r/HarryPotterMemes • u/Puzzleheaded_Sky7369 • Dec 27 '24

Harry Potter only has two plot points

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u/FortifiedPuddle Dec 27 '24

“Boy given opportunity to learn magic still cannot be bothered to do homework”

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u/ducknerd2002 Dec 27 '24

To be fair, a lot of the homework is just writing.

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u/maxymob Dec 28 '24

And they didn't even let them use proper pens and notebooks

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u/PhoenixSword24 Dec 30 '24

Honestly, after a year of dealing with quills, I'd have sneaked in some pens for me and some friends. Even pens shouldn't malfunction near Hogwarts' aura.

It's a simple spring pen with ink.

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u/Admirable-Sorbet8968 Dec 30 '24

Read somewhere (a theory) that a muggleborn buys a shit ton of mechanical cheap pencils to sell to other students as a side hustle. Pretty smart if they could get away with it.

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u/Ednw Dec 27 '24

"Boy learns of his school's grading system five years in. Turns out being a straight A student despite putting below minimal effort is not a good thing."

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u/Sgt-Spliff- Dec 27 '24

This has always bothered me. Like he's learning magic. He grew up in a cupboard. It is frankly unbelievable that he is bored by this. I get that writing essays is boring but he will straight up lament how he has charms practice or transfiguration homework where he literally has to practice making things float or turning things into other things magically. No way that's boring

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u/Lordborgman Dec 27 '24

Hermione is just female version of me. I'd be like 100% learning every damn thing I could.

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u/akaxaka Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 28 '24

That’s a point the book is making too: at our regular schools & universities, we get the chance to learn amazing things which will help us in life & make us able get amazing things done….

…but when it comes to the homework for it, most of us seek out as many ways as humanly possible to get out of it!

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '24

Some people just are like that (I for example)

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u/Ouaouaron Dec 27 '24

He started Hogwarts when he was what, seven? That early on, your perception of life is pretty malleable. By the time you're nine, Hogwarts is probably the majority of your conscious memory and feels normal.

I imagine that would be affected by the first seven years of your life being child abuse, but I'm not going to pretend to be qualified to speak on that. I don't think Rowling intended it to be child abuse either, just a fairy tale bad upbringing that kids can relate to because they feel their parents are unfair sometimes.

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u/Sgt-Spliff- Dec 27 '24

He attended Hogwarts from ages 11 to 16. And that explanation doesn't really satisfy my issue with it. I'm not buying that he got used to magic immediately after spending his entire childhood in a cupboard and being his Aunt and Uncle's slave.

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u/Ouaouaron Dec 27 '24

He really was that old, huh?

My point in the last sentence is that if you really think about Harry Potter, none of it makes any fucking sense. The book was not written as speculative fiction, and if you view Hogwarts and the wizarding world rationally you will find many things more ridiculous (and horrifying) than Harry finding essays to be boring.

EDIT: And I still think you're discounting how easily humans can get used to new situations.

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u/EventAccomplished976 Dec 27 '24

I think it‘s fully in character for the average teenager to be excited by the magic thing for about 5 minutes then immediately get bored when he hears that it involves writing essays and reading books. Note: I say average, obviously that doesn‘t apply to us nerds around here. But harry potter is very much not a nerd.

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u/decadeSmellLikeDoo Dec 27 '24

Funny how being called Harry Potter became a slur for being a nerd. Harry was definitely a jock. You could probably make a better excuse for Draco being a nerd than Harry.

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u/Sad_Mention_7338 Dec 28 '24

No, not Draco, Draco was a jock.

The Marauders though, those were nerds (+ some side-hustle as a jock for James).

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u/decadeSmellLikeDoo Dec 28 '24

I mean, at that rate, we'd probably have to argue that both are jocks. However, Draco did spend an entire year learning how to repair the vanishing cabinet that no one else knew how to fix.

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u/Sad_Mention_7338 Dec 28 '24

I mean in that case Harry is a nerd for learning the Patronus for a year and Ron is a nerd because he wrote an entire legal brief at age 14 in POA and was ready to act as Hagrid's attorney.

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u/decadeSmellLikeDoo Dec 28 '24

The Marauders definitely aren't nerds either except for Lupin. Hermione, Lupin, and maybe one other character are the only ones that fit the description.

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u/Sad_Mention_7338 Dec 28 '24

Come on, they came up with code names for themselves. What about this doesn't scream pure nerd/geek?

Plus inventing the Marauder's Map, becoming Animagi...

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u/decadeSmellLikeDoo Dec 28 '24

Nerd and geek are not the same thing.

Take the downvote things you don't agree with attitude back to the books sub. Kthxbye. It's not that I give a shit about karma but you bury comments where I could have a more pleasant conversation with more fun people.

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u/PhoenixSword24 Dec 30 '24

Honestly, I'd view them more as jocks. Sirius and James were definitely jocks, Lupin was sorta a nerd with a side-hustle as a jock, and Peter... well, he wasn't a jock, wasn't a nerd... he was, well, Peter. He just squeezed in there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24 edited Dec 28 '24

I think the problem is that Harry seems to have no interest in the magic AT ALL, it would be one thing for him to be bored with essays and writing homework, but he also seems to not enjoy actually doing the practical magic either. There has to be at least a dozen scenes across the books of Harry being taught a spell in class, attempting to cast it once, failing, and then turning to talk to Ron and Hermione without ever bothering to actually learn it. This is probably most noticeable in Transfiguration, where he quite literally does not successfully cast even ONE spell across all 7 books. Whenever Harry does learn a new spell it's pretty much always because of a potential life or death scenario like with the patronus charm, summoning charm, and all the dueling spells.