He knows it was a trap to get him killed so why doesn’t he you know ? Try to get out of it ? Even if he can’t get out he doesn’t have to participate. Just sit back and wait out the clock
By the end of the story a teacher is dead, now forget about the context and Voldemort and such.
The point is a guy is dead and Harry is the only witness and person of interest here.
Wouldn’t the ministry send someone to at least come sit with Harry and ask for his version of the story ?
But no one does, Harry wakes up in the medical wing, goes back to class and finish the school year then goes home.
Not once does an official come to just ask him directly what happened.
What did wizards do before they were created
Wow, yesterday's was rough. Here's hoping that this one isn't too much of an over correction. Enjoy #32!
As a reminder what this is and how it works:
Below are 7 sentences from the 7 HP books. I use a random number generator to pick the book and chapter, then hand pick a sentence that I think is decent. Not too long, too short, too obvious ect. *** There MAY be repeated books in a set, but there will not be repeated chapters in a set. So there COULD be two from The Philosopher’s Stone, but they would be from different chapters! ***
Scoring your points: It is 2 points for guessing the book, and 1 point for guessing the chapter, for a total of 21 points. It is obviously harder to guess the chapter than the book, but not everyone even cares to remember the chapter titles in the first place, which is totally fair and valid. So chapter titles are just a bonus point.
Below are the sentences and the answers hidden behind spoiler tags! These are fun to make, and I intend to make quite a few more if people keep enjoying them!
Tom Riddle was a self centered lying monster who had a gang of sycophants that worshipped the ground he walked on, and wrote a book full of secrets that threw the whole school into chaos when it was read.
So he was basically the boy version of Regina George. 🤣
So in the beginning of the book, Dumbledore picks Harry up from the Dursleys, persuades Slughorn to return to Hogwarts, and then makes their way to the Burrow.
When Molly opens the door, she says Dumbledore told her not to expect them till next morning.
Makes me wonder, what was Dumbledore originally planning to do with Harry that night when they were going to see Slughorn? He says Slughorn was more persuadable than he expected with was why they arrived early.
Did he expect to be with Slughorn for the whole night? Was he planning to stay over at Slughorn’s place? Were they going to a b&b? Makes me chuckle imagining them two checking into one.
One to ponder over in the shower….
I’ve always thought that pure-blood supremacists should be present in every Hogwarts house to some degree—more in Slytherin, sure, but not *only* there.
Slytherin: No explanation needed. Books covered that.
Ravenclaw: Cooking up pseudoscientific theories (it would be interesting if those theories about Muggle-borns stealing magic—supposedly based on "independent research by the Department of Mysteries"—were actually concocted by a Death Eater from Ravenclaw), plus a ton of data spamming, cherry-picking, straw man arguments, and sophistry.
Gryffindor: "We hate Muggles and Mudbloods because cowardly Muggles killed us in the past; we must protect our magical brothers and sisters from them and not be afraid"—lots of courage and romantic idealism, just channeled in the wrong direction (much like various forms of Nazism and fascism).
Hufflepuff: Probably the least anti-Muggle, but lots of bullshit about how Muggles cause chaos, wage wars, and threaten peace and nature; how children from Muggle families can be maladjusted; and how it’s better to keep everything in the hands of pure-blood wizards—because it’s safer and more stable that way.
I also think it would be interesting to see Death Eaters from other houses—like Gryffindor (no, not Pettigrew), but someone "brave" and loyal in a twisted sense—or to have characters like Barty Crouch Jr. belong to Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. At the same time, the Order could include decent Slytherins who might personally dislike Muggles but don't view that as a license to harm them—and certainly don't support the genocide of Muggles and Muggle-borns, which an unstable snake-like egomaniac championed as a "super cool" solution(Snape also doesn’t count)
I still don’t think I understand how Sirius managed to get into Hogwarts twice in the prisoner of Azkaban (when he slashed the fat lady’s portrait and when he slashed Ron’s curtains). Obviously he’s an animagj and transfigured himself to get past the dementors however once on the school grounds and inside the castle what did he do? Was there just a huge black dog bounding through the hallways of Hogwarts without anyone noticing? The first time was at the Halloween feast and the second in the middle of the night so maybe so but to then get away after the alarm had been raised? Wouldn’t portraits have seen either Sirius or Padfoot running through the castle? Sirius was using the passage under the whomping willow to reach Hogwarts but that just gets you on the grounds, not inside the castle. Anyways would love to hear thoughts
After he turned Marge into a balloon and he ran away from home he is walking down looking for somewhere to think as he decides his next move and comes face to face with a big black dog walking towards him, he jumps pulls out his wand and accidentally summons the knight bus.
