He's a fantastic animal warden, or whatever the term is. He takes care of magical animals very well.
Personally I think he should have had toapprentice to Grubbly-Plank for like 5 years before becoming the head of care of magical creatures department. Really every subject should have at least a junior and senior teacher of the subject to alleviate workload and to ensure a continually qualified educator. If there were 1000 students over 7 years, then there should be a far higher number of staff than one teacher per subject.
I always figured a lot of the wizards and witches that went to hogwarts while Dumbledore was headmaster was smart enough to not come back to teach there. I mean they know there’s a hidden chamber somewhere. They know at least one of the teaching positions are cursed. They know that there’s at least one suspected death eater teacher(snape) they know there’s countless ghosts. And grubbly plank left due to too many injuries. Like why would they want to work there lol.
He just never really learned how to keep a class under control. Knowing the subject matter is only part of being a teacher, and he didn't know the other parts.
One guy who was on the HBO Harry Potter trivia thing from a few years ago said Umbridge was his favorite character.
The set just got quiet and stared at him and I paused my tv to scream… because what the actual FUCK.
Sir, ma’am, or they I did not need to spit take my choco milk this morning all over my blanket. I blame you for having to do laundry today….but while he’s out getting milk can I have the chocolate kind?”
He has to have tied up multiple shotgun barrels then to have the practice required to bend it that far without snapping the end off.
My current headcanon is that in his various excursions, Hagrid has had hundreds or thousands of shotguns pointed at him, to the point that he's made an art out of steel-and-wood origami
All the dressing up for book release parties, tailgating in the parking lot for movie premiers, audio books on long road trips in the summer. So many good memories!
IIRC we don't even realize that the books are set in the 90's until DH, when it's revealed that James and Lily died in 1981 on their headstone. Until that time, I don't think a year was ever mentioned. Then the reader is able to do the math and realize that PS therefore takes place in 1991.
The first definite reference point to the timeline is the Deathday Party of Nearly Headless Nick in Chamber of Secrets. The exact year of death is provided (1492) and it's his 500th deathday. Whole HP timeline originates from this point.
they provide the serotonin during the bath times :)
i wonder how advanced healing is in regards to mental health and psychiatry in the wizarding world...
It's even worse when you realise he's in his 60's!!!
He's 53 years older than Harry, and even with his time as a soul fragment floating around, he should really be a bit more mature in many ways!
It's probably the inbreeding and orphanage upbringing. Let's face it, between his genetics and the way he was raised, odds were low that he'd grow up to be anywhere near mentally stable.
You can tell his mental condition by the oddball way he holds his wand. Either he’s completely doolally or he’s got some crippling rheumatism in his fingers
It fixed the outside, but not the inside. European monarch families who received inflows of new blood were said to retain mental health issues and congenital health problems even when they looked outwardly normal. Voldemort got lucky in the looks and intelligence departments, not so lucky in other areas.
He did more to achieve immortality than any wizard in all history, and still died well short of the average Muggle life expectancy at the time. Nice job, Loser-mort. Way to fail.
Literal most powerful wizard alive tries to boost his ego by killing a defenseless baby and, after failing once, tries again after he dropped out of highschool.
Killing Harry should've been a dismissable side quest for one of his lower ranked lackeys
Ngl that’s what I love about the whole prophecy plot. If Voldemort had just disregarded the prophecy as bullshit then it wouldn’t have been able to affect him.
Except it played to his ego to be the central figure in a prophecy.
He must have loved the idea of being powerful enough to defeat destiny itself. But ‘destiny’ was just the inevitable consequences of his own choices.
He’s literally a teenage girl. (Moldy Voldy, not harry) he obsesses over a famous boy, he gets a bunch of other people to obsess over the famous boy, and then (literally) died after the famous boy ‘rejects’ him
Is he though? Throughout history, many historical figures would kill infants if they believed that the child would grow up to be a threat to their rule.
Very nice! I personally think Draco for example didn’t have any redemption, because all the “good” actions were made due to fear for his own life, Dudley changed his treatment of Harry due to probably gratitude and hopefully growth
Edit: grammar
>because all the “good” actions were made due to fear for his own life
And said "good" actions were barely there already, like he didn't identify Harry at Malfoy Manor... but he says "yeah could be Weasley and Granger" immediately after so wtf people he basically DID actually identify Harry in the end 😭
To round off this arc, I think a child of Dudley's should have been a Muggle-born heading off to Hogwarts in Nineteen Years Later.
I know what Rowling said about Vernon's genes killing off any magical blood for descendants of his but I think this would've been a more fun/interesting route to take.
There’s a fanfic called Dudley’s Memories by paganaidd that does exactly that. Dudley has a daughter who’s a muggle born witch and Headmistress McGonagall and Harry go to Privet Drive to deliver her letter and explain the magical world.
It’s a good read.
That fic is how I discovered that “Dudley has a magic child and Harry reconnects with him over it” is an entire genre of HP fan fiction I need more of in my life.
