r/harrypotter

The beginning of the 3rd Harry Potter movie, Harry is using magic to read under the covers...

Isn't it illegal for an under age wizard to use magic outside of school?

I actually never finished the series before, but this time I will.

I read book 1-6 in 2005-2006 and then I didn't read them at all or watched the movies, and eventually the 7th book came out aaaand I didn't feel like re-reading the whole series (this was before YouTube recaps as well lol).

So I never read the ending... I saw the movies like 10+ years ago though.

I now started reading the illustrated edition (super happy #6 comes out soon) and I haven't been this hooked on books since I was a teenager.

I've been reading for like 3 weeks and I'm already past the half way mark of Azkaban. I haven't experienced anything like this for ages. I just love the characters. When Harry reunited with Ron and Hermione in Chamber of Secrets I felt like crying. How can a children's book be this good?!

Anyone else my age? Or older for that matter...

Just wondering why instead of using Poly Juice potion, why didn’t they create a port key to move to Harry? Wouldn’t that have been the safer option while his underage tracker was still on?

"Deathly Hallows - Nineteen Years Later":

>Albus: "Not every day. James says most people only get letters from home about once a month."
Ginny: "We wrote to James three times a week last year."
Harry: "And you don't want to believe he tells you about Hogwarts."

"Cursed Child":

>Albus: "No. Not every day. James says most people only get letters from home about once a month. I don't want to..."
Harry: "We wrote to your brother three times a week last year."
Albus: "What? James!"
Ginny: "Yes. You may not want to believe everything he tells you about Hogwarts."

This is the first scene of the first act. Here we have the same scene, the same event, the same time, but two different versions of the text, with swapped characters, who says what, and slightly different dialogue.

This is just one of many similar examples. If a play changes what has already been written in the canon, something is wrong!

Será que ele seria enviado para um orfanato?

One thing that seems to piss of Harry (and Ron) a lot is that Dumbledore didn't tell them how to destroy horcruxes which is honestly valid there was no reason to make that one more thing for them to figure out. So that got me thinking, did he plan on explaining all that when he destroyed the locket with the sword once they were back from the cave? Which would also mean that he in fact had no idea that night was the one when Malfoy struck?

I might get downvoted for this but I used to work with dementia patients and the immense PAIN they went through, knowing that eventually they'll forget everyone they love and know, was difficult to watch.

To them, it's terrifying because it's exactly like being dead while alive. They will never "see" and "know" their loved ones ever again as well as themselves (at least as a ghost you know who you are and remember everything). But this doesn't even compare to the immense pain their loved ones experience, having to look after a walking shell. To look at your father and he tells you he genuinely does not know who the hell you are CUTS the soul. It's incredible trauma. It's almost better if they died. That's how painful it is.

For these reasons, I feel Obliviate shouldn't have been classed as a charm but a curse and an Unforgivable Curse. In fact, I reckon it should have replaced Cruciatus. Because basically any offensive spell can torture the target. For example, setting a target on fire is worse than using Cruciatus as the fire is actively subjecting them to incredible pain/torture, while also physically disfiguring them for life, and if prolonged will put them to death and ash.

But the Unforgivables seem to be of ill-intent only, permanent, and most importantly, thieves of fundament human/living rights:

Avada steals the target's life by killing their body.

Imperius steals the target's freewill.

Obliviate steals the target's mind by permanently wiping out memories.

So, to me, that is truly unforgivable to take my memories from me. My memories are who I am and you have stolen them from me.

Now let’s pretend we have a wide selection of angles to choose from, regardless on what was actually shot. Let’s have fun.

I always thought the scene where Voldemort announces that Harry is dead is strangely flat, and I think a lot of it comes down to the shot choices.
We keep cutting to wide shots showing how many Death Eaters there are, with Voldemort talking from a distance. I understand wanting to establish the scale, but Harry himself is barely visible in Hagrid’s arms.

I would have inserted more shots of Hagrid holding Harry’s body. Let the camera hold on that more. Stop showing off how big the Death Eaters are? Give Voldemort more close ups.

Also..establish where Draco is before Lucius calls out to him cos honestly it just feels he just teleported in XD

Maybe it’s just me, but when reading the HP books I picture the characters sort-of cartoonish.
Like how they look in fanart, and the pictures on the cover and back of the books.

I’ve never really pictured them as their movie actors, only some less important characters.
Is it only me, or does other people do this too? Or do you, if not picturing them as their actors, picture them as random real-life people??

