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The Marauders generation was actually sick at magic

I am re-reading the Half-Blood Prince and I am in awe of how many spells and ideas Snape was able to come up with while he was in his student years - usefuls spells such as Muffliato, funny ones such as Levicorpus, powerful such as Sectumsempra, all the potions stuff... But other wizards of his generation were no less skillful, and I am talking about Marauders. Not only they learned by themselves how to become Animagi (is that the correct plural?), they created the Marauders' map, which seems too scary to exist - it actually shows everyone's realtime location on a piece of paper, and you can even use it anywhere in the world? How is that even possible and what does it mean for privacy of wizards in general? Could you extend that idea to maps of cities, countries, or the whole world?

Compared to these guys, the Harry Potter's generation looks pretty incompetent. To think of some magical feats that could be classified as top-tier, in the Order of the Phoenix, Hermione comes up with the coins that show the next time when the meeting of the Dumbledore's Army will take place - that's pretty cool, but nowhere near turning-into-animals cool or I-see-your-location cool. Also when Harry takes OWL exams, the ministry person asks him to perform Patronus and is impressed when he achieves it, suggesting Harry is a talented wizard. Sure, Patronus is nice, but would Harry be capable of inventing a new spell? I don't think so.

To give some credit, Harry's generation (and Harry specifically) show great skill when facing Death Eaters and Voldermort, but their magical inventiveness was nowhere near the level of the generation before them.

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Snape found out that a student considered him their worst fear. His response? He bullied them harder.
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Anyone else wait years to hear “Not my daughter, you b*tch!”… and then feel kinda let down? 😂

That line lived rent-free in my head since the first time I read it — I was ready for full-blown mom rage and chaos.
Then the movie came out and… idk, it just didn’t hit the way I pictured it in my head 😩

Maybe it was all the chaos happening in that final battle, but the moment just felt *smaller* than it should’ve.

Still iconic, still love Molly forever — but book-Molly’s energy felt way more feral.

Did any other moments in the movies not live up to how you imagined them?

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I just read Cursed Child.

Things I liked.:-

First of all, Harry being a parent is just amazing. It shows his problems and his insecurities.

Then, we get everyone's POV, that is something we didn't get in the other books. We only got Harry's views in the other books.

I really understand Albus' feelings and could see that he really had a huge reputation to live up to

Scorpious Malfoy's lore is immaculate. He is a child of a single parent and he also faces rumours about being You-Know-Who's son just widen the story.

I liked the views about different dimensions where different things occured.

Things I hated:

A freaking multiverse? What is this the Avengers? Confusing us with different timelines is shit.

Voldemort and Bellatrix- eww

Just adding a character called Craig Bowker Jr to just kill him is ridikulus.

It just feels like a fanfiction.

The Tonks-ified Hermione in the Voldemort-won world.

Ginny still has no personality,

No mention of Sirius, Teddy, Victoire, Lupin. Man those were the core characters.

The book was too short.

This is all I have to say. Plese feel free to argue in the comments. I will argue with you. Please add more things you feel like to add.

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