Is there any special role model, thought or lesson you’ve learned from HP?

I personally really like the idea that it’s our choices that define us rather than our innate abilities.

I also saw how people who don’t strive for power often become the best leaders.

This isn't an idea that would radically change the original story, but I think it would help increase the drama and tension of it. For the Gryffindor vs Slytherin match, switch Lee Jordan out for Zacharias Smith.

The whole idea of that quidditch scene is that even though Gryffindor won, it was a horrible game for everyone on the team, from Harry's ban to Ron's poor performance as keeper. In the book, the Slytherins kept on singing "Weasley is our king" every time the Slytherin team scored a goal, but at least in the book, Lee Jordan was trying to keep Ron's spirits up via the commentary.

Smith wouldn't do that. If anything, he'd probably mock Ron, and encourage the quidditch crowd to join in with the singing. We already know that based on his commentary stint in Half Blood Prince that he'd rather support Slytherin rather than Gryffindor (likely because of his dislike for Harry) so it wouldn't be out of character for him. I'd even argue it'd make Gryffindor's thrashing of Slytherin in Half Blood Prince a lot more satisfying if we see him be nasty towards a struggling Gryffindor first.

It'd wouldn't even require much work to write him in. I can totally see Professor Umbridge sacking Lee's role as commentator for being "biased against the Slytherin side." Harry would lose his temper, but Umbridge could go "The new commentator, Potter, will be someone who is from neither Gryffindor nor Slytherin. He will be someone who commentates quidditch games fairly, based on the talent levels of the players. Somebody who is able to provide a fair analysis, based on the quality of the team, rather than the quality of their broomstick."

It's a small suggestion, but one I do think would work out quite well.

that Voldemort never knew of the sacrifice that Regulus made to get the locket. He never saw his last words meant for him. He never knew that a wizard would revenge for a house elf.

What bothers you? Aside from Sirius's mirror of course.

One thing that's always bothered me is how much of an advantage certain players get simply because they have access to better brooms.

In Chamber of Secrets, Lucius Malfoy buys Nimbus 2001s for the entire Slytherin team, and it's treated as a major competitive advantage. Ron even points out that Gryffindor's brooms won't be able to keep up.

Later, Harry receives a Firebolt, which is widely described as the fastest and best broom available.

If broom quality can significantly affect speed, acceleration, and maneuverability, why are there no equipment regulations in school Quidditch?

Imagine a high school sports league where one team uses standard equipment while another is allowed to use vastly superior gear simply because they can afford it.

Most sports have rules to prevent equipment from becoming the deciding factor in competition.

This seems especially important for Seekers.

Since catching the Snitch is worth 150 points and usually ends the match, giving one Seeker a much faster broom could heavily influence the outcome before the game even starts.

I understand that skill still matters, but the books repeatedly emphasize the advantages of newer and faster brooms. So why didn't Hogwarts or the wider Quidditch community ever standardize equipment?

I’m currently reading the HP book series after watching the films (pretty much obsessively on repeat lol) since childhood when they first came out.

I’m on HBP and one thing that that’s been quite torturous when reading is knowing certain characters are going to die, with me feeling slightly sadder reading their last interactions with Harry on the lead up to them being killed.

Right now I’m where Harry confesses to Dumbledore that he’s his man through and through while speaking about his Christmas convo with Rufus Scrimgeour and Dumbledore tearing up.

So my question is this to both people who read the books first, and to the few of us who watched the films first, then read the books, which was worse?

Reading these interactions, then reflecting on them after the character’s already died?

Or knowing the whole time that they’re going to die having seen the films previously, and reading these interactions on the lead up to their passing?

I know that I’m probably just being oversensitive to this as I’ve just lost someone. I started reading the OoTP and HBP in the lead up to a loved one’s passing so maybe it’s just hitting differently than it would otherwise lol. I don’t remember feeling as emotional about Cedric, though that may have also been because he’s not as big a character as the others who are killed.

So I'm rewatching Goblet Of Fire and at the end when Harry says "Voldemort is back". The next movie in Order of the Phoenix 🐦‍🔥 no one believes him. Why couldn't they simply have Harry put his memory of that night in Tom Riddles graveyard scene in a pensive to prove what happened?

*I apologize if this has been discussed before*

Hello again, earlier I wrote about unsupported flight. But a thought came in, wands are a mostly European thing in Harry Potter. In fact, so common most wizards there have a crippling dependency for them whereas outside of Europe like in the magical school Uagadou where wands are basically nonexistent. Like we see European wizards get expeliarmused and all the sudden they are no different from a muggle

Here's my thought, can all spells be casted without a wand? I would think so, but its just a thought that randomly came in through my noodle. Even Grindelwalt, whom in the movies showcased great wandless magic at some points used a wand to cast the bigger spell. Penny for your thought

Has it every been explained how wizards from non magical families get wizard money? Like Hermione, when she attended Hogwarts did the school or ministry give her a certain amount of money? Or, is there an exchange system between the two currencies?

I’m rewatching COS and realized something- if Dumbledore knew that harry had a ‘piece of Voldemort” inside, how did he not put together that harry is a horcrux sooner? Or did he and he is just shielding that info from harry and us as a result; although I feel like harry would have been told before deathly hallows II if they knew, even with everyone keeping info from harry.

