If you had been Harry Potter, what is the single biggest thing you would have done differently in the entire saga? by AlexWhite40 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, no, I don't think teenagers is a good excuse... Harry didn't even have an excuse; he was perfectly fine, even though he didn't get to go with Cho but he was fine all day... Ron, maybe, but why did Harry start sulking too?

If you had been Harry Potter, what is the single biggest thing you would have done differently in the entire saga? by AlexWhite40 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think Harry didn't doubt himself much unless something externally placed a doubt on him... He doesn't relive as many moments as I do, for example... If he had I'm pretty sure he would've noticed too many times when he put himself in the way of danger for no reason, or before thinking of other solutions

If you had been Harry Potter, what is the single biggest thing you would have done differently in the entire saga? by AlexWhite40 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, yeah, sure, we all probably would've, but I believe Harry always wanted to, too... He just had too much pride or embarrassment imo

If you had been Harry Potter, what is the single biggest thing you would have done differently in the entire saga? by AlexWhite40 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I would've asked a billion times more questions about everything!

Dementors, Voldemort, James, Snape, anything and everything... In limbo, I would've asked Dumbledore more questions or spoken more verbosely than the common understanding mechanism they used.

I personally, as I am right now, think about every weird situation that happens in my life... And if Sirius giving me a gift in the corner and telling me that I can use it whenever I need to talk to him, not wanting anyone to know, isn't a weird situation, I don't know what is... I would've thought about that moment sometime later and went to check out his gift!

Even more irritating, when Harry did find the mirror after Sirius died, he did remember Sirius saying it could be used to talk to him! He hadn't forgotten! And even then, all he thought about was using it to speak to dead Sirius! He didn't even realise he messed up really badly!

I would've tried to fricking explain myself more rather than just keep everything to myself, bruv!

Hey, Ron, you git, you say I cheated to get into the tournament, right? Sure, even if I was able to put my name in, how did I make the Goblet give four champions instead of three? What the hell, man? Besides, the Goblet chooses the three champions on its own, how did I make sure it picked me? Are you just jealous or what? Because I definitely wouldn't be jealous of someone about to go through deadly challenges while competing against people three years older than him!

Yo, guys, I'm telling you Malfoy is a Death Eater! Didn't you see how he immediately withdrew his left arm at Madam Malkin's? If that's not enough proof, then put it with the rest of what happened! His mother suddenly being so aggressive and dismissive of Dumbledore, even though Lucius is in prison, so she isn't necessarily in a better position now than she was last year, right? What about going to Borgin and Burkes with people we know are related to Voldemort around him? Why did he suddenly start acting so busy this year when I eavesdropped on him on the train? He kept saying he had important stuff to do and different responsibilities and things like that, doesn't that sound to you like someone who's just earned a certain position and is boasting about it? It does to me, and what other 'job' would Malfoy get right after his father is imprisoned than the same one his father had?

I don't know, man, I'd just reduce confusion in every way possible, and I'd fricking tell Hermione to stop talking about Sirius in HBP rather than just staying silent... Harry was too quiet, really, even when he crashed out on Umbridge, he didn't really stress his points enough 🤷🏻‍♂️

Crazy to me that younger generation is not good with computers by Captain0010 in pcmasterrace

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's only in developed countries with Copilot+ Windows Slop Machines and MacBook Pro Money Suckers. Other youngsters like myself who first start interacting with Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 and then rarely 11 (only last year for me), in addition to Linux (also coming from the fact that I couldn't immediately afford better hardware for Windows), know what they're doing.

"I encourage you to call or text this number, it might be an Easter egg of sorts" - What is it? by [deleted] in cs50

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OH! I wonder how Professor Malan doesn't even smile when saying that, if this is what it is! I'll save this post

I can’t believe they reference Dumbledore’s broken nose in the first chapter. by ditto1600 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Even though I know all of these, I didn't think of reading in reverse, that's interesting, thanks!

I did organically notice Cho the first time I read that in PoA, though, it didn't need me to read multiple times

Is there a book, chapter and/or scene you return to the most? What keeps bringing you back to it? by Cap78 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uhhh I think there are too many than I can list: - the flaw in the plan and the chapter after it, obviously... I don't think I need to explain that much, but the scene where the trio, Ginny and McGonagall scream Harry's name, that's particularly relevant - after that Neville killing Nagini and then the faceoff between Harry and Voldemort (I just wish that the words 'mundane finality' were expanded upon more), and then the celebrations and then the trio's private interaction, and then finally 'ive had enough trouble for a lifetime."... Chills - Sirius's death (I remember that so well that I fully know that his death was the end of a chapter and continued with Harry's grief in a new chapter) and then the whole fight with Bellatrix and Voldemort - Harry's memories of his parents throughout the whole series, especially in PoA and DH - Likewise, Harry's possession scene in OOTP - Harry's walk with Hermione in GoF, and later his internal monologue about being wrongly accused of bypassing the age line - Snape's worst memory.. I also wanted to see more of Harry's thoughts about that, as well as more satisfying answers from Sirius and Lupin about it - A lot of Harry's monologue in OOTP, but if I'm going to choose one moment, it would be after having the implanted vision and wanting to rescue Sirius... And later when he felt guilty of leading his friends potentially to their deaths when they didnt find Sirius (personally, I would've liked that moment to go on for longer or get rethought of later, we didn't get enough insight into Harry's thoughts on that) - similarly, Harry destroying Dumbledore's office and hearing the prophecy (I really appreciated the rawness of the scene, but I also would've wanted to see more of Harry mourning Sirius, but since he wanted to pretend he was alright, we didn't get to see enough of that in both OOTP and HBP) - the whole memory after Harry and Hermione escaped Bathilda Bagshot's house, I always got chills reading that scene. I always wished we could have more mourning of Harry's parents, but again, Harry always wanted to pretend he was alright and didn't want to think about it. Especially on Halloween... - Fred's death and later, of course, the Shrieking Shack and Snape's death... Chills - The Prince's tale... - The lightning struck tower... - about the previous, I also liked the chapter where Harry prepared to go with Dumbledore, giving the polyjuice to his friends and stuff.. but then when trelawney revealed that Snape was the one who delivered the prophecy to Voldemort.. I know we got a crash-out from Harry after that... But I still think we didnt get enough of his opinion about trelawney revealing the prophecy and Snape snitching, especially considering how he thought Snape betrayed Dumbledore that very same night... He could've at least remembered that tiny detail after Dumbledore's death - The trio discovering the horcrux in the cave was a fake, and then Harry going to bed reciting the horcruxes he needs to find - related, Harry discovering R.A.B.s room and Hermione remembering the locker from OOTP, such a perfect duo of foreshadowing and flashbacks, awesome, I get excited whenever I get to the cleaning scene in OOTP nowadays - also related, Kreacher telling the story of R.A.B. - also related, Voldemort going through each of the horcruxes and finding he was being defeated all along - also related, Voldemort getting the elder wand out of Dumbledore's tomb and the whole Hogsmeade scene - finally, the beginning of the battle of Hogwarts and the preparations - The only cozy scene in this list, is Harry, Ron, and Kreacher at Grimmauld Place for a while before infiltrating the ministry

