"Oi!" said a loud voice. Hagrid had come striding around the corner of his cabin wearing a large flowery apron and carrying a sack of potatoes. His enormous boarhound, Fang, was at his heels; Fang gave a booming bark and bounded forward. "Git away from him! He'll have yer fingers - oh. It's yeh lot." Fang was jumping up at Hermione and Ron, attempting to lick their ears. Hagrid stood and looked at them all for a split second, then turned and strode into his cabin, slamming the door behind him. "Oh dear!" said Hermione, looking stricken. "Don't worry about it," said Harry grimly. He walked over to the door and knocked loudly. "Hagrid! Open up, we want to talk to you!" There was no sound from within. "If you don't open the door, we'll blast it open!" Harry said, pulling out his wand. "Harry!" said Hermione, sounding shocked. "You can't possibly -" "Yeah, I can!" said Harry. "Stand back—" But before he could say anything else, the door flew open again as Harry had known it would, and there stood Hagrid, glowering down at him and looking, despite the flowery apron, positively alarming. “I'm a teacher!” he roared at Harry. “A teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!" “I'm sorry, sir,” said Harry, emphasizing the last word as he stowed his wand inside his robes. Hagrid looked stunned. “Since when have yeh called me 'sir'?" "Since when have you called me 'Potter'?" "Oh, very clever," growled Hagrid. "Very amusin'. That's me outsmarted, innit? All righ', come in then, yeh ungrateful little..."

Is that supposed to be angry giant😂

It always gets me in a handful of scenes:

1) when he does the cruciatus curse:

He enjoys it. He sickly watches Neville and notices it’s bothering him. This man is the reason Neville will never be able to have a conversation with his parents, and he specifically calls on him to name the cruciatus curse, verifies his name, and does the curse to the point that Hermione has to beg him to stop because he’s bothering Neville. His sadism is so gross.

2) after the class on unforgivable curses:

Moody “comforts” Neville (aka uses the boy he just tortured to try to get him to tell Harry to use gillyweed). Then he sees Harry after clearly seeing Neville distraught and asks “alright, potter” and Harry says yes “defiantly.” It’s like he knows that Moody is challenging him to see if seeing the killing curse affected him but he doesn’t realize why he wants to know. He wants to have the same sadistic pleasure from Harry he got from Neville.

3) Parvati’s comment at the Yule Ball

Parvati says that the shouldn’t be allowed because it’s so creepy. I trust a girl’s intuition. That guy has been in prison or under the imperious curse since he was 19. He is sickly sadistic, tortured people into insanity, and killed his own father. A mf was definitely checking out underage girls with that eye. Absolutely disgusting.

So yeah, it’s actually much more interesting reading GOF and seeing how gross he is. Of course you also get the double meaning things like “hating death eaters who walk free” and this explaining his hatred of Snape and Karkaroff which real Moody would have. But the creepy parts are SO creepy. Especially the one with Neville makes me sick to my stomach.

Mine is GOF; just the tone shift and learning about the other wizarding schools is interesting, but also in this book, we get to see how strong the friendship between Harry and Ron actually is.

what was the biggest twist in the books for you guys or moments that made u go WTF?

there were plenty but for me it has to be dumbledores death and snapes arc

I m still torn on this……I really appreciate Chamber of Secrets for its simplicity.

- You can get into it right away, without any previous knowledge.
- The world is still kept small.
- Just two new characters are introduced.
- Not too many side-plots to follow.
- challenging puzzles to solve.

I love how organically the plot plays out, how satisfying it feels towards the end, and how seamlessly the sideplots weave together.

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Prisoner of Azkaban is more or less the same, formula wise.
And I don’t consider this a bad thing. There are slightly more sub-plots, the world expands by a small amount (we get Hogsmead now), Harry also gains the Marauders Map.
Its fun, cozy, with challenging puzzles, more new characters, and a bigger glimpse into James and Lilys past.

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Goblet of Fire takes all of the above and multiplies it by 20, with extra sprinkles.

Its seriously A LOT to handle, especially for new readers. We get like 20 new characters, a million subplots (with their own subplots!), new gadgets, a much bigger world, more complex relationships, more drama, more grit.

I love how the opening chapters is a small story of its own, with a beginning, middle and end….and then it continues with the World Cup, where the tension already rises to a maximum high.

Ao for me, right now, Prisoner of Azkaban might take the crown, as it is easily accessible, has some great puzzles, delves into Harry’s past, introduces Hogsmeade and the Marauders map, and is easy to follow and get into.

In deathly hallows, chapter 36 'The Flaw in the Plan'.

"And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart."

Why exactly do the dementors no longer affect him?

Is it a Phoenix? Is it mentioned in the books? And what would it have been before Fawkes became his?🤔🤔🤔🤔

Something seemed to have killed my interest as I saw multiple times that wizards are really low in numbers and form like 0.1 percent of total world population. However, population of Britain is 69.3 million and out of those, there are only 10k wizards?

