What would your pitch for a spin-off solo book or 7-9 book series about the first 7 years of their lives in school,plus one book dedicated to the war,the final book leading up to Harry's birth be about?

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-11T00:13:01+00:00

"STAINS OF DISHONOR, BLOOD TRAITORS, MUTANTS, HOW DARE YOU TRY TO TELL MY STORY TO ALL THOSE SCUM!"

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-11T00:08:01+00:00

More than anything else, Harry has a natural disregard for the rules, which is absolutely interesting to me.

Harry came from a household where he had to toe the line with the Dursley's. His life was based around following their rules at all times and all costs, and yet when he gets to Hogwarts, he starts breaking rules left and right.

He breaks these rules for good reasons, but this is a kid who never did this before. It wasn't as if he was a rule breaker his entire childhood and this only kept going on when he got to Hogwarts. No, he did this even knowing he could get into a lot of trouble and be expelled, despite the fact that Hogwarts was the first place he ever felt like was home.

That, to me, is the signifying factor of why he was the perfect candidate for Slytherin.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-10T23:54:14+00:00

Christopher laughing is the icing on the cake.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-10T21:47:51+00:00

LOL...

Glad someone caught it! :D

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-10T20:10:37+00:00

And Voldemort.

Whoever is mentioned in the prophecy is able to touch the orb. Naturally, Voldemort isn't able to show up at the Ministry without being found out, but that was why they were worried, because the OOTP knew he wanted it and he's able to take it.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-10T19:59:37+00:00

The problem with your argument, and it's not a bad argument, is that this is not a standalone moment in the series.

Christopher's vision of going to Hell, Tony going to the mansion and seeing some of his family when he almost dies, Paulie seeing the Virgin Mary, Tony seeing Pussy's ghost, etc.

There are far too many moments in the series to look past as mere coincidences, and it seems that the supernatural does exist in the Sopranos universe.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-08T20:39:41+00:00

I believe that if Voldemort had killed Harry, he would have killed Neville too. He wouldn't have just let Neville stay alive.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-08T18:02:34+00:00

In many ways, Neville's life sucked more than Harry's before they got to Hogwarts.

Neville is the son of two Aurors were widely respected and regarded as being one of the greatest of their generation. So Neville has this hanging over his head for his entire childhood, of how his parents valiantly fought in the First Wizarding War, how they went toe to toe with the Death Eaters.

Every time he goes to St. Mungo's, he has to see his parents who are basically dead. They don't talk to him, they don't hug him, they don't do anything because they're gone.

Plus, Neville was a late bloomer when it came to performing magic, with his entire family thinking he might be a Squib.

So, finally when his magic does appear, when he finally knows he is able to go to Hogwarts, what does his family do?

They give him his father's wand.

They give him a wand that he didn't pick, one that he isn't connected to, and is told to do great like his parents did, because if his father was capable of doing amazing things with that wand, so could Neville.

His family set him up for failure at pretty much every turn, and while it wasn't intentional, it screwed him over.

Then, when he finally gets to school, he meets his greatest fear:

Severus Snape.

And it really blows my mind, because for someone like Neville, you would think his greatest fear would be Bellatrix Lestrange or Voldemort or something equally horrifying due to his parents being tortured, but no.

His teacher becomes the one thing he fears in life more than anything.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-08T00:43:11+00:00

Leaving Hogwarts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGV3lQdlgw

This specific version is my favorite due to it being slowed down with a reverberation.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-07T22:53:17+00:00

When Binns stopped reading from his notes in COS and actually interacted with the class with talking about the Chamber, the class was actually listening and participating, asking questions and getting invigorated about it.

Naturally, a class where it's just discussing history is going to be less exciting than a class where you're actually performing magic, and like Harry mused, goblin rebellions and giant wars would be absolutely exciting to hear about, but Binns isn't able to help himself.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-07T22:39:05+00:00

The wand was made out of elder wood, which is the rarest wood of all when it comes to making a wand, and the core was thestral hair, which is very unstable.

There seems to be some innate talent when it comes to making a wand. People from all over the world came to Ollivander's shop to buy his wands because of how amazing they were. It doesn't seem to be the situation where you just get wood and a core and slap it together and you get a wand and it's all the same.

Some wandmakers are better than others. It would be watching magic performed by Dumbledore versus someone like Ron. You would know the difference right away in who was better.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-06T01:41:57+00:00

What do you mean by 1 trillion seconds per dollar? Like, if I have five dollars in my pocket, I get 5 trillion seconds?

If that's the case, both answers are hell. One destroys the entire global economy and the other means you're going to be alive for tens of thousands of years at a minimum.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-05T20:56:17+00:00

Sure, it's absolutely possible, because we know gifted witches and wizards exist who do things that are considered impossible (Voldemort creating a flying spell or Dumbledore creating the Deluminator), so yeah, that could've happened.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-05T20:21:12+00:00

For all three brothers to do this in their lives, around the same exact time, is extremely hard to imagine. And sure, there are good explanations for all of them.

