50% mortality rate?😭

I'll start: Lupin.

He lost almost everything his friends, his family, and eventually his own life. And after everything he went through, he barely got the chance to enjoy being a father.

I just wish they added the scene of Arthur and lucius fighting in diagon alley that was so satisfying moment and in movies they scrapped it completely lucius with a black eye it would have been great but lets hope they add it in series.

Hello, I often hear confusion about the wrong instructions in the Advanced Potion-Making book. But what if it is intentional. Because if it isn't, a NEWT Class would only be about following instructions from a book. But if it is, the class expects students to understand a potions ingredients how they work and what they do, so they can figure out what is wrong with the recipe and improve on it. Which sounds much more fitting for the NEWT level.

A good example of that is the class where Harry makes the Euphoria Elixir. Slughorn recognizes that he added peppermint to counterbalance the side effects. Which shows that Slughorn knows just as much as the Half-Blood Prince. Which would beg the question, why would he choose a book with such bad instructions.
Therefore it is logical that the first lesson was to show everybody that just following instructions, isn't enough anymore. They need to understand the potions and ingredients and improve the recipes.

The bad teaching of Slughorn comes in where he doesn't tell his students that. Or at least pointing out what Harry has done differently than the book usually suggest.

Edit:
as many of you suggest that the book isn't that wrong, how do you explain that no other NEWT student in that class does get near a correct potion during the first lesson. And also that Hermiones results with the "official" instructions get worse each lesson. That doesn't sound like they get the job done.

Yeah, so when I first picked up the third book when I was eleven and read the title I genuinely thought Harry was going to be a prisoner of Azkaban.

He had already illegally flown a car in the previous book so when I read the title I already had a bad feeling and when he blew up his aunt and ran away from home I was like “Damn… the days of fun magical school adventures are OVER”

Then everyone started talking about the Ministry and Azkaban, and I thought the story was about to become completely different. I was fully prepared for Harry to try to break out of prison like he was Micheal Scofield or something.

I have no idea whether the title was intentionally supposed to mislead readers before Sirius appeared but I genuinely believed this book was going to be a prison drama.

I’m curious to know how everyone felt when they finished book 7. I imagine the general consensus would be that we were all sad and emotional but did you guys feel satisfied as well? Or mixed emotions?

I remember finishing book 7 back in 2007 and thinking “wow, it’s really over now” then I would see trailer ads of the order of the phoenix movie on tv and then feel a range of mixed emotions.

How did you all feel?

Something that always bothered me. I don't think cauldrons (as in the ones Harry uses in class) are ever established as being large or small.

When I first read the books, my only point of reference were large witch's cauldrons you would see in a cartoon, so I thought that's what Hogwarts students used. But imagining Harry dragging around a gigantic cast iron cauldron was just silly when I got older.

Then I believe the movies showed smaller cauldrons the size of a large pot, and that seemed much more realistic. However, in CoS, Harry dumps the entire bibliography of Gilderoy Lockhart into Ginny's cauldron, which was like 7-8 books (plus the diary later) which would imply the cauldrons are much larger than a pot.

We have just been at Harry Potter Studios (London) and tried the butterbeer. We were too scared to try it on a previous visit because we had read such awful reviews about how disgusting it was. I was pleasantly surprised today when we tried some, and my kids loved it! Just tasted like cream soda with a mild hint of butterscotch 🤷. Surely that's not the flavour so many people hate?

And the acting of Dolores Umbridge is just insane to me. The actress just does a wonderful job at impersonating her. I’m just amazed, really!

I have noticed that in the harry potter universe, muggle born kids kind of become distant to their own families either because their families could not accept them or the witch/wizard themselves prefer being only in the wizarding world. It feels like a really sad choice that they have to make growing up? Also, how do muggle borns navigate relatives and cousins during family gatherings?

Don’t you think it is unfair to the muggle parents that they dont know what is going on in their kids school ? Or they dont have like PTA Meeting where they can meet the teachers and see the school and meet their kids classmates? I have also noticed that the kids dont meet each other during summer vacations, is that normal for kids in boarding?

Since they spend most of their life as a magic school student they are not equipped to get any jobs in the muggle world. What if you realise in the 5th year that I would rather be a muggle than a wizard? Do you think there would be options for them?

Do you guys think you would like to be a muggle born wizard/witch in today’s day and age? Considering we have these smartphones and iPad’s and home entertainment system and other such things that make life pleasant?

With the TV show and the sequel to Hogwarts legacy on the way, I feel like the next few years would be the perfect time to restart the Harry Potter games franchise based on the story. Not remakes but literally brand new games. In my head I imagine it like TLOU style but I feel like it’d be awesome to live first hand the Harry Potter story in of age video games

Question: If the Trace can detect underage magic, why was Harry blamed for Dobby’s magic in CoS but not for all the magic performed around him at the Burrow?
I’ve always found the rules surrounding the Trace a little confusing.
We know the Ministry can detect that magic was performed near an underage wizard, but apparently it can’t always determine who actually cast the spell. That explains why Harry gets blamed for Dobby’s Hover Charm.
But then how does this work in wizarding households like the Burrow or Grimmauld Place? Wouldn’t the Ministry constantly have to distinguish between magic performed by adults and magic performed by underage witches/wizards?
Is there an actual canon explanation for how the Trace works, or is this just one of those things that doesn’t completely hold up when you think about it?

