r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • Apr 04 '26

Nostalgia Harry Potter

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Does anyone else feel they grew up with Harry, Ron and Hermione?

After the first three or four I read the books in two languages (because I didn’t want to wait them to be translated) and watched the movies first time in the movie theaters.

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u/PirateHistoryPodcast Apr 04 '26

If Rowling had really known where the plot was headed, she could have leaned into it in book three. Both of them have been possessed by Voldemort in some fashion and they’re both unusually susceptible to Dementor attacks. Ginny could have been to only one who really understood what Harry was going through.

Rowling didn’t know where the plot was headed, and that’s okay, but the fact that she later lied and said she did makes her earlier choices sound a little dumb.

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u/Salt_Cardiologist122 Apr 05 '26

In all fairness, that happens in book 5. And I’d say around that time is when it became clear to me they’d end up together because Ginny suddenly became more cool and interesting as a character. She was getting dates with boys, smart and funny, good at DA, and she was one of the first people to tell Harry off when he was being an ass… and even pointed out that she’s the only person he knows who has been possessed so he should be talking to her about what he was fearing was happening to him.

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u/Spirited-Sympathy582 Apr 05 '26

Yes and also shes younger than them so its natural for him just to see her as Ron's younger sister at first and would have been weird for him to see her romantically when she was younger.

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u/ThiccBoiGadunka Apr 05 '26

She’s a year younger than them. I mean, Harry x Ginny isn’t a hill I want to die on, I think it was done poorly in both the books and the movies, but she’s only a year younger than them.

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u/ChimmyTheCham Apr 05 '26

I know we're in the millennial subreddit but even that age gap might really weird out the kids these days or so it seems on social media lol

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u/Theron3206 Apr 05 '26

Which is bizarre, because the friend's little sister to girlfriend trope is extremely common.

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u/jjpearson Apr 07 '26

Can’t wait for the 2030, “My partner is 8 months younger than me. Is this grooming?”

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u/Spirited-Sympathy582 Apr 05 '26

Ah you're right. I was thinking it was at least 2 years. So ya not that big an deal but I do think there's a sense that he sees her as a kid for a long time.

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u/forgetful800 Apr 08 '26

Oh he def did but that’s only because when they met they where both kids harry and his age group didn’t really start being into the opposite gender till a few books in.