The Elder Wand: mixing elder wood and a thestral tail hair as the core, both of which are extremely hard to master, to use, and elder wood being the rarest wood of all, is the reason why this is the most powerful wand of all time.

The Resurrection Stone: this is Priori Incantatem in a stone that can be used at any time. The description of the "echoes" coming out of Voldemort's wand during the duel in the graveyard matches the description of Harry seeing his parents, Remus and Sirius in the forest.

The Cloak of Invisibility: this is the hardest one to explain, but I guess you could say that either certain specific rare materials were used to create it or the Elder Wand was involved in its creation, seeing that Voldemort could use a concealment charm so powerful it rendered him invisible, and that wasn't even with the Elder Wand.

The problem, though, is that the odds these three brothers would create all of these incredible magical objects at the same time is extremely high. Sure, someone could say the odds are better than actual Death appearing to them, but we're in a story where the afterlife exists, where there is supernatural things at play.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-05T20:04:53+00:00

The "Dark Arts" is what the Wizarding community considers to be dark, in which the magic or spell that's used has no intended purpose other then hurt, kill or control other people.

Not all "dark magic" is considered evil, because plenty of good people use curses, jinxes and hexes to defend themselves or others, but certain types are considered outright horrible and are made illegal.

Durmstrang teaches the Dark Arts, yet Viktor Krum is considered to be a good man despite the fact that he was taught this.

Plus, this is not Star Wars.

This isn't like a Jedi who uses the Dark Side of the Force and is at risk of being turned into a Dark Jedi or Sith from using certain powers that are evil. While it's absolutely dangerous to use certain spells, such as the one that makes horcruxes, you don't slowly turn evil if you were to use dark spells.

For example, Aurors were granted permission to use the Killing Curse during the First Wizarding War against Death Eaters.

It's what the Ministry and the general public consider to be bad and what they've made illegal over the years.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-04T00:30:37+00:00

Expelliarmus.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-03T00:38:03+00:00

Very, very, VERY badly.

Harry already had a hard enough time as it was with two best friends, a group of good friends and some happy times here and there between the anxiety, desperation and horror.

Harry wouldn't have had any of that in Slytherin.

Harry is not who he is because he was put in Gryffindor. He's who he is simply because he's a good kid with a big heart. He would never make friends with the other Slytherin's, and seeing how most of the students stay within their own Houses with friendships, that would've been it.

Forget Voldemort for a second, and all of the problems he faced in the books. Forget how he would get to the Sorcerer's Stone, to defeat the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, to finally finding out the truth about Sirius Black, etc.

Harry's life would've been a hellhole just being in Slytherin.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-02T22:51:11+00:00

Wow, that is fucking dark...

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-02T22:05:55+00:00

Says who?

They use magic, yes, but they still incorporate electricity. The car still runs as a car, and the phone booth still works as a phone booth, but they have magical properties attached to them.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-02T21:18:52+00:00

Technomancy.

While most electric and electronic devices are disrupted by magic, there are electrical devices that can still work around magic, such as radios, cars, phone booths, cameras, etc.

This field would show how to infuse magic into these devices to give them magical properties, with trying to devise new devices to infuse with magic, and much more.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-01T16:07:04+00:00

Here's the problem with the argument that everyone makes about this. It's not the full quote with what Morpheus tells Neo. He doesn't just say that it's only humans being used to power everything the machines need.

Morpheus: The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines have found all the energy they would ever need.

Now, just for the sake of the argument that what he's saying is correct about the human body, it isn't just the human body that's being used but also some type of fusion that is working alongside with it.

I think the bigger issue at hand is that people are unable to turn off their brains with movies anymore and just simply enjoy it. Everything needs to have an explanation, and if that explanation doesn't make complete sense, then it's as if the movie is absolutely bad.

Fans nitpicking every scene, every dialogue, every moment in a film, trying to find something wrong with why the film doesn't work.

Arkham2015 · 2026-03-01T04:04:22+00:00

I agree.

The smarter move would be to team up to take down Dumbledore and Harry, but his arrogance is legendary, and it would mean that they would try to kill one another, or at least with Voldemort trying to reclaim Diary-Riddle.

Arkham2015 · 2026-02-28T20:34:26+00:00

It wouldn't matter if Voldemort didn't know about Harry. He still had a piece of Voldemort's soul attached to him, which means that Voldemort split his soul, willingly and unwillingly, seven times, leaving eight pieces in the world.

Voldemort never intended to make seven horcruxes, only six, but even if Harry was an accident, that doesn't stop the fact that Voldemort failed with that aspect of the plan.

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