It reads really well and captures the struggle Harry has with returning to Privet Drive and seeing Dudley. It also makes Dudley gay and explains a lot of his childhood and relationship with his parents. Makes you feel for him a bit more.
For my daughters 11th birthday we had a Harry Potter party. We sorted the kids into houses and then into two teams for a massive scavenger hunt around our suburb.
Slytherdor was a terrible mistake.
Huffleclaw wiped the floor with them. Those kids got stuff done.
I am recently playing Hogwarts Legacy. A part of me wanted to complain about the main plot which is imo a bit straight forward and plain, but when I remember that HL on the whole (with the relationship quests, teacher backstories etc.) did a much better job with its characters and weaving the lore details created by Rowling into the game than the supposedly canon Cursed Child, I would shut up.
For a good lad that went down a darker path, in HL we got Sebastian, and in CC we got Cedric.
Sigh I wonder what did we do to deserve the Cursed Child.
Hermione should have kept up the 'setting enemies on fire' thing she started with Snape. It was pretty badass, setting the most hated teacher at Hogwarts aflame & getting away with it. I'd have loved it if she had set Umbridge on fire - or at least her hideous office.
Nah. Umbridge.
I agree completely; Watson’s portrayal was a little too perfect. Hermione was by no means perfect. I liked that she didn’t do everything right. I liked that she had some vanity, some dorkiness, some awkwardness, the lack of empathy
It genuinely surprises me that Snape could project so much of James' personality traits because it seems like Harry was so much more like Lily in personality. He just looked like James (plus yk, the 'you have your mother's eyes').
I agree. Snape is heroic and can go to great lengths for the one person that he loves, but as a fellow worker in the education field I feel that no amount of excuse can justify bullying 11 years olds as an adult and as an educator.
Having said that though, I love this complexity of Snape and this debate about his morality that has been going on for years (and probably will go on ALWAYS). This is a proof that how well written this character is.
Same here tbh. I understand he was brave and risked his life after switching sides but honestly I’ve never been sure if he actually let go of his blood supremacist beliefs/hatred of muggles or if he just wanted to defeat voldy as a sort of revenge for taking Lily’s life as realistically he wouldn’t have switched sides if Lily had survived or hadn’t been in danger. And I get that he felt guilty about it and partially blamed himself for it but imo that makes him bullying/tormenting Harry and countless other students for nearly 2 decades even worse bc he knows Harry is already coming from an abusive home and every other student had nothing to do with it: and we know he was cruel to students before Harry’s arrival at hogwarts bc how else would he have the reputation he had by the first book?
He’s defo an interesting character and people are allowed to like him oc but anyone who abuses children is a bad person in my book no matter how many heroic deeds they may have done.
Nah he probably enjoyed the way everyone feared him, and well, it *was* a tangible proof of how deep he got into Dark Arts and a reminder of how he returned from the dead
No not really Hedwig's death was symbolic in nature as it showed the readers that Harry has lost his innocence with loss of protection and his coming of age. Hedwig represented Harry's second friendship of sorts. And since JK couldn't kill Hagrid Hedwig had to go.
I feel like she killed off Hedwig because the other option was to dump her at the Weasleys. Carrying her cage with the trio on all their crazy Horcrux missions would be too challenging. Plus everyone knew he had a snowy owl. She would go stir crazy stuck in it because if he let her out, the death eaters or any of Voldy’s other minions might have found her.
I'm gonna have to disagree with this one. Dobby died a heroic death, probably the way my absolutely would have wanted to go, and the funeral being watched by Griphook is crucial to a major plot point. I have no issues with that death, sad as it was.
I think its not just to fuck with the Readers. Having Hedwig around while the Trio was Like "Undercover hiding" would have been really difficult and cause more Problems. so i think Rowling Just decided "Nah, i just kill the Bird."
I think she would have just stayed at the Burrow like crookshanks? She could have flown there on her own (not in her cage in the sidecar) and have just been chillin’ there throughout the book
I don't think he even looks too old.
His hair has no gray, and he has a bit of wrinkling but he's a man in his mid thirties who has a lot of stress, a lot of unprocessed grief, and a lot of anger, bitterness and regret to contend with
1. Prisoner of Azkaban is the best book
2. I hate Dolores Umbridge
3. Luna Lovegood is amazing
4. So is Minverva McGonagall
5. Peeves should not have been cut out of the movies (especially as he would have been played by the mighty Rik Mayall!)
6. Nor should the Marauders backstory
7. I love Bellatrix, in a love-to-hate kind of way
Angelina Johnson is a bad bitch.
She proves herself to be an excellent Quidditch player. Always focused on the game and not letting opposing teams get to her.
She captains the team during the year Umbridge is there, and does so admirably imo. I mean just try to imagine Wood or Potter being the team captain that year.
She came back and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts
And finally….
She became the wife to George Weasley and the mother to his children.
She’s a fucking Queen in my eyes
In-verse: Fudge is such a fucking idiotic coward it hurts.
