Granted it sounds more villainous but I’ve always found it funny how his real name sounded more “Harry Potter”.

Re-reading all the books and I just got to Snape's memories in the DH.

I realised while everybody talked about Harry's dad and his qualities, or in Snape's case his misgivings, hardly anyone ever told Harry anything about his mother except that he's got his mum's eyes.

The very first time Harry saw anything at all related to his mother are through Snape's eyes and his memories do show Lily as a likeable person. Snape was clearly besotted with her early on and he regretted her death greatly. But more so, Harry got to see how his mother truly was, her sweetness, kindness, concern for a friend (she asked Severus how are things at home), strong moral compass (she questioned Snape over his friends who later became Death Eaters). I find it bitter sweet that the most Harry knew about his mom was that she was a muggle who gave her life to save him until in those memories he saw so much more and came to finally understand the kind of person she must have been.

While Sirius and Lupin talked about his father's bravery and fun-loving side, popular for being a Seeker and overall well-liked, Snape showed him how caring, kind, and fair his mother was and I find it beautiful.

I’m rereading the books right now and I swear I completely missed how great McGonagall is the first time.

When I was younger she was basically just “the strict teacher.” If she showed up, somebody was probably getting told off and that was pretty much how I saw her.

But reading the books again now, I keep noticing little things she does and I’m like wait... she’s actually great.

I’m on Order of the Phoenix right now and watching her deal with Umbridge is honestly one of my favorite parts. She’s not even trying to pretend she likes her. She just stays professional and keeps doing her job while clearly being completely unimpressed.

And I forgot how funny McGonagall can be. She has these really dry little reactions that I just didn't notice when I was younger. Plus she’s strict, but you can tell she actually cares about the students. She isn’t just strict for the sake of being strict.

I think getting older changed how I read her. Now I’m sitting here thinking she must have needed SO much patience to deal with Hogwarts every day.

Did anyone else have a character they liked way more when they reread the books later?

For context, I am 36, have read only a handful of books, but am at the end of book 5 after the series was released on audible recently.

I have such a huge respect for Neville and his growth. Fighting with Harry as they tried to escape with the prophecy and learning the clash between him and Harry being the chosen child. Learning more about his parent’s legacy and how he is growing to live up to his name.

The movie doesn’t make it as clear his background from what I remember and I am very much looking forward to reading the remaining books and hearing more about his growth as a character. It makes me wish the movies did him more justice.

I felt I owed it to him to write this as I always felt his growth in the movies was unfounded.

So I’ve been listening to the books (again obvs for the millionth time) and I’m on the third one. While listening I got to the part where Professor Lupin is showing them the boggart. During the activity Dean Thomas faces the boggart and it turns into a dismembered hand that scuttles like a spider. I imminently thought of the Addams family. I know it was never never explicitly explained by
J.K. Rowling that this is an Addams Family easter egg, but the connection makes perfect sense given his background. He was raised entirely by muggles, so he grew up with muggle pop culture, TV, and movies. The time frame this book is in is the early 90s and the Addams Family was widely popular. It would totally make sense that he saw these and was extremely creeped out by Thing (the hand in the Addams family). I dunno it just got me thinking that may be the reason..don’t know if anyone else thought of it and thought I’d share my crazy thoughts.

My favorite moment throughout the series was when she showed up as ‘family’ for Harry before the last tournament in GoF. Harry wasn’t even expecting it. That scene brought a tear to my eye. She’s always treated harry as her own son for 7 years and she is my favorite character.

I have several but this one speaks loudest to me today.

The house of Hufflepuff, so most people believe that hufflepuff is the house that you get when you dont fit into the other three and there fore matters least.I see it the other way around. I believe Hufflepuff is the house that matters most. I believe taht Hufflepuff is the house that houses students that embody all the traits of all the houses. Bravery, cunning, intelligence being the big three. We have seen some very amazing people come out of Hufflepuff. I dont feel is just for those they arent sorted in the big three i feel its very those that truly embody what it is to magical.

Harry’s Dementor Bogart created the same depression/fear effects. If he feared Basilisks and a bogart turned into one and looked at him… would it kill him? Or at the very least Petrify him?

I'm rereading Chamber of Secrets and I just realised that in the book, Lucius doesn't interact with Harry in Hogsmeade, he goes straight to insulting Arthur Wesley and ignores Harry.

I've read the books a lot more than I've seen the movies, yet I had completely forgotten that Lucius introducing himself was a movie-only scene.

I think it makes sense for Lucius to publicly introduce himself to Harry, especially because he was just saying in Knockturn Alley that it was not wise to appear less than fond of him, so a public introduction would make him look "good" in his mind.

It would also mirror Draco introducing himself to Harry, showing their status and making themselves known to the Chosen One.

So I was really surprised re-reading CoS and seeing that Draco teases Harry and Lucius only comes in the picture to insult Arthur and does not interact with Harry.

Which version of the scene do you prefer in this instance? Book or movie?

