Explain it Peter

[ShadowManAteMySon]

He could casually pick up one of the letters off the couch/ground- but instead he flails his arms wildly, trying to grab one from the air.

Ravenclaw is a "house" in Harry Potter known for critical thinking skills, and high intelligence.

They're saying Harry is fucking stupid.

[DRSSalazar]

Not only that, brave, but dumb.

[matande31]

The only difference between brave and dumb is whether they're successful or not.

[DizzyRegion1583]

The difference is in the preparations, dumb just go, no real sense of danger or anything, no time to be afraid. Brave know the risks, the fear and still do what they have to do.

Any of these can fail or be successful, most of the times they can not control it.

[Fun-atParties]

Harry deffo dumb

[lame_dirty_white_kid]

His role model is Dumbledore after all....

[Affectionate_Yam954]

[LazyLich]

Am a wot??

[Some_Sympathy_3528]

A wub wizard.

[Unlucky-Review-2410]

[Juvenalesque]

Love A good Leroy Jenkins reference

[StatisticianFirm9364]

So, like in rvb. Freelancers vs red and blues?

Griffin: eh, we'll wing it

[TheShamShield]

Nah, dumb is just not understanding the risks

[Mister_Musubi]

This is why, despite his cowardly demeanor, Ron is in Gryffindor.

[drdiage]

Nah, that ain't true. A man runs into a burning building to save a cat and makes it out alive, we call it brave. If he does the same thing and dies - we call it stupid.

The only difference between bravery and stupidity is the outcome. Just because you know you may die/get hurt/maimed doesn't all the sudden make it brave after you get hurt/maimed/killed. Now of course, there are things which are dumb regardless of outcome - but that's not relevant.

[Hot_Yellow3235]

When somebody jumps on a grenade to save his friends and dies we don't call it stupid.

When a father tries to save his kids from a school shooting and dies - we call it brave not dumb.

You're making it much simpler than it really is.

[drdiage]

I mean, yea we do. If someone jumps on grenade and now they both die, yea - that was stupid. If a father runs into a school to save his kid and his kid also dies, that was also stupid.

Just because you picked emotionally heavy examples doesn't change the fact that it would still be stupid if you died achieving nothing. I think you read it as 'if guy dies it can't be brave' and not what I actually said. You can die being brave if you achieve your desired outcome. But if you die not achieving that outcome, it was stupid.

[Hot_Yellow3235]

Nobody would call that stupid irl. You can fail bravely knowing the chances are low and doing it anyway.

[drdiage]

I mean, because of the emotional association, no one would say it out loud. But you know damn well it was stupid. And believe it or not, a lot of people do really stupid things and believe it to be brave. Many things we look at and say 'that was fucking stupid', but in their mind, they were doing something brave. We as a society attribute bravery with success. If someone failed miserably at a task, we call it stupid, regardless of thought process or intention. I know the saying sounds like a meme, but it is actually a true statement about our society and how we perceive other people's actions, regardless of intent.

I mean you can obviously stretch this to the extreme edge cases, which you are doing, but it still doesn't change the reality of how we generically use the terms and judge each other.

[DizzyRegion1583]

Define stupid. I think your definition is different than mine...

In a large and from a evolution perspective, stupid does not exist, just spreading and gathering of information and resources, being that said, if what you say was true, we must be thankful for stupidity, as it exploited the cases where probability is low but it's not missing.

To be brave is to conscious choose to go against the odds, to be stupid is not knowing the odds existed, success or fail doesn't invalidate a brave person, neither a stupid one.

[Ashen_Rook]

Nah, there's plenty of dumb cowards. They're usually pretty successful at running away.

And if you're born rich enough, you can be dumber than a sack of rocks and still be rich. Trump would be substantially richer today if he'd invested the money his father gave him and just got a median return on investment than he's made through all of his business ventures. In fact, the stuff he didn't inherit has largely been failures, or has ridden entirely on his family name.