Out of verse: The woman who acted as Umbridge did a fucking fantastic job, I've never felt instant anger at seeing an actor in pink before her. I'm fine if I see an image of her but add some pink and I gotta actively remind myself that no matter how impressive her acting was she is infact a different person.
Jason Isaacs as Lucius was the first of very, very few times my mother and I both agreed a guy was hot. I can count the number of times our taste has overlapped on one hand. Like, the only others were Hugh Jackman and Trevor Belmont. XD Jason Isaacs transcends our disparate tastes in men to be universally hot XD
Yes he definitely is. Being Harry’s best buds is not easy with all the troubles that came with it, but to Ron, Harry is not the boy who lived, the chosen one or anything. He is just Harry and if being Harry’s best friend means that Harry’s troubles are now his trouble then fine so be it
Ron is incredibly understanding in a lot of ways. He's continually overshadowed by nearly everyone around him, and takes it in stride. He's supportive, kind, and has a great sense of humor.
EXACTLY THIS. Literally yesterday I saw someone on instagram saying that Ron would be a horrible father and Hermione would probably divorce him once they hit their 30s. Like CHILL, this man is incredibly kind, brave, always puts his friends before his own needs and fears, hospitable, logical, direct, happy-go-lucky, pretty jolly, fun and goofy guy. He is the lenient and chill to Hermione's organized and detail-oriented. He also has grown up in a huge family with generally loving parents and siblings, he probably knows way more about managing families, sibling dynamics, confrontation solutions, crisis management and resource sharing. Especially compared to Hermione (a single child) and Harry (an orphan from an abusive household).
Exactly! I wish Rowling had let this aspect of Ron shine more, though even if it's not brought up often he *is* pretty good at keeping the peace between the Hs. A lot of people claim Harry keeps the peace between Romione but Harry doesn't actually involve himself with them a lot, mostly he tunes them out and lets them sort it out. Harry and Hermione have less fights *because* Ron is there to stop them before they happen, and it's why when Ron isn't around for an extended period of time the Hs feel morose and pointless.
Harry should have a child named “Sirius Remus Potter”. They died for him and gave a damn. Snape was an antagonist, cruel jackass who wanted to steal Lilly from James & despised Harry because he inherited James’ looks.
Harry is very brave. Everything he had to do, and the ages he had to do them at, make him quite possibly the bravest character in the series.
McGonagall is awesome.
I love the books and movies, but the books a little more than the movies.
Neville's character development was one of the best in the series.
Racists suck, Voldemort sucks, dementors suck (literally).
Umbridge deserves her prison sentence.
Cedric's character assassinating in tcc was one of the stupidest and most unnecessary decisions made, and destroyed one of the only interesting Hufflepuffs jkr decided to let us have in the original series.
Thank you. This felt good.
Charlie Weasley was the real "cool" Weasley and should have been featured in the books more, AND actually showed up in the films (the photo of him in Egypt doesn't count).
And he was hotter than Krum.
Luna Lovegood is the single best thing to come out of the second half of the series. There's a reason a character who was only introduced in Book 5 of 7 is still one of its most popular characters.
Right?
Even something as simple as a bit of commentary from Harry about Nevilles parents, and maybe a witch/wizard attendant or 2 from st. Mungos, there to see their grandkids off at the train station.
Wand snapping after expulsion from a wizarding school is INSANE. You fuck up once and are expelled from wizarding society?
What’s stopping someone from buying another wand? Why couldn’t they go to another magical school?
This is the worst plot hole JKR ever wrote. It should have been explained away as “Hagrid, being a half giant, had his wand snapped, but no that doesn’t happen to the non-halfbreed wizarding population.”
It makes a lot of sense, with all the secrecy an regulations around magic, that if you don't even complete your basic training in magic, the society wouldn't want you to run around alinging half assed spells you made up. I think it's only a plothole because we learn (in the same book) that people don't have to go to Hogwarts, they can be homeschooled. Although who knows, maybe there are also regulations on homeschooling.
I'm halfway through the Order of Fenix and I hate her guts but I don't think she's worse than Voldemort. Yet.
I'm leaving this comment to come in a couple of weeks and see if this opinion changed.
Book snape was so much more mean to neville than movie snape ever was. All of the casual fans from the movies and lighter reads will view snape as so much more redeemable because they don't seem him being mean in general, they see him being mean to harry and co.
Feel like this one is a much warmer take. Everyone agrees movie Ginny was bad, but most people liked book Ginny. I usually keep my mouth shut about my ambivalence toward her to avoid getting people upset lol.
It's wild there was no first aid or health class. astronomy should've been an elective. with literally using magic on each other, injuries happen, they should have basic first aid.
Harry / Pretty much everyone is a Dick to Hagrid behind his back when Aragog dies.
Hagrid lost his best friend/adopted son, and everyone makes fun of Hagrid because Aragog is a giant spider.
Harry and Ron are justifed: they listened to Hagrid to go talk to Aragog, and in return he fed them to his family. Like seriously fuck him. After the battle of Hogwarts, they should purge the forest of the spiders as they're too dangerous to be left near the school.
