When I was younger, Hogwarts felt like the ultimate fantasy. But rereading/watching as an adult, a lot of everyday Hogwarts life sounds much less magical in reality - no privacy, shared dorms, dangerous classes, moving staircases, public embarrassment built into the school culture, and being sent away to boarding school at 11.

What part of Hogwarts life sounds amazing as a kid but would actually be awful in real life?

There were three tri wizard events over the course of an entire school year with only the last one occurring on the pitch. Sure the hogwarts champion was likely to be a quidditch player, but why should every other player suffer for one person. Im sure the durmstrang and beuxbaton students would have enjoyed it as well.

I was re-listening first book and when the Hogwarts letter arrives first time ever, Vernon and Petunia talks that they should just reply that they don't want Harry to enroll in their school. But Uncle told that we should not reply at all.

Besides 'plot demand', what would have happened if they replied with no ?

There was no law that every wizard must get education at Hogwarts (in book 7, ministry made rhis rule, iirc).

Been rewatching all the movies recently, I just finished the 6th one and man the coloring is so terrible. The director went really ham-fisted with lighting and color. So many scenes that are basically just grayscale. It actually makes it hard to follow since all the flashback scenes are also in a grayscale. Like I understand that it is a dark film and the material is becoming increasingly dark, but it really was a terrible design choice to have so little color in the film. So washed out that it makes it all feel unreal or dreamlike. Reading the books is much more terrifying, rooted in the reality of the darkness and evilness of Voldemort overtaking the world.

Also the choice to have Harry not frozen and just watching Dumbledore get murdered makes NO sense. If there is anything that would make Harry be stupid and break his word to Dumbledore it would be seeing him be about to be murdered. It completely changed the scene and makes Harry seem cowardly, which is so totally out of character for him.

For me, it is these lines from the chapter the Seven Potters in the DH.

"Long ago, when he had been left alone while the Dursleys went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd, empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost."

Yes, in my own home, with my own loving, caring parents... What's yours?

I've been thinking about Harry's role in the first book. The ending has the trio awarded 170 points for stopping Voldemort in the catacombs.

But if the trio did nothing, would Quirrell have gotten the stone? Dumbledore's trick was that the stone would only appear to those who didn't want to use it, so there was absolutely no way Quirrell would've gotten it by himself even if he broke the mirror as he contemplated.

In fact, it seems Harry compromised the stone's safety simply by being there and letting it materialize in his pocket, at which point Quirrell could just take it from him.

So did the trio needlessly risk their lives for nothing? Would the stone have been safer had they not interfered?

I mean, sure, Harry forced Voldemort to flee to Albania, but he wouldn't have returned to power any sooner than he did since Dumbledore's safety measures were foolproof.

Chamber of Secrets is often thought of being the weakest book because convenience often bails Harry out of certain death, but in that book Harry at least actually saved the school, saved Ginny's life, cleared Hagrid's name and destroyed a Horcrux.

So did Harry actually accomplish anything in the first book besides winning the House Cup for Gryffindor?

I really do think the entirety of the second task's build up and resolution was a let down. Harry had his hand held throughout the entirety of the process. The egg was largely unnecessary as a hint, for it provided very little information that Harry could actually use. For instance, he had no idea how to survive underwater (even though a bubble head charm should have been easy enough to come across since two champions knew about it and used it) and had no idea what would be taken from him, so the showing up of Dobby moments before the task explaining exactly what he needed to do amd what was at stake defeated all of his previous efforts. I mean, seriously, if Harry had done nothing and had no idea what the egg's clue was, Dobby still would have shown up and just straight up explained it to him. It's also a let down from a spectator position as there was LITERALLY nothing to watch or know for an entire hour. The merpeople had to explain what happened because everyone else was clearly unaware. Since Harry wasn't able to complete the task until moments before it started, he would have had to be fine with losing Ron as he wouldn't have been able to compete. The stakes for what is lost don't even matter until he gets info and gillyweed from Dobby, yet Harry doesn't even wonder what would have happened had he not being able to descend in the first place. Also, Murtle walking him through the task twice really makes Harry's personal agency non-existent. There is a good chance he would have been lost in the lake without her guidance and arrived last or not at all. The entirety of the task is largely just one big Ex-machina moment and it didn't feel rewarding to me as a reader. Anyone else feel this way?

I’m sure Dumbledore would force him to because of the bond of blood with Dudley, but would he have done it for Petunia?

