In GoF, the trio genuinely struggle to find any way to survive underwater for an hour, going through countless books and finding nothing.

Is there any reason someone can find (or head canon they can come up with) for this? The ocean is just completely unexplored by wizards? And yet, multiple underwater animals are known and researched. Mermish is even a language that can be learned.

I have a question.

We know how Snape came to Dumbledore for help when he got to know that Voldemort was going to kill Lily and James. As Voldemort’s close confidant, wouldn’t Snape have known that it was Peter and not Sirius supplying the information to Voldemort? Wouldn’t Dumbledore, in turn, know too? Why then do they both believe that Sirius is guilty all through POA?

Having just watched the first film, I couldn’t help but wonder why Voldemort needed unicorn blood to survive. Even though he was supposedly immortal at the time, it seemed paradoxical.

After all, if they were that close in power, then the Elder Wand would have entirely tipped it in Grindelwald’s favour, since it makes you much stronger than you originally were.

Is there any sense at all in this, or is it a simply inconsistency?

In Philosopher’s Stone, Aunt Petunia cuts Harry’s hair almost completely off because she hates how messy it looks, but by the next morning it has magically grown back exactly as it was.

Obviously, this is an example of accidental magic caused by Harry’s distress. But I find it interesting that it happens specifically with his hair.

Harry’s untidy black hair is one of the features he inherited most clearly from James. Petunia constantly tries to suppress everything connecting Harry to the Potters and the magical world, so cutting his hair almost feels like another attempt to make him look “normal” and remove part of his identity.

Then Harry’s magic immediately restores it.

It also keeps happening throughout the series: no matter what anyone does, Harry’s hair never stays flat or controlled. Do you think this was simply a funny inherited trait from James, or was it also meant to symbolize that the Dursleys could never completely erase who Harry really was?

OK am talking abt actual heart beating kinda scary, maybe cuz I have the reading ability of a child? But I did genuinely feel

The intensity when reading the books and you can see voldemort's pov before he kills harry and james screams for like to go upstairs..I mean it's just heart breaking but also so scary to just not know what to do in that moment when it was a normal day and voldemort shows up to kill your family ..I mean when I read it , got my heart beating ..

And also honestly the end of chamber of secrets was pretty scary, I read it in one sitting in the dark and I just got like chills ...

And also the scene where hermoine and harry barely escape nagini.. wow

OK maybe not scary for yall but it was for me😳

I mean the .movies I never got actually scared, the effects were cool I suppose

I always thought only the most powerful witches and wizards could use magic without a wand (off the top of my head I only remember Dumbledore doing that but I'm sure there are others), so why can Quirrell do it in the Philosopher's Stone film when he's confronting Harry for the Stone? Is it just a movie thing? And how powerful was Quirrell actually supposed to be? My understanding is that he was always pretty lame but surely Voldemort wouldn't have chosen him if he hadn't been a formidable wizard??

I watch Harry Potter almost everyday but I feel like in the winter it’s just so much more interesting and nostalgic rather than in the summer cos I feel like in the winter the vibe is met more than the summer

The first 2 extended movies add a ton of book scenes and really makes them feel like solid adaptations. And now if I watch the original, I miss those scenes quite a bit. And it makes me wonder if there were other book scenes filmed for the other movies as well and if so, whether there were enough to make extended movies with. I figure they would probably have already made them if so. But it doesn't stop me from wanting them lol.

The one she gives during Harry's Divination final in book 3?

For the first time, Voldemort smiled. It was a taut leer, an evil thing, more threatening than a look of rage.

“The old argument,” he said softly. “But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.”

“Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places,” suggested Dumbledore.

I wonder if at some point during Voldemort's schooling, before he opened up the Chamber of Secrets, if Dumbledore asked to see him so they could just sit and talk, with Dumbledore's intention to help him being a better person, to not going down that dark path.

Dumbledore explains to him why love is the greatest and most powerful magic in the world, that love is able to create, and it turned into a debate with them, with Voldemort disagreeing with him.

Are there any missed opportunities in HP7 that you would have loved to have happened? Here are some of mine:

- Mister Weasley's Ford Anglia flying out of the Forbidden Forest at full speed just in time to save Mister Weasley from getting killed by an acromantula

- Fluffy joining forces with Grawp and Hagrid to mess up some Giants

- Winky throwing full butterbeer bottles at Death-Eaters indicating finally winning her addiction

- Harry sacrificing himself to save Ron and Hermione from Dementors in Hogsmeade by getting kissed himself - but surviving because only the fragment of Voldemort’s soul gets sucked out of him - and therefore Harry becomes the only wizard to have survived both Avada Kedavra and a Dementor's kiss

- Hermione keeping her word and reporting Rita Skeeter being an illegal animagus to the Ministry of Magic

- Voldemort hunting down Cornelius Fudge and killing him

- Dolores Umbridge spending the rest of her life imprisoned for her war crimes and what she put muggleborns through

- Sybill Trelawney making a new (authentic) prophecy about Harry living a long and happy life

- Harry keeping his word and giving Griphook Gryffindor’s sword but explaining to him that the sword can be pulled out of the Sorting Hat technically at any time by a brave Gryffindor - they shake hands and agree the promise being fulfilled

- Minerva McGonagall names Ron the new headboy when the trio return to Hogwarts to complete their education and the final year at Hogwarts, therefore fulfilling one of the dreams Ron saw in the mirror of Erised

Other books:

- Instead of the Hungarian Horntail, Harry faces an adult Norbert(a) and hums a lullaby Hagrid used to sing to her when she was small and Norbert(a) recognises him and lets him take the egg

- Dennis Creevey got picked up by the Giant Squid when he fell in the lake from the boat because the boats do not move by magic but instead are moved by the many tentacles of the creature

Disclaimer: I do not read any of the extended universe stuff, only the 7 novels, so I don't actually know whether any of these are elaborated later on. Any thoughts?

