even could be an insult until not too long ago in fandom.

Yeah, this is news to me. I've never heard anyone mention it being offensive here in Canada. People use it all the time; I have, too... whoops. Now that's awkward.

It's pretty offensive in Australia. Really not a good term to use here, and I wouldn't use it online either.

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It is a little-known fact that Bellatrix's favorite food was Dried Turkish Apricots. She carried a small bag of them with her always, and would often munch on them during raids. The only time she ever truly drew Voldemort's ire was on a raid taken shortly after her bag of apricots had been stolen. Her distress at so cruel a loss addled her wits and robbed her of concentration. She tried to appeal her punishment, but to no avail; she was told that lack of apricot is not a rational excuse for poor performance.

So it is that on the eve of her imprisonment, Bellatrix was packing a ready supply of Dried Turkish Apricots. When eaten in sufficient quantity, they would produce in her a sort of deranged euphoria, which goes a long way in explaining her obsession with them. It is in this way that she dealt with her ordeal, sneaking the tasty treats out of a special pouch she'd sown in her undergarments during those blessed intervals of respite. Nevertheless, consuming so very many of the delicious mind-altering treats permanently rewired her neural pathways, leaving her a mental mess. The reason for which her insanity could not be dealt with in either text or film, then, is quite obvious: it is patently absurd, and the audience would surely not have bought it.