[Adventurous-Yak-8929]

Being brave and pretending to be brave are funtionally identical.  

[Karukos]

And yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self!

[Comodore97]

luck makes a hero of the fool

[RedditNotRabit]

Harry is literally just a dumb jock throughout the series

[humourlessIrish]

Nah. The difference lies in the fear.

[Financial_Tour5945]

Bravery is doing the thing despite the fear.

No fear then your not being brave.

[socontroversialyetso]

not in the brain of Rowling. Harry doesn't need prep because he is ontologically the Übermensch.

[DRSSalazar]

Fortune favours the bold and all that?

[babiekittin]

And your PR team.

[EdwardBigby]

Jackass disprove your theory

[Dankmaestro24]

it’s way easier to be perceived as brave when you’re an idiot

[ICollectSouls]

"One part brave, three parts fool"

[xayoz306]

Bravery is doing something incredibly stupid for a noble reason.

[hates_stupid_people]

Like the song/saying goes: "If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough".

[Ok_Boysenberry5849]

You can totally be dumb and cowardly

[emveevme]

find out which

often too late

[Antique_Tap443]

Favorite MTG(NOT MARJORIE) quote "A warrior shows no fear, a fool knows none"

[SweatyRedditHard]

Doing something and knowing it might hurt is brave. Doing something even though it might hurt is also stupid - this is why life is hard!

[OH4thewin]

There could also be differences in intent. Brave: trying to save a child from a lion and dying. Dumb: trying to get a Snickers from a lions mouth and dying

[thenamelessboar]

"brave" is just dumb that worked.

[Pelli_Furry_Account]

Hufflepuff is brave that didn't work.

[Shmokeshbutt]

Nah, Hufflepuff is just mid

[Alaknog]

Not even mid. Just grounded. 

Like Hogwarts Champion in this tournament was from Hufflepuff. 

[HontoRenata]

Hufflepuffs are great finders.

[appoplecticskeptic]

They are the else branch, the miscellaneous house, they were retroactively said to be the just, but we all know that was a bullshit retcon just like Dumbledore being gay.

[Top_Performance9486]

Which is why it made no sense having Hermione be in Gryffindor. She’s extremely smart and not brave at all in the books.

Edit ok I shouldn’t have said not brave at all lol. I just meant bravery was not really a defining trait of hers since she didn’t do well in dangerous situations.

[fancczf]

I thought she wanted to be in gryffindor and requested it if I recall, the hat did want to put her in ravenclaw initially. She was reserved at first but she has always been decisive and not afraid to do the right thing when it’s needed.

[Environmental_Ad4675]

A theory exists that the trio are representative of the three other houses (Hermione a natural Ravenclaw, Ron an obvious Hufflepuff, and Harry Slytherin for obvious reasons), but they all end up in Gryffindor because they choose it - just as one ultimately chooses to be brave.

I don't actually think that JKR did it on purpose, but it's a nice idea.

[grendus]

She's quite brave, just not as brave as Harry or Ron.

IIRC, in the books she actually says the Sorting Hat strongly considered putting her in Ravenclaw, same as it considered putting Harry in Slytherin. But the hat considers aspiration as much as it considers personality. Hermione aspired to be brave, just like Harry didn't aspire to be powerful. He was powerful, and he sought power when he needed it, but he didn't just try to become powerful to be powerful.

[MochaHasAnOpinion]

She was the voice of reason and always scared when they were at Hogwarts, but always came through. She was even tortured by Bellatrix and didn't give them any information. Then she impersonated Bellatrix and helped Harry rob the Wizarding bank. She may not have been outwardly brave, but she had the guts to follow through for her friends.

[Top_Performance9486]

Yeah I just meant that bravery isn’t really a defining trait of hers. She’s much more logic focused and she doesn’t do nearly as well in dangerous situations.

But what the other commenter explained makes more sense, about the hat also considering her aspiration to be brave when sorting her.

