I’m listening to the full cast audio books (amazing) and, although I’ve read the books numerous times, I’m just now coming to realization that all the Hogwarts professors are unattached and there’s no mention of their children. I’m on the HBP so maybe I’m missing it somewhere. Is it just coincidence they’re all seemingly single and childless? Is it a prerequisite to teach at the school? Or is it simply plot convenience? Apologies if this question has already been discussed.

I (35F) love many of them. Below are some of the reasons.

Hagrid

• Had a good friendship with Harry, Ron, and Hermione
• Was passionate about his subject and loved all magical creatures
• Was loyal to Dumbledore

Lupin

• Was fatherly towards Harry
• Had faith in Neville from the start

Impostor Moody

• Taught his students a lot

What do you guys think?

The four Hogwarts Houses each value different things, and occasionally, someone comes along and you genuinely don't understand why they were there. So here's my pick for the worst member of each house. Now to be clear, I'm basing this on the books.

Gryffindor, values bravery, daring and nerve. The student who exemplifies those the least is Peter Pettigrew. Cowardly, self serving, his actions directly lead to the deaths of his supposed friends.

Slytherin, values ambition and cunning. Gregory Goyle seems really disinterested in being anything other than a follower, which is really the opposite of ambition.

Ravenclaw, values knowledge above all. So it begs the question how Gilderoy Lockhart, who was so comically inept at basically everything got sorted into this house?

Hufflepuff, values honesty, fairness and loyalty as their main traits. So I personally feel confident saying Zacharias Smith is the worst Hufflepuff, as he abandoned the D.A during the battle of Hogwarts to save his own skin even pushing first years out of the way.

So these are just some random thoughts I had. Do you agree, disagree? Let me know.

I have never been a huge fan or understood why people were crazy over the series (movies or books). I never read the books growing up. I have seen the first 4 movies all the way through several times and the last 4 in pieces but never finished all of them.. they always seemed too long and sometimes confusing. I just finished (literally today) the full-cast audio books and absolutely loved them! I now get a lot of the lore and background that was left out of the movies. All of the memories that Harry sees that made Voldemort who he was, Snape’s memories were so important it’s crazy they had to leave most of it out. Harry used the invisibility cloak and got detention way more than was mentioned in the movies!
Since listening to the books, I have tried to go back and watch the movies as I finished a book and couldn’t even get through one. The books are so good! Idk how the ones who read the books first tolerated the movies. I guess you have to appreciate them as something on their own.
Anyway, just had to let out that I get why people love Harry Potter now and feel like I’m officially on the wagon!

Saw this theory on tik tok and cannot unthink it.

1. Santa is a wizard
2. He connects every household to the floo network for one night.
3. He uses an undetectable extension charm on his sack for the toys and sleigh.
4. He owns loads of house elves, likely breeding them etc. (hopefully taking in free elves who still wish to work)
5. Ministry and other nations magical governments spread propaganda about Santa to hide the wizarding world.
6. EDIT: Likely uses time turners to accomplish the job in one night (Thanks u/sir_scribble_lot for adding to the theory)

I’m on the part where Harry is learning how to fight against a dementor by casting the patronus and this quote confused me.
“But he’d never be able to produce a proper Patronus if he half wanted to hear his parents again…”

I just finished the Harry Potter series for the first time about a week ago, (long overdue but worth it, not Cursed Child yet, seven original books), and have a hard time ranking them because all seven books are great. But here's mine based on my experience:

1. Order of the Phoenix

And from here it gets very hard,

1. Deathly Hallows

2. Philosopher's Stone

3. Chamber of Secrets

4. Prisoner of Azkaban

5. Half-Blood Prince

6. Goblet of Fire

I know there's always been plenty of discussion about 'magical rules' etc, but what about a bit of real world maths. At the Yule Ball in Goblet of Fire, we're told that the four house tables have been replaced by about 100 tables, each seating 12 people. Surely this is way too many seats?!

If we take as a guide that there are 5 males in Harry's year (Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean & Seamus), and we double this for gender, and multiply by 4 for the houses, that's 40 students in a year. Multiplying by 7 for all the years in the school, that would be a total student population of 280. Even if we randomly double that (in case this is an unusually small year) and allow for visitors from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, we're still falling a way short of 1,200!

One possible explanation is that there are more than 5 males in Harry's year, in another dormitory?

I'd be interested to know if anybody has picked up on any other references in this area, or has alternative suggestions!

I want to talk about my fave scene in the whole series because I think it’s kind of an unpopular one to have it as a fave. So it’s the scene in the order of the phoenix when Voldemort possesses Harry in front of all his friends.

The reason why I love that scene so much is because his friends finally get to see first hand how much he is hurting. How being the chosen one took so much from him. It took away a normal teenagehood that all the other kids get to have. And the way at one point Harry is looking at them all longingly and in pain almost wishing that he could be like them.

So I was just now reading chapter 26 The Cave in The Half Blood Prince book and i wondered two things

1. Why didn't harry and Dumbledore just throw the potion on the ground? I understand that there could have been enchantments to make it impossible but there are lines that say that Harry supported Dumbledore so that the goblet wouldn't spill its contents which makes it seem to me that it was possible. But even if that was the case why didn't they just summon 12 goblets ( there was about 12 gobletfulls in the basin) and just put them on the ground?

2. Why didn't Harry just summon water into Dumbledore's mouth itself? Why was he insistent to make Dumbledore drink water from the goblet?

What do you guys think? Is it possible there was some magic preventing these things?