What I mean by this is, presumably while - to their knowledge - the champions are in the maze, Dumbledore is presumably alerted by Snape to Voldemorts return, when his mark burns. Karkaroff flees at some point, both him and Dumbledore are judges.

I sort of picture this scene like Karkaroff gets straight up and leaves (I don't believe it was ever specified at what point he goes), Dumbledore just needs to look at Snape to confirm.. and then presumably just sits and plots for the next 20 minutes or so before Harry turns up and they realise they both must have been there. But presumably the running off of one of the judges would cause minor fussing, which Dumbledore might try to placate? Or maybe the tasks are long enough that quick bathroom breaks aren't uncommon meaning no one would even really catch it.

Idk I was just pondering this, wondered what others' takes on it are.

I was listening to the full-cast audio of The Goblet of Fire this morning when I was struck by the thought of who the Fat Lady actually was to warrant not only a portrait at Hogwarts, but also the job of protecting access to the Gryffindor common room.

I think I've settled on the headcannon that she was Godric's wife and she wanted to keep the kids in his house safe, as they felt like hers, too. She seems pretty silly, jovial, and like a good time to have around.

Plus, her portrait could have been feeding him information about who some of the more daring students were when they were regularly returning to common room deep into the night.

Leprechaun gold, transfiguration, magic ...

Not necessarily the most powerful or your favorite, just the character whose first appearance immediately made you think: “Yeah, this character is going to be important.”

For me, Bellatrix. The way she’s introduced in Azkaban immediately tells you this woman is completely unhinged 😂

He killed small armies worth of people what if he had created a horcrux every time? Would he have run out of soul? How would his body have changed after hundreds of horcruxs?

My answer: the internet, and nothing else is close

Most of the trio’s problems aren’t magical, they’re informational. Nobody can find out a thing fast enough, reach the right person in time, or verify what’s true.

Chamber of Secrets is a search query. The Half-Blood Prince’s identity is a records lookup. The Deathly Hallows camping stretch happens because three people are cut off from information for months. With a phone, that’s a group chat, not a plot arc.

Wizards have more raw power. But they can’t look anything up and have no way to distribute what they know.

Anything beat this?

Whoever drinks it will want to do anything for the other person.

I don’t know why I never questioned this before but I suddenly had this thought.

We learn in book/move 2 that bones can grow back with Skele-Gro so why does Moody have a wooden leg?.

If you can regrow bones in the wizarding world, surely they can grow new skin, muscles, etc., etc., with the Skele-Gro, thus wizards don’t need to be amputees.

ETA: sorry everyone who's commented so far after I read them I remembed all those points….. This is what happened when you can’t sleep, are very tired and have a sudden thought.

We have just been at Harry Potter Studios (London) and tried the butterbeer. We were too scared to try it on a previous visit because we had read such awful reviews about how disgusting it was. I was pleasantly surprised today when we tried some, and my kids loved it! Just tasted like cream soda with a mild hint of butterscotch 🤷. Surely that's not the flavour so many people hate?

Hello, I often hear confusion about the wrong instructions in the Advanced Potion-Making book. But what if it is intentional. Because if it isn't, a NEWT Class would only be about following instructions from a book. But if it is, the class expects students to understand a potions ingredients how they work and what they do, so they can figure out what is wrong with the recipe and improve on it. Which sounds much more fitting for the NEWT level.

A good example of that is the class where Harry makes the Euphoria Elixir. Slughorn recognizes that he added peppermint to counterbalance the side effects. Which shows that Slughorn knows just as much as the Half-Blood Prince. Which would beg the question, why would he choose a book with such bad instructions.
Therefore it is logical that the first lesson was to show everybody that just following instructions, isn't enough anymore. They need to understand the potions and ingredients and improve the recipes.

The bad teaching of Slughorn comes in where he doesn't tell his students that. Or at least pointing out what Harry has done differently than the book usually suggest.

Edit:
as many of you suggest that the book isn't that wrong, how do you explain that no other NEWT student in that class does get near a correct potion during the first lesson. And also that Hermiones results with the "official" instructions get worse each lesson. That doesn't sound like they get the job done.

I just wish they added the scene of Arthur and lucius fighting in diagon alley that was so satisfying moment and in movies they scrapped it completely lucius with a black eye it would have been great but lets hope they add it in series.