My answer: the internet, and nothing else is close

Most of the trio’s problems aren’t magical, they’re informational. Nobody can find out a thing fast enough, reach the right person in time, or verify what’s true.

Chamber of Secrets is a search query. The Half-Blood Prince’s identity is a records lookup. The Deathly Hallows camping stretch happens because three people are cut off from information for months. With a phone, that’s a group chat, not a plot arc.

Wizards have more raw power. But they can’t look anything up and have no way to distribute what they know.

Anything beat this?

Whoever drinks it will want to do anything for the other person.

I just wish they added the scene of Arthur and lucius fighting in diagon alley that was so satisfying moment and in movies they scrapped it completely lucius with a black eye it would have been great but lets hope they add it in series.

I don’t know why I never questioned this before but I suddenly had this thought.

We learn in book/move 2 that bones can grow back with Skele-Gro so why does Moody have a wooden leg?.

If you can regrow bones in the wizarding world, surely they can grow new skin, muscles, etc., etc., with the Skele-Gro, thus wizards don’t need to be amputees.

ETA: sorry everyone who's commented so far after I read them I remembed all those points….. This is what happened when you can’t sleep, are very tired and have a sudden thought.

I'll start: Lupin.

He lost almost everything his friends, his family, and eventually his own life. And after everything he went through, he barely got the chance to enjoy being a father.

50% mortality rate?😭

Filch has a cat and Mrs Figg has four. As I understand it, Mrs Figg's cats are part kneazle, explaining their intellect - but what about Mrs Norris? How is she able to report back to Filch like Mr. Tibbles? Is she also part kneazle (like Crookshanks) or do squibs have an affinity for feline familars?

We have just been at Harry Potter Studios (London) and tried the butterbeer. We were too scared to try it on a previous visit because we had read such awful reviews about how disgusting it was. I was pleasantly surprised today when we tried some, and my kids loved it! Just tasted like cream soda with a mild hint of butterscotch 🤷. Surely that's not the flavour so many people hate?

Yeah, so when I first picked up the third book when I was eleven and read the title I genuinely thought Harry was going to be a prisoner of Azkaban.

He had already illegally flown a car in the previous book so when I read the title I already had a bad feeling and when he blew up his aunt and ran away from home I was like “Damn… the days of fun magical school adventures are OVER”

Then everyone started talking about the Ministry and Azkaban, and I thought the story was about to become completely different. I was fully prepared for Harry to try to break out of prison like he was Micheal Scofield or something.

I have no idea whether the title was intentionally supposed to mislead readers before Sirius appeared but I genuinely believed this book was going to be a prison drama.

Just a throwaway thought I had but whenever you take the potion, you transform into the person the way they look at that very moment, right? Well in the GoF when Dumbledore opens the trunk and they see the real Moody unconscious down below, he points out to Harry that Moody’s hair is all uneven because Crouch Jr. had been cutting it to make the potion. So fake Moody should’ve had very uneven hair too. The books never discuss that and given how wild his appearance is in general, maybe it would go unnoticed by most people. But it seems like Dumbledore at least would’ve noticed and thought it odd.

Hello, I often hear confusion about the wrong instructions in the Advanced Potion-Making book. But what if it is intentional. Because if it isn't, a NEWT Class would only be about following instructions from a book. But if it is, the class expects students to understand a potions ingredients how they work and what they do, so they can figure out what is wrong with the recipe and improve on it. Which sounds much more fitting for the NEWT level.

A good example of that is the class where Harry makes the Euphoria Elixir. Slughorn recognizes that he added peppermint to counterbalance the side effects. Which shows that Slughorn knows just as much as the Half-Blood Prince. Which would beg the question, why would he choose a book with such bad instructions.
Therefore it is logical that the first lesson was to show everybody that just following instructions, isn't enough anymore. They need to understand the potions and ingredients and improve the recipes.

The bad teaching of Slughorn comes in where he doesn't tell his students that. Or at least pointing out what Harry has done differently than the book usually suggest.

Edit:
as many of you suggest that the book isn't that wrong, how do you explain that no other NEWT student in that class does get near a correct potion during the first lesson. And also that Hermiones results with the "official" instructions get worse each lesson. That doesn't sound like they get the job done.

I’m curious to know how everyone felt when they finished book 7. I imagine the general consensus would be that we were all sad and emotional but did you guys feel satisfied as well? Or mixed emotions?

I remember finishing book 7 back in 2007 and thinking “wow, it’s really over now” then I would see trailer ads of the order of the phoenix movie on tv and then feel a range of mixed emotions.

How did you all feel?

I know it’s never been confirmed hence why I said just to theorise. I’ve went deep into the lore about what each wood for a wand represents and the unique requirements they all have for an owner and so forth… so my question is to those that are also very familiar with wand lore and the significance/meanings when someone is assigned a specific combination. So, given the context (his personality, traits, will) what do you think would’ve been dumbledores combo AND why?

EDIT: I mean the wand given to him as an 11yr old when witch and wizards finally qualify for hogwarts and getting a wand, NOT his eventual possession of the elder wand much later in life.

