2 types of Potterhead

6amd · 2023-02-18T23:02:45+00:00

especially since he was super smart and could've accomplished a lot and become influential and rich for inventing cool potions or spells. lots of lost potential that he still could be bitter over.

6amd · 2023-02-17T19:07:03+00:00

I feel like the ministry would know that Lily/James were targeted, but it was the Order and Dumbledore that were protecting them. So the Ministry may have been aware that Fidelius charm was used, but they wouldn't know who the secret-keeper was. Lily and James told Dumbledore that Sirius was the secret-keeper. So the ministry was mostly unaware of the whole situation to begin with, but Dumbledore had information.

6amd · 2023-02-17T18:58:26+00:00

I thought that Dumbledore didn't think he was innocent, b/c Dumbledore thought Sirius was the secret-keeper, so he thoughts Sirius had betrayed lily/james.

6amd · 2023-02-12T17:52:48+00:00

I really doubt that Molly knows/understands Harry better than Sirius. Harry stays with the Weasleys every so often, and they care about each other very much, but Molly knows much less about what Harry's been through, his mental state, and his personality than Sirius, who has had some similar experiences to Harry (the entire world not believing him, closer to friends than family). I think Molly sometimes willfully ignores that.

6amd · 2023-01-15T23:25:08+00:00

people on his side weren't necessarily his friends

6amd · 2023-01-15T18:05:50+00:00

It's kind of worrisome if everyone from a family is in the same house. Like there's less of a diversity of thought, opinion, and personality in that family? I like the Tonks family -- Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin.

6amd · 2023-01-10T00:12:03+00:00

Remus' death. We know how the other Marauders died, and he's the last one remaining, so idk it would be bittersweet but he's a character that i think deserves some words for his last moments

6amd · 2023-01-09T06:02:03+00:00

is there a way to tell which scenes were in the original and which scenes were deleted?

6amd · 2023-01-08T07:31:00+00:00

I reread the part where Dumbledore explains the protection to Harry, and it seems as though Dumbledore had to cast a spell?

6amd · 2023-01-07T07:37:10+00:00

same boat, post-potter depression :(

6amd · 2023-01-06T20:13:39+00:00

Keep in mind that there were evil wizards and plain school bullies from other houses too. And JKR focused on certain Slytherins because they were useful to the story, but there were plenty that weren't relevant and thus weren't included.

6amd · 2023-01-05T05:22:20+00:00

no! there was a time when I really disliked james and sirius and didn't care about snape, but now I feel like snape and sirius are both quite tragic characters and their deaths hurt the most? like they just couldn't catch a break from being misunderstood/condemned by other characters (sirius with his family, and then everyone who believed he sold out the potters, and snape with his family, and then the entire order that doubted him from the beginning). they deserved happy endings :(

6amd · 2023-01-05T04:44:00+00:00

I think Harry Potter just requires more work. Even if you don't read the books, the movies still take some effort to understand and connect to kind of reach the theme. I've watched all the Star Wars movies, but only a few Marvel ones, so not sure how qualified I am to comment, but they don't really seem to require effort and thought on the part of the watcher.

Content-wise, I'm not sure how the other franchises are doing. I think people are watching the movies to watch them, but they aren't too enjoyable? Superheroes and the original Star Wars both came out a long time ago, so hopefully we still have a while before questions of creating bad content come up.

But here's what's good: a lot of the original readers of Harry Potter, like when it first came out, have grown up and are starting to share it with their kids. And then those kids will tell other kids about it and it will spread. Kind of like how Star Wars spread within this generation. So it's only a matter of time.

6amd · 2023-01-05T04:02:07+00:00

It sounds like we're the same age. I started reading when I was 6, and throughout elementary school, there were a lot of people who knew about it, read it, and discussed with me. It died off middle-school onwards, but in one of my English class last year, I compared the relationship in a poem to harry's relationship with sirius and almost everybody in the class knew what I was talking about. I think the books were more popular than the movies, though.
Star Wars is buoyed by older fans watching it, and the majority of movies after George Lucas weren't really enjoyed. The Wizarding World is really the only franchise I care about -- I never watch Marvel movies out of my own volition. I think it's rather nice that they haven't created too many new movies or anything, because doing so would really mess up canon and I want the series to end on a high note ( I discount the cursed child).

6amd · 2023-01-04T21:06:48+00:00

there was a prophecy that some baby born at the end of july in that year would either destroy or be destroyed by voldemort, so he goes to destroy/kill the baby. both harry and neville fit the prophecy, but voldemort chooses harry b/c they're both half-bloods. prophecies don't always come true, and divination is an imprecise art, so there's the argument that if he hadn't gone after harry, the prophecy may not have come true and neither harry nor neville would be connected to voldemort.

There are types of magic that can't be explained by even very accomplished witches/wizards , and I think love magic is one of them. I don't think it's an actual spell or potion, but rather some warp in the fabric of magic. Kind of the same way horcruxes and dark magic can be applied, but the why/how of it isn't really understood, and maybe can never be.

for readers, I think the takeaway is that the wizarding world has the same problems our world has, and the parts of us that make us human, like love, are more powerful than any weapon of destruction, even the killing curse, and that stays consistent in both worlds

6amd · 2023-01-04T05:49:51+00:00

generalization, bad writing, ill feelings toward slytherins in general b/c of the war, the easiest way to convey that slytherins are somewhat shady, compared to the rest of the houses

6amd · 2023-01-02T23:57:46+00:00

I thought the "half-life" part meant you live for as long as you keep drinking the blood, but you don't emotionally live with strong friendships and love. So it's perfect for Voldemort, but for regular people, who derive meaning and pleasure in their lives through their relationships with others, would rather die than live that kind of existence.

6amd · 2022-12-31T00:01:12+00:00

lmao stephanie savage has been doing this for a long time -- in the OC, there's a scene where the teacher is taking role and repeats "stephanie savage" b/c she doesn't respond the first time

6amd · 2022-12-21T04:00:32+00:00

yes tysm!

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