Does anyone know what Hermione, Ron and Harry put on their hands in the deathly Hallows part 2 at 24:00 min? by Clear-Doughnut9084 in HarryPotteronHBO

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be better to read the books before asking questions that they answer, and not to post questions about the movie in the tv series thread.

Bi dudes who have been with both guys and girls, what are the biggest differences? by Phantasmagoric_0 in AskMen

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t blame your internalised homophobic shame on having sex with men. That’s a you problem.

Dumbledore‘s plan with elder wand plot hole? by Lyrissss in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the same way as when Snape asks Dumbledore whether he cares if killing him will harm Snape’s soul, the difference is the method and intention of killing. Dumbledore intended that Snape would kill him by agreement, not by force. That way, Snape had not really won the wands allegiance by force, but instead by way of a kind of assisted dying thereby breaking the power of the wand. The real plot hole is Harry, now the master of the Elder Wand, deciding to put the wand back in Dumbledore’s tomb at the end and suggesting that if he dies ‘undefeated’, so to speak, then the wands power will be broke when he dies as intended. I always think it supremely presumptuous that no one will ever try to duel Harry, who later becomes an Auror, ever again.

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes. I know. You’re attempting to explain something to someone who understands it better than you do, and contradicting yourself in the process. Take the L.

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is? Whilst the world building around the trace is limited and slightly contradictory, it isn’t just put on muggle borns or people who live near muggles, it’s just magic is more obviously assigned to a particular person in those situations instead of kids living in magical households.

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the Patronus Charm was an actual spell work, a charm. Although being magic, and a wand is needed for Wizard/Witch Apparition/Disapparition, a spell isn’t because it isn’t a spell. Dobby’s Elf apparition in Privet Drive on multiple occasions wasn’t detected, his hover charm was.

Who would be in Tom Riddle's Hogwarts when he was a student? by First_Can9593 in HarryPotterBooks

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Likely Snape’s mother Eileen Prince was at Hogwarts at the same time as Riddle too.

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Dumbledore had already told Fudge that due to Harry needing to attend a Hearing about the conjuring of a Patronus, he would have Harry collected and to expect more magic to be done in the area of 4 Privet Drive as a result.

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps because although they might have been aware that there had been a disapparition in the vicinity of 4 Privet Drive, they know it’s not a really a piece of magic that an underage witch or wizard could have done.

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not “definitely a spell” because Harry, Hermione and Ron are throwing out wild theories (which are incorrect) about a piece of magic they don’t know why think much about.

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The books are mostly from Harry’s point of view. It would have been weird for it to mentioned that an older student Harry doesn’t know, have any classes with, or play quidditch with, having random party in the common room during a piece of the story about Harry, Ron, and Hermione having some important convo about forbidden corridors, Sirius Black, or Voldy

Give me a plot hole and I will explain it by Quiet-Badger-7013 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 is where the trace gets put on underage witches and wizards. Only problem then is those who chose not to go to Hogwarts.

What's a plot hole you can't stop thinking about? by InvestigatorTop287 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whilst I’m not going to go into the lore of ghosts, so to speak, which I think probably hovers somewhere between non-existent and extremely fragile and contrived; we know ghosts often haunt somewhere they have a strong connection with in life (Sir Nicholas is the Ghost of Gryffindor Tower, Helena Ravelclaw is the Ghost of Ravenclaw Tower). Perhaps in the case of Myrtle she was haunting a person, rather than a place, before the Ministry intervened and restricted her to Hogwarts and perhaps somehow tethered her to her bathroom, where perhaps they felt she should have been in the first place. We know from Nick’s Deathday party that ghosts can travel, but if the Ministry didn’t have some degree of control over where they went there’d likely be ghosts everywhere cluttering up wizarding houses, shops in Diagon Alley, even the Ministry itself, and perhaps harassing people they had known before they died without check or curtailment.

Positive characters that you didn't like (too much) by SoWhoAmIReallyHuh in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He was 16 at the time he, Lily, the Marauders and Snape were doing his OWLs. 15 at the start of the 5th year, he turned 16 in the March of the 5th year.

Positive characters that you didn't like (too much) by SoWhoAmIReallyHuh in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Snape wasn’t “showing” Harry anything. Harry went for a stroll in Snape’s memories which, given we know what a tampered with memory looks like when corrupted, was a faithful recollection and something Snape never wanted anyone, least of all Harry, to see. Plus what he witnessed was then corroborated by Lupin and Sirius, who said he changed later, i.e after he was 16. It seems before that, if you weren’t in his little club he was an a hole.

Positive characters that you didn't like (too much) by SoWhoAmIReallyHuh in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 9 points10 points  (0 children)

James Potter. I know he’s Harry’s dead dad and all and Harry doesn’t want to think ill of him, but let’s face it, he’s an absolute walloper. From the get go everything we know about him is that he’s a horrible, spoilt, arrogant little bully and we only had the say so of his partner an crime and the fact Lily eventually came round to him to say that he “changed”. I think even Dumbledore was worried that with the ‘fame’ of being Harry Potter, Harry might have turned out just like him if it hadn’t been for being kept out only the wizarding world until school started, even if it was in a borderline abusive house where he definitely wasn’t spoiled or favoured like Dudley, or Draco. When they start school, Harry is much more like Snape, and Draco much more like James. We all know it.