How different would it be if Sirius came out as a person.
Now from Harry pov Sirius still looks creepy, a stranger who looks deranged and dirty just emerges out of nowhere to talk to you. Harry would be unnerved but if Sirius just keeps his distance puts his hands up and says who he is and that he was friends with his parents and means him no harm.
Would Harry listen to him and more importantly believe him.
Like, imagine he just stayed with the Dursleys and grew up knowing basically nothing about the wizarding world.
Would Voldemort eventually have found and killed him? Harry would still have the protection at Privet Drive until he turned 17, but after that he'd basically be an untrained wizard who knows nothing about Voldemort, the prophecy or the Horcruxes.
But then I started wondering if Voldemort would've even come back the same way. A lot of what happens in the books only happens because Harry is at Hogwarts. No Hogwarts means no Triwizard Tournament for Harry, no graveyard, and probably no using Harry's blood to bring Voldemort back.
So maybe staying away from Hogwarts actually keeps Harry safe for longer... but once Voldemort eventually returns, Harry is completely unprepared.
How do you think it would've played out?
If the writer sucks at something that they even admit to, isn’t this the person who should be helping them see what feels off, what could be better, etc?
31 is live folks, enjoy!
As a reminder what this is and how it works:
Below are 7 sentences from the 7 HP books. I use a random number generator to pick the book and chapter, then hand pick a sentence that I think is decent. Not too long, too short, too obvious ect. *** There MAY be repeated books in a set, but there will not be repeated chapters in a set. So there COULD be two from The Philosopher’s Stone, but they would be from different chapters! ***
Scoring your points: It is 2 points for guessing the book, and 1 point for guessing the chapter, for a total of 21 points. It is obviously harder to guess the chapter than the book, but not everyone even cares to remember the chapter titles in the first place, which is totally fair and valid. So chapter titles are just a bonus point.
Below are the sentences and the answers hidden behind spoiler tags! These are fun to make, and I intend to make quite a few more if people keep enjoying them!
I’m re-reading all of the books as an adult (last read them around age 9-11) and wow these would be insane rewritten as horror books. Everything that happens in this world is so scary. It’s just full of magic and hope, but it could so easily be rewritten as horror with the exact same plot, line for line.
I guess I remember the later books getting scarier, but even book 1 is so scary if you strip away the whimsy.
I’ve also started reading The Shining for the first time, so that may be why I’m seeing Harry Potter so horror-coded. And I’m sorry if this isn’t an original thought lol
I have determined that the timeframe for becoming a ghost in the HP Universe is not instant, but I have no idea how long it takes and different parts of the series seem to imply different things. This is not a lore breaking observation, or even a proper plot hole, but I find it interesting regardless.
Five interactions have me really thinking about ghosts in HP. I will list them below and then my conclusion:
Nearly Headless Nick tells Harryin OotP in regards to dying, ““I was afraid of death,” said Nick. “I chose to remain behind. I sometimes wonder whether I oughtn’t to have . . . Well, that is neither here nor there. . . . In fact, I am neither here nor there . . .” He gave a small sad chuckle. “I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.”
In King’s Cross in DH, while harry and Dumbledore say:
“I’ve got a choice?”
“Oh yes.” Dumbledore smiled at him. “We are in King’s Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to . . . let’s say . . . board a train.”
“And where would it take me?”
“On,” said Dumbledore simply.
In The Flaw in the Plan it states:
Something had happened when he had hit Harry with the Killing Curse. Had Voldemort too collapsed? It seemed like it. And both of them had fallen briefly unconscious and both of them had now returned. . . .
