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In case any other Harry Potter nerds come along and worry their memory is completely failing them:

Albums Dumbledore says this in the books. Hermione only has this quote in the movie adaptations.






Wouldn't call myself a nerd, but I was so confused thinking "isn't this what Dumbledore said to Harry when asking about Voldemort?"

Guess it just shows retention of books overrides movies, given that I've consumed both.


>JK Rowling Airbrushed From Pop Culture Museum’s Harry Potter Display For “Transphobic Views”

https://deadline.com/2023/08/jk-rowling-airbrushed-from-pop-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae


Your Wikipedia link is very useful since it clarifies that Damnatio memoriae refers to exclusion "from official accounts".

>Today's best known examples of damnatio memoriae from antiquity concern chiselling stone inscriptions or deliberately omitting certain information from them.

>The term is used in modern scholarship to cover a wide array of official and unofficial sanctions through which the physical remnants and memories of a deceased individual are destroyed.

Certainly not exclusively from official accounts. Not sure what your point here is?


Why the scare quotes?

The quotes are from the article's title.



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