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Ron's the ultimate wife guy for Hermione, in my opinion. Coming from a family that is loving towards Muggle-borns and holds no elitist ideals, Ron pretty much has mother-hen potential in canon, like when he offered to make tea to calm everyone's nerves, or him caring for Hermione to not neglect food/sleep during her intense OWLS preps where she is all-out stressed in OoTP.

It makes sense given how Hermione is a career-driven person, Ron is literally family-coded to be the one bringing food to the table, and raising the kids in a homely domicile the best they can. Consider Hermione coming home from a rough day at work greeted by an emphatetic Ron patient to listen to all her problems, who helps her take her mind off by making some tea and consoling her about how losing one case doesn't negate the fact that she'd won ten others. And Hermione appreciating his kind sentiment then asking him about how his day went with the kids.

What makes me like them as a couple is how they are essentially a genderbent version of Molly and Arthur, minus five kids (something even Harry somewhat brings up once in OoTP).

It baffles me why many think they would remain unhappy in the long run. Like I don't think Ron would hate being an househusband. On the contrary, he would be eager to keep making sure his spouse and children are happy. I think him being a househusband (and later, a co-owner of the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes after the kids grow up) is quite fitting for him.

As for Hermione, she is the primary breadwinner, making strides in reforming the Wizarding World on a department worker's salary. And she has a doting husband and kids to look forward to, and a home to loosen up in after a tiring day of screaming matches in the courtroom.

Were they unpleasant dicks to each other during their teenage years, yes, but that doesn't strip them of the chance to become better people with age. Given their stubborn personalities, I'm sure they do bounce back better through therapy and all. I don't think they would be the type to stew in misery and coldness, given how we see them in the Epilogue. We see Ron is quite comfortable with how people perceive him as famous, and Hermione is amused at his jovial nature.

In summary, I think Ron's family-oriented values complements Hermione's career-driven attitude. And just like how Harry is shown to benefit both from Ron's levity and Hermione’s initiative as a character throughout the series, I'm sure Rose and Hugo couldn't have asked for better parents.

Noticed that Ron's jealousy of Harry's fame starts dying in Goblet of Fire and dies for good in Order of Phoenix. Ron is exposed to the ugly sides of Harry's fame in those books and he starts to understand that he wants more attention not fame. Any conflicts that Ron and Harry have after the Order of Phoenix is not about Harry's fame.

I say besides PS, because that book pretty much introduced everyone, but there's still alot of characters in the series and alot of them, weren't introduced in the first book!

After thinking hard, i feel like there's only 1 right answer? And that's probably POA, i mean you get introduced to Lupin and Sirius who are some of the best characters the series has to offer imo.

I also only started to really love Lupin after re-reading this book recently, i just find his entire backstory/life so tragic and heartbreaking, i honestly just feel so bad for him. And sirius is sirius man, come on. He's pretty much everyone's favorite character!

I'm interested to see what the general consensus to this question is though, because i feel like you can make the case for GOF or OOTP, because they both introduce some of the best villains of the series, in Barty Crouch Jr and Umbridge, but i'm going with my gut and sticking with POA, so what do you guys think?

To explain the question in the title, Horcruxes are most evil and darkest of objects (something like that, as mentioned in Magick Moste Evile), and to create them one must perform the most evil of actions - murder; now, if a good guy were to kill someone e.g. in self-defense, would he be able to create a Horcrux, or does the actual murder have to be with evil intentions? And once I'm on the topic, does said murder have to be using the Killing Curse, or not? I don't recall the books ever mentioning such a thing, but was just curious (and this might also have ramifications in regards to the first question).

If i remember correctly from the books, it is said that James Potter and Snape hated each other since their time on the train, and James bullied him along with his Friends, the maurauders (i don't remember if he did it to anyone else). However, people forget that since he was a child, Snape hung out with aspiring Death Eaters, read Darks arts books, and called Lily a mudblood, even thought Snape was a half-blood himself. He held supremacist ideas despiste not being a pure-blood.

Om the other hand, The worst thing that James did to Snape was levitate him in his underware, whereas Snape created Sectumsempra specifically to INFLICT HARM. Furthermoee, Dumbledore himself tells Snape that he disgust him because Snape didnt care of an inocente baby (Harry) and his father were murder, JUST so Lily could be spared.

I think people idealize Snape because some SEE themselves reflected in him, whole others just reel sorry for him. Snape was physically unnactravtive, antisocial, and although he was intelligent he has bizarre ideas about Darks Arts and wizarding supremacy. Plus, the womam he loved never loved him back the way he wanted.

The You have James Potter: An athlete ( Quidsitch captain) just like his son Harry, a puré-blood, physically attractive, and popular. it is hard to see youraelf reflected in someone like him.

