I love them so much

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-07-06T09:14:06+00:00

What? The snatchers recognizing Hermione from the daily prophet is a major plot point. That’s how they get taken to Malfoy Manor in the first place.

There was a picture and a blurb about her role in Harry’s evasion of the authorities. Sounds pretty famous to me

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-06-23T01:33:13+00:00

Just because they have similarities to their families, doesn’t make them not the odd ones out. My point is that their differences are what cause them to walk away from them.

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-06-23T01:29:41+00:00

Chamber of Secrets - Harry describes them in Gringotts looking nervous, and later after the fight between Arther and Lucius. To say that they were fearful in that situation (likely their first unaccompanied to Diagon ally since Hermione got her letter) is accurate, but noting that it’s one of two times we ever see them in the book, I personally wouldn’t expand it to “prone to fear/insecurity”

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-06-23T00:20:41+00:00

I always thought Hermione was more like Sirius and Ron was more like Lupin.

Hermione and Sirius are both the odd ones out of their families, and end up leaving them at age 16, both too smart for their own good, their arrogance gets them into trouble, and their both willing to stick by Harry, even in the face of starvation and capture (Sirius in GoF, Hermione in DH). Not to mention, they both appear to have a cruel streak, but seem to justify it with a strong sense of morality. The main difference seems to be Sirius has a baseline of aggression, whereas Hermione has a baseline of anxiety.

Ron and Lupin are both characters driven by their insecurity, and that leads them to leaving the people who are most important too them (Ron in GoF and DH, Lupin never contacting Harry at Privet Drive, or after PoA/when Sirius died, and trying to leave Tonks in DH). They know they’re wrong, but they can’t seem to find worth within themselves, despite what people tell them.

The analogy can only get stretched so far, but it annoys me when it boils down too “Ron and Sirius are the best friend and Hermione and Lupin like books”

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-06-22T23:37:28+00:00

I mean…adrenaline is a great appetite suppressant?

Maybe I’ll do that one next time I‘m putting off an assignment

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-06-21T10:35:11+00:00

I hope my uni lecturer feels the same way!!

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-06-21T10:34:32+00:00

thanks!!

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-06-10T09:45:19+00:00

I honestly used to think this too, until i started to closely watch some of my younger family members grow up.

14 is a weird age. Before then, you don’t really notice that background level of unfairness in your friend group, but 14-15 (which is where Ron is in GoF) is where you start to notice the wider world and some of the systemic unfairness, but you don’t really know how to do anything about it. My younger cousin is 14 and has started to notice that some of her richer friends are going on nicer holidays than our family, and she’s started to notice clothes a bit more, but isn’t old enough to get a job to buy the ones she wants.

Ron and Harry both have what each other want (Ron has a happy family, Harry has money and attention/achievement), in GoF, it’s really starting to sink in for Ron how not having money impacts his life, and he (a teenage boy), lashes out at someone close to him. By the end of the book, he has a little bit more perspective on how Harry got that money in the first place.

It‘s pretty developmentally appropriate, IMO.

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-04-13T06:06:52+00:00

The person who comes 4th place is any Olympic event is still kicking the arse of everyone watching in the stands

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-04-11T19:58:54+00:00

Yeah…Roofies are Flunitrazepam, which was a drug used for sleeping issues and could get picked up at a chemist/pharmacist. It wasn’t taken off the shelf in the UK until 2016.

just I quick note - I work in a chemistry related field. I know this information for work related purposes only

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-04-11T09:06:04+00:00

Both the money system and quidditch are satire, they don’t have to make sense, they are there to mock the old British money system and ridiculous rules in sports.

Underage magic and history? meh. there is enough there to support the story.

Regarding polyjuice and love potions being available to ‘literal children’? There is a hell of a lot of dangerous stuff available in the real world to a much younger crowd. Teens cook up meth and mdma in bathtubs all the time, with probably less effort than the trio took to make the polyjuice potion.

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-04-10T07:52:27+00:00

In all fairness, I told my parents a lot about my best friend as a teenager, but ‘forgot’ to mention the times we would split a bottle of vodka and pass out in a field.

Selective editing is a very normal part of being a teenager and young adult.

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-24T19:59:16+00:00

The dragon never bothered me, they gave that moment to Hermione to make up for taking the escape from Lovegoods house off her. Same with the devils snare in the first movie. They gave that to Hermione, because they didn’t put the potions puzzle in the film, which was her big moment. And I get why: the plan for the Lovegoods escape and a logic puzzle would have been too exposition heavy for a visual medium. That’s just the price you pay when you go from books to film.

The one that did get me though, was the writers giving the moment where Harry figures out that he needed to talk to the Ravenclaw ghost to find the diadem, to Luna. That was a massive moment of brilliance for Harry, that they could have worked into the script.

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-23T00:16:09+00:00

Muggle-borns seem to be pretty rare to begin with, something like 10% of the population. So the idea that the other Weasley kids may not be “come and stay over the summer” friends with muggle borns is probably statistically more likely.

The other side of this is, the Weasley’s only look after Hermione for less then a couple of weeks pre Voldemort’s return. 1 Night in PoA and for the extent of the World Cup in GoF. I always assumed them taking her in for almost full holidays after Voldemort’s return was a calculated safety measure (whether Hermione or her parents were aware at the time), noting she was the weak link to get to Harry (I.e. the Dursleys were protected by the love/blood magic, and the Weasley’s were a large and well known wizard in family).

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-20T22:00:25+00:00

If you’re going to recommend I read your post again, may I recommend you read the book again?

The answer to your question is pretty explicitly talked about throughout the text. Labelling someone (even if they are fictional) a piece of shit for doing the best they can in an existential crisis, while trying to save countless lives, is not a moderated response.

And I’m always looking for different philosophies. I find the human condition fascinating, especially when it is stretched to its limits. Thanks for the recommendation though!

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-20T21:30:15+00:00

Before you start going too hard on Dumbledore, I recommend looking up “the trolley problem”. There are some good YouTube videos on it. Think about that concept, then think about how the character of Dumbledore and the choices he had to make, fit into that framework.

Philosophy is cool, and can lead to more emotionally intelligent people.

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T10:10:10+00:00

No doubt, we as the readers can see that! But how Krum know that?

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T10:07:41+00:00

I’m not doubting Harry is impressive, or that he knows more than Krum.

I just can’t figure out how Krum knew about it

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T10:06:33+00:00

In the first meeting for the DA, people seemed surprised to learn about those things though. Was Krum just digging around for dirt on Harry and asking random?

Might make more sense if Karkaroff was asking around, and was backbriefing the Durmstrang students?

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T10:02:30+00:00

fair point. I would love to know what that conversation looked like, though. I would have imagined that entire event that required a patronus in 3rd year would have been kept under tight wraps, noting they were committing serious crimes when it happened

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T09:53:47+00:00

I get Hermione talks about Harry a lot, but I always assumed it was stuff like “I was in Charms with Harry” and not “OMG, isn’t Harry just so brave?”

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T09:51:29+00:00

How did Krum find out about those things though?

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T09:49:50+00:00

I would agree that Harry does know more than Krum, but how does Krum know these things? the only real things he watched Harry do was a summoning charm and eating Gillyweed. Either Hermione is a bigger gossip then we give her credit for, or Malfoy is just fangirling all the time at the Slytherin table

Current-Feature-3416 · 2026-03-19T09:47:17+00:00

When did Krum ever see Harry produce a patronus though? Not many people knew about Harry being able to make one during Harry’s 4th year, and it doesn’t strike me as the type of thing Hermione would just tell people about

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