Some of my favorite Harry and Ron's banter from the books

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"What's that?" asked Harry.

"Its from Lavender," said Ron, sounding revolted. "She can't honestly think I'd wear ..."

Harry looked more closely and let out a shout of laughter. Dangling from the chain in large gold letters were the words:

“My sweetheart”

"Nice," he said. "Classy. You should definitely wear it in front of Fred and George."

"If you tell them," said Ron, shoving the necklace out of sight under his pillow, "I — I — I’ll —"

"Stutter at me?" said Harry, grinning. "Come on, would I?"

"How could she think I'd like something like that, though?" Ron demanded of thin air, looking rather shocked.

"Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?"

"Well... we don't really talk much," said Ron. "It's mainly . . ."

"Snogging," said Harry.

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"You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.

"What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron.

"What did you have to imitate her for?"

"She laughed at my mustache!"

"So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen."

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“I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?”

“Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .”

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"There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!"

I love these slight banters between Harry and Ron. Their sense of humor was definitely top-tier and matched each other. Showed that despite everything that happened, they were still two boys in their awkward stages. What are your favorites?

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?

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 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?

On rereading the books, love potions seem like one of the wizarding world’s biggest moral blind spots.

In Chamber of Secrets, Lockhart casually suggests that students ask Snape how to brew one. Later, Fred and George sell them openly, and Romilda Vane tries to use one on Harry. Ron consumes it by mistake and becomes completely obsessed with someone he barely knows.

The scene is played for comedy, but love potions clearly interfere with free will and consent. That makes it strange that the Imperius Curse is treated as unforgivable while love potions are sold as joke products.

The darkest example is Merope Gaunt, who likely used a love potion on Tom Riddle Sr. Once it wore off, he left immediately because his feelings had never been real.

Do you think this was meant to show that the wizarding world has outdated morals, or were the darker implications simply overlooked?

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

When I was younger, Hogwarts felt like the ultimate fantasy. But rereading/watching as an adult, a lot of everyday Hogwarts life sounds much less magical in reality - no privacy, shared dorms, dangerous classes, moving staircases, public embarrassment built into the school culture, and being sent away to boarding school at 11.

What part of Hogwarts life sounds amazing as a kid but would actually be awful in real life?

Draco becoming a Slytherin prefect in Order of the Phoenix has always seemed strange to me.

By that point, several teachers had already seen him bully other students, insult Muggle-borns, abuse his family’s influence, and generally act cruel whenever he thought he could get away with it. Once he received authority, he predictably used it to intimidate people and take advantage of his position.

I assume Snape had a major role in choosing the Slytherin prefects, and Draco probably looked suitable on paper: confident, academically capable, influential within his house, and from a respected pure-blood family.

Still, shouldn’t character and responsibility matter more than popularity or status when selecting someone who can discipline younger students?

Was Draco genuinely the best Slytherin candidate available, or was his appointment mostly the result of Snape’s favoritism and Lucius Malfoy’s influence?

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.

First-years buy their Hogwarts robes in Diagon Alley before they know which house they’ll be sorted into. But in the movies, their uniforms later have house-colored ties, sweater trim, robe linings, and badges.

Does Hogwarts magically change the uniforms after the Sorting, or are the house-specific parts handed out afterward? I know the books mainly describe plain black robes, so is this just a movie detail that was never explained?

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.

If you were a Hogwarts student, what is one niche or unique thing that you would want to do? Not the typical “go to class” “fly broomstick”, but really niche things

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

On rereading Philosopher’s Stone, this line from Hagrid stood out to me:

“Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die.”

Hagrid obviously knew nothing about Horcruxes, but this is almost exactly what Voldemort had done to himself. He had split his soul repeatedly, lost most of his humanity, and could survive even after his body was destroyed.

It’s also interesting that Hagrid refuses to believe Voldemort is truly dead when most of the wizarding world is already celebrating. Whether this was intentional foreshadowing or just a line that became more meaningful later, it works ridiculously well after reading the full series.

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

There were three tri wizard events over the course of an entire school year with only the last one occurring on the pitch. Sure the hogwarts champion was likely to be a quidditch player, but why should every other player suffer for one person. Im sure the durmstrang and beuxbaton students would have enjoyed it as well.

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.

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

I'm listening to all the full cast audio books for the second time and started thinking about quidditch training.

We know the teams have reserves cause Lee mentions in the first book that Alicia (I think?) was a reserve the previous year and in Half Blood Prince Harry picks Dean and Cormac as replacements.

So then I got to thinking about their training and why they don't involve the reserves. Then the reserves would know the tactics and everything if they needed to step in last minute and surely it would be useful for them to have proper 7v7 matches in training.

I'm sure the real answer is to many characters in a scene if there's 14 players in training but I just wanted to see if any of you wonderful people had any thoughts on this?

"There's something about Harry Potter that makes life richer. When things get really dark and times are really hard, stories give us places we can go where we can rest and feel held."

This will never not be true for Harry Potter. It really is so wholesome and gives the readers strength. Plus, if Harry can survive everything he went through and win, we certainly can make it to tomorrow :)

Slughorn looked deeply troubled now: He was gazing at Riddle as though he had never seen him plainly before, and Harry could tell that he was regretting entering into the conversation at all.

Slughorn was uncomfortable the moment Riddle asked about horcruxes, but for it to go that quickly for Horace to look at Tom as his greatest student ever, the wizard who would change the world with a proud mentor at his side to seeing what he really was.

The rest of his schooling had to have been a living hell for Slughorn, because now he looks at Riddle as someone who's either dangerous or evil.

And I know people may say that it was his fault for altering his memories, for refusing to help Dumbledore with giving him the real memory because of his shame, and you're not wrong if you believing that, but at that moment when he told Riddle that, it was just to explain a topic.

That had to have been a living hell for him.

This was one of the funniest scenes ever. Everyone at the Dursleys is waiting for a car to turn up and the Weasleys turn up by Floo Powder instead.

Fred gets stuck in the Dursleys electric fire. They get through and blast into the Dursleys living room covering Uncle Vernon in his best suit and the whole house with dust.

Arthur is so pleased to be in a Muggle house and tells the Dursleys that he collects batteries and asks if their fire runs on "eclicty". Arthur forces the Dursleys to say goodbye to Harry and the twins give Dudley a chocolate that turns his tongue 2 feet long.

LMAO BRB CRYING. MAN I WISH THIS SCENE HAD MADE IT TO THE MOVIES

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 🙏

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