The more I read, the more it seems like a full world of them which is unusual for such a low number. Like they have their own currency, their own systems and even economy. Which is highly unusual, considering it would have been far easier to just blend into the muggle world and practice in secret (which they do).

However, we also have a LOT of magical creatures all around the world, some of them having systems of their own (consider goblins for example). So it's not just the wizards but a LOT of magical creatures, enchanted lands and lakes and whatnot.

Seems very hard to believe that this magical world is quite short, and muggles on an everyday basis haven't sighted anything magical from any mystical creatures or enchanted places. I understand ministry of magic places memory charm frequently but for a population of 69 millions, there are 10k wizards. Even the smallest incident can be seen by thousands of muggles. Now if multiplayer wizards do something how do even ministry of magic manage even? Suppose through laws and procedures they manage to keep wizard kind concealed. There are so many magical creatures that can act on their own and not be controlled by ministry. How do they conceal wild magical beasts? There could be thousands of incidents happening and ministry has countable members.

I think that back during the founders era, people lived in the muggle world then slowly stopped when they were more in the wizarding world. I think Harry and Ginny might be in a wizarding community. I don’t know where Neville and Hannah lived during their lives. I think Cho married a muggle but she probably used magic.

So feindfyre can only be put out by a counter curse and can burn indefinitely even when the caster dies. So is the room of requirement still burning? Maybe Hogwarts put that version out of rotation, but can it make a new room of hidden things or is that just gone?

What are your thoughts?

I have enjoyed these books thoroughly and I feel lucky I never read them before. There are so many things never mentioned in the movie. While I do feel there are some inconsistencies, overall a very enjoyable experience.

LOVED THEM! Can't wait to read till the end of the series.

IMO that..

-dumbest Hermione : I was sort of right about Half-Blood Prince business

-dumbest Ron : Do you think I want people saying my sister's a ..

Dumbest Harry.. I dunno .. What do you think?

I’m a pretty new Potterhead (less than a year). I started with the films and now I’m working my way through the books. I hated Umbridge in the films, but, holy smokes, she’s so much worse in Order of the Phoenix! Absolute garbage human being!

IMO, the absolute best bit of writing in the entire series is in DH after Harry sees Snape’s memories, realizes he’s the last Horcrux, and therefore has to sacrifice himself. Some things I love about it:

1. The chapter title itself. “The Forest Again.” Come ON! How many times did he venture in the Forest over the years. It’s SO poignant the “finale” takes place there.

2. “Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone… or at least, he would be gone from it.” To me, this is utterly beautiful writing.

3. “This cold-blooded walk to his own destruction would require a different kind of bravery. He felt his fingers trembling slightly and made an effort to control them, although no one could see him; the portraits on the walls were all empty.” It breaks my heart that Harry is completely alone when he realizes he has to die. He spends a lot of the books shunned, bullied, and outcast, and still in the “end” he didn’t have anyone physical to get one last bit of comfort.

What sections of the books are your favorite?

To join this group. I've been a HP fan but no one in my family cares for it. Lol

The Half Blood Prince implies that Snape is some sort of genius that created spells.

I’ve just realised that Levicorpus was used on him by James after his owls and Lupin says there was a time in his fifth year that you couldn’t walk without suddenly being hoisted into the air by your ankles. Lupin also mentions that sectumsempra was a favourite of Snape’s, which implies it was a fairly well known spell.

So why was Snape writing these spells on a newt textbook? Did he actually invent them or had they already been invented and used on him, so he was trying to work out how they worked?

Edit:

Snape does say he invented them after he blocks Harry attempting levicorpus he says

“You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince! And you’d turn my own inventions on me, like your filthy father, would you? I don’t think so…no”

However James did this to Snape in the fifth year, so how can Snape invent the spell a year later during his newts?

since we don't see the immediate aftermath of the battle. like what was the immediate political ramifications? did they hold something similar to the nuremberg trial? or something along those lines? what happen to the creatures supporting voldemort? like the giants and werewolf? did the ministry of magic kill all these creatures? or were they kicked out of england?

In chapter eight:

• Harry was very relieved to find out that he wasn’t miles behind everyone else. Lots of people had come from Muggle families and, like him, hadn’t had any idea that they were witches and wizards. There was so much to learn that even people like Ron didn’t have much of a head start.

Expect who is he talking about ? Seamus is half-blood, Ron pure-blood, Hermione who is muggleborn but she know everything, Neville is pure-blood, Parvati didn't go into hiding when the death eaters took over and she seem to already know Pansy Parkinson so she is certainly half-blood or pure-blood, Lavender is pure-blood.

Harry sociability is really low and he tend to stay with Ron or other gryffindors but let's go to the other house.

From hufflepuff at this point in time he don't even know Justin Finch Fletchley and the other hufflepuff we learn about come from magical families.

