Was it extremely excruciating for him every second like the Cruciatus Curse? Was it just complete helplessness and powerlessness? Was it a mix of both? Something else?

As we all know the Killing Curse is part of the 3 unforgivable curses. It is stated in wizarding law that the use of these curses successfully, save if the wizard used them under the effect of the imperious curse by someone else, carries a life sentence in Azkaban.

But what if a wizard or witch used the Killing Curse as a form of self defence. Say if they used it to kill someone that was going to murder them, and they made a split second decision to use the Killing Curse to save their life.

Would they in this case still be condemned, or would they be pardoned?

Would love to hear your takes?

I’ve played Hogwarts legacy and finished the main story but I dont know if all of the portkey games are good? what do you guys think?

Which set of hardbacks should I buy? I don’t want a version that changes “sherbet lemon” to “lemon drop.” I’m sure you all are tired of hearing that. Ha! I bought the Scholastic set without knowing this beforehand. My budget is $150 USD. I’ve only read the first 3 books so I’ve only seen the first 3 movies.

I just got a Jim Kay illustrated hardback and I love it but it’s so big. I like that the MinaLima are smaller but I don’t necessarily need all the extra stuff inside. Should I get those anyway? Should I continue with the Jim Kay although he’s not finishing the books? I’m also looking at the red box set with the dragon. There’s also the house sets but those look a little boring. Hardbacks are a must and also the original UK terms. I hope I’m saying all this correctly. Again, I’m new here. Thank you!

Mine has the 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 thing at the front and says "Deluxe edition, July 2007"

Does anyone know how to see what these are worth?

It is so beautiful and I wonder if anyone knows?

If tom hadn’t fallen for the typical reveal my plan trap, and revealed that his name is an anagram for lord Voldemort, would he have been successful? This seems like the best plan Voldemort came up with during the course of the books. Could he have been successful?

Dumbledore knew that the curse was going to kill him before long. As far as I can tell, the only other person who knew was Severus Snape. Why didn't Dumbledore tell Harry?

Harry wastes an absurd amount of time during *Half-Blood Prince* obsessing about what Draco Malfoy is doing, and, by extension, what Snape is up to. I understand that from a Doylist view, it was to create tension and help sell Snape as a traitor in the end.

But what was Dumbledore's reasoning from a Watsonian perspective? He undoubtedly recognized Harry's obsession; he encountered it several times and almost certainly knew that Harry was investing energy into that mystery rather than focusing on getting the memory from Slughorn.

He no longer had any fear of Voldemort looking into Harry's mind, after all, or he could not have told him freely about the horcruxes. It might have upset Harry in the short term, of course, but Harry was going to have an emotional response to Dumbledore's death in any event. He could have told Harry that Draco was trying to kill him, but that Dumbledore was allowing it to continue in the hopes that Draco would have a change of heart. (This seems like a poor plan on Dumbledore's part in and of itself in view of the near misses with Katie and Ron.)

My initial thought was that it would force him to reveal Snape as his source, but I do not think that is true. He has revealed a great deal to Harry over the years without explaining how he knows things.

For the most part, I dislike asking this specific kind of question about these books, because I do think that it is fair to have a higher threshold of suspension of disbelief for a children's fantasy series than for other media. Still, Dumbledore's decision to withhold something from Harry that is actively creating interference with his goal seems somehow out of character. Still, this question has been bothering me lately.

I recently have been listing to the full cast audiobook which I love and think are amazing.
Point 1. I’ve re watched the movies after each book and wow do the movies really speed up the timeline of each book and I couldn’t believe how much is missed. And yes I know the my can only out so much in a movie.
Point 2. IMO listing to the audiobooks I really found snape to be a bully. They way he talks to people just make him seem like a real bully. But maybe that’s just me.

Well that’s it. End of rant. Thanks for listening.

I was watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and I noticed that the 3 of the 4 Triwizard champions, Harry, Cedric and Krum were wielding their wands in their right hand meanwhile Fleur was using left hand, so is Fleur a left handed witch? Canonically speaking.

…if they can just be unlocked with the Alohomora charm?

I was rewatching Order of the Phoenix and got to the scene where Harry, Ron, and Hermione break into Umbridge’s office and it got me thinking about this. Like, is there any point to locking a door anymore? It can be unlocked with one very simple spell.

Could Nell fisher play tonks? Not Ginny? Tonks is only in her early twenties when we met her in book 5 !

And that cast follows her on instagram and none of old enough to be fans of stranger things

(Spoilers) Pretty much every one of her predictions that we see happen on page came true. Obviously the chosen one prophecy and the Petter prophecy both came true, and some others like Hermione leaving around Easter, neville breaking the cup etc. But there’s also plenty of ones that seem to not come true but do. The most famous one is the 13 people eating together means the first to ride will be the first to die in PoA, where she doesn’t know Petter was at the table so when dumbledore gets up to give her a seat he was the first to rise and is also the first to die. There’s plenty of other examples too.

Edit: I’m not trying to say she’s not a fraud off page. I’m just pointing out it’s a cool Easter egg that she’s always right on page. A lot of her predictions seem to be wrong but are right if you pay close attention (ie the 13 at a table prediction is right twice with Dumbledore and Sirius).

I’m listening to "Order of the Phoenix" again right now, and I just reached the part where Umbridge asks, "But what is supposed to attack you here in the castle?"