But people forget that James became an Animagus to help his Werewolf friend, Lupin, roaming his own sanity and facing the severe danger of being sent to Azkaban flr performing Auch illegal Magic. They also forget that he gave his life for hia son anf his wife. He joined the Order of the Phoenix to fight Voldemort, supporting the financially with his own family fortune, which he also uses to fully take care of and maintain Sirius Black.

Finnaly, he stopped bullying Snape because Lily asked him to, and Even thought Lily rejwcted him many times, James NEVER called her a mudblood, unlike Snape (who wasnt even a pure-blood)

I know it's a common criticism stories have really unsatisfying ends (mostly TV shows), but I think it applies to books too. I know the epilogue generally has the most criticism towards it, but overall for how the story ended, were you satisfied?

I grew up listening to the book in German and reading them in English. Started reading them in German a fews ago and have come to the conclusion that I fully prefer the German translation. Maybe I’m just not a fan of her prose.

My 7-year-old asked me something today while we read Chamber of Secrets that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. When we got to the part where the Dursleys locked Harry in his room with bars on the window and only let him out twice a day for the bathroom, she asked: “Why don’t any of the trusted adults at school help Harry when they know his grown-ups hurt him?”

I was struck by how simply she articulated something I’d never questioned as a kid. I just accepted Harry had to stay with the Dursleys. It was the price of his survival and the greater good. But now, reading as a parent, I see a system of adults who knew about his abuse and chose to rationalize inaction.

If Harry had asked for help, would anyone have intervened? Would Dumbledore have allowed anyone to help Harry? Was Dumbledore an enabler or were they all enabling through inaction?

If Dumbledore could force the Dursleys to take Harry in, he could have forced them to treat him decently. There’s no reason the blood magic required abuse.

I think Rowling might have intended to show us how Sirius and Dumbledore failed Harry, but I think she unintentionally showed systemic child abuse failures.

We teach children that they need to ask for help when adults are hurting them. But what about when the adults have already decided your suffering is acceptable?

It’s mentioned lightly (by Dumbledore when showing Harry who Voldemort’s mother was) but I don’t think it’s explicitly stated that muggle borns are likely the descendants of squibs or other outcasts of pureblood families. Hermione for example has many things (I’ve felt) throughout the book that wouldn’t surprise me if she were somehow a descendant of Ravenclaw or another an ancient and powerful witch/wizard. Has anyone else had similar thoughts?

Anybody else get annoyed at how little trust Hermione and ron have in harry in the seventh book about the hallows? Especially when Harry was SPOT on about Malfoy in the previous book , all of Harry's intuitions and guesses are usually exactly spot on in the series, with the exception of sirius in the fifth book, which when you think about it can't really be faulted especially when considering he actually had a true vision of rons dad before that one , and him allowing his emotions to overcome his reason in that particular moment is understandable, when considering who was in danger, his god father sirius who was like a father and brother to him. The closest thing he had to a loving family member, besides that moment he was always correct about his theories and guesses, you would think ron and Hermione especially would give him some more benefit of the doubt. I was rereading the sixth and seventh book and it was just frustrating how much Hermione kept shooting down his ideas about Malfoy in the sixth and then about the hallows in the seventh book. Idk what do you guys think?

Harry Potter has it's own way of making us mourn for the death of the characters. And when a character dies and the readers have a chance to grieve them I can understand the depth it adds to the series. But by the Battle of Hogwarts IMO there was too much too fast. Lupin and Tonks should not have died. They were practically the only adults in Harry's life (other than the Weasley parents) remaining and we didn't even have a chance to mourn them. Let me know what you think though.

Under US law, domestic terrorism is an offense with multifarious classifications, yet many potentially apply to our favorite sack of foreskin, Dobby the House Elf. His biggest offense would be his tangential involvement in the Death Eaters (as he is a steward of Lucius Malfoy, a prominent sicario of the gang). Dobby had knowledge of his plan to murder multiple Hogwarts students and implicate the Weasley family in his terror attacks, all designed to cause murder and chaos under a framework of ethnocide. Instead of warning the Wizarding public (which it IS in his ability to do, given that he was able to warn Harry and disobey orders), Dobby instead directly abetted the Dursley's abuse of Harry, both by blocking his contact with the outside world, and by repeatedly attempting to force Harry to go back to his confinement at Privet Drive instead of attending Hogwarts. Furthermore, he grievously maimed Harry during the Quidditch match, earning him the charge of aggravated battery on a minor, and potentially elevating his rap sheet to RICO status. Of course, Dobby was enslaved, and did not try to collude in Lucius Malfoy's criminality, or directly advance the efforts of Lucius' criminal syndicate, an organization on par with Al Qaeda or Los Zetas. Yet we cannot easily separate this into direct intention vs active rebellion; this little walking piece of genitalia firmly acts within the grey area, aiming cannonballs at a 12 year olds limbs, augmenting Harry's isolation and further entrapment within an abusive household, and failing to prevent serial attacks on a school. I say throw the rhytid-riddled racketeer into Azkaban's most hellacious dungeon, after a lengthy trial in front of the Wizengamot. Thoughts?

