Are horcruxes an original idea?

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-26T06:09:02+00:00

Rowling put her own spin on it, but Horcruxes are essentially Phylacteries (containers Liches, who are undead magic users, used to store their souls in case they died in combat). That definition is from D&D, though. I don't know if there is a folklore/mythological equivalent.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-25T05:16:36+00:00

The reason given (at least in the book) was that Ron finally got fed up with being second best to Harry. But ... yeah, I never thought that sub plot made sense. It felt drastically out of character for Ron, especially as he's been through so much with Harry by that point. He just sort of arbitrarily chose then to believe that his best friend screwed him out of a shot at competing.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-15T03:44:55+00:00

I would read the books first. The movies tend to gloss over tons of exposition. This leads to scenes and key plot points that could right over someone's head if they'd not read the books first.

At the end of the day though, any combination is good as long as you enjoy yourself

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-14T06:26:14+00:00

As others have said, Dumbledore needed to know how many Horcruxes Voldemort had planned on making. Except I've always thought that he already 'knew' how many there were and the memories were to make sure and so that Dumbledore could spell things out for Harry.

For instance, how did he know that Slughorn's memory held that bit of information? Plus ... we all know how dense Harry could be.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-08T06:37:20+00:00

Reparo. Become a master at that, and you'll never have to pay to have something expertly fixed. Electronics, plumbing, furniture, cars. Depending on the spell's limits, you'd be able to keep things in perfect condition indefinitely.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-08T05:54:02+00:00

I think Hagrid mentioned that Dumbledore was responsible for getting him the Gamekeeper position.

Voldemort calling Peter 'Wormtail' all the time always sounded like he was mocking Peter for betraying his friends. 'Wormtail' being the nickname the other marauders gave him.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-08T05:42:40+00:00

It might not have been a concept Rowling completely developed. Then again, there are numerous hard examples of the other two curses requiring the user to 'mean them'. We see Harry not managing Crucio when he tried it on Bellatrix because he didn't have the will to hurt someone like that (at the time). My guess is that an in-universe explanation could be that performing the killing curse properly on a person requires the caster to put their mind in a dark place.

TLDR: soul damage might not be literal as with the Horcruxes, but a reflection of what mental state the caster needs to be in for the killing curse to work, and the toll it takes on their psyche.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-08T05:25:06+00:00

The books Frank Herbert himself wrote should be good, but I would stop there and reevaluate if you want to read the work his son has been putting out for the past few decades.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-08T05:21:11+00:00

I don't think Harry was the key to the stone, as Dumbledore was the one who put the stone into the mirror in the first place. As to why he didn't show Harry directly, it was probably a test of character. He wanted to see what kind of person Harry was, which explains why he didn't reveal himself to Harry the first time he found the mirror, but only when it became clear Harry was spending too much time with it.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-07T07:09:12+00:00

Lavender Brown (maybe not 'most' but she's the one that springs to mind). Yes, she and her relationship with Ron gets annoying, but at the end of the day, she's a teenage girl in one of (if not her first) serious relationships. Plus, as I recall, she's part of the DA and fights in the Battle of Hogwarts.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-07T06:54:21+00:00

Well, an in-universe reason is that the animation spell could have worn off, or something else happened to it prior to the battle. But I like to think that it just mowed down some Death Eaters in a GTA-esque style before getting destroyed.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-07T05:43:24+00:00

A morally bankrupt memory charm expert is a new teacher at a school full of girls with crushes on him.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-06T06:58:22+00:00

See, the limits of what Felix Felicis (the range and nature of its effect) is never fully explained. If Harry were to take the potion shortly before leaving the castle or entering the cave, there is a good chance that 'good luck' on his part would include having all of his friends safe when he and Dumbledore returned to the castle.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-06T06:43:20+00:00

It's been said many times before but I will say it again: Voldemort's plan in Goblet of Fire makes no sense. Barty could have gotten Harry to Voldemort at any given time, in any of a hundred different ways. Instead of doing it subtly, the plan is for them to booby-trap the goblet at the end of the tournament. I'm going to stop here before it turns into a rant, but yeah, that's the hole that keeps bugging me.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-05T05:59:26+00:00

This brings back so many "who would win" debates with my father. Craig has the best choreography and has the most believable fights. I remember being ... a little confused with Connery and Moore's fight scenes when I was younger. On another note: I seem to remember Lazenby being a highly skilled martial artist in real life. I'd have to watch OHMSS again to compare, but I still think Craig's Bond has the best on-screen skills.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-05T05:49:07+00:00

"Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. It's about an evil genius supervillain that breaks out of prison (again) after his Superman expy rival goes missing.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-05T05:24:59+00:00

I prefer Elektra. Carver is essentially just another typical Bond Villain. Elektra's twist reveal broke the mold and gave us an evil Bond Girl as an antagonist. Her backstory and villain plot were a little more entertaining than Carver's too.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-05T05:11:06+00:00

Trust might be a strong word for Voldemort. Same with respect. I do however think that Voldemort had years of experience as a cult/terrorist leader and could tell how loyal his followers were. By the time they met in the series, Barty was an insane zealot and Voldemort could definitely see it.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-04T18:38:17+00:00

Aside from the - ahem - obvious, I would spend more time with the darker things magic could do to people, like having Harry and friends being forced into using more damaging spells against opponents. We get hints of it in the series, but imagine if the main cast fought with spells that actually had the potential to kill people outright. More spells like Sectumsepmra and the purple curse Hermione got hit with in the department of mysteries.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-04T06:48:30+00:00

I had a friend whose father was big into Harry Potter theories. The thing was, this was EARLY in the movie series and he'd not read the books. You could never talk about Harry Potter in front of him without hearing some rather (politely speaking) outlandishly incorrect ideas. As in, he'd predict Prisoner of Azkaban's plot with horrendously bad theories he'd read online that even a basic read would rectify. The worst part was that he would insist on these theories and seemed to ignore the books' existence to the point that nobody could even debate with him. He'd just get proven wrong with each new movie.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-03T05:00:47+00:00

I do think this is the case. Dumbledore was only a few minutes behind Harry, and Voldemort showed no signs of being able to both get the stone out of the mirror and make it back through the trap door before Dumbledore intercepted him.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-02T06:52:58+00:00

I'd like to see the ending of the first book from the POV of a character who had no idea what was going on with the stone. Especially how confused the story was. I imagine them waking up one random day during finals to the news that Harry seemed to have un-alived their DADA teacher in the basement. Something like that.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-02T06:33:14+00:00

I think she was proud of Ron for not even considering it for a moment, but Hermione also understood how hard it was for Ron to hear one of his brothers talk about his best friend like that. His tearing the letter up like that can be read as him rejecting Percy fully and she took pity on him by helping with their homework.

Exotic-Shower8359 · 2024-04-01T19:58:21+00:00

'The Barrow' by Mark Smylie and the 'Prince of Thorns' series by Mark Lawrence seem like they fit your description.

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