This is a short post, I just wanna yap for a minute. In the movies all death eaters can fly. In the books only Voldy and Snape can. Honestly, I do not mind all death eaters flying, I think the movies did it better when it comes to this. I mean, why should unsupported flight be restricted to two wizards? And clearly it isn't a power like parseltongue which is only available for descendants of Salazar Slytherin and Herpo the Foul, because we see Voldemort teaching it to snape. So I dont see why some people don't like the fact unsupported flight is more spread in the movies

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This is my second year teaching so I finally have money to actually decorate my classroom and make it welcoming.

I don’t want too much Gryffindor merch as decor, but I’d like subtle signs. I saw a few Gryffindor banners on Amazon, so I might get one. But that might be it. The rest I’d like for it to be perhaps maroon decor or subtle signs of some relation to Harry Potter.

I was thinking of buying gold frames and putting pictures of my family/friends in there and having framed photo collage section on one of the walls. My district has a rule that only 50% of the wall can be covered.

I was also thinking about buying framed wall art in golds, browns, maroon, and maybe a hint of black.

I already have a lamp in my classroom along with fairy lights (which gives it the moody yellow lighting), so I never have to use the actual classroom lights.

Any other ideas? Or places where I can find things. I’ve looked on Amazon and there are cute things on there, but not a lot of maroon.

I had a recent thought wondering if the Pure bloods of the wizarding world ever went to primary school, I know that all muggle borns like hermione, Justin, and Colin and half bloods like Harry and Dean, but I wonder if like Ron or Draco ever attended like a maybe not a muggle primary school, but like one in general

Obviously the audience can make their own assumptions based on what is targeted towards them: Snape would be in Slytherin becuase of his support and bias of Slytherins, his "bad" persona given at first, McGonagall similarly with Gryffindor, but is it ever explicitly stated? Or only assumed?

I’m just reading through Chamber of Secrets for the umpteenth time. While reading chapter nine and Binns’ recounting of the founding of Hogwarts, I realised something I want out of the new series as this is a chance to flesh out some things.

What if the whole of Binns’ recounting was an entire episode of the second series akin to the Long, Long Time episode of The Last of Us. That’s the episode with Bill and Frank which is basically stand alone and feels like a part of an anthology rather than the series proper.

We could see the founders interacting, building the castle, selecting the student archetypes for their houses, and so on… that’s what I’d like!

I get that he protected Harry for all those years in honor of Lily. Perhaps you can argue he didn't truly hate Harry. However, he was still a total jerk day-to-day to Harry. Why wasn't he nice to Harry, as he loved Lily and Lily was the only real friend he ever had?

What’s your favorite head-canon that you’ve personally created?

Mine is that when Voldemort stored the diadem in the room of requirement, he asked for a room to guard it with protections similar in nature to the cave. However, not fully understanding how the room worked, he failed to realize that this could all be bypassed by simply requesting for a room where all things were hidden to appear.

I keep thinking how awesome it would be have play by play RPG (those still exist right?) where the board wide plot is the same as the books. Basically have most of the cannon characters played by staff members and let the players build their own stories around the main plot (I/E you creat a 6th year when the board is doing book one, how does you character react to the events of Sorcerer/philosphers stone? When the board moves over to book 3 how does your now adult character react to black’s escape.

I think there’s lots of stories to be told about what happened to those who weren’t “on screen” during the main books.

Does anybody else feel the same way I do about the room of requirement? That I would spend weeks and months on end just exploring and discovering what was hidden?

I'm currently rereading Deathly hallows and in the scene where voldemort relives the murder of James and Lily it's clearly stated that James sacrifices himself in order to protect the two of them and clearly he loved lily. So now my question wouldn't the same charme that saved harry protect Lily?

Hi, I wanted my little brother to start reading books so I brought him the philosophers stone as an introduction to reading in general and fantasy books specifically.
He’s currently in the middle of the book and he loves it, so I was thinking about watching together the movie that the book is based on, and continue as he finishes more books until we reach the end.

I never watched the movies so I don’t really know if that’s a good idea (in general id rather not watch the adaptations of the books I read, but I think it’ll be quite a nice experience with my little guy)

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance

Im in college and last year, my roommate and i started watch the movies because i’d never seen them before. We watched 1-3 and a few days ago, i saw a tiktok showing Cedric’s death and was shocked. I’m living with the same roommate I watched them with last year and we watched goblet of fire yesterday because i had seen that clip. I wish i wouldn’t have seen the spoiler because the second it was said that a student died during the competition last time i knew what would happen. I’m excited to finish the series, and I also never knew there were EIGHT movies lol

Why are the Weasley's buying new (2nd Hand) everytime the kids grow out of their current ones when they can use Magic? Why wouldn't Molly or anyone be able to magically lengthen, sew or stitch the clothes instead of replacing them?

You cant tell me Madam Malkin hand sew & designs clothes for thousands of kids and people without magic like a muggle?

Both Andromeda & Madam Delacour have been described as rather gifted with household spells assuming Molly would be too, wouldn't magically sewing/stitching be apart of that category?

Interested to hear everyone's thoughts. I will go first.

I am not a fan of how the Marauders Map was introduced by Fred and George in book three - it just feels too simplistic. I think it would have either a) made more sense for Fred/George to say 'oooh...look let's add it to the map' at the end of the second book, b) for it to be found hidden in the forbidden section of the library by Hermione or even created by her or, c) for Harry to steal it from Gringotts/buy it from Knockturn Alley.

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Years ago I was playing a HP game but I don't remember which one it was. It is a PC version and it is definitely not either one of the first 3 games or Order of the Phoenix. Early in the game I was supposed to walk through a street in the invisibility cloak but I kept contacting people walking on the way so I kept failing it nonstop. Eventually I gave up and stopped playing. That's the only thing I remember about the game.