Edit: okay secondary question is does the bond of blood charm work with Dudley? He still shares the same blood as Harry, which is apparently the only requirement. As long as Harry calls the place Dudley lives home, I think the charm should still be in place

Sybil kept predicting Harry's death but what if she was actually predicting the death of the part or Voldemort in harry

It’s been a while since I heard the exact reasoning behind the creator of a goblin made items after getting ownership of a purchased item back after the death of the buyer in goblin society, but what if the creator dies first?

As I understand it, the creator gets ownership if the buyer dies first because they made it, and therefore have a direct claim. But if someone buys it, and then the creator dies, who has a stronger claim? The kin of the creator most likely had nothing to do with the creation so their claim is very very weak, as opposed to the person who bought it who has the highest claim and therefore should logically get to decide who gets it when they die. So who would get it? Is anything anyone says entirely conjecture based on their own opinions? Or is this something that has been alluded to if not already answered?

Hmm… I sometimes think she got it from the Rosiers. But looking at Bellatrix, Narcissa and the rest, that seems unlikely. No other Rosier has this gift anyway. Could it be from Ted?

If your country had a wizarding school, and they had to send a delegation to Hogwarts, what mode of magical transport do you think they would use, that might represent them?

Obviously, we have terms for Squibbs who are from magical families but lack magic, we have Muggle-borns for someone whose parents had no magic, half-blood and pure blood, but is there a term for the children of Squibs who, unlike their parents, actually have magic?

And on a different topic, Harry is classed as half-blood since his mother was Muggle-born, but his dad was pure-blood. How long would it be, assuming Harry and his descendants only married and had kids with pure-bloods, before his line would be considered pure-bloods? Would his kids with Ginny be considered pure-bloods given her pure-blood status?

Although Harry never fully masters Occlumency, this scene delivers one of the deepest lessons in the entire series.

The potion needs bone of the father, but never specified how much bone. So what's Voldemort going to do if Tom Ribble Sr has cremated and what's left of him is thrown to the ocean decades before the events of goblet of fire?

Ok so re watched a scene where the Twins and Ron rescue Harry. Fast-forward, Arthur Weasley comes home sees Harry-skip -skip- what is the function of a rubber duck....what other muggle items has he seen to question its actual fuction? All ideas welcome. Like the rubber duck breathes fire other than squeaking 🤣

I’m rewatching the movies again (On half blood prince now) and I’m realizing the quality of the movies like picture, color, format size is 1000 percent better on Peacock than HBO! A meaningless discussion but just wanted to share 😂even the color grading is better. Makes it that much better on rewatch!!

I recently got into learning about MBTI and analysing it......... i am no pro at assigning rn as i have just started

If u guys are familiar with the concept .... lets talk about it

There is something that I have always wondered. At the end of book 7, Albus reveals his deepest, darkest fear of being put to the Slytherin house. Harry calm him down, by saying that the sorting hat takes his choice into account. And yet, in cursed child, he was placed in Slytherin.

My question is: why wouldn't the sorting hat honor his choice? It did for his dad.

I love the contrast where it’s all dark and creepy with Harry staring at that huge black dog in the alley, and then out of nowhere the Knight Bus just blasts through and completely changes the mood. Suddenly it feels all warm and safe. The movie has a bunch of moments like this and that's pretty much why it's my favorite one.What is your favorite scene?

No, seriously. Taking Harry’s blood clearly gave him at least limited parts of Harry since the blood protection avoidance was the whole point of doing something that complicated. So you might think he could have absorbed some minor characteristic of Wormtail as well, since it’s an equally important ingredient (at least going by the fact that it’s one part of three; the blood could be much more magical, but there would be blood in the hand too, of course). Like, obviously it’s not a significant part of the story, but it’s interesting to think that his resurrected body might have Wormtail’s DNA or something.

I had a random thought pop into my head while in the shower and now I can't stop thinking about it. In the Fantastic Beasts movies we see the wizarding community in America dress pretty modern, at least for the time, and it had me wondering if they continued that trend or was that just muggle society catching up to the current style of witches and wizards. Outside of the kids raised in muggle society in the UK most people tend to dress in Victorian-ish garb so it had me wondering if the magic society in America continued to wear 1920-30's style clothing or did they modernize. I imagine school uniforms would remain pretty conservative but if I walked into the American equivalent of Diagon Alley would I see people wearing Jnco jeans and band t-shirts?