4 . In CoS, when Harry and Ron ask Myrtle what happened the day she died:
“I died.”
“How?” said Harry.
“No idea,” said Myrtle in hushed tones. “I just remember seeing a pair of great, big, yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was
floating away. . . .” She looked dreamily at Harry.
“And then I came back again. I was determined to haunt Olive Hornby, you see.”
And lastly: 5. Also in CoS Nick states:
“But you would think, wouldn’t you,” he erupted suddenly, pulling theletter back out of his pocket,
“that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with
a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt?”
Alright, now that you have those disjointed pieces of info. Myrtle’s comment implies that she basically immediately became a ghost. Nick states that he chose to come back, and Dumbledore says that Harry could chose to go back.
I think that it’s reasonable to assume that when you die, you go to Kings Cross (or however purgatory appears to you) and you can chose to return as a ghost, or “go on”. I believe Harry didn’t come back as a ghost because he had a living body; the killing curse only killed the bit of Voldemort’s soul, where as Nick was just D-E-D, dead.
But then consider that Voldemort and Harry, upon returning to the land of the living had only just hit the ground moments before. People were still going to Voldemorts aid. Had they been unconscious for a significant period of time, say for the amount of “time” that they were in Kings cross, there would probably have been Significantly more panic.
So returning to purgatory is nearly instant.
Then how, HOW, is Nick Nearly headless? Getting hit 45 times with a dull axe left him with an inch of skin connecting his head to his body. 45 times. He would have been dead LONG before getting to one inch of flesh. Assuming every hit was roughly equal, he would probably have died with about half (OR MORE) of his head still attached. So why, if the process of becoming a ghost is nearly instant (“nearly instant? How can it be nearly instant?”) does he have only one inch of skin in ghosts form?
Surely what happens to your body after you die does not affect your ghost form? Otherwise all ghosts would be decayed corpses. Even if the executioner continue to hit him 20 or 30 more times after he died, that shouldn’t have affected his ghost body. Especially if he came back before the executioner was done.
Like imagine he comes back and the executioner is still beheading him. His head would still be significantly attached to his body. Would each blow from the executioner remove more of the ghosts neck? No surely not. Which means sometime had to have passed from him dying and returning as a ghost.
Probably a good bit of time because assuming he died around the 15th or so hit, it would take a good while for the executioner to hit him 30 more times. The guy I would get tired, each swing takes a few seconds, him asking around if they have a better axe, ect.
So my conclusion is that becoming a ghost is not instant, but also must be pretty instant. But also sometimes take a relatively long time.
Did I put away, way too much thought into this? Absolutely. Does any of this actually matter? Not in the slightest, but here we are.
Harry was forced to enter the tournament because goblet of fire enforces a magical contract. His friends and allies were extremely worried about his safety and he would back out had it not been for the contract. Though, I was thinking today, he could have deliberately tanked all tasks to ensure maximum personal safety the whole time.
(He probably wouldn’t do this being a brave Gryffindor even if he had thought of it, but please entertain my thought exercise.)
The first task was, well, the toughest to get out of. I can’t see how one can circumvent partaking battling a dragon besides deliberately casting a spell to break the egg, and admitting early defeat before needing to confront the dragon. You do need the egg to figure out the second task, so I suppose Harry needs to brave the first one after all. (On the other hand you don’t technically need to know the second task well if you are just gonna tank it, but it’s probably better to be fully prepared for risk management purposes.)
The second task, one could get back to shore after a 5min swim, admitting early defeat. Fleur returned early because she was attacked by a water creature, so clearly there was no rule preventing forfeiting the task.
The third task was the easiest to give up. The judges literally told the contestants to shoot a red spark in the sky when they were in real trouble. Just fake an injury and quit!
After these maneuvers Harry would probably end up being the biggest loser of Hogwarts. But he would dodge a highly traumatic ordeal at the cemetery and Voldemort wouldn’t have returned (and minimize other risks in the game altogether). You win some, you lose some.
Harry’s Dementor Bogart created the same depression/fear effects. If he feared Basilisks and a bogart turned into one and looked at him… would it kill him? Or at the very least Petrify him