Why are the "unforgiveable", so "bad" each has other spells or potions that do the same thing as the "unforgiveable". Avada Kedavra: theres the potion that ron drank by accident. Crucio: the potion Dumbledore drank to retrieve the horcrux Imperio: theres love potions. But that stuff is all taught to school kids.

It's their dorms. They're underneath the Black Lake, literally underwater. You don't ever see sunshine or blue sky. Whenever you look out your window, all you see is water. And I'm terrified of deep waters, so the realization of being underwater would give me constant panic attacks, lol.

He uses his first one in book 5 and by the end of book 7 he's flinging them out all over. He gets pretty good at them.

Yes, the imperious at Gringots was necessary to killing the Dark Lord but the cricio at Amicus was wholly unneeded.

Sounds like a PR nightmare later on.

If Harry used avada kedavra instead of expelliarmus against Voldemort in their final battle, Harry would have died. Using Harry's blood in the rejuvenation ritual gave Voldemort the same shield protection Harry received from his mother. If Harry used avada kedavra it would have bounced off the shield back at him & he would have ended. True or false.

There has to be some secret or trick that enables the students of Ravenclaw house to get into their common room every night. Or there’d be a lot of them sleeping outside the common room. Like while in the common room before leaving for classes the next day or something, does the door magically say, “Before you leave, here is your riddle and answer for the day, which you will need in order to gain entry back into the common room” then magically hands the student a parchment with the question and the answer, then the student is ready to head out to class. Something like that.

There’s got to be some secret or other. Like the magical entry door giving answers to questions, putting on a parchment and giving it to the student to use for access. Or they can memorize the answer to the question and then throw away the parchment once they’ve memorized it. I don’t know, but it makes you wonder how they all get in every night. The students would say “I don’t know” a lot more often than they would know the answers, and also be stuck to sleep outside. So there’s got to be some trick or secret or something.

I'm a big fan of Harry Potter, and since my sister had never seen the movies, I thought it would be fun to rewatch them together. A few years ago, I stumbled upon a fascinating fan theory on Instagram regarding the conclusion of the Harry Potter series. Here’s a brief overview of that theory—hopefully, it offers a fresh perspective!

According to this fan theory, Harry Potter is recast as the delusions of a disturbed adolescent. Escape from a terrible reality, such as an unpleasant home situation, is symbolized by Hogwarts. Magic could serve as a metaphor for the difficulties in life, such as dementors as depression or potions as narcotics. Hermione and Ron may represent loyalty and reason in Harry's mind. Voldemort is his inner evil, while Dumbledore is the mentor he longs for. Their conflicts are similar to Harry's fights with addiction or mental illness, with "magic" standing in for his need for power. His acceptance of reality may be the drama's "happy ending," which would reframe the series as a grim coming-of-age story centered on introspection and healing.

I’ve been re-binging the Harry Potter movies and one scene that really made me emotional is the scene where Harry casted the Patronus charm by the lake to save Sirius and himself. Then later on Harry realising it was him all along not his dad. No one can truly save you except yourself. Edited for typo.

In the same way that Americans (including myself) call it soccer instead of football

What happened to Mary MacDonald?

I've read the books. I've seen the movies. Not here to discuss that. What I am here to ask, and I'm sure I am not the first, how long is the series if instead of trying to fight Voldemort with conventional means (magic wands), he was fought with something "less" conventional, a sniper rifle. He lost to a baby. A Barrett 50 cal packs way more heat than a literal infant. 17 year old Harry beat him. You couldn't beat a teenager that couldn't even grow a set and ask his crush out for like half the series? But he had enough balls to square up with you? Get real.

Do not try the Horcrux argument with me. I do not care. Literally just wait for the guy to go on his next killing spree, have your trained sniper about a mile away, and while he is waving his hand around casting spells at wizards, pull the trigger. I'm sorry but a horcrux isn't going to fix the walls getting painted with his brains. Wouldn't have time to react, time between bullet leaving chamber and entering his forehead is quicker than he could even say the "av" in avada kedavra. If he even knew it was coming, and newsflash, he wouldn't. Dude was so arrogant always playing with his prey, it was his downfall in the first place.

Hermione or literally anyone with muggle experience could have suggested this. Took all of the books for them to do with magic what one Navy Seal could do with a gun in a few seconds. He "has more lives"? Okay, well we have more bullets. One has to run out first and it sure isn't bullets.

Thank you for your time and don't try to tell me I'm wrong, you're arguing with a brick wall.