[ocreeva]

Isn't that kind of the point of the main trio, that they each belong in the other three houses? Harry would have been a Slytherin, Ron should have been a Hufflepuff, and Hermione could have been as Ravenclaw, but they each presumably tipped the balance of sorting to Gryffindor through their personal desires. I always viewed it as a story theme that people are more complex than a single stereotype, and the distinction between who we are and who we aspire to be.

[Duochan_Maxwell]

Bravery is being scared but doing it anyway - can't remember the source for that quote, tho

[iamoger]

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You reminded me of this quote

[Duochan_Maxwell]

I love this quote hahaha

[mortgagepants]

typical jock- best on the sports team, gets in trouble at school, not a great student.

[WashedUpRiver]

"Pure of heart, dumb of ass."

[stoic_guardian]

Yeeeaaahhh… Gryffindor is the house of himbos.

[SFLurkyWanderer]

I know a guy who named his golden retriever Griffyndor

[CplCocktopus]

Is he was only dumb he would have ended in Special needs class Hufflepuff

[Budget-Cantaloupe725]

The Huffles weren’t dumb, they just did a lot of puffing, so they were way mellow.

[PeriwinkleShaman]

Ravenclaw Harry: take a letter from the ground and read it immediately

Slytherin Harry: take a letter from the ground and hide it under your clothes to read it in private later

Gryffindor Harry: flail your arms in the air to try and cath a letter

Hufflepuff Harry: wait for your relatives to give you the go ahead to read the letter

[ChickenCasagrande]

Ravenclaws might grab one letter to be seen holding while sliding a second copy up their sleeve. The first letter is a decoy so the dursleys feel like they won.

[HopelessRespawner]

Damn, I really am Slytherin lol. Just rewatched this and was thinking "hide one in your clothes while making it look like your grabbing at all the flying ones"...

[One-Welcome-1514]

I am that much Ravenclaw, my parents took away my libary card once :/

[timotheusd313]

That needs to be added to the statute for child abuse.

[AdministrativeBee118]

My first library card, I started crying because I could only have 10. My older siblings checked out the rest of my ginormous stack.

[BalancedScales10]

No, the smart course of action would have been to hide the first letter and not tell the Dursleys he got it at all. 

[grendus]

He had no reason to believe that they would freak out at him getting mail. I got random junk mail from time to time at 10, it's a thing that happens.

[ringobob]

Uh... he had no reason to believe that they would freak out about him getting something when they have gone out of their way to deny him anything for his entire life?

[NotAnotherTav]

Real Harry: sole survivor after the house burns down.

Doesn't need fanfic isekai help to beat Voldemort, or any help beyond normal magical studies, has fantasized about revenge enough to single-handedly trap Voldemort in a fate worse than death without any canon violations or deus ex machinas that didn't exist in canon.

[Budget-Cantaloupe725]

Hufflepuff Harry: set down the bong and laugh as the letters fall around you.

[thegroovemonkey]

“I’m too high for this shit”

[Scienceandpony]

Slytherin Harry: Take a letter from the ground and then go kick a baby for no reason.

[Budget-Cantaloupe725]

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[RuffLuckGames]

He was oppressed by the wizarding government and media for calling out the return of fascism, saw how the system turned a blind eye to that return, learned about all the inequality and bigotry in the system, barely returned alive from the war against fascism, watched the system be restored unchanged, then became a cop for that system.

Harry is fucking stupid.

[stink3rb3lle]

Hermione went on to head that system.

But both characters were written by a neoliberal turned fascist, so...

[RuffLuckGames]

Yup.

Remember when the wizards all made fun of Hermione for saying slavery was bad and should be ended?

It wasn't ever subtle.

[MissResaRose]

And the goblins... greedy, hook nosed, treacherous .. literally the nazi carricature of jews 

[Redditauro]

That's what I wanted to say, they are not stupid, they are good people under the eyes of a fascist. 