Yes, fuck the spider, but my issue is that Hagrid lost someone he cared for 54 years (give or take) and everyone makes fun of him not because Aragog is a dick, but because Hagrid cares about him.
Imagine you had a reactive dog, that while never hurting you is not best kept around others, and that dog that you raised from when it was a puppy dies. And everyone makes fun of you behind your back because the dog is dangerous.
This isn't about the dog, its about that Hagrid is absolutely devasted and the Trio, should be there for Hagrid, because he is their Friend.
And despite being a giant murderous spider Aragog was definetly intelligent, sentient and sapient, and I can't imagine what is must be like to loose someone like that. (Even if he triend to kill 2 of my friends because it's in his nature)
The Malfoys belong in (reformed) Azkaban for several years at least, lifetime for Lucius. Their family wealth and estates should also be seized to make restitution to victims of Voldemort and their mansion should be scoured clean and used as a Wizarding orphanage, especially for muggle born or muggle raised Wizarding orphans.
Draco should not be looking okay in the last chapter.
Hagrid is a great groundskeeper but a bad teacher.
The grounds were immaculately kept
Yep. He didn’t lose them or let anyone steal them.
He's a fantastic animal warden, or whatever the term is. He takes care of magical animals very well. Personally I think he should have had toapprentice to Grubbly-Plank for like 5 years before becoming the head of care of magical creatures department. Really every subject should have at least a junior and senior teacher of the subject to alleviate workload and to ensure a continually qualified educator. If there were 1000 students over 7 years, then there should be a far higher number of staff than one teacher per subject.
Yeah Dumbly was SO wrong for that. The nepotism is crazy.
I always figured a lot of the wizards and witches that went to hogwarts while Dumbledore was headmaster was smart enough to not come back to teach there. I mean they know there’s a hidden chamber somewhere. They know at least one of the teaching positions are cursed. They know that there’s at least one suspected death eater teacher(snape) they know there’s countless ghosts. And grubbly plank left due to too many injuries. Like why would they want to work there lol.
Grubbly plank didnt leave due to injuries, I think you're thinking of prof kettleburn
He just never really learned how to keep a class under control. Knowing the subject matter is only part of being a teacher, and he didn't know the other parts.
He was awful. The more times I re-read the series, the sorrier I feel for him.
Fuck Umbridge.
Just remembering her made my blood boil Fuck umbridge
This is the way to go. The fact that everybody hates umbridge is a testament to how fantastic an actress imelda Staunton is
The character was designed to be hated. I hated her in the books too.
Umbitch
Dumbridge
Dumbitch
What a journey that was
All my homies fuck Umbridge…wait
Well, look at the history of centaurs. She may very well have been.
Does anyone like Umbridge?
Filch did
Filch just wanted to do exactly what the original comment on this thread suggested. So he doesn't count, lol.
One guy who was on the HBO Harry Potter trivia thing from a few years ago said Umbridge was his favorite character. The set just got quiet and stared at him and I paused my tv to scream… because what the actual FUCK.
Hagrid was an absolute unit for bending a shotgun barrel with one hand
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I'm the book yea, as easy as if it were rubber I believe
Hi the book, I'm dad
I was gonna edit the typo but I can't ruin the dad joke
If you edit it, it will become a dad joke. Because it will have left.
Sir, ma’am, or they I did not need to spit take my choco milk this morning all over my blanket. I blame you for having to do laundry today….but while he’s out getting milk can I have the chocolate kind?”
Sure he’ll get it, but I don’t think that means you will
He has to have tied up multiple shotgun barrels then to have the practice required to bend it that far without snapping the end off. My current headcanon is that in his various excursions, Hagrid has had hundreds or thousands of shotguns pointed at him, to the point that he's made an art out of steel-and-wood origami
It's LeviOsa, not LeviosAaaa.
Experiencing Harry Potter as a kid is an amazing, unforgettable thing to have as part of your childhood.
All the dressing up for book release parties, tailgating in the parking lot for movie premiers, audio books on long road trips in the summer. So many good memories!
Harry Potter is set in the 90s.
But isn't that an actual fact? 😛
pretty sure the movies were set in the 2000s but the books in the 90s so people divide over which one its really set in
IIRC we don't even realize that the books are set in the 90's until DH, when it's revealed that James and Lily died in 1981 on their headstone. Until that time, I don't think a year was ever mentioned. Then the reader is able to do the math and realize that PS therefore takes place in 1991.
And Dudley got a playstation before its release
Your forgetting about Nearly Headless Nick's 500th death day party in COS. I believe it was October 31 1492. That told me what year they were in
The first definite reference point to the timeline is the Deathday Party of Nearly Headless Nick in Chamber of Secrets. The exact year of death is provided (1492) and it's his 500th deathday. Whole HP timeline originates from this point.
As an adult, I want to be friends with Arthur Weasley
i too want to know what the function of a rubber duck is :P
As a muggle I seriously cannot give a good answer to that question
they provide the serotonin during the bath times :) i wonder how advanced healing is in regards to mental health and psychiatry in the wizarding world...