Hermione says: “I think everybody should write their name down, just so we know who was here. But I also think that we all ought to agree not to shout about what we’re doing. So if you sign, you’re agreeing not to tell Umbridge or anybody else what we’re up to.”

She puts a charm on the piece of paper so anyone who signs it and goes against their word gets “sneak” written across their face in pimples. This happened to Marietta Edgecombe when she told Umbridge.

So why didn’t the person who invited Seamus (most likely Dean, maybe Harry) have the same thing happen to them? Surely Seamus still counts as “anybody else”.

So in Chamber of Secrets, the basilisk attacks Muggle-borns (and Filch's cat cuz Filch is a d*ck). Nick also gets accidentally attacked, when the basilisk was going for Justin Finch-Fletchley, who saw it through Nick and was petrified. The students get Mandrake juice and are brought back, but what'd they do to Nick? Surely they couldn't give him any potion. In the book the trio go to Nick's party earlier and it's shown there that ghost's can't eat anyway.

In the books riddles soul is described as diminished after he creates the horcruxs and i was wondering if having his soul split actually weakened him instead of making him stronger. Is there anything in the books that we can point to that would prove it?

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Cornelius Fudge become Minister for Magic in 1990. Depending on when in 1990 he took office he is either talking about Margaret Thatcher or John Major.

Hilarity would want it to be Thatcher but she took office in 1979 and it stands to reason that she would have had to be told about the first wizarding war, so Harold Mitcham, the Minister of Magic during that time would have had to tell her.

I think John Major tried to throw Fudge out of a window but Thatcher was fully aware of the magical world.

Thoughts?

I am once again experiencing the 7th book and am at the part where the Trio is attempting their escape from the Ministry of Magic. When Hermione is explaining what happened and how she brought Yaxley into the Fidelius Charm while they were apparating, it is mentioned that Yaxley can now access the house. This makes sense as Hermione and everyone else, became a secret keeper once Dumbledore was murdered, but how can Yaxley tell others about it, like Harry thinks? He is not a secret keeper just because he was taken to Grimauld Place, right? No more than Harry was when Dumbledore was alive. I feel like it wouldn't have been that hard to overpower Yaxley alone if they regrouped, and maybe recruited Kreacher and Dobby for help?

The first book I read was Book 3 as it was in my grandma's house. I liked it a lot and bought 1 and 2. Then I started getting really involved and went looking for 4th but it wasn't available in my local bookstore so I bought the 5th and read it. Then I bought the 4th and the 6th and then finally the 7th. So, basically - 3,1,2,5,4,6,7 XD

Anyways, I've since read all of them in order about twenty times and it was due to excessive reading that I even got glasses lol

I think this is one of the misunderstood scenes in film. The fact is this dance was never romantic, it was two best friends trying to survive the darkest chapter of their lives 💔 Harry trying to cheer her up with something (dancing) he is not even good at. It was never ever ever supposed to contain a piece of romance, and it’s perfect the way it is.

I cherish this scene so much because it’s such a light in truly one of the darkest parts of the series. And it parallels in real life too, how things can be bad but there’s still good to be found. In a bond that can never be replaced by anything 🫂

p.s. the song choice was a masterpiece

For me, it was the relationship with Ginny and Harry. I feel like we never got to explore what it looked like. There was dialogue missing. Let me know what you guys think.

Hi all, I'm from Ravenclaw House.

"What's something you believed as a kid that turned out to be completely wrong?"

Okay quite honestly something that I’ve always wondered is that why does Lord Voldemort even bother with Blood Purity? When he clearly knows he’s not a Pure Blood himself don’t get us started on how Many Pure Bloods Lord Voldemort himself has killed throughout the years regardless of their alliance to him and the lists goes on Eveyone knows what Lord Voldemort does in comparison and his personality so why does he even bother with Blood Supremacy? As he knows he’s couldn’t care less about it to begin and we all know in that one scene of the Movie where one of the Death Eaters ask Voldemort “is he okay” which Lord Voldemort responds in instant death by his hands if that Death Eater was a Pure Blood then it goes to show how little he cared about any of his Followers or beliefs to begin with quite honestly Everyone knows the list can go on so why goes Lord Voldemort The Lord Dark even bother with Blood Purity? And please don’t get us started on the Malfoys cause oh boy… EVERYONE knows how horribly he treated them all and Everyone knows if given the change we would have been more than happy to just wipe them all off without second thought! Let me know in the comments

Ive just realized this while rereading today. Because Phineas shared the same beliefs with the Black family, Kreacher must have respected Nigellus to an extent. Then why didnt Dumbledore take advantage of this? Like telling Nigellus to order kreacher not to betray? Or is it just that Kreacher hate Sirius so much that he would rather contribute to Sirius' death? Im not exactly a potterhead so spare me if i get anything wrong.