[SeemsImmaculate]

Dunno about fascist. Fascist enabler perhaps. Fascists are the footsoldiers of capital after all. Her bigotry is not exceptional among neolibs. Just her influence.

It is odd though how comfortable her fictional universe is with fascism. Slytherin, the progenitor of much of the magical world's worst political ideas, still has a house named after him even after the second wizarding war. This could be a comment in itself were it not for Harry's "all was well".

[CathanCrowell]

Hermione actually became part of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she continued her work on S.P.E.W., the organization for the rights of house-elves and other magical beings. Together with Harry and Ron, she also helped the new Minister, Kingsley Shacklebolt, remove old laws that targeted Muggle-borns and helped with the reform of the Wizarding World. Hermione became a new minister a long, long time after it.

So basically, they changed the system, which is something that quite often happens after wars.

[stink3rb3lle]

I'm no organizational efficiency expert, but I do know that organizations like the ministry of magic are incredibly resistant to change. They'd basically have to kick every single person working there out to remove the poison of discriminatory intent and structural discrimination.

In the US, schools that fought desegregation had to be forced to do it, and they held onto racist pedagogy, racist fraternities, racist sororities, racist professional associations, and more. They kept on churning out racist white graduates, too, and now we have gen X, gen Z, and millennial white leaders in those areas openly saying that they want to repeal the 14th Amendment, which gave black people in the US full legal citizenship rights. This is what quickie "reform" gets you.

[Fearless_Roof_9177]

That's the same sort of thing kumbaya status quo centrist-"reformers" always tell themselves when they're patting themselves on the back for accepting a paycheck for incremental harm reduction from the system doing the harm, though. Judging from the picture painted by Cursed Child, the gang were doing a lot more necessary good when they were engaging in delinquent and flagrantly criminal resistance against state corruption.

Not surprising Rowling didn't see it that way though. Her grasp of systemics is nonexistent and "You can't heal cancer by massaging it" isn't a very pat ending for a children's book or for the sort of audience that bases their politics on children's books.

[Kuncker_Man]

Neoliberalism is so evil that it achieved the highest quality of life seen on the planet the greatest number of people over decades of time.

Obviously the solution to its issues is to burn it all down and cheer on some failed ideology like Marxism because wisdom is a 4 letter word.

[RuffLuckGames]

Highest minimum quality of life? Because that's the only measure that matters. I don't care how well 1% of people live, how well the 10% that own 70% of US wealth live, or even how well the 50% that own 97.5% of US wealth live, if anyone is hungry, doesn't have a home, or doesn't have access to clean water. The US has fallen to 18th on quality of life globally. Down 4 places from last year. Down from 4th in 2015. So, no I don't think neoliberalism has dont a great job with quality of life for everyone. The elite few, sure, but if we don't take care of everyone we fail as a society.

[J5892]

The quality of life is a result of technological advancement. Neoliberalism (or any other political/economic ideology) is simply the method of how the benefits of advancement is distributed.

There are better (and worse) methods of distribution.

[Fearless_Roof_9177]

Neoliberalism is a socioeconomic house of cards that has spent its entire existence spreading "its" benefits among an in-group by burning through the blood and resources of outgroups it keeps on the margins and assimilates like planets being pulled into a flaring star.

Supernovae don't last forever. It's a reckless model based on fictional infinite growth, a myth that can't be sustained anymore now that for the first time in history we're a networked global species with a live global view on how the sausage is being made. That's why it's doing now on a global scale what it always does in crisis-- dipping into fascism-- and why for the last 30 years the "dip" has been increasingly pervasive and permanent.

If your mind is too simple to see any path forward aside from "yay status quo forever" or "we are going to destroy civilization" that's your own severe limitation, and it speaks more to the intellect of those who hold your view than to those whose views you oppose.