Why are there no Harry Potter themed sleeping bags for kids? I’ve been looking around the internet and haven’t found anything for a school aged kid.

would Snape being Harry fathers have been a good twist?

i saw a post on tiktok from a creator named @bronsofunny he goes into more of a wild idea it would have been, he definitely explains it more if you wanna go check it out and come back and discuss.

Warning, im zooted:

TLDR: Modern humans with magic are actually descendants of humans who interbred with non-human magical creatures and retained the magic gene to pass on to their children. Over a very long period of time, the gene became more commonplace and the wizarding race was born.

Imagine. Millions (or whatever?) of year ago, early humans living alongside the magical world. Weak, tiny, powerless, and yet weirdly aggressive, the spirit of these early humans allows them to live but they survive in a world where they are preyed upon by dragons and lethifolds in the night, but they continue to fight and war and fend off these beings.

Well, surely some of the decided to say "Hey....that's elf is kinda hot?" and bam wam, you got an half human, half elf, who is capable of weilding magic yet looks like a human. That kid mates with another human, and so on and so on until finally their descendant looks almost exactly human,,,,yet retains the power to do magic...with all the selfish, toxic nature of humanity.

This creates a new race, they eventually play their hands against both sides, subjugating both man and creature and taking over the world, before going into hiding.

All humans nowadays carry the gene for magic, for some its more diluted than others but that magic gene comes from...magic creatures.

Evidence:

1. Trust me.

2. Canonically, humans and magical creatures interbreed (giants, elves, goblins, veelas, etc) so yeah

3. Like, why else? If magic was native to humans, everyone would have it and there would be no muggles. Theres no evolutionary reason for some humans to have it and others do not, as magic would make them stronger and better able to survive (wizards canonically live longer than muggles), and so it cant be a natural evolution thing.

4. this would explain legends and myths about gods and spirits. They were just wizards, but because they were "new" they werw seen as marvels, fantastical, before tehy became more common and became more like a superistitous thing or whatever.

ANyway yea,

Are all the professors at Hogwarts just on their own, do they have any families? Where do the families live? Why don't we see them

I’d say Dean or Ginny, but let me hear all of your thoughts!

I have no clue what Rowling said in supplementary material or whatever, but just based off the books, I have no idea why a wizard would be extra scared of a werewolf.

For most of the time, they're just regular wizards. Its not until book 6 that we get Bill getting bitten/scratched up by Greyback outside the full moon and it being a permanent thing, which wasn't really explained super well imo. Assuming wounds from werewolves cannot be healed even outside the full moon, though, it really isn't that big of a deal. Almost every duel we see in the series is at range, definitely not within arms reach, and there is nothing written to indicate untransformed werewolves have better reflexes or anything.

Then, during the full moon, they turn into a giant wolf... and that's it.

What's stopping a wizard from burning, cutting, bludgeoning or even just levitating the werewolf? Like, if regular humans had the power to levitate and immobilise a bear with just a thought, bear encounters suddenly become much less scary outside of an ambush.

Of course, we have to assume werewolves have magical resistance, but that's the problem. If they have it, its never shown, nor the extent of it. We never get a scene where its established just why a grown wizard should fear a transformed werewolf. You could say a werewolf can tank almost every offensive spell, and its just as much speculation as me saying a stunner would take them out

I'm currently listening to DH for the millionth time and this has been a question I've for a while I don' think I've seen anyone else discuss before.

I know that Goblins consider any purchases a loan and that they want to reclaim Goblin-made artifacts back once the original purchaser has died, but with the lore and historical accounds of the sword disappearing and re-appearing to those who are in need of it why did the Goblins want it back? Did they not know that they would lose ownership of it again once it was needed or did they thing the magic of it would disappear once they had it back in their possession? Was it more greed and arrogance or something else? When Griphook betrayed the trio for it in Gringotts did he think he had it for good? This has been plaguing me for years lol

Probably kinda late to the party, but I went to Harry Potter In Concert for the first time tonight. I was curious but I'm not the biggest Potterhead anymore, so I wasn't that invested.

But it blew me away. I almost cried, which doesn't really happen to me during movies (no flex, believe me, I wish I could...).

When they played Leaving Hogwarts... all the memories came back. How I used to escape into Harry's world during my tough childhood, how I reread and rewatched the books and movies over and over again because I was too scared to 'leave' my safe space. How many hours I spent in that universe. I don't know how to describe what I felt tonight.

Next month I will visit the Studio Tour in London for the first time, together with my mom. She introduced me into Harry Potter when I was little and after tonight I couldn't be more excited.

