• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Because he is, real or not, a very important and influential cultural figure and has been a very large and dominant part of Western culture since late antiquity, and billions of people believe him to be real, unlike Draco Malfoy who has only been around for a few decades and hasn’t caused a massive political, economical, cultural, linguistic, and religious impact across continents.

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      7 hours ago

      Me:

      I will never understand why people talk of what’s akin to a Harry Potter character as if it was a real person.

      You:

      Because he is, real or not,

      So he is even if he isn’t?

      You make zero sense.