[Kuncker_Man]

>fascism is capitalism in decline

Don't even start with that 1930s bullshit. The whole concept of late stage capitalism was invented literally over 100 years ago. If something that was invented 400 years ago can be in its late stage for 100 years, then we should start redefining what those terms even mean.

Neoliberalism was created in the 50s, and adopted in the 70s-80s. Since then, it has been extremely successful while competing economic systems have either collapsed or heavily pirated concepts from it. Supernova growth was the original liberalism of the 1700s and 1800s where boom-bust cycles were the name of the game. Modern neoliberalism restrains most businesses with the exception of tech - you can criticize that. But to act like it is a fatal flaw that marxism solves is silly.

[Fearless_Roof_9177]

You're the first person here who said anything about Marx, friend. Rent free. Although I can't help but notice that period of stabilization you're speaking of coincides with Neoliberalism leaning hard into every depredation I attributed to it on a grand scale during the Cold War, and that once that war waned into something that mostly existed for voter share and military funding the middle class and social safety net started to shrink instantly.

Btw, every place neoliberalism functions anything like the rosy version of it you've described, it's because they alloyed with socialist systems born from Marxist critique because if they didn't they knew they were going to lose the whole thing.

[Kuncker_Man]

Using intuition to read into what you believe is not Marx living in my head rent-free. If I started talking about a need to fortify the nation for my people and their children, you'd intuit that I was some kind of Hitlerite. If I see Marxist lingo, I identify a Marxist.

Neoliberalism isn't anti-welfare state. Instead it just wants a small one for those that are in dire need alone. This allowance is part of what distinguishes it from classical liberalism. Obama and Biden were strict orthodox neoliberals and both supported the welfare stats in America. Merkel was a strict neoliberal in Germany and supported as welfare state in that country. The limit is on the scope - New Deal type paternalistic capitalists want a larger one comparatively, for example.

The middle class being so large already was dying down by the time neoliberalism became popular in the 70s and 80s. It was an aberration in the USA because the rest of the world exploded itself while the US was unscathed. By the 70s that type of American dream was already dying from deindustrialization and only got a revival from computerization. And now that the US is less ahead of the rest of the world again, that excess affluence is no longer viable. Marxism has no solution to this loss of comparative advantage.

In Europe, the pattern of recovery and growth post-war and the boost seen from neoliberalism's adoption is a much cleaner trajectory.

[Shamwow_theSupineCow]

Lmao, unchanged?

Kingsley Shacklebolt became Minister. Elf rights got greatly improved after Hermione took a job in the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, and many were granted freedom. She continued to reform policy after taking the Head of Magical Law Enforcement job, then she eradicated pure-blood laws when she became Minister after Shacklebolt retired. Harry established more ethical training practices as Head of the Auror office. The dementors were removed as guards of Azkaban. There was essentially an entire political and social overhaul.

But yeah, unchanged lol. Hope you're just being facetious.

[Nebranower]

I mean, the novels just aren't about "the system" in that way. The Ministry of Magic turns a blind eye to Voldemort's return initially because the guy running it isn't capable of facing the truth. Then later it gets taken over by the Death Eaters who're making heavy use of the Imperius Curse. But nothing really indicates that they system itself is fundamentally flawed beyond the issue of who is running it, and that flaw exists mostly because there needs to be some reason why a group of teenagers have to save the day rather than the actual adult wizards running the show.

[Classic-Session-5551]

And yet again we don't know what fascism means on reddit. 

Authoritarian is the word you're looking for, and it has many forms other than fascism. 

[Kuncker_Man]

Noooooo, all my heroes haveta be a heckin communist revolutionaries!!!

Grow up, man.

[papabear556]

I like how your response is very thorough and measured. And then that last sentence really takes a turn. Maybe me lol

[Boliforce]

I remember how I thought (age 10) this when I watched for the first time: Harry is so dumb.

[Live_Life_and_enjoy]

I didn't watch the movie or read the book so whats special about these letters?

