Deaths might hit harder in the TV show.

A full season (at least) of getting to know Cedric...

Two seasons of Sirius and Harry's relationship building.

7 seasons of Fred, etc, etc, you get the idea.

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If, as Dumbledore insists, there are worse fates than death, how come then is killing the ultimate act of evil?

For example, if the dementor's kiss is a fate worse than death, why isn't subjecting someone to it an even worse act of evil than killing them?

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Drew Struzan (Poster artist for the first film) has passed

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPy0ZUEEVnt/\

Info on his site about the HP poster

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McGonagall should've worked as a professional Quidditch scout

The woman saw an 11 years old childs first attempt of flying and immediately thought: “That's it. That's gonna' be our teams most important player for the next seven years."

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Did Anyone Else Feel Like Dumbledore Was Completely Out Of Character In “The Goblet Of Fire”?

Before anyone says it, I’m not just talking about the infamous “Dumbledore asked calmly” scene that is now a huge internet meme and has been criticized by fans ever since the film first came out back in 2005. It’s more than that. Every time that Dumbledore is onscreen in this movie, he’s yelling, shouting, and sounds pissed off. This is very jarring because he acted nothing like this in any of the other films.

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I finished the whole HP series yesterday. I slept HEAVY on it. It's one of the greatest pieces of media of all time. I wouldn't have gotten the nuances, the complexity, the full nature of the story had I not waited till i became 35, so I don't regret it, but a part of me wishes I had read it earlier

I have played all the Legend of Zelda games, read Lord of The Rings, listened to Nas' discography, I usually check out the best pieces of the genre I'm interested it, but the Harry Potter book series is consistently the greatest piece of media ever. I give a score to all of the books, and the series as a whole here:

I have never experienced any piece of media as consistently great as the Harry Potter books

Hope you can check it out, as a fellow Harry Potter fan who shows love to the series

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Why haven't magical criminals tried stealing the gold out of Fort Knox or other gold reserves? Or tried stealing anything of value, exchanging it for cash, and then using it to buy gold?



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Favorite Harry line in the entire series?

Sassy or Serious just from Harry

Movie; "Don't worry I will be"

Book; "Maybe we can get you and your hubby a joint room in Azkaban."

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The ending is a bit of a mess. This is how I would clean it up a bit.

Alright, so the whole series proceeds as normal, right to the point where Harry's body is brought back to Hogwarts and he gets up and confronts Tom Riddle. He does the whole thing and tells him all the horcruxes are destroyed except Nagini.

Tom Riddle laughs and tells Harry there was another one he never found.

Suddenly, a booming voice calls out "You mean this one?" it's none other than 5 time Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award Winner Gilderoy Lockhart, in majestic robes so perfectly lilac that most species of birds are incapable of seeing it and think he is naked, (which he also looks impressive in). He is holding a harmonica.

Tom Riddle casts a powerful avada kedavda at him, but Gilderoy Lockhart deflects it with ease. "Sorry Tom, but I invented a simple and easy to teach spell to block avada kedavda this morning, so murder is going to be less common now."

With another stunning and attractive flick of his wand, Gilderoy handsomely destroys Nigini, the harmonica, and Cormac Mclaggen's broom, then finally Tom Riddle, who with his dying breath cries "Wow, that guy is so good looking."

Everyone claps. "But I thought you were actually a fraud?" the one with the scar and the glasses says. "I was, Harold." Gilderoy bellows before flashing a smile so impossibly charming that he wins the NEXT five Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Awards. "But then I realized I was actually even more brilliant than I was pretending to be. I just had to believe in myself. And that is the moral of the story."

Epilogue, 19 years later.

"But dad, what if I'm a huge dork and get put into Ravenclaw?"

"Gilderoy Gilderoy Potter, don't listen to what your brother Gilderoy says. The man you are named after was in Ravenclaw, and he was literally the coolest guy that ever lived and ever will."

Unrelated, Cormac Mclaggen was given a lifetime ban from quiddich and also society. All was well.

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Does anyone else think the ending of HP was rushed (7th book)

Finding and Destroying the diadem, the snake, the cup, the horcrux in Harry and Voldermort himself all in the span of under 24 hours is a bit too quick if you ask me. Particularly as they had spent the beset part of a year looking for them all

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What did Dudley see/hear when the dementors attacked him in OOTP?

Laying in bed listening to the books for the 1,000th time. Just curious - has it ever been stated what Dudley saw or heard when the dementors came in the alley? Harry remarks in the book on how he’d be curious to know what Dudley saw, so I was wondering if we’ve been told and it has long escaped my memory.