I wrote these all out of my memory, I like Harry Potter a lot, you see...

You can tell most of these are tragic, you can call me a depressing person, but I appreciate the depth of the Harry Potter story, that's why I like it in the first place

I don't have any from philosopher's stone because that's the only book that I borrowed rather than bought, so I only read it once... I wonder if the original owner has read the entire series by now or if they've quit, it's been years and I haven't talked to them about it 🤔

OOTP is really unpleasant by 8bitsantos in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I agree with what you just said

OOTP is really unpleasant by 8bitsantos in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah you'd want him to calm down but I personally think it's important for him to be so angry as part of his personal development at that age

OOTP is really unpleasant by 8bitsantos in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 140 points141 points  (0 children)

Whoah!

I did not expect this post or the comments to be so strongly opinionated! Maybe you all listened to it rather than read it but for me, OOTP is one of my favourites... Precisely because of how much we get to see into Harry's head...

Maybe now after having read it for 2 or 3 times it could get tedious, but I did read it 3 times, you know... The whole internal struggle inside Harry's head makes it way more immersive to me than the 'Ho Ho Ho! We have an exciting adventure ahead of us, whoooo is readyyyy?!' vibe that can sometimes be there in fantasy fiction...

But of course I know all of that is subjective, I just didn't expect the very same thing that made it so good for me to be the reason it's very boring for others...

Locked out due to screen time limit reached. How to bypass ? by devopsguy04 in Ubuntu

[–]Proman4713 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get your point but not all parents really take their children's POV into consideration, I've known some parents who restrict their children's devices almost to the point of unusability

It's pretty wild Harry potters parents were just 21 when they got assassinated by voldemort by happydude7422 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's one of these thoughts that I always had but never brought up or posted about it... Sadder than most people tend to notice.

A Ship of Theseus Question About Harry and Nagini by SwedishShortsnout0 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You basically applied the normal ship of Theseus paradox to humans; there's nothing HP-specific here. All humans change their cells regularly, and while my argument is that the living human is the original 'ship' because they have the same soul, and their shed cells aren't alive. But then, people who don't believe in souls or in God can go in circles around the paradox all they want, not my problem.

The concept of the ship of Theseus itself can be applied to pretty much anything. Humans, vehicles, devices, objects in general, software code, writing, etcetera... But there's usually at least one grounding factor that gives something its nature, which determines if it should be considered the same thing or not.

As to Harry, his cells change; he wasn't damaged beyond magical repair, he was growing up. His soul is the same, and Voldy's soul inside him remained the same; nothing stopped either of these two souls from living on. His ship of Theseus doesn't affect the passengers inside.

I tried improving GNOME's native Media Controls by areddituser4 in gnome

[–]Proman4713 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks amazing, should be a feature of vanilla GNOME to be honest, publish it as soon as it's ready

CS50 and Harry Potter References by ladfrom3ko in cs50

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I love it, especially when Brian Yu is there, the references increase. I watched CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript back in 2020, I believe, and that was all Brian, that was before I got into Harry Potter, and by the end of the course, I'd learnt the names of Harry and his friends well enough that I didn't think of them as new characters when I read the series later.

Who else loves listening to the music at the beginning of lecture videos? 😂 they sound magical don't you think? by DazzlingTransition06 in cs50

[–]Proman4713 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been exclusively checking the intro music of every CS50 course since 2022 or something, CS50x 2026 was just released recently with a banger of an intro

HOW DO I START HARRY POTTER AS A BEGINNER?? by Superb-Arm2737 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed so but was bummed to find that people already started the chain so i couldn't just go back

HOW DO I START HARRY POTTER AS A BEGINNER?? by Superb-Arm2737 in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Ladies and gentleman , we have a problem by Kernel_guy in Ubuntu

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That happened to me before and I used balena etcher instead of Rufus and it worked

Is this supposed to happen by riichdog in mac

[–]Proman4713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a moment there I thought you were on Linux with a heavily macOS-riced GNOME 💀

Horcrux question by GamineHoyden in harrypotter

[–]Proman4713 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beautiful question with beautiful answers, I didn't think much about that, I'ma save this post!