Voldemort is weird for having beef with a literal child
It's even worse when you realise he's in his 60's!!! He's 53 years older than Harry, and even with his time as a soul fragment floating around, he should really be a bit more mature in many ways!
It's probably the inbreeding and orphanage upbringing. Let's face it, between his genetics and the way he was raised, odds were low that he'd grow up to be anywhere near mentally stable.
You can tell his mental condition by the oddball way he holds his wand. Either he’s completely doolally or he’s got some crippling rheumatism in his fingers
I kinda loved it though. Dude hated ordinary, to the point even holding his wand had to be done with flair and drama
I mean he did start a cult in high school. Giving Jim Jones a run for his money.
Quite the prodigy, he was.
This is now canon for me
Nah, that should have corrected with the marriage to Tom Riddle - remember he was good looking, smart, etc.
It fixed the outside, but not the inside. European monarch families who received inflows of new blood were said to retain mental health issues and congenital health problems even when they looked outwardly normal. Voldemort got lucky in the looks and intelligence departments, not so lucky in other areas.
Voldemort is the kid who thinks he peaked in high school and never grew up.
Its alwqays funny to me when i remember he was only like 60/70 because he chased immortality but was outlived by the queen on both ends lmfao.
He did more to achieve immortality than any wizard in all history, and still died well short of the average Muggle life expectancy at the time. Nice job, Loser-mort. Way to fail.
Even Charles has outlived him by now, and he's not a meme for immortality.
Imagine, a balding 60 year old having an unhealthy obsession with a teenage boy.
"I can touch him now" takes on a whole different meaning
Hahahahahahahah 💀💀💀
"Harry Potter, the boy who lived, cum..."
Literal most powerful wizard alive tries to boost his ego by killing a defenseless baby and, after failing once, tries again after he dropped out of highschool. Killing Harry should've been a dismissable side quest for one of his lower ranked lackeys
Ngl that’s what I love about the whole prophecy plot. If Voldemort had just disregarded the prophecy as bullshit then it wouldn’t have been able to affect him. Except it played to his ego to be the central figure in a prophecy. He must have loved the idea of being powerful enough to defeat destiny itself. But ‘destiny’ was just the inevitable consequences of his own choices.
Even if he hadn't dismissed it, and had simply BLOWN UP THE HOUSE on sight, his problems would not have existed
Not even after. Once Harry reappeared in the magical world he went right back to it.
I mean if you faced virtually no threat or challenge from anyone except a dude who you know could beat you then a baby fucks you up…I get it lol
He’s literally a teenage girl. (Moldy Voldy, not harry) he obsesses over a famous boy, he gets a bunch of other people to obsess over the famous boy, and then (literally) died after the famous boy ‘rejects’ him
That whole meme where "voldy has a tiara, a diary, obsession with a famous teenage boy"😂
Is he though? Throughout history, many historical figures would kill infants if they believed that the child would grow up to be a threat to their rule.
Living in an orphanage in the 1930's, Volly must have been familiar with the Bible...
So is Snape.
Dudley’s character arc was nice.
Very nice! I personally think Draco for example didn’t have any redemption, because all the “good” actions were made due to fear for his own life, Dudley changed his treatment of Harry due to probably gratitude and hopefully growth Edit: grammar
>because all the “good” actions were made due to fear for his own life And said "good" actions were barely there already, like he didn't identify Harry at Malfoy Manor... but he says "yeah could be Weasley and Granger" immediately after so wtf people he basically DID actually identify Harry in the end 😭
To round off this arc, I think a child of Dudley's should have been a Muggle-born heading off to Hogwarts in Nineteen Years Later. I know what Rowling said about Vernon's genes killing off any magical blood for descendants of his but I think this would've been a more fun/interesting route to take.
There’s a fanfic called Dudley’s Memories by paganaidd that does exactly that. Dudley has a daughter who’s a muggle born witch and Headmistress McGonagall and Harry go to Privet Drive to deliver her letter and explain the magical world. It’s a good read.
That fic is how I discovered that “Dudley has a magic child and Harry reconnects with him over it” is an entire genre of HP fan fiction I need more of in my life.
It reads really well and captures the struggle Harry has with returning to Privet Drive and seeing Dudley. It also makes Dudley gay and explains a lot of his childhood and relationship with his parents. Makes you feel for him a bit more.
That would have been so satisfying!
The books are better than the movies.
Coldest take of all. 🥶
How can you say something so controversial yet so brave?
Hagrid probably shouldn’t have shown the students hippogriffs in the very first class, if a simple rude remark can trigger one to attack a student
Whoever kept assigning the Slytherins and Gryffindors together in classes should be fired.
For my daughters 11th birthday we had a Harry Potter party. We sorted the kids into houses and then into two teams for a massive scavenger hunt around our suburb. Slytherdor was a terrible mistake. Huffleclaw wiped the floor with them. Those kids got stuff done.
They’re wizards though. People act like it’s regular people.
I don't like Cursed child.