Just wanted to share this with some fellow fans. Also, if you haven't been to a HP in Concert yet, please give it a try. Such a great experience, especially with all the other fans around you.

Forgive me if this is an obvious question, but I was just rereading the opening of HBP and came across a line I hadn’t noticed before. This is after Fudge tells the Muggle Prime Minister he’s been sacked as Minister of Magic.

"I wish him luck," said Fudge, sounding bitter for the first time. "I've been writing to Dumbledore twice a day for the past fortnight, but he won't budge. If he'd just been prepared to persuade the boy, I might still be... Well, maybe Scrimgeour will have more success."

“The boy” is obviously Harry, but what is it that Fudge wants Dumbledore to persuade him of? At first I thought it was that Voldemort was back, but that was at the end of GOF and a major story line in OOTP. Any thoughts? It’s been a while since I’ve done a deep dive reread, so sorry if this is revealed later and I just can’t recall!

So, I grew up watching the movies first and later on, I went on a binge, reading them. I adore them, especially when I was reading the first book and could see the scenes of the movie in my head. And of course, once I finished them, I wanted to rewatch the films. By the time I reached. the third one, I felt like I couldn't enjoy the films the same way.

The reason? Ron ended up being my favourite character. Sure, I also adored how sassy Harry was, how bossy Hermione was, all of the Weasley family scenes and the Harry-Ron bromance. But mostly Ron himself, I think reading the books and watching the films immediately afterwards with the memories of the book fresh in my mind caused me to compare them too often. Like when Ron defends Hermione from Snape, protect Harry from Sirius and he does neither in the films. He's very....weird? Rupert Grint was my favourite performance in the first two films, I felt as though his was the strongest. But the writing overshadows him painfully afterwards. He doesn't have his chivalry, his courage and his unending loyalty in the books. He also doesn't have his knowledge of the Wizarding World. I hope the new series fixes this so the new generation can adore him too.

I still LOVE the films, especially the first two, four (Apparently controversial but I love a tournament arc) and five (Imelda Staunton as Umbridge remains one of the greatest performances) but the others are too jarringly different from both characters (Prisoner of Azkaban) and tone (Half-Blood Prince)

I just wanted to know if anyone else felt the same

I mean she was yelling about muggles at a train station how is that not a break

How did james and lilly know voldemort was hunting for him, I mean they were in hideout but how did they findout voldemort was hunting for them, and why didnt they do more to stay away from him

Was Fang magical, or was he a "muggle" dog?

Squibs are not muggles. Do they live as long as a wizard?

In the chamber of secrets movie when the Weasley boys bring Harry to their house, the camera shows a clock that has everyone’s name on it and where they are at the time. I noticed one spot said dentist. But in HBP, when Hermione is explaining that her muggle parents are dentists, they all seem confused as to what a dentist is. Do wizards not hade dentists? Movie magic mistake?

So I have a few questions regarding thestrals

1. Is can people become annimagus of magical creatures and produce protronus of them to?

2. If so then could people who haven't seen death see thestrals?

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question that's already been asked its just been on my mind

Book Snape was far nastier than movie Snape, I don't need to rattle off what he did. But it makes his redemption feel unearned, or at least Harry shouldn't have named one of his kids after him.
But things could have been done better without a whole lot of alteration. Just have him stop being so much of an asshole after Voldemort returns. Don't have him butting heads with Sirius and Harry over petty personal nonsense. Show him being able to put aside his personal hatred in the face of a terrible foe coming back. Just give us some indication that made it seem like he wasn't secretly hoping that Voldemort was going to win, don't just show "Oh he was part of a secret plan Dumbledore had all along to defeat Voldemort!" It almost feels like J.K. Rowling decided that he'd get his redemption... well, not last minute, but too late for it to flow naturally.

So a few hours ago i remembered this fic that i loved and i cant find it for my life ( i even checked my WHOLE ao3 history ( yes, i went there ) . So the part of the fic that i remember are harry potter kinda learnning dark magic in grimmauld place and fixing the ward, that had been dameged becouse sirius had not been takan proper care of the house; then i remember that everyine, both the order and friends, were cleaning grimmauld place and kretcher did not want to throw everything away so harry offered to keep it in his bank safe at gringos; then i vividly remember kretcher liking harry and sirius being repulsed, he compred him to regulus, he really went there. And basically the fic is about harry learning dark magic secretly. I dont remember if the fic was about something else and this was only a plotline or whatever.

Plssss, help me find it cause im going crazyy, i feel like an old lady with dementia. Pls tell me im not making this up pp. I even downloaded reddit for this. Thanxx