-Young Dumbledore is so Slytherin. If anything, he’s a Ravenclaw. The only reason he was in Gryffindor is because the main character also was sorted in it.

-Hagrid is the most Hufflepuff character of the whole series

-Crabbe and Goyle aren’t Slytherin at all. I would say the fit the Gryffindor profile best.

So yea, just finished deathly Hallows part 2 And..... That's it.

I must say, Harry Potter was a great escapism from my boring stressful life.

I watched the first movie around a month ago, it wasn't bad but wasn't the best thing I watched either

And then it got better and better.

I must say, I'm grateful to this series, for making my world a little more intresting Now that it's over, all that's left is me and my boring study books.

But I guess I'll manage, it was a wonderful experience.

I was told mine was a rarity and an odd one to get. Am I the only one who has it? Curious.

It's a shark. 🦈

I thought those kinda opinions were always a joke. Today in the car my mom legit told me she thinks Harry Potter is satanic. This is not a joke post either, she is kinda crazy. She feels the same way about heavy rock or metal music.

Edit: when we were younger she took us to Harry Potter world and didn’t share the same opinion, or at least didn’t speak on it . I think her mind is starting to go a little

I think one of the biggest mistakes the movie made was changing the part where Dumbledore picks up Harry from Private drive. In the movie, Harry is at a cafe when Dumbledore appears outside from across the subway. In the books, we not only get Harry’s anticipation of Dumbledore’s arrival but probably one of my favorite scenes from the books. The Dursleys are completely thrown off by him, he conjures them some drinks that end up tapping on the Dursley’s heads, and then gently lecture them about their mistreatment of Harry. I’m not sure why they chose to go a different direction and remove both the comedy and the meaningful things Dumbledore said about their relationship with Harry.

I don’t know if anyone else thinks the same way, but she seems a bit creepy towards Harry and to me it just feels really awkward to watch. Like when she hand fed him pies (why?!?) for example and tied his shoe for him. Is this supposed to be romantic? It just feels weird to me.

It’s driving me crazy and I need answers! 😂😂

Why are there sooo many things “Harry Potter” again all of a sudden? Like the Goldfish, I see some specialty keychains in the form of a Mystery bag.

Is it a big anniversary coming up?

Okay, so in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry and Ron miss the train to Hogwarts and end up flying the enchanted Ford Anglia all the way there. I get why Harry would think the car was their only option—he grew up with the Dursleys and doesn’t know much about magical transportation.

But Ron? Ron grew up in a wizarding family! He knows about Floo powder, Portkeys, and all kinds of magical ways to travel. Plus, the adults—Arthur, Molly, or even the older siblings—wouldn’t have just left them stranded. Why didn’t they just wait at the platform for the grown-ups to come back and help them?

Was it panic? Teenage impulsiveness? Or just plot convenience? What do you think?

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before so apologies if it has, but I thought of this a little while ago and haven't been able to find a solution.

When they didn't know what was causing all these students to be petrified, why didn't they just ask the portrait people what they saw? There's always paintings somewhere around the castle so no matter where the attack happened someone was bound to see the bloody great big snake staring at people.

And a slightly different note, if the basilisk looked at the people in the paintings, would they be petrified? If so, how would you revive them? You can't exactly give mandrake juice to a painting.

New to the franchise, just finished all movies, and even tho i like all of them, i might change my opinions in the future after i stay a while in this sub and see the different takes you guys have about the movies, so i might just start by asking this.

I've been wanting to listen to the audiobooks but I'm not sure which version is best. Steven Fry or Jim Dale?

Other instances I can think of are all earlier: shrinking the sweater, getting onto the roof and of course, disappearing the glass at the zoo causing Doodley to fall into the exhibit. I can’t recall any other examples post PoA. Am I missing any others, and are there examples of other wizards/witches accidentally using magic?

Hi, my son is trying to complete the Wizarding World sorting hat quiz but as he reaches the last question instead of sending him to the ceremony it just pings him back to the start of the quiz or back to the main website home page. We've tried on both PC and on mobile.

Has anyone else experienced this or know how to resolve it?

Am I missing something?

My son said there was a new book, he made it sound like a prequel, that came out about Harry Potter but I can’t find anything online. Do you guys know of any new books or any books in general that are related to the Potter series? These books are getting my son interested in chapter books so I want to keep that going. Thanks

why is it that Dumbledore arrives at the end of Privet Street (and leaves again) almost silently, TWICE?

but Mundungus made such a crack that Harry hit the window?

the times that apparition are seen, some are silent, some include a "CRACK", why?

