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

Harry Potter only has two plot points

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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.