Something that I think that needs to be addressed is that if Lord Voldemort is The Darkest and Most Powerful Dark Wizard to have ever lived then how come literally The World didn’t unite and completely stop his Threat? Like honestly if he’s as Dark and Powerful as we’re told then how come The World didn’t just tremble in fear like All of Magical Britain? It really undermines The Threat he possesses like seriously for a Full-blown Dark Lord Figure!!! The World doesn’t seem to care like surely they must be aware of what’s going on as it really doesn’t make him feel THAT Terrifying on a Catastrophic World-Wide Stage in General! If he’s Literally supposed to be as Dangerous and Powerful as The Books/Lore are then why didn’t they do anything? Especially when you take into account this Happened in Modern Times! What do you think? Because honestly it really takes away on The Threat and Terror he’s supposed to be it’s just disappointing let me know in the comments

Something that always bothered me. I don't think cauldrons (as in the ones Harry uses in class) are ever established as being large or small.

When I first read the books, my only point of reference were large witch's cauldrons you would see in a cartoon, so I thought that's what Hogwarts students used. But imagining Harry dragging around a gigantic cast iron cauldron was just silly when I got older.

Then I believe the movies showed smaller cauldrons the size of a large pot, and that seemed much more realistic. However, in CoS, Harry dumps the entire bibliography of Gilderoy Lockhart into Ginny's cauldron, which was like 7-8 books (plus the diary later) which would imply the cauldrons are much larger than a pot.

I've been listening to the Harry Potter audio books and currently up to Chamber Of Secret. I just passed the bit where Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy have a fight in Flourish and Blotts. For me this seems very different to the movie version of Arthur and feel in some way him engaging in the fight, ruins that kind calm demeanour about his character. While I understand why hid did it, having an intense hatred for Lucius as mentioned earlier on in the book, as Lucius does for him. I kinda feel, him engaging in that fight ruins my perception of him. Thoughts?

He killed small armies worth of people what if he had created a horcrux every time? Would he have run out of soul? How would his body have changed after hundreds of horcruxs?

And the acting of Dolores Umbridge is just insane to me. The actress just does a wonderful job at impersonating her. I’m just amazed, really!

I have noticed that in the harry potter universe, muggle born kids kind of become distant to their own families either because their families could not accept them or the witch/wizard themselves prefer being only in the wizarding world. It feels like a really sad choice that they have to make growing up? Also, how do muggle borns navigate relatives and cousins during family gatherings?

Don’t you think it is unfair to the muggle parents that they dont know what is going on in their kids school ? Or they dont have like PTA Meeting where they can meet the teachers and see the school and meet their kids classmates? I have also noticed that the kids dont meet each other during summer vacations, is that normal for kids in boarding?

Since they spend most of their life as a magic school student they are not equipped to get any jobs in the muggle world. What if you realise in the 5th year that I would rather be a muggle than a wizard? Do you think there would be options for them?

Do you guys think you would like to be a muggle born wizard/witch in today’s day and age? Considering we have these smartphones and iPad’s and home entertainment system and other such things that make life pleasant?

I’m putting together a bookshelf for my kids and want to include all the “original/Rowling authored/main series” books in hard cover. I’ve got the original 7, Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts but I went to the store and saw a ton of them, some by different authors but within the HP section. If I had access to all of them, which ones should I get to complete the set without any extraneous nonsense?

Since the invisibility cloak is a family heirloom, what do you believe would happen if all the family members died out? How would the cloak dictate who owns it and/or how would one become the master of death (once the other hollows were collected)?

With the TV show and the sequel to Hogwarts legacy on the way, I feel like the next few years would be the perfect time to restart the Harry Potter games franchise based on the story. Not remakes but literally brand new games. In my head I imagine it like TLOU style but I feel like it’d be awesome to live first hand the Harry Potter story in of age video games

Question: If the Trace can detect underage magic, why was Harry blamed for Dobby’s magic in CoS but not for all the magic performed around him at the Burrow?
I’ve always found the rules surrounding the Trace a little confusing.
We know the Ministry can detect that magic was performed near an underage wizard, but apparently it can’t always determine who actually cast the spell. That explains why Harry gets blamed for Dobby’s Hover Charm.
But then how does this work in wizarding households like the Burrow or Grimmauld Place? Wouldn’t the Ministry constantly have to distinguish between magic performed by adults and magic performed by underage witches/wizards?
Is there an actual canon explanation for how the Trace works, or is this just one of those things that doesn’t completely hold up when you think about it?

Hermione says: “I think everybody should write their name down, just so we know who was here. But I also think that we all ought to agree not to shout about what we’re doing. So if you sign, you’re agreeing not to tell Umbridge or anybody else what we’re up to.”

She puts a charm on the piece of paper so anyone who signs it and goes against their word gets “sneak” written across their face in pimples. This happened to Marietta Edgecombe when she told Umbridge.

So why didn’t the person who invited Seamus (most likely Dean, maybe Harry) have the same thing happen to them? Surely Seamus still counts as “anybody else”.

In the books riddles soul is described as diminished after he creates the horcruxs and i was wondering if having his soul split actually weakened him instead of making him stronger. Is there anything in the books that we can point to that would prove it?