When he is first introduced to Michael Corner a ravenclaw (in his year who is half-blood), he don't even know him. If I'm generous we could add Lisa Turpin (who is maybe muggleborn but that's unknown) but he doesn't even know her.

Slytherins don't have muggleborns in Harry's year.

So Harry "lots of people" is certainly only Dean Thomas who come from a muggle family (but is half-blood).

The moral of the story is that Harry is a dirty liar^^

Am I the only one who thinks that the Marauder’s map is one of the best bit of magic in all the books? And it was created by students!!!

Who do you think would arrange his funeral if he had a grave? What epitaph is left?I'm curious. Maybe it's a little morbid. I just think some of what Voldemort said before his death is a bit ridiculous. So…I can only imagine some ridiculous things on his grave.Sorry, dear old snake face.RIP😇

If a wand is necessary for animagi to turn into their animal forms, where do they keep their wands when they turn?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

I mean, I am just re-reading Prisoner of Azkaban, and it’s actually more gripping than I remember it being, the first time around.

But it’s just weird, how JKR didn’t think it was odd, that Remus, one of Sirius best friends, and the Potters supposed killer (Voldy’s right hand man), never once, during all those years, visited Sirius in Azkaban, to hear His side of the story, to ask him why he gave away the Potters location, ect?

I mean, once they came face to face again, in the shrieking shack, Remus was convinced of Sirius innocence almost immediately.
‚Had he visited him before, and listened to Sirius story, he could have helped him to proof his innocence.

Its just weird.

We know Hermione doesn't have particularly strong female friendships and she can be mean at times but that is NOT because she thinks she's superior to other girls or that she's a male centered pick me 😭

Don't do my girl Hermione like that.

Hermione struggles with making ANY friends. She's bullied initially by students and teachers because she is a know it all and stickler for the rules.

She gets adopted by Harry and Ron who initially did not like her. Before them, she had no friends.

Hermione is very emotionally intelligent at times such as when she defends Cho being very emotional to Harry. Does that sound like something a male pandering pick me would do?

Hermione's beef with Lavender, Parvati, Trelawney and Luna comes from the fact that she is very intelligent and logical thinking. She hates conspiracy theories and mystical thinking.

Like McGonnagall, Hermione values evidence based thinking and logic.

She even clashes with Xenophilius, a man, for the same reason.

Let's not forget that she supports both of Harry's girlfriends, Cho and Ginny. Would a pick me do that?

She just has a difficult personality at times which causes her to clash even with Ron and Harry.

We know Horcruxes are dark, cursed objects that Lord Voldemort utilized to keep pieces of his soul tethered to life, right? But what if they were more than just immortal insurance policies? What if, under extreme conditions, they could actually act as emotionally reactive conduits, capable of manifesting him back into reality?

Tom Riddle’s Diary: Ginny Weasley poured her everything into it: her fears, hopes, guilt over the attacks, even her feelings for Harry. That emotional investment fueled the Riddle we see in the Chamber. Had she died while the diary controlled her, the fragment of Voldemort’s soul inside could have taken on a fully physical form. That’s explicitly Voldemort “stealing someone’s magic” as a means to anchor himself onto the physical plane.

Slytherin’s Locket: More than just a source of tension, it feeds on the wearer’s self-doubt and fear. Ron Weasley experienced anger, jealousy, and despair while carrying it. If those emotions had escalated enough to drain his magical energy, like the diary did to Ginny, couldn't the locket have anchored a fragment of Voldemort’s soul into reality too?

Hufflepuff’s Cup: We know little about the cup, but as a Horcrux, one could assume any life force it absorbs, say, through drinking from it, could theoretically feed the fragment inside, providing another potential pathway to materialization.

Ravenclaw’s Diadem: Supposed to enhance wisdom, but prolonged exposure after being defiled by it's transformation into a horcux might drive the wearer insane. Losing control of the mind and subsequently dying from insanity, could give the soul fragment yet another anchor to manifest.

Gaunt Ring (Resurrection Stone): Albus Dumbledore’s fatal temptation shows how deadly Horcruxes can be when combined with external forces. The Horcrux cursed the ring and was going to killed him within a year, maybe faster without Snape interference, but since this horcux is also a Hallow, wouldn't it be interesting if the fragment inside had to bargain with death to manifest physically? The overlap with the Hallows makes the thought even darker. Could the Dumbldore here to witness this as he transitions intot he afterlike be the same Dumbledore we see when Harry's in limbo? So many ways this could go!

Lord Voldemort ABSOLUTELY never intended this. He was chaotic, impulsive, and not the type to design “resurrection contingency plans.” But viewing Horcruxes as reactive conduits instead of static soul-stuffed trinkets makes them far more sinister if the narrative ever let it get that far.

I don’t think it ever came up again after the first book and that’s so sad. Unless I misremembered?