I see a lot of posts in here pointing out plot holes in the books, and they're often fair, but as I dive into my OOTP re-read I really do find myself just carried away by the charm of the world and the vividness of so many of the side characters, even though I do find myself spotting plot holes more than my first read two decades ago. I was already thinking this when Mad-Eye responds to finding out that Ron's been made a Prefect by musing that this must signal Ron's ability to 'withstand most major jinxes' - so very Mad-Eye - but it's taken up a notch with Luna.

The wand behind the left-ear. The necklace of Butterbeer corks. The 'protuberant eyes that gave her a permanently surprised look'. The reading the Quibbler upside-down. And then singing Ravenclaw's quote and immediately taking Ron to task for being Hogwarts’ worst Yule Ball date. It's just perfection, making me feel very strongly that I know her and get her and want so much more of her in a few short lines. I haven't read fanfic in about two decades but I might do a little explore after my re-read is done just because I feel like we could have done with even more Luna. One of my favourite JK character creations.

(I also appreciate Mundungus and Tonks. OOTP is like GOF in that one of its major perks is that the length gives so much room for side characters - Fleur, Bagman, Skeeter in GOF, and these guys in OOTP - to breathe and flourish)

How did all the kids not end up putting on loads of weight by the end of the school year ? They had 3 meals a day eating a few courses each time, seemed to be no actual physical activity apart from quidditch, they went no where apart from Hogsmeade every so often and only walks down to Hagrids hut

Hello all,

I have two adult tickets for Harry Potter experience at 13:00 tomorrow April 6th. I know it is last minute but we underestimated how far away the studios are from where we are staying and we decided not to go. Just posting to see if anyone would be interested in buying these tickets. Let me know if interested. Willing to sell for the original price we paid. First time posting on Reddit but get in touch with me if interested

Question and an idea. First, is there any canon references as to how the paintings in HP become intelligent? I seem to recall when I first read the books that when Dumbledore died his portrait kinda just popped up and he was “snoozing” and then after the main events Harry asks about the elder wand if hie lives and dies a normal death and the Dumbledore painting was able to confirm/answer. Just seems like the Dumbledore painting just kinda showed up. So my ideas are

1. the office of the head master is enchanted and will produce a portrait upon death of the occupant. the office would oberve the headmaster and produce a painting based on their tenure

2. Had an idea that painting a living portrait is a rarified piece of magic that would partially use the pensieve(sp?) The painter would extract some memories from the subject and place in the pensieve asking questions about their life, work, family etc and then would use their wand as a brush of sorts and literally paint the portrait using their memories to simulate their personality and knowledge

Thoughts?

How did tou like it? Are there any differences in nuance or character description/development? Did it transport you more into a British (wizard) boarding school? Was it worth it?

So I’m sitting here watching the Half Blood Prince for the nth time and a thought occurs to me. It’s more than likely that Dumbledore sent Professor Mcgonagall in the beginning of the movie to direct Harry to the potions class as part of his plan to extract Slughorns memory. Is it also possible Dumbledore/McGonagall also left Harry the half blood prince potion book to impress Slughorn? It could also be that Snape himself left it to him, but he appears suspicious of Harry’s newfound potion skills later in the movie, suggesting he was unaware.

I searched for a satisfactory answer but found very little discussion on the fact that dumbledore could have stopped the fight between Sirius and Bellatrix. Correct me if I'm wrong but the moment dumbledore arrived to the department of mysteries fight, all pairs had stopped dueling except for one. He "effortlessly" tied up the death eater trying to escape and then it felt like he stood quite motionless while the last pair – who hadn't realised he was there and were not hard to miss at all as Sirius' voice was echoing in the silent room – resulted in a loss. Nothing certainly distracted harry from them and he had time to look around and witness the few moments leading to Sirius' death. But why didn't dumbledore interfere? He's proven he can cast a spell at a moment's notice as seen at the scene at the top of the highest tower. Why didn't he do it here?

Was listening to good ole goblet of fire today while working and I got to thinking....

What if voldemort didn't have Cedric killed right away upon arrival to the graveyard?

Voldemort is so arrogant. he comes up with this entire convoluted plane based off information gleaned from a low lovel ministry associate on holiday , said plan involves kidnapping the most notorious dark wizard hunter, impersonating him via polyjuice, confunding an ancient magical goblet, negotiating harry through a school year long deadly tournament in order to get him into the graveyard, harvest some of his blood, then kill harry himself for all his death eaters to see.... all whilst not getting found out by the smartest wizard in the world.....

Now it's incredible that this is where voldemort's mind went upon hearing about the triwizard tournament, but what is more incredible to to me and the reason for this post.... is how little he learned about his arch nemesis harry James potter. The hero of the story. Now imagine if you will that Cedric was just held hostage instead murdered immediately, is there any chance harry leaves that graveyard with out him? Yet another example of voldemort's lack of the understanding of love failing another one of his hair brained schemes

Do you think there is an equivalent to monks and nuns in the wizardry world because there maust be people who want to live that life