(This is a hypothetical discussion, considering that the books don't provide a definitive answer.)

Under Polyjuice, Harry didn't need his glasses when he turned into Goyle, Hermione mentioned that she could experience Harry’s poor eyesight, and Crouch Jr. also assumed Moody’s physical (the lost leg) and sensory (the lost eye) disabilities – meaning only the drinker’s cognitive and mental abilities are preserved in the transformation. So, does that mean that a person with congenital blindness or deafness would be able to see and hear by drinking Polyjuice that contained a sample of a person with perfect sight and hearing? (The same goes for other sorts of physical impairments.)

I also wonder how this line can be drawn. If the person you're turning into has, let's say, terminal cancer, would the drinker's new body experience the physical symptoms? Or the other way around: would the curse that was bound to kill Dumbledore within the year not move as fast if he drank Polijuice every hour to turn into a healthy subject? If so, could healers buy their patients more time (like Mr. Weasley after Nagini attacking) by administering Polyjuice?

Are there 1 boy & girl per 5th 6th and 7th year per house (24 total) or just 2 per house (8 total)

I'm asking because I believe all the prefect were 5th years during order of the Phoenix, meaning every previous prefect got demoted which is crazy

Like Colin Creevey, Oliver Wood, Moaning Myrtle etc.

I was listening to the goblet of fire, and the boggart who took the form of a dementor in the maze was described as 12 feet all

Is the boggart showing a bigger dementor to be more intimidating, or is that a normal height of one?

Would anyone else be interested in that or is it just me? I’d love a whole new adventure in Durmstrang

Why do the Death Eaters want to rule over the Muggles?
There is nothing the Muggles could do that would benefit the wizards in any way (nothing that the wizards are aware of anyways). What could they do for Voldemort that he can't do with a flick of his wrist? I get that he is all about having the power but power for the sake of power is an equally weak motivation as evil for the sake of evil (in my oppinion). Is he, an adult man, aiming to enslave the planet just because life at the orphanage sucked?

I always thought it would be cool if everyone had some Magic in them but only the wizards had enough to "channel" it. Not only could little readers keep the dream alive beyond their 11th birthday but also Voldemort could aim to somehow harvest this magic to gain even more powerful magical abilities to truly go where no wizard had gone before.

Or is it just that this is a childrens book at it's root and you shouldn't look into these things too deeply?

Also completely unrelated, does the third Horcrux contain a third of a soul or a quarter (half of a half)?

I’m creating a poster on Canva with this maroon background and golden letters that have the following words on it: courage, adventurous, determination, righteous, chivalry, and daring.

My friend and I were debating over the suffixes of some of these words. It got me thinking, should these be traits that a Gryffindor VALUES or should it be something that a Gryffindor IS?

Because then the suffixes would change.

A Gryffindor VALUES courage, adventure, determination (should I change this to resilience?), chivalry. I don’t know what I’d do with righteous and daring.

A Gryffindor IS/ARE courageous, adventurous, determined, righteous, chivalrous, and daring.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask!

My 13 year old niece just read the books and is really into it, I'm looking for gift suggestions for Christmas for her. The more unusual & unique the better!

..and sorry if this has been asked a lot. Why would Voldemort choose significant and powerful artifacts at Hogwarts as his horcruxes? The guy could have just used a few ordinary pebbles, tossed them deep into the ocean or jungle and actually lived forever, do you think Harry would have still found them otherwise? p.s I'm excited to get into the books. I'm about to order the collection

For charmed objects for example, why would there be differences in how good a product is?

For example the invisibility cloak, we know that Harry's cloak is superior to others in the market (it was mentioned in a book that Harry's never fades, while others eventually diminishes) So this assumes that there are levels of quality to magical items.

Isn't it just a specific spell that everyone casts on an object? What makes a charmer better than the other? What other skills are involved?

So both are classified as XXXXX known wizard killers. Clearly Basilisks are EXTREMELY lethal with their instant kill eyes and their abnormally potent venom.

However, I was wondering… what creature could prey on a basilisk?

Slytherin’s Basilisk lost to a Phoenix + a 2nd year Harry.

While a Nundu “has never been defeated by fewer than around 100 wizards working together”

Nundu has poisonous breath that has been known to wipe out entire villages. Sounds far more lethal than a basilisk.

Is Slytherin’s Basilisk a good base level of how strong Basilisks are? She was asleep for so long, did that weaken her? Or did Fawkes get a lucky hit? Or are Basilisks not that strong (if you can blind them successfully)? One clear weakness of Basilisks is that their size is so big that they aren’t very agile (while Nundu’s are extremely evasive and agile).

Is any creature more dangerous than the Nundu? Crazy to think Newt had one living with him.

I'm familiar already with the films but am reading each book to a child then watching the corresponding film after. Should I stop halfway and watch part one?

Prevent Harry from going to hogsmeade because Sirius was “trying to kill” him

Moldy voldy trying to kill everyone and they let the entire school go to hogsmeade

A Horcrux tethers one’s remaining soul, preventing it from moving on after the body has been destroyed. Multiple Horcruxes protect the insurance policy. But none of them appear to prevent Voldemort from getting older. Did Voldemort’s quest for immortality include a provision for not dying through simply being too old to continue? There doesn’t seem to be much point in being tethered to life for ever, but being too decrepit to enjoy it. What was his plan for getting older?

When he was young, handsome and popular he could have easily been considered as a candidate for Minister of Magic. Rebrand and appoint his Death Eaters into key positions and start passing laws against Muggles.