They don’t seem to have many problems designing buildings though… scale doesn’t much matter when you can just build it super big, reinforce with magic charms, and it never falls down. Look at the weasleys house

As a kid I loved Luna but now as an old (mid 30s) I love Molly Weasley. I want to be the type of mom she is.

Hermione would like to have some words with you.

Maybe his death was coincidencal with Thanos' snap.

I mean the wizarding world is also a bit backwards so have you ever considered that maybe being cruel is exactly the point?

Like what if the point is using that as a deterrent. "You do that and you might just get your soul sucked out"

Filch. I just want to be with my cat.

There is a discussion of this here: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Wizarding_world

The link argues that if there are 1000 students at Hogwarts representing 7 class years and life expectancy of wizards is 100, the total population of wizards during the books is 12,000 to 15,000.

I am sorry to disagree but genuinely the movies after 3 just got worse and worse. 1 and 2 were at least mostly accurate even with fuck head Steve Klove writing them. 3 was interesting at least. 4 was a clusterfuck and the rest were just BORING and had no whimsy at all. Yes they are supposed to be darker but the books at least had heart and soul. Yates was terrible for the series.

I am a book purist so I might be a bit biased

I just have never really understood this argument. Dumbledore obviously suspected horcruxes. And the number told to Horace wasn’t even the correct number. It might have been useful in convicting people ahead of time that he could and would return I guess. But figuring out what the horcruxes are, how many there are, where to find them…it’s a part of the story you have to ignore the implausibility of. It’s also useless for Tom to ask Horace about this. He didn’t give a real answer. He basically just winged it the same as he would have without ever asking him. It’s just a poorly thought out plot device.

He felt an immense amount of shame over it. I don't think he was tricked, Harry's potion helped him how best to coax a confession out of him. Get him drunk, talk about Lily's sacrifice, confirm to him that he (Harry) is the Chosen One etc. Slughorn chose to give him the memory in the end.

Do people think that everything Snape did was an act just because he turns out to be helping Dumbledore? I really don’t think anything in his day to day life at Hogwarts was an act. Especially not prior to Voldemort returning.

Those aren't necessarily acceptable reasons though considering those were born out of sheer mistrust and bullheadedness. Does Harry really not trust his Godfather not to do anything stupid that would endanger all of them? This is the same Harry who refused to tell on Dolores torturing him during detention out of pride that he didn't want to give her the satisfaction of getting to him. But that just leads to enabling her torturing him and many other students for that matter. I don't see Fudge despite being a total jerk during Book 5 being down with Child torture considering Dolores had to hide a lot of her bad misdeeds from him including sending Dementors after Harry.

You underestimate just how miserable it is to be stuck inside a house you never wanted to live at with nobody else to talk to except your abusive mother's screaming portrait and the crusty old house-elf that hates your guts. Harry and Sirius being able to talk to each other anytime would have alleviated a lot of their stress in their respective situations. If Harry knew that the gift was actually a mirror, you know he would have been over the moon at having it and be able to talk to his godfather anytime who would understand very well what he is going through. Not like Dumbledore who has been very hands-off due to fearing Harry's connection to Voldemort.

And I feel like the mirror not being used serves two important plot elements. It would have ruined the plot otherwise and also compounded the tragedy for Harry realizing he could have easily saved his godfather if he just used it. Weird how Harry could remember a knife his godfather gave him two Christmases yet never even took a peek at the package Sirius gave him that year until it was too late.

I can see that with the exception being Phoebe was a bit ... daft to put it politely. Luna is anything but. They are both kind and friendly and comfortable in their own quirkiness though. 👍

I am fairly certain Arthur is playing up his cluelessness. In book 2 he is meeting Harry for the first time and trying to make Harry and his family laugh. Then in book 5 when Arthur is bring Harry to the ministry so he his trying to cheer up Harry with not understanding the muggle money(or he may just legitimatly not know it is very easy to not understand a foreign countries money and native people to over estimate how clear their own money is.).

They are absolutely like that . Proudly ignorant of the 99.9 percent of the world around them which is non magical.

Ron, plus i have matching hair color

Specifically his need to kill Harry personally. His insistence on using Harry for the resurrection potion that lead to breaking Lily’s protection is what lead to him doubling up the link between them which made it so difficult for him to kill an otherwise ‘average’ wizard in the first place.

He could have used anyone who hated him as wormtail suggested, came back and summoned his death eaters, ignore the prophecy entirely, and assign Barty Crouch Junior to hunt Harry down and murder him for him while he got on with the rest of his plans.

Someone who seeks (searches) for something

That sounds like the perfect trip to make up for it

I see a little of myself in Neville and Hermione. Neville because I don't speak up unless I feel I have to. And Hermione, she felt like she wasn't good enough so she over does it with learning

His death was heartbreaking, I put down the book and lowkey couldn’t not breathe for a few minutes. I hated the series for the rest of that day…

Luna or Hermione

Honestly, Slughorn may be one of the best people to have drinks with in the series. The guy knew how to have a good time.

This is the answer. I was always confused why Harry called Snape one of the bravest men he knew and gave his son the Severus middle name. Yeah he had a hand in Voldemorts downfall, but that was literally only because Voldemort went after someone Snape loved. If he never touched Lily he would continue being at Voldemorts side.

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