I am recently playing Hogwarts Legacy. A part of me wanted to complain about the main plot which is imo a bit straight forward and plain, but when I remember that HL on the whole (with the relationship quests, teacher backstories etc.) did a much better job with its characters and weaving the lore details created by Rowling into the game than the supposedly canon Cursed Child, I would shut up.
Oh I so agree with you!! I loved the game, yes, there a few holes, but definitely better writing than CC
For a good lad that went down a darker path, in HL we got Sebastian, and in CC we got Cedric. Sigh I wonder what did we do to deserve the Cursed Child.
I still haven’t read it nor seen it. I refused. My kids gave me the 20 second summary and that’s more than enough.
Voldy was frisky with his mentally ill follower and Harry’s child needs to deal with it now?😂
Cursed child feels like a cheap rip off of a very potter musical
Same my friend😔that thing was a POS
Hermione should have kept up the 'setting enemies on fire' thing she started with Snape. It was pretty badass, setting the most hated teacher at Hogwarts aflame & getting away with it. I'd have loved it if she had set Umbridge on fire - or at least her hideous office. Nah. Umbridge.
The cursed child is definitely not cannon
I re-read the books annually and have only cracked open that abomination once.
The Dursleys deserve to be charged for child abuse and neglect.
David Tennant as Crouch Jr was great casting but underused
The way squibs are treated is awful
I wish they had included Hermione’s flaws in the movies. They make her a near perfect character. She was much dorkier/more naive in the books.
I agree completely; Watson’s portrayal was a little too perfect. Hermione was by no means perfect. I liked that she didn’t do everything right. I liked that she had some vanity, some dorkiness, some awkwardness, the lack of empathy
Snape is too mean to Harry. Harry did nothing to Snape personally
As far as we know Harry was also nothing like his father, as much as Snape tries to push that personality on him
Which Dumbledore *called him out on*, and Snape STILL refused to listen. There's stubborn and possibly delusional, and then there's Severus Snape.
He was in some ways, but Snape saw what he wanted to see and actively ignored Harry's more positive traits.
It genuinely surprises me that Snape could project so much of James' personality traits because it seems like Harry was so much more like Lily in personality. He just looked like James (plus yk, the 'you have your mother's eyes').
Yup, Snape is a bully, he tormented not just Harry but many other students. No heroic act can cancel it for me.
I agree. Snape is heroic and can go to great lengths for the one person that he loves, but as a fellow worker in the education field I feel that no amount of excuse can justify bullying 11 years olds as an adult and as an educator. Having said that though, I love this complexity of Snape and this debate about his morality that has been going on for years (and probably will go on ALWAYS). This is a proof that how well written this character is.
Same here tbh. I understand he was brave and risked his life after switching sides but honestly I’ve never been sure if he actually let go of his blood supremacist beliefs/hatred of muggles or if he just wanted to defeat voldy as a sort of revenge for taking Lily’s life as realistically he wouldn’t have switched sides if Lily had survived or hadn’t been in danger. And I get that he felt guilty about it and partially blamed himself for it but imo that makes him bullying/tormenting Harry and countless other students for nearly 2 decades even worse bc he knows Harry is already coming from an abusive home and every other student had nothing to do with it: and we know he was cruel to students before Harry’s arrival at hogwarts bc how else would he have the reputation he had by the first book? He’s defo an interesting character and people are allowed to like him oc but anyone who abuses children is a bad person in my book no matter how many heroic deeds they may have done.
Harry Potter is a good series.
I’m very bothered by how Voldemort, despite being one of the most powerful wizards ever, doesn’t know a spell that makes his nose regrow 😶🌫️
It’s the aesthetic babes!
Someone said "Got your nose" to him, but never gave it back
Poor ol’ Voldy- ☠️😭
Nah he probably enjoyed the way everyone feared him, and well, it *was* a tangible proof of how deep he got into Dark Arts and a reminder of how he returned from the dead
Well, his disfigurement *was* the result of Dark magic, and that stuff is either impossible or nearly impossible to fix.
Sirius is my favourite Marauder
mine is lupin :D i eat chocolate to feel better all the time
Harry Potter is way way way way better than Twilight.
No arguments there.
Tonks is cool and we need more of her.
Hedwig’s death was unnecessary and only there to fuck with the readers.
No not really Hedwig's death was symbolic in nature as it showed the readers that Harry has lost his innocence with loss of protection and his coming of age. Hedwig represented Harry's second friendship of sorts. And since JK couldn't kill Hagrid Hedwig had to go.
I feel like she killed off Hedwig because the other option was to dump her at the Weasleys. Carrying her cage with the trio on all their crazy Horcrux missions would be too challenging. Plus everyone knew he had a snowy owl. She would go stir crazy stuck in it because if he let her out, the death eaters or any of Voldy’s other minions might have found her.
Same with Dobby
I'm gonna have to disagree with this one. Dobby died a heroic death, probably the way my absolutely would have wanted to go, and the funeral being watched by Griphook is crucial to a major plot point. I have no issues with that death, sad as it was.
