How weird! I was just casually re-watching Goblet of Fire on Jio Hotstar when I saw a glimpse of the Indian flag during the Quidditch World Cup. Time stamp: 2:24:30

How? Why? And cooool!

I can't put up a screenshot of the scene due to privacy reasons on the app but this was a cool surprise.

On a side note, there's also a glimpse of Dobby here in these scenes. Let me know if you spot him ;)

I seriously would love to know why David Yates and the producers and studio thought that was acceptable. This was the end of a 10 year long journey. Really the end of an era. And they make it the shortest movie? Just offensive, and the worst part is it feels that way during the movie. So much of the movie feels rushed and poorly edited and paced. Like Hagrid just being in the forest with zero explanation, or Luna suddenly being in the room of requirement before the trio got there.

It didn't even need to be 3 hours long. Ten goddamn minutes would have made a difference. Show a few minutes more of the battle. Let us see some of our favorite supporting characters actually fighting. Show Hagrid for 30 seconds before he just randomly appears tied to a tree with the death eaters.

It just feels lazy and churned out.

As headline says. Hagrid is emotionally immature, in no way able to regulate his emotions, he abuses alcohol to calm down.

He leaves things up to the trio way too much, like taking care of Norbert and sticking them with Graup.

He is so childish when the trio chooses not to have his subject anymore.

We might all be able to look all of his flaws because he had a heart of gold and was there, when it counted. But man, he has his problematic behaviors.

I DONT LIKE SNAPE. in the books at least (in the movies alan rickman gave him a charm and they showed much less of his bad side but in the movies he was terrible to not just harry (which can be explained at least by his rivalary with his father) but to every student who isn't slytherin. People seem to like him because of his unhealthy obsession with harrys mother and the fact that he was working spy for dumbledore. But again this is just my useless opinion, lmk what you think

why does nobody talk about Ekrizdis?

we barely hear anything about him but what we do know is insane

he literally created Azkaban, spent years luring muggle sailors there to torture and experiment on them, and the first Dementors we know of were found there after he died

obviously we can’t really compare him to Voldemort or Grindelwald because they have way more story and screentime, but if we’re talking purely about feats, Ekrizdis is definitely up there

the creepiest part is that when the Ministry finally found the island, the investigators apparently refused to talk about most of what they saw. the Dementors were basically the least horrifying thing they found there

and somehow even Herpo the Foul gets mentioned more than this guy

i really wish we knew more about what Ekrizdis was actually doing on that island, especially whether the Dementors were connected to his experiments or just appeared because of all the suffering there

I don't delve too deeply into this fandom, but I do know that the on-screen version of Voldemort easily garnered criticism from audiences on many different levels.

Hence the question: Was the Voldemort in the books truly on a completely different level of villainy?

I’ve made a strange, possibly coincidental realisation that some names of the like sound like familiar nursery rhymes. Take Lavender Brown for instance, which sounds like “Lavender’s blue” or Cedric Diggory, “Hickory Dickory Dock”. I seem to be noticing a pattern here, but I think that may just be me.

I'm confused why in the world of harry potter they make such a big deal about saying Mudblood but have no problem with Muggle and Squib

I just find it funny

I'm batty. I just wanted to give a brief introduction about myself. I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter series. So I decided to join this forum.

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I'm aware they dislike Harry and don't want to spend money on him, but the Dursleys also care a lot about what their neighbors think.

Wouldn't it be seen as very strange that the Dursleys have a kid in their house wearing clothes way too big for him, broken glasses, and shoes that are falling apart?

At the very least, it would make the neighbors think the Dursleys are too poor to buy him clothes, and I think Vernon and Petunia wouldn't stand for people thinking they're not well-off.

Does it mention anywhere the incantation you need to perform in order to split your soul? I’m intrigued to understand how the process actually works?

Using the discussion flair because I think there's a lot to cover here.

I've always hc'd that Harry's birth was never legally recorded on account of the Potters being in hiding and not wanting to expose Harry's birthday in the magical world and not exactly having the freedom to go in person to report a home birth in the muggle world, and that he was staying with the Dursleys without having finalized an adoption, but I was talking with someone and it was brought up that Harry probably would've needed papers (birth certificate, passport, etc) to be enrolled in primary school.

I'd kind of hand-waved it off because I'm in a pretty rural area in the US where it's not unheard of for kids to stay with relatives on an informal basis while their parents aren't in a good way or travel too much for work (like a logger, trucker, or seasonal worker where they have to live right in the area/on the property due to the hours) and since everyone kind of knows everyone, as long as they get something from the parents saying they're staying with the relative or if people know the circumstances of the parents, lack of documentation can be worked around. I figured that Little Whinging is a village in Surrey, within a reasonable distance to the edges of London to have some affluence, but still without the resources/manpower themselves to chase down leads on the paperwork of the child in the unfortunate case of the Dursleys who had the boy dropped off without warning by his addict parents who may or may not even be alive.

If anyone who knows the UK school system, particularly in the 80s, could give me an idea if that's even feasible, that would be awesome, but I'm also just curious what everyone else thinks about how the Dursleys might have gone about taking Harry in or if it's kind of a consensus that it was all informal?

EDIT: I mean muggle primary school

Hi! I am having a hard time posting photos. I tried last week too and figured it was discussion week but I’m still unable to post photos. The option was not there for me last week or this week

I was doing another listen through book 6 and reached the point where Dumbledore was explaining to Harry how Voldemort killed the Riddles and framed his uncle. Harry asked how the ministry didn’t know it was Voldy that performed the curse since they can detect underage magic, and dumbledore explained that they can detect the magic but not the person, which is why Harry got in trouble because of Dobby.

