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

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>“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?”

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>“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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I’m old enough to have read each book before its film version came out - I thank God every day for that.

No hate to the films or film fans - AT ALL.
But there’s nothing more magical than having your own mental image of what all the characters look like.
And the rich, intricate plots surprised me each time. Had I already seen the film, I would know the ending.
Would he interested to hear if anyone also has this take or disagrees with me…?

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Why Harry and Ron did not involve competent teachers at end of CoS?

I am currently re-re-(..)-re-reading Chamber of Secrets and have reached the point that has always irked me most.

Upon learning that monster inside the Chamber is a Basilisk, Harry and Ron rush to staff room to inform McGonagall about this momentous discovery. That's pretty sensible, up to this point.
Then as they heard McGonagall's magnified warning of another attack, they decided to hide in a wardrobe to learn more about it. Still pretty on brand for them.

At this point the plot consistency starts to go haywire.

McGonagall informs all teachers in the staff room about abduction of Ginny by the monster. Then all the teachers collectively dump the responsibility of finding Ginny on Lockhart, as a way to call him out about his boasts. However, Harry and Ron do not step out of Wardrobe and execute their original plan of informing McGonagall or any other teacher about identity of Monster. True, they were shocked to learn about Ginny, but that should had induced frantic action, not paralysis.

But their action becomes more inexplicable from here. They simply go back to Gryffindor common room, and miserably spend entire afternoon, without still informing any teacher. Why? why waste the entire afternoon being miserable, instead of acting on the information?

And then finally the teacher they went to seek help was Lockhart!

Throughout the story of CoS, we are given to understand that both Harry and Ron have healthy distrust about Lockhart's self acclaimed feats and his magical abilities. However, let's for the argument sake we say that they sought Lockhart cause he had promised to find Ginny. But few minutes later, Lockhart himself confessed to both of them that he was a fraud and a pure hack and attempted to wipe their memory. Harry promptly disarms him.

At this point both Ron and Harry know unequivocally that Lockhart is an absolutely incompetent wizard who couldn't help them in anyway in finding the entrance to chamber or to help them fight the monster inside. And yet they chose to lead him to the bathroom of Moaning Myrtle and then jump with him inside the tunnel!

So again the question is why didn't they immediately lead Lockhart to McGonagall and other teachers ?. This was most logical and simple thing to do. As Harry and Ron both know, all the other teachers, esp McGonagall and Snape, are genuinely powerful wizards . In fact it can be argued that upon learning this fact, McGonagall might even have sent an owl to Dumbledore to come and deal with the monster.

None of these inconsistencies can be explained by Harry and Ron's age, inexperience, or circumstances surrounding them. They have been through equally perilous situations before and came out on top. This was just weak story writing and convenient plot building to get Harry face Basilisk and Tom Riddle alone in the climax scene.

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JUST FINISHED THE FIFTH BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

Its pretty good!it took a whole year!

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It's interesting how tonks feels guilty about not defeating Bellatrix in the battle of the department of mysteries, Voldemort was low key mocking Bellatrix for this in the deathly hallows book



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Homecoming Proposal.

Hello I’m 17 and trying to do something cute for the first time and just need some help. I redownloaded Reddit to do this. So my first post is some I guess advice lol. I am in desperate need of help from the Harry Potter community. My GF (17) is obsessed with the movies and has made me watch them however I just can’t get into actually paying attention.
Anyways, this week I was planning on asking her to homecoming using something with a Harry Potter theme, and the stuff on Pinterest doesn’t seem to good. All I’m really asking here is if anyone out there could lend me some good ideas that only someone who really payed attention would think of or any ideas on what I should do for this poster or even if it’s not a poster. I just need some help.
Thank you so much.

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Chamber Of Secrets Is So Underrated

In my opinion, it’s the most underrated Harry Potter film. It’s also my second favorite film in the series behind Prisoner Of Azkaban. I’m honestly shocked that a lot of people dislike it and consider it one of the weakest (if not the weakest) films in the series. I think this movie was an improvement over The Sorcerer’s Stone for a number of different reasons.

The CGI and visual effects were definitely improved and felt more natural compared to the first film. Characters like Dobby, Moaning Myrtle, Fawkes, and the basilisk looked so real and blended so well with the practical effects that were also done. The Quidditch scenes are looked way better visually. The Quidditch match that appears in this movie is actually my favorite Quidditch scene in any of the other films.

The acting from the kids in this movie is also greatly improved. I mean, it wasn't bad in the first film. But you could tell that a lot of the kids didn't have much acting experience and still needed a little improvement. For this movie, it's greatly improved and the acting feels so much more natural.

It was cool that we got to see a lot more of Hogwarts as a school in this movie. It also felt like we were actually at Hogwarts and doing stuff there compared to some of the other films. I don't know how to describe it. But you probably understand what I mean if you've seen the film.

