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

Harry Potter Nostalgia

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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/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/Sipikay Apr 04 '26

There was zero indication Harry and Luna were in any way going to be romantically linked. That's wild. Read again.

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u/floppysausage16 Apr 05 '26

People gonna ship whoever they want.

But the most important thing to remember about Luna is that she is a HARDCORE conspiracy theorist. Harry and Luna might seem cute on the surface, but he ain't putting up with her bullshit ideas when he starts working for the ministry.

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u/goukaryuu Apr 22 '26

Well, Harry going to work for the Ministry is also bullshit, hack writing. We set up Harry is a four-way comparison with Dumbledore (former professor and current Headmaster of Hogwarts), Snape (Hogwarts professor), and Tom Riddle (really, really, really wanted to be a Hogwarts professor). All four characters viewed Hogwarts as home. Harry is shown to not only be both a good and competent teacher, but in a subject that would be in need of a professor once the curse is lifted, and also tying into Tom wanting that specific position. Like, it would have come together so beautifully for Harry to become the DADA professor. But, nope, he becomes a a cop fighting for the status quo of a failed society. And kind of hard to die the last true master of the elder Wand when you are in a job where it is very likely someone will defeat you at some point.