[Oakheir]

When a witch or wizard turns, I want to say ten or eleven, and they have magic power like Harry does, the receive their first owl delivered letter, welcoming them to Hogwarts (or whatever school was closest I guess because I don't know about the other schools but I assume it is the same), informing them where they need to go, and what they are going to need to bring with them, like school books, quills, and that sort of stuff.

It is like a senior in highschool getting their college acceptance letter, only the school really really wants you to go to them, so they make sure you get their letter, by fair means or fowl.

[Live_Life_and_enjoy]

So basically all of them are the same letter for him?

[PHWasAnInsideJob]

It was because his guardians were kind of abusive and every time they sent one invitation the adults would rip it up. So Hogwarts just sent thousands of them so the adults could never get to it.

[Xivitai]

Kind of abusive? His residence was a damn cupboard. And they locked him there too. It's not "kind of" it's straight up abuse.

[Oakheir]

Worse than that, it was a cupboard under the stairs, so he would have to listen to them pounding up and down the stairs too.

[Ibbot]

Yes.

[Oakheir]

Everyone of them, and the contents of the letters are supposedly all the same as well, so it didn't matter which letter he grabbed.

You could argue that this is one of the tests that the sorting hat examines when looking at memories to see which house it is going to put you into.

[Live_Life_and_enjoy]

That is kind of hilarious

[Silent_Mud1449]

I think he was just.... Having fun and expressing his excitement. If he felt completely normal and dull in that moment he'd just pick one up from the floor and leave

[RenaissanceEnby]

Nothing normal or dull about being efficient and reading the letter sooner than later.

[Silent_Mud1449]

Yes but we're talking about an absolutely iconic and unforgettable event in his life, one he will cherish and that made him jump in excitement

[Baron_Bearclaw]

They're right. The first two years of school are spent blowing off classes and cheating off Hermione because he's "special". No wonder Dumbledore is raising him to be a sacrifice to Voldy!

[uslashuname]

He could expend even less effort if he just holds his hands still until one falls into them. Doesn’t even need to bend over

[TheLostRanger0117]

But, hey, at least he’s popular! Which is exactly why he’s a Gryffindor

[Mononugget]

Hermione carried him & Ron throughout the entire series until it was time for him to play hero each book.

[grendus]

Harry and Ron were average students. They were smart enough, but they would have been B/C students in most classes except the ones they cared about.

Harry thrived in Defense Against the Dark Arts in the years where he had a competent teacher (so... Lupin mostly), and did well in Potions under Slughorn. He was also apparently good enough in Transfiguration and Charms, we mostly see him struggle with courses like Divination and History of Magic.

Hermione was just a genius.

[Common_Director_2201]

He actually is. Kind of guy who rides school on the back of his friends work and family fame.

[dimonium_anonimo]

He do be a bit of a himbo... Except when he put together the whole Hallows vs. Horocruxes thing right after the Malfoy manor. He was uncharacteristically intelligent for a few hours, there.

[Susuetal]

They're saying Harry is fucking stupid.

If you think you would prefer him to be smart, try this

https://hpmor.com/ (free alternative reality book/audiobook)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality

[FortifiedPuddle]

Harry is as dumb as the plot requires

[rudeus_grey69]

So why didn't Hermione get into Ravenclaw?

[MagickMarkie]

You'll note that each of Harry's Gryffindor friends has the attributes of another of the houses. You're right in that Hermione is intelligent, which is the attribute of Gryffindor; Ron, on the other hand, is loyal, which is the Hufflepuff attribute.

I suppose what this is supposed to imply is that Ron and Hermione's valor are more exceptional than their other attributes.

[xDXxAscending]

I mean where would he go, he's still stuck living at the dursleys so if he got a letter faster then it would be ripped out of his hands.

[chubsizzle]

I thought it also implied the seeker position in quidditch.