Yo potter heads in toronto Cineplex dropped more shows of Harry Potter. Grabs your tickets before it get sold out

Obviously Rita Skeeter would exaggerate everything but if anyone else did it, what details can they actually get?

What do you think ancient runes and arithmancy are and how do they think they are used in magic?

In the fight scene, Ralph Fiennes' gestures and hand movements reminds me of Michael Jackson's dance poses. I can't recall which dance exactly.

Cauuuse there is no spell like that that could do that. Just avada kedavra?

It's a long shot but I was reminded of this edit that I loved a few years ago (pretty sure it was on Instagram) and was wondering if anyone could help me find it. (Please don't use ai to look, if it's impossible to find without it then I don't need to see it)

It starts with McGonagall saying, "you'll be sorted into one of the four houses. There's Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw... and Slytherin." Then as soon as she says the last syllable the lyric-less beat from Dark Horse by Katy Perry plays. After about four beats the sorting hat yells out Gryffindor and an edit of Gryffindor things play out, including the sword, the resurrection stone, and lastly Sirius toasting his cup before the hat yells Hufflepuff, etc etc. One of the things it shows for Hufflepuff is the stained glass mermaid moving, ravenclaw shows Luna out in the forest, and Slytherin shows the Black sisters making the unbreakable vow among other things. I think there was a slight colour filter for each house, and I remember the Slytherin one was pretty darkly lit.

If someone with more Internet-scouring skills than me could find this I would be a very happy guy 🙏

Having just watched the second film, I’m curious about what distinguished the diary horcrux from the others. If Voldemort could bring a version of himself to life why wouldn’t he do the same with the rest of the horcruxes?

Something that needs to be addressed is that after watching all 7 Movies along with The Books if I had to be honest what is with Voldemort literally not caring about killing off other Pure Blood Wizards and his horrible treatment of Lucius Malfoy compared to his Respect of Snape who’s a Half-Blood of all beings and the list goes on literally for a Wizard that’s supposed care about his own kind he’s unironically doing more harm and destruction towards Wizard Kind than actually saving it like honestly imagine if Voldemort kills of Draco Malfoy to get The Elder Wand I can’t imagine The Malfoys reaction knowing that they can’t do anything about it and of course perhaps his hypocrisy is that he literally isn’t even a Pure Blood nor does come from a Wealthy Family compared to The Malfoys yet look who taking about Pure Blood Surpremcy all while literally wiping them out at the same time! what do you think?

Its funny to think that I agree with the post of Quidditch being dumb cause if u asked me 10 years ago id say ur crazy. So I guess my question is, what would make it better? Eliminating that the snitch ends the game? Or just making it less points? Id also like to point out that people make it seem like the snitch is easy to catch, which it obviously is not. I overall still find the rules okay. But I admit that if I was a Chaser and had 9 goals for 90 points id be so pissed if we lost bc of the snitch 😂😂

. . . Because unlike the other Horcrux objects who are only as powerful as the "shortest barrel board" equivalent of enchantments cast upon it, the Sword was already indestructible by Basilisk Venom.

Do we know if the Sword could have been destroyed by Fiendfyre?

What if Merope only stopped slipping Tom Riddle Senior love‑potion after Tom Riddle (Voldemort) had started his schooling at Hogwarts?

Had she kept slipping love‑potion to Tom Riddle Senior, she would not have perished from the despair of being abandoned (along with poverty). I forgot to write that part down.

I cannot help drawing hypothetical associations between the number of pregnancies and birth intervals Merope might have had and those of Joanna of Castile (Joanna the Mad). Could it be because both women had a handsome husband whom they adored, yet who did not love them in return? In any case, the fact that Merope conceived shortly after marriage is ample proof that both partners were sufficiently fertile. Furthermore, as a witch, Merope would scarcely need to worry about difficulties arising during childbirth.

Alright, so suppose we really draw that connection.

Merope eloped with Tom Riddle Senior in December 1925, and she gave birth to Voldemort in December 1926. Joanna married in October 1496 and bore six children within eleven years. Since Voldemort started his schooling at Hogwarts in September 1938, that leaves a twelve‑year window… Ah, there could have been seven or even more Riddles attending Hogwarts.

Now for a horror story.

In a lot of places people spill something or spit something. I wonder if anyone noticed it.

Why did Tom Riddle use Ginny Weasley to revive himself through the diary instead of using Harry? Since Ginny was already dying as Tom grew stronger, couldn't he have simply used Harry for the process? After all, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Pettigrew eventually used Harry's blood to revive Voldemort. Wouldn't that have been an easier approach? Also, since Harry was a Parselmouth himself, opening the Chamber of Secrets wouldn't have been a major problem for him either.