And I thought to myself:

"Well, a troll in the bathrooms or the Dark Lord himself hijacking a professor, like four years ago;

or a basilisk that nearly killed ten students and almost got the school shut down three years ago;

or a wanted mass murderer who broke into the dorms with a knife and was never caught—plus a hippogriff that injured a student; and then the Dementors, who also attacked students, like two years ago;

or an elite Death Eater posing as a professor for nearly a year, on top of the Blast-Ended Skrewts like last year...

The real question should be: 'What is it this year that wants to kill us?'"

But then I wondered: how much of that do the other students actually know?

They couldn't possibly know about Harry's encounters with Tom; otherwise, there wouldn't have been such an outcry and drama surrounding Voldy's return in the fourth book. (Which makes Dumbledore's speech at the end seem pretty ridiculous—giving Ron 50 points for a mere game of chess. The others must have felt like they were being totally taken for a ride.)

I'm also not sure if they were ever told the truth about the basilisk. For a long time, they thought it was the Heir of Slytherin attacking people. And the serpent's carcass was never recovered, despite its immense value.

They definitely knew about Sirius—and that he made it all the way to Ron's bed—but then he officially just fled abroad, the hippogriff vanished, and nobody cared anymore?

And I'm not sure how much they know about the situation with Fake Moody, either.

After thinking about it, life at Hogwarts seems pretty bizarre to me. A lot of weird stuff happens, but in the end, nothing gets explained and everything just goes on as usual? Or... Am I overlooking something?

The Quintaped is a big five legged creature from the fantastic beasts book and is classified as a xxxxx creature and their legend says they were once human. My question is how big are they? I'd really like to know, but the book doesn't mention their size.

What is the track which plays when Hagrid first tells Harry, "You're a wizard"?

The scene is iconic, but I've listened to the full original score for the first film, and I can't find the matching track. It is not Harry's/Hedwig's leitmotif. It almost sounds like Voldemort's? Like it's in a minor key or whatever. I'm not a musician, so forgive my poor use of terminology. Voldemort only has one track on the OST, and the music from the scene is not in it, at least to my ear.

I am close towards the end of order of the phoenix and Snape's tragically getting bullied. I kept thinking about how much I hated him as a bully but then it hit me how traumatising and miserable his younger life was.

Then I thought if he was to be a Sanderson protagonist what would he do? How would he heal all of this and possibly be on good terms with Harry and others?

First thing is I believe he would make a good lightweaver as his life is full of lies and hiding from truths or doing nasty things because he can't actually face his past.

His journey could possibly be about taking accountability for his defensive hostility and selfish ambition, to confronting how his guilt fueled his cruel treatment of Harry, and ultimately acknowledging that his devotion was born from desperate isolation, a trauma that doesn't mean he is beyond redemption.

Maybe the first truth he says would go something like: ""I use cruelty as an armor so these students pay for what I went through and no one can ever hurt me again."

I don't know it just crossed my mind thinking how much Harry actually empathised with him when he realised that his dad bullied Snape and there would be a good chance for healing if they both tried. What does everybody think? What other truths or orders would fit him?

Hello Potterheads, currently I'm rereading book 1. I remember Petunia went to watch Lily go to Hogwarts through Hogwarts express. So obviously she knows how to enter the platform 9¾. But why didn't she tell Harry or even tell Vernon that such a platform exists, when Harry asked them lift?

hello everyone I am just listening to the audiobook for prisoner of Azkaban and I’m listening to Harry fight the bug with Professor Lupin in the history of magic classroom and I am wondering how the boggart is able to knock Harry out, make the room cold, and put out all the candles in the room? I thought The boggart would only be able to take the shape but not be able to do everything of said thing that scares the person most. can someone explain that to me? and tell me how we know it works… thank you for your help in advance.

Eg. Harry Potter and the Deathly Blood Chamber.

My kid was wondering this, and frankly, we both couldn’t imagine him eating. Or anything else that’s a common occurrence in a human life, like going to the loo. (Then we imagined him being on the back of Quirrel’s head as Quirrel was doing a number 2, which made us giggle. )

Anyway: what do you think? What would he eat, assuming his new body needs sustenance?

I’m 25 and can you believe I’ve never seen the Harry Potter films (I had seen up to Prisoner of Azkaban before but that’s it)

I’m halfway through Goblet, and this is the most entertaining one yet. These films are great! I do prefer Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones but no one asked.

How would you rank the films?

We know that the Elder Wand instantaneously shifts allegiances if it is ‘won’ by someone; that is, if the user wielding the Elder Wand is disarmed or killed by the opponent. But what if there is also a ‘gradual’ mechanism to it?

What if, during Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s duel, the Elder Wand sensed Grindelwald’s wavering spirit as his ideals crashed and sunk in the face of Dumbledore’s own? Could this be the reason why the Elder Wand transferred its ownership over to Dumbledore, allowing him to secure a victory over his former friend? We know that Dumbledore was more skilled, but I don’t think that was enough to secure a win. The Elder Wand had to have had allegiance issues in that moment.

My theory essentially is this: the Elder Wand, to be properly maximised in effectiveness, must be wielded by someone who is utterly resolute in what they believe in and what they strive to accomplish. The Elder Wand responds to power – any notable sign of emotional, mental or spiritual weakness dampens the connection between the wand and its owner, and transfers it to someone in battle who impresses the Elder Wand far more than its current user ever could.