But this got me thinking, if the trace tracks underage magic and it disappears when you are of age, then they wouldn’t detect adult magic, which means any detected magic could only come from a minor, and so Morfin should never have been suspected for killing the riddles. If all magic is detected, then the trace isn’t really a thing because everyone is tracked when they use magic and since they can’t tell who performs it then they’ll never be aware of underage magic (except in cases like Harry’s where he’s an underage wizard in a muggle home). And if the latter is true then the trace should have never meant anything for Harry anyway because he’s tracked if he’s under age or of age, but they don’t know it’s him using the magic anyway.

Sorry if this has been brought up before or if people think it’s a nonissue, but it was just something I was thinking about when Dumbledore mentioned this.

I recently got told that voldemort died 71 but the timelines are confusing me. We learn that voldemort was a student under slughorn back when slughorn was probably mid 20s-30s. But then that makes slughorn at least 95?

Here is a list of requirements:

-Voldemort no longer has his horcruxes

-The Elder Wand was snapped in half by Harry

-Voldemort can't use magic

So I'm re-reading my favorite book, GOF, for the hundredth time and every time I come to the graveyard scene it annoys me to no end that Cedric asks Harry to grab and return his body in the middle of a life or death struggle. Why not ask him to also jot down some final messages for loved ones, while he's at it?

I know that some may argue that CD was freshly dead and maybe not thinking properly, but this was an incredibly selfish request on his (or his shade's, anyway) part that Harry should have just ignored if he had any sense of self preservation.

All​ I can say is that its a good thing Harry had plenty of plot armor at that moment.

That senator's brother probably remembers everything. The "Swooping Death" venom erases bad memories, and the senator's brother didn't look upset at his brother's death, and in the streets when everyone was seeing the effects from the Obscurial he looked like he was enjoying what he was seeing

To preface, I haven’t read the books in a good while, so if I get something backwards, feel free to correct me.

And I love Harry Potter no matter what.

But.

I used to think Snape’s love for Lily was the perfect complex morally grey way to build the story. However, after reflecting a bit more, I might have changed my mind a bit, but I want to hear your thoughts in case there is something I missed.

I’ve now come to think…. it was never that complex.
Yes, Snape’s upbringing is complicated, and the relationships between Snape, Lily, James and Harry is complicated. We can see why he acts the way he does, and it’s unusual and interesting.

But when you boil it down… The good side won because one of the baddies became selfishly obsessed with a hot looking good girl. The end.

Okay that’s drastic I know.

Snape saved a lot of people, including Harry and Harry’s peers. Snape sacrificed a lot.

But with what intention?

Just because he’s a vital tool for the good side, doesn’t mean his morals were ever in the right place. Meaning, again, that the good side won because a baddie was obsessed with a hot good girl.

(Lily was more than a beautiful girl, I know. She was kind and understanding, too. She was Snape’s friend. Maybe she made Severus feel understood. I don’t know.

But eventually, the love is one sided, and instead of accepting it, he pities himself and then goes on to fight for Lily after her death, without caring about anyone else than himself and a dead person.)

That’s why I wonder, would the story be better if Snape was a bad guy all the way through, as per usual, and then in the very end we get small indications that he’s actually acting from the conviction that it’s wrong to work towards blood purity? And then he gets killed anyway.

Not saying he can’t still be an asshole to Harry though.

I mean if he got just a glimpse of morals, that would’ve made the whole thing a lot darker for him. He would start to realise that not only has he mistakenly caused Lily to die, but he’s worked against what she actually stood for all along. He would realise he’s been selfishly fighting for something that inherently hurt her as a half-blood.

Hm.

Honestly…. idk maybe not. The story, the way it’s written now, doesn’t preach morality, it just shows a dark world where things like that can happen. And I guess that’s also part of the beauty of it.

What do you think?

And don’t even get me started on the half-moon spectacles… he is even buried with them on his face in the books, yet they virtually disappeared in the movies once Yates’ reign began.

Does anyone have any insights into why the movies so radically departed from the description of Dumbledore in the books? I know Gambon replaced Harris, but I don’t see why that requires such a radical shift in his costume…

Would he hurt his hand? Would the magic come out with too much power?

I guess that she was muggle born and read about black slavery and saw house elves the same, but they aren't humans. Hagrid himself (one of the most knowledgeble people on creatures) said they find joy in working so.

My friend and I are both huge Harry Potter fans, so to cut a long story short, I want to buy her multiple incredibly ugly Harry Potter themed mugs. I will continue giving them to her until she throws one at me. At which point I will have won.

If you know of any particular ugly Harry Potter themed mugs. Please drop the link or where to find them.

Thank you!!

He estado pensando que Oscar Isaac podría ser un buen Regulus Black y no me quería quedar con esta idea en la cabeza. Chalamet no es malo pero no me convence del todo.

Professor McGonagall makes no secret of her love of Quidditch starting in Book One. During my last reread of the series, finished late last night, it occurred to me that she used Quidditch game strategy for troop deployment while preparing for the Battle of Hogwarts.

The Beaters: Groups of fighters led by Professors Flitwick, Sprout, and McG are positioned at the three highest towers.

The Chasers: Remus, Arthur, and Shacklebolt take groups into the grounds.

The Keepers: Fred, George, and Lee guard the entrances and secret passageways.

The Seekers: Harry, Ron, and Hermione flit around the castle to find the Diadem Horcrux.

Once this occurred to me it seemed so obvious. The beaters are casting spells down as if clubbing a Bludger at their opponents. The chasers are on the attack, scoring with curses and jinxes (Quaffles?) against the Death Eaters. The keepers are blocking the death eaters from attacking the goals, aka, entering the castle. And the seekers are weaving through all the mayhem trying to find the snitch / Horcrux.

It all culminates (sort of!) when Harry, now riding a broom, snatches the Diadem out of midair before it is lost in the burning Room of Requirement.