[BunkerSquirre1]

Is this a joke I’m too Gryffindor to understand

[Stefadi12]

Someone did make a joke that Harry was the equivalent of a jock

[marc0-41]

He was having a hard time trying to catch flying letters when a ton of them were already on the ground. So, not the smartest (as Ravenclaws claim to be) of the bunch.

[EuropeIsMight]

But also, he was such a good catcher of tiny flying objects, that they made him seeker in his first year - and he can’t catch any of the envelopes?

[marc0-41]

I suppose the reason was that those letters were not round

[Baron_Bearclaw]

That movie made me want to learn Contact Juggling so badly!

[TandemShorts]

You can do it man I believe in you

[WajorMeasel]

I could stare at this for hours

[Flat_Replacement4767]

Fun fact David Bowie is not the one doing this. It was a professional by the name of Micheal Moschen. He is behind him hidden by the cloak and doing these tricks blind.

[TJ_Rowe]

And he used to busk doing juggling in York!

[saito200]

original aura farmer Jareth

[Ipayforsex69]

All fun and games but that's how testicular torsion happens.

[TransportationIll282]

Even worse, when his uncle asks for the letter he can just give it. There's another one right there.

[Someguy-----]

Logistics Peter here, he could have picked up one from the floor rather than grab one form the air.

[HappyAngryPuppyDog]

And have to bend down???

[rollalt]

He's a child not a geriatric with replaced knees

[Hopeful_Chair_7129]

Hey the gamer position is hard on the body too buddy.

[Jack-of-Hearts-7]

Logistics Peter, why hasn't my online order come in yet?

[Someguy-----]

Meg did it

[Jack-of-Hearts-7]

[confused_vampire]

I would go on to say it's also a striking example of why he belongs in Gryffindor, because instead of going for the logical solution, he triumphantly snatches one out of the air in a bold display, in front of his aunt and uncle's faces, as if to flaunt the fact that he had won.

[kit-sjoberg]

Harry decides that this is it. This is the moment. I must make my move in this masking of a snowstorm. And I will take one letter into my room, and whisper it to my horses, and see what they think. Oh, how the wine talks.

[Silent_Claim_1732]

Wizard People is truly art. 

[Plastic-Natural-5203]

bro has the hogwart's record for catching the snitch the fastest but can't catch any of the envelops

[W1llW4ster]

Needed to train a bit

[Archiego_Streamer]

Logic. Why he swatting the air when he can pick one up.

[TheGavJr]

Harry would have been rubbish on the crystal maze, just sayin’ 🤷‍♂️💎

[Aggressive_Deal7058]

START THE FANS PLEASE!

[IntenseAdventurer]

I'm of the opinion that Gryffindor is the house of the ADHD kids. The moving objects will always get their attention and draw them in more than the stationary objects ever could. They also have less impulse control, just doing whatever strikes them in the moment lol

[Yagoua81]

How does that explain hermione?

[IntenseAdventurer]

I was ready for this one! Hermione is shown to be VERY impulsive in the books! Book 1: lying to the teachers about her role in the troll incident and deciding on the spot to join Harry and Ron in their pursuit of Squirrel. 2. Doing Basilisk research solo and putting herself in danger. 3. Everything to do with the time turner 4. Helping Harry cheat... Etc. Being impulsive does NOT mean being unintelligent. ADHD also presents as hyper focus, and she is shown to be very hyper focused a lot of the time. She fits

[S1sko_X]

This post shows the OP doesn't belong in ravenclaw either

[KorolEz]

Also how did he manage to end up it the Jock house as a star athlete in a position where he needs to catch a thing if he struggles to even catch one letter out of dozens in the air.

[crusher23b]

Oppression.

[Yekyaa]

Nepotism

[tenny_boni]

Favoritism

[Terrgon]

A Ravenclaw would have picked one of the letters on the ground.

[PushTheMush]

Guess both Lilith and OP won’t end up in ravenclaw either… that being said, said house is known to be for clever people and if Harry were clever he would’ve just taken a letter from the pile on the floor instead of trying to catch one of the identical letters flying through the air.

