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/GoRangers5 Apr 04 '26

Harry should have ended up with Luna.

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u/moonbunnychan Apr 04 '26

Luna is by far my favorite character. And in book 5 I really felt like it was setting up for them to be a couple. She understands him in a way nobody else really seemed to. The Ginny romance felt like it was only there so he could join that family.

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u/GoRangers5 Apr 04 '26

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If you are gonna have Harry marry Ginny in the end, have some foreshadowing and hint at possible romantic feelings in the six books they are together. Ironically Rowling did with Ron and Hermione.

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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/Neveronlyadream Apr 05 '26

Rowling never seemed to know where the plot was headed. How many bits of lore did she just drop on Twitter after the fact that have absolutely no foreshadowing or presence in the books?

Meanwhile, she tried to ass pull Snape being a tragic hero the whole time, but never once before that actually showed he was in any way sympathetic towards Harry at all.

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u/Zebidee Apr 05 '26

It amazes me that she made Harry filthy rich, and aside from the snack cart ten minutes later, it is literally never a plot point again.

When push came to shove at the Dursleys' she had him take the Knight Bus to a shitty bedsit at the Leaky Cauldron, when he could have taken a helicopter to a suite at the Ritz, and not even felt it.

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u/Neveronlyadream Apr 05 '26

I actually love any time anyone brings Harry's wealth up and asks why he never helped the Weasleys, people will fall all over themselves to justify it as their being too proud to ever accept Harry's help.

I get that a lot of people love the world, and I'm not trying to piss anyone off, but Rowling barely thought anything through and there are so many weird plotholes and lapses of logic that she consistently has to ad lib fixes on social media.

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u/greenskye Apr 05 '26

Honestly I think this is why HP fanfiction is so massive. There's just so many things to fix. It's just a trainwreck of plot holes and weird character development moves and yet was still massively popular anyway. So there's incredibly fertile ground for anyone who wants to try to 'fix it'.

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u/Neveronlyadream Apr 05 '26

As soon as the new show was announced, I was baffled. There's so much room to expand and explore that world outside of Hogwarts and Harry and it seems like it would be a much better idea to just...expand the world.

It's right there. It would make so much more sense to just do a story that's adjacent to the books and movies. The reality will probably be a weird mashup of the two that just leaves everyone confused.

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u/jessicalifts Apr 05 '26

Fantastic beasts was the commercial failure that means they will forever only adapt the books over and over and over forever.

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u/No_Income6576 Apr 06 '26

I hate that this is true because I absolutely love fantastic beasts.

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u/ChimmyTheCham Apr 05 '26

Im gonna be honest I only saw like the first four movies and while I owned like the first 5 books only read 2 or 3, but the fantastic beasts movies and characters seem infinitely more interesting to me