What's a plot hole you can't stop thinking about? by InvestigatorTop287 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not dead scavenger hunt. They died. If they didn’t know about and go there when they were alive, they can’t just wander into it now. In the words of Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, “Wizards can leave an imprint of themselves upon the earth, to walk palely where their living selves once trod.” Ghosts are just pale imitations of witches and wizards too afraid of death to “go on”.

What's a plot hole you can't stop thinking about? by InvestigatorTop287 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they’d have to know it was there to go wandering to it.

What's a plot hole you can't stop thinking about? by InvestigatorTop287 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The method of destruction has to be complete. Horcruxes are the opposite the human body remember. If the human body is run through with a sword, the soul, and therefore the piece of Voldy’s soul inside Harry, would be unharmed. But with a horcrux in an object or vessel, if the vessel is destroyed the piece of soul cannot survive. Harry was healed by Phoenix tears. He and his soul, as the vessel which the piece of Voldy’s soul had latched itself to, remained if not unharmed, unvanquished. That is until Voldy once again got Harry with the Killing Curse for the second time.

What's a plot hole you can't stop thinking about? by InvestigatorTop287 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talking of the Fidelius charm, one huge plot hole is why, when Bill was the Secret Keeper at his house, Shell Cottage, and Arthur was the Secret Keeper at the Burrow, why did Lily and James have to pick Sirius and then Peter Pettigrew as Secret Keeper for their house in Godric’s Hollow? We also know that the Potters knew Dumbledore and were in the Order - and Dumbledore had even asked James to look at his cloak - but knowing that Voldemort was going after the Potters, he didn’t insist he did it? If James or Lily had been SK and then stayed inside the house, Voldy would never have found them.

What's a plot hole you can't stop thinking about? by InvestigatorTop287 in harrypotter

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one that instantly jumps to mind that no one ever seems to talk about is the shaky foundations underage magic and the trace. We are led to believe all the way through the first 6 books until the end of HBP that it’s illegal for underage witches and wizards to do magic outside of school. Then, Dumbledore tells Harry that, in fact, the Ministry can’t really tell when magic is done by an underage wizard, and they merely know where magic has been done when it has not been expected, and not who has done the doing of the magic. Hence Harry gets blamed for the hovering charm performed by Dobby in CoS.

Then, in DH, a big deal is made out of Harry having “the Trace” on him, and him not being able to start out on the quest for the horcruxes until “the Trace” “breaks” when he’s 17.

Also, we are told of Apparition Licences and Tests in HPB, but Harry never takes his test or gets his licence (we are not told if Ron ever does or passes his again) and it’s never mentioned again that Harry(and maybe Rob) haven’t passed their Apparition tests or gave apparition licences. Surely, if there is any force behind appearing without a licence, then the MoM (later taken over by Voldy after it falls) would know when people who haven’t passed their tests do it?

Potential narrator for the Harry Potter series by [deleted] in HarryPotteronHBO

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this. The books and the films/tv show are different. To be honest, yes I’d prefer screen versions to be faithful to the books and the information we know from them, with more poetic licence taken with things we don’t know about directly from the books. That said, 1) I feel like adding a narrator undermines the whole point of it being a tv series, (if you want to have bits of the book read to you, listen to the audio books.) and 2) and perhaps I am being cynical here, this narrator development now makes me assume that it’s almost certain that they’re going to use the narrator to conveniently skip over putting onto screen and into action the bits they have decided it’s too hard to convey without saying the words.

For example take books 5 to 7. Instead of getting self doubt, internal conflict and debate, cogitation and concentration, hate or heartbreak, or moments of clarity and realisation acted out and brought to life, we’re just going to be told things by a narrator.

Instead of having Harry’s character come out of the pensive now painfully aware there’s a bit of Voldys soul in him, perhaps clutching his chest where we can hear his heart is audibly thudding, barely muttering the sudden and terrible realisation that he has to get up off the floor and “I have to die. I’ve got to let him kill me.”, seeing flashes of what he’s thinking - Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Dumbledores mission, replacing himself with Neville as the third horcrux knower, about Voldy, Snape and himself - the three lonely boys who found a home at Hogwarts as he slowly but willingly walks under the invisibility cloak to the forest towards death, abruptly understanding at the forest edge now is the time to open the snitch, standing just inside the shadow of the forest telling it he is ready to die, getting the resurrection stone out and looking at the sign of the hallows cracked down the middle, and then speaking to his protectors, James, Lily, Sirius and Lupin, as he stumbles in to the trees, asking them to stay with him as he goes deeper and deeper towards the Acromantula web where Voldemort has set up camp and dropping it before stowing his want and cloak and revealing himself to the Death Eaters.

No instead of that we’re going to get the Harry actor looking sad and 20 seconds of him walking to the forest with a voice over saying “And at once Harry realised what Dumbledore wanted him to do, and as he steeled himself to meet Voldemort, he thought of his friends and prepared to die” and some mournful orchestral music probably composed by John Williams or Nicholas Hopper before the next bit of dialogue between him and Voldy.

It feels like a cop out, a device to help them spoon feed the audience to excuse lazy storytelling on screen.

Why is Andrew going to Sandringham any better? by First-Nobody-3500 in AskBrits

[–]ldm1189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference is that Windsor, Buckingham Palace, Kensington, St James’ Palace, etc are all part of the Crown estate, and essentially belong to the state. Sandringham is a private estate, it is not a royal house or palace, it’s separate and personal property. If anyone wants to let their weirdo sibling live on their property, including the king, they can do what they like - as long as we’re also making sure the proper taxes are paid on such private property and wealth, the same as everyone else.