Leaving this here overnight to marinate with your thoughtful replies. 😂

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News: Pub cancels Harry Potter party because staff were ‘getting too much grief’ (via the Telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/14/pub-cancels-harry-potter-party-staff-getting-abuse/

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Why wasn't there a funeral for Dumbledore in the movie HBP?

The HBP is one of the emotional books in the series and Dumbledore's death is a poignant turn in the end of the book too..and while rewatching the movie again after reading the book it got me thinking that why wasn't there a proper funeral for dumbledore in the movie ...in the book everybody's appallement is written so beautifully which made me think that a proper funeral in the movie would have been so good to resonate with..and i also feel like a lot of the details and timings of certain events were changed the most in the HBP movie than any other movies ...any thoughts on this?

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A thought

It has been said by many people that they don't get why the Killing Curse is considered an Unforgivable, when you could just as easily kill someone with hundreds of other spells.

Here's my take

Consider how terrifying a spell designed to kill you outright, that requires the absolute conviction and intent to kill, and can just plough straight through most protective spells is to a culture that laughs about strewing parts of their body across an entire country?

If someone hits you with an entrail expelling curse or something then there's a good chance you can just have them put back in. We literally see someone have all of the bones in their arm unmade and then regrown. I'd wager that as long as a competent medic got there in time you could probably survive getting your head taken off with a cutting charm.

The Killing Curse just kills you. It snuffs you out without drawing a drop of blood, and no amount of Skelegrow or Wiggenweld Potion can do anything about it.

What do you guys think?

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Which scene from Harry Potter broke you?

When Hagrid saw Harry in the Forbidden Forrest and asked him to go back. Hagrid didn't care if Voldemort killed him (Hagrid), he wanted Harry to be safe.

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If You Could Rewrite One Event in Harry Potter, What Would It Be and Why?

I’ve been re-reading the series and it got me thinking what if you could change one single event in the Harry Potter universe, what would it be and why? Maybe it’s something small, like Neville standing up earlier, or something huge, like Harry choosing a different path at the Battle of Hogwarts.

Personally, I’d love to see Dumbledore survive the events of Half-Blood Prince, because his guidance could have prevented so much chaos and maybe even changed the outcome of Voldemort’s rise.

I’m curious to hear everyone else’s picks! Let’s discuss the ripple effects of just one small change.



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If the four Hogwarts Houses instead used Magical Creatures as banners, which ones do you think they would use?

And why did they use mundane animals instead?

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Which deceased Harry Potter character would you resurrect if you had the power?



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Would Dumbledore have still sacrificed Harry even without the blood protection?

>“He said my blood would make him stronger than if he’d used someone else’s,” Harry told Dumbledore. “He said the protection my — my mother left in me — he’d have it too. And he was right — he could touch me without hurting himself, he touched my face.”

>For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore’s eyes. But next second, Harry was sure he had imagined it, for when Dumbledore had returned to his seat behind the desk, he looked as old and weary as Harry had ever seen him

...

>“He took my blood,” said Harry.

>“Precisely!” said Dumbledore. “He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it! Your blood in his veins, Harry, Lily’s protection inside both of you! He tethered you to life while he lives!”

>“I live . . . while he lives? But I thought . . . I thought it was the other way round! I thought we both had to die? Or is it the same thing?”

...

>“He took your blood believing it would strengthen him. He took into his body a tiny part of the enchantment your mother laid upon you when she died for you. His body keeps her sacrifice alive, and while that enchantment survives, so do you and so does Voldemort’s one last hope for himself.”

>Dumbledore smiled at Harry, and Harry stared at him.

>“And you knew this? You knew — all along?”

>“I guessed. But my guesses have usually been good,” said Dumbledore happily, and they sat in silence for what seemed like a long time, while the creature behind them continued to whimper and tremble.

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If Voldemort didn't rebuild his body with Harry's blood (or the blood protection wasn't in effect for whatever reason), would Dumbledore have still let Harry know that he's the final Horcrux, and send him to his death at Voldemort's hands?

Like, if Harry's survival was not guaranteed and almost certain if Voldemort killed him, would he still be told that he was a Horcrux and sent off to his death?

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Nevil Longbottom is Related to Sir Luckless from the fountain of Fair fortune story.

I have no evidence other than the fact that the Knight ends up with the witch and they probably have a family line, and both Nevil and Sir Luckless are clumsy characters hiding heroic potential. Have a good day.

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