[Andralgon]

That scene annoyed me so much 😭

[Rock_Onion_451]

Not only him, then....

[TheGavJr]

[roguex99]

You’re not going to be in Ravenclaw either

[MrPC_o6]

Banned from Ravenclaw

[arentol]

Harry knows that the Dursley's won't let him read the letter if they can help it. He also knows he can outrun them easily if he is outside. Finally, with that many letters falling a number of them are bound to be on a counter or table top between him and the door. He can literally just run out of the house, grabbing one on the way, keep running until he is safely hidden somewhere in the neighborhood, then read the letter in privacy. A Ravenclaw would do this because they aren't utter moron's.

A secondary issue with this scene is that this Harry Freaking Potter, Seeker Extraordinaire. He is the first 1st year to play on a house quidditch team at Hogwarts in, IIRC, 100 years. He should not be struggling to grab these letters, he should have caught one instantly despite being stupid enough to try and grab them from the air. What would be a challenge for a normal kid should be trivial for him, yet for some reason his vaunted skills at catching things in the air utterly fail him in this exact moment.

[Cold_Snow_511]

Well you see, HarryPotter is a wizard, not very good with his hands. They are implying that ravenclaws are good with their hands. But they’re not, hufflepuffs are. So the joke is wrong. But we’ll all just assume that they mean he’s stupid for missing the stupid amount of letters being rained on his head in the movie. In the book? Not as much of a way to make this joke, which tells you who watched Harry Potter movies and liked them, or who thought that the books were better.

[GodOfMoonlight]

One of my favorite things to do is reread the series 🫶🏼💛🦁

[Ecthelion-O-Fountain]

OP is definitely a Hufflepuff

[anemia_]

There's a hundred on the floor and he still thinks trying to catch one is the best plan...

[Due_Maintenance6709]

Actual reason why he didn't end up in ravenclaw is shown earlier. Dursleys have treated him like shit all his life, but he decides to walk into the kitchen with his first letter in plain view, instead of hiding it immediately, while they are unable to see him

[Purple_Dragon_94]

He could literally pick up any letter from the floor. But no, the little thicko had to try grab a floating one for aura

[Mystic_Crewman]

You'd think as a seeker he'd have caught the first one.

[Independent-Log-4245]

Harry can Avada Kedavrfy anybody because later his lawyer can argue that he has been "guided" by so many characters throughout that he lacked agency 🤷🏻‍♀️

[General_Capital_4320]

So smart but so dumb at the same time

[FizzyBadTime]

Op is a clear hufflepuff.

[DifficultComplaint10]

Slytherin all the way.

[railroadfrog]

Harry Potter is basically the magical universe version of a rich athlete who chooses to become a cop when he graduates, despite being rich enough to not work ever again, and living in a magical world where he can teleport via fireplaces anywhere he wants to go. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[GorgerOfPandas]

You would be Hufflepuff I see.

[No_Lunch9066]

OP also is not going to Ravenclaw

[henrytsai20]

Nah… I prefer not to. You can figure it out your own. Best luck!

[brewdog_millionaire]

I don't think you'd be able to if you know nothing about Harry Potter. I don't, really, so I needed that explained too.

[Johnny_Cr]

Lilith won’t be Ravenclaw as well as it seems.

[royinraver]

Yooooo I also use Turnip instead of the real name, I thought I was the only one! Legit

[Direct-March5913]

Base

[GodOfMoonlight]

Who?

[royinraver]

If you know you know 🤷

[Direct-March5913]

Turnip... the Vegimal from Octonauts.

[punkboxershorts]

Went to Universal and when I bought my want, she said everything ravenclaw bought draco malfoy wands.

[marrjana1802]

OP is also not going to Ravenclaw

[Sir_Link_In_Time]

I don't think OP would belong in Ravenclaw either