Another thing I appreciated was how some of the characters in this movie were a little more fleshed just like they should be in any sequel. Seeing that Harry is unsure if he really belonged in Gryffindor was really interesting and relatable for people who feel like they don't belong in where they are even if they're fine with it. I also liked to see how hurt Hermione is when talking about being a mudblood. Emma Watson's performance is really great in that scene.

I liked that this was more of a mystery story. Seeing the trio slowly fight out all the clues of what’s going on and why everyone kept getting petrified was really investing.

The climax down in the Chamber Of Secrets was absolutely fantastic. The fight between Harry and the basilisk is one of my Top 3 favorite scenes in the whole series. I'm on the edge of my set every single time I watch that scene and still blown away by how awesome it is.


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Why didn't Harry just forge Venon's signature to go to Hogsmead?

I've been rereading the books, and I previously thought that the students' guardians had to personally mail the permission notes to Hogwarts. But really, all they have to do is personally hand it to their head of house. And we never heard of needing permission notes for anything else before then, so Harry could have scribbled anything resembling a signature and said it was Vernon's, and McGonagall would have had no way of knowing.

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Fred and George Appreciation

Nothing more than appreciation for Fred and George spending the first snow storm of their 3rd year throwing snowballs at the back of Quirrel’s head… also known as Voldemort’s face.

Other than maybe Harry killing him in front of all of his friends, this might be the single greatest humiliation of Voldemort’s life, and he could do absolutely nothing to stop it.

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Has anyone noticed how much J.K. Rowling seems to like socks?

So, in the Sorcerer’s Stone, Dumbledore tells Harry “One can never have too many socks.” And then, throughout the series, socks keep popping up in important plot moments.

-In his second year, Harry frees Dobby with a sock.

-In his third year, Harry keeps the sneakoscope that Ron gives him in a pair of socks, to muffle its constant whistling because of Pettigrew hiding in plain sight.

-In his fourth year, Harry is reintroduced to Dobby, who is still wearing Harry’s old sock, thus kicking off the Trios continuous investigation into Barry Crouch Sr.

-In his sixth year, Harry hides the Felix Felicis in the same pair of socks he used to keep the sneakoscope hidden.

-In his seventh year, Mrs. Weasley needs Harry to “identify a lone man’s sock” when she confronts him about the Trio’s plans to not go back to school.

This is is a super deep theory or anything like that, it’s just something interesting that I found myself pondering on as my mind wandered, and I wanted to hear people’s thoughts and opinions on it. What do socks mean to you?

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Why doesn't Hogwarts Legacy have playable Quidditch? It feels like such a missed opportunity..

Does anyone know the real reason it wasn't included? Or does anyone have fun experiences playing a Quidditch video game? I've been replaying the game, and I still can't believe it's left out!

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You go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and buy a replica wand. Turns out, it's a real wand but you can only use one spell but as many times as you like. Which spell do you choose?

I'd go with accio. Accio pizza!

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Sometimes I like to think about which characters seem to know all the students names, and which don't. The one I think that stands out the most is Peeves.

Most of the professors seem to take the time to learn students name. Teachers like McGonagall, Snape, and Lupin seem to have learned everyone's name before even the first class.

That seems uncharacteristic for Snape. But my thought is that because he's a head of house, he's probably also involved in some of the administrative work for new students, and learns everyone's name from that. Plus he is also a little pedantic.

Trelawney funnily enough is one of the teachers that seems less aware of students names. It could partially just be her manner of speaking, calling everyone dear. But I get the impression that she's so detached from the rest of the castle, and not interacting with others enough to catch on to names very well.

Prof. Binns is the best example of a teacher who doesn't seem to know anybody's name. At least he knows who Dumbledore is, despite him only being ~115 years old.

And then of course there's Slughorn, who could never get poor Ralph, or Rupert, or whoever it was name right.

But, who I really wanted to talk about was Peeves. I don't think there's a single instance of Peeves not knowing someone's name.
On the first day of Classes he know who Lupin is. He knows who Luna is. And then obviously Harry.

Of course he never CALLS people by their actual name. Except for Mr.Baron.


Potty, voldy ( who's gone moldy), Loony (lupin), Loony (luna).

I almost wonder if he learns people's names explicitly so that he can makes sure he calls them the wrong thing.

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Do you think Harry instead of arguing back with Ron before Ron left should have tried to be less confrontational?

I feel Harry being defensive and confrontational back didn’t help matters though it is hard when you feel attacked and hurt to rise above it. I think what really made him hit back was Ron was saying the things Harry feared himself to be true about Dumbledore and Ron was sort of blaming him for it.

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How could Voldemort not tell that Narcissa was lying when she said Harry was dead?



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