There are many instances of Harry interpreting subtle signs from an individual and being correct.

Namely, he immediately knows that Draco is a Death Eater in book 6 but beyond that, he has a strange inclination to what others are feeling at the moment. If Dumbledore is being earnest or even gives “the shadow of a wink”, he’s aware of it. When Hagrid is telling a lie or in some way omitting the truth, Harry is aware of it.

My question is: is this part of Harry’s inherent abilities as a Ligitemens or could it be a result of story telling principles?

I feel like you could easily spot subtle signs in the first three books, but by far this was the first very obvious step in that direction. But I'm wondering, for people who read the series for the first time, was it obvious for you that they were going to end up together?

I was so touched re-reading The Goblet of Fire and literally had tears when Harry forces Fred and George to take his thousand Galleons from the Triwizard Tournament.

Harry’s just seen Cedric die right in front of him, witnessed Voldemort’s rebirth, been tortured with the Cruciatus curse, and barely survived to bring Cedric's body back. He doesn’t want blood money tied to all that trauma. Instead, he insists on funding the twins' joke shop. He tells them, "We’re going to need some laughs before long."

Harry is only fourteen here. But he already understands that joy is a form of resistance. He believes in their dream when even Mrs. Weasley thinks they're wasting their lives.

But the part that really made me tear up is when Harry tells the twins after handing them the winnings, “Just do me one favor, alright? Buy Ron a new dress robe and say it’s from you.”

He’d seen how humiliated Ron was by those second-hand dress robes at the Yule Ball. Even though they had the falling out earlier that year, Harry remained loyal to his friendship with Ron, on the heels of Malfoy berating Harry’s choice of friends on the train ride to King’s Cross. Harry cares so much about his best friend's dignity. He pays for the robes but takes his own name completely off the gift so Ron won't feel ashamed or patronized, and has no ego in this act.

Harry grew up in a cupboard with absolutely nothing. No love, no money, no support. When he finally gets wealth, he doesn't use it for himself. He uses it to lift up the people who became his real family. He protects Ron's pride, fuels Fred and George's future, and brings hope into a world that is about to go to war. This to me is such a powerful part of the series.

Peter Pettigrew a.k.a Wormtail was a coward and someone who had no morals. How did the sorting hat put him in Gryffindor in the first place? Gryffindor is for the brave and those who protect others even when it is hard. Did the sorting hat mess up with Peter?

Given the extensive Pure blood snobbery. How did Tom Riddle manage to convince the then students to join his group which would later become Death Eaters?

He wouldn't have been able to hide his origins from the other students most certainly. Did he reveal his ability to speak Parseltongue?

Cause I doubt the purebloods would have been impressed by awards or good manners or even being able to manipulate the teachers. He would also have shown some of the top purebloods the chamber of secrets.

What do you think how did he get the purebloods on his side?

It also doesn't really make much sense if Hogwarts is built way earlier, because as far as I'm aware stone castles are not a thing in Britain until the Norman Conquest. Unless you think the founders knew some advanced mason technology and kept the muggles completely away with magic or something.

I am not even going to delve into the school's modern plumbing system built in with the Chamber of Secrets.

Luna was exposed to harm on more than one occasion.

She witnessed the death of her Mother who was experimenting with magic in a dangerous way. Luna could have easily died alongside her Mother and was lucky to stay alive. The trauma alone of witnessing her Mother die is enough to damage a person mentally.

Xeno, her Father, bought her an Erumpent Horn for her birthday. His delusions made him believe it was a safe artifact from an imaginary animal. If the horn hadn't exploded and nearly killed the trio, what would've happened if Luna hadn't been kidnapped and had returned home to touch it. She would've died!

"There was a large photograph beside the bed, of a young Luna and a woman who looked very like her. They were hugging. Luna looked rather better-groomed in this picture than Harry had ever seen her in life." . Luna's father, although he loves her, clearly cannot give her the care that a young child and teenager needs.

Luna's father's deluded views caused Luna to be a social outcast at school. Luna and her father are isolated from others because of his views, she has no other adult to teach her right from wrong and to teach her social etiquette. Fortunately she has grown up to be a lovely, kind person but it could've gone the other way, or she could've been dead if it wasn't for luck.