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What is the Economic system of the Potterverse?
The annual student intake of Hogwarts seems about 100. Since in book 7 Hogwarts is declared mandatory for all children, this means that the total magical population of Britain cannot be much more than 10,000.
How do these people make a living?
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How did Neo know it was Morpheus on the phone and what The Matrix is?
I wanted to know how Neo knew it was Morpheus on the phone during the scene at his job (the scene with the cubicles).
Neo knows other hackers (he knows who Trinity was before she was freed from The Matrix) so I assumed this is how he knows a…
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How does The Incredible Hulk change mass?
When Dr Bruce Banner becomes The Incredible Hulk he increases in height and presumably weight. My question is - how does that mass increase occur? I'm looking (obviously) for an in-universe explanation.
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Why was Harry Potter not sent to Azkaban?
In the movie Deathly Hallows - Part 2, we see Harry use the Imperius curse (The Imperius Curse is one of the three Unforgivable Curses, when cast successfully, it places the victim completely under the caster's control).
Being an unforgivable curse,…
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Why do Pokemon obey their trainers?
Most of a Pokemon's life is spent fighting, hurting others and getting hurt in return. That sounds like a terrible life to me. Is there some in-universe reason that Pokemon willingly allow themselves to be used and abused by their trainers in such a…
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Is the planet called "Earth-That-Was" totally uninhabited?
We know that Earth-That-Was became difficult to live on, so humanity spread out to terraform and colonize other worlds. Was Earth left totally abandoned, or is it just a difficult environment?
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General Grievous: what is he, actually?
In the Star Wars prequels, there is a somewhat-important character introduced named "General Grievous". Being lord of a large droid army and having some number of sophisticated manufacturing plants at his disposal, I immediately assumed he was a…
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During the events of the Harry Potter series what is the total population of Wizards/Witches globally?
The question "How do Muggle-borns end up with magical ability?" got me to wondering how many wizards and witches there were on the planet during the events of the Harry Potter series.
Was there any information given regarding this, either in the…
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Who was flying the Y-Wing when the Death Star exploded?
Near the end of Star Wars IV: A New Hope, we see four spacecraft flying from the Death Star just moments before it explodes.
As you can see, there is the Millennium Falcon crewed by Han and Chewbacca, a pair of X-Wings which has to be Luke and…
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Origin of Darth Vader's name
Who came up with the name Darth Vader? According to Wiktionary (apparently Darth Vader now warrants a dictionary entry meaning "a malevolent, dominating and threatening force" :o):
Derived from the fictional character, Darth Vader, itself derived…
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Looking for science fiction assassination story with mysterious girl
For years I've been looking for a short science fiction story about a man who was released from a prison planet in order to assassinate a candidate for galactic president. He does this on a space station, and escapes with the help of a mysterious…
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How did the Millennium Falcon get from Hoth to Bespin without hyperdrive?
How did the Millennium Falcon get from Hoth to Bespin without their hyperdrive? Are these locations so close together? I would think not, because Hoth is in the Hoth Sysem and Bespin is in the Bespin System.
The asteroid field in The Empire Strikes…
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Why do Borg move so poorly (like 50s movie robots)?
Is there an in-universe explanation for why the Borg always move like 1950s cheap-special-effects sci-fi tin can robots?
With the advanced technology they have, you'd think they would have BETTER (faster, more graceful) movement than humans, with…
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Humorous essay on dystopian novel tropes
Several years ago my now-ex was in an MFA program for writing children's literature and read to me an essay she came across. I'm looking for help in finding it. The problem is that I can't remember how it goes but part of the phrasing is something…
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How did Ron get five hundred Chocolate Frog cards?
In Harry's first year on the train to Hogwarts, Ron doesn't have the money to buy something when the woman with the cart comes.
Ron’s ears went pink again and he muttered that he’d brought sandwiches.
Harry bought, among other things, some…
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