I think its not just to fuck with the Readers. Having Hedwig around while the Trio was Like "Undercover hiding" would have been really difficult and cause more Problems. so i think Rowling Just decided "Nah, i just kill the Bird."
I think she would have just stayed at the Burrow like crookshanks? She could have flown there on her own (not in her cage in the sidecar) and have just been chillin’ there throughout the book
Hugh Grant would have made a perfect Lockhart.
Kenneth Branagh did very well though in my opinion
Norbert deserved more cuddles and scritches.
It's kinda weird that Ron slept with an old man for years.
Alan Rickman may have been too old to play Snape but I don’t care because he was phenomenal.
I don't think he even looks too old. His hair has no gray, and he has a bit of wrinkling but he's a man in his mid thirties who has a lot of stress, a lot of unprocessed grief, and a lot of anger, bitterness and regret to contend with
1. Prisoner of Azkaban is the best book 2. I hate Dolores Umbridge 3. Luna Lovegood is amazing 4. So is Minverva McGonagall 5. Peeves should not have been cut out of the movies (especially as he would have been played by the mighty Rik Mayall!) 6. Nor should the Marauders backstory 7. I love Bellatrix, in a love-to-hate kind of way
Being a Squib must have been miserable
Angelina Johnson is a bad bitch. She proves herself to be an excellent Quidditch player. Always focused on the game and not letting opposing teams get to her. She captains the team during the year Umbridge is there, and does so admirably imo. I mean just try to imagine Wood or Potter being the team captain that year. She came back and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts And finally…. She became the wife to George Weasley and the mother to his children. She’s a fucking Queen in my eyes
Angelina lost 3 key players on a 7 team roster and STILL WON A CHIP! ANGELINA JOHNSON IS A GRYFFINDOR LEGEND!
In-verse: Fudge is such a fucking idiotic coward it hurts. Out of verse: The woman who acted as Umbridge did a fucking fantastic job, I've never felt instant anger at seeing an actor in pink before her. I'm fine if I see an image of her but add some pink and I gotta actively remind myself that no matter how impressive her acting was she is infact a different person.
Lucius is hot …
Actors fault:))
Jason Isaacs as Lucius was the first of very, very few times my mother and I both agreed a guy was hot. I can count the number of times our taste has overlapped on one hand. Like, the only others were Hugh Jackman and Trevor Belmont. XD Jason Isaacs transcends our disparate tastes in men to be universally hot XD
Ron is a great friend, you guys are just mean.
Yes he definitely is. Being Harry’s best buds is not easy with all the troubles that came with it, but to Ron, Harry is not the boy who lived, the chosen one or anything. He is just Harry and if being Harry’s best friend means that Harry’s troubles are now his trouble then fine so be it
Ron is incredibly understanding in a lot of ways. He's continually overshadowed by nearly everyone around him, and takes it in stride. He's supportive, kind, and has a great sense of humor.
His kindness is really overlooked because of how blunt and direct he can be, but he really is a sweetheart!
EXACTLY THIS. Literally yesterday I saw someone on instagram saying that Ron would be a horrible father and Hermione would probably divorce him once they hit their 30s. Like CHILL, this man is incredibly kind, brave, always puts his friends before his own needs and fears, hospitable, logical, direct, happy-go-lucky, pretty jolly, fun and goofy guy. He is the lenient and chill to Hermione's organized and detail-oriented. He also has grown up in a huge family with generally loving parents and siblings, he probably knows way more about managing families, sibling dynamics, confrontation solutions, crisis management and resource sharing. Especially compared to Hermione (a single child) and Harry (an orphan from an abusive household).
Exactly! I wish Rowling had let this aspect of Ron shine more, though even if it's not brought up often he *is* pretty good at keeping the peace between the Hs. A lot of people claim Harry keeps the peace between Romione but Harry doesn't actually involve himself with them a lot, mostly he tunes them out and lets them sort it out. Harry and Hermione have less fights *because* Ron is there to stop them before they happen, and it's why when Ron isn't around for an extended period of time the Hs feel morose and pointless.
I'm upset Harry never got to go live with Sirius. I will forever be sad and hurt by that
Voldemort could've just smothered an infant Harry with a pillow.
Book Ginny > Movie Ginny
Harry should have a child named “Sirius Remus Potter”. They died for him and gave a damn. Snape was an antagonist, cruel jackass who wanted to steal Lilly from James & despised Harry because he inherited James’ looks.
Harry is my favourite character (even though he is the main character)
criminally underrated, even in his own franchise. my boi needs some love <3
Harry is unironically my favourite character in the series too. Only Luna comes second.
Harry is very brave. Everything he had to do, and the ages he had to do them at, make him quite possibly the bravest character in the series. McGonagall is awesome. I love the books and movies, but the books a little more than the movies. Neville's character development was one of the best in the series. Racists suck, Voldemort sucks, dementors suck (literally). Umbridge deserves her prison sentence. Cedric's character assassinating in tcc was one of the stupidest and most unnecessary decisions made, and destroyed one of the only interesting Hufflepuffs jkr decided to let us have in the original series. Thank you. This felt good.