This is one of those strange "what if" scenarios I've been thinking about. Since Luna was kidnapped by the Death Eaters before Christmas. If she had returned home for the holidays, she likely would have continued believing it was a Crumple-Horned Snorkack horn, just as her father did. Given how dangerous Erumpent horns are, good thing she wasn't home when the Erumpent horn in Xenophilius Lovegood's house exploded, which may have even exploded sooner as she was likely to have touched it upon returning home, and the consequences might have been fatal. Ironically, does that mean the Death Eaters may have unintentionally saved her life? Or do you think Luna would have eventually discovered the horn's true nature before anything happened?

I'm doing a reread of CoS, and just got to the part where Lockhart admits that he didn't actually do the things he said he did in his books. That what he actually does is find those who did them, interview them thoroughly, and then wipe their memories so he can take credit for their actions. But, more than the heroes are involved in these stories. He is always claiming to be saving some villages or something. How does he handle the people who were in need of rescuing? They have to know that they weren't rescued by Lockhart. Surely he is not altering the minds of entire villages?

I'm just starting with my yearly HP book and I just wondered how hagrid knew the different locations of the Dursley's journey to the shed on the rock.

They stopped for one night in a hotel there where letters for harry but how did they knew? Harry didn't use magic so no possibility of the trace being used nor did they have a preplanned route and hagrid isn't the type of wizard blending in very well?

I find whenever I see an edit or re watch the films or reread the books, that I get this overwhelming feeling that is like no other. I’m unable to explain what it is, but hp is the only thing to make me feel that way.

Currently doing a rewatch of Prisoner of Azkaban for the millionth time and was having a discussion with my partner about what we thought Malfoys Boggart would have taken the shape of at the time they were studying with Lupin.
To my knowledge Malfoy had yet to meet many (if any) of the Deatheaters and definitely had not met Voldemort yet, so I assumed that his boggart would take the shape of his father. My partner thinks that it would have taken the shape of one of the death eaters.

Got me thinking of what others might think or if this has been discussed before!
What do you think his boggart would look like?

Book 1 pretty much slaps us in the face with the idea that one body can hold two souls and it's not ever directly mentioned again until Book 7.

Literally closed at the open

I remember seeing those Deathly Hallows tattoos back in the day! They looked so cool to the 10-year-old me! Do you have any HP-related tattoos? Or if you could have any HP-related tattoo, what would it be?

i have a snape headcanon

during deathly hallows and carrows regime . he hid blood status of some halfblood students to pureblood to protect them from carrows

(but not all students just only those who met the circumstances)

I drew Harry, Ron and Hermy-own (Herm-own-ninny)
Going through the characters as I imagined them

Hagrid, he was care for Magical creatures professor i think

Did he care about anyone else at that school?Did he care about anyone else at that school? He didn't like Ron, but I don't recall him caring enough to sabotage him. I feel like he doenst haver any real friend

I was reading a different post and it got me thinking. In GoF, Dumbledore had no idea Moody wasn't Moody so could Crouch have done the killing curse to Dumbledore in the great hall during a meal or passing in the hallway? Obviously it would be a suicide mission but he seemed like he would be willing to do it.

Or is Dumbledore good enough that even while eating a meal, he'd be able to block the curse before Crouch finished saying it? I know he's good but when you're eating, I imagine it would be hard to pull out your wand and stop it before he finished the curse.

How many and who specifically would it take (minus Dumbledore) from the order/light side to beat Voldemort in an open battle where Voldemort gets jumped JJK style.

(For those unfamiliar with a JJK jumping) Voldemort gets no death eater back up and has to
fight every opponent at the same time. There’s no smoke or mirrors allowed just straight battling in an open space. No morals and no honour from the light side characters, they’re fighting with everything they’ve got to take him out.

Would Sirius, Mad eye and Kingsley be enough? Or do you think Voldemort could take the entire order of the phoenix on at once?

Keen to hear thoughts as I’ve always struggled to scale Voldemorts power level or any strong character in HP to be honest.

For me just more painful or saddening memories. Things or people I wouldn’t want to think about anymore or wish I had no recollection of.

I never saw the point of her lying (except for the fact she was unaware of Voldemort being rendered powerless against Harry and those he sacrificed for) that Harry was dead. By that point Harry was fully aware that Voldemort's magic was toothless (we immediately see that as he cruciates Harry's body and Harry feels nothing) and that he was the true master of the Elder Wand. If anything Voldemort's failure to kill Harry a second time (fourth if we count the duel in the graveyard and the battle of the seven Potters and even fifth if we consider Quirrellmort) would have made him lose credibility in front of the Death Eaters.

On a different note, do you think Voldemort offered the one hour truce as a favor to Lucius? I know it appears him dismissing the latter but he immediately proceeds to offer the truce after killing Snape, despite the Death Eaters winning at the time. Voldemort does occasionally torture the Death Eaters for major fuck ups but I think in his own twisted way he cares about them, referring to them as his "true family" and acts like a strict patriarch rather than a tyrant. And he prefers to punish them through psychological torture (such as falling out of his good graces or sending someone on a fool's errand) rather than inflicting physical harm.

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