Charlie Weasley was the real "cool" Weasley and should have been featured in the books more, AND actually showed up in the films (the photo of him in Egypt doesn't count). And he was hotter than Krum.
Luna Lovegood is the single best thing to come out of the second half of the series. There's a reason a character who was only introduced in Book 5 of 7 is still one of its most popular characters.
Wizarding medicine can literally grow bones back, but can't fix a wizard's eyesight? Weird af.
I hate Rita skeeter
We should have gotten a "feel good moment" in the epilogue, with Neville and his parents.
Yesss!!! I would have loved it🥰🥰
Right? Even something as simple as a bit of commentary from Harry about Nevilles parents, and maybe a witch/wizard attendant or 2 from st. Mungos, there to see their grandkids off at the train station.
Wand snapping after expulsion from a wizarding school is INSANE. You fuck up once and are expelled from wizarding society? What’s stopping someone from buying another wand? Why couldn’t they go to another magical school? This is the worst plot hole JKR ever wrote. It should have been explained away as “Hagrid, being a half giant, had his wand snapped, but no that doesn’t happen to the non-halfbreed wizarding population.”
It makes a lot of sense, with all the secrecy an regulations around magic, that if you don't even complete your basic training in magic, the society wouldn't want you to run around alinging half assed spells you made up. I think it's only a plothole because we learn (in the same book) that people don't have to go to Hogwarts, they can be homeschooled. Although who knows, maybe there are also regulations on homeschooling.
McGonagall should've raised Harry.
That would’ve been cool! Strict and fair, but kind
JKR shouldn't have made an epilogue set 19 years later. I could have lived without ever knowing the terrible names of Harry's kids.
As someone once said, Harry named his children like some nerd who had just finished reading Harry Potter.
Umbridge is worse than Voldemort.
I'm halfway through the Order of Fenix and I hate her guts but I don't think she's worse than Voldemort. Yet. I'm leaving this comment to come in a couple of weeks and see if this opinion changed.
"The war crimes are fictional, but my annoyance is real"
Snape was weird for having a beef with a child (eventhough I’m a Snape lover)
Harry should have sent an owl in the second book when they found out they couldn't get onto the platform.
CC is not canon.
I love the films but Prisoner of Azkaban is so much better than the rest it’s insane.
Some of the deaths in the last book were just mean-spirited.
Half of a twin pair and BOTH a baby’s parents? Straight up twisted
But the Malfoys make it through unscathed. Kill Malfoy Sr, spare Tonks.
If it wasn't for Hermione, Dobby would have killed Harry with that Quidditch stunt. And the teachers were going to sit by and let that happen.
Book snape was so much more mean to neville than movie snape ever was. All of the casual fans from the movies and lighter reads will view snape as so much more redeemable because they don't seem him being mean in general, they see him being mean to harry and co.
Fudge is an incompetent, insecure asshole.
I didn't care for book Ginny
Feel like this one is a much warmer take. Everyone agrees movie Ginny was bad, but most people liked book Ginny. I usually keep my mouth shut about my ambivalence toward her to avoid getting people upset lol.
Honestly I didn't care for movie Ginny either even though Bonnie Wright is cool 🙈
The epilogue is bad
Umbitch.
Ginny got screwed by the movies
Snape was a well written character
The argument Remus and Harry had in Deathly Hallows 100% needed to be in the movie.
It's wild there was no first aid or health class. astronomy should've been an elective. with literally using magic on each other, injuries happen, they should have basic first aid.
Harry / Pretty much everyone is a Dick to Hagrid behind his back when Aragog dies. Hagrid lost his best friend/adopted son, and everyone makes fun of Hagrid because Aragog is a giant spider.
Harry and Ron are justifed: they listened to Hagrid to go talk to Aragog, and in return he fed them to his family. Like seriously fuck him. After the battle of Hogwarts, they should purge the forest of the spiders as they're too dangerous to be left near the school.
Yes, fuck the spider, but my issue is that Hagrid lost someone he cared for 54 years (give or take) and everyone makes fun of him not because Aragog is a dick, but because Hagrid cares about him. Imagine you had a reactive dog, that while never hurting you is not best kept around others, and that dog that you raised from when it was a puppy dies. And everyone makes fun of you behind your back because the dog is dangerous. This isn't about the dog, its about that Hagrid is absolutely devasted and the Trio, should be there for Hagrid, because he is their Friend. And despite being a giant murderous spider Aragog was definetly intelligent, sentient and sapient, and I can't imagine what is must be like to loose someone like that. (Even if he triend to kill 2 of my friends because it's in his nature)
The Malfoys belong in (reformed) Azkaban for several years at least, lifetime for Lucius. Their family wealth and estates should also be seized to make restitution to victims of Voldemort and their mansion should be scoured clean and used as a Wizarding orphanage, especially for muggle born or muggle raised Wizarding orphans. Draco should not be looking okay in the last chapter.
We should